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THE DAILY TAB HEEL Thursday, February 29, 1968 Parre 2 a. t s Dixie-Drifter Lauds UNC J ICnoto ? TVierei- no US make 76 Years of Editorial Freedom Bill Amlong, Editor Don Walton, Biiness Manager I a. Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor Rebel Good, JVew?s Editor Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager f QUESTION: .Why can't campus cops act as night watchmen in girls' dorm? ANSWER: They've got better things to do than protect coeds' lives, silly. v QUESTION: Like what? ANSWER: Give parking tickets, of coarse. Political Skullduggery H arms Campus Parties The season for political skullduggery lis upon us. . . It's been upon us for a little while now, really, but recently the lousier aspects of campus politics have brust into full bloom. Let's look, for example, at just some of the below4he-belt in fighting that was a prelude to the ; Student Party's nominating con tention Monday night. : Fortunately, the party nominated Jed Dietz for president of Student Body thereby foiling the best-laid plans of the Mickey Mouse Machevellians who were op ' posing him. This is not to say, however, that George Krichbaum, Dietz' op ponent for the nomination, had a hand in the crooked dealings which .were going on. Kruchbaum, as much as we disagree with his philosophies of Student Govern ment, is an honest man and one whose integrity we shall not ques- . tion. ' However, as the saying goes, politics do make strange bed fellows.. And Krichbaum in seek ing the SP nomination was forced to crawl under the covers with , about as motley a crew of hacks as . has ever been assembled. The hacks, in reality, weren't ' simply party hacks, but rather ; "coalition hacks." The coalition : was the one loosely formed under the Dump Dietz movement and in cluded some of the less savory members of each campus party. ; . The more conservative members of the SP b landed . together to support Krichbaum, one of their own, against the more liberal Dietz. This was, for the most part, a fair and honest move , v in the game of Party Politics. There were, however, some members of the Dump Dietz fac tion who were not' necessarily either fair, honest or members of the Student Party. Among these were those members of the University Party's : higher echelons who recently paid their dues to the SP so they could vote in Monday . night's Con-- ' vention vote for Krichbaum, whom they considered easier for . the UP candidate to defeat, And so they did. There was Mike Zimmerman, UP party chairman, who stood in Memorial . Hall, waving his SP delegate's badge as highly and as proudly for Krichbaum as if he really had a right to vote. Clustered around him were : other various other UP hacks : Noel Dunnivant, whom Dietz defeated for vice president last spring, Charlie Mercer and Tom Webb. Fortunately, there were enough for-real members of the SP there that these imports didn't make that much of a difference: Dietz still won, 373 to 321. The threat :i was still there, however the threat that such persons as Zimmerman & Co. could come into a party convention and sabotage it to the advantage of their own party. ; : And that's just one of the reasons why campus politics at this University sometimes stink. Just one of the reason's why something has got to be done to change them. If the system isn't changed by such me ans as legislation regulating "nojnina tin g -pro- cesses it won'tmatter if this cam pus has 1,000 men of the caliber of Dietz or his probable UP opponent Ken Day, a man of equal . in tegrity. For if change does not come, the Dietzes and' the Days will be submerged by the hacks. , And that's no way to run a political system. Why Is an iling? This man is New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. And if you dropped out of Poli Sci 41 before finding out why he might be smil ing, just ask Michigan Gov. George Romeny, who dropped out of Poli Sci 1968 Monday. xne Daily Tar Heel is pub lished by the University of North Carolina Student Publi cations Board, daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations. Offices are on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial, sports, news 933-1011; bus iness, circulation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C, 27514. ' Second class postage paid at U.S. Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: $9 per year; $5 per semester. Thi M K V, ' i Li Vl. C3K4f Some Letters To The Editor enya To The Editor: As a citizen of Kenya, I would like to state what I believe to be the causes of the migration of some Indians from Kenya and the other East African coun-i tries to the United Kingdom. These people in question are neither nationals nor citizens of Kenya nor are they . of . any other country on the con-; tinent of Africa, Most of these people have been born in Kenya, and are descen dants of those who have lived in Kenya for approximately seven decades but they are not nationals of Kenya. They are not holders of Kenya citizenship nor were their ancestors. Just a month prior to the Kenya independence most Indians, for some reason or another, decided to apply for British passports; at the same time, some of them, including some British folks, decided to leave for their respctive countries. With the British, it was obvius that they thought that Mzee Kenyatta, on becoming Prime Minister, in conjunction with his comrades who had suffered the same tortures with him in jail and elsewhere from the British, would try to resort to the "tit for tat" philosophy. For 1 thisreasonJ(many oi them began flefing .from Kenya as fastas.jeifeetand cash could carry them. Mzee Kenyatta ap , peared on television and on the voice of Kenya to clarify his standpoint. "Let nobody be misinformed or misconceived .. of any problem or mistreatment from anyone of us. My Government and I plan to have no malice or hatred to anyone whether he be white or black; European or non-European, for my Government is determined to be a Government of everybody, by . everybody, and for everybody, PROVIDED everybody is willing to conform to the law of the land and finally to live with each other in harmony, and reciprocity in Harambee." Some of the British decided to hang around, but since they neither en countered any prejudice or other negative treatment, they decided to apply for Kenya citizenship. Some who had already left, came back to Kenya and decided to stay permanently. But my Indian fellows took another way altogether. Some of them did become citizens but the majority still re mained under British subjectism (they are not citizens but only subjects of Bri- What The Heck By LOU HECKLER V" STANDS FOR VICTORY DEPART MENT With due apologies to Ken neth M. Stampp, it seems to me that marriage, not slavery, is America's 'Peculiar Institution We read all the time of the mounting divorce rate, and that one out of every four marriages today fails. Many of you students are married and many inhabit those quonest huts which are slowly slipping into the woods in Victory Village,! wish' you luck. In a sense I envy you. And, most of all I hope you are not the one in four. Consider, however, the plight of Mrs Beance Bernal of Redwood City California. A recent UPI story related that she had been granted a divorce on grounds that she and her husband are incompatible. Mrs Bernal, lucky thing, also won custody of their fifteen - count 'em children. - "E" STANDS FOR EDUCATION and most everywhere is in a bit of a mess these days. This state ranks low on the national totem pole in teachers' salaries and per-student ex penditures. mother areas of the country, things are not even this eood a strike in Florid iJ w" a". that state's tPiWo . . vw.cia uui ot a 1 inousands more students were dep" vruti ui si ll in m ' riv- IT 7 Mm Ml yeu? kincja. c o Y Mm to miiom Is :Bzh?&jWem train.) "The Indian Government warned them that it could not be responsible for them unless they accepted Kenya citizenship. A fewjbecame Kenya citizens, but the ma jority still stack their British passports in their underwear, pillows and mat tersses. The Kenya Government has indeed been very lenient to them by harbouring them in the country as well as main taining them in the same Government, positions they have been : holding Jsince Kenya became independent and then a Republic (12 December, 1963 and 12 December, 1964, respectivly.) But non citizens do not have any substantial con tribution to the Kenya political system Kenya is therefore, by and large, within the concentric circles of her legal and Reauiem JL To The Editor: He. was , a student here., at. Carolina- once. Graduated in 1966 without honors, but still lie graduated He was a typical student if there ever was one. Drank, partied, dated. Loved every minute. f Even joined a .frat, but never was initiated couldn't get that 2.0. Still he. graduated and then came Uncle Sam. Sgt. Snow at the Post Office got him in the Air Force. 0. C. S. was next, followed by Navigators School in California. Now he felt like his life was being justified. Flying those RF-4C's on reconnaisance missions was a challenge. :. ' Then Viet Nam. I saw him last , with his arm around his girl and a beer in hand. He laughed and said, "See you here next year and don't forget the 100 bucks I'll give you if you make the Dean's List." ;v- Correspondence between us was sparce but regular. Statements such as "you should see the photos I've taken of Cong moving into Laos and Cambodia" or "Negroes would really riot after living like these Vietnamese have to" kept me in touch with the reality of the war. I saw him again recently. Not in the cool shade of oaks along a Northern Georgia lake as he had laughingly pro- ed of learning and were sent home. As things have a way of doing in this . Great Society, the move in Florida set off chain reactions around the nation. Albuquerque teachers made the same move, and a like action was hinted at in Oklahoma. Couple with this the recent super neat move of the administration o f elimimating grad student deferments in all areas but medical or divinity students, and we have an interesting paradox. Some day, and I fear it might be soon, there will be no more need for teachers to strike - they may well be laid off because there won't be enough students to teach. On this campus, the move was met with a predictable and somehow justified reaction The undergraduate who had his sights ,et on upper level studies now ponders if he can get the right courses at the Udversitof Saigon. Word from Uie Naval Armory on campus has it that a ereat number of sophomores have been trying to sign up for the two-year Kghf ofthe teachers has really been carried to an extreme in the little ?own of Mantiniscus, Maine This town Heated on an island, and has a wop pin? 13 students at e elementary ThTonly teacher on that island went o di. i r 1 ICln i hotU resf on s ... Ve "fo ; - - political rights by requesting those whose documents or affidavits do not show any . legal right to stay in the country 'that long, to leave as deemd appropriate. . But one could ask why these victims are heading to Britain instead of India: Speaking on the British - Broadcasting Corporation February 26, 1968, the leader of the Indian delegation to Britain from Kenya, explicitly stated that the Indians ; in Kenya as well as in other East Arican countries have, a different culture from, that of India, therefore, they do not wish -to go anywhere except to the British spheres, of influence. Further, he said that these persons have been educated and. trained by ' the British to such a . degree that he felt that his people are evidently part of ;' the British . com monwealth and therefore able to ..be absorbed in ' the British society without For Am mised. He was prostrate in a government ' supplied coffin, face puffed out of shape . with embalming fluidiand covered: withi. the makeup hiding the dark stable' dixr t-j family is noted for. His hair : was cut unusually short but it was him, yet it wasn't my brother. He's home for 7 good now as he had wished. The eulogy, color guard, presen tation of the flag, and the playing of those What'ch bin' Next Year? . By FRANK BALLARD ' of The Daily Tar Heel Staff The Audience at Monday; night's Film Society showing was - waiting 'for the movie to begin when it happened. : Three quick, shrill blasts from a whis tle jerked them out of their thoughts and chatt. Three blasts that sounded like the signal a drill master gives his soldiers just before they fall in step. Turning m their seats, the. now-silent audience saw a bearded young man in the back of the auditorium standing for then attention. - - t t--' "Hey! Hey Joe!" be shouted to another fellow on the front row, who rose slowly from his chair to face the whistle blower. t - "Joe, you're a senior. What , are you on strike Monday to protest the con ditions in the school. - LSD NOT UP OR SP DEPARTMENT The recently adopted drug policy on campus makes me wonder if maybe it's not aimed in the wrong direction. It condemns the "illicit and improper use" of drugs. I have the feeling that some of our leaders around here may be taking mind-expanding drugs. Not really, but you have got, to admit that some of them are really "swell" guys. You can tell by looking at their heads. - CAROL DODA BEWARE DEPART MENT Remember back a couple of ' weeks ago when the city of Charlotte tried to go the San Francisco route by bringing in a topless dancer? Chili . Pepper was the gal's name a spicy name if I do say so myself. The local constabulary viewed her act and found her body too bawdy I guess, as she was whisked off to city court. The Elizabeth City Sunday Advance wins the award for the best treatment of the story. It ran a priceless headline which .went like this: "Cops Pinch Topless Dancer In Charlotte." Tsk-tsk-tsk. . LOVE THAT UNIVERSITY They said To The Editor: I was a recent passer-by oa your campus and couldn't help noticing one of the distinct advantages of a large predominantly white, Anglo Saxon Protestant college located in a rural area in the Bible Belt, USA. That being the freedom you allow your roving pacts of wild dogs. . Such fair treatment of this lower order of being is. highly com mendable and should be com mended. I would like to extend such an honor to your Administration, Faculty, and Student Body alike. ; Hoping that you forever may De in the van of the liberal avant garde wing of America, I re main. . . The Dixie Drifter, Scott Reynolds NYC, NY any problem. x One could therefore deduce con currently with, .my Vice President, Honourable Arap Moi that "the "Indian migration is a British problem but not a Kenyan problem." ' In any event, I do sympathize with my fellow Indians but, I just do net believe and do not see how I can be convinced that. Kenya is either wrong or segrega tionist on this issue; but I could easily be convinced to believe that Britain is trying to be somehwat "immoral, injust and il legal" to these humans with her Im migration Bill since they are legal holders of British passports. To this end, I hope that either a British citizen or subject would be glad to .elaborate on this issue should there be more questions of this nature. AGOLA AUMA-OSOLO Guy mournful notes of Taps are all memories . not soon to, be forgotten. Once there was an older brother (ironically born during a war) in out family, but that's me now. Love him? Hell yes I loved him! Admired, respected, and believed in him too. Gavin Brown Rt. 3, Box 203-B, Chapel Hill going to do next year?" Mumbling and shifting his feet awkwardly, Joe didn't answer, but only looked embarrassed by the question. . "Come on Joe! What're you going to be doing next year when you're out of school, huh?" . No answer. - Finally a girl sitting next to Joe stood up and walked over to pick up something lying in a nearby chair. . Turning ,to the questioner and the au dience she held up a large sheet of white cardboard with the inscription: "VIETNAM" Then she rolled up the sign and, without breaking the silence, left the room with Joe. it couldn't be done. They said nobody would ever top your favorite and mine, Jesse Helms, for the funniest editorials in television. They were wrong. Cousin Jessee brought a friend along this past week in the person of "Chub" Seawell, Jr. With a voice that sounds like a piece of twine being pulled through the hole in the bottom of a rusty tin can, Chub (as his friends call him, according to Cousin Jess) ex tolled the virtues of Mom, the American Flag and apple pie, while condemning such varied things as - Communism, LBJ, and last but not "least you guessed it Chapel . Hill. From the way he squints and from the things he says, I suspect Mr. Seawell cannot see-well, or he'd see how silly he looks. As he steps ever higher into the plane of the ridiculous, I'd like to see him get a new billing: The Farmer and the Ladder." As Chub says, call your next case. . WATCH THAT ANALOGY DEPART MENT A quick look around you in class some day will possibly reveal the following: a Model-T Ford is a lot like a classroom at Carolina. . . a lot of nuts inside with a big crank up front. But, what the heck? g as n n
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