THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday. May 8, 1969
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77 Years of Editorial Freedom
Kermit
Led Astray
Dean of Men James O. Canslcr
Wednesday warned "individuals not
to be taken in by an old trick
proporting to offer something for
nothing." His warning was in
reference to a chain letter presently
circulating on this campus.
Mr. Cansler at the same time
pointed out that students caught
buying the chain letter could
conceivably be tried for violation of
the Honor Code.
A copy of that chain letter,
which virtually guarantees any
prospective buyer an earning of
$10240 for his investment of $10,
was procured by this newspaper.
That letter contained as signees
the names of three prominent
members of the Athletic
Department of this University. It is
our understanding that a good
number of University
administrators and faculty members
signed the letter.
Dean Cansler's inplicit threat of
prosecution of the students who
bought or will buy the letter is
unfortunate. It is probable that
stud -its who did buy the letter did
so cause they recognized and
re v :ted the names of the
.' rut ors and members of the
faculty who signed it.
Those administrators and faculty
members were probably not intent
on exploiting the students or on
'.getting them into; trouble. But
1 having bought the letter and passed
it on, the matter was no longer in
their hands. Students who were
"led astray" are now in trouble,
facing the possibility of prosecution
in student or federal courts.
The administrators and faculty
members may be liable for federal
prosecution, but are not liable for
action in the student courts.
We strongly urge Mr. Cansler to
declare amnesty for the students
who have signed the letter and who,
consequently, could face
punishment for Honor Code
violations. It would be a travesty if
students, following the leadership
' of their elders, were punished for
their actions.
It would also be fitting for
Chancellor Sitterson, President
Friday, and the Board of Trustees
to formally censure their colleagues
who signed the letter.
BSM Slash
Student Legislator Gene Yates,
Treasurer of the defunct (?)
Hayakawa Society, proposed last
week a bill to cut $4700 from the
funds appropriated to the Black
Student Movement (BSM). The bill
comes to the floor of the legislature
tonight.
Yates tells us he wants to cut the
BSM budget to save money for the
unappropriated Student
Government balance, which he said
was "in sad shape."
When Student Legislature
appropriated money for the BSM
two weeks ago, debate on the floor
was extensive. Several
legislators-including John Parker
and Joe Beard-said money should
not go to the BSM because it would
not benefit the student body as a
whole. They implied that giving
money to the BSM would be
encouraging institutionalized
separatism.
More enlightened
representatives-such as Richie
Leonard and Charles
J effress-argued that Student
Government would be neglecting a
major segment of the student body
if it did not provide money for the
BSM.
BSM spokesman Preston Dobbins
appeared before legislature and
delivered a dramatic speech. Mr.
Dobbins explained much of the
money would go toward tutorial
programs to help youth in the black
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community.
"We don't want the money for
ourselves," he said. "So don't credit
us with selfish motives. We want to
help our black brothers and
sisters."
The speech provoked a
discussion on the role of the
University in the community.
Should it take a part in or remain
oblivious to conditions surrounding
it?
The Legislature, in one of its
most unsordid actions this year,
finally decided the University could
not ignore the ills of nearby
society.
We agree with that decision.
The BSM appropriation will
probably do more good than any
other item in next year's budget. It
represents recognition by Student
Government that black students on
this campus have a legitimate
organization and should not be
denied funds. It also represents a
commitment to help human beings
help themselves.
The trouble with next m year's
budget is not the BSM
appropriation. It is the creeping
expense of the political
bureaucracy on the second floor of
the student union.
Cronyism
Harry . Diffendal, conservative ,
chairman of this year's Student
Legislature Finance Committee,
was defeated by a landslide in his
bid for re-election from Ehringhaus
last month. He couldn't even place
in the top four candidates in his
own dorm.
Mr. Diffendal, of course, is the
individual most responsible for
cutting next year's appropriations
for the DTH, the Toronto
Exchange, and almost every other
worthwhile on -campus
organization. He and his colleagues
thought the money ought to go for
more important things.
Like three phones in the
Attorney General's office. And
another secretary for Student
Government's bureaucrats. And a
raise in the Student Body
President's discretionary fund.
We thought we had heard the last
of Mr. Diffendal when the old
Student Legislature left office last
week.
Only we haven't. Student Body
President Alan Albright appointed
him to fill an off-campus legislative
vacancy.
Of course Mr. Albright had to
have the approval of the University
Party's chairman and Executive
Board, but that wasn't hard.
Mr. Diffendal is the University
Party chairman.
But even with that advantage,
Mr. Diffendal didn't want to take
any chances of losing to somebody
else. So he didn't announce that the
vacancy existed. Not surprisingly,
his was the only name submitted.
So Mr. Albright signed the
appointment, and the legislature
will probably re-initiate Mr.
Diffendal tonight. If they do, he
will probably return to his post as
chairman of the Finance
Committee, one of the most
powerful positions in Student
Government.
We hope Student Legislature will
not accept Mr. Diffendal's
credentials tonight. He had a fair
chance to win a seat and was
defeated. The voters rejected his
candidacy and his political
philosoph
v.
Mr. Albright should not have
allowed Mr. Diffendal to get away
with keeping the vacant seat a
secret, and he should certainly not
have appointed him.
But nobody should be too
surprised. Mr. Diffendal was Mr.
Albright's campaign manager.
Tie Housing Problem: Absurd Quotas
By MARK G. RODIN
A few years ago the University of
North Carolina was a rapidly growing
institution. (That's not to say that it
isn't today.) Student enrollment had
increased tremendously and there was an
acute housing shortage both on campus
and in Chapel Hill itself. New dorms
were needed badly. As a result, three ,
new high-rise dormitories were
constructed with federal aid under the
provisions of the college housing
program. Old boys' dorms were
converted into girls' dorms. At the same
time, real estate developers and
construction companies were erecting
new housing developments and
apartment complexes all around and
through Chapel Hill.
A private corporation saw the need
From The Capitol ''Political Football
By JEV1 MORTON
(Raleigh) Higher education has
traditionally been a political football,
with each of the regional teams trying
to put the ball in their own particular
endzone. With the introduction of the
regional university system, the game
assumed new dimensions. Now it has
been blown completely out of
proportion ' by legislation allowing the
regional universities to initiate doctoral
programs.
North Carolina has become a state
with thirteen colleges and two
universities, as of May 1, 1969. One of
the latest examples of the new
universities is Pembroke State
University. By becoming a regional
university, Pembroke is granted the right
to use the name "university" and to
offer some type of master's degree. This
school did not , achieve its status by any
sweeping changes in its academic
standards but by an act of the
legislature. Pembroke's becoming a
regional, or more aptly a nominal,
univeristy had little significance other
than to its own collegiate ego . . . until a
bill to allow these regional universities
to initiate, doctoral studies came onto
the scene.
The game was being played on a
pretty trivial base as long as no one
made a serious move to give the regional
university the right to initiate its own
doctoral programs. This was not to last,
as the eastern , team, quarterbacked by
Representative Rountree of Greenville
put HB 318 into play; This bill would:
allow , the . regional universities to offer'
PhD. programs with the consent of the
board of higher education and
subsequent appropriation from the
legislature. Now the game began to be
played in earnest, as the forces of
regionalism squared off against the
defenders of higher education.
Like any good ball-game, the
cheerleaders and fans were in the wings
offering support. The most important
spectator and the spectator with the
most at stake was ECU President Leo
Jenkins, who has often been referred to
as the one hundred and twenty-first
member of the house. The legislators
from the eastern part of the state must
have felt something in common with
Mayor Daley's boys in Chicago. .
Though Mr.Jenkins was the most
Workers' Dispute Still Unsettled
By SCOTT BRADLEY
This paper has been grossly negligent
over the past several weeks in covering
the "aftermath" of the food service
workers' strike. This must be interpreted
as tacit complicity with the University
administration's conscious attempts to
deny the workers a just settlement of
their grievances.
The administration, in attitudes
reminiscent of the strike days, is still
employing the tactics aimed at delaying
final settlement of the terms they agreed
to over ten weeks ago. It is their hope
that final contractural negotiations with
outside catering films will relieve them
of responsibilities resulting from the
strike.
Black Supervisors
Meanwhile, the racist and exploitive
policies of the Food Services continue.
Since the end of the strike, not one
black person has been hired, either on a
full or part-time basis; yet the number
of white part-time student employees
has more than doubled.
One of the main strike grievances was
the lack of black supervisors. Dr.
Claiborne Jones, assistant to the
Chancellor and administration
representative during negotiations,
assured Mrs. Mary Smith of the
Non-Academic Employees Union that
black supervisors would be hired as soon
as there were vacancies. Since then, all
such vacancies have been filled by
part-time, white students. Before the
strike, there had never been student
supervisors.
Administration Refuses Meetings
This meeting between Mrs. Smith and
Dr. Jones occurred over a month ago.
There has been no meeting since then
between the workers or their
representatives and the administration
although the workers' attorneys have
written three letters asking for one. Last
Friday the workers themselves
for more student living quarters than
Chapel Hill had. Their answer was
Granville Towers, two new dormitories,
(soon to be three), with fully furnished
and air-conditioned rooms, a boarding
plan which provides students " with
twenty meals a week, a swimming pool,
and many other conveniences that
weren't available in university-owned
housing. The administration and housing
authorities welcomed the Granville
Towers development with open arms,
for there still wasn't enough housing on
or near campus to provide for the
increasing student body. Even as late as
1967, more housing on campus was a
necessity. So still another high-rise
dormitory, Hinton-James, was built out
on south campus. With the completion
of Hinton-James there was enough
housing for students who wanted to live
on campus.
important fan, any prizes for energetic
support would have to go to Pembroke
U. They ran from Pembroke to
Raleigh 110 miles to present a petition
to the legislature calling for university
status. On approaching the state house,
they made a wrong turn and ended up
at the Department of Archives and
History where there was no one to
receive their petition other than a few
bewildered bureaucrats. This seems to
say something very profound about PSU
that perhaps is better left unsaid. The
cheerleaders for higher education were a
bit more subdued. The officials of the
Greater University, and the members of
the board of higher education were
quietly trying to get the ball off the
field.
Jim Johnson, the Concord
Republican, made the first defensive
play for higher education. He stated the
real intent of the bill quite plainly to
allow EC the right to begin doctoral
programs now instead of waiting the five
years that they pledged two years ago.
He also noted that the proposed
safeguards of the bill were meaningless
and that the recommendations of the
board of higher education could be
circumvented in the future as easily as
they have been in the past. The
gentleman closed with a paraphrase of
something once said by William Jennings
Bryan. "They have put education on the
cross of regional and political
expediency and will now place a crown
of thorns on the brow of higher
education."
." The remainder of : ' the opposition
debate, and there was much more to
come, was just as damning. They clearly
showed how unprepared the majority of
these schools were to even begin
considering doctoral degrees and the
enormous expense involved in preparing
them for such programs. It was pointed
out that this money could be much
better spent in improving the
undergraduate departments than in the
useless duplication of the Greater
University programs. Art Jones of
Mecklinburg became so disenchanted
with the farcical safeguards that he
withdrew from the regional squad. In
logic, debate, and reason the higher
education team ran the regional squad
off the field.
But logic and reason don't win
telephoned the Chancellor's office asking
for a meeting to discuss the lack of
black supervisors and terms concerning
any agreements with outside catering
firms. A meeting was set for Monday
afternoon, and then cancelled several
hours later by the Chancellor's office.
The workers were told that there was
"no date in the near future" for a
meeting with the Chancellor.
On Monday, Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks,
the Union's President, and UNC Law
Professor Mike Katz went to the
Chancellor's office and again requested a
meeting. The Chancellor's secretary
informed them of a "new policy" that
the attorney could not accompany Mrs.
Brooks into any meetings. This is, of
course, the exact tactic the
administration used during the early
strike days, and stands in direct conflict
with Dr. Jones' public statements
encouraging the presence of the workers'
attorneys to avoid any confusion.
There was still no meeting.
Back Overtime Pay
Despite these obstructionist policies
of the administration some progress is
being made toward calculation of the
overtime pay by a team of federal
accountants. Discrepancies have been
found in every case examined; hopefully
a more realistic and just settlement will
be offered than the overtime checks
issued during the strike.
Back on the job, Mrs. Smith says
"things are going well lately." The time
cards are being handled properly, and
the constant concern of Dr. Jones'
secretary, Mrs. Hamilton, and Senator
Ralph Scott (who has phoned almost
every day and, in fact, suggested asking
for the meeting with the Chancellor) has
been encouraging.
As for the administration, it is
making every effort to delay settlement
until they sign the contract with a
catering firm and can then renounce all
responsibilities. So much for the
acclaimed "good faith" of the
administration.
A few years ago living in a dormitory
on campus was desirable. The rates were
cheap, and each dorm had its
advantages. In my freshman year, fall
1967-Spring 1968. rates for my room in
Everett Dormitory were one hundred
and sixteen dollars per semester. South
campus residents paid an extra nine
dollars because of the phones which
were installed in each room. Then in
March of 1968, the director of housing,
Mr. James Wadsworth, announced that
there would be a twenty dollar increase
in all housing rates because of the pay
raise for resident advisors, (some of
whom, in this writer's opinion shouldn't
be paid a thing), and for other
unexplained reasons. The icing was put
on the cake this past March when Mrs.
Wadsworth sent out the housing rate
memo for next year announcing another
twenty dollar increase across the Board.
political football games. Justifying their
positions with the feeble excuse that the
east pays taxes like every other part of
the state, the regional squad asked why
they couldn't have their own little
doctoral programs. They passed the bill
to the ten yard-line with fourteen votes
to spare.
The game isn't over, and the regionals
haven't gotten much more than a field
goal in the first half. An amendment
was added on the third reading of the
bill to delay any action on doctoral
programs until 1972. This turns the
game into little better than a stalemate.
Still it's only the first half-the senate
still has to act.
The real pity of the whole farce is
that higher education has become a
political game with the colleges and
universities of this state being hurt the
worst. East Carolina, a fine school and
certainly a potential university, deserves
a better fate than being used and abused
by the local politicians. This whole idea
of regional universities is absurd. No one
in North Carolina is too far from a full
university to benefit from its doctoral
programs. PhD. studies are far too
expensive to be thinly and randomly
spread all over the state to satisfy
regional egos. This "everybody has to
have a university in their backyard"
reasoning is as fallacious and impractical
as spreading the state capitol all over
North Carolina.
The line of the week award will have
to go to Ted Harrison of WFMY-TV in occupancy of all living quarters, thert it
Greensboro: "The sun shall never set on should assign people rooms without
regional university soil." asking them where they wish to live.
Seeking Honest Relationships
By KEN RIPLEY
I talked to a girl on the phone a few
days ago who identified herself only as
465-45-7869 (fictitious number at her
request). She complained that although
she knew she was part of an impersonal
crowd, separated by walls, she didn't see
any way to break them down.
"Okay, so I stereotype people," she
said, "What do I do about it?"
Somehow it wasn't sufficient for her,
or for any of us, to say, "Don't."
There is, however, no substitute for
action. There must, if progress is to be
made on any front, come a time when
reasoning and preparation give way to
constructive action.
The sad lot of the columnist, no
matter how much he cares, no matter
how many inches he writes on the
subject or how cleverly he says what
needs to be said, is that people must act
as individuals. A columnist can
exhort he cannot execute action.
I have found three things to be
necessary in our inter-relating with
people below surface facades before we
can hope to have meaningful
relationships.
First, we must be able to accept and
even "love" ourselves as individuals if
we are to accept and love other people.
This does not mean we puff ourselves
up, nor that we aren't realisitc about
our faults and our weaknesses. But we
must be not only aware of our
limitations, we must be confident in and
thankful for our strengths.
A friend of mine underwent an
emotional breakdown a few months ago,
basically arising from a sense of guilt. A
person with a strong faith in God,
nonetheless he wept "What good is
forgiveness," he asked rhetorically to the
world, "when you can't forgive
yourself?"
To be at peace with ourselves, we
must have a sense of worth. We must be
able to forgive ourselves when we blow
it. A sense of personal adequacy is
vitally-important, if we are to be able to
inter-relate and inter-act with other
people.
Secondly, we must by honest with
each other as well as with ourselves. We
tend, and I count myself among the
worst of sinners, to keep our
observations and criticisms to ourselves
when we are involved with others. While
I am not saying abandon tact, I am
saying that we must "tell our brother
like it is."
Relationships must be honest and
open. When we peek out from behind
our shells, we make it possible for such
barriers as jealousy, resentment, hurt,
and pride to come between us as
individuals. Only by bringing out our
feelings and sharing them can we
This time Mr. Wadsworth didn't even
explain why we were paying the
additional twenty dollars, and to the
best recollections of my memory, did
not make a public statement in the Tar
Heel. (It wouid be nice if he did.) Now
next fall, 1 will be paying forty dollars
more than I did when I was a freshman.
Maybe the administration decided to go
into competition with the apartments.
This foity-dollar increase, the
existence of more apartments for those
who desire to live in one for various
reasons, and the desire on the part of
many incomming freshmen and
upperclassmen to live in Granville
Towers has posed a big threat to
administration and housing authorities.
The threat of an almost-empty
thousand-man south campus dorm is
looming in their minds. Furthermore,
they envision having to close one of
them down because it would be
economically unfeasible to operate.
They cannot see a ten story building of
brick, concrete, steel, and glass sitting
there gathering dust.
Since the money for payments of the
government loAs used in building the
south campus dorms comes from the
room rent payments of students living in
them, the university authorities decided
to act. Their action was imposing a
percent quota on the number of
freshman who will live in any one
university-owned dormitory next year
and a thirty-percent quota on Granville
Towers.
This action by the administration and
housing authorities is both
discriminatory and absurd nonsense.
W7hen a student comes to school here he
supposedly has a freedom of choice as
to where he wants to live. The only
restriction for boys is that they must
live in a dorm in their freshman year.
After that they may live wherever they
choose. Girls must live in a dorm for a
longer period of time.
If a student who attends this
university has a freedom of choice as to
where he wants to live on campus and
in university housing, then it is only fair
to let him live where he chooses, either
in his first, second, or, if necessary,
third choice, no matter what class he
may be in. To do otherwise is
discriminatory and violates the person's
freedom to choose.' Likewise imposing
special quotas on non-university owned
housing is discriminatory. There is no
reason except for full occupancy of a
building, why a student can't live where
he chooses. After all, he IS paying the
money.
If this university is interested in
assigning quotas in order to have
overcome them.
The third area we must combat is our
inability to trust people. It isn't
"natural" to trust people within the
normal workings of a society. Many
times, peoples' actions when we don't
understand them make us withdraw
deeper into our shell.
"Games People Play" by Eric Berne
is a wonderful book that shows how
people "mess around" with relationships
out of a basic fear of revealing
themselves to others.
The best example I can think of is
the way a couple will "play games" with
each other, using rhetoric and
back-biting each other out of insecurity
and fear of the other person.
The only way I can see to break
down the walls of distrust and the
barriers of a relationship built on fear is
to consciously make an effort to
trustingly open ourselves up to people.
This way is dangerous to some
degree. We can be hurt. Not everyone is
honest, nor loving. But we can't
ourselves be loving or trusting without
accepting risk. First moves must be
made.
I know it isn't easy to accept
ourselves, to be honest with ourselves
and with each other, and to trust other
people. But I have seen no really
meaningful or lasting relationship
between anyone that does not include
these elements. And I see no other way
to realize these elements than by putting
them in practice. This is hard,
frustrating, open to failure time and
time agai.i.
But there is no other alternative
except withdrawal, and there is no
greater satisfaction than to be able to
know and Iove-ach other.
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