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ailg Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed on its editorial page. All unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor and the staff. Letters and columns represent only the opinions of the individual contributors. Tom Gooding. Editor Monday, December 7, 1970 ACC's 800 rale sfoouild not change Atlantic Coast Conference fficials will meet in Greensboro his weekend to decide whether the VCC will continue to require an ;00 SAT score for admission of tudents. There is no doubt that dropping he 800-rule in favor of the less tringent 1.6 projected q.p.a. equirement of the National Collegiate Athletic Association vould result in a lowering of the icademic standing of schools in the ;onference. Three conference members, lowever, stand willing to drop the 300-rule in favor of more big-time ithletics on their campuses. South Carolina, Clemson and Vlaryland are on record as supporting the change in the rules. They favor the emphasis of athletic programs over their already weak icademic programs. Change increases readability Good morning. Today is Monday, December 7, 1970. It is also the First time The Daily Tar Heel has published on a Monday morning. Since the paper became a daily in 1928, The Daily Tar Heel has come off the presses six mornings a week, Tuesday through Sunday. This year the editors noticed a number of things wrong with Sunday publication. The most important weakness was the lack of readership. More than one half of the student body of this University, lives off campus in areas where The Daily Tar Heel is not delivered, and few of them come to campus Sundays. We felt this fact, along with comments from students protesting the lack of a Monday paper, were the only justification we needed to break a long-standing tradition. We began this year with changes in our format in an effort to make The Daily Tar Heel more readable. We are now publishing on Mondays to make The Daily Tar Heel more readable to more students. Howie Carr ffom bad to worse fie a wretched year It Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, Tlie blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere Vie ceremony of innocence is drowned - William Butler Yeats That's the intellectual part of the program. For succintness along the same lines, there's always Kurt Vonnegut's statement: 'Things are going to get unimaginably worse and never get better again." Anyway you look at it, 1970 was a wretched year, and the symptoms first appeared on the Late Show. There was a recession, and things really got tough. To quote from Van Johnson in "The Bottom of the Bottle," "Yesterday she got money to feed the kids by working as a waitress in a honky-tonk, and my son was shining shoes in the street." Jeanne Morrow tearfully explained her problems in 'Eva." "We were orphans, my Ww? tfI Duke, Wake Forest and Virginia, three schools noted for things as medical and law schools rather than football teams, are aligned against the change in rules. The University of North Carolina stands somewhere in the middle. UNC football coach Bill Dooley said last week this school would vote against the change. That is somewhat meaningless since the three votes necessary for the motion's defeat are almost certain. However, the Tar Heel stand on the issue is not quite so meaningless if one notes that Dooley said he personally would not be opposed to a compromise solution of the problem. We feel that any compromise on the question of the 800 rule would do more harm to the colleges involved than any possible benefits the change could have. The era of the dumb jock in basket weaving class is rapidly ending. Any lessening of the entrance requirements to boost football or basketball programs would only serve to make college athletics a system of minor leagues for the pro leagues. The University of North Carolina does not exist to train quarterbacks and linemen for the NFL. It exists to provide its students with top-quality education. he vote on the rule change should be no, and there should be no compromise. ( Sailij GTtu? Ifrsl 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. John Gellman Photo Editor Terry Cheek Night Editor Doug Jewell Business Mgr. Frank Stewart Adv. Mgr. sister and myself. She took a washing until she got tuberculosis." Although Spiro Agnew, now in his second season of a four-year, no-cut contract, probably did not say, "Now is the time to crush the mouth that bites the hand that feeds it," he. did prove positively that he is a latent Yippie. "How does an aspirant for office oust an incumbent?..." he asked. "He must attack the policies of his opponents; as he does, people wilT side with one candidate or the other. Divisive? Of course but by dividing, we conquer apathy," Jerry Rubin couldn't agree more. "The goal is to turn on everybody who can be turned on and to turn off everybody else," he wrote. "It is time to rip away the rhetoric and divide along authentic lines," said the Veep. "If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem," said Eldridge Cleaver. The only difference between all those statements is fifty-cent words-Eldridge and Jerry don't use any. 1970 rock music (or the variety played on AM stations) would seem to indicate a Lana Starnes, Dr. Takey Crist GolniminL to answer A coude of months 220 a very controversial bookJet was distributed to students on this campus. That booklet, entitled "Elephants and Butterflies," is one of many attempts being made by concerned individuals to provide students with adequate sex information. The booklet was accepted eagerly by students and feedback has been favorable. The idea for the booklet came, after all, from students. It was students who did the research, compiled all the information, wrote, edited and published the booklet. The authors, medical students, are concerned with the number of young people who are sexually active and exposing themselves to unwanted pregnancy. The booklet is dedicated to pregnancy. Ihe booklet is dedicated to The booklet alone may not oe yiPE5!-' T FROOA5TINATE ALlVW ' ty7L SMSTER, AND Mow l'V Got )1 (THIN (4 QUi5 DUG &Y THIS YE5SIR x Would THEN PST 1M THE Carl Freedman " X . . . it- I U f AkV 7 1 'Sr . Tl y L ft fi K SST defeat by senate is encouraging I. F. Stone, that most perceptive of all American political observers, once began an atypically optimistic column on a note of embarassment: he felt, he said, "as if the prophet Jeremiah had been caught cheering." As a less perceptive and, therefore, less optimistic politician-watcher than Mr. Stone, 1 have not always been the prophet of disaster and have, in fact, often expressed a kind of cautiously guarded hope about the general mess that our nation is in. Never, however, since the Democratic Presidential primaries of 1968 have I felt so lyrically happy about a national event as I do today ; and, like Stone, I recognize the awkwardness of showing enthusiastic cheerfulness in a business where sobriety is almost always the mark of intelligence. But then, I always have been a Polyanna at heart. The event responsible for all this happiness is, of course, the Senate defeat of the SST, that incredibly expensive, incredibly destructive airplane that population decline in the near future. As Ronnie Dyson put it so well, "If you let me make love to you Then why can't I touch you?" Freda Payne's complaint, "But that night on our honeymoon We stayed in separate rooms," was equally moving. And while we're on the subject of media, let's not forget what a busy year Gomer Pyle and Lucy had. According to CBS' own press releases, this is how November 1970 shaped up for Gomer Nov. 10-"Gomer Says 'Hey' to the President;" Nov. 16-Gomer "leades Carter to believe he's going mad;" Nov. 18-Gomer acts "to the shock of Sergeant Carter;" and Nov. 20-Gomer "challenges a shocked Sergeant Carter to a duel." 'The Lucy Show" slate for the same period: Nov. 11 -"Chaos results;" Nov. 12-"Lucy sets off a powerful smoke bomb;" Nov. 13-Lucy "disguises herself as a cadet in order to see him;" Nov. 17-"Lucy and Mr. Mooney have to go fishing." "Mayberry R.F.D." made one good contribution to this genre of whatever-it-is with its one-line summation the prevention of the tragedy of unwanted pregnancy vn vnereal disease. o. through the efforts of these and many others, students have been given a source of information about the body's physiology, contraception, pregnancy, venereal disease and abortion. But is this booklet enough? True, "Elephants and Butterflies" can be considered a tremendous success. It has answered many questions and provided a great deal of much needed information. It has brought the question of providing sex education out into the open. But most importantly, the booklet has stimulated people to ask other questions, questions that for so long a time have been repressed for one reason or another. The booklet alone may not be J IPFERENT 01 r SEHSB oF UKeN OWM X OF TMG- PAY Tricky Dick .and his friends in the aeronautic industry were pushing. At first glance, the Senate vote might be seen as simply one more moderately important legislative defeat for the Nixon Administration and, while certainly worthwhile as such, hardly a cause for dancing in the streets. It is also possible, however, to see a far larger significance in the Senate action. The central issue of the SST controversy goes much beyond the temporary regime of Mr. Nixon, who, after all, has not created but merely worsened the problems of modern America. The central issue, in fact, goes back all the way to the days of the Western Europe Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution that followed; for it was then that the modern idea of technological progress began to emerge. Man is the almighty lord over nature; whatever cannot be done to nature today can be done tomorrow; and whatever can be done today must be done-such became the gospel. of a plot: "Howard loses his precious bird." Death also figured in 1970, as it does in most years. Jim Backus was faced with a delicate problem in "Ice Palace" when he had to break the news to Sheila Bromley, "Chris was killed by a bear, and Grace died after giving birth to a baby girl." Nasser and DeGaulle kicked off during the year, and while editorial writers stumbled over themselves looking for the "meaning" and "significance," Vonnegut put death in its true perspective in "Mother Night." "It's a big enough job just burying the dead," he wrote, "without trying to draw a moral from each death." What Jerry Rubin calls "brain surgery by the school" got its usual lumps this year As in previous years you could open the cover of "Freak Out" and read Frank Zappa's warning: "Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and sex sufficient. Society's changing attitudes toward sex education, contraceptive practices, a ortion and real or imagined sexual activity have raised many medical, mora! and legal questions. In this column Dr. Takey Crist and I are going to try to ansuer your questions. Dr. Crist is an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the UNC School of Medicine and a physician in the Health Education Clinic of Memorial Hospital. Through our own personal research and through studies of the medical students' research it has been found that there is a need, as we'd as a desire, for sex education. In these studies it has been discovered th3t the student's source of information aooui sex range trom mends, dooks an NEXT SEIAESTeX S GONNA BE about sex ranee from friends, books and -HUT 6oMHOHJ TtttS NTHU5IASM 15 HARP TO .SUSTAIN. Me DISCOVERS that DILiaFNrP l vT5 PUNISH MEN! When, after the War of 1812, the United States got to its feet, Americans adopted this gospel wholesale. Throughout the Nineteenth Century, people of all ideologies were nearly unanimous in their unqualified love of technology; only a handful of inscrutable eccentrics like Thoreau had objections. This fundamental spirit diminished in our own century, but remained dominant; in recent years, the Cold War has given it new vigor. Technology has become the index of how good a job we are doing of keeping up with the Russians. When the Senate shot down the SST, one dissenting legislator whined that supremacy in air transportation would now pass to the Russians, the French, and the British. Perhaps those nations are foolish enough to desire such a thing. But every American can be proud that the Senate of the United States has renounced the gospel of technology for its own sake. The Senate has officially recognized plastic robots who tell you what to do. Forget I mentioned it." Some schools accomplished great thing in 1970. In its last student election, George Washington University abolished its student government. That's a move Carolina oughta imitate, if only because it would be more fun than going after ROTC. What I mean is, have you ever heard a ROTC cadet claim that he was your "leader" or your "president." As one ex-Free Speech Movement leader put it, " The student leader of today is the student leader of tomorrow." On this campus "tomorrow" can be defined as the day they get into the law school of their choice. Forget I mentioned it. Sports announcing reached new levels this year when Keith Jackson remarked, "There are no undefeated teams left in the NFL, and well have two of them playing here next Monday night." Mayor Daley had an off-year. Nothing he said came anywhere near his famous comment, 'They have crucified me. They have vilified me. Yes, they have even criticized me." So it goes. I quaes health or education classes to parents and others. Thev hae revealed that the INC student population is sexually active -50 to e0 percent of those students surveved were non-tirgtns. But regretfully, it has been reccsrrued that students practice poor contraceptive techniques thus risking unwanted pregnancy. The findings of the studies are extensile. But the outstanding fact is that providinc vour.g people with sex education" is of the upmost importance. As a young person who is most directly mvoUed and as a physician who must deal with these problems daily. Dr. Cnst and I would like to utilize this medium to provide you with honest and factual information. We want to "Tell it hke it is." This column will run weekly and answers will be given to as many questions as possible. If you wish help or information and do not wish it printed we will do our best to see that you are assisted. Flease exercise this opportunity; show your interest. The answers are now yours for the asking! Letters should be addressed to: Lana Starnes and Dr. Takey Crist, co Daily Tar Heel, Carolina Student Union. Letter Tine job' by Ripley To the Editor: In answer to Tom Camaro's letter condemning "Soul Food", I think Ken Ripley is doing a fine job, not only for God, but for us Christians. Mr. Ripley does "show us how the Gospel ought to be preached," and I consider the idea that he does not love his fellow Christians absurd. Not every minister is a Christian, and even those who are may not always be perfect. Most young people do not "like the churches the way they are." And I think the churches and ministers are-or should be-answerable to Christians as well as to God. Some ministers and churches are so heavenly they are no earthly good. So often the true message of the Gospel gets lost somewhere along the way. Mr. Ripley tells it like it is. The Gospel does not need to be "made relevant," Mr. Camaro. It already is. Karen Kirk" what has been apparent for some time: that technology, while claiming to make progress for man, has been steadily making life closer and closer to impossible. Unchecked technology has polluted our water, poisoned our air, killed our wildlife. Used in a sensitive, humane way, technology could itself solve these very ills, as well as such larger ones as the hunger and the sickness that traps most of mankind; but such healing enterprises have not been part of the technological, nature-conquering spirit. We think of the technocrats as part of the conservative Establishment; yet in reality they manifest the most rebellious, destructive instincts in man. They rebel against man's most fundamental limits: those of nature. These limits, however, can never be completely overthrown; a good enough attempt-and that is what we have been on our way to making-could result only in the destruction of man himself. The Senate has recognized that it is well past time to stop this mad scramble toward the biggest, the fastest, the noisiest. It is time to rediscover our own humanity and therein find the strength to use technology for the restoration and the taming, rather than the destruction, of nature. Perhaps next week the Senate will vote more funds for the ABM, and my increased faith in that body of men will be deflated once again. Realistically, I have to admit that we cannot be certain the SST vote represents a whole new angle of vision. At the very least, however, the defeat of the SST is a happy challenge for all of us to make this new, ecologically minded outlook a permanent one. Only ourselves can stand between ourselves and the technological abyss toward which we have been headed for so long. The Daily Tar Heel accepts : letters to the editor, provided they are typed on a 60-space line j$ and limited to a maximum of 300 words. AH letters must be signed ': and the address and phone number of the writer must be S included. The paper reserves the right to edit att letters for libelous & statements and good taste. 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