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Page 2 THE DATT V TAR HEEL Sunday, May 7, 1987 AsWeSeeJi Apartments For W It's Up To In ten days, the women on cam pus will have the opportunity to vote on their rules, to say whether they like them or, hopefully, to say how they don't like them. Sharon Rose has said that no stu dent vote will be binding to any one, and in the direct sense, she is right. However, the vote count will be extremely influential in shap ing the decisions made by others, most particularly perhaps, in the field of women's housing. University administrators are acutely aware of the great shortage of women's housing on campus and how much more the problem will be intensified in two years at the present, rate of growth. Administrators are concerned enough to call a series of meetings in which all the top brass get to gether behind closed doors and try to decide what to do with X-hun-dred women students whom they Stronger The outlining of a broad plan to take the Vietnam war issue off the campus and into the community points to one of the sad facts of contemporary, American life: pe ople don't concern themselves with an issue until it is thrust at them. And when this happens, sad to say, the people who do the thrust ing are usually blamed for exag gerating the matter. Now doubtless this is the case in many issues. We would even ven . ture the opinion that this was the case in the recent mass anti-war . demonstrations in New York, where excited youths burned their draft cards in a harried and highly in significant gesture of defiance. This is one kind of protest against - -war. It is not necessarily tft.besllv . Rather, we" think the gropf -jit student body leaders who are pre paring a second letter to President Johnson have come up with a vast ly more effective and certainly DTH Awards Learner from Experience Award: To Bob Powell who said he would not sign the second Viet nam letter until he saw the final draft. Also until he figured out how much grief he'd catch, from the student body. Involvement of the Week: To the 'concerned' people of Victory Village who had a Board of Al dermen meeting Tuesday with ' a grand total of 13 non-board people in attendance. Anti-Model Airplane Makers of the. Week: To the N. C. Senate who has a bill making it unlawful to use, possess, or sell all glue which might be intoxicating like airplane glue. Spy of the Week: Dean Carmichael who reportedly while an Econo mics professor in Saigon in 1962 was arrested for being a spy in at least two camps at the same time. Mock of the Week: To the encount er in Detroit when a bandit with blanks in his pistol was thwarted by a tear-gas anti-bandit repel lant full of soapy water. Originality of the Week: To Sen. Sam Ervin who told the law students here and the law stu dents in Williamsburg, Va. two days later that "it is the duty of all citizens to obey all laws." At least we got to hear it first. Friendship of the Week: To State Department representative Dan iel Davidson who, in his debate with Al Lowenstein, said he felt he could call about the entire administration by its first name, when he couldn't think of any thing else to say. Hit Dog (Always Barks) of the Week: To ECC President Leo Jenkins who wrote to Dr. Nash thanking him for his nice letter condemning the DTH for its anti ECC policy. Dr. Leo said the Editor of ECC's paper wouldn't lower himself to reply. If it were possible to lower himself. omen; The Coeds predict they will have no place to put. As of now, the administrators have half a dozen or so alternatives up for discussion. Among them is allowing certain women to live off campus. Another is to ask the Uni versity to build a high-rise resi dence hall for women. With the present c e i 1 i n g on construction costs, even the administrators themselves admit it highly unlikely if not impossible. A third proposal is to stop letting coeds come to UNC until the prob lem presumably works itself out. If the women clearly show that they would like the privilege given the men of living off campus, those in charge will take it into consider ation. If the women themselves say they don't really want to have the freedom, it's a certainty they won't get it. 1 Protest more sane idea for stirring . thought on the war issue. The plan calls for student vol unteers to go into local communi ties across the United States this summer and get churches, schools and civic organizations to sponsor debates on the war. Although there is no pretension tcT having both sides equally represented in the, discussions, this is not necessary, since most of the pro-war sentiment is based on some sort of Yahooism which arises whenever there is war. And besides, the government has been less than effective in present ing a rational defense of its policy; a defense, that is, which can be tossed around in a debate. (Pa triotism is hardly debatable, ), 4ffttgmyrate4h level is where the debate belongs, not isolated on college campuses where people can or want to see only "Communists." If people get involved argument atively in this matter they will for get the "radical" ideas they have read about in the newspapers. They may even forget their Yahooism. But one thing is certain. If enough, sensible students present enough sensible arguments and cause enough sensible citizens to reflect on their previous views, it could have a far-reaching effect on policy. . Citizens do funny things. They form groups. They write congress men. Once aroused, they get things done in a way that students cannot. And there are more of them. lp? latin ar .141 - t Bill Amlong, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Lytt Stamps, Managing Editor John Askew ........ '.. ..... Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris, Steve Knowlton 'Associate Editors Don Campbell News Editor Carol Wonsavage Feature Ed. Jim Fields .. .. .. Sports Editor Owen Davis .... Asst. Spts. Ed. Wayne Hurder ... .... Copy Editor Jock Lauterer ........ Photo Editor Bruce Strauch .. 1 Cartoonist Mike McGowan, Steve Adams Photographer? Steve, Knowlton, Hunter George, Karen Freeman, Donna Reifsni- der, Sandy Lord, Joe Ritok, Joe Coltrane, Penny Raynor, Joe Sanders, Julie Parker, Mar.v 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. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. Since Dick Mitchell's father is man ager of the Tabardrey plant in Haw River it is not difficult to understand the emotions expressed in his letter. It is considerably more difficult to understand the facts he came up with. Dick's argument is that the Textile Workers Union chose Cone mills for a campaign because it would be the I've Wn 6uAvj(IVg cl shower I i Turn on VioV uaitr j Creative cv. Wot- ft r -v : "Needed For Carolina By MTKEMcGEE (Third in a Series) Many students are concerned with the repression of free thought on this campus. The Student Mental Health committee of the Student Government last fall collected many comments from students on this subject, most of which were related to the Michael Paull case which was big, indirectly related to the Speaker Ban issue, and in the final analysis related to the whole system of instruction where cetrain subjects are taboo and certain ways of talking about things are discouraged. Suppressing information on things like seduction in literature (have you ever read the filthy Classical poems of Catullus?) or commnuism as it exists todary creates a divergence between thought and action. He tldnks about these things, but in class or on campus there are no such things. In college, one is not supposed to think about bad things, or talk about them; but everybody knows that they happen, even if you don't do them yourself. Thus you have the student who has been "just a little" dissolute, and nas heard and seen in practice that dis solution does not exist in the academic world; the school does not recognize - it. So his natural mclinations tend to drive him away from academics, make him feel alienated from academics. He thinks that because he went out and got drunk that weekend, or tried to se duce that girl, he is driving himself further and further from the world of thinking men. The feeling may arise that academics has no concern for him; or for people in general, whom he knows to be subject to certain natural pas sions. The world of learning is cold, cal Personally Worker "EST "softest nut to crack," since Cone has always been benign toward unionism and has always ''preferred to live with them." But nothing will come of it any way since most of the workers have no interest in the union, especially with its sinister interest in "checkoff of dues." This is a rather sweet fairy tale for managers' sons, but if we are to get 30 illation culating and impersonal. Something to be avoided because it condemns him. What he doesn't get is that acade mics is a human invention, propogated by people as passionate and sometimes as dissolute as himself. A man cannot respect intellectual accomplishment and scholarship unless he can feel some kinship with it. As things are, very many students never get serious about learnings. It's a threat. One student commented, "We turn out graduates that are morons." It's not that they don't know anything, for most of them get and keep good jobs; it's that they don't care to take a critical look around them once they're gone from this place. In this way the university fails to pro vide much more than vocational train ing. She fails to supply articulate, con cerned persons. One could train for a job in much less time than four years. We could cut out a lot of this "human ities" and "ideas" nonsense all those things that don't relate to real life. But academics is vitally related to real life, if in no other realm than the political (for the average working man). But the stiff, formal, straight laced way it is dispensed makes stu dents doubt its necessity. Also, many of those who do go deeply into academics believe the pro paganda that ideas must be purged of humanity. These persons are often the ones who become immersed in dryness and sterility of thought. How is North Carolina ever going to climb from next-to-last among the states if the university places such a pow erful stress on the average student that he evades academics and Ideas? Ideas are for people, not for books. r , ' 4r If v Stim Speaking Labor beyond "blib cliches" we will need something more substantial, like facts. To begin with, Cone has never "pre ferred to live with the union." A cam paign started in Cone mills in the late 1930's and Cone fought it to the hilt. Some examples of Cone's benign out look on unions follow: During a strike at one of the Greensboro mills in 1933 workers in the mill village were for bidden to subscribe to the Raleigh News and Observer, because it had carried too much C.I.O. labor news. A weekly company newspaper is distri buted free to all Cone employees and therein a worker could entertain him self with the horror stories which pass ed for. "editorials," depicting the C.I.O. as "violence, war, and revolution." (See Ruth Crowell's The Administration of the NLRA in North Carolina. MA thesis, UNC, 1940). In 1939, the employees in a number of Cone mills, among them Tabardrey, voted for the union in an NLRB election. The vote at Tabardrey was 203-S5. Cone, however (always eager to 'live with the union") would not sign a union contract, and the union protested his refusal through the NLRB. In 1942 the Board ordered another election, which was again won handily by the union. Then, in the in terests of preserving industrial peace during the War, the labor board dic tatorially handed down what they con sidered to be a fair contract. That con tract included wage security provisions, a pension plan, arbitration, and check off. Cone never had a say in this con tract, and always resented the union. During a "get tough with the union" campaign by management in the late forties and early fifties, a split occurred in the leadership of the TWUA. A num ber of the TWUA leaders split for the AFL- United Textile Workers, and the Cone locals bolted with them. In the process they voted to return to the TWUA but were never able to regain checkoff. Due to this loss and a high ly fluctuating labor force, the union went steadily downhill to virtual non existence in the early 60's - much to the delight of Cone, of course. Dick's tale needs revising in another important respect. Managers and their sons always seem to see unionism as an external force, plotting strategy in secret cabals in far-away rooms. "Whd will be next to go brothers?" As delight ful as this image is, it is terribly far from the mundane truth. Cone Mills was never selected as a campaign target by the union. Peter Brandon, TWUA campaign coordinator, was assigned to the Cone locals because he was new to the union and no one expected the locals to move. However, it is the workers and not the union who make a campaign happen. It turned out that the Cone workers, driven to the ground by work load increases, were ready to organize from scratch. They did so un der threat of firing, intimidation, and race-baiting, and have waged a model union campaign characterized by a mil itant and dedicated spirit. The argument that textile wages are as "good as textile economics permits" is a feeble hash already served up, in their time.by the steel industry, the auto industry, the garment industry, etc. . . .and now it is textile's turn. It is true that many textile concerns are in non competitive positions and will soon die or be gobbled up by giants such as Burlington or J. P. Stevens, but that qualification does not apply to Cone, who is more likely to gobble .than to be gobbled. Right now the Cone mills are overwhelmingly the world's largest man ufacturer of the staples denim and cor duroy, and few firms are on a sounder financial basis. Last year Cone's pro fits were in the neighborhood of $12,000,- On Other Campuses Pooh-In At ' Texas Winnie the Pooh fans at the UNI VERSITY OF TEXAS celebrated the birthday of Eeyore, the pessimistic donkey at a party sponsored by a group, of students. The lower-bedecked Eeyore wandered through a park among cos tumes and excited students, who nib bled and sipped beer, cupcakes, cot ton candy, and snow cones. Beneath maypoles were clowns, jesters, musi cians, soldiers, children, and pets. Guests picked the fruit of the "Lolly pop Tree for Eeyore's Little Friends", sung and see-sawed, took pictures, lis tened to music, and carried big red balloons. Eeyore's birthday party is held annually. Thirty - eight Negro students at DUKE UNIVERSITY have signed an open letter expressing "dismay" that members of the University Adminis ra tion and faculty hold membership in the segregated Hope Valley Country Club. The 1965 roster of the club shows among its members the University pre sident, vice - president, provost, vice provost, Director of Athletics, head bas Mi 000. I find it utterly amazing that such a firm can contend that no signi ficant raising of wages is feasible, when one-third of all textile production jobs now pay less than the government's poverty cut-cff line. Even if the "economics" argument were sound, this would be no defense for Cone's refusal to bargain over check off and pension. As to checkoff, it is absurd to call it a "narrow concern" which alienates the workers from the union. Most of the workers know from experience that checkoff is essential to the success of a union. In modern in dustry a checkoff provision in a con tract is the most important indicator of whether or not a company is willing to "live with the union." In the textile in dustry, where pocket cash is often non existent and everyone must live on cre dit, the provision is especially essen tial. As a matter of fact 96 percent of all industrial union contracts contain this provision and Cone refuses to dis cuss it. One might say, with Dick that his refusal stems from a tender concern for the workers welfare, ? disinclination to see their wages go to make union bureaucrats rich. Those of us who have a slightly more cynical bent might suggest instead that Cone's refusal stems from knowledge that ; if the local union's treasuries are strong they will be able to continually pro tect the workers from arbitrary dis missal or work-load increases and will be able to permanently pressure the industry into providing conditions and wages which basic human dignity "de mand. As to Cone's pension plan; reflect long and hard on $20 a -month after fifty years of service. It would be interesting to find out from what "grape-vine" Dick gets his news about labor activity - obviously it is not from the workers. The recent strike at Chatham Mills in Elkin did not "collapse." It was a limited one week strike called to protest the unfair labor practices of Chatham. I under stand that the Chatham workers are anxious to go out again soon. It was even more surprising to read about the "collapse" of the Burlington strike at Erwin. There, contrary to the allegation, the Erwin strikers won all that they struck for, which was the recognition by Burlington of their former contract. Dick just must, have been in the wrong places during last February's strike, where the union turned out some 70 per cent of the workers in seven Cone plants. During those three days the company made nowhere near the alleged 70 per cent plus production claimed. Dick's "testament to reasonable wages'" seems to be dwindling away, because in the current unfair labor practices strike 70 80 per cent of production workers are out. If you don't believe that number, come see it for yourself join us on the picket line, baby (Editor's note: Personally Speaking is an open column which will be used for guest columns and long letters. Guest columns should be typed and signed.) Letters 2. The Daily Tar Heel accepts letters typed and signed. We welcome open discussion by all interested persons. Our policy is tq print all timely letters in the public interest. ketball coach Vic Bubas, several law pro fessors, and more than fifty members of the medical school and hospital staff. Negro students have been turned away from such functions at the club as a dinner for "local alumni and friends." Part of the letter says, "Your mem bership in that establishment can only serve as a justification and rationale for bigots to continue perpetuating ra cist institutions. They will , follow your leadership." A campus leader and avid opponent of the Vietnam war at the UNIVER SITY OF KENTUCKY became proba bly the first ROTC student in the na tion to lose his commission because of his anti-war activities. The student, who has participated in weekly peace vi gils since March, says he feels that "young men can best fight for their 'country in the Peace Corps." The sen ior ROTC instructor on the campus re portedly told the student that the Pre sident (of the U. S.) is the commander-in-chief and the military supports him in not publicly, protesting the policies he sets forth. : ft 1, 7
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