Friday. April 23, 1967
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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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As We See It
Texas Gulf Sulphur's Plans
Need A Close Looking At
They still call Chapel Hill "The
Southern Part of Heaven."
And this is rather surprising,
seeing that almost every heavenly
spot in this nation has been tres
passed on by some sort of industry
or another, leaving very little ce
lestial to be seen.
Now industry by itself isn't all
that bad. It is, in fact, an economic
necessity these days.
; But what's so lousy is that al
most wherever industry sinks its
roots, everything else good dies
things like trees, fish and fresh
air.
And this is exactly what could
happen to Orange County, of which
Dean Kitty's 1
I
Big Chance
Dean of Women Katherine
Carmichael missed her big gj
: chance Thursday when she an-
nounced that Saturday night g
iiji closing hours would be 2 a.m. gi
EST, because of Jubilee.
By combining just a little
ingenuity and the happy cir
cumstance that the rest of
North Carolina will switch ov
er to Daylight Savings Time
at midnight Saturday, Dean
Kitty could have gone down in
history as perhaps the first
dean of women at any south
ern university .to endorse 3
a.m. curfews for coeds.
s. "
But instead of switching
from Eastern Standard Time
to Daylight Savings Time at
12 : 01, the clocks in the wom-
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resets until beginning at 2 a.m.
"to avoid considerable con
fusion."
Ah well, when it took a
state as long to even accept
Daylight Savings Time as it
did North Carolina, you prob
ably can't expect everybody
to run right out and embrace
it right away. -
The Case For Timbuctoo
Although it's too late now to
really do anything about register
ing to vote, we thought our read
ers might enjoy a different view
point on student suffrage from that
of ours.
So, we're reprinting an editorial '
which appeared in the Saturday,
April 22, edition of The Raleigh
Times, entitled "They Should Vote
In Timbuctoo." Here it is:
University of North Carolina
students at Chapel Hill are con
cerned again because they feel
they should be able to register and
vote in town elections and are
protesting because a registrar told
them. "If you're from Timbuctoo
and you want to vote, then you
should go home to Timbuctoo and
vote."
The concern and the protest are
not new to college students; many
of whom feel that because they
spend nine months a year in,
the college town, they should
be permitted to participate in its
government.
North Carolina law, however,
requires one. year of residence in.
the State and 30 days residence in
a precinct before a person can
vote. Although the single college
student may be a permanent resi
dent of North Carolina and nine
months resident of a precinct, he
is not permitted to register at the
site of his college because his home
or that of his parents is consid
ered his legal residence. '
. The student naturally feels the
law is unfair, or to say the least
inconvenient, because he cannot,
vote in the community in which
Chapel Hill is very much a part,
if Texas Gulf Sulphur is allowed
to begin strip mining for copper
here.
goes by."
lay waste to thousands of acres of
piney woods, could change the
scenery around here so much that
you might just as well be up around
the mining and mill districts of
West Virginia and Kentucky, in
stead of in Chapel Hill, North Car
olina. What it could do, in effect, could
be to make this the Northern Part
of Hell.
And for this reason we're very
happy to see a group of Botany,
Zoology and Environmental Sci
ence students beginning a petition
against strip .mining and seeking
to get it to the State Legislature
before Sunday's deadline for intro
duction of new bills for this, ses
sion. It is good that these students
are taking such an active part in
the affairs of this county that "they
are devoting their time to help pre
serve the beauty of what is so often
accused oy townspeople of being a
mere stop-over for disinterested
youths.
But the involvement of Carolina
students in .this debate is not the
central issue here. Rather that is
sue is whether strip mining will so
adversely affect Orange County
that it won't be worth the money
it will bring in the form of in
creased employment.
We have heard a great many
voices including the students'
speak out to say that the benefits
would be small compared to the
damage it would do. We have heard
no one especially Texas Gulf Sul
phur saying how much good it
will bring to Orange County.
r; But regardless of whether the
planned Texas Gulf Sulphur mining
operations would harm or help Or
ange County, it is imperative that
this matter be brought before the
General Assembly immediately so
something can be done to regulate
the operation of mining here or
to completely ban it, if that is nec
essary. The time for action is short, and
the importance of the students' op
position grows heavier as time
goes by.
he spends four continuous years of
his life except for time out during
the summers.
But the law is sound in theory.
For example, in a town such as
Chapel Hill where there are 12,000
students, at least a third, or 4,000
are old enough to vote. Should
those students muster sufficient in
terest and organization, they could
elect their own board of aldermen.
And while we like to think they
would not take their responsibili
ties lightly, such a bloc could elimi
nate parking meters or other acts
of government which have taken
years to create.
On the other hand, the dormi
tory students do not pay real estate
' taxes which constitute the bulk of
a town's operating revenue. (Fra
ternity residents do through the as
sessment against the house) they
cast ballots where they or their
parents help bear the financial
burden of government as well as
enjoy the right of registration and
voting.
Bill Amlong, Editor
Tom Clark, Business Manager
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W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C.
By PAT PATERSON and
LEE TONGRET
On this and many other campuses
today, there exists a problem which
many are aware of but only to a li
mited extent. This problem has to .do
with those regulations placed only on
the women members of universities and
colleges.
It's Okay, Officer. It's
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To the Editor:
I offer the following rejoinder to the
recent letter criticizing your coverage
of the Cone workers' situation. I sub
mit that the writer of that letter was
either kidding us all or grossly mis
informed. She made the following points.
1) "Too many workers want somtheing
for nothing." 2) "The union can tell
the listless employee when to work and
when not to work if he is incapable
of making the major decisions him
self." 3) "I believe that the manage
ment of Cone. Mills would do every
thing in their power . to elevate the
standard of living of thier workers."
4) "The DAILY TAR HEEL should tell
the public about management's side of
the story too."
Let us answer these points in order. :
First, the workers are asking mostly for
things which any other production work
er in this country of ours takes . for
granted. Such gains as the following
are what the workers ask for: lunch
breaks some workers, men and wo
men alike, have to stand at their
machines for eight straight hours with
out a break; a decent pension plan a
worker with 25 years continuous ser
vice gets $20.00 a month as a pension, -
barely enough to pay the electricity
bill; an impartial grievance system
at the moment, they can go before a
committee of managers which is hard
ly an unbiased panel; an end to harass
ment for union activity workers have
been fired for participation in union
meetings, a direct violation of the pro
visions of the National Labor Relations
Act. Essentially, the workers request
only corrections of direct injustice.
How much additional suffering must
they go through, lest they be accused of
wanting "something for nothing?"
To the second point, what conditions
might create listless employees? The
textile industry acts wilfully to leave
the worker powerless. Only within the
last couple of years have workers at
the Chatham Mills been allowed to have
any say at all in the nominations for
positions on their town council. Prior
to that time, the nominations were
made by the council itself, composed
of mill managers. None of the politi
cians for whom the workers get to
vote ever do much to support labor.
None of the N. C. congressmen voted
to support the Federal Minimum Wage
statutes. In Kannapolis, if Cannon does
n't like your store, he exercises his thirty-day
clause and you leave within a
month. This kind of system doesn't
sound like our country, yet this is the
way. it is. Thus, the worker is listless
because management sees to it that
he is stripped of human dignity. Not
w
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Upon entering a university, a young
woman becomes subject to regulations,
due to her sex, which she must abide by
or become subject to expulsion from
school. Granted, the university must
impose some regulations upon its mem
bers if it is to function efficiently, or
at all. This fact is not being questioned.
Concern here is for those regulations
For Medicinal Purposes.
Are Only Hinmaffli
all workers are listless, a number have
worked in the union drive for many
years. As for the union dictating to the
workers and fighting their battles for
them, the fact is .that the union is
composed of workers and cannot exist
without their support. It is the workers
who vote to strike or not to strike and
they, vote with their feet on the picket
line.
The third point overlooks the fact
that self-improvement for the worker
is "not in the best interest of the com
pany" (a favorite way in which man
agement says NO). An "improved work
er" is likely to be much less amenable
to being told what to think and how
to vote because he just might get
the notion that he has some basic hu
man rights. For these reasons, requests
to management for "self-improvement"
are likely to generate likely to generate
little enthusiasm because any gains for
Jubilee Has A
To The Editor: '
As at Christmas we are admonished
to ponder the true meaning of the sea
son, so at this Jubilee season it be
hooves us to carefully reflect upon the
deeper significance of it all:
"And thou shalt number seven sab;
baths of years unto thee, seven times
seven years; and the space of the
seven sabbaths of years shall be unto
you forty-nine years.
"Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of
the jubilee to sound on the seventh day
of the tenth month, in the day of atone
ment shall ye make the trumpet sound
throughout all your land.
"And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year,
and proclaim liberty throughout all the
land unto all the inhabitants thereof:
it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye
shall return every man unto his pos
session, and ye shall return every man
unto his family.
"A jubilee that fiftieth year be un
to you: ye shall not sow, neither reap
that which groweth of itself in it, nor
gather .the grapes in it of thy vine
undressed.
Tor it is the jubilee; it shall be
holy unto you: 'ye shall eat the in
crease thereof out of the field.
"In the year of this jubilee, you
shall return every man unto his pos
session. "And if thou sell ought unto thy
nieghbor, or buyest ought of thy neigh
bor's hand, ye shall not oppress one
another.
"Ye shall not therefore oppress one
another: but thou shalt fear thy God:
placed only on the women students and
not upon all the students.
Equality of the sexes has been ac
cepted in today's modern society and
has even been included in the consti
tution of our country. This equality be
comes superficial unless it is applied
to all facets of society where one is
subject to acceptance or rejection, and
to special or limited privileges.
Universities are not entities within
themselves. They fill a universal need
in society educating its people. Just
as store owners may not discrmiinate
against their customers, so universities
may not discriminate against any of
its members. 'When the university states
that wTmen may receive a degree from
its institution only if they follow regu
lations applying to them because of
their sex, it is no different than when
a store owner places regulations upon
certain customers, because of their re
ligious beliefs, which they must follow
in order to buy merchandise from his
store.
The universities are producers of
tomorrow's leaders, and as such, they
occupy an important place within so
ciety. If the universities practice dis
crimination, what more can be expect
ed from the rest of society? The un
iversities must set the example by
practicing non-discrimination toward its
women students.
If these regulations were superficial
there would be little reason to question
them. This, however, is not the case.
Here, for example, are two rules taken
from the University of North Carolina's
"Regulations For Women Students."
One of these rules states that, "Coeds
must personally sign out before leaving
the residence to spend the night or week
end away for any occasion including
vacations, trips home, or to the infir
mary." Another states that, "A woman
student is not allowed to spend the night
in a motel, hotel, or boarding bouse
in Chapel Hill and vicinity unless ac
companied by her parents." These
rules indicate that the university is at
tempting to regulate the day-to-day life
of its women students.
The cause of this problem is deeply
rooted in "traditional" social ideas
which hold that women should remain
in the background in society. The
"younger generation" has replaced this
idea with that of equality of the sexes.
This dissimilarity of beliefs is pro
ducing a split between the so-called
the workers are perceived by manage
ment as their own loss. One may con
tinue to believe the contrary, but the
facts speak otherwise.
The last point reflects on manage
ment, not on the TAR HEEL. So far
the paper has printed factual material
about what the active workers think and
say. Management has not been over
whelming in its response to requests
for clarification of their position. Per
haps this self-imposed silence from
management is the best argument which
they can make in support of their po
sition because revealing their intentions
in public would be a disaster for them.
In essence, the workers are asking
to be treated as human beings and
management refused to do so. This is
the basic conflict, Justice 'and Human
Dignity versus Profit.
Roger Wells
Dept. of Psychology
Biblical Past
for I am the Lord your God.
"Wherefore ye shall do my statutes,
and keep my judgments, and do them;
and ye shall dwell in the land in safe
ty. . - " -
"And the land shall yield her fruit,
and ye shall eat your filL and dwell
therein in safety."
Leviticus 25: 8-19
Sincerely,
Mike Byrd
43 Avery
Hooray Morrison
To The Editor: "
After reading Steve Knowlton?s arti
cle on the Campus Chest Carnival, -we
of the Morehead Residence College were
surprised by the complete omission of
references to any residence college
booths. However, anyone present at the
close of the Carnival would have seen
only one booth still attracting a crowd
that of .Morehead College. . When our
receipts were counted they totaled overx
$100, one of the largest of the day and
without "any solicited contributions from
the brothers.
It cannot be denied that without the
participation of the Greeks -the Carni
val would probably not exist. However
those of us who still have the echo of
campaign promises of better coverage
for residence- colleges are hoping that
they will be fulfilled.
Sincerely,
The Morehead College Senate
"older" and "younger" generations.
Merely because an individual is not
directly affected by the problem is
little reason for that individual not to
concern himself with it. Robspierre
stated this when he said, "There is
oppression against the social body when
one of its' members is oppressed."
Be-In
The essence of
the be-in came late
in the after
noon when the low sim turned the grass
blue-green
dark.
A slender man in gold spiril had begun
to dance and another with cymbals
that gave a delicate pure ring
joined him
with grace.
A woman with soft-white skin
danced
painted with words and symbols.
And it was all with grace -and beauty.
On the ground someone beat an intricate
rythm
on wood. "
Flute sounds floated softly, softly.
Quickly the crowd flowed
around them
Something was
ha. ppennnning ng.
Here was almost spontaneously
human be
havior.
Truly human. . .for a moment.
I heard the clack-clack-y-clack of the
beat
and the off beat of the wood
and
the cymblas ring.
Movement of a man and a woman,
SEXUAL
and free before eyes and under the
rythm
and the eyes of the dancer. . .then
another
woman in green.
Then a woman-clown with a bright
flower and brilliance mocking
, and moving before the flowing
- f limbs of the dancer in high gold . .
. r spiral hat and net shirt.
But then.
came the barrel-chested barbarians
sweeping down on the crowd with
gaff gaff gaffs grunt
Grunt, grumt-snort gaff, sluck sluck.
Sun-browned skin over muscles full
of vitamins since ?
middle-class birth twenty years ago
white teeth straight
Toe that pressed down on accelerator
of 400
of Daddy's horse Power Power
power power
pealing away from that light
laying down
rubber
they shouted: Ain't he pretty!
Queer
put it on.
Toes moving on bare feet stuck in
sweat
leather loafers, yellow pants and
pastel v r
shirts. . .QUEEEeeeeeeeeerrrr!
Vitamin-power-packed voice in
tanned throat
they mocked the
dancers and laughed
the pack in close.
. . .1 thought then of the
same voice grunting
earlier while heaving raw
eggy from behind a tree v
against the bodies of
people in simple
people in simple
gay clothes and faces
under straw hats.
That motion. . .that
s w eee p
of the arm wa perfect
from TV or ROTC
from the hip. . .get your body into it...
in a wide arch
over the shoulder
over the head
release.
Then crouch, take another,
heavy and cold in the hand Then
step, heave
over the head and down
on someone
helpless. Who cannot see where it
came from,
and why.
JERRY CARR
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