Friday, October 4, 1968
THE DAILY TAB HEEL
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Want To Run Your Life?
Sign The Visitation Petition
The "smashing success"
Thursday of the petition on coed
visitation can only be taken by the
Chancellor and his newly appointed
committee on visitation as a sign
that students want the opportunity
to run their own lives, to decide
such things as whether coeds may
enter their rooms.
The petition, which requests that
each dormitory have the right to
decide whether coeds may visit the
residents' rooms at certain hours,
netted over 1,000 signatures in a
three hour time span.
In addition, the Southern
Student Organizing Committee
workers had crowds of up to 50
persons at times listening to the
discussions on the petition, proof
that the interest of the students in
the matter goes beyond the lustful,
which some persons try to attribute
to students as being the only reason
they want visitation agreements.
The visitation plan that the
petition calls for is one that is
commonly used at private and state
colleges across the country,
including places like the University
of Virginia and the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, whose
residential college plan has been
somewhat of a model for UNC.
The beauty of the plan is that it
recognizes completely that students
are mature enough to run their own
residence halls.
The University has long said that
Admissions Advice Good
The Executive Council of the
YMCA and the Wesley Foundation
have brought up some very valid
points concerning the new Director
of Admissions that need to be given
serious attention by the committee
that selects the next Director of
Admissions."
The YMCA council, in their
letter to Chancellor J. Carlyle
Sitterson, calls on the University to
"undertake, not a program of
reverse discrimination, but a
program to address the
discrimination (however
unintended) already inherent in our
admissions process."
The letter asks the Chancellor to
"take whatever time necessary to
find a Director of Admissions
who . . . could support existing
programs and develop new
programs of his
own to facilitate
the admission
of disadvantaged
students."
We completely agree with the
letter. The Admissions Office is
guilty, whether intentional or not,
of discriminating against
disadvantaged students, depriving
them of the right to the best college
New Library
Provides
Good Services
Dr. James Thompson, director of
the new Robert B. House Library,
is doing an excellent job of
providing undergraduates with a
library that should eliminate many
of their gripes of the past.
He is seeing that is open next
week for partial use, is establishing
a reference library on South
Campus, and providing everyone
with equal library privileges. Also,
for a change, the undergrad library
will have good study facilities. .
For students who are tired of
walking from South Campus or
having poor facilities for studying
Dr. Thompson's measures are
welcomed.
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
it recognizes students should make
their own rules and has pointed to
the student judiciary and other
such organizations as proof of the
fact that students do control their
lives.
While pointing out these facts it
has refused, however, to allow
students to do such things as
determine the hours they should
come in or whether they can have
visitors of the other sex in their
rooms. Enaction of the requests of
the petition would eliminate one of
the hypocritical stances on the part
of the University.
At the same time, while giving
the students control over their lives,
it does not force anything on the
students; each residence hall would
be able to determine for itself
whether visitation will be allowed
in it and at what hours.
.Conceivably, then, a student who
was totally opposed to visitation
could move to a dorm that had no
visitation agreement..
SSOC organizers will be
circulating the petition in residence
halls during the week. Any student
who would like to have little more
control over his life here on campus
and who would like to have coed
visitation should sign the petition
so the Administration will know
that visitation is something students
want, both as a symbol oLcontrol
over their lives and, for its own
sake.
education the state or the South has
to afford.
There are at least two easily
identifiable types of discrimination
inherent in the admissions process
that serve to keep disadvantaged
persons from advancing as quickly
as they might if avenues of
advancement were as open to them
as they are for the average white,
middle class student.
The first type, as pointed out by
former Dean of Arts and Sciences
Charles Morrow last year, results
because the University can not
afford to send Admissions
personnel to the smaller schools in
the state, only to the larger ones.
Since the smaller schools are
generally the ones in poorer areas
where disadvantaged blacks and
whites are to be found, these
persons miss out on the
opportunity to find out about
college and UNC, which would
naturally make them more hesitant
about applying for college or to
UNC than would someone in a large
school who has had the
opportunity to talk to admissions
personnel.
Secondly is the problem of the
college boards which most schools
put heavy emphasis on in
considering whether to admit
students.
These examinations are biases;
they are geared to the type of
person who was raised in a white,
middle class environment.
A black person or poor white
from the mountains cannot be
expected to perform as well on
these tests as a white from the
middle class. Yet by using these
tests as the standards the
Admissions Office is saying that the
white middle class culture is more
desirable than the black culture or
poor white culture, an idea that is
totally alien to our American ideals.
These brief examples of some of
fiuuiciiis ui uiscnminauon in
the admissions process explain why
Chancellor Sitterson must try to get
a new Admissions Director who will
recognize these problems and work
to eliminate them.
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All may rejoice. It looks like the end
of public enemy number one. Yesterday I
saw T-Man near death as he crawled
towards the student infirmary, dragging
his crutches behind him and bleeding
from several bullet wounds. I heard the
shattering sound of an automatic rifle,
and T-Man jumped, twitched, and
dragged himself around a corner.
A triumphant bleat came from the bell
tower. Perched on it was Supersheep,
taking careful aim from behind his
mirrored sunglasses. He fired off another
magazine in the air to celebrate, and
Bureaucracyboy beamed with pride and
amazement at his master's skilL
"Holy closing hours!" he exclaimed.
"That'll learn him to keep the Rules."
T-Man, however, had managed to pull
himself into the student infirmary. The
nurse on duty, Euphoria Ewe, greeted
him:
"Ha, how you?"
"Could you give me some bandaids,
please, and maybe a pain killer? I have to
Letters To The Editor
Jeremiah
Editor:
I am compelled once more to protest
the lack of foresight in the planning of
brick paths on the campus. People don t
walk across campus geometrically because
they are not automatons and because
their destinations are often in diagonal
opposition to the primarily square grid of
paths.
Newly strawed and seeded spots are no
deterent to the student in a hurry. Fences
dislocate, but don't eradicate time-worm
dirt paths. I know of only two newly
completed brick paths, neither of which
is functional. One, from Coker Hall to
Kenan Stadium (?) is rarely used. The
other, to the new Bookstore, is tucked
against the Undergraduate Library so that
most people cross the adjacent Dust Bowl
to buy books.
It would be well for campus planners
to heed the words of Jeremiah
(VI,16) "Stand ye in the ways and see,
and ask for the old paths, where is the
good way, and walk therein." Jeremiah
didn't mean that literally, but I'm sure
he'd understand.
Sincerely,
Michael D. Lamp en
1029 Highland Woods
Chapel Hill
Too Many Cooks
Spoils It All
Editor:
Beaded, spectacaled (sic),
and
moustachioed Jay F. Rosenber? would
like to reply to your article of 28
September in self-defense. In order of
increasing annoyance, the following
points must be made:
1. I have been teaching at UNC for the
past two years, not for the past three
years. I am currently beginning my third
year here.
2. My name is always spelled
"Rosenberg", never "Rosengerg".
3. 1 graduated from Reed College, not
Reed University, in 1963. To the best of
my knowledge, there is no Reed
University.
4. Despite my explicit reauest that t
not be dehumanized and presented to the
world once again as the author of a
cookbook rather than a person, I was
duly dehumanized and presented to the
world once again as the author of a
cookbook rather than a person.
T-Sticker, Badge Of Courage
Drilled By Sheep
study for a test tomorrow, and these
bullet woulds are sort of distracting."
"Ouah clinic houahs ah from nahn to
eleven-thirty and from two to fahv. Why
didn't y'all come in then?"
"Well, I hadn't been shot then. You
see, I parked on campus at thirty seconds
before six and this ambush opened up on
me. I almost got away, but Supersheep
tracked me down, and you must know
how good he is with a gun. Anyway,
could you do something or refer me to a
doctor? I'm getting a little weak."
"Why don't y'all come back tomorrow
during clinic hours and have the doctor
take a look at you?"
"I have classes from nine to twelve and
a lab from two until five."
"Oh, you can cut to come here,
honey." T-Man thinks. All five of his
professors opened with the friendly
admonition, "Anyone who cuts this class
gets a zero for the day. You can wait
until after class to go to the infirmary."
JtWell, thank you, ma'am, but I guess
Comments
5. I never said any of the things
attributed to me. I said a few things
vaguely like what was attributed to me,
but every last one of the "direct quotes"
is wrong. Specifically:
a. I attend conventions because I
am a philosopher, not because I am the
author of a cookbook. To the best of my
knowledge, there are no conventions for
authors of cookbooks as such.
b. My comments on the role of the
University in regulating social conduct
were made in the context of an extended
comparison between UNC and Reed
College. At Reed, there are no closing
hours in the dormitories, men's or
women's; men are allowed in women's
dormitories and women in men's for such
hours as the dorm members may elect;
the dean of men and dean of women
function in purely advisory capacities; all
disciplinary action, academic and
non-academic, is in the hands of a student
subcommittee of the Community
Senate a joint student-faculty body (10
of each, plus the president of the College)
which has complete responsibility for the
governing of the Reed Community; honor
is taken for granted, not something to be
pledged on each paper. Without this
paradigm of rationality to serve as a
striking contrast, my remarks about the
absurdity of UNO the mid-Victorian
hoops through which undergraduate
women are forced to jump; the "honor
code which assumes guilt unless
innocence is pledged, and then reduces
the pledge to absurdity through
abbreviation; . and so on for about 30
minutes seem rather vacuous. I assure
you that they are not
c. The "amazing phonomenon"
(sic) which occurred in Woollen Gym was
not as your reporter would have it, the
fault of the students, but rather of their
advisors. It was the General College
advisors who put students into courses by
number, rather than by content And it is
a poorly planned and poorly executed
system of registration which reduces
some students to the point where
avoiding a conflict of hours becomes their
paramount objective and the achieving of
a satisfactory education is relegated to
second place.
Would you kindly do me the service of
printing this letter in order that what is
left of my humanity in the public eye
may be salvaged? In happier days, I could
have achieved satisfaction by challenging
your reporter to a duel but today he
would probably just misspell it
Sincerely,
jay F. Rosenberg
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
111 just have to come back the day after."
"All raht, honey. Don't bleed to
death, now, heah?" T-Man crawls out and
begins to make his way back to bis car,
dodging the tracer bullet streaks and the
searchlight beams. Hours later he makes it
to the planetarium parking lot, from
which his car had been towed away while
he was being treated.
What will happen to T-Man? Will he
survive and come back to plague the
freedom-loving students and threaten the
brave Supersheep with more of his
dastardly designs? Or will T-Man die the
horrible death he so richly deserves so
tranquility and indifference may once
again return to Dusty Valley? Well, don't
hold your breath waiting to find out
Sometimes it takes a while to find out
what's going on.
Timothy Knowlton
315 Northampton Terrace Apts.
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514
On Bricks
Dorm Security
Petition Begun
Circulating in the women's dormitories
this week is a petition calling for
nightwatchmen. The statement is directed
to the 'administration and reads as
follows:
"We the undersigned women students
of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, maintain that dorm security
is not adequate and, therefore, request
the procurement of a night watchman for
each of our dorms. We believe this
measure to be of utmost importance and
priority for our protection."
Alarm about insufficient safety
measures is justifiable. Since January 1,
1968 in one women's dorm alone, three
prowler break-ins were reported. 'In a
prowler incident in still another women's
dorm last year, a girl who, in her own
dorm room, was the subject of an
attempted attack, experienced such
severe psychological effects that she had
to undergo treatment for two weeks in
the psychiatric division of the University
of North Carolina medical school. In
discussing prowler incidents no one need
think he is talking about mere Halloween
pranks.
Granville Towers is the only residence
hall on campus which presently has a
security guard. Says Nancy Still, Granville
Towers president, "I think it would be
very advisable for all dorms to have night
watchmen. It is a very worthwhile
expenditure. I give 100 endorsement to
it"
We agree with Nancy that supplying
each women's dorm on campus with a
night watchman is an important and
worthwhile expenditure. We are certain
that the administration will recognize our
sincere concern for safety. The university
has always been concerned about its
women's protection and we, thus, believe
it will not fail to provide the funds
necessary for night watchmen.
Sincerely,
Libby Idol, president of WRC
Katie Lucas, president of Alderman
Diane Woods, president of Connor
Dabby Bishop, president of East Cobb
Johnna Everett, president of West Cobb
Patty McKinney, president of Kenan
Kathy McLurd, president of M elver
Sue Taylor, president of Joyner
Nancy Still, president of Granville Towers
Barbara Gaddy, president of Parker
Phyllis Gendel, president of Spencer
Barbara Nagy, president of Nurses
Becky Floyd, president of Whitehead
Sallie Spurlock, secretary of Student Body
lumphrey
After hearing Hubert Horatio
Humphrey's acceptance speech at the
Democratic Convention m Chicago one is
bound to be left with an undefinable
sense of well-being. It is very confortmg
to hear the Democratic candidate for
President of the United States condemn
violence "whatever the source , declaring
that "neither mob rule nor police
brutality have any place in America". The
genuine sincerity and sensitivity with
which this man calls for peace, unity, and
progress, and the pride with which he
extols the virtues of our great America
must convince any patriot that he is
irrevocably committed to the American
dxeam of equality for all and malice
toward none. Humphrey is an idealist in
the truest sense of the word, wanting to
be Santa Claus to everyone-Negroes,
Youth, Aged, Workers, Fanners, and the
Taxpayerall at the same time.
Herein lies the defense, dilemma,
despair, and possibly the defeat of Hubert
Horatio Humphrey.
By William G. Allen
Mr.
Humpnrey u euuugu
of a
politician to know that the name of the
game is to appeal to all of the major
problem areas with something resembling
a positive approach and a solution, and to
win over the largest interest
groups alienating as few as possible. It is
in this endeavor that he loses his saint-like
image, appearing more as just another
politician and a mediocre one at that.
Hubert tells the farmers that they need
"long term credit and lower interest rates
as well as the. control of the price of
land". The farmers need a promise-but
one that will be kept-not insinuative
promises which, in reality only restate the
grievances and offer sympathy. His talk
of controling the price of land, though
designed to win votes, will almost surely
cost him more votes from the multitudes
already discouraged, disgusted, and
fearful of more federal controls.
. His promise of a "Marshall Plan" to
the ghetoes carries with it the odor of
more ineffective and expensive federal
programs. He pledges jobs to all who
want them, but 'make work" jobs will
do little to erect the supporting structure
of a successful man dignity and pride.
The tax burden remains on the shoulders
of the middle class, and the poor
continue to be unhappy, weak citizens,
and a deficit to the nation's economy.
The promise of this Marshall Plan tolls
like the bells of the promised land to
some, but in reality it can only last as
long as the middle class will prime the
pump. As former Vice President Nixon so
curtly pointed out, "The only thing
worse than making a promise and then
not keeping it, is to make a promise that
can not be kept." Given America's
financial difficulties which promise to be
long lasting, what can Humphrey's
illusion of a Marshall Plan to the ghetto
be but just another example of a
Democratic mirage that will raise the
expectations of the poor to the highest
pinnacle of hope only to dash them to
the chasm of despair and reality. What
lamp will Humphrey rub to finance such
an enormous project while the nation
sinks $25 billion a year into Vietnam?
Instead of making vague promises like
"violence will not be tolerated", which is
merely an empty challenge, HHH should
make his stand more explicit and hence
believe able. Unless he alters his approach
to problem-solving, his administration,
should he be elected, will be plagued like
that of his predecessor. He must stop
alienating the business and industry in
America with inflation, high interest
rates, and higher taxes. He must take a
business-like approach by aiding industry
with tax credits as incentives in return
for the industrial training and hiring of
the poor. To promise a Marshall Plan as a
panacea to poverty presupposes much
native initiative, skill, talent, and desire
which simply does not represent the
existing situation in the ghettoes.
In conclusion, it is fine to promise to
seek peace at every .opportunity in our
struggle in Vietnam, but to make such
nebulous statements as "Policies of
tomorrow need not be limited by policies
of yesterday," is nothing more than a
delusive design to snare a few more voters
in November, and a dis-servke to the
twenty-five thousand men who gave then
lives to convince the enemy of our
resoluteness. This kind of irresponsible
rhetoric can not fail to give the
Communists new hope that America will
soon sue for peace. In evidense of this
point, it is not likely merely a
coincidence that another major enemy
offensive is now said to be gathering
steam. None would deny that Hubert
Humphrey's goals are both imaginative
and inspiring, but his methods continue
to be confusing and not very well
conceived.
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