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" i 5 s f J! i Pajjs 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday, September 26, 1963 atlg U&r IfM 76 Years of Editorial Freedom Wayne Hurder, Editor Bill Staton, Business Manager Dale Gibson, Managing Editor Rebel Good, News Editor Joe Sanders, Features Editor Owen Davis, Sports Editor Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor Kermit Buckner, Jr., Advertising Manager Consumers' Commission Offers Chance To Act On Prices Tired ot the monopolistic system iii Chapel Hill that robs you because you who have no opportunity to buy goods elsewhere? You've got a chance to do something about that system tonight at 8 in Roland Parker Lounge in Graham Memorial when the Student Consumer Services Commission meets for the first time. The committee, according to project initiator Bob Hunter is for "those students who are sick of the oligopolistic and monopolistic system in Chapel Hill and the prices which are reeming the students." The commission is a combination of the former : Discount Committee and Credit Committees which went almost nowhere in alleviating the students' plight. Hopefully the commission will do better and will not fall into a bureaucratic trap of investigations and more investigati ons interspersed only by time-out for Yack pictures. Investigations are essential to an effective program but in the past it has been common for committees of Student Government to forget that there is anything else. Hunter has some fairly good ideas for improving the students' situation, such as a union for student workers, a student co-op system, etc. It would be awful if students could not take some action pursuant to the establishment of these ideas or any others that members of the committee might have. Another pitfall, that hopefully will be avoided, is that of management of the committee from the top down, with no opportunity of movement of ideas from the base up. This has been a big problem with efforts of Student Government in the past and is what the new Action Government, proposed by Ken Day, is trying to get away from. The meeting tonight of the Student Consumer Services Commission offers two major challenges: First, the challenge to do something about Chapel Hill merchants; Secondly, the challenge to establish firmly in Student Government a committee that can successfully gives students a chance to participate in improving their life at Chapel Hill. Any student that is tired of high prices and tired of a small clique of Student Government politicos running all the committees (for no benefit to the students) should show up at the meeting tonight and take any active part in it. SSOC Chapter At UNC Would Benefit Students The Southern Student Organizing Committee will hold an organizational meeting tonight in Gerrard Hall in its first steps toward Will UNC Close For Drought? Heard the rumor yet that the University may stop classes and send the students home because of the .water shortage? We heard "it yesterday, checked it out, and found out that there was some credence to the report. Overjoyed at the prospect, we were about to recommend that students start taking more showers and wash their cars and lawns in order to bring about that day when the University would have to send us home. However, that was until we found out that any days that the students might miss because of the drought would have to be made up at Christmas or Easter or some other time. Not wanting to mess up those vacations we now must recommend that you try to save water as much as possible. Don't wash the cars or water the lawn and bathe as little as you can get by with, etc. If the area is to get through the drought without any legal steps having to be taken to curtail water use, then all the residents must make a conscious effort to conserve water. If you're a student or Faculty member it will keep you from having to give up some of your vacation time later because of lack of water now. It's a little sacrifice we consider worth taking. re Tk; flu 1st. ttefc4 knotty ulf4 people or?C. "foe a 1 D &r V."' : m 3ii M P M H 1 M establishing a chapter here and setting the goals of that chapter. We recommend that students interested in effecting a change in their academic and social lives here i; attend the meeting. We think SSOC : offers a good vehicle for effecting ; change here at UNC. SSOC has been touted in some ::: circles as a replacement for the Students for a Democratic Society, which died out this year. It isn't It is much different and much better. SDS, much like Student Government has been in the past, was a small group that was run by a minority that knew what it wanted. : In addition, like Student Government, it had little influence on the students and accomplished little, besides getting some headlines. SSOC, contrary to the SDS which concerned itself mainly with national issues, is interested in the problem of society (particularly Southern society) and its ijij relationship to the students, who S are powerless on the campuses and ij: subjected to rigid training program in the universities, rather than being educated. j;':": SSOC will be educationally beneficial to the campus in that it will try to increase student x awareness of some basic social jiji issues and try to create some S discussion. This , is something that other organizations have failed to Lastly, SSOC should help the campus if it carries out its goal, as promised by Sam Austell "to build : a lasting organization which will be responsive to students' needs and demands, and which will be of sufficient strength to implement S those demands." : If you are interested in making some changes in the University this year, even if you think your ideas will probably clash with those of : most of the people in SSOC, we suggest that you attend the meeting tonight and do something to make some improvements around here. LtVi. Jo Oca . . . , . oje 4o -fop opt y 4 Letters I feet- Marianne Towler Wounem 9s Momor Penalized Granted women's rules at Chapel Hill are more lenient than those on many other campuses. Granted they are less restrictive than they were last year. The question now facing those people who hold themselves responsible for coed behavior concerns the right for these rules to exist at alL The logical answer to this question must be an unequivocal no. For years rules for men have been practically nonexistent. After unprejudiced reflection one can readily see that any differences between rules enforced for men and those for women are obsolete and impractical. Chastity Protected , The reasons for this conclusion are . quite clear. A ; close look at the booklet Regulations for Women Students reveals that the main purpose of women's rules is to protect the chastity of UNC womenl The chastity of UNC men, on the other hand, is not similarly protected. It is immediately apparent that chastity is not here considered as a moral obligation, for in that case both men and women would need equal "protection" from unchaste actions. Rather this unchastity is considered in the light of the consequences evolving from it, which traditionally have been much more dire for women than they have been for men. With the advent of safe and reliable methods of birth control, these consequences need not occur. In the light of this "sexual revolution" a double standard of behavior for men and women is as obsolete as political isolationism and as morally wrong as racial or religious prejudice. Under any system of rules there will always be those men and women who choose to ignore the mores of their society. Those people who feel little or no moral obligation to being chaste are not going to have their morals changed by " even the most strict regulation of their lives. i : " : "Anything that can be done after 2 AM. can also be done before 2 A.M.," is a much repeated testimonial to that fact. Those women who do feel a moral obligation of being chaste, on the other hand, will not be led into the devious path of immorality by an absence of dormitory or sorority regulations. Morals Are Personal Morals, like religion, cannot be legislated or printed in rule books. A person's true self cannot be changed by either the presence or the absence of bothersome restrictions. The University policy-makers must stop punishing those women who would use their "freedom" wisely even as they stop hoping that any amount of restrictions will stop "undesirable" behavior. The most formidable argument against this theory is that freshmen women are not capable of handling such personal responsibility. In our culture, it is true, 17 and 18-year-olds away from parental authority for the first time may not be able comfortably to carry such a burden. This is true, however, not only for women, but for men as well. If, therefore, rules are to be imposed upon freshmen women until they become adjusted to university life, let those same rules also apply to freshmen men. "How," we are asked, "are such rules to be enforced? From the moment of his arrival on the UNC campus each new student is given a lengthy introduction to- the Honor Code. From that point on the coed is put, not on her honor, but under a code of women's rules. Thus instead of being "innocent until proven guilty" the coed is in reality being punished for being capable of guilt. By asking for at feast a trial period of truly being put on her honor, the coed is indeed asking for the chance to prove her innocence. The double standard of behavior for men and women has long been under attack by leading intellectuals. It is time that UNC awake to the need to equalize behavior codes. This is not a threat to the moral structure of the University, but rather a promise that feelings healthier than fear of punishment can lead the women of UNC, and thus the University as a whole, to a higher level of moral and intellectual consciousness. Scott Goodfellow Chicago Proof Called For Editor: I think Mr. Allen owes his readers an apology, or at least an explanation, for the catastrophe entitled, "The Chicago Catastrophe," which appeared this Sunday. "An editorial" has a unique function in a newspaper, to be sure, but it has something in common with all other types of articles, which is that it have a basis in fact. If the facts are unclear, then point them out. If the facts are controversial, then demonstrate their validity. Bat if the facts are nonexistent, then don't bother to write an editorial, because you will have wasted your ink. Mr. Allen writes that the visual news media have covered the Chicago protests in the same way they've covered the Vietnam war "always emphasizing the pains of the underdog and the cruelties perpetrated against them." A statement like that will require proof, and lots of proof, since very few nonmilitary observers who have actually been to Vietnam talk like that, and since nobody who's been to Chicago, nobody not even Hubert Humphrey talks like that', either. There are reasons why the media emphasized what it did; some things happened more frequently than other things. If Mr. Allen was in Chicago, he may have noticed that many more young Americans were beaten with billy clubs than anti-Communist old ladies beaten to the ground. If Mr. Allen was in Chicago, he may have noticed that a great deal more Mace was used than urine, and he may also have noticed which is more caustic. If Mr. Allen was in Chicago, he may have noticed that the students, who were primarily from out of state, were no more Vagrants" than the delegates to the Convention, who were also primarily from "out of state." But it is clear that Mr. Allen was not in Chicago. And it is also clear that he was not in Prague, because if he had been in Prague, he would have had a much clearer idea of what the American government is now trying to do to the American people your people, my people, and even Mr. Allen's people. Ray Beckerman 6 Old Fraternity Row Otelia Connor A Broiled Potato Bug Could Have Passe d Young Generatio: Doing Just Fine The other day I met a woman on the street who was a stranger to me. She came up to me and said, "You will have plenty to write about this year. Then she told about going to a football game at the high school and how shocked she was at the young people. Their long hair, their beards, their sandals. The girls short dresses, etc. I replied, "The apostles wore long hair, beards and sandals. Every generation has been shocked by the young generation. The apostles at least, were neat and clean." "When I came along women wore their dresses down to the floor and danced the diginified waltz. Parents were just as schocked as we are, when after World War I, dresses rose to mid calf, and the young folks danced the Bunny Hug and Shimmiy." Of course each generation has to out-do the previous one in order to stay out front But most of the young folks grow up to worry about the next generation. However, it has been my observation that the Junior and Senior High school students are -worse that the college students. There is much more smoking and disorderly conduct on the streets by the very young. Some times the police have to be called to send them home. I admit this is a new revelation to me, and I am at a lost as to just how it should be dealt with. Since the dawn of history" people have been opposed to new ideals. Particularly the churches If people were allowed to express a new idea, or think for themselves, it would break the power of the Priests. This was not only true of ancient history, when to express a new idea meant sudden and sure death, but is true to a lesser extent today. But who made a priest almighty God the only person who can decide what people can think, and say, and do? Of course we need spiritual guidance, but we don't need a dictator. I predict that the churches will be split down the middle between those people who want to live in the Middle Ages, and those who are determined to move into the electronic and jet age. Growth means change, I, for one, welcome the change. To quote this week's Time Magazine re the priest "They have not left the church: they are simply ahead of it" This aversion to new ideas can be found in respect to architecture. Many people are opposed to the new architecture on the campus. I must admit I didn't like it at first. But I have come to like it, particularly after visiting the new Booketeria. Anyone who hasn't seen it must be sure to go There is nothing arourid here like it, and it is very pleasing. I 'can hardly wait for the Library and Student Union to open. Architecture also must move into the jet age! This summer I had the unique experience of going through the same physical examination that draft inductees get to take. I'm convinced that a warmed-up cantelope on wheels could have passed it. The examination took place in Baltimore, which I was told was convenient (I live in Washington.) I arrived early and finally found the right building. Every building, including number 88, had a sign saying "For Induction, Go To Building 88." 88 was not labeled. As I entered, I heard a Navy chief say to one kid, "You never told me you had rheumatic fever they won't accept that." I hoped the poor kid wasn't from Wrashington. The examination finally got underway and we all stripped down to our shorts. The building, of course, was air conditioned. ATTENDANT WHISPERS The first event was a blood test An overeager attendant simply jabbed a needle in our arms. But seconds before the stab, he whispered, "Have you ever had VD?" It was funny. But the little colored fellow in front of me said yes. For the hearing test, we were herded into' a giant r e frigerator-typ e operation, given earphones and told to press a button whenever we heard anything. The trick was that the little dealie on the end which looked like the button, wasn't The real button was carefully disguised off to the side. The attendant explained the matter, communicating his boredom perfectly. There was a calendar on the wall with "38 More Days" scribbled on top. IS ELEPHANTIASIS FATTENING At this point I was expecting to see a sign on the wall which said, "WARNING: Heart Failure May Be Harmful To Health." But the worse was yet to come. We were all lined up in a long line, an arm's length apart Then a director came sauntering down the line, tapping each person's chest with the end of his stethoscope. I have a quite obvious, but not harmful, heart murmur, and at least expected a little attention. No luck. The doctor gave the distinct impression that he wouldn't stop unless he detected photosynthesis. Next he whipped out a little pin-light, trotted down the line a full yard away from everyone, and then announced that our retinas were in good shape. At that point the doctor singled out one boy, raised his voice and noted, This boy has an . . . "(It was very embarrassing). The boy instantly withered and likely today is working on a garbage scow in the Upper Chesapeake. After this episode, we were told to dress again and go to another building. There, I found that (with coat & tie) we were asked to give five finger and hand prints. Furthermore, there was only a paper towel for cleaning off. And what did the cards with the fingerprints say? "ATTENTION POLICE: This man claims to have lived in your town. Please list his criminal record." Quotable: George Wallace "You heard that some of the anarchists lay down in front of President Johnson's car when he was in California. Well, if you elect me President and any group of anarchists lie in front of my car, it will be the last car they ever lie in front of." "Too many pseudo-intellectuals like to sit in their ivory towers and let their heads grow sharper. Some of them can't even park their bicycles straight" "What it boils down to is that the pseudo-intellectual elite cult in this country has too much influence. They say 'let the people speak, but they had better speak properly " "If I become president I'm going to make it safe in Washington if I have to have it patrolled by armed troops 365 days of a year." "If we would turn the country over to the policeman for a couple of years, they'd straighten things out" The Dairy Tir Hed U published by the University of North Carolina Student Publication's Board, daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. Offices are on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial, sports, news 933-1011; business, circulation, adrertisi&g 933-1163. AdressrBox 1080, Chapel Hffl, N. C. 27514. Second class postage paid at U.S. Post Office in Chapel H21, N. C. Subscription rates: $9 per year; $5 per semester.
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