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November 8, 1970 Page Six Howie Carr liar A Serve y Of run. ,S tl MtLMlLIl Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed on its editorial page. AH unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor and the staff. Letters and columns represent only the opinions of the individual contributors. THE DAILY TARHEEL rademts Tom Gooding. Editor Awards Of Poor Scheduling Award To the Carolina Theatre and the Carolina Union for both playing Goodbye Columbus yesterday. ASPCA Award to the girl who gave her German Shepherd dog a drink out of the first floor water fountain in the library The It's All Pink On the Inside Award-To The Daily Sketch of London that picked black actress Diana Ross as the second sexiest woman in the world. Brave New World Award-To the shopping store in Milan, Italy that is replacing Santa Claus with a computer to offer shopping advice to parents who don't know what to get for their children for Christmas. Political Hack Award-To Student Legislator Alan Nagle, who spotted the editorial staff of the DTH leaving the TV room at TLP after watching election returns and asked, "You mean to tell me that all you cats came over here to interview me?" If You Can't Stand The Heat Award-to the people petitioning for better treatment for U.S. pilots who napalmed Vietnamese civilians. Ncn-Partisan Award-To the freshmen who have filed two complete slates of independent candidates for class elections. Now, students can vote a straight ticket for the independent party of their choice. Good Idea Award-To the UNC Campus ministers who are bi'iwiiwwirwiiiiiiiii i i h Sailg uFar 78 Years 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 Frank Parrish Feature Editor Ken Ripley National News Ed. Terry Cheek : Night Editor Doug Jewell Business Mgr. Frank Stewart Adv. Mgr. Jerry Klein Gampai The time has come to put down on paper some wide and varied thoughts about this past week's political scene. Like many others, I'm sure, I've gome from vibrations of fear to exhilarated relief to puzzlement and anger, and back again. Take the end of the electoral campaigns, for instance. In San Jose, Calif., President Nixon was pelted by a barrage of rocks and eggs, none of which struck home. The scene, as described in the news media, comes close to suggesting the President wanted, and indeed helped provoke the attack. From Time magazine, Nov. 9 issue: "He clambered onto the hood of his limo sine. Face hard and chin jutting out, he sto'cd in the glare of television lights; he spread his arms and waggled his fingers The Week sponsoring a "Conversation and Food" gathering at the Baptist Student Union every weekday for lunch. if -Jf Movie Critic Award-To actor-activist Jane Fonda who suggested people "boycott" her sex-sensationalized motion pictures like Barbarella. The Get In. Line Today Award-To all those students expecting to see John Sebastian Nov. 20., The Conservatively Speaking Award-To Jessie Helms who refused to speak to the 95A class on the grounds it might justify Rennie Davis' appearence. The Won't You Ever Learn Award-To DTH News Editor Mike Parnell who swallowed the line about the appointment of a new chancellor hook, line and sinker. f K " The Total Awareness Award-To Larry Little, Winston-Salem Black Panther Chief, who had to ask a bystander the name of the campus at the beginning of his address to Poli Sci 95A on Friday. The Perfectionists Of The Week Award-To DTH Managing Editor Rod Waldorf who constructed a beautiful front page one day this week and then had to come back to the print shop because he forgot to put in the nameplate. PART JX ON. TtfE ART or Nor wNittcSr AM yc AUTOMOBILE AT UMCpti: ?ARKlMGr SPACES Afc FILLED BY 7:Z0 A.M. in his "V" salute. That's what they hate to see,' he remarked." Political journalists had warned young "radic-libs" against just thins kind of attack for weeks. And, sure enough, Nixon used the outburst as the basis for his strongest attack on revolutionaries this year. "This was no outburst by a single individual," said the President. "This was the action of an unruly mob that represents the worst in America." In PhoenixAriz., Nixon got down to specifics. The President's fight for law and order, "requires men in Congress who. will work and fight for laws that will put the terrorists where they In-long -not roaming around civil society, but behind bars." As usual. Vicc-Presiden! Agnew got Rocco Mudd. chairman of Students for an Apathetic Society, today released the results of a wide-ranging poll on the attitudes of UNC students. Mudd. who has a long history as a political activist, was formerly a member of such now-defunct organizations as Concerned Citizems Committee to Draft David Eisenhower, and the Concerned Citizens Committee to Free Mickey Mouse. "We got the idea for this project from H. L. Mencken, who once said. 'Nobody " every went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public," explained Mudd, "and from the Firesign Theatre, which once said, 'Give them a light, and they'll follow it anywhere " "After mingling with the local primates for the last two weeks," continued Mudd, "we are more convinced than ever. I predict an overwhelming triumph next spring for Los Iracundos." Entitled the Mudd Report, the poll started out with a series of questions designed lo test the student's knowledge of the campus. The questions and answers were as follows: I. Who is Tom Bello? a) Cambodian student-47 foreign exchange b) Lou Bello's father-2 1 c) Mafia hit man-1 5 d) Minnie Mouse's co-star in "Goofy Meets the Gay Liberation Front"-17 2. What is the Honor Code? a) The code which entrusts students with enough responsibility for the Student Stores to install hidden cameras 33 b) The code which entrusts students with enough reponsibility to have bookcheckers at every door in the library-33 c) The code which enables professors to take coffee breaks during exams-34 3. What happens when you break the Honor Code? a) Get kicked out of school 9 ' b) Get higher grades-8 1 c) Get lower phone bills-10 4. What is the function of student government? a) To give the University something to brag about in its admissions booklets-23 b) To get a bunch of fools into graduate school 31 c) To give the Tar Heel something to fill up its front page with 28 2.3 mv OF J ft05E Signs Aeour TOTALLY 15 .he into the act: "It is time to sweep that kind of garbage out of our society." My fear before Tuesday's elections was that the American peoples were responding to that kind of jibberish. So I worriedly glued myslef to Walter Lronkite, bnc Sevareid, and Co watch the returns. to By the time CBS had signed off Wednesday morning at 3 a.m., most of my fears were gone. For the time, at least, it seems as if the voting masses' are going to reject what has been termed "politics of fear." My worst trepidations of the mucy-discussed drastic swing to the right were quelled. So I was relieved. A little faith was restored in the electoral process, and the . 5Xi S- X O d) To channel off excess enenry thai might be going to something worthwhile-IS'? 5. What is your main complaint about Student Stores? a) High prices 3 IT b) How come I don't get one of their scholarships -693 6. What do Morehead Scholars mean to UNC? a) More heads 133 b) More Chi Psis-263 ' c) Harder work, and more of it -61 7. What, does the UNC football team do? a) Plays 'em one at a time-27 b) Tires to stop the big play-323 c) Beats any given in the ACC on any , given day. and vice versa -4 13 The next series of questions concerned current events: 1. When will we leave Vietnam? a) When the moon is in the seventh sign, and Jupiter aligns with Mars-55 b) When the chickens come home to roost-21 Ken Ripley Soul Food: Being Being a Christian on campus is sometimes like trying to keep an egg in a broken shell. As Christians face a bewildering array of new facts, encounter open and often caustic challenges to the things they believe, and find themselves living in a life style quite removed from that of home, faith often just seems to seep away. And the results are often just as messy as a broken egg. Loss of faith can lead to disillusionment and cynicism, confusion, and in those moments we think about it despair. A lot of people blame this loss of faith among students on the college environment, and one of their solutions is to retreat to the cloistered confines of a "Christian" college. But I can't go along with that. To me, belief that can't face honest scrutiny, pollapses under hard questions, and is - SKIDDOO AS I i7TM parking- ncKer THE WK ON MV 1932 PACKARD SS WOLVERINE ROADSTER I PECiDCP TO LZT you M on soMe TRAFFIC cot4G$TlQN AT CLASS -HAKQtN5r fcOURS IS UNBeARA0L. THfi" Uf4N PARX(N& cor HAS PITCHES TI4AT WOULD STOP A TMj i atupp THAN THAT A CAE A RAr CdMVK(CAiC. M Nfixoe Back le sensibility of the American public. Note that I said "a little." The relief, however, was short-lived. Background: About a month ago, Rennie Davis spoke to Political Science 95 -A and a few (?) others. He spoke about the repressive policies ot tne U S -supported Thier-Ky regime in 2oum Vietnam, and of almost unbelievable atrocities against those who spoke out against government-approved policies. e A generally disbelieving audience heard David speak of a new peace proposal in Vietnam, one completely unpublicized in the U.S. The. plan could, he said, end the war and American involvement in it almost immediately. At best, the audience was skeptical. As he cited few sources, I was among those most skeptical of his information. ci We are out: President Nixon withdrew a!! the troops by June 30. ju! like he promised -24' 7 2. Who is Spiro Agnew? a) Works behind the grill at Hectors-143 b) A household word, like Drano-CiO 3 c) The President of the United Snakes-263 3. Give the full name of one Black Panther? a) Free Huey Newton-503 b) Free Bobby Seale 503 4. Which of the following quotations best describes your relations uith the police? a) "They beat me and they hit me and they told me thev don't like me."-Frank Zappa -41 b) "The policeman is not there to create disorder; he is there to preserve disorder."-Mayor Daley-59 The last series of questions dealt with morality. The questions were posed as hypothetical situations: 1. Suppose you woke up one morning afraid of challenges if belief that is running scared. If these beliefs are that bad, they need the scrutiny, the questions, the challenges that confront them on campus. The crisis of belief and faith that blisters many college students is not necessarily the college's fault. The belief may not be all that worth saving. Nothing exposes a shoddy basis for faith better than challenging it. And there are, plenty - of faiths that are shaken by exposure to the "real world." Faith based on legalistic morality. Faith based on mouthing pious platitudes and going through "rituals." Faith based on some "other-worldly" sense of identity. Faith based on fanatic anti-intellectualism. And there's lots more. The faster such "faith" collapses, I believe, the better, especially if we think that such faiths are Christian. They're not. "I used to have faith once," a guy told me late on night. "But Most it." He went on to explain how he had been brought up as a good "Christian" only to find out later what he had learned meant nothing to the way he felt or lived. So, he said, he ditched it in search of something better. Oddly enough, he later found what he was looking for. He became a follower of Jesus Christ. Sound strange? It isn't. The problem is that it's getting hard nowadays to figure out what Christian faith really is. Too many churches, though fortunately not all, have substituted for Christianity a weird kind of "Churchianity." A powerful Gospel is strained into a ritual creed; the warm relationships Christianity offers between man and God and between men are replaced by form and legalism. Christianity becomes a one-hour-a-week proposition, and ceases to be a daily reality. And not only is the whole thing unreal and unmoving, it's boring. f The guy who became a Christian hadn't changed his mind about the way he saw the church, but he did see some things about Christianity that turned him on. He saw, first, that Christianity is based on love. Not the sentimental or cold formal love that keeps cropping up, but a warm, yet involving kind of love. The kind of love where we place the other person above our own selfish interests. The kind of love that expresses itself not in words but in action. The Gospel message of Jesus Christ proclaims that God loves man and wants to have a relationship with him -a personal, love-filled relationship. "But Suddenly, things began to fall into place. Friday afternoon, Jane Fonda, speaking to that same political science class and many others, reiterated Davis story almost verbatim. (To those who marvelled at the unbelievable similarities in the speeches of Fonda and Davis, Miss Fonda explained later that the two had gotten their information from the same sources.) My feelings of puzzlement begain to arise. Either there is a conspiracy abounding to radicalize American youth, . I rationalized, or our government is keeping the public entirely in the dark. My inclinations favored the latter of the two possibilities. It was at this point that I began to get angry, and even a little afraid. Nixon's alter a wild parts . and (God Jorbid) realized thai you had smoked ,i "reefer the night before. Wtui would you do? fi) Check tor needle marks on m am? -73 . h) Write to Dear Abby to find out if I were hooked -103 c) Find the no-eood hippie who burned me with the oregjno-533 2. Suppose you're out on a date. V hat do you want to do? a) Get a little nooky on the vdc -43 b) Develop a pSatonic relaJionsfup-23 c) Never got any (a), don't know what (b) means-5 23 ) 3. Suppose you woke up one morning after a w ild party, and you get a call from a sorority girl who tells you that you put your tongue all (he way in her mouth the previous night. She now fears that she is pregnant. What do you do? a) Wash her mouth out with ammonia and pray -573 b) Marry her-13 c) Become hysterical with laughter-423 Christian God shows his love for us." the Bible says, "in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." And not only docs God love man, but God's love working in and through our lives makes it possible for us to love other people in the same way. "Beloved, if God so loved us." John wrote, "we also ought to love one another.. .if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us." But this guy also saw that Christianity means freedom. He saw that god is not interested in having us follow any stern set of rules, but in having us mature in all our relationships. Christians are not slaves to legalism, but out of their relationship to God they are free to be themselves. Christians are not bound by what others think they should do; as they strive to follow the teachings and examples of Christ, they are free to do what they think they should do. x And, finally, he saw that to become a Christian does not mean we have to leave our brains behind. When he confronted the historical claims of Christianity, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ with all its implications, he found that he didn't have to respond to any mythology based on emotion, but to concrete claims that required questioning and then intelligent decision. He also saw that Christianity offers 'a rational, intellectually respectable way of looking at himself and the world around him. One that not only recognizes and exposes the sickness of the world, but offers an answer to it. One that deals with the reality of death and the significance of life. The Christian faith, he found, as all Christians find, was that powerful faith he so badly needed in his life. But he didn't find it easy, nor always comfortable. He had to re-examine the faith he had been wrestling with. And he had to break a few eggs. The Daily Tar Hesi accepts i letters to the editor, provided they j are typed on a 60-space line and $j jg limited to a maximum of 300 $ H words. All letters must be signed $ and the address and phone number of the writer must be included. "4 The paper jeserves the right to :? g edit all letters for libelous $ statements and good taste. : Address letters to Associate Editor, The Daily ..r Heel, in care 3 g of the Student Union. 8 WAw.v.w.'.w.X'X:K'f5. AcM political strategies were generally reacted, but still too many" people M'tchell AgneW- ad-Martha Taking the possibility that people like Rennie Davis and Jane Fonda are tellin the truth, one could venture that this autntIhin trouble When pePle lear that their government is "pulling the wool over their eyes," as I'm becoming more and more convinced is the case thai government is in big trouble. Isn't this supposed to be a free country? Aren't ih j men i me American neonl entitled to hear the who story Pf P'e oldTNlxonSti,Cah PiiSn SUSgeSt that the old N xon is back ,n action. "Tricky Who does he think he's fooling
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