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THE DAILY TAR HEEIi
Friday, March 22, 1Sj3
TCaren Freeman
(Biff tug
76 Years 0 Editorial Freedom
Bill Amlong, Editor
Don Walton, Business Manager
as -'.Rocky Copped Out?
No, He's Gotten Realistic
-Nelson Rockefeller finished one
thing for sure Thursday by an
nouncing he will not actively a op
pose former vice president Richard
Nixon for the Republican Presiden
tial nomination.
That one thing: that both
Rockefeller and the GOP will be
alive and well at convention in
Miami Beach this summer.
If the New York Governor has
opted to campaign for the nomina
tion, there would most likely have
been an irresistable force im
moveable object collision between
him and the conservative
leadership of the party. .
This crash would have left both
the moderate and the conservative
wings of the GOP so bloody from
their intermural infighting that
certain undesireable results would
haveoccured.
First, Rockefeller would pro
bably lose not only the nomination
but also his standing as a popular
"potential candidate" if he butted
heads with Nixon in the state
primaries. The former Vice presi
dent has too many big people in the
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Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor
Wayne Hurdef, Managing Editor
, Rebel Good, News Editor
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
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party lined up behind him for
Rockefeller to try to catch up to
him before the convention.
SECOND, EVEN a nearly
nominated Rocky would not be as
powerful a convention force as he
will now be as the leader of the
party's moderate wing, the leader
who by the way conservatives
will be reminded for sure was so
overwhelmed by party loyalty that
he declined to risk a split in the
GOP to advance his own candidacy
for the nomination, and instead
bowed to the wished of the party's
conservative leadership.
This way, Rockefeller i s
guaranteed a far greater voice in
framing the party's platform a
voice that may be able to shape a
moderate enough platform so that
even Nixon will look good running
on it.
Further, it is important to note
that Rockefeller did not make any
statement Thursday about his not
wanting to be President of the
United States as he had during the
1964 pre-convention months. He
even explained that the reason he
had said it then so William Scran
ton, the Republican Governor of
Pennsylvania who" Rockefeller was
supporting, would actively seek the
GOP nod.
But such disavowals were miss
ing Thursday at the New, York
Hilton conference Rockefeller's af
fidavit of - non-candidacy being
sent to remove his name from the
Oregon primary ballot even ad
mitted candidly that the New York
Governor would accept a draft.
NOW WHETHER it is feasible
to expect a draft movement to be
successful at the Miami Beach con
vention is difficult to say. Assured
ly there is a chance of it, or as
smart a politician as Governor
Rockefeller would not have men
tioned the possibility.
. He is going into the convention,
. at weakest, as the favorite son of
New York S tat e ' s delega
tionwhich by far will not be the
least powerful contingent there.
Also, there is still a . long
convention and there are many
things the Republican party will
have to consider in that time.
Not the least of them is the fact
that Richard Nixonas much of a
darling as he may be to the con
servatives of the party has not on
ly an extremely bad track record
as a candidate, losing badly in his
last two election attempts, but is
also lagging behind non-candidate
Rockefeller in popularity polls.
Although Republican strategists
have not always been known for
their adroitness in picking win
nerswitness Barry Goldwater
. and Nixon himself they may come
to realize by convention time that
Rockefeller alone is the candidate
who has a chance of defeating
either Lyndon Johnson, Eugene
McCarthy or Robert F. Kennedy.
; But who knows? American elec
toral politics generally works in
even stranger ways than God
Himself, and there's no telling
what could happen between now
and the convention.
Perhaps Nixon will even shape
up enough as a candidate to pro
vide a viable alternative to the
Democratic nominee especially if
enough pressure can be put on him
: by the moderates of the party.
In any case, no one can call
. Rockefeller's decision a cop-out.
Instead, it appears as a valid piece
of political strategy which in the
contest of American Politics
;: 196S just might work.
EieeUoms
After the administration vetoed, then
tabled, the no closing hours proposal,
women have been vacillating between
feeling that there is nothing to be done
and feeling that they're ready to do
anything, but they're not sure what.
Hie character of the movement has
changed from an internal one within
the coeds themselves to an external
one that will be carried on, in large part,
across conference tables with ad
ministrators on the other side.
It's time to regroup forces, and tap
resources left untouched by the women
the last time around.
One of these untapped resources is the
male leadership-types who will begin run
ning from dorm to dorm shortly, asking
2500 women to vote for them.
Minority groups are always in their
best bargaining position before spring
elections a few embarrassing questions
Letters To The Editor
No. 1
To The Editor:
As an interested bystander I would
like to know what is being accomplished
by picketing pow Chemical Company.
Surely the students who are doing so
do not think it is a solution to the Viet
nam War. I fail to see any reason why
Dow should be persecuted for manufac
turing napalm used in the war. -
If this is the reason for protest, why
not protest every person in the US who
pays taxes. The taxes paid by American
citizens support the evils of war in Viet
nam much more than Dow's napalm gas.
I have heard of the horrible suffering
that napalm causes and I am against it
one hundred per cent, but taking this out
on the manufacturer is ridiculous. We are
in a war, and war causes suffering in
evitably. If napalm was not i used,
something every bit as cruel would be.
Therefore, I do not see why the students
against tthe war do not put their time,
money, and enthusiasm into protesting
the war not Dow Chemical Co. -J.
L. Stevenson
No. 2
Do The Editor:
The fifteen students and others
who
were arrested on Monday while pro
testing Dow recruiting are scheduled to
appear for trial before Chapel HUl
Recorder's Court at 9:00 A.M. next Tues
day morning.
It seems clear to me that this is
essentially an intramural matter, and
that it should have been treated as such
from' the beginning. Ten of the fifteen '.
were University people, and the other five
were "university types" of one kind or
another. They were arrested on the
University campus, by the University
police, upon order of a University dean,
while protesting a University policy. It is
unfortunate that the matter was allowed
to get into outside hands at all.
Even though it is now in the hands of
outsiders, however, the University com
munity need not, and should not, wash its
hands of the affair. Without presuming to w
bring pressure of any sort upon the court -
the following actions would certainly be
appropriate: v - : "
First, any faculty member who knows
an individual accused could submit an af
fidavit, or simply a letter, testifying to
the good character of the individual in
question. .These could be sent to the
defense counsel, Barry Winston;
University Square. ' . ; ,
Second, at least one high-ranking
member of the University administration
1
VA fry . .
C oeds
asked by the women at each dorm
meeting can get each political hopeful
committed to working for the women
next year.
Many of even the most liberal women
shudder at the thought of male in
terference, fearing that women will start
deferring to men and allowing male-initiated
ideas which the coeds don't sup
port to filter up to the administration.
This, they feel, would destroy the sancti
ty of the "movement"
It's time the women start taking any
help they can get.
If women leaders are so unsure of
their status as leaders that they feel the
men could so easily usurp them, perhaps
this is the best indication of the need for
complimentary leadership.
Women must begin to attack the
discrimination against their sex that ex
ists on this campus "by .whatever, means
should be present at the trial and should
Speak, if permitted, on behalf of the
defendants, recommending mercy for
them if they are found guilty. This1 is
especially important because of the
serious effects a thirty-day jail sentence
would have on a semester's work.
Faculty members and students could
write to the president and the chancellor,
requesting them to be present or to send
representatives.
Third, an expression of sympathy and
solidarity by the student body and the
faculty should be made to make it dear
to ; . everyone that, whether the
demonstrators are guilty or not, their of
fense in no way puts them outside the
University community. For the purposes
of expressing this sympathy and solidari
ty I invite you, Mr. Editor, and all other
University men' and women of .good will,
to join me in a silent vigil around the Old
Well during the hours of the trial.
" F. T. Cloak, Jr.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Trash Goe s
ere?
To The Editor:
Seek and ye shall find. .
, It certaMy will not be a trash can.
Not on this campus.
This is not a startling revelation to the
student who carries crumpled papers
across campus seeking a container.
He sees a box in the distance and
eternal hope springs up. As he get near
er he reads "U.S. Mail."
He continues on, grumpling and finally
casts it down. ;
No, he has not committed , an Honor
Council offense. In fact he has aided the
University in its belief that it is better to
hire people to pick up the litter than to
have trash cans available.
Thus enters a classic character of
"The-Southern Part of Heaven" the
; saf ari-hstted, spear earring hunters who
"will parobably never be replaced by
mechanization. -
This is not to indicate that there are
not a number of trash receptacles on
campus. There is a fairly strong rumor
that there are at least four. The positions
are strategic. To avoid a rush their posi
tions will not be revealed.
The scarcity of trash, cans has led to
highly developed techniques of littering.
There are the flagrant bugs who throws
away articles with much ado. There are
"n,
Mm
Bargaining Time
necessary."
One of the most obvious means is to
get the people who are experienced in
dealing with the administration, and who
are experienced organizers, to lend their
talents to the task of getting a no closing
hours proposal accepted by the ad
ministration. Campus politicans have always been
able to dodge making a commitment on
any area as controversial as women's
rules.
The answer to any question about
women's rules is the traditional, "Well,
I'm for anything the women want if
they're for liberalizing rules, I'm for
that."
Candidates can be made to answer:
however, if the questioners are persistent
enough, and the women should question
every candidate for any office coming to
the dorms, and then makes each can
the "Who gives a heck?", wTho casually
drops the empty coke cup. And of course
the "I "can't find a trash can" type who
"acrideriaUy-'- drops the candy wrap
per. t ; ;. ., . -
Also there, is the saddistic type who
always leaves the litter on steps.
Mention should be given to the
students who, faithful to their con
victions, cram the trash in their coat
pockets and handbags. Try extracting
keys or coins from admist the jumble
and the effort will be appreciated.
Not trying to disrupt this sport, trash
cans would still be nice to have.
Steve Knowlton
Money
- Women in Joyner last week decided to
vote for joining a residence college by
putting something on the line money.
In addition to the $2.50 per girl per
year they'll continue to pay to Joyner for
Joyner activities, they'll also kick in $2
per girl for James Residence1 College.
This assessment will go toward social
functions, tournaments of all sorts,
speaker programs, and whatever else the
joint aclministration in James College
thinks willbe good for its residents.
The merger came about for a couple
of reasons. "A girl's dorm can't exist
alone anymore on tins campus," said
Joyner President Barbara Brownridge.
She's right for a couple of reasons, one
purely pragmatic and the other
idealogical.
Because of the size of most women's
residence halls, the available funds are.
limited, which means that few social
functions and almost no academic ac
tivities can be undertaken. By contrast,
James has almost 800 students and in
combination with Joyner, nearly 1,000.
This times $2 gives the coed College
enough capital, to provide a worthwhile
program of activites, both social and
academic, for the year.
With the tremendous growth : in
residence colleges on this campus since
Morrison opened in the fall of 1965, a
greatly expanded program can be ex
pected from James College next year,
replete with faculty fellows and other
academic persuits.
Idealogically, the formation of another
coed college is a great step toward giving
more people a better education. Educa
tion not only in a textbook sense, but
also in an initiation and developmental
didate's response one of the major fac
tors in determining the women's vote.
Even if campaign commitments tend
to crumble after the election, being forc
ed to discuss the topic will at least insure
that whoever is elected to any office has
been forced to do enough home work on
women's rules to. know something about
them.
Then, when the campus officer is call
ed upon for help, he will be
knowledgeable to be of some help.
The tactics to be used could be called
badgering, but this is what is necessary
to overcome the candidate's traditional
reluctance to get involved in anything
controversial, with the candidate's strong
desire to get elected.
Carolina's regulations for women have
been socially segregating women from
men. The women cannot progress much
farther with a segregated movement.
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Should it be felt that the cans would
spoil the apperance or our campus, steps
could be taken to disguise them. There
are probably many students bubling over
with ideas to disguise trash cans.
It hs been suggested that some cf the
less than successful campus politicans
It has been suggested that some of the
less . than successful campus politicians
get together and form an Independent
Trash Party. It would be a sure winner
with the slogan, "trash can on every cor
ner'
Jessie Borchette
247 West Cobb
Talks
sense.
The Blood Drive just completed was
sponsored by Granville College Gran
ville West and East. WMO the radio
voice of Morrison is also run on a coed
basis. The senates of King and Morehead
are already coeducational in addition to
Granville and Morrison. -
Things that have happened and things
that are expected to happen show that
coed colleges are the way to do it, for the
optimum in both "financial resources and
cooperation of the two sexes on a non
sex-orientated basis.
The change to a coed college in James
can do nothing but improve even more a
situation that is just getting off the
ground. '
Joyner officials this year was reluc
tant to join forces with James men
because James was primarily freshmen
and very few freshmen women lived in
Joyner. And, face it, activities between
freshmen men and upperclass women
just don't come off with the greatest
ease.
But next year, James, now a year old,
will have a much larger percentage of
upperclassmen and Joyner will have
almost 40 per cent freshmen, Miss
Brownridge says.
With this equalizer and with the en
thusiasm generated both by Miss
Brownridge and her associates in Joyner
and by James Governor Bill Darrah and
his administration James (Coeduca
tional) Residence College has a chance.
The chance to provide another 1,000
students or so the opportunity for a little
better, a little more relevant, a Hale
more well-rounded education while in
Chapel HUL