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Thursday, May 5, 1966
Letters To The Editor
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Opinions of The Daily 'lur lli-cl art- cpi ! in its
editorials. AH unsigned editorials are uritten by the
editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal
views of their contributors.
FltF.D THOMAS, EDITOR
Grow Up
Saturday night's bottle-throwing incident, which
resulted in an eye injury to a.UNC student, stands
at the height of irresponsibility and immaturity.
It's no secret that a great deal of alcoholic bev
erage is consumed by UNC students. Many people
around the state and some here on this campus
frown on students' drinking at all. We do not.
What we do violently oppose is the attitude of far
too many college men that they have to prove their
masculinity, independence and "coolness" by getting
themselves into a drunken state, making excessive
noise and destroying property.
The incident in point is only an isolated example.
It became a matter of public knowledge because, un
fortunately, a student was injured.
But it is only good fortune that has prevented just
as serious, or more serious, consequences from an
untold number of similar occurances here this year.
' Throwing a bottle isn't a "cool" thing t0do. It is
a stupid thing to do. The same goes for the various
other wild outlets of emotion often employed.
We urge all students to use a little common sense.
If you have to hit something, hit your fist against a
tree. If you have to show something, show your ability
to .keep your mouth shut. And if you have to throw
something, throw up.
Juice Stock Up
Late yesterday afternoon local brokers were still
reporting a rising trend in orange juice stock.
Pay C. Fist, owner of the Get Out of Vietnam Or
ange Juice Company, told the DTH that stepped up
aggression by cold germs carried to Vietnam by
U. S. military troops from Chapel Hill had spurred
the increased intake of Vitamin C by local sympa
thizers with the oppressed Southeast Asian people.
A check with B. F. Burger local dining estab
lishment operator revealed that his business has
suffered a slight drop in the past week.
"We realized a 33-cent smaller intake on our Sup
er Man Special Sandwich than we had been earning.
But .we're not . giving upThose people - can't starve
forever!" he said. . . . . .. ;
Untold Value
Durham Morning Herald
The value of the $5 million William R. Kenan Jr.
bequest to the University of North Carolina and to the
state is beyond calculation.
This money will have a snowballing effect in pro
moting the University's effort to achieve academic
excellence. As a starter, it means that 25 professors in
various fields can be offered salaries at a level the
University simply could not approach otherwise. But
this fact doesn't begin to explain the implications of
such a bequest.
Those implications don't stop, either, with a recog
nition that the University will be able to attract and
keep 25 men or women whose academic abilities put
them in demand by better endowed institutions. Get
ting and keeping such individuals is only a starter,
top
' '"'The presence of eminent teachers and scholars
on campus serves as an attraction to other promising
faculty members in their fields. It is a lure to the
able graduate students whose presence on campus
also contribute much to academic excellence. Last,
but . hardly least, it adds both directly and indirectly
tothe educational experience of the mass of under
graduates. Thus it is a positive gain for the entire
state.
: A windfall like the one provided by the Kenan
trust shouldn't mislead anyone about the University's
need for even more funds to attract and retain dis
tinguished faculty members. Despite this latest be
quest as well as many other generous gifts and much
hard work on the University's behalf, it is still relative
ly, poor in this area. Moreover, the search for sup
plemental funds is never ending at the best endowed
institutions.
But all of this simply emphasiezs the value of the
Kenan bequest to the University. It is one for which
the University and the state should be thankful, indeed.
ln? Satlg Utar Ifcel
Fred Thomas, editor; Scott Goodfellow, managing editor;
John Greenbacker, associate editor; Ron Shinn, news ed
itor; Barry Jacobs, sports editor; Ernest RoM. assistant
news editor; Bill Hass, assistant sports editor; John Jenn
rich, wire editor; Mike YViggin, night editor; Jock Laater
er, Jerry Lambert, photographers; Chip Barnard, art ed
itor; Andy Myers, Steve Bennett, Steve Lackey, Peytie
Fearrington, Carol Gallant, Lytt Stamps, Alan Banov. Bill
Amlong, staff writers; Bill Rollins. Sandy Treadwell,
Drummond Bell. Jim Fields, sports writers; Jeff Mac
Nelly, Bruce Strauch, cartoonists.
Letters And More Letters Ponir In
Letter Was Hoax
Editor. The Daily Tar Heel:
Holy hoax! Would the real J. C. Poin
dexter please stand up?
When I got to my 9 a.m. class on Fri
day April 29, I was awakened from my
early-morning trance by a multitude of
cheers and jeers. "For what?" said I. "For
your letter in The Daily Tar Heel," said
they. "A trick!" said I, for indeed, you are
reading the first letter I have ever written
to the DTH.
Perhaps I should be pleased that some
one holds me to such esteem that they
would falsely attach my name to their let
ters. However, the trivial content of the
letter does not excite me and the artistry of
the imbecilic writer leaves me less than im
pressed. I am, in fact, appalled that the
DTH would waste valuable (?) space on
such a piece of trash and attach my name
to it, especially without being reasonably
sure that I was the author.
Someday, perhaps, Carolina students will
find more worthwhile subjects to challenge
their mammoth intellects. Perhaps, too, the
DTH will become more responsible. Mean
while, my sleuths are searching the nooks
and crannies of Hanes Hall for the perpe
trator of this dastardly fraud; my lawyer,
Mr. Mason, is preparing suits for invasion
of privacy (my thoughts), libel, forgery,
etc.; and I am busily burning every Daily
Tar Heel in sight.
The Real
J. C. Poindexter, Jr.
Carroll Hall
Kay Unsure?
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Michael Alan Kay was indignant, un
sure that he wasn't being threatened, and
he broke the great rule of the great game
of American democratic competition: he
gloated explicitly and in public.
Strange that he spoke self-stultifyingly,
hacking unwittingly at the planks of his
podium, ridiculing the shared values which
sustain his prestige by vulgar consent.
Stranger still, and yet all too explicable
as the brutal price of a seat in the game,
that his intended victims, disguised as aven
gers, stole his suicidal hatchet, rescued
him with fervent reaffirmations of their
faith in pins before he could split the first
plank.
Fraternities, student government, ROTC:
they surround us like nets power-elite
micro-mimicinstitutions farcically instilling
a sense of legitimacy in the young auto-
matons who man" them and wait nourish
- ing their greed and contriving their cre
dentials for the bigger and better that is
being held for them in trust.
Bill Michaux
1018 Morrison
Support WSEX
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
The enthusiasm that greeted the Teague
radio station last week by the boys in that
dormitory may well cause UNC legislators
to re-evaluate their thoughts about a carrier-current
station for the entire campus.
There were few radios that were not tuned
to station WSEX.
The boys relished the idea of hearing
their names and voices come out the music
box. And no wonder it usually was filled
with the same old top 40 format and tons
of commercials. Who ever heard of getting
excited over radio in recent years? The
boys in Teague proved it could be done.
They were broadcasting lots of music,
to be sure, but it was well mixed with dor
mitory and residence college news and
views. Even though the first evening of
transmission was crude, the station did
show promise of becoming polished with
time.
The core of Teague's station stems from
the need of a campus station that will furn
ish this college with programs geared to
the needs of the university life and its stu
dents. There is an obvious void of this type
of programming in Chapel Hill.
By its very nature WUNC radio is un
able to fulfill all the needs this campus has
for its students. WUNC is geared to those
who enjoy slow music, usually classical.
Many of its programs, particulary those
during the Carolina Sumposium, are of
good general interest.
For the most part, however, UXC's pro
gramming is too high strung. The mass at
Carolina are active, energetic people who
might prefer a faster pace on their station.
More UNC news, sports, interviews and pro-grams-at-large
would be attractive to the
Chapel Hill listener.
The new campus station could utilize
talent from the University's drama and
RTVMP departments. Good radio drama
and his message was not to Chapel Hill or
to Harvard as such, but to individual peo
ple wherever they might be. To quote him.
"Any person who wants to do the will of
God and who wants to live a life of sancti
fication must abstain from fornication as
stated in I Thessalonians 4:3."
I think you have displayed a lack of edi
torial courtesy, and suggest that you be
more considerate in the future.
Gloria Hoffman
Smith Hall
"I know you're tall and thin, but I still think you should
stick with chemistry."
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and documentaries concerning today's col
lege students would be a welcomed change-of-pace
from what we are now accustomed
to in the media.
The Teague pilot project may or may
not be successful. Tfte very fact that it did
go on the air and got such quick raves
from the dormitory's residents shows a
positive need for a full-scale investigation
and re-evaluation on the needs for another
University radio station.
Richard Klein
Editor Errs
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
The remarks in the "foreword" to Pas
tor W. A. Bell's letter on fornication in Sat
urday's DTH were quite unwarranted. Your
first sentence would have been sufficient to
introduce the author and his purpose. The
second and third ones, however, became
progressively worse as you proceeded to
present your own conjecture as to why you
received such an article.
Simply from the fact that Pastor Bell sent
his 1st letter to Harvard and to Chapel Hill
to be published, you declared, "Possibly
Pastor Bell believes there is more fornication-at
these two places than there is
elsewhere. For this reason, all you detesta
ble fornicators out there better read and
heed." If he thinks this, let him say so
himself, if you please. Nowhere in the arti
cle do I find any mention of a specific
town being more given to fornication than
others. Bell's objection was to Dr. Joseph
Fletcher's view of premarital sex relations,
Loud Yankee Broads
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I cannot pass up this opportunity to ex
press my opinion of Robert M. Payton's
last letter. While a Southerner,. I have
spent much time in the North and have
known many Northern girls, and therefore
feel qualified to make a few statements
about them.
Northern women are far superior to
those of the South; indeed, seeing a speci
men of yankee womanhood is an experi
ence not soon forgotten. She walks across
campus with her hair radiant in curlers,
dressed in absolute conformity to the latest
styles, a cigarette hanging daintily from
her lips. Her speech is even more striking
that her appearance, for rarely needs she
to resort to standard English, her com
mand of profanity being sufficient for al
most any conversation. And she forms her
own opinions I have yet to meet a North
ern girl who did not have an opinion on
any subject, from the tactical feasibility of
using the Me. 262 as a bomber to the cul
ture of African violets. These profound
statements are usually expressed at such a
volumn as to be audible across Carmichael
Auditorium during a basketball game.
Indeed, she is independent, for as long
as "Mamma and Poppa" make the pay
ments on her Mustang and maintain her
bank account, she rarely thinks of them.
Her sophistication, whether she is drinking
County Club from the can or making out
with someone else's date at a football game,
is far beyond that of the Southern belle.
She is sincere, too; just pick up a book
she has dropped or open a door for her
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and watch her walk off with her nose in
the air, sincerely expressing her views
about such vain pretentions as "geoMeman
ly conduct". She demands complete equal
ity, and it would not surprise me to find
her leading a sitdown strike in the men's
room.
In closing, I would like to express my
sincere regrets that Payton and his loud
mouth yankee cohorts are being forced to
endure four years in the South, yearning
for that paradise just north of the Mason
Dixon line. But life has its compensations.
Bob; I am sure that by now you've gotten
dozens of calls from intelligent, attractive,
sophisticated northern girls asking you for
a date.
Steven Kropelnicki. Jr.
314 Parker
Editor Misinformed
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Misinformed is perhaps the best word to
describe your editorial of Saturday, April
30, concerning the approval of Frank Hodg
es as attorney general.
It is certainly unfair to characterize the
University Party stand as "petty partisan
political thinking," while the straight line
Student Party vote is ignored.
First, it should be noted that it is the
duty of a political party to take that stand
which it feels to be in the interest of the
student body, even if it means opposition
to an appointment of the president.
Second, the reason for the UP opposi
tion to Hodges was not to promote former
assistant attorney general Jim Aplin, who
contrary to your assertion is not a UP
member, but for reasons pertaining to
Hodges alone. Even if Hodges had been
turned down, Aplin still would not have
been appointed by President Bob Powell.
Thus, boosting Aplin could not have been
a motive for the UP vote. What were the
reasons that were given so little attention
in your column on Saturday?
1. That, according to the former attor
ney general and current members of the
AG Staff, Hodges did not have the specific
experience necessary to do the job.
2. That going outside the AG Staff for
the appointment was not good policy in
view of the separate natures of the execu
tive and judicial branches of Student Gov
ernment. 3. That, the appointment of Hodges, for
mer SP chairman, was not in the tradition
of an apolitical judiciary.
These, then, were tlw reasons' tha-convinced
the UP caucus, not partisanship or
political coercion. I hope that, with this
letter, the matter will be closed. Frank
Hodges has taken on a rough job. Now that
the question has been decided, the Univer
sity Party joins with the rest of the cam
pus in offering him whatever support and
cooperation we can give for a successful
year in the jduiciary.
David II. Kiel
Chairman, University Party
Heelprints
A friend of ours wonders if candy isn't
so bad for kids after all now that some
imported sweets have been found to con
tain an excessive amount of bourbon.
Better not call Gov. Moore a red neck;
he's awfully sensitive about this Commun
ist business.
That 12-year-old boy who stole a Grey
hound bus in Washington he wouldn't be
m so much trouble he'd only listened to the
slogan: "Leave the driving to us."
If those GOP congressmen are so deter
mined to test the efficiency of the Selective
Service, why don't they try dropping out of
college?
Judging from Sen. Morgan's .speaker ban
views, we'd say it takes a real patriot
nowadays to be against the constitution.
DAVID ROTHMAN
HWX a WiTv.w .
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