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In The Mail Requiem For A Referendum Cluh on T1 As We See It Vietnam referendum is The hawks have killed it. By a large majority, the student legislature decided that the stu dents should not be allowed to ex press their view on an issue on the gravity of the Vietnam war. At the previous session, by an even larger majority, the legisla ture decided the students should have this chance. Since the referen dum was therefore legal, those who opposed it could change it only in the wording. Borne 28 legislators . decided to change the wording by deleting all .the words and, presto, no referen dum and fears are calmed. What happened between last week's session when the legislature magnanimously told the students at this campus that they did have the right to say how they felt about the war and this week when a great majority decided they couldn't, is somewhat a mystery, though sev eral of the bill's opponents have offered excusesreasons. At least four of them George Krichbaum, Tom Webb, Lacy Reeves and Harry Diffendal said in writing that the choices offered were too few and - too stacked against the hawk point of view to get any real idea of the consensus of campus opinion. For two sessions, the floor was open to change any words or choices they didn't like. At the first session, two words were changed. Coeds Join ..... lOth Century The coeds' vote Tuesday and Wednesday night to join the resi- dence college system is most en couraging. The overwhelming majority vote almost four to one shows clearly that the women on this r . ' campus are indeed ready to join in with an idea on the move. That women want to get with the times is made more emphatic with the type of vote not just a desire to join residence colleges, but a vote to tax themselves $2.50 per semester per girl. When you vote yourself out of your own money for a cause, you're really up for it. This, vote the women's rule referendum vote . on Tuesday should prove once and for all that the women at Carolina really and truly do want to go into the 20th century. They can show the Great Protectors of Women's Honor in South Building that they dowant to get with a progressive concern, that they do want to liberalize clos ing hours, that they do want the privilege to live off campus, that they do want and deserve at least some of the same rights given the men. The administration in general, the Dean of Women's office in par ticular, and Dean Carmichael in person have argued long and loud that the reason they don't liberalize women's rules is that women don't really want them changed. The residence college vote of confidence blows a big hole in the argument. Tuesday's vote could destroy it. The dead. At the second, all of them were eliminated. The other major point heard against the way the referendum was going was that the arguments were "stacked" in favor of the doves. The Lowenstein-Davidson debate was called "an obviously stacked debate with professional liberal debator Al Lowenstein vs. a State Department amateur." A special assistant to the Assis tant Secretary of State, Daniel Davidson might resent being called an amateur. The showing he made is clearly not the fault of the Caro lina Forum. Also, it has been charged that Sen. Ted Kennedy decided at the last moment "or was it decided for him?" to change the subject of his talk. That Sen. Kennedy's office called UNC some twelve days before the speech to announce the change has not been mentioned. To assume that any of our Caro lina boys, important though they may be, could intimidate the U. S. Senator into anything is ridiculous. The other point against the ref erendum and this one is far-fetched enough that we don't even call it a serious argument is that the ref erendum wasn't designed to see what students felt about the war at all, but was intended as a con fidence vote for past student body president Bob Powell, student body vice president Jed Dietz and, amended as an inserted after thought to make our editorial opinions seem less valid, Bill Am long, DTH editor. Powell is graduating in three weeks. How "he could care whether the campus loves him. is beyond us. Dietz two months ago won a nearly 'rtwbto-drie "votelorcp dence" when he got himself elected to office. And Amlong? Hey too, polled half the votes cast in the March elections. And most editors, Bill included, often don't give a happy damn when they incur the disfavor of some of their readers as long as they feel their position is correct. Those are the four objections against the referendum. All are absurd. There must have been oth er reasons, ,but they weren't ex pressed. Why they weren't is only con jecture. Unless someone informs us. Steve Knowlton, Associate Editor br laihj ar ffwl 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 Cartoonist Mike McGowan, Steve Adams ;..... Photographers 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 DaU Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University pf 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; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. To the Editor: Last year, the Varsity Men's Glee Club, under the direction of Dr. Joel Carter, toured Europe, spreading good will in dozens of European cities and several capitals. The membes dined with students of Utrecht, Lyon, and Munich. The crowning point of the trip was a third place win in an internation al singing festival in Wales, in which no less than twenty-six different coun tries took part. This semester alone, under the di We Never Did Have All This Hill 'Til They Started Foolin' Bombs In Nevada. Beneath Blind Beliefs Lie Covered Untruths To thi Editor: It seems to me that Michael Hollis in his letter of May 10th is very wrong in saying that we ought to respect and have tolerance for others because they believe in what they are doing. This sort of relativism is unsound because it misses the point. Another person's opinions ought not to be valuable be cause they are well-packaged in be lief and sincerity. When I buy some thing, Mr. Hollis, I attempt to assess the quality of the merchandise and not the wrappings. If you value sincerity for itself, ultimately, you encourage people to sell themselves since you no longer evaluate what they say but how they say it. Although, I believe that Johnson and Mr. Davidson are, for the most part, earnest, I have no respect for what they say. They are ignorant in a very important way: they hold, like you do, Mr. Hollis, that because they beHeve in what they say and do that is enough. It is certainly not enough to believe that you are a peace maker or that you do not want to kill civilians. You must assess whether your acts, in fact, make peace possible or avoid the kill ing of civilians. It is not up to the Administration to decide the significance of its acts out of its conviction that they mean one thing as opposed to another in the same way that it, is not up to the author to tell you what his story m?ans. The Administration is ignorant and not to be respected be cause it attempts to dictate significance. Rather the significance of an action lies in its consequences, not an its al leged intentions. And there is no peace. And hundreds of thousands of civilians have been and will soon.be killed. And I count not only those killed by Americans but the victims of the Viet cong as well. For they are our respon sibility too. Jay Greenfield DTH's Power? To the Editor: I have been quite disturbed recent ly at the reporting and editorializing that has appeared in The Daily Tar Heel, especially regarding the current Viet-Nam debate. There are, I hope you gentlemen realize, a number of people on this campus who have other rection of Bob Porco, the Glee Club has performed at least twenty times in various cities in North Carolina, Virginia, Pensylvania and Ohio. Twice this year they havs excelled at the Tuesday Evening Series at Hill Hall. As a result of the last performance at Hill, they were invited to participate in Expo 67 at Montreal, an honor af forded few othed clubs in the nation. The University of North Carolina, in recognition of the achievements of the Club, has cut its appropriations Funny Rain Around Chapel Around With Them A-tom commitments on the nights of impor tant lectures or debates, and who are not fortunate enough to be able to at- , tend; we depend almost entirety upon The Daily Tar Heel to give us an ac curate, unbiased representation of the proceedings. In this morning's paper (May 11) I read a letter by Dave Mayo which completely disagreed with The Daily Tar Heel's reporting of last Mayo called one particular column ("As We See It") "gushing'.'; I quite agreed with him when I read that column last week; Mayo's representa tion of that debate appeared to be more believable than The Daily Tar Heel's. However, I was not present at the debate, so I do not really inow who is really correct. I am inclined, moreover, to write off last week's de bate as a complete loss in 'contributing to my knowledge of the Viet-Nam sit uation. And how about Senator Kennedy's talk on Tuesday night I was also un able to attend that. Can I believe what The Daily Tar Heel has written about it? For that matter, can I believe what The Daily Tar Heel writes about anything? I ask that you try to re mind yourselves of the power and in dispensability of your media, and be more responsible to all f your readers in the future. . Sincerely, Kevin P. Twine Brother Honda To the Editor: Chief Beaumont's enlightened atti tude towards motorcycles is really beau tiful. He would like to enjoy motorcycles by doing away with cycles altogether but lik- a true liberal he will sub mit to them as enduring evils. But if you can't get rid of them completely at least put as many re strictions on them as possible. Help protect these idiots from themselves; make tlrm wear helmets and then set a nice safe speed limit on motor cyles like 15 m.p.h and make'm have windshields-and then why not make both driver and passenger sit in a barrel remember safety first. But it certainly is encouraging to know that Chief Beaumont and the North Carolina Legislature have our welfare in mind We all could use a Big Brother to tell us how to live. Rick Wheeler for next year. The administration has also deemed it necessary to take the Glee Club office away an office which is netdid by various" officers to con tract for shows during the year. These shows, inturn,are necessary to ob tain funds for making the various trips to the concerts involved. For its finale, the administration has refused to al low the Club the privilege to appear at Expo 67 by appropriating necessary funds for this "purpose. For a group which has contributed so much to the image of the University in terms of hard work and good will, this is certainly a slap in the face. Those in charge are quick to award the members of atheltic teams with praise as well as gifts of letters and sweaters. Athletic and debate teams are also given mode than enough in moneys to travel to their destinations Good Vocational Guidance Offered At N. Carolina To the Etor: The staff of the University Testing Service, whose major activity is pro viding vocational guidance to students, were most interested in Mike McGee's article of May 5, "Choosing a Major Can Cause Stress," and agree with its main thesis. We were surprised, how ever, by his statement about the "lack of adequate vocational guidance" on the campus, and by the statement that "vocational guidance is almost unknown here for the average undergraduate." We thought we had been doing a fairly good job in obtaining legitimate pub licity for our guidance services, and it is disconcerting to discover that the Student Government Mental Health Com mittee is apparently unaware of our existence. We herewith extend a cordial invitation to them, and . any other in terested groups or individuals, to visit US. Our services are described in the General Catalogue of the University, in the Undergraduate Bulletin, in ma terials distributed to freshmen during freshmen during Orientation, and through periodic notices and features appear ing in the Daily Tar; Heel. : We have - arranged for, many , student . groups, eluding men and women dormitory coUh: I selors, to visit our facilities in Peabody Hall, and members of our staff have talked with many student groups about our services. Although we have been providing vocational guidance to se veral hundred students a year for over twenty years, and the numbers have been increasing in recent years, we would agree with Mr. McGee that too few students who might, benefit from our services do seek them, and per haps more publicity is needed. A change in our title to include "guidance" which is now under consideration, may be of assistance in, this respect. I should like to take advantage of this opportunity to give additional in formation about our services for the Mr. Dear Dr. Nash: I appreciate your kind letter regard ing an editorial in last Saturday's issue of The Daily Tar HeeL I agree with you completely that we have failed righr ly sophomoric editorials. I was very pleased when the editor of our student paper advised me . that he had no in tention of answering this or any other editorial of this type. The thing that disturbed me most during tht past year was the realization that our great State will be in real . trouble when we arrive at a place where a new idea in education cannot be debated in the public forum with out fear of reprisals or condemnation. We came dangerously close to this position, and I must hasten to say that most of the condemnation and outright ridicule came from the products of our state-supported institutions of higher learning. I sincerely believe that one of the finest receptions that I received during the past several months was from the Chapel Hill Chapter of the AAUP. The question period was stimulating, and the reception that followed gave me an opportunity to know better many of your fine associates. Leo W. Jenkins East Carolina College Generational War To the Editor: . College students hear many refer ences to the effect that the Viet Nam conflict is "our war." And it truly is, for no small number of our generation have died and will die in Viet Nam. But let us not be so self-centered. This war is not the College Student's War alone. In an even more terribly real sense, it is the High-School Student's War. Many of us who are already in college will avoid going to Viet Nam in order to participate in various acti vities. The Glee Club, on the other hand, comes into direct contact with more alumni, friends, and potential allies than any of these organizations. They are given.no award for their achievements; indeed, they pay dues and furnish their own year-end. banquet with their own funds. The only reward which the Club receives is its own self satisfaction for a job well done which will reflect well upon the University. It is, then, a sad commentary to see such an organization handed se veral successive defeats by those whom it wishes to please. As a graduating member of the Club, I feel both anger and irony at the adminstration's at titude. Greg Van Damm 240 Flnley Golf Courre Rd. benefit of other students who may not be familiar with them. We have a staff of professionally tranined vocational counselors and psychometrists, and are listed in the 1967-68 Directory of Ap proved Counseling Agencies of the Ame rican Board on Counseling Services. We offer vocational and educational counseling services to all University students without charge; the fee for th-x same services to non-students is $50. I should also like to mention that we offer a non-credit individualized reading course designed to improve reading skills and study habits. ' May I close by quoting in full from our most recent notice to the Dally Tar Heel about our guidance services, appearing on April 25 under the head ing, "Need Advice on Vocation? Go to UTS": The University Testing Service of fers counseling, testing, and up-to-dat3 occupational information designed to help students. They may stop by 019 Peabody Hall or cajl 93 -2175 to make an appointment at their convenience to talk to a counselor. ' The educational-vocational guidance .program of the Testing Service is tailor ,'ed to.'nvret individual nfeeds. Perhaps t staling with one of the counselors about educational and vocational" plans may be helpful. If the results of interest, personality and aptitude tests seem use ful, appropriate tests are scheduled at the student's convenience. If background reading about occupa tions seems useful, a guided tour through the books and files in 015 Pea body is arranged. Any combination of these that seems likely to be helpful to each person is discussed and plan ned during the initial interview. Then further conferences to discuss one's ex plorations are scheduled as desired. This service is free to all University stu dents. J. W. Little, Director University Testing Service through ' previous service, college de ferments, reserve status, parenthood, and so forth. The prospects for today's high-schooler are much darker. In fact, if we take note of General Westmoreland's recent statement that the war may last another 10 even 15 years, we must realize that Viet Nam is also the Junior High-School Student's War and the Grammar School Student's War. By the estimate of our commanding general, this con flict is the war not only of today's 20-year-old but also of today's four-year-old. And if the war should drag on only a few years beyond that which our general is willing to foresee, then it . is also the war of the as-yet-unborn. The war must be justified in light of its costs. And its costs may very well include the lives of many, not only of our generation, but also of the next generation ' and the next and th3 next and the next. Such considerations should be a legitimate part of the calculus by which we search for the answer to a fundamental ques tion about the war Is it worth it? Larry Walker 107 Connor Letters ; The Daily Tar Heel accepts i letters typed and signed. We i welcome open discussion by all i interested persons. Ouf policy ; is tq print all timely letters in I the public interest. '
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