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Paze 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, May 5, 19S3 Bland Simpson t Wm mm 75 Ycsr of Editorial Freedom Wayne Hurder, Editor Donald Valton, Business Manager Petty Rules Cause Coed To Miss Jubilee A large number of UNC stu dents don't make it to Jubilee for a variety of reasons. Some don't have dates, some don't have the money, some have to study, some prefer to go to the beach, and some don't like the performances and boycott the fes tivities. So why would someone who had a date, didn't have to worry about the expenses, didn't have to study, didn't want to go to the beach, and like the performers not go to Jubi lee? Simple, the person, in this case a coed, had been campused, one night this weekend, for a viola tion of a rule in the handbook of rules for women. And what did the coed do to deserve being campused one night during Jubilee? It seems this coed had invited another coed up for the weekend a couple of weeks ago. The UNC coed arranged for her guest to stay in her room in her bed while she was out of town for the weekend. When she got back she found out that she had violated a rule by leaving town while she had a guest. The coed had registered- the guest as required and had paid the 50 cents registration fee as re quired, i She had to appear before House Council. The punishment is pre scribed in a handbook given to the president of the house council but is not stated in the rulebook given all coeds. The coed, who in violating the rule had no idea of what punish ment to expect, much less know ing that she was even breaking a rule, was given a "choice" of punishment by the council. They told her she could take campus ment the Friday night of Jubilee weekend or the Friday and Satur U.S. Sets Aside Pride In Going To Paris Talks are finally going to take place between the United States and North Vietnam after a month of haggling over sites. The place the two nations decided on finally was Paris, a town never men tioned officially by the two na tions as a possibility. Paris had been discounted as a possibility because of a little problem of pride. General De Gaulle had been one of the most vociferous critics of the American presence in Vietnam and offered to help negotiate a settlement be tween the two countries. Therefore, for the U.S. to agree to talks in Paris, by all other stan dards the logical place, would have seemed like conceding to De Gaulle's demands, and therefore, humiliation for the U.S. But Johnson has apparently now set aside these artificial ob jections to get on with the busi ness of settling the war and ex tracting the U.S. from Vietnam so it can get to work solving its do mestic problems, which it seems, cannot be settled at the same Terry Gingras, Managing Editor Rebel Good, News Editor Shari Willis, Features Editor Dale Gibson, Sports Editor Joe Sanders, Associate Editors Dick Levy Kermit Buckner, Jr, Advertising Manager day night of the following week end. And what is the case with male students who bring friends up to UNC? In the first place they are not restricted to having guests on just the weekend; they can have, them any day of the week and no one will pay them any mind. Sec ondly, they don't have to regis ter their friends, much less pay 50 cents to register them. And fi nally, it doesn't make any differ ence whether you leave town while the guest is visiting. So why rules for women and. not for men? You've got us. In the first place it is hard to under-, stand why women students at Car olina are any less responsible than the male students. If anything, judging from the fact that coeds here have higher college board scores than males, one might guess they are more responsible. Secondly, granted that there might be semi-sound reasons for imposing some rules on women that aren't imposed on men, there is certainly no quality about worn;, en that would require such abso lute control oyer the way the coeds lead their lives here on campus. ;. ,.' While debate over the question of no-closing hours for women gets the greater attention, the rninor rules which make life for women more miserable than that of men stay on the book. Abolition of these petty rules must be given as much attention by the WRC as the abolition of the major rules, for they are just as much a denial of the responsibility of the coeds here. Certainly it must be a source of happiness to coeds here to know they are outnumbered by the males but what good does that do them if they have to spend their weekends in the dorm be cause they were out of town while they had a guest? time that a war is being fought. Johnson in the past month has shown himself to be aware of the real problems our nation faces and the problems of our involvement in the civil war in Vietnam. First he decided not to run, eliminating one of the major causes of divi siveness in the country. Secondly, he offered to netotiate and limited the bombing of North Vietnam. Now he has set pride aside in or der to get down to the business of negotiating. The next step is the ticklish business of deciding the conditions for full-scale negotiations between the country. The negotiations with the North Vietnamese over the war are need ed very much. To negotiate is not a sign of weakness, only the re sults of the negotiating signify whether a nation is weak or strong. Therefore it is important that the country go into these pre liminary talks with at least the same spirit that has taken the na tion this far towards settlement in the last month. Zap-Tli America today has myriads of psy chologists, politicians, angry parents, and angry youth all running around pro claiming the existence of an absolutely unbridgeable gap between the genera tions. , To be quite certain, we can easily see; that communication between parents and children, students and administrators is often difficult as well as taking place all too infrequently. But to what extent is each "side" in tiie so-called debate fooling itself and the other with the popular jargon of to tal breakdown and separation? It ap pears that we all have-a lot more in common than we want to admit, and it would seem that we are being unreal istic in judging the gap to be "unbridge able." Anyone who was out at the Union X aw Wl carpets -trying T cra.t JH nr have JT Jt -i ) Letters To The Editor To the Editor, Re Mr. Amlong's parting editorial advocating selection of Daily Tar Heel editors by the Publications Board. Democracy, it is said, is the worst of . all possible forms of goverment ex cept for all the others. Perhaps, by the same token, election of DTH editors by the campus is the worst of all pos sible selection processes except for all the others. Granted that the electioneering pro- : cess is one in which most candidates for editor (being iritrospective, intel lectual, undemiagogic souls) find them selves distinctly uncomfortable. Grant- . ed that the cmapus on rare occasions, ' has made "mistakes" and ignored the "best-qualified" candidate for the edi torship. But consider the alternatives: (1) se lection by the incumbent DTH staff; or (2) selection by the Publications Board. By both processes one can insure that the unruly influences of the campus will not intrude upon the Inner Sanctum of Graham Memorial. By the first pro cess one insures that the incumbent staff can perpetuate its way of doing and saying things; one insures that no "outsiders" with different ideas and marching to the beat of different drum mers will horn in. By the second pro- cess one hands to student government officialdom so lovingly portrayed for the past year by Bruce Strauch-Jcon-trol over Daily Tar Heel policy. Be fore you embrace selection by a stu dent government publications board as the best system, you should check with universities which have had unpleasant experiences with such a system e.g., University of California in the early '60s. Election of the editor by the campus means that the day he takes office he is free to "play God" for the next year, without always having to look over his shoulder at the student government board which gave him his job and can take it away from him if he steps out of line. (And this regularly hap pens on other campuses). If enough people become sufficiently enraged with the editor, under the present cam pus election system, they can seek to recall him and he can fight it out with his enemies in public. The alternative Publications Board selection would (1) prevent the cam pus from having any say in choosing or getting rid of an editor, but more importantly t (2) it would hush the stri dent voice of the Daily Tar Heel edi tor, and would make him beholden to student government officials. The edi tor, now the watchdog of student gov CommeiniicalticDEiL G Grove Fiddler's Convention this past Eas ter weekend saw a good example of just why we aren't experiencing the to tal generational war many pop psychol ogists and sociologists keep talking about. Close to 15,000 people jammed into Union Grove, N.C.. to both witness and participate in this highly publicized country music festival. Most of them, as one would expect, came to watch. And a good number of the fiddlers and pickers reeked of Nashville. But most of the players who journeyed to Union Grove were the real thing straight out of the hills. A significant portion of the specta tors were students, and every imagin able New Left type was around as well. The American Legion characters had made it too, their lapels decorated with American flag pins. I. . :-. D TH Editor" Shoiild Be "Elecfed " ernment and administration behavior, might well become a tame house pet. Jim Clotfelter Cop Editor, Daily Tar Heel 1962-63 JXGYCR To the Editor: We have noted the letter of Mr. Des mond P. Ellis of the Department of Sociology in your April 25 issue. We do not take issue with Mr. Ellis' attempt to defend the Friday boycott of classes, but we are appalled at the gibberish that he uses to expres his ideas For example, the second sentence of the letter reads, "As I see it, the pri mary responsibility of a disciplined scholar is to ascertain the validity stat us of the existential facts about which one expresses normative feelings before the dissemination of the "contents" of one's limbic system." Since the mean ing of this statement is unclear to the profane, one wishes that Mr. Ellis had translated his sociological jargon into English. To our great loss, the news media, bureaucratic agencies, Madison Ave nue, and the pseudo-sciences have in vaded the public at large and the aca demic community with their tasteless, often meaningless, cant. The time has come for those who cherish the genius of the English language to recognize as counterfeiters those who pass off garble as intellectual currency. The university can have no greater responsibility than to foster the clear expression of well-formed thought. James B. Graves, Jr Ian McDonald John Barrett Rap Righti To The Editor: After the past summers of bitter racial discontent and with the sum mers to come, the response of Ameri can white leadership to the nation's most critical domestic problem can only be described as disappointing. Capitol Hill's most popular actions have been to punish agitators, strength en the police and cut some of the funds that are easing some of the distress in the Nation's slums through the anti poverty program. The approach in Washington only serves to divert at tention from plain causes of the riots, which is the goading misery in which Negroes live in the Nation's slums Nothing less than a Marshall Plan . or a multi-billion dollar anti-poverty But there wasn't any pitch battle. The really great thing about the Union Grove affair was that communication between these two groups came both in stantly and unselfishly. As soon as everyone started bring ing out their fiddles, fried chicken, and beer, Union Grove was just one big picnic. No one was trying to be tough or hard-nosed with anyone else, simply because there was no reason to be. Mu sic and a good time was the common denominator, and there was no obstruc tion to either. Now this is not to say that we don't have any problems in the United States today, nor is it to say that all those who were plucking banjos and drinking beer together agree on either goals or strategy for modern America. This much is evident If we are to holes in Vf?e 1 1 pec ICC program for the cities can make any lasting contribution toward a solution to the problems that have driven Ne groes to riot. The dollars are going to Vietnam instead of Chicago or Ra leigh, and Captol Hill is not making the sacrifices to get the billions that are necessary to end the war at home. The response of America's White Leadership has been exactly what the Black extemists have always said it would be." Whitey talks a good game, but you have to shake him up before he will do anything. Once you take off the pressure, Whitey will go right back to business as usual land forget that Black people ever existed." It is hard to believe that the White leadership of the United Staes has not been sufficiently shaken by the events of the past summers and the death of Dr. King to respond in a constructive and permanent way to the needs in the slums. The response has been foolish or ir relevant. American white leadership must move and decide what is neces sary so that the nation will not have to be shaken further. John Fikes Read Hit To the Editor: The situation has apparently gotten out of hand. Mr. Read (whose name I did not mention in my previous let ter out of a spirit of keeping person alities out of it) has gone a little too far, and I'm afraid, is not quite cor rect on his facts. 1. The "Israeli danc or nothing at all issue" This came about after I announced to Mr. Read that we in tended to do an Israeli show. I will not justify that decision; to anyone who feels that it needs a justification, I feel sorry for you. Suffice it to say that I have done in the past, potpuri shows (from many nations), Greek shows, Balkan shows, and am con-tem-plating a Scandinavian show. Mr. Read expressed a reluctance about this, not for himself (although he admits to strong symhatfcies for the Arab position), but for the others, who, he said, might object. At this point, I to him that I considered dancing non political, and that if told we could not do an Israeli show, we would do no show at all. 2. The next move was Mr. Camp bell'sHe informed me that the Israeli show wout be all right, if I announced that the dances had come from dif ferent countries. I interpreted that to mean that, in his eyes, Jewish dances were OK, but Israeli dances were not. Q) accomplish those things we fed are needed in America -bringing more peo ple into democratic participation, pro viding a minimum of education, bous ing and the like then we are all go ing to have to be willing to" communi cate with our countrymen. None of us, however, are entirely agreed on what form of communication is most effec tive. To some, it's a silent vigil on Wednesday afternoon; to others, it's a guerrilla attack on the Pentagon in Washington. Probably the main reason that a.-, large portion of our generation is mad st those "over thirty" is that the over thirties all too often refuse to listen.. When college students in the fifties were so apathetic as to be called the "Silent Generation," all America was confused and upset. Now that collegia tes are out protesting a war, working in civil rights projects, and helping McCarthy out, adulthood is just as up in the air as be fore. So there's our dilemma stay out of things and you lack "awareness;" get involved and you're a radical. It's our' part to be calm enough to sit down and explain even the radical things we come up with; in response, we expect, just os our parents do, to be listened to. Communication between generations isn't impossible. If it could happen at Union Grove, why can't it happen in Chapel Hill? Or New York City? The great thing about America, I hope, is : that it can. TfaeDaflj Tar Heel Is paa lisbed ,by the UBfrertSy of North Carolina Student Publi cations Board, dally except Mondays, examinations periods and .vacations. Offices are on the second iloor of Graham MemrUL Telephone cambers: editorial, sports, .news 33-1011; bus iness, circulation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1CS0, Chapel mil, N. C, 27514. Second class postage paid at VS. Post Office la Chape! Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: 19 per year; $5 per semester. Iexplained to Mr. Campbell that the dances were Israeli, and could only be presented as such. 3. The next move was my being told that I could not perfom these dances, as described in my first letter. Since then, I have learned that Mr. Read was not the neutral observ er he left me to believe he was and was somewhat active in promulgating the ban on Israeli dances. If he had acted in the spirit of internationalism and argued for the performance, it could have gone on as planned. Why was I not contacted by the President of the Cosmopolitan ,Club, or by its Vice President? Could it be that the President is Egyptian and VP Kenyan? From lengthy discussions with Mr. Solo I certainly did not get the feeling of unity in the executive com mittee position indicated by Mr. Read. In fact, Mr. Solo (The VP) told me that he was "denounced" when he tried to make clear his own views of non politksalism in the executive commit tee meeting that followed my bomb shell 6. I stand by my original position. For artist c reasons, I wished to do an Israeli show. For political reasons, I was asked to do something else. For moral reasons, I refused. If this be sa "inflexible stand" in the views of Mr. Read, perhaps we all have an additional insight into why the Arab-Israeli conflict eludes settlement. The rights of cultures to exist must be recognized by international bodies.. James Kalian Disneyland has more comfort stations than Latvia The Daily Tar Heel accepts ail letters for publication provided they arc- .typed, double-spaced and signed. Letters should be no longer than 300 words in length. libelous statements.
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