Saturday, March 30, 1963
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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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To The Editor:
Mr. Grant Harmon, like most com
plaineru are like the old saying, "He
who hollers the loudest, says the least"
Mr. Harmon's, excessive labor charge
was $2.40 on repairs made at 9:00 p.m.,
long after most people are at home
with their families or pursuing some
other form of entertainment or relax
ation. Ross Norwood
Norwood Bros.
Esso Servicenter
(SAY ABOUTTJ
Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor
Terry Gingras, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
Home Sweet
A Vanishing
The Daily Tar Heel next fall
will undergo one of the most
traumatic changes in its 75 year
history.
It will happen when the offices
of the DTH are moved from their
present crummy but
homey location in Graham
Memorial, to the spanking-new,
shiny and ultra-modern Frank
Porter Graham Memorial Student
Union being built over by the
library.
Now, when you consider the
move in the cold, calculating con
text of efficiency and neatness and
such, there's no way at all to say
it won't be the best thing that's
ever happened to The Daily Tar
Heel.
The offices will be more
spacious, and the editor, managing
editor and advertising manager
will have their very own glass
windowed cubicles from which to
run the newspaper.
There will even be a private
entrance to the building solely for
DTH use and a darkroom whose
use is reserved for staff
photographers.
BUT THERE IS one thing one
very important thing that the new
offices will lack: easy access to
Harry's.
Instead of being just across the
street from a, Harry ' s.
Grill historically the sanctuary of
DTH editors and staff mem-
bers the
less than
new offices will be no
two blocks away from
it.
And there's no telling what ;
disastrous effect this is going to !
have on future DTH's.
After all, as long as anybody
can remember, Daily Tar Heel
editors have sought food, drink and
solace in Harry's, as well as
generally holding court there.
And let's face it: some of the
paper's most crucial editorial
policy decisions have been con
sidered there over a can of
beer or, perhaps even several
cans of beer by conferring
editors, associate editors, and
managing editors.
(In fact, it was just yester
day. . .)
Further, Harry's has always
been THE place to . look for
absentee staffers. Unfortunately,
by the time they were found, they
were ususally too drunk to be t)f
that much use, anywaybut at
least the editors always knew
where they were.
Harry's, besides providing a
sort of home for DTH-types, has
also proved a great place for
gathering information about what's
going on with the dissenters at
L-
This Is Harry's Grill,
Harry's;
Tradition
Carolina. The. 1963 civil rights cam
paign was veritably mapped there;,
and even still, you can always find
at least a half-dozen or so people
in .there who can tell you when
the next anti-war demonstration is
going to be.
AND WHO COULD ever forget
Ralph, son of Harry, whose smiling
visage pervades the atmosphere
at Harry's.
Ralph, the leader of the band
of surly waiters whom you almost
have to tackle to get them to
take your order.
Ralph, who has hung his eskimo
artifacts all over the walls to re
mind every customer in there that
he did indeed go to Alaska last
summer. ;
: Ralph, who gives us credit.
And so what's going to happen
to the DTH next year, when it
can no longer be published mostly
from the rear booth at Harry's?
Who knows?
There are two things especially
which we-as perhaps the last
members of the dying race of Haiv
ry'sophileDTH editors sincerely
hope do not befall next year's
editor and staff .
The lesser evil of these two
things would be that the staff would
adopt the Pine Room as its head
quarters. This would probably
result in the paper's becoming far
too muchrin touch wMtheinkirig7
of the campus bourgeoisie, thereby
destroying the image of the DTH
as completely nonrepresentational
of students at Carolina.
The second and worse nay, not
only would, but almost
unspeakable alternative would be
that the) editors and staffers of
the paper would start lurking about
the library ,
AND EVEN IF the beer and
salami sandwiches must go, there
is one DTH tradition that must
remain if this paper and its staff
is to maintain its traditional
character in the least way
whatsoever: DTH people just don't
study, and if they, ever wander
over to the library it's only because
. it's on fire.
But, lo, the times are chang
ing. ,
And, ironically, The Daily Tar
Heel has always been in the
vanguard of those asking for
changes, progress.
But now it's this very change
that is about to completely un
dermine this newspaper, to
drastically alter its character.
It's almost too terrible to think
about.
Think we'll go over to Harry's
and get a beer so we can forget
about it while there's rtill tim
9 uai
Sanctuary Of DTH Staff
Letters To The Editor
TkeTemC
To The Editor:
Three cheers for The Daily Tar Heel
editorial of March 27! Contrary to the
pretentious tone and general conceit not
infrequently found in the local Weekly,
Chapel Hill ' is in many ways, as the
editorial suggests, just another "small,
southern town." Neither judicial nor
academic robes can 'conceal the fact
that Judge Phipp's Leg ionnaire
philosophy is rather popular although
it is often exphressed with a little more
. "refinement." - - . .
For several years I have been pointing
out to friends the existence of , a semi
political species, the Teacup Liberal,
in-Hfor example various non-Klan and
non-jConfederate circles in the South.. This
Teacup Liberal holds to the latest version
of the New South Gospel of industrial
"progress" which includes his smooth,:
simple approach to "integration" thru
the stern application of legal formalism
and education in the "American Way"
to all thofee "lower-class, redneck
racists'' responsible for all th is
disgraceful turmoiL ;:. . f "'c. V ' .
' r Mr, Amlong'S c report on the trial,
for instance, describes the Town Solicitor
setting the record straight: only naughty
radicais, not true liberals, infringe "upon
the rights of a major corporation" seems
to have been the point. After all. as
the Judge said, Dow helps the American
housewife in addition to making napalm.
I did not expect the Judge to provide
further evidence for my Teacup Liberal
thesis but consider his historical-moral
lesson about the "good ladies of Elton,
South Carolina" who gave up the Mother
tea! But I dare say "he wasn't en
couraging housewives to giv up Dow's
"kitchen grease cleaner." J
Reading turther in The Daily Tar
Heel I came across Mr. Harmon a letter
accuiateiy detailing some of the ways
merchantry "milk the students." May
I suggest the appropriate form of Teacup
Liberal "protest" to remedy this situa
tion: go out and boycott those affluent
taxicab drivers! Perhaps Chapel Hill
needs a Leadbelly to remind it of the
extent to which it is just a little "bourge
ois town." (For our "cultured few" let
me note that the last reference is to
Huddie Ledbetter's "Bourgeois Blues"
and that some say that, like Pete See
ger, he was a naughty Radical").
H. G. Reid
Gradnuate Student
Political Science
Not Impressed
To The Editor
I have one question that I would
like to direct to GM where is Aretha?
I have just finished reading about the
plans for Jubilee; and I, for one, am
not too impressed with the line up.
First of all I cannot understand why
GM did not obtain Aretha Franklin for
Jubilee! I realize that she is probably
one of, if not the, most sought-after
entertainers today; but that should not
hinder the largest instituion in the state
of North Carolina. Last year the Tempta
tions held this top ranking position, and
they appeared for Jubilee. I like Carta
Thomas, but she is a poor substitute
for Aretha: I believe that a greater
majority of the students had rather see
such artists as Mary Wells, Barbara
i Lewis, the Fourt Tops, Gladys Knight,
the Impressions etc. But you could have
done much worse. .
One has to agree that Nzmey Wilson
is an excellent vocalists, but she is
hot the typical artist that college students
prefer to see. I guess her performance
will draw the largest audience; however,
there are many other stars in her field
that I believe would have suited the
occasion better like Dionne Warwick
Gloria Lynn, Lenny Welch, Jerry Butler
etc.
As for Sunday's entertainment it
looks like a . total loss. I personally
dislike this type of music, but I'm sure
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there has to be better groups in this
field.
Overall, Jubilee looks to be a tremen
dous disappointment.
Ray Hinnant,
227 Avery
Law Lizards
To the Editor: . -
Though spring isn't , "just around the
corner" anymore, that's still most likely
where you'll find Carolina's young aspir
ing lawyers, perspring. like lizards lying
in the sun they jointly pass judgement
on each coed as she passes to class.
Embarrassed by their clever gestures,
intellectual comments, and original
numerical ranking system, we wonder
when the new law building will take
the worry out of being being close to
this sophisticated reviewing stand. Girls
in Cobb, Joyner, Wilson, and Conner
unite nail you: have to lose are your com
plexes! U We can turii the tables by eat
ing en masse each morning at Lenoir
Hall where individually their wit it
quits. But that's an awfully high price
to pay for justice . . . There ought to
be a law.
Sue Ellen Daty
Connor Dorm
Make CHOICE
To The Editor:
The dynamic campaign effort by col
lege students, from all over the country
clearly played a vital role in Senator
Eugene McCarthy's impressive showing
in the New Hampshire primary. Well
over a thousand students took on the
full gamut of campaign jobs from
ringing doorbells and writing speeches,
to driving cars and licking stamps. Many
observers believe the students' en
thusiasm also had a significant
psychological effect on the campaign.
Reaction to this student political ac
r
The Year Of Campus Revolt
From the Richmond Times
Dispatch
' This is normally the time of year
of panty raids on the campus. But such
shenigans aren't in the spotlight this
spring.
This is the year of revolt. As some
students . see it, it is a time to flex
muscles, to upset the status quo, to
do battle with The Establishment.
Kicking over the administrative traces
is hardly surprising at Berkeley, or Yale,
or other American universities where
relative freedom of expression and action
is taken for granted.
But the campus revolt has reached
surprising new dimensions when students
in Poland and Czechoslovakia boycott
classes and otherwise demonstrate to
demand less governmental repression
and to call attention to other grievances
committed or alleged to have been com
mitted by university and State
authorities.
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THE PRESENT WAVE or unrest in
academic halls began on the Berkeley
campus of the University of California
during the 1964-65 school year. It started
as a protest against rules governing
campus political activity, and subse
quently embraced numerous grienvances,
eventually sinking to the low of deman
ding the "right" to use filthy words
verbally and in print at that institution
of higher learning.
Student demonstrations, sometimes
violent, which have Hollowed, have been
mzm- it
Thesis
tivism was widespread in both pre-and
post election analysis. Just prior to the
New Hampshire vote, .Mary McCory
wrote in her nationally syndicated col
umn that McCarthy's student supprot
was a "river of free labor that could
change the face of American politics."
v Most of the .election night commentators
referred to the students, and in its
lead editorial, the morning after the
primary. The . New York Times stated
that the McCarthy victory was "a testa
ment; of the efforts" of the students
and other citizens who enlfeted in his
campaign for peace." ;
. Perhaps the most important con
clusion to be drawn- from this first
, 1968 primary is not ' related either to
the candidates or. theijssues. It is very
poLsibly something much broader. Name
ly that effective, articulate expression
of political opinion by students, combined
with their active participation in the
political process, can significantly affect
the outcome of elections and the shape
of American politics.
- .i A. t second conclusion fe equally , if-:
ratable Massive' student' participation .
in CHOICE 63 can and will affect the
course of American politica in 1968.
- Bruce Jolly
Chr. GM Current Affairs
Committee
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too numerous to list. A protest at Yale
was over faculty tenure and the reported
"publish or perish" requirements for
the professorial staff; Brooklyn College
students walked out of classes in anger
over dismissal of a music professor;
Sarah Lawrence students marched in
sympathy with worker on strike at
a local hopsital; students and faculty
at Ohio State staged a sit-in against
a rule requiring administrative approval
of campus speakers; protests, over a
variety of grievances, have hit dozens
of other institutions across the country,
and in many other countries, as well.
New to the campiis turmoil picture
is the black rebellion. For example,
Howard University students, in the na
tion's capital, on Saturday ended a five
day take-over of the school's ad
ministration building after a compromise
agreement with the borad of trustees.
The student, who appear to have come
out ahead in the settlement, had been
protesting the disciplining of some of
their number for disrupting Charter Day
exercises on March 1, and also the
lack of "black awareness" in the school's
curriculum and operations.
"Man, why don't you just g o
away you're completely irrelevant," one
Howard protester told a white reporter.
Relevancy is a key word on campus
today. Many of the youth are not content
to pursue academic studies apart from
active participation , in "the world
outside." From s civil rights a couple
P-F Complaint
To The Editor:
I would like to suggest a reform
in the pass-fail system. I do not see
any reason why the instructor must
be informed that a student is carrying
a course under pass-fail grading. It is
obvious that this tends to subconsciously
influence the grading of many professors,
who somehow regard a "PS" as a higher
grade than a "D." There are even some
faculty members who are purposely
grading pass-fail students on a stiffer
basis. This destroys the purposes of
the system. - ,
Why not simply keep the pass-fail
records in Hanes Hall, and have them
change over letter grades submitted by
instructors after the semester is over.
Selection of pass-fail courses would still
be " irrevocable, but grading could not
be influenced, and all possibility of
dirimination, even though subconscious
or unintentional, would be eliminated.
John Smith
727 Ebringhaus
Sour Grapes
To The Editor:
I'm just a country boy from Carrboro,
sir, but I can't understand how that
Tommy Norwood fellow can say, as
he did in a letter to your paper (March
24), and I quote, "I would not Say
that the regionals proved that UNC was
a better team because there is no way
that, had Davidson won, anyone could
have called the game a fluke."
Tommy says, on the one hand, that
Doug Cook's absence "cannot be used
as an excuse" for his team's loss, while
on the other hand the game in Raleigh
failed to prove "that UNC was a better
team." This kind of logic escapes me.
'But',"'1then again, I'm'jusr a country
boy.
Though Tommy did have one good
point to make that the Davidson coach
was not treated with the respect he
deserves, everything e&e he had to say.
boils down to one thing, as we say
in the country, sour grapes. My answer?
UNC 70, Davidson 66. Any other ques
tions? Peter C. Gerdine
Carrboro
The Daily Tar Heel accepts all
letters' for publication provided
they are typed, double-spaced
and signed. Letters should be no
longer than 300 words in length.
We reserve the right to edit for
libelous statements.
of years ago, central focus of the young
people on campus today is the war
in Vietnam; at least, that is the focus
of the minority who take part in sit-ins,
demonstrations and other forms of
organized protest.
ACTUALLY, ALL THIS is not as new
as it may seem. Anti-war demonstrations
were common on American college cam
puses in the 1930's; in 1937 nearly 500,000
high school and college students took
part in a strike against war and vowed
they would never support any war
declared by Congress. (But when the
Selective Service System was introduced
three years later, fewer than 100 men
refused to register.) The University of
Richmond, student magazine in the mid
1930 carried a debate on whether a
chapter of the anti-war Veterans of
Future Wars should be established at
the local institution.
But txie new wave of unrest is deeper,
more widespread, more militant. It has
good features; student awareness and
concern over public issues are grati
fying. But on many campuses the
acknowledged right to free expression
of opinion has given way to denial of
the rights of those who disagree with
the protesters. It is time for responsible
campus leaders to recognize the grave
damage that can be done to higher
education and to basic American prin
ciples to which even the protesters claim
to adhere if student activism is not
accompanied by student responsibility.