Friday, October 22, 1965
Tetters To The Editor
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ERNIE McCRARY. EDITOR
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editor.
Special Session
from The Raleigh Times
Wednesday's conference between Governor Moore
and legislative leaders should help impress upon the
people of North Carolina the fact that legislative and
congressional reapportionment is almost a sure thing,
and also the fact that steps have been taken to have
plans ready if the federal courts do order such steps.
Some sources believed that the meeting might
bring creation of a special House-Senate Committee
to consider proposals for reapportionment and have
plans ready for any special session which might be
called. Such a committee should be named. It could
do its work without the haste and confusion which in
evitably would accompany such steps if taken first
during the actual session. And, such a special com
mittee could have time before a session to explain its
work to the legislature, and iron out most of the
problems before the session were held.
The suit challenging North Carolina's current leg
islative and congressional apportionment plans is now
before a three-judge federal court. Most North Caro
lina officials think that the court will order changes
in the system on the basis of the one-man-one-vote
ruling of the Supreme Court.
Since such a step seems almost certain, it is wise
to get the planning done well before the legislature is
brought back here in special session. In fact, it
wouldn't hurt to have plans definitely drawn up and
submitted to legislators in a series of meetings
across the State, where questions could be asked and
answered, and objections smoothed out as well as
possible, before a special session convened.
Wednesday's conference was attended by the Gov
ernor, Speaker Pat Taylor, Lt. Gov. Bob Scott, and
Rep. David Britt, the man regarded as being most
likely to be elected Speaker of the 1967 House, and
chairman of the special commission now studying the
speaker-ban law. Britt's presence at the conference
indicates that action on the controversial speaker-ban
law also probably would be included on the agenda of
a special session.
This would make sense. If the study commission
recommended changes in the law, action should be
taken on the matter as quickly as possible. If such a
matter were left hanging for months until the 1967
session convened, more and more heat inevitably
would be generated over the subject, and that would
hurt all concerned.
; If the study commission comes in with recommen
dations which would provide reasonable compromises
for all sides, the matter should be sent to a special
session for final action.
Sanctimonious Teddy
From The Greensboro Daily News
The pot and kettle school will note with some in
terest the sanctimonious comment of Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy concerning his family's old friend, Francis
X. Morrissey.
Alarmed over the impending Senate judgeship con
firmation vote, Senator Kennedy has charged Senate
Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen with using
Morrissey's nomination for "partisan political pur
poses." The Illinois senator has indeed rallied a mountain
of senatorial, strength around his conviction that Mor
rissey is unqualified by intellectual capacity and legal
training and experience to serve as U. S. district judge
in Massachusetts. He may even be stirring up this
particular furor for "partisan political purposes" as
Senator Kennedy charges but it is clear that he
could never get away with it except by attracting a
sizable segment of senators who oppose Morrissey's
nomination on principle.
For Senator Kennedy to charge anyone else with
using "partisan political purposes" to oppose what is
patently an outrageous example of political back
scratching ought to stagger the imagination of lesser
men not wrapped up in such self-serving activities.
But it happens to be pretty mild these days in Wash
ington. Still we can hope that such oratorical hogwash
may one day get too sickening even for senators to
stomach.
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Letters To The Editor
Coeds Oppose
Recall Motives
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
J'accused et tu Brute?
Since Miss Sharon Rose has presumed
to speak for the coeds on this campus and
their ideals, it now seems necessary that
we coeds holding a different opinion be
allowed to express our attitudes on this
subject. We support Dickson in the office of
president of the Student Body. We have no
knowledge that he has fallen from any per
sonal or: student ideal and certainly not
that he has committed any immoral act.
We elected him last spring believing him
to be qualified for this position and we
have had no reason to alter this belief.
His trial should never have been made
a matter of public knowledge. The names
of persons involved in Honor Council trials
have always been inviolate information and
for the administration to reveal this infor
mation and for student government offi
cials to ask for his resignation was a be
trayal of the inherent dignity of the indi
vidual on this campus as manifested in
our honor system. For Miss Rose to de
mand a recall election because Dickson's
conduct was "ungentlemanly" and to en
courage this demoralization and subversion
of student autonomy is much more detri
mental to the ideals that coeds at UNC
believe in than anything that Dickson has
done.
Women students on this campus do have
ideals; however, the only cause on this
campus that coeds have a greater incen
tive toward (and which is possibly the real
reason behind Miss Rose's support of this
petition) is revenge upon those who have
imposed this double standard upon them.
Rather than being an attempt to adjust this
standard in an adult manner, I think the
true sentiment behind this petition is "since
we can't go out and have fun nobody
else can either!"
Miss Rose, it is perhaps time that you
came out of the shadows of The Cave into
the sunlight.
Natasha Alexandra Kern
Virginia Cornue
Elizabeth Mabe
Paula Michalove
Whitehead Dormitory
Public Censure
Will Harm Code
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I can agree with the opponents of Dick
son on only one point; in the past weeks
student government has indeed lost pres
tige. However, I cannot agree that Dickson
is responsible for this degradation. A repri
mand is designed and intended to bring a
sense of personal shame to the individual,
and to him alone. It was the illegal dis
closures and underhanded tactics of Dick
son's opponents which brought, and con
tinue to bring shame and degradation upon
our entire student government.
When Dickson's opponents made his
reprimand public, they committed the most
blatant transgression in this entire affair.
It is absolutely illegal to publicize the pro
ceedings and conclusions of an Honor Coun
cil trial. In fact, we do not, and cannot
legally know whether Dickson has received
a reprimand.
This right to privacy is the essential
basis of our Honor Code. Our Honor Code
attempts to develop a personal morality
among students. It is hoped that a con
victed student will work out a true personal
penitence and, through that, strengthen his
own code. It is felt that public censure only
develops defiance of false, penitence, and
that it is in no way conducive to the de
velopment of a personal moral code. If we
now publicly censure Dickson, we will com
pletely destroy the basis of our Honor Code.
Jeremy Thomas Monro
309 Grimes
Towing Standards
i Editor,-The iDaily .Tar Heel:
Thank you, Mr. Robl, for that fine front
page article on car-towing. You sure came
right to the point and said absolutely noth
ing not why the cars are towed, how
many a week, or even where all the thous
ands of dollars go which come from the
towing fines. It was just another in a long
series of uninformative articles meant to
take up space in the DTH.
The chill has gone up everyone's spines.
Where can you park? Nowhere. If you're
forced to park illegally in order not to have
to walk three miles, you shake with fright
all day. In most parts of the civilized world
cars are towed away for two reasons:
1. they are in an accident and must be
towed away for repairs.
2. they are illegally parked, i.e., liable
to cause an accident.
The truly amazing thing about it all is
that they distinguish between student and
Chapel Hill residents. Come by fraternity
court Sunday morning. The students try to
park off the street and therefore they jam
into fraternity court on the way to church.
They constantly get towed away. But the
cars parking away on the wrong side of
Rosemary Street, sticking out dangerously
and restricting traffic, are never touched.
I thought we were getting rid of "dual
standards."
The important questions are why these
cars are being towed away all the time,
where does all the money go, and doesn't
anyone give a damn about the student and
his problems anymore. Four thousand cars
into two thousand parking spaces theoreti
cally equals over $20,000 each time the
towers come.
Jay Brilliant
107 Fraternity Court
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
In view of the recent irresponsible dem
onstrations, which have spread a blight
across this land, condemning the Adminis
tration's stand in Viet Nam, it seems op
portune if not necessary that the student
body of some major university should ad
vance a demonstration backing our Viet
Nam policy.
As it stands now, a small minority of
of United States student population is
giving the world the impression that the
American student is an irresponsible rab
ble rousing anarchist, easily swayed and
motivated by shallow and insidious state
ments of the Far Left. That he is incapable
of serious, rational, and coherent thought
or consideration of world politics or aware
of the extent and meaning of the commu
nist threat.
It is time for the majority of the student
population to shake off their apathy and
show the world that the American student
is first and always an American, proud of
his heritage, enamored of freedom, and
willing to give all for his country. The
world should be made aware that this is
his true image and that he is not the draft
dodging dilettante which has become his
stereotype.
However, it is unfortunate that those who
have a rational view of the world situation
are the serious students who have neither
the time nor the exhibitionistic personality
needed to march around carrying placards.
It is, however, time for. some demonstra
tion which will allow the rational student
to display his distaste for the small faction
of exhibitionistic professional agitators,
pseudo-humanistic ultra liberals, and their
unfortun""1" ignorant dupes, who decry
the present of American troops in that
troubled land, but see no wrong in the
presence of Chinese trained, Russian armed
North Viet Nam battalions in that same
land.
These are the people who are quite justi
fiably horrified and indignant about the
loss of innocent life due to American ac
tion, but who appear to approve of whole
sale murder and terrorist campaigns con
ducted by VC in the same villages. These
same people protest the American bomb
ing of military objectives but apparently
see nothing amiss in the VC bombings of
cafes, bars, hospitals, and public buildings.
It is therefore time for the rational ma
jority to express their views.
Harry A. Webb
Tom H. Ridgway ,
Lloyd E. Fox
Arthur F. Eidson
Frederick D. Vastine
Charles E. Twine
Walter C. Worsham
Chapel Hill
Wake Challenge
(The following letter was written to
Claude Pickett, Jr., 201 Mangum, by a
friend of his at Wake Forest. Claude sub
mitted the letter to the DTH because he
thought it might be interesting reading for
a few other Tar Heels.)
Dear Claude,
Well, Saturday is the big day. I suppose
that, considering what happened last Sat
urday, you Carolina students don't consider
this game as a very difficult obstacle.
However, I hope that you don't make the
same mistake that you did against Vir
ginia. We at Wake Forest are neither
awed by nor impressed by the Tar Heels,
and we will definitely not roll over and
play dead when the "mighty Tar Heels(?)"
enter Bowman Gray Stadium Saturday. As
a matter of fact, we do not consider Caro
lina as tough as other teams we play such
as Florida State, Maryland and Duke.
Don't forget last year, when we com
pletely demolished a big Duke team, leav
ing four Duke players on stretchers in the
process. Also, don't forget last year's Wake
UNC farce at Chapel Hill. You may rest
assured that we haven't. That score will
be evened this coming Saturday. See you
then.
Bud Tallcy
Wake Forest College
Positive Comment
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Congratulations to Steve Lail for his
front page article on Tuesday entitled
"Quaker Graduate Student 'Stands Up For
Decision ' " By closing with an argument
opposing Coe's stand Lail suggests that
perhaps he, himself, does not agree with
Coe. All the more reason why his treatment
of Coe as a human being with a dignity of
his own and a right to be respectfully heard
is so laudable.
I am thankful for this opportunity to
make a comment on this subject in a posi
tive vein.
Robert DeMaine
306 Connor
Puritan Element
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
The University of North Carolina has
been plagued this year by many contra
versial issues that have threatened to im
pair it's image. However, unknown to
many, we have discovered a latent threat
to the liberal image which Carolina sO
proudly possesses.
There is, on this campus, an element
of puritanism which must be cast aside. It
was evident last year among the attire of
many of the campus coeds. We are speak
ing, of course, of the hideous decorations
on hidden legs. We hesitate to call them
hose for they are indeed more like rattle
snake skins.
What possesses these girls to do such
a foul deed? Are their legs in such poor
shape that they must be hidden by these
atrocities. If so, the remedy is much worse
than the disease. Ladies, please cast off
this element of puritanism before it des
troys Carolina's true image. :
Leg watchers of the Hill unite! Cast thp
evil eye upon these gross conceptions of
beauty.
R. J. Angell
D. V. Lewis
231 Craise
Let's All Scream
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
" In answer to the letter concerting; cheer
leading in the October 12 Daily Tar Heel,
I would like to differ in opinion. Before
transferring to Carolina, I was head-cheerleader
at a college on the North Carolina
coast. Therefore, I feel as though I have
some authority to say the things I will.
Soon after becoming a cheerleader, I
learned that the actions of collegiate cheer
leaders were kept to rather uncomplicated
but exact movements. There were also few
er cheers, using chants or just a word in
many cases.
True, the UNC cheerleaders differ from
the ones we had in high-school, as they
certainly should. Yes, the actions and
cheers are smaller in number but this fol
lows tradition too. The important thing is
that the fans make the cheerleaders reau
worthwhile. In a school this large a few
people can't do the cheering for thousands
of us. The next game let's all back up the
cheerleaders, show some real appreciation,
because the lack of enthusiasm may have
been in us, not in them.
Michael Freeman
114 Graham
Barnard9 s Talent
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
First it was the nurses, now it's those
students who don't subscribe to "Kill the
enemy" commandment; why is Barnard
wasting his talent in ridiculing groups of
Carolina students? And why do you allow
him to waste DTH space with his mis
guided and partisan comments? We get
enough of that from you, and he should
try to entertain us with some pleasant car
toons. Kunio D. Kikuchi
401 Connor
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