march 23, 1973
Editor's
Review
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Amnesty Should Be Granted
Yes, the war in Viet Nam may be coming
to a close (however slowly), but it has
created a war just as bitter and devastating
in the United States: the question of am
nesty. It’s shock waves have already been
felt, creating a huge schism in our society
that has the potential of ripping the entire
country apart, dividing families, political
and intellectual leaders. On the surface,
amnesty may seem a mere legal problem;
yet it may prove to be one of the crucial
factors governing our culture in decades
of the future.
Amnesty has hidden in its grasp the pow
er to remove the right to decide morality
from the individual and turn it over to the
state. One of the fundamental beliefs of
this country has been the right of the in
dividual to assert himself within the frame
work of culture, to determine his own life
style, religion, occupation. It is one of
the principles our constitution is based
upon, looked upon as an uninaleinable right,
granted by nature. Now, however, the Uni-
ed States government, and praticularly
Richard Nixon, appears bent on taking that
right away from the people and enforcing
its power to make men murder in war
against their moral conscience. The so-
called draft dodgers are men who were
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faced with a grave dicision and who chose
rather to follow their own sense of moral
justice, rather than that of the system, and
not kill. Are these men to be punished for
following a universal sense of order in-
tead of the “law of the land”? Do the
American people truly believe these men
are wrong for what they did in defying the
government, instead of subordinating their
own morals? You probably couldn’t find
a man on the street who would admit he
was in favor of killing — yet these men who
chose not to kill are branded as traitors and
cowards who ran from the ever-glorious
battlefields of honor. We have become a
militaristic people, America. We savor
the blood of our wounds, and when our
young refuse to die we label them misfits
and send them to prison. Is this really
the general will, or is it the ideals of the few
who are in power? Will the young of this
ountry allow the government to abscond
with one of their rights by law and turn our
population into unthinking chattel? True,
these are rash statements — but as long as
they remain a possibility, our country
(and I use that pronoun on purpose) is in
deep, deep trouble.
Richard Beard
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UNC-A can be seen at its
best during fourth term. The
flowering trees and plants
blossom as does social life and
personalities of the campus
community. Already the action
has begun for many.
The Black Student Association
culminated four months of hard
work in preparing UNC-A’s
first Black Arts Festival. If
the festivals of the future are any
better than this first festival, we
can look forward to this event as
the social highlight of the year,
as it was this year. Naturally,
UNC-A’s students did not show
up in force.
Mr. Tom Deason, Dean of
Students, will be recovering from
surgery during the next few
weeks. Deason was admitted to
Memorial Mission Hospital for
a routine physical examination
to discover that a small tumor
was located on his kidney near
the adrenalin gland. We wish
the Dean a speedy recovery.
Elmer Alexancjer got tired of
the complaints, so he requested
a transfer. Our former cafeteria
manager was due to be removed
after this year, because it was
felt that he could not handle his
staff. The Food Service Com
mittee was informed that Alex
ander was to be replaced. At
that time in late January, Alex
ander did not expect to be re
placed. Subsequently, the food
strike and continuing pressure
to change the preparation of this
or that food caused him to ask for
a transfer which was granted.
SGA elections will be taking
place in about four weeks. As I
look through my crystal ball, I
see a number of contenders for
president of the SGA. Chuck
Campbell, Ken Wright, Tony
Gole, Frank Dosier, and Ray
Gasperson will be people to
watch.
1 supported SGA’s attempt to
maintain a strictly liberal arts
UNC-A. However as the stu
dent’s spokesman, the SGA has
no right to conclude that all
students felt as they did in op
posing the addition of new major
programs. The Senate represents
the students, not just the Senate
in their actions. Therefore, next
time the Senate looks for a cause
to back in the name of the stu
dents, I suggest that they ask for
numerous student opinions. This
will not be an efficient process.
but will be necessary to gam
student support of SGA pro
grams. It takes interest to get
support.
The SGA passed a resolution
demanding that the students be
allowed to help determine who
he new director of admissions
will be. The Chancellor was up
set at the SGA’s use of “demand”
in their resolution sent to his office,
and asked them to reword the
resolution. The Senate has not
reworded the resolution.
Interdormitory Council should
plan a party to invite faculty
members into the dorm village
to mingle with the dorm students.
Maybe then the professors
would understand why “dorm
rot” exists and would encourage
more social activities at UNC-A
to alleviate this problem.
Carolyn McElrath will be
the only admissions officer in
the Admission Office in two
weeks, when Dr. Ben Spangler
leaves UNC-A for other pursuits.
Jin Diamond recently resigned
as an admissions counselor to
get married and move to Wyo
ming. Spangler will become a
college student again, as he will
be working,on a post doctorate
at Florida State. Will McElrath
become this campus’s first Black
acting administrator? I doubt it.
Anyone who is interested in
debating should contact Mrs.
William Highsmith, who tells
you how and when to debate.
A debator enjoys the travel of a
jetsetter, as he zips all over the
southeast in his attempts to out
smart his competitor through
discourse. Contact Mrs. High
smith through the Chancellors’
secretary.
Coach Bob Hartman has found
that Atlanta is not any better
than Kansas City for keeping
expenses down. In both places,
one could lose his pants. Hart
man chose Atlanta to lose his.
They , were stolen. He was pur
chasing a suit that needed to
have the pants altered, and when
his number was called to pick up
his pants, someone else had al
ready taken them.
Until next week, so long.
Keep those letters to the editor
coming folks.
Zollie Stevenson
Univcriily of North Carolina at Aih««ille-Aihctille, N.C 2S8U4
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