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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Various Groups Offer
Chances For Change
Students who arc turncd-off by
the educational process at UNC,
anxious to change the social rules
here, or disturbed by the direction
that American society and the
universities arc taking have the
chance to do something, rather
than just gripe, in the next couple
of days.
Four different organizations,
most of them working outside the
mainstream of the University, are
kicking off this year's activities this
week.
The Southern Student
Organizing Committee, the New
University Conference, the
Experimental College, and Action
Government, a creation of Student
Government are the four
organizations beginning their work.
SSOC, which held its first
meeting last week and attracted
about 200 students, is concerning
itself with a whole array of
problems arising from the
University's complicity with
American society, such as the
problem of women's rules, ROTC
on campus, etc.
The New University Conference,
a brother organization of SSOC, is
concerned with similar problems
but is geared mostly towards
graduate students and faculty
members.
From Student Government
comes, two organizations: the
Experimental College and the
Action Government.
The Experimental College, the
best thing to come out of Student
Government in the last two years, is
aimed at those students or faculty
members who dislike the highly
structured, grade oriented regular
classes or who find their interests
unfilled by the regular curriculum.
University Should Provide
More Flexible B. A. Progr an
From The Columbia Spectator
Amidst all the talk of grandiose
restructuring proposals, few people
'have taken time or effort to address
themselves to some of the smaller
but perhaps equally important
aspects of College life. Today, when
classes resume for hundreds of
students who would rather be
elsewhere, we offer the following
non-controversial proposal.
But this need not be the case.
All that has to be done is for the
College to institute a new policy of
an elective four-, four-and-a-half-,
or five year B.A. program. If a
student wishes to take a semester or
In the days before nightmares
about the draft were common,
students could take time off from
their college education without
worrying about Vietnam. Nearly
every student would like, at least
once in his four years here, to take
a leave of absence for travel work,
or independent study. But today he
is forced to stay at school even
when it may be wholly
unprofitable. If he dares to leave,
he might never come back,
a year off from Columbia, he would
simply register for what for now we
might call Life C1001X. Upon
returning, he would submit a paper
on what he had accomplished and
receive twelve points of credit.
A student currently needs 126
points in four years to graduate. If
he were to elect a
four-and-a-half-year program he
would have to take 138 points.
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
In the Experimental College
students and faculty are free to
form classes around any of their
interests and are free to lead them
as they please.
The Action Government, just
like the Experimental College is an
admission that regular classes are
not fulfilling the intellectual needs
of the students, is an
acknowledgement that regular
Student Government is doing little
for the students.
In the Action Government
students will, supposedly, be able
to form interests groups around
their own particular interests. While
it offers a lot of potential for giving
a voice to the many students whose
needs have been neglected, there is
also the danger with it that it will
be dominated by the Student
Government types, making Action
Government simply a sweet name
for old stuff.
Almost anyone who is tired of
the status quo at the University can
have the opportunity to do
something through any of these
four groups.
Anyone who in the past has sat
around and just griped about his
conditions because he could find no
group to fit his interests should be
able to find some organization to
rally around to force some changes
here. ' ' " JA
If those students who are
anxious for change would rather
not bother with participation in
any groups they should be prepared
to have the representatives of the
status quo on campus control the
organizations and prolong some of
the unsatisfactory conditions on
campus.
twelve of which would be awarded
for his semester off. The University
would inform the local draft board
the student was making satisfactory
progress toward his degree.
Several other schools which have
degree programs taking more than
four years to complete have been
able to arrange extended draft
deferments for their students,
simply by informing local draft
boards of their unique educational
policies. The institution of
extended degree programs in
Columbia College would be
welcomed by all students and
would not be a difficult reform to
make. There is no reason why
education must be neatly packaged
in a four-year dose.
Surely such "complicity with
students" would not be an
unreasonable role for a University
which so eagerly subverts - its
educational activities for less
appropriate ends.
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Man9 Woman Universe Parldng
Simaii Cars EDom
By now it is fairly obvious that
nothing less than a steamroller can expect
to find a parking spot on campus. And it
is equally obvious that nothing significant
is happening to change the situation.
Between plans for a giant underground
lot beneath Polk Place and sprawling
parking areas near Horace-Williams
Airport, little real progress has been
made. A quick rundown of what's
happening is alarming.
Rather than increasing our total
parking acreage, we have steadily been
losing ground because of construction
near the hospital and at the Carolina Inn.
Last year the three architectural feats
beside Wilson Library (that domed
building near the Bell Tower) gobbled up
several large parking areas.
Pack 'Em In
And meanwhile,- certain key areas
around campus find that at peak houTS i
there are up to 800 cars too many for the,
spaces (note the hospital and the
C-parking areas). No longer are there
areas with a surfeit of space (like the
Letters To The Editor
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Editor:
We have been informed that this year
there will be only two intramural football
teams allowed each fraternity and
dormitory house. Reasons offered
include: limited number of officials and
higher pay scales, crowded playing fields,
and playoff runover into basketball
season. We have come to expect to be
shortchanged by the administration; but
to be shortchanged by the Intramural
Athletics Department, which was created
for use and financed by us, is a total and
disgusting shock.
In the dormitory the student's first
exposure to extracurriculars is
intramurals, especially footbalL
Intramural football is what gets the ball
rolling to develop in each boy the sense
. of spirit, belonging and self-identification
so vitally needed in a university of 15,000
social security numbers. It is the first few
months that determine whether a student
will be a bookworm or a well-rounded
participant.
Consider a personal experience. I came
here rather doubtful of my athletic
prowess, but signed up and went out just
the same. Before long I learned that it
wasn't how well I played but how hard I
tried that made the difference. It was the
old "field as many teams as there are
boys who'll play" system that helped me
grow as a total individual.
It was the old system that fostered the
sense of belonging and unselfishness of
team spirit that many of us had missed in
high school It is the new system which
promotes ruthless competition and
dominance by the "jocks," and marks the
end of intramural football for the average
guys who so vitally need it. We know of
no area where so little can accomplish so
much. The old program really worked"
why flush it down the drain? '
We call on Coach Hyatt, director of
the Intramural Program, to make public
the reasons for the changes so that
obstacles may be overcome. If money is
the only real problem, we call on Student
Government to appropriate the necessary
f u n ds to return to the ol d system.
- Sincerely,
Duke Stone
President, Everett
Tommy Styron
Henry Robinson
Jack Miller
By Scott
Goodfellow
"convenient" Cragie lot used to boast).
In remedy to all this, there are several
proposals. Student cars could be
eliminated, but right now there is little
pressure from faculty or staff to take-over
those lots. No one but students is
interested in parking in the Craige or
Rams Head lots. Furthermore, it would
be hard to believe that many students
wouldn't secret their cars in town,
causing major conflicts of interest with
the city of Chapel HilL
Another plan is to build parking
garages, which not only would be good
land usage, but might have classroom
space on top However, as the $18,000
Wjlbuj;... Smith . Report (your parking
money) showed, the cost for such
facilities would be vast Using the longest
earn Intramural Limit Hit
George Loft is
Dauf Wynne
Pete Duris
Gnen Robinson
Reginald Lester
Butch Rooks
Bill Johnson
Frank Eason
Fred Bailey
Darrell Estes
Bill Swink
John Kimel
Gary Tilley
Ronnie Walkup
Earl Huband
Rafael Perez Mancebo
B.N. Murdock
John Rawling
Phillip Simpson
Strauch Castigated
For Fraternity Bias
Editor:
During the past year fraternities and
sororities on this campus have been
constantly plagued by the attempted
heckling and ridicule of a certain Bruce
Strauch. I believe it's time a critical eye is
focused on our favorite cartoonist
First, I consider it important to
imform the freshmen and transfer
students that the ideas expressed by the
whimsical Mr. Strauch are not necessarily
those of the campus or administration.
Secondly, I'm sure all the Daily Tar Heel
readers have trouble believing all the evils
Mr. Strauch seems to find in the
fraternity system.
I am sure it only slipped his mind
momentarily that all fraternity q.p.
averages are consistently higher than the
all men's all average. Also, I am positive
that someone with such infinite insight as
Mr. Strauch apparently possesses, would
not overlook the many positive facets of
fraternity life.
Apparently, there are no advantages to
being in a fraternity, because who would
know better than a non-fraternity man?
Third, if all the readers will remember
when Mr. Strauch was running for
president of the Student body last year,
the derogatory cartoons mysteriously and
conspicuously ceased. Instead, attacks
were made on university policies and
shortcomings in the political system.
These are without question areas
And ciKch e ec"fVr
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term bonds available in North Carolina
(30 years), parking fees would have to be
hiked to at least $40 in order to build
four parking garages and that would
only satisfy Main Campus needs.
A complete solution using garages
would call for individual parking fees in
the neighborhood or $100.
Parking Lots Best
Another answer, and probably the best
yet, is to construct outlying parking lots.
There would be paved, fenced, lighted
and guarded all for a relatively small fee.
This choice may have to be taken if
student cars are ultimately to be
preserved. ..
It is not only awkward, but dangerous
to continue fussing about the parking
problem when the major solutions are
known. The preliminary Wilbur Smith
Report ends speculation on how much -garages
would cost. Legislature won't give
us parking money. ' - " T
- Let's get on the stick . and do
something. The problem we solve five
years from now will be much harder.
which could use much work. Not one
cartoon concerning fraternity or a
sorority was published while Mr. Strauch
was trying to woo the systems' vote. I am
certain our esteemed witticist was
honestly oblivious to this inconsistency in
policy. It was only a temporary lapse
however, because immediately after his
defeat, another wave of annoyances was
launched at the fraternity and sorority
systems.
The purpose of this letter however, is
not to condemn or make false accusation,
for there will always be a shortsighted
someone to carry on that tradition. My
object is only to publicly say to Mr.
Strauch that "we in the fraternity and
sorority system appreciate your interest
in us, and we'll look forward to seeing
you in rush!"
Doug Wallace
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Registration Not
GSA Shortcoming
Editor:
As the faculty adviser to the newly
formed Graduate Student Association I
would like to reply to Mr. Zan White's
absurd charges in Sunday's Tar HeeL Why
should the G.S.A. be blamed for
inefficiencies of our registration system?
I'm sure that if Mr. White has any
constructive suggestions for solving the
logistics problem of handling large
numbers of transfer students and
incoming graduate students, both - the
administration and unhappy faculty who
must undergo this purification ritual
every year rather than only once would
be eternally gratefuL Fortunately, the
G.S.A. has more important problems to
consider.
During my five years at U.N.C. I have
been extremely impressed with the
quality of our graduate students and the
constructive, though sometimes
controversial, role they have played on
campus. They played a major part in the
demonstration that helped to integrate
Chapel HilL
It was a graduate student group that
For
SG
Last spring all of UNC got excited over
the possibilities of changes in the
women's visitation rules. Interest built
up; petitions were passed from room to
room; and many student groups, in
particular the MRC, drafted proposals.
Net result: a faculty-student-administrative
committee, the Lehman
Commission, was formed. Big deaL
Now it's fall and once more the
concern over the rule changes is growing;
the ad hoc groups are re-assembling.
The reason for the magnificent failure
of last spring and many other similar
defeats was painfully clear. But only one
person out of the some 15,500 enrolled
at UNC-CH was able to percieve it. He
discounted the oft-repeated theory of
faulty communication between
administration and student and laid the
blame for the blunders on the students
themselves.
He realized that there was no clearly
defined relationship or channel of
communication between the MRC, the
Residence Colleges, and Student
Legislature. In short, one arm of Student
Government didn't know where the hell
the other arm stood on the issue.
The man who possessed this amazing
perspicacity was its new leader, Ken Day.
Day has learned from his mistakes and
is doing something about them. He has
just last week set up a liaison between
himself and the MRC, WRC, and the
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on
Residence Colleges. He has also
established a vital research arm through
the work of the Residence College
College Commission. And he has
dispatched special assistants to the
legislatures of the eight residence colleges
to feel out student opinion on upcoming
actions. This is, I believe, the first
attempt made by a student body
president to get feedback on a problem
before definite action is taken.
Especially on the issue of women's
visitation in men's dorms, these are not
only wise but necessary moves. For the
implementation of these rule changes, if
and when they come about, involves
many, constituencies: MRC, WRC,
Student Legislature, and Student
Judiciary, to name only the most notable.
Addressing a student group the other
night, Day guaranteed "more progress
than ever before" in this area. With his
. liew policies of unification, the promise
may well come true.
So Ken Day, leader of 15,500 students
is noMark Rudd or Red Rudi. He's a
more cautious revolutionary, if there is
such an animal
took the initiative on the Speaker Ban
Law which ultimately resulted in a court
test and its final buriaL And in the
ridiculous affair of Jessie Helms versus
Michael Paull, in which a graduate
instructor was reassigned from his
teaching position prior to a thorough
investigation, the graduate students again
played a constructive part.
The fundamental purpose of this new
organization is to improve lines of
communication between graduate
students and both the faculty and
administration. The hope is that, once a
formal channel has been opened up,
possible grievances can be handled
constructively while they are still
relatively minor.
This year, the G.S.A. will be
undertaking the task of learning more
about the university and supplying
much-needed information to the faculty
and administration concerning diverse
practices of the various departments. I am
confident, however, that they will also
take the time to listen to constructive
suggestions regarding anything
whatsoever that affects graduate-student
life at U.N.C. But lets not blame them for
shortcomings that are primarily the
responsibility of the administration and
faculty.
H. M. Blalock, Jr.
Professor of Sociology
Fleishman
Blasted
Editor:
Mr. Fleishman's article on George
Wallace appeared to be the brain child of
a flaming liberal who, while decrying
Wallace to be a racist, is in fact himself
prejudiced against less fortunate whites
who do not have the same education,
style of life, or customs that you do.
Sincerely,
John Johnson
404 Ruffin
Don Appleford
211 Craige
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