Friday, November 1, 1963
Page 2
76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
Boycott Necessary
If Demands Aren HMet
A group of students have
presented the Student Stores and
Book Exchange with a list of seven
demands it should meet soon or
they will ask all the students to
boycott the stores.
VVc hope the Book Exchange will
take quick steps to meet these
demands of the students; otherwise,
students should not hesitate to
boycott the Book Ex until it does
accede to the students demands.
The demands that are being
made on them arc not harsh. They
have been formulated on the basis
of investigations that have been
made of the Book Ex and its prices.
Thus, there are no demands that
would make it impossible for the
MRC Visitation Decision
Recognizes Dorm's Purpose
Two students in James recently
took visitation into their own hands
and invited two lady friends into
their room.
Since coed visitation hasn't been
approved yet by the
Administration, and there is still a
rule against it they were turned
over to the Men's Residence
Council Court by someone who saw
the coeds in their room.
The result: rather than being
severly punished by the court they
received a one semester residence
hall conduct probation (slap on the
wrist).
The reason, according to MRC
Court vice-chairman Bill Harris, was
that the "degree of appropriateness
of action in a residence hall"
warranted the light punishment in
the minds of the members of the
court.
We are glad to sec the court
thinking so liberally on the issue.
Their decision marks an important
recognition that the dormitory in
fact should be a home for the
student, a place for partying,
studying, visiting, etc.
In the past everyone has talked
about the need for having the
Agnew Talks
In Attacking
As if it isn't frightening enough
to think of Jim Gardner as governor
after Wednesday's attack on the
University, we have found that
Spiro Agnew, possibly the next
Administration
Acts Quickly
On Dorm Guards
The Administration has agreed
to hire nightwatchmen for women's
dorms only three weeks after
women students had presented it
with a petition requesting the
guards.
The Administration deserves
congratutlations not only for
heeding the wishes of the women in
hiring the nightwatchmen, but also
for acting so quickly on their
request. The three weeks it took
them to make a decision most
certainly must represent some kind
of record for action by the
Administration on some major
request of the students.
We hope in the future they will
continue acting swiftly on student
problems and not regress to the old
situation where it would take
months of meetings before any
decision could be made.
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
stores to earn a profit, rather the
demands are intended to cut back
the rate of profit the Book Ex gets
from fleecing students.
For an agency that is suppose to
be providing the students with a
service and which has a monopoly
over the students, the current prices
and services there are an insult to
its purpose as a servant to the
student.
If the Book Ex doesn't come
around soon to being a student
service, if it doesn't begin showing
that the students' welfare is
uppermost in its mind then
students should go ahead and
boycott it into submission.
dormitory as such but when it came
down to crucial issues that would
make the dorm less stetile nothing
has been done. Students cannot
decorate their room as they please
nor have whatever visitors they
please.
In this case, the students
thought it only appropriate that
they should be allowed to take
their dates up to their room after a
football game and entertain them.
The court, in letting the students
off with a very light sentence, is
recognizing that this is the way
things should be. It is admitting
that there is really nothing wrong
with what the students did but that
since there is a rule against it, they
must be punished, albeit with the
lightest possible punishment.
We are glad to see the court
making this wise judgement. We
hope that the Administration soon
come around to seeing the wisdom
of leaving students free to decide
who can come in their rooms. Only
until that happens, will students be
able to make of their dormitories
something more than cold brick
boxes.
Like Gardner
Dissenters
vice-president, has been indulging in
similar demagoguery.
At Bakersficld, Calif, a couple of
days ago he called "for a
crackdown on 'scroungy student
dissenters' " according to New
York Times report.
He said the Democrats had been
soft on campus dissenters and said
that the time had Come "to protect
young minds" from the "militant
criminals" on some campuses.
Not only does it look like it will
be dangerous in North Carolina to
speak your mind or demonstrate
after Gardner is elected, but
Agnew. if he gets into office,
apparently wants a crackdown on
student dissenters too.
If Agnew gets elected after this
bit of demagoguery and other
thoughtless statements he has made
in the past, we must really wonder
as Jim Gardner did Wednesday
"what has happened to the moral
fiber" of our country.
New Left leaders have been
saying that our current society is
utilizing all its resource., to stamp
out dissent and individualism.
If these two persons, Gardner
and Agnew, get into office we will
be forced to agree with the New
Left that our current society is
hell-bent on stamping out the
freedom of the individual.
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Editor:
Jesse Jones is a jinx! Carolina could be
football country except for Jesse Jones.
Normally Jesse circles Kenan Stadium
(not unlike a vulture) midway through
the game. But let's look at the evidence!
Jesse goofed. He flew over at the very
beginning of the State-Carolina
game remember what happened? State
rapidly chalked up two touchdowns.
Carolina lost. But did Jesse get the
blame? No!
We played South Carolina at Kenan
Stadium and Jesse didn't come. Carolina
was winning, the crowds were ecstatic,
and just as third period began who should
appear from over the south side of Kenan
Stadium? Jesse Jones! South Carolina
scored two touchdowns and rallied for a
victory! But did Jesse get the blame? No!
And then came Florida Gladys right
on her back and the rains torrented on
Kenan Stadium. Jesse couldn't fly
because her banner wouldn't furl. Did
Carolina lose? Hell, no!
Jessee Jones is a jinx! Curse you, Jesse
Jones!
Sincerely
Don Cobb
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Letters
Who Is Opposing
Visitation Policy
Editor:
The rally of students at Lenoir Hall
Monday night served its primary purpose,
demonstrating for all to see where
student opinion on the issue of visitation
lies. The question, therefore, is where
does opposition to visitation lie? We are
told that the administration would have
no serious objections to visitation were it
not for the fear of unfavorable reaction
among the tax-paying North Carolina
electorate.
As evidence of this feared reaction, the
poll this summer of coed parents
determine their reaction
to
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selfdetermined hours for the coeds is
offered; parents strongly disapproved.
But the question of men's dorms each
determining its own visitation hours for
coeds was not asked, and it is unfair to
infer that our tax-paying parents would
object to this when they did not object to
the system of visitation rules put into
effect at N.C. State.
The dominant student opinion on this
issue is for selfdetermination of visitation
rules by individual men's dormitories in
accordance with certain general guidelines
which, it is hoped, will be worked out
and laid down by the faculty-student
committee which is presently discussing
the question. If our parents are informed
of the nature of the proposal and of the
Scott Goodfellow
Cathey
It may be a mundane point to make,
but Carolina students are really pretty
well off.
Trie matter came up strikingly during
"Time-Out" Day when Dean of Student
Affairs C. O. Cathey stepped out of
South Building with a representative from
the Chancellor's office and proceeded to
field questions from what certainly was a
somewhat hostile group.
Frankly, this sort of thing doesn't
happen on most campuses, and Dean
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channels through which the issue will be
resolved, we will demonstrate our respect
for their thoughts and our democratic,
non-anarchistic, posture. ,
May I respectfully request that the
committee prepare such a poll.
Sincerely,
Alan Marsh
SSOC Walkers
Had Two Goals
Editor:
We would like to express our deep
disappointment with the course of the
SSOC Walk for Visitation Monday night.
The walk, while demonstrating student
support for a visitation policy, also
illustrated the dichotomy of viewpoints
concerning the course of action by which
an agreement is being reached. One group
wished to pressure the committee into an
immediate announcement of policy;the
other to express its support of the
committee's present procedure. Indeed,
. the latter purpose was the one expressed
by advertisements for the walk.
Confrontation politics is necessary and
even desirable in cases when a plight
needs to be dramatized. That is why we
feel that the riots in the cities beneficially
served to make the nation aware that the
needs of the ghettos were not being met.
However, we feel that the
administration of this school is
completely aware of the momentous
nature of the visitation question. In the
present context, the pressure exerted by
confrontation can only be deleterious to
the prompt resolution of the issue.
We joined the march to express our
trust in the student members of the
committee and their ability to insure that
the agreement which comes out will be in
accordance with the desire of most of
the students. We fully support Bill
Darrah, Bob Forbes, Libby Idol, Charles
Jeffress, Nancy McCharen, and Rick Page.
We are also confident that the
administrators and faculty involved, while
necessarily aware of pressures from
outside the school, will nevertheless keep
the desires of the students foremost in
their minds.
We will again express our trust by
joining the next visitation walk.
Sincerely,
Chuck Patrizia
Jim Stirewalt
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Someone has written an idiotic letter
to the DTH which was published last
Saturday supporting George Wallace. My
name appeared on it.
Beserms Credit
Cathey deserves a great deal of credit for
it.
Cathey himself is often viewed as a
conservative rock, blocking many needed
changes. But this isn't the true Cathey.
With a de libera teness which seems
painfully slow to transient students but
smacks of radical haste to much of the
state, Cathey has been the impetus for
many steps forward.
Showing surprising candidness, Cathey
tossed back quite agreeable answers to
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and in no way do I want to be associated
with that loud-mouthed empty-headed
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Sincerely,
Gene Stallings
320 Alexander
Wait And See Game
For Conservatives
Editor:
I can only say in regard to Mr. Cozza's
article of October 25, that it was a good
attempt. I can say that because I am a
liberal who went down with McCarthy.
And as much as I hate to admit it, it
looks more and more like a conservative
Tom Snook
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Needs Organization
A march held Monday night to show
student support for visitation, but just
what did it accomplish; Unfortunately,
not as much as it should have. To
understand why this is so, it must be
assumed that an effective demonstration
needs certain criterion.
SSOC stated this expression of student
support would be in the form of a walk
from the residence areas on campus to
Lenoir Hall where the visitation
committee was meeting. This was
accomplished in substantial fashion
despite tests, cold weather and other
diminishing effects.
After the group of marchers had
arrived at Lenoir, they staged something
closer to a pep rally than a
demonstration. This in itself is not
entirely bad, yet it departed from the
purpose of the walk which was to show
student concern. Instead, the effect it
achieved was to present a bunch of
people more interested in having a gay
old time than in visitation.
Speakers Appear
At any rally, demonstration, etc.
necessity dictates that speakers be
presented to express the group sentiment.
In most cases, the speakers Tuesday night
did this. Logic will add that these
speakers should be effective.
Unfortunately, several of the speakers
were detrimental to the demonstration.
In all fairness it must be pointed out
that the leaders of SSOC have had neither
the experience nor the opportunity to
address large followings of this type.
Presumably, as the years and marches
continue, the speakers will improve. Until
such time as they do and the leaders of
the group can expound on any given
subject at a moments notice, they should
do enough research on the subject to
enable them to . speak at least with
the crowd, even to the point cf
commenting on the strictness of
marijuana laws. "Conservative rocks'
don't do that.
That afternoon National Students
Association President Bob Powell told a
news conference that Carolina has one of
the finest systems of communication
between students and administration of
any university. This, he said, is in large
part due ("and I hate to say it ) to the
flexibility of the administration.
Further, said Powell, the activism on
the Carolina campus is by' far a much
finer variety than on any other U.S.
campus. Where on most activist-oriented
campuses a small group of students lead
demonstrations and reform movements,
at Carolina "thousands of normal
students wearing alpaca sweaters and
tassled loafers" are responsible for
reform.
Of course, it may seem a little like
copping-out to hand the administration
credit but it's just like criticizing the
Vietnam War and worrying that thats
helping the enemy. Furthermore, it's
undoubtably true that the student side of
any confrontation will rarely be satisfied.
In the meantime, the normal criticism
of the slowness of the visitation
committee, the inaccessibility of South
Building, the poorness of sandwiches and
the lack of parking will continue apace.
We find that we are behind Duke in
visitation but we don't have a rule
suspending students who demonstrate too
much. We find that we don't have as good
a transportation system as Ohio State,
but we aren't the same degree of IBM
card, either.
Perhaps one of the main things
Time-Out Day accomplished was to show
the really fine type of campus we have.
We didn't solve the Vietnam War or the
Durham boycott, but we did see that
something will happen with regard to
many local issues visitation, security
guards at SSOC meetings, sandwiches,
and maybe even prices.
So let's take a brief time-out and hand
a little credit to the administration. Now
back to work.
future for this country. We struck out at
the Democratic Convention when we
elected Hubert Humphrey, and do you
know why? Because some of us had to go,'
out there half-cocked and make fools out
of ourselves, when we could have been
ten times as effective if we "kept our
cool," as was seen in Czechoslovakia.
And please Mr. Cozza, don't make the
mistake of calling Mark Hatfield and
Nelson Rockefeller "liberals," again (one
of whom endorsed Richard Nixon before
the election and the other after). It
would prove to be only a "lamer"
interpretation of the facts.
Sincerely,
Betty Shyles
N. Airport Road
Chapel Hill
wisdom, if not force. Again, usch
preparation was not always in evidence
Monday night.
Although these points seem rather
minor, it should be understood that a
speaker with effectiveness will be able to
hold a group intact, thus insuring that the
impression created by the size of the
crowd is not lost when the group begins
to break up and wander away.
End At Peak
This brings us to the final point. It has
been pointed out that a demonstration
should be ended while it is at its peak,
this is added insurance to prevent the
crowd from losing interest and breaking
up. The leaders of the march failed to
follow this piece of wisdom and the
march suffered for it. The demonstration
Monday night was carried out beyond its
limit of effectiveness and suffered
degeneration as a result. This was
evidenced by the singing of "Jingle Bells"
and Dixie" which just doesn't fit in with
a demonstration for visitation.
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S,Snt SerV,CeS f within the
student community who is well versed in
tnl?ea Tf demonstrating and puublic
speaking. In this way, the rough edges of
a potentially effective force on cTrTpu
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All in all a large crowd gathered
Monday night and its mere presence
theVTn th,entende effect in spTeo?
he fau s of the demonstration. It proved
upPon and"0" COmmiUee that
support and concern does indeed exist
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was good and a much needed step off on
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