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Editorial Comment:
We’ve tried to be easy on the SGA this year. We’ve tried to
understand their petty mistakes and failings in the light of their lack
of help and cramped schedules. But recent developments in the
Student Government have come to our attention and they can be
categorized as nothing less than complete ineptitutde.
First, a list of students to fill voting seats on faculty committees
was composed by president Bill Coonan single handedly, while the
agreement was that volunteers were to be sought and a careful search
for interested students be made. The list was made up unilaterally
and the same old requlars now hold important seats on here-to-fore
predominantly faculty committees. The power was used decisively
and unilaterally by the SGA president. '
But, on September 23, a vote to allocate S494.80 to the proposed
UNC-A radio station came up before the Student Senate. And in a
feat of brilliant decisive buck-passing, they recommended a student
referendum to decide the allocation for the radio station. This time,
the power wasn’t executed at all. The elected representatives were
afraid to use their responsibility to make decisions in their
“government”.
Well, if that’s the game, why not have referendums to decide the
allocations for the Social Commission (a whopping $2,000. this
term.) or the Special Programs Committee (S706.50 this term), the
RIDGERUNNER, Images, The Summit, or perhaps the scholarships
for the SGA leaders?
If the idea is to take the issue back to the people, let’s be
consistent at least. This administrative bungling in the SGA must
cease; there’s too much important work to be done!
-F.M.
Dear Editor;
Concerning your editorial
“The Draft”; your heart was in
the right place, but
unfortunately your facts were
not.
If you had examined a SS
Form 150 (special form for
Conscientious Objectors) you
would have found that it does
not ask if you believe in a
“Supreme Being”. You also
stated“ ... for to change your
mind doesn’t work’”, on the
conrrary, I am proof that it can
and does work. Although more
difficult and more rigorous than
filing early. Another point,
status, classifications for persons
who refuse all military service is
I-O. A Conscientious Objector
recieves a I-W only while or
having already completed his
alternate civilian duty. Finally
your local board cannot give you
any written information on
being a Conscientious Objector
and most likely will not discuss
the necessary requirements for
being a Conscientious Objector.
Hopefully I have helped in
some way and I will be gald to
help again, thank you for your
time.
Peace,
The following is the approved budget of the SGA for first term,
1970-71.
Activity Fees: $5101.90
Social Commission $2000.00
Special Programs $ 706.50
Athletic Commission $ 60.00
Office Expenses $ 331.70
Cheerleaders $ 100.00
Presidential Expenses S 60.00
Coffee House S 445.00*
Robert H. Davis
38-42-51-137(1-0)
Ed: When my husband applied
for C.O. the “Supreme Being”
clause was there; you may be
correct today. Also I know three
people who left the country
when unable to change to C.O.
status after their origiani
registration — boards vary.
Otherwise, right on! P.S.
•This does not include a figure to be specified later in the term pgar Editor:
The Radio Committee request for $494.80 is still undecided,
presently slated for student referendum some time in the near
future.
STUDENT POWER:
How valid is an opinion about
an entire nation which is based
on a few farmers who happened
to be nice or one cop who
snarled? Now I haven’t been to
England or met an English truck
driver who was satisfied with
driving a truck because of a
superior educational system (??)
Come on, Suki, how much do
we have to swallow? I’m sure
there’s at least one truck driver
here in Pig Nation who’s happy
with his job. Just as there has to
“at least one” grouchy farmer
England and “at least one”
be
in
V-fiippin’ cop in New York City
and “at least one” club-heavy
bobby who paid a few (“at least
one”) English bystander to
testify that the magical 5
occurred before he clubbed that
“at least one” harangued English
hippie to death somewhere in
the “only” dirty alley in
Liverpool.
All right, you did go to
England before you passed your
judgement and the article was
well written and very appealing
to anyone who wants to down
the Amerikan, educational
system and/or call all the cops—
“pigs.” You write nicely. The
epic peom “Song of Roland”
was written nicely too but when
compared with the history it
comes up as factually waay off
base.
So you write nicely. And I’m
not objecting to the fact that
you have an opinion and wish to
voice it. I mean, that’s exactly
what I’m doing isnt’t it? But I
would like to ask a few
questions about that opinion.
Do you really think that All
English truck drivers are
satisfied? Do you really think
that all Amerikan cops are snide
and snotty? Do you really want
to say that there is not one
cranky, narrow-minded farmer
in all of- the English countryside?
Because that is exactly what you
are saying when you make
assertions about some truck
driver being happy due to
England’s superior educational
system or when you imply that
one bastard cop made you
realize you were back in
Amerika and in that case you’re
“pig”-headed as the Amerika
you are condemning for the
same narrow-minded,
“pig”-headedness.
Do you want to back away
from the bad that you see or do
you want to stamp it out?
Answer this question before you
read any further.
If you want to stamp it out
then you’re a victim of that sick
society which keeps all the
Blacks down becasue they’re
Black. You’re no better than the
head who turns narc because of
1 bummer. You’re just as wrong
as the employer who won’t hire
longhairs because he “tried it
once and the kid only stayed
two or three days.!!
To wit - The “Rednecks”. A
typical sterotype “redneck”
wears white socks and greases his
hair. He hates the niggers and
rides around in his pick-up truck
looking for freaks with his
shot-gun. But an opinion like
this loses its legitimacy when
you heckle every white socker or
turn yourself off from every
dude with greasy hair. You
mkke the same mistake when
you greet every Black with open
(whick often means patronizing)
arms. There are going to be a
hell of a lot who don’t want
your help and will bite the
cracker. People are individual
personalities, not sterotypes.
So Suki, I want to make a
suggestion to you and to all of
us who act towards one person
according to an opinion which
was formed about someone else
in an entirely different situation.
Treat each new face as
something, someone new. Be
able to accept the worst when it
comes. That way you won’t get
hurt with your defenses down.
But treat each new face as
though it deserves the best, as
though you’ve never met the
stereotype” before, as though
you don’t expect the worst. You
know what happens? You
discover the real fallacy of
stereotypes. There really aren’t
any.
Dear friends! What is
happening in the library? As this
article is being written I watch
students being hustled out one
door and hustled in another
while still another student has
become subject to the “stop and
frisk” law. I was wondering
when the inevitable day would
come when books would be
considered more important than
students and alas, the day has
come to pass!! All through
grammar schools, junior hi^,
and high schools librarians have
tried to beat into our heads that
books are holy things, not to be
mistreated, to be upheld in our
minds as the keys of knowledge.
And even now this university has
built a multi-million dollar
Ziggurat (named“Ramsey”) to
further emphasize and keep their
sacredness. True, I cannot deny
the usefulness of books; I cannot
say they are unimportant for
they do offer better
understandings to say the least.
But these books exist for the
students. The students do not
exist for the books. The students
are first and the books are
second, maybe even fifth H)
SAC lettrm p ?
TT-
Much of the violence on student campuses in the past few years
has been directed at effecting changes in university policies. Here at
U.N.C.-A we were just GIVEN voting membership on University
Instutional Committees. Here we are also being urged to aid in the
10-year evaluation of the school for accreditation. Although a
minority vote, we can voice our opinions and have them directly
presented to the faculty, administration, and Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools.
The challenge facing this campus is to use this participation by
having active, concerned, responsible students on these committees.
They will have a large responsibility - to report student majority
and minority views to the faculty, and to report faculty views to the
students.
During the height of colonialism, colonial powers gave partial vote
to their exploited population to silence demands. If the student
members on committees become an elite group representing
minority viewpoints, whether liberal, conservative or radical,
demands can be ignored, or silenced.
Let us hope that all viewpoints are expressed and allowed, and
that student members on these committees can represent all factions
of the student body. And let us also hope that the student body has
the political awarness to voice their demands to their representatives.
P.S.
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