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, The Faculty Council passed
unanimously Friday a resolution
that the University "should provide
or arrange for a continuing food
service on campus-" That the
approval was unanimous is
significant. There were not merely a
fpw council members who believe
discontinuance of the campus food
service will be detrimental to the
University.
But we also have to remember
the way things work here. The
faculty, or even the Faculty
Council, is just as powerless to
make decisions as the students, or
the non-academic employees. The
administration makes the decisions.
It seems as if a different kind of
decision-making structure is
needed. .Such a structure might
incorporate the faculty, and the
students, and the non-academic
workers.
That's just an idea. It's not new.
It's also not. very likely to happen.
A weak attempt to create a group
with such membership (also
comprising trustees and alumni)
was put forward last fall and
eventually was realized in the
Consultative Forum, a group which
has no power, and no real
responsibility.
The forum is set up to
communicate, the implication being
that1- if it 'proved successful;, as a;
means of communication, it could
become a decision-making
structure.
; But a number of things make
that unlikely. First, the forum has
Had only one meeting thus far and
Has not really accomplished much.
The group is holding its second
rjieeting today, and the possibility
exists that something positive might
be accomplished.
James Gaskin, the new chairman
of the forum's steering committee,
Iks set for today's meeting the
jppic of the problem of racial
Accomodation in the University. He
lias prepared all the members by
lending them literature on the
matter, including such documents
as the HEW letter to the University.
Gaskin is trying to get the forum
n its feet, but he faces difficult
bdds. For one thing, the members
of the forum do not necessarily
j-epresent their various
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Find New Game In Laos
President Nixon sought Friday
to dispel the growing fear that Laos
js going to become another
Vietnam. The U.S. has "no plans
for introducing ground , combat
forces into Laos," he said.
But he also said something else:
'We desire nothing more in Laos
than to see a return to the Geneva
greements and withdrawal of
STorth Vietnamese troops, leaving
he Laotian people to settle their
nvn differences in a peaceful
nanner."
What exactly does that mean? It
seems to mean, for one thing, or to
imply, that unless the North
Vietnamese troops are withdrawn,
the U.S. is going to, have to do
something about insuring the
Laotians that they are going to be
able to settle their own differences.
And how is the U.S. going to do
that? "
The U.S. has 1 ,040 Americans in
Laos, 320 of which are engaged in
rhilitary advisory or military
training roles. In addition,
according to our policy of
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constituencies. They were
appointed, not elected. (The
Faculty Council, on the other hand,
is an elective body.) For another
thing, the group meets periodically
every few weeks, and that does not
make for a group keenly attuned to
the problems of the campus.
Finally, the forum has no power.
Even if Gaskin can pull the forum
out of its quagmire, there is no real
guarantee that it will be effective in
bringing about change.
The reason the forum has no real
future as a structure for making
decisions within the University is
that the power in the University
(held by the trustees and the
administration) is not likely to be
relinquished. Power we must
remember is a highly guarded
possession.
The University has no history or
tradition of dividing power among
the various communities which
comprise the University. What the
administration does do is bestow
token busy work on the students,
for instance, which is supposed to
keep the students satisfied.
Students handle orientation,
students run the court system,
students are involved in Student
Government. And none of those
students has any real power to do
any thing which might bring - about
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The non-academic employees
can do nothing about continuing
the food service or anything else.
Neither can the Faculty Council, or
the students. All those groups can
pass resolutions and make
suggestions, but in the final analysis
the administration and the trustees
wear the guns.
So as far as the Faculty
Council's food service resolution,
which passed unanimously, or the
Consultative Forum, which is going
to discuss today the problem of
racial accomodation in the
University; or all those students
who are running for office in the
Student Government so far as they
are concerned, there is very, very
little which they can do about
moving this University. Things are
going to move when the
administrators decide so, and not
until then.
"protective reaction," American
planes can bomb Laotian targets.
Thus far, according to a White
House official, the Air Force has
suffered about 400 casualties in the
fighting in Laos, including about
200 killed and an equal number
captured or missing.
Contrary to Nixon's assurances,
the U.S. has lost men in Laos, has
men there, and will continue its
policy of aggression there until
Laos is free of the communists and
thus free to resolve its own
problems.
That is the Vietnam rhetoric all
over again and it is just as
dangerous. The Nixon
administration's policy is based on
anti-communism and the
complementary domino theory and
that is not the kind of policy which
is going to do the Americans or the
Laotians any kind of good. Unless
of course, Nixon's world witch
hunt is to have a greater priority
than the whole American domestic
crisis in all its ominous aspects.
One of the best forms of
entertainment on a beautiful day (like
last Sunday) is to go people-watching.
It's not a strenuous exercise you
merely find yourself a good vantage point
(like the steps of Lenoir), put your hands
behind your head, let the warm tongue of
the sun slide along your body, and watch.
People-watching is a lot more fun in a
busy methodical atmosphere, like that
offered by New York Port
Authority major
train or plane
terminal. But you
can do it just as well
here in uncrowded,
unhurried Chapel
Hill.
People-watching
is a good men til
exercise, too,
because it can reveal
some unexpected
truths about other
people as well as
yourself.
Here you are. Sun sure feels good.
Steps are hard, but youll soon forget its
edge in your ribs. Now for the people.
Here comes a guy decked out in a red
alpaca sweater (monogrammed). That's
' the first thing you notice. Next, khaki
trousers frayed at the cuff, no socks, and
alligator-wingtip tassled loafers. Light
blue shirt, top button open. Beautifully
managed Johnny Carson haircut, modest
sideburns. Walks jauntily, glaring from
side to side.
A good-looking cat, all right. A
fratty-bagger your first impression. All
he needs is a beer in his hand and the
Tarns playing, right?
But is that fair? What's that book
under his arm? Soul on Ice, By Eldridge
Cleaver? And Kuenen's Strawberry
Statement? And Abbie Hffman's
Revolution for the Hell of It?
To satisfy your curiosity, you follow
him with your eyes to the parking
lot where you fully expect him to
mount a gold Vet. But surprise, it's only
an old Volvo. And on the rear bumper is
a slightly faded sticker: "Work for Peace,
Oct. 15."
And the American flag decal in his
window indicates this individual isn't
about to relinquish the Stars and Stripes
to the "love-it-or-leave-it" superpatriots.
You watch him drive away,
shame-faced that you have fallen prey to
the "instant-character-assessment-via-stereotype"
syndrome. You promise
yourself it won't happen again.
Appearances are deceiving.
Now here comes a hip-lookin' fella,
truckin' on. down the sidewalk, long
u blond . hair and rumpled shirttail flapping -in
the gentle breeze. Sandals on his feet,
and his clothes look slept in. About three
John Agar
University Has Been
Each new development in the SAGA
problems more deeply co M-ms my sense
of deja vu. Not that SAdA hasn't found
ingenious ways of torturing everyone
involved to final exasperation: it has; no
one can doubt that. But every day seems
to repeat one theme only:
When men are small, petty, fearful,
self-interested even to the point of being
unable to discern where their true interest
lies they make others suffer; and then,
they recoil from that suffering, mystified
by it, infuriated when it claims their
sympathy.
I'm not talking about Ted Young and
the SAGA management. They're used to
mucking in and taking what they can get.
Appeals to their humanity have been
worse than wasted: they've been naive
self-mockery.
But the University administration is
different. It'sstaffed by educators ar
humanists who, if they sometimes
disagree among themselves, are always
united by one overriding goal: the
Letters to the Editor
Daiightry
To the Editor:
In your Thursday issue, you placed an
endorsement for an independent
presidential candidate on the botton half
of the fifth page. This endorsement was
granted by an on-campus, non-politico
group.
We note with greafc displeasure that the
party candidates endorsements received
preferential publicity front page
placement with larger type, despite the
fact that the campus political parties are
notorious for inane statements of the
type satirized in Mr. Daughtry's
endorsement and for their inept
management of student government in
the past and present. Though you may
have found the tone of the article
offensive, we feel that many students
recognized this as serious, purposeful
satire. Daughtry's treatment of the
in-group party and patronage systems was
valid, direct, and delightfully pointed. He
has added a much needed perspective to
an otherwise typically dull campaign.
Although we are not in agreement
with all of Mr. Daughtryus views, it is
clear to us that he sees student
government as it really is, a rather
laughable, childish, and extravagent group
days growth of beard splotched, about his
smiling, hollow -cheeked visage. No books
and, seemingly, no cares.
A real easy-rider. Probably smokes
dope, reads Ramparts and Rolling Stone,
digs rock and blues music, an amateur
authority on the Chicago Seven trial, and
a student of Marxist-Lennist theory.
Yeah. Underneath that complacent
facade, a rock-ribbed revolutionary.
But wait, why should you think those
things? You remember the other night on
Dick Cavett's show there was a member
of the conservative "Young Americans
for Freedom" who looked like a
fair-haired Jerry Rubin? -
You've again succumbed to the
stereotype.
The director of the UNC News Bureau
sends out a "news release" on the campus
newspaper, stating that "many of its
members are long-haired and bearded."
Immediately the good folks down in
Wilson's Mills, N.C., exclaim, "See. I
knew that paper was nothing but hippies
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enchancement of human self-awareness.
These are our teachers, these the
custodians of the best part of human
experience. They are the preservers and
transmitters of all the knowledge and
sagacity the human race has accumulated
since it began to know itse '.
Believe it.
Try this. "They are SAGA's
accomplices."
' The truth is, I don't know what they
are. I can evaluate their separate acts or
refusals to act well enough, and these
mostly are disconnected from the
business of education. Our administration
is obsessed with petty politicking, even
when it serves no real purpose, and with
jealously, zealously guarding their little
prerogatives.
But what they are as people, I hesitate
to say. Not that I doubt my judgment but
I'm reluctant to bring in a verdict which
can only leave me more disillusioned and
despairing than I am now.
Then there's the SAGA problem.
Candidacy I
financed by the student body. -
We hope you will do whatever is
journalistically proper in cases in which
discrimination, either inadvertant or
advertant, has occured. In gratitude for
your compliance with this request for
fairness, we remain:
Evelyn Trop Economics
Header Wamts To See
IudeiBemdem
To the Editor:
How long has it been since an
independent candidate was given the
opportunity to serve as President of the
Student Body? For too many years party
politicians have steamrolled over campus
to fill the post. The result? Sometimes
active, achieving presidents sometimes
hacks' and administrative flunkies, but
always stagnating political party system.
But if an independent wins this election,
all three parties will be forced to revamp
their structure. They will have to involve
&rii co m rn u n s .
Are you any less guilty of jumping to
conclusions than the.v residents of the
"boondocks?"
You ccnt judge a book by its cover.
There ere others.
The black couple, sporting
$ymtr:clrcc! Afros like bedges-yau peg
them for militants, but maybe they just
like that 'look" and don't belong to any
activist groups.
The stocky chsp with the crew cut.
belly bulging against a blue work shirt
with "Joe" in a little red circle over the
pocket. .May he's not the dumb dropout
who instictively hates you for your
college education or the way you look it
could be that he has a degree of his own
and marched in the moratorium Oct. 15.
The chick with the tossing streaked
tresses, gaily striped garments, and
bouncy walk does she worry most about
finding a husband as you seem to think,
or could she be one of the most vehement
members of Female Lib?
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As Vicious
SAGA's tried everything short of the
blackjack to make its workers go quietly
to the slaughter house. There were
lay-offs, promises there would be no
layoffs, changes in the management,
cajolery and threats, summary firings,
strike-breaking, and now (this is original)
the "bumpings."
SAGA is not the only problem which
has confronted the University this year.
There have been furors about Mayor Lee,
Daivd Blevins, double jeopardy, and a
host of less important issues. On all of
these the University has managed
consistently to come out looking inept,
selfish, or simply petty.
But for sheer hideousness, SAGA tops
all. We've spent close to a year now
watching SAGA strive to put people out
of work. We've seen the succession of
broken promises and disappointed
expectations. We've seen the strikes,
violence, and hatred SAGA's policies have
engendered. Now SAGA's leaving, and
there is no expression quite strong
Defended
Henry Plummer Intl Studies
Michael Richards Gen. College
Thomas K. Austin Law II
Arlene Wanderer Psychology
David A. Rigsby English
Thomas Atkins English
Don Samson-English
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students, not just manipulate them. An
independent win could put enthusiasm
and credibility back into student
government and campus politics. He
would not be obligated to appoint every
other party hack to an office or position.
In short, it seems clear that election of an
independent candidate to President of the
.Student Body would be a shot in the an
for UNC.
Carole J. Mitcheile
No Address
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The elderly gent dressed in his Su-.-Jr?
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siihty stooped is he your irr.a---
venerable o'd professor with libera!
or perhaps is he one of the Trustees ho
propagated the Disruption Policy?
You see, you really have no ri-cht to
make these assumptions, about pV:p"4
who are strangers you have neer ta ti
to them. But now, you ask your-if, 0
you certainly discover what thes? pet:',
are all about? Certainly you can't ru?
to them and say, "Hey man, I wa.-.: ;0
know you!"
So you will continue making character
assessments from appearances. A gri;
look like your siero-type grit, a h pp e
will look like all the other hippies, a.-.i
you'll certainly have no trouble
separating the militant blacks from ;h?
other Knee-grows.
But appearances ere deceiving. If Cj
don't think so, look in a mirror some
time.
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As SAGA
enough to capture one's relief at the
prospect.
But in all this, the worst is that SAGA
has operated all along in the University's
backyard, under the University's auspices.
And through it all, UNC's administration
has been neutral ; impartial;
disinterested; an interested spectator. So
they've said.
What the University friendly
neutrality and non-interference has meant
to SAGA needs no going into. That the
University has been as callous and,
basically, as vicious as SAGA-this we
know, too.
So what do you say, finally, about
your University, your education, the
cream of your society? You ask. What are
these people? Do they have any ideals? If
they do, how do they reconcile this kind
of behavior to themselves?
Me I'm at the point where I' m
puzzled, where I have to be puzzled,
where I'm afraid not to be puzzled. I
don't want to have to answer these
questions for muself.
Sitterson Friday we need you, we
really do. Now, while there are still
people to listen where are you? Speak!
Agar: Dr. Jones, you recently deplored
the lack of communication in hst
Spring's strike. Has
communication
improved since then?
Jones: Yes, think so.
Agar: How do you account, then, for
the contradictory information which hzs
been emanating from SAGA?
Jones: I really don't know anything
about this, so Vm afraid I can 7 help you.
This is a SAGA matter.
August 7, 1969
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