THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Friday, September 20, 1968
Pajre 2
Otelia Connor
OH
76 Years o Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
BUI Staton, Business Manager
Dale Gibson, Managing Editor
Rebel Rood, News Editor
Je Sanders, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Dick Levy, Associate Editor
Hermit Buckner, Jr, Advertising Manager
Trustees' Visit Crucial
In Seeking Changes
The Visiting Committee of the
University's Board of Trustees pays
what could be a very fruitful visit
to the Chapel Hill campus today.
They will eat lunch with student
leaders today and afterwards will
talk to whomever wishes to talk to
them. After supper, they will visit
the University's only coed residence
college.
The Trustees' visit is much
welcomed since they hold crucial
power in the University and any
substantive change in rules must
meet with their approval.
Despite the fact that they have
often been portrayed as ogres, we
think that much good can come
from their sitting down and talking
to students about what direction
the University should talk: whether
it should allow students more
freedom to develop their
capabilities or should maintain the
present strictures which hamper the
student in his trying to adapt to the
environment he'll face after college.
The last time the visiting
committee came here was two years
ago. Since then students have
changed their attitudes greatly in
reaction to the escalation of the
Vietnamese war, the worsening of
the urban crisis, the increase
in violence in America (evidenced in
the assassination of Robert
Kennedy and Martin Luther King)
and because of their failure to dent
the political system this year.
Thus the Trustees will find a
different type of student when they
come here than the ones they met
with two years ago.
At the same time, if they expect
to find here the type of students
that precipitated the Columbia
revolt they are mistaken. They will
find that most students here don't
have the same goals that the
Columbia radicals have nor do they
wish to work outside the system, at
the present time.
Hopefully, the Trustees, in then
visit, will try to really find out what
is happening on the college campus,
why it is happening, and why most
students feel a change has o be
made.
If both groups sit down together
and try to discuss each other's
attitude without the feeling in mind
that the group they are meeting
with is the enemy who has to be
overcome, then much can probably
be accomplished.
At a time when there is a great
desire on campus to have the
University progress, the visit of the
Trustees will have a crucial effect
on the University's future.
Students Ignore Registration
Because Of Parking Problen
The parking problem continues
to grow on campus and so far this
year the Administration's response
to the situation has been to say that
parking rules are to be more
stringently enforced.
University Parking Director
Alonzo Squires said Wednesday
that the rate of registration of cars
indicated that a lot of students
were not registering their cars.
The campus Police, because of
the failure of many students to
register their cars, is going to crack
down on parking violators and try
to find those students who have not
registered their car and still park on
campus.
Right now the Administration
plans to do no more than force
those who didn't register to pay a
late registration fee. This is good.
However, an effort to go even
further in punishing the student
would be unwarrented because the
parking situation on campus can
only lead students to try to beat
the system.
What good can a student see in
paying $10 or S7.50 to register his
car and find that that sticker, one
doesn't guarantee him a parking
place, and, secondly, even if he can
find a space, the lot the student is
usually told to park in is far from
where he wants to go.
One example of the ridiculous
system is the case of Scott
Residence College. Male residents
arc given stickers which entitle
them to park in either the
Ehringhaus parking lot (or the
Craige parking lot, far away.) Scott
drivers have to compete with
Ehringhaus residents for a space in
their lot, the only lot close to Scott
College that the residents are
entitled to use.
Even more absurd is the
T-Sticker. Owners of the T-Stickers
(those persons living off-campus
but within 30 minutes walking
distance of campus) pay $2.50 so
they can park nowhere on campus.
Little wonder then that students
don't register their cars in an effort
to get a parking space.
The University has finally
decided to do something to maltej
the coeds' dorms more secure. The
action has been long awaited and
much needed.
Last year a prowler proved the
security arrangements faulty several
times but little was done then to
make them stronger.
Now, unfortunately, the Dean of
Women's office has decided to
install stronger screens, more lights,
and an alarm system in the
women's dorms.
The Dean of Women's office
deserves more congratulations for
finally getting around to insuring
coeds some security in their dorms.
Hopefully, in the future they
can continue to act so positively on
the needs of UNC coeds.
Improved Security
In Coed Dorms
Finally Comes
Unless something drastic is done
shortly, the problem will continue
to grow as the student enrollment
and number of faculty members
increases.
While a high rise parking lot on
campus is out of the question, the
Administration needs to give some
serious thought and lots of time to
the problem. They should seriously
consider an alternative such as
building a mass parking lot on the
fringe of the campus and banning
cars (of both students,
administrators, and faculty) from
the main campus, with decent bus
service provided.
In the meantime, before
anything major can be done, the
Administration should not be
surprised when students refuse to
register their cars at the start of the
year.
Mannerss Better Or
worse?
By Otelia Connor
In 1963, the year I was in
Time Magazine, a graduate
student whom I met on the
campus said. "Mrs. Connor,
beware of hubris." I asked,
"What in the world is that?"
He answered, "It is the Greek
word for too much pride!"
It would have been well if I
had taken his advice. I have
been bragging too much about
the good manners of my
students. During the summer I
have told many of them that
the manners in Lenoir and the
Pine Room were the worst I
had ever seen. And they were
not all summer school students
either.
They eat with their arms
and elbows on the table. They
pull chairs away from tables
without asking permission.
They say huh and un-huh, and
one person had one leg on the
table. They wear pencils
behind the ear,- and most of
them wrere chewing gum.
A great many students are
pulling off their shoes before
putting their feet on the tables
in Graham Memorial Many of
them are not.
Today, I was reading the
newspaper in Graham
Memorial when I saw a student
pull a large lounge chair around
in front of the newspaper rack.
I watched to see if he would
replace the chair when he left.
Of course, he didn't. I called to
him "You - go back and put
that chair where you got it."
He looked perplexed and I
repeated what I said and
added, "If any of you eyer put
anything back where you got
it You would drop dead!" He
put it back.
When I recounted this to
some one in the Inn Cafeteria,
his remark was "They are not
taught in their homes to put
chairs back in place." I replied,
"Nor any other thing."
I don't expect the new
students to know me, but I am
surprised at how many
freshmen and sophomores
think I am a myth. They say
they knew about me but didn't
think I existed . .
I have slowed down a lot,
and for the last two years I
haven't gotten around to all
the campus activities as I once
did, but I hope I will be around
for a good while yet, and I am
just as much interested in the
well-being of my 15,000
children as ever. So be on the
lookout for Otelia, and her
umbrella!
Editors Note: Mrs. Connor is
the official Guardian of
Student Manners on this
campus. Whatever gentility and
charm may still remain in this
bastion of Southern
intellectualism is due in large
measure to her persistent
efforts. -
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"Stop, children, what's that
sound? Everybody look what's
goin' 'round."
Buffalo Springfield
According to the big guns
and chief sages in Carolina's
student government, this is to
be the year of "experimental"
everything: already the
experimental college ran
experimental orientation, and
it seems that Ken Day wants
traditional student government
hierarchy to be replaced by an
experimental student
government
Well, that's great Simply
fantastic And now that all the
political hacks and other SG
functionaries have had their
say, I'd like to make several
suggestions, all of them
(naturally) being experimental.
First of all, I don't like this
campus. But the solution's
easy. Let's set up an
experimental campus halfway
between Chapel Hill and
Raleigh. This experimental
campus could be the center for
all sorts of future experimental
programs.
On this new campus, the
main change will have to be an
experimental residence college
system. Obviously, the present
collection of dorms, high-rise
and otherwise, has failed to
materialize as the panacea for
the dorm man's basic
inferiority to the fiat man.
So there are no frats or
residence colleges (as we now
know them) on the
experimental campus. In their
places are the experimental
residence colleges which
consist of four-person lean-tos.
Within the "confines" of the
lean-tos can reside two men
and two women students,
practicing not traditional free
love, but rather the new, more
exciting version of
experimental free love.
Those who don't fare well
in this environment of
experimental free love can
always go back to the Chapel
Hill campus with its more
formalized, nineteenth century
style of lovemaking.
Recognizing that even
experimental experiments need
some leadership, our new
campus will offer a system of
rotation where the top two
offices are concerned. So wrhile
the students who remain in
Chapel Hill will have to listen
to the banalities of such dull
types as student body
president Ken Day, students on
the experimental campus can
all share the leadership and the
blame for any failures (if,
indeed, there could be failures
in an experimental
environment).
Of course wTe'll need an
experimental administration,
since no one would be satisfied
with Chancellor "Sitterson and
his gang. While not being
wildly enthusiastic about any
of those Who have been
mentioned, I will probably
support Dick Levy, world's
greatest living experiment in
being pompously obnoxious,
for experimental chancellor.
As for other functionaries,
I'll just have to face up to the
facts that there can be no
replacements for such
luminaries as Deans
Carmichael, Cathey, and
Cansler. That would be just too
much.
The final touch will have
been added when we install
experimental students to be
taught by the experimental
instructors in courses of
experimental learning. That
should be the ultimate in this
fantastic parade of
experiments.
Enough? We.., the score is
as follows: up to this point I
have mentioned the word
"experimental'
times.
over twenty
During the coming year, it
will probably be used
thousands of times to describe
nonsensical programs and other
idiotic student government
lunacies.
Just remember, whenever
you hear it, that the
experimental campus needs
you!
Low-Cost?
The Chapel Hill Weekly
The most deceptive thing about
low-cost housing as the term is
applied to government-financed
projects in Chapel Hill-is that there
is nothing low-cost about it other
than the rental fees.
The units built on Lindsay
Street and Gomains Avenue
averaged out at something like
515,000 apiece. The units being
constructed on North Columbia
Street doubtless will come in at
something more than that And the
latest project, proposed for
construction on the 15-501 Bypass,
is expected to cost about 522,000
per unit.
The obvious question is why
local housing authorities and the
federal government do not build
single-family dwellings instead of
apartment projects. The cost would
be less, the housing itself certainly
more desirable, and the risk of
creating new ghettos would be
minimized. Also, it seems that
individual lots would be more
readily available and at more
reasonable prices than the
exorbitant prices the federal
government is paying for tracts.
There undoubtedly are reasons
why the single-family housing
approach is not being taken. It
would be interesting to a good many
people to hear them.