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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Thursday, September 24, 1970
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The members of Student Legislature
have a challenging decision to make on the
future of student rights when they meet
tonight.
hssentially. the legislators must decide
whether they will champion the right of
students to decide policy questions
concerning their private lives or whether
they will bow to the will of the
administration.
Contrary to the assumptions of many
students the light over the students' right
to entertain members of the opposite sex in
their rooms did not begin during the past
several years.
Likewise the administration's policy for
imposing arbitrary, restrictive regulation
upon the students is steeped in tradition.
The Interfraternity Visiting Agreement,
in force during the 1952-1953 school year,
began with the statement:
"The privilege of entertaining
unchaperoned women in fraternity houses
is based upon the acceptance of certain
basic standards. This acceptance is made in
the form of a pledge to uphold these
standards, and the pledge is binding on the
fraternity that gives it and on every
individual of that fraternity.
The first restriction states:
"There shall be no consumption of
alcoholic beverages in the presence of. or
by. women students in the house or on the
premises of any fraternity."
Most students today could agree on the
absurdity of this restriction.
Then on April I, 1954 the President of
the Student Body presented to the
University administration a statement to
the effect that students had discussed the
Visiting Privileges Agreement, and decided
that certain parts of the agreement were no
longer in effect.
The statements said, "Women students
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will now be allowed to drink in fraternity
houses with fraternity men."
The president's statement was followed
two days later by the administration's
response which read:
"The statements were not proposals for
consideration by the faculty and
administration... Since this meant a basic
alteration by the students in the terras of
the agreement... .the action posed a serious
question of University policy respecting
Student Government.
"It was agreed (by the administration)
that the effect of the action taken by them
(the students) was to nullify the Visiting
Privileges. Agreement altogether. This
meant the basis on which women students
have been permitted to visit fraternity
houses without chaperones was removed by
student action.
"This left the administration no course
but to suspend University approval of the
visiting agreement.
'T am hereby advising.. .that visiting by
women students in the fraternity houses is
not now approved by the University and
that the University will hold the fraternities
and individuals responsible for observance
of this suspension."
The letter was signed Fred H. Weaver,
Dean of Students. I
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technicalities of the incident are Jittcrent.
is strikingly pjniHel to the current
situation.
This incident was followed by the
announcement in September of ll)5S that
discussion would be held concerning the
arrangement of a coed visiting agreement in
men's dormitories.
The discussions were held between Don
Furtado. president of the student body,
and Dean of Women Katherine Cannichael.
No action resulted.
A full decade later on October IS. ll6S
a petition containing the names of 4.000
students requesting the instituting of
visitation privileges was presented to Dean
of Student Affairs C. O. Cathey.
At that time Dean Cathey said, "We
believe in participatory democracy and
that's the procedure we're following now."
Finally on December 5. 196S the
blessed event occurred. The Administration
released its "Policy on Open House
Functions in University Residential
Facilities."
Living units were not permitted to hold
visitation more than 10 times each month
or more than 3 times each week.
When visitation was held the total
number of hours alloted could not exceed
eight each day and doors had to remain
open.
This policy was released at a time when
the state universities of Florida and Georgia
had policies of self-determination.
The current policy is little unproved
eer the original document.
Lav! spring Student Legislature voted on
a vnitjtion policy that would allow the
mdivuiual living units to determine their
own visitation policy.
Legislature voted last Thursd.n to
reaffirm the right of individual residence
houses to determine their own pohev
guidelines.
Two residence houses. C'arr dorm and
the fourth floor of James dorm, decided to
adopt a scven-day-j-weck. 24-hour-a-day
policy.
Dean of Men Fred Schroedcr. following
the precedent established by Dean Weaver
in 1954. informed these dorms that the
have no visitation until the administration
policy is accepted.
Fortunately, these two living units have
decided to stand by their original rejection
of the administration's policy. In fact,
students residing on the fourth floor of
Hinton James have voted unanimously to
reaffirm their original stand.
Project Hinton has now voted to join
the other two living units in rejecting the
administration's policy.
Student Legislature must now decide if
they are going to serve the interest of the
students or return to the meaningless
conciliatory realm of the mid-Ill ties.
If SL does not have the courage to back
the students, the students should have the
courage to dissolve legislature.
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'Oh, Summer Session: A Review
Mix two cups of scrambled bird brains,
a plate of spinach and a gallon of used
dog food.
You have now undergone an
emotional experience almost as
overpowering as attending a performance
of the Liberal Wing Theatre's "Oh!
Summer Session!"
This moving farce has bumbled
through the summer with the energy of
an atomic blast and the excitement of a
hand-crank skin flick in a penny arcade.
The experimental production,
although plagued by exciting obstacles
like court injunctions and parking tickets,
has managed to present an upsetting
account of legalistic legerdemain in the
old South.
The story line centers around the
adventures of Tom Swift and his
electronic Legislature Machine.
Tom, wearing his white hat and good
guy badge, decides late one night that he
should save the farm for pretty,
precocious Suzy Student-Body.
Suzy has one of those fancy
double-last-names because her mother
was a French street-wa'lker who liked
fancy double-names.
Letter
Ripley Column Saddening
TO THE EDITOR
It saddened me to see an indictment of
the Christian Church in the first Sunday
issue of the Tar Heel. It sounded like
advice to freshmen.
It is unfortunate that Mr. Ripley has
not been close enough to the Church to
see beyond the hypocrites to those who
are painfully aware of their shortcomings
and who recognize that they stand in
continuing need of the grace of God.
I could also wish Mr. Ripley were
willing to make a fair assessment of the
"practical application" of the church's
faith (the Inter-Church Council in Chapel
Hill, for example).
Further, does Mr. Ripley recognize
his own indebtedness to institutional
Christianity for the "religion" he affirms?
Of course faith without works is dead,
but works may not be forthcoming
without a motivating faith. The love that
Mr. Ripley recommends did not originiate
in a vacuum. Affirmation of the Lordship
of Jesus was central to the life of the
early Church.
In short, Mr. Ripley serves up an
unbalanced "soul food" meal, and he
seems to be a rather inexperienced cook.
Robert Seymour
Olin T. Binley
Baptist Church
But back to the story. Snidley-Joe
Whip crack, dressed in a steel-grey
three-piece jump suit, has a meeting with
his notorious Backwoods Buckaroos.
"If Tom Swift wants to save the
farm," Whipcrack squeaks, "he'll do it
over your dead bodies."
The Buckaroos break into spontaneous
tears as Whipcrack tells them, in a voice
shaking with emotion, that hell be right
behind them all the way.
"I'd like to go with you, boys, but
somebody's got to write the checks."
The Buckaroos, fully aware of the
dangers in meeting the wily Swift
face-to-face, begin furious preparations
for the upcoming conflict. This consists
mainly of gathering wrenches, stumbling
blocks and other semantic nonsense to
clog, break and otherwise destroy Swift's
powerful Legislature Machine.
Swift, meanwhile, has contacted his
technical advisors, confidantes and
appointees. A plan of operation is worked
out in the wee-small hours of the night.
This was because, as everybody knows,
advisors and other flunkies work best in
the wee-small hours of the night, even
though they waste a lot of time during
the day.
The plan is for the Magnificent
Legislature Machine to meet in a special
session at the nearby college campus. This
site was chosen because there were lots of
pretty summer session coeds around to
titillate the Machine's tubes.
This added incentive was necessary
because the Machine had gone home for
the summer and half its cogs were in cold
storage.
The Machine was to cut its budget for
the upcoming year and therby save
enough money to buy the mortgage on
sweet Suzy Student-Body's farm.
Tom Swift, it turns out, has a thing
going for Suzy. And besides, he would
lose his good-guy badge if she wrote her
congressman.
Things proceed according to plan until
Whipcrack's Buckaroos show and start
throwing wrenches into the Machine.
Swift gets desperate. If the Machine
dies before it can save the farm it means
he can no longer print the Good-Guy
News in the farmhouse basement. And
there'll be no more pickled-peach
preserves for breakfast, either.
Suddenly he overpowers the
Buckaroos with what they think is magic.
Standing in the middle of the line of fire
Swift begins talking to both the Machine
and the Buckaroos out of the respective
sides of his mouth.
Over-powered by this display of verbal
agility, the Buckaroos leap on their
red-white-and-blue steeds and race away.
The Machine coughs up the cash, then
dies in a shower of nuts and bolts.
Swift is over-joyed. The Buckaroos
have been defeated once again.
Then, in the most moving part of the
whole shindig, Swift suddenly realizes
that he has bought the farm. Visions of
things like fire and hail insurance flood
his brain, and the pressure is too much.-
Muttering emotional epithets like
"responsibility" and "My poor machine,"
Swift stumbles off into the distance,
tearing his clothes as he goes.
Suzy Student-Body, meanwhile,
decides she should have stayed in France
with mother, and traipses off to the
nearest bar to set up shop.
Everyone should see this moving story
of life and death on the old plantation.
Now playing on second floor, Carolina
Union.
Once upon a time, there was a great
University located in an ancient kingdom
called the United States of Armeric. This
great University had given its nation
presidents, senators, representatives and
generals. The reputation of its hallowed
halls spread all over the earth and
rendered any graduate of the University
an instant success.
The Student Government of the
University was its one deficit.
Throughout the years the students were
controlled by big campus political
machines and consequently elected
half-witted idiots to the high position of
the President of the Student Body-but
then came Tommie.
Tommie Yellow was an Independent
President, that is, not of any particular
political party. He promised when elected
to "keep the high and mighty office to
which I have been elected, out of any
partisan political activity." That was
Tommie Yellow's first trick and he
followed trick upon trick to reach the
top.
Tommie Yellow's first official act was
to place himself at the helm of a great
movement to protest Armeric's policy of
military assistance to a neighbor over the
mountain. Armeric's mountain neighbor
had been attacked by the forces of the
Red Knight and Tommie felt that since
there was a whole mountain between
Armeric and the Red Knight, Armeric's
own security was not threatened.
Tommie Yellow also felt that Armeric's
mountain neighbor's sole export of
dominos was not of strategic value. (The
Red Knight once said, "Every domino is
worth a drop of blood.")
On the day of the protest, Yellow
forgot his pledge to keep his office out of
politics. He stood on the village green and
shouted obscenities at the King of
Armeric and said that he, the high
President of the Student Body, was not
willing to tolerate anymore foreign wars.
Boy, he had guts.
Amazing things happend to Tommie
Yellow as the year progressed-notably
his head started swelling and his political
tricks became more polished. Tommie's
next feat was to pull the old "cat's got
my tongue" trick. When the Duke of
Carolina's High Court ordered the student
government to come to grips with some
of their mistakes, Tommie Yellow
disappeared. In his campaign he promised
to be the essence of student rights, but
when he was confronted with a situation
he melted. It was reported that President
Yellow said to his special advisor Lord
Fauntleroy, "If I buck the Duke of
Carolina, I might not be elected King in
thirty years." Oh, Tommie, you certainly
were perceptive.
President Yellow determined that his
Swelling head was due to a swelling brain
so he decided to get into academics.
Yellow started a class labeled "1917-X
Propaganda Science." Yellow was, of
course, extremely experienced in this
subject-he had been practicing it since
high school. Yellow, while professing
freedom of speech, exculded all those
opposing his isolationist-interventionists,
conservative-liberal, reactionary-radical
philosophy. Yellow, pointed this out.
during his sermonette in the class by
saying "Freedom of speech in the popular
context means freedom for Tommie
Yellow to speak."
An interesting historic note to all this
is an incident Yellow had on campus one
day. Yellow was escourting 121 deprived,
under-privileged, oppressed, black, Negro,
colored, Afro-Americans on a tour of the
University when they passed a stand
erected by Young Armerics for Freedom.
Low and behold, these fascists had the
gall to sell posters of Barry Goldwasser,
the Common of Sense. Tommie gaffawed
and slapped the deprived,
under-privileged, oppressed, black, Negro,
colored Afro-American on the back and
said, "Look at that, isn't it silly?" They
all agreed and walked on but then
Tommie Yellow ran back to the YAF
booth and said, "Goldwasser did have
some good ideas."
"Whose side are you on?" asked Arnie
Aristocrat, the typical YAF stereotype as
he scratched his pair of Sear's blue jeans.
Yellow said, "Everybody's-but
especially mine."
Well, Tommie died one day when his
head exploded but his work had a great
effect. The Red Knight slaughtered the
populace of Armeric's mountain neighbor
when Armeric forces were withdrawn.
The University was controlled completely
by the Duke of Carolina after Tomrnie
had an attack of laryngitis. Tommie's
example of student activism became
popular. Courses in obscenities were
inaugurated by the Yellow Vulgaric
Society.
Soon the University and Armeric were
destroyed. Tommie Yellow, the great and
high politico, hastened its destruction.
GFlj? Sailg (Jar Ejwl
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