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9 THE DAILY taR HEl jFndayy February 23, 1223 P3 2 8. Km tl!itr .1 9 77 f pi mg mm it unee w m 76 Years of Editorial Freedom Dsn 7sltcn, Bfessj Ucrjzgsr . Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor Rebel Good, iVews Editor Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager ID- ity The Poof Trustee Who'll Stay In A Dorm It really is a good thing that the women members of the Board of Trustees are coming here to spend the night Monday in spite of the WRC's forcing coeds to come in early because ot if. How can it be a good thing? Very simply: the trustees are going to stay overnight in the women's residence halls they visit. And there's nothing like letting a trustee spend the night in one of these places to give her a new outlook on appropriations for women's dorms. For only by living through it can. anybody actually see just how coeds here live. For instance, a woman trustee might take a completely new view of hiring nightwatchmen for the dorms irregardless of the cost if a prowler should happen to break into the dorm during her stay there. And since the ladies are going to be staying on the halls with the coeds, they'll presumably be undergoing other assorted hardships of dorm life, too. What's going to happen, we wonder, if a one of the trustees , decides she'd lite to take d shower ' before going to bed? ; ; . , She'll step into the shower stall unsuspectingly, adjust the water to :the right temperature and proceed to blissfully lather herself, un til. . . Until sombody, somewhere, in the dorm, flushes a john. Then, that stream of water which had been ever-so just right changes into scalding steam. That's just the way the showers work here. There's also the slight matter of where all the scalding water goes: it's certainly not down the drain, because they're normally too stop ped up for anything less than an atomic blast to penetrate. So where does the water have to go? That's right, all over the bathroom-floor about an inch deep. Okay, so we presume that the trustee lives through her ex perience in the shower stall neither drowning in the overflow ing water nor suffering any worse than first or second degree burns and trots off to her trundle, for the night. Since this is still winter, it will probably be, cold outside. Inside, too, maybe if that's the direction in which the radiator is disposed to go that night. Or, possibly she'll roast because the heating system has decided to make up for lost time. In either case, the room tem perature should be sufficiently un comfortable to convince the trustee that more money needs to be ap propriated for dorm heating. So then comes dawn, at which time the trustee gaily bounds from her bed and heads for the restroom to wash her face. Fat chance. She'll probably be getting up just about the same time -as the girls on the hall who have 8 o'clock classes. And since there are an . average of three wash basins per washroom, the trustee will get to 'wait her turn. And wait. And wait. When she goes back to her room to dress after either giving up on the face washing, or waiting around till she gets a chance at the wash bowl - she might discover that her dress needs a jiffy press ing job. This, normally, is no big thing: just borrow an ironing board and run over the garmet with a handy-dandy travel iron. But, lo, there's no ironing board to be found on the floor. The only one in the building is in the base ment. And so goes the trustee's night in the dorm. Everybody will be sorry that they will have been so un comfortable, but you know how it is in these dorms. . . Maybe it will be better the next time they visit. If somebody possibly even the women trustees should decide that dorms here need a little im provement, it just might be. Good MovA By WRC Bv JUDITH WEINBERG Svedal to The Daily Tar Heel Several weeks ago there was a spontaneous confrontation between two Duke University administrators and a group of. faadtt and students from S and UNC who came to raise the issue of Duke s ownership of shares in Dow Chemicat-a company that S most of the .napalm being used currently in Viet nam (They also produce Xcides specifically geared to defoliate Vietnamese vegetation.) One of the administrators quite unabashedly stated that the sole criteria for investment of university monies was a company's "Soundness". In the. small exchange that followed this comment, it became perfectly apparent that there Is one and only one criteria for soundness. Pure and simply it's fiscal robustness.. And producing napalm turns out to be fiscally robust in deed. ' Never was there any in dication that the ad ministrators ever entertained the possibility that a university might construe itself to be a slightly special sort of in stitution, perhaps thTbnly sort in our society, that should and could include within its criteria those for soundness some notion of moral as well as fiscal soundness. It never seemed to cross their "collective mind" (or even "jus one f their minds that's all it might take) that somehow the in t e 1 1 i gence, enlightenment, humanity, decency and im agination that the university is supposed to be very much about should be included into its administrative and financial functions if the university is in fact to '- stand for these aforementioned values. Are university ad ministrators so naive as to - think that the way in which they carry on the ad ministering on their institution doesn't seep down as ideology and style into the rest of university life? Do they totally lack the insight and objectivity that should tell them that their administr ative style characterizes the stance of the . university in society and that to the extent that this style and ideology lacks enlightenment, humanity et al so does the university qua organization in a society of organization? Shouldn't the university con ceive of itself as having the obligation not only to educate through classroom teaching but also by providing society with a model in- s titution enlightened humane, intelligent? Instead, however, the university has become a mere reflection of the most mundane and materialistic. That this failure of im agination and morality hasn't . succeeded in being confined to purely fiscal decisions was quite apparent last weekend when Duke and UNC ad ministrators raised objections over the announced end cf draft deferments for graduate students objections raised in the main because of its effect on the manpower structure of the university. While I am not attacking that as an inappropriate con cern for administrators, I want to strongly suggest that it was evidence of extreme moral' bankruptcy that they waited so long to see the implications of the war and the draft on the moral, intellectual and cultural life of their students who, because of the system came to college right out of high school not necessarily to learn and grow, but for a II-S in stead students who might very well have benefited from some time to think, grow, maybe even gain some helpful financial independence. And that same process, of course, got repeated with respect to the motives for school motives hardly ap propriate f or e d a c at i 0 n a 1 achievement. And where were the ad ministrators objections when it was boldly apparent that the draft is so inequitable, forcing those who by socio-economic fiat are not college bound to fight the war while ethers could go to college? And what about their ob jections when research is con ducted on campus to develop more efficient ways of killing and maiming people? Shouldn't the purpose cf research be knowledge, not lucrative con- tracts? And what about when they give such free access cf the campus to military recruiters to practically seduce young men into the m i 1 i t ary especially when there is certainly lots of serious evidence to suggest that by perpetuating the military by manpower and ideology you participate in the perpetuating of (perhaps even guaranteeing), the use of the military as a regular alternative in our relations with the outside world and with "uppity" groups within our society. Or should such evidence stay in the classroom "where it belongs" and not have any ef fect cn the university qa . university qua the ad ministrators who are university cr its face)? Why cot let military recruit, ers on campus? If they do s$I duce young men off into the military they probably wereai college or graduate school ma terial anyway. And the univer sity remains the bastion cf the safe unthinking status quo. It ain't do ivory tower co administrators are in. But they lave succeeded in sealii themselves off from the very values the university is sup posed to be about They have allowed a serious cleavage to come between the educational and moral values the universi ty says it stands for on the one hand and its very mode of in stitutional being on the other Such cleavages both mirror and perpetuate other famous gaps in our society. u Simply statedthe universi ty has failed to practice what it teaches. This is a failure of major significance because if the university fails, who is to succeed. Surely somming must be done to make the values cf the classroom rele vant to the functioning of the university so that the universi ty and perhaps then the government can then be the enlightened institutions in our society. That's hardly the case now. WRC this year has moved along with steady progress changing, 1 amending and ' revolutionizing women s rules. . r . , ' Although many desired changes have been slow in coming, the steady forward motion has made this year's WRC one of the most outstanding in recent years. Freshman rules, which previously covered three pages in the WRC Handbook, have been so whittled that one page will more than cover it next year. WRC's decision Tuesday to , abolish closed study for freshmen women came after thorough study of the situation through the results of a referendum sent to all un dergraduate women. By including all undergraduate coeds in the survey, WRC used . judicious judgment in determining policy on a subject which has s repeatedly been , held up to ridicule. The decision to allow freshmen unlimited overnights now frees these coeds from restrictions which were usually not levied at their homes. By allowing the freshmen coeds to come out from under kin dergarten rules, the WRC is giving them back their self-respect and allowing them to prove that they can indeed accept the responsibility. We feel that freshmen women are sophisticated enough to assume these new privileges. WRC's consistent and methodical hammering away at unnecessary coed restrictions, and their persistent endeavors to modify the rules which must re main so that they can be com patible with modern attitudes, have commanded the respect and ap preciation from the coeds for whom it legislates. Sharon Rose, at the beginning of the year, gave an eye-opening and progressive oriented ' speech to women students at the beginning of this school year. She with WRC nave worked hard to make promising words reality. It is often difficult, not to men tion frustrating, to have to work within a red tape structure. But Miss Rose has successfully set an example for a progressive WRC which will be hard to follow next year. ex i s ? UJhen jT Caio f -Varvt 5 ilfo a people., unU3Ary anim V I 5 . i 5 ev i l. fit?. Ae, csf-vikt s ,q ' ft Letters To The Editor .lie lit meirica To The Editor: In view of the events of the past few .V weeks, it is utterly incomprehensible to ; me how any American can continue to defend our participation in the war in ., South Vietnam. It is crystal clear that continuation of this war can no longer be justified in any way, or for any reason. The military and moral rationalizations of the Johnson Administration and its supporters in Congress have been blasted ! into a thousand pieces by military sue- ' cesses of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese regulars. Two things are now evident beyond all contradiction: A . MILITARY victory for the United States and South Vietnamese forces is absolute- ' ly nowhere in sight, and the "cure" which continued American participation in the war is administering to the people of South Vietnam for the disease of com munism is now as bad as, or worse than, the disease itself. I should like to state what I believe to be the major axioms of the Vietnamese war with regard to the continued participation of the United States in the conflict. A MILITARY VICTORY for the United States is, was, and will be in the future either impossible, or else com pletely unfeasible due to the" absolute-, ly ENORMOUS expenditure of lives and money which would be necessary. SINCE A MILITARY victory (or solu tion) is either impossible or un feasible, it makes no sense whatsoever to keep pouring men, money and materiel into a bot tomless pit, regardless of hos this is rationalized in terms of saving a primitive people from an ideology which is extremely unpopular in this country. ALTHOUGH AMERICAN participation in rlT, was ' beun morally justifiable reasons (i.e.: protecting helpless people from Vietcong terror bands who have viciously murdered thousands; preserving or establishing poll ical self-determination for the South Vietnamese; etc.) the results ShJ are as bad (or worse for unlr h Vietnamese than living under communism would be. ne 11111111316 absurdity of this stupid, silly, senseless war is going to be painfully- obvious this summer when the grossly neglected problems of our cities come to a boil once again. Americans would do well to pay less heed to the words of one L. Johnson of political fame and more heed to -the words of one J. Christ of biblical fame: "Why do you see What The Heck the speck that is in your brother's eye' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." Watson Morris 427 West Ccameron Ave. Trustees Visit Crucial To Co eds To The Editor: On Monday and Tuesday, February 28 and 27, the Women member?- of the Board of Trustees will visit the Carolina campus. As this body has a great deal of voice in ' matters pertaining to this University, the . importance and significance of the Trustees' position, and especially their visit to this campus can not be overemphasized. The bulk of the planning and prepara tion for this visit has been handled by women students, with the support of their fellow students. The schedule for the visit is designed to acquaint the Trustees with various aspects of student life (selective, of. course), and even more important, to give each woman student every possible opportunity -to' meet and to talk with her Trustees. ' Here, then, is a prime opportunity for every woman student who is at all in terested in or concerned with changes or revisions especially those affecting women students here at the Universityto discuss her desires and ideas with her Turstees. All women students are cordially in vited to lunch with the Trustees on Tues day, February 27, at 1:00 P.M. in the Steak Room in the North Room of Lenoir. If you are interested in attending, please contact -the Dean of Women's Office, Miss Sharon Rose, or your dorm presi dent. Dormitories who are hosting Trustees will close at 10:45 on Monday night, February 27, for regular housing meetings. Lihby Idol, Corres. Secr'y.WRC 201 Winston Bandruffr Acne Audi Speaker Ban By LOU HECKLER BRING ON THE COMMIES DEPARTMENT At long, long last that ridiculous Speaker Ban Law is hopefully dead. Will it be forgotten? - Probably not, at least for awhile. The influence of the law is likely to hang around for some time. You know, like mosquitos or dandruff or acne. . We can anticipate great globs of criticism from across the state even a month or so from now, when a Com munist is asked to speak here. You know how them there folks are down there at Pink Hill or Red Hill or occasionally fhaDel Hill. , , , Give it time, though. I've got a feel- inz Put it this way: The Ban ill ear off as the days wear on. ' pxr STAGE RIGHT DEPARTMENT Theloss of Alexander Trowbridge as rotary of Commerce is yet another f Tme apparent crumbling of Mr. t verm's Great Society. - more and more cabinet members . Jl fre wayside, the favorite guessing gie to Washington centers around who bfsurprised if the networks I f hp idea for a game show. Cabin6i contestants will line up on m'p of the screen while a Johnson Swart stands on this side and reads his nuestions will be on toe order nn vou agree with the AdnThStration's Vietnam policy? Was your department one that suffered with the President's budget cut? Are you just sick and tired of being a politician? The winner will be the one who shows he is most disgruntled with the President, and he will be permitted to quit the cabinet. Previous winners will not be allowed to compete again, but they will be eligible for the Dating Game. It's hard to say what really might have brought about so many departures at once. I like to thfafc of it as a massive case of staff infection. . .or better still, defec tion. . HUSH YO' MOUTH DEPARTMENT The recent good fortunes of our fine basketball team were being sung a week or so ago in the Akron (Ohio) Beacon-JournaL The story centered around the UNC Wake Forest game in Winston-Salem dur ing which the Deacon fans tried to outpsych (presumably since the team could not out-shoot) the Heels by scream ing incessantly throughout the game. Of course it was all for naught, as the men of Dean Smith won handily, 83-60. The intriguing thing about the story was the headline: "Tar Heels Combat Noise With Poise." Maybe some of our campus politicos could follow suit? G I DDAYAP DEPARIIENTThis hardly seems the time- to bring this up, since it's not finals time and all, but, there are "Ponies" now for just about any subject you need. The E. S. Lowe Company has one out called "Chess in SO Minutes." Better read fast, though. The book is 97 pages long. WORDS OF WISDOM DEPARTMENT Henry David Thoreau once said that "Water is the only drink for a wise man." Now that cat has never been on this campus. When you talk about school spirit at Carolina, you mean the 0 proof stuff. As I dodged a swerving car the other night outside one of the fraternity houses, I tried to get the rationale in my own mind of the man drinks to excess. I found the answer in Omar Khayyam's "Rubbaiyat:" "Drink for you know not whence you came, nor why: "Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where." So, what the heck? 'me Daiiy Tar Heel is pub lished by the University of North Carolina Student PchS cations Board, dally except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations. Offices are a the second floor cf Graham MenioriaL Telephone cambers: editorial, sports, news S23-1C11; bus iness', circulation, advertising S23-11S3. Address: Box 1CS3, Chapel Hill, N. C, 27514. Second class postage paid at VS. Post Office in Chapel H21, N. C. SabscriptScm rates: $3 per year; $5 per semester. A
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