Thursday. January 8, 1970
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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Obvious Abuses Of Funds'
The Student Legislature has
called for an investigation into
alleged abuses of funds allocated to
the Daily Tar Heel. The "obvious
abuses of funds," as described by
Rep. Gene Yates, chairman of the
legislature's Finance Committee,
are said to apply to three editors of
the newspaper who had been
receiving two salareis-as editors
and as staff members.
The legislature has instructed the
Publications Board to conduct the
investigation and to remove from
office those responsible for misuse
of the funds. The bill, however, has
not yet been approved by Student
Body President Alan Albright.
An investigation into the misuse
of funds might serve the purpose of
clearing the now-tainted character
of the newspaper and of placing the
responsibility where it properly
belongs: on the shoulders of the
Publications , Board. Consequently
such an investigation might be
better conducted by some body
other than the Publications Board.
The editors who have been
receiving two salaries the editor,
the managing editor, and the sports
editor have done so with the
explicit approval of the Tar Heel's
former business manager, Ron
Johnson,, who resigned last month
foracademic reasons? y::-'"7
; The ' business manager ' is ' ah '
appointee of the Publications
Board, a body which is given by the
Student Constitution the power "to
supervise the financial
administration of all student
publications financed under the
authority of the Student
Legislature ..."
After receiving the approval of
the business manager, the three"
editors each signed two contracts.
The contracts were also signed by
the business manager and the
Chairman of the Publications
Board, Gunnar Fromen. In
addition, the two checks which
each editor received bi-weekly were
Mr. Kirk's
Florida Gov. Claude Kirk, that
late-blooming champion of the
American way, claimed victory over
the nefarious "pop festival" in "his
state this week, much in the same
manner that the white pioneers
exulted their triumph over the
American Indian "menace."
Mr. Kirk, who first declared his
opposition to such events in
November, explains his objection
with the lucid gusto which swept
him into the Executive Mansion:.
"We're going to show people that
they can't come down here and
play."
The governor was so enraged" at
what he saw during a brief visit to
the West Palm Beach Pop Festival
during Thanksgiving that he had a
15 year old boy arrested for
refusing to give his home address.
What he saw was several
thousand people sitting on the
ground, laughing, talking, and
listening to music in the friendly
Florida sunshine. Cheap
entertainment for the
predominantly youthful throngs.
And not much different activities
than those performed by older
tourists who flock to Florida each
year to stay longer, "play" harder
and most importantly spend
more money.
However, Mr. Kirk was so
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Laura White
T&m Gsidinf
Mary Burch
Art Chansky
Managing EtSltor
News Editor
AssociateEditor
Arts Editor .
Sports Editor
Bob Wilson
Frank Stewart
Business Manager '
Advertising Manager
Dav Clark Night Editor this issue
signed
by Mrs.
Frances Sparrow,
the director of the Student
Activities Fund Office.
The alleged "obvious abuses of
funds,"- then, was conducted
completely in the open and had ..the
approval of Mr. Johnsori, Mr4.
Fromen, and ' Mrs. Sparrow. Mf.
Fromen and Mrs. Sparrow are both
members of the Publications Board
and thus the whole affair had the .
implicit approval of the ,
Publications Board, which is
supposed to "supervise the financial
administration" of the Tar Heel
anyway, according to the Student
Constitution.
Mr. Albright might think long
and hard about Signing- a bill wfiicn -asks
the Publications Board to
conduct an investigation to discover
who is responsible for "abuses of
funds" and to fire-.''those
responsible. It is the Publications.
Board which is responsible, whether '
or not there havebeen any abuses.
And as far as the "abuses"- are
concerned, the three editors who
hi aye been implicated, by the
Student Legislature, in addition to
obtaining permission "before signing,
two contracts,- contributed '.an
amount of work above that
required of their editorial positions':,
to merit the extra pay.- -,
, Such, work ; included returning to
school a few weeks early to put -
together a special 38-page
orientation edition of the Tar, Heel; .
travelling, by their own expense, to
various cities dut-of-town to. do
correspondence work; and
contributing news stories, editorial
columns, drama reviews, music
reviews, poetry, and cartoons to the
newspaper.
Mr. Albright would be ill-advised
to sign the legislative " measure
calling for an investigation into the
"obvious abuses of funds." And the
Student Legislature would be
ill-advised to . continue finding the
"obvious" where the obvious does
not so obviously exist.
Pop Festival
incensed at the unkempt,
pot-smoking festival contingent
that he decided they posed a major
threat to the security of his state.
And he announced that he would
devote all his energies to
prohibiting any more pop -festivals
in Florida. '
A festival had been scheduled
for Hollywood (Broward County)
the last week in December, and not
even Mr. Kirk's blasts could force
its cancellation. But the good
governor and the Broward County
commissioners put such
tremendous pressure and
restrictions on both promoters and
audience at the event that the
three-day festival was almost a total
failure. - -
A gathering which' had expected
to draw 35,000 to 50,000 for a
tliTee-day run-by no means large as
pop festivals go attracted fewer
than 20,000 people. .
The Rev. Billy Graham spoke
Sunday, and some folks believed his
presence was a prerequisite for the
festival permit. -
In his stratified .definition of
"Play," Mr. Kirk is . clearly
discriminating against young people
who don't fit his "all-American"
stereotype. The failure of the
festival was more a result of that
discrimination', than anything else.
I'd hate to admit it. but I was glad to
come back.to school this week, if nothing
else to . recover from the wild holiday
eason. To me, the campus was beautiful,
the more so from the absence.
But not so beautiful is the prospect of
exams coming up in merely a matter of
days. I've got the eeling that I'm ready
to begin while the semester is trying to
hold me back. ' .. -
It's as if these two weeks were their
owrt kind of small semester. A semester
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- Do not be alarmed at the sound of this
.voice. You will grow accustomed to it
shortly.
Better now? Good.
-This is your Fleniel Examination. It
will test you for fleemel. It required little
concentration or effort, and should give
an accurate reading of your fleemel. Just
take your time and follow the
instructions.
Look at this page. Direct your gaze to
. the iipper left hand comer,; where the
page is ' largely wmte. Stare at this for
approximately 5 seconds until a tiny dot
forms on the periphery of your eye. This
is your stain.
Move your head slowly down the page
until the stain hovers just above the line
of print you are riding.
Secure a blank sheet of AV2 x 11 paper
and fix your stain in the middle of this.
This is your banner.
Wait until you hear a voice. This lets
us ascribe an identity to you for future
reverence.
Good. You made it through the first
gate. Your banner is therefore of the
translucent variety, and your - fleemel
potential is, at the very least, latent.
Fold your banner into halves and press
your digit to it. Wait for the hum. Your
stain will recover when the hum in your
banner has been established.
You are now through the second gate.
Take your key and sign the banner where
the hum was, making sure not to commit
any rollovers. This is social commitment.
Sufficient but not necessary.
Move your stain to the top of the digit
mark and place it on top of the hum.
After a short while you will hear a sharp
noise that" can be heard over the hum.
Race the ocial commitment next to
Involvement and fold your banner into
fourths.
Good. When your stain recovers move
swiftly to the next gate and switch your
social commitment to the standard hum
of five, which will put you past
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Sittle more than an
excessive number of papers due and the
doom of finals.
And I hate it. Grump.
I don't object to taking exams or
doing papers, though they are the least of
acidemia pleasures, but what I do object
to is when we have to take them. The
natural letdown after a holiday, coupled
with the gloomy Tuesday rain and snow,
was all the more miserable because of the
knowledge of what lies in the immediate
future.
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revolution and into the groove. Snap the
groove with your digit while maintaining
the five hum and you have achieved your
new banner, which is the rollover 01
establishment. You may keep or discard
this. It is not important as far as fleemel
goes.
You are very close now.
Permit your hum five sex to relate to
either social punishment or place your
digit on the new gate of rockenrollover, ,
Letters To The Editor
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an On Radish
To the Editor:
The University's ban on sales of the
Radish on campus, cannot be legally
supported. The first amendment to the
Constitution reads: "Congress shall make
no law . . . abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press . . . The federal
courts have extended this to mean all
agencies of all governments within the
United States. Our Constitution is the
supreme law of the land and all other
laws are superceeded by this document.
The University of North Carolina is an
agency of this state's government and
therefore subject to these rulings. To
prohibit sales here is to abridge freedom
of speech and the press. Although state
statutes and University policy may be
invoked to rationalize the ban, it is
clearly unconstitutional.
Many papers are sold on this campus.
All the snack bars and cafeterias have
newspaper vendors. Yet they have not
been banned. Therefore, one must
conclude that the content of the Radish
is particularly unacceptable to University
administrators.
The ban amounts to a celuloid attempt
to restrict Radish sales thus causing it
financial hardship and limiting the effect
of its information. The University's move
is a glaring case of political repression but
not just an isolated incident in violation
of our Constitution.
It is a serious thing whenever a
bureaucracy comes to regard the
fulfillment of its whims as a standard
larger than the law. Moreover the
integrity of the University is at stake.
How can it profess to support free
inquiry and yet restrict free expression.
The issue here is not
sunnort the left or not.
whether you
Rather it is
whether you support the Bill of Rights or
not.
Sincerely,
Dan Moss, Jr.
Member of the American
Civil Liberties Union
year U.N.C. at Raleigh will begin
ate in August 2nd
conduce
the
semester by Christmas. As far as I know,
such pans are not on Chapel Hill's
agenda.
Why
I'd j'Jtst like to take a few minutes and
put in ai
plea for we silent majority types
who are suffering right now to whatever
sehedull
niceti"S.
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Let's hum- up and get the
semeslej over with before Christmas.
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idea, of course, is not new. A
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posters
notwithstanding.
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digit, and move your stain
translu
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should
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now become visible. The groove
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will re
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Rel
lax now. You're allright. You have
fleemel.
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Tar Heel Views
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To th
ft Editor:
Mr
A. Hewrett Rose, III, expressed the
n that the reporting of the DAILY
opinio
TAR
HEEL is biased and the editorials
absurd
He has a point. No matter what
the ispue is, the same leftwing lies come
from the DAILY TAR HEEL as surely as
if it wrere printed in Havana. The
correlation between the editorial
viewpoints of the DAILY TAR HEEL
and the Communist DAILY WORKER
would approach unity. There can be no
doubt about the editorial viewpoint of
the TAR HEEL on ANY issue
ANYTIME. It's always colorfully pinkish
This LEFTWING EDITORIAL
POLICY has not been instituted by the
preserjtt editor; it has been here a number
of yejirs. The major contributions to the
TAR 'HEEL come from individuals from
the journalism Department. Just any
student can not qualify to submit
colum
ins to the TAR HEEL on a regular
basis.
Students not indoctrinated with the
iing jargon are by definition not
Leftw
eligil
pie so . one sided editorializing
Mr. Rose. '
result!
Maby of the facts reported by the
DAIL Y TAR HEEL are just outright lies,
particj
iilarly concerning student opinions.
Take
your samples from the sociology
buildi
ing and you will get different results
from
a survey in the School of Business
or Vtjnable Hall. How many long-haired
"geeks" do you see in Alumni Hall (more
than 50?) and in an organic chemistrv
class
exist
Hess than 1). Similarly, differences
between the opinions expressed and
taught
in the different schools on
eamp'jis.
A j journalistic viewpoint must be
espoused by anyone who wishes to be
serioijisly considered for the major
operation of the TAR HEEL. He is a
product of one school of thought and in
no wjay represents the opinions of the
studeht body in genera!. Most students
read time of the typical editorials from the
Next
mels
good number of colleges, on whatever
system-quarter or semester, trimester cr
whatever manage to complete 3
complete unit by the holidays. I think it's
great that one CN'C campus at
Raleigh, gets to finish early. a-..i.
jealously, I wonder why those cf us Jit the
main campus can't have the same
benefits.
There are plenty of bene Tits to both
school and students, it seems to me. Such
a shift wouldn't necessarily have Jo
too complicated. Merely moving up the
schedule a couple of weeks and end;r
the spring semester earlier would net
mean necessarily changing the preser.t
system.
Psychologically and practically, the
beginning of the new semester in January
wou!d be much better than stru:g!ir.
along in one people have lost interest in.
At present, Christmas divides a period cf
about five weeks almost in the middle,
creating two pockets of time between
holidays in which students are
psychologically "down" and the een!s
are confused. Since Thanksgiving and
Christmas can't be avoided, movin;? the
semester up would help alleviate that
problem.
Another consideration is that many
professors have virtually completed or
could complete their course under the
present schedule by Christmas break
anyway. After holidays, the few weeks
are almost deadweight anyway; time
better spent in easing into a new
semester.
Administrators who like to keep
students in school and students who have
to travel home long distances might
appreciate the possibility if the semester
finished before Christmas of abolishing
that semester "break" which comes so
soon after Christmas. Either the time
could be added onto Easter later or to
Christmas earlier, saving expense and
confusion.
One other possible advantage is that
the shift of beginning and ending times
for semesters might prove more
convenient to students. I'm sure some
would appreciate getting out earlier in
May to begin or conclude summer job
hunting.
And I know that by the end of the
summer I start to pace the walls of my
room, missing my friends and suffering
acute boredom. At that point, school
seems to come none too soon.
And by changing the semester,
creating two evenly divided, compact
semesters beginning eariier and ending
earlier, it would come soon enough.
If anyone else, would like to get the
semester -readjusted here, or it someone
has more ideas to shed on the subject,
please speak out.
The Administration doesn't have to be
inflexible, nor are students always
helpless. I have a lot of admiration for
those students and those members of the
Pub Board who got the Yack pictures put
back in.
Maybe things can get done. Eut it
would sure be nice to celebrate Christmas
without exams to dampen Christmas
spirits.
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TAR HEEL and either become sick,
bitter or mad, or simply dismiss it as
someone's opinion.
Why can't any columnist dare to be an
individual? I'm tired of reading the same
old worn out line in the TAR HEEL. The
Viet Cong aren't always good; everything
the Administration does isn't BAD;
everything that's BLACK isn't beautiful;
every strike isn't justified; every
RADICAL isn't a prophet of the Divine;
and every PROFANITY can 'it be
vindicated.
How can a column of student opinion
be initiated in the DAILY TAR HEEL?
Could a column of conservative opinion
be included if someone or a group of
well-qualified students (Graduate and
Medical School students perhaps)
submitted articles on a weekly basis?
Someone need not really be
conservative or moderate to be at odds
with the solidly leftwing position of the
TAJt HEEL. A majority of liberals on this
campus decry the DAILY TAR HEEL's
lack of originality, individuality, and
honesty in reporting campus and world
events. The triviality and absurdity of this
year's editorials is regretable.
Arlan P. Garvey
University Gardens
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