THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Tuesday, February 17,
Bobby Soivell
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After SAGA,
The University will not operate
the food service next year unless
forced to do so by the trustees,
according to Joe Eagles, Vice
Chancellor for Business and
Finance.
Eagles has acted a little
prematurely, and we strongly
question his rationale. Although he
used some fancy logic to support
his pronouncement, he did not give
any evidence that he has fully
comprehended the various
communities of opinion which exist
on this critical matter.
The Faculty Council has heard,
and the workers -have suggested,
that some form of a co-operative
replace SAGA when it leaves in
May.
Those proposals have enough
worth to merit at least some
consideration by Eagles and his
fellow administrators.
But neither Eagles nor his boss,
Chancellor Sitterson, have
displayed much of a willingness to
address the various proposals which
have arisen from the swamps of the
common people who, believe it or
not, do survive outside the 'closed
doors of South Building.
Eagles uses, some fancy figures to
explain Hi's., posit ioniVThere are 59
eating places Th the vicinity of the"
University campus and 15 are in
walking distance, he said. Also,
8,000 students, almost half, he
willingly pointed out, have vehicles
registered with the university.
Mathematician Eagles cited some
real impressive "figures there. He
neglected to point out, however,
exactly how many of those
students with cars are
undergraduates, and how many of
those 59, or 15, or how ever many,
eating places offer food at prices as
low as a campus food service could
or would offer.
Eagles does leave a glimmer of
hope though: "If we decide
students want a central food service
and will support it, we will contract
Chicago Nine:
The visibility of the politics of
repression in this country has never
been more clear than in the Federal
courtroom of Judge Julius Hoffman
these past five months.
Now this cantankerous,
74-year-old tyrant has sentenced
the defendants and their lawyers in
the "Chicago Eight" conspiracy
trial. They will be jailed for
contempt of court, the sentences
varying from a low of six months; to
a high of four years, 13 days.
The longest stretch was meted
out to Attorney William Kunstler.
Hoffman told Kunstler, "I have
never heard a lawyer say the things
you have said to me."
No judge has ever more richly
deserved the epithets Hung by
Kunstler during this lengthy
mockery of justice.
Hoffman, operating with the
awesome power of the state behind
him, has tried his best to prevent
the defense from constructing a
case. He may have been successful
in keeping the more violent
incidents from the eyes of the jury,
but he cannot keep the truth of the
violence his actions have predicated
from the eyes of the nation.
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with someone to do it."
Two questions here: How will he
obtain student feelings, and who
will he contract?
If, as Sitterson has already
suggested, a poll will be taken,
through the resident advisors, to
decide what should be done about
the food service, then we strongly
question that method.
We oppose Sittersorfs idea for
the simple reason that since the
SAGA fiasco, and even before the
arrival of SAGA, the quality of the
food service here has been such that
students have changed their habits
of eating. A great many do not eat
in the campus dining halls.
If Sitterson and Eagles plan to
capitalize on that fact, then
doubtless there will be no food
service next year.
But if they take into account the
change in eating habits, and also the
possibility that with the
introduction of a good, inexpensive
place to eat! students might return
to campus to eat, then the campus
dining halls might not be in their
last days.
Neither Sitterson nor Eagles has
publicly addressed the proposals for
various, forms of , a co-operative
food service to replace SAGA when
it leaves the University in May.
Before either of those up-to-now
silent analysts makes anv final
decision, he might do well to open
his mind to all possibilities, not just
the ones which pop up in with no
real, fair study of the total
problem.
Neither Sitterson nor Eagles has
much of a history of soliciting the
feelings of the community-the
students, and the workers
especially, as well as the faculty and
administration.
They might do so in this case.
After all, representation is supposed
to be one of the finer points of our
great democracy.
Isn't it.
Tears Of Rage
The purpose of the contempt
sentences is of course to put the
eight "conspirators" in jail. Lock
them up and keep them from
causing trouble for our orderly
democratic processes of
government.
However, it is not enough balm
on the wounded ego of Julius
Hoffman that the defendants be
put away. The judge also wants to
silence the lawyers who dared to
criticize his atrocities. In so doing,
he has said lawyers like Kunstler
have "a stimulating effect on the
increase in crime,', in this country.
Hoffman said Kunstler was of
the legal breed who "go beyond
their professional responsibilities in
the defense of clients," thus helping
to increase crime.
The sad part of all of this is that
only a higher court can do anything
to correct the atrocities of this
crusty Little Caesar. A higher court
hopefully will overturn the
sentences.
Meanwhile. William Kunstler,
who pulled out all the stops to
defend the "right to dream" of the
"Chicago 8" will sit in jail.
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Well, it appears the confirmation of G.
Harrokl Carsweli as a Supreme Court
justice is almost as sure to happen as that
total eclipse of the sun which will, be
visible in this area next month.
The Senate, as a body, apparently has
so little spine for another wirmahle
wrangle with Premier Nixon, that it will
present the Court with its first
unquestionably racist member.
CarswelPs confirmation will likely
represent the first phase of an eclipse of
the sun of American justice, which shone
brightest during the
Earl Warren years.
After all, Nixon
has already obtained
himself a "strict
constructionist"
(euphemism for
reactionary) Chief
Justice in Warren
Burger. There is no
reason to believe the
Premier's future High court appointments
will not be other Carswells and
remember that the "liberals" on the
Court (i.e., Hugo L. Black, 83) are getting
mighty old.
At any rate, the arrival of Carsweli will
likely represent a painful turning point in
the pseudopodic progression towards
equality by American racial
minorities who owe much of their
progress to the "Warren Court."
An undistinguished judge by any
consideration, Carsweli is nonetheless
exactly what Tricky Dicky angrily
promised after Judge Clement
Haynsworth had been regurgitated by the
Senate. Nixon predicted his next nominee
likely would be more of a "strict
constructionist" than Haynsworth is . . .
and on that count, the Premier surely has
delivered.
The bonus the Senate gets for'its
rejection is a judge who is not only more
conservative than Haynsworth, but is a
racist as well.
It is galling to hear legal authorities, ,
such as WTHliam Van Alstyne of Duke
University, testify that Haynsworth was a
much better choice than Carsweli.
Certainly, on the grounds of race
alone, the Senate has the opportunity for
a fight against Carsweli and an even
better chance to defeat him. The
bipartisan effort which resulted in
Haynsworth's rejection was based on a
somewhat nebulous "conflict of interest"
charge among the judge's stock
transactions.
Admittedly, the Senate had to work
hard to find a charge which would cause
v Haynsworth to miss the "beyond
reproach" ethical quality supposedly
required of Court appointees. But they
did it, and Haynsworth was shot down,
55-45.
Now,
the ersatz nominee Carsweli
John Agar
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have taken an oath to uphold the
laws of North Carolina, and until this
statute (prohibiting the use of state funds
for involuntary busing of students to
achieve racial balance in the public
schools) is declared unconstitutional I
shall not authorise the expenditure of
any funds for such involuntary busing.
Gov. Scott, Feb. 11, 1970
Governor Scott had his chance and
muffed it. In the terrible tragedy of the
races in America, Scott could have played
a constructive, if minor, part. Instead, he
cast his lot with the increasing popular
opposition to "involuntary"
busing which is to say, to desegregation.
As the news media reported it, Scott's
decision to prohibit the use of state
money for using was an "apparent change
of mind." Like all such things, this one
dutifully spawned a long and
conscientious history as Scott declared
that he had "always" been an opponent
of busing.
Those few of the governor's
constituents who perhaps remembered
otherwise were left to figure out for
themselves what had become of Scott's
recent statements on the need to comply
with federal court orders with the law.
What happened, apparently, was that
this kind of well-reasoned moderation
didn't go over well in the state. There was
no hay to be made out of this law and
order issue; Southern governors had
gotten charisma by defying federal court
injunctions, not obeying them. Scott
apparently assessed the situation and then
provided us with yet one more instance
of the kind of unimaginative, uninspired,
cowardly political leadership which daily
intensifies the already critical race
problem in America.
To justify his intransigence, Scott
found a 1969 state law, of which, in the
old, abolished past, he had been unaware.
In itself a defiance of federal court
orders, the law changes nothing, but it
allows Scott to talk like a Governor, in
firm, high-minded tones, when he tells his
voters that he's on their little old bigoted
side.
But now the state must go through the
courts, and who knows, by the time the
case is finally settled the Nixon Court of
the silent - majority may already have
ruled that policies which confirm people
in their hatred and fear are legal. But
whatever the decision, the damage has
been done.
It's been done and done and done
more times than anyone can count. The
minute Scott opened his mouth to
declare that he was against this latest
Scott
One
presents a much . easier' target . for
criticism but . the Senate archers,
particularly the Republicans who bucked
Nixon, apparently have become unwilling
to draw the bow.
At least four instances of Carswelfs
racist identification have surfaced during
the period of his hearing by a Senate
subcommittee. All of them have been
gibly explained away by White House
cornmisars. and by Carsweli himself.
The most widely publicized example
was. of course, the now-famous speech G.
Harrold delivered in a political campaign
22 years ago and published in his own
newspaper down in Irwinton. Ga:
".. . believe that segregation of
the races is proper, and the only
practical and correct way of life in
our state. I have always so believed,
and J shall always so act. "
When confronted with this
adumbration, Carsweli appeared
astonished and cried, "Mv God,
Almighty? Did I really do that?"" Later,
after collecting himself, he "repudiated"
the statement as "obnoxious" to his
present philosophies.
The judge's wide-eyed innocence at
having these heinous dregs dumped in his
lap must have been a thoroughly
convicing act. The Senate has been
Letter to the Editor
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Bion uirector
Dear Editor:
I think it is time for Mr. Howard
Henry and the Carolina Union to wake up
to the realities of the entertainment
business. In last week's DTH article, Mr.
Henry states that "colleges have become
the largest single entertainment buyer"
and then he proceeds to explain how no
college can afford the top groups. His
major example seems to be Madison
Square Garden in New York. Of course
UNC can not match 18,000 people and
an $100,000 gross, but since November
only three shows have played there. They
are The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin,
(supported by Butterfield Blues Band),
and Sly and the Family Stone. Except for
these few examples, the $100,000 gate is
non-existent.
. Sure Janis Joplin played Madison
square Garden, but she also played
Fayetteville on November 30. (Editors
Note: Joplin cancelled her Fayetteville
appearance.), These groups have to play
other places other than New York. Why
not here?
'Cowardly' Busin
mechanism of intergration, he was just
one more white man adding one more
insult to the history of insults which the
blacks have suffered in this nation.
The governor found it "ironic," he
said, that no one, not the blacks, the
whites, the rich, poor no one was really
in favor of involuntary busing. How
feeble Scott's sense of irony must be that
he missed the greatest joke of all that
the black movement, which was the
conscience of this nation in the '60s, now
wants nothing to do with American
society or the whites who control it.
The black movement, which had its
genesis in the campaign for integration,
has now become segregationist, separatist,
and in many ways racially chauvinist.
Here, if the governor had to look for
ironies, was the one which should have
attracted his attention. But there are
others.
It is ironic, for instance, that a culture
which has fought and struggled with itself
to achieve as much racial advancement as
our society has should suddenly, at the
brink of success, recoil and sink into the
passivity of suspicion and bigotry.
It is ironic that the Republican party,
the party of Lincoln, should be the one
to galvanize the forces of racial division in
this country.
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dismayingly forgiving on this "rash
incident" of Carsweli $ youth.
.it is entirely possible thai Carsweli
rouid indeed have had a complete reversal
of attitude in those 22 years but a look
al the record simply does not bear him
. out.
He has belonged to a segregated
country club. He has sold property under
discriminatory requisites. Both of these
travesties were dismissed by the White
House as "standard practices in the
South" which do not necessarily reflect
CarswelPs beliefs. Ha Ha. Good ole
Harrold.
In 1963. as a federal district judge.
Carsweli summarily dismissed a plea by
blacks to open movie theaters to them in
the judge's hometown. Tallahassee. Fla.
Two years later, Carsweli gave short shrift
to a suit asking that Tallahassee's public
swimming pool be integrated.
For those who savor figures, seven of
Federal District Judge CarswelPs 24
verdicts involving civil rights were
overturned by higher courts.
If it can be said that Attorney General
John Mitchell failed to complete his
homework on Haynsworth, then it can
also be contended that the S.S. Chief
failed to open the book on Carsweli.
Despite the blatant danger Carsweli
poses to civil rights in this country, the
opposition to him has been at best
Mr. Henry keeps quoting a price of
$50,000-$100,000. I would like to see
five groups who get that much. His only
specific example is the Creedence
Clearwater Revival which is now getting
$25,000-$30,000. This may be true but
the Creedence Clearwater Revival has
been releasing top hits faster than anyone
else which makes them one of the hottest
groups in the country.
I would also like to see Mr. Henry's list
of groups who do not play concerts
because of electric complications. All
major groups know their money and life
is based on playing in concerts and not
turning it out in the studio (except the
Beatles). Another brilliant example of Mr.
Henry's concerned the refusal of groups
to play in the South. He cited Harry
Belafonte and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and
Young as examples. However, Belafonte
has not played 'anywhere 'besides' night
clubs in recent years and 'Crosby,1 Stilts, '
Nash, and Young are only one of many '
groups.
The major problem at UNC seems to
and
It is ironic that a nation like America,
which has the ideals of freedom and
equality so much before it, persistently
denies full citizenship to one tenth of its
population.
In fact, the only aspect of this
situation which is positively not ironic is
the one which first struck the governor's
fancy. It is not ironic that all sides oppose
measures to bring about integration. It's
expected.
The Bill of Rights and the various
amendments the courts have cited in
desegration decisions, as the governor
perhaps does not remember, are nothing
less than a set of restrictions on the
power of the majority, even a majority of
ninety-nine percent.
There are prohibitions against the
establishment of a state religion; against
legal sanctions on free speech; and against
all forms of discrimination on the basis of
race.
Today, the Constitution is under
attack by, as always, the majority a
majority impatient of restrictions and
eager to write its own mores,
predilections, and prejudices into law.
As in times past, the Constitution is
defended only by an enlightened few of
which Governor Scott, our young
politician in a hurry, assuredly is not one.
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lukewarm. A handful vi :.
senators have bargained for tirr.e, .
a committee vote on CarswelPs
in the hopes that even more d.i.
evidence may be unearthed. ru:
running out.
Nixon must have really given s
, Sea. Hugh Scott, the Republican r,.
lea d e r w h o v ot ed aat:t st 1 1 .. ; . ,
This time around, Scott, look::
much like a browbeaten Reg:r,;,l
G Season III. has said ttr.-z
"CarswelFs going to be cor.f:rr,
without even being asked.
Other Republicans v ho ri.uv-ri to v
the line against Haynsworth
bothering to speak out aamt i-r-,.
bowing to pressure tactics. And ther
no hope of rejecting G. Harrold u :: ,
Republican-Democrat ic coalition f...
transpire.
Somehow, enough Senator r
awaken to the dangers of puttie
man on the highest bench in t :..
Only 50 years old. Carsweli ran s. .
damage the court's attempts to , d,.,
civil rights justice in 20 or 2o u-.rs
service on the Court.
Will no one oppose this racist . M
it is too late? Will no one ktrp
shadow off the face of the sun.'
be a Sack of money. It is obvious !h
we want the top groups, we nn; i
willing to pay for them. If the Car !.;
Union would charge S3.00 a p .-rson f
Jubilee ($1.00 per day), we would he,
about $30,000 extra to work u .;!.
doubt if anyone would object to pt
$3.00 for three good concerts. Wit f -this
money, the Union has to horde
money all winter to insure enough :
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staging any reiiikti lumiui uiut. it i: .
sure money maker. Mr. Henry and h
crew can not rest on last year's Jubih
forever.
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mere is no reason lor a ui
university of 16,000 students to go li.
or six months without a maior attra -tu :
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As a linal note. 1 vvou d like to mm.
Mr. Henry that the Rolling Stones, i .
their U.S. tour, appeared at Aubur
University in Alabama. Somebody at U
Union must be sleeping if we miss-out .
eorreerts like . 'J that.' - With a -' 12.':.
' imagination and a little more money, th.
Carolina entertainment scene would sho
a great improvement.
David Stollmru K
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