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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Tuesday, September 19, 19S7
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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.