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.Jubilee And Serendipity
U isn't of ten you get to use the word "serendipity,
ihflnks tn fhp.'Kenan Stalhim frronndskeeoeFS DlOW W
a perfect example ,of it in Jubilee.
The orphan! Jubilee has been' forced to find a new
home, and it looks much more liveable jtban the last one
suggested.
Polk Place, between South Building and tjie flag pole,
is an ideal location for this springtime eyentrof-events. It
has everything to offer that the lawn in front of Graham
Memorial does, plus the all-important factors of control
an(J semi-privacy. . '
For those who moan about the dangers of sunstroke,
there are trees but thankfully they , aren't out in the
middle of everything where, they can obstruct the view of
the performers for the far back spectators.
The main student gripe about the JCenan Stadium site
was its lack, of shade and "atmosphere." Polk Place will
provide both.
The area will be roped off and entrance to the grounds
can be supervised almost as well as in Kenan. Students
representing Graham Memorial will check ID cards and
guest tickets; according to the original plans. Campus Po
lice Chief Arthur Beaumont and some of his men will be
on hand to show the inevitable rowdies the exit.'
The ban against beer-loaded coolers and openly dis
played liquor still stands, as it must. It is the state law and
University policy. Certainly, however, no one is going to
be "frisked." ' . . '
But students who think that the whole program will be
spoiled by a. "Big Brother is wa,tcfijng you" feeling are
mistaken. Long talks with administrators and campus of
ficials make it clear that martial law will hot be declared
for the weekend.
But in a sense the weekend will be a trial. If any stu
dent js naiye enough not to realize it, let this serve him
notice. Drinking is by no means endorsed, but conduct is
the ultimate consideration.
Respectable behavior must be maintained, and the
methods used to maintain will probably not be any dif
ferent than those used for football games.
So in actuality students will be Jargely on their own,
probably more than anyone wishes them to realize. But
we must realize it and determine now to demonstrate the
trustworthiness that we say we have! ;
We say the students are smart enough and level-headed
enough to know where jto draw the line 1: There is no excuse
-tp 3lead ignorance of the situation now: A choice is" before
us and everyone is aware of it. The wiole future pf Jubijeje
'may be on the line and if we bungle our chance this Jime
we deserve to lose Jubilee. P?p .official of Graham. Memorial
has stated the alternative so bluntly, but the possibility of
losing Jubilee remains nevertheless. . . ;a: i
"Student autonomy" is a popular phrase to toss about .
but it could disappear from" every ypcabuiary ncj be coirt
, pletely fprgotten abpiit if the students blatantly refuse to
stand pn their feet when given the chance.
The ideal test of student self-accountability would have
been for the students to handle the problem frpm the start
themselves. Two strikes are. against us because we did
nothing, but we're not out. " '' ' ; 0 r
TJie administration is partly at fault for riot making
the students fully aware of the seriousness '.. and cpnse
quenqes of the behavior which jias characterized Jubilee'
two preyipus appearances;
Pean of Men William G,. Long said after last year's;
big weekend; "There were some people present who were
not students here and they showed little regard for others
in their behavior. . '
"However, on the whole, I was well pleased with the
behavior of students at what I consider a truly outstanding
campus function. I would compliment Graham Memorial
on the planning and carrying out of a fine event."
Certainly no student who read that in The Daily Tar
HccNast April 28 became very concerned.
Graham Memorial Director Howard Henry was hard
ly less amiable. He said, "The mess was really anticipated.
The students didn't utilize the trash cans some wanted set
up, dih u s over ior now. .
This comment is very generous when you. consider it
took two dump trucks to haul the litter from the grounds,
An editorial in that same issue condemned behavior at
Jubilee, but shoved the blame off on "the few who got out
of hand" especially outsiders. Again, this was hardly
anything to cause a student to raise an eyebrow. It's the
jsame attitude people have toward traffic safety "it's the
other guy who has to worry; nothing will ever happen to
me.
But take heed. Something will happen, and it will hap
pen to all of us, if Jubilee is a monstrous fiasco where 0
per cent of the audience is noisy and drunk and the per
formers are about to leave the stage. .
Make no mistake. We're on trial.
Jubilee is a self-bought gift to the students because
most GM funds pome from students. A gift, it is.
But that which is given can be taken away.
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Hamburgers V
Tie Colonial
Frame Of Mind
By &ip Y0PP
DTH Associate Editor
Take a thin patty of beef, place it be
tween halves of a sliced roll, add some,
relish and what do you have?: Trouble,
and lots of it. - - ' " ; V i '
IJamburgers (jor the threat pf them b&r
ing sold at the corner pf . Jrsnkl pi and Co
lumbia Streets ) has aroused the ire of a
lanre portion of the ppaj .pitjzfinfy: aijd -excited
the wrath pf Mversjy apijst -Church
like Satan hjmseif was ppming &
roost on the corner.
It seems the townsfolk don't want thje
"charm ,and colonial atmosphe pf this
quaint; village spoiled by 'ihp- addition pf
another hamburger stand in the business
area. -"" ' : ;'
Bell's Inc. was issued a jbuiiding per
mit last week, and no sooner had visions
of hamburgers danced in president flobert
Hanna's head than he Baptists filed ap
peal to the Chpael ffill oard pf Adjust
ment seeking to stop cpnsfructjon pn the
site, yards away from the hurch.
In the appeal, the Bjaptists didn com
plain of unsightly architecturp pr tb& sniejl
of frying hamburgers wa&iag through the
chapel during Sunday e?yic. fnstpad
they charged that jthp fpsjaurani; 3is npt
provided adequate parkjng faculties.
The board will meet; May 3 $p consider
the appeal, but in' the meantime jqp ppn
struction can begin on foe Jpt. .
And if the board uphpld? gell's right tp
sell hamburgers on the pprnpr, phancf are .
the battling Baptists won' stpp. J;here, but
will carry the decision jto Orange Cpunty
Superior Court . :
Bell's announcemept that it planned to
build on the lot struck. Chapel Rill's .colon
ial atmosphere with tjie Impact pf a biunr
derbuss . blast. . Townspppple ppmplainpd be
fore the, Board of Aldermen, flooded local
newspapers with protests and some . even
talked of picketing the site if construction
began. ' f :" ::'r-v.:".
: Last week the General Assembly passed
a bill permitting the aldermen to create a
commission to coptrol the exterior appear
ance of town buildings But alas, the legis
lation, is not retroactive, and will have no
effect on the Bell's rpstaurant." ;
It didn't soothe many tempers hpre when .
Hanna announced jthat construction plans
were changed so; the building would "pre
sent a much mor pleasing view of Cq?
lumbia Street and from the side of the
church." '
But Chapel Hillians don't seem to want
to view the restaurant from any angle. - "
I'is like the reaction of ; a spgregated .
community that dpesn't . want . : Negores
rqioving into the neighborhood. .
And what . of ; the restaurant's advan- ' .
tages? It seems npbody has bothered to ,
look. For students; an additional eating
"place . inans less lunphtime Wasted st.arid- 1
ing in line. Apd, if it' operates 24 hours a
day as planned, it would pliminate . the
necessity of driving to Durham for a 2 a.m.
' snack. " ' " : :. , . . : . '.
Yet the t only expression of student sen
timent was the mock up qfc a hamburger
left on campu as a protest by the jtnyster
ious Order of the Gadflyr : ;
So now, Bell's waiting for the op
portunity to build, and I ppppsing forces in
town are expending great .energy to make
sure that it dopsn't. .
But the oppositipn is hiding behijid' a
thia " cloak- "Perhaps the ' colonial atmos- -phere
here has ' produced : some colonial
thinkers who might like - a wall erected
around Chapel Iftll so , "outside agitators"
like Hanna caribekeptoutr ' ' r c "
Chapei JJill is a fine"- town, but its re
sidents," not it's architecture make it . that
way. One hamburger restaurant jnOre pr
less isn't going to be disastrpus to the Sou
thern Part of Heaven. . '
V;Hlpits"':
We see whpre the Charlotte police are
concerned about the pumbpr of teen - aged
"glue sniffers" in town. No doubt about
it it's a sticky problem.
Sign on a San Francisco bar: "No sales
men; loiterers, panhandlers, loafers, bums,
beggars, thrill '- seekers, harlots, neer
do" - wells, hotheads, beatniks, lechers,
bearded wonders, prophets, spap-bpx ora
tors, street cornpr pyangelists, thieves or
pickpockets allowed." That lets out just
about everybody except Mary Poppins.
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Looks as if that New Houston "Astro
dome" has a few glaring errors in con
struction. . .
Then there's the Dean Long doll you
wind it up and it tries to bypass the
student judiciary. .
That proposed hamburger stand j ust
didn't ring a Bell with most townspeople.
If Billy Cunningham's team loses to the
Russians and he doesn't want to talk about
it, will he fall under the jurisdiction of the
Speaker Ban?
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Allrriiat,s Wrong
WithUNC
Editors, The Daily Tar Heel:
t In my three years at Carolina, I have
always heard that there is too much stress
put on grades.; I don't - think that this is
completely true. I think that it is the at
mosphere at Carolina. -.
There is a lack of unity among the stu
dents j especially in the area -of social Jife,
which' I don't think the residence college
idea 'will greatly amend. The residence col
lege will simply mean a few better fa
cilitiesi i. e., better social rooms. --J;
I adon't x think the; new social ' facilities
will accomplish what the originators of the
Budget Slice:
A Big Favor?
Editors, The Daily Tar HeeJ;
Naturally, I was inclined to be disgust
ed! Ayith the -;jvisory 'p.udet ; .Commission
in Raleigh for the "big slash in the je-.
quested budget for the - Consolidated Uni
versity. I thought they displayed very poor
judgment in thus hamstringing the inevit
able growth of the University. -:
But, on second thought, they' may have
unintentionally been doing the Universi
ty a big service.
I noticed that jJames Reston .in a col
umn, attributes the student demonstrations
at the University at ' Berkeley, Yale Uni
versity, and other large universities, to the
fact pf bigness. The .students have lost con
tact with the faculty, with, each other, and
feel that Jthey become more or less num
iJers in a computerized society.
It might serve the " purpose of higher ed
ucation in North Carolina to stabilize the
size of UNC, UNC-R and UNC-G, while
concentrating on building up rapidly the
University, in Charlotte and another in
Greenville. ;A very fine college already
exists in Greenville.
s for myself, I much prefer to hire good
professors who love to teach, to hiring a lot
of high - priced PhD.'s who spend most of
their time: in research, or in writing bpoks
for publication. We need both kinds, the
teacher who hands down the wisdom of the
ages, and the researcher who discovers
new 'knowledge. But Jake the latter off
the faculty and let them devote their full
time to their research and book-writing.
In that way, the administration will know
where its money is going, and the student
will feel that he is getting what he is pay-
Abig step forward is being taken at
UNC towards the social integration pf the
student body, in the development of the
community college project. Even with a
12 000 to J5,000 student enrollment, the Uni
versity will have its work cut out for it.
Judging by the results of a recent British
tudv of their University system, which
included that less than 2;500 students
was too small, and more than 5,000 Was too
large, the University at Chapel ifiU Js now
2 1-2 times too large.
Of course it will take more money to
huUd two new Universities than it would to
dd to the three we already have, but are
we interested in saving money, or are we
Primarily interested in the system that will
fXl rnt for the students. In majdng
!nv kind of decision, let us ask ourselves,
tpd of results do we want from our
phbethe meantime, it might beweU to
mnk around the nation at the problems pf
5ftW we move ahead too fast.
r telia.' Connor
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plan hope it will. This is. going to in
crease the number of datable females on
campus, or change the attitude of the TCC
who has everything as she wants it (3:1);
and during the week nights these facilities
won't be used any more than the facili
ties we presently use because they aren't
very conducive to study.
Can present intramural activities be im
proved to any great extent by - separating
them into smaller groups: They are al
ready divided .into leagues which are sup
posed to . be . composed as to relative
strengths based on -past years perform-
-ances This is like shuffling the NCAA con
ferences' around at random to make new
conferences whereas present conferences
, haye the same relative strengths.
I think the problem of the lack of unity
is a basic problem of this university for
many, many years, but the tremendous rate
of growth here has finally brought the prob
lem to a head.
One aspect I like to stress is the teacher
. problem. .When I was in high school, one
of the larger ones in North Carolina, the
teachers took an interest in the students
and tried to help them understand what
they were being taught. But here at Carolina,-
the stress seems to be on research
of publishing accomplishments; the teacher
comes to class, assumes you have a com
plete understanding of the material he is
covering, and then he begins -to talk' over
your head.
He never seems to be able to explain
some things you cannot grasp; for instance,
in physics it is hard for one to under
stand the idea of forces,- velocity, mag
netic field, flux, and magnetic induction in
relation to electric currents (which is what
electric current really is) and our physics
teachers never seem to go into detail about
these basic phenomena. Then they wonder
why our grades are so low.
What is the purpose of the teacher any
way? If they want to do research, why
doesn't the administration give them leav
es of absence so they can devote their
time to it. I know some of them give
their menial tasks like giving quizzes and
grading them, etc., to their graduate stu
dents so they will have more time.
In regard to social life, I think that Ca
rolina has too much of an air of strict-
ness about it (unlike the fraternities and
sororities).-
There must bs some amount of discip
line, but also we are supposed to have
acquired some amount of maturity which
the administration says it recognizes- One
measure I disagree with is quiet hours.
How many people are in their rooms be
tween 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. So who is
going to bother others by playing their ra
dio or record player at an enjoyable tone?
Another measure is the unadulterated lack
of the female species here (UNC-G is too
far).
Why has it taken so long for the ad
ministration to recognize that equal
amounts of boys and girls do not hin
der study (reference is made to the min
ute number of increased females being ad
mitted; slowly but surely).
Carolina is not supposed to be an all
nale school; it is supposed to be one of
the largest liberal arts schools in the U.S.,
isn't it?
Maybe state government has too much
control over our liberal (supposed) atti
- tudes.
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Confrontation
By ART BUCIiWALD
New York Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON President Johnson's
"stick and carrot" policy as presented I;.
week is now being studied by the exper;.
The stick we know is the bombing of Nn-:h
Viet Nam; the carrot he offered was that
if the Communists would stop annoyir.i
Saigon, they might expect to get Vrj- j
States aid ala Southeast Asia Marsh.,::
Plan.
The man in charge of the stick is Secre
tary of Defense McNamara, the man vh5
may be put in charge of the carrot is Eu
gene Black, the former head of th2 Wor'J
Bank. I can foresee ' in the near future
where the interests of these two men cou' j
be at odds.
"Bob, this is -Gene Black here. I called
you about those railroad bridges you're
planning to bomb near Hanoi. I wish y :
wouldn't do it, Bob. Railroad bridges co:
a lot of money and as you know the Ameri
can Government is going to have to eve-.-tually
pay for them."
"Look, Gene, we've had those rallrcri
bridges targeted for months. They're the
key to Ho's supply lines."
"That's all well and good Bob, but the
Administration has to answer to C0r.gre.-3
for anything you destroy." 9
"Gene, I think military strategy has U
have precedence over foreign aid."
"Bob. I don't want to be a bore about
this, tut I have it on reliable author
that the North Vietnamese want you
bomb those bridges. They've been hop:
to build new ones for years, but have nov
been able to ee t tne money, i dclc
the Defense Department is playing in
their hands."
"I resent that, Gene. We've got to keep
up .the bombings so we can get Hanoi to
the negotiation stage. We have to keep up
the pressure."
"For the moment, Gene, the 'stick' p
licy is in effect, and I can not be con
cerned with what it will cost us after the
war is stopped."
"I'm not asking you to stop the bomb
ing, Bob. All I'm asking you to do is bomb
'places that have no value, and which they
can't justify us rebuilding for them. Is that
asking too much?"
"I'll have to talk it over with the Joint
Chiefs, but if we don't hurt them we'll ne
ver be able to stop the Viet Cong."
"That's another thing I wanted to talk ta
you about. I wish you'd stop using those
fire bombs in South Viet Nam. They're
terribly destructive and we're going to have
to replant.all those forests. Couldn't you go
batkto1 Using non-lethal gasT'
"You're making life very difficult for
me, Gene. I believe in foreign aid as much
its anybody, but I can't worry about your
program. That's the Department of State's
problem." , !
"Okay, go ahead. Wreck their economy
and see where it gets us. We've only got a
billion dollars to play with, and if yci
keep up your bombing attacks, I'm going (o
have to cut South Viet Nam out altogeth
er." I
Peaceniks
Grubby Marchers
And Empty Words
The Durham Morning Herald
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. tors who descended on Washington for f i
Easter weekend show of emotion over V t
Nam got a bad press for obvious rease:y
. It seems necessary among today's you:
ful demonstrators to give the appeararp
of having slept for the last week under a
bridge beside a river that defies pollutifi
control. And, then, like zealots caught up n
a "cause" in any age, today's demon
strators seem to discover a problem n
Tuesday morning and expect it to be sie
ved by late that night just becaiU
they say so.
Reporters covering such a mob woi
be less than human if they didn't notice
and dwell (unadmiringly) on its stud'd
indifference to soap and conventions! new
ness. They would also be less than hum in
(especially in the politically refined air ii
Washington) if they didn't point up the es
sential naivete of a mob that has come p
town to tell the President of the Unit 1 3
States to settle on agonizingly connp'lx
problem on its terms now
The psychology of contemporary proU-i
efforts doubtlesl requires that youthful i -monstrators
thus get in the way of Ihfr
own aims. Without the arrogance and :b
unconventionally, there might be no p:p
to ignite the protest in the first place. I
Yet in the Easter demonstration on VI t
Nam, it is a genuine misfortune that :!
demonstrators were typified by an cull
ed number of grubby - looking LndivU
uals. It is a misfortune that they let then
selves be quoted in terms that made th ir
protest appear as potentially diastrcus as
the Children's Crusade.
Rather than promoting healthy nation -debate
on a truly complex problem, th.y
left behind the impressions hat they h-.i
been had by some tired old extremis
who have made a career out of titi-ti; :l
college boys by attacking the status cuj.
Even that memorable impression is un
likely to endure through next w eek.