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columns represent, only the opinions cf the individual contributors.
Tom Gooding ditor
Wednesday, December 9, 1970
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soaks water users
The Town of Carrboro has
issued a well-reasoned list of
defenses for the suit filed against it
for non-payment of the increased
water rates the University has
charged since August.
The basis of the defense
pxesented by Carrboro is that the
University has obtained a
monopoly on the local water
supply and is attempting to make
an exorbitant profit out of the
water system:
The Town of Carrboro also
, provides a persuasive arguement for
the University to sell the water
facilities to Carrboro and Chapel
Hill.
The defenses point out that the '
University owns the facilities "for
the purpose of providing such
services and facilities to the
Wave Playmate
at Bill Buckley
William F. Buckley, well-known
and noted apostle of all things
right, will speak in Memorial Hall
tonight.
Buckley's appearance tonight
will be his first on the UNC campus
since 1963 when he addressed a
crowd of nearly 450 people in the
same building...
And "read them an article he had
written for Playboy magazine.
Buckley not only presented the
article as his speech, but he charged
$5007 or thereabouts, for his
services, more than enough money
to buy an entire Playboy for
everyone in the audience.
We hope everyone who goes to
hear the right's answer to Norman
Mailer, Gore Vidal and Charles
Goodell will make sure to carry the
latert issue of Playboy with them.
Maybe Buckley would like to
see this month's Playmate.
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students or staff of the University
of North Carolina."
However, it is then noted that
"sixty-four per cent of its present
daily production of approximately
four million gallons is produced for
non-university consumers consisting
generally of the defendant
(Carrboro, ten per cent of
production) and individual
residential and commercial
customers in and near the town of
Chapel Hill (fifty-four per cent of
production).
When the University undertook
the water system there was a need
for such action. However, today the
situation fis considerably altered to
the point that the University does
not even consume a majority of the
water. v
Regardless of the outcome of
this particular case the University
should now realize it is time for
Carrboro and Chapel Hill to control
and operate the water facility.
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 Gellmaa Photo Editor
Terry Cheek ...... .Night Editor
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To The Editor:
I aia writing in reponse to the
December 3 letter of Dr. V, i!Iiam Koch cf
the Botany Department. In his ktter Dr.
Koch outlined his reasons for and
methods of self evaluation of his teaching
methods. In the letter Dr. Koch states,'
"At the end of a course, the 'grade I give
myself relates to how well I have met the
behavioral goals I had set.Although I
don't enjoy grading myself on a course
I'm involved with, it does help me."
Finally, Dr. Koch asks, "Is this true for
students also?"
If I can, and I believe I may, extend
Dr. Koch's question to shouldn't this be
true for students also then the answer is
a definite yes. To me, self-evaluation is
the responsible result of independent
action. However, since the students
educational responsibility and
independence have been totally usurped
in most cases, student self-evaluation is a
farce. '
Self-evaluation works, as Dr. Koch ;
knows, when the individual has the i
independence to set his own objectives ,
and to establish his own best way(s) off
meeting those objectives. Faculty have
this independence, students do not. i
As long as administrations and faculty
(with notable exceptions such as Drs.
Koch, Slome and Gentry) decide what is
worth knowing and how it is to: be I
learned, student self-evaluation will'
continue to be a theoretical concept, !
notably abstract and ethereal. V
The opportunity for making I
responsible educational decisions such as I
what is worth knowing and how it will be f
learned, originally usurped in first grade,
continues to be 1 illusive ' in higher I
e d u cation whatever "higher" . means, f
More and more students, are realizing they
Grover B. - Proctor
Conservaiwes welcome
"Though liberals do a great deal of
talking about hearing other points of
view, it sometimes shocks them to learn
that there are other points of view."
- William F. Buckley Jr.
A conservative on this campus has very
little opportunity for bright moments
when guest speakers and lecturers are
announced. Who of us can really get very
excited if Jane Fonda or Rennie Davis
showers high-flown but shallow rhetoric
around UNC?
And yet today, as most of you know
by now, we can proudly boast of our own
spokesman William F. Buckley Jr. Let
me extend a most hearty welcome to Mr.
Buckley and my hope that he finds his
visit here a rewarding and stimulating
experience. si
I heard one of my classmates make a
rather backhandedly complimentary'
comment about fr. Buckley sometime
ago. He said, summing up, probably, the
majority opinion on campus, "Buckley isf-
without doubt one of the most brilliant
men in the country. It's just too bad his
genius is misdirected."
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-are being cheated by this and ire not
liking it one tit. Most faculty do not
seem to understand. I am reasonably sure
students will be making certain that
reluctant faculty and administration do
understand in the near future.
David A. Rche
153 Daniels Road
Caap.PineTOQcI
cd dioerioinatory
To The Editor:
I was unhappy to see in the
Wednesday paper inclusion of an
advertisement seeking to hire "only
clean-cut young people" for positions at
one Camp Pinewood. It would seem to
me that accepting such obviously
discriminatory advertising is equivalent to
accepting appeals to hire on racial, or
religious grounds. "White only need
apply" is obviously so vile an ad as to
warrant refusal for Tar Heel publication.
I believe the paper that editorializes
for Bernie Oakley's right to cheer UNCs
teams with all his hair as he wants it, can
hardly accept revenue from disgusting ads
from Camp Pinewood.
J. Stephen Walters
4G7-A E. Franklin St.
Secretary Loird
laclis 'pissassV
To The Editor:
A recent confrontation between
Melvin Laird and the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee confirmed an
oft-whispered reality. It can now be
reported with assurance that Mel just
Jr.'
Of course, tonight he will have the.
opportunity to refute that statement's
detrimental intent while re-affirming his
intellect. But I would like to devote the
rest of this column to some of his more
biting (and revealing) quips collected over
the past years. The subsequent (as well as
the opening) quotations have been
selected from David Franke's edition
called Quotations from Chairman Bill:
The Best of Win. F. Buckley Jr. For a
compendium ' of what is accurately
labeled the best of the man, I highly
recommend the book.
University campuses have attracted
much attention today, and as might be
expected, they have not escaped Mr.
Buckley's critical eye. Though few here
(excepting possibly the Administration)
may be inclined to agree with him, he
makes the succinct observation, "As a
general proposition, colleges are best
administered by adniinistrators, next best
by faculty, and ' most worst by
students." With his tongue sliding very
comfortably into his cheek, he wrote,
"...the academic community has in it the
biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks
and extremists . this side of the giggle
house." (
Nor do the "darlings of the Left"
Frances L. Miller
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Mad.
During an ugly but honest dialogue
between Jonathan and Tina just before
their ill-fated party in "Diary of a Mad
Housewife," Jonathan snaps, "My God,
Tina, you've got everything twisted." In a
Tar Heel review recently the film was also
accused1 of distorting reality. But
Jonathan and the reviewer are wrong.
"Diary of a Mad Housewife" is so real
that aay woman who has had anything to
do with housewifery (and some men also)
will wince "at its perceptiveness.
It is. true that Jonathan is a
ready-made villain, but this is obviously
the result of Richard Benjamin's
over-acting, stressing every line, milking
the audience for every 'laugh" as if this
were high school drama rather than
serious cinema. As the film progresses,
Benjamin's acting mellows, however. The
viewer who is sensitive to Tina's
predicament will not hate Jonathan per se
but realize how much of his
obnoxiousness is based on the role
expected of him in society and on his
lack of confidence that he can meet it.
Eleanor Perry's script frequently
expresses his insecurity, climaxing in the
scene over the hot milk near the end. We
could accept any of the lines if Benjamin
had not forced them upon us so loudly
and quickly in the opening scenes; but
after all, to Tina, who hears them
morning after morning after morning,
year upon year, they are more real and
less shocking.
Perhaps we are not yet ready for.
"Diary of a Mad Housewife." Reviewer
after reviewer has asked why Tina
remains in her situation, and the fact that
few of them come up with any answer
shows an incredible ignorance of the
position of women in our society. The
movie would have been truly simplistic if
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does not possess the pEzxan necessary for
Secretary cf Movie-Miking.
After all, Clark CrfcrJ allowed hg
Duke Wayne (the True Grit of the Green
Berets) to use U.S. Army equipment in
his epic cinematography. Alas, Swell Mel,
is he h known in production circles,
dan't even make a cloak-and-digger scene
?vith the hottest spring-loose-the-good-guys
material since
CBS dropped "Mission: Impossible' from
the Sunday night line-up.
For instance, why didn't Swell Mel
employ the arts of the real Hollywood
winners? Imagine what Lee Marvin could
have done with the episode, (He n:ght
even have copped that Oscar which
eluded him in "The Dirty Dozen.") Not
to mention the dauntless correspondent
Nelson Drew reporting for the DTH from
a tiger cage remote control unit. But no
such splashy doings for Mr. Laird. The
best he has to offer is a few still
photographs of the compound model,
later rejected by Life magazine.
Presumably the paper rnaiche model will
be sold to "Sesame Street" for later
viewing.
AH this goes to show thai the real
Oscars still belong to those dashing,
Fairbankesque solons from the
South-Fulbright and Gore. Visualize, if
you will, the fantastic movie to be made
from this drama of movie critics
reviewing the seemingly endless stream of
Dick n Mel "B" grade flicks. Rick Gray,
of course, will write the screenplay telling
the behind-the-scenes tale of the Old
Gray Fox and the Arkansas Albatross. It
will be a clever plot indeed as it deals
with two Southern critics who deplore
the Hawks Corp. movie company, with its
Cecille B. DeMille Complex. Who knows,
Buckley
escape .the sharp end of his pen. Let me
give you a few of his better comments
concerning some of the sacred cows of
the liberal establishment. Why not plunge
right , (pardon the pun) in with Mao:
"...the greatest genocidal maniac in the
liistory of the world, the same Mao
Tse-tung who killed four times as many
Chinese as Hitler killed Jews."
Former first ladies? We have them,
tpo. "...following Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt ia search of irrationality was
like following a burning fuse in search of
an explosive; one never had to wait very
long.";
- Then, as the .tongue shifts to a more
comfortable place in the cheek, he goes
on further. Test. Who said (a)'It is my
finri belief that' D wight Eisenhower is a
dedicated, conscious agent of, the
Communist consiracy...'? Who said
(b)'Goldwater Republicanism is the
closest thing in American politics to an
equivalent of Russian Stalinism'?
Everyone knows the answer to (a). Who
knows-or will care, particularly that the
answer to (b) is William Fulbright?"
By the way, the last quote appears in
Mr. Franke's book under the subject of
"Double Standards." Most fitting.
Turning to Muhammed Ali (trans.
Cassius Clay), he says, "He became a
Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion
for imbright neurotics who feel the need
it had enumerated the reasons why Tina
did not slam the door.
Why- can't a situation be both
grotesque and real? That is. exactly what,
the movie is telling us that millions of
women are living in grotesque situations
(most worse than Tina's) which would be
considered inhuman if experienced by
men. Therefore they are not real, these
individual and separate situations, hidden
even from each other, so that the men
who see Tina's oppression as a human
being when it is highlighted on the screen,
do not recognize it in their own homes.
The audience gets close-ups of Tina's
hopelessness; it is not necessary to view
one's wife so closely.
As a Female Liberationism I thought
this no heady stuff just a break-through
in a medium that is probably one of the
biggest influences on youth and, as such,
has been allowed to be sexist far too long.
"Diary of a Mad Housewife" tells it
like it is, whether the "mad" means
insane or angry (and usually it is a
mixture of both). Maybe the part of the
audience, who yawns is using
sophisticated boredom as a coverup for
the nasty truths that women are social
failures unless they make marriages with
men , like Jonathn? that housework is
dreary, unrewarding, and tiring; that ,
women who got BAs at Smith over ten
years ago have no job qualifications; that
even with a job, female BAs make no
more than men with eighth grade
educations; that women who leave their
children are social pariahs; that good
child-care is rare and expensive; that
women who desert their husbands do not
get alimony (after all, what has Jonathan
done?); etc.
Far too little has been said about the"
character of George (well played by
if the producers made a quick deal they
night ma get Martha M.UheU to fay
the dumb Southern belle?
Graham Woottr.
Durham
M. 4hS 4tM W '
To The Editor:
I have not been afcle to read Kcr,
Ripley's columns, but I would l;ke to
defend the role cf being a Christian.
In the past few .ceks you have
printed letters against being a Christian.
May I say that I have found it to be the
most rewarding and worthwhile thing I
have found and I would not trade it for
anything you might offer me.
The ktter printed yesterday asked Ken
why didn't he grow up. As far as I can see
Ken has grown up. To be a Christian you
have to have a good backbone that can
take anything. Because, you will be
persecuted, talked about, laughed at, and
there will be those who will try and get
you to change your faith. On top of this
you have more temptations than you
know what to do with.
The question is-have you grown up
enough to withstand all of this? Or arc
you taking the easy way out and
following the crowd? Ken and I will be
rewarded with the kingdom of
heaven -will you?
Susan Thomas
s School of Journalism
Snow Camp, N.C.
to hate all white people."
Of a long-standing foe in New York
City, he moves on, "...the point might be
made that there is no extant Republican
philosophy, and that Lindsay is its
prophet."
The list of quite brilliant exerpfs goes
on and on, but I think four more will give
you a rounded, if thin, view of Mr.
Buckley's philosophy and wit. Three
appear next, purposefully unintroduced,
save by the date of their appearances.
' July 24, 1962. "...we view our atomic
arsenal as proudly and as devotedly a.i
any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock
hanging over the mantel as his children
slept, and dreamed."
May 13, 1965. " This trial,' Murphey
thundered to the jury, 'is nothing more
than a conspiracy to smash the Ku Klux
Klan!' (If such a conspiracy exists, put
me down as an applicant for membership
in it.)"
June 27, 1967. "Perhaps we should
sign that mutual defense pact with
Israel-if only for our own
self-protection."
Finally, I want to sum up my praise of
Mr. Buckley by offering a last quote from
him and suggesting the reason it is true is
that fewer people than ever before believe
as he does.
"Every day, in every way, things are
getting worse and worse."
O
m irea
Frank Lagella). There are plenty of
Georges around, waiting for women
discontented in one role to try another. It
is perfectly clear what sort of person he is
from the two early party scenes
contemptuous of women, viewing them
only as objects; cruel; glorying over his
actions, his triumphs at putting others
down.
Why does Tina have an affair with
him? Because he is the only alternative
offered; and, unlike Jonathan, he
demands nothing of her.
Carrie Snodgrass is a complex Tina,
trying to prepare herself for the inevitable
cast-off . mistress role by taking a
practical, reasonable line towards her
lover, but women have not been trained
to love that way.
As Everywoman she hopes that George
will prove different underneath, that he
will be capable of relating as a human to
her humanity. But of course it doesn't
work; she is violently discarded and
returns to a man who will keep her
around even if he ignores the person in
her while exploiting her mind and body
for his own needs.
Obviously neither Jonathan nor
George is innately evil; they were formed
by their society. But they are the ones
with the psychological and economical
power to change things peacefuUy for the
benefit cf both sexes. It is unlikely that
they will do so, however, because the
short-term benefits which they derive
from oppressing women are too precious
to them.
See "Diiry of a Mad Housewife." Ibve
the honesty not to yawn. And remember
that TLna has a really good life -an
efrht-room apartment on the Park two
children, a husband, a lover. Think about
the other women.
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