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Friday, October 18,r 1968 Page 2 THE DAILY TAB HEEL 3 1 mlg (Uar 3fri Don Causy 76 Years o Editorial Freedom Wayne Hurder, Editor Bill Staton, Business Manager Quick Action Needed On Visitation Petition A petition requesting that male students be given the right for themselves to determine whether a coed may enter their dormitory room was prcsintcd to the Dean of Student Affairs Thursday. The petition turned in to the Dean was signed by almost 4,000 persons; over 90 per cent of the persons contacted signed the petition, rather substantial proof that students here want to run their own lives. So what's going to happen to the petition? Dean C. O. Cathcy, who says he believes in participatory democracy, elaborated Thursday on the numerous channels the request has to go through before any dicision is made. Sam Austell, local organizer for the Southern Student Organizing Committee, called for some quick action on the part of the Administration We call for the same. When 4,000 students sign a petition demanding a change, when those who sign represent over 90 per cent of those approached, then it's not any time to piddle around making a decision. This is especially true in this case because the students involved are asking for the right to shape their own lives, a right which should have been theirs a long time ago. Unfortunately that right was taken from students when the ' University (here and elsewhere) " decided that it should serve as a parent to the student. Along with the assumption of this attitude was ' created a bureaucratic network for making decisions for the students. This is what the petition has to go through now.. Lenoir Hall Lay-Of f s Show Problems Workers Face The admission of error by the University Food Service with regard to the laying-off of ten Lenoir Hall employees and the immediate rehiring of five of them is commendable. The ten were laid-off by someone who apparently thought they would have no trouble making a living without their job. This, unfortunately, is a typical attitude on the part of most middle-class Americans who find it hard to realize the job insecurity faced by unskilled labor or who are unaware .of the niceties of unemployment compensation that eliminate many persons from its benefits, and gives only a pittance to those who are eligible for it. The situation with the ten Time-Out9: Learning Day With the presidential and gubernatorial elections dragging along lacklusterly, with the 'war showing no signs of breaking, with classes droning along day after day, it's good to take a break, some days off, in which the routine can be forgotten. That's the purpose of Time-Out, Oct. 29, a day on which college students across the country are going to break from their routine and consider where they are going, or where their country and society are going. The day is especially important now. according to Bob Powell, president of the National Student Association, because "this past year has been a frustrating one for students. On campuses, in political 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 We realize that the Administration has to send the request of the students through all sorts of channels before giving the students their rights. This is just part of the formality involved in giving students part of the freedom they should have had a long time ago. What we don't want to see, however, and what we would find aggravating and inciteful, would be a pigeonholing of the request or token actions designed to placate the students. The Administration should recognize that students aren't seeking just open rooms occasionally. At some colleges the Administration has decided to grant students the right to have women in their rooms once or twice a month. This isn't the essence of the SSOC petition. What the petition asks for is that each men's dorm be given the right to decide if it wants a visitation plan and then what days and times it wants visitation. It doesn't ask for an Administration-imposed visitation agreement; it wants students .to have the right to work out their own agreements. Any offer of less from the Administration is unacceptable. Dean Cathey and all the myriad of committies that will be handling the petition should realize what they are. dealing s with, and - realize that students are arguing for both a principle and a practice, both of which they want. Realizing this they should speed the request through their bureaucratic channels so the students can get what they want and deserve very soon. employees, also points out another problem they, and many unskilled workers, face-lack of power in the face of a powerful and well-organized management. The workers had no union to fight for their rights, the only tool they had to fight the injustice done to them was to ask the students to refuse to do the jobs they used to do. Fortunately, for them, they were able to get the students to do this because the students realized they were also being dealt an injustice. The University Food Service should learn from this incident that as a service organization it has certain responsibilities to both those whom it serves, the students, and to its employees. conventions, in the communities, we have asked to be heard, and we have been rejected. We have asked for justice and it has been scorned as anarchy. We have demanded freedom and those to whom our pleas have been directed have called it license. We are accused of failing to use legitimate channels for our protests, yet in campus after campus, in primary after primary, we have found those channels closed to us." This is what students need to consider on Oct. 29. The simple questions that students have been raising the past year about their society are often overlooked in their classes, despite the fact that the questions need to be answered if students are going to live meaningful, free lives. While Visions The panel discussion of the water crisis in Memorial Hall last week was a rousing affair attended by approximately 30 people, two dogs and one poet Judging by the size of the audience, few people in the Chapel Hill area are acutely aware of what the panel concluded that we are indeed experiencing a critical water shortage. The members of the panel, Grey Culbreth, director of University Utilities Division; Robert Peck, City Manager; Jim Heavner, vice-presicent and general manager of WCHL and Dr. Daniel Okum, chairman of Environmental Science and Engineering, delivered short speeches at 6Jc xSo Vce i X.J ... y mm MxmmsmA Revolutions Distinctive Listen. I'm 43, and at that age a worker is too old to learn a new job. My children have got education, and they look down on me. But 1 can remember when I was your age. We wanted to change the world, too. Go on, you lads. French shipyard worker to Daniel Cohn-Bendit Those words appeared on the front page of a periodical called the Black Dwarf which is published by a group of British students. I was handed a copy while I waited in an auditorium at the London School of Economics for a teach-in on student activism to start. The group of speakers represented the core of student radicals from around the world Lewis Cole from Columbia University, Daniel Cohn-Bendit from France, Dr. Ekkehart Krippendorf from West Germany, efal. It gave me an interesting view of what had happened and what was happening in Europe, and how it compared with what seemed to be starting here. Self-Righteous Account The first speaker was Lewis Cole. He gave a rather self-righteous account of what "the revolution" was like at Columbia last spring. Except for the information he had about the Board of Trustees, the communications problem between faculty, . students, and Bernard Samonds Mad Flusher Pussyfoots A lone figure sneaked silently past my doorway and down the dimly-lit corridor late last night. Ordinarily, I would have been in bed already, but I was finishing up a paper for class the next day. Only one more paragraph to go and then I heard it: a scream that would have raised the living dead. "Vay-K-Shun!" Flush. Flush "Vay-K-Shun! Vay-K-Shun!" Flush Flush. Flush. Only this time we were ready. All week long this fiend had roused the whole floor with his terrifying cry. The trap was sprung. Boys poured into the dorm corridor from every room and the MaJ Toilet Flusher was tapped. No avenue of escape, his moment of truth was at hand as we atalked into the bathroom. There he was, covering in fear inside the last water closet He wore a gray gas mask to cover his face and a black cloak to concela his clothing. His arms now set as if ready for a fight, no one dared move closer for fear of what he might do It was a standoff. Then 1 realized he was going to bluff his way out unless I did something, so 1 stepped forward "We Of the beginning of the meeting, after which a question and answer period was held. Mr. Culbreth pointed out in his speech that the pipelines from Durham are nearing completion. The first line, which will provide one million gallons per day, will be completed by the 19th or 20th of this month. Four or five days later the second line will be completed, providing another million gallons per day. This may sound somewhat discomforting, but at present there are only 80 million gallons of water in University Lake. Even if water consumption is kept down to 2.5 million gallons per day, there will be only 58.5 cjorhr special UAdrow repot-5 y Jim o U&ut -HcrcS nof enou.qi Univ. "iney W fife -Me jir$ sujjesicjy fl -rir5f administration, and about the .events . which led up to the confrontation, the speech was empty. All of the tired rhetoric of the New Left in this country was used, and none of it seemed to be appropriate. The European students stood in refreshing contrast. By Jed Dietz Le Rouge (Cohn-Bendit) combined some interesting tales about the most recent French revolution with some scathing criticism of the Communists, the Gaullists, and himself. It was nice to hear a leader who admitted the fact that the size of the movement had been much greater than anyone had hoped for, and that it had aborted because they had not provided for a theoretical base, and because there was no way to continue evaluation when the demonstrations started. He ended by saying that the whole thing had been sloppy because a few leaders (he included himself) had taken too much control, thus making individual responsibility and seriousness a secondary goal. He responded to the implication of that criticism by announcing that he would no longer function as a leader. have you now, Mad Toilet Flusher. There is no way out," I shouted. Rearing back like a venomous snake, he hissed, "Vay-K-Shun! Vay-K-Shun! Vay-K-Shun!" Efforts Halted "Hiss your worst," I cried, "we're here to put an end to your inane efforts. This water wastage shall be stopped once and for all." Hearing these forceful words, he backed into his corner again, shivering in fear. Feeling a little more confident myself now, I stepped forward and ripped the ghastly-looking mask from his face. He gasped for air, plugged both nostrils and held his breath, turning quite blue in the process. Exhausted, he fell to the floor pleding, "Vay-K-Shun. Vay-K-Shun. V ayOh, what's the use. I've tried everything." "It's about time that you realized that, Mad Toilet Flusher. WE've got you cornered and unless you come up with a good explanation, we're going to turn you in." "All right, all right. It's just that I 'Z - V " " lF uj Cloudbursts million gallons left This means that University Lake will become a number of mud puddles. Who's Responsible? During the question and answer period, the issue came up as to who is responsible for it all Why wasn't something done earlier? Like two months or even ten years ago? There was some passing the buck and humming and hawing. As with any large endeavor, it is hard to find out who should have done what The men in charge say it is an administrative problem and the administrators say they don't have the authority to do anything. C-i4ti l0 ku-Sffc , . o hire adS pacf J ;; .... ... ... : . Retreat First : . t TJr. Krippendorf added the theoretical base for which Le Rouge searched. In a scholarly talk, Krippendorf suggested that any movement be preceded by a retreat for the purpose of establishing some working principles. He also called for a constant revolution in thinking so that a self-renewal process could be going on before, during, and after, the initial efforts. He warned his fellow activists not to get caught in the "what is your plan" bag. "We do not have any plans for Utopia," he said, "it must be truly flexible, and that can never happen when one issues plans; as soon as they are public, they have tied you down." It was an interesting challenge to my mind. I had always thought, that one had to have very clear ideas about what one wanted to accomplish, a blueprint for the final product "If you are really going to change this society, you will not succumb to the temptation of replacing a bad plan which exists with another one already prescribed. The change must come in the mind of people, and one does not do that simply by changing structures." It was a quality of thinking which has not yet touched a sizeable part of American student radicals. When it does, they, like the European students of today, will be taken seriously. couldn't help myself. I got behind and just couldn't get caught up, you know how it is. Then I heard about this water shortage, you see, and I figured that if... " "You mean to tell us that's the reason you come running in here every night, flushing toilets all over the place and screaming, 'Vay-K-Shun. Vay-K-Shun?" Rumors Exciting "No, I could struggle through just like everyone else, but then those rumors about the water shortage and school closing got started. I tried not to listen. I cut off the water when I brushed my teeth and took those sponge baths, but I just couldn't help myself, fellows. I got out and started spreading the rumors, too. Remember that one about the iron oxide in the bottom of University Lake? I started that one. The last straw was when they cut off the urinals last week. I donned my gas mask and sneakers and started making these nightly raids. It was the only way. I just had to do it" "Had to, my Aunt Bippy. They aren't o o o In this case, though there does not seem to be any negligence on the part of anyone. Hindsight is always better than foresight The per capita consumption of water as well as the number of users has burgeoned in recent years. The best e can do, as Mr. Okun pointed out is make the best of this year, hope for rain and plan for the future. Mr. Culbreth pointed out that definite plans have been made to raise the lev el of the spillway four or five feet This will provide an additional 800 million gallons. Mr. Okun proposed that longer range plans be begun to map out a regional utilities system serving the entire triangle area. Danger Seen One danger, Mr. Okun pointed out is that next year and maybe the next five years will be wet years that will lull the people of this area into a complacence that could be disastrous. The disaster that could descend upon us is made vivid in a poem which James Cloud, a senior from Winston-Salem read during the question and answer period. To February and a Long Christmas Your eyes are closed and made of glass where only dust is a discreet appause and birds are frozen, flowing through the gulping sky which turns to sigh and cough its as his up. February will be dry; the fish will learn to fly, or drown. T)ie sun breaks shadows down like a turning hole through the writhing afternoon. Watch! how they flip overt one more time, to kiss and fry; their lids stay open, staring at the sky with full faces of why. To prevent this disaster, James Cloud suggested rain dances be held o appease the gods. Lette rs Editor: - . I was quite displeased after reading Jbe editorial cartoon in the Tuesday, October 15, 1968 issue of the DTH. The cartoon was a shrilling slur on the Black Revolution which is endeavoring to bring about self-determination, self respect and a pride in the Black man's basic heritage. For the White man (and the Black man who lacks these qualities), it endeavors to teach him to have a respect for human dignity, humility, and a human understanding and acceptance of those different fram him. It is quite evident that the author of the cartoon has a total lack of understanding of the Movement and has tried to discredit it with a blatant display of his ignorance. It is because of people, evidently like the author, that brought about the necessity of such a movement. If people could live together and accept differences in race, culture, etc. (as they accept differences in height within a race) then the situation in this country would be much different from what it is today. But, historically, in this country, the White man has been unable to accept and respect the differences of the Black man and others This is why you celebrate Columbus for discovering America because you were unable to recognize and accept the existence and culture of the Indian. It is only when peoples learn to have a respect for human decency that we will all be able to live here together. If this does not come, we may all die together. Sincerely, Juan Cofield Again planning to call off classes. All you're doing is wasting the water we have left. People all over Chapel Hill and Carrboro are trying to conserve water," I said. "Why just the other day, I heard that a fmaily had used up its Right Guard supply on their house dog, just to save water. They finally saved enough used water to give it a bath," Shultz said. "I know a fellow who has been bathing in alcohol, just to save water," added Smith. "That's nothing, I know a guy who hasn't bathed since the water shortage was announced," said Erasmus And so it went The Mad Toilet Flusher is no more. A changed man left the water closet last night, though that terrifying cry can still be heard across the campus. Let us hope someone reaches those other poor fellows in time. Second class postage paid at U.S. Post Office in Chapel Hill, N.C. Subscription rates: $9 per year; $5 per semester. I .1- -vr il !
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