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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday. September 25. 1969
Alan Hirsch and Tom Gooding
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Day
isitation, And The Administration
The Open House Agreement,
released by the Chancellor's office
last week, will be placed before the
Student Legislature tonight. That
agreement has been the center of
much controversy and confusion,
and remains so.
First, the Agreement's limits
within which Open Houses may be
planned are quite different than the
proposals drafted by the Open
House Committee.
Dean of Men James O. Cansler,
co-chairman of that committee,
said Wednesday the committee had
proposed visitation for seven days a
week, from noon until two a.m.,
and that no mention was made of
whether doors to students' rooms
should remain open.
After the committee submitted
its report to Chancellor Sitterson,
Mr. Sitterson conferred with the
chancellors of the six branches of
the Consolidated University, and
subsequently the present proposals
were drawn up.
Those proposals permit Open
House activities each Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday, and other
"particular" days, and require that
doors of residents remain "ajar."
In other words, the regulations
in the Open House Agreement
represent the feelings of the six
chancellors rather than of the Open
House Committee, which was
established by Mr. Sitterson for just
the purpose of proposing
regulations.
Whatever happened to the power
of such committees? It almost
seems as if they are irrelevant, or, if
they are relevant, then they serve
merely to carry on busy work
which the Chancellor would rather
not carry on.
A second confusion point is the
section of the Agreement which
deals with violations of the policy.
Two clauses state residents or
visitors who do not approve of the
decisions on violations issued in
student courts may appeal the
violatons to the Faculty Review
Board.
If those clauses were to go into
effect, the whole idea of student
self-discipline, of student courts
and student government, would be
little more than utter travesty.
Good For Spencer Dorm
Something significant is
happening at Spencer Dormitory. A
number of girls there have
circulated a petition calling for
"experimental abolition" of house
meetings.
House meetings, and compulsory
house meetings at that, are left to
the discretion of house presidents
by women's rules as established by
the Association of Women
Students, formerly the Women's
Residence Council.
The Spencer petitioners feel the
present system is "unnecessarily
time-consuming since its purpose -can
be achieved by other means."
The president of Spencer, Fenna
Boon, has called a meeting of the
dormitory's executive committee
for next week to discuss the
petition.
It would be wise for that
committee to do something ;ibout
the absurdity of compulsory house
meetings.
ihd are oliier ways of getting
informnfion to the residents of a
Todd Cohen
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Night Editor this issue
What would be the point of student
courts, if the Faculty Review Board
could overrule those student courts
almost arbitrarily?
As far as Dean Cansler is
concerned, there have been
conflicting statements on his part as
to the issue raised by those clauses.
At one point, he is reported to
have said the clauses were
mandatory; at another point he was
quoted as believing the clauses were
negotiable. In response to questions
Wednesday, Mr. Cansler said he
would rather not say what he
thought.
Both clauses were recommended
by the Open House Committee, and
both were part of the experimental
visitation last spring. But the
question which they raise as to the
validity of the student Judiciary,
and the uncertainty demonstrated
by Dean Cansler on the matter,
leaves the issue tasting of doubt.
Doubt as to the credibility of both
Dean Cansler, and the rationale
behind the two clauses.
The visitation controversy is far
from resolution. We dislike the
policy primarily because it is out of
the realm of the University to
attempt to assume responsibility
for the social comings and goingsof
the students on this campus. Those
students are human beings, and as
such have'the right to determine for
themselves what to do with their
own lives.
But, almost as an afterthought,
we cannot seriously consider a
policy which has the flaws of the
present Open House Agreement. It
smacks of dictation of an
authoritarian University
administration, an administration
which seems to hold no respect for
the student courts, or the students
themselves as human beings.
We strongly urge the Student
Legislature to defeat the proposal
and to draft and approve one which
represents the rights of students on
this campus, and represents them
both as students and as human
beings.
Any other action on the part of
the Student Legislature would call
into question the value of its very
existence.
dormitory, one of which is to post
notices on official bulletin boards,
the other of which is to call for hall
meetings. But to require girls to
attend full house meetings, late at
night, for the purpose of giving
them information, is inane at best.
According to Sally Howie, who
originated the petition, and Pam
Jenks, both Spencer residents, a
house meeting was held recently
which lasted 1 Vz hours after the
dormitory had been closed at 1 1
p.m. for the meeting.
During that time, the girls were
required to listen to information on
organizations and activities "which
are purely voluntary such as
participation in the Women's
Athletic Association and King
Residence College."
Women students, on this
campus, or anywhere else, are not
livestock to be herded at the will of
arbitrary bosses. They are people
with some kind of rights. It would
be gratifying if Spencer dorm took
some note of those rights.
On the floor of Student Legislature
tonight the elected representatives of the
student body will be asked to represent
their constituents. They will be asked to
take a stand nearly all of them believe is
right.
There is just one hitch: they may not
have the guts.
The administration's visitation policy
comes up for Student Legislature's
approval tonight. The policy includes
provisions for holding visitation three
nights a week within limited hours and
with doors "ajar".
The Student-Faculty Visitation
Committee, appointed by the Chancellor,
reported out in favor of a 24-hour, seven
day a week policy. What happened?
Chancellor Sitterson interviened and
reinstituted a slightly modified version of
last years' archaic policy.
This years' policy is better than last
years'. But no matter how improved the
policy is the fact remains that Uncle J.
Carlysle is exercising authority he has no
husiness taking. Neither Chancellor
Sitterson, nor anybody else, has the
legitimate authority to tell us who we
may take into our homes. And our dorm
rooms are our homes for nine months a
year.
What the students, but not the
administration realize, is that the present
open-house proposal is not granting a
privilege three days a week, but denying
one during the rest of the week.
Why did the Chancellor even go to the
bother of having a student-faculty
committee in the first place? Quite
simply, because he didn't want to take
the blame for the policy. In case you
haven't figured it out that is the same
reason he wants to obtain a rubber stamp
Ken Ripley
One of the many little tasks that
occupied me when I was a freshman last
year was trying to figure out what in the
world people meant when they talked
about "becoming a whole person."
Everyone, it seemed, had their own
definition of what it means to be cool,
whole, and well-rounded, but somehow
each one left me feeling hollow , and
empty inside.
One upperclassman said that to be
"in" I had to drive the latest car, wear the
newest fashions, know the proper people,
and live in an apartment: The problem .
with that ideal life was that I wasn't
allowed to own a car," don't Tchbw a
fashion from a fetish, know few if any of
the "proper people," and can't afford an -
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Letters To The Editor
'My Car
To the Fditor:
HELP!
My car can't get over those speed
bumps!
OK, they are nice and will certainly
discourage future traffic (mine), but
don't you think they are a little high? My
Sprite just barely made it over the top,
engine racing and tires squealing, and I
think 1 heard the oil pan scraping.
This is a real problem. Sprites, Fiats,
and MG midgets may have to be picked
up and carried over those mountains. Or
maybe one of us will be centered there,
suspended on a ridge of asphalt, tires
spinning in empty air . . . it can happen,
you know. Imagine a poor tourist, driving
through this great university and not
knowing that ahead lies a trap ---WHAM
MO. Stuck in midair.
Hither put up signs warning of the
hazards ahead, or please lower those
bumps.
Sandy Huff
202 Abernethy Hall
Outside Agitators
Disrupt Campus
T the F.ditor
We've started out this year so well I
approval from student legislature.
Also inherent in the decision each
legislator will have to make is the future
of "student self government."
According to a time honored Carolina
principle 'the UNC student enjoys
complete student self government." The
legislatures serving as the Chancellor's
rubber stamp is not consistent with this
tradition.
If the legislators fail to represent the
students, who incidently elected them,
then the student body should begin to
seriously consider their worth.
The first point brought up by many
concerned with the visitation issue is that
ecomiug A
apartment. Strike one.
Another friend told' me that to be
accepted and to "fulfill my true role as a
student in this University," I had to wear
grungy clothes, become a radical, abhore
conventional interests and mannerisms,
and curse the military-industrial complex.
But I can't stand grungy clothes over
three days old, was laughed at by the
SDS, happen to like showers and classes,
and my father is a career Naval officer
heading to Viet Nam. I couldn't fit this
role, either. Strike two.
t X Several of rrry partying friends tried to
. convince me jthat to be a whole person I
" have to rnake"out with a girl on the first
date, go steady after the first semester,
. get drunk every night or at least on the
Can't Get Over The Speed Bumps'
hate to see any outside agitators spoil it.
Something must be done to keep these
people who are unaffiliated with the
University from entering our buildings
and taking over activities established for
the students.
Nothing was said at first when only a
few of these outsiders infiltrated the
campus, but when they begin to enter by
the busloads, disrupting campus order,
something must be done. We must stop
them before they begin to influence some
of the weaker minds of the University.
I am speaking of the Highway Patrol
and their recruits. Monday night, the
students were lined up outside the doors
of the Chase with only one-half hour left
to eat. In came several cars full of
Highway Patrol and a bus of at least forty
recruits. Not only did they enter our
cafeteria, but they "marched" straight
upstairs in front of all of us waiting and
"took over" the head of the line. Of
course this caused great confusion on the
part of the students, but being the
level-headed persons we are, we remained
silent. Who knows what they would have
done to our women and children?
We must bring a halt to this disruptive
element in our society today!
Robert Wilson
406 Morrison
"if we don't approve the administration's
policy then there will be no visitation."
Fortunately, there is an alternative -a
visitation policy drawn up and enforced
by student government.
Student Government has the
legitimate power to enact and enforce
social rules for the student body. Tonight
they will be asked to exercise that power.
Legislators will have the opportunity to
enact a visitation policy that will allow
each house unit to have visitation
whenever it chooses. The houses would
vote in the same manner they do now if
the house doesn't want visitation, there
would be no visitation. However, if they
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Whole Person
weekends, and "get what I can out of
life." They seemed to be saying that life
is all taking, and giving only when
necessary. That hurt me most of all. I just
couldn't and can't treat girls as things,
bodies without souls, and I couldn't force
myself to date and drink on pretenses, or
to go with some girl I don't love. I didn't
want to take from people, demanding
everything and not giving anything in
return.
It seemed to me that many people
here were willing to give me anything I
needed in terms of friendship, love, and
support. I felt that I'd be cheated if I
wasn't allowed to give what is good in me
to someone else who needed it. I wanted
love and personal fulfillment, but didn't
want to steal it. Strike three.
For me, it was strike three, and I really
felt out for quite a while. I wanted very
much to be "whole," but couldn't fit
myself into any stereotypes and adapt
myself to be something I wasn't. But
because many of my friends found their
roles and adopted them, 1 felt left out
and alone, sensitive to the pain within
and around me and looking for something
real that I could be. I was just trying to
grow into myself, but couldn't discover
how.
But then I met someone who really
seemed to be "a whole person." Watching
him, I discovered three things that helped
me and can help all of us.
The first thing that struck me about
this boy was the way he had reconciled
his responsibility with his freedom. He
knew what he wanted to do in the future,
or at least what he needed to do, and he
had a great sense of reason, common
sense, and foresight, so that he didn't
score such things as study or even, with
qualifications, military service. But yet he
hadn't lost his sense of youth, of loving
life, of getting the most he can out of
living.
He didn't always succeed, sometimes
moving to either extreme, but he tried to
set up a balance. This seems to be what
Counter-Orientation
Brings Reaction
To the Editor:
The United States no longer belongs to
the Indians, Thomas Jefferson is not a
hero of black people; these are facts that
wiil never be changed just as John F.
Kennedy was assassinated and millions of
Jewish people have suffered insane
tortures and deaths. There have been
many tragic misfortunes in the history of
manking, many inhuman injustices, and
as long as man walks on earth, such things
will continue in varying degrees.
Our fathers may have lived in France.
England or Africa, but we live here, and if
we don't like it, we can leav e. Those of us
who stay must face the facts. If is a fact
thai my father and many others like him
will never change their ideas, but we have
no right to hate them because they are
products of their environment. Lven we
have a part of them insii.it' us. But their
environment is not our environment,
their heroes are not our heroes, an. d their
generation is not our generation.
However, we do live in a world molded
by their history, and if we think we can
destroy this overmen! no matter how
do want it, they can have it whenever
they like. Twenty-four hours a day seven
days a week, if they choose.
The administration probably won't
like this naughty streak of independence.
But the responsibility for enforcement is
in the hands of the student courts. And
the student courts will be authorized to
enforce only the student passed bill. The
administration will have to enforce th:ir
own law themselves, while students have
visitation whenever the floor decides.
The administration is powerless to
enforce restrictions upon the students
without the students concent. In other
words, if we won't bring the paddle to
them they can't spank us.
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we all need, to strike a balance and not
either sink in the mud of work or walk
around with our heads in the clouds.
The second thing that I learned,
though still have to put into practice
more, is to accept people for what they
are. This boy personally didn't live in any
patterned front but had friends on
different sides of the spectrum because he
let them be themselves around him. He
didn't try to change them, but enjoyed
their presence and what they offered him.
He made me realize that 1 demand so
much of the people around me that they
have my tastes or interests, that they
meet my standards. "Part of -becoming
whole," he said, "is to let others be
whole, too, and not a collective 'you.' "
The third thing 1 discovered is to not
get hung-up on myseif and my worries,
but to open myself to others.
Most things we do, are really quite
selfish. I guess this isn't bad, really,
because we are naturally self-oriented,
but it does deprive others of what we can
give. This boy taught me without even
knowing it not to hate or neglect myself
and my needs, but to show more loving
concern for others and their needs.
He tried to be a poet. "Love fills our
hearts most," he said, "when we pour it
on someone else." There's so much to do
in Chapel Hill for other people, on both a
small and large scale.
I need to show more love, for instance,
to my room-mate, and learn
consideration. We need to be more
concerned about people, more giving of
our time and interest to doing things for
others. We don't have to be a one-man
social agency, but we can be agents of
social concern.
Classes were heavy last year, and I
learned something for my tuition, I hope.
But I think I learned most outside of
class. I just hope I can put it to use and
discover as much of my potential as a
human being as I can. I want to be "a
whole person." That is why I am here.
That is why we are all here.
impatient we may be, then we are still
children and our tiny shadows will never
replace theirs.
Sondra Peabody
Sept. 18, 1969
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