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I Free Press
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The overwhelming defeat of
the referendum to do away
with the compulsory funding
of the Tar Heel speaks for
itself. The students, who
turned out to vote in numbers
surpassing any in recent
history, want the Tar Heel
regardless of their specific
reasons.
Much criticism was directed
at the newspaper by those
opposed to the required
student fee. Apparently that
criticism was not enough to
convince the students that the
Tar Heel does not belong on
campus in its present form.
The defeat of the
referendum does not
necessarily mean, however,
that the Tar Heel is now
exonerated of criticism, but by
the same token, it does not
mean the criticism was
necessarily valid.
There is, of course, always
room for improvement. And
the newspaper, of course, is
Education Here A Matter
.0T-Ecced Toilet, Training
The Committee on University
Residential Life (CURL) meets
today at 4 p.m. to discuss the
v-.sitation policy for next year. The
.'udent Legislature has
k commended a policy of 24-hour,
scven-day-a-week visitation. Dean
of Men James Cansler opposes such
a wide-open policy, however.
CURL has asked for students to
express themselves on this matter,
but there has been only a small
response to that request.
It seems, in the final analysis,
:hat students have virtually no way
of effectively moving things in this
University. Once an individual
becomes a student, he becomes a
possession of the Universities. He
does not make his own rules; they
are made for him. He is told how to
live, where to live, what courses to
take, what courses not to take . . .
the list is painfully long and
inclusive.
The administration operates
with the impression that it has both
the power and obligation, as well as
the ability, to make the rules which
govern the lives of the students.
What effect such a value-system
actually has on the students as
human beings is difficult to discern.
But that it is a negative one is not
hard to calculate. As educators of
human beings, the administrators of
this University are working with a
system that handles students as if
they were dogs that must be taught
to salivate when the bell rings.
Students are human beings, not
animals to be trained. Their
knowledge must derive from naked
experience, not from sterile,
presumptuous methods of training.
A belief is no belief if it is forced
into a student's head. It is valuable
only if the student possesses it on
the basis of his own experience, an
experience which has been free of
control.
It is generally accepted, for
instance, "that parents who
forcefully toilet-train their children
are going to bring up confused
children with no sense of order. But
children who are permitted to do
their business with no fear of being
punished if they do it in the wrong
place or at the wrong time are going
to be in control of their, lives,
emotionally and otherwise, when
they get older.
Todd Cohen
Editor
Bobby NoweH
Harry Bryan
Et.'IM diet
Bob Chapman
Mary Burch
Art Chansky
Assoctats Editor
Managing Editor
News Editor
Assoc. Managing Editor
Arts Editor
Sports Editor
Bob Wilson
Business Manager
Stewart Advertising Manager
Saunders Night Editor This Issue
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Invocation
not above criticism.
An interesting encore to the
Free Press campaign against the
Tar Heel was a statement
Tuesday, after the defeat of
the referendum, by a member
of the Free Press group. Last
fall, the group sent a letter to
the Chancellor stating it
believed the newspaper had
"rendered itself undesirable for
University subsidization" by,
for one thing, the "use of
obscene and profane language
in its editorial columns."
One of the words the Free
Press people objected to seeing
in the newspaper was "hell."
On Tuesday night, after the
defeat of the referendum, Paul
King, who signed that letter to
the Chancellor, had this to say:
"I don't feel I should shut up
because 80 per . cent of the
student body feels they can
take my money for something
they enjoy. To hell with
them."
Ah, the justice of it!
' To" continue " the analogy, the
administration of this University,
with its system of rules and
punishments, is going about
toilet-training in the less human and
less positive way.
But to get back to the original
point. Students have little say
about what happens around here.
The reasons are not easily found,
but they exist basically as an
integral part of the value-system of
the administrators of this
University.
If students are going to exert
any control at all, they are going to
have to take the initiative. They are
going to have to vocalize their
feelings.
In the present matter of the
visitation policy, it might not be a
bad idea for students concerned
with getting the kind of policy they
want to make known to CURL
their feelings. CURL is meeting at 4
p.m. today. If students drop by the
Dean of Men's office today before
4, someone up there might get the
idea that students actually do have
thoughts on some matters.
Abo;
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The passage Wednesday by the
New York state senate of a bill for
the most liberal abortion law in the
nation is a long-overdue step in the
right direction.
The new bill, if passed by the
state assembly, will leave the
decision on an abortion up to the
woman and her doctor. Unlike
similar legislation passed earlier this
year in Hawaii, the New York
proposal has no residency
requirement.
That means that if the law is
passed, any woman in the country
could probably get a legal abortion
in New York if she really wanted
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That's a good thing. Abortion is
a matter which should be decided
by the. human being in
question-the mother-to-be. By
natural law, she has the right to
determine the course of her own
life. The values of a society should
not be so great as to impede the
individual Jrom making by herself
the decisions which arc going to
affect her life.
I have just been through quite an
experience. Running for editor, that is.
y It has been at once the most repugnant
and enlightening experience of rny life.
Now that it is over, I am at last free again
to say some things that 1 could not say
during the campaign things so
reprehensible that I could scarcely
contain them during the home stretch.
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ny distinguished
opponents accused
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keeping my "high
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bad the paper is."
Then, too, there was always the
"danger" that I, as Associate Editor,
might use Page Two as a political ;
playground to advance my own
1 campaign. Thus I have restrained myself
from setting down a few thoughts about
the absurdities of the political system in
which we operate a system, which,
incidentally, is a microcosm of American
politics. .
As a preface to my remarks, let me
make it clear (to borrow Tricky Dick's
cliche) that I am in no way embittered by
my "defeat" at the polls. My closest
friends (there are about four of them)
will tell you that I know I never had a
chance to win. Why, then, did I run?
It is a question that I have asked
myself many times since declaring my
candidacy about a month ago.
Basically, I made the race to insure
that the student body would have a
choice between two solid, competent
journalists who have believed in and
worked on the Daily Tar Heel not
political opportunists who have given, at
most, lip service to the paper. With Tom
Gooding and myself in the race, I
somewhat idealistically hoped that
perhaps the student body could penetrate
the sludge of half-truths comprising the
"qualifications" of the other candidates
and send one or both of us into the
runoff election. My faith has been
rewarded on one count.
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John Agar
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Pauvre America! "laughing the stormy,
, husky, brawling laughter of Youth,
half-naked, sweating, proud" reduced to
busting college kids for possession. If
drugs are to be this nation's main object
of moral indignation in the seventies,
what can one say except poor America!
It recalls the old question: don't the
police have anything useful to do besides
playing at Alice's Restaurant? Can't local
and federal officials find anything more
worth their time than some kids in
pursuit of their private life, liberty, and
happiness? There's poverty, racism, a
crisis in the schools, a widening chasm of
disbelief between what government says
and what people think. Surely, any of
these is fertile ground for innovative,
imaginative leadership.
The question is even more to the point
because we have today an ability
unparallelled in history for seeing and
correcting our most grievous problems.
With a little honest concern and effort,
we might eradicate poverty, we might
make headway against inequality and the
disillusionment which is the malaise of
bur generation.
, It's disheartening, then, to see America
take up the standard with a vengeance
and march off on a bogus crusade. This
one is against drugs, though there are
subsidiary dragons on the
way obscenity, conspiracy, and, of
course, the devil, dissent.
. It's depressing because we know, after
ail, that this isn't a real crusade; it's a
dishonorable retreat from the issues. Drug
busts and the rest seem to be America's
way of dissipating energies which might
I otherwise be stirred into a recognition of
the real problems before it.
The situation is not without paradox.
Americans seem always to have detested
. lifestyles differing from their own and
always with the undefined fear that the
difference might be catching. This is the
justification for drug and obscenity laws:
that dope and dirt tend somehow to the
inefficiency and corruption of the larger
society, of which you are a part, and
through which the erring one
is alas! occultly tangent to you, your
wife your daughter.
You see, it is important that the next
edition of the Dally Tar Heel be good,
very good. The anii-DTH reactionaries
Lave failed with their funding referendum
silencer this year, but if the paper
displays similar problems next year, the
issue may be revived.
The editor of next year's paper must
be a journalist with proven abilities as an
administrator, writer, and tactician. In
view of this, there should be no real
necessity for soul-searching to determine
your vote in the runoff.
The next editor must be one who is
willing to transcend personal differences
and hire the best journalists available for
the paper. Only through this can the
paper be restored to its former very
prestigious level.
Throughout my own campaign, I
emphasized the necessity of abolishing
the "spoils system" which has kept the
best journalists of this university off the
paper's payroll. I repeat that necessity:
the winning candidate must hire qualified
journalists even those who did not
support him, for the sake of the DTH.
I'm not opting for a job in writing this.
Ill admit I am in a very precarious
position at present, but I believe I can
predict what plans the runoff candidates
might have for me. One of the candidates
has already indicated that I will not be
retained because "he has lost respect" for
me assuming of course, that he ever had
any respect in the first place.
I believe I have something to
contribute to the paper, but if the
winning candidate decides otherwise, that
will just be my tough luck. And that
brings up one of the most loathsome
things which this campaign any
campaign produces.
" Talk to any member of the current
DTH staff and ask whether they were
approached with threats of
unemployment if they didn't support this
Letters To The Editor
'SAGA , Administration Linked In EviV
It was about this time last year that
Chancellor Sitterson appeared before the
student body in Memorial Hall to
announce his concern and regret
regarding the unfortunate and oppressive
conditions cafeteria workers had been
subjected to for the last decade.
Moreover, he made promises of meeting
worker grievances, and when a few days
later, the cafeteria workers received , a
slight wage increase the administration
for once seemed to be taking the side of
the workers. Or so it appeared. Students
are aware, however, that appearance and
reality are hardly synonymous. In short,
what the Chancellor says on the one hand
does not mean that he will act upon it on
the other.
In fact, the real intent of the
Chancellor's speech last spring was to
hide the real oppressive and racist role of
the university under a cloak of neutrality
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The strange thing is that poverty and
caste degradation have never really
seemed "different," or dangerous enough
to warrant correction.
It may be that the average person
simply does not feel the seductiveness of
poverty the way he does the attractions
of pornography and dropping out.
Or it may be that, under the sanction
of an economic system as venerable as
religion, and certainly more practiced,
people accept poverty as a necessity.
They suspect that poor people really
want to be poor; or, if not, that there is
some sort of quasi-evolutionary law
keeping them so. But whatever the
, reason, there has always been poverty,
and people who are not poor don't seem
terribly upset by it.
The strangest thing is that money does
not seem really to be at issue. People are
willing to spend for police riot-training
what they-could be putting into urban
redevelopment. It is something else
So back we come to the busts and to
the local cops' apparently boundless
energy in chasing and trapping the
villains. And still, with all the effort that
goes into the police work; with all the
self-congratulation that comes after the
arrest; with all the oracular rhetoric about
what was confiscated, how much it was
worth, and how large the ring just
cracked really was; and finally, with all
the moral satiety resulting from a job so
-well done: the fact remains that the
students taken were as good as you and
me and the cops who locked the cell.
Nothing has been asserted except the
frivolity that ends in tears of frustration..
Perhaps the reason, after all, is that
people are unwilling to relinquish their
moral superiority. Men will give their sons
to the law with Roman fortitude before
' wavering an inch in their delusions. It is
4 easier on the conscience to worry about
the wayward child and the anti-social
dope fiend, than to think about poverty
rooted in the basic assumptions of one's
society.
Then bring out the glossy photos and .
"all of officer Obie's paraphernalia . .
" And as for that brawling honest, proud""
Sandburgian youth poor, poor America!
' or that candidate. Ninety-rime percent of
them will say "Yes. I was threatened if I
didn't support .
, Now I'm in the same boat, although at
this writing I hae not yet been
approached about my support.
You may be assured, however, that my
endorsement will arise from my
, knowledge of the journalistic abilities of
; the candidate not from threats, bribes,
or friendships. I will support the man
who can give this campus a good DTH
next year.
What I have said so far indicates my
thorough disgust with only a few of the
aspects of "poiitickin." There are many
: more.
I entered the campaign with no idea of
how to play the game. The rules, I found,
were apparently few and simple: go
door-to-door in the dorms and talk to as
many people as you. possibly can, get
your best face on about a million
campaign posters and strew them all over
campus, get the support of as many
friends as possible and have them talk to
people, spend money like crazy, and tell
lies.
Well, I didn't write the rules, and I
didn't see the wisdom of some of them. I
wish I had a dime for every person who
said, "Gonna run for editor, eh? Better
get that hair cut, boy, or you'll never
have a prayer."
I also rebelled at peddling
misinformation or untruths in order to
get votes. John Agar says I have "a fear of
being compromised." Perhaps true;
however, it is my belief that a candidate
must first get himself elected on the
basis of what he stands for before he
can be in a position to compromise his
own beliefs for the overall good of the
university.
In short, I didn't believe that I should
try to mask my own feelings on a given
and aloofness. Students will recall, for
instance, that the Chancellor deplored the
racist mentality of one manager,
Prilliman, and claimed innocence because
he was unaware of the facts.
By pawning the burden of blame off
on his bureaucratic agents and by playing
dumb the Chancellor after his sobbing
speech (he refused to answer questions
afterwords) slinked off the stage and
escaped the blame he justly
deserved blame which he still deserves
today. For today, nearly one year later,
the conditions of the cafeteria workers
are much worse. Because of the situation,
one of two conclusions must be drawn.
Either the Chancellor is an ignoramous or
an oppressor. With due respect for the
man, we feel he is the latter.
In the past year, he, the administration
and SAGA have demonstrated lucidly
that they are opposed to the cafeteria
workers' struggle for decent working
conditions. That is, they are a part of a
problem that explains why 29.7 million
persons are poor today and why another
15 million hover just above the $3000
poverty line. To understand the validity
of this statement students must strip
illusion from reality and take an objective
look at the events of the last year.
In September of 1969, 142 workers
were employed by SAGA Food Services.
Today only 51 wrorkers remain employed.
Of the 98 that joined the union in
December, only 22 remain. Granted the
University found jobs for those who were
laid off legally according to the terms of
the December contract ratified by the
AFSCME Union and SAGA; yet, what
about the additional 31 workers, all
union members who have been laid off
unconditionally and illegally?
What of these 31 workers who have
been denied their fundamental rights as
workers, rights which they have been
heroically struggling for the last past
year? Are they to set idly by drawing no
paychecks as the administration and
SAGA would like them to do?
Students must realize that the
administration's promices have been
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subject. I believe candidates cre ;h
electorate the unadulterated ir.fonr.itica
about their own philosophies. Therefo
unlike most of the other ca-ii-b; , j
didn't go around telling people th; 3
they wanted to hear I told them -Yy
thought.
And sometimes, my con.k;:r,
backfired on me. Then; was the r
got in a violent argument about ROTC
and the night a guy took a swir.j a: rr.e
because I said I thought the Gorr.rr.;::
for a Free Press was trying to kill tue
DTH.
More often than not, however, p,-'?
were willing to listen to me. And this was
the most gratifying part of the carr.prp,.
Some of the talks I had w ith bdikiVi
and groups, were, I feel, very beneficial to
both parties.
The frustrations, however, nurh
outnumbered the pleasantries. Ill reut
forget the malice of some people, like the
local newspaper pro who growled. The
University will close down the DTH if
that son of a bitch gets elected editor."
I'll never forget putting up posters at
night, and having them torn down 30
minutes later by workers for other
candidates. Ill never forget the way
people said, "Yes, I think you're the best
man; you did a helluva job this year. But
I'm voting for . . . "
I'll never forget the presidential
candidate who said, "Man, if you don't
stop going to classes, you'll never get
around to meeting enough people."
And the worst epithet of all those
flung at me during the campaign;
"Goddamn politico."
I'm not a martyr. But I'm certainly
not a politico. I ran my campaign in the
way I thought I could be the most true to
myself.
And the record will show that Bobby
Nowell ran fourth in the race for Daily
Tar Heel editor on March 17, 1970.
nothing more than one huge hoax.
Indeed, the Chancellor and his colleagues
have clearly shown that when their own
purse is at stake they can ruthlessly deny
. just incomes to other people. Nor is it
difficult to understand why they have
been successful at exploiting workers.
They have the powerful support of the
police, big business and the judicial
system. As a result, if the workers are to
preserve their gains of last December,
they will need power to combat power,
and students must add to their power by
allying with the workers in their struggle.
Peter Gallaudet
No Address
Posters Hinder
Cleanup Campaign
Dear Editor:
I guess that some people just have
more money than they have anything
else. When I walk around this beautiful
campus I always find posters and placards
galore, something that never faHs to
aggravate me. If the people (ie. politicos)
who are so interested in cleaning up our
environment would kindly keep their
trashy rubbish off the walls and boards of
this town and campus possibly we might
have a cleaner place.
Can you just imagine the amount of
money that is wasted every year on these
posters? I realize that some are necessary,
but to see dozens scattered around on the
ground should surely point to the fact
that something has to be done about
littering. Why do these people have to
waste money to try and attract attention
only to win a few votes? I ask that in
silent protest that if you see any
candidate's posters in an abundant
quantity on the ground that you do not
vote for him, no matter what the
circumstances. Obviously that person is
not very interested in the cleanliness of
Chapel Hill's environment.
ERVTN RAY
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