J HE Datt y tar HEEL
J25JebiWT 16, 1023
Tetters To The Editor
Gfijup Mm$ CI
9
I!
rrr
UlI bo
77) tn?
Vi
V
A
A
W7
Wm0
(0 1 (JJ)ij1s(3
75 Yczrs of Editorial Freedom
EH1 Anions E2sr
Den Wdton, Ettffrs$J UcrjsQsr
GomtiMMinii
"The University should
educate the student to
function in a society, not
just in ;an academic en-vironmentZ-Dcrshie
Mc
Dcvitt, assistant dean of
women, presenting Ad
ministration viewpoint at
Forum on the Honor System.
"A code of academic in
tegrity would be the best
possible system" William
Miller, chairman of the
Men's Honor Council, pre
senting student viewpoint.
"As long as apathy pre
vails, they (the students)
will get exactly what they
deserve." Earl Haddcn,
past president of Di-Phi
and one ojf he prime mov
ers of the Attitudinal Sur
vey on the Honor System.
,
VRC Ruling Co:
But Why. Not T
WRC's move to change the
present policy of campusments for
any fraction of a minute ac
cumulated over ten can be hailed
as a final recognition of a
ridiculous situation.
Under the existing rule, if a
coed happened to be a half minute
late one nightfter she has already
been campused for using up her ten
late minutes, she is subject to a se
cond campus.
And so it proceeds throughout
the semester campusments for
seconds, over and, over again. The
punishment is ridiculously , stin- -gent
for such a petty offense.
The new policy, which will
operate on t the basis of ac
cumulated 10 minute blocks con
stituting a (weekend night campus,
profides a more reasonable and
workable system.
The only regrettable facet of the
decision is that it will not be in
itiated until next year. There would
appear to be no justifiable argu-;
ment for delay of such an in
novation. The system has proven to
be an unfair and absurb in its picky
basis for punishment, and more
than once it is only the honest coeds
who are punished.
Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor
Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, iVe?s Editor
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
"There is no peaceful,
way for a group who holds
power to be forced to ab
dicate its power" Michael
ICatz, professor of law.
enaable
Many girls just rush " up the
stairs and do not bother to sign the
house offense slips while the desk
girl has her back turned relocking
the front door.
Those who do stick around to
sign the slips listing their late
minutes are at ,the mercy of an
of ten inprecise clock.
WRC has obviously acknowledg
ed the fact that the present system'
is faulty by their, action Tuesday
night. Hiey are penalizing
themselves and the other coeds
who are subject to the current
system, however, by not making
the change effective as of now.
Is the red tape so strong that an
improvement v cannot be im
mediately initiated without having
to wait for the printed decree to ap
pear .in the WRC rulebook? .
Changes for the future are fine
when it is understandable that the
change must of necessity ac
company other time consuming,
alterations. ,
But in .this case, the only altera
tion would be informing the coeds
of thechange.
Simple, isn't it? Then, .why
not? -
To The Editor:
Recent events in Viet Nam are likely
to bring out the worst in many people
who are firmly committed to an opinjon -of
the war. To those who feel the war is
just, any question of its justness in the
present emergency will seem i&e
capitulation to the enemy; and any at
tempte made by us to negotiate now
would appear only as a reward for the
enemy's ruthlessness a reward that
would inevitably lead to more
ruthlessness in the future and an endless .
string of humiliating' concessions. To
some, therefore, the present events are
the pretext for a denial of debate and an
insistence that all loyal Americans
recognize the victories being won, no
matter how hard they are to see.
In addition, these events, confirming
so well the moral outrage of those-. who
oppose the war, are sure to provoke new
civil disobedience and violence, with the
result that both sides , will become even
I
i i
our ocon ocl-ef-i .
Wit ...4 Hellas 7
Letters To The Editor
HIT 9
V.
To the Editor: . j
T want to publically express my sup
port for the stand taken by the Editor of
The paily Tar Heel with regard to -the
adimnistration's new drug policy pro
posal. To me, the particular issue, drugs,
is less important than the fact that the
aidmindstra'tion! is interfering with the
private lives of the students again.
Behind the . new proposal is Dean
Cansler's "theory of education and the
role of tthe University, which ds -that the
character and the quality of a main
should! ' be counted along with his
academic capabilities." This sitatement is
simply another expression of the in loco
parentis idea, but since the Dean is no
doubt sincere in his belief that the
University should stand in the place of a
parent with regard ito the students, his
views deserve a serious attempt at a
rebuttal. .
The parent-child relationship is found
ed on the love which the parent has for
his offspring; the parent has authority to
discipline the child, not becuase the child
ii his "property," but because he loves
' him and, therefore, has his best interests
ait heart. A University is a soulless cor
porate entity and is by definition m
capable of love. It follows .that' the
University cannot possibly assume the
role of parent with respect to its'
students.
There have been times in the oast
when a teacher had only a hahdfuHf
students and could take an interest in
each of ihem individually. Such a
teacher, a human being, could stand in
loco parentis to his students. IfeW
each of them well enough that SSd
make their welfare, and disipfhe
personal concern. Needless to
teaden and students don't snare
The impOTS2ity of the Universitv is
a cliche: what kind of relationsSn
one have with a computer SLP
one. Yet Dean cTSTnd C?
trato persist hcgtl
they have the sight to" assume7gre
Tkt Daily Tar Heel is
published by the University of
Nsrth Carolina Student
Publication's Board, daily,
eXffi2 ?days, examinations
periods and vacations.
Offices are n the second
floor of Graham Memorial
Telephone numbers: editorial",
sports, new s S03-10H '
business, circulation
adveUsing-933-1163. Address
Box 1080. Chapei Hill Mr
27514. ' K"'
Second class postage baid at
U.S. Post OfHce in ChaHin
Subscription rates:
year; $3 per semester.
$9 per
more hardened and unwilling for rational
discussion. To those in the middle those
many who for various reasons hope
desperately or indifferently for an end to
the war without any effort from them or
disruption of their lives these events
mean, if one faces . their implications,
that any such hope is now almsot com
pletely gone. Those' who bae refused to
take sides and who have supported the
President because, perhaps only
because, he is the President must again
ask themselves about the worth of this'
war.
We have wavered between two goals
in Viet Nam: one, to establish, a stable,
democratic country there; and, second',
to prevent the territory from becoming
Communistic. Yet, if the people do not
care who wins and the evidence for this
is almost incontroversible then, in the
present situation, we can not achieve the
first goal. To make them care seems
beyond bur abilities; we do not even have
you SoufJiervi 3(7
gof no comfit ?
3 Joe K h octrse.ues.
o.r5P up i
disciplinary powers over (thousands of
human beings they have never even smil
ed at, let alone loved. It's one thing for
Otelia Connor to claim that she has 14,000
children; has at least recognizes that, at
best, she can only hope ito set a good ex
ample; her umbrella symbolizes a threat
of punishment which, is never carried
out. . y--
The atdministrators, on the other hand,
are presumptuous enough to think they
have the right to thrust their moral and
social values on all the students, at all
times, on or off campus, and to punish
those who don't Jive up to their stan
dards, even if that means usupring tiie
state's judicial role and trampling on the
'students civil rights.
Were it not for' the fact that Dean
Cansler is probably sSncere dm believing
(that his Oxfice, or the administration, has
the right to stand in loco parentis with
respect to the students, , his unfounded
claims of authority over the lives and
conduct of Sthousainds of people be has
never seen would be arrogant, to say the
least. It must be regocnized that the only
possible relationship between the student
and 4be University is an impersonal one,
and because of this fact The Daily Tar
Heel's stand on the drug poCicy issue is
correct. T. A. Cabarga,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
APO Sanctity?
To The Editor: .
Be it known to all persons, all major
and manor dieties, and all creatures of
earth that the APO Fraternity is
Lyond all campus law. By virtue of their
Stted good works, APO does notbave
ZL anyone's permission to do anytog
on this campus. In tneu
Setter to the Tar Heel of February 9, they
Smowledge considering themselves to
ere to be principles of
ieadership, Friendship, and Service to
The Daily Tar Heel accepts all
letters for publication provided
thoy 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.
the ability to make large numbers of our
own people care about this country. In
addition, our sporadic attempts to make
-the Vietnamese care is constantly un
dermined by a government which is,
beyond question, pitiful And to make
matters worse, we fight against a man
who is, however much we may regret it,
a symbol of real Vietnamese aspirations:
HoChiMinh.
So we are left with the second goal.
But if the second goal assumes priority,
then the most efficient and perhaps the
only possible path to victory is one in
which the people become expendable. If
at is the territory that is our main concer,
then the methods used in this war the
delayed bombs which may go off when
children have returned to a vicinity; the
bombing of villages on the strength of a
rumor that Viet Cong may be in the
area; the recent bombing of cities all
become understandable. All such actions
e (ike US 3;h
f J'
fQ have
special ribbons
1
Campus, Community and Nation", yet
(they are above a realization that with
leadership goes responsibility.
I doubt the APO Service Fraternity
would accomplish many of their, services
without first securing permission from
those to be helped, but they cannot waste
(their time by securing permission to park
a car up beside the Old Well far a
Photograph. Too bad, because unless my
sense of direction 5s badly askew, the Old
Well is just across the street from South
Building, the main administrative office
of this campus.
It is also just across the street from
the Campus Police office in the YMCA.
But these men, so dedicated to
leadership, friendship, and service cannot
be credited with any effort to secure of
ficial permission. No other organization
on campus would consider itself so uv
dependent, or so priviledged as the
.glorious APO.
Ben Lamm
60 Maxwell Road.
-A
Ode To Mary
fro The Editor:
The February 9 issue of the TAR
HEEL included an article by Mary
Righton in which she suggests that; "so
meone poetically inclined could write
something tritely inspirational of bow I
walked in the gym totally apathetic and
(walked out feeling after two weeks I bad
become a part of the school '
I would like to submit an attempt in the
'Hi22ledv-Pi22ledy" form of poetry, a
recent innovation, popularized in TIME -magazine,-with
the following rules:
THE BASIC meter must be double
dactyls
LINE 2 must be a proper .name, in
double dactyls
LINE 6 must be a single word
LINES 7 & 8 must be a pun, joke, in
sight, paradox, etc."
This is the result:
WELC05IE IARY RIGHTON
Hippitylloppity
N.C. University
Throw's open its gate
And welcomes you in.
With aH of its gaiety,
one asks
Superciliously,
How could you spend
Two weeks in the gym?
.Thomas R-.Gnau
Pharmacy Grad.
ignore the inevitable reactions of the peo
ple, since the peoplenever having bees
enthusiastically for us are mere!y
another obstacle in our path. Or perhaps
not an obstacle such a description
revolts us, aisd clouds our good in
tentionsbut merely a present ir
relevancy, suffering, forgiving, endurisg
all with patience, with the knowledge that
they will be the theoretical beneficiaries
of American abundance after the war is
won.
Eat we have seen a number of
desperate reactions recently which tell us
that even this second goal b elusive. In
the past two weeks, we have seen our
President publicly announcing victory at
the very beginning of the battle. We have
seen bleated casualty figures for the
enemy which can be, with gentleness,
described as a hoax. We have been given
reassurances that our government was
aware and, therefore, indisputably h
control of the coming general uprising;
yet the penetration of the enemy into the
cities was unhampered, and leaders of
the South Vietnamese were calmly away
on vacation.
We have seen air strikes in the cities,
, in an attempt to wipe out the enemy's
presence as quickly as possible, lest so
meone notice what be bad done, or
realize how be did it. (We hear also of the
latest administrative tactic in New
Hampshire, where registered Democrats
are being mailed "pledge cards" to
declare themselves for Johnson.) Nor can
we deny that the reputed progress in
pacification estimated to be two-thirds
of the population as recently as kst
November has been a delusion. And the
constant reiterations that Khe Sana will
not be another Dien Bien Phu are
numerous enough to make one's blood
turn cold.
Not even the most ardent pro-war ad
vocate can deny that this war has con
tinually worsened, and its effects con
tinually posion our own society. To
recognize this is not to blame ourselves
completely for the failure, nor to im
mediately lapse into gloom about the
possible fate of our civilization. But it is
to recognize our limitations, and to see
that persistence in a hopeless enterprise,
where a needed cooperation has not been
forthcoming, is to risk the very civiliza
tion we hope to defend. If Communism is
a rampant force which must be stopped,
then it would be better to stop it
somewhere else, where the people are
dedicated to the same goals and the
enemy has not preempted the hope for
the : future. In 1954, in the wake of the
Communist triumph in China, such a con-
elusion was almost unthinkable; but it is
thinkable now. ' ' -
It is also better to make our stand
when we have cured our. own society. In
spite of our convictions that our way of
life is bets, we still lay bare to the world
an obvious array of injustices, including a
terrifying attitude that continually
depicts the aspirations of people as a
manufactured thing. And how can we
when we do not understand, nor want to
understand, our own hopelessness and
lethargy? f
As the war worsens, greater dangers
lie in the future, especially concerning
Khe Sanh and the threat it raises: that
nuclear weapons may be used.
Ken Bien Phu was under sedge for 55
days. In spite of our government's
denials that Khe Sanh may suffer the
same fate, it is iikely that our only hope
(there is a stalemate, barring any reckless
and desperate move by the North Viet
namese. But the ease with which Lang
yei fell suggests that even a stalemate is
a frantic hope. Air power causes only
superficial, enemy losses; and other than
air power, all offensive moves now seem
to lie with the enemy.
So one might speculate: suppose, after
40 days of inconclusive sedge, after the
American position has suffered, through
slow" attrition, that the only recourse,
other than accepting defeat, would be a
sudden massive airlift of those left at
Khe Sanh and a nuclear strike against an
enemy which would be unable to
withdraw as fast- Such a possibility
seems unthinkable but surely no more
unthinkable than the thought, several
months ago, that the Viet Cong would
seriously threaten almost every major ci
ty in the country.
' The logic which leads to bombing in
the cities, as a substitute for inadequate
ground forces, can lead also to the use of
nuclear weapons at Khe Sanh, to
- recompense the privileged sanctuary en
joyed by the North Vietnamese, and the
inability of conventional bombing to
seriously deplete their ranks. That logic
could become irresistable if a worsened
American position coincided with
substantial Viet Cong accomplishments in
the cities or- an outbreak of war in
Korea.
In this, merely a bad dream? The
latest rumors concerning nuclear
weapons seem to indicate that
Washington is in a pessimistic mood. The
realization that nuclear weapons are in
the area, at least as close as Korea, is
hardly reassuring. A war gone
wrong lacking the essential ingredient of
the loyalty cf the people we hope to
defend must sometime resort t o
desperate measures which once were
unimaginable. And for all Americans the
questions posed so often in these last few
years become even more demanding: is
this war really just, really in our national
interest? And more: has our government
lost control ol the realities of its
power?
Charles Ruhl
213 Purefoy Road