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THE DA I TV TAR HEEL
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Saturday, March 2, 1963
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Bill Amlong, Editor
Don Walton, Business Manager
ouith Building Ignoring
iudent . Right To Know
Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.
That's what South Building is.
And that is exactly how the
Administration is ' running this
University.
For example, new parking lot
proposals were aired Friday at a
meeting of the Faculty Council
proposals designed "to create ad
ditional parking spaces for faculty
and staff at the expense of the
students."
The meeting was behind closed
doors, of course.
Rebel Good, news editor of The
Daily Tar Heel, managed to slip in
more or less unnoticed, however,
and find out what was happening.
And what was happening was
that the students were getting the
raw end of another deal once
more from behind closed doors.
Now, parking certainly is an in
creasingly grave problem a t
Carolina, and one which must be
solved in very short order.
It is, however, a problem which
affects both students and faculty
alike, and both are, entitled to have
equal knowledge of how the
University proposes to handle it.
But then, there are a lot of pro
blems like that round here ones
which affect everyone in the
University community, and ones
which should not be handled in
such underhanded manner as this
parking problem.
For if the Administration desires
to maintain any semblance of good -will
and rapport with the students
here, then it is going to have to
change its tactics.
It is becoming increasingly ap
parent that the Administration is
maintaining only masters-to-sub-jects
communications with student
leaders on matters of student in
terest. '
Campaign
From the Raleigh Times
Primary day still is two months
in the future, and the taxpayers of
North Carolina surely "must be
grateful for that fact, and must be
hoping that at least some of our
many candidates for many offices
will get around to in-depth
discussions of- some vital issues
before voting day.
Take the Democratic
gubernatorial campaign as an ex-
ample. Lt. Gov. Bob Scott has been
actively campaigning for about
four years. His major opponent J.
Melville Broughton Jr., has been
hard at it for about three months,
Yet, candor compels the feeling
that neither has really gotten into
some of the issues which must be
discussed, and that so far the cam-
paign seems to be one of organiza-
tion and platitudes.
There has been considerable talk
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about new highways, such talk
usually being given down East and
centering about how the East
really will get its full share this
time. But, there has been no talk
about where the money will come
from. Perhaps there will be such
UwtCmaj, 1. vuu: special tunas for local public
And, there has been talk about schools,
doing better by our teachers. But, The needs in those areas are
that, too, would involve money, and great - and those needs should be
nobody has done any talking about enough to inspire one of the can
new taxes to provide that money, didates to take such a plunge a s
And, there has been talk about law recommending such a sales tax in
and order, talk which seems to be crease. x
aimed chiefly at those who pick The people of North Carolina
their candidates from racist haven't yet made up their minds on
motives, though both the can- the next Democratic gubernatorial
didates have pointed to poor home nominee. A bland campaign such
life, poor education, joblessness, as they're getting now won't helo
etc., as being some of the major them much in that process!
Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor
Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor.
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
The only time students know
about a decision is after it has been
made. Seldom are they brought in
to the decision - making circles,
and then only on' a token basis.
Even the token was lacking Fri
day, however, as Allan T. Waters,
chairman of the Traffic and Safety
Advisory Committee, informed the
faculty of his group's recom
mendations to the Chancellor
recommendations sure to meet
with student disapproval.
Now, we are not asking that the
Faculty Council be expanded to in
clude students. That sort of pro
posal, we realize, would completely
alter the nature of. the council and
would 'undermine faculty self
government. It does not seem too much to ask,
however, that students be allowed
to know what is going on. Since the
decisions being made will have
great effect upon the students, they
have a right to know, what is being
said and by whom.
This right to know is what pro
mpted The Daily Tar Heel to send
Good to the meting, even after,
-Reporter Terry Gingras had been
told he could not attend.
And this right to. know is a right
that either the Administration is
going to have to observe, or there
will result a total lack of trust and
communication between Students
and South Building. - ',-
, Already,; that lack of trust is
festering. Before the gap grows too
wide, however, it could still be
closed, and good relations could be
preserved. '
; They won't be, though, if this sort
of high-handed, behind-closed-doors
decision making continues to
be the key stone of faculty and ad
ministrative policy.
Nitty - Gritty
causes for lawlessness, and have
promised to attack such causes at
their roots.
When is some candidate going to
take a real deep breath and come
out with a proposal for actually
raising enough money to do
something for the teachers? When
is some candidate going to take
another real deep breath and say
what he'd recommend to help local
governmental . units Vith their
finance problems?4 C a n d i d a t e
Broughton has said he's favor a
statewide local option sales tax
measure, but that would be a
patchwork solution at best, and
wouldn't give the local units near
the help they deserve,
Wonder if some candidate wuld
be interested in proposing that the
statewide sales tax be raised from
three cents tn fiv nfc? rw
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of the additional tax could hP m it
evenly between the really great
needs of public schools and higher
education. The other cent could be
returned to the local units on a per
capita basis, with some of it on a
matching basis for units which pro-
There's
There is a certain kind of fear that
goes along with hearing about men
breaking into a dorm at night, even if it
was two dorms down.
It's the kind of fear that keeps you
from going down to the basement to get a
Coke at 3 in the morning when you are up
'studying. It's the kind of fear that makes
you hear footsteps in the- dark when
there's no one there and the kind of fear
that makes figures out of doorway
shadows. '
I used to go down to the basement of
Letters To The Editor
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To The Editor:
Those among us who are still sup
porting the Johnson-Nixon policy of
steady escalation of the war in Southeast
Asia will be interested to know of recent
reports concerning the moral and ethical
shortcomings of the Saigon govern
ment. Senator Edward M. Kennedy recently
returned from a trip to Saigon. In a
speech he delivered before the World Af
fairs Council (as reported in the Chris
tian Science Monitor, Jan. 29, 1968) he
raised some disturbing points about the
capacity of the Saigon government to
provide a democratic form of govern
ment for the Vietnamese people. His
remarks (as quoted in the Monitor) are
worth quoting at some length.
.".'In essence, I found that the kind
of war we are fighting in Vietnam will
not gain our long-range objectives; that
the pattern of destruction we are creating
can only make a workable political future
more difficult; and that the government
we are supporting has given us no in
dication, and promises little, that it can
win the lasting, confidence of its own peo
ple. "At one point he spoke of the officials
in Saigon as truly colonialists in their
own nation.
"'I say that most of the officials in
Saigon do not care about these stricken
people (the refugees); that they are more
interested in maintaining their own posi
tions of power than in helping the victims
of the war; and that from the way they
look upon the people outside Saigon, and
the way they treat peasants elsewhere,
they have become much like the col
onialists who trained them.'
"Citing examples, the Senator said
'Our government decided it would be
helpful if veterans of the Vietnamese
Army could come to the United States to
study. . . We asked the Government of
South Vietnam to select some qualified
men for this opportunity. The list they
gave us consisted mainly of relatives of
government officials. . . We asked them
to find other men, unrelated to them
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had been de to promise a i2Se
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A Certain Kind Of. Fear
Connor to study every now and then
Most nights it would be heavily populated
with girls cramming for quizzes the next
day or girls doing their laundry
The basement isn't used that much
anymore.
."Anymore" has been since a coed'in
Joyner woke up several weeks ago-with a
man m.her bed and his hand over her
mouth.
Her roommate woke up and screamed
That was luck.
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Aborting The ! Embryo
said the vast majority of refugees 80
percent, he said asserted they were
driven from t their homes by the Viet
Cong.' " v;;'- r V
Columnist Jack Anderson has reported
(February 28) that less than half of the
$30 million per year that the American
' taxpayers contribute for refugee relief
actually reaches the intended recipients.
(Incidentally, this was also noted by
Senator Kennedy in his speech mentioned
above.) The missing $i5 million goes to
the Vietnamese military commanders
who run the provincial governments and
distribute U.S. aid. These Vietnamese of
ficials have kept food which was to have
gone to the refugees, and have auctioned
to the highest bidder homes which were
supposed to have been - built to house
refugees. Supplies which should have
Mike Cozza
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What The Press Didn't Say
There was more to last Tuesday
night's Student Party Convention than
was reported in the press on Wednesday
. morning. . .
True, the convention was every bit the
thriller everyone had predicted it would
be. And the best demonstration of this
was a look at the" voting statistics: Jed
Dietz got 373 votes; George Krichbaum
got 321. A shift of 26 votes would have
changed the outcome.
Understandably, the Dietzites were
overjoyed that their man got the nomina
tion. But to those who had co-ordinated
the Dietz campaign against overwhelm
ing odds, the victory was more than the
simple process of one man getting more
votes than another. ,
For the Dietz Lietuenants Bucky
Goldstein, Parker Hudson, Dick
Blackwell, John Murray and the rest
their success was a victory of direction, a
victory of emphasis and of initiative. Bob
Manekin declared that "a new breed of
people entered campus politics, and
that's what the difference was."
Dave Kiel, Dietz' campaign manager,
said the difference between the can-
, abates was style. Perhaps that's the best
WOrFdorKrichbaum, the style was one of
confidence. It was the assured feeling
tha a smoothly operating party organza
ion was behind him. Look who held the
Lev party positions, and th s is obvious.
The party chairman was Bob Farris;
Chairman of the credentials committee
Tv,m Bent and the titular head of
SS p ' Student Body President
Bob Ss. All were s u p P o r t ,H g
ThP cards were stacked against
t0 scrarable wttha
cident pointed to the man's having hidden
in the basement until that silent hour.
The girls in Connor were notified of
the incident the next night" in an
"emergency" called house meeting. After
the meeting that night I started to go
down to the basement to get a Coke, and
several girls stopped me. One whom I
didn't even know offered to go with me.
She was scared for me. . .more scared
than I was at that time.
But time has a way of magnifying
things. . . especially fear.
gone to refugees have been scrupulously'
issued to them just befeore the inspectors
arrived, and then taken back after they
departed. Anderson : uses the ; term 'war
lords' to describe the. commanders of the
four army corps areas; there are
rumors, he says, that these commanders
have salted away large sums of U.S.
dollars in secret Swiss bank accounts.
Corruption is not confined to minor of
ficials, however; it goes to the highest
levels as' well. The second in command,
Vice President Ky, is a man who:
HAS CENSORED the press;
VIOLATED ELECTION campaign
regulations by using his post as a govern
ment official to flagrantly begin cam
paigning before it was legal, and in so
doing used any government transporta
tion which was available;
desperate attempt to get hundreds of
people into campus politics who usually
don't give a damn. For the Dietzites style
meant an unsure blend of reformers and
idealists who were cemented together by
their candidate's charismatic sincerity.
This is not the kind of thing you can
demonstrate with facts and figures, but
to those who sat in the crowded
auditorium, the difference between the
two candidates became apparent when
the question of party loyalty arose.
Voiced in a question by Arthur Hays,
"the grand old man of student politics,"
party loyalty became the focal point of
the convention. Hays asked both
Krichbaum and Dietz. directly: Will you
support the candidate who is nominated
. by this convention.
For Krichbaum, the answer was
simple. Confident of victory, George
pointed out that he had always supported
the party's nominees and that he would"
continue to do so.
For Dietzt the question was a potential
cup of hemlock. There was talk that he
-might run an independant campaign if
Krichbaum got the nomination. Jed
replied that he had supported the party's
nominees in the past and he hoped he
could do so in the future.
That wasn't enough for Arthur Hays.
He badgered Dietz for a more specific
answer. Dietz was on the post, and
everyone at the convention knew it.
Jed paused a moment to brush a
boyish wisp of hair across his forehead.
And then he took a deep breath and told
Hays that the principles he was fighting
for were more important than party
loyalty
To Hays and the other "pro politicosl '
this was heresy of the greatest
magnitude. But to those people who had
"come to the convention with open minds
and there were more of them than the
When I go down to the basement now,
I keep looking behind me. I don't know
what I'm expecting. The low push open
windows that open into the basement
seem to veil all sorts of distorted im-
ages.
You can feel the graveyard that lies
right behind the dorm and you hear the
wind playing tricks with the doors. The
back doors are locked but still enough air
passes between them to cause, a chill
breeze to whip down through the basement.
. I've looked out of my third floor win
dow at night for a watchman or a patrol
car. The coeds have been told that the
area is patroled regularly. But I've never
seen a patrol car or a policeman on foot
anywhere around the eerily illuminated
graveyard.
I've seen patrol cars pass in front of
the dorm at a slow 20 mile per hour
cruise. Maybe that's what is meant by
our tight protection.
For two years of living in a dorm on
another campus, I never even thought
about being scared. Sure, there were
"peeping toms" and you had to close the
shades, but there was never the scare,
the fear that has festered on this campus
in the women's dorm.
The Administration has refused to
grant WRC's proposal for no closing
hours for senior women saying the
University has no obligation "to foster an
environment conducive to the students'
personal development and safety."
Thanks a lot!
If everyone is so gung-ho about safety,
why not do something about the security
of the dorms now?
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson has
said that lie has directed Dean C. 0.
Cathey to "explore the full dimensions of
the problems of providing for the security
of persons on campus, and to initiate cor
rective measures where such are in
dicated." Hasn't "such" been indicated
already?
Monster
DECLARED TO Western newsmen
that, if defeated in the election, he in
tended to oppose the winner militarily;
(i.e.; shoot him) v
REPLIED 'ADOLPH HITLER', when
asked by newsmen "about the historical
figure he most admired.
This is what 17,000 Americans have
died for.
And, not until the American people
become sufficiently aroused from their
complacent acceptance of the half-truths
being psouted forth from Washington will
there be any hope of aborting this em
bryo monster, the war in South Viet
nam. Watsoni Morris
427 West Cameron Avenue
Chapel Hill, N.C.
politicos wanted to admit Dietz'
answer was something new and different
It demonstrated conviction to an idea
rather than blind devotion to a party.
It was at this point that the pros lost
control of their convention. And it was at
this point that Dietz became the
favorite.
A quick look at the up-coming
University Party convention, which is
scheduled for Tuesday night, reveals that
there will be several potential can
didates. Right now it looks as if Ken Day is th
front-runner. Day has been chairman of
the Campus Affairs Committee, and he
was recently appointed Chief Justice of
the Student Supreme Court by Bob
Travis. If Day'gets the nomination, it will
be interesting to see who Travis supports
in the election.
Other prospective candidates include
Charlie Mercer, President of State Stu
dent Legislature; Bruce Jolly, chairman
of State Student Legislature Committee ;t
and Ken Starling, chairman of the Stu
dent Legislature Ways and Means Com
mittee. And finally, there is perennial-can-didate-for-something
Dick Levy. Levy
haas applied for and received en
dorsement from the Publications Board
to run for Tar Heel Editor. But be
refuses to say that he is ninning for that
ran for DTH Editor last year
and finished a poor third in a three man
race. The main issue used against him in
that campaign was his lack of journalist
ic experience, and he has done little since
then to improve his qualifications.
Levy must know that if he runs for
editor this year, he will have to face the
same issue again. So it is understandable
that he might be interested in the
presidential nomination instead.
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