76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
Is It Too Idealistic
To Expect Administrative
Action On Grievances?
The disgruntled employees of the
University Food Service, who have
now stayed away from their jobs
for five days, are in great need of
your help in winning their fight
against the University, which seems
to be ignoring their plight as
employees.
Wednesday a group of professors, -including
political scientist James
Pro thro, sociologist Gerhard
Lenski, environmental scientist
Daniel Okin, and historian Herbert
Hodman, among others, wrote a
statement in support of the workers
in which they stated that
"We feel certain that once higher
level authorities in the University
, become fully aware of the extent of
the problem, they will act: working
out equitable policies in
conjunction with the employees,
making provision for the periodic
mutual review of these policies and
of specific cases arising under
them."
That has been our opinion for
the past few days. However, that
faith in the Administration was a
little shaken yesterday by . a
statement published by the
Vice-Chancellor for Business and
Finance.
He stated that if a person takes
into account all the benefits that an
employee receives," such assays off,- '
retirement fund donation, etc. an
employee making $1.60 an hour
actually makes SI. 86 an hour. With
the workers demanding $1.80 an
hour, the implication of the
Vice-Chancellor's statement is that
Let Undergrads Stay
In Craige Next Year
The revelation yesterday that
Craige Residence Hall will also be
coed next year is welcome news.
The change should greatly improve
the living situation for residents of
the area.
However, there is one disturbing
aspect of the announcement that
Craige will be coed -That is the
indication that the dormitory will
be all graduate students next year
and that undergraduates currently
living there will be forced to move
out.
Snack Bar
Coming
Finally
The University announced
Thursday that studies , of the
possibilities of a snack bar in the
Carolina Union had been completed
and the results indicat that a snack
bar would be a success.
The Administration said that
equipment for the facility would be
installed June 1.
In addition, they announced that
the facilities would be contracted
out and not run by a University
agency such as the Book Ex or
University Food Service.
We hope that the University will
move with as much speed as
possible to get the snack bar
; operating on schedule by June 1,
; and that there will be no delays, as
: have occurred repeatedly up to now
' with 1 lie Carolina Union.
Rebel Good, Managing Editor
Joe Sanders, News Editor
Harvey Elliott, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr., Advertising Manager
the workers are getting over $1.80
an hour.
His argument is callous and
faulty, however. He fails to say
practically every employee in both
industry or government receives
additional benefits over the straight
salary that is normally paid him.
However, it is unusual practice to
go around adding the fringe
benefits one receives to the base
salary to ' tell what he is making.
What counts is the relationship of
one persons base pay to the base
pay of other persons. What matters
is that the persons involved make
around $2,800 take-home pay per
year, far below the poverty line.
In addition, there is little or no
chance for a person to advance, or
even to make more than $1.60 an
hour if he is skilled or semi-skilled.
Some employees have been used
repeatedly to train the new white
supervisors but have been given no
chance to become supervisors
themselves.
Other employees are hired as
busboys, a position paying $1.60 an
hour, but arc put to work cooking,
a position for which they should be
getting over $2.00 an hour.
We hope that the Administration
will quickly come to realize the
intolerable ! conditions , of their
.Tionacademrc-cmp loyces. Wettaornr
that you will continue to boycott
the University Food Service and
contribute money to support the
workers who are "taking the day
off until the management comes
to their senses.
We hope that this is not so. It
would be a very unfortunate move
on the part of the Administration if
they required the undergrads to
move out by next fall.
The logic behind the desire to
make the dorm all graduate is fairly
sound. The Administration wants
to Fix up a living area that is strictly
for graduate students and can be
geared to their interest.
However, the Administration
needs to show a little more
compassion towards the
undergraduate residents in their
desire to supply the grad students
with a dormitory. There are three
reasons why they should get to
keep their rooms next year.
First, there is no pressing need
for room space that would justify
removal of the undergrads. There
are currently about 300 empty
rooms in Craige and they could
easily handle the influx of coeds
next year.
Secondly, only about 50
undergrads are involved and many
of these will be seniors next year so
it would be their last year in the
dorm; graduate students could have
an all-graduate student dorm by
fall, 1970.
Thirdly, the undergrads that are
living there have been there for two
or three years and have developed
strong attachments to the dorm and
fellow residents. To bust the group
up now and force them to scatter
across campus would be heartless.
We hope the Administration will
take stock of their inclination to
move all undergraduates from
Craige by next fall and will allow
them to stay for another year. To
do so would exercise no hardship
on the Administration. To force the
undergrads to move would exercise
great hardship on them.
Letters To The Editor
Lenoir Gets
To The Editor:
Although all the returns are probably
not as yet in, if half the allegations made
by the Pine Room workers against one
Mr. Prillaman are true, then I think we
have ourselves a prime candidate for the
Roger Blough Award in Labor Relations.
Surely, Mr. Prillaman's boss, one Mr.
Branch, was unaware of his underling's
early-Brilish-Industrial-Revolution labor
policies. Or was he?
In fact, just what is the University's
real (as opposed to "official") policy with
respect to job security, payment of fringe
benefits required by state law, payment
of merit and long evity increases and all
the rest? How is it that University
managers continually violate accepted
business practice (such as keeping
promises with respect to book prices and
to salary increases), and no heads roll? Its
almost enough to make an SSOCer out of
a tired old graduate student.
Sincerely,
L. V. Asch
Beautiful Carrboro
Oi The' Other
Side. Of It All
To the Editor:
By the way, where did Bruce Strauch
go? I heard you fired him, and, if you
did, good show. Now get rid of the other
monkeys.
Such as, Scott Goodfellow with his
sick humor, Owen Davis and his trips to
such ridiculously scenic spots as
Winston-Salem, as well as Rebel Good,
who does nothing but promote his
fraternity, the notorious Fu Magga Crud.
Since I like to eat at Lenoir Hall (as
well as the fact that I despise BSM and
SSOC), I am forming The Rightist
Society, so that cruelty to the pets who
eat Lenoir slop can be prevented.
Also, take the load off Fanny (Belle),
and I wish Evie Stevenson would cut her
pigtails. All interested in The Rightist
Society, please contact me. I eat
patrioats, thanks to Al Capp. And, by the
way, John Wesley Hardin was not a friend
tc the poor and he spent half his life in
prison. So there!
, Once more in disgust,
" M'.V Y vJimrBlamer
- . - Hiltonhead Court
(NOTE: Mr. Blamer, a Vietnam veteran
and former missionary, is a frequent
contributor to the DTH; because of the
controversial nature of his message,
personal attacks on Mr. Blamer will not
be received by this paper.)
CRAP Steps
Forth Meekly
To the Editor:
With the advent of numerous political
and social societies springing up on this
campus, we feel it our duty to announce
the establishment of an important and
representative new voice for the majority
of the students at U.N.C.
The name of this powerful force is the
Committee for the Representation of
Apathetic Persons (CRAP). We have
found a definite need for an organization
that the overwhelming majority of
students can successfully identify with,
and through a minimum of effort (none),
can advance the tenets we hold so dear.
These tenets are the total lack of
concern for: any sort of problem facing
this campus or the nation; any demand
for any minority or majority group; any
policy set forth by the guiding fathers of
the administration. To sum it up in the
words of many of our supporters, "Who
gives a damn."
We remain
Apathetically yours,
Bryan Smithwick and
Walter Kirkland
Executive committee
in charge of policy.
P.S. In keeping with our, stated aims,
there will be no meetings, participation,
or active support of any kind.
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ROTC Receives
Military Salute
To the Editor.
In the article ROTC Here Should Go,
Tom Gooding maintains that the
University should remove credit from the
ROTC program. He said that ROTC
programs are not obtaining an expert to
lecture in the military courses. This is a
lie.. All instructors are trained by the
military to teach. I can say without
reserve that my ROTC instructors are as
good or better than the grad students and
boring professors of my other courts.
Gooding said that ROTC instructor is
restricted in his ability to express beliefs
in conflict with Defense Department
policy. This statement is another of
Gooding's fantasies. Outside the
classroom the instructors are happy to
discuss their opinions on any Defense
Department policy. In the classroom he
doesn't express his beliefs on official
policy because it doesn't fit in with the
' curriculum. I don't get opinions in my
'"Math or Physics classes and I don't expect
them in ROTC.
As Gooding stated, the ROTC program
is controlled externally. But before he
damns the ROTC he should look at UNC
which is indirectly controlled by a
bigoted conservative N.C. Congress.
Gooding is under the delusion that
"ROTC denies the right of individuals to
openly seek knowledge and to employ
such knowledge as his conscience
dictates." I sought out knowledge. I
joined NROTC.
Mr. Gooding is guilty of that which he
accuses ROTC of. By having his
fantasy laden article published as the
truth he is dening the readers of the DTH
the knowledge by which they can make
an intelligent decision.
- Sincerely,
Ashley Trop NROTC
DTH Slammed
As Unf actual
To the Editor:
As a casual reader of the DTH I am
-terribly confused by your editorials of
'Sunday February 23, 1969! After reading
these aforementioned gospels I could not
understand what the factual bases of
these claims could be.
From the front page story on Friday I
got the impression that the Hayakawa
Society was desperately trying to put
their words into action by recruiting
sympathizers at their organizational
meeting. It also seemed impossible that
Granger Barrett or whomever the policy
makers of Hayakawa are could make
statements on specific points without
sufficient information, but then when the
Hayakawans call Ken Day or the
Chancellor you jump down their throats
for meddling.
Mr. Simpson's article of Sunday is
perhaps partially founded in fact but his
obviously one-sided remarks can hardly
be totally justified as nothing human is so
blatantly negative or positive. I implore
you to use more logic in your editorials
and feature editorial comments so that I
might decipher the basis for your
conclusions.
Somehow it seems that this whole
question of Black Student demands,
radical and moderate groups, and Student
Government brings foreward the eternal
predicament of one group, call them
Egyptian priests, the CTSU, Tamany Hall,
or oligarchy as you prefer, holding tightly
onto every little scrap of information
which they possess and restricting its
dissemination to what can never be a
truly educated and informed populace.
Perhaps, if thyDTH is as truly unbiased
as Mr. Cozza has implied then I could
serve all of us in a much greater capacity
if it would report more facts and less
editorial comment. Such a change in
policy would also alleviate the tension
caused in a reader who finds his daily
crossword puzzle and the comics missing.
Thank you,
Selman Welt
Med I
Teachers Should
Recall Teaching
To the Editor:
Every so often, especially if Spring is
approaching, the strain becomes too
much. Of course, by now we should all be
well conditioned to the fact that the
world "is" mad and that there is little to
be done about it. The apparent
irrationality of everything about us is
surely beyond repair. But, as I say, there
are still occasions when 1 can't help
myself, when I must strike back, however
meekly.
I have just finished reading, with that
familiar feeling of utter despair, two
rather striking letters to you, esteemed
editor, and feel constrained to comment.
The first was an affair by someone who is
apparently a member of the language
faculty here. He addressed himself to the
B lough Prize
questions of a certain Erica Meyer, who
had been bold enough to question the
necessity of the foreign language
requirement. In response, Mr. Stevens
proves that he can use language quite
skillfully to say absolutely nothing
(except that he objects to Miss Meyer's
taking an hour away from language study
to write an article for the D ill).
A girl asks quite rationally "why" it is
necessary for an undergraduate to study
language at this university and is
answered with knavish mimicry.
Disheartening, even depressing. A simple
explanation of the relevance of foreign
languages to the life of the typical college
graduate will do quite well (and, I might
add,, will be quite edifying to the present
writer).
The second letter I mention serves to
identify the issue at stake here. A Junior
English major, Mr. Jim Wann, writes to
complain that too many of the
instructors in the English department
simply miss the humanity in their subject
and are, moreover, intolerably picayune
in the general conduct of their courses.
Obviously, as Mr. Wann indicates, this
institution may rightfully boast of a
significant number of instructors who not
only have the vitality of mind to present
their subject matter in an enjoyable and
relevant manner, but have the
imagination to be relevant manner, but
have the imagination to be liberal in their
Cmon Coach,
I've often wondered why the
University doesn't give out more
scholarships to - minor sports.
Cpnsexiuejitly, Iihgught an
interview with the athletic director -might
be in order.
It took some time to find his
office in that vast sports
conglomeration. I felt like someone
could pick up a paper and exclaim,
"Good heavens, it says here in the
paper that the East Wing burned
down last night."
1 finally found the office and got
straight to the point. "Why is it
that so few good scholarships are
available to minor sports here?"
"What do you mean, minor
sports?"
"Oh, wrestling, track, swimming,
tilings like that."
"Those aren't minor, they're
major."
"Then what are football and
basketball?"
"They're ticket sports."
"How do you decide which is a
ticket sport and which is a major
sport, then?"
"It depends on whether we give
full scholarships."
"That's truly a marvelous
distinction. But why don't you give
out full scholarships in all sports?"
"Our basic reason is that we
don't have enough money. It takes
a great deal to operate the
military-industrial-sports complex
that we have here at UNC."
"What are your sources for
money?"
"Ordinarily we make a good deal
of money from football. This year
we didn't anticipate packing the
stadium, so we doubled the cost of
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marking policies.
Unfortunately, however, our
classrooms are also loaded with a group
who seems to have lost sight of the fact
that their ultimate goal of all our
knowledge is simply a better adaptation
to our own human experience. The result
ofthis blindness, which I shall label the
"academic mentality," is at best a
fascination with mechanisms of analysis
and a disregard of the essential
non-rational element of understanding. In
its lower forms, however, this attitude
manifests itself in senile respect for
meaningless course requirements and
insistence on such dead traditions as rote
memorization of facts and the
development of a rigid, austere writing
style.
So this letter becomes just another plea
to professors to continually examine their
assumptions on teaching goals. They must
be ever aware, particularly in respect to
undergraduates, of the relevance of their
subject matter to the average social "and"
personal lives of their students. In
particular, I would suggest to them that it
is every bit as much their function to
instill a rich emotional appreciation of
life as it is to inculcate a keen intellectual
discernment.
Sincerely,
Alfred E. Hicks
Graduate Student
Craige 618
Scott
Goodfellow
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date tickets."
"Then you could give more
scholarships?"
.:; ;-.'lNp, b ut we could print more
"Incidentally, aren't yoii the one
who said he'd like to have more
participation in minor, err. major
sports?"
"Yes. And I feel it is good that
wrestling, track and swimming
aren't ticket sports. Who would
want to ask their parents to fight
those incredible ticket lines for a
few minutes of wrestling? And
furthermore, we couldn't ask
anyone to pay to see a pole vaulter
dodge around hurdles, basketball
players and other trash in the Tin
Can."
The director paused
momentarily, then continued.
"Actually, we're thinking of going
into a couple new areas. We've
considered, for example, taking
over Chase Cafeteria-nobody eats
there anyhow, especially right now,
heh, heh. The Rams Head Club
needs a new cocktail area."
"That would be a brilliant idea,"
I said.
"Of course, I understand the
City of Long Beach is trying to buy
it. The Queen Mary needs a
dockside warehouse," he said.
"If the Athletic Dept. could get
it for the Rams Head people,
though, you might be able to give
more scholarships."
"Well, no. I've been thinking of
renovating the old ..."
I thanked him and left, knowing
the track, swimming and wrestling
teams are happily secure from the
ravages of major money problems.
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(This delta-winged beauty is the purest
poetry yet set in motion on our nation's
race-tracks. It features taped cams, with
excessive dually injected Frestrail exhaust
systems.)
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