Pace Four
The Daily Tar Hes!
Saturday, September 19, 1970
Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel
unsigned editorials are the opinions
columns represent only the opinions
Tom Gooding, Editor
University Shows
Lack Of Come em
Last spring the University
evicted 12 families from married
student housing in Victory Village
in order to provide space for
equipment being used to construct
another building in the medical
complex.
The former residents of those
housing units have now charged
that the parking lot was not used
during the summer.
Both Policies
Unnecessary
We feel that both the
administration's and the student
legislature's visitation policies are
unnecessary.
The administration's policy is
riddled with petty regulations and
grounded in pre-Victorian
philosophy.
Students, especially Resident
Advisors, should regard it as an
insult to their personal integrity
and ignore it.
The Legislature should have
refused to consider the question
except to add a stipulation that no
student would be tried in student
courts for violations of any
visitation policy.
x Until this action is taken
students will have to accept the
bureaucracy and restrictions of
both policies.
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78 Years of Editorial Freedom
Tom Gooding, Editor
Rod Waldorf Managing Ed.
MikeParnell News Editor
Rick Gray Associate Ed.
Harry Bryan ... Associate Ed.
Chris Cobbs . Sports Editor
Glenn Brank Feature Editor
Ken Ripley Nat. News Editor
Doug Jewell Business Mgr.
Frank Stewart Adv. Mgr.
E.
Gary Pearce
NGS
U Eeporft
Cathy Sterling Messick, student Body
president at N.C. State, has fired the
opening shots of her long-awaited battle
with the university administration.
In Wednesday's issue of The
Technician, the student newspaper, Cathy
used her column to assail the Student
Union. The union, she said, is controlled
by university officials with no idea of
what the students want and no desire to
find out.
. One of the major aims of her
administration, Cathy said, would be to
restore a student voice in the Union.
In addition, the campus has been rife
with rumors of a running battle between
Cathy and Dean of Student Affairs Banks
Talley. The two reportedly have been
feuding ever since Cathy's election last
are expressed on its editorial page. All
of the editor and the staff. Letters and
of the individual contributors.
One resident said the houses
were not torn down until mid-July
instead of mid-June as the
University had promised.
Gerry Connor, an evicted
resident, said, "the land was not
graded until this week so it could
not have been used for parking."
Allen Waters, a University
parking official, claimed that "cars
have been parking there all summer.
Cars parked there 10 minutes after
the first house went down."
We felt it was a bit callous of the
University to evict 1 2 families for a
parking lot. Especially when the
eviction came under short notice
with no alternate housing available.
The explanation given by Waters
is completely inadequate since the
original justification for the
eviction was for construction
equipment which, according to
former residents, hasn't appeared.
Joseph Eagles, vice-chancellor
for business affairs, said last spring,
"It is not the responsibility of the
University to house married or
unmarried students. People should
be happy they were able to live in
Victory Village and not be
concerned whether others might be
able to."
Unfortunately, the opinions of
Mr. Eagles seem to permeate the
entire University community when
it comes to student welfare.
spring. Now, sources say, they aren't
speaking.
The feud reportedly results from
Cathy's implacable opposition to what
she sees as the Division of Student
Affairs' intrusion on the student body's
rights.
As an example, she cites the division's
announced plans to move its offices from
an all-administrative area of the campus
to a building in the student residence
area.
The division contends the move is
intended to bring it in closer contact with
students.
Cathy, however, said in a column last
week, "the Administration is welcome to
come into the Student Residence Area to
visit, but when there is talk of moving in,
it's time to state limits to chumminess."
Bobby Nowell
Meedrlx Sfoooldl We. Moeire ?
"So you want to be a rock and roll star?
Well listen now, to what I say:
Get yourself an electric guitar
And teach yourself how to play."
Roger McGuinn
Jimi Hendrix was only 24 years old
when he died, holed up in some London
hotel room, back in the land where it all
began.
The medical report disclosed he took
an overdose of sleeping pills. An
accident? No one will ever know.
Ingesting too many barbituates has
always been a quick end for many of the
superstars of our culture.
Hendrix, perhaps the most visible
exponent of the New Culture, was a
supernova, a phenomenon, a man whose
manhood was robbed by the forces which
made him "a rock and roll star."
The Jimi Hendrix Experience was just
that a unique experience.To be first in a
field is to be endeared forever in the
hearts of many rock and roll fans. This
Peter Brown
Mideast
To the many of us who have never
been in the Middle East the events of the
past few weeks seem almost unbelievable.
And amidst the relative tranquility here
in the United States, it remains equally
difficult to believe that the Palestinian
guerrillas alone have been responsible for
so many millions of dollars damage to
international aircraft, in addition to the.
anguish and frustration they have caused
the many governments so far from the
site of the crisis.
The Popular Front For The Liberation
Of Palestine has destroyed four
international . aircraft, and at one point
detained 414 passengers-now reduced to
54. But the fact remains that 37 of these
passengers are Americans who though
said to be safe are centered in Amman in
a civil war between the guerrillas and
King Hussein's Jordanian government.
Reports say that there are 100 American
citizens and 160 British citizens living in
Jordan, and if the Civil War continues to
expand the United States has pronounced
it necessary to intervene to protect the
lives of its citizens.
The Popular Front has at present
called for help from a 12,000 man
standing Army in Iraq, and is attempting
to draw in the governments of Syria and
Lebanon. Though the American Embassy
111 Amman states that the lives of
American citizens are not immediately in
danger one can only feel that the crisis is
erlliiinig Takes On
Why? Cathy goes on to cite "the
frustrations...to any student who has had
to deal with the red tape of an
adrninistrative, regulatory or disciplinary
function of the Division of Student
Affairs; Any student deserves at least the
minimum insulation of not having these
kinds of frustrations in the immediate
vicinity of his home-the Student
Residence Area."
No one was particularly surprised by
Cathy's attacks. She ran as a vociferous
independent and was supported largely
by groups largely regarded as
anti-administration.
In addition, Cathy's husband, Gene
Messick, is a former NCSU design student
and Union-baiter.
Cathy claims she's not
anti-administration, per. se. She's
was true of the now-defunct Beatles, and
it is true of the Hendrix Experience.
It is useless to argue who is the
greatest guitarist or singer in the rock
world or even to dispute who are the
"real innovators." But Hendrix was great
in all three areas.
The rapidity with which Hendrix star
flared up to dominate the sky of rock
music still seems incredible. Has it really
been two and a half years since "Purple
Haze"?
I had the good fortune to see Hendrix
in personal appearances in all three
"stages" of his career.
The first time was July 9, 1967 even
before the historic Monterrey Pop
Festival.
The Monkees (remember them?) were
at the height of their brief fame, and were
"playing a gig" in Greensboro. Hendrix,
who had knocked 'em dead in England,
was the other act on the show.
He came out in wild, wild leathers and
sequins and exploded all over the
Like Cuban Crisis
deepening and that the end is certainly no
where to be seen. Hundreds of Jordanina
civilians have been reported killed in the
crossfire between the Army and the
guerrillas. The sole desire of the guerrillas
is to drag additional troops into the
engagement as they are outnumbered by
twenty thousand men. King Hussein has
55,000 to the Liberation Front's 32,000.
While the Civil War rages the original
hijackers holding 37 American prisoners
continue to re-emphasize that time is
running out for bargaining. At present
Israel does not wish to barter Arabian
hostages for American and international
hostages.
The solution is not to be seen, ana one
can only see trouble for our government
and for the country. How can we
satisfactorily extricate ourselves from this
situation that a handful of Palestinian
terrorists have employed in order to draw
us into open conflict? They are certainly
determined to do it, and we must be
equally determined not to let it happen.
With a number of Americans being held
in Jordan we must conclude how to
insure the survival of King Hussein's
government against the guerrilla forces.
And at the same time we must somehow
assure ourselves against the direct
intervention of surrounding nations on
the side of the . guerrillas. If either
situation turns against the better interests
of the United States, President Nixon has
pro-student, she says. However, many
observers think she is pursuing a family
feud against the administration and the
student union.
Refrigerators have put on ice the
political career of one of State's biggest
men on campus, Benny Teal.
Teal, losing candidate for student
body president last spring, was president
of the Inter-Residence Council until he
resigned last week.
Benny resigned in the wake of
controversy which erupted after it was
learned he stood to make anywhere from
$600 to $1,000 for distributing,
refrigerators to dorm rooms.
Benny has long been a hero of State's
dorm rats. Of medium height and build,
he has short blond hair and wears severe .
L
gathering with "Wild Thing" and many of
the other numbers he was to make
famous. But the audience wasn't
impressed. They didn't want "Manic
Depression"-they wanted "I'm A
Believer." They hooted at this wierd
"Nigger hippie" up ther with his two
white sidemen.
But the few of us who rushed out and
bought "Are You Experienced" right
away have never regretted it.
I caught two shows on his third U. S.
tour last year in April in Raleigh and in
Charlotte in May. The audiences-almost
lily-white contingents of young people
between the ages of 12 and 30rwent
crazy over him.
But Jimi had not forgotten his first
reception in the Carolinas. He greeted the
Charlotte crowd with a caustic, "Hi, I'm
Hendrix. You remember the guy who
played while you went to get your hot
dogs last time."
As that memorable summer passed
into winter, however, the Experience fell
stated, we have no obligation but to
intervene ourselves. One feels a state of
comparison to the Cuban Missile Crisis,
for the stakes are equally as high, and the
confrontation would commence with a
small nation only to unleash the potential
energy of the two greatest powers in the
world the United States and the Soviet
Union. Russia at one point praised the
diligence and bravery of the guerrillas,
but now that resourcefulness is turning
somewhat sour in the eyes of the world.
King Hussein has survived numerous
assassination attempts in the past. Once
his bodyguards were killed and he shot
the attacker. Another time a bullet
deflected off a medallion around his
neck. One can only hope that this most
recent attempt' will deflect and that the
Middle East can eventually return onto a
windy road in search of a just peace.
Nelson Drew
SL Visitation Vote
Stand For Students
Thursday night the Student
Legislature took a stand for the students.
Thursday the legislature decided that it
would stand behind the Open House
policy adopted last spring that would
allow each living unit on this campus to
decide for itself what rules would be
followed for visitation.
Sounds great, doesn't it? But how
many of the students who had that stand
taken for them really know what that
action by the legislature means?
For one thing, all that the legislature
did was to prohibit student courts from
trying any cases resulting from a conflict
between the Open House agreement
recognized by the administration and that
voted on by ther members of a living area.
Thus, if your dorm voted to have a doors
locked policy, and you had your door
locked, student courts would not try you
Letter
Student Tears
Bring Response
TO THE EDITOR:
If the art major who left Woolen Gym
in tears because she was closed out of all
her major courses will contact me during
drop-add, room will be found for her in '
these or similar courses in her major. It is
not our policy to close out majors.
Marvin Saltzman
104 Ackland Art Center
933-2015
AdmnensttraMoe .
wire-rimmed glasses. His taste in clothes
runs to bermuda shorts, plaid shirts, dark
socks and laced-up shoes. A bundle of
energy, he's usually found holding sway
outside his dormitory, talking with his
circle of admirers. ,
Projects for dorm residents have always
been his special forte. He handled
distribution of refrigerators last year and
the residence council paid him $210 for.
the job.
Well, that was all well and good. But
Benny also was to be distributor this
year. And here's how the figures would
look:
Teal's IRC rented 45-watt Norcold
refrigerators from a New York company
for $36.50 each. In turn, IRC rents the
refrigerators out to students for $40
apiece, a profit of $3.50 per refrigerator.
apart. Mitch Mitchell went back to
England and Noel Redding formed the
Fat Mattress (snicker). Without regular
sidemen, Hendrix toyed with several
different rhythm sections, talked of
forming an "African music band" which
never materialized, played a lot of pop
festivals-but mostly just drifted.
The legend had become too heavy to
remain airborne, and the result could be
detected in Hendrix music.
His last LP, "Band of Gypsies,"
released this year, provided further
evidence of his virtuousity on the
guitar-but no signs of increasing musical
creativity.
I last saw Hendrix at the Atlanta Pop
Festival on July 4. He was the "biggest
name" at the festival which drew 200,000
people-but his show was a
disappointment. Hendrix played poorly,
and he knew it. But the people still
cheered. They were witnessing The
Chieftain. They worshipped him -they
did not know why-and he could do no
wrong.
They saw the Legend; they did not
hear the music.
It is distressing, only three months
later, to realize that was Hendrix swan
song.
Should we grieve for Hendrix? Should
we lament his passing any more than the
death of Brian Jones or Marilyn Monroe
or Him Rossman or Joe Blow who died ot
an overdose of smack in some Brooklyn
tenement?
He was, after all, only a man. ..a man
extraordinarily talented with a guitar.
"And all he ever really wanted was just to
play."
While we say we grieve, however, we
should realize that we helped "make"
Hendrix and the other rock and roll stars.
We paid four bucks for the album, five
dollars to see a concert; we rushed the
stage to get closer; we begged for his
autograph; we hit up and whooped it up
while he played.
He certainly helped us have a good
time.
And we of the "good-good culture"
(cf. Lenny Bruce) just as surely helped
kill him.
for not having your
required by the
door "ajar", as
administrations
recognized policy.
But...and here's the catch.-.there is
nothing that would stop the
administration from taking action against
you on its own. In fact, if your act was
reported to the administration, they
almost certainly would have to take
action, and you would have no benefit of
the protection of student courts.
The situation is not that you now can
have whatever open house policy you
want, but simply that you lose the right
to have students, instead of a
faculty-administrative board, judge your
actions.
Suppose two students are causght,
holding open house at 2:55 a.m. some
Saturday. One of them lives in a dorm
which as adopted the administration
approved policy. All that happens to him
is that he gets a letter from the Attorney
General warning him. But if the other
lives in a dorm which voted to hold 24
hour a day open house, his case would go
directly to the faculty administrative
board, which could place him on
academic probation, or worse, for exactly
the same offense.
So, Student Legislature has taken its
stand. But it is not the sort of stand that
resolves any issues or problesm. It will, in
the long run, probably create as many as
it might solve. The actual stand, the one
that really matters, has been left for the
students themselves to take. For it is
they, and not the 28 members who were
present at the meeting of legislature, who
must accept the consequences.
With over 1,000 refrigerators ordered,
hat would mean a profit of $3,500.
Now, $2,500 of that money was to go
to IRC and $1,000 was to go to the
coordinators. So The Technician hopped
on that one and ran a banner story Sept.
9 saying Teal personally might pocket
$1,000. Or maybe $600. Anyway, it was
more than The Technician thou'ght he
should get.
So the residence council called a
hurried meeting Sept. 11. The council,
stung by the Technician's story and
resultant complait by residents, refused
to guarantee Benny $600 for distributing
the refrigerators.
So Benny resigned and walked out,
leaving the council confused and
leaderless.