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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
October IS, 1970
Gerry Cohen
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Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel
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Awards Of
Till: JOh McCAKTIIhY
MEMORIAL AWARD Of THL
VLi;K To (ien. Lyman L.
Lcmnitzcr (U.S. Army Ret.),
former Supreme Commander of
Allied forces in Lurope, who told a
conference on NATO here this
week that today's international
tensions are caused by Russia's
drive for "fulfillment of
Communist world domination
under Soviet direction and
control." We're quaking in our
shoes.
UNBIASED OPINION OF THE
VlliliK AWARD -To the two DTH
reviewers who, in separate reviews,
called Junie Moon both a very bad
movie and a very good movie
within the span of two days.
PROFOUND STATEMENT OF
THE WEEK A WARD -To chief
campus security officer Arthur J.
Beaumont who, speaking of the
administration's habit of avoiding
controversial stands, said, "When
somebody asks me what time it is, I
don't tell them how to build a
watch. I tell them what time it is."
And what time is it, chief?
TRAFFIC JAM OF THE
FUTURE AWARD-To leftist
leader Rennie Davis who proposed
Friday that all of the students take
old cars to D.C. on May 3 and
create a road block around the
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78 Yean of Editorial Freedom
Tom Gooding,Editor
Rod Waldorf Managing Ed.
Mike Parnell News Editor
Rick Gray Associate Ed.
Harry Bryan Associate Ed.
Chris Cobbs Sports Editor
Glenn Brank Feature Editor
Ken Ripley Nat. News Editor
Ken Smith Night Editor
Doug Jewell Business Mgr.
Frank Stewart Adv. Mgr.
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Dane Hartgrove
Davis' Valines Changed
I was one of a large number of
students who gathered in Memorial Hall
Friday afternoon to hear one of the
heroes of the radical left expound on the
subject of the war and how to end it.
Unlike some of our more enthusiastic
leftists, I came away from the meeting
with a vague feeling of having been
betrayed running through my mind.
Rennie Davis is a young man whom I
personally respect for his guts in the face
of judicial repression and for his sincerity
in wanting to change the complexion of
the middleclass paradise that is America.
But years in the spotlight in connection
with SDS and radical movements have, it
seems to me, wrought a change in his
values.
I think anybody who takes the time to
sit down and think about it will agree
with me that what the peace movement
in this country stands for is not an end
just to American' involvement in
Indochina, but an end to oppression,
from whatever quarter, all over the world.
What is at issue in Vietnam is not the
question of war or peace, but that of the
use of force in whatever form to decide
the conditions of life for the Vietnamese
people.
And this, 1 think, is what Rennie Davis
has forgotten. While he rightly rejects any
attempt by the U.S. or South Vietnamese
governments to dominate peace
negotiations in Indochina, he announces
boldly that he accepts the proposals of
the Hanoi-sponsored Provisional
Government as a fair and just means of
ending the conflict in Southeast Asia.
According to Davis, the leaders of this
Provisional Governemtn demand the
oval
of only three leaders oi me
are expressed on its editorial page. All
of the editor and the staff. Letters and
of the individual contributors.
GoaSng, Editor
The Week
Pentagon if Nixon hasn't ended the
war. Sorry, Rennie. but that's the
Monday after Jubilee.
NEW APOINTEE OF THE
WEEK AWARD-To the figure who
made his way to the desk of
Student Body President Tom Bello,
taking a position there as Bello's
left-hand man. About the only
thing the new advisor, a statue of
Mickey Mouse, has done is lead
student government figures in a
song fest .M-I-C-K-E-Y..."
THINK OF ALL THOSE
STARVING CHILDREN IN
EUROPE AWARD OF THE
WEEK-To Orientation
Commission Picnic chairman Lock
Bell who said Friday he threw away
two and a half crates of left-over
chicken after the orientation picnic.
If Bell can answer one question
he wins a free chicken box from
Col. Sanders: Where in Chapel Hill
does one throw away two and one
half crates of fried chicken?
THE "I WILL NOT SEEK...NOR
SERVE IF ELECTED"
AWARD To former Conservative
Party executive committee member
Joe Beard who resigned last week
saying he wanted to get out of
student politics. We'll admist that
we disagreed with Beard
occassionally, but it'll be different
without him around He sort of
kept you guessing and sitting with
your back to the wall at all times.
LOSER OF THE WEEK
AWARD-To Douglas Hill who lost
his car keys on campus, put a
notice in The Daily Tar Heel,
received a call from the person who
found his keys and then had to put
another ad in the paper because he
lost the Finder's name and phone
number.
INTREPID TOOTOR OF THE
WEEK AWARD-To Billy
Carmichael for blowing taps in the
Library Science Library one day
last week in celebration of later
closing hours for the library.
Carmichael stayed around long
enough to play the song with a
straight face and collect a bag of
Crunch Granola for his work.
WHAT IS A NICE KID LIKE YOU
YOU DOING IN A PLACE LIKE
THIS AWARD OF THE WEEK-To
Student Body President Tom Bello,
who, upon being falsely accused of
leading one of last week's pantie
raids said, "Pantie raid? I thought it
was a student strike."
present Saigon government in any ensuing
negotiations between the Vietnamese
political factions, and reserve for the
Vietcong only one-third of the seats in
any ensuing Vietnamese government.
But the demands sponsored by Hanoi
have the same ring of force and
oppression as those proposed by Nixon
and his puppets in Saigon. The demands
of neither the communists nor the
dictators satisfy the real needs of the
peoples of Indochina, for neither side in
this political dispute is willing to grant
them peace without oppiession.
But let us go on, because I think
Rennie Davis is confused on another
major detail of current politics in the
New Left.
Again, I think anybody who takes the
time to think about it will agree that
what is needed in this country today is
not more of a factional disputes that
divide the country and hold back social
reform. What is needed is united action
on a grass roots level to achieve reform,
while winning the minds of the public to'
support not only national but
international cooperation and
understanding.
Throughout Davis's speech, underlying
his proposals, there ran the shadowy
figure of the group "we," who plan to
put Davis's ideas into practice. I am not
as naive as some Congressmen and
housewives, who think that "we" means
the Communist party, but I would like to
know who these supporters of Davis are.
My impression of "we" is of a vast,
hostile conspiracy, who are plotting to
seize power from the clutches of
President Nixon and his party, and who
1 propose thai student government
bszin a program lo set aside SI 20.000 of
its budsret each year for scholarships.
The Student Government here is given
S260.000 annually from University fee
receipts to appropriate as it chooses, and
at times, the choices are frivolous. In the
past several years, however, the Student
Legislature has begun to show a social
committment, by funding such
organizations as the Committee for
Advancement of Minority and
Disadvantaged Students (AMDS), and the
1969 Senior Scholarship fund.
The University now, unfortunately,
faces a double pressure on its financial
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STUDENT, AND H0W Ml
Ken Ripley
Soul Food:
"You Christians are always talking
about sin," a guy complained last week.
"You've got a lot of picky little things
you blast as 'wrong,' set up rules against
them, and preach hell-fire to anyone who
doesn't live by your rules.
"The Christians I know don't help
anybody reach any conclusions about
what is wrong or harmful for their lives.
They only take the fun out of living."
He has a point.
Many Christians, however they came
to feel that way, do seem to damn
and themselves, because of their failure to
live up to prescribed moral standards. A
lot of people do get uptight about the
idea that you've got to be "good" to get
right with God and if you do "bad"
things you go to some fiery hell. Sin, to
them, is a neatly drawn up list of
"don'ts."
The whole widespread conception of
sin really bothers me, because not only
does it "take the fun out of living," life
in the name of the American people, will
then proceed to force, however gently,
the American people to accept their
reforms.
While taking power away from the
Republican Party and its fellow travelers
is appealing to me, I can't see that it will
improve matters any to replace the sway
of Richard Nixon and Co. with the
dominance of Rennie Davis and "we,"
whoever they are. What this country
needs is united action for reform, not the
dominance of any one group or its
program in Washington.
Rennie Davis told his listeners in
Memorial Hall Friday that Indochina
suffers twe and a half Hiroshimas a week
as the result of American involvement
there. He is essentially right, whatever the
figure may be, because any deaths in the
area as the result of an attempt by a
government to dominate and oppress its
people is unacceptable to the thinking
people of this country.
But. Davis is willing to accept the
dominance of a Hanoi-sponsored regime
in Vietnam at the expense of the
Vietnamese people, and he urges the
American people to accept the
dominance of "we," his nebulous group
of followers, in Washington at the
expense of a united country and real
action with regard to social reform.
Davis and the other heroes of the
radical movement have done much to
make the American people conscious of
its faults. But perhaps he and his friends
have served their purpose. At any rate, it
is time for the American people to unite
to solve current problems at home and
abroad.
Cam F!
resource ior saoiarMiip. i nc .ion
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Administration initiated recession w.n
beein to dry up scholarship contributions.
2l the same time as it oppose a;d to
education financial increases, so as to py
a mammoth defense establishment.
At the same time, the University
Administration, under pressure, is just
now beginning to fulfill its obligation to
the people of the state by educating all.
not just the priveliged few. The blacks
and disadvantaged who come to Chapel
Hill, however, are especially hardpressed
for money to get an education, a fact the
Chancellor realized this summer when he
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Concerning Sin
itself becomes a wretched exercise of
futility. Because people are only human,
people do fail to consistantly meet the
standards they set for themselves. And
those who feel they have to "earn their
way to heaven" achieve only frustration
and defeat. Or else they face the danger
of hypocrisy and pride. Pharisees are
created among people who feel they've
"made it" solely because of the life they
live.
It's amazing how many people do feel
that God grades on the curve. If I can just
avoid "sinning" more than anyone else,
the feeling goes, I'm bound to end up
with halo and harp eventually.
I'm not surprised, in fact I'm pleased,
that this idea of sin and salvation is being
categorically rejected by a growing
number of people. They see the legalism,
the hypocrisy, and the futility of such a
belief and say "that's not for me."
It's not for me either, nor do I find
any such view in biblical Christianity. Sin
is far more serious than any list of "do's
and don'ts."
The word "sin" is unfortunately
loaded with connotations. I can't help
but think of the fiery hell-and-damnation
preachers at the old-time revival meetings
in those tents with saw-dust trails. Or of
stuffy theology about four feet above my
head. I hate the word.
But the Christian concept of sin makes
a profound observation of man and deals
at a basic level with the chaotic and often
downright evil state of human affairs.
Christianity defines "Sin" as a
fundamental alienation of man from God.
Jeremiah presents a graphic
description of sin. "For my people have
committed two evils," God says. "They
have forsaken me, the fountain of living
waters, and hewed out cisterns for
themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold
no water.
Note the two dimensions of sin. First,
there is the act of alienation, of
"forsaking" God. And secondly there are
the consequences of sin-empty lives,
lives that are broken, lives that lack true
quality of experience and meaning.
We see the empty "cisterns" all around
us. Loneliness, despair, hurt, confusion
affect each one of us. It's easy to look at
life and wonder what's the use. And no
wonder so many people become
pessimists and cynics, or just cop out.
Listing all the wrongs men do and
labelling "them "sins" to avoid doesn't
help break down the alienation between
God and man. When Jesus, and later Paul,
specifically spelled out some of these
wrongs, he wasn't setting up standards for
reuniting with God. He was pointing out,
in blunt denunciation, the results of
man's spiritual alienation.
The evil that men do, the wrongs they
commit anu mc nun ,
the foundation of sin, but the symptoms.
The Christian's concept of sin says, just as
many existential philosophers have
discovered, that the world is sick and,
without a cure, faces death.
The question is, w ho has a cure? Many
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University became an institution for all
the people of this state, not an institution
they pay for with food taxes and never
get to attend.
My suggestion, then, is that student
government come in to fill a part of that
breach. The Adams Committee report.
gsen to the Chancellor last car.
recommends that students stop funding
organizations such as the Debate Team.
Glee Club and Choir. At the same time.
enrollment is up six
percent.
and the
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philosophers find none. Other people
concentrate on abolishing the symptoms,
whether it be through law, education, or
religion.
The Christian cure is not to treat the
symptoms of wrong in society, to merely
"make people good," but to break down
the alienation between man and God.
This is the whole point of the "good
news" of the Gospel message that God
has provided the cure through Jesus
Christ whereby man can be reconciled to
God.
"Those who are well have no need of a
physician," Christ says, "but those who
are sick. I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners.
"For God sent the Son into the
world," Jesus says, "not to condemn the
world, but that the world might be saved
through him. He who believes in him is
not condemned; he who does not believe
is condemned already, because he has not
believed in the name of the only Son of
God."
This is what we must confront. Jesus
Christ claimed that he is the cure to
man's alienation from God-that he has
come to remove the sin which leads to
death. Through Christ's death and
resurrection men are reconciled to "the
fountain of living waters" and enter into
a new relationship with God, a whole new
quality of life.
A well that holds no water is useless,
and so is a life that is empty and sick. The
patient that is dying may choose the cure
he wants, just as a person must question
the claims of Jesus Christ. But he must be
sure of his choice.
No cure will help if the patient is
already dead.
Letters
Spirit Badly Used
To The Editor:
As the last of the cars are making their
way out of the Morrison parking lot, the
excitement of the ball game just
completed has begun to subside. We feel
moved to express our appreciation to the
residents of Morrison whose school spirit
has been unaffected by the defeat of our
football team.
We are certain that the visitors from
South Carolina were as deeply impressed
as we by the spirit of those persons made
manifest by water-filled beer cans and
plastic bags, garbage, and obscenities that
were showered upon South Carolina fans
as they returned to their cars.
One South Carolina student was
fortunate enough to be able to drive away
wi'h evidence of this overwhelming spirit
in .e form of a shattered windshield.
Isn t it great that the team has such
enthusiastic supporters?
Maybe at the next home game we can
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Administration and the
committment to the futur
Universitv and the future ot
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this state.
The November IT election, already
scheduled, is the date to set for a ote.
We can continue to fund the Student
Union, the Daily Tar Heel, l egal Defeiw.
and some administrative costs, while the
delayed effects ot
tlu
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orcanizations time before
the pinch
comes three years away.
The program will give a chance to this
University, a chance to those who are not
privileged, and let's face it. most of us tall
into that category.
The proposal is really a committment
to the system, not an attempt to
overthrow it, and hopefully will not In
attacked on a partisan basis (either on the
campus or outside).
Now that the social question has been
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gloriously dealt with, just how will the
scholarship program run, and how can it
be adopted?
The committment to the people I have
talked about means that scholarships of
$1000 to S1500 be granted to residents
of this state in the deepest poverty, and
with the greatest need, and must at the
least recognize that one of every four
persons in this state is black or Indian.
There can be no requirements for loyalty
oaths, hairlength tests, or revocation if
the student engaged in 'subversive'
activities, as some federal aid programs
seem to call for. No other restrictions
should be placed on recipients, indeed
they must be given encouragements.
So how do we get this plan in high
gear? 1 served two terms in Student
Legislature, and plan to submit the bill to
friends in the SL for action, action which
must be taken soon if publicity in the
state for next year can be gotten, bind
the student legislator in your dorm, and
ask him to vote for the plan. If the
Legislature refuses, then the necessary
1757 signatures to put the question on
the ballot should be gathered.
Members of the SL whom I have
talked to are receptive, yet afraid to rur
afoul of special interests who seem to
devour money. This year SI2,0C0 of out
money is being spent to send five
students overseas, and the Orientation
Commission leadership threw out SI 000
in food after the September picnic when
people are literally starving two miles
from campus.
Anyone with suggestions can call me
at 967-4452. Some action is needed to
get things moving.
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all booze it up and see how utterly stupid
we can be.
Dave Jackson
Reagan Weaver
804 Morrison
Notary Public
Offers Services
TO THE EDITOR
Voting time is here again. As a public
service to the Student Body, I will aain
this year, be happy to Notarize Free of
Charge all requests for absent "T" Ballots
and the ballots themselves when received
My office is at 114 Henderson Street,
Chapel Hill, N.C. and hours are 10 AM
until 6 PM Daily except Sunday.
Kemp Battle Nye
Notary Public
Orange County
North Carolina
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