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Pane 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Wednesday, January 31, 1G03 o n o o U U Li & s n ( n i t I V N " . till Gumes 7m) r w K c 75 Yecrs of Editorial Freedom Bill Amlong, Editor Don Walton, Business Manager It's Getting To Keep Dovish Stance It's getting increasingly hard to be a Dove these days. Not in philosophy, mind you: War always has been, still is and ever shall be an evil, rotten thing. Just in practice: Now it seems that the Communist nations of Southeast Asia are acting just as bad about this whole thing as President Johnson & Co. ever have. It seems the Communists just got a later start. First, the North Koreans seized a Unied States naval vessel, the Pueblo, off the Korean coast last week and have announced they in tend to seriously punish the 83 of ficers and crewmen aboard her. Now, the North Vietnamese Army and assorted Viet Cong regiments have opened a full fledge attack on the city of Saigon right at the beginning of the 36 hour truce called because oft he Vietnamese Lunar New Year. The escalation of the Viet Nam war by the other side, for a change comes as increased talk of peace negotiatons between U.S. and Hanoi had caused a great deal of optimism to sprout. The big thing, everybody was saying, is that now both sides are sounding really sincere. J' ' Now, though, the sincerity of the Hanoi government seems rather a sham: a buzzard-in-dove's-feathers sort of thing. Still, however, aggressive ac tions by the other side don't make the United States' Viet Nam posture any more justified or, should we say, less unjustified than it has been. Still, the South Vietnamese government, which the U.S. is sup porting, is no less of a farce of democracy. Still, the United States is having to fight this ridiculous little republic's war almost single handedly, since the South Viet namese seem almost incapable of fielding a decent fighting regiment or, is it, that they are simply, unwilling to do themselves what the United States seems all too ready to do for them? In any case, it is still a crummy war in Viet Nam and a war that the United States doesn't really belong in. However, with the recent developments in both Korea and Viet Nam, it seems like the United States has little choice but to dig in and stick it out. The main change is that now the United States has gotten itself in volved in a defensive war, instead of merely the war of agression that has up to now been waged against North Viet Nam. And defensive wars regardless of whether the United States unjustifiably provoked the agression by its presence in Asia are harder to bow out of. Meanwhile, there remains at home the question of how to solve the problems of this nation's pover ty problems which are causing a great deal of not only disaffection, but also of violence, among American poor. These are problems which can be solved only by the directing of American resources into the ghet toes, by spending money to combat both poverty and the slum living conditions it creates. And where is this money going to come from, especially now that the UnitedStates may be getting involved more deeply in Asian wars? Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor Fred Huebner, Managing Editor Wayne Hurder, News Editor June Orr, Assistant 2Vew?s Editor Harder Now The answers don't come easy. Furthermore, it doesn't seem that they are going to come any more easily in the near future. The situation simply refuses to fall into focus, to be clear cut. It is very simply getting in creasingly harder to be any sort of doctrinaire Dove or Hawk these days. University's Schizoid Economics This University has a funny no tion about how to cope with rising costs of living. Its stand on the question, in fact, is really rather schizophrenic. For this University has two standards in this matter one to use when its going to cost the juniversity more money, the oth er, use when Its going to cost tiie students more money. For example, the University has just hiked residence hall room rent from $110 to $130 a se from $110 to $130 a semester for men, from $132.50 to $160 a semester for women. Reason: The general assembly in 1967 granted a six per cent pay increase to University employees, and further voted to cease paying resident advisors' salaries. This put a greater financial burden on the dormitories, which must sup port themselves. The obvious answer, then, was to hike the rent. But how has the University handled this proposition of the ris ing costs of living as it regards . students who work for the University in the self-help job pro gram? The University granted a 15 cent raise lifting salaries from $1 to $1.15 an hour this fall. This 15 per cent raise, however, hae been very neatly wiped out by the hike in room rent in the residence halls, in which all self help students must live to qualify for student aid. So where is the student left? Not only where he was before the University granted the pay raise, but even farther in the hole, since there has now been actually no cost - of - living - increase differ ential added to his pay check. It is this kind of mathematics and economics that is making a college education more and more difficult for many persons to ob tain. Until this University and the General Assembly begin to realize that college students' generally don't have gold-lined pockets, things are going to con tinue to get worse. And if they do, the University and the General Assembly may be justified in their opinion of how much the average college student can afford to pay: By then, it will cost so much to come here, that the rather wealthy will be the only students and, by definition then, the average. In national politics, no candidate or potential candidate can ever count on the element of surprise because there are literally thouseands of re porters, observers and columnists who make their living trying to figure out who might do what when and for what reason. Campus politics, on the other hand, are shrouded in mys tery right up until convention time." Few if any, com-' mented on then-UP chairman Dave Kiel's switch to the Student Party last year, about two months before the UP nominated Bill Purdy as everyone expected they would and the SP almost r nominated Dave Kiel. The men who defeated Kiel, too, was almost a complete surprise to many even many party faithfuls. A look at last year's Yack will reveal that Bob Travis was a Presidential Assistant to Bob Powell, but Powell's other PA, Eric Van Loon, was the only one anybody ever heard about. This situation of ignorance, though great fun for those would-be political enthusiasts who like to play cloak-and-dagger, can be harmful to the campus on election day. If the voters "are to make the best choice in their elected officials, . they must know something about the can didates, and know before Jhe slogans start flying the first of March. Therefore, it would be in the best in terest of the student body if the two ma jor parties and their candidate hopefuls are at least mentioned. This column will deal only with the potential candidates and possibly not all of them, for it isn't until after the beginning of second sem ester that some hopefuls and occasion ally strong contenders emerge. Letters To The Editor s 21 Wd IF F1C Dear Sir: Last August, in a speech to the American; Bar Association, Senator J.W. Fulbrighit addressed himself to the ex travagant "Price of Empire" which the UnitedStates is forcing itself to pay. Just last week, Prime Minister Wilson told the British people that the United Kingdom could no longer afford to pay that same price the paying of which made the U.K. dominant over intemaitional affairs" for two centuries. NEWSWEEK noted the passing of the imperial heritage by quoting T.S. Eliot's analysis of such "grand'' finales that worlds end not with : bangs; but with mere wihienpers. History is not really bunk, is it sir? If Henry Ford was correct, then let us go on makaiig "The world safe for democracy." But if he incorrect (as I suspect he was) if Ithe past can clue us in to what is going on around us, then we, the American peo ple, should start intelligently interpreting the symptoms of "empire" , which are wrenching so violently at the moral fiber of our nation. The U. S. today has military in stallations of some sort or another in every conceivable part of the world yet we cried "wolf" at the idea of Soviet military presence in Cuba in 1S62. Cer tainly such a presence could be a threat to U.S. security, but look for one brief moment at the threats posed to our na tional security by our own government's imperial course. In terms of physical danger, look at the foul-ups' and havoc we create: we are beginning to lose our H- Here. Vjj 7 j Ollo-l- orT mm impar. THE STUDENT PARTY can on many grounds be likened to the Democratic party. It is the party in power, the party of the majority and party that falls under the most strenuous attack, primarily because it is the establishment The analogy now is particularly fitting, for it is the SP which is suffering from the widest right-left rift within itself. In Spring, on college campuses ,young men's f ancices turn not only to love, but also to the grandeur of student body political office. Daily Tar Heel Staffer Steve Knowlton examines this phenomenon's particular effect on Chapel Hill, including the names and numbers of the players-to-be. The most obvious candidate from the Student Party is Jed Dietz, a junior from Syracuse, N.Y. and present vice-president of the Student Body. Dietz a liberal and has fallen under at tack from the University party and from ithe right wing of his own party for. his associations with Allard K, Lowenstein, a New York attorney who graduated from Carolina, was active during the founding and is now in the Forefront of Con cerned Democrats, better known as the Dump Johnson movement. Dietz is a member of the Chi Psi Fraternity, which has a partially-founded reputation of producing the most promising of the cam pus politicians. He came to the Student Party late in his freshman year, after being denied the UP nomination for class treasurer. Leading the. Dump Dietz movement withint the Student Party is George ji n "Bombs like children lose'marbles (Spain Greenland);. a U-2 was downed over the USSR, and presently some of our hctnbers are shot down over the country of Red China (termed "impossible" by the Administration) after bombing raids near t the ChineseNorltfa Vietnamese border; this week, we lose an electronic espionage ship to the North Koreans. The insecurity which permeates our (military policies is underlined even more so by the fiasco of our Vietnamese escapade. Several years ago the complaints over in volvement was mild only a million dollars per day and a few advisors; now we see a near thirty billion dollar war bill for fiscal 1969 and half a million men in South Vietnam alone. But the price of empire is higher stSL Perhaps history will be able to show that the U.S. successfully thwarted the "international communist conspiracy" and that thereby the U.S. achieved a British-like period of world domination when leadership was the necessary key. And perhaps the U.S. wall be credited as having both made the world safe for democracy and established democratic institutions whenever and wherever possible. But I don't think so; I doubt it all very seriously. Look at our own domestic situation; the American house is filled to the hilt with those who see American democratic institutions clogged with the "credibility" gap" and other communication breakdowns are they all wrong? Can this nation wage two rigorous, deman Foal ! finesse coine ftth Krichbaum, a junior from AsheviHe. Kriebbaum is a conservative and, as SP floor leader, has baeded up much of the attack on Dietz, who is the Speaker of Student Legislature. Krichbauni, a member of Delta Upsiloa, another of the fraternities which produces campus leaders, narrowly lost to Dietz last spring for the SP vice presidential nomination. Krichbaum' s three years in the party and bis position of leadership ia Student Legislature have earned him many party loyalties perhaps enough to help him take the SP nomination away from Dietz. THE UNTVERSITY PARTY unlike the SP which has to choose between two potentially very strong candidates is having trouble finding one. The party has suffered since the November class officer elections when the UP placed three out of 15 candidates in office. The most likely UP presidential can didate now seems to foe Charles Mercer, a Junior from Laurinburg and current president of State Student Legislature, Mercer, a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity, was a viable force in Student Legislature until he resigned in . Sep 71 MUCH - - - ding; and basically incompatible wars : : one domestic, one foreign at the same time and under the same leadership? No sir it cannot for long. Yet far more important is the ques tion, Can American afford to pay the price England has paid, and more? The British empire, strong and "widespread though it may have been is no more; the price was economic, mainly, and today the tiny island struggles to stay above water. In our situation, we shall have to pay far more than dollars and invididual .lives we may pay with our national life. Civil unrest, intra-government uncertainties and distrust, international scorn ithese are already on the bill the VS. is haging to pay. Perhaps we are, as some suggest on the verge of a national nervous breakdown, perhaps not; but enough doubt and uneasiness is at hand for such suggestions to be advanced. We are pained at the growth in the cost of our empire; the anxieties and tensions '& 9 To The Editor: My deepest, most sincere con gratulations to the administration and Mr. Bill Jarman. Once again in trying to solve the current complex parking pro blem the matter has only been com plicated. This latest decision to designate the (area behind Ehringhaus as 5"rp bass. xGa 1 014.5 - Am tember, ostensibly because he was tired of campus poUUcs. Mercer's actual position is uncertain. He has insisted since his SL resignation that he will not be a candidate. Party members indicate that Mercer is indeed a leading contender, but fear that fee may be taken at his word and est be nominated. Mercer may either forfeit to or be defeated by Dick Levy, a junior from Greensboro. Levy is also a mystery to some extent, because he has advanced academic standing and may graduate at the end of summer school, 1963, and because he may be a candidate for editor of The Daily Tar Heel. Levy, who became a Sigma Chi pledge in September and went on to win the Sigma Chi Derby "beauty contest," has been ia Student Legislature for three years and for two years was a controlling force in the Mor rison Senate. Levy ran unsuccessfully for DTH editor last spring. Widespread rumor among the UP elite says that if Mercer seriously is cot a con tender, and if Levy either goes through with early graduation plans or with another editorial candidacy, Krichbaum may be granted the UP endorsement, not as a University Party man, but as the leader of the Dump Dietz movement. Lsttem The Daily Tar Heel accepts all letters for f publication provided they are typed, double - spaced and signed. Letters should be no longer than 300 words in . length. We reserve the right to edit for libelous statements. ';:;:::::::: mpair ','with ! which "" we pay "are bringing the American "people closer and closer to the moral sterility of Eliot's "Hollow Men." Where is the rambunctious, freewheeling idealism which once caused the poet to "hear America singing"? Must this present government shun and destroy the strong fibers of the American character? Must we keep paying the price of empire any longer? I fear that the only song we shall soon hear, sir, is a great national dirge signalling with its final note that America has indeed paid that price. If this nation, this America, is to long survive, it must at once renounce the call to empire being issued by so many. As Sen. Fulbright concluded in the ABA speech the cost of empire will be fatal, for the "price of empire" is America's soul. Because that is too high, we who would count ourselves real Americans cannot and will not pay that price. Sincerely, Bland Simpson 05 Sticker Protest a "C" lot is not only outrageous but discriminatory as welL I could not be in more agreement with Mr. Jarman when he said: "You have to guarantee "C" sticker students a place to park because these students live so far away from campus that they can't walk " But, Mr. Jarman, does not your state ment also apply to the residents of South Campus? They too must be guaranteed a place to park. Granted they can walk to class each morning, but what of the night before when they could not park because of lack of space? Since the administration and Mr. Jarman seem to be of the mdnd that there are sufficient spaces on South Cam pus for both "G" and "C" sticker students, why not designate all the lots in this area for both "C" and "G" stickers? This would give South Campus students priority on space close to their dorms which they deserve. Robert W. Brown 630 Ehringhaus The Daily . 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