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1. MV THE DAILY-TAR HEEL As We See It You want to vote? What's Democracy coming to? UNC Students' Tax Dollars Won't Buy What Votes Will Students aren't getting their money's worth out of Chapel Hill politics. It's their own fault, too. What it all boils down to is that Carolina students aren't register ing to vote in Chapel Hill elections. And because they aren't voting, they are not being wooed by Chap- el Hill's politicians, aren't getting concessions from the town's elect led officials who hope to remain ; elected officials. r But regardless of whether they jwant to play, students do have to pay. A Daily Tar Heel reporter checked the tax rolls at town hall Tuesday and found that fraternity and sorority houses and the pri vately - owned Granville Towers are being assessed . $28,689.64 in real estate tax, personal property tax and sewer fees. There are also those students living in off-campus apartments whose rents reflect the .11 mill tax rate. But because 1) many of these students are under 21, and 2) many of the older ones are too apathetic to vote, student-paid tax es don't buy officials' sympathy with their gripes. But because of their apathy at the polls,-students' gripes fall on deaf ears. Like complaints about the zon ing laws which will permit neith er all-night restaurants nor furth er fraternity - sorority house ex pansion, this side of Finley Golf Course. .And like gripes about the dime - gulping parking meters which you have to pay, because you have to park, because you have to shop. And, really, why should elected officials in this town worry about appealing to student interests when it's not going to win them any votes especially in cases of controversial zoning changes which will meet hard opposition from the voting townspeople. Indeed, officials disregard, of . students' desires can be explain ed as a simple political fact of, life. But it doesn't have to be that way. The tradition of students sit ting at the back of Chapel Hill's political bus can be easily chang ed by students' registering Satur day to vote in the upcoming mayoral elections. If enough students register, both incumbent Mayor Sandy Mc Clamroch and contender Ray mond Williams will have to ad dress at least part of their pro grams toward students. And whichever wins will have to re member who helped put him in office and who'll help put him back there two years from now. And thus will a change a very welcome change come to Chapel Hill politics. - t Professors, Let Us Be j With alT due apologies to Wil- Jliam Shakespeare we'd like to bor- jrow and somewhatrearrange a emote from Hamlet and aim it Sat the. UNC faculty. Specifically: i J "Tp Let them be? or riot to let ithem WV U- i ; f ermrMBe-lnr- The Be-In, a day of child-like innocence and of feasting on bread, cheese, wine and thought is scheduled for Thursday after noon at the.foot of Silent Sam. Which, barring an encore from Monday's cloudburst, will be just great. Just great if you can be there to be, that is. And there, as Hamlet more or less said, is the rub. What deans, professors and graduate instructors must consid er is whether 'tis nobler in the mind for their students endure the slings and arrows of outrage ous attendance regulations, or to be, to be perchance to dream and to discover that life at this Uni versity is not restricted to j u s t studying and organized weekend partying. The Be-In will give students a chance to do nothing. That's right, nothing. It won't be constructive in the pragmatic,- materialistic - sense "of thei word; But; , then it won't be frustrating either, : : : And it probably won't solve any world problems. But at . least it will give participants a chance to forget about them for a while. Which all means that if profes sors don't excuse classes for at tendance at the Be-In, they could be dong a great disservice to Be ing in general. Once again this time straight from Julius Caesar, Act V we'd like to quote Shakespeare on this matter: "There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of our lives is bound in shallows and in misery. On such a full sea we are now afloat, and we must take the cur rent when it serves or lose our ventures." Un-A a merican: From the Winston-Salem Journal With a total misunderstanding of the subject before the bench not to mention total capitulation to the profit motive the U. S. Su preme Court has decreed that chicken soup must contain at least two per cent of chicken meat be fore it can legitimately be label ed as chicken soup. Two per cent! Imagine what millions of grandmothers no long er abiding with us would have said about that. And consider what it means in terms of nation al decline. Whatever happened to those hearty chunks of white meat and dollops of unsalted butter and leeks and baby carrots and fresh condiments that used to bp. "rhirfc- en soup"? What ever happened to chicken soup so thick with meat and vetegables that it was a meal in itself? Two per cent of chicken meat. This is the same thing as saying that air must contain at least two per cent of oxygen before it can be labeled as air the difference, being that such a meager quantity of oxygen is fatal, while a similar quantity of chicken meat is mere ly appalling. Bill Amlong, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager -. Lytt Stamps, Managing Editor John Askew ........ .. .. . .. Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris Associate Ed. Don Campbell News Editor Carol Wonsavage ... Feature Ed. Jim Fields .. ...... .. Sports Editor Owen Davis ..7. Asst. Spts. Ed. Wayne Hurder ... .... Copy, Editor Jock Lauterer ... ... Photo Editor Bruce Strauch .......... Cartoonist Mike McGowan, Steve Adams ..:.:..t.Pltographers David Garvin .r . .. Night Editor Steve Knowlton, Hunter George Karen Freeman, Donna Reifsni der Sandy Lord, Joe Ritok, Joe Coltrane, Penny Raynor. Joe Sanders Julie Parker, Mary Lyn Field, Ernest Robl, Penny Satisky. The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex amination periods and vacations. , Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, n C O.-l ... - ouDscnpuon rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, n.'c 3 r"fc3f. f V W ... ass - .Wp . . iflsT Peter Harris The Ordeal Of Searching "is it true that people are really happy, but are afraid to admit it? Here at the University, where we live in circumstanc es perhaps more conducive to happiness than any we shall . rr face ;for the rest of our lives, there seems t$ be a common "v -tension among4 tis whiohde- niesthe outflow of - our '- real spirits. This is a crucial matter to think about because it is fair ly obvious that something bugs us, that there is a common discontent with the way things are. It is hard for each of us to pinpoint this disturbance; for some of us this feeling of quiet despair is sometimes not so quiet. For others, it creeps beneath our skin. When you consider the stage in- life which torments the minds of collegians, you begin to understand this common tension. There is a longing for stability in a world which denies stability. Everything is in transition. We enter college as fresh men quite unestablished; we have left a world in which we were in relatively good con trol after years of mastering that closed environment. College is a challenge for the individual; it is where he finds himself confronted with himself because he is, like never before, on his own. For many, home is a long jour ney, and the comfort of that former security is very much denied. This is good because it forces the individual to seek new sources of friendship and -new outlets of meaning. Many of us reject this new world because it is immedi ately void of the sharp com munication which had been es tablished back in high school. This is perhaps truer of prep For some, this is translated as competition a person must be number one, above the next guy, in order to succeed. For this person, the future is dan gerous because he is pro jecting his own despair into goal -terms.- He . feels unsure of how he should channel his 1 --tensions vin this ' : demanding m situation; in a 'sense, he vis determined to fight fire with fire pressure. It does not work; he has . accomplished nothing in terms of himself. He is fighting another man's game, so to speak, and not, finding meaning through his own creativity. He is really settling for nothing, only giv-ing-up on individual satis faction. Life becomes a com pulsion and he soon loses his verve for creativity. Creativity will only flourish when the insecurity of the col legian's future is perceived as a challenge. It is as if life is a clean slate and you shall make of it whatever you ere-. ate. People who follow this road do not perceive of the world as a place where they are destined to mediocrity. Your life is your own, especi ally if you have had the time in college to look at yourself and your own resourcefulness. To settle for less than crea tive aspiration is to die be fore you are really born. Peo ple can made the future full and constantly intriguing, al ways feeling as if it is a place one has just discovered. Fascination is a creation of a person's free exploration. Is it true that people are really happy, but are afraid to admit it? People can only be happy if they give happiness a chance to survive the ordeal of self-searching. school graduates because of the more cosmopolitan nature in which prep schools thrive. We soon become pressed, with the problem of direction is the University the cor rect place to be spending these , years? I have seen it in many people: they doubt that they are doing themselves justice by staying at the University. . They wonder if experience will be more real outside; some go future in the University. The For most, there is no real future in the University. The University is a stopping-off place on the way towards a higher goal, a goal usually left pretty much undefined during the college years. Once the . student begins to master his new environment and this usually takes a couple of years he begins to conglomerate all the self-searching which he has done over the past couple of years. He is reaching a point of inner stability. This is per haps the greatest gift the Un iversity holds for its students. It gives a person an opportu nity to master himself to a degree which would have been otherwise unobtainable had he not been confronted with the dilemma of seeking out new friends and meaning. You learn the strength of your mind in relation to your self; without mental control, life is meaningless. Yet, there is still the feeling of transition and despair at the instability of the 'future. In a world (the University) which pushes you into becom ing serious in mind and es tablishing a goal which sup ports a rise in status from mere youthful expectations, you are forced into a tense state of mind. John Is Iii London (The Village Voice) (London) A TOILET IS caned by many names, such as, head, can, and john, but in this country they are usually called filthy. Most travelers claim that London has the cleanest toilets in the world. There they are known as "loos" and the better ones are easier to find thanks to a little book, called "The Good Loo Guide, Where to Go in London." A sort of Guide Mecheline of the water closet, its lists, by neighborhood, a large num ber of public toilets, hours open, what facilities each of fers, and how much to tip most important its rates ac if there is an attendant, but cording to cleanliness. The best are awarded a "Royal Flush," four stars. The Loo Guide is so wryly written and cleverly illustrated that it is worth reading wheth er you want to go toin Lon don, o? not. It starts with a quote attributed to the Duke of Edinburg. "This is the big gest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons." My copy was brought back from London by a friend, so I don't know if they are being sold in the U. S. New York very badly needs an edition of its own ... in fact the whole country needs one. If you think our local toilets are awful try the ones at gas stations across America. They are almost as bad as the blueberry pie serv ed in the diners on the same highways. The next time you are in Lon don instead of watching the changing of the guard why not try the Buckingham Palace loo? "The high standard of per sonal service you receive when making use of this facility is without parallel in our whole experience. The best time to go is 11 a.m. when it opens (and at present the service seems to be confined to gents only). Then, if you present yourself, at the entranceway to the Queen's Galley (a side en trance to the Palace in Buck ingham Palace Road) and iron gateway will be opened for you by a personage wearing a red,gold, and black morning suit. Follow him down a pass ageway, at the end of which hand him a half-crown (35 cents) and make your request of him. He will obtain from another similarly dressed per sonage a key which he will use to unlock another doorway. He will usher you through this, and down a staircase, and show you to the room you wish and wait yith you while you transact your business. Nothing very unusual about the room, no monogram on the paper, not even " the word "Commoners" on the door just one seat and on basin. But while you could visit 30 other establishments for the price, with the ceremony that accom none of them could supply you panies a visit to this one." Organized Religion Is To Reach Us aiis By LARRY MILLER (The Daily UUni) When I was 14 years old, I learn I would be dead someday. The knowledge came when my great-grandfather died and I realized we would never laugh together aeain. The preacher said all kinds of consoling words about someplace called heaven and such things as just rewards.J didn't really give a damn. All I knew was that the only thing I had left from my great-grandfather was the memory of our laughter and a tiny white scar at the base of my left thumb where I cut myself when he was teaching me to saw. His death made me think, for the first time really, of God. And, to my dismay and frustration, the church was a hindrance rather than a help. The weekly session at the little white Methodist Church didn't have much meaing. The god they talked about was incomprehensible. His son was a Jew who looked like an Anglo-Saxon. It all seemed strange and fuzzy and, as I grew older, even more logically irrelevant and impossible. I suspect that the church or the synagogue failed to make connections with most of the people in our student generation. These institutions are now paying for their impotence. Now it is no longer a question of life after death or the divinity of Christ and-or Mary or the source of the tablets Moses sprung on the Israelites.' Rather, it is a question of connecting with some Source that transcends the constant ruffling of self-interest vs. self interest and combats the loneliness and meaningless of the crowds which populate the corridors of our lives. It is true nowK more than ever, that religious understanding and the structuring of some ethical and moral codes are individual matters decisions and understandings that each of us, consciously or not, must make for ourselves. If we do it consciously, we gain added elements of freedom. In a .time of mass men, it is interesting and en couraging to realize that jnass religions are losing their relevance. I don't argue against the precepts of any- "conven tional" religions. It just seems that most;, religions long ago adjusted themselves to be able to interpret their god for men of a different age. Thus most re ligions are separate from any real understanding of modern - day needs. ,We,are ; changed i"now: And, while the notion of god is;an imiet an avalanche of higher priority choices. Organized religion has structured their gods into low priority positions in an age where most of us can only do so much and thus must carefully choose those things which we will give time to. For this generation, conventional religiofthas little appeal. Rather, it has to compete with other mass move ments to capture its share of "true-believer" types from the ranks of would-be converts. In an age where reason, sharing and compassion are absolute necessi ties for an understanding of life, extremism, whether it be religious or political, has little appeal. Those who would speak for religion have a tough chore. For god is,' as I said, a low - priority item in a culture which must choose items of concern from many possibilities. Yet, because organized religion is dying, this should not disqualify god from our lives. There is a beauty in man a beauty that you and I can feel and communicate if riot understand It is a beauty which makes love, all kinds, possible. , It is found in personal relationships and its message seems clear - man is not ruled by close-vested self interest or by simple response to environment. Man is more than this. But the question of what that "more" is and, in fact, whether it is really true or not, is the question which religion must now face. The days when organized religion was a political power are fading, soon to be gone. This puts you and I on the threshold of another step toward liberation. Religion was meant to help men be free, not to T give ever dividual an under standing of himself and his life patterns air? V Jfke 11131 steP' religion mt become an agent of self-understanding. Therefore, each of us has the chore, tedious and as unrewarding as it might appear, to tackle the problem of god Jto try to understand that which is in us, but is not only of Z reU tLTZt t r thUght and knowledge to rip old destoZ S0DS mt? lauShale shreds. But ripping Si.T S8114 n0t the conc of a life-force to I!?ndm? th.e VaUditv of such a concept is up I5 N ne else has toe rint to do more than give p WE i unds of sHence abound at UNC! eVCr afraid, g everybody u romping in fields of flower g oi unconcern. " I , 0 much has be said by you, the students and faculty at UNC-we need gyour opinions, thoughts and Itions! The Daily Tar Hell
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