Page 2 Thursday, April 14. 19G6 3 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 V f 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 X wltn tne coming oi a 55 )k 1 new order t0 Pwer' J I .1 ...111 o t a iir lllcl c Will uc a it-" 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 AfA 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 1 '-' -- " - - ' t m m m ibpnngtime weatner nas a way oi mating it almost fyjosiiiuie iui a siuueiu 10 ao any reaiiy serious siuay 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. pi "il v 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 ?: g The Daily Tar Heel welcomes let :j:j ters to the editor on any subject, g particularly on matters of local or g University Interest. Letters must be j:-': tyPed- double-spaced and must In j:j: elude the name and address of the author or authors. Pfames will not be g omitted in publication. Letters should :j:j be limited to about 250-300 words. The :j: DTH reserves the right to edit for g: Ienrth or libel. 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