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Thursday, August 15, 1968
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NSA: No
In a year marked by the increase of student activity and
influence on the American political scene, it seems natural
that the student, too, would soon have a voice in the lobby
halls of Congress.
Anyway, that is the proposal facing the National
Student Association in its annual Congress at Kansas State
University.
The officers of the NSA are advocating a change in the
structure of the organization to permit the group to legally
lobby in Washington on issues of national student conern.
Presently the NSA's constitution prohibits the
association from forming such a lobby.
The new plan calls for NSA to split into two
organizations, one tax deductable and elibible for
government grants (shades of the CIA!) and hence unable
to lobby and another group (to retain the title of the
National Student Association) which would be legally able
to lobby (and thus not tax deductable and not open to
government grants.)
The effect of this plan would be to enable the NSA to
pass resolutions that supported, say 18 year old vote or
opposed the Viet Nam War and further urge Congress and
State legislatures to act in accordance with NSA
recommendations.
The plan would also allow NSA to establish lobbyists in
Washington and state capitals to watch out for student
concerns and present the NSA position in an official
capacity. Further, NSA could then conduct letter and
petition campaigns to make other attempts to influence
the lawgivers towards the NSA recommendations.
All this is well and fine . . . except for one slight
oversight on the NSA officer's part.
Why in the Hell should the majority of delegates to the
NSA's Congress determine the position that our
congressmen are going to hear as the "official" student
position?
In the past, the NSA has allowed a number of minority
reports to be filed in order to better express the wide
spectrum of views that it represents.
The lobby proposal has no such safeguards.
Until it does, the NSA had better check its impulse to
influence . . . and remember that a number of responsible
students stand behind it.
And they have no desire to be catagorized as a part of a
"student position" before a congressional committee.
If the NSA wishes to maintain the democratic attitude
they have heretofore assumed, it will be necessary for
them to revamp their lobby proposal to include the
minority rights of any democracy.
Goodbye For Now
The 1968 session of the University of North Carolina
summer school will be closed, locked and, by this time
next week, duly entered on those mysterious books of QP,
advancement and graduation.
With this issue the Tar Heel will similarly be closing up
shop for the summer.
We would like to thank you for putting up with us, our
rather eccentric circulation schedule, and our single
handed and failing campaign to see more for the UNC
summer student to do than attend the unwelcome class . . .
and then rush off to participate in the free billiards at GM.
(Sorry, no stags . . . only pool sharks with dates allowed.)
We have tried to do three things this summer.
One: the obvious task of reporting the news (that paltry
serving) of summer session.
Two: provide for the regular Carolina student a sense of
continuity with the regular year so to speak.
Three: an offering for our summer students of feature
articles and stories on what goes on during the "big time"
at Chapel Hill. We tried to show the various and lesser
known components of the campus (such as the ISC and
the newly founded G.T. Miller fund) that might give a
boost to similar programs at your own colleges.
In short we hope that you have enjoyed your sojourn
with us . . . and will come back often to join us at Kenan
and in Carmichael.
We would like to close in a dedication . . . from the
staff of the Tar Heel and the spirits of the Carolina
men ... to the little women that have somehow made the
summer routine all worth while. Our hats are off, Ladies,
to your smiles, your hemlines and above all, to your
sunbathing on that beautiful Cobb lawn, ..:. ., ,
Lobby
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The nomination of Richard
M. Nixon as the "Standard
Bearer" of the Republican Party,
and his subsequent
announcement of Governor
Spiro Agnew as his running-mate
(which was brought about by
the manueverings of Senator
Strom Thurmond, the
self-appointed Guardian of the
Old South), has risen the
forthcoming Democratic
National Convention to a new
significance.
For, with the defeat of
Governor Nelson Rockefeller,
whom Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris
had referred to as the people's
choice of the Republican Party,
and the nomination of the
former Vice-President, the
acknowledged politician's choice
of the GOP, the Democratic
Convention now remains the last
chance for those of dissenting
voice to be heard.
The outlook in Chicago is, at
first glance, much the same as it
was in Miami. Many feel the
Democratic Platform will be as
compromising, as
middle-of-the-road, as ineffective
as a guideline for the concerned
electorate, as was the
Republican one.
Furthermore, these people
feel that once the facade of an
open convention has been
destroyed on the first night of
balloting, as it was in Miami,
then the nomination will go,
once again, to the politician's
choice, Vice-President Hubert
Humphrey.
Nevertheless, there still
remains that collection of hardy
souls who refuse to accept this
prognostication. Therefore,
there still remains a faint hope
for those who desire a change in
the present Administration and
its policies. This hope appears to
be embodied in one man above
all others, Senator Eugene
McCarthy.
As far back as November
30,1967, Senator McCarthy
stepped out of the crowd of
passive critics and announced his
formal candidacy for the office
of President. From the very
beginning his campaign brought
two initial reactions, the
following and loyalty of a large
part of the electorate,
particularly the young and
politically active, and the
animosity of the Party regulars
who resented his attacking his
Party's Administration.
Nevertheless, his campaign
progressed to the point where
others, including the late
Senator Robert Kennedy,
Governor Rockefeller, and, most
recently, Senator George
McGovern, threw their hats into
the ring and joined McCarthy in
his struggle against the Old Line
Politics. The American people
have responded to their
campaigns in overwhelming
numbers, and at the Democratic
Convention they will seek to be
heard.
The question arises, who are
these optimists, or idealists, or
whatever you may wish to call
them, that refuse to submit to
the "inevitable" will of the Party
Pros at the Convention?
Basically, these are the people
who, quite naturally due to the
war in Vietnam, the riots in our
cities, the decline in pur moral
leadership In the. eyes of the
e's The
world, want change, change not
in the sense of a drastic
re-ordering of the nations
fundamental traditions and
goals, but change in the sense of
new direction, new paths to the
fulillment of these American
aspirations.
They ask not for a "sell-out
to Communism" in Vietnam,
but for a rational, intelligent
evaluation of our commitment
there, tempered with moral
truth and honesty; they ask not
for law and order to be
neglected (for this must always
be maintained), but for a
vigorous, new approach to
understanding the causes of riots
and violence, and the eradication
of the environment from which
it springs. They ask not for every
Bob Hunter
GOP Insights
Political conventions are for
county chairman; they are not
for their wives. Political
conventions are for veteran
newsmen; they are not for cub
reporters. Political conventions
are for boring millions out there
in TV land; they are not for
summer reruns.
Above all political
conventions are for the middle
aged; and above all else political
conventions are not for college
students.
The few impressions one is
able to maintain after returning
from a convention of that sort
are vague and hazy almost
smoke filled.
Clearly one can remember
crossing over the concrete maze,
sometimes jokingly referred to
as the "freeway." One distinctly
remembers the one-way streets
and the signs telling the
hospital zones. One remembers
being lost.
After a few hours of driving
down the one-way streets
orientation becomes easier, you
find your candidate's
headquarters. Parking is no
problem in Miami, a car is
parked very easily for one dollar
every six hours.
At the information booth,
one is able to ascertain exactly
how many hours off schedule
the convention is going to be.
From there one begins to
wander around looooking for
some soul brothers anyone that
might be able to play
"do-you-know" or
"what's-your-major."
At the convention these
games are replaced by
"what-does-your-daddy-do" or
" w h e r e - d o -you-plan-to-apply ."
A few hours of this and the staff
meeting begins.
At the staff meeting the m.c.
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white to ask a Negro home to
dinner, but for all men to, as Dr.
Martin Luther King state, "judge
a man not by the color of his
skin, but by the content of his
character."
The Democratic National
Convention convenes in Chicago
in less than a forthnight. Many
feel its outcome has already
been decided, but then many
feel that America's future has
already been decided.
Around the candidacy of
Senator Eugene McCarthy the
people have rallied, not only to
change the course of the
Democratic Convention, but to
change the direction of these
United States. The Convention is
the last chance for these people
to be heard.
announces "When the
Washington group arrives we're
going to start all over again."
Then he welcomes the staff to
Miami Beach and cheerfully tells
the gathering what they cannot
do.
After this the Washington
group enters and he repeats
himself. The other old pros are
announced. For the most part
these are men that never make
Time or Newsweek, they are
vintage 1950 pros. There stands
the bone and sinew of the
Republican establishment.
After finding my group we
began to talk about how other
state delegations would vote. It
was finally determined that
Nixon would win, although first
ballot nomination was never
assured by our count.
Then talk turned to the.
Nixonaires, the Nixon girls, and
various puns on Nixon's
nickname. Except for
detemining that the Rocky
people had far superior women
workers and far superior
financial reserves, the next days
were spent working, delivering
papers to the hotels.
Finally came nomination
night, the staff alert after two
hours of sleep each night, passes
out after the first nomination.
The next morning the Miami
Herald tells us that Nixon did
win on the first ballot.
With all the enthusiasm that
one. can muster, the staff waits
for Nixon's news conference.
After the announcement of
Spiro Agnew, the college
students begin to say that Gene
McCarthy may not be so bad
after all.
Looking back on it all right
now, one really begins to
wonder with Senator
McCarthy there must be a
better way.