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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Tuesday, December 3, 1968
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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
New Campuses Beneficial
To State, University
The University took an
important step Monday in fulfilling
its responsibility to provide the
state with a good educational
system by approving a proposal to
include Wilmington College and
Ashcville-Biltmore College in the
Consolidated University system.
The new members of the
Consolidated University will benefit
the state, their regions themselves
and the University, despite some
grumblings from members of the
Trustees who contend that the
study of the two colleges
overlooked numerous aspects, and
who said that they . should be
limited to undergraduate education.
For those students or personnel
in the Consolidated University' who
don't want the two campuses
admitted for fear that it will lower
overall standards, there is nothing
to worry about.
As for the criticism of the way
the study was conducted, the
committee has done a good job.
They insured that the statutory
requirements for expansion were
filled and investigated numerous
other factors involved in the
expansion. 7 ;
Their conclusion was that these
are the best areas in the state to
have campuses: both schools are in
areas with growing population but
which have few. colleges nearby to
attract college age students., This is
not true of the many other
metropolitan areas in the state that
persons might think are more
deserving of having a branch of the
Consolidated University.
As for the contention made by
Watts Hill, Sr., that the state can't
afford to build and maintain the
two new campuses, we would hope
that the citizens and leaders of the
state would recognize the crying
need in this state for better
undergraduate schools and would
recognize that it is more financially
feasible to develop these two
campuses than to develop any
others that might fulfill the other
Military's Flaws Show
In Ft. Bragg Arrests
From the Raleigh Times
It is clearly understood that a
military reservation is different
from other areas, and that the
military must have special
regulations regarding the conduct
of both military and civilian
personnel on such reservations.
But, when did it get to the point
that a bonafide newspaper reporter
can be arrested, held at the provost
marshal's office until 1 a.m., and
fined $50 for covering a
demonstration on a military
reservation? That happened
recently at Fort Bragg, and the
reporter from the Daily Tar Heel,
UNC student paper, was fined for
trespassing.
The reporter didn't go there to
demonstrate. He went there for the
specific purpose of covering a
demonstration during which some
other students were passing out
anti-war literature. He wasn't a
member of the demonstration
group and wasn't "even in
sympathy with them. I was just
there covering it for the paper."
There was no military security
involved in this. No secrets were at
stake, and the reporter didn't try to
find out any secrets. He was simply
theie to report on the activities of
some student demonstrators who
were trying to pass out anti-war
literature.
If the military of America has
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Dale Gibson, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Harvey Elliott, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr Advertising Manager
requirements for membership in the
University.
As for the criticism that has
been made that acceptance of these
two schools will lower the quality
of the University, we doubt that;
anyone that looks at the record of
the two schools can see that there is
nothing to be ashamed of in having
them as part of the University. At
Asheville-Biltmore the average
Scholastic Aptitude Test score of
entering students in 985; only in
exceptional cases do they take
students with scores under 800. At
Wilmington, the average is a little
lower, 892, a score which probably
compares favorably with average
scores at most Southern
universities. Their average scores, of
course, are lower than those at
Chapel Hill, but it is unreasonable
to expect every campus to have the
same standards we do. This is the
pattern established at California
where most campuses can't
compare with Berkeley or at
Wisconsin, where most campuses
don't compare with the Madison
branch. , , .
In addition,: this unhealthy: -
attitude of pride overlooks the fact s
that the University - is designed to '
serve the state and not to bolster '
the pride of its students. If most
a high school students an the , state
. don't have the average, to get into
Chapel Hill, the University is
obligated to lower its standards at
some branches so ' it can accept
them and hope that in the long run
it will turn out elementary and high
school teachers that can give the
students the type of education they
deserve. ' ' . . . '.
- We hope that the proposal will
be approved by the State Board of
Higher Education and the General
Assembly so that the Consolidated
University can continue to serve the
state and provide it with the leaders
and educated manpower necessary
for it to break out of its low status
among the states in the nation.
reached the point where it must
fear such antics by a few college
students, we are indeed in a
dreadful defense posture. And, if
the military of America has come
to the point where it has to arrest a
reporter on a charge of trespassing
when he attempts to cover such a
demonstration, the military is
admitting a basic weakness which
should be corrected.
It is vital that the civilians of
America, who pay the bill for the
military, know as much as it is
possible to know about the
military, without giving aid and
comfort to any present or possible
enemies. The fact that a student
reporter tried to report on a
student demonstration and got
arrested on a charge of trespassing
sounds mighty like a situation in
which the military is seeking to
keep legitimate information from
reaching the public.
No demonstrators whould be
permitted to interfere with any
military training at Fort Bragg or at
any other place. Neither should any
reporters be permitted to interfere
with military training. But, when
what is supposed to be the world's
mightiest military machine has to
resort to arresting a few students
and a young reporter to protect
itself from some anti-war
pamphlets, it seems that someone
in authority is using a large cannon
to swat a tiny gnat.
Robin Brewer
Briip-IDrip Of Traffic Congestion
Confrontation may take many forms.
The most recent application of its dogma
occurred after last Saturday's game on
the road leading from the Morrison
parking lot to the street. Involved were
not two, but three parties a yellow
Camaro, a light blue Mustang, and a
Chevy of moot pigmentation.
The football traffic was filing out
slowly beside Mr. Chevy who was parked
up on the curb. In all probability he
would have been content to bide his time
but for the yellow Camaro. The Camaro,
parked further up the grassy slope,
decided to join the traffic as soon as
possible and began to roll down the hill
to squeak by the Chevy and become a.
piece de congestion.
Since character assassination has no
place here, suffice it to say that as soon as
the Camaro became mobile Mr. Chevy
turned on his motor and crept, ever so
subtly, into its oncoming path. This
momentarily confused Mr. Camaro. To go
forward was to court the Fates of
Insurance, to put his car in reverse and
seek more amenable avenues of escape a
moral defeat
And for a driver of a mighty Camaro,
moral defeat is not an easy thing to
accept. Showing a limited prowess for
decision-making Mr. Camaro elected to
stay put, albeit from time to time he
would give various modifications of a
hand wave through the window to the
Chevy.
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Letters To The Editor
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To the Editor:
I am appalled by your attitude toward
the recent attack of the Campus Code by
Legislator Raphael Perez. Your editorial
of 20 November reeks of absurdity,
mockery, and hypocrisy.
Let me emphasize that I agree with
your conclusion that the manner in which
the Campus Code is presently defined is
absurd. It is detrimental to our entire
Honor System to include offenses which
occur away- from the University
community. I further feel that the Code
should be redefined so that only those
incidents which jeopardize the academic
pursuits of other students should be
considered offenses. And, as a member of
the committee which will present to
Legislature several alternatives to the
present Code, I will exhaust my
capabilities to effect the necessary
changes.
But the means with which you support
the "Perez "test case" seems to lack
appropriateness. By emphasizing an
individual case, you criticize the Courts,
whose function is to adjudicate those
offenses established by the Legislature,
and not the Legislature, which is the
body established to effect general policy.
Nevertheless, I sincerely hope that
your editorial has aroused interest
among all the students of the University,
and that any policy adopted by the
Legislature concerning a modified Code
will be truly representative of STUDENT
opinion.
Sincerely,
Howard G. Miller
Chairman, Honor Court
Carrboro Protest
Like All Others
To the Editor:
I read in the DTH of Saturday, Nov.
16, that the Commissioners of the City of
Carrboro have been deducting 40 from
each water bill sent them by the
University Water Plant If this is actually
true, then, it seems to me, the
Commissioners of Carrboro are practicing
civil disobedience not very different from
Mr. - Chevy meanwhile had his own
problems to wit, to maintain his present
status or venture into the
bumper-to-bumper traffic at risk of
vanity and chassis. He would doubtless
have preferred the former, but we must
acquaint ourselves with his weekend date
in the front seat slightly crocked, overtly
giddy and magnificently receptive to
excitement. Her private jollies resided in
ego-baiting, so it was that with her
exhortations, and his reluctance, he gave
gas to the car, blocking out the Camaro
and moving slightly off the curb.
The whole matter might have resolved
itself in short course had it not been for
the snotty Mustang that refused to give
way to the Chevy. True, he had the right
of way, and no doubt this was foremost
in his mind when, espying the advancing
maneuver of the Chevy, he promptly
closed the gap between himself and the
car in front to a bare yard.
The Coed in the Chevy, catching the
strategem, downed a quick sip of what
was ostensibly Coke, and launched into a
lengthy tirade on Mr. Chevy's attributes
in the fields of courage, daring, and
general all-around guts. But the
previously passive Mr. Chevy needed, no
feminine inducement, and highly
indignant at this affrontery to his person
by the Mustang, now displayed an
aggressiveness rarely seen in cars driving
less than 2 mph. Using his brakes as a
great pianist uses his foot pedals, he
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that practiced by rent strikers or by
people who refuse to pay the percentage
of their income taxes that goes into the
defense budget.
The Commissioners claim that the
prices were raised illegally. However, rent
strikers usually claim that landlords are
illegally neglecting to fulfill housing code
requirements, and tax resisters usually
claim that the government has no legal
hold over them because it is illegally
conducting a war.
I do not know whether or not any of
the Commissioners become indignant
about the behavior of students and blacks
and others who break laws in defiance or
to change situations, but there are many
who do and then .completely overlook
similar actions on the part of respectable,
law-abiding citizens like the
Commissioners.
Sincerely,
James Gulick
1029 Highland Woods
DTH Absurdity
Waxes Stronger
To the Editor:
Each time the editorial staff of the
'Tar Heel' reaches the heights of
absurdity, one feels it has gone about as
far as it can go. But with "U. S. Gradually
Becoming Highly Militaristic Nation"
(Nov. 16), it has outdone itself once
again.
Although one expects now and then to
see an editorial opion at variance with
one's own opinion or with the truth, the
sanctimony and pomposity with which
those opinions are set forth makes them
especially galling. Thus, the dubious
equation of Russian action in
Czechoslovakia with our activities in
Vietnam and the characterization of our
intervention as one which "squashed the
threatened liberalization (sic) of the
Dominican Republic" are fed
unblinkingly to us with "obvious fact(s),"
"disconcerting conclusions," and
admonitions to "look at the record."
One marvels at the facility with which
our own campus editorial staff makes the
furtively moved into a more commanding
position in the street
Or so he thought.
Mr. Mustang, an unusually circumspect
individual, eyed his opponent's brashness
and calmly drove his 450 horsepower car
a full 35 inches forward, so that the
distance separating his car from the car in
front was scarce enough to accomodate a
worn Humphrey sticker.
Not to be outdone, Mr. Chevy likewise
edged forward a tab or two. The angle
formed by the two contestants dictated
permature intersection, threatening
confrontation in its most horrible aspect
A word here on - the nature of
confrontation. It has that peculiar
predilection of producing differing
camps of opinion, vociferous partisans
who will cast their lot with one party or
the other for varying reasons.
Such was the case this afternoon.
From the corridors and rooms of
Morrison Hall poured forth little huddled
masses who braved the simultanious
renditions of Smokey Robinson and the
Miracles and Martha and the Vandellas
and Sam and Dave and the Mammas and
the Pappas and Peter and Paul and Mary
and Laurence Olivier reciting Hamlet
Taking in the situation at a glance,
each mass would cast their allegiance with
either the Chevy or the Mustang,
contingent on taste. As one car would
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delineation between "offensive" weapons
and "defensive" weapons, when the
problem has baffled congressional
committees and international
disarmament commissions for more than
half a century, (witness the "defensive"
airplanes of the late 30 s). For our
enlightenment, oh 'Tar HeeF staff, how
do you classify 105mm howitzers,
F105's, M-60 tanks, or even hand
grenades?
The fact that many Americans are
stationed on foreign soil does not
necessarily make our foreign policy
"militaristic." One wishes things were as
simplistic as the DTH seems to believe.
Sincerely,
Martin Kuchevsky
414 Cameron
Saigon Criticism
Seen Misdirected
To the Editor:
In reply to the feature editorial in the
November 10 DTH, which condemned
Saigon "democracy," we would like to
condemn something horribly worse Ho
Chi Minn's puppet, the Viet Cong.
Although the editorial was mainly
concerned with newspaper censorship in
Saigon, it also said, "While they (the Viet
Cong) have used terrorism it has usually
been directed against local officials
appointed by the highly unpopular
Saigon government." This all seems to
make it right, or so the editorial would
have us believe.
Not only have village officials been
brutally tortured and killed, but likewise
their wives and children in the presence
of each other! Pregnant women are also a
favorite target of the VC. Apparently,
they choose to look at the economical
side of murder, which is taking two lives
with only one bullet, but not before the
usual r apings and stabbings. In the
November, 1968, issue of The Reader's
Digest, John C. Hubbeil, in "The
Blood-Red Hands of Ho Chi Minh," says
that a list of "their (VC) tortures,
mutilations, and murders . . . would have
been instructive even to such as Adolf
Hitler."
inch precariously closer to the other, a
hoarse cry' of exhultation would go up
from one faction, to be echoed seconds
later following a counter-finesse.
The tension was building with each
diminishing inch, the strain on the drivers
beginning to telL Huddled over their
wheels each was a study in concentration
as they jockeyed for a better position,
brows beaded with sweat and their ears
filled with cheers from the balcony as the
contest came down to the wire.
The Chevy broke first Or was this just
a new tactic? Pulling the emergency brake
he left his car and walked over to the
Mustang, addressing the driver through
the window. The conversation, in the
brisk autumn air, drifted up to the
balconies.
"Say, do you mind if I get in here? I
have a doctor's appointment I have to.
keep."
Nonplussed, the Mr. Mustang shot
back a quick "Sure, I don't mind, go right
ahead," but as the Chevy walked back to.
his car Mr. Mustang serenely scooted,
forward to join the traffic which in the
interim had moved forward a few car
lengths.
This phissed Mr. Chevy off. He had
been snookered, but good. Not only had
he misplayed his chance, but he had lost
his rooting gallery high atop Morrison,
elements of which later claimed he had
thrown the contest, taken a dive as it
were.
To add to his indignities the Camaro
had managed by now to situate himself in
front of Mr. Chevy, thus rendering him
incapable of further action at this
juncture, and presenting him with what in
racing circles is known as the "Quo
Vadis?" paradox. As if that were not
enough his date (remember the lush?)
proved insufferable for the duration of
the evening, reminding him sarcastically
at carefully timed intervals of his lack of
masculinity.
Moral: The meek shall not necessarily
inherit the Earth. But then, who wants
a ball of asphalt 25,000 miles in
diameter?
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Editor
While the Vietnam War is costing the
United States immeasurably in life and
money, our government is trying to
preserve the value of human life and
dignity by stopping the Communist VC,
who daily cheapen life by their atrocities.
Sincerely,
Glenn Deal
Charles Carrigan
310 Teague
Enraged Viewer
Scorches Critic
To the Editor:
My compliments to Miss Zibart, who is
making commendable progress in her
attempt to become a decent critic
Having criticized the organization of
Becket, she bhthery set out to show us
exactly what disorganization can do to
any literary work. I find its next to
impossible to derive any sense from her
review.
As a beautiful example of irony in
disorganization, she criticized both the
author and director for the very variety
they probably struggled for months to
perfect Then she promptly complained
of being bored.
She brilliantly drew both niggers and
Bruce Strauch into the play, obviously an
appeal to the rubes and white racists in
her readership. Bravo!
In a final stroke of genius, she
remembered that sex can liven up even a
disorganized mediocre critique, so ...
Voila! Homosexuality!
Once again, my compliments to Miss
Zibart, who undoubtedly will go down in
history with such literary giants as Mervin
Snickerstein and Erwood Gnurd. She has
done a frightfully effective job of
camouflaging her genius in a cloud of
garbage.
She has shown conclusively that she
can dish it out with fervor.
But what is it? Hardly meaningful
criticism.
And can she take it?
Sincerely,
Tony M. Lentz
2 Valley ParkApts.