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. Student Legislature tonight will
be asked to rattify the ad
ministration's drug proposal.
Should they do so,' it will be a
major defeat for student rights on
. this campus. '
, Although there are some good
things about the proposal, Student ;
Legislature's ratifying the entire
package would be a mistake. The .
proposal is simply .incompatible
with the tradition of a student
judiciary. ' '
The proposal states that
students who use drugs, upon a se
cond offense, will be brought to
trial before a faculty-ad-
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before existing student courts.
This is saying, in effect, that
drug cases are simply too im
portant to be heard by the student
courts. But if the student courts are
, to be considered competent only
to hear certain cases, why have
them at all?
Further, the Adrninistration is
acting in bad faith in effect, is
attempting to blackmail Student
Government when it says that
either Student Legislature passes
the bill, or the Adrninistration will
continue to handle all drug cases
without anv . narticination b v
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students.
The message from the
Administrators to the legislature is
clear: "Either you play our way,
or you don't get a chance to play at
all."
Further, the proposal will
strengthen the University's grip on
the in loco parentis concept, and
will make it more difficult in the
A.
. Campus Code.
; ine proposal also lacKs any
specific schedule of penalties for
; :drug offenders. -The only mention
fof punishment is vague, and states
: ly. . . to control drug abuse."
So what will happen to a student
; who goes before the board? Who
knows : it will depend on the whims
of the board members whims
which will not be tempered by any
sort of limitation on penalties.
This alone would seem sufficient
reason o send the proposal back to
A Little Discrimination
i The University has been cleared
- of discriminating employement
practices, but the Department of
Labor still saw to fit to make
specific recommedations to the ad
ministration concerning future
practice.
The complaint filed with the
Labor Department Sept. 17, 1967
made by Dr. B. T. Elliott Jr.,
charged the University with
'persistent overt discrimination''
;;and prompted the department's
two-week November in
vestigation. The "persistent over
discrimination" charge was not
substantiated during the in
vestigation, but ironically, the
; 'd e partment's recommendations
-coincide - with a number of com
' plaints ennumerated in Elliott's ac
cusation. The University has, reportedly,
complied with most of these recom
mendations, and compliance with
the other suggestions are on tap for
the near future.
Although the University,
therefore, was not formally charg
ed with discriminatory practices,
the recommendations made it pain
Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor
Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News, Editor .
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
proposal:
?o Veto It
the Adjiainistration, with a note at
tached asking them to finish draw
ing it up before Student Legisla
ture will consider it.
. There are, however, some good
things about the proposal. The
main one of these is that . the
University says it will treat first of
fenders as medical, rather than,
disciplinary, cases.
This is something which needs
to be implemented just not as
part of this proposal, though. It
needs to be embodied in a new, and
more limited, proposal to be work
ed out between Student Govern
ment and the Administration.
Meanwhile, this proposal has to
be rejected. That will be the first
step to the student's getting one
they can live with.
Road Weeds
New Surface
Might Now
"There's a good chance that it,
(the road behind Connor and Alex
ander Residence Halls), will be
widened and coated with asphalt ,
this summer.'' - ? ! "
So spoke Physical Plants Direc
tor Walter Hamilton, when asked
how his office will respond to a
petition about the road. ,
The petition has been circulated
through Connor, Alexander and
Winston and has gathered about
380 signatures signatures of peo
ple who are tired of :
HAVING THEIR cars bounced
up and down as they drive over the
rutted strip of red clay behind the
tennis courts, and in some cases
having to pay to get their wheels
realligned afterwards!
OR, WALKING THROUGH the
. mud that forms there whenever it
rains or snows.
These persons who signed the
petition signed it because they
were tired of those thing s
now and not because they thought
they would get tired of them by
summer.
fully obvious that there was truth
to the accusations.
John Hodgson, who conducted
the study for the Office of Federal
Contract Compliance, has said that
the adniinistration has agreed to
implement "each and every one"
of the proposals.
Question is does it have to
take an outside formal in
vestigation with outside formal
recommendations to make the
Administration recognize a fester
ing stye in their very own eye?
Hodgson said that the matter 'is
not closed" even though8 "this is not
due to a desire on the part of the
University to not implement the
recommendations."
So the University is very nicely
under the obligation and should
we mention, threat to continue in
this newly enlightened vein of
employment practices.
The University was not found
guilty of large and persistent
discriminations, just little ones.
But the little ones can seem
pretty big to the people on the
"wrong" end of the color spectrum.
Bun
The controversial Speaker Ban that's
been hanging around for five years has
finally gone down to ignominous un
constitutionality. And noDody really
cares.
Two years ago,
things came to a head
with speeches, mar
ches on Consolidated
University President
William C. Friday's
home, petitions of
grievance and the
founding of a free
speech group called
the Committee for
Free Inquiry.
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To The Editor: ' .
The recent article on The Daily Tar
Heel sports pages regarding boycotts by
black athletes exemplifies the inability of
most members of even an academic
white community to perceive what it is
all about. The paternalistic racist at
titudes are so. ingrained that many self
styled liberals find it inconceivable that
any black athlete would sacrifice
personal glory, fame, or riches for the
cause of his less fortunate black brothers.
There are indeed numerous white people
wno perceive a major contribution to
humanity when they can cheer their
local, professional, or Olympic black
athletes .
"The Chapel Hill Weekly even reports
that a black athlete is the talk of
Franklin Street and is improving race
relations in North CarolinaBlacks in ac
ceptable positions, which now includes
local sports, have always pleased the ma
jority group. But, when Blacks, especially
those for whom they cheer, choose to
support "controversial" issues such as
the elimination of discrimination against
black people; then the sports liberal
looses his black respect because the
darkie has forgotten his place "He has
hurt his cause". They might never cheer
again and will withdraw their non-ex-istant
support of equality ; thus, con
tributing to the so-called white
blacklash.
The Owen Davis article in The Daily
Tar Heel proposes that black athletes can
show the world how far they have come
in 100 years by running in the Olympics.
It would require an old Negro to run so
slowly. Blacks have been riinning from
white and with whites inside and outside
of the Olympics for many years. Perhaps
there is some unknown number of gold or
silver medals required for full
citizenship.
Tommy Smith, Lew Alcindor and
others will and can make their personal
decisions without the benefit of white ad
visors. Black people have a wealth of
these self appointed advisors whose
primary purpose is to always define
what a good, "responsible" darkie should
fnAaU'fw.ey remain very" com
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of poverty and the institution of equality
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afSays bfen mte cler. For the sake
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because in the tradition of two gaV
Americans Nat Turner and pJtrick
Henry-our struggle will proceed
' Dr. B. T. Elliott, Jr.
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University's
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reaction. Rnth 1 .
speakers were denied the right to sneak
on campus so Aptheker stood on the
szdewalj on the norlh side of Franklin SL
and told hundreds of students sitting on
the campus lawn in McCorckle Place that
he vvasn t going to say anything unless he
could come on campus. Paul Dickson,
then President of the Student Body; Bob
Powell, then Chairman of the State Af
fairs Committee and later SB President
and a dozen others wound up suing Presi
dent Friday, Chancellor J. Carlyle Sit
terson and the University Trustees
claiming the Ban was unconstitutional - '
This week they all won and the ban is
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Crooked Mice?
To the Editor: .
"Much has been said recently about the
"Mickey Mouse" of campus politics: "It
has alienated itself from the student
body, it is a hierarchy run by an 'elite
group', it is just a training course for
politicians." From this, we had concluded
that it was a mere playpen for the cam-
pus politicos. Thus, like many apathetic
students, we had taken the view, "why
get involved?"
A week ago last Sunday, we were ap
proached by a campaign solicitor digging
up votes for a potential nominee. He told
us that his candidate needed votes. He
noted that party membership cost $1, but,
in his words, "the dollar might be able to
be arranged." This solicitor went through
the rest of the wing, giving, presumably,
this same pitch.
Might be arranged? What in hell goes
on around here, anyhow? No wonder
students, especially freshmen like us
don't want to get involved. Perhaps cam
pus politicians should clean and
straighten themselves up before they can
expect the overwhelming support of the
student body. And on this question of sup
port from politicians to politicians there's
always the idea of a blank check.
Duane Finger
830 Morrison
Donald Worth
828 Morrison
Gentlemah'like
To the Editor:
Dean Canseler's theory "that the
character and the quality of a man
should be counted along with his
academic capabilities" is correct.
The distinguishing characteristic of
an educated man "he can be counted on
to behave as a gentleman" in my opinion
means that if he is not a gentleman when
he comes to the University and is unwill
ing to acquire these qualities while here,
he is not educated, and the Administra
tion has every right to refuse to grant
Sersity when he leaves
nniversitv has no desire t
degree. The stuaeni represents me .
here and the
University has no aesire 10 uavc i -
aee and reputauon aamageu iw
educated students when they go out into
the world.
As an example I asked a student
the other day not to put his coat on the
Sair at my table without askmg
Emission. He put it on the chair and
L very rude. I had to get up and take it
T I said to him - "You are no
Gentleman and I don't see how you got in
6e uSversity." He had no answer to
th He knev me, had been reading my
.nmments in the Tar Heel, which he
eStly didn't like, and he, purposedly,
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no more,
anymore.
But no bod v
really
cares
Primarily nobody cares because half
the student body here two years ago has
graduated. If you assume that juniors
and seniors are more involved with
things like Speaker Bans and law suits
than are freshmen and sophomores, then
the percentage who well remember
Aptheker and the law suit is even
smaller.
But there are many around here who
were here and involved then and they
don't seem to care either. f
Gary Waller, who in im was head of
the campus chapter of Students for a
Democratic Society, is still here, but he
says "I really can't get excited over it
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took this occasion to blow off steam! "
I didn't approach him, as I do so
many of the student, 99 of whom take it
with good humor. He approached me with
the intent of provoking a scene.
I don't know this student's name, but I
wonder if the administration were to
identify him, if he would be a candidate
for a degree, in the event he was permit
ted to stay on at the University?
Students who have never been con
trolled at home don't want any controls I
here. But, "It isn't what you want that
makes you fat.. It is what you eat. "The
administration is right You are going
to take it here! . ;
v I don't see why the few students here
who don't like what I am doing at the
University, bother to read what I write.
Why don't they just pass over it?
Otelia Connor
Quarterly Review
To the Editor:
Over the years an informal agreement
has been in effect between the Tar Heel
and the Carolina Quarterly. Under the
terms of this agreement, the Quarterly
has a professor of English writer a re
view of the magazine for the Tar Heel.
This review has traditionally appeared
on the firstor second day of Quarterly
sales on campus.
Three' weeks ago, after first checking
with your office, I again asked a pro
fessor Professor Jack Raper of the
English Department" to review the
Winter, 1968, issue of the Quarterly. I
brought this review to the Tar Heel office
on Monday, February '12, and was
assured that it would be published, in the ,
Wednesday, February 14, issue of the Tar
Heel. Our plans were to sell the magazine
on the 14th, 15th and 16th.
The review did not appear on the 14th,
as promised. Nor did it appear on the
15th: or 16th, both of which would have
been accpetable. In fact, the review was
never printed in the Tar HeeL
As a result of this lack of publicity,
Quarterly sales were sometwhat below
expectations for this issue. Naturally, this
causes us some concern.
What concerns us even m o r e ,
however, is what we are to tell Professor
Raper. He spent a week of his valuable
time reading the Quarterly and writing
the review, only to see it go un
published. :
Of course you , had every right to
refuse to print the review. The question
we would like answered is why? Why did
you choose not to honor our long-standing
agreement? Why did you not honor your
promise that the review would appear on
the 14th? I know that the review was
well-written, and that many students are
interested enough in the Quarterly to
want to read a review of it.
Why, then, did you choose not to print .
the review?
Peter A. Stitt, Editor
The Carolina Quarterly
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again.
Waller has earned his doctorate since
then and partially because he's an in
structor cf sociology now, he wears a
coat and tie most of the time, but he still
has his beard and he still wears boots
quite a bit. You'd figure he'd still care.
But his issues now are the War and the
Presidency and he sat in Harry's over a
cup cf coffee and joked about the old
days and the Spaker Ban controversy.
He said Aptheker and maybe
Wilkinson, too might be invited to
speak on campus this semester, "but it's
harder to get people to Contribute to br
inging speakers here when they're not for
a test case," he said.
SDS is still going strong and they may
invite a few leftists to speak on campus
just to show that it can be done, but the
enthusiasm is gone. SDS doesn't have a
lot of money, and, as Waller says, they'll
have trouble getting support now that it's
not illegal. Aptheker would still be con
troversial, of course, but there's the big
risk that nobody would care enough to
make it worth the trouble.
. . ; But there may be hope for the SDS
and those who want to have free speech
as a good issue without losing the em
phasis of having it perfectly legal.
There's rumor brewing over the wire
. that people over in Raleigh are trying to
get a constitutional speaker ban in the
works.
Governor Dan K. Moore isn't saying
anything yet,, but the wall between cam
pus and Aptheker nn 1966 was named
"Dan Moore's Wall" in his honor.
Walls don't get named for nothing and
it's almost a sure bet that, something will
be upcoming about a new anti-free
speech law.
Because, you see, the law was
declared unconstitutional not because of
its principles, but only for being overly
vague. Which is a neat job of issue-dodging
on the part of the three federal court
' judges who made the ruling.
But it still leaves the legality of anti
free speech legislation up in the air.
James Won't
Have 'Else'
To the Editor:
I write in response to comments by A.
Leonard Tubbs, Governor of King
Residence College, concerning the
relative merits of a senatorial system of
government and a system he apparently
feels inconsistent with the stress c In
dividual" initiative employed at .;nv.
Residence College. There is no rea ,
consider the two mutually exclusive -evidenced
by James's active Senate. Tl
two systems do coexist and, in fact, com
plement the existence of each other.
Mr. Tubbs, however, apparently would
not have it so. His comments go far to
explain the less than satisfactory func
tioning of the Residence College system.
For if a Senatorial method of government
is designed to remove the necessity of in
dividual initiative, then it is no wonder
that the dorm-dwellers lead an uninspir
ing existence.
If the Student Legislature is designed
to remove the necessity of individual in
itiative, then it is no wonder that the stu
dent body doesn't really care.
If the U.S. Senate is designed to
remove the necessity of individual in
itiative, then it is no wonder that the
- average citizen doesn't want to get in
volved. But you, Mr. Tubbs, apparently feel
this unimportant. Let the dorm dweller
live a hardly more than moribund ex
istence he's got a Senate to take care
of his problems. Why should the dorm
dweller relieve his boredom? He's got the
Senate meeting downstairs. .
At James, though, (if I may make my
own interpretation; we feel the necessity
to do mere than discorporate into
ethereal non-entity. We feel that in
individual yes, single, separate in
dividuals possess the key to release
themselves from the morass 0 f
lethargy.
But where does this leave the Senate?
Exactly where it should be doing those
things best done by a society rather than
by an individual. It refuses, however, to
be the Else of the phrase, "Let someone
Else do it."
Mr. Tubbs, there are places for the in
dividual and places for the society and
neither can supplant the other. It is my
fondest wish, however, that the place of
the individual will become the more
significant of the two. It is by stimulating
the awareness of the individual that
respresentative govenment exists, not by
submerging it.
" James W Moore
Speaker of the Senate,
James Residence College
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