THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Wednesday. Vcrch 4, 1973
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Ken Ripley'
Page Two
7 Kzr.y of Editorial
dministration B acktracks
On Project
The Committee on University
Residential Life (CURL) has, in its
rejection of a proposal for a
liberalized open house policy for
Project Hinton,. hit a new and
growing program below the belt.
The idea behind Project Hinton
was that it might serve as a testing
ground for some ideas still foreign
to this University, ye't
experimental, fresh, and
worthwhile. It was hoped that by
giving at least some students a
chance to live and learn together,
with a slice of the environment of
the real world, then the outcome of
such an experiment might provide
telling evidence and example for
the University
The primary factor in the
experiment was the concept of
co-education. Coupled with that
idea was the theory that by
providing an atmosphere for both
living and learning, role of the
residence college might grow.
But the living-learning phase of
the experiment can not really take
root unless the proper environment
is provided. That environment is,
by definition, one which will
permit the members of the project
to live in a microcosm which
closely conforms to the world
outside v i -o
The residence "college concept at -this
i University- has failed miserably.
The best evidence to that effect is
the decision of the University to
o; -e students' to live in
ornmories an extra year because
-t enough students live on
Why? Because, perhaps, campus
housing provides nothing more than
a room in which to sleep and study.
There are very few activities, not to
mention exciting activities, which
might attract students to the
residence halls.
The trend today in university
tudent Body President'
Student body presidents here
don't tend to be overly empressive
as dynamic, innovative, creative,
progressive characters. Each spring
a -slew of . candidates goes knocking
on doors with a handshake and
smile and a lot of mealy-mouthed
promises,- ' :
And each year one of them
manages to get elected. But by the
time election time comes around
again the next year, people have
forgotten who the present president
is. What has he done?
And even if some do remember
who the president is, what does it
really matter? Student presidents
are little more than figureheads.
They are rarely in touch with
student, opinion on a
comprehensive level, and even if
they do manage to reflect their
constituency, there is little they can
do to change things in the
University. .
The students are caught because
they are powerless to effect change.
They can suggest certain ideas to
the powers that be, but the hope of
convincing those powers to take a
chance with the students, as
opposed to the trustees, is dim. The
only way the student body
president is going to get anything
done (if . that) is to bend the
administration's way of doing
things.
If the students did elect a
president who had the integrity and
interest to try to do something
other than being mealy-mouthed,
the chances are he would fail to
impress the real people with the
power in the University-the
Freedom
Todd Cch?i
Ed i for
Harry Bryan
Laura White
Bcbby NoweH"
Mary Burch
Art Chany
f?snagirg Editor
News Editor
Associate Editor
Arts Editor
Sports Editor
Bob Wilson
Frank Stewart
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Sandra Saunders Night Editor this issue
Hinton Policy
education is towards a residence
college program, or something
similar, which is a vital part of the
college experience. Some
universities have developed
residence colleges which are
actually small colleges in
themselves.
The University of North
Carolina is not going to do much in
keeping up in the education field
unless some decisions are made to
experiment, to at least try to
discover on its own what might
work; or if not to
create its own programs, to at least
try to benefit from the experience
of others who have made even
partial successes.
The people in Project Hinton
claim to have benefitted and to be
benefitting greatly from some of
the ideas which they have been
introduced to. But if CURL and
similar administrative groups
continue to deny students here the
right to experiment with education
and with their lives, then this
University is going to fail its
students by not providing them the
very best of which it is capable.
- John Schnorrenberg, the
chairman of CURL, stated that one
of the reasons that Project Hinton
!has not been r allowed a
liberalization of their jvisitation
policy has been their failure to
provide convincing evidence of the
particular needs of the project.
Schnorrenberg might consider
the possibility that because Project
Hinton is just that-a project, an
experiment in education it is
enough to merit a liberalized policy
of visitation.
Or are we to assume that
Schnorrenberg is of the belief that
you can never take a chance that
you might be right, and that being
right might lead you to some kind
of a better place?
. administration and the trustees;
In any event, given the practical
impossibility of elected a student
body president who is going to be
effective for the students, we are
again faced with an election,
coming up on March 17.
Perhaps the least anyone can do,
if he even cares, is to read the
statements of the candidates as
they appear in the Tar Heel, or on
bulletin boards.
Give a sucker an even break.
Campus Radio
Student Legislature will receive a
request Thursday, endorsed by the
Finance Committee, that WCAR be
given $5485. One stipulation, as
suggested by Gene Yates and
Charlie Dean, two members of the
Finance Committee, would be that
WCAR come under the authority of
the Publications Board. .
What we have here are the first
rumblings of a new, controversy.
WCAR wants to get money which is
going to have to come out of
student fees. Therefore the
Legislature is going to want to have
some hand on that money and on
how it is used.
Campus radio has come a long
way in the past few years. WCAR
now boasts an impressive listening
audience. But regardless of the
popularity of the station, and its
possible benefits to he students,
there is going to have to be a lot of
careful, rational- thought -as to
whether students are going to be
required to pay for WCAR
W licit
It's a hard thing to do, having to elect
an editor.
For the candidates, these trying
campaign days are fufl of mounting
pressure, uncertainty, and draining
schedules.
For those of us
student journalists
who just try to keep
the paper going and
do our jobs, who are
concerned about the
race, the Tar Heel
and our future, there
is increasing tension,
worry, and concern.
For the readers,
who have become the electorate, there is
a desire to elect the right candidate; a
concern over the present condition and
policy of the Tar Heel; a wish for a good,
solidly staffed and editorially respectable
student newspaper and an unavoidable
responsibility to vote, and vote
intelligently.
I tend to believe that students can vote
intelligently on their choice for editor. I
also happen to believe probably because
I am a journalist and have been closely
involved with the paper for two
years that the Tar Heel Editor's race is
the most important horse race going.
No one person, including Student
Body President, comes into contact every
day with so many people. No other
service provides the daily news function
of the Tar Heel, nor provides some sort of
an editorial policy to inform and
influence students, administration, and
subscribers across the state.
Of course, the Daily Tar Heel is now
undergoing severe criticism for its
editorial policies, news coverage, and
funding. And today, as there has been in
the past, there are substantial and valid
complaints.
All the more reason, I feel, for next
year's editor to be the most carefully
chosen, experienced, capable, and
qualified person possible. Next year's
newspaper probably couldn't survive a
year of mediocrity, nor does it need to.
But, unless students are very careful in
their choice of editors, mediocrity is a
possibility.
What has been scaring me these last
few weeks is the large number of people
who quickly and openly admit that "they
don't know a thing about voting for an
editor." It bothers me because the race
for editor has so far been reduced to gross
campus politics rather than to a selection
of the best all-around journalist for the
job. - " : '
Fortunately, there still remains a' few .
weeks before election. Hopefully, the Tar
Heel will print more candidate
information, the candidates will speak
out more, and students will have a chance
to learn some information. It is still
possible to vote intelligently.
Next week, I am probably going to
support the candidate for editor I feel is
best qualified, but this week, I'd like to
suggest a few criteria to consider when
you talk to the candidates themselves and
when you vote on March 17.
First, how much experience does the
candidate haveTThis is perhaps the most
important criterion for editor, because of
the tremendous professional know-how
that is required of the editor in the way
he personally oversees the paper and in
the staff he selects. "
Because each newspaper is different,
with different styles and problems,
policies and circumstances, find out how
Rick Allen
The
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If you have not seen the movie "Z"
yet, let me strongly urge that you go as
soon as you can. It concerns the recent
military takeover in Greece, but its value
lies in the broad comparisons that can be
made with the state of American politics
today.
f f 1 In trip last twr
years or so, there has
been a slow but
definite swing to the
right in this country.
To a large entent,
this has been a
reaction to the cries
of "Revolution!"
; and the scare tactics
Instead of
creating an atmosphere of reform and
change, the New Left has provoked the
anger of middle America.
Instead of new legislation, we are
faced with the vituperation of the Spiro
Agnews and John Mitchells.
Why do the young want to get out of
Vietnam?Obviously, they think the war
is wrong, that we have spent too much
already to secure a dubious position, that
the money and lives could be better spent
in improving this country.
But to listen to Agnew, the young are
a pack of rabid communists, undermining
the fabric of our great American heritage.
Mitchell has decided that protests
must stop. He has tried to halt the critical
voices by making "an example" of the
Chicago Seven.
Mississippi's venerable Senator John
Stennis has suggested that we deny trials
to any defendants who disrupt courtroom
procedure.
The Chicago police are indulging in
Meet
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Sliomcl
much experience each candidate has
really had on the Tar Heel. Mere writing
is not enough, and don't settle for such
limited experience. Be leery of campaign
experience claims; they're often
overinflated. There is a radical difference
between an occasional contributing writer
and an editor with months, or years, of
experience. Find out how much editorial
experience the candidate h2S had?
Secondly, the personal editorial policy
of the editor is important, because it is he
who will establish whether the paper is
activist, liberal, conservative, or dead.
Unfortunately, I doubt that students will
be able to find out much about the
candidates' beliefs from what they say
during the campaign. This campaign is
politically oriented, candidates need
votes, and they will all swerve as much
down the middle as possible. Don't get
"sold a bill of goods."
Again, to best discover how the
candidates think, look at their past
records. If their experience is w hat they
claim they will have old editorials or past
political behavior to judge" from. You
don't need a lot of research. What has the
guy said before?
Ben Singletary
Well, it's March again and in just a few
. weeks well be electing another of those
Presidents and Student Legislatures who,
like the wind, come in like a lion and go
out. like a lamb.
Boy, I just can't wait for campus
, elections this year! I love to listen to all
those guys running for office talk about
all they're going to do if they're elected.
About how they're going to fight South
Building for student rights and re-involve
the students in student government. Real
go-getters.
And then they win the election and
somehow you just never hear from them
again. It brings back memories of the old
; student council in P.S. 007. Ah, I
remember just like it was yesterday.
"Good morning, class."
; "Good morning, Miss Ada Minnie
Stration."
"Today we're going to be very busy,
class. Busy, busy, busy! Just like the busy
. little bees. Now I have a big surprise for
; everyone. As you. all know,, your mothers
c paid one dollar for your milk this month.
- Well,, that was. 20 .cents too much, so the
class has six dollars - to spend as it
wishes!"
"Oh,whee, whee!"
, "Now are there any suggestions as to
how we spend our money?Yes, Bennie
Benevolent?
"Well, there's a march against hunger
next Saturday for all the poor little kids
in the world. Why don't we give some of
it to them?
"No, No, Mis Ada Minnie Stration! We
can't do that! We have to use all our
money for school functions. We have to
spend it on ourselves!"
"You're absolutely right, Harold
Hang-On-To-Everything-You've-Got. I'm
ashamed of you, Bennie Benevolent, for
(Shudder) suggesting that we GIVE our
money away to other people. This is
America! We must learn to be selfish and
cold-hearted if we .want to grow up rich
like Daddy Warbucks, Dennie."
.ftefor:
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racial warfare in an effort to eliminate the
Black Panthers.
This whole tactic of political
retribution is the basis of "Z". The
military elite in Greece decides that the
best way to defend its country is to
destroy all opposition through
harassment and assassination.
They assume that anyone who opposes
them is a communist. This same fatal
assumption is being made today by the
rulers of this country.
It just simply is not true that the
young in the LLS. are influenced by
communism or any other foreign
ideology.
The young want to. improve the
country, and to presume otherwise is to
head for disaster. The minute the leaders
of a country decide that the best way to
combat their competition is (through"
elimination, we are in grave trouble.
It is my sincerest hope that it is not
too late in this country. WTe are in
desperate need of changes: we must
rebuild the cities, clean up our
environment, integrate our schools,
reform the military, and feed the hungry.
Obviously, there are many different
ideas for solutions to these problems. But
chearly, the worst solution is to sling mud
on those who disagree. We must unite in a
common effort to save the country.
To call the young "communists" and
"Un-Americans" is to undermine one of
the greatest sources of change.
We are Americans; We are loyal to this
country-- We want to improve things.
Listen to us. We must not be thrown in
jail and we must not be undermined. It is
both our right and our duty to try to
effect change, and if we are given our
chance, we will succeed.
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The biggest danger in this area of
political beliefs is to vote for editor in a
mere reaction to this year's paper. Not
only is such action unfair to the many
editorials and columns that have appeared
each day during the past year, but it also
opens up the possibility of unbearable
over-react ion. Remember, the editor
chosen on March 17 has a year to run the
paper; we've got to live with his policy.
Find out what the candidates really
believe, avoiding labelling, and choose the
one who best agrees with you.
The third criterion I'd use in picking
an editor is the candidate's honesty and
integrity. I'm not worried about his
religion, his preferences, or his girlfriends.
I'd just like to know, is he honest?Is he
fair? Has his record shown him to be a
responsible journalist and, more
importantly, likely to be honest, open
and responsible next year as my editor'Is
he a person I can trust? Simple, basic
questions-but important, vitally
important, to a paper that does have a
gap in responsibility. Fourth, does the
candidate have time for the job, or can he
make time? Perhaps, l"e simplest
criterion of them all, it still is important to
Flunkies,
"We couldn't give the money away,
anyhow, Miss Ada Minnie Stration. First,
it has to go through a committee and,
besides, the class constitution says we
can't spend our money on anything
except school affairs."
'That's correct, Ted Technicality. I'm
appointing you to head a committee
to investigate the possibilities of spending
this money."
"Oh, come on, Miss Ada Minnie
Stration. That's a big wraste of time!"
"You're speaking out of turn again,
Lenny Let's-Get-On-With It. I'm afraid
IH have to paddle you and call your
father."
"Oh please don't call my father, Miss
Ada Minnie Stration. If you do, 111 get a
spanking here and one at home, too.
That's not fair."
(Chorus) "That's just not fair."
"Shut up, class. I don't care what you
think. I'm running the show here and
don't-you ever forget it! Now that's
about all of our time for today. Next
week we'll elect our officers - and
legislators. So, for . our next class, b
thinking about ;jwho" you " want "to "".
represent you. '
Readers Forum
Letters to the editor must be
typed and double-spaced, not
exceeding 300 words. The letter
writer must indicate his willingness
for his opinion to be expressed in
print. All printed letters must carry
the name and address of the
writer(s).
Letters should be addressed to
the Asspciate Editor, care of The
Daily Tar Heel, Student Union.
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be those candidates who don't realise :L..-.
being editor is a full-time, a!l-th? -t;-
Job.' "':
Finally. w hat are the card .1: re
education si backgrounds?I ask th:s rt
only because I'd like to know if
candidate is a journalism major w uh vrr.
knowledge of journalism, hut a0
because the guy's major can show a K t
about him his training, his inclination,
the time he will have, not to mer.t.or. h s
intelligence.
I haven't ever mentioned persor-.a:.:
as a criterion, because it inevitably w a
be. and also because that, truly, is .v.
individual decision. Ima;e is import-:,
but perhaps the least important.
Appearances are deceptive, particularly
a campaign.
Experience, beliefs, education, ar.ri
integrity are the qualities re'd demand uf
any professional we'd want to represent
and work for us. No less do they matter
to the position of DTH Editor.
" Be very ore ful, .when you decide
who your candidate will be, that he win
be the right man for the job.
We owe it to each other.
Dob
9 They
"Our three candidates are Carl
Conservative, running on the platform
that the only change around here will be
the kind that jingles in your poeket;
Randy Radical, whose slogan is 'The
desks belong to the people'; and Nick
'No-Label' Nice Guy, whose platform is
1' X S"
"But, Miss Ada Minnie Stration,
what's the purpose of having a President
and a Student Legilsature if they don't
have any real powerTThe only decisions
they can make are those that you approve
of. If they pass anything you don't aree
with (anybody here remembers
double-jeopardy? you simply over rule
;them. They just do your busy work."
Now you know that's not true,
Sammy See-Through-Your-Scheme. Your
President and Legislature perform
valuable services. They do much more
than my busy work! Why, they uh,
they. . .uh, . . .they look real nice and
impressive in the yearbook!"
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