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Sunday, September 28, 1969 P93 T wo THE DAILY TAR HEEL Teni Josephs Hr 7T fir (i wfl i , I I . . ( " ill . ' 1 ? a:3 : 7 y-x T (IK 1 77 Years of Editorial . 4 iiinday Moriiiii; Sunday morning, or afternoon Awakening. Do you smile? Do you even want to? And is there any kind of reason for being awake? Is there any kind of reason for breathing? Wake up. Make some noise to prove you're alive. That's it. Go about the business of becoming one with the world which you are used to. Brush your teeth. Use some soap. You can even use the toilet. That's human, now, isn't it? Ah, life. And Sunday morning, or afternoon. We are all here, breathing, living. What shall we do today? There are classes on Monday, and those are very important. Those are the events we live for. We are at school here so we can go to classes and learn. Ah, learning. We can learn here. And our breathing, the process of inhaling and exhding which we conduct every day, that is all done so that we may continue to live, and, obviously, to go to classes. Because once we have our degrees, then our real lives will begin. We will be people, then. We will be part of the real world. But for now, of course, we are students. We go to classes. We learn. And what about our lives? What about our bodies that are beating with the thing we call '"life"? Do we, can we, really appreciate the fact of our living? Do we ever think about our breathing, our lungs, our nostrils? Do we think about that red, pulsating heart beating down there inside us? Do Y ?ver think about that? Do we ever think about the fact that each of us is alive, breathing, encased within, our own bodies? We are living, just like birds, and insects, and trees, and grass. We are alive. But no, that is not so important. What is important is the kind of trappings we. have to our existence. What kind of students are we? Is our work adequate, or respectable? Can we be proud of ourselves, of our lives? Pride. Now that's something very important. Are our lives such that we can be proud of them? Can our parents be proud of us? Now that's something to think about. What kind of citizens are we? Do we support our nation right or wrong? What about our school, our alma mater? Right or wrong? Such a beautiful sentiment. Yes, our school, right or wrong. Our proud leaders. Our Chancellor, J. Carlyle Sitterson, to whom the opinion of the Board of Trustees is more important than the rights and well-being of the students. Yes, our alma mater. And our Dean of Men, James O. Cansler, who feels that our "institutional values," which are derived from we know not where, are more important than our humanity, our rights as human beings. Yes, we must have rules. We must have people telling us how to live, and how to conduct our lives. Because .they., sureiy know. They surely know what living and breathing mean. They know what it means to be relatively young and how it feels to be looking forward to a full life. They know what it all means because they have lived longer than us. They know what "life" means. And what do we know? We don't know anything. We are still juvenile. They, our leaders, our J. Corlvle Siiterson's, they call us by Freedom v.Tc-dJ-Cch'sn Editor 0 c s y f a i 1 1 Dennis Zzr.zl Tern St38 Enfiald Harvey Eiltctt Art Chansky f,'inctr,2 Editor News Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor ' Arts Editor Sports Editor Ron Jchnssn Frank Ballard Business Manager Advertising Manager Pets Hatch Night Editor this issue ftemcon. r our first names and they are flattering us. We don't mean to be too harsh. These leaders of ours are alive, too. It's just that they don't seem to appreciate the fact that we are alive, as well. We are breathing as much as J. Carlyle Sitterson, or James O. Cansler. We urinate and defecate, just as they do? ' But we are only students. We can't decide anything for ourselves. They decide. The Trustees decide. The University administration decides. We are granted a token voice in what happens around hers. Because we are less alive than they are. Ah; life. Sunday morning, or afternoon. We get out of bed and go about the .business tof proving once more that we are alive. And ; the business of proving ,w.e are alive is second nature to us. : We - don't think about what we are doing. We take it all for granted. And we take it for granted that we are minor characters in the play which is the world . Ave take it for granted that there are those better qualified than us to make decisions about the world. Because we are only young. We are naive. But we are alive. We breathe, and we eat, and we are happy, and we are sad, and we defecate, and we look for love, and one day, one day, we die. We are no better, or no worse than anyone else. That is the whole point. We are merely alive. And by natural law we are striving to survive. And if those in power fail to recognize the fact of our existence, it is unfortunate for us. And one day, it may be unfortunate for them, because one day, we may have the power. But that's all a grand cliche, a grand dream, now. Because npw we are second-class citizens with second class rights. Now it is Sunday, and we must think about what we have to do for Monday, and Tuesday, and on and on. Because we don't have the time to think about Sunday. We don't have the time to think about our living and our breathing and our dying. We just don't have the time. We are living on a schedule which we did not create, but which was created for us. And for some .unknown reason, we must live with it. We must live with a world which we did not ask for. Wc must live with bodies and minds which we did not ask for. We must live with life, which we did not ask for. And the rules are already there, as if they were golden and true. And the people are there to enforce the rules. And we are here to follow the rules, and the leaders. Ah, life. On this Sunday morning, or afternoon. " ww v,vvVAV.vvvWtVtVv.v.vv.v.vXX v. ig Letters to the editor should $ be typed and double-spaced. g Letters should be typed on $ 8 fifty-space lines if possible. All letters must be signed. ijj: All letters to the editor are j: ;$ welcomed by the editorial 1 staff, regardless of the S : opinions and ideas presented,?:: '0 within them. Letters should be addressed : & to the associate editor, care of iji: the Daily Tar Heel. : :: The third meeting of the 47th session of the Student Legislature was held Thursday night. Whoopee. What was accomplished? An approval of the administration's policies concerning visitation, an approval which some endorsed not out of personal conviction, but as a result of fear, coercion, and other such pressure tactics. More than one legislator honestly admitted that he was not in favor of the policy but what 0 AHftQ AND OWM; Mark Kodin Certainly the biggest surprise of the year in Student Government has been the performance of Student Body President Alan Albright. Running last spring under the University Party banner and with the support (though unstated) of SG President Ken Day against five other candidates, Albright was painted by many of his opponents as merely a continuation of the Ken Day method. Day was instrumental, Jn obtaining visitation arid liberalizazed women's rules and worked: behind the Scenes trying to solve the workers' strike, but he was a mystery man to most students. He let students know little of what was going on in Student Government. Many A W S! MliP! r j Sorry C.lrQrCjlar. but Ou Mecommiug A. Chrisiium By KEN RIPLEY "When I became a Christian," a friend once told me, "I had two problems. I knew that God had chosen me out of the world to be a Christian. But I didn't know what my relationship was to the world I lived in, nor did I know what my new relationship with God was to mean. "I was like a baby right after being born. I knew I couldn't return to the womb, but I hadn't the foggiest notion of the new world I had popped into." Like helping a baby, our Christian growth seeks first of all to help us establish for ourselves exactly where we as Christians do exist in relationship to not only God, but also to the world around us. In doing this, we ask ourselves many important and difficult questions dealing with our place and role in society and with our relations and obligations to God, to other people, and to ourselves "Were do I fit in?" we ask ourselves, "What is the extent of my involvement? How am I best to grow as I should?" The process of Christian growth and maturation is the process of being built up and rooted in knowledge and trust of Jesus Christ and developing firm foundations of faith. Christian growth is the process of establishing our relationship to the world and to God, of defining znd practicing exactly what roles and responsibilities we have as people and as Ctiri&inns. This requires first of all that a Christiar redize that he has been czJled "out of the world" to fellow Christ and obey God's commandments even and especiallywhen' they differ from he "J alternative action could be taken? One such alternative, i.e. that to further self-government by the students deciding for themselves the desired policy, was brought forth. The administration has shrewdly placed the students in an ineffectual bargaining position: either the present proposal is accepted or there will be nothing al all. Of course, do not fail to give credit to the JLBJ' lARE VOui BOH students felt Student Government could have taken a more vocal role in the workers' strike. " ' In conversations with me last summer, Day said he should have better publicized SG's workings and made SG a more effective vocal force. ' Apparently, Albright has taken lessons from Day's mistakes. ' Albright has asserted the rights of this campus to solve its own disruption problems ; by recommending that the trustees follow suggestions of the f University Committee on Judicial Reform for handling disruptions. He said Thursday he will take the Reform Committee's recommendations directly to the Board of Trustees. "fs.i Key robe). -1 standards, values, and beliefs of the world around him. He is called to realize that he is a "pilgrim." Paul clarifies this when he writes, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove good and acceptable and perfect." . But at the same time, a Christian is called to realize that while he is separate from the world, he still remains a part of the world, a member of society. Thus a Christian does not have "Christian activities" and "secular activities" everything he does is Christian within a secular world. With this in mind, Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "So, whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." It is important that a Christian reconcile these two relationships, that he realize that not only is he a citizen of God's "Kingdon," but that he is also a part of the world. Unfortunately, Christians in the past have refused to do this. There are those who look only to "the hereafter," just as there are those who refuse to look bey end their life today. It seems to me that either way they are cheating themselves of living a full Christian life and presenting to others a distorted picture of Christianity. But then, in our attempting to reconcile the eartaly znd spiritual relationships of Christians, wa must try to define exactly what roles Christians do play in society. In future columns,! v.-ant to examine these roles of irr. aroverr.jr.t in depth, but right now I jast Wit to present three general reas or aspicts of A A TOT? 6 !' I A ' V Ls Mas O university's acceptance of the deletion of the prosecutor's "right" to ippeal. That's redly magnanimous of them, especially considering the fact that th2 inclusion of this clause was in direct contradiction of the Double Jeopardy Referendum which was decided by the student, body last spring. (Ah, isn't the administration's faith in student government wonderful?) Those students living in dormitories want visitation; indeed, they have a right to visitation. They also hava the right to express when and under what conditions they desire such, within such limitations as they set for themselves. As one of the girls in Granville East expressed, "There 7T Ff ff ,'0 ints -ii JrT.-.-...,......... .... To the Editor: During my first two weeks at Chapel Kill, I have often been told of the great Carolina tradition of student self-government. However, ance I've been here, the administration hzs done all the governing while the student legislature has either acted as a yes man or been ignored. In a recent case of the visitation bill, Student Vice-President Rafael Perez stated that although there is considerable student sentiment in favor of a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week policy, it would not be wise to attempt to pressure the administration into such an agreement as such assure could result in no visitation policVThus, in the face of pressure from the administration, he He and his staff have worked diligently on "Operation Interface," a Student Government sponsored conference that will bring together representatives from state business, religious, political, educational, and student circles, on October 24-28. This conference could potentially bring vast improvement in relations between students and the state-at-large. Student Government is working hard to expand the State Affairs Committee, hi order that citizens of the state may better understand internal situations of the Chapel Hill campus. Albright has faced up to tough issues. Let's just hope he keeps up the good work. -ra vi'-' -iy y VVs &TO claret iy the Christian life in which a Christian can relate to his existence and mature in his faith. First, a Christian grown in his personal relationship to Christ. As an individual, he grows in righteousness, being "conformed to the image of Christ." As he seeks to develop personally and "root" himself in Christ, the Bible describes his growth as "bearing fruit." In Galatians, Paul writes, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law." Personal development is a Christian's first responsibility. But a Christian is also required to act as a prophet in society. In this prophetic role, a Christian finds himself active in social involvement, where he speaks out and works against evil, corruption, injustice, inhumanity. In this role, he Christian confronts and aiacks that which is wrong; and not only does he accuse and exhort, he seekr. to correct, to act as a positive force for good against the darkness of the world. Thirdly, a Christian not only speaks out against the evil in life, but he lso has the responsibility of proclamation to present the Good News of the Gospel. The Christian seeks not merely to condemn that which u wrong, to be involved in social struggles 3 gainst human imperfections and injustice, he s iehi to jive an alternative for "corj tructicn" of a better world by proclaiminj the CiiisUm message and himself 'showing through word and cie-cd its rc!evr."f! to life... . AlJbrfgM are enough responsible girls to know how to legislate such activities." I would liie to believe this could be generalized to include all students. However, unless students show that they are willing to accept the responsibility of their convictions, the present policies will continue. And this is the policy of the administration, state legislature and Board of Trustees, not of the students. And so another year has begun. And another chorus of yessir, nosir, whateveryousaysir," is being played. The record is getting rather warped and has begun to repeat, repeat, repeat 77 ff mzmr i i bows meekly having decided that the opinions of a group of old men to bora he has no obligation are more important than those of the students whom he represents. In making his decision he has yielded to pressure while deeming it una d viable to use pressure himself. Is the student body so powerful that it can allow the administration to pressure them and refrain from applying similar pressure? Or are we so impotent that we must accept unquestioningly all the decisions of the administration? Another example is the "Double Jeopardy" amendment. This has accomplished nothing as it does not put an end to double jeopardy (students may be tried in both civil and faculty courts for the same offense) and has been ignored by the administration. The great Carolina tradition of self-government may someday exist, but not until such a time as the University is run by the students and not for persons unknown by the Trustees, the governor, and the administration. Joseph Priestly, Jr. 635 James Editor's note: In a hall vote on the 3rd floor of Granville East 40 girls votzd in favor of a student regulated visitition policy while only 2 girls voted in favor of the administration's policy. Reader Quotes , DTH Editorial To the Editors: I hope you will not mind my quoting parts of your editorial of September 26 entitled "Nearing The Breaking Ppint," so . that other readers can see it in a different light. "... (the chancellors) juvenile need to , assert themselves in a petty, regional show of power." - "Their statement Thursday seems to be i; just such a neurotic action." "And why such a display of paranoia?" ' "... it was their (the trustees) duty to dictate .".." "Such feelings point to a deep s Bated ignorance on he part of the Trustees." "That is the tragedy of this phase of our lives, as if we had no other problems ..." "If the Trustees are concerned about appeasing public opinion " "We begin to feel frustrated and alienated " "We are getting worse. We are frustrated and alienated and people wonder why. "And if they do understand, they're doing a pretty good job of pushing us to the breaking point " Collecting your feelings, the Trustees and Chancellors are ' . . . juvenile . . . need to assert themselves ... petty ... neurotic... display of paranoia . . . duty to dictate . . . deep seated ignorance appeasing " And as you describe yourselves "... tragedy ... as if we had no other problems . . . feel frustrated and alienated . . . we are getting worse pushing us to the breaking point " I do understand your editorial "Nearing The Breaking Point." The University Health Services offers medical and other forms of help for people "nearing the breaking point." Mr. Douglas Caiipbell : ThsDaI2y Tar Heel is published : by the University of North Carolina :: Student Publication's Board, dally : except ?,Ionday, examinatisn : periods and vacations and during ::: summer periods. 5 Offices axe at the Student Uni on : Bidg., Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514. Telephone S: numbers: editorial, sports, 6 news 9 33-1011; business, circulation, advertbing 933-1H.3, Address: Box 1080, Chapel HGi, N.C. 27514. . -y. Subscription rates:$"0 per year, $5 per semester. We regret that he :$ can accept only prepaid subscriptions. .- " Second cilsTrocpili it VS. U Pcst Office in Ch: pelHlLl, N.C. 'A
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