Saturday. February 7. 1970
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"HE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Gary McGcc
77 Years of Editorial Freedom
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University Housing and Sterility
The University has some
explaining to do. In an
administrative statement Thursday
it was learned all incoming
freshman will be required to live in
University housing for two years
and that sophomore and junior
transfer students will be required to
do so for one year.
The reason, the University
explained, was a debt to the
University's bondholders. That's
fine. But to require students to live
in housing which is as functionally
insufficient as the housing on this
campus is to endanger the
educational, social, and
An Interview With The Kid
With the recent rise in publicity
of Middle America and the
consequent rise in importance of
this sector -of our society,, we
decided to interview the kid, a
Middle merican who is a UNC
student. The complete interview,
unedited and uncut, follows.
DTH: How do you feel about
your recent rise to importance?
KID: Well, I've always tried to
shun the limelight but I think its 1
time that people spoke up about
what's happening. You know, it's
not so important my being
important, but it is important that
people understand what's
important.
PJHL Before o,uf. continue vi&
Miidle' America th&, same as Silent
America? Are you a Silent
American?
KID: No, I think those are two
distinct things we got here. No, I
ihink a Silent American is a
sub-type of a Middle American.
DTH: Are you such a sub-type?
KID: If I wasn't, then I wouldn't
be here.
DTH: What do you think about
HEW's letter telling the University
to desegregate more?
KID: HEW?
DTH: The Department of
1 Jealth, Education, and Welfare.
KID: Oh, HEW. Well, the way I.
look at it, I think that that HEW
ought tojnind its own business and
not stick its nose into other
people's affairs. Now that's a
matter of principle.
- DTH: But isn't the University
part of the public sector? It is a
state university.
KID: Well, now, the way I look
at that-the state can run its state
agencies the way it wants.
DTH: Do you think a
state-supported school should be
permitted to operate with such a
disproportionate ratio of whites to
blacks as the University does?
KID: Now, you take the bkak
schools and you Won't find HEW
telling them they ought to go out
and recruit white students. I think
its purely a matter of interest and
pressure groups. Now this is a
well-documented fact. And yonxan
take J. Edgar Hoover, you can take
him, and he knows whats going on,
see. Youcan read MASTERS OF
DECEIT (by J. Edgar Hoover) and
when you realize what he realizes,
i.e. that the Communists have
mastered deceit, and when you
realize the immorality and the
amorality and the infiltration of
Communism into such black groups
as those led by M.L. King, Jr., and
the invidiousness of such as the
Black Panthers and Eldridge
Cleaver, as Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
pointed out, well then you just
realize the serious and curious state
of circumstances we're in -and all
this coupled with an autocratic
regime in Washington, D.C.,
dictating to the ,statcs what the
Todd Cohea
Editor
Tom Gooding
Laura White
Bobby Nowell
Mary Burch
ArtChany
Mansgirsg Editor
Msw-s Editor
A,iioc!3!S Edttor
Arts Editor
Sports Editor
Sob Wilson
Frank Stewart
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Ptis Htizh
Night Editor this issue
psychological well-being
students here.
of the
The four factories on South
Campus, for instance, are a
quagmire of sterility. Perhaps
before the University sentences
students to. those prisons it might
do something about improving their
educational, social, and physical
facilities.
That is, unless the
administration of this University is
merely interested in the financial
well-being of the school, as opposed
to the total well-being of the
students.
states should rightfully execute on
their own now this' is a well
documented matter of fact. Now
the way I look at it . ...
DTH: Would you say we're in a
crisis of confidence?
KID: I'd say that there's some
kind of gap operating here call it
what you will.
DTH: Some have called it the
Credibility Gap.
KID: Yeah, that's right, call it
what you will.
DTH: But getting back to HEW
and UNC. Do you think the present
enrollment rate of blacks is very
fair?
KID;. T think AVs certainly high ;
enough if . thafs lfth;m bf
the Negro race that want to come
here.
DTH: How do you think the
University has behaved during the
food service problem?
KID: Well, I think that the
University acted with the neutral
restraint which it had the power to
do. Nov this power was endowed
to them by the state legislature
convening in Raleigh.
DTH: When was that?
KID: It's a well documented
fact.
DTH: Oh. Do you think SAGA
is serious about leaving?
KID: No. SAGA is running a
business enterprise.
DTH: But isn't that why they're
leaving? They claim business has
fallen off.
KID: Yes, so I would say that
their threat to withdraw is a serious
one and came only after due
consideration of the stressful and
curious circumstances of the
situation which brought them here
in the first place.
DTH: Which situation was that?
KID: Well, first let me just say
that I think if SAGA pulls out it
will leave the University in a
position of being in an irreparable
food vacuum.
DTH: What about the
suggestions for some kind of
co-operative organization to
operate the food service? -
KID: Co-operative?
DTH: Co-operative.
KID: Oh. I don't think there's a
place for co-operatives on a state
campus such as this here.
DTH: Why not?
KID: Well, as any student of
history will tell you, the miracle of
America is that she was founded
under the principles of the free
enterprise system. Co-operatives
may work in countries such as
Israel, but in a country as rich and
powerful in natural resources as the
U.S. of A., the only way that we
can attain true justice and freedom
is by not deviating from that
miracle known as the free
enterprise system.
DTH: Thank-you.
KID: Any time.
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Bobby Nowell
Round-Up
Imagine you are a standout college
basketball player and your team has just
lost a hard-fought game by a single point.
Leaving the court and the disappointment
which has veiled the home crowd, you
want the coach to hurry through his
analysis of what went wrong so you can
take a shower and
wash the frustration
out of your hair.
But you know as
you descend to the
I dressing room that
J one of your greatest
J challenges of the
r "I aight waits at the
I foot of the stairs. It
is not enough that
you have been bumped . around for an
, Jiourjoj: so under, the backboards. or;tha
' you Iiave beerTpelted by 'catcalls' from the.!
demanding audience. Now, you must
encounter another group of people who
are potentially more dangerous than the
others the gentlemen of the N.C.
Sportswriters Association.
Brandishing soft-lead pencils and
wearing a note pad on each hip, these
journalists are seldom more than -grandstand
quarterbacks only they are
paid to do their second-guessing. They are
highly competitive and boast of "scoops"
they have recorded like a gunslinger
displays the notches on his gun.
They will go to almost any length to
get a different "angle" on a story if not
a scoop and the standard method is the
post-game dressing-down of game
participants who are doing their
damnedest to dress up and get out of the
gym.
Athletes who co-operate 'with the
cliche cowboys, by sacrificing their
showers to answer questions, likely will
receive favorable notices. But wroe be
unto him who either does not cultivate a
good relationship with sportswriters or
who should ever criticize anything one of
them has written.
In groping for different twists for their
stories, the interviewers hope that (1) an
athlete will be loquacious enough to
provide at least one or two revealing
eader Says
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Needs Students9 Ideas
To The Editor: . - ;
In the past six years, there has been a
surfacing of sentiment concerning the
Resident Advisor program on at least
three separate occasions. Each time the
DAILY TAR HEEL examined the
paradoxical problem of advising versus
discipline. Editorials were written in
behalf of the advisor in question
challenging the Dean of Men's office to
reevaluate its goals and procedures.
Unfortunately, after each episode the
fervor and determination of students
subsided, leaving behind only old issues
of the DTH to bear proof of discontent.
Having been an advisor myself, I know
the inadequacies of the program and am
sure that Dean Cansler and his office do
also. Cansler is now making a concerned
effort to understand what the program
should mean to the student as well as to .
understand the interplay of the program
between his office and the residence halls.
This reaction has been the case to some
degree after each publicised incident.
However, the one most important
reaction, the one which has made the
issue known, has rapidly subsided, leaving
everything to the Dean's office1.
Hopefully, the entire R.A. program is to
benefit the student, yet he does not care
enough to take the time to insure that
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Time For
quotes, or (2) his personal life will be
controversial enough for him to be
stamped a "character" about whom much
can be written with a minimum of
documentation.
However, an increasing number of
athletes, while possessing championship
mechanical abilities, are uninteresting to
the point of being dull. They are the
antithesis of the early sports heroes,
' almost all of whom were "characters" in
private life.
, Golfer Dale Douglass, who won two
Z tournaments on the professional tour in
N.C. last year, was described as the worst
possible interview by one scribe: "He
s doesn't drink, cheat on his wife, shoot
pool, drive a sports car, wear loud
clothes, talk much, or evensmile often."
... Sportswriters hate to V interview
!4 Douglass' almost as much as f ormer N.C.'
State quarterback Charlie Noggle, who
was said to have called signals in
combinations of "Yeah," "Naw," and
"Hi." No one could tell whether Noggle
was being superprotective against being
misquoted, or whether he was, simply,
stupid.
On the other hand, the cliche cowboys
often fail to realize it isn't the easiest
thing in the world to be quotable while
trying to catch one's breath, having ankle
tape removed, signing autographs, and
Jim Eldridge
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The
DTH And The Ri
We are all so deeply enmeshed in the
DAILY TAR HEEL editorial "objective
reporting" controversy, this
"comic-opera" (as the GREENSBORO
DAILY NEWS calls it), that we have lost
sight of one the basic questions involved:
the student's right to know.
There is a national organization called
the Television Information Office which
prints full page newspaper ads telling the
American people that whether or not
they like what they see on their TV
screens, it is what is happening in the
world today and they have a right to
MA Program
this hope will become fact. The Dean's
office could definitely use constructive
criticism from the student.
An effective R.A. program could
alleviate problems on both sides. Many
students will spend their entire four years
in a residence hall. It seems a sensible
course for, them 'to enjoy their living
quarters to the fullest.
A good R.A. can be a rallying point for
his hall. One who is known, liked, and
respected naturally enjoys a better hall
atmosphere, and the disicipline problems
are noticably lessened. Thus it follows
that there is less of a burden on the
Dean's office and, therefore, there is no
reason for excusing one's apathy by
saying that one's opinion will not be
heardor considered. Ideas are needed on
selections of RA.'s as well as on what their
duties are or how they should perform
them.
Make an appointment with Dean
Cansler or state your views in the DTH.
Until the. DTH, the Dean's office and
student body work together there can be
nr long-lasting, workable solution;
instead, next year even more issues will
become mere memory7 banks.
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listening to the last of the hot water
trickling down the drain in the showers.
Furthermore, the questions they ask
seldom provoke replies that make "good
copy." They don't inquire of the
southpaw pitcher whether he scratches
his behind with his left hand. Instead,
athletes who have familiarized themselves
with the local press can almost predict
the queries on a given occasion:
On a victory: "What was your game
plan?"
On a come-from-behind victory:
"What did the coach say to you at
halftime?"
On an exceptional individual
performance: "Was this your greatest
game?"
On a closely fought contest: "What
did you feel was the turning point?"
On a defeatrMWhat happened?"
On a particularly disastrous defeat:
"Where do you go from here?"
Accordingly, the knowledgable star
will compile a repertoire of stock answers
to stock questions. Things like:
"We play them one game at a time."
"We talked it over and decided to get
together and play as a team."
"We (just didn't have it) (really had
it) today."
"It's a game of inches."
"You win some,ydu lose some, and
know about it.
The same thing applies to this campus,
and not really on a smaller scale. For we
ARE creatures of our environment, and
an academic environment without a daily
flow of information is absurd, to say the
least.
If the DTH were put on a subscription
basis, you say, those who wanted to find
out what is going on on campus could
still do so. That's the way it is with
newspapers in the "real" world, you add.
True.
But the mass media are not as
subscriptive as one might want them to
be. They tend to drown us with their
pervasive nature, attacking us in our cars,
supermarkets, taverns, barber shops and
occasionally, even our bathrooms. And
like it or not, we are, at least, aware of
the wrorId around us. And Ifke it or not,
the DTH has tried to tell us what if not
always precisely how or why is
happening in Chapel Hill.
It does not take much imagination to
envision this campus without a DAILY
TAR HEEL; there have been more
attractive garbage dumps. Any
organization or group left, right,
academic, non-academic, black, white, or
neuter would have to plaster the trees,
buildings and bulletin boards with signs
and posters announcing their event or
meeting or whatever. The Peabody
arsonist would have a heyday.
But we don't want to do away with the
DTH, you repeat; just fix it so we don't
have to read that radical crap if we don't
want to. So don't. Elect a God-fearing
editor with apple pie dripping from his
jowls who will report all the Agnews the
way you want it.
But where else can one find out for
$2.00 a semester about all the cultural
activities and entertainment in the area,
as well as information which affects one's
performance from day to day on this
campus?
Will.WCHL tell you that you can now
keep a sophomore girl out all night? Will
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY print
jrour letter on stopped-up toilets in the
dormitory? Will WTVD or WRAL give
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They say the your.-er gr.eration is
goisg to the do;. They y coi:?-?
students are a mere bunch of liberals
waiting for some char.ee to rebel a;air.t
society's standards.
And on the campus of the Universr.y
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a student
rebellion went on for a vrek. The
trustees of the University were
summoned to discuss the situation.
It was the term preceding
Commencement.
"For some reason." one observer sa;d,
"Mr. Gillaspie (a member of the faculty)
became personally obnoxious and the
students broke out in rebellion against
the law and the faculty. They actually
beat Mr. Gillaspte personally, waylaid and
stoned Mr. Webb, accosted Mr. Flinn with
the intention of beating him, but were
diverted from it, and at length uttered
violent threats against Mr. Murphey and
Mr. Caldwell ... the disorders were going
on for a week ... It was necessary to
summon the Trustees for the
appointment of a superintendent ar.d
restoring submission to the laws . . .
Three of the first offenders were
dismissed from the institution."
The year was 1799. The observer was
David Caldwell, first president of the
University.
Well, well, well! Just because today's
generation has hair a little longer and a
little shaggy doesn't mean they have gone
to the dogs yet.
Was it 1799? They are following in the
footsteps of great-granddad.
Cowboy,
some are rained out."
WTe can't (look back) (rest on our
laurels). We've got to get ready for the
next one."
"The Mudhens are a fine team. They
deserve a lot of credit." '
No wonder so many post-game
interviews read like broken records
sound. If the present trends continue,
maybe one day a player will be able to
pre-record his postgame comments.
Some players consciously attempt to
turn the tables on their overeager,
somewhat gullible interrogaters by
feeding them "juicy" . but meaningless
quotes, melodramatic stories, or an
"elaborate hegde" to a pointed question.
At the other end of the press relations
stick are those who are openly hostile
with the'press to the point of physical
violence. These two types of athletes are
seldom out of the headlines, because they
make "good copy." But there aren't
many of them.
No wonder so many post-game
interviews read like broken records
sound. If the present trends continue,
maybe one day a player will be able to
pre-record his postgame comments,
enabling him to replay the tape for
sportswriters after the game.
In that way, he can take a shower
before all the hot water is gone.
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you the price of tickets for the next
Carolina Union concert?
This is beginning to sound very
simplistic and childish, but maybe that's
the level we need to reach when
discussing things we take for granted.
Like being in the know. Like walking
toward Lenoir Hall with full knowledge
that black militants or highway
patrolmen might be there to greet you.
Like understanding why nobody was in
class October 15. Things like that.
You may not like what is happening on
this campus, but you have the right to
know about it. And that right should be
inalienable, TO COIN A RADICAL
PHRASE. That right should be placed
above the right of the DTH to operate
exclusive of university control.
An archbishop of Dublin in the 19th
century, Richard Whately, said "The
dangers of knowledge are not to be
compared with the dangers of ignorance.
Man is more likely to miss his way in
darkness than in twilight; in twilight than
in full sun."
The DAILY TAR HEEL may not be
the sun. but it's better than a total
eclipse.
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