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Par Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Tuesday, .'-ay 12. 1970 rod iv aid or f f UMJ it f HA - : f iv If - II ' ' T ft V V ... .1 w Opinions of The Dally Tar Heel ar expressed on its editorial page. All unsigned editorials ire the opinions of the editor and the staff. Letter and columns represent only the opinions of the individual contributors- (O T fp fCh Cw k,4- 54 li i 7 A f!l 1WA Mealy 0 0 Tom Gooding, Editor A Few Worag And News Interpretation Printed below is the full text of what is, as far as we know, the first UNC News Bureau release on the strike. It is dated May 1 1. There are two ommissions. One was three lines stating when and where graduation ceremonies will be held. The other was seven lines quoting from the editorial which appeared in this space last Friday. "Classes have not (repeat not) been suspended," Mr. Pete Ivey, news bureau director, said. No, they have not been suspended, except in the department of city and regional planning where the staff and students voted to strike indefinitely. "Students are learning," the former star boxer for UNC said. Yes, Mr. Ivey, students are learning. About 400 of them will be learning how Congress operates first hand today when the 10 buses of students and faculty begin meetings with congressman about Cambodia. By the fourth paragraph of the release below, Mr. Ivey had said that students have not gone home, or to the beach or to Washington and faculty members have not gone fishing. One of our professors spends every free moment fishing whenever the sun shines. We ourselves went, home to talk to people, there about. . the strike over the -weekend; We've talked- to at least 20 people who nvent to the beach after getting amnesty from their professors. And there were about 100,000 9 8 A. 'News' By PETE IVEY CHAPEL HILL-Contrary to rumor, the University of North Carolina is still in business at the same old stand. Classes have not (repeat noth been suspended. Faculty members are teaching. Concerned parents and citizens of the state liave been calling to ask if it's so that Carolina has "let out" that students liave gone home, or to the beach or to Washington, and tfiat faculty members liave gone fishing. Hie answer, in all cases, is "no. " One exception: Faculty members of the Marine Sciences Institute at Morehead City have indeed gone fishing. But that is a art of their scholarly and research duties. But, otherwise, the work of the University goes on as usual. What happened last week when the faculty voted to recognize student concern about Cambodia and the Kent State tragedy is not altogether understood by many who are asking questions about the status of classes and wfiat's expected at UNC TJie action taken by the faculty last week gives options: A professor may grade his students on work accomplished thus far in the semester. Or he may require the usual attendance, completion of papers and examinations. Some faculty members are giving students grades on wliat they liave done up to last week. Others are requiring strict class attendance, and make-up of lost work. Student glee over what many thought was a "school-is-out" resolution in the Faculty Council last week turned into disappointment and anger when they found that the faculty action was not what they had first believed. On Ive- students in Washington Saturday, 1,000 of them from Chapel Hill. "The work of the University goes on as usual," Mr. Ivey continues. It does, it if is usual for a Spanish literature class to spend an hour talking about Cambodia, if six faculty members do not go to the faculty awards ceremonies and spend the time discussing the implications of Nixon's decision on Cambodia, if Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson comes out of his office to discuss the disruptions policy with 75 students who are sitting down in South Building. If all of those things are normal, then the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill did indeed function normally Monday. "It is still not clear how many students are regularly attending classes and how many not," Mr. Ivey says. We agree. Our managing editor tried to take a poll Monday at noon. He found only 125 of a class of 800 in Memorial Hall. Dey Hall, he said, was nearly empty. BA cancelled several classes last Thursday. Of course, the Medical and Law Schools continue to function. We would like to have a reliable estimate of class attendance, but we are not about to trust what Mr. Ivey says. ' . . . all classes are meeting," Mr. Ivey says. We guess Mr. Ivey forgot to call Dick Roman and some of the English teaching assistants to ask about their classes. ".V.NV.W' i 1 1 1 1 1 1 ! ? It is still not clear how many students are regularly attending classes and how many not. In the Law School, the Dean's Office reports attendance seems "about normal. " The same is true for Medical School. In Business School, few are absent. In the Undergraduate College and Arts and Sciences and in the General College, attendance ranges from about 90 percent down to about 15 per cent, the latter in some of the social science classes. Overall attendance is about 60 to 75 per cent. So far as can be ascertained, no faculty member has called off any class or refused to give instruction or examination to any students wishing to complete the course on schedule, and despite absentees in some classes, all classes are meeting 78 Years of Editorial Freedom Tom Gooding, Editor Rod Waldorf ....... Managing Ed. Harry Bryan ..... News Editor Rick Gray Associate Ed. Laura White . . . Associate Ed. Chris Cobks Sports Editor Mary Burch .Arts Editor Mike McGowan .... Photo Editor Bob Wilson . . . . Business Mgr. Frank Stewart . . . . Adv. Mgr. Sandra Saunders. . . . . .Night Editor-. Today, a delegation of UNC students and faculty numbers are in Washington, D.C. meeting with members of Congress and other legislative and administrative, officials to discuss the war in Indochina. This is the beginning of what could become the most effective means of getting results to our months and years of M ! 'U r MX This week I received a letter from a citizen of this state condemning the action of Student' Legislature last Thursday night. Vehemently he decried the passage of the resolution condemning the expansion of the war into Cambodia and accused us of acting hastily and without sufficient information. He stated that his last visit to Chapel Hill disgusted him "too many long haired queers." He said a child of his had graduated from here and left, vowing never to return as long as such radical elements were on campus. He closed his letter by declaring that if you were "horse whipped you might have an appreciation for America." I am both saddened and enraged at his letter. I am saddened because of the rift in communications that so plainly exists. This man has no comprehension of what we are trying to accomplish. He sees our efforts only as a threat to the stability of this nation, denying any possibility that we can achieve any substantial and constructive reform. At the same time. I am enraged by an almost blind refusal of the part of so many people to face the horrid realities of the world around us. We are hopelessly mired in a war we cannot win, yet we refuse to withdraw because of blind patriotism and an insane belief that this country cannot lose any fight it enters. Our generation is being torn to shreads by a selective service system that robs us of ambition and reduces brilliant minds to military cannon fodder. The blacks of this country are crying out for their rightful role in society and. we have closed the door in their faces. We have people starving and we deny their existence; we are poisoning our environment and we refuse to face reality. And yet, some say we should be "horse whipped" to appreciate America, beaten to appreciate a nation that is wracked by ills that it refuses to face. Somehow we must resolve the ills that confront us and cure the sicknesses that plague America. It cannot be done if the generations are divided beyond the point of meaningful communication. We have to be realistic we cannot run this country yet. We lack the capital, the modes of communication and the sheer numbers that it would require. Instead, we must work through the -Letters The Daily Tar Heel accepts 'alfg xj letters to the editor, provided they g: are typed and limited to a g maximum of 300 words. All letters S : -must be signed and the address and M :$ phone number of the writer must.sS be included . g The paper reserves the right to : edit all letters for libelous statements and good taste. n : Address letters to Associate Editor, The Daily Tar Heel, in care " pf the Student Union. ... petition and protest by those who are in the position to act. This form of protest, called a lobby, has been around as long as Congress has existed, and is the most effective antiwar idea yet. But one day with Congress won't be enough. f f7. HV Tom j wz&tiAsrr AH rHAtt . . . bill Make A Commitmemit channels already available and create 'more to spread the tenets of, youth and our ideas for progress Each of us has to work for the election of public officials who are in tune with these demanding times. We have to devote ourselves to communicating in a peaceful and reasoned manner and passing on the beliefs that we hold dear. We have to assemble and march and show the depth of our concern. And most of all, we have to be peaceful. Nixon, Agnew, and Mitchell find it easy to discount violent protests as the works of "communists or dedicated to the overthrow of our I Tell Me, Is It Too Late? To the Editor: Someone, please, tell me that there is a purpose. Tell me why my friends have to die. Tell me why that they have to compromise. Tell us how we can live with ourselves after we decide. I know they probably told me in Sunday School; but I ' was drawing pictures on the quarterly and - didn't hear. Someone, please, tell me why no one is listening. Tell me why no one watches when we march quietly down their streets. Tell me why our prayers are never heard as clearly as our obscenities. Tell me why they are blind to our tears and see only our explosions. I know someone in the crowd tried to tell me once; but I was too busy pushing my way to the front to stop and listen. Sesione, please, tell me that there is hop. Txll me everyone won't be satisfied with token gestures. Tell me someone will keep trying after the shouting stops. Tell me someone believes. I've stopped playing, and pushing, and now I'm finally listening. Tell me, please, is it too late? Janice Stafford Le Stylo Extraordinaire or The Finer Things in Life To the Editor: Last week I found eight Bic ball-point pens littering our beautiful campus. This, I think, is indicative of students' lack of reverence for the finer things in life. In my opinion, the quality of work has gone down because people perform their tasks ' with cheap ball-point pens. Now, people may think that they are eettin a real bargain by buying a cheap Dan.pomt pen. I have studied the situation closely over the years, and I have found that this is not the case. People lose those sleazy, inexpensive pens fBics for example) at an ever increasing rate 'and, in the end, wind up spending rnore. on writing utensils than had they jrnne out r1""" . ;. ... in addition, many of those which pen. American colleges and universities should organize in Washington perhaps with one representative from each insti tu ti on an d register as a legitimate lobbying organization The National Rifle Association and the Corps, of Engineers are highly successful in the processes of government because they're there in the blue government." They, cannot, however, ignore faculty members who vote to suspend classes; they ' cannot ignore thousands of people on the White House lawn Saturday afternoon. I honestly believe, my friends, that we are the 'last, best hope of mankind." We must turn the tide our nation is following or we shall watch it crumble in the dust of factionalism and internal dissent. We, as students, as concerned young people, even as Americans who cannot bear to see our country fall, must act to right the wrongs that wrack us. Your Student Government has made a firm commitment to this movement join us. 1 r '"""v if W j If In.fe aren't lost are chewed upon in moments of pressure. Consequently, they are rendered worthless before their ink supply runs out due to their shrunken size. There are many advantages in favor of procuring a fountain pen. First of all, a bottle of ink costing only thirty-nine cents will usually last a year. Furthermore, a fine fountain pen with a gold point will eventually become an extension of your personality as your point breaks in to your particular style of writing and the pen mellows with age. In short, your superior pen becomes an intimate friend. Being a collector of fine fountain pens for over twelve years, I speak from experience as I have learned to appreciate the aesthetic worth of a graceful writing instrument in my hand. Our cultural values need refinement in an age of mediocrity and throw-away consumer goods. Precision writing instruments reflect a higher sense of values and taste in this world dominated by cheap ball-point pens. Will you rise above this worsening trend of the ordinajy? Respectfully, Stephen Worthington Fuller Corner Club Cansler Should Bring More Police On Campus To the Editor: - . In reference to Dean James O. Cansler's reported remarks in the Daily Tar Heel of April 28, 1970, we wish to congratulate this refreshingly stem administrator for the general tenor of his thoughts concerning the frightfully increasing level of violence and disruption on this campus. (We strongly suspect that this increase is due to a precipitous liberalization of rules and to an increased enrollment of unqualified and ill-prepared "students.") Most regretfully, however, we feel compelled to take exception to one salient shortcoming in an otherwise sound analysis. Dean Cansler states, "I think it is fair to say, and eminently defensible to say, in an academic institution, where the purpose of the institution is to study and system working closely with the lobby effectively, then the youth of th:s country, those whose blood is btirj fp;',; on the battlefield, cm lobby a;a;n: the illegitimate and immoral war that is spilling that blood and diverting er.er--.t-s and funds from more pressing matters a: home. When the members of Congress thousands of people in the streets, they are alienated immediately. Thry are wry afraid, and when a man is full of fear, he isn't inclined to treat the object of that fear with very must trust or credibility. So meet them on their own grounds. They are the ones who can end this mess so by dealing with them in a manner with which they are familiar, progress can be made. That this lobby action would b expensive goes almost without saytr. But a donation of SI from every student in this country would raise a sireable sum to finance such a venture. However, one point must be made here. This lobby action is not desired to take the steam out such measures as the strike in which we as students are now engaged. here one week ago today is important and necessary. But, as the leaders of this movement hav realized, a mass strike, even spread across the length and breadth of this nation, is ineffective alone. Alone, it amounts to a bunch of kids getting out of class early without the least amount work and responsibility. But this strike, in its real purpose, is made of responsibility. This strike here appears mild and almost boring when compared to some activity on other campuses across the nation. Remember Kent. But the strike here will be more fruitful than the more violent protests elsewhere. Here, hopefully, those now freed from academic pressures will now focus their energies into constructive channels such as the lobby afore mentioned and a community canvassing program such as that of the Reach All People Committee up in Suite A. The strikes elsewhere in this nation should yield similar progress and just plain hard work. That's the only way to beat this thing from within. To be effective, both here and in Washington, we must concentrate on the central issue at hand the Indochina War. Other issues, domestic in nature and equally important, must come later. To be effective, we must not take on more man we can nan cue ana cieariy approach. We must solve our own domestic problems. But until our needless foreign interests and expenditures are ended, these problems will continue to go unattended. This is undesirable but unfortunately the way it must be. To fight on two fronts, at home and abroad, is to lose both fights tragically. We've already lost one fight; let's not lose the one at home too. M 1 11 articulate knowledge, the one unforgiveable transgression is the use of physical force, either to make a point or to keep someone else from having his say." We must conclude that Dean Cansler, perhaps unwittingly, implies that the lawfully constituted police authorities should not perform their traditional role a role, incidentally, so clearly understood by our Governor of maintaining, by force and violence if necessary, a responsible atmosphere on campus. This role is as it should be, for as Dean Cansler argues, "the larger part of this state doesn't share the values of the subculture that is this University." That is, free speech and assembly, personal . privacy, due process and other demands made by unrepresentative dissidents are certainly not what North Carolinians have sent their children to Chapel Hill to learn. We urge Dean Cansler to reconsider his statement, in light of our critique, and to summon immediate police force for the protection of his majority. Respectfully, Thomas J. Deny er C.E. Hermann M.C. Russell Steven Garland Robert Tallo Robert H. Trudeau The Daily Tar Heel is published. by the University of North Carolina jij Student Publications Board, daily : except Monday, examination periods, vacations, and summer periods. : Offices are at the Student Union : BIdg., Univ. of North Carolina, : Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514. Telephone Numbers: News, Sports 933-1011; Business, , Circulation, : Advertising-033-11G3. Subscription rates: $10 per year; $o per semester. : : Second class postage paid at U.S. :" g Post Office in Chapel Hill, N.C. . ,
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