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LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT
Foolishness Long Enough
Governor Bab Scott spoke out
strongly against student disorders a
few days ago and when the ocassKXi
presented itself, he backed up his
words with actions. He said Lenoir
Hall would be open to students Mho
wanted to eat there and open it has
been.
The Governor's actions in sending ?
the Highway Patrol to Chapel Hill to
insure order and the rights of the
majority of students, have been met
with widespread approval in these
parts. Most people are convinced that
the time has long passed when rules
should be enforced on our college
campuses. The Governor apparently
means to see that they are. He wiU
gain much support in this stand.
By any measure, however, the
Governor's action is a stop- gap. State
troopers cannot forever patrol the
dining hails at Carolina. Some solu
tion to the problems must be forth
coming. The merits of the workers
claims should be weighed carefully by
those in charge of such things and
corrections should be made where
indicated The strike should be settl
ed.
However, the strike is not the main
issue here. Faculty members, students
and Chapel Hill townspeople have
gotten involved in what, from this
dtsUfce. does not concern them at ail.
Disruption of the university campus is
the purpose of some at Chapel Hill.
The workers strike is only a flimsy
excuse for the more dangerous ele
ments to justify their deeds.
Unfortunately, Carolina is not the
only university so threatened. Duke
has its troubles and one can only
summate that both university leaders
have gone qverboard on p? missive
In Nashville, Term, there is a small
college, with an enrollment of 340
students. By the institution's own
admission, it is ripe for a riot. The,
dining halt is overcrowded, the girls
dormitories are renovated dwellings
and scattered all over the campus.
There is no gymnasium, the aud*
tornim is hardly adequate to hold the
student body and there are no student
centers and even the dating lounge is
inadequate.
The Free Will Baptist Bible College
holds to strict rules of conduct. Dat
ing is strictly chaperoned. No smoking
or drinking is permitted. Men must
wear dress shirts and ties to ail classes.
No long or uncombed hair or beards
are allowed.
Even fashions are controlled. No
mini-skirts or extremes in apparel are
permitted Questionable dresses must
be approved by the Dean of Women
before worn. Daily chapel attendance
is conpulsary and lights are out each
night at 10:46.
Needless to say, there have been no
riots at this small college. The stu
dents are there to gain an education.
If 340 students can be thusly supervis
ed in grossly inadequate quarters, why
cannot 1,000 teachers control 17,000
in the luxurious confines of the Great
er University?
The problem will be solved only
after university authorities use their
ultimate weapon to do sol If there is a
student at the university who is not
there to get an education, send him
home.lf there is a teacher there who is
not there to teach, send him home.
Fire him. Cut off his pay. The powers
that be nw^it be very pleasantly sur
prised at how rapidly thing* can be
settled this way.
Let the beards, the long hairs and
the militants put on their thing some
place else. It is not fair thaf they be
allowed to disrupt the education of
those who come to the university for
that purpose.
It is time Carolina and Duke got
toui^i It is time the public demanded
?t especially vwhere their tax dollar
* pays the bail such m at Carolina. The
foolishness has lasted long enough.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Was George Wallace Right?
The Nashville (N.C.) Graphic
Congressman L. H. Fountain says
, he hopes President Nixon wtil practice
what he preached before taking office
on the question of school desegiega
tion.
A lot of other people hope so toot
but the outlook is not very encourag
ing.
What Candidate Nixon preached, at
least in the South, was that heary
hended federal domination of the
public school system would be dimt
nuhed under a Republican administra
tion.
It has not turned out that way so
far, and there does not seem to be
much evidence that any change in
policy is contemplated
As a matter of fact, the new
terested in retaining the policies of the
Jotonson administration than in seek
ing new, more effective ways to dnl
with national piuOteii*.
This is strange in view of the fact
that the country voted for a change
r
1st November President Nixon was
elected an the strength of a conserva
tive trend across the nation. He has
not da no mtinted thus far that he
ia.uqnt/ia that trend or what it
means.
The President has said he wants to
unify the country, and this is a com
mendable objective. But it is difficult
to understand how a continuation of
past policies that hove failed, and that
have been repudiated by the people;
will help achieve this goal.
The results of last November's elec
tion said clearly that the nation was
ready for a change. George Wallace
said the country would not get a
change if the people merely replaced a
Democratic administration with a Re
publican administration, because there
is not a dime's worth of difference
between the two major political
parties.
Piesideul Nixon seems to be trying
his level best to prove that Wallace
was rK^rt.
"OK, fella.' Let me j
Report From Raleigh
Rakish This week's con
ration address by chancH
John T. Caldwell of North
by 1
of the (
I permnally agree with the
port his
position.
I be
lie** it
??* *?ry
t i ?? ely
? Ml im
portant
far ban to
tell the
students
?d Ml
ty of this I
that
"time is plenty of work cut
out for us and w? need to get
at it; no student has an in
herent right to be an enrolled
student at North Carolina
? . ?
By Rep. JOHN T. CHURCH
freedom; no university <
exempt from the <
quirement at larwfal
The chancellor's position
is in line with the policy laid
down by Governor Scott
which I believe hat the ap
proval and support of a peat
majority of North Ca?
I support the iihimi'i
policy and feci that if it is
implemented by j-n
txators it will reduce the
threat of disruption,
and turmoil on our c
Does Intelligent Life
Exist On Earth After All?
THE COURIER-TRIBUNE, ASHEBORO, N. C
I
m LATE Adlai E. Ste
venson oace laid. "We travel
t'c spaaaakip . . . preserved
from annihilation only by the
care, the work, a ad I will say
Utr lave we give to our fra
gile craft.'*
Anyone who haa .seen the
remarkable photograph* tak
es of the earth by the crew
of th* Apollo * must hum
Mr acknowledge the prophe
tic truth of Stevenson's
at in span, the earth
l to be a body at traao
ed. it is a fragile earth sup
parting life as man knows it
a tarty balanced combina
tion a I caamir circumstances
that are slwwlv being altered
Only in recent years have
ay ways la which human be
lags, by their numbers and
He points out. "If oaa could
compress all gilugw. time,
the 4.5 billioa yean siace the
earth was bam, into oaa year
some startling facts regard
ing the i teem j of life oa this
ball of rock would become ev
ident ... let ua ajaiaa* the
earth is barn oa the first oi
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fare Mngle-ceUed living or
ganisms appear in the warm
sheltered caantal waters, la
the first week of Deeaariwr
the primeval forests me
fn
days later
roaming the earth aad the
first mammals appear the
day after Chriatmaa. At >?
p.m. oa December list priaa
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naatety three Initial
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awhaght (the yew 2M?), it
will JaaMe (or the fifth tuwe
will iafcahit the earth. Aad by
the year 3RS, at the saw
rate of |aagii n? the
earth's
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