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76 Years o Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
Compulsory Meetings
For Coeds Ridiculous
If you're a coed living on campus
you no doubt have recently had to
attend a dormitory meeting at
which you were given such
important bits of information as'
when the next dorm meeting would
be held.
You went because you knew
that if you didn't you would be
campused for one day, required to
come in at 8 p.m. on one day
during the week.
Why this rule that you have to
attend dorm meetings? We'd like to
know, too. We can see no possible
reason for this requirement and
think it would be a good idea if the
Women's Residence Council, which
presumably works for women
students here, would abolish this
ridiculous rule.
Presumably the reason for
having required meetings is so that
the coeds would learn whatever
new rules might have been made for
them.
However, we cannot not see why
these meetings are compulsory
'Nigrahs' Boycott To Show
You Don't Have To Be White
"If God had wanted nigrahs to
be equal, he would have made them
white."
That kind of attitude, voiced by
a Northgate merchant, is what
blacks in Durham are up against in
their efforts to get some voice in
the determination of municipal
policy concerning their
communities.
Last year after repeated efforts
to get city leaders to give the blacks
in the community greater control
over their own community, they
have this year embarked on a
boycott of city merchants who
have considerable control over city
government.
The quote above, about
"nigrahs" represents the reaction of
one merchant to the demands of
the blacks.
That quote, and the attitudes
that are behind it are why it i s
imperative that the boycott in
Durham succeed.
The Southern Student
Organizing Committee is helping
the Black Solidarity Committee in
Durham to spread the good word
about the boycott and keep
students and blacks' from shopping
at those stores that are owned by
Thieu Foolis
In Opposing NLF
From The Raleigh News and Observer
The suspicion grows that
President Thieu of South Vietnam .
is a naive soul in the realm of
diplomacy. Granted, he did see the
light a few days ago when the
bombing halt was proposed,
retreating from a firm "no" given
because his idea of preliminary
concessions from the north were
lacking, to a more subtle "yes"
provided there was "good reason to
believe" the enemy would
reciprocate in some way. But his,
current attitude about the
negotiations to proceed out of the
bombing stop displays a lack of
finesse. Thieu won't have any part
of negotations in which the Viet
Cong's political arm in the south,
the National Liberation Front, is to
be an independent voice.
Thieu may retreat from this
stance, too, and for the sake of
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Rebel Good, News Editor
Joe Sanders, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Hermit Buckner, Jr, Advertising Manager
when male students are not forced
to attend their dorm meetings, no
matter what is being discussed.
We find it hard to believe that
coeds are so inferior to male
students that they have to be
forced to attend meetings on
penalty of campusment.
Coeds here, we believe, are old
enough to decide whether they
should attend meetings.
If coeds should fail to attend a
meeting and therby not find out.
about new rules or upcoming events
that is their unfortunate luck and
they should rightfully be forced to
accept the consequences.
However, to force them to
attend meetings every two or three
weeks at which, often, the most
important thing discussed is when
the next dorm meeting will be held,
is ridiculous.
We hope that the WRC wil not
allow this ridiculous situation to
continue and that they will abolish
compulsory attendance as soon as
possible.
persons who are in strong enough
position within the city to affect
the problems that blacks face.
Christmas is coming up and with
all the shopping involved in that, it
is more important than ever that
Durham shoppers be warned not to
shop in those stores in Durham that
are the target of the boycott.
During the past couple of
weekends the boycotters have had
about ,10 persons working. With
Christmas coming up they need
about 20.
Anyone interested in working
during the weekend to see that
Durham blacks get some political
power should get in touch with
SSOC's Charles Mann.
We encourage you, if you want
to see power taken away from
those people who think that "if
God had wanted nigrahs to be equal
he would have made them white"
to heop in this boycott, whether it
be by passing out leaflets or
refusing to buy in Durham.
If America is to shift from its
current discriminatory character it
will only come when individuals are
willing to take the time to see to it
that blacks are given their fair share
of the power in America.
peace it would be most welcome if
he would do so. The NLF has, in
fact, shown him the way to make
another shift. It has accepted
Thieu's regime in Saigon as a party
in the up-coming talks, while
muttering internationally that this
doesn't signify recognition of "the
puppet administration of Saigon."
The NLF, naturally, claims to be
the "authentic representative of the
South Vietnamese people."
Perhaps turnabout would be fair
play here. It would seem that Thieu
could send his government to the
conference table rather gracefully
by agreeing to sit down with the
NLF and the other parties, stating,
simultaneously that this doesn't in
any way signal recognition of the
organization as anybody's voice. He
might even throw in a reference to
"Hanoi's puppet" if he wishes. The
important thing is to get seated and
get going.
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An unidentified member of the
Chancellor's advisory committee on
' visitation ' spoke Monday to a group of
marchers for visitation who remained
after most of the demonstrators had
dispersed and said in so many words it
was in keeping with his responsibility that
he would not reveal the findings of his
committee to students.
It is just this sentiment which
epitomizes the present rupture of
'The problem is that it is
(Dean Cansler's) commit
tee.9 students and administrators.
The committee member in question
maintained it was his duty to provide the
Chancellor with a recommendation on
visitation in an atmosphere free of
student criticism.
What has been overlooked is the
nature of the issue; it is unequivocally an
issue of student concern.
We recognize the inclusion on the
committee of student members. It was, of
course, student co-chairman of the
committee, Bill Darrah, who claimed the
discussions had been "encouraging."
But apparently "encouraging" is not
enough to the 1000 students who
demonstrated for visitation.
Where Is Voice?
Where does the voice of the student
body enter into the question?
Apparently not in the token
membership of the Darrah's, or in Dean
of Men Cansler's wish to maintain
"institutional values," or in the
administration's quagmire which is it's
deep concern with the opinion of parents
and voters in the state.
Why is a single faculty member of the
committee so concerned with the power
of decision of the Chancellor that he
maintains his silence before the inquiries
of students into matters which most of all
affect them?
Perhaps it is more to the issue to
question why it is the Chancellor and not
the students who will have the final say in
the matter of visitation.
The principles of democracy appear in
this instance to be lacking in this
institution.
Frustration
The studentry is frustrated because it
has only token say in matters. The silent
protest of students is not appeased by
flimsy promises of progress in
negotiations.
Dean Cansler misses the point when he
thanks demonstrators for showing their
interest in "his" committee. The problem
is that it is his committee.
The visitation issue is merely a symbol
of the student demand for a principal
voice in the university community. It is
not until the student's voice is not only
heard, but counted, in the affairs of his
university's life, that he will feel some
tolerance of an administration which has
usurped the power of decisionmaking.
The student distress has thus far taken
the course of passive demonstration, but
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Paulette Bates
The Till 9 Oipeus
To the women students:
I would like to put in a woman's word
to the women of this campus concerning
birth control pills. The pill may be the
best thing that has happened to us. It
offers us a chance to make a genuine
decision concerning not only childbirth
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the growing frustration of the impotent
student in the fact of a deaf
administration promises to manifest itself
Letters To The Editor
Simpson 's Fraternity Views
Hit As Obnoxious, Unfactual
Mr. Simpson:
As one who once shared your asinine
view of fraternities, I should like to
register my opinion concerning your
obnoxious and factually unfounded
editorial and cartoon in Wednesday's
DTH. Your slurring implications have,
now and in the past, helped to create the
warped opinion of fraternity life held by
many people. Anyone who has ever
participated in the many wholesome and
worthwhile activities of a fraternity
regrets your narrow-minded attitude; he
regards your editorial as absurd and a
disservice to the many fraternity
members in this university.
Sincerely,
Rob Ferguson
Phi Delta Theta
Hippies Not So
Bad, After All
Editor:
Much has been said lately about the
hippies and their nasty habits . . . but
maybe we should be giving them a chance
to speak. Just because they're against the
war in Viet Nam does not mean they are
anti-American. Being dirty doesn't
remove their citizenship and right to
speak. And speaking up doesn't make
them lawbreakers. Just what is their
philosophy?
I don't think they are advocating drugs
and crime as a way of life (in fact, I
suspect that drugs and crime are still to
be found in groups of unskilled,
uneducated, untrained, and
unloved ... not in the hippie group). This
isn't to say that the hippies are free of
blame ... but why shouldn't the above
society-rejects join the hippies? No one
else wants them. Their philosophy is love.
It's a rather honorable motive
What are the churches teaching us
these days about love? The Catholic
hierarchy has land interests. They will
continue to support anyone, even a
Hitler, to avoid alienating the government
at hand. The Protestant churches don't
have the property, but the members who
are most important in church circles are
those who can give the most . . . and not
even a fundamentalist hell-damner would
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but also intercourse before marriage. In
the past, the only safe course for a
woman to follow concerning sex was to
wait for the protective confines of
marriage.
Marriage provided for the possibility
of children, a possibility always present
for the woman of the past. Naturally,
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in more practical stands than passivity.
The moral of Columbia should provide
that lesson. ;
dare bite the hand
America's great god: the conglomerate
corporation. Mass production and
consumer dissatisfaction. Materialisticly,
the hippies don't rate, and they rarely
buy.
Ever since some profiteer began selling
us the concept of the
twice-daily-cleansed, sweetly scented
body, our neatly dressed selves have
become untouchable. We hold each other
carefully at arms length. The hippies are
simply trying to say that it's time we all
took off our clothes and had a downright
heart-to-heart love-in. The slogan changes
from "Happiness is a " to
simply "Happiness IS."
Sincerely,
Tim Walter
Library Poorness
Reflects On UNC
Editor:
It should be obvious that the
reputation of a university is contingent
first upon the quality of the faculty and
secondly upon the quality of the library.
With reference to the latter it is evident
that the quality of this school is slipping.
Housed in an imposing superstructure,
the Louis Round Wilson Library is
none-the-less deteriorating internally;
specifically both the physical plant and
the service offered are suffering. With
regard to the former, such varied items as
the microfilm reading machines (of which
only four out of seven are at this time
even partially in order) and the furniture
in the (ill lit, inadequate, poorly
ventilated) graduate lounge are in need of
repair. With regard to service, the
inability of the staff to locate books, the
charging of students for books already
returned, the antiquated procedures for
checking out books are some examples of
a generally unsatisfactory situation.
The administrative staff of the library
kindly granted to this committee several
meetings. From these meetings we have
learned that the primary cause of the
library's difficulties is lack of funds,
which leads to lack of purchasing power
for new equipment, and inability to hire a
staff large enough to service the library
Wednesday November 6, 1968
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many women went ahead and fooled
around before marriage, and quite a few
of them got caught unfortunately. But
the majority of women waited, torturing
themselves and vast numbers of the male
population. They waited because they
were scared to do it without that wedding
band. They had a fairly legitimate reason
for saying, no, however, because no
contraceptive was 100 effective and
who can blame anyone for not wanting to
have a child out of wedlock.
The amazing thing is, women in 1968
are using the same reason. But for them,
because of the pill, this simply is no
longer a logical reason. The majority of
young women who say no everyday on
this campus are saying it for the wrong
reason. They are not making a true
decision, and they ought to be. They owe
it to themselves.
Birth control pills are essential for the
modern woman simply because they
make her "no" a meaningful one. The pill
enables her to say yes if she likes, and
therefore if she chooses to say no, that
answer has some meaning.
Today a no should mean I do not
want to have sex with you. But too often
a no means I'd love to but Fm afraid I'll
get pregnant. It is obvious that this is no
longer the right reason for saying no. If
one wants to say no, that is fine. But one
should not say it out of fear any longer.
It should be said as a definite decision
made, in which a yes has been considered
and rejected.
The pill takes the fear of pregnancy
away, making a yes a possibility. A no
hasn't any meaning unless a yes is also
possible. So this is what the pill does for
us. It gives us the possibility of yes and
no. It takes away the old reason for
automatically saying no. We have to have
a new more personal reason for saying yes
or no. We are freed from the fear of
pregnancy so that we can make a
meaningful decision.
It also forces us to examine what we
really want out of a relationship. If you
are involved with a guy right now, and
doing everything but. If you moan into
his shoulder that you want to so much,
but you just can't. Then my advise to you
is start taking birth control pills. Then
make your decision concerning
intercourse with him. I guarantee you'll
learn something about yourself.
Are you afraid to? You may discover
that you really don't want to do it, now
that you can. For good or bad reasons.
But at least the pill enables you to have a
meaningful choice, be it yea or nay.,
Paulette Bates
adequately. The recent callous
curtailment of employment of twenty-six
student helpers will result in not only
severe hardship to those students but loss
of effectiveness of service in the library as
welL
This committee feels that sufficient
student expression of unhappiness with
the library as manifested by a mass of
letters to this paper would indicate to
those responsible for the allocation of
funds to the library that in the priorities
of the granting of funds, the library
should occupy a much higher position
than it now occupies. We therefore urge
students dissatisfied with the library to
write such letters.
Sincerely,
Library Committee
Graduate Student Association
Douglas Dewey, Romance Languages
John V. Long, Sociology
Marianne Smythe, History
Peggy Whalen, Library Science
Band Members
Disavows Letter
Editor
- rJ to the lettr which appeared
in the DTH on 25 October pertaining to
the Marching Tar Heels, I wish to make it
clear that I had no knowledge of this
letter prior to its publication. I am, in
fact, a member of the band, and I'm
proud of it. The author of the letter in
question was correct on one point,
notably that the band is an organization
of which the university can be proud.
However, I would like the author, the
student body, and all other interested
persons to know that if I have a
complaint, I will write my own letter,
sign my own name, and I will register it
through the proper channels. I know the
principal author of the letter personally
and I also know that for the most part!
his gripe is unfounded. I do not
appreciate the forging of my name to
anything, not even by a friend.
Sincerely,
Alan F. Dry