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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Tuesday. April SO, 1063
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From The Chapel Hill Weekly
76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Bill Amlong, Editor
Don Walton, Business Manager
DTH Endorsements
Wayne Hurder9 Editor
We endorse Wayne Hurder for
editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
We are doing so "after lengthy
consideration. The decision to do
so is based on our opinion that
Hurder is the candidate who more
fully comprehends the job.
In many areas, both the can
didates boast strikingly similar
qualifications: both have worked
on the paper, both can claim sup
port from a segment of the staff,
both have the professional ex
perience to enable them to produce
a newspaper. .
Hurder, however, comes to the
election with fuller qualifications,
and a broader concept of what
this newspaper should be.
First, and most important,
Hurder views The Daily Tar Heel
as a complete package, instead
of as separate pages. And if the
paper is going to best serve this
campus, it must be a coherrenX
blend of news, features, sports and
editorials. Hurder seems to be the
candidate who has enough of an
overview of the paper to ac
complish this.
Further, North Carolina and the
South as a whole including Chapel
Hill have problems and ideosyn
cracies peculiar to the region. To
be an effective editor of a Southern .
newspaper, one must be able to
not only understand these problems
from a textbook viewpoint, but
must be able to empathize with
them.
Hurder, because of his
back ground especially as a
reporter on the Alabama-based
Southern Courier during the
turbulent early 1960s has a fuller
orientation to the South, its pro
blems and its personality.
He also more fully understands
Jed Dietz,
The Daily Tar Heel is once
again endorsing Jed Dietz for
president of the student body.
We did so previously on the
day of the first Student Govern
ment election, saying then that we
thought Dietz towered above the
other three candidates.
We do so now because that
belief not only continues, but
further has been buttressed by both
additional consideration of the
campaign and issues, and by
another look at Dietz' opposition.
Jed Dietz, we repeat, is the
better candidate for the student
body presidency because he can
get more things done for the
students.
Although "his platform doesn't
promise as much as his opponents,
there is a far better chance that
those things it does promise will
be realized.
First, Dietz' platform is one
grounded in his past. The same
things he is advocating as a
presidential candidate are the
same things he has, worked for
as a student legislator and as vice
president of the student body. He
believes in what he is saying.
His opponent, on the other hand,
was given his platform by his
party's leaders. Although the can
didate has. been active in student
government, he has never corhe
forward to champion such causes
as those he lists in his campaign
literature.
Further, the second reason
Dietz' platform is more appealing
is that is feasible. What Dietz is
saying he'll do, can be done. The
opposition platform, though, is en-
Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor
Terry Gingras, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
the strength of the ties between
this University and state and local
government. He plans to widen
coverage of both state affairs and
Chapel Hill-Carrboro town govern
ment, for example. This is valuable '
to the students to the same degree
that the town government affects
their lives as it does in areas
of zoning for fraternity-sorority
houses and Granville Tower-like
residence halls.
Another thing which Hurder has
going for him is a understanding
of the average students on this
campus. He knows thejr problems
and is sympathetic with them.
While fully realizing and un
derstanding the improtance of
educational reform, of the
subtleties of student power, and
of the problems going on in the
development of libraries for
residence colleges, Wayne Hurder
also has a committment to the
problems of parking spaces, in
tramural fields and such.
He is at one time sophisticated
enough to treat incisively the
issues of a changing academic
scene, and nitty-gritty enough to
understand that the smaller issues
are also important to student life
here.
In. short Wayne Hurder 4s the
more well-rounded of the two can
didates: he has experience in every
phase of newspapering from sports
writing to being managing editor,
he has the savvy to understand
the inter-relationship between an
intramural softball game, a cur
riculum change and a town plan
ning board decision: and he has
a cornmittment to the paper, the
University and the region.
He has what it takes to be
editor;
President
ticing voters by such promises that
classes will be. abolished and so
one which is absurd.
The personality of the two can
didates must, also be considered
as crucial to their would-be;
performance in office, especially
as this personality factor will af
fect their leadership of the students
and their ability to control their
aides.
Dietz is by far the more
charismatic of the two. For three
years now he has lent his
leadership to the progressive fac
tions of this student body and it
has been gladly accepted.
Furthermore, Dietz is in control
of his candidacyand will be of
the presidency as his opponent is
not.
The very platform his opponent
is running on is one not even of
his own choosing: instead it was
handed to him and received reluc
tantlyafter being molded by non
candidate party leadership.
It is this same leadership who
would attempt to control the stu
dent body presidency should Dietz
be defeated. Basing a prediction
on the opponent's track record, this
would probably "be the case.
Also, there has been much talk
about Dietz' being the epitome of
the campus politico
All it takes to refute this argu
ment, however, is to recall the
adage about birds of a feather,
and then glance over at the anti
Dietz camp: they're all there, the
hacks with oak-leaf clusters who
have been doing most of the yelling
about Dietz's "being so politico-ish.
Letters To The Editor
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To The Editor:
Friday morning during the class
moratorium the faithful who gathered
in McCorkJe Place were presented with
a remarkable oratorical melange ranging
(during the hour of my observation)
from the persuasive and pithy rhetoric
of Mr. Ogelsby through Mr. Beecher
a poetic Santa Claus whose muse failed
to stem the departing tides gathered
for one of his predecessors on stage,
Mrs. Cleveland Sellers. It is Mrs. Sellers' .
monologue with which I breifly wish
to itake issue.
She began by stating deferentially
what proved to be the salient conclusion
I was able :to draw from her entire
address: 'I really; ;don't know: what- to
say to you today.' SheraiHed' agam
the passive whites standing before her
with all the logical validity and continuity
of A.E. Neuman, concluding that: 1.
If white, then middle class. 2. If white
then racist. 3. If white and collegiate
then reactionary. 4. If white then OKAY
5. If white then They. 6. If white,
then Establishment. 7. If white then
by definition Bad-Patronizing-Purblind
leering miscegenationists etc ad
nauseum.
The current of her argument as
filtered through Mr. C a r m i c h a e 1
CStarmichael, to Us, "cause he's our
Star') and Mr. Brown long ago became
a dreaded knell in the ears of her
audience. As Mr. McLuhan's predictions
of electronicism and environment control
grow increasingly manifest we hear her
variety of insanity more land more. And
more and more it appropriates to itself
the last ding-dong of doom" as it feeds
on its own latterly realized and belatedly
grasped freedom.
To deny the mournful catalogue of
transgressions by" my people of her peo
ple, to attempt refutation of what
discernible points die made, in short,
to disagree with a distilled, slightly more
cogent version of her 'New Negro Revolu
tionary Rhetoric' is foolhardy in ad
dition, I take it, to being flatly wrong.
But to capitulate to the apocalyptic con
clusions she drew, culminating with her
warting swipe, . we gonna win' r
sheer madness and - worse, insipid
cowardice. The spellbinding effect of
black-and-tan jive talk with 'digging my
thing', and 'blowing a cool head and
'this cat. . .that cat', in combination with
a startling irrationality left the largely
white audience perfectly supine, penitent
and head-hanging like a field of abashed
poppies properly excoriated. The an
chorites applauded heartily. Surely an
explanation could be gleaned from Davie
hall, though I suggest one if less scien
tific then making up in succinctness
for its lack o! data: Expiation. Miss
propitiation of African Ares cleverly in
voked by illogical Jaberwocky. Marshall
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Extremism
McLuhan, Demosthenes and Edward
Lear streamrolllng from the mouth of
a (self-stated) 98 lb lady whose husband
is in jail for defending that in which
he most believes: freedom for his people.
And, though she will never believe it,
so do a number of her Friday morning
contrite suppliants, however white,
however object.
Her ramblings smacked of revolu
tionary fatalism ('the real fighters get
arrested or killed early....') differing
not a whit from the emanating from
Cuba, China, South America and Colonial
North America in the course of history.
Point: If her intention is to warn, ? to
r;declare.j warttp state er. side's ir: .
rei&Labl the 'white
liberal', to render explicit the irrelevance
of sanity, then her point is well taken
and her selection or medium "most ap
propriate. If these Mentions are
Contrast:
To the Editor:
Llast riday a group of students from
several Schools in North Carolina traveled
by mis and car to Evansville, Indiana,
to work for Senator McCarthy. The trip
and the work involved with it were ex
tremely valuable for me, as a student
and as a McCarthy supporter. Too often
there is little which students can do
in the iield of public afiairs, and classes
are unfortunately rarely informative and
inspirational enough to challenge
students. For this reason, students must
look beyond their classrooms if they
wish to learn about and combat poverty,
apathy, corruption and bigotry. Those
of us ' who met and talked with the
voters of Evansville saw these problems,
and came a little closer to helping erase
them than if we had stayed in Chapel
Hill.
While campaigning for McCarthy, we
went from door to door, offering in
formation as well as gathering it, and
discussing the issues with those who
would listen. The work was hard, because
of the problems I mentioned above. The
poorest voters have been neglected by
public officials, and their lack of educa
tion makes them easy targets for those
who in Evansville stay in power through
corruption. Some of the voters said that
they couldn't vote for McCarthy because
they were employed by the city, and
were told to vote for another candidate.
Money had been deducted from their
pay to linance certain campaigns, and
they bad been told that their votes
in the primary would be known. These
methods prevented many voters from
choosing candidates in past elections,
and they are being used not only in
Evansville, but in the communities In
which we live and vote.
The largest problem we faced was
-apathy. It is true that votes are not
always effective, but they usually have
some power, and this power is constantly
lost wherever voters are apathetic. Civil
rights legislation and progress need
massive attention and 'action, which is
lacking in every community.
These problems were not the only
things which I encountered in Evansville.
Each worker learned more about the
process of electing public officials. The
differences between the campaigns of
Senators Kennedy and McCarthy were
numerous, and I hope I'm not too pre
overdrawn above, if analysis, empathy,
money, action and a cognate sense of
emergency remain relevant then her
Hydra's regenerative factor is im
minently self destructive.
The objections I raise are the inanity
of impassioned magniloquence (here so
profoundly exampled) and the com
pensatory self-reproach of docile water
spaniels. Mass group therapy in psychic
retribution. GADZCOKS. The cause is
glorious' its implementation, in
ternecine. I am afraid my conscience
though Tar from clear (to employ un-Hor-etntpmpnn
with regard to her
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Sellers . ana a less ieciuess vaiicty mi
my follow onlookers.
George Wolfe
Graduate Student
Kennedy,
judiced in noting some of them. The
Kennedy workers arrived in Evansville
in spacious buses, and stayed in hotels.
We McCarthy volunteers traveled in
buses and drove hundreds of miles in
private cars, and slept on tile floors
of churches and on the floors ofvthe
McCarthy headquarters in "flophouse"
style. The Kennedy workers came from
Illinois, and were payed for their time.
We came from Illinois, Memphis and
Salem College, and were not payed.
Senator Kennedy is an able man, but
if you want to know about Senator
McCarthy, come to one of the campus
meetings, or journey to Indiana,' where
Kennedy has spent two million dollars
to insure his victory. If you detest
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The University appears to be edgicg
up to an official expression of concern
about the pollution of the community's
water supply. This b an encouraging
sign. It doesn't necessarily mean that
the County Commissioners will be
prevailed upon to stem the flow of
sewage into our drinking water. But
it ought to be a comfort to know that
the University, which owns the water
works, is concerned enough to make
an official inquiry.
The latest threat to the water supply,
in case you came in late, is being
posed by the expansion of a trailer
park in the University Lake watershed.
The County Planning Board voted
unanimously against the expansion. Then
the County Commissioners in their
wisdom asked the Planning Board to
reconsider. The Planning Board did that
and, for reasons that are not altogether
dear, reversed itself to the extent of
recommending a limited expansion of
the trailer park. This amounted to agree
ing to a limited increase of sewage
in the water supply instead of no further
pollution.
In the meantime, a State sanitation
expert held that the trailer park ex
pansidn would constitute a definite
threat, and he questioned the County's
zoning law that permits such a dense
concentration of septic tanks. The Chapel
Hill Board of Aldermen expressed its
concern. Public Health experts in the
University also expressed serious con
cern. It should be noted that our District
Health Officer and his sanitation expert
are not worried about the potential
danger. To the interested observer this
is disconcerting. Someone obviously is
wrong. The trailer park expansion either
constitutes a threat or -it doesn't. It
is absurd to wrangle over how much
of a threat. Any threat at all is too
much.
As the supplier of water to the com
munity, the University has a clear obliga
tion to determine whether a threat ac
tually exists. And as responsible public
serviiu uie wumy
servants, the County Commissioners
- clear feveil obligation to defer any
action on the trailer
on tne trailer park expansion
until a final determination has been
made, to the satisfaction of the Universi
ty and to the people affected.
McCarthy
both candidates, there are voters in
Chapel Hill to be met, and millions
of poor people who are seeking support
here and in Washington.
Carl Parker
412 Man gum
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and signed. Letters should be no
longer than 300 words in length.
We reservp the right to edit for
libelous statements. 4
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