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Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed on its editorial page.
the opinions of the editor and the staff. Letters and columns represent
individual contributors.
Tuesday, February 23, 1971
Tom Gooding, Editor
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Gov. Bob Scott has probably
done more than any other North
Carolinian to prove that politics
have no place in higher education.
However, Scott proved this
point while claiming he wanted to
remove politics from education.
Last . Friday the Governor issued
an emotional tirade devoid of logic
and factual evidence against the
University of North Carolina. The
Governor was, in fact, trying to
make political yardage out of an
educational football.
The Governor appeared before
the UNC Board of Trustees Monday
in Raleigh. The situation could best
be described as awkward for the
Governor.
Scott said, "It took me two
years to begin to see the picture;
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DTH tradition enters 79th year
Today marks the beginning of
the 79th year of The Daily Tar
Heel.
In the past 78 years this paper
has made a lot of people mad, and
it has gotten mad at a lot of people.
The business of a newspaper,
one journalism professor is fond of
saying is to "print the news ai
raise hell."
That is what The Daily Tar Heel
has always tried to do, and that is
what the paper will probably
continue to do in the future. If it
did not, it would be neglecting its
responsibility to the students and
to itself.
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two years of listening to arguments;
two years of listenin2 to the
quarreling; . . . and I'm tired of it."
If he is indeed tired of it why did
the Governor inject one more
needless argument into a system
already overburdened with
problems? .
The only answer lies in Scott's
glittering promise that he "will not
hesitate to criticize established
institutions.'
In his denunciation last Friday,
Scott said 'Their (the Consolidated
University) activity in the last six
months has been frantic and
frankly sometimes a little bit
comic." Statements like these more
closely resemble ridicule than the
thoughtful criticism the Governor
purports to utilize.
Bill Amlong, editor in 1967-68,
called the standard Daily Tar Heel
policy of criticizing the
administration "constructive
negativism." Why trv to change
what is aire" ne asked.
.ied this year to change
.of the things we see wrong
with this University, and we have
also tried to compliment the
University for the things it has done
right.
Many people tend to forget that
The Daily Tar Heel is as much a
part of this University as South
Building. Our comments have been
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The Governor says he wants an
end to the infighting in higher
education. From what we have seen
of Scott's actions he must be
planning to replace the infighting
with outside political pressure.
The fastest way to remove
harmful influences from the field of
higher education is to take it out of
the hands of the Governor.
The only valid comment from
the Governor was his evaluation
that "Bill Friday ranks among the
foremost University administrators
in America today. We're fortunate
to have him and for my part, we
want to keep him."
Unfortunately, we cannot say
the same for the Governor.
aimed at areas we felt needed
improvement or change.
We have tried to cover the most
news with the highest campus
interest. We have tried to comment
editorially on the issues most
relevant to this academic
community.
This is all part of a tradition that
did not begin this year. It did not
begin in 1929 when Professor
Walter Spearman edited the first
Daily edition of the Tar Heel. It did
not begin in 1909 under the
editorship of Frank Porter Graham.
It began the day the page pictured
below appeared on campus.
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There are a lot of words for what the
General Assembly is trying to do to
Orange County and the Fourth
Congressional District.
Chapel Hill Weekly Editor Jim
Sehumaker said the Assembly's
re districting plan would "geld" Orange
County politically.
Admittedly that's strong language for
a family newspaper like the Weekly, but
it's the perfect description of the move.
What the re districting plan does is take
Orange County out of the Fourth
Congressional District and put it in the
Second District.
That move, if you look at any of the
maps published by the state papers last
week, is so geographically ludicrous as to
make the move a blatant one to
undermine both liberal Congressman Nick
Galifianakis and Orange County.
Bipartisan leaders in the county voiced
their objections Monday. Democratic
Chairman Roger Foushee, one of
Galifianakis' strongest local supporters,
said he was "adamantly opposed" to the
plan, and Republican Chairman P.H.
Craig called the plan a "monster."
Officials of the town of Chapel Hill
also let it be known that they also
opposed the plan.
If the plan goes through, Orange
County residents might as well give up
any ideas of getting any attention at all
from their congressman. Nick might as
well go back to the law faculty at Duke.
And the conservatives in the General
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Bob Chapman
Morning time for
Inspiration strikes rarely. I got one
Saturday in the Chapel Hill Bus Station
while waiting for my bus to come in. I
was talking to the man sweeping up
outside when it suddenly struck.
"Good morning," I said casually.
"Fine, just fine!" came the reply.
"Lousy day, isn't it," I commented,
watching several black clouds gather
overhead.
"Yeah, lovely day. It's great to be
alive," the other said.
By our brief conversation, I gathered
that not only did he not understand my
questions but he was most agreeable to
about anything I said. Thus the birth of
the formulation of what I term Morning
Diplomacy.
I have completed very lengthy testing
of the theory and find it to be sound. I
postulate: "Early in the morning, people
really don't want to listen. And if
someone seems friendly, they will agree
to almost anything." -
The possible implications of my
theory are limitless. Consider: Instead of
spending months in Paris, wasting time
and money for long peace talks which
begin in the afternoon, why not send the
American delegation to wake up the
North Vietnamese diplomats.
Before the distinguished delegates
from the other side of the square table
realize what is happening, the chief U.S.
negotiator would say, 'We'll get out for
good if you get out for good. By
tomorrow afternoon! Okay?'.'
Naturally, the other side would agree
instantly. The proper papers would be
signed and everyone could go back to
bed. Another step toward world peace
has been made.
The Congress could catch up on its
backlog of bills if only someone
understood Morning Diplomacy properly.
If Senator Muskie wanted to get several
pet anti-pollution bills passed, he would
have to get mighty early to call on key
members of the Senate.
Muskie's strategy would be to call and
a.
Assembly can remember for years "how
we got that Greek' and Orare County at
the sane time."
Despite all protestations to the
contrary, the only way to look at what
the plan does to Orange County is to call
it a political move to undermine the
power of one of the state's few liberal
voting areas and to unseat one of the few
effective Congressman in the North
Carolina delegation.
The Second District, represented by
L.H. Fountain, is composed of 12 eastern
North Carolina counties which extend
across the top of the state, and under the
proposed redistri cling then dip down just
west of Durham County to pick up
Orange, leaving the county looking like a
limp piece of bubblegum hanging down
from the toe of a shoe.
Presently the Fourth District is one of
the few compact districts in the state. It
is composed of Durham, Wake,
Randolph, Chatham and Orange-the
Research Triangle and two neighboring
counties who are tied into the Triangle.
In addition to destroying the liberal
power base of the Fourth District
(Orange provided Galifianakis with nearly
half of his victory margin last fall), the
move would totally rupture the Research
Triangle.
Orange, Durham and Wake Counties
are probably more closely tied together
than any other three counties in the state.
Their economies, their cultural activities
tilLu MERCHANTS
say, "Good morning, how about voting
for Bill 97-05.6 today?"
"Fine, just fine," the other senator
would mutter, having just stepped out of
the shower.
Of course, anyone using Morning
Diplomacy should never let someoen
know he is using it. The results would be
tragic. A few sly tricks would make the
diplomacy backfire. If someone knew
beforehand he would be the victim of
Morning Diplomacy, he could get up
early enough to thwart any effort to play
on his moment of weakness.
Going further, if the intended victim
consumed enough black coffee, he could
even try to convince the caller he is
wrong and even change the caller's mind.
In time, I foresee what. I shall label
Letter
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To the Editor:
. Though I had been warned that it was
difficult to receive freshman admission to
UNC as an out-of-state girl, I did not
know "difficult" meant virtually
impossible. With high hopes of attending
UNC, having a commendable high school
record, I came to Chapel Hill to h3ve the
interview that is recommended to
out-of-state applicants.
The interview began with, "What are
your questions? Naturally, I wanted first
to know my chances of acceptance. I was
frankly informed that I had no chance at
all. Of 2,500 out-of-state girls applying
for admission, only 50 are accepted. That
50 is quickly filled by daughters of
alumni and National Merit finalists.
I, along with a couple of thousand
other out-of-state hopefuls, spent much
time filling out the application for
admission, we each sent a ten dollar
check to the University, and we each had
and their politics are among the most
interactive and L-ter-dpendint ia the
sjate.
For many years, the liberal politics of
both the University community and
Orange County have been a sorespot for
the General Assembly, especially, for the
more conservative membership of the
body.
Rep. Galifianakis, while not pleasing
to the leftists in the district and
displeasing most of the Mick population
of his hometown Durham, has been
perhaps the only real liberal in the North
Carolina delegation in Washington.
Apparently somewhere along the line
Galifianakis and Orange County have
committed the final sin. They have done
some homespun conservatives the
ultimate dirty, and the move to put
Orange in the Second District will take
care of both Orange County and Nick the
Greek.
And North Carolina will regress back
to the days of the late ISOQ's when the
idea of liberalism was taboo and the
thought of any liberal community
actually having any power was an idle
daydream.
The proposed redistricting will kill
Orange politically, it will kill Galifianakis
and it will do serious damage to the
Research Triangle.
But the conservatives will have their
revenge, and that's the way things seem
to work in the General Assembly.
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diplomacy
Morning War. Any person trying to sell a
product or convince another into
something would battle to arise a little
earlier than his opponent. Continuing
feuds would erupt when key politicians
become convinced to two opposing
viewpoints.
Very few would really know viat
they stood for. Chaos would no doubt
infest itself. This stage of regression I
term Morning Sickness.
After everyone becomes totally
disgusted with getting up for nothing, we
look forward to my final stage: a return
to Normality.
In this level, people get up only as
early as they really have to and each will
reply "just fine" to any comment
directed toward them.
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aspirations and hopes of attending UNC.
The purpose of the letter is to
encourage the University to do one of
two things. One would be to make it
much clearer as to the extreme
selectiveness of out-of-state women.
Though the information booklet sent to
all prospective applicants says "the large
number of applicants generates unusually
intense competition," statistics of just
how hard the competition is would be
much more effective. The second motion
I would like to make to the University is
to open it up to more out-of-state
students. University of Virginia is 45
out-of-state while UNC is only 15
out-of-state and it is a larger university.
If the University of North Carolina
took some action in either of the two
directions I have proposed, it would be
much easier on both the out-of-state
applicant and the admissions office.
Barbara Hand