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Conservative Talk
Jesse Helms has declined iin
invitation to speak to Political
Science )5-A.
Helms, in a letter to course
leaders, said "I would not care to
he associated in any way with any
lb rum that considers it appropriate
to invite Kennie Davis to speak on a
tax-supported campus."
Helms went on to claim "My
appearance would be considered by
some as a justification for your
having had Davis, and I imagine
that is .why the invitation was
extended to me."
That statement, Mr. Helms, is as
absurd as saying that Davis was
invited as a justification for having
the state chairman of the Young
Americans for Freedom speak to
the class.
Or if Mr. Helms was ignorant of
that fact, we wish to inform him
that David Adcock, the YAF state
chairman, spoke to the 95-A class
before Davis' appearance.
' We find it hard to believe that
providing a forum for such
outspoken critic of this University
would justify having other political
figures speak.
The invitation was issued to
Helms, not because there was a
need to justify any other speaker,
but because he is a conversative
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Nelson Drew
Visitation Plans Won't Work
Yesterday the Consultative Committee
submitted their recommendations on
visitation to President Friday's
Administrative Committee, which is to
make a final decision on the matter.
These recommendations include
provisions for self-determination in some
housing units, and this must be
considered a significant step forward.
However, the recommendations also
provide for some housing to have no
more than the current visitation policy,
and for others to ! have absolutely no
visitation at all. These provisions were
undoubtedly included by the Committee
out of their honest concern for those few
students who would not want visitation,
and a feeling of obligation to the
taxpayers of the state, whom several
members of the Committee also must
represent.
Unfortunately, there are several
objections which must be made to this
plan of visitation on the basis of
differentiated housing, and these
objections tend to far outweigh the
merits of the proposal.
The most obvious objection is that the
recommendations beg the question of self
determination for students. The students
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of the individual contributors.
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well known for expressing his
views.
We agree with the reply to
Helms letter in which 'Skip
McGaughey and Tom Denyer, class
instructors, said. "We need no
justification for Mr. Davis
appearance other than the right of
North Carolinians to listen to
whomever they please, whenever
they wish, wherever they happen to
be."
Certainly, Helms views are
diametrically opposed to those of
Davis. It would seem Helms would
welcome the opportunity to refute
the statements made before the
class by Davis. Unless, of course,
Helms thought he was incapable of
refuting the arguments presented
by Davis.
Helms, by refusing to publicly
advance and defend his views, is
contributing' to the alleged
imbalance of left-wing philosophy
presented to the students on this
campus.
There have been few
conservatives willing to speak
before Political Science 95-A. In
fact, the instructors have been
looking for conservatives willing to
stand up for their views in public.
Helms has been invited to speak
on this campus during previous
years but has always refused to '
appear.
Maybe Helms declined the
invitation because he isn't willing to
stand in front of a class of 1,000
college students and defend his
beliefs. Helms undoubtedly will
find more security behind his
television screen.
We are sure that Helms would be
greeted by a generally unreceptive
audience but who would claim
Davis spoke before 2,000 friends?
Helms should remember that
even if the class as a whole would
not be in agreement with his
opinions they did invite him to
speak and would extend every
courtesy to him.
It is a bit startling to realize that
there are numerous supporters of
the system who are unwilling to
inform and involve today's students
in a dialogue concerning that
system.
We can only extend our,
condolences to those conservative
leaders who lack the conviction to
present their views and extend an
invitation to others who are willing
to speak before the class.
who are now forced to live in
university housing are freshmen,
sophomores, and first year transfer
students. A large majority of these
students are under 21 years of age. Yet
the Committee recommendations provide
for true self determination only for
students 21 or over. All others would
have to get parentalpermission.
Thus, it would be the very group of
students that is forced to . live in
university housing by the administration
that is denied the right of self
determination.
One of the reasons that students are
forced to live on campus when they come
to Carolina is that the living conditions in
dormitories are so poor that students
flock to move out as soon as they Van. It
would seem logical that the best way to
correct the situation is not to force
students to live on campus, but to
improve the living conditions.
Unfortunately, the policy proposed by
the Consultative Committee would have
just the opposite effect for a majority of
students on campus.
A" second major objection, and one -which
has been virtually ignored so far. is
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"That there vhouk! one nun die
isnorunl who had capacity lor
knowledge, this. I call a tragedy."
(Sartor Resartus Book III. C hap. 4 1
Sex education has become one of the
central topics of conversation on this
campus since last month's sex symposium
and the distribution of the controversial
booklet. -Elephants and Butterflies."
During the symposium attempts were
made to educate the Carolina student
about the human body, its needs and how
it functions. By means of films, lectures
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7-24 Policy Against Minority
"There is a minority within the
student body which has the right to go
to bed at a certain time, and even if it is
as little as ten per cent, they should not
be denied that right, even if it overrides
the majority."
Chancellor J.XarIyIe Sitterson
There re two very important factors
involved with ny decision concerning
visitation: visitors and noise. This sounds
rather perfunctory and as if there were
very little thought in that statement, but
I think a definite case can be made for its
validity.
The subject of visitation policies has
been discussed at great length, almost ad
absurdum, on this campus, but, like the
differentiated housing visitation policy
could kill the residence college system on
this campus. Since the vast majority of
students have indicated that they want
visitation, it is obvious thaj students
would move out of areas having no
visitation as quickly as possible. What
would remain would be little more than a
concentration camp for freshmen and
transfer students,' having no experience or
identification with the residence collect.
at all.
In order to have college officers who
are competent to do a good job, it is
necessary to have people who are familiar
with the operation of the" residence
college. In addition, these people, must be
willing to live in the college for at least
two years, since their terms of office last
from the middle of one spring semester to
the middle of the next. Such people
would be almost impossible to find. In
areas with no visitation, experience would
be almost non-exislant, and it would be
even harder to find some one willing to
stay for two full years.
Areas having visitation would, fare
little belter. NThe problem of a high
turnover would still exist in areas having
restricted visitation, as students
jnd dicuvions students, were told the
facts concerning contraception, abortion,
pregnancies and venerea! disease.
The question are now out in the open
and are being discussed freely.
Consequently, the symposium was a
success. It helped enlighten many and has
promoted further investigation into sex
education.
From my point of view the booklet
itself has been a tremendous success. It
has given us a source of information and
has spurred many more questions still to
be answered.
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weather, few seem to be doing anything
about it. And perhaps another column on
the topic such as this one will contribute
nothing to rectifying a messy situation,
but maybe the viewpoint of one who
feels he has been victimized by
outgrowths of this problem will prove
helpful.
The two factors I mentioned often
interact and are found together in
situations where visitation is a problem.
Let's look at both separately and see
what difficulties commonly arise.
The fact of visitors of the opposite sex
being allowed in a residence unit is hardly
a question anymore. Cries x arise of
maturity and the ability to assume
responsibilities of having any visitor at
constantly moved in from no visitation
areas and out to self determination areas.
Areas with self determination would have
a high number of students moving in who
had no identification at all with their new
college, so even these areas would face
problems. , ... . , A
Dorm spirit would also sink to new all
time lows. The lasting associations a
student normally forms with his friends
in the same dorm, would be non-existant.
Since the university administration is
generally quite concerned with those
''non-academic activities which
nevertheless effect a student's academic
performance," it is surprising that they
have not complained about the
detrimental effect of trying to live and
study in such a poor atmosphere.
The problems involved in trying to
make a policy such as the Consultative
Committee has proposed are
monumental. There is, however, a sound
solution. Since, by including provisions
for some self determination, the
committee has indicated that s?lf
determination is not in itself inherently
evil, why not take the logical step and
allow all housing to have self determined
visitation policies. That would indeed be
a significant step forward.
'eeded.
The importance of having such
informal ion available was not apparent or
real to me until very recently.
Monday night I went with Dr. Takey
Crist and a UNC medical student to a sex
symposium at Meredith College in
Raleigh. There Dr. Crist delivered a
speech along the same lines as many he
has given to coeds on this campus.
He" told the girls of the "sexual
wilderness" we are living in and the
problems we have encountered. He
discussed contraception, abortion and
pregnancy. The psychological proponents
involved as well as the physical ones were
reviewed.
I sat in the audience and watched the
response he received and the way the girls
opened up to him. Their faces were bright
and alert. In the question-and-answer
period following the lecture the questions
that I myself have heard so very often
were asked and again Dr. Crist supplied
the answers.
The thing that impressed me the most
was the interest of the girls and their
eagerness to learn. At long last they had
encountered someone who knew the
answers and wasn't afraid to give them.
Approximately 100 girls sat crowded
around Dr. Crist after the meeting firing
one question after another at him. There
was no end to the questions or their
desire for knowledge. There were no
limits to their scope of interest.
I was also startled by the realization
that this was a group of college students,
all very intelligent women who were
almost totally ignorant of their own
sexuality.
I was distressed at the fact that these
Letters
Use Returnables
To the Editor:
Do you ever look thoughtfully at the
UNC campus? The buildings, the grounds,
plants and animals it supports? Do you
ever walk along Cameron Avenue, past
ttie fraternities, watching the path
carefully so as not to trip on the beer
cans? Do you search futilely for a bin
where you can drop your trash? Have you
ever wondered why the student dining
rooms use plastics instead of silverware or
paper? Do you appreciate what there is
left of clean, fresh air, and of greenness
on this campus?
Assuming a yes to all these questions,
it follows that you are motivated to care
actively about your immediate
environment. How can you help?
Do you drink soft drinks? Buy them
only in returnable bottles 'and return
them! Do you drink beer? Schlitz, Pabst,
any time to his or her room. 'incensed
students recoil in horror at the thought of
being babied by administration rules
regulating such visitor traffic.
The fact is that such controls tend, not
' to limit the rights of the student who
wants to have visitors, but to insure the
rights of his fellow neighboring students
who live in immediate proximity. I admit
that some of the regulations, indeed, are
not pointed in this direction. A. quite
striking example is the practice as I
understand it at Greensboro. In order to
have any visitation whatsoever, the entire
dorm must vote to have such, and, during
the period in which such visitation is in
effect, no one in the entire dorm may
shut a room door beyond the width
through which a person may enter
comfortably. It seems that such rules,
while serving a definite purpose in
regulating visitation, do nothing but
hinder those who merely want to go to
sleep in private, with the security of a
locked door. But generally the tendency
is to protect the rights of those who are
( in this predicament, as seen in the
' Chancellor's statement above.
When I decide I want to shower, I
would like to know that there exists at
least ten hours in twenty-four that there
definitely will be not females in the suite
bathroom. And when I wake up in the
morning and journey to the bathroom to
try to accomplish the Herculean feat of
making myself presentable for the day, I
don't want to run into females in the
suite hall who might be coming or going.
And, above and beyond all else, I
don't want to have to enter the suite hall
in my pajamas at 2:00 a.m. on week
nights to try (often in vain) to quiet my
fraternal order of suitemates and their
female guests to at least a tolerable 50 to
60 decibels.
This problem of noise is. I an
convinced, the biggest one. connected
with visitation. I say connected with
visitation because I have empirically
proven, to my satisfaction (the hard way.
alas!) that, though men's dorms often
produce tremendous amounts of noise by
themselves at times, with the addition of
females, especially in certain areas I know
of, they tend to create louder
disturbances and partying.
On weekends, I don't begrudge
anybody the right to make as much noise
Badly
cirU had to come to college to learn trom
friend or books or from what ever other
means available about sex. This is
something thai they should have been
taught years ago...in . high school. ..tn
junior hlgh...or in the home.
Bu! what distressed me more was how
other-girls, girls who weren't in college,
those who are out in the world working,
are finding out about sex. How are the
underprivileged blacks and whites and
the uneducated obtaining this
information? Learning by experience in
this case is not exactly the best means.
An unwanted pregnancy or a backroom
abortion is hardly an equitable price to
pay for this type of education.
So. 1 have come to see the vastness of
the problem. The problem that exists is
. to educate the youth of today about sex.
to lift the barriers of guilt and
superstitution and like Dr. crist says.
"Tell it like it is."
To me this is a real problem, one that
desparately needs to be solved. So. for all
of you who are constantly rallying for
one cause or another, for Peace or Kent
State or self-determination or whatever,
here is something of immediate
importance that you can adopt and work
for. Help educate the youth today. It's
time we came out of the dark ages and
talked about our problems openly and
truthfully.
And the best part of it all is that we
can all help. Just think, for every one
person that you help in presenting the
facts and disproving some myth there are
many more that he in return will
enlighten. It is a chain reaction we can all
help start.
Budweiser? Buy it in returnable bottles
and return them! A & P at 201 West
Franklin Street is the only store we know
which stocks beer in returnable bottles.
As a consumer, YOU have the power to
preserve or destroy the environment. Isn't
it worth the extra trouble?
ECOS
Suite B
Student Union
Carmichael Sound
Ruining Concerts
To the Editor: V -
I'd rather listen to Chicago's kebrd
than to hear the noise that Carmichael
Auditorium makes of their sound.
C. Andrews
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as they want, to have all the parties they
can stand, even to tear down the building
(which they come close to doing
occasionally, I fear), as long as they leave
my room in place. But this business of
doing all of the above on week nights is
simply too much.
Whatever happened to that curious
(though seldom enforced) little
institution called "Quiet Hours''?
And whatever happened to those
appointed officials called Residence
Advisors who used to be here to make
certain that such flagrant violations of
common courtesy and thoughfulness
were stopped, but who now refuse to
accept this as one of their duties?
The solution proposed last week which
would entail -a massive moving project to
relocate students in blocks by their
preference on visitation is the last straw
insofar as trying to solve the problem is
concerned. While imposing a relocation
on most students and causing
inconceivable confusion, it is nothing
more than soft-soaping the true culprits
those who abuse the right of visitation as
set down by the Administration and, who
selfishly lgnore the privacy of their
neighbors.
d.b Whi1 "ni'vty- community
debates and decides this issue, let them
never forget the minority like mT)
spoken of by Chancellor Sitterson who
merely wants a night's sleep in peace.
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