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The Power Of The Police
And The Insolence Of Office
Police are kind of a unique breed
in this country. They are the
keepers of the peace, and that role
seems to legitimize a wide range of
actions on their part. It seems to
say that the police can do just
about anything they want if they
invoke the purpose of their efforts,
which is "to keep the peace."
Well that's part of the
background. Another part is this:
On Thursday evening, after
picketing peacefully in front of
Lenoir Hall, demonstrators were
ordered by the Chapel Hill Police to
disperse within one minute. The
demonstrators maintained they
had a right to picket and held their
ground.
In the ensuing tragedy, sparked
by the efforts of the police to make
sure their orders were not
disobeyed, at least nine
demonstrators were arrested, and
three were hospitalized. Of the
three, one had a concussion, and
two had deep cuts. Of the two, one
was a woman.
; ; :Some more - background: A
'newspaper' reporter (and there were
a great many newspaper reporters
at the incident) who was standing
40 yards from the action, was
shoved by a policeman attempting
to remove the reporter from the
scene, not necessarily because he
was a reporter, but because he was
a person, a body.
The point is that the police have
the power to go a long way, and
employ that power, in doing
exactly what they want to "keep
the peace."
And nobody can really
anything about that.
do
This criticism has been levelled
at the police for a long time. A lot
of noise was made about the same
problem just before, during, and
ever since the 1968 Democratic
National Convention.
Why STOP Signs?
The University Trustees have
gotten together in an all-out
campaign against motorists driving
on Cameron Avenue between the
arboretum and the Scuttlebutt.
The pedestrian walk-ways near
South Building and the Old Well
sport four shiny new red STOP
signs, wishing a very Merry
Christmas to the campus' police
who will get to write many more
tickets for unexpecting drivers.
After all, what driver would ever
suspect full STOP signs to be
located at a spot other than an
intersection? And who but that fine
coalition of Trustees and police
would think to put them up?
So the Trustees want to protect
the students from getting run over.
Who has ever gotten run over out in
front of the Old Well? Can students
not get to class fast enough because
the traffic fails to stop for
pedestrians?
This is entirely true. Even
Chapel Hill Police cars do not pause
for pedestrians in that area ail the
time. (Next time a patrol car
doesn't stop for you to cross, get
Todd Co ben
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Dave Clark Night Editor this issue
Oh sure, police are only human,
and in some instances they can only
take so much from hecklers, rock
throwers, gun-toters, and the like.
But the police didn't take that
kind of crap from people picketing
Lenoir Hall Thursday. Those people
were picketing peacefully. There
are plenty of witnesses who can
testify to that. The fact that the
police first ordered the
demonstrators to disperse, and then
started clubbing them and anyone
else who happened to be in the area
(remember the newspaper
reporter), doesn't say much for the
discretion of the police in carrying
out their responsibility of keeping
the peace.
What it does say, and what it
does forbode, is that the police
have a hell of a long way to go
before they can be respected as
keepers of the peace. It's rather
frightening to think that they have
the power to do whatever they want,
and can only be reprimanded after
the fact. That doesn't much help
the three people who ended up in
the hospital Thursday night.
Ah, the police. . ' '. J. .. .
Oh yes, one more thing: After
the trouble at Lenoir Hall Thursday
night. Chancellor Sitterson had this
to say: "I regret any violence or
any disturbance on campus at any
time. The University always seeks
to preserve order and peace and to
respect individual rights.." (The
italics are our's).
That's all well and good, but as
far as we know, the University
wasn't calling the shots for the
Chapel Hill Police Thursday night.
Which leaves us where we
were with the power of the police.
Ah, the insolence of office.
the car number
knowing).
it's worth
At any rate, the absurdity of it
all is that, by law, pedestrians
walking in cross-walks have the
right of way. We guess the trustees
didn't know that. And we imagine
the trustees didn't know that signs
reading STOP are supposed to exist
for pedestrians.
Signs like that work on
Columbia Street and Franklin
Street. It would be interesting to
see full STOP signs put in their
places.
It is awfully lonely on Cameron
Avenue around 8 p.m. to have to
come to a full stop, the way
completely clear, or risk a ticket,.
But then the police must enjoy that
much more revenue from tickets.
Maybe they'll ease, up on
over-parking fines if they can get
enough drivers to run those stop
signs.
What vve suggest, however, is
ihat tiic University remove then
signs and replace them with STOP
for pedestrians signs.
The army, and the nation, have
indicted 1st lit. William Calley for the My
Lai massacre. But there's a difference in
the charges. The army has indicted Calley
for premeditated murder, and the case
supposedly will rest on whether or' not
the lieutenant actually ordered the
massacre. The nation's charge is less well
defined.
The best way to say it is that Calley
has outraged the nation's sense of
decency. That sense of decency had
already been stretched to encompass high
saturation bombing, napalm, and the
Thieu regime in Saigon. Calley was too
much for it.
Of the two indictments, the nation's is-
Rick Allen
Lottery Of
But A. Grossly
For most young men, Monday night i
was like a game of Russian roulette. Each
capsule chosen from the large container
was like the click of the hammer on an
empty chamber, until each man's
birthdate had finally been chosen.
For some it was a second chance and
for others it meant the same as before.
The nation's first draft lottery since
1942 gave the assurance of avoiding
military service to about one-third of our
850,000 eligible males, while indicating
to another third that they would
definitely be chosen.
The lottery marks the end of the
traditional seven years of anxious waiting,
reducing a young man's jeopardy to a
period of one year.
It may seem cruel to some that their
futures have been decided so arbitrarily
by the luck of the draw, and it is in many
ways a capricious and unfair method.
But this is definitely a step in the right
direction. Instead of subjecting all males
between 18 and 26 to a period of brutal
uncertainty, only one third of these men
will have to wonder and only for one
year.
Some of us can look forward to a few
years of loafing or a chance to get ahead
in our chosen professions. Others can .
decide in advance to postpone their June
weddings. At least we will know one way
or the other.
But even a step in the right direction, ,;
while it has its limited benefits,' is grossly -inadequate
when we have so far to go. ' ;
The problem is not to find a more
equitable method of determing which
young men must be sent against their
wills into the military, but to eliminate
the necessity of making that choice.
Letters To The Editor
To The Editor,
It has become apparent to many that,
regardless of the outcome of the present
food service workers' strike, SAGA must
go. The prospect of cutting employment
and service, especially as increased
unemployment threatens nationally, is
not in the best interests of the University
community; either of the students or of '
the workers who have served many years
with substandard wages and working
conditions.
The relevant question, then, is what
institution, if any, will fill the gap. The
state has failed, private enterprise has
failed; experimentation is now called for. .
I would like to suggest a type of
student cooperative, which is used at.,
some schools for bookstores, grocery -
stores and the like. A governing body
representing all concerned parties in this
community students, faculty, workers
and others would make decisions
affecting employment, output, wages and
prices.
This, of course, is only the briefest
suggestion of the type of set-up which
might answer our needs. SAGA ought to
be encouraged to leave, and the
community to begin to determine its
needs as it sees them.
Stuart Lynn,
TA-Economics
Just Stop To Think
On These Thoughts
To The Editor:
Things to ponder:
What has Alan "Mushmouth" Albright
done for you this year?
What has Student Government done
for you this year?
What has Student Government ever
done for anybody?
How many campaign promises did Ken
Day keep?
How many campaign promises did Ken
Day try to keep?
If the guardians of morality destroy all
the marijuana in the world, don't worry;
there's always heroin, supplied by
organized crime, and how many members
of organized crime have been busu-d
recently?
If you get drafted and killed in Viet
Nam, it's all right, because Sidney
SAGA
the more legitimate. Premt
little rse. at leasi as far
case goes, in me neat oi ucuse mi n.-sa
can (and probably does become
temporarily insane. The only thing which
determines whether he orders a massacre
or blindlv kills an individual is his rank.
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Calley "s lawyers won't overlook this.
The army did. and willfully. Its action
intentionally clouded the real issues of
the My Lai massacre, ar.d the most we-'
can hope for now is that America's rage
will not be deterred, somehow will pierce
the army's smoke screen and
equivocation and lay the blame where it
belongs: not. or onlv tncidentallv. on Lt.
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Ultimately, the idealistic would say,
,ve should hope to arrive at the day when
no army at all will be needed, when men
will have learned that it is tragically
wrong to want to kill each other.
But in the meanwhile (and it will be a
very long meanwhile) we must look to
President Nixon's idea of a volunteer
army. War is a business, as almost anyone
will tell you, and the promise of a big
profit will induce many to join.
Instead of an army that contains
dissatisfied civilians, wearing uniforms
only because they have been forced to
against their wills, we could have a corps
of mercenaries.
Mercenary is an ugly word. It connotes
a pagan group of looters and opportunists
who act out of allegiance to nothing more
sacred than the almight dollar.
But is this motive necessarily so
wrong? Why should soldiers not be acting
under the very inducements that
characterize this country?
If we do not condemn the greed that
characterizes our capitalistic system, how
can we condemn the idea of fighting for
money in our army?
One criticism of this well-paid army is
that it would encourage the very poor to
risk their lives while leaving the rich
untouched. But until we can enact the
kind of legislation that would eliminate
poverty, a poor man might welcome the
opportunity of making his small fortune
even if it meant going to war.
Hopefully, we will soon awaken to the
new politics and stay out of Asia. If we
direct our foreign attentions to South
America, our army might become a
standing militia and the risk of death
would be greatly reduced.
Schmuck, Silent Majority Leader, can sit
safely at home watching HEE-HAW and
gloating about his country's honour.
Did you know that the unauthorized
wearing of a uniform, any part of a
uniform, or anything resembling a
uniform, is a federal misdemeanor
punishable by six months and or two
hundred and fifty dollars?
What does Chancellor Sitterson do?
Worse yet, what does Kittv Carmichael
do?
Worst, why does she do it? Doesn't she
know that traitors are frozen in the ice in
the ninth circle of hell?
On the brighter side:
Have you noticed that the ROTC's are
wearing their hair longer this year? Some
even have mustaches, and Dylan was
right it is rumored that some uniforms
were brightened by moratorium buttons.
Was Dean Cansler really heard
chanting "Hare Krishna"?
Kitty watches soap operas.
Jim Gardner eats at MacDonald's.
Onassis saves green stamps.
Will the resolution be passed that
makes it obligatory for the university to
repay the students' tuition when a
teacher is so consistently late to class that
he blows six or seven hours a semester?
Did you know that a North Carolina
doctor has shown statistically that
moderate cigarette smoking is good for
you?
Beer contains Vitamin D.
Spiro Agnew is a holograph.
The use of bras on campus is down by
twenty-four percent.
A recent government survey on
morality has admitted that there is a
precedent for sex.
The average UNC student, with the aid
of a dictionary, is able to complete the
crossword puzzle in the DAILY TAR
HEEL in less than eleven hours.
A member of the Female Liberation
gang sued for divorce on the grounds that
her husband refused to bear their second
child.
A thrill seeking hippie recently died
when he tried to shoot up with chunky
peanut butter. It was the first case in
medical history of death by cerebral
peanut clot.
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410 Chateau Apis.
Charel Hill
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on the armv
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legitimacy- of an order,
preferred to bypass th
is war ar.d the
The army has
by indicting
Carey for "premeditated" murder which
somehow implies that Calley u.s the evil
genuis of My Lai while his troops were no
more personal or individualzze-d than the
Lieutenant's hands or feet. All the "good
boys' who took part in the slaughter are
blameless: the issue Is Calley bloodlust.
r.o more.
This, twenty-five years after the
Nuremberg, when this nation helped
convict the surviving German Leaders of
""crimes against humanity" despite their
J. UU
The Western Hemisphere is our only
sphere of influence, and a well-trained,
highly paid army of volunteers might
serve to dissuade communist influence.
We could start to make this change
immediately. We could assure our soldiers
an annual tax-free income of SI 0,000
with increases according to rank. It would
be expensive, of course, but we must
consider what is at stake. Why could we
not scrap a few of the Armed Service
Committee's more obvious follies and use
that money?
If enlistment were still under the level
needed to maintain our various
commitments, a smaller draft call could
be made.
It is imperative that we stop or greatly
reduce the number of young men that we
send to do things abhorrent to them. In a
war as stupid and wrong as Vietnam, no
country has the right to ask anyone to
sacrifice his life.
Whether a young man is morally
opposed to- fighting or is unwilling to
sacrifice himself in a war he disdains, he
must be allowed to refuse.
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Robin Brewer
Presidentia.
Greetings from the President!
A little under a score of years ago your
father and mother brought you forth on
this continent, conceived as you were
sometime during the late Forties, and
dedicated themselves proposition of
bringing vou guvs up in the Ail-American
Way.
Now, it seems we are engaged in a '
guerilla war, testing whether our nation
(that's America, boy, big A, big A!) or
any nation so confused and so debilitated
can remain secure.
We met just the other night over a
fishbowl and I just want you to know
that we have come to dedicate you,
meager person though you are, as a brand
new starting point for that war, so that
you may give your life that others may
not.
I can imagine what you are thinking,
but most things considered it is pretty
much fitting and proper that we do thii
Of e-ourse, in a larger sense, we cannot
draft, we cannot conscript, we cannot
bother you much more than we already
do.
However, we brave men, living and
straggling in little ol' Washington do a Sot
of things you don't really understand.
r'- t( a-d up for you folks out
I fancy that very few of you t ill give a
lousy padoodle about what I sa id last
Monday, but you can never forget w hat I
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Lt. Calley s troops were also oik
following orders. But in the case of M
Lai that is apparently suff icier"?
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which is conducting this trial. In the
strict obedience to orders, however s;
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or demeaning they may be. is the f rt
law. One can imugsne how ir-.prcticc! ;:
would be if so Id iers w ere e er encou d
to use their own moral discrimination.
Impractical, at least, in a totalitarian
society.
How ironic it is. Poor Calley gets tried
for first defree murder, as if the inflation
of the charge could somehow pay for the
enormity of the crime. Calley takes a:i
the guilt on his own head and scapegoats
it for everyone else involved. h
subordinates get off because aceusr;
them would be to accuse the very life v:
the army. And the army moves th
pieces, seals the indictments, worries
publicly that Calley won't receive a fa;r
trial, and ultimately judges guilt. All from
above.
In the meantime, conscientious rr.er
like Sen. Ervin are suggesting laws i.
enable the army to try discharged soldiers
for crimes committed while in the
service. Because, if you haent noticed,
there is a time lapse between the massacre
and the indictment of Lt. Calley. Most of
the "good boys" of My Lai have gotten
their honorable discharges and gore
home. The army "couldn't try them even
if it wanted to ... "
And Sen. Ervin's bill makes good
sense. No one should escape criminal
prosection just bv getting out of the
army.
But Ervin's bill also betrays his own
failure to see deeply into the problems
raised by My Lai; it reveals how well the
army has confused the issues; it leaves us
just where we began, with one important
question:
Who's going to try the army?
roppings
did to you. It is, rather, your lot to
realize that there is just gobs and gobs of
unfinished work left, so if y'all can shut
up a while, we can get on with it.
WE THEREFORE smugly resolve that
the last full measure of devotion wegae
in picking your birthday number shall
insure that you will not "die in vain, you
lucky dog, and that this ration,
considerably beneath God at the present,
is gonna rise again, and, dadgummit. this
"of the people, by the people, for the
people," crap won't get in our way. With
luck your sons will be skirmishing from
birth.
Copyright 1917. No Soap Radio. All
guns preserved.
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