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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
BSM's $7,000 Loss Shows
Need For Publication
Of Speaker Guidelines
Seven thousand dollars is a lot of
money; it's an even greater amount
of money if you don't have it and
think you had a chance to have it.
That's the case with the Black
Student Movement and the reason
they don't have that S7.000 today
is the reason why some changes
need to be made in the University's
policy on visiting speakers and
performers.
The Black Student Movement
sponsored Stokely Carmichael's
speech here on Nov. 21 that
attracted about 7.000 persons to
Carmichael Auditorium to hear the
black leader speak.
The BSM didn't charge
admission to the talk because,
according to. BSM chairman Preston
Dobbins, Carolina Union director
Howard Henry told him very
explicitly that they could not
charge admission; he even went so
far as to tell Dobbins how far the
persons soliciting contributions
slioi'M be from the entrance.
Henry, however, announced at
the meeting of the American
Association of University Professors
Sunday night that organizations
could charge ..admission for
speakers, and even expressed some
surprise that the BSM hadn't
charged admission for Charm icha el.
Henry's announcement Sunday
jolted Dobbins since he had been
' told that he couldn't charge any
admission at least that's what
Dobbins thought Henry said.
Dobbins confronted Henry with the
two contrasting statements but
. Henry told Dobbins that he had
said nothing about being unable to
charge admission for Carmichael.
And so now the BSM is cut
Disruption Unwarranted
At SF State College
From the Christian Science Monitor
We are not against student
protest but we are against student
vandalism and tyranny. For this
reason, we trust that peppy
President Hayakawa will succeed in
his resolute efforts to keep open
San Francisco State College and
maintain order on its campus. We
trust, too, that at the other side of
tile country. President Hester of
New York University will move
vigorously to ensure punishment of
any of his students who were
responsible for physically assaulting
South Vietnam's representative at
the United Nations and for denviim
the right to speak to the Executive
Editor of the New York Times.
At San Francisco State College,
the current troubles are
compounded by what-prima facie,
at any rate -seem to be grievances
of blacks and Spanish-Americans
which merit a hearing. There are
now the added explosively
emotional components of the
names of Ronald Reagan and the
Black Panthers. Governor Reagan
supports Professor Hayakawa-and
unfortunately to many radicals,
this is enough to disqualify the
latter. One of the blacks' grievances
centers on the summary
dismissal- without the customary
hearing-from a teaching job at San
Frsncisco State College of the
31a sk Panther "Minister of
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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
S7.000, at Dobbins estimate,
money that they wanted to use to
pay Carmichaers S 1.500 speaking
fee and to buy educational
materials for their Chapel
Hill-Carrboro tutorial project.
The BSM's problem with the
speaker policy is not the first time
there has been a misunderstanding.
Nor is it the first time there has
been a misunderstanding that was
to the detriment of a radical
organization. Previously the
Students for a Democratic Society
had trouble reserving Carmichael
for a Judy Collins concert.
The problem is that UNC -is
operating under some guidelines
that were set in 1962 when there
was a similar controversy over a
Pete Seeger concert. At that time
the Administration decided to draw
up some written, but unpublished
guidelines on speakers.
The key to the situation is that
the guidelines are unpublished so
that any organization that is
bringing a speaker here has to rely
on Howard Henry for all their,
information on what they can or
cannot do and if Henry, for
. instance, forgets - .to ,; tell. " the
organization they can charge,
admission then it gets really hurt.
What the University and Henry
need to do right away is start
publishing their guidelines and
making them readily available to
any campus organization that might
have cause to bring a speaker to
campus.
Only by doing this can the.
Administration eliminate any
discrimination, whether intended or
unintended, in its speaker policy.
Education." (He was no visiting
lecturer but an English instructor.)
This Black Panther connection is
enough in the eyes of many to
destroy the validity of the
subsequent student protest.
These, however, are aspects of
the trouble at San Francisco State
College secondary to the question
of whether or not students have the
right to assault personages, destroy
property and bring classes to a halt.
They have not. if they persist in
such outrageous behavior, they
should be punished. Suspension is
not enough for some of the more
egregious misdemeanors. There are
always the ultimate sanctions of
expulsion from the university and
civil prosecution.
Yet along with stricter discipline
on campus there moist go a
sympathetic understanding of the
dilemma of many students in this
increasingly technocratic and
managerial age. Within their protest
movement there is a core of moral
earnestness. They have seen the
hypocrisy that is sometimes in the
profession of values by those of
their elders running society, and
they want to change things for the
better. But so complicated and
intricate is industrialized society
today, the best that many of them
can come up with is no alternative
scheme of things but simply a
determination to destroy things as
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John Martin
ad Breath In
The press:
"The Chicago police went berserk,
fanatically beating anyone not wearing a
police uniform, singling out newsmen for
special truncheon treatment. Losing all
control, forgetting completely all police
training, the cops took out their
agressions, frustrations, and hatreds, not
only upon the forces of organized
disruption, but also upon anyone who
happened to be in the area at the time.
And the worst of it is, their actions were
not only condoned, but encouraged by
City Hall."
The police:
"In the face of harassment, verbal and
' "Losing all control, forget'
ting completely all police
training, the cops took out
their aggressions ..."
physical abuse, unruly demonstrations,
and organized, planned threats against the
city and the convention, we did our jobs.
We carried out our mission, which was to
maintain the security of the convention
Who Blew It?
Who blew it in Chicago?
It would be hunky-dory to be able to '
fix blame squarely upon the police, the
press, or the New Left. Grey questions
are rarely satisfied with black-and-white
answers. There is no doubt that some
blew it. But who?
Certainly the Chicago police did. In
the face of television evidence viewed by
millions of Americans, eyewitness
accounts, and 343 pages of facts and
photographs comprising the task force
report of the National Commission on the
Cause and Prevention of Violence,
released last week, there can be no doubt
that the Chicago police stepped far out of
bounds. Their actions deserve only our
condemnation.
' But also gravely at fault was the press,
both electronic and printed. News
reporting did seem to the police, both
prior to and during the convention, to be
anti-Chicago and anti-police. In reporting
the convention, objectivity was largely
forgotten and superceded by the
generally liberal press viewpoint. And on
occasion activities of newsmen did cause
or intensify police violence. To quote the
summary of the commission report:
"Camera crews on at least two
occasions did stage violence and, fake
injuries. Newsmen and photographers'
blinding lights did get in the way of
police ... Newsmen did, on occasion,
disobey legitimate police orders to 'move'
or 'clear the streets.' "
What Happened?
WThat happened in Chicago?
The Chicago fiasco was a
confrontation of polarized and
uncompromising political and social
Scott Goodfellow
Asian Flu Yellow Fever?
Passing by the Infirmary the other
day, 1 noticed gun mounts had been
installed outside the entrance and rolling
bales of barbed wire ringed the building.
AfteF engaging in a brief gun battle
with the campus policemen on guard
(who had thought I was reaching for a
pistol instead of my ID and instantlv
fired a stray warning shot), I was able to
enter the building. Doctors and nurses
were bustling about in what looked like
an arms pile-up for biological warfare.
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factions. It was a festering score that
exploded, and it was foreshadowed by
the less-violent, more
intelligently-handled march on the
Pentagon of last year.
It had to happen. Chicago and the
convention offered the idea
circumstances.
One cannot legitimately say that
police actions were distorted by a grossly
slanted press to such a degree that the
police became innocent victims of
maliciously twisted reporting. That is
simply not true. There are too many
hundreds of pages of evidence to the
contrary, from reputable sources.
But one cannot say that the press was
innocent. Often their actions and
attitudes caused or intensified the
violence or antagonized policemen into
perpetrating it. And often, blatantly
slanted, out-of-context reporting did
indeed distort facts. Did you know that
six people died in the ghetto riots in
Miami during the Republican convention?
I am certain that that fact was reported,
but it remains that no one died in
Chicago. And we certainly heard a lot
more about Chicago.
Who were the real Fagins of Chicago?
It is unfortunate, in this case, that
people are human. How would you react
at taunts, physical attacks, even paper
bags of human excrement being thrown
at you? If you feel that you could keep
your composure in such circumstances,
well, then you're a better man than I,
Gunga Din. The police, as an unnamed
federal official is quoted in the
commission report, did "lose their cool,"
to grossly understate.
" People are Human
Yes, it is unfortunate that people are
human. If you were a news reporter,
could you retain your objectivity when
reporting on an occurrence in which your
$300 camera, not to mention your head,
was broken? Be honest. Can you honestly
fail to understand why a newsman might
write a story unnecessarily deprecating
the police, after 63 newsmen out of 300
assigned to cover the convention area had
been in most cases unnecessarily
beaten? The. convention debacle is over,
months gone. It can be examined coldly
and with an open-mindedness that was
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Tanks labeled "chlorine gas" and
stacks of injection equipment lined the
cramped corridors. 1 gulped, and then
walked over to an attendant who was
toying with a weapon similar to Captain
Allah's harpoon gun in Moby Dick.
Incredulous
"What is happening here?" I said,
straining to control a rampant
incredulousness which crep into the
c o u r$ e o7
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absent in the face of open, bleeding,
Mace-stung wounds. And the impression
that one cannot escape, is that the, Fagins. (
of Chicago were" neither the police,' nor
the press, nor the demonstrators, though
all, to some degree, are guilty.
The real Fagin of Chicago was the city
administration. The true and central evil
of Chicago was the conditioning of police
"to expect that violence against
demonstrators, as against rioters, would
be condoned." to quote from the
summary of the violence commission
report. In effect, .the condoning of
unnecessary violence amounts to the
encouraging of it.
''Cray tjuestions are rarely
satisfied with black-and-white
answers.9
For this attitude, only the city
administration of Chicago, led by Richard
"Shoot-to-kill" Daley, can be blamed.'
Only a minority of policemen were guilty
of unrestrained violence. But if only one
policeman had unnecessarily clubbed a
demonstrator, his action would, of
necessity, reflect upon the training given
him and the control exercised over him
by the Chicago city administration.
Revolutions Results
In any society, when that society
refuses to be changed by violent force,
open revolution can only result in dead
revolutionaries and national shame,
well-deserved. And if the seeming trend
toward greater use of violence in political
confrontation is valid, revolutionary
street warfare could be next. And only
when 51 percent of interested citizens
sympathize with revolutionary aims, - or
51 percent of the potential violent power
is in the hands of the revolutionaries, can
change be effected. When these
conditions do not exist, people die
pointlessly.
Common sense and the distribution of
present-day political sympathy dictate
that revolution of the few against the
many must be avoided.
And pointless carnage will not be
avoided in an emotion-charged,
hate-dripping atmosphere. Basic lessons
must be learned.
Administrations must remember that
the right to practice valid political dissent
is a guarantee that must be observed.
The press must remember that paying
lip service to the great idol Objectivity
will not make up for reports twisted with
venom and hatred.
Political radicals must realize that
pointless violence and disruption serves
only to inflame and incense those persons
the violence is intended to impress.
It is a miraculous fluke that no one
died in Chicago. And, had someone been
killed, exactly whose aims would have
been furthered?
Exactly no one's.
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question.
"They're coming, and we've got to g t
ready."
"What's coming?"
She slopped and looked at rr.e.
Silence. "You really don't know? 1 .-.
Hong Kong Asian Flu. that's what's
coming."
She turned back around to rnth ue
puttering with the gahinized gadetry but
kept talking.
"We've been told that hoards of tre
little devils have taken over large citirs
across the country. And an hour ago thev
reached the outskirts of Pittsboro."
I stifled a chuckle and almost said
something about not firing until you
the slants of their eyes. But then rr.v
curiosity got the better of me and 1
preeeeded down the hallway.
Dodging around a slowly moving
wheelcarl piled high with Claymore
mines, I noticed a large group of
white-froeked attendants gathered around
a slowly turning sandstone wheel. Sparks
were flying up from in front of the
crouc hed workers.
I inquired what they were doing and
found they were sharpening thousands of
injection needles. "We plan to send out
an army of doctors within the hour.
They'll randomly inject anyone they see.
People buying rutabagas at Fowlers,
shoppers swooning to the odors of
Ledbelter-Pickards, beer drinkers at V:.v
Tempo they'll all be suddenly and
inefficiently stabbed by these needles."
"That's" truly remarkable." 1 noleri.
But 1 had been lold that you didn't have
enough of the vaccine for everyone."
"Quite true," said one of the doctors.
"But we've solved that problem. About
half the injections will be colored water.
The people injected won't know it. so
when they come down with the flu. we'll
tell them it's some other Kind.
Furthermore, we'll make an attempt at
telling the little Asian devils when they
appear that we've innoculated everyone
in town and they'd better try Car, or
Creedmoor instead."
"Masterful," 1 said. "How long btfor
the shot takes effect?"
"About three weeks."
When do you expect the epidemic?" 1
said, rising to leave.
"Oh, in about an hour. All of this
artillery around here is just to protec t us
from the citizens after thev recover that
is."
1 thanked him for the information and
left. The guard at the door gave me a
strange slanted look as I passed by.
John KcJlv
"Silly SL " '
Knows All
Flash from the front of the battle for
student rights: Students, you've been
duped. Your noble student legislators are
against you; they don't think that you are
smart enough to know how to vote on
the double joepardy issue. And to
ascertain that you don't hang yourselves,
they are going to protect you against the
big bad administration by not letting you
vote on the double jeopardy issue.
Thursday night student legislature
(which is not really student legislature
but I am not really sure yet whose
legislature it is) voted overwhelmingly
against having a constitutional
amendment referendum on the issue of
double joepardy. They said that the time
was not right which means that the
student politicos haven't had time to suck
the feet of the faculty and
administration they need more time to
talk, talk, talk and compromise',
compromise, compromise. How can an
more talk help and how can one
compromise on the issue of double
jeopardy?
As you know, the double jeopardy
issue challenges the right of student
courts to try you for a crime for which
you are tried in civil or criminal courts.
You should not have to face judgment
twice for the same crime. But legislature
is afraid that if they let you students vote
on whether you want to be subject to
judgment twice for the same crime, you
will vote no you will vote that you don't
want to face double judgment and double
punishment. And then they fear that the
administration and faculty will do
something to someone or something like
that.
But what good will more talk do it
has done very little in the past. And
compromise, how can you compromise
on an issue in which you are either for or
against. You students should be given the
opportunity to vote for the way you
want it. You are the ones who have to
live with it you are the ones who can get
screwed by the way it is now. So whv
doesn't legislature let you vote MICKEY
MOUSE-that's why.
Lette
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To The Editor:
Michael Almond, in the markedly
conservative editorial of December 5
wrote that the student bodv should be
gratified that student legislature did not
nastily" pass the campus code revision.
One thing this student body has
learned is that we never have to fear
anything "hasty" frorn student
government.
Sincerely.
Norman W. Rizk
Carrboro