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THE TAR HEEL
Thursday, August 7, 1969
Thursday, August 7, 1969
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Otelia Connor
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The little old lady with the umbrella died Tuesday
night of a heart attack.
Otelia Connor came here in 1957 to see her son's
graduation and immediately adopted the campus and
its students as her home and her children.
Otelia's primary concern on this campus was
persuading students to use proper manners. If you
put your feet on a desk, she told you to move them;
if you walked on the wrong side of the sidewalk, she
would grab you and pull you to the other side. If you
smacked your gum or left your tray on a Lenoir
table, she gave you the point of her umbrella.
She shocked students who ran into her for the first
time. They would talk for days about the
"70-year-old lady" who had accosted them, calling
her a tyrant, a meddling old lady, or worse.
Her columns in this paper have touched nearly
every facet of student life on this campus in the past
several years. Her final, and perhaps most perceptive
column appeared in last week's Tar Heel.
It was in this column that a 74-year-old lady told
the people of this community, "Now I realize there
has been change, from the time of Moses, the
Apostles, George Washington on through to the
present."
She was speaking of the current trend among
many college males towards growing long hair.
"There are many male students on the campus
with beautiful hair," she wrote. However,
reprimanding students who had gotten out of line she
said, "some should be ordered to wash their hair, take
a bath and put on some clean clothes."
She continued to admonish those who felt "there
should never be any changes," some of whom hadn't
spoken to her since she supported long hair, as
"juvenile."
Such was Otelia Connor. She was a beautiful lady
who took her time to try to improve the lives and
actions of others. "
Above all else it may be said that she cared for us,
for all of us.
All who knew her, loved her and will feel the loss
brought by her absence. Indeed, the entire university
community has suffered a loss. Her son and daughter
will be joined by her 15,000 other children in
mourning her death.
In her memory we hope the students of this
university will ponder the wise piece of advice with
which she ended her last column:
"Let us all, students and adults, grow into
maturity, and be ready to accept the next period of
change around the corner." -
Saga Changes?
There is a new manager of the food service. Apparently
Saga Food Service didn't feel that Troy O'Brien was doing
the type of job they wanted so they replaced him with Ted
Young.
However, don't expect much to change except for the
name of the manager. Saga is still solely interested in
making as large a profit as they can.
With the only goal of a company being money many
factors get ignored like the workers" In all liklihood Saga
is still planning to rid themselves of the burden of
permanent, unionized workers, regardless of the effects
upon the lives of the workers.
We hope their new approach includes some
consideration of the workers. If the new Saga manager is
willing to give the workers a decent job with reasonable,
hours he has nothing to fear from this student body.
However, if Ted Young expects to open the food
service next year without the workers then he can also
expect to be put out of business shortly thereafter.
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Splices On Things In Genets
Just some thoughts on the
state of things in general
I was reading "Ebony" the
other day and noticed a certain
paradox. All editorials and
stories point to the necessary
and admirable ideal of black
dignity. But much of the
advertising proclaims the virtues
of skin bleaches and hair
straighteners.
Perhaps it's like the Southern
newspapers which occasionally
editorialize against the evils of
the demon rum and run full page
ads about the glories of certain
brands of beer and booze.
That's where the money is.
I trust summer newcomers
will forgive me as I give some
credit to the Spanish
Department. This is handed out
in light of an unflattering
editorial I worte last semester.
Don't misunderstand, the
position I took earlier still
holds there should be no more
than two semesters of language
required. But, despite my saying
that and other uncomplimentary
things (and despite the equally
uncomplimentary letters I
received from one of the
instructors in that department in
return) the grade I received at
the end of last semester was a
hard-earned but honestly-given
C.
Thanks sincerely, Dey Hall.
Only one more semester,
hopefully, and we'll be done
with each other.
There's a new guide to
colleges out. It's called "College
Confidential" and is a breezy,
flip summary of how to get in to
college, how to stay in and how
to enjoy life while there. It also
includes a rundown on various
colleges and universities.
Chapel Hill is the only link on
the Consolidated University
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chain to receive its own separate
section, but a couple of others
are mentioned, if unflatteringly,
in the last paragraph of the UNC
description.
The book claims that girls
who want to be "teachers go to
Greensboro," that "engineers,
tree tappers and shop teachers
go to Raleigh" and that "the
cream of North Carolina and an
even creamier crop of outsiders
end up at Chapel Hill."
Legislators who would
increase out of state tuition,
take notice.
"We came in peace for all
mankind."
Let's hope so.
If man can do this stand
upon the moon, touch a celestial
body for the first time since the
universe began then he can also
change the slums, feed the
starving, make the deserts fertile,
create harmony between the
races and give mankind peace
down here, too can't he?
Teddy Kennedy made a bad
mistake.
He gave a girl a ride home
from a party.
Even if that is all it turns out
to be-and I hope it is the rose
will still smell like a stinkweed,
'name or no name.
Because Miss Mary Jo
Kopechne is dead.
The Kennedys are a long
suffering family. And this is no
help. In one dark night, Ted
Kennedy may have lost the
presidency.
Whatever the final verdict is,
people from cab drivers to
corporation executives are
drawing their own conslusions
and few of them are favorable.
Not long ago, Ted Kennedy
had the 1972 Democratic
nomination all sewed up,
whether he wanted it or
not and all indications were
that he wanted it. But, people
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don't like their idols, their
restorers of Camelot, to have
clay feet.
Therefore, he may now have
trouble being re-elected in
Massachusetts.
Kennedys do not make a
practice of loosing. The only
contests lost have been John
Kennedy's try for the 1956
vice-presidential nomination and
Robert Kennedy's defeat in the
Oregon primary. A loss in
Massachusetts, on home
territory, could do Ted
Kennedy's political career
permanent damage.
He made things much more
difficult for himself. Now
Senator Edward Kennedy will
have to do it the hard way. He's
a capable, intelligent and
well-known man. But, he blew
Soul
(This is the fourth installment of
a five-part letter written Easter,
1969)
Up to now, family,
everything I have talked about is
something that has been done
for us or without our control.
God created His plan for us; we
were born into separation and
are unable to pay for it; and'
Christ has canceled the debt and
give us access to God and to new
life. But now we must look at
our own individual response to
God's bridging the separation
between Him and us.
The Bible tells us that God's
atonement for us and breaking
down of our separation was a
gift. Paul writes, in Ephesians
2:8, 9, "For by grace you have
beon saved through faith; and
this is not your own doing, it is
the gift of God not because of
works, lest any man should
boast." In the verse that talks
about the wages of sin, Romans
5:8, it adds, "But the free gift of
God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
our Lord." Herein lies what it
means to be a Christian to
accept God's gift, Jesus Christ.
A Christian is not a person
who is better than other people,
but a person who has something
they don't. But Christ died for
all men and paid for all our sins,
once for all. Man's response,
since he could not himself come
close to God, must be to accept
that gift, not to just look at the
gift and admit that it is there.
We cannot, we dare not, confuse '
acquiescence with acceptance.
A good example of what it
means to accept Christ is
something that happened while
we were watching one of our
ill-fated basketball games on
television. Someone came in
with a bucket of chicken that he
had bought for all of us. When
he passed it around, we took a
piece if we wanted one.
Although he had bought it for
everyone, we had to take some if
we wanted to share in the
benefits of eating chicken.
Likewise, we can know that
Christ died for us, but if we
don't accept that gift, we cannot
share the results. We will remain
separated.
Becoming a Christian,
accepting Christ, is not
something that can be done for
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his cool and may have lost
everything on a Chappaquiddick
bridge one dark night.
And after his statement the
saddest question in Kennedy
admirers' minds is "If Ted can't
fully explain a car accident, if he
vis that thrown by a relatively
everyday occurence, can he
handle the presidentcy?"
Nevertheless, the Kennedy
name and the Kennedy mystic
lives, it's wounded, but it
lives for now.
Letters to the editor
should be typed and dou-ble-spaced.
Letters
should be typed on fifty
space lines if possible. All
letters must be signed.
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us. We are not born into a
relationship with Christ; nor are
we baptized or confirmed into a
relationship. Other people
cannot decide for us. Becoming
a Christian means personal
commitment to God; it means
giving up our lives to God
through faith in Christ.
Becoming a Christian means a
decision and involves action.
Love involves action. Christ died
for us in love. We accept Him in
an act of love. God gave us
free-will, because He wants us to
voluntarily love Him, to want to '
be with Him. The Bible describes
how to become a Christian in
John 1:12, "But to all who
received him, who believed in his
name, he gave power to become
children of God."
Being a Christian is not easy.
It is hard to be a Christian, a
true follower of Christ. It means
a sacrifice of ego to God, not
just once but a thousand times.
It means letting God rule your
life, controlling you. Being a
Christian involves a new way of
life. A Christian accepts Christ,
like Thomas did, as "My Lord
and my God." Christ is not only
our Savior, but our Master. We
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can be reconciled with God in an
instant, but it means living with
Him forever.
Colossians 2:6 says, "As
therefore you received Christ
Jesus the Lord, so live in him."
A decision to accept Christ is
not a light one, to be made in
fun. It involves being honest
both with ourselves and with
God. We must want to become
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TOM GOODING, EDITOR
Ron Johnson, Business Manager
Mary Burch, Managing Editor
Mike McGowan, News Editor
The Tar Heel is published every Thursday afternoon of
Summer School by the students of the University of North
Carolina. Offices are on the first floor of the Student Union.
The printing is done by Chapel Hill Weekly.
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Christians, and we must want to
live as Christians in a world that
is basically non-Christian.
To those people who want to
become Christians, Revelation
3:20 illustrates what it means to
accept Him into your life:
"Behold I stand at the door and
knock; if any one hears my voice
and opens the door, I will come
in to him and eat with him, and
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he with me." When we accept
Christ, we open the door of our
hearts to him we invite him
into our hearts through personal
invitation, through prayer. We
don't fall into Christianity; we
pray to God, asking Christ to
come into our lives and to take
over, admitting our need of Him
and desiring what He was to give
us
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To The Editor
As a student at Carolina in
1966, 1 remember seeing a letter
in the Daily Tar Heel from
servicemen in Vietnam who
wanted pen-pals at U.N.C. I have
a pen-pal in India, who has asked
me to help him find pen-pals in
the United States for some of his
friends, most of whom are
students in the universities. I am
enclosing his list of names and
addresses, which also gives ages
and hobbies. If you can print
this list, perhaps some of the
students in Chapel Hill would
like to build a little international
understanding through personal
correspondence with these
students in India.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Miss Panthea Twitty
Editor's note:. The list of
names supplied by Miss Twitty is
posted in the Tar Heel office.
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