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October 21, 1970
The Daily Tar HeeS
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Tom GoocSng, Ed tor
Remaining Dorms
'hoold Endorse
Undents'
Aycock dormitory has now
joined the growing list of living
units that have decided to adopt
their own visitation policy. We
commend the residents of Aycock
dorm for their action.
Last week Lewis and Graham
dormitories passed resolutions
supporting the SL policy. Thus,
three dorms in the lower quad have
rejected the administration's open
house policy.
The Morehead Residence College
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Rick Gray Associate Ed.
Harry Bryan Associate Ed.
Chris Cobbs Sports Editor
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Doug Jewell Business Mgr.
Frank Stewart Adv. Mgr.
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All Eyes Are
"But my words
Like silent raindrops fell
And echoes
In a well
Of Silence."
Of all the tragedies that have occured
to mankind, perhaps the greatest is his
loss of the ability to communicate. In a
society where technology has made it
possible for man to speak,
instantaneously, around the world,
nobody is listening.
Look around you. In Canada, a man
lies dead and a country is being turned
upside down. Why? Because a group of
men felt that there was no better way to
get their point across than to kidnap a
government official, and finally, kill their
hostage.
In the Middle East, a war drags on and
on. And the countries involved cannot
even sit down at a table to begin
discussing a possible settlement.
In the United State, thousands of
citizens have become so alienated from
their own society that they feel the only
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Senate; comprising Stacy, Lewis,
Everett, Graham, Aycock, East and
West Cobb, passed a resolution last
Wednesday calling for support of
the SL policy from all members of
the residence college and campus.
Three students form Morehead
Residence College met to discuss
the positions of the dormitories
with Dean of Men Fred Schroeder.
The responses given by both
parties following the meeting points
out the vast divergence of opinion
on this question.
"We now have a clearer
understanding of each other's
position," Schroeder said after the
meeting.
While Chip Shore, Graham
Dormitory President, characterized
the meeting as "discouraging."
However, Shore pointed out
several facts that students all across
campus should keep in mind. He
noted that "It would be very
difficult for the administration to
enforce its policy" and then urged
that dormitories all over the
campus "reject the administration
policy as a group." Shore said he
hopes that Morehead Residence
College will take the lead in
organizing a mass movement.
We feel that Morehead
Residence College has already taken
the lead in organizing a mass
movement against the
administration's policy.
The remaining dorms on this
campus should now hold meetings
and reject the administration's
policy.
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means left to make themselves heard is to
take to the streets. And still, nobody
listens to what they are saying once they
are in the streets.
When viewed in this context, last
week's meeting between students from
this university and the President's
Consultative Committee takes on a vastly
enlarged significance. It was more than
just a discussion of Open House
procedures. It shows that, for the time
being, at least, the lines of
communication between the students and
the administration are still open. A still
more important matter is yet to be
settled, however. For, granted that the
lines of communication are open, they
are absolutely worthless if nobody is
listening.
Ever since we were old enough to
remember, we have been told that the
best way to achieve change is to work for
it within the boundaries of the system.
And few places has that adage been used
more than here at the university. Long
before a student is finally enrolled here,
To the students of UNC:
As you are all aware the tickets to the
appearance of the group Chicago have ail
been sold. I went to the Union today to
get tickets and upon arriving found a Icr.g
line waiting to get tickets. While I stood
several people came by, went to the
front, and ask the people at the head of
the line to get them tickets. As I stood
pushing and shoving started and an
announcement stated that there were
plenty of tickets and all sales would halt
until things quieted down. I left the line
to go to class feeling assured that the next
day I would be able to get tickets. I came
back around three o'clock only to find all
of the tickets sold. It seems that due to
the rule of four tickets to an ID, that a
few students had purchased all the tickets
alotted for this performance. Some
bought tickets for their dates, some got
tickets for their relatives, and some
bought tickets to resell to make a "fast
buck." Out of 17,000 students only
1,800 have tickets, if one assumes that all
the extra tickets are sold by the people
that bought them to make a profit. I have
even talked to a person who says he went
through the line twice and ended up with
eight tickets.
What can be done one asks? There are
two solutions to the problem that face
the rest of the students without tickets.
One, is an outdoor program held at
Kenan an impossibility? Everyone could
attend then. It might be cold, but if one
really wanted to see the group it wouldn't
be that cold. Second could an
arrangement be made to have two
performances? It might cost but if one
half of the students that have tickets are
all that is needed to pay for the group,
then why can't the remaining half pay for
a second performance? I am sure this
university has funds for a help in
payment for a second performance.
As it stands now less than two weeks
until homecoming, tickets are being sold
for as much as seven and eight dollars by
students who have taken it upon
themselves to cheat others out of seeing
this group at reasonable Drices.
It seems a great tragedy that this has
happened, and I hope that in the future
steps are taken to prevent this sort of
occurance from happening again.
James E. Oliver
223 James
Boycott Chicago
Ticket Scalpers
To the Editor:
Welcome to Scalp U. Since I have been
at Scalp U. (more than two years) I have
known of students making a fortune by
the illegal sale of tickets. Last year at
Homecoming, a student payed $50 for
two tickets to see The Fifth Dimension.
This vear, the Homecoming concert
features Chicago. Tickets sold out in less
than six hours. People put down up to'
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he is told of our "self governing student
community." Here, he is led to believe, is
the system within which he can work to
achieve those changes he finds necessary.
Nowhere have the students attempted
to use those channels provided within the
system more than during the struggle for
self determination of open house rules.
Over the past three, every single
legitimate channel offered to the students
has been exhausted.
Last year, the chancellor's Committee
on University Residence Living (CURL)
was charged with making
recommendations for this year's open
house policy. Their overwhelming
recommendation was to implement a
policy of self determination for each
individual living unit. The student
legislature adopted such a policy. The
administration did not.
Their reasoning? One important
factor, according to Chancellor Sitterson,
was that a majority of the CURL
members who voted for self
determination were students! Those
eleven ID cards and received forty-four
tickets at a price of SSS. Most everyone
in line bought four tickets apiece. Are
you people with no tickets going to pay
outrageous prices to these people to see
Chicago?
Paying more than two dollars per
ticket is unfair to you. By a campus-wide
effort, this may be stopped. If you want
to buy tickets from fellow students, do
not pay more than two dollars per ticket.
This is your privilege as a student. If this
price remains at this level, no one will be
cheated. If not, it is your money.
I also challenge the campus and Chapel
Hill police to arrest any person they see
scalping tickets because it is illegal. This
challenge is extended to the Student
Government and The Daily Tar Heel to
help rid ourselves of this action. It is time
for these ticket scalpers to be halted once
and for all. Remember, if you buy a
ticket for more than two dollars you are
cheating your fellow students as well as
yourself.
Fred Watkins
2206 Granville Towers S.
Limit Students
To Two Tickets
To the Editor:
The Union's policy of selling tickets
for concerts is in need of change. A
person is allowed to buy four tickets with
one ID. Up until now, the policy has been
tolerable since the demand for tickets has
not exceeded the supply. However, the
popularity of "Chicago" has stimulated
much more interest and created a greater
demand for tickets than for previous
groups. Many students capitalize on this
demand by buying the maximum number
of tickets and then selling them at a
profit. One student used five ID's and
Grover B. Proctor
Columnist Dislikes Labels
You know, writing a weekly column
like this has its rewards, but it certainly
has its debits, also. One never really
knows where the next attack is coming
from. It may come from an old friend or
a total stranger. It may be in the form of
a letter to the editor or it may be passed
on by word of mouth. It may come from
a political enemy or from one you love
dearly.
Of course, occasionally, it's possible to
hit on a nice, safe topic, like a football
game, on which everyone agrees with
you. Then the praise comes in from all
quarters.
But I have been doing some serious
thinking about this form of expression.
Is it really intellectually honest to
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students who sat on that committee did
so because they had been led to believe
that their opinions were of value in
determining policy. It is a shame that
nobody listened when they gave them.
The students also turned to their own
representative bodies for help in achieving
self determination. After many legislators
had spent long hours discussing their
position with the administration, the
legislature passed a policy of self
determination. At the time, the
administration said this would be a useful
input into the policy making process.
Judging from the policy that emerged, it
hardly seems to have been used as an
input at all.
The same can unfortunately be said
for the policies recommended by the
AWS and the RCF. Time and time again
the students have expressed their desire
for change through their representatives
within the system. And time and time
again they have been frustrated.
" Now, for the first time in the history
of the University, the students have taken
bought twenty tickets WhJe some
people claim they use this ?roiii to
finance their dates, at the r,e time (hey
are forcing others to pay higher prices for
dates. This also makes it possible for
outsiders to attend the show while some
UNC students cannot. Why should people
from other schools be allowed to attend
while those of us who are enrolled and
have paid fees which go to the Union to
sponsor social activities not be allowed to
attend? We suggest the Union adopt a
policy similar to that of the Athletic
Association whereby students are
permitted to buy only one date ticket per
ID with the hopes of eliminating the
profiteering.
Barby Lowe
237 West Cobb
Kathy Thompson
234 West Cobb
Make Ticket Sale
Fair, Equitable
To the editor:
The ticket lines for the homecoming
concert seem to definitely remind one
more of "Chicago" than Chapel Hill. It
seems very evident that the present
distribution of tickets is grossly
inadequate and unresponsive to the needs
of 17,000 students.
Doesn't it seem only logical that UNC
students are entitled to first preference?
Realizing that there is limited space
available for the concert, the issuance of
four tickets with each ID, thereby
permitting a great percentage of tickets to
flow outside of the University
community, seems grossly unfair. It's a
UNC homecoming, How can we keep it
that way if we, ourselves, are deprived of
attending our own homecoming
functions? This is not to say that others
devote valuable space in the DTH to such
ramblings as "A Day In My Gloomy Life"
or. My Thought As Boys Gather Under
My Window" or "A Personal Vendetta
With The Guys Of The Print Shop".
These are all rather entertaining in their
own way, but they are so greatly
overshadowed by other articles recently
appearing in the paper which dealt with
the matters that really count in our world
today. One such article is Tony Lentz's
latest contribution, "A Little Boy And
An Ice Cream Cone." If you have not
read it, you must. It is simply excellent.
Unfortunately, such articles are few
and far between. And, far more
unfortunately for me, I cannot remedy
the situation I abhor, because I realize I
could never write a column comparable
to that of Mr. Lentz.
But maybe I can do something by
examining exactly what I feel college
students should seriously address
ourselves to in our quest to prove
ourselves mature adults. And before I
proceed on with this line of thought, let
me pay respect to those who see me as
other, than human. I was told last
weekend that I would make a wonderful
old man and that I was born 60 years
old. I have been accused of having no
feelings and I get the distinct impression
that I was included as a member of the
fictitious Young Americans for Fascism.
No doubt I was aligned with the infamous
J. Anthony Pilkington III.
I hate to be iconoclastic, but contrary
to popular belief, I am very much human.
I have deep feelings about many things.
And as for fascism, because I am not
entirely certain of the allusion and
because it is so inane, I shall not dignify it
with comment.
their case to the level of the President of
the Consolidated University, by
requesting to present their case to the
consultative committee.
This is the last possible legitimate
channel that is offered to the students. It
is imperative that the committee
members realize this, lhey must not
simply consider their task in the narrow
context of deciding how many hours
members of one sex may be allowed to
spend in the rooms of members of the
opposite sex. If they approach the
problem with this point of view, then
their meeting will have been a waste of
time.
It is almost inevitable that at some
date, the administration will recognize
student self determination with regard to
open house policies. Several schools have
already adopted such policies. The issue
to be decided by the Consultative
Committee is whether or not, on this
campus, this recognition will come as a
result of responsible student inputs,
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to attend the concert, but irut
students should have priority.
The Kvuar.ce of four tickets also
increases the possibility of scalping,
some thine that most of us would rather
see eliminated. There is no justification or
excuse tor exploiting one's fellow student
like this. Reducing the homecoming
concerts ticket quota to two tickets
would also help alleviate this problem.
Most important of all -a fair and
equitable distribution would help make
this a successful homecoming, but more
important, a Carolina homecoming.
Ticket Buyers
Deserve It
To the Editor:
Yesterday's line in front of the Union
waiting for tickets to Chicago was a
beautiful sight. I had begun to lose faith
in the students of this University, but
when I saw so many of them standing
there, IDs clutched tightly in one hand
and their almighty dollar bills and
checkbooks in the other, 1 knew that I
should never have doubted.
Students have not changed a bit since I
was an undergraduate two years ago.
Most of them think they are in college to
learn, and they think that the only way
they can learn is to participate fully in
the "College Football Weekend,"
drinking until they can't stand up, puking
their guts out in the restrooni of the
restaurant and then screaming drunkenly
for the group in concert to, "Flay It
Again, Sam."
Every student that stood in line
Monday and got a ticket to see Chicago
deserves the Sunday hang-over they get.
Jim Blaimer
2 Hiltonhead Court
I am concerned over the tremendous
rift in our country today. I don't pretend
to have the answer as to why there is such
a rift or as to who is to blame for it, but
undoubtedly there is one. The polarizing
effect it has had on us as a nation has
been cataclismic. The normal givetake
relationships of differing opinions has
been damaged, some say, beyond repair.
The two opposing sides cannot meet
to discuss issues without both arguments
degenerating to name callin and mud
slinging. "Meaningful dialogue" however
that nebulous phrase may be defined, is
nowhere to be found.
One side is certain that the other is
conscientiously trying to tear the nation
apart, and this is effectin a polarization
which is making radicals out of moderates
on both sides of the political spectrum. I
suppose I have been as guilty as anyone
else, yet a serious contemplation has led
me to see that this trend - no matter how
sincerely I might think others wrong - is
never going to bring about a
reconciliation of our nation.
Next week I will continue with
thought along this line and with what I
see as wrong with the way conservatism is
portrayed and met today in America. I
can only hope that this open admission
by someone who has seen as error in his
ways will spark these others who disagree
with me to soften their tone and search
diligently for a meeting ground.
I am still openly and quite proudly
conservative in my politics; just as I am
an American in my citizenship. But just
because I am both does not make me
espouse everything that guises under
either of these labels.
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within the "system." The committee has
in fact been presented with a priceless
opportunity to prove to the students that
worksinS W1 the SyStem" reaUy
Admittedly, the problem of
communication on this issue are small
when compared with those problems
which arise on a global scale. But it is
encouraging to find that there are some
channels of communication which still
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