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THE DAILY TAB HEEL Tuesday, May 14, 1963 Page 2 1 lattg 75 Year of Editorial Freedom Wayne Hurder, Editor Donald Walton, Business Manager Student Enterprise Needed At Carolina The South Campus bus ex periment represents an important victory for student initiative at UNC. Congratulations are in order for John McMurray and Bill Darrah. Due largely to their persaverence the bus system has concluded a profitable and efficient first week. ' To be sure, there remain several areas of concern, such as whether South Campus students should have to pay to ride to class just because they live so far away. They do, after all, attend the same university as everyone else in Chapel Hill. But these questions can be set tled by fall. The system has already shown itself remarkedly bpen to improvement, as seen by its overnight expansion to include Franklin Street, Victory Village, and Parker-Teague-Avery in the route. The primary reason for sup porting the bus line, however, is that it is student owned and operated. The implications of the status extend far beyond the buses. Many of the ills which have plagued this campus for years or even generations are economic in Mature. Who remembers a year gone by when complaints were not heard concerning the Book Ex change or the downtown merchant? or taxis? Yet, as an advertisement in the buses reminds us, the transportation system represents a triumph over obstacles of long standing. These grievances have re mained largely unredres sed because the economic framework of this campus has always been "state socialism." If a service is to be provided either th e Administraton for student govern ment must garner the proceeds or there will be no service. Some few, specialized services have functioned privately, but these comprise only a small percentage of the total local economy. ; Philosophically, who owns or runs what is irrelevant pertaining to what already exists. But creating an oligopoly by restricting competition is relevant when need ed services are not provided. The prime inhibitors of private Richardson Program Relevant To Students The Richardson Fellows pro gram is about to enter its second year at Carolina. The birthday of most in stitutions is hardly newsworthy. But in the first year of its existence the Richardson program has pro ved itself to be among the most valuable experiences on campus. There are, of course, other pro grams at UNC which are ostensibly geared to acknowledge and reward future leaders. The most famous is the Morehead Scholarship program. The Richardson Fellowships go beyond any of these in providing meaning to the lives of the selected individuals. Not only that the Foun dation chooses so few to participate. Or even that the selec tion committee is comprised of established leaders in various fields. I What is significant about the Richardson program is that it Ofor Ifctl Terry Gingras, Managing tditor Rebel Good, News Editor Shari Willis, Features Editor Dale Gibson, Sports Editor Joe Sanders, Associate Editors Dick Levy Kermit Buckner, Jr., Advertising Manager initiative at Carolina are, of course, the Umstead Act and the Trustee Regulations. Together, they effectively prohibit individual students, and in many cases stu dent government also, from un dertaking financial ventures on his campus. These must be attacked in the courts if the efficiency gained by allowing free competition is to be realized. Until then other action is necessary. Several alternatives could be followed, each of which would allow unobstructed entry in to the market here at UNC. The first possibility is to in corporate student government. This would allow the Umstead Act to be bypassed and would enable student funds to be used to com pete, if desired, with the Book Ex or other merchants on a large scale. Or a stock conglomerate cor poration could be formed, con sisting of a series of ventures run by students for profit. But the most important alternative would also be the simplest. That is: encourage vigorous activity by any groups of students interested in providing any t sort of marketable good or service. Within this context one can see that the bus system should remain in student hands. A Board of Direc tors should be formed consisting of students and faculty and com petent members of the ad ministration with students man dating the course to be followed. Individuals running the system would be students, paid either by salary or by incentive. The opportunities thus opened for students interested in business enterprises would be tremendous. More important, student control would maximize responsiveness of the bus system to student wishes. This same principle must be broadened. Wherever gaps exist, student entrepreneurs should rush in to fill them. If we are to solve our problems, we must rely on no one else. The bus system has shown that if you want something done at Carolina, there is no better way than to do it yourself. demands of its participants con tinuing involvement in the foremost problems of the day. For example, next semester will lie devoted entirely to the study of urban problems. Speakers, seminars, and a symposium are scheduled. The importance of the Fellowships to Carolina is two-fold. First, they demand of their holders more than merely holding high sounding but vacuous positions in various student organizations. Second, and more important, the Richardson Fellowships help do for their recipients what the educational system here should do for all students but does for none: namely, their resources are chan neled into areas of real meaning. These fortunate students are. given a chance to apply their con siderable talents where they will increasingly be needed in the future. Mike Cozza Nixon, Kennedy Turn . Richard Nixon has never been noted for his pragmatism in dealing with urban problems and race relations. As a matter of fact, most observers have felt that Nixon has been purposely catering to southern convention delegates by main taining a conservative position on these issues. A week and a half ago, however, Nixon went on nation-wide television with a policy statement that surprised most of the political analysts so much that they didn't really know what to say about it. Basically, Nixon's approach to the problems combined his old conservative belief in free enterprise with a new pragmatism and a sense of hope. It was a strange blend. "For too long," Nixon said, ''white America has sought to buy off the Negro and to buy off its own sense of guilt with ever more programs of welfare, of public housing, of payments to the poor . . . payments that kept the A endless, dismal cycle of dependency spin ning from one generation to another." That -was the old Nixon talking. But then, right in the middle of his speech, the newest "new Nixon" appeared. "Our task, our challenge," he asserted, "is to break this cycle of dependency, and the time to begin is now." John Talor Summit On The sign over the elevators read "10th Floor House Meeting Tonight. Everybody come." At the appointed time, the witching hour, the door swung solemnly and majrestically open and in walked the house president There were four guys studying in the social room. Nobody else was there. The president surveyed the scene and beat a retreat, muttring as he left the room, "This is discouraging." The four in the room apparently had not read the sign, or had forgotten about the meeting, for none of them could figure out what it actually was that was discouraging. The president returned in a few moments with the elected house officers and announced, "You guys have just been 'drafted." "For what",, one of the replied. four "For the house meeting." The presi dent waited a few minutes as a few arrived and took their seats. Then he rapped on the table with an empty ginger ale bottle and announced that the meeting . would come to order. But it never really did. Most of those present knew one or two of the others and the assembly grouped up and stared across the room at each other. There were three orders of business, none of which were resolvd, and innumerable wisecracks about everything under the sun. The time came to appoint a com mittee and everyone in the room sud denly -emembered homework that was The Daily Tar Heel is pub lished by the University of North Carolina Student Publi cations Board, daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations. Offices are on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial sports, .news S33-IC11; bus mess, circulation, advertising -933-1163. Address: Box 1080 Chapel Hill, N.C, 27514. Second class postage paid at VJS. Post Office in Chapel Hill N. C. ' Subscription rates: 99 year; $5 per semester. per Nixon went on to elaborate an exciting partnership of private industry and the federal government which would "develop the opportunities that lie tin trapped in our underdeveloped urban heartland." In short, he was proposing a program of incentives for private industry, "to make acceptable the added risks of ghet to development and of training the unemployed for jobs." What's even more surprising than that, Nixon even had something good to say about the black militants. "Much of the black militant talk these days," he declared, "is actually in terms far closer to the doctrines of free enterprise than those of the welfarist '30's terms of pride, ownership, private enterprise, capital the same qualities. . .that for two centuries have been at the heart of American suc cess." And the former Vice-president even declared that his proposals were oriented toward "more black ownership, for from this can flow the rest: black pride, black jobs, and yes, Black Power in the best sense of that often misapplied term." It's hard to say what the political repercussions of Nixon's new policy will be among those southern . convention Floor 10 piling up and must be done. Committees were finally drafted, in the literal sense. The officers were the only volunteers- regular occurrance. The meeting was resolved finally, after one hour and fifteen minutes of wasted time. Nothing was accomplished, in any sense of the word. Someone at the start of this school year said something to the effect that the high rise residence colleges were really working to get the individual more involved. They felt that the problem of depersonalization was licked. But then, they weren't at the penthouse summit conference last night. you toufciaoLy To Pull cut GrO HtAD I Iteffg. RfWJ-Y GrOlOO! C jJaiT ! S 1 Tables delegates, but there is already evidence that it has been met with interest by members of the northern, black com munity. In fact many black leaders are now saying they might even support Nixon if he constructively builds his new policy and convinces them of his sincerity. While it may 'seem strange that Richard Nixon has moved to the left on the urban problems, it is perhaps stranger that Bobby Kennedy is suddenly moving to the right, seemingly to the position that most people thought was Nixon's a few months ago. Speaking in a late telecast the night before last Tuesday's Indiana primary, Kennedy stated his position on problems in the cities. He spoke in generalities, putting emphasis in two particular areas. First was insistence on law and order and the assertion that violence in the cities was "unacceptable." Second was the declaration that the "federal bureaucracy in Washington" was becoming too large to meet the needs of the people. Evidently Kennedy was trying to make a last minute appeal for con servative wotes in Indiana because he feared Senator McCarthy had already sewed up many of the liberals." . '. It's hard to imagine Bobby Kennedy appealing to conservatives, but we'll have to admit that this has been a topsy-turvy . political year that's been full of surprises. First McCarthy almost won in New Hampshire, then Johnson suddenly drop ped out of contention, and good old northern4iberal-ADA Hubert Humphrey suddenly became the darling of the South. Now Richard Nixon and Bobby Ken nedy are switching positions on a major campaign issue. What in the world will happen next? The Daily Tar Heel accepts all letters' for publication provided they are typed, louble-spaced and signed. Letters should be no longer than 300 words in length. We reserve the right to edit for libelous statements. WE, the aught SOUTH VitTWAESE, SOMT WEED youfl HXP TO WIN YOU HAVE. NT Done AV4CM MCkrrCsJ 1 10 A7 L DON HELP 0 In Letters A Liberal wer To the Editor: It's funny how a lot of people who would do anything in their power to cure a sick dog or cow would prefer to shoot a man who becomes a criminal or rioter. "Humanitarians" like Henry J. Taylor of the Richmond Time Dispatch call it "sick sentimentality" when someone suggests that the rest of us might be a; least partly responsible because some of our fellow men are unwilling or unable to obey the laws of society. Let us assume for a moment that criminals and rioters are what they . are solely because of their own cuss edn ess and unwillingenss to "shape up." What do we do about them? The obvious answer seems to be to punish them to make them get in line. Unfortunately, this kind of treatment works with only a very small number of criminals; we have several hundred years of evidence from here and abroad to show this. What do we do with those who won't respond to punishment? Lock them up permanently or shoot them, it seems. Now one suspects that Mr. Tcylor is secretly in favor of the second alternative, and that wouldn't be surpris ing when you consider that the Mayor of Chicago, no less, is in favor of this method of dealing with arsonists and looters. But if you pressed Mr. Taylor he would probably show himself a "humanitarian" and opt for the choice of locking them up and throwing away the key. But what a dismaying choice to have to make: putting thousands of lazy, good-for-nothings permanently on "reltef "in prison! Granted you might get a little work out of them, if you applied enough force, but it's doubtful that they would pay their own way. Many people realized some time ago that the solutions just proposed don't work, but there are always a large number of "conservatives" around, like Mr. Taylor, who insist that the way to progress is to repeat the failures of the past. As a liberal, I'm inclinded to attribute this tendency on their part to cussedness and unwillingness to "shape up," but, instead, I take a "permissive" attitude toward con servatives and say that they are simply products of their environment. I also feel that I'm responsible for Mr. Taylor's environment being what it is, and I'm going to do what I can to change conditions in this country in a peaceful, democratic way. There are a lot of people today who say that the conservatives in the establishment have been given every opportunity to get an education and learn , what this country needs, and that they have done nothing to better themselves. These radicals insist that the establishment must be punished and its activities disrupted to make it get in line. - And, they say, if the power structure won't respond to punishment, then the only solution is to have a revolution. We must either shoot those who won't cooperate with the revolution, or lock them up and throw away the key. But I am a liberal, so I take a "permissive" attitude toward these radicals and say. . . Yours truly . Tom Cabarga Chapel Hill. N.C. rt4 trtuJt Wt'LL CoUAfSt without yoar. suw Tr Vou" yoiA'tf. WROG' TAK Of f 1 THfS Tfcl f uPf JUftcrt. From the Minnesota Dry Am it i I J
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