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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Saturday. October 24, 1970
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Tom Gooding, Editor
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Visitation Violations?
The following living units have cither
adopted their own visitation policy or
endorsed the policy passed by Student
Legislature last spring:
-The 8th floor of Granville West has
adopted a policy permitting visitation 24
: hours a day 7 days a week;
The 9th floor of Granville West has
adopted a policy with provisions for
724 visitation;
-James Dormitory's 4th floor has
adopted a 724 policy;
-Project Hinton (including the 9th
and 10th floors of Hinton James
' Dormitory) has adopted a 724 policy;
-Carr Dormitory has adopted a 724
policy; :
-The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th j
floors of Granville Towers South have :
endorsed the Student Legislature policy :
of self-determination;
- The 2nu, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th
floors of Granville Towers West have
endorsed the SI policy; :j
-The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th
floors of Granville Towers East have ;i
endorsed the SL policy;
-Aycock dormitory has endorsed the :
SL policy;
Lewis dormitory has endorsed the jj:
. ... SL policy; f.
; Graham dormitory has endorsed the
SL policy; ::
In addition the James and Morehead S
: Residence College Senates have endorsed ::
the SL policy of self-determination;
The Residence College Federation :ji
and the Association of Women Students
have endorsed the concept of a jS
self-determined visitation policy. :j:
, Why stop now?
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Howie Carr
With the Republican fund raising
Festival of Life-Spiro Agnew-Yippie party
in Raleigh only two days away, maybe
youf like to know the origins and the
past accomplishments of the Youth
International Party. (Maybe you
wouldn't, but this column is operating on
the first assumption.)
According to Jerry Rubin, Y.I.P. was
born at a New Year's party in 1968,
attended by Rubin, his wife Nancy,
Abbie and Anita Hoffman and Paul
Krassner, publisher of the Realist, a
magazine that later got into trouble for
printing what Krassner claimed were the
censored passages of William Manchester's
"Death of a President."
. Rubin writes that the party would
appeaf "to "the Marxist acidhead, the
psychedelic Bolshevik. He didn't feel at
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Carl Freedman
A Speech From
My fellow Americans. I speak before
you tonight in a time of great crisis. At
no time in our nation's history since the
War between the States have we seen such
deep and serious division within our
country.
For the most part, this division is
reflected through the kind of peaceful
and lawful dissent that is every
American's cherished right; however, it is
clear that there exists a small minority
that has no interest in lawful dissent, but
only a desire to perpetrate violence and
disruption wherever possible. This is the
minority that bums buildings, bombs
government offices, kidnaps citizens, and
through such violent tactics attempts to
terrorize the American people.
But America has weathered many a
crisis in the past, and I am confident that
she will not allow herself to lose courage
now.
Let me. make one thing very clear: the
terrorists will not succeed. Already many
of them have been caught, and, despite
the unprecedented nature of the crisis,
Mr. Hoover of the F.B.I, has assured me
that the battle will be completely over in
approximately six months. Our law
home in SDS, and he wasn't a
flower-power hippie or a campus
intellectual. A hybrid mixture of New
Left and hippie coming out something
different."
The Yippies organized the first
"Festival of Life," to coincide with the
Democratic convention in Chicago two
years ago. They tried every trick to
attract people, and it looks like Scott
Snavely picked up one when he claimed
that Led Zeppelin and Jefferson Airplane
were going to play in Raleigh. As Rubin
wrote, "Was Dylan coming? Sure. The
Beatles? Sure. The Rolling Stones?
Yippie. We embellished every rumor and
passed it on to ten more people." (The
only rock group to show up was the
MCS.)
The amazing ability of the Yippies to
.Began
How I wUh that strife, both that from
the gods and that which comes from men.
would perish utterly! And also anser
which incites rage even in those
exceedingly wise-anger which builds, like
smoke, within men's breasts till it grows
sweeter than trickling honey!
Achilles
Thursday on this page one of the Daily
Tar Heel columnists cited a long list of
murders and injustices against students
and blacks.
Rick Gray pointed out in his article
the hypocrisy of students who
participated in last Spring's strike and
have now quietly acquiesced to the
arrests of ten Kent State students and the
whitewashing of the National Guard
murderers.
If freedom is to survive, Gray
concluded, then grand juries like the one
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The
enforcement officers are being challenged
as never before, and every American can
be proud that they are performing so
well.
For the time being, however, the crisis
is still with us, and we cannot pretend
otherwise; to do so is only to court
disaster. The terrorists' public boast that
they will disrupt the scheduled fall
elections is well known. Unfortunately,
our intelligence reports indicate that this
is not merely an empty threat. It is
apparent that the terrorists fully intend
to wreak wanton distruction and murder
at thousands of polling places across the
nation. In the face of this information I
have long deliberated in an attempt to
find the best course for the government
to take. My decision has not been an easy
one. It will not be a popular one with
many people. But I do believe that it is
the best one for the welfare of the nation.
I have decided that the elections
scheduled for November will be
postponed until such time as they can be
held in safety - which, as I indicated
earlier, will in all probability be a very
short time.
The Tippies-And Trickie
put on the overground press at the
Convention is shown in "The Politics of
Protest." This book includes a footnote
almost a page long which lists almost
every Yippie threat published in
newspapers.
Among their plans, author Skolnick
includes with a straight face, were plots
to have 100,000 people burn draft cards
spelling out "Beat Army" and to organize
230 Yippie males into a battalion to
seduce the wives, daughters and girl
friends of Convention delegates. The
footnote concluded with the remark,
"The list could go on."
The Chicago riots and the ensuing
conspiracy trial guaranteed Hoffman's
and Rubin's notoriety, and publishers
were beating down their doors to get
exclusive rights to their books.
at Kent and Jackson St-ie must be done
away with. ..now.
For several years now I have watched
and joined protest marches, carried signs
and buttons for McCarthy, and 1 know
how ineffectual non-violent protests can
seem.
But with the spectre of repression,
revolution and despotism in the back of
my mind I would like to make a brief
argument for non-violence.
I will base my case on three points:
first, non-violence works; second,
violence does not work; and third, to
change others we must first change
ourselves.
Non-violence does work.
Work? you say. When has it worked?
During the moratorium, during the
reading of the names of Vietnam dead,
during the faith and hope of the women
White House, 1972
There will be those who, motivated by
desire for partisan gain rather than
concern for the welfare of our country,
will charge that this action represents a
blow to the American tradition of free
elections. My friends, nothing could be
further from the truth.
I take this action to preserve, not
threaten, the free elections of which all
Americans are so justly proud. Imagine
for a moment, if you will, what would
happen if we did attempt to hold
elections in the face of such violence as
has been promised. No friend of
democracy could welcome the hysteria
and anarchy that would result. Therefore,
I take this action to assure that in a few
more months free elections can be held.
I have been advised that, because my
action is an innovational one, it will mean
the end of my political career. But, as I
said earlier, the crisis we face is without
precedent. We cannot be tied to the
methods of the past. American
democracy will endure - but only if we
rise to meet the challenge.
In order that the terror may be quelled
and elections be held as soon as possible,
Hoffman churned out "Revolution for
the Hell of It," and "Woodstock Nation"
for Random House, while Rubin wrote
"Do It" for Simon & Schuster. Both have
made a lot of money on their books, but
they justify their success by claiming that
they're "using the system to spread the
fire."
The Yippies even began to be seen on
national television. In March of this year
Merv Griffin, who had slipped into third
place in the late night talk-show derby,
invited Hoffman to appear.
Before the pre-recorded show began,
the president of CBS, Robert Wood, went
on the air to explain that Hoffman's
picture had been bleeped out because of
his attire, which included an American
flag shirt.
who still protect the War every
Wednesday in the Vietnam Vigil.
How rus it worked? It has worked
because nosi Americans wjr.t us out. and
now the bsg boys upstairs know it. And
we are getting out. even though it is
slowly and too late.
It has worked quietly in Chapel Hill.
Black men and white men now sit at the
same table and drink at the same water
fountain.
How did this happen? It happened
because some nameless demonstrator
years ago had the courage to sit-in,
non-violently, while a white woman
urinated on him.
Because others had the courage to sit
quietly while a white man burned their
eyes and lungs with a terrible ammonia
solution.
These men were not cowards. They
did not hide behind bricks or mobs. They
stood in their time like small islands of
it may be necessary to abandon for the
time being certain conventions to which
we are accustomed. I think it is important
to remember that the ammendments to
our Constitution are even more flexible
than the "body of that great document;
certain of them have been changed,
modified, and even nullified in the past,
and we must remember that there is
nothing sacrosanct about the first ten of
these ammendments. If, in their valliant
battle to preserve American freedom, our
law enforcement officers find it necessary
to abandon the technicalities of certain of
these ammendments, I do not think that
any American could object. In order to
aid in the fight against terrorism, I am
issuing an executive order to this effect.
As I said before, I do not believe that
what I have said tonight wil increase my
political popularity. But any responsible
leader must put his concern for the
security of his country above his own
private political interests. I have done
what I believe necessary, because America
must continue to be a beacon of freedom
and democracy amid the dictatorships of
the world.
Joining Hoffman and Griffin on the
telecast were Virginia Graham, who has
gone from hosting "Girl Talk" to her
more appropriate present job of shilling
for a men's underwear company, two
members of a hippie commune and a lone
Young American For Freedom from
Yale.
Hoffman began by showing a copy of
Jerry Rubin's book. "This is a very good
book," he said. "It's sold nine hundred
million copies."
When he offered the theory that "all
charities skim 90 off the top," Virginia
Graham sprang into action.
"You people don't care about
anybody but yourselves," she screamed.
"My generation is the one that's curing
cancer."
sanity while the world did its worst.
And they were man enough to accept
the responsibility for then icuor,. They
paid the price, served the jail sentences,
and struck the conscience of thb nation
as no one had before or since.
They touched the hearts and minds of
the people which make up this system by
returning good for evil. They changed the
character of a nation by changing the
minds of individuals.
Violence, however, has not worked.
Violence has given s Richard Nixon,
Spiro Agnew and increased power in the
hands of the FBI and CIA. The
wiretapping laws, the clubbings and the
gassings, all have been the result of
violence. And we should have known. As
Lord Halifax said more than a century"
ago:
"When the people contend for their
liberty, they seldom get any thing by their
victory but new masters."
And this is assuming they win.
Otherwise, as Thomas Jefferson said in a
letter to James Madison, unsuccessful
rebellions usually have the effect of
strengthening the oppression which
caused the unrest in the first place.
Violence on the campuses has given us
fewer students. Many of us are aware that
loans and financial assistance for students
are harder to get this year than ever
before. I know several who aren't here
because of it.
Violence on the campuses of the
nation has also given us the Trustee's
Disruption Policy, and almost took away
our long-established right to
self-ajudication.
And violence in the streets has given us
Jackson State and untold dead blacks.
The police can afford to shoot first now,
because everyone in the country will
believe they're defending themselves.
But even more importantly, violence
does not work because you can't change a
mind with a club. Beating a man does not
help him understand the problems of
others. All he understands is that he will
kill you if he gets the chance.
The only way we can truly change
others is by truly changing ourselves.
For example, let's take this big evil
establishment we all despise.
Granted, it's evil. Granted that it
should be changed. But how many of us
will really change it. Oh, sure, well throw
a brick or two, but how many of us are
really committed to change.
How many of us don't have the
normal preconception of marriage,
family, house in the suburbs,
happily-ever-after? How many of us don't
really want some of the evil things our
society has to offer, like Jaguars,
champagne, sexy men and sexy women?1
Do we really want to change it, or do
we just want to get on the top floor? '
No. We'll all pick up our degrees, cut
off our long hair, walk into the
$20,000-a-year job and disappear into the
labyrinth rat-race. !,t
How the hell will that change l
anything? What we must do is find ourselves,
find the real inside where we live. And
then try to get to like ourselves. Learn
that all that glitters is usually polluted or
otherwise poisonous. And learn that love
is not . a three-minute toss in a
satin-sheeted bed.
When we find ourselves and build our
courage on conviction we can revolt, in '
the sense of the word developed by
Albert Camus. This concept is explained -
by John Cruickshank in his book on f
Camus:
"The desire for freedom may initiate r
revolution, but at a certain stage freedom ,
is indefinitely suspended in the interests
of efficacity, and the reign of terror ;'t
begins. This is why Camus says revolt, as '
an expression of human consciousness, is
innocent, whereas revolution, as an
historical enterprise, is guilty." '
We must revolt by changing ourselves,
one by one. And by changing one '
another, one by one, until those who are '
hiding behind the system will have to
change their colors or get out.
Then, and only then, will we have a "
truly just society. Then, and only then, "
will we really be able to feed all our
people.
For then we will feed each other, not
with guns or even bread, but with our
hearts.
"You heard her folks," Hoffman
replied, "Virginia Graham cured cancer."
"Listen you, I made fifty-two free
appearances for charity last year."
"Virginia," said Hoffman, "a minute
ago you cured cancer. Now you're
making appearances for charity. You're a
regular walkin' aspirin."
Later the YAF'er came on, and he
immediately launched a tirade against
Hoffman, which one of the commune
members felt obligated to answer.
"You can say what you want about
Abbie," she said, "but at least he has the
courage of his convictions. He's going to
jail for what he believes in."
"Not if I can help it I ain't going to
iail." interrupted Hoffman.
Good luck, Snavely. That's a tough act
to follow.
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