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Thursday, October 3. 1968 -
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THE DAILY TAT, HEEL
Whetting The Whistle
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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurdr, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
University Must Provide
Coeds Adequate Security
One women's residence hall
gets broken into three times in one
semester:
A coed is attacked in her room
by a prowler and is so frightened by
the experience that she has to
receive psychiatric treatment.
Sound like cause for concern? It
is, and that's why the president of
the Women's Residence Council,
the Secretary of the Student body,
presidents of every women's
residence hall on campus are
requesting that the University
provide a guard for all the women's
halls. ,
After last year's prowling
incidents the Administration took
some steps to provide more security
but they have declined to provide
guards, a necessity for the girl's
dorms that is already provided by
the privately owned Granville East.
We agree with these house
presidents that the University needs
to provide guards for all the dorms.
When students come up here,
when parents send their children up
here, they rightfully expect the
University to provide them with a
minimum of security, especially in
their dorms at night. This is not
being provided by the
Administration, as the incidents of
last year proved.
Nor will the steps taken by the
Administration this year assure the
coeds the dorm security that they
deserve, as can be seen by
examining the improvements' that
were made.
The Administration is installing
Administration Reacts
Slowly To
Few students are aware that we
are facing a water crisis of the
gravest importance.
All available statistics indicate
that within four weeks, there will
be little or no water in University
Lake. Conservation measures are
slowing up the process, but the four
week deadline remains. We need 1 1
inches of rain; we're not expected
to get that much before December.
What is unclear about the
situation is why it has taken so long
'Murals Of f ice
Acts Swif tly,
Commenclably
The swift action on the part of
the Intramural Athletics Program to
make it possible for as many person
as want to participate in
intramurals is commendable.
Ronald Hyatt and Richard
Jamerson are taking steps to utilize
as much of the Universityls athletic
facilities as possible for use in
intramurals.
The problem is, however, that
the University is fast running out of
facilities that students cart use,
whether it be for football,
basketball, rugby, squash, handball,
or weightlifting.
Hyatt and Johnson need to start
using intramural fields off campus
when teams, such as fraternity
teams, have easy access to them,
but, more importantly, something
needs to be done about the future,
when these fields will become so
overcrowded that the number of
intramural teams have to be
limited.
When the University reaches this
point, where opportunities for
involvement become limited, the
University will be failing in its
purpose of providing a mazimum of
opportunity for involvement and
learning.
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
an alarm system - but that won't do
anything to prevent the prowler
from entering the dorm, it is only a
way the coed can call for help soon
after the prowler attacks.
The Administration is putting in
new screens but that won't do
much good, since, as the letter
, explains, there are so many master
keys floating around. .
The Administration is planting
smaller bushes around the dorms
and putting in better lighting
systcmbi.it that won't do much
good unless there is someone
around watching constantly, like a
nightwatchman, for instance.
Lastly, the Administration has
hired a couple of more policemen
to patrol the area around
dorms, but what good will that do
in preventing a prowler from
breaking into a dorm; all the
prowler has to do is wait for the
policeman to leave.
The only steps that the
Administration can take that would
assure UNC coeds the security they
deserve would be to hire
nightwatchmen. In the past they
have said guards would cost too
much. We question whether it is
right of them to put a money tag
on a matter of such vital interest to
the women students as their own
security.
We hope that after Considering
the - pleas of the coeds the
Administration will" provide the
money needed to insure them a
minimal amount of security.
Water Crisis
to take action on the problem.
Whether it is directly Chancellor
Sitterson's fault or not, he is surely
the one who will have to shoulder
much of the blame.
Two weeks ago University
sprinklers were spraying vigorously,
and water consumption was at a
normal level throughout the
University. Then, when it was
already quiet clear to any one who
glanced at the statistics, the
University (which owns the water
facilities) decided a crisis was
coming.
. On the 1 9th, everyone was .
"urged" to conserve water. It is
obvious now that far stricter
measures should have been invoked,
and far sooner.
Furthermore, citizens of Chapel
Hill and Carrboro have fair reason
to accuse the University of gross
negligence. The University has long
insisted that it was quite capable of
handling the areas water needs. It
was not.
The Chancellor now says that he
will wait to see how effective the
local ordinance is before deciding
when or whether to close school.
Undoubtedly the whole situation
is a masterpiece of inadequate
planning. If water consumption had
been lowered during the
abnormally dry month of August,
and certainly during early
September, we might have had
longer to worry about solutions.
Now we face a -dry lake in 27
days, an inadequate pipeline from
Durham, and a public which hasn't .
been warned of the severity of the
crisis.
It may seem like a frolic to run
showers and get out of school, but
it won't be so great at Christmas
and Spring Vacation when we make
up the lost time.
What's done now may well be
too late. But let's hope not.
Chancellor, let's get upset and do
something.
Rain Dancers
By SCOTT GOODFELLOW
"Why
couldn't it just rain
mused the Chancellor,
even
"right
Saturday,
after the Star Spangled Banner?"
The emergency meeting of
Chancellor's Advisory Committee
the
on
Rain-Dances had been called to order.
Just then Dean Katharine "Kitty"
Carmichael entered. "You gentlemen are
probably wondering why I called . . No
one grinned.
The Chancellor shook himself out of a
reverie. "The situation is becoming
critical. The pipeline to Durham will be
finished tomorrow, but it will barely
supply the University's needs. And the
lake looks like fish soup. Even the Old
Well will have to go in five days."
The only student on the committee
crackled in, "It's the University's lake,
isn't it? Why don't we tell the residents of
Chapel Hillto go take a vacation in sunny
Fuquay Varina. It's our water, not
their's."
The Chairman of the History
Department reddened. "Some of us live
here, you know. I think most of the
water is wasted down in that gymnasium.
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Letters To The Editor
Anarchists Shriek
Editor:
I have noted with interest a letter
which appeared in Saturday's Tar Heel
from a group of heroes in Morrison who
call themselves "Los Iracundos." They
point out that only 33 of the student
body cared enough to vote in the last
elections for student government, and
they claim to represent the vast majority
of apathetic students.
Now this letter arouses strong contrary
emotions within me. While I sympathize
with the deep lack of motivation that
prompted the letter, I cannot help
thinking that this apathy could be turned
into more creative endeavours. I
sympathize with the vast apathy towards
student government on this fair campus,
for that apathy is eloquent testimony to
the irrelevance and complete uselessness ,
of student government.
Yet apathy, by its very nature,
abandons the field to the enemy, so to
speak. By not supporting some
institution however . fantastic and
immaterial that institution is we do not
thereby deal it a death blow. It will be
seen that what is built with power must
be destroyed with power that the old
and rotten will not fall unless it is pushed.
I advocate that it should be pushed, and
soon: this very year, in fact.
Some of 'my readers will remember
that at the end of last year I briefly ran as
a write-in candidate for student body
president on the anarchist ticket. My
platform was relatively straightforward:
abolition of student government
However, due to a great many causes
(partly that I cbuld not arouse the
apathetic to express themselves by voting
for me), I withdrew my name.
So unsatisfactory were the results of
the election, however, that at the very
last moment just before exams I
announced the formation of the last
party here on campus. I write today to
renew that pledge. Positively, I believe
that power and responsibility on this
campus should be put back where it
belongs: in the hands of the students.
Negatively, I believe that student
Minus Thirty Days And
Meet
In fact, I'm tired of the athletic
department running this school. The least
they can do is turn off the toilet facilities
in Kenan Stadium."
"They can't do that," intoned the
Chancellor. "They're pay toilets now, and
the money from those machines and date
tickets are about all that keeps us going."
Miss Carmichael had been busy
scribbling down figures on a sheet of
paper. - -
"What I've been wondering is . . . We
use up 4 million gallons a day, and
virtually none of it is recirculated. Where
do we dump 4 million gallons of sewage
every day?"
The Chancellor cleared his throat.
"Lately we've been bottling it and selling
the stuff in West Raleigh. They grow a lot
of plants over there, you know. It's an
agricultural area.
A visiting writer, Herbert Moran,
sobered the discussion. "I think we
should begin distilling operations on the
iced tea at the Zoom Zoom. For twenty
cents we can have all the water we want"
Two days later the rains came, and the
entire area was evacuated because of flash
flood.
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government must therefore be destroyed.
These two beliefs, democracy and
anarchy, must and shall be combined here
at UNC. I announce the formation of the
Anarcratic party by this letter, and
further I today announce my candidacy
for the presidency of the student body. I
do not expect to receive much initial
response to my campaign, but as election
time draws near, and student disgust with
the politicos reaches its height, I expect
to pick up many votes and in the end win
an overwhelming victory. Then, God
willing, the work of creative destruction
can begin.
I call on all students of good will and
good humor, but more especially on the
apathetic students. Rouse yourselves,
comrades! If we unite behind chaos, who
can stop up?? If we pledge ourselves to
anarcracy, will not our 66 sweep us to
victory?? Enough of the folly of student
government! If they will not take a hint
from the massive apathy, they must be
hurled from office!
In orfer to conduct my campaign on
purely obliterationist lines, and not to
pester the students, I am leaving for
England on Monday of this week, and I
shall conduct my campaign from abroad
If elected, I promise faithfully not to
return home.
The motto of my campaign shall be
some wise words I found scribbled on a
wall in Oxford, England, two years ago:
"Anarchy is Freedom." On that basis, I
call on every student to hop on the
bandwagon to oblivion. Chaos is best!
When at last it comes time to vote for
your next president, write in "Hollis" and
anarchy! Forward, comrades! With our
massive numbers, and the help of
Almighty God, we shall march forward to
victory, and we shall bring the great
Moloch of student government crashing
io the ground!
Rise! Rise! For out of the ruins of that
enormous wreckage, the unfettered
oenius of the student body will rise,
phoenix-like, into the . broad, sunlit
uplands of a new and glorious student
Durham Water Drinkable
Chapel Hill Weekly
Word had barely gotten out that
Chapel Hill might ease the water shortage
by tapping onto a Durham line when a
troubled mother called to ask:
"Is Durham's water fluoridated?"
She has a house full of youngsters, all
of whom have twenty per cent fewer
cavities.
We're still checking.
A citizen quaffing beer at one of the
Franklin Street boites said archly, "I'm
not about to drink Durham water. Join
the Philistines if you want to. I'd rather
go dry."
The fellow tending bar said, "He's not
about to drink any kind of water. The
last time he had a drink of water was in
'54. He got caught in Hurricane Hazel
with his mouth open. He wanter to get
his stomach pumped out until he found
out his hospital insurance wouldn't cover
it."
"That's a rotten lie," the citizen said.
"I had a drink of water in 1960 when
Kennedy was elected. Somebody handed
me a glass and I tossed it right off. I
thought it was gin."
Disunity
Renaissance .
Yours in High Hopes,
Michael Hollis
34 St James' Terrace
Winchester (Hants)
England
Lipsilz' Verse
Condemned As
Bad
"On Lipsitz On Vlasits'
was pretty predictable.
His ideas
are
blind tropisms
responses to
worn out symbols,
sans thought
themselves non-sequitor
Like counselling resistance
to draft
and oppression
by "establishment"
done bravely
on his federal grant.
Barry C. Kroenner
515 E. Rosemary
Curiosity Poses
Many Questions
Editor
Will someone please explain to me
why no visiting hours for females exist in
the graduate and undergraduate
dormitories? Will someone please explain
why the residents of Craige dormitory,
men from 20. to 40 years old, are told
that they better not throw snowballs "in,
around, or about" the building?
Having adopted a somewhat existential
posture, I am used to dealing with the
absurd. This, however, is ridiculous.
Sincerely,
Joe Adelson
442 Craige
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In answer to our beggars who would
be choosers, it might be pointed out that
such munificent athletes as Ace Parker.
Bones fcKinney and Cartwright
Carmichael drank Durham water by the
gallons without visible ill-effect
As a student in Chapel Hill, Thomas
Wolfe, by his-own admission, spent many
Saturday nishts in Durham and it can be
reasonably assumed that he too used
Durham water, if only to brush his teeth.
Thousands of Chapel Hill students
since Wolfe's time have used Durham
water in such places as the Saddle Club,
in the dormitories on the Duke Woman's
Campus, and at Jack's Drive-In, now
defunct And this has been done without
lasting damage to the University here or.
Chapel HilL :
In case any members of our liberal
wing are worried, they should be advised
that Eleanor Roosevelt once drank
Durham water. She was filling in for her
husband in Duke Stadium in the late
Thirties and she picked up a glass of
water from a table beside the speaker's
stand and drank it right down. We saw
her do it. Henry Wallace also drank a glass
of Durham water, in 1948, in the City
Armory, just before getting hit in the
head with an egg.
With the overwhelming weight of such
evidence, we say let's be democratic
about the thing, thank Durham kindly for
its water and drink it.
Besides, it would be a waste of time
and money to put up twin water
fountains all over the place, one of them
labeled Durham Water, the other labeled
Chapel Hill Silt.
Shari Willis
Coed Dorms
Badly Need
Watchmen
The Carolina women's dorm seems to
stand as stonily impenetrable as a
fortress.
All but the central doors of the dorm '
are locked at dark; by closing hours the
dorm is totally locked.
Our girls should be safe. They aren't.-.
Last spring, prowlers were found in
girl's dorms or sorority houses, or tried to
gain entrance, at least five times.
One coed woke up with a man in her
bed. Another was walking down the hall
to the bathroom and saw a man ahead of
her. And on and on-. . .
None of the girls was injured, just
terrifically upset, for they should have
been safe from intruders.
But any one of the girls living on the
Chapel Hill campi s could have been
raped, seriously injured or killed by a
dangerously psychotic intruder (and still
may be), not while crossing the campus
late at night, but at 2 or 3 am. in her
own bed.
For months, spring prowlers
periodically visited the dorms. One
intruder, armed with a knife, was finally
caught during the spring exam period by
three gallant Carolina gentlemen who
found him cutting the screen on a
housemother's window.
What was done? Charges for breaking
were pressed against the night visitor.
To protect the girls, heavy screens
were installed on all ground floor
windows, additional lighting was installed
outside the dorms, much shrubbery was
removed or pruned to miniature size, and
campus police stepped up their checks
outside women's dorms.
Is this protection? Locks can be
jimmied. And what about a prowler who
gains entry through a side door leading to
a basement and hides there, coming out
in the wee hours of the morning to haunt
coeds?
The only plausible protection for a girl
living in a dorm the most likely place to
be entered by the unwanted, deranged
nocturnal visitor in a night watchman.
The campus police say an officer can
be at a dorm within two minutes of being
called. But what if a girl is raped, injured
or killed while everyone else sleeps? '
There would be no one to call the police
before the fact.
The campus police, by the nature of
their jobs, cannot be wholly effective
against this sort of danger to coeds.
But an alert, awake night watchman
may De ame to save a girl from
injury or death.
rape,
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