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Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its
editorials. All unsigned editorials are written by the
editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal
views of their contributors.
FRED THOMAS, EDITOR
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Brown Bag Blues
The 1923 Turlington Act, which states that the home
is the only place a person may legally consume liquor,
hould not be overlooked any longer,
ori' This is a prime example of antiquated North Caro
lina legislation that should be invalidated. The prac
tices of brown-bagging, locker clubs, and open bars in
private clubs have long gone unnoticed.
' Law Enforcement officials have talked first one
way, then the other since State Attorney General Wade
Bruton's recent ruling that the old law must be strictly
enforced, most of them indicating they will follow the
set policy; of "What we don't know won't hurt us."
Strict obedience to the law, of course, would mean
an end to cocktail parties at restaurants around Chapel
Hill, to the occasional nipping done in Kenan Stadium
and, possibly to the practice of fraternity men who
do not live in their houses bringing bottles there.
It woujd also certainly mean a significant increase
in the number of men paid to enforce the law.
But ignoring the law is no solution. This encour
ages citizens of the state to violate the statute which
remains on the books, subject to being enforced at any
..time. i
Token raids on a club or an American Legion Post
from time to time to show that the law still means
business are not fair to the individuals chosen to be
examples for equally-guilty parties who go completely
untouched.
Some people have speculated that the strict inter
pretation of the law has as its goal the eventual legal
izing of the sale of liquor by the drink. If this is the
case, more power to them.
. Of course, nothing can be done to change the law
until the General Assembly meets, and there is no
guarantee that any modification will be made then.
u But it is not too early to begin considering what
tin and should be done.
p; Meanwhile, let the hit dogs bark. Maybe if they
bark loudly enough, the 40-year-old liquor law will be
updated. ijf - ,
The Editorial Page A Policy Statement
Up until last fall, the DTH editorial
page had always been the subject of some
controversy, depending upon the nature of
the news and the calibre of the columnists,
but in the past academic year the campus
has shown very little interest in this vital
section of the newspaper. This might be at
tributed to any number of reasons, but it
would be relatively pointless to examine
them all.
It should be made
clear, however, that
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changes made. Certain
ly no newspaper is
worthy of publication
if it exists solely to
forment dissention for
dissention's sake among its readership, but
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it does have an obligation to point out those
things which it feels are wrong and pro
vide the readers with some form of intellec
tual stimulation. If it fails to attain these
objectives, its newsprint is only suitable for
use as emergency toilet paper or for wrap
ing fish.
Chuck Neely, who graduated from this
University last June, frequently cursed
what he termed "the blandness" of last
spring's edit page, and often said, "When
I get up in the morning, I want to read an
editorial page that will either make me
tear it up in anger or make me howl with
delight." There is a lot of merit in this
statement.
The DTH is the only official student
newspaper on this campus. The student
body foots the bill for its publication, and
justly demands its money's worth. In this
sense the newspaper has a franchise with
Worthy Projects
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lngfBut this is not due to a loss of energy.
On the bontrary, this vital sparks seems to get
more plentiful by the day as the school year draws
to an end.
At a time when the image of the UNC student is
being tossed around by people all over the state, this
energy could.be well-used.
Two student groups have set a good example the
Interfraternity Council and House "A" Morrison.
The IFC has launched a crusade to beautify Chapel
Hill by planting grass in various unsightly spots
around town, and house "A" Morrison is holding a
drive for clothes to be given to the American Red
Cross and the Inter-church Council.
The latter project offers an opportunity for every
student on campus to be a real part in a most worthy
project. Boxes in residence halls, fraternities and so
rorities will be collected Friday afternoon and pre
sented to the organizations.
We hope every student will contribute at least one
article of clothing in this drive.
To House "A" Morrison and to the IFC, a hearty
"Well done.?
A Short Subject
It's no longer what's up front that counts.
According to Eileen Ford, director of one of New
York's largest modeling agencies, good development
from the waist up is not sufficient to get a girl where
she wants to go today.
The hemlines are on the rise, and Miss Ford says
"When you have bad legs there is nothing you can do."'
In the modeling industry this new trend is dis
criminating against nationalities, favoring the German
and Scandinavian lasses who are "lucky enough to be
leggier," Miss Ford claims.
But we feel our Carolina coed the typical and non
typical can hold their own against any of these for
eign beauties. .
And as we see it or would like to see it what
better way is there for a young lady to make her leg
beauty known than in a pair of Bermuda shorts.
What about it Dean Carmichael?
: Fred Thomas, editor; Scott Goodfellow, managing editor;
:John Greenbacker, associate editor; Ron Shinn, news
: editor; Barry Jacobs, sports editor; Bill Rollins, asst.
: sports editor; John Jennrich, wire editor; Jock Lauterer,
: Jerry Lambert, photographers; Chip Barnard, art editor;
Andy Myers, Steve Bennett, Steve Lackey, Glenn Mays,
Peytie Fearrington, Carol Gallant, Lytt Stamps, Alan
Banov, staff writers; Gene Whistnant, Sandy Tteadwell,
Drummond Bell, Bill Hass, Jim Fields, sports writers;
Jeff MacNeUy, Bruce Strauch, cartoonists.
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the students. It is obligated to present the
news and the issues in an engaging man
ner, and its editorial page must be open at
all times for the publication of opposing
viewpoints.
This last point is very important, and it
cannot be stressed enough. There is no
more disgusting a situation than when the
editorial page editor of a newspaper such
as the DTH takes the stand that he is un
der no obligation to print articles which
contain opinions which he is personally op
posed to.
Pete Wales, who was the DTH Associ
ate Editor last year, was an intelligent and
able columnist, but there were times when
he did the campus extreme disservice by
failing to present the readers with all sides
of campus controversy during times of cris
is. The most notable case in point was last
year's National Student Association crisis.
Wales, an an ardent supporter of NSA
affiliation, marshalled up the editorial page
and filled it with pro-NSA material. A piti
ful few anti-NSA letters to the editor were
published, but there appeared not one con
cise column summarizing the case against
NSA in the newspaper. Consequently the
students had to base their judgment of NSA
on incomplete information when a campus
wide referendum on the issue was held.
David Kolhnum
Largely for this reason, a very good
student editorial page was prevented from
being an excellent one.
Former DTH editor Ernie McCray was
also prone at times to take rather one-sided
and uncompromising attitudes on certain
issues, such as last fall's Dickson scandal.
His attitudes caused dissention among staff
members, and there was a strong under
current of repression which stiffled dissent
ing commentary.
Hopefully this situation will never arise
again.
In an attempt to achieve better reada
bility, the editorial page should const aJy
strive to publish columns which are con
cise and coherent. There were many col
umns published regularly within the last
year which no one bothered to read, sim
ply because the writer couldn't write worth
a damn, or because the writer was out of
his medium.
All in all, it's a simple matter of get
ting the men and making sure they keep
their minds open.
Open access for all points of view and
intelligent, creative writing, therefore, are
the essential ingredients for an effective
editorial page.
This is what we are striving to present.
Vietnamese Friends Needed
If there was any question whether the
war in Viet Nam can be won without the
support of the South Vietnamese, it w a s
laid to rest this week when the U. S. air
force found itself sharply curtailing a i r
raids on North Viet Nam because of a
temporary shortage of bombs.
The shortage had been caused by dis
orders in the vicinity of the Da Nang air
base. Because of the civil strife, shipping
problems developed, apparently since not
enough South Vietnamese hired to unload
the bombs showed up for work.
Fortunately, the sol
ution to the problem
; was comparatively
simple: send U. S.
troops to load the un
load the ammunition
ships. But the entire
! experience illustrated
t the dependence at
least temporary of
our air force on these primitive natives of
Southeast Asia.
Much more serious than the shortage
of bombs is the large number of deser
tions from the central government's army."
The policies by which "we iand our Viet
namese allies are fighting the war are made
in Saigon and Washington, but here, again,
it is the peasants of Viet Nam who must
shoulder the rifles, throw the hand gre-
McCrarv Refuted
By MC Official
On Courts Issue
(Editor's note This is the first in a series
of six editorials by Bill Miller, the vice
chairman of the Men's Honor Council. They
are in rebuttal to a recent series on the
student judiciary written by former DTH
editor Ernie McCrary.)
By BILL MILLER
The Daily Tar Heel and former editor
Ernie McCrary published a series of eight
editorials concerning the UNC Honor Sys
tem. While no one intimately connected
with the judiciary would hesitate to en
courage constructive criticism of the sys
tem, at the same time we will not idly sit
by as many unqualified and incorrect state
ments are aimed at what we consider to be
a vital cornerstone of the University.
The editorials, in the first place, were
written without a thorough investigation of
the Honor System on the part of McCrary.
There were no interviews of consequence
with present Men's and Women's Council
members, with the Attorney General, or
with the Honor System Commission Chair
man. The past records of the various stu
dent courts were ignored. There is also lit
tle evidence of a critical valuation of the
proposals for judicial reform.
Secondly, what substantive criticisms
that were aired seem to be based on two
things: a digust of women's rules and a
few misleading; misrepresentative exam
ples of Honor and Campus Code violations
(indeed, some examples cited do not neces
sarily fall under the jurisdiction of either
of these codes e.g., drinking in residence
halls, violating women's closing hours, a
petty poker game). Surely our system as
a whole is not to be torn asunder due to
the shortcomings of several of its parts.
And lastly, there are definite fallacies in
the Honor System which must be voiced
and corrected by students, such as orienta
tion of new council members, council dis
cipline, recording council proceedings, a
new system of sentences. Yet the eight
articles failed to deal with these relevant
points of criticism.
Notwithstanding the above, Mr. Mc
Crary concluded that "the Honor System is
just a farce," that we have "honor by con
venience," that "confusion is caused by the
court system."
It will be the purpose of future commen
taries to clairfy certain misrepresentations
as they apoeared in 'the editorials, to pre
sent a positive view of the judiciary and
some of its members and to set forth ex
plicitly the pertinent and demanding as
pects of judicial reform.
The Student Speaks
Benjamin Franklin 's Advice
Can Be Applied To UNC
(Editor's note The author claims this
column follows closely in theme the first
draft of Benjamin Franklin's "Rules By
Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced
to a Small One.")
By SAADIA GREENBERG
In order for established interests to free
themselves from the discomfort resulting
from such criticism of the existing order of
things as necessarily eminates from a
great 'university I have formulated the fol
lowing rules which, if carefully put into
practice are certain to bring about the
elimination of this evil.
1. Begin with a campaign led by the
most ignorarnt and intolerant elements of
society to convince the general population
that the university is a sanctuary for se
ditious and sinful persons.
2. Once this notion comes to be generally
held, propagite the idea that innocent
youth are being morally corrupted by the
university.
3. Without debate or deliberation, have
the supreme law-making body arbitrarily
prohibit certain unpopular classes of per
sons from speaking at the university. It is
essential that the criteria for exclusion be
vague and capricious, based on opinions
held or constitutional rights previously in
voked, and clearly have no relation to
the possibility of the perpetration of any
overt criminal acts.
4. If later some retreat becomes neces
sary, make certain that the essentials of
prior censorship remain in force.
5. Since a great university cannot exist
without diversity of opinion, (i.e. "contro
versy"), have the chief public official pro
claim to the populace that controversy
must be suppressed because it leads to dis
cord and strife.
6. If the serious, intellectually-oriented
elements continue to protest, have the cam
pus new-SDDer begin to ridicule them. The
leaders of the protest should be misquoted,
their motives impugned, their character
disparaged and the protestors generally por
trayed as high-strung, unreasonable, dis
orderly, and unconventional.
7. When some of the most capable facul
ty members resign or threaten to resign,
have the newspaper describe them as dull
witted, incompetent assistant graders in
obscure and unimportant areas of study. A
hint of disloyalty will also help.
By this time the proper atmosphere will
h?ve been created, serious and probing
m'nds will begin to depart and the former
ly gr3t university will soon be one of no
more consequence than the tobacco fields
from whose midst it- arose.
nades and aim the artillery prices. Fortun
ately, the desertion rate for our side has
been decreasing, but, should political insta
bility continue in Saigon, even the sound
est personnel retention programs would be
rendered worthless.
The Da Nang trouble and the war the
government has been waging with the
Montargnards are but two examples of how
rivalries between the many interest groups
in Vitnamese politics have hurt the war
effort. And in the foreground is the tradi
onal Catholic Buddhist friction, which
somehow also seems at times to involve
special factions among members of these
religions. The energy of the. South Viet
namese population, rather tha,n being used
to fight the Viet Cong, is being wasted on
Saigon street corners, where',-rival, groups
regularly clash and demonstrate.
. 7 But even if United States troops could
unload all the bombs and. fire all the, mor
tars, there might remain the problem of
terrorism which; -judging by its fre
quency, is practiced by more than a few
Viet Cong extremists. Certainly, the typi
cal villager isn't going to become a terror
, Vist overnight should, ( we. loose his. support,
,-fr but, as indicated by' recent events in Sai
gon, even 'a neutral" or barely uHfriendly
view of Americans among the general pop
ulation can encourage the Viet Cong to
commit violent acts against the GIs. "
, Small wonder it is ( that, during the
height of the religious turmoil, American
soldiers were harrassed more than 'at oth
er times the Viet Cong perhaps hoping
observers might mistake the explosions for
a spontaneous part of the general strife.
And more significant than any other ar
Vgument justifying attempts to win South
Vietnamese support is the reason we are
in Viet Nam: to preserve a government
which we hope will ultimately be more re
sponsive to the people's demands than the
Communists would be, were they rulers of
all of Viet Nam.
American forces, then, most cultivate
the friendship and respect of the rice far
mers for, soonr or later, our soldiers will
tire of lugging those heavy bombs under
the tropical sun.
LETTERS
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g University Interest. Letters must be
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g: Ienrth or libel. Lonrer letters will be
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S ever, the DTH reserves the right to
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