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Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL rmnudv, i.vidiin pj, 1967 Will Death Valley Come Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel re expressed in its editorials. All un signed editorials are written by the editor. L-tirs and columns reflect only the personal views of their contributor. ' SCOTT GOODFELLOW. EDITOR A DTH Endorsement Travis Will Get Job Bob Travis is the best selection for next President of the Student Body. Our decision to endorse a candi date was made after much misgiv ing, since the editor is a candidate himself. But it was obvious that it is the responsibility of the DTH to evaluate the pros and cons of a matter which could easily be very important both to the students and the University. And when we began our evalua tion, it quickly became obvious who should be elected. There is and can be only one criterion in the selection of a Presi dent of the Student Body who will be effective and accomplish the most. If any other factor enters in, then the office is belittled. It is on this basis that we give our unqualified support to Bob Travis. Travis has never been a candi date he has always been an ad ministrator. Good administrators are the people who get things done. Under the direction of Travis, Student Government offices have been run in a far 'more organized A DTE Endorsement Dietz Has . Exciting Jed Dietz is the most qualified candidate for Vice President of the Student Body. The criterion for our endorse--ment of Dietz is precisely the same as for President who will be ef fective land accomplish most. It is into this category that Jed Dietz fits. . ' . We have; known the manner in which Jed works for a long time. At least once a week during the year, he rushes into the DTH office with an exciting new idea. And it is always Jed's own excitement over the idea which makes it con tagious. v But it is. not just the realm of successful projects. Few will say that the Experimental College, of which Dietz was the local inno vator, was not far more successful than anyone had hoped. " Perhaps one of the. most import ant assets which a candidate can have in our campus, is to always seem .free of "politics." In this re- THE DAILY TAR HEEL ' 74 Years of Editoral Freedom Scott Goodfellow, Editor Tom Clark, Bus. Mgr. Sandy Treadwell, M. Editor John Askew Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris Assoc. Ed. Don Campbell News Ed. Donna Reifsnder,Feat. Ed. Jeff MacNelly Sports Ed. Owen Davis, Asst. Spts. Ed. Jock Lauterer Photo Ed. David Garvin Night Ed. Mike McGowan Photographer Wayne Hurder Copy Ed. Ernest Robl, Steve Knowl ton, Carol Wonsavage, Hun ter George, Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis Sanders, Joe Saunders, Penny Raynor, Jim Fields, Donna Reif snid er, Joe Coltrane, Julie Parker. Cartoonists Bruce Strauch Jeff MacNelly. The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Ca rolina and is published by students daily except Mon days, examination periods and vacations. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. manner than ever before. The fi nancial part of second floor GM has. been more closely watched than ever before, and it is an old saying that the person who is most interested in accurate finances is v the ablest administrator of all. In a rather ill-thought move, the opposition party has criticized Tra vis for poor integrity. We cannot see it. We feel that anyone who can gain unqualified support from the legislature and governor of his state (Gov. Sanders of Georgia, known as their Terry Sanford) to begin a Georgia Youth Council, a project never before attempted, such a person must show high in tegrity. Travis is forceful, direct, and often shows a steel-trap mind but he does what he decides to do. He is opposed by Bill Pufdy, a student who has held a number of high elected offices and distinguished himself in few. There is too much which can be done to improve life on this campus and the University's image to mess around with good candidates we need one who will get things done. 4 - spect, Dietz has been admirably successful, for he has done few things which smack of solely politi cal gestures. A great many capabilities are needed in order to run an effective Student Legislature, as the Vice President will have to do. Among these is respect, respect for ability and respect for motives. It is for these qualities of respect that we are in complete support of Jed Dietz. Belated Award Of The Week Veiled Interest Of The Week To Jean Dixony prognosticator, who this week predicted that one-half the U. S. college population would die from a throat infection this week. Phoning her, the DTH learn ed that she is an insurance saleswoman. Teddy O'Toole "Quo usque tandem abu tere, Catilfaia, patienta nos tra? Roughly translated, means "How long, Cataline, will you try our patience?" . With these words two thou sand years ago Cicero began the Orations against his op ponent, Cataline, in the most famous political debates of antiquity. History repeats it self; today I find that tone the most appropriate to ex press my feeling with regard to the present campus elec tions. - "How long, John Green backer, will you try our pa tience?" A week ago Mr. Green backer published a harangue against Bill Purdy. Yester day, claiming to be giving an "unqualified endorsement" of a candidate for student body president, and finding little to endorse in his chosen candi date, Bob Travis, he pub lished another harangue against Bill Purdy. I find that a rather crude way to treat the man who by all rights should be the next student body president. Done Flair CreeiD The first mistake Mr. Greenbacker made was to ex amine the looks and appear ance of Bill Purdy, instead of asking that all - important question about the man un derneath. The most' impor tant single criterion for can didates for the presidency is their potential for expansion in office. In a slow,' agoniz ing process, Bin Purdy has shown the capacity for that expansion since he left Bur lington High School. The three years since that time have been rocky, but successful. Perhaps the great est irony of Mr. Greenback er's article was that in list ing Purdy's positions and then attempting to show Pur- dy's failure in those positions, he in fact unfolded the most impressive list of qualifica tions of any candidate since Bob Spearman left for Ox forda list, I add, that dwarfs that of his opponent,' Bob Travis, in quantity and qua lity. Another minor oversight by Mr. Greenbacker was the fact that the electorate, the ulti . mate judge of any officials Kum'Aicvre, customers tf-h my references 4o We; -scef I r : : LUU CUBK 70 nnt - ' - ! V Par' i fn, -tt J mtmW v r-V t 1 II I r Once Again success, saw fit to put Purdy in office every time he sought it for two and one-half years. Sounds rather impressive for a 'Tights that failed," doesn't it? All these allegations by Mr. Greenbacker disturbed me, but I probably wouldn't have abandoned temporarily my NSA-CIA series to write this if he had . not distorted the facts of Purdy's record. The first facet of the rec ord cited was that as fresh man class president Purdy had organized a class dance in Durham, but had not pro vided cars to get there. That was basically true Purdy privided instead a fleet of buses. Somehow Mr. Greenbacker just didn't mention the bar beque dinner held by the freshmen that year, and prob ably didn't know about the freshman class tutorial proj ect that was optioned off to student government. Frankly, Purdy's record as a legislator the next year was not the best in the world. But it is rather significant that this past year, during Men's cloHVma -Store. vyMy Sfat-cViej shirts Mouse in --he bacVc . i . ' J i H6R - it his term as Vice-president of the student body when his first duty was to run a good legislature, he both did that and kept a steady stream of legislation rolling off his desk. Slowly he was expanding to meet the job. - Greenbacker's evaluation of that stream of legislation as being insignificant and poli tically timed is simply not justified by the record. Here is part of that record: A joint effort in composing a bill asking the Chancellor to reconsider his dismissal of Michael Paull RW-41-38; a bill to investi gate the issues related to re organization of the semester system BF-42-63; a bill to provide for legislative reports (con trary to Greenbacker's alle-. gations, these reports were RR-42-27; a bill to provide for ex-officio members of Stu dent Legislature from Gran ville RR-42-27; a bill to provide for a fixed portion of the bud get to go to Graham Memorial status I J V I To Hauifct Davie By JOE COLTRANE Davie Residence College may well be "sinking" but it would be a gross inaccuracy to write it off due to apathy of the resi dents, animosity between the dorms, and an above-average number of fraternity men in residence. If Davie sinks, it will be due to the attitude taken towards it by the men who would call themselves leaders of the dorms involved. They seem to believe that a system such as the Residence College be gins to function as soon as it is designated a system. They have applied no effort towards helping Davie College "get off the ground.' As a former resident of a successful Residence College, I am able to compare the situa tion in Davie with that of Craige College. I can only con clude that the organization and functioning of Davie should have been infinitely easier than that of Craige in every respect but one. The first function of the col lege each year is to inform new residents that they are, indeed, residents of an active, self-governing, social and oth erwise beneficial organization. In addition to its above-average number of fraternity men, Davie College has an above a verge number of transfer stu dnts; students who require some orientation into residence college life. At no time during the current school year has any member of the Davie Sen ate, any Residence College of ficer, or dorm officer visited Battle Dorm to offer interest ed persons a chance to work with the College's activities or fuctions. If these 'leaders' cry apathy, they should ex amine their own positions to determine if they have given anything but apathy them selves. , Communications have been Peter Harris Five Fingered Searc Look back once, my boy, and see what was; realize it and let it flow you shan't ever look back again . . . Over grassy hills my dog and I searched Looking at once for a little boy in the green and pink period. A rubber ball came bouncing down the hill, Richocheting from one rock to another, Bouncing into my open hands. (Dreams of a long fly ball hit deep to right and my Par encouraging me; I try bard, hard, hard ... I love it all. , Jumping like a monkey, I glove it; I'm named Rip.Re pulski. Let's see you make a perfect one bounce throw. Atta boy. Then I'd throw my arms into a tree, see a mon key, swing after him and on. All this, and more, came from Purdy's desk during his term. And of course he had the sense to seek bi-partisan support for these actions. Mr. Greenbacker. Another of a long list of ironies is that as Speaker of Legislature Purdy once broke a tie by voting in favor of a bill to send two DTH staff members to a national press convention where the paper was to receive some awards. But Mr. Greenbacker com pletely displayed bis insuffici ent grasp of the present situ ation when, after devoting about three-quarters of his column to the harangue, he finally decided to punch out a couple of paragraphs about his chosen candidate, Bob Tra vis. First, he tried to portray Travis as an old shirt-sleeves-rolled-up liberal in the tradi tion of Paul Dickson, appar ently forgetting that no amount of strong language or sleeve rolling will give Travis what Dickson had a vision. Appar ently he also forgot that Tra vis has forced the major lib acclaimed the problem of every residence college. The most important function of a R.C. Senate is communications. Residents don't mind being bothered once every two weeks to find out how $1,100 of their money is being spent, nor if they can make any sugges tions for better living condi tions in their dorms. The 23 of the residents who are not fraternity members are con ed about whether Davie Col lege will offer a combo party on a big football weekend. Distance could hardly be called a hinderance to effec tive communications, since the three dorms are less than 100 yards apart, about the distance from the end of one wing of Craige to the end of the op posite wing. With only 300 residents, Davie could be cov ered like a blanket by a rea sonably sized senate. With three different dorms involved, Davie College should naturally, have three sets of acclaimed "leaders," as op posed to a single set for Craige. If these leaders cannot co-operate with each other because of "animosity between the dorms," then I pity them when they leave college and enter a world where you get along or get left behind. Another advantage held by ' Davie is the high number of old residents who return each year, probably because of the central location on campus. With these returning leaders, the senate should undergo rela tively minor changes in mem bership Vz or less as compar ed to Craige's 80 rate of turnover) with the older mem bers helping the newer ones learn the ropes. Or maybe Davie College would be better off if no one returned next year, and a new set of leaders were to take over. 'Maybe the new ones would think of the residents I could burst with country air, looking.) I lay the ball down and looked on the other side of the rockhill. Nobody. Wait . . . somewhere, some how, sometime. Now it shall be the monkey again. It has got to be a five finger ed search; feel ... Then a call for freedom, no cage, .open to swing in the trees. I remember my stuffed Capuchin that I had when one year old. Beast is romping with the little kids on the hill. There is bread which turns into can dy canes for boys and girls and Crackers. I smile as he leaves me forever, for I know and he knows, simply. Par up with Jack and they can smile at each other. Let's eral element of his own party into support of a Purdy-Dietz ticket. Next, he tried to portray Travis as a "leader" who did such a good job as head of the office and secretarial staff that he succumbed to a groundswell draft to run for student body president. That "draft' movement was, one of the most authoritatively run and mess campaigns in re cent times. Finally, he tried to equate Travis offices of Administra tive Assistant and Audit Board Chairman to Purdy's qualifica tions like Vice-President of the Student Body, class president, and Student Legislator.- I fail to find that all-important potential for leadership in a man who seems to have run for only one elective position in his Carolina career. I have a tremendous urge to continue this analysis of Greenbacker's column, but in doing that I might stray out onto that marsh of irrelevant factors that lies in wait for us if we get caught in the "quali fications and contributions" rhetoric of campus elections. College and what they would like to have done rather than just the opinions of a select few The one major problem fap. ing uavie wmege is the lack of adequate social facility Each dorm has a T,V, room but the Naval Armory U the oniy avauaDie piace tor combo parties, and there is no lounge snack bar, or lobby to which women may be admitted. Curtis Patton's statement that Old West "could have some good parties" with 13 of the money, 13 of the people and above all else, with 13 the interest of Davie College just does not hold water. If the residents of the most cen tral parts of the campus want anything except good location they will have to get it from Davie Residence College, not each individual dorm. It is inconceivable that Student Leg islature, the University, or anyone . else would provide funds for a social room for the use of 96 students. Will Davie College sink? it can't sink, because it never existed in reality. It never ex isted because its "leaders" were unwilling to nut forth the quantity of effort and enthusi asm necessary to make it work. If the leaders wonder why only 40 people showed up for the combo party, they could find out by listening to a few Davie College residents trying to find out what, and where Davie College is. If Davie sinks it won't be an unhappy day for most of the residents. They won't mourn Davie College because they never knew it. Its leaders will be happy because they can continue to direct their faithful little groups without having to assume the responsibility in volved in true leadership. For a few, who saw too late what Davie College could have 'been, it will be a real tragedy. explore this cloud. I've got a lot of knowing to experience to learn, to feel and hold and get behind me. It reminds me of my paper route . . . (Fades off . . . good-bye Dad. May be I'll be there when I'm through. I've got to make it. Good bye, Par.) So, alone am I. No doggy; no one. I look up to only my self. It's strange. I'm a little blind now, but with five fin gers I'm going to find my way around; the sun is my friend the rock is warm and that hike up is once more like glov ing the ball and loving the free monkey, but without the whispering dream ... I'll see you around, but you'd be bet ter keep up, our pace is rip ping, and our grasp is strong and I know it. The trail curves forward. Too many pinecones and creatures of the wood to see; can't stop. We've simply got to face the fart that tVia TrociHpnfv of the student body is a job different irom and bigger tnan other one around. It takes a man who can grow in the job to accomplish the big things needed in this academic com munity. It takes a man who will be able to put humanity before any other consideration when that distressed student comes into his office seeking aid ' that final appeal of his honor code case. It takes a man who will put courage before conformity when he is asked his opinion of the draft at a student body presidents' meet ing. John Greenbacker has called the only man on this campus in a position to take that job and grow with it a "light that failed." I would call him a dim light. Maybe just a glow. But both of these are brighter than a shadow. And with a major ity of the student body behind him he has the potential to become the brightest fire of them all. Bill Purdv.
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