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2 m fflatig (liar ifJ 75 Years of Editorial Freedom Bill Amlong, Editor Don Walton, Business Manager 1 RH Tpft 1 IT estiMiiiliBg Parking Lots C-7 CT? . A No Answer To Problems r: t r It's a long walk from South Campus to the class room buildings but it's not as long as it would be from Durham or Car rboro, or some other C Parking Chapel Hill Sees Red (And White) From The Chapel Hill Weekly Over the years, Chapel Hill has withstood all manner of indignities from the rest of the State. Some we have suffered in pained silence, to others we have protested with characteristic dignity and sweet reason. There is, however, only so much that even the most serene and restrained com munity can bear. And now, by George, those who have made a fetish of heaping calumny on these hallowed parts have gone too far. Wc refer, of course, to the , 1968 North Carolina auto tags. . Yellow on black, green on ;;yhite,( and .other freakish col-"or- combinations that have , been chosen through the years have drawn not a murmur of 'protest from us. But this year's license plate decor, red numerals on a white ground, is an outrageous affront to this whole town. We must pro test. State College got its name change and for all we care it can have back the Dixie Classic, deconsolidation, 47 new Fh.u. programs, ana other assorted items dear to the Wrolf pack heart. But requiring every driver in North Carolina to fly the State College colors seems to us to be going a bit far. Resdients of Chapel Hill misht as well be forced to can onize Leo Jenkins. t :;.m I n I Timetable Caved In, Too A few weeks back a fellow who must have been a prophetic sidewalk superintendent sent a car toon to The Daily Tar Heel portray ing construction of the Student Union. The awkwardly drawn sketch pictured the construction as huge blocks of concrete thrown together, all teetering on the verge of col lapse. Tuesday, part ot1 the Student Union roof did collapse. We know next to nothing about concrete con Don Campbell, Associate Editor Lytt Stamps, Managing Editor Hunter George, News Editor Brant Wansley, Advertising Manager Sticker residence. So it's a welcome change that Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and his Traffic and Safety Committee have made by changing one of the South Campus parking lots from a first-come-first-get basis to strictly a C car lot, especially since present C parking facilities (175 spaces; are inadequate to handle the 2,700 cars in that category. Welcome, anyway, to the students who have C stickers on their cars and have been unable to find sufficient parking space in the Ram's Head parking lot and along the Scott College road. But how welcome will it be to those residents of Scott and Ehr inghaus Colleges who will now have to park their G-Stickered cars in the lots of Hinton James, Craige or Morrison? Not very welcome at all, pro bably. In fact, once the winter snovvs finally come and even after they change into the spring monsoon it seems that this re-zoning is going to seem particularly unwelcome to these students. For what, this change amounts to, you see, is described by that old tdage about robbing Peter to pay Paul. To accomodate the C cars, the University is going to herd the G cars out of the lot in question : vBut. even; that remedy won't work for long: the lot that is now being given to the C drivers will be converted into tennis courts later this year. Which will make the parking situation for . both C and G cars even worse than it already is. What needs to be done is for the Chancellor and his advisory com-, mittee as well intentioned as they may be to stop shuffling student parking lots around, and to begin tackling the problem squarely. And the only way to solve Carolina's parking problem one of too many cars, too fews paces is to make more parking spaces, ex pensive though this may be. For it is folly to think that you can solve the parking problem here by re-designating zones. You just can't re-arrange such a problem out of existence. struction, but we're thankful that the roof fell when it did and not a few years hence, when students would be inside. We're not accusing anyone of negligence - that'r the resonsibili ty of the investigators of the ac cident, if negligence is evident. We'll just say, f io-hum and take your time fellows. After all, the building is only about three years behind schedule. What's another few weeks while the roof rebuilt? IS HE D.MLV Don Campbell Leave Tk We all kriOvi' about how rucv ba- ridi-. re a:il we? Yuu jut on. lean back, relax, and leave the driving to the driver. : Vuu are sped to your declination. Bui it doesn't always Work out that way. In fact it never works out that way. Now Tuesday, January 2 was not a' normal day, granted, far any kind cf - riblic transportation. 1 was forced to kae my car in .Vw ' rts:'; standby. Standby is about as ' fast, as.-;- walking. . The choice was a bus or a train. And. if you've ever ridden the Xew Haven Kailroad, you'll understand why I chose the bus. I have ridden buses in at least 'half trie fifty states, so 1 knew I 'w as asking for trouble. With this in mind, I v.ai. out o get several promises out of the bus com pany. The promises I get were these: The first bus would be from Hartford, Conn, to Washington "express", "no change", one stop in New York guaranteed. The connection in Washington would be within 30 minutes, another ; express' to Raleigh. (Express is usually taken to mean no changes). There would be no more than a 40-minute wait in develop uceri " ... - .... i jer T;f uni picket vV -ht bciV 4cvm cj Jwcn Vit Clan, S er X Us sUAy omt; 2 $A. h'f.onf Spend if a If l Letters To The Editor 'Other Alter reaamg raren r t- m a n 1 "U. N. C. Coeds Must Rally Now", I . found one phrase that stuck in my mind. That was: "If the premise of equality on an individual basis is not accepted, then r women should not be accepted as in tellectual equals in the academic struc ture of the University." I don't think anyone can really argue with this state-; ment, nor would I, for , one, even try. However; a major complaint at Carolina is the growing impersonality of the academic environment or, in other ; words, the sink or swim attitude. How well we are all acquainted with huge lec tures, little or no chance for outside help from teachers and in short, the whole phenomena of student numberism, I am in no way shape or form opposed to greater liberalization of women's rules. As a matter of fact, my personal feelings are definitely along mud more permissive lines than the present rules. I only hate to see women students who are being to-d that their individuality, freedom ar.d intelligence are being "threatened aei nastily without con sideration of sciViv- of the benefits of the system, under which they are living at present, and -there are some. I really believe that the dormitory system is the last stronghold of the truly personal touch at Carolina; where a warm community feeling exists and : every girl is made to feel at least to some extent wanted through the joint efforts of ) Residence Administration, hall meeting '- and various dorm activities. The women ; students have had all along, what the i boys are striving for now, through the Residence College System.. Is this whXt 1 he girls cn campus real- ly wart; for Ihe dormitory io become 5 no more than just a place to- sleep? Or if 'deems do become only this, will coeds then complain of impersonality in the social area as they do now in the academic area where the sink or swim attitude they say they want (in rules), already exists? .Maybe -the WRC has no business considering this side of the pic ture, but you must agree that it is dif ficu't to make rules without com "dera tion cf the enviro.nmer.'al effects of the changes you 2re legislating. Ask any housemother; she can tell you many instances of shy or withdrawn girls who would have been greatly hurt by lessened opportunities for personal rela tionships within the dorms. If a sink o: vim 3.L.ti;de is whsr trs Sid TAR HEE Raleigh then on to Chapel Hill via Durham, a Jain no changes. The ticket man in Hartford thought I was questioning his integrity no doubt for making him go over the schedule twice. . So we got started, only thirty minutes late, in Hartford. Sure enough, we didn't strip until we get ta the city. There are several w ays - to approach the Port Authority. The buses take the longest route possible without going through New Jersey to get there from the Northeast. We h3d to cross the Bronx all the way to get to the station and the driver crows out, ''George Washington Bridge Station, 172th Street." The bus was full, but not one soul moved. We all stared at the driver. There was no one to get on either but it wouldn't have made any difference if there had been since there were no seats. So the driver muttered something out loud like "Howr about that" and pulled out of the station. Since I didn't have J anything else to do I got to thanking, now why in the world didn't he ask in Hartford if anyone is going to Bridge Sta tion? Then we could have. skipped it. But, not being privy to what makes bus com pany officials' minds tick, I didn't have the answer. -Hie coe4 eAuf y queen, rhvV VC3 Vier -0r hu "V "Hoirclee . flr you ar ui can 1 - . m a 'M m n 1 v e' On Womeias9 Elate girls wa:.t, hten I assure you, it can be had; I only hope that the coeds who ask for an administrative we-don't-give-a-damn attitude, fully weigh the merits of both sides. The Daily Tar Heel has been in credibly lax in its responsibiMty to the students on campus in making both sides of an issue available. This letter is not an advocation of anything, it is only, I hope, a fair representation of the other side. Andi Stein . Womens Residence Council DTH Is Called 'Pernicious Institution9 To The Editor University students characteristically are intolerani people. Often they will not suffer for an instant the existence of that which among certain segments of the popula'Jion will endure unchanged and unopposed for seemingly endless periods of time. And yet there exists at this university one pernicious and lamentably constant institution which is tolerated almost without protest, rather as if the condition, outwardly viewed with disgust, had achieved by longevity a certain measure of sanctity, not unlike the situa tion, extant in some cultures, in which in sanity and mental retardation are viewed as manifestations of divine favor. Such a situation exists on this campus in the in stitution of the editorship of the Daily Tar Heel. Every spring, regular as rain 3nd pansies, the diligent and enlightened students of this university are faced with the ordeal of selecting a new editor for ''the newspaper. Almost invariably this task amounts to an option of disasters, a choice, as it were, between Tweedledum and Tweedledumber. A small band of students trickle over to the-voting booths and make their reluctant choices and hope that they have not chosen a microcephalic idiot, only to have their hopes defeated with the appearance of i the first editorial, brimming with ir rationality and glandular indignation, possessing in the minimum amount of grammatical discourse the minimum amount of information and the maximum amount of distortion, and in general in ' need of editing. I A few highlights: The first Daily Tar Heel editorial I ever saw accused the en tire student body of being responsible for the murder cf a co-ed in the arboretum a vt:-.r previous (I have never figured that It only took 53 minutes to go the 133 blocks to the NYPA. That's because we got about one fourth the lights green and we managed to wade around the cars which were sliding down the Isng hUl on Amsterdam Ave., crumpling the fenders of parked cars. We pulled jsia ths tztmls cf the Authority only S3 minutes late. Of course that didn't concern me since I was on an "express" bus. We finally got a parking place and the driver shouted out, "Everybody off!" Right then and there the first promise had gone down the drain, but I stood my ground, "Say, driver, I hate to bug you with trivialities, but when I got on in Hartford, both you and the ticket salesman said this bus was "express" to Washington." "Sony about that, everybody has to .change here." Sot another 30-minute wait, and another bus. Then out into the traffic and 20 minutes of playing checkmate with the trucks and cabbies in the middle of one intersection. Then into the swamps of New Jersey, me sitting there with ess eye ca Cs ea which said: "Smckmg Is fbrtgddca on this 1 f. 11 - 1 . 1 Some Aay T'U grf "ty .H -H. bW he so out). Some znooths later here appeared on the editorial page an c&scene gesture, seen most otea on restroonx walls and on the hands of disgruntled Duke fans. And stUl later some kind of record was established for green journalism when one of (he DTH staff opined Chat the spfcrt of basketball bad been "raped" (?) end once again we were all responsible! And who will ever forget your own celebrated iEspatclifcgj from WtaSton Salem during the race riot Ihere? During your own umnercifully long tenure, Mr. Arnlcng, I bare noticed that the editorial cohsnns are largely blank, being filled with those long, rambling paragrapha, fraught with recondite meaning, such s But we da" cr "Well, so what?" Mind you, I n est com plaining sbout Ct3 tCnni epacss-tetween the blank spaces and your prose I will gladly take the blank spaces. Of late, however, I have noted that you are given to enclosing some of your messages in black borders. At first myopic glance one is tempted to interpret such a format as signalling tho demise of whoever is responsible for the Daily Tar Heel, but a closer look show3 that thss is your way of attracting the reader's attention to a sec tion of (he paper which, in the normal course of events, is rigorously avoided. One such ex cathedra message in black border appeared in the December 9 edi tion of your news sheet. My purpose in writing to you is to comment on that message. I hope you wOl forgive my tangential introduction, but experience has taught me that, when dealing with persons in your intended profession, it is wise to adopt a First Steps for Little Feet attitude. You complained in your editorial that nobody showed up at what some people have chosen to call a "teach-in." You further stated that the students of this university, most of whom, it would ap pear, are totally ignorant of the war cur rently being waged in Viet Nam, could learn about the war in all its aspects by Arraign i was est in sseadaace, I feel that I can preset with fair certainty what was said the same old tired phrases which appear daily in your col umns (usually in tractured and murderously abstruse form). Be that as it may, I resent your unqualified asser tion that the students or anyone else would "learn" anything by attending. Hearing a few cliches from the metalanguage of the political gossip Friday, January 5, ID 53 77 777 f .So bus whHe in the slate of New Jersey", and the other eye on the bus driver who was chain smoking. I did lean back then and leave the driving to the driver. The only problem W23 the little fat lady beside me who kept going to sleep end falling ever on xse. "Excuse ce, Sonny." I get c? ens time, with the pTdmlcTs cf going to thst little room in the back, and sure enough, the little lady fell right over into my seat. She said excuse me sonny again, but I wasn't there. We got into Washington a hjlf hour late. It all started over again. This time I was adamant. Will this bus in take me to Raleigh? Will I bo able to get a bus to Cbapel Hill? Yes, twice. Double yes to the latter question. On to Richmond. Again, "Everybody off." Another "express" bus t i f&leigh had bitten the Jut. Not only that but they didn't know where to get a bus to take us to Raleigh. - Exactly 50 minutes later we left Rich mond. We got to Raleigh and I was all ready to hop on my bus to Chapel Hill. Only there wasn't one and wouldn't be until the next morning. Here shouting at the bus station enstnjer. He didn't cere whnt these peo ple In Hartford end Washington told me. There was no bus to Chapel Hill after 10:45 pjn. I could go to Durham if I wanted. That's 20 miles closer to Chapel HiH, so I tools it. AX 2 o'clock in the morning at the bus ESaJron 5n Durham, N.C. they have one answer: The next bis to Chapel Hill leaves at 6 otlock.this morning, or thereabouts. I had ridden on five different buses for 17 hours and I was five hours behind "schedule" and still four end one half hours from home, as the bus travels. There was only one recourse a $5 taxi ride. I tried to think togtolly about the tble thing. Lihe, t?hy cant they tell you the truth when you buy a ticket? Why can't they just tell you that they don't give a damn whether you get home? Why cant they at the very least fol low thes chdules Chat are in their man uals the schedule's that they point to in Washington and say, 'There it is right there there is a bus to Chapel Hill." I decided that there must be a moral (pJE&e jory end it is simple. The nest tsne you see a bus cruising down the road with the little sign which reafc EXPRESS, don't believe a word of 'it; If the other sign says :i Washington" or "Raleigh", dont believe that eitherl" ' That driver is just looking for a wide spot in the road where he can dump his passengers. '.'Presemted department and some homilies about morality from some for&ecile biding behind a clerical collar is not necessarily a process which insures that an in dividual w2 learn anything except, possibly, (he opinions of those who have smugly desisted themselves as teachers. The reason no one showed up for the ' teach-in" is that the affair, even though free of charge, offered nothing in the way of entertainment. The people who dream ed up this business should have beefed up their act with a big name. I suggest Al Lowenstein, aging boy wonder of anti fascism, who could unleash his Invective some crypco-faiangist patsy from the Sate Department. Or Benile Ben Spock the ctetetrlcisn who exhibits all the RSSrafct end pc3jcal acumen cf a sex agenarian praeessa. Or possibly Robert Kennedy, who, while having exhibited no special capacity for anything except trading on his brother's good name nevertheless constitutes a walking, talk ing folk-talisman, and can attract most of the size five-and-one-half heads from miles around. In conclusion, Mr. Amlong, I should like to make three observations: 1. If anyone expects to draw a crowd for something as inane as a teach fca, he will have to get a bigger name than Lew Iipstiz end the Baptist chaplain or whoever in the bsIL 2. If dysfunctive narcosis were a legithnate concept no one would took at theDsSyTarHeeL 3. The current editor of the Daily Tar Heel should think very seriously about a career in pharmacy. Harry Walsh The Daily Tar Heel is published by tbe lTnUersit cf North CtUfa Student PubUt-athm' Board, daily except Aloudui, c.a.;:t periods and vat utiuu-. Oinces are on the second Rccr cf Gr&hso .MemcrUl. Telihiny testers: eriaL sporli, ne ws S53-1011; basinets, circq l&tioa, advetising S33-11C3. Address: Box ma. Chapel Hill. N.C. 27S14. Second class postage paid at U.S. Post Office ia Chapel Hill N.C. Subscription rates: $3 per year; iS per semester. 1
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