Page 2 fflaxig Star 75 Years of Editorial Freedom Bill Amlong, Editor Don Walton, Business Manager New Left's Mobilization W ill Boost Hawk Cause Perhaps the most amazing thing about New Left intellectuals is that for such a bright bunch of people, they sure do some stupid things. For example, thousands of radicals from across the nation plan to go to Washington, D.C., Oct. 20-21 to create as much chaos as possible through massive civil disobedience. The reason: they don't like the war in Vietnam. Well, neither do we. It is a war which is hard to support because of political, military and moral reasons. It is a war which has created perhaps more disen chantment with the United States government both at home and abroad than anything else in a very long while. It is also a war which the Administration has never suf ficiently explained to the American people who must fight it. What's more, the Administration has lied about different facets of the war again and again, creating the aptly named "credibility, gap" which , now exists. It has been a war in which thousands of lives many of them American soldiers', maybe some of them friends' and relatives' of yours have died for a reason that Bureaucracy Muddling ' SDS Affair The bureaucracy around this place is unbelievable. In a memo issued Monday Graham Memorial Director Howard Henry said that Students for a Democratic Society was not barred from having a Judy Collins concert on campus, but that they just couldn't charge admission if they were to use either Carmichael Auditorium or Memorial Hall. - In one of the smaller halls Ger rard or Carroll, for example the admission charge would be all right, he said. But what good is a fund-raising , concert if you either can't charge admission at a big hall where lots of people can come in,, or you have to use a small hall which won't ac comodate enough people to make it profitable. . In the same memo, Henry com plained that The Daily Tar Heel had mistakenly attributed to him a quote which said the policy of hot letting student groups use campus facilities for such concerts was to protect the University from ex penses of a program failure. He was right. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for misattributing the quote. It was the fault of the editor handling the story. The statement was made by an aide to Henry, who he asked be quoted as his spokesmen. That same aide made a state ment about "what if some very right or left wing group came in and wanted to put on some big deal how would the Legislature feel about the University they ap propriate funds for?" In . Monday's memo, Henry stated: "SDS is being accorded the same treatment as any other recognized student organization: There is no 'left' or 'right' in the administrative policy." There is no reason not to believe Henry when he says this. Surely he means it. - We would only suggest that he and perhaps a few other higher-ups take a close personal look at this situation before the bureaucracy runs away with it. Don Campbell, Associate Editor Lytt Stamps, Managing JEditor Hunter George, News Editor Brant Wansley, Advertising Manager the White House has yet to honestly explain. - It is a war which needs op posing. But not the way the radicals want to do it by clogging up the Pentagon, by in fact attempting a small-scale takeover of the nation's capital. This is just not a very smart thing to do. : To. begin with, ; even if an overthrow of the United States government were desirable which it is not it will not be ac complished by thousands of persons sitting down on the Pen tagon steps until they are in dividually dragged away. There is talk that the civil disobedience tactics will cause a disruption of the "war machine,4' which is the New Left's name for the Department of Defense. Whom are they kidding? ' The only disruption the National Peace Mobilization is going to cause will, be that a secretary might: uncross her legs and look up for a moment from her IBM typewriter to see the police drag ging away the New Left type she stepped over on her way into the building. V The Pentagon, meanwhile, will undoubtedly continue to function. It . is like that;; - ; - : .. J . Another argument in - favor of ' the mobilization is that it will maKe . " people all over the nation think about the war, will confront them in their newspapers and on their televisions with the radicals'- feel- . ings about Vietnam. This is sup posed to get everyone reading about the war and deciding that, after all, it is a bad war and we should get out. But things just don't happen like that. ' The average American as grotesquely non-thinking and mid dle class as he might be will be only repulsed, not stimulated by the peace mobilization .Any feel ings he may have against the war against Lyndon B. Johnson will be suppressed by his disgust with the radicals. People are like that. What the peace mobilization is going to do is to undermine most of the work that the liberals whom the radicals dislike more than they do the conservatives have ac complished by working within the system that is for better or for worse, the United States. It is going to onCe again make being against the war in Vietnam seem like a bad thing. It is going to hack away at the respectability which being opposed to Vietnam began to take on when those against it began such responsible protests as the letters to President Johnson from student Jd o d y presidents including .former Carolina President Bob Powell and other esteemed groups. - It is going to put the radicals in the forefront of the anti-war move ment, and because they will seem ed to have taken it over, drive many moderates and liberals away from active participation in it. It is going to be one of the best things Lyndon B. Johnson and all the other hawks ever had going for them. 'asa . -............"."".." I Heel Prints 1 The girls in converted men's dorms are complaining that the urinals have been left in the bathrooms. Why not plant flowers in them, call Lady Bird, and get them declared part of the National Beautification Project? THE DAILY Don Campbell TUe Need For SUmdemU Power It may be fickle or very premature to predict that the University is in for a rough year ahead but it seems more likely than not ' . The University, its true, has a long history of controversy, as any vibrant and progressive university does. There have been, in the recent past, con troversies on the campus about a ''publish or perish" professor, civil rights in this sometimes adorable Southern town, assignment by an English graduate instructor of themes on the very well known poem, 'To His Ooy Mistress", and a jnajor flap about basic academic freedom in the speaker ban case. There will be, no doubt more con troversies such as these in the future. However, it seems to us that a more general mood of disagreement is growing ranSftr. coed - L. L or . Un.nVa-f .cL XT a.nv here l . r taoftit3 tor husband. Letters To The Editor Letter to the Editor: I am a jtransfer student and as yet unwise tin me ways of Carolina. At my old alma mater, (freedom of the press was non-existent, and so our 'student" paper read ? l&e a very poor Sunday school buUetin. I longed tfor the time when any student would have the right to air his views, even if he did step on the Mghly sensitive toes of his administration. Here at Carolina, The Daily Tar Heel evidently enjoys freedom of expression. The question I want Ito ask lis tffls: Itoes this freedom really carry any weight?: I read recently that the SDS has been denied use of university facilities for a fund-raising concert by Judy Collins. Ah , excellent editorial laid bare (the injustice of the decision. Okay, we know the weakness of the adniimstration's position. Does it matter df we voice our disap proval? Can we speak loudly enough to have this unfair decision changed? Or is this freedom to speak out only an unanswered 'blowing in the wind"? I wonder. Joe Harbin 315 Ehringhaus - Too Much Crusading Editor of The Daily Tar Heel: Our student newspaper for a long time has been recognized as one of Ithe best protectors of student rights and guar dians of student iwelfare. However, the journalistic sword that has done so "much for students in the past becomes blunted when the crusading spirit is allowed to become more" important than the facts. The case, in point is the Tar Heel's treatment of the status of the honors 36 seminar in education in Friday's issue. Since I was the major source of the facts in this case, perhaps I bear part of the responsibility for the way they were transmitted to the Student Body by The Daily Tar Heel. At any rate, I would like to try to correct what I fear is a very wrong impression conveyed to the Stu dent Body about the "honors 36 in cident." The important point was not that callous administrators through malfeasance or indecision had stifled sincere student efforts at learning, but The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by stu dents daily except Mondays, examina-, tton periods and vacations. Offices on the second floor of Graham Memoria. Telephone numbers: editorial,' sports, news 933-1011; business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C, 27514. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. rf'or It'll TAR HEEL on this campus, than any that came before or that involved minor interests or minority groups: The disagreement, for lack of a better word, lies in differences of opinion between students and "ad ministrators on what is in the best in terest of the student. Most students on this campus are not of the you-can't-trust-anyone-over-thirty vintage. And most administrators are not unreasonable men. But there continue Ito be decisions of major concern to the students made by the Administration in which student participation is excluded. Many of those decisions, some fresh some longstanding, have been the subject of considerable debate during this past week, the first of the school year. Right off the bat, the parking sticker suck usfi-u ( expressions 1 yeuj? that in spite of an administrative foulmp, both Dr. Dan Patterson, Associate Dean of Honors, and Dr. Norton Beach, Dean of the School of Education, were cooperating to make alternatives available this semester to students in terested 5n Ithe mterniisciplinary study of education, while a more permanent status for Honors 36 was being worked out. The faculty members and ad mindstrators involved in this program are some of ithe people most concerned about students and real education at this University. We do ourselves a disservice and them an injustice when we take up the fiery sword of (student journalism against imen Eke this. 1 hope we will see that sword wielded with greater discre tion in the future. Sincerely, Dave Kiel Otelia On Warpath To The Editor: I have been writing for the Tar, Heel for nearly ten years, but never have I had my column butchered as the sec ef eatedP Of ;Sp 6D Are Choosing Smicide By United Press International A mass migration is under way across the United States. Parents who have worked long and hard for this day are sending their children off to colleges and universities. For many of the youngsters now begins their first real skirmish with life. Some of them will be defeated. There are estimates that as many as 1,000 college students will die by their own hands this year victims o f suicide. The word suicide is ugly: When it is used, and it often is not, it is whispered. "Suicide statistics are notoriously unreliable," Dr. Benson R. Snyder, psychiatrist in chief at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says. "Families, educational institutions and business in stitutions are reluctant to talk about such occurrences." Suicide carries a taint that touches not only the victim but his family. Many Americans link death at one's own hands with mental derangement. To Roman Catholics and others, suicide is a crime against God. The crime, or tragedy, may be that not enough is being done about suicide, particularly among the young. Growing Problem? It is hard to determine whether became a heated issue and rightly so. The Administration apparently realizes . that it went too far in -approving a $5 charge for the T sticker, because it has become very defensive on the issue. That's understandable since' no one has yet found a logical way to justify charg ing $5 for the damn things. When this writer asked one University official to explain the justification for the $5 T sticker, he replied: "Oh, you're one of those free thinkers, I can tell." Whatever that means. How do you communicate with that? "- And then along came the bicycle registration fees of $1. That's interesting for many reasons. We remember, quite distinctly, when only two short years ago, a high place University official was quoted as saying X smile x Vhe boys ones be-forvj -to hi one. . jrob ewy. Like. sn old tria'tct nexT oaee.r. tionHandling Mules was in EYiday's Tar Heel. It would have been better if it had not been published at all. . I dont know who lays out the editorial page fop ithe Tar Heel, but he ought to find himself another job. I didn't have time to read the Tar Heel until Friday night, if I had read it in the morning, I would have warned any readers that tiie 1 mixed up writing Was not my doing. Does ; the Tar Heel have a proofreader? Ti so, . he is in ithe wrong occupation. . I appreciate the editor correcting my - spelling when I am careless, otherwise, I don't like for my writing to be" tampered With. - Some people were puzzled that in the Thursday's Tar Heel I had hit a student, while in the Saturday's Tar Heel I stated that I had never hit anyone with my um brella. By way of explanation the Satur day articles was written, but not publish ed, during Summer School, while the um brella episode happened in September after the Fall term opened. I didn't write the arnibrella episode. Otelia Connor Collegians suicide is a growing problem or whether only the knowledge of it is growing. Nevertheless, there are estimates that 10,000 persons in college graduate schools will attempt suicide this year and 1,000 will succeed. The estimates were made by a Philadelphia-based magazine called Moderator which is circulated on college campuses. Moderator said it conducted a survey which indicated another 90,000 students would threaten suicide this year. Example: a sophomore at Harvard, a young man with no money problems, ap parently happy, one day cleaned up bis personal affairs, disposed of his books and clothes and at midnight put his head beneath the wheels of a speeding train. Why? There are many and, some say, mounting pressures which drive young persons to self destruction. For many parents, having their child in college has been perhaps the goal of their life. They have pushed, some with less overtness than others. Educators in secondary and elementary schools have pushed. Society as a whole pushes all toward higher education and success. Pressure is a way of life in the United States and much of it funnels down to the American student, a half-person feeling his way. toward maturity in many cases. He or she gets it from all sides. To many it appears there is only one purpose to life succeed. yv Tuesday, September 19, 19S7 V that he would like to see more people ride bicycles on campus and thereby cut down on the number of cars. Admittedly, there are still more cars, but there are also more bicycles. And where did the extra bicycles lead us to another registration fee. There are few things we can think of that would make a kid angrier than to tell him he has to pay $1 to register his tpcycle on campus, which he bought because he already has a T sticker, which cost him another $5. The reason the University gives for charging for the bicycle sticker is almost a dead giveaway in itself. They say the $1 is to cover the cost of processing the bicycle registration. Okay. But why does it cost five times as much to process a T sticker? We're not being naive. Its all very simple it's just another way to raise five bucks, and all the talk about future facilities will never justify charging students who will never have the op portunity to enjoy those facilities. After all, we are not being charged, tuition today for courses that our children ; will take at this University 20 years from now. In another area, womens' rules are becoming a subject of increasing concern among the coeds. Again, rules which effect close to 3,000 ' coeds on this campus are made by a x handful of administrators, and we expect, in the final analysis, by one person, namely Dean of Women Katherine Carmichael. Miss Carmichael is very respected on ; this campus by both men and coeds. She is sincere and dedicated in her attempts to preserve a very strict moral climate . for the Caiolina coed. But, she is out of date; at least her ideas are. By the time a girl reaches 20 years of age, she knows what kind of life she ' Wants to lead. ,If she wants to stay out til . 4 a.m., that's her business, and not the f University's. There is the old parallel, or contrast, between the Senior coed here and the 18 year old secretary or hair dresser in Durham. While Ithe coed is told when she must go to bed, where, she must live and how she must live, the Durham girl is . free to live where and as she pleases. Of course, one may say, people expect greater things from the coed than from (the secretary, but in either case, the girl wanfe her freedom to live as she wishes, if indeed her mind has grown with the rest of her body. . There are many responsible women leaders on this campus, along with a ma jority of all coeds, who want the rules un der which they live liberalized. It is their right and their's alone. Except by end orsement, the men student leaders on the campus cannot be in the fight There is a tat of student grumbling on : campus about other things, not the least of which is the University's policy of sell ing textbooks. The decision last week to deny Students for a Democratic Society a fund-raising concert made the University i look as phony as a three-dollar bill, and , . the explanation that Graham Memorial " gave only added insult to injury. ' How do the students bring about change? ; That is a difficult question. The rule of . . thumb in many cninds, is that reason and thoughtful dialogue must prevail. The ; ' belief is that any disagreement can be settled by sitting down and talking up a solution. The problem si that the Administration does not hear the : students' side before they make a decision. And, after making a decision . they don't want to change it and lose face. For example, the committee which , raised the T sticker price to $5 bad only one student member. There are, at this University, many very capable student leaders, many of them brilliant, and all of them interested in helping better the lot of the student. But they are useless if the University will not listen to their suggestions, and respect them. We are not saying that Students should take control of the . University and administer it. The primary interest of students is learn ing. But- there should be more student " power. That doesnt mean a Berkely, but it does mean that demands by the ctiir?ontc Ho fioarH aru h A oommodated. Student demonstrations are effective. At a midwest ern university, a very minor incident the changing of a particular bus route brought on a student riot that almost destroyed the campus. 'The original bus route was begun again. There is no need here for riots. There is a need for effective, well-planned demonstrations against the parking system; against women's rules, by women; against decisions such as GM handed down to SDS. There is a need for a boycott against the Book-Ex, and it can be made effective with the right plan ning. The anticipated reaction of the Administration to such proposals is "You should consider yourselves fortunate to be in school, while others dont have the opportunity. In effect, if you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." That argument is also out of date. The University is for the student and that's what it is all about. And the student should have a voice in its government, for just that reason.

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