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Sunday, December 12, 1965
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Iiv Don'tcha Watch Where I'm Going?"
Armistead Maupin Jr.
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Happiness Is A Motorcycle
Happiness, to many students, is a motorcycle.
' The initial cost of a small cycle is low, they get
fantastic gas mileage, they can be parked in little
places, they move as fast as the law allows (some
of them much faster) and they do not now require a
2.0 grade average or upperclass standing for owner
ship. Today there are 450 motorcycles on campus,
double the number registered at the end of last year.
Undoubtedly a number of Christmas stockings will
contain Hondas this year, so the motorcycle popula
tion will continue to increase.
Because they are so new, most people have not
yet adjusted to the motorcycles emotionally. They are
still toys and novelties to far too many owners and
automobile-driving spectators.
Dr. Ed Hedgpeth, head of the student infirmary,
; said the number of accidents involving motorcycles
has been averaging one a day for more than a month.
"Surprisingly enough, most of the injuries aren't
head injuries," he said.
This tends to indicate that a cycle ride should not
consider a crash helment to be a security blanket.
"Most of the serious injuries have been bad frac
tures and abrasions about the face. I just, don't know
what we can do to cut down the number of acci
dents," Hedgpeth said.
Perhaps it is a matter of attitude. Car drivers
tend to ignore the little two-wheeled buzzers in traf
fic, often turning in front of cycles and taking
chances they would not take against a truck.. Many
cycle riders are hardly better because they use the
'versatile vehicles irresponsibly, riding on sidewalks
and taking shortcuts where only pedestrians belong.
Until both users and watchers realize that the
; two-wheelers are indeed motor vehicles, and respect
'them as such, they accident rate will continue to be
high and our record of no motorcycle fatalities on
campus will inevitably be broken.
DTH Awards Of The Week
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Loser of the Week: James Robert Jones, stripped -of
his driver's license because he was nabbed speed
ing twice within less than a year. Grand Dragon
Jones says he still lacks a little more than half the
trading stamps needed to get an airplane, so he will
have to find a chauffeur. "I drive about 200,000 miles
a year, so maybe it had to happen," Jones said.
Best Protest of the Week: Anti-slacks rule protest
at the University of California at Berkeley. Coeds
wore slacks under skirts and dresses ' to dinner
in protest of the rule against female slacks in the din
ing hall.
Legal Break-through of the Week: County prose
cutor's ruling that prostitutes cannot be arrested for
walking Atlanta's streets. Chief Prosecutor Louis
Slaton decided that arrests made under an old statute
prohibiting "prostitutes, or women of lewd character
from walking streets, alleys or other public thorough
fares" might be unconstitutional and should be
stopped.
Driver of the Week: Roanoke Rapids woman who
failed her test for a driver's permit. She did fine until
she tried to park. The car jumped the curb, knocked
down a parking meter, damaged the car $100 and
sprained the wrist of the license examiner riding
with her.
Quote of the Week: UNC sophomore who got his
18-year-old sister's name on his list of "perfect dates"
from Operation Match. "I asked for a girl with sex
ual experience she must have lied on her questionnaire
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"W4 VAftY Tff HILL
Barry Jacobs
Don 't Do Away With 'Dixie 9
Shall the familiar strains of "Dixie" be
heard no more? The North Carolina State
Technician would like to see Dan Emmett's '
famous tune follow the dodo bird and the
New York Mets into oblivion. I believe that
the Technician is carrying a desire to atone
for past sins too far.
That the South has sinned against the
Negro is indisputable. I know no one who
would defend slavery. But nothing we do
or fail to do today can change what has
happened. We cannot forget the past, even
if we want to.
Nor 'should" we. The Technician : said
"Dixie" is a "remnant of the 19th century
which has no place in the 20th." The writ
ers of that editorial are correct when they
say the song is a remnant of the 19th cen
tury. They are dead wrong when they say
it has no place in the 2Qth.
Like trees, people need roots to grow.
A tree has its roots in the ground; a man
has his in the past. We can only grow and
improve on the basis of what has gone be
fore. The danger comes when we live en
tirely in the past and refuse to grow or
change at all.
"Dixie" is a reminder of the Southern
past. And what of that past? Is it some
thing to be hidden, to be remembered only
with guilt? I don't think so. The Southern
past was not all slavery. George Washing
ton and Thomas Jefferson were slavehold
ers, but I don't believe the Technician
wouid advocate consigning the Father of
our Country and the author of the Declara
tion of Independence to obscnrityT
Washington and Jefferson are part of the
past that is represented by "Dixie." So
are James Madison, Patrick Henry, and
Robert E. Lee. Should their memories "die
a welcome, and none too swift, death,"
too? Before telling the South to forget its
past, the Technician should consider these
men, among others.
"Dixie" represents the fighting spirit of
the South, and perhaps this is what the
editorial objects to. Should this spirit then
be quenched? The South has fought some
tragic battles some it perhaps should not
have fought. Little Rock and Oxford deserve
no cheers.
Yet that same fighting spirit has been at
Yorktown, New Orleans, Belleau Wood,
Normandy, and Viet Nam. Yes, and at Get
tysburg, too. The South has no reason to
feel ashamed for the Civil War. The men
in gray fought for what they believed in.
Before one condemns them on the moral
basis of slavery, he should check into
Northern attitudes toward Negroes in 1860.
The cry for the abolition of "Dixie" is
another manifestation of hypersensitivity
on the subject of offending Negroes. This
feeling has also shown itself in attempts to
remove "The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn" from library shelves. "Almost n
Andy" from the airwaves. Even the Fed
eral government felt the sting of resent
ment when the Moynihan Report on Negro
problems received a cold reception from
Negro civil rights leaders. It is hard to
avoid offending someone who is looking to
be offended.
The South has much to be ashamed of
in its treatment of the Negio. Tni iaCi
cannot be ignored or denied. But the past
cannot be wiped away by wiping wy one
of its products, and a harmless one at
that.
NEW YEAR'S DAY ON THE ROAD
Classes resume after the Christmas vaca
tion on Jan. 3. This is the standard date
for the return to the books. Has he Ad
ministration of UNC or of many other
schools, for that matter considered the
logistics involved in being back at school at
8 a.m. on Jan. 3?
Students who live wnLIn one day's drive
of Chapel Hill have no problem. Students
who live farther away do have one. If they
drive home and back, they face three al
ternatives for the return trip. They can
start back on New Year's Day; they can
start back on Jan. 2 and drive all night,
or they can start on Jan. 2 and cut classes
on Jan. 3.
None of these are particularly attractive
choices. The first is the one most students
will probably choose. .This means driving
, on New Year's Day, probably after a long
. night out. The hazards of a hungover driv
er with little or no sleep driving on frozen
roads are obvious.
WTiy not delay the start of classes to
Jan. 4? One day more or less can't hurt
the academic program very much, and an
extra day would give all students a day to
rest and recover before beginning the long
trip back.
A high-placed University official an
nounced yesterday that the singing of Dixie
and the display of Confederate flags would
no longer be permitted on the UNC cam
pus. The new policy was prompted by a sim
ilar decision at the University of West Vir
ginia, an editorial in the N. C. State Tech
nician, and a warning from the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools.
A spokesman from the Southern Associa
tion stated there was a move afoot to with
draw accreditation from the University if
such practices were not banned from the
Chapel Hill campus.
"There is no place at a free university
the very citadel of enlightened discus
sion and dissent for the proliferation of
such distasteful philosophies," declared Dr.
Millard S. Farquar for the Southern Asso
ciation. "College students are basically
naive and cannot be expected to resist the
emotional appeal of inflammatory songs
such as "Dixie."
"We are, furthermore, distressed that
certain elements on the Carolina campus
have been known to grow beards in com
memoration of the Southern Rebellion," Dr.
Farquar said. "We do not object to beards,
PROVIDED they are grown as part of a
legitimate protest. We cannot, however, con
done these underhanded tributes to the
past."
Dean of Men, Elmef Longtry, voiced his
concurrence with the opinion of the South
ern Association.
"If certain fraternities do not finalize
their fearsome and flagrant flagwaving,"
he said, "we shall be forced to formulate
a fierce finish for their fanatic fiction."
Dean Longtry's declaration brought an
immediate response from members of the
Student Non-Coordinated Violence Commit
tee. Miss Rachel Horstblankitt, secretary of
the group, released a statement to the
press at a meeting late yesterday. The
Committee expressed delight that "the ene-
The Student Speaks
mies of Free Speech have, at long last, been
silenced forever. Our right to dissent will
no longer be obstructed by people who dis
agree with us."
Also present at the meeting was Dr.
Loomis Lipslip of the Political Science De
partment who read a paper entitled, "An
Enlightened Critique of the Dialogue of
Hominy Grits in the context of the Con
sensus Society."
After the meeting, the group marched
down Franklin Street and staged a vigor
ous protest at the home of Colonel Sander's
Kentucky Fried Chicken.
At about 9 o'clock the throng converged
on a local fraternity house which flies the
Confederate flag.
"Down with the traitors! Down with the
traitors!" chanted the students.
The demonstrators were promptly dis
persed at 9:07 when several empty bottles
of Southern Comfort apparently fell from a
window ledge on the third floor.
Fraternity president, Jordan Darker, was
unavailable for comment.
LETTERS
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ever, the DTH reserves the right to
use contributed materials as it sees
fit.
Viet War Is Necessary
By JOHN E.. HARRISON r
President, Di-Phi Senate
It has come to my attention that a num
ber of students here at Carolina have tak
en my remarks at the last Di & Phi meet
ing amiss. I would therefore like to clarify
my personal position on the war now in
progress in Viet Nam.
I am categorically in favor of the Pres
ident's policies in South East Asia at this
time. I also feel that the ports of North Viet
Nam should be blockaded and any other
offensive action necessary to win this war
Mike Jennings
Quarterly Has Bad Fiction
The new Carolina Quarterly is out. If you
want to lose all your enthusiasm for mod
ern fiction, try reading it.
The two short stories in the Quarterly
are masterpieces of dynicism and depres
sion. They all achieve the highest ideal of
pop art: they violate every rule in the book.
Fiction is supposed to move and talk
about something interesting. Each of the
Quarterly stories just sits still and talks
about itself a dull, dull subject.
Good fiction is supposed to weave many
threads into an intricate pattern. Neither of
the Quarterly authors took the trouble to
be coherent, much less to create a work of
art. One of the stories establishes a situa
tion, proceeds to weep about it for a few
pages and then quits.
The other story is totally incomprehensi
ble, save to the Initiate Few. Try this para
graph from Robert Brown's "Coming Home
Baby":
"I don't know how to tell this on her
because this one KNOWS way beyond bip
ness and Gys her own kind of flag. Flap
ping now it seems more challenging than
the banner McCarthy once hung out for all
of us . . . it's knowing what's to be done
just like in those old war movies when the
submerged U-boat is discovered and auto
matically the Destroyer executed that wild
maneuver which nearly capsizes her as she
lays over on her side . . . But the truth is
I'm just here and she's in. That's the scene,
not because I failed but because she is
strong, strong."
Well, i guess that's what we get for
abandoning the art of writing to the beat
niks. Maybe the Quarterly editors and auth
ors will insist that the new style of fiction
reflects our unsettled times that it must
be confused and depressing if it is to be a
mirror of our culture.
Now I ask you. What's the good of mir
roring our culture? We all see it everyday,
and we all know how confused it often
seems. The mark of a good writer is the
ability to take a small, confused lump of
human life and work it and work it until
it makes sense.
That's what makes you feel satisfied
when you read a short story and all the
parts suddenly click and fall together. That
takes sweat, skill and maybe a little hu
man sympathy. Any fool can write a de
pressing story simply by writing poorly.
Good writers and great writers
don't preach the doctrine of despair. No
modern writer has more cause for bitter
ness than did Dostoevsky a man who
spent a great part of his life as a con
vict. Yet Dostoevsky's own experiences
seem only to have developed in him a pas
sion for delving through misery and des
pair to find human warmth and hope.
Our great American writers are gone.
Hemingway's gone, Faulkner's gone. The
tradition of American fiction has gone to
the beatniks by default rather than by right
ful inheritance.
And that's sad. It's sad when such stuff
as the two short stories in the Carolina
Quarterly pass off as art.
YOU'VE GOT II
SHOPPING DAYS
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- should be -undertaken by this country in
: concert -with . her '"allies; until North Viet ;
Nam ceases 'Ker aggression to the South. ?
Next let me state that I did not say that
the students here at Carolina were apathet
" ic. I said that many students are reluctant
to voice and explain their positions on this
war; except for a few stock phrases and
rhetorical questions with which they answer
every attack on the present course of the
war in Viet Nam.
We sent a telegram, which I signed, to
General Westmoreland, expressing our
thanks for the sacrifices being made by our
troops in Viet Nam. But this emasculated
epistle neglected to mention whether or not
we thought these sacrifices were necessary
or even whether the goal of freedom was
worth the price. I think that it is!
In a democracy, or rather as ours is in
a republic, the government is subject to the
wishes of the people like no other. We must
exercise our right and responsibility as cit
izens to make absolutely clear our position,
not only to our own government but also
to that of the enemy. We must disabuse
Ho Chi Minn of his country's delusions of
infallibility in guerrilla warfare.
The United States has never in its his
tory lost a war, guerrilla or otherwise. If
you want examples of our winning a guer
rilla war, check the first phase of the Sem
inole Indian War of 1836, or more recently
the United States victory over the Commu
nist Huks in the Phillippines. Our history is
replete with such examples, and it is my
fervent hope that the war in Viet Nam will
soon be added to the positive side of this
ledger.
As has been said repeatedly by the lead
ers of our country, the communists' only
hope lies in the possibility of a deteriora
tion of our country's will to resist their ag
gression. We must emphasize our commit
ment to the fight for freedom now being
waged in our name by the American
Armed Forces in Viet Nam.
This is a war that we must win for an
almost infinite number of reasons, two of
the most important of which are: (l) We
had our Munich in Laos, and if we are to
stop the communist advance it must be
here, for if we wait any longer it will be
too late. (2) We cannot justify in any
other way the sacrifices of our troops, un
less freedom is secured for the people that
America has promised it to.
I propose that a drive be started here
at Carolina, as has been done at other uni
versities, to give the blood necessary to
partially replace the blood which our Sol
diers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen are now
shedding in defense of our way of life.
This is the answer to the question of
what we can do for our country. We can
support her; we can defend her; and we
can show, not just say our love of this
land that is ours and Freedom's home.
Letter
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Re: Confederate flag.
Proudly? Really! Why?
James A. Morris
210 Wilson Ct.
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