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Satuiu. April 23, l9t6
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Opinions of Tin Daily Tar llccl an- eprrNd in its
editorials. All unsigned 1'ditorials art- uritten by the
editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal
views of their contributors.
FRED THOMAS. EDITOR
It's Interesting
The other day we received a letter whose author
gave his address as a second floor room in one of
UN(j"s residence halls.
In the letter, the writer explained that he had long
beer, curious about the function of the quaint little ivy
covered building that sits behind Old West and to the
sidef Hill Hall Person Hall.
He stated that he had tried to enter the building
seve!ral times this year, but had always found it lock
ed. When he finally managed to get in one day, the
writer charged, he found a disgraceful display of wax
figuijes supposedly there for their anthropological
value whose purpose was solely sexual stiumula
tion.; We were ashamed to admit that we had never
been! inside the building either, but we made a visit
that jafternoon.
We had no trouble getting inside the building, and
we fiund no obscene figures or for that matter, no
wax figures at all.
' Fjart of Person Hall houses an impressive, though
smali, museum of anthropological relics found in this
state; The rest of the building is employed for an
thropological research.
When we returned to the DTH office, we checked
the sljudent directory and found no such name as the
one signed to the letter. We then called the floor of
the residence hall listed as the writer's address and
were told that no one by that name lived there.
So may we kill two birds with one stone here:
First The DTH welcomes letters on almost any
subject, as long as they are not false or libelous in
any way. If you want a letter printed, sign your
correct name and address.
No crank letters, please.
Second If you have never been inside that
quaint tlittle old building which, by the way, is the
second j oldest state university building in the nation
after Old East drop in sometime.
It's interesting.
Weekly Awards
headers9 Letters
The Daily Tar Heel Awards of the Week will con
tinue appearing on each Saturday's editorial page
.U-!Jlh4. award for Lizard of the. Week. will be the only
'rsgir jgresentation. Other awards will be given as
"siTuaticns warrant them, . """"
We invite all readers to submit nominations for
the awards by sending a post card to the editor by
Thursday of the week of presentation.
To help nominators get started, we remind you of
some past awards that are now in the Weekly Awards
Hall of Infamy: White Man of the Week, Zeno Ponder
Award, Fact of the Week, etc.
And' now, after lengthy deliberation and consulta
tion with some of the state's foremost experts in this
field, w4 announce this week's winners:
Lizards of the Week: A certain group of young
fraternity men who left a certain DTH editor to walk
back to Chapel Hill from Danville, Va.
Son of the Week: Jim Medford, former YMCA
president and a plaintiff in the court suit against the
chancellor, president and Board of Trustees. Med
ford, being under 21, had to get his father's authori
zation to file as a plaintiff. His father is a member of
the Board of Trustees.
MoUe Fan of the Week: Myra Franklin, 47-year-
old widow of Cardiff, Wales, who saw "The Sound of
Music" for the 500th time Wednesday. Her ambition
is to see it a thousand times.
Most Lenient Manners Guardian of the Week:
Otelia Connor who brought a cherry pie into the
DTH office Tuesday, but could not find a fork. Finally
she issiiied .a' special dispensation: "I'll let you use
your fingers to eat that pie, but don't start doing it
until I leave the room, so I won't have to watch.
Thieves of the Week: Yackety - Yack staff mem
bers who reclaimed three of their typewriters from
the DTH office, leaving our reporters writing with Bic
Pens which were designed to be used as drill bits.
Headline of the Week: Appearing on the front page
of Tuesday's DTH over the story explaining UNC's
high frequency of selection by students of preparatory
institutions: "UNC Ranks High Among Prep Schools "
Relaxed Man of the Week: Silent Sam, who stood
guard calmly Thursday afternoon with a beer can
resting in the crease of his arm and a cigarette
dangling from his mouth.
Scholar of the Week: The mountain boy who was
called to take the selective service examination. "I'm
studied up on this here book larnin," he said, "but
I don't know the first thing about passin' that blood
test."
Silence The Beanbirds
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
About the Beanbirds flying low and
chirping joyously over the campus early
Thursday morning . . . they not only oust
ed twenty - six of their own feldglings, but
also a good number of sleeping residents
of Old West and Smith Dorms. I have ne
ver witnessed a more flagrant disregard
for the concern of others. For at least
twenty minutes this group rioted in the
parking lot between Smith and Swain, honk
ing car horns and screaming their absurd
bird calls in their early morning tapping
ceremony.
When I called the campus cops in South
Building I was told quite a few com
plaints had been registered about the same
thing. This comes pretty close to conduct
un - becoming whatever it is bird - men
are really supposed to be, and I suggest
seme honor council investigation. Normal
ly I'm a peaceful guy; low flying bombers
just don't wake the kid up without catching
a lot of flak.
Dave (Red-necked, scarlett-faced
cringer) Rendleman
5 Old West
Well Done, Rembert
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I would like to commend Mr. Rem
bert on his well written letter of April
21. It seems evident that our State Legis
lature has a very great affinity with the
eigtheenth century.
Donald Singleton
11 Pettigrew
Algren On Shintoism
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Re: Quote by Algren on Shintoism (Ban
ov article 4-21). Shintoism had been the
Japanese national religion until 1945. Algren
quoted, not a Viet Cong, but General Yam
forces in Southeast Asia. Known as the
"Tiger of the Malays," he was hanged in
Manila after the war, not for any atro
cities, but for his successful campaigns in
Southeast Asia, the control of which he
did not lose until the surrender of Japan.
Definition of an unjust war: War fought
by the defeated.
Kunio D. Kikuchi
Department of City and
Regional Ping.
Otelia All Wrong
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
It is evident from Mrs. Connor's letter
that she was not at the Chase Cafeteria
-""buffet Sunday; As one who was there, I
can say that she" is completely wrong. I
for one , saw no j pigs or any "milk car- '
V tons piles on the table like pyramids." Of
course students went back more than once
because that is the advantage of a buffet.
After all the advertisement in the DTH, and
we know the DTH is never wrong, said
"All you can eat."
I am sure that Otelia would welcome
the return of the Victorian era when it was
John Greenbacker
cHIp fclatlg (Ear 2jM
: Fred Thomas, editor; Sctt 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 Treadwell.
Drummond Bell, Bill Hass. Jim Fields, sports writers:
Jeff Mac.Nelly, Bruce Strauch. cartoonists.
Beanbirds Stage
Their Usual Show
And Get Threats
This is an open letter to the Order of
the Beanbirds:
You idiots are really asking for it. For
three years here, once a semester like
clockwork, hordes of your depraved harp
ies have appeared under my window in
Fraternity Court, and babied bird calls at
five in the morning.
For this offense alone, many drunks in
our area have suffered severe buffetings
about the head and shoulders, and many
have had bottles busted over their thick
skulls. Why should you be treated any
' differently?
It wouldn't be so bad, except every
time you come around, I have just got
ten to bed after working on a paper half
the night. My anger is well jusitifed.
I have tried innumerable times in the
past to get the Chapel Hill police to ar
rest you for disturbing the peace. I dare
say that if I were to make a big enough
stink over this, I might get my rights pro
tected. Don't you realize that you aren't very
funny, and that no one wants you around?
Are you so stupid as not to get the mes
sage when 15 guys hang out of five houses
and curse like a troop of Portugese fish
women at you?
It certainly must not be beyond your
feeble powers of intelligence to realize that
you are not being very civil to your neigh
bors. Why don't you revise your initiation
to keep the bird - calling excursions out
side of the Chapel Hill city limits? Bet
ter still, why don't you do something pro
ductive with your energy, like maybe join
the army and go to Viet Nam?
Someone told me a while back that you
were the real swingers on this campus
A regular jet set. For this very reason,
you may find yourselves treated to a royal
welcome if you come back.
You might find that, in the midst of
your serenade, your revelry will be abrupt
ly halted by a barrage of crockery and
bricks. And manning bis arsenal, face fram
ed by a second story window, will be the
hollow . eyed countenance of a lone suf
fering associate editor.
Buzz off, beanbirds.
polite to leave some of everything on your
plate to show you were not a glutton (pig
to Mrs. Connor). People have changed and
I know that it is not a sin to enjoy eat
ing good food. Maybe Mrs. Connor will
make the buffet this Sunday and form her
own. opinions instead of relying on sec
ond hand reports, which is what she ob
viously used for her article.
Leslie Eastman
203 Grimes
Ernest F. Patterson Jr.
201 Grimes
Capp Was Obnoxious
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Capp turned what should have been an
evening's .intellectual venture into a pro
gram of trivia and not very funny jok
es. On a number of occasions he was more
obnoxious, degrading one serious question
about myth by converting it into a homo
sexual joke, and passing off another by
dereogating the Symposium topic. He also
suggested that our campus free speech
movementis intended merely to annoy the
administration. He got strong applause on
each point.
Perhaps I am just unappreciative of
"good, social satire." At the very least I
wish to express my opinion that the Caro
lina Symposium is not the place for Capp's
brand of humorexual joke, and passing off
another by derogating the Symposium top
ic. He also suggested that our campus
free speech movement is intended merely
to annoy the administration. He got strong
applause on each point.
Perhaps I am just unap.reciative of
"good, social satire." At the very least I
wish to express my opinion that the Caro
lina Symposium is not the place for Capp's
brand of humor.
Dave Ekstrom
Chapel HOI. N. C.
"And I've decided to move Thursday's quiz up to
Saturday since vou all felt rushed!"
David Rothinan
Capp Meets Students At Morehead Lounge
And Writes Up Several Class Excuses
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Cartoonist Al Capp spoke to 1,700 persons
in Memorial Hall Wednesday night, but
fewer than 12 showed up the next day at
his press conference in Morehead Plane
tarium. Three reporters from the UNC News
Bureau, a small TV crew, a Charlotte Ob
server stringer and a few Carolina " Sym
posium officials had the famous satirist
almost entirely to themselves.
Surprisingly, Capp
had not talked himself
out, despite Wednes
day's long address on
on everything i r o m
LBJ to) his opinion of
legalized, i gambling
"there's (already) the
stock market").
As usual, he thrived
on his listeners' questions.
What would he do were he to become
a protestor? "First thing I'd do would be
to burn my draft card."
Thenr he said, he'd chant: "LBJ, LBJ
How many kids have you killed today?"
thing)?
After that, Capp continued, he would
sent his blood to the Viet Cong "so I could
prove myself a true American."
What's SWINE (a member of Students
Wildly Indignant About Nearly Every-
Capp said a SWINE is somebody "wild
ly indigant that he isn't running the Uni
versity" at the age of 18. "When he was
younger, he wet his bed; now he pickets."
He told reporters he doesn't draw all
his cartoons, but said other cartoonists do
not either. Capp outlines Li'l Abner char
acters in pencil; his assistants handle the
really tiresome stuff like fingernails and
outhouses."
All this was very interesting but it
was happening when I should have been
in my phys. ed. class.
Nevertheless, I'd taken the necessary
precautions. I'd prepared what I hoped
were adequate excuses."
"Dear Mr. ," read one of the notes
I handed Capp. "Please excuse David from
P. E."
The cartoonist signed it: "His Uncle, Al
Capp."
But I knew I'd probably be missing the
first few minutes of my political science
class. So again Capp put his signature at
the bottom of a note:
"Dear Mr. - :
"Plese excuse David from Political Sci
ence 88. ' '
"(Signed) His admirer, Ai Capp."
I'd cut my psychology 26 class to meet
Capp at the airport once again he came
to my rescue:
"Dear Mrs. :
"Please excuse David from psychology.
"(Signed) Al Capp."
Then, America's top cartoonist put his
sprawling signature on a final note:
"Dear Mr. Rothman:
"Please excuse David from failing P. E.,
Psychology 26 and Political Science 88."
So far, I've tried out Capp's notes on only
one teacher, .and he wasn't very impressed.
Net only had the professor's name
been mispelled on the note, but I'd given
him only a photostat of the excuse.
You think I'd be silly enough to give
away something with Al Capp's signature
on it?
Passport Is Returned
To Dr. Staughton Lynd
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CPS) The State
Department has agreed to issue a new
passport to Yale Professor Staughton Lynd
so he may fulfill several speaking engage
ments abroad. The passport will expire in
90 days.
Under the arrangement, Professor Lynd's
original passport, the one he used during
his trip to Hanoi, North Vietnam, last De
cember, will remain revoked. The revoca
tion came about last month when Lynd re
fused to give the State Department a flat
assurance that he would not visit countries
where travel is not permitted by the de
partment. In addition to North Vietnam, travel is
banned to Red China, Albania, North Ko
rea, and Cuba.
Lynd is challenging the State Depart
ment's authority to revoke the original pass
port in United States District Court for the
District of Columbia. David Carlines, one of
Lynd's lawyers, said that Lynd has prom
ised not to go to any of the unauthorized
countries during the 90 days the new pass
pot will be valid.
Lynd has three engagements abroad.
He was a speaker at a meeting of the
Committee on Nuclear Disarmament in
London this Dast weekend and has returned
to Yale. Next weekend he will fly to Oslo,
Norway, to participate in a teach - in on
the war in Vietnam that is being spon
sored by the Norwegian Students Asocia
tion. On May 13 he will speak before the
Student Union of the London School for Eco
nomics. The Student Union has elected Pro
fessor Lynd as its honorary president. .
In Washington, a State Department
spokesman said the granting of a tempor
ary passport to Lynd was an "unusual ex
pedient" but was worked out after consid
erable "negotiating" between Lynd's lawy
ers and the department.
The granting of temporary passports is
in itself not unusual, the department said,
as it has sometimes been done when a
passport has been mislaid or in the case
of a minor who by reason of parentage
holds U. S. citizenship until 21 but whose
citizenship is uncertain thereafter.
According to the spokesman, this ap
pears to be the first case when a tem
porary passport was issue- to someone
whose passport was under revocation. This,
he said, was because it was the first time
that such a person had agreed to a tem
porary nonviolation of passport regulations.
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