Sariils D3?t, Box 870 - , . Thought When the moon's soft glow edges out the sun's dying rays and the cool fingers of evening announce the close of another day's toils, we birds seldon fly at night. Gertrude Glick Mm Soccer UNC soccer team squares off against Trenton State today at 3 p.m. on Fetier Field. Coach Marvin Allen will be seeking his 100th victory as Tar Heel coach. The South9 s Largest College Xcuspuper Vol. 74, No. 50 CHAPEL HILL NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 196 Founded February 23, 1893. Coed Tells About Big, Dark City (Editor's note: American's most stunning technological breakdown in many years left about 30 million Americans a sixth of the population without electricity for 10 hours Tuesday. The blackout, still unexplain ed yesterday, started at 5:17 p.m. and spread through Buf falo, Rochester, Syracuse, Uti ca, Schenectady, Troy and Al bany. Four minutes later Bos ton was in Darkness, then the failure spread southward through Connecticut, north ward into Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Cana da. It hit New York at 5:28 p.m., then leaped the Hudson River to parts of Northern New Jer sery. A UNC student was waiting for a flight back to school from New York when the blackout hit. Here is her reaction to the lights that failed.) By SUZANNE MEARNS Special To The DTH A funny thing happened the other day. All the lights went out. There I was, sitting in the waiting-room at La Quardia airport in New York waiting for my flight to Raleigh-Durham to be announced. It was dusk in New York City and the flying commuters were all there, brief-case and trenchcoat in hand. Suddenly, the lights darkened, flickered briefly, and then all was black. Strange things do happen in The City, and a waiting room is as good a place as any to wait. So we waited. And wait ed. And still no light. The flight attendant was as confused, if not more so, as the waning passengers were. "La aies and gentlemen, we don't exactly know what's happened, but it seems that there has been an electrical failure here in the terminal. If you will just be patient, we'll have every thing straightened out in a few minutes." Half an hour later, "Uh, La dies and gentlemen, uh, the I power iauure nas been report- I ed to be fairly wide-spread. We don't know exactly when it will be restored ... if you live in the city, we suggest you delay your departure until tomor row . . ." Luckily, I have a sister liv ing in Queens, which is about ten minutes from La Quardia. So I decided to take an extra long weekend. I groped my way to a baggage locker in semi, very semi-darkness, left my suitcase, and went out to the ramp to find a taxi. The idea was not original. In the rapidly failing twlight, every one wanted a taxi. New Yorkers lack a certain Southern Hospitality. Fat la dies, old men and debonaire businessmen elbowed me out of the way, screamed "TAXI!" in my ear and stepped on my feet. But they're always that way, so I jostled back and made it to the curb where as many as ten people were piling into one taxi-cab. Finally an old gentleman leaned out of the window of a partially filled cab and asked me where I was going. I wasn't going where he was go ing, but he said to hop in any way. I must have looked pretty pathetic by that time. As it turned out, the man was from Charlotte. The cab driver took. me to my sister's apartment building first It was errie driving through a darkened city, particularly New York City, where the nights are hardly distinguish able from the days. People were walking around every where. Vendors were selling candles. Lighters flickered. It was like a huge tapping ceremony taking place, except everyone was talking. Some were laughing and gay, others were frightened and lost. Po licemen were everywhere, di recting traffic and giving di rections. By that time, night had fallen completely on the city but the neon signs and apartment windows remained dark. At my sister's apartment, the doorman handed me a can die with a pleasant "Nice night out. huh?" Walking up the three flights of stairs like Lady MacBeth, I paused to watch the rescue operation going on at the elevator. The lady who finally emerged with groceries in arm said, "My husband will never believe this!" He prob ably will. My sister met me at the door with a flash-light and the final witticizm, "Where were YOU when the lights went W&z . fix' ' w MAUPIN . . . "Let's Get Di Phi Senate Favors NSA; Audience Votes Negatively By DAVID ROTHMAN DTH Staff Writer The Di-Phi Senate voted 10 to 2 in favor of UNC's con tinued NSA membership aft er listening to Tuesday's de bate between Senior Class Vice President Armistead Maupin and Eric Van Loon, NSA campus coordinator. But the maiority of persons at the debate voted against belonging to the National Stu dent Association. Maupin, who wants NSA membership ended, said UNC students should not be com pelled to support the liberal rtPO'jniT'jf inn VirmiaVi ctnanf government activity fees. ne insisted mere are prin- ciples involved and drew this analogy between NSA and a faulty soft drink machine: "Our membership may cost 13 cents a student a year,but if I put a dime in a Coke machine and it doesn't give me a Coke, I'm going to kick tne neu out oi u." He cited NSA's controversi al stands on the Berkeley pro test movement, integration and the admission of Red China into the United Nations. Van Loon called attention to tribute paid NSA by Vice President Hubert Humphrey and other national leaders. He said that although UNC students often disagree with NSA's positions, Carolina should remain in the organi zation because of services it renders like: Travel information. Insurance. Representation of U. S. students at international meet ings. Advice to student gov ernments on the handling of campus problems like park ing. Suggestions on course evaluation and similar aca demic matters. Van Loon claims that NSA's critics ave made its official policies seem more radical than they are. He said NSA endorsed the Berkeley protest only after "all channels of communica tion" between students, facul YRC, YDC Working Together The presidents of the UNC chapters of the Young Demo crats and Republicans are be ginning to work with the newly-formed Committee on Na tional Student Citizenship In Every National Case of Emergency (CONSCIENCE). CONSCIENCE was created at Stanford University in re sponse to nation-wide student demonstrations against U. S. policy in Vietnam. It is work ing on a bi-partisan basis through the leadership of Young Democrats and Young Republican organizations on all accredited college campuses. Tom Bolch, head of the lo cal YDC, and Dave Sentelle, Head of the local YRC, said yesterday they are beginning to work on a national lecture-in to be held on Nov. 22. The purpose of the national lecture-in will be to inform President Johnson and nation al leaders all over the world that the great majority of American college students feel it is their responsibility to sup port the national government at times of international crisis Out!" ty and the administration "were closed." The campus coordinator de nied his group glorifies un necessary civil disobedience U. S. troops immediately or dered out of Viet Nam with the present situation. Maupin said UNC students could use NSA's travel cards even if the school dropped its membership. He added: "It's awful hard anyway to walk up to a Parisian and say, 'Give me a room at a 25 per cent discount' . . . even if the card says 'I go to school' in eight different lan guages." He questioned the value of NSA's insurance plan, saying the association "gets a $1 kickback for every policy it sells." Maupin insisted NSA's help was not needed to produce UNC's course evaluation guide. Van Loon told the audience of more than 50 persons that the organization's insurance plan is also used by U. S. military academies. He said NSA furnished the forms for the evaluation jjuide. The Senior Class Vice Pres ident constantly referred to the alleged domination of NSA by radicals. He claimed NSA had given the Student Non Violent Coordinating Commit tee (SNCC) "funds for some project in Mississippi." SNCC is an integration or ganization whose leaders have attacked U. S. Viet Nam policy. Maupin mentioned NSA's appeal to member schools to contribute to the Free Speech Movement Defense und. Other critics of the associa tion did the following: Playmakers' 'Summer Tree' ("The Summer Tree" by Randolph Umberger. Present ed Nov. 9, 1965, by Carolina Playmakers.) By PETER COWEN Special To The DTH "The Summer Tree" airs out issues which transcend the conflicts old vs. new gener ation, urban vs. rural, ends justify means vs. strictly mo rality around which the plot revolves. In this comedy of initiation Shubert Playwright Umberger colors the 24-hour attempt of a low-income family to capi talize on its "big in" with irony, satire, country wit, fan tasy and honest emotion. An adolescent girl's misad venture with a roving Casano va set off a chain of events which eventually brings the family closer to an understand ing of each other and them selves. Floyd Ramsey (Bill Smith) is the bitter father of a family which lives in Raleigh "short ly after the end of World War I," who blames his wife for what he considers her failure to let him take the chance which might have made him a rich man. The presence of his father-in-law, Adam Willis (Ben Jones), who lives with the fam ily, is particularly chafing to Floyd since Mare Ramsey (Kristine Hoover), Floyd's daughter, eagerly clings to ev ery romantic, make-believe no tion fed to her by the old man. " i VAN LOON . . . "Let's Stay In!' Brought up additional ex amples of radicalism. Denounced NSA for lack of tolerance of conservatism. Said NSA has unwisely strayed from a policy of "re garding students in their role as students." Suggested their primary interest is in themselves, "not others . . . until I am pre pared for it (by education)." NSA Delegate Teddy O'Toole said the organization needs conservative delega tions to balance out the rad ical influences cited by Mau pin. Like Van Loon, he praised NSA's services. He said he was in constant contact with NSA national headquarters, which he called responsive to students' needs. Di-Phi Speaker Pro Tern John' Greenbacker also sug gested that UNC conservatives try to influence NSA. Greenbacker warned the conservatives not to "look like a spoiled child and say we'll go back to Chapel Hill and sulk. "They turn their backs to the intellectual intercourse of society," he said, referring to ultra-conservatives. "I hope the students of this school will not follow them." NSA delegate Wright Doyle criticized many NSA conven tion delegations for advocat ing resolutions like the sug gestion that unmarried stu dents be given contraceptives. But he added, "NSA is here to stay ... We should change NSA . . . not stop it." He agreed with Greenback er that conservative delega tions like UNC's must organ ize themselves better. A DTH Adam's closeness to his granddaughter is also a source of jealousy in Floyd. When Harry (James Lenz), Floyd and Meg's impetuous son comes home with the "impor tant" car dealer, Paul Atkins (Pat Tone), each member of the family except Adam maneu vers for the brighters position in the sunlight of his favor. Even when the family is sud denly alerted to the true na ture of Atkins' character, Floyd and Harry rationalize about his attempted rape of Mare to the point that Mare is punished. Ironically, though, the des picably insincere Atkins draws brother and sister closer to themselves and each other, as well as to Adam's earthly philosophy ("Nothing's possi ble when you're too rich to see the sunset."). Kristine Hoover's portrayal of Miranda (Mare) gives sub- stance to an almost fair-like young girl whose plight is that of a romantic in a world which doesn't understand romantics. Miss Hoover's evocation of The Virgin at "the Virgin Tree" with all the tatter's ironic implications and her speech to the "fire fishes" (both in Act II) are particular ly powerful bits of acting. Ad am Willis' memory is as keen as his wit ("you can be rich another time, huh?") and his country euphemisms are in di rect contrast to Floyd's oppor tunism (speaking of Paul. "This is our big in") and compromising morality. TT1D Take; Offices; Others Contested Freshman Profile Shows Top Breed A new breed descended on Carolina this fall. And the simplest way to de scribe it is a wealth of brain potential. Statistics just released by the office of admissions show that 72.4 per cent of the class of 1970 came from the top fourth of their senior class. Only 68.96 per cent of the boys achieved that mark, where 92.2 per cent of the girls were skimmed from the top fourth category. Perhaps more amazing, and more revealing of UNC's rising standards of admission, is that not one student came from the bottom fourth of his senior graduating class last June. Charles Bernard, director of admission, compiled the report. Broken into application totals. Students Urged To Observe Veterans Day UNC students were urged yesterday to attend Veterans Day ceremonies by Student Body President Paul Dickson, Dean of Student Affairs C. O. Cathey, YDC President Tom Bolch and YRC President Dave Sentelle. A student group headed by Charlotte senior Otto J. Reich had earlier obtained the Uni versity's permission to partici pate in the activities to show student support of u. s. viei Nam policy. Dickson said he would attend the occasion and told the DTH: "This is an important day we set aside each year to recog nize those who have fought and died for this county. "I hope everybody will at tend." Dean Cathey explained he al ways goes to Veterans Day ceremonies. Cathey praised Reich and his followers. "I'll be happy to join the ROTC groups when they hold their formal retreat ceremony honoring the soldiers who have fought in past wars and those who are fighting in Viet warn, he said. Review James Lenz could be more arragontly self-asserting i n his role as the out-of-the-pan-into-the-fire Harry who mo mentarily renounces his sister to get ahead; Pat Tone is strong as the Machiavellian businessman who flatters and cons his way into all hearts except those of Adam and (strangely enough) a lady of ill repute. Floyd's wife is both the sym pathetic and reassuring moth er and the appeaser of con flicts with the family as well as between the family and the neighbors. Anne Peacock does a creditable job in this respect, and Bill Smith lends tragic, if not even heroic qualities to Floyd's battle with life. "The Summer Tree" though, would be notably lacing with out is genuinely appealing Tony Cahoon. Paul Byron Baker makes this carefree country boy come alive with acting which will make future casting of the part difficult without him. Wendy Fares is frustrating ly convincing as Tony's malic ious gossiping and self-righteous mother, and even the two Eirls of ill repute ueasingiy daved bv Jene Williams and Sandy Tinker) seem mua in comparison to the evil which Dora Cahoon represents. Umberger no doubt had Shakespeare's comedy "The Tempest" in mind when he wroie ine summer ncc. Mare hopes to be called by her real name, Miranaa, some uay and both she ana ner name- .Eight, school backgrounds, college board scores and residence backgrounds, the profile also contains information on stu- ; dent aid, honor students and i advanced placement. j Thirty-five states, the dis trict of Columbia, two U. S. Possessions and nine foreign countries are represented. Other than North Carolina, which donated 1,787 freshmen, Connecticut sent 21, Florida 42, Georgia 48, New York 65, Pennsylvania 46, Virginia 56, Maryland 36, New Jersey 27, West Virginia 13 Ohio 12, and Massachusetts 12. The rest of the states sent less than ten students each, or none. There were 1,969 fresh men and 336 women admitted. College board averages, al ways a conversation piece for undergraduates, fell as fol lows: North Carolina men aver aged 536 in verbal and 578 in math, the women scored 563 in verbal and 577 in math. The totals were 540 in verbal and 578 in math. Out-of-state men students scored 556 in verbal and av eraged 641 in math. The wom en ranked 614 in verbal and 603 in math scores. Averages for out-of-state students were 564 in verbal scores and 635 for math. Two women scored over 750 in the verbal test, 24 men scored over 750 in the math test and three women received 750 or better in math. Some 4,870 North Carolinians applied for admission and 2, 730 were admitted, or about 65 per cent. Out of state, some 3,457 applied and 651 were ad mitted, or about 56 per cent. Ninety-five North Carolina counties are represented in the freshman class. Guilford and Mecklenburg sent 127 and 137 students respectively. The rest had less than a hundred, or none. "The University has availa ble approximately $275,000 for scholarship awards," the re port said. Awards range from $175 to $1,100. Student loans exceed $500.00. The 364 students receiving scholarships this year in the freshman class have access to $123,250; part-time jobs totaled $32,901; and loans reached $90, 480. The total awards came to $246,631. Lauded sake from "The Tempest" are romantic young girls, intrigued by the world of the supernat ural. The strikingly raw element of evil innate to the charac ters of Paul Atkins and Cali ban are set against the wise old men Adam and Prospero (Floyd in some respects is also analogous to Prospero). Al though Prospero's choice of reason over vengence has a different implication, Floyd also makes this choice. Willy Loman in Henry Mill er's "Death of a Salesman" may be seen in Floyd's dis gust at his own failure in life and his desire to build at any cost (most obviously that of re fusing to face the truth) a son who will make up for his lack of success. Willy and Adam re treat into distorted dream worlds of the past while Biff and Harry are defeated by the world they set out to conquer. The set in each scene is skillfully constructed around the tree which gives life mean ing to either Adam (Scenes I and III) or Mare (Scene I) Their dreams assume sub stance in the trees, just as the trees come to life m the sum mer twnen "mere isni any school"). "The Summer Tree" will make every viewer who experiences it question his relationship to the Twentieth Century society, yet its beau ty resides in the appealing sim- plicity of a story which defies uie euuru oi eacu geim-cuum io cnauge iu P By JOHN GREENBACKER DTH Political Writer University Party candidates captured eight and Student Party candidates took five of the class offices in the fall elections Monday. The vice presidencies of the freshman and junior classes and three Honor Council seats are still being contested, ac cording to Elections Board Chairman Alvin Tyndall. The student body defeated a controversial constitutional amendment which would have given the student body presi dent the power to appoint the student body secretary by a vote of 2,581 to 1,137. Vote tabulations for the jun ior class were marred by the loss of all junior ballots cast in Alexander Residence Hall. Tyndall said yesterday Alexander's junior ballots were discovered missing after they had been sorted and set aside in a temporary tally room in Graham Memorial Monday night. "We are trying to locate the missing ballots now," Tyndall said. "We may have to open the Alexander ballot box to check for them." Tyndall said if all of the nearly 40 juniors in Alexander had voted entirely one way on each of their class office candidates, their votes could only have changed the winner of the junior class vice presi dential race. An exhaustive search for the missing ballots will be conducted before a new elec tion between Bill Nucciaroni (UP) and Tom Gauntlett (SP) is called, according to Tyndall. Junior class results are as follows: Mel Wright (SP) defeat ed Steve Salmony, 557 to 400, for the presidency. Tentative totals for Gauntlett and Nucciaroni are 472 and 484 respectively. Secretary is Liz Scott (UP). Treasurer is Susan War ren (UP). Social Chairman is Becky Tatum (UP). Sophomore results are as follows: Bill Long (SP) defeated Dick Young, 548 to 418 for the presidency. ' Bob Neely (Sf) is tne vice president. Students Favor Britt Amendment Students at the University of North Carolina voted today in a poll showing that nine out of 10 students are in favor oi tne Britt Commission recommen dations on amendment of the Speaker Ban Law. A casual poll taken by the University News Bureau ques tioned 103 students at random in dining halls, on the campus, in the library, and outside classrooms. The overwhleming majority of Carolina Students believe the Britt Commission findings -and the recommendations of Governor Dan K. Moore are "a step in the right direction." Most students would have preferred repeal. But they understand the practicality of compromise. They axe wining to accept it. The poll is considered a rea sonably accurate measurement of popular opinion on the cam pus. The questions was asked: "What do you think of the Britt Commission recommen dations? Do you think the Leg islature should amend the law as Dropseod? Are you pleased or displeased with the Britt Commission report?" Of the 103 questioned, 89 said they are for amending the law as proposed by Senator Britt and uov. aioore, as a lair com promise of a difficult problem Eight students said they are for outright repeal, and that no compromise suited them. Three students are in favor of the present Speaker Ban Law as it exists. Three more declare they are neutral or can't make up their minds. One said: "I don t know what to think- I haven't read the Daily Tar Heel today." Five Secretary is Karen Glbb (UP). Treasurer is Mike Rabb (SP). Social Chairman is Liza Robb (UP). Freshman results are as follows: Ben White (SP) defeated Rusty Clark (UP) 896 to 631 for the presidency. A recount will be held to confirm Aaron Clinard's (UP) victory over Buddy Farfour (SP). Totals were 781 to 739. Secretary is Ann Martin (UP). Treasurer is Tony Gore (UP). Social Chairman is Sa rah Mendelson (UP). Men's Council winners and their districis are as follows: Miles Eastwood in MD I. Winburne King in MD III. Bob Powell by write-in in MD IV. Kent Hedman by write in in MD V. Ashley Thrift in MD VII. Champ Mitchell in MD VIII. Taylor Branch in MD X, A recount will be held of the results in MD XII. Earlier tabulation showed Bill Find ley had been defeated by L.E. Sawyer for that district's Men's Council seat by 245 to 241. In MD XI defeated write-in candidate Mike Mulchey has claimed his opponent, Bob Shepard, was guilty of a vio lation of the election laws. Mulchey said Shepard cam paign literature was being handed out within SO Uet of the polling station on election day, which constitutes an il- . legal act. Election results for Wom en's Council races are as fol lows: - Madeline Grey and Val erie Gynne were elected to seats in WD I. Emily Cathey in WD II. Daryl Brinton in WD III. Karen Checksfield in WD IV. Shirley Appel in WD V. A special runoff election will be held in WD VI between Gayle Chipman and Jean Caldwell. Both write-in oppon ents received 5 votes in Mon day's balloting. Party Claims The chairmen of both the Student and the University parties claimed victory in the elections. UP Chairman Jim Hubbard cited the greater number of offices won by UP candidates, and SP Chairman Frank Hodges pointed to the fact that SP candidates won the presidency of each class. Tyndall said the only prob lem which arose during the elections other than the loss of the junior ballots was the tardiness of many poll ten ders. He said voting was very heavy for a fall election. Special Election A special election will be held next Tuesday in Craige Residence Hall to fill the va cancy in Student Legislature created by the death of inde pendent Roger Davis. Student Government by-laws state an independent resigning from legislature has the right to recommend his successor to the student body president for appointment. Because of Davis' death, Stu dent Body President Paul Dickson said yesterday he has requested that Craige Hall president Eddie McMahan conduct a special election among Craige residents to rec ommend someone to appoint to the seat. Dickson said he will qpoint whoever is selected. "1 wish to make it clear that this is not an official Student Government election but mere ly a means of seeking out the opinion of the residents of Craige," Dickson said. "I fully expect that the elec tion will be conducted as near as possible according to the relevant provisions of the Gen eral Elections Law to insure a fair and open election," he said. McMahan said yesterday all candidates for the special elec tion must submit their names to him before Friday. out?" I could have hit her

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