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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
General College Committee
Beneficial On Two Counts
The new Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, Raymond
Dawson has taken a much needed
and exemplary step in appointing a
committee to reassess the purpose
of all courses currently required of
students.
The steps he has taken are good
not only in that the General College
requirements need to be seriously
questioned, but in that he has
appointed more than a token
number of students to the
committee.
In the past two years the
educational reform that has taken
place has affected mostly juniors
and seniors. It is they who are
allowed to take courses on pass-fail
and it is they who are allowed
create their own courses.
However good these reforms
might be, they have not had as
broad an effect on students as they
might have because most students,
by the time they get through the
requirements of the General
College, have been turned off by
the educational process.
While when the student first
came to Carolina he might have
really been thrilled with the idea of
learning new things, by the time he
gets to be a junior that no longer
matters, what does matter to him is
that he will soon get his degree.
That's why a major revision
needs to take place in the. General
College, so that all the drudgery, all
that which kills the spirit inside the
student, may be eliminated.
"The committee questions . . .
whether any one course, such as
American
Richard Nixon Tells Us
What It's All Ab out
Remember some of that stuff
they told you in high school civics
books about democracy being
based on the belief that people are
sufficiently capable of making
decisions on how their government
should be run and what it should be
done.
Well if you believe that you're
all wet. Monday we got the latest
word from Richard Nixon on
American "democracy."
In answering questions at a
meeting of newspaper editors and
publishers who were grilling him on
his Vietnam policy, he told them,
in explaining why his Vietnam
policy was so vague, that supposing
"Nixon, Humphrey, and Wallace
each said what he would do to end
the war, 1 doubt if the American
people would have the ability to
make a judgement."
That's nice to know. We don't
have the ability to judge whether
our security is being threatened by
North Vietnam, we don't have the
ability to judge whether the
bombing of North Vietnam is just,
we don't have the ability to judge
whether the South Vietnamese
regime is democratic, we don't have
the ability to judge whether our tax
money should be spent to revive
American cities or to kill peasants
and occasional Viet Cong.
When you begin to think about
that statement of Nixon (and it
could just as easily have come from
Humphrey) you wonder about the
nomination of candidates by the
two parties.
Both parties had contenders for
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modern civilization, is necessarily
the best way for all students to
become acquainted with this vital
fields," according to Professor
Merzbacher. We think he had the
right idea.
The second important thing
about the committee is that
students represent a substantial
portion of it, four out of the 16
members.
Most committees created by the
Administration have had a
tendency to employ tokenism.
Thus, important committees, like
Buildings and Grounds or Traffic
and Safety have only two student
members out of 17 members. This
tokenism is then pointed to as
proof that students have influence
on the University's policies in these
areas. This of course isn't so; the
interests of the students and
administrators may coincide in
decisionmaking, but this can't be
pointed to as student influence on
the Administration.
However, with four members on
the general college committee
students will have a better chance
than ever to have their influence
felt and to have their feelings
toward curriculum reform made
known.
, This new committee offers great ,
potential as an agent of some
much-needed change in the
curriculum on campus. We find it
very encouraging that the
committee doesn't plan to just skim
the surface of the problem and that
it recognizes the need to have
students take part in the work.
Democracy
the nomination who were very
popular in the polls; both offered
some kind of alternative to the
course that- our country is
embarked on. Both failed to win
the nomination.
Then you begin to realize that
maybe the people who choose the
candidates are like Richard Nixon
and "doubt if the American people
would have the ability to make a
judgement," and so present the
American people with two
candidates who offer no substantial
alternatives to present American
domestic and foreign policy.
It's an awesome . and
discouraging thought, especially to
someone who is voting for the first
time and thinks he is doing
something important in his life.
The only advice we can give you
is to be a good boy, graduate with
fairly good grades, go into business,
join a civic club, become a public
official, elected or
appointed-preferably a
congressman-start letting
representatives from the aircraft
companies or the oil companies
take you out to dinner, let the Air
Force fly you to Europe and Asia
on junkets, put your cronies on
salary at the local poverty project
(if they're blacks, make sure they're
good blacks, none of these
Afro-haircut boys) and by then
maybe you'll have the ability to
make a decision on our Vietnam
policy.
In the meantime, Long Live
American Democracy!
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Bobby Nowell
Ynum& Liberals Guiawmg? At MMM.
The other day we were standing in
Orange County Democratic headquarters,
surrounded on three sides by alternately
smiling and grim facades of Hubert H.
Humphrey, when a former-perhaps
still-avowed supporter of Eugene
McCarthy came striding in and asked for
an HHH button.
"If he keeps making statements like
the one he made last night (Monday), I.
"Humphrey arrived at the
moment of truth but fell
back in pallor . .
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might even wear it," chortled the bearded
youth, pocketing the piece of tin.
An insignificant incident, you say.
Perhaps.
The McCarthyite was referring to the
first really dramatic statement of
Humphrey's campaign since the Vice
President said in his convention
acceptance speech that "the policies of
yesterday need not be the policies of
tomorrow."
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The Chancellor beamed broadly as he
ushered me into the large office in the
third basement of South Building.
"This," he announced, "is Rumor
Central."
There was a huge machine along the
wall with dozens of blinking lights all
the things one would expect in the
Colorado Air Defense Shelter. Lab
technicians were running about the room
with clip boards, scribbling continuously.
"In this room we check out Rumors,
analyze Rumors, even start Rumors.
We've checked out everything from the
Rumor that WUNC is planning to go
Rock and Roll to the Rumor that a
prominent Dean left his electric
toothbrush running after using a whiskey
flavored toothpaste.
Lights Popping
"We're really awfully proud of this
little operation." The Chancellor gazed
adoringly of the blinking gadgetry.
"This is marvelous," I said. "Could
you tell me how it works?"
"Surely. First you must realize that we
have many Rumor Agents around
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UNC Sandwiches Sloppy And Stagnant
Editor:
A few comments of our own on Mr.
Shetley's comments in yesterday's article
in The Daily Tar Heel on the monopoly
held by "UNC Sandwiches" here on
campus:
The University Food Service does not
give a better product than Made-rite; their
product is grossly inferior. And instead of
having the university kitchen employees
make sandwiches between meals to lower
the quality of the food at the Circus
Room, might they no spend their time
better keeping the cafeterias clean so as
to avoid another C health rating?
Also, is it not strange that inflation
drove most sandwich prices up this year
by 25 to 40 at the exact same time the
University Food Service assumed a
monopoly on production of sandwiches
sold in the Book-Ex snackbars?
The reason students eat at the CR is to
Stop Bombing
Monday night on national television
Humphrey said that as president he
would stop bombing of North Vietnam
"as an acceptable risk for peace." The
move, HHH stated, "would be the best
protection for our troops."
Any fluttering of pulses in anticipation
that Humphrey was at last going to step
out from the long Texas shadow of
Lyndon Nimrod to become, as he has
often promised, his "own man ought to
have been brief, however.
HHH killed thypalpitration himself by
again offering a version of his previoualy
unwavering demand that reciprocal signs
for peace for North Vietnam be registered
prior to any bombing halt.
"In weighing that risk and before
taking action I would place key
importance on evidence direct or indirect,
by deed or word of mouth of
Communist willingness to restore the
DMZ between North and South
Vietnam," he said.
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As he has done so frequently since
Chicago, Humphrey arrived at the
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campus. They pose as draft counselors in
Y-Court, clerks in the Book Ex, SSOC
activists, even DTH reporters. And all
they do is listen for Rumors. When a
Rumor is heard, we feed it into this
machine."
The machine clicked at this point, as if
burping in agreement.
"Look, here's one coming now. I can
demonstrate. It says, 'There is a device
attached to every home in Chapel Hill
which will cut off the water after fifteen
gallons are used on a given day.' "
Good Rumor
"That's a pretty good Rumor," I said.
The Chancellor popped it into the
machine. Seconds later a chute at the
other end of the machine threw out'
pieces of shredded paper.
"There, you see? The rumor is false
and the machine has ripped it up."
"That's pretty good," I said, "but who
pays for all these people and this
machine, so you can check out Rumors?"
"Oh, the Athletic Department, of
course. They use the machine a lotv
checking out Rumors like Bear Bryant is
avoid Lenoir Hall, which is now the sole
supplier of sandwiches at the Circus; the
student cannot win. If the Food Service
makes better sandwiches than Made-rite,
why not let the consumer decide?
Competition is healthy for business, and
in this case we are sure it would be more
healthy for the student.
We residents of Graham can speak
onjy for the quality of the sandwiches at
the Circus Room, but we are sure that the
same disgruntled feelings must exist
among the patrons, or rather former
patrons, of Made-rite sandwiches at the
other 8 snackbars on campus.
Even were the University Lake
overflowing its banks, all the water in it
could not wash down these sloppy, soggy,
stagnant "UNC Sandwiches."
Sincerely,
Gene Ramsay
Kim Peele
moment of truth of political
independence but fell back in pallor
instead of going the good way over the
brink.
The fact that Humphrey can indeed
flutter pulses even with such amorphous
statements on foreign policy is an
indication that the youth who have
scorned him in 1968 actually want
"T7ie young hecklers . . .
still gnaw at Humphrey9 s in
nards." to need to believe in him and be led by
him.
In a campaign which has been devoid
of anyone appealing to youth, a complete
about-face by Humphrey is about the
only hope the new liberals retain and
with each passing day and each failure by
the Vice-President to gain an identity of
his own, this hope becomes increasingly
dim. It is all too clear that the obstinate
and noncommittal Richard Nixon and the
blustering yet empty George Wallace
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holding a one-way ticket to
Raleigh-Durham Airport, or Rumors that
the NCAA is checking Rumors. They pay
for the machine with money from date
tickets."
"What a splendid operation," I noted.
"Everyone is benefiting."
"But didn't you say that you started
Rumors, also?"
"Oh, yes, that's one of our vital
functions. Governor Dan that's what we
call the machine-spends most of his time
thinking up effective Rumors which
would most help the Administration in
policy decisions. In fact, I believe
Governor Dan' is finishing up the final
touches on a Rumor he's been working
on for several weeks now. Ah yes, let me
read,it to you."
" It can now be revealed that
Curtis LeMay is behind our water
shortage. The General is secretly
operating a. huge munitions plant in outer
, Carrboro where he is making bombs. He
intends to 'send Vietnam back to the
Stone Age'."
I thanked the Chancellor and left,
awestruck, and knowing that everything
was well under control.
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Bill Wisdom
John P. Ripley
Charles Thorne
Curtis Eugene Furr, Jr.
Philip Ashburn
Andy Blackmon
Richard Cox
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Editor:
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offer no openings for youthful support.
It is ironic that the Vietnam issue is
probably the only thing which stands in
the way of the young people's advocacy
of Humphrey.
Past Glories
Humphrey has an enviable record of
fiberalism and reform in his 20 years of
public service but it is also ironic that
the young liberals have taken this record
and turned it around to accuse the Vice
President of living on past glories.
As one McCarthy man and campus
leader at N.C. State succinctly put it,
"Hell, I would love to support
Humphrey. His domestic programs are.
much better than those of Nixon, and his
courage on everything but Vietnam is
unquestioned. But I'm like any other
Joe my deferment expires in another
year."
On Vietnam, Wallace's statement that
"there isn't a dime's worth 'of difference
in the Republicans and Democrats,"
comes very close to being true. And of
course since since Wallace himself doesn't
even know where Vietnam is, the people
don't really have much to say about
where in Southeast Asia the U.S. will be
during the next four years, do they?
No one yet knows whether Humphrey
really favors a halt to the bombing,
because every time he looks pinned down
on the question, he launches into
smoke-screen tactics, like deriding his
opponents as he did following his
Monday address.
Gnawing Problems
The young hecklers, without a leader
and hungry for someone to vent their
anguish upon, still gnaw at Humphrey's
innards.
Whether the gnawing from the other
side from LBJ will continue to have as
much weight with the Democratic
standard-bearer is something that must be
decided by Humphrey soon. There are
only 34 days left until the voting, and
HHH is in deep trouble.
It is not too late for Humphrey to
make his pitch for the youthful, liberal
vote with a decisive stand on Vietnam.
And the young liberals would not be
two-faced to support the man who was
"Mr. Liberal" of the Democratic party
until he became Lyndon
Nebuchadnezzar's stooge in 1964.
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Notes
Mayor Sandy McClamroch on the
water problem: "It won't really help to
send the students home. After all, they
only use about 40 percent ot the water
every day."
The varsity soccer team, having
dressed out for practice Thursday in
Woollen Gym, found they were locked in.
Some time elapsed before a team member
managed to locate a janitor who could
spring the fellows.
In a lead headline this week, the
DTH declared that the Board of
Aldermen had taken legal steps to halt
the drought.
One suggestion for helping the water
crisis: Everyone fill up a glass with water
from the faucet, then drive out to
University Lake and dump it in.
A circular making the rounds in the
mans advertises a new graffitti button,
the Middle East Colloquium for the
evening of Yom Kippur is completely
unfounded.
The six-week program was planned
during the course of the past summer and
Tuesday nights were arbitrarily picked for
the sessions to facilitate arrangements for
classroom space and films. It just
happened that the eve of Yom Kippur fell
on Tuesday night, October L I can assure
Mr. pohner that the LSC. had no
intention of excluding supporters of the
Israeli position. Had he been at this first
meeting, Mr. Doliner would have found
that the Israeli position was very well
t7mnlnte?'aS We be
throughout the next five weeks.
Sincerely,
Jay Gallagher
Coordinator, Middle East
Colloquium
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