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By CAItOMVON'SAVAGE
0 Tht Daily Tar UttX Staff
Late one fall night last year
a student walked into his room
and found his roommate about
to take what looked like a
"half a bottle" of sleeping
pills. The roommate had been
drinking.
After a brief struggle, the
student took the pill3 away and
got his roommate to bed. The
next day he reported the
incident to the infirmary and
his roommate was placed
under a doctor's care.
Did the "student stop a
potential suicide? Perhaps,
although the student didn't
think his roommate was
serious.
"He seemed to be waiting
for ime to come in when he
started to take the pills," he
said. "He had been depressed
a long time, family problems, I
think but I'm sure he wanted
Be Gaulle Urges Gold Standard
PARIS President Charles de Gaulle warned Monday that
despite its "incredible power" the U.S. dollar faces devaluation
unless Washington stops championing the present world
monetary system. .
At one of his rare news conferences, he reitterated bis demand
for a return to the gold standard dumped m the 1930s. He
accompanied la bitter attack on the dollar with :
A virtual new velo of Britain's bid to enter the European
Common Market.
A prediction that the province of Quebec eventually will
become a sovereign state independent of Canada. ' '
Stinging criticism of Israel for its role in the June Middle v
East war. He said the Vietnam con'Hlicit contributed to ihs
Mideast conflict by increasing world tensions.
Pearson Levels Blast At De Gaulle
LONDON Punctuating his speech with such epithets as
"discredited," "shortsighted" and "wrong)" Canadian Prime
Minister Lester B. Pearson ripped into French President Charles
de Gaulle Monday with one of the sharpest attacks ever made by
one Allied leader against another.
Pearson went so far as to lump France together with Mao
Tsetung's China as disruptive forces in the modern world.
Using a ceremony in which he was given the freedom of the
city of London as his platform, Pearson condemned De Gaulle's
rejection of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, his super
nationalism; his opposition to British entry into the European
Common Market and his interference in Canadian internal
affairs.
Cypriot President Sees No War
'NICOSIA President Makarios of Cyprus said Monday he was
convinced there would not be a war between Greece and Turkey
over the Mediterranean island.
The Greek Cypriot president, an archbishop in the Greek
Orthodox Church, emerged from a two hour meeting with United
Nations envoy Jose Rolz Bonnet of Guatemala and said, "I don't
think there will be a war."
Kennedy Widens Lead In Poll
WASHINGTON Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., leads
President Johnson by 52 to 32 per cent his widest margin yet as
the voters' choice for the 1968 Democratic presidential
nomination, pollster Louis Harris said Monday.
Apples for the teacher used to be the big thing in elementary
school; but now someone has decided to leave one lying in the
gutter ouside South Building. Why is the only question. Certainly
me to stop him. It was sort of
a cry for help."
According to a psychiatrist
at the student health service
this "cry for help", was a
"gesture," a "manipulative
action with no attempt to
commit suicide, a signal cf
anger cr desperation."
Medical studies say there
are 1 1-2 successful suicides
per year per 10.0C0 students,
and 20 times that number of
"gestures." UNC has had its
share of those "successes."
According to police records,
there were four 'student
suicides here in the past three
years.
On April 4, 19S7, David
Bowman was found with a
"bullet wound to the head."
On Jan. 14, 1967, Gregory
Lister 18, was found dead in
his "Morrison dormitory room.
Cause of death: "asphysia
hanging". On Oct. 26, 1965, Roger
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Such A Nice Apple
Davis, 21 "drove his car into
bridge support causing acute
hemmorage."
On June 4 1965, David
Snelling, 23 "hurled himself
out of two-story window to
sidewalk below."
Chapel Hill Police Chief
W.D. Blake says that, except
for Snelling, all the students
left notes indicating they
"were about to do away with
themselves."
What makes a gesture or a
suicide? What goes on in a
person's mind to make him
decide that he will no longer
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CAMPUS SQUIRRELS also prepare for Christmas early. Only
they don't have to worry about gifts, because all they have to do
is take a few nuts home. And this one is no exception.
Cigarette
To 30 Cents
By STEVE KNOWLTON
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
Cigarette prices in
University vending machines
were raised a nickel a pack to
30 cents during the
Thanksgiving dreak, the direc
tor of University Book Ex
change said Monday.
"It is just net economically
feasible to vend machines out
of a machines for 25 cents a
pack," said Tom jshetley, Book
Ex head.
The price hike affects only
those machines in snack bar
areas which until this
September sold cigarettes
across the counter.
Cigarette vendors in banks of
machines such as in many
no straighUhinking prof is going to pick it up. And it was such a
nice apple.
live'
nn nnp hand. the answers
are on police reports, neatly
typed white forms, stating
cause of death.
Coroner's report: "He was
on fee floor on his right side
with a 33 cal. pistol behind
him?."
Chief Blake added, "We
know be bad gone home to
borrow money and his father
refused it."
Coroner's report: "He waSi
found in bis room at 1 a.m.
banging by a belt obviously
stepped off the bed."
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in iviacn
residence halls went up to 30
cents a pack at the beginning
of the year.
Shetley said the Book
Exchange was not losing
money at the 25-cent price,
"but we were just barely
breaking even." Considering
the costs of the machines and
tile servicing of them, "it just
was net economically feasible
to continue to sell the
cigarettes at that price."
University vending machines
are owned and serviced by the
Triangle Vending Service, a
division of the Coca-Cola
Bottline Company of Durham.
Shetley said that while the
Book Ex was making a little
money on the 25-ceni sales, the
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Jca0w fae was worried
about grades." Chanel Hill
detective Howard Pendergraph
said. "But he was makin?
above average."
Other answers come from
shocked friends, anguished
parents,
"Friends said be acted as if
'he were out of his bead,"
'Friends said be was just
going up to study."
"In a telephone conversation
the father of the deceased
indicated an increasing
depression over the several
weeks immediately preceding
death."
There are also answers from
those who attempt to analyze
the forces wbich drive a
student or any human being to
self-destruction. These are the
psychiatrists, men like Dr.
Clifford B. Reifler, senior
psychiatrist in the student
health service.
But Dr. Reifler Ends that the
human mind, like humans
themselves, will not fit a set of
rules or patterns. Like police
and ether laymen, they try to
read the signs of potential
suicide. But unlike laymen
they can help the distressed
person to survive the forces
closing in on iiim.
'Suicide usually occurs in
depression, in self
depreciation," Dr. R e i f 1 er
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MICMUL
Four
senior officials of (the
J State Department will speak
on Vietnam, the Arab-Israeli
question, the Near East and
the U, S. position in Southern
"Africa in a series of
community discussions to be
held Wednesday,
i This will be the first -time
such a series on foreign policy
has been held in North
Carolina.
Thomas McElhiney, the
country director for South
Eastern Africa in the State
ines
vending company was losing
heavily.
"Noy," we'll be naking a
little more money of course"
Shetley said, "and Triangle
Vending will operate in the
black too."
He said that the Book
Exchange does not expect to
make a large profit on
cigarettes. "We handle
cigarettes primarily as a
convenience to students. We
have them here if they want to
buy them at 30 cents a pack to
tide them over until they can
get some downtown" he
said.
The University went from
across-the-counter selling this
year because of the "terrific
control problem we
encountered in the past,"
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NSA Upholds Eights
Recent attsenpts by Vietnam
war protestors to physically
prevent military service
recruiters from visiting college
campuses were condemned in
a National Student Association
policy statement last
Saturday.
At the same time, the
statement "strongly"
condemned General Hershey's
recommendation that
"students who engage in illegal
protests against the war and
draft" should be reclassified as
1-A, and mamtained that these
students are entitled to justice
in civil courts with due process
of law.
The resolution passed with a
two-thirds majority from
NSA's National Supervisory
Board, the governing body of
the organization between
conferences.
David Kiel, southern area
representative to the Board
and UNC presidential
assistant, said that the key
issue in debate on the
resolution was whether NSA's
says. The person may have
some inner-directed hostility so
that no alternative solutions
seem possible."
Many of the 30 or so
"gestures" a year are referred
go to the infirmary, but many
students, driven by fears of
self-destru ctioa, come
themselves.
"We take seriously anyone
who talks about suicide" said
Dr. Reifler. He said the
infirmary tries to assess the
nature of the problem and
decide the best way to help the
student, whether by psycho
therapy or a stay in the
hospital.
Treatment, like depression
itself, "depends on the
situation."
Medical reports show
however, that student suicide
rate is no higher than that of
non-students in the same age
group.
"Student are under more
stress than ever before," says
Reifler, "but they are more
capable of dealing with it than
ever before."
Still there is that statistic, "1
1-2 sucides per 10,000 per
year." The following report
may be filled again before the
end of the year:
"left a note to his family of
ins intent. He died
immediately."
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Department's
Bureau
of
the
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- African-AiEaurs is
chairman of the f our
group.
The other members are
Robert Lewis of the Vietnam
Working Group in the Bureau
of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs ; WilHam Swing,
international economist in the
Bureau of Economic Affairs;
Daniel Brown, public affairs
adviser to the Bureau of Near
Eastern and South . Asian
Affairs.
The group is sponsored by
the Current Affairs committee
of Graham Memorial.
Swing will speak on "Europe
Today and East -West
Relations" at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday at the Wesley
Foundation.
At the same time McElhiney
will hold an informal
discussion with students at
Morrison on the Union of South
Africa and Rhodesia.
A t 8:30, Swing will speak on
Europe at Morrison.
McElhiney will be at the
Wesley Foundation speaking on
Africa.
Brawn will discuss the Mid
dle East crisis at the Interna
tional Student Center's weekly
seminar discussion series at
8:00.
At 9:30, Brown will discuss
the Near East at Morrison and
Lewis, at the Wesley
Foundation, will discuss
Vietnam. The visit will be
concluded by a 10:30 address
on Vietnam at Morrison to be
given by Lewis.
The four team members will
meet the Middle South Model
recognition of the right of the
Right to recruit on campuses
would conflict with NSA's
established anti-Vietnam war
policy.
Former UNC Student Body
President Bob Powell, now
northeast representative to the
Board, former UNC NSA
coordinator Teddy OToole, an
ex-officio member of the Board
as NSA's National Educational
Affairs Vice President; and
Kiel told the Board that a
refusal by NSA to recognize
free speech for right-wing
recruiters would be an indirect
justification of cUscrimination
against left-wing speakers,
such as in North Carolina's
Speaker Ban law.
The main, opposition came
from a University of Wisconsin
representative who had been
involved in recent
demonstrations that prevented
Dow Chemical Company
representatives from
recruiting on the Wisconsin
campus. Dow manufactures
napalm for Vietnam.
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A Few Feet From Death
. . if he wants to take that way out
United Nations at 4 p.m. in
Roland Parker- Lounge. The
meeting is open to the public.
Miss Christine Ca m p ,
community meetings officer
with the Bureau of Public
Affairs, will distribute informa
tion on job opportunities in the
State Department from 9 a.m.
4 p.m. in Woodhcuse Room.
Those wishing to meet Mis?,
Camp should sign up in tta
placement office in Gardner
Hall.
Shoplifting Case Nets
4 Weeks Suspension
The Men's Honor Court has
suspended one student, a
junior, in four weeks of trials
lasting from Oct. 25 to Nov.
16.
The student was found guilty
of attempted shoplifting and
was suspended until June 1,
1963. He had been charged with
trying to steal a set of steak
knives from H u g g i n s
Hardware snd a women's
umbrella from Julian's cloth
ing store on Nov. 4.
In another trial on Nov. 16,
two juniors were reinstated.
They had been placed on
indefinite probation on May 20,
1966, for lying to a student to
obtain $25.
On Nov. 9, two freshmen,
self-confessed pumpkin
stealers, were given definite
probation until Feb. 1, 1963.
Of 'Might'
Kiel said that the acceptance
of the statement after a seven
hour debate "has made it clear
that academic freedom and
free speech at a university are
principles that rise above
conflicts between Left and
Right
"At Chapel Hill we nave seen
conservative forces' attacks on
academic freedom in the form '
of the Speaker Ban. At
Wisconsin, left-wing students
have made the same kind of
attack by their coercive
demonstrations.
"I'm glad NSA support of
academic freedom has
continued despite attacks from
both fee Left and the Right."
Kiel also said that be thought
General Hershey's statement
was "prior censorship or
something akin,' and
supported the statements "If
students break the law, they
should be dealt with by civil
authorities. If students do not
break the law, they should not
be punished by draft boards."
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They were charged with
"being party to the theft of
several pumpkins from in front
of the A&P store on W.
Franklin St. on Oct. 26,
1967."
Also on Nov. 9, a junior was
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Dime-A-Pack
Drive Starts
Wednesday
The second annual Dime-A-Pack
drive to raise money for
cigarettes to send to U. S.
troops in Vietnam for
Christmas will be started
Wednesday.
The i money raised will be
used to buy cigarettes for
about 10 cents a pack from the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
and send them to Vietnam, at
no profit to the company or the
persons organizing the drive,
according to Charlie Mercer,
co-organizer of last year's and
this year's drive.
The drive will be conducted
on the Chapel HilL Raleigh,
Greensboro, and Charlotte
campuses of the Consolidated
University.
The goal of this year's drive
i3 to send 10,000 packs of
cigarettes. Last year's drive
netted $300 (or 8,000 packs).
All the classes, the Inter
Fraternity Council, and' the
Pan Hellenic Council will be
working with the drive. :
A booth will.be set up in Y
Court Wednesday through
Friday and on Monday and
Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
for contributions.
Any organization, such as a
fraternity, residence hall or
residence college that gives
more than $35 to the drive will
get its name stamped on the
cigarette packages, Mercer
said.