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1 I Page 2 iln Our Opinion . . . . THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday, October 6, 1966 Letters To The Editor I New Visiting Agreement Is iShot In Arm Port9 Cards For RC System Dishonest dth The hard work of students and administrators of the past few years who have held to the idea that the residence college can and will become a reality on this cam pus in more than just name has been rewarded with tangible re sults in the new residence halls visiting agreement. No matter how extensive a pro gram of "get to know your neigh bors" is set up within residence halls and residence colleges, and no matter how much pride and competitive spirit is instilled in the residents of any given residence college, the students must be af forded adequate social facilities if the real demands of student living are to be met. : The unprecedented number of residence college-sponsored combo parties last spring attested to the fact that the student's adolescent drives can be satisfied or at least momentarily quieted by his resi dence college. But we believe the new visiting agreement to be much more mean ingful than these successful combo parties. For, when the residence college provides a place where a boy can bring his date for a quiet chat after a library study stint, a place where a boy can bring his date and sit with her in pleasant surroundings without fear of en countering his nude roommate on his way to the showers, then the residence hall is more a home for its students. Campus men have had to give up a few time-honored traditions the not-too-polite card games in the first floor social rooms, for ex ample. The Men's Residence Coun cil has had more than a simple task in coordinating all the resi dence hall social rooms and in working out a suitable visiting agreement. The administration has had to take a step not exactly in line with history's definition of dormitory rules in ratifying the most liberal visiting agreement ever. All these people are to be com mended for their efforts. To the students go a two-fold challenge. The first is that of show ing their appreciation for the sys tem by abiding by its regulations and not abusing their facilities. The second is that of demonstrating their faith in and desire to build the residence college system by taking full advantage of all the privileges afforded them. The residence college at UNC is becoming a reality, but there is still a long way to go. We encour age all those involved with its de velopment and operation to keep up the good work. Baseball How Did Little League Ever Get Along... : It was one of the few times this fall the Graham Memorial tele vision room has been crowded. There were long periods of silence and then sudden outbreaks such as fYeah," "All right" and'" Jees." NBCTV -unveiled iinstants replay- stop action in slow motion form for the first time. It was the world series, describ ed by a TV sportscaster as "the world's most colorful sporting event." This year's series caps as exciting a baseball year as can be recalled in recent years. : As we watched the first game of the series yesterday, we couldn't help thinking of the tremendous amount of money tied up in profes sional baseball. And we couldn't help comparing this staggering fig ure with the financial outlay of the baseball league in which we first participated a small town's Little League. The pros today come to bat wear ing a hard pastic, personally fitted, batting helmet. Each player's number is on his helmet. In the Little League, the more affluent teams had two hard hats one "small" (for the eight and nine-year-olds) and one "large" (for the 11 and 12-year-olds). The 10-year-olds, and any other players with non-conforming head sizes, wore the large hard hat with their cloth cap underneath. This was the scene with the more affluent teams. The less heavily-endowed squads borrowed batting helmets from their opponents. The wide array of hitting instru ments used in the big leagues is in sharp contrast with the little kids' selection. Two bats always got our teams by a genuine 28-inch Ted Williams autograph model and a heavier 30-inch, stick with a Han nah trademark. Some teams had a few extra bats usually 33-inch-ers with tape and tacks on the handle. These had been broken anI discarded by the local high school team. And we didn't change balls every time one got dirty in the Little League. In fact, nothing disquali fied a game ball short of the cover coming off. j tur managers didn't get $50,000 to $100,000 a year either. In fact they didn't get anything. They came down to the ballpark after work, in the afternoons and gave (he coaching job all they had. More times than not their enthusiasm resulted from their having a son or a little brother on the team. Uniforms. Yes, they were some thing too. When local civic clubs or merchants would agree to "sponsor" a Little League team. they would pay the $20 entry fee Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I should like to take excep tion to the article, editorial and cartoon appearing in the Friday, September 30 issue of your paper regarding re cent faculty resignations in the Department of Romance Languages. As a gradu?te and former member of that department, I have followed with pride for some twenty years the progress and development of the language program under the guidance of three very capable chairmen, Dr. Wil liam M. Dey, Dr. Sterling A. Stoudemire and Dr. Joseph Hardre. I have been privileged to teach under the leadership of these three men and I can say without question that Professor Hardre has al ways maintained the high standards of excellence and achievement set by his pred ecessors and that he has con siderably strengthened the teaching faculty of the de partment during his tenure as chairman. Faculty retention, is a ser ious problem for every insti tution of higher learning and the loss of competent faculty is always to be regretted. The resignations in question are not unusual, therefore, when one considers the ' fact that the Department of Romance Languages comprises nearly one hundred members. Each year a certain amount of faculty turnover is to be ex pected. In fact, a certain amount of this is not only healthy but is to be desired, for it keeps a teaching facul ty alive and vigorous. Furthermore, the scholar ship and contributions which these men will take to their new assignments will also re flect the excellence of the program from which fhey come. This is a natural pro cess of the academic world and is a cherished one. TMay I remind you that the University, and the Depart ment of Romance Languages (to cover umpire salaries and cW " Particular, Has-'managed to a biet wain; ma-iT 722ZZ. Ver L 1? . . 7.T. re viirvira?iaj.ge nunioer-oi, ulQ seniOF the season) and buy around 15 uniforms. Just like the batting helmets, the uniforms came in too sizes too large or too small. And what about salaries? It's not hard to understand how the pros can turn in some of the fan tastic plays they do. Look at the money that's riding on it. Well, the kidsville circuit didn't have any $100,000 bonus babies, but there was adequate incentive in knowing that the winning team would be treated to snow cones. So it sounds like the Little Lea gue of a dozen or so years ago was a pretty hap-hazard affair. Maybe it was. But those fellows who are just now breaking into the professional baseball circuit the guys who will be this year's out standing rookies were playing in this same low-finance league when we were. Baseball it's a rags to riches business. faculty who have so substan tially shaped the prestige and excellence of the department. I speak especially of such scholars and gentlemen as Professors N. B. Adams, Al fred G. Engstrom, Jacques Hardre, U. T. Holmes, S. A Stoudemire, W. L. Wiley and many others. The Daily Tar Heel is as much a part of the Carolina tradition as the curricula and teaching traditions for which the University is so widely acclaimed. It is disturbing to see your paper resort to dis honest and sensationalist jour nalism based essentially on hearsay and petty gossip. John Greenbacker I should hope that your pap er's primary concern would be for honest and accurate re porting. Your coverage of this particular incident is neither William H Baskin, III Assoc. Prof. Romance Languages Salem College UNC Lacks Spirit Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Sandy Treadwell's opening line, "It was incredible," pin points beautifully, in its suc cinct admission that the stu dent body had already given up on the 1966 team, what's wrong with football at Caro lina. The well-deserved, but sad to say, "incredible" vic tory over Michigan is proof that the team itself and its much maligned coaching staff had not so easily conceded the season. Evidently the lessons that athletics teaches the partici pants are lost on a student body which, for all the sound games and solid victories its football teams have produced, can only remember the losses. If you have just this mo ment scoffingly asked, "What victories," it is you that are most wrong with' Carolina foot ball, and not the offense, the defense, the coaches or. the cheerleaders. Beat Notre Dame? It would be a great victory but surely not an incredible one. R. De Maine Lightweight Cards Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Re: the flashcard eye goug ers. Can't the cards be made of a light-weight paper in a round cornerless shape? Thin paper doesn't glide. S. Rutin Protest Klan Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Thank you for your cover age of the Han rally in Dur ham. The sickness that t h e Klan represents needs to be exposed for what it is and your issue of Tuesday d i d just that. Let us hope that responsible leaders here on campus will mobilize both faculty and stu dent body to protest in a peaceful way any Klan rally that may take place in Chap el Hill. Rev. Aiden J. Sinnott begun to think so. Having seen hide nor hair of any of your publications in Ehring haus for over two weeks, we can now safely say that we see only room for improve ment on your part. Years ago Tar Heels were delivered to our door, later to our hallways, still later just to our floors, and finally just to the main lobby of our resi dence college. Since they are now so rare we presume they are thrown off the garbage truck as they noisly empty our Dempsy Dumpsters at 6:30 in the mor ning. Hark! where too are you fa bled residence college report ers. . . . "I promise to have a reporter, on each of our growing residence colleges," said the editor, spring, 1966. And for the Book X, Y Court, that great powerful magnate 9 And. .IClsiB of the campus administration circle, where have all the good times gone, one can hardly fight his way into our snack bar for the mounds of pap ers, rappers, tin cans and oth er trash that greet us every morning. You are understaffed out here. Come out and see some time. Try not to rely on just students to run this facility; they do a fine job for their part, but we believe the trou ble to be higher . up. Think of the money you're loosing when you run out .of cigarettes on Tuesday for the whole week, or when you don't open for over an hour after a football game. Over 75 parents attended a reception in our lobby on the 24th, think of their impression. Helph save Ehringhaus. Im prove our canteen facilities to be at least equal with those in Criage and Morrison. With this area the residence center of campus, we only ask that facilities befitting the center of any great University be sup plied to us. We do realize inflation caus es problems and that money is short and in great demand, but could we not also ask for a check cashing desk to be plac ed in Chase Hall, which can best serve South Campus by being in its center rather than in one of the individual dorms. We also would like be able to cash a check for more than $15. Don't retard the growth of this, our disturbed home. Ehringhaus. Allen Shepard, Governor of Ehringhaus Robert Cherry, Social Lieuten ant Governor Don Streater, Secretary Les Haas, Committee Chmn. Boyd Garber, Treasurer 'I got my Ph.D. at Columbia? How about you?1 One Big Mess Editor, the Daily Tar Heel: Have you stopped publish ing, we doubt it, but we have b mrn-i v m office IHfm iff ! V I ' Ll mi 1 W I! 1, 11 II if ) ympA pS f V -my Fireed ; Mumds Em Pirus&m Sty Hath Olar ttl 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott GoodfeJlow, Managing Ed John Greenbacker .... Assoc. Ed" Kerry Sipe Feature Editor Bill Amlong News Editor Ernest Robl .. Asst. News Editor Sandy Treadwell .. Sports Editor Bob Orr ...... Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer Photo Editor Chuck Benner Night Editor Steve Bennett, Lytt Stamps, Lynn Harvel, Judy Sipe, Don Campbell, Cindy Borden. Staff Writers Drummond Bell, Owen Davis Bill Hass, Joey Leigh . , Sports Writers Jeff MacNelly ..Sports Cartoonist Bruce Strauch .... Ed. Cartoonist John Askew Ad Mgr The Daily Tar Heel is the official newpubucation of the Univtrstty o North Carolina and is published bv students dafly except mSvs 5 amination periods and I vacaS Pos?o?LCl -SS Stage Paid the Post Office in Chapel Hill N r ier, ?8 per year. Printed k T Chapel Hffl PubUshhTcf g ? W. Franklin St., Chapellmi N c is usually Every so often the DTH gets a copy of a prison newspap erin the mail. They are su Ported by the institutions they represent and are filled with atelg WOrk 0f the in- antumpl3 days aSo we got another on2 of these. This one is called The Mentor and it's written by tha prisoner! of ne fSusetts Correctional In- Ssrious editor ials are alterna ted with fea tures & person al columns that Play on tin ton gue - in - cheek numor of prison life. The average person's image of tin American penal institution something out of a grade "B" Prison picture from the 1930's. hGy ViSUaUze a horde hard-an-fn' y.ntemptbale staSmg m?ss hall av ralRd maSS P. The average prr.oner boks Uke James Cagney, and th2 only of uttermg ls a surly threat hS-PS! sTthin h? Authe doors' den, or the father gets it!" Th- staff writers'of The Men or are not above playing on tins theme. One of the colum nists, Don "Emo" Landry writes a local gossip column entitled "The Walled - Off 'iSHi' anVhe letters to hj editor column is entitled Windows in the Wall" N-'xt to the items of this sort, one finds a caliber of edi- torial writing found in only the best newspapers, and the pro duct of a perceptive intelli gence rarely found among many college graduates who have never seen a prison. Why do these people defy the law? The answers are most likely as varied as the individuals, but it might prove interesting to examine the case of one young convict whose situation was published as one of The Mentor's features. The story was best told by the following two articles: BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "Defeat at chess apparent ly was too much for the as sistant editor of the Indiana Reformatory newspaper. "Robin Smith, 24, described by Superintendent Jerome Hen ory as one of the intelligensia of the institution was one of the four convicts to compete in a two - day chess tourna ment at the Indiana Universi ty Medical Center. "Smith won a match Satur day and returned to the re formatory. But after he lost one Sunday he slipped away, unnoticed by a counselor and his prison buddies. Smith was serving a term for robbery." The following statement was written for the prison paper by the supsrintendent, Jerome Henry: "Last Sunday evening one of our inmates violated a trust and escaped while on tem porary parole. One has a dif ficult time that is, perhaps, if he is not an inmate to give reason to such a destruc tive impulse. "True, this inmate was in carcerated in a walled prison, separated from his loved ones, 'doing time.' Still, he had a good portion of his time out of the way and was coming down the stretch for a clemency hearing. And from where I sit, he seemed to be in a good po sition to gain favorable board action." He had a good job which provided the opportunity for his using his many creative ta lents. He was on a long count. He was liked by many; respected for his ability; and encouraged to groom for t h e editorship of The Reflector. From my viewpoint, he was, making the best of a bad sit uation. Now, this man is an intel ligent man, a sensitive man, a quiet man. Letters that he left from his family indictaed that he was a loved man. So, the question is posed: why did he violate the trust of which he wrote so eloquently, so convincingly? "In an earlier article I pos ed the question 'why is a man here', with the points made that behavior is meaningful, purposive, and understand able." In this case the question is directed' to "why is a man not here?" Your intelligence and mine know that running is fu tile; a breath of ill - gotten air that will surely end sudden ly and soon. He knew this also but it did not deter him. "Some will brush him off as a con artist; others will ex plain it away with the fact that he lost playing chess that day and can't stand being a loser; others will say that pri son to a sensitive man is in tolerable; that he had a deep- seated need for self - destruc tion and so forth. "There are reasons, that is certain, but it is not likely that we or even this man know those reasons. His history is one of bewilderment, impul siveness, game - playing; and running. Thus he, indeed, needs pity more than censure; study more than pat phrases; help more than helL "We pledged when we took this job to help every man that it was humanly possible to help. We cannot stop with a rebuff. We cannot stop try ing to help him or others "We believe that we are charged with the responsibility of assisting ' one another there was no adjective delim iting the 'one another.' "In one of his recent poems this man wrote: '. . . . If i should die tomorrow would anybody care?'. . . Robin, we care." What is the story behind this one convict and the num erous fine newspapers that are being published in correctional institutions across the nation' Simply this: Behind the prison walls are found not just the savage ignorant and the anti social personality, but also the disaffected, the misunderstood the intelligent, the sensil tive and the creative. These prison papers mark the start of a desperately needed communication be tween society and its deviates. As the dialogue continues, we on the outside may come to realize that the stone walls of the prison are more of our making than we thought, and that we have placed some of the freest minds in cages Gospel Is Rewritten B y Beatles Editor's note A columnist for The Wooden Horse, the of ficial publication of St. Peters burg Junior College in Flori da, offered the following quot es from the Bible if people ,WOrshipin2 the Beatles rather than God.) And .John divided the three crumpets and the five teabags among the multitude. . . aid 'theDangel of the Lord visited the Blessed Virgin Michelle.? thus was Jonah cast into the bowels of a great Yellow Sub- S 6-f 'fnd Ut un to he Lord Lord t Thou sparest the evil city of Liverpool if three be ten fh?e combos' might of beat would you believe three wash boards and a euifar commandments. i am , A! Fore me7 oa,"SPrfuk be -mmTadu.thoS01' neig'govet tty yon Samson slew tte wicked moralifv c. " c on Iah. . . 'She X?..?. P6" and ihenSltasd J for bed." On vS lt 5 -hme norRiVht,, iMea- she kee LT a far h ft th&t -On religTon b e dr Kenzie, writing 'the T Mc" fermon that 0 one lm ? 3 no one comes near i 6 .., .... , . i)
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