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Page 2 Friday, October 8, 1965 -:: (Site Satlg (liar tfcel Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors. ERNIE McCRARY. EDITOR JACK HARRINGTON. BUSINESS MANAGER l Remember Going To The Grill La$t Night.' Our Mailbajs Runneth Over .V.V.V.ViVi X'XWX'WvWv.'.V.W.V The Sugar Cane Curtain The Sugar Cane Curtain seemed to part a bit last ; week when Fidel Castro took the speaker's platform for a couple of his marathon harangues. Speaking in Havana's Revolution Plaza to 50,000 comrades, he undoubtedly startled many of them when he casually told them that any who want to go to America will be welcome to leave. He said he was even willing to give a couple of boats to help out, and set up two free plane flights a day. Castro has been in power more than six and a half years. During that time more than 20 per cent of Cuba's population has left the country, making their escapes as best they can. "The American imperialists closed the ports," the : Bearded One said. But in their desperation, Cubans :have risked their lives to get out of those ports "closed .by Americans," some of them actually making the : crossing to Florida in inner tubes. They come at a rate :of 2,000 per year, and small boats filled with bloody bodies offer grisly and frequent evidence that many of ; those who try to leave don't make it alive. : So now Castro offers free exit to his loyal sub jects. We are just waiting to see where the strings are attached. The other statement which has caused the raising of an eyebrow or two is Castro's "revelation" of what has happened to Ernesto 'Che" Guevara. Che, for mer second-in-command of the revolutionary govern ment, has not been seen or heard for seven months. He has been on the outs with Fidel for some time and was known to disapprove of Cuba's Moscow - oriented ideology. His name is not included in the new Cuban hierarchy. Speculation is that Che has been sent off to stir up trouble in other parts of Latin America, shipped off to exile or just plain bumped off. Despite Castro's statement which "explains every thing," the last two possibilities appear to be more likely. "I have fulfilled the part of my duty that bound me to the revolution in your territory," Che said according to Fidel. "My only mistake of any seriousness was not to have confided more in you (Castro) since the first moments of the Sierra Maestra (where the Castro re volt started), and not having sufficiently understood your qualities as director and as revolutionary . . . "I liberate Cuba from any responsibility . . . In. the new battlefields I shall carry on . . . the obliga tion to fight against imperialism wherever it may be." The letter concluded with the hope that the Cuban people will take care of his family. Che's wife was at the rally where the statement was read. She was dressed in black and appeared near tears. Yes, everything is explained. Unless something was lost in the translation, we would say this letter sounds more like something written by a man with a gun at his head. Perhaps the Sugar Cane Curtain parted a bit but it didn't show anything. Ride A Horse To Class A group of University of Texas sociology students is having a great time experimenting to see what nor mal reaction is to unorthodox behavior. One fellow walked up to a table where some peo ple were eating breakfast and drank their tomato juice. A girl rode a horse to class. Another poured soap in a swimming pool and washed her clothes in it. Students danced in a department store. Things have been kept in hand, however, by their professor, who told them they didn't have a license "to do all the wicked things you've always dreamed about doing." So far the students have found that most people are just bewildered and don't; try to do anything about their odd behavior. Chapel Hill is supposed to be a pretty enlightened and liberal place where 'most everything is taken in stride, but it might be interesting to try this experi ment here. We'd like to see the reaction to: Maintenance men who don't mow the grass during peak class hours. Cars that stop for pedestrians at those Franklin Street crosswalks. Y-Building when nobody was waiting in line to cash a check. A Carolina Coed standing on Silent Sam's pedestal, soliciting dates. lu? Saily (liar HjM 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The DaUy Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and Is published by students daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. Ernie McCrary, editor; John Jennrich, associate editor; Kerry Sipe. managing editor; Pat Stith, sports editor; Jack Harrington, business manager; Woody Sobol, adver tising manager. Second class postage paid at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, 27514. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8 per year. Send ch?nge of address to The Daily Tar Heel, Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C, 27514. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc. The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all ap news dispatches. J IS -a. .Ml r," V 1 1 V . I WBi 7 ' MMygm H TV'.$ tn.n W1 , 1TV vj i'ijf i j Letters To The Editor University Day Is Solemn Occasion Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: University Hay ceremonies in the past have been solemn commemorations of the founding of the first state university in the country. Famous men have come to Chapel Hill to deliver addresses and receive honorary degrees. The late president John F. Ken nedy came here three years ago, and North Carolina writer Paul Green spoke here two years ago. Secretary of State Dean Rusk received an honorary degree here last year. There will be pomp and splendor as the highest-ranking professors and administra tion officials march into the ceremony. Their robes will present a colorful, beauti ful picture. And freshmen will nudge each other and whisper proudly, "That's my English teacher," or groan cynically, "That's my math instructor?!" The speeches by the University's leaders and the stirring songs of the glee club will be as adrenalin for the audience's thump ing hearts, as all sing Carolina's praises. However, unfortunately, the audience Mike Jennings Odds And Ends In Dreamsville The administration says it will no longer tolerate the double standard. Wait till the legislature hears that one. How does Craige get the inside track on everything? What other institution in Amer ica could arrange visits from both Jayne Masnfield and Patsy Puckett, throw year long beer parties in the face of the MRC's wrath and win the Best Dorm on Campus Award every year? Let's call in the CIA. Or the FBI. You know the FBI has a computer that can give the identity of a wanted person when it is fed a list of his characteristics? But does it give phone numbers? Here's one for the machine: Suspicious looking person Female Blue eyes Dimples Cute Sweet Twinkling eyes Voice smooth as silk No machine could give me a name from that hst, unless a heart thumped inside. The Operation Match machine has no heart. It even violates the American sys tem of free enterprise. If fellows like me cant be free to shop around above our bracket-well, we may as well go jump in SchroederiSwamp. H Schroeder Swamp just outside Morrison, is truly a symbol of our admiration's far-sightedness. hJ 5' F-aliZe fact mm 1 learaed that 13 Morrison residents have been miss ing for more than a week. I put two and two together. Imagine the gratitude of UNC anthro pologists 2,000 years hence. When Schroeder is drained in 3965, there will be 13 perfectly preserved, college students from ancient Carolina. will be small this year, but not due to the absence of world figures such as Kennedy, who spoke in Kenan Stadium, or Rusk, who drew a capacity crowd to Memorial Hall. The audience will be small because many students will not be there. They will be boycotting the ceremonies in protest to an administration which recently has been attempting to serve also as student govern ment. First the administration urged Paul Dickson to resign as president of the stu dent body for a minor violation of the Campus Code. Then it demanded his resig nation, threatening to try his case before the Faculty Review Board an un-tradition-al, un-constitutional procedure. Although it renounced such ultimatums, the administration on Wednesday delivered the unkindest cut of all; it refused Dickson the traditional invitation to University Day ceremonies. This act , is not only rude and ridiculous, but also immature. Such acts serve to re duce the prestige of the president, which the adminitsration claims to be so concern ed over retaining. The act will not cause Dickson to resign, of course; it will only re-enforce his refusals to quit in the face of administation water-balloons. There is nothing wrong with John Har mon as president of the senior class. He is a smart student and a good football player, but his position completely lacks the prestige of any president of the student body no matter how criticized the cur rent president is. Yes, the crowd will be small, because students would prefer not to attend the moving ceremonies with a bitter taste in their mouths for the administration. You never can tell, there might even be pickets at the ceremonies in Brooks Brothers suits. Alan Banov 550 Ehringhaus Dual Standards Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: In regard to the dual standards of the student judiciary system, "Legislation can be applicable to none but those who are equals in race and capacity." Aristotle. David Bowman Tommy Murray 453 Maverick House Student Condemns NSA Resolutions Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Following are excerpts from an article appearing in a recent issue of a national news magazine that should be of interest to manv UNC students. "The National Students Association has met again at Madison, Wisconsin in order to renew its habitual demands that the United States accelerate its march toward socialism at home, and neutralism abroad. Specifically, the Convention ruled that the United States owes a) a better living to every American student, (b) more tolera tion to American (and for that matter, for eign) Communists, and (c) an apology to the Dominican Republic for saving their country from the Communists. The head line issue was the support the convention gave to the Berkeley sit-ins of last Decem ber. These were officially classified as le gitimate and responsible' on the grounds that the normal channels of redress had been exhausted. ". . . The resolution endorsing the anar chic activities of the Berkeley sit-ins had a demurral, to wit the clause that 'some stu dents may have acted irresponsibly' in sur rounding and imprisoning for 36 hours a police car that had come to the campus to take a demonstrator to jail. The conserva tives tried to get it to read 'some students acted irresponsibly,' but that proved too much. Although it is known that a police man was surrounded for 36 hours, it is not known the high semanticists of the NSA inform us that any student in fact acted irresponsibly. There is a very rigid hierar chy of disapproval in the glossary of the NSA. Wrhen the disapproval is really swing ing, one 'condemns' as, for instance, one 'condemns' the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Next to that, one 'deplores' as, for instance, the landing of the Marines in the Dominican Republic. Still further down, one 'regrets' as, for example, one might 'regret' the excesses of Fidel Castro. And, finally, one 'does not condone' the students who 'may have act ed irresponsibly' in imprisoning a police man sent out to imprison someone else. On these distinctions, worlds hand at live ly conventions. "The other point that brings relief is not very widely known, namely, that the Na tional Students Association does not speak for the student body of the United States . . . (for) the majority of students have no political views. They are content to let the minority fight the political wars. Every now and then there is a rumble of protest at the NSA's widespread acceptance as the Voice of the American campus. And some times, rising in wrath, a student body will kick the NSA out of the campus. But by and large, the students simply ignore the NSA, and rather wonder why the adult world doesn't also." It is hard to believe that the students of the University of North Carolina pay hun dreds of dollars each year to maintain its membership in such an organization. Dwight Thomas, Jr. 249 Morrison Dickson Support Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Since the news of Paul Dickson being asked to resign, the DTH has failed to distinguish itself as a non - partisan news paper. The paper has a perfect right to editorize (sic) on the issue, but the edi torials of the paper should be limited to the editorial page. It is regretful that this has not been the case with the DTH. News of criticism of Paul Dickson has been given headlines while news of support receives little or no space. For example, when Chancellor Sharpe (sic) gave his opinions concerning Paul Dickson, the DTH gave him front page headlines but advice given to Dickson by several members of the fac ulty urging him to remain in office re ceives no attention in the paper. When Don Carson slandered Paul Dickson, Mike Law ler, and the Student Party, he received front page headlines, but when the Di-Phi Senate unanimously passed a resolution supporting Paul Dickson's decision to re main in office and when the Student Party overwhelmingly supported this resolution by a standing ovation, the news seemed to be of less importance than the announcement that owners of "T Sticker" parking per mits would be given a $2.50 refund. The news of a refund may be of more import ance to a few people, but to the whole stu dent body? Come now. Because you dis agree with the Di - Phi concerning Dick son's decision, it gives you no right, as our campus newspaper to mishandle the news Isn't it about time our campus news paper limits its editorializing to its editorial page? Bruce Burchett 233 Craige Undated Nurses Editor. The Daily Tar Heel: I must leap to your defense. In regard to the letter you printed in the October 6th issue from the four little freshmen of the Nurse's dormitory, I must support the be lief that there is both rhyme AND reason for the lack of dates among some of our illustrious coeds. As a recent transfer from the Univer sity of Texas. I was appalled by the con suming time some of our Freshmen Nurses spend in their activities with the American Kennel Association. I have found numerous girls who do not carry broomsticks at such dormitories as Winston, West Cobb, and Smith Dormitory. I have met lovelies at Duke, W. C, and G. C. Alas, perhaps the problem those 20 undated nurses have can be found in the minor of personality. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. And you know what they've done on us! Sophocles McSweeney 254 Morrison 'Chateau Chase' Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Last Sunday six boys walked over to Chase Cafeteria, better known as "Cha teau Chase," to eat what we expected to be a fine supper. We ordered something we thought was chop suey on rice. We may have made a mistake. Returning to the dorm after Monday morning classes and all of us had that pale, haggard look. Our heads hung low, our arms dangled at our sides, and our feet dragged the floor as we moped around the suite. WTe began to question each other about our health. We made a surprising discovery. All of us had that infamous dis ease: diarrhea. Because we enjoyld our meal so much, we are asking the manager of "Chateau Chase" to give us exclusive rights to the recipe. This may seem selfish, but believe us, we are doing this for the entire student body. Jay Schwartz Danny Morrison Howard Miller Jimmy Thornton Billy Raney Tony Shepherd Ehringhaus Dormitory Police Raid Cars Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Well, they did it again. With the speed and deadly precision of a well organized team of experts, they struck fast, furious, and efficiently. Gone are our most valued possessions, our ultra mode of travel, our poor defenseless cars. How beautifully timed was the attack from the infamous Chapel Hill Police Dept. Now half the members of the 'big frater nity court' and a large number of UVa. students (they weren't warned that 200 cars have to fit into spaces for 60) are out searching for their cars. At no othe? time are these fearless ones from Rosemary Street so victorious, be it after little old ladies jaywalking, speeders, robbers, or a coed-killer. "Take 'em all away," is their cry as they swoop down unmercifully and tow off all cars in sight which are even a fraction of an inch past the undefined and imagi nary borders of the insufficient spaces al loted. And what is their reply when asked where one should park? Simply, "There are lots of parking spaces around. Hell, all you have to do is go down that street there, take a right, make a left at the third light, two more rights, another left and you're right there just hundreds of spots. Of course the walk might take you a while and you might have to walk through a few secluded spots . . . But you look like you can fend off any attackers." And as we drive off down route 86 look ing for a place to park, or as we search for our cars to the next morning, we re member the policeman's parting remark, "Can't wait 'til next year when the univer sity cuts down on more parking spaces; then we'll really make a haul. This sure beats our usual job of watching for jay walkers." 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