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THE DAILY TAR HEEL Pa ne2 Saturday, February 10, 1C3 Mike Cozza Oil lid ILL) am DT(D 75 Years of Editorial Freedom it SIX.- PI B 77 re? if m w Bill Ainlong, Editor Don Walton, Btisinsss Manager i go Who Wants Carolina To Be Asylum, THE ILLICIT and improper use of drugs cannot be tolerated by the University. We can't let this University become an asylum for drug users to evade the law. Dean of Men James 0. Cansler testifying before the Student Legislature Judicial Committe. So goes the Administration's case for why Student Legislature should vest in an Administrative-Faculty-Student Board the judicial authority to sit on any cases of stu dent involvement with drugs. It is not a very good case. To begin with, no one is asking the University either to tolerate or not to tolerate the illicit and im porper use of drugs. No one is ask ing the Administration to open South Building as a sanctuary in which drug addicts could hide from the police. In fact, all anybody is asking the University to do about drugs is to mind their own business the business of teaching, the business of turning out bachelors, masters and Ph.D's. And no where, on any college diploma, is there a place for a con duct grade to be written in. That was supposed to have gone out with high school, or even before. Instead, the University, should "concern itself with such things as drug use only in a tangential man ner when the use and - or abuse of drugs begins to interfere with the academic purpose of ' this University. Conceivably, this could I happen: if a student began a "trip" during Mod Civ II class, for ex ample, and distracted others. For, as Dean Cansler noted in his testimony before the judicial committee, drug use in this state is covered by existing statues the strictest statutes concerning it in any of the 50 states. And since the Law is already going to bust somebody for using or selling drugs, there's no reason why the University should have to get into the act, too. Dean Cansler told the com mittee, however, that "any person tried and convicted in -federal or local courts of a drug offense ought to come before the University to have his fitness to continue at this instituion judged." In case the Administration has Pay The baby was eleven months old and had cerebral palsy and still weighed only eight pounds. The mother, a Negro, had asked the white lady to come in and look at the child. The white lady was shocked. She asked the mother why she hadn't taken the baby to the hospital. The mother said she had, several times, and they kept stop ping her at the desk. The white lady gathered the baby in her arms and headed for Memorial Hospital. They stopped her at the desk too. There was a matter of an overdue bill, a sizeable one. The lady signed a financial responsibility statement, and then was allowed to take the baby to the doctors upstairs. The doctors were pretty much put out by the situation too., After the baby had been examined, they instructed the desk not to stop the mother and baby again, whether the bill had been paid or not. That mother's experience was not altogether unique. Others who need medical attention have given Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor Rebel Good, iVeics Editor Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager yway? forgotten, anybody who is con victed of drug use in federal or local courts around here probably won't be able to cpntinue in any in stitution short of a penitentiary. Drug laws are like that. Should. a court suspend some one's sentence or give them some lesser form of punishment than a jail term, however, that person should still not have to go before any quasi-judicial Universi ty board to have his fitness to con tinue at this University judged. The proper judges of this are that person's professors, who determine on an academic basis if he should' stay around. And if his drug use is such that it disrupts his academic performance, then he'll flunk out, anyway. So why should Student Legislature pass such a proposal as the one before it, thereby legitimatizing furth,er ad- ministrative control oyer, students' personal lives? There's no reason to, at all. Give. fMeari-iiy Got a heart? One that works?; x : . Some people don't. ? i ft ' "' Got a little extra money, even a dime or a quarter or : so? i Money that could help pay ! $ for research and surgery to ! fix hearts that don't work. Some people don't have x that, either. i . x g Want a balloon, a red-and- $ white one, like the ones 100 jij: sorority girls will be selling S on the streets today? Si You don't, huh? x g: Well, give them some money anyway. It's for the Heart Fund Drive. g You can even tell them to jij: keep the balloon. :X An Of Die? up seeking it because of Memorial Hospital's hard-nosed bill -collecting methods. These people are not deadbeats, at least most of them are not. They are people who do not or will not qualify as welfare cases and who don't have the resources to keep up with hospital bills . - , , . in defense of tne hospital's policy, or whatever it is that keeps the doors shut to those in hock, Memorial is constantly beset with money problems. At times it has had to seek emergency ap propriations from the State, and bill collecting, if it is to be at all successful, is a pretty ruthless business. Still, it strikes us that something is basically wrong in a State hospital, or in any hospital for that matter, that would deny for any reason medical attention to anyone who is obviously and urgently in need of it. To deny it because of an unpaid bill is one of the shabbiest reasons of all. taking steps to aeai wua me uaiance of payments problem, but the steps he is taking may not lead to a solution. The reason the president has decided m 1 Til- A 1 T . Tttpra To The Editor President Johnson is finally W- . . t llcxH WrS-7l 0f vU hours (TT.1 'RV"cioia-5 j dorm securi4v 3y"fen of dorm ' secuny Throw Out University To The Editor: iMy short tenure as a course leader in the Experimental College confirmed a suspicion that I have harbored during my years as an undergraduate and graduate student at this and other universities : that is, the university, as we know it, has reached the end of its natural life aikL should foe quietly, if possible, put into the tomb with all the rest of our outmoded , concepts. I write now not .':jof Jt y "multiversity", not of a research com plex in a pastoral setting,.- not .9 of , . 4 knowledge factory in the sense of handing out diplomas and assorted degrees as if they were paychecks, but of an institution for education which has outlived its usefulness by creating x its own in stitutional mentality and, thereby, discouraging individual thought. . " The point is, the University has Created the Student fend Destroyed the Person.' 5 Our course dealt with admittedly dif ficult and olften vague isubject matter, buj: nothing that should be beyond the grasp of the interested student whether he be an undergraduate or a graduate;. Nevertheless, one discovered that a con cept could not be understood unless it was restrictively defined (and this to an extreme: what is .Art? what is New? what is New Art?); that metaphorical thinking, and, indeed, the metaphor itself, is apparently antithetical to t'Jhe nature of a Student. In short, nothing was un derstood unless it was tersely written on the blackboard and then copied down on rule paiper for, one suspects, Mure ponderance and reference. It was dismaying, to say the least! Students were hesitant to express their own opi nions, despite the fact that no grades were given and assignments were recapitulated in class for the benefit of those who could not find the requisite time or materials. Students were afraid to have opinions beyond those of a High School Teacher's - nature. Students at tempted to deal with twentieth century events, whatever their antecedents with wucepis ierc over irom lectures in eigh- teenth and criticism. nineteentn century literary i One found oneself defending sub jectivity in art, confrontation with the oriiia, participation m the work Very tiresome, very elementary subjects. Ana tne worst part of all this i tw the members of the course were cprtaini,, brighter, more experie ly ' 4- i,J . ... ' tcie.eu, more mvoived than what J . , . rn" wuuiu expect trom the Typical Student mis, then, is an index of what the -University has become: each area so well defmed that all discussion is "academic"; each term so well restricted that it has no existential mean! The Daily Tar Heel accepts all letters, fo, publication prK they are typed, double - S and signed. Letters should be no longer than 300 words in lenU We reserve the right to editor libelous statements. Ior to act, however, is not hard to un derstand. The U.S. dollar is in trouble. Consistently in recent years the number of American dollars spent in foreign nations has exceeded the number ing ; each concept so well catagorized that there can be no relationships and we used to think that the mark of in telligence was the ability to relate -discrete elements into a , "meaningful Whole. Where are the Teachers? Have they become Programmers? Where are th Students? Have they become Com puters? - -And where are, the . snows of yesteryear?:,.;,.'::' , .. V-M ihi;', 1 I say, throw it all out and jstart over. "n. Myles Eric Ludwig . ,a Course Leader The New Art Editorial IT 1 Unaminsmi To The Editor: ( - . Your editorial calling for a "Polack Weekend" was apparently meant to be amusing, but I found it in extremely poor taste an emotional reaction to be sure, but one borne by the Polish traditions of my family. Contrary to your images, when I think of the Poles I think of my grandparents who came over here as refugees and who raised their children to be -Americans, I think' of my father who was forced to work in the coal mines at nine years of age to help his family, I think of my parents who couldn't afford to educate themselves but made it possi bl for my brother and I to be educated, (and, finally, I think of the spotless homes and' warm community of Hamtramck, Michigan where many of my relatives live. , You seem to have taken the myth of the Polish sub-culture" in America fostered by "Polish jokes" and added to it even more absurdities. Your editorial Stave Knowlton Educational Reform About a dozen people gathered around in stuffed chairs in the social lounge of James College Thursday night to talk about the Experimental College and the Ex perimental College bead IBGjM- and James Governor Bill Darrah. By sheer numbers your first inclination is to think that it wasn't the most en Ssticly successful meeting in history. And maybe it wasn't if you udge suc cesses by organizational size. But those there were interested in ex nanding the idea of trying to make educa Slnteresting to those who are learning il' And numbers can sometimes be a ht- tie deceiving, F " "z Wo LT"Z'rZnn reform here. This area 01 --r t effect a few TlXfTt of two groups changes m James 8 Jgd 0J. WOS Leaa?out the Experimental See a little over a yearago, and Bill 1L of foreign dollars spent in the United States. A few nations particularly France have built up large numbers of American dollars and have chosen to cash them in for gold from the U. reserves. . Com ih j 2 3 Concept is an insult to my heritage, and is based on the ignorance ' of accepting and perpetuating stereotypes. Mrs. Ferol Kott Tanner 202A Branson St. StFaiich - To the editor: Noel Dunivan's recent letter .to the editor signifies a common mistake that many people on campus have about the job of an editorial cartoonist. Within limited space available he must convey a message that would take a writer many inches. By neccessity he must ex aggerate his point in order for it to hit home. Bruce Strauch's cartoons are one of the finest aspects of the paper which has been mentioned as one of the reasons the DTH is the best college newspaper in its class. Strauch's car toons do have very meaningful content, but the student must first cut through the venure of exaggeration. Donald Walton 107 Stevens St SSe Daily Tar Heel is Published by the University of North Carolina Student Publication's Board, daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations. - - Offices are on the second floor of Graham -Memorial. Telephone numbers : editorial, sports, n e ws 933-1011; business, circu lation, advetising 933-1 163. Address : Box 1080. Chapel Hill. N.C., 27514. Second class postage paid at UJS. Post Office in Chapel Hill, N.C.' . . Subscription rates: $9 pCr year; $5 per semester. Darrah and Dick Levy a few weeks ago trying to modify a very similar idea to James. In that year since the Experimental College became the bare rudiments of a reality, the idea has grown to where over 700 students were taking some 54 courses last fall for no incentive other than they wanted to learn something. Over 0 per ent of those who attended the first session stuck it out to the last. One student taking five regular courses) those with hours credit and Q?P?A. affiliation) and four Ex perimental College courses appealed to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitters on to drop one of his regular courses because he found the load a bit heavy. The Chan cellor of course recommended that he drop one or more of his Experimental College courses. "But Chancellor,'' the boy said, 4those are the only interesting courses I'm tak ing." The Experimental College booklet which came out yesterdayhas 47 courses This has created a significant drain of U-S. gold a drain which could come so in tense that the United States simply would not have enough gold to redeem all dollar claims at their face value. If this hap pens, the American government would be forced to devalue the dollar much as the British government had to devalue the pound a few months ago. Aside from lowering American prestige, this move is undesirable because it would hurt our friends more than our enemies. Those cations who were trying to ease the gold drain by cot cashing in their dollars would get stuck with devalued dollars. The nations who had forced the crisis by demanding gold, however, would ha'e already received it and their economic position would be enhanced. This is the background for the pro blem, and here's what the administration has proposed to do aboutit: CUItTIAL America business opera tions abroad. PUT A ceiling on foreign loans by American banks. CUT foreign aid. PUT A tax on American tourist travelling abroad.. The last proposal, the tax on American tourists, is causing the most contraversy. The proposals for that tax were presented to the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this week by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler. Speaking for the administration, Fowler recommended ' that the tax be levied in the follcwing manner: Expenditures below $7 per day abroad are exempt. Expenditures between $7 and $15 will be taxed at the rate of 15 per cent. Expenditures over $15 will be taxed at 30 per cent. Fowler also asked for a 5 per cent tax on transportation ,and a sharp reduction in custom-free goods that could be brought back into the country from abroad. These specific measures, the Secretary said, should reduce the net deficit by around $500 million. While this would certainly help, there is much doubt that the proposals are really adequate to eliminate the pro blem. . First, there is doubt that the tax could even be enforced. A 30 per cent tax is high enough that many people would try to beat it by lying about the amount of money they are spending abroad for' the government to investigate every claim adequately would involve a K monstrous quagmire of bureaucratic red ' tape and a flagrant violation of privacy. Every dollar would have to be accounted J for, every suitcase would have to be in spected, and every tourist would have to be searched lest he escape with a few un taxed dollars. Even if the government did decide to go through with the mess, many people would avoid the tax by leaving from Canada or Mexico where it would not ap- jPly. " . . Furthermore, there are doubts that the adlministration's proposals will really help the situation. As an executive of one large corporation asserted, the proposals are like trying to treat a mortal wound with a band-aid. President Johnson is purposely overlooking a primary source of the gold drain, the war in Vietnam. Every month the United States spends around $2.5 billion on the war, and every month much of that money sifts through . the Southeast Asian economy and even- tually ends up in France. That's where it hurts the most. Finally, there is doubt that either the administration or the Congress actually has the authority to levy such a tax. Such a thing has never been done in the United States. Quite the contrary, it has been generally accepted that American citizens have a basic right to come and go freely except in time of declared war. But now the administration seeks to abridge that right by putting it up for sale. Congress should be extremely cautious with the administration's requests. Expanding listed and Goldstein predicts some 20 or so more to crop up when registration opens Monday. The James project which is quite similar except in name to a com plementary set-up across the street in Morrison has at least a half dozen pro jects underway at the moment and more on the way as more students come up with more ideas. "The only limit to-this thing is the students imagination," Darrah has said Topics so far range from experimental films to chess tournaments to a drama group. And things are just getting going. Some call it involvement, some say it's meaningful dialogue, and some say ntthing mere than participation. The slogans vary but the principle is amaz ingly the same throughout. And it's the same principle that sponsored Residence College conferences in Durham this fall and in Amherst, Mass. last year. Simply, it's making life around the Old Well a little more bearable. SW
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