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Harry Bry an. Editor
Saturday, September 25, 1971
The Daily
awards of
The Get High On Sports Not
Drugs Award- to N.C. State
basketball players Paul Coder and
Bill Heuts who were arrested
Monday and charged with
possession of five ounces of
marijuana.
The Profiles in Courage Award -to
Presidential hopefuls Senators
Fred Harris, Hubert Humphrey and
Edward Kennedy who were absent
from the first Senate roll call vote
on the draft last Friday.
The Politics Makes Strange
Bedfellows Award- to Robert R.
Stubbs, former state chairman of
the American Party and a George
Wallace aide, who was convicted
Thursday for indecent exposure,
soliciting and contributing to the
delinquency of three young boys
whom he asked to perform
unnatural acts with him.
The Pay Particular Pretension To
Award - to "Citizen Kane," which
was shown by the Union for the
millionth time this week. Joe Cool
was right.
The That's Life Award- to
Look magazine, which announced
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Harry Bryan, Editor
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Lou Bonds Associate Ed.
Lana Starnes Associate Ed.
Mark Whicker Sports Ed.
Ken Ripley Feature Editor
Bob Chapman . . Natl. News Ed.
Jim Taylor Night Editor
Bob Wilson Business Mgr.
Paddi Hughes Adv. Mgr.
Ken Ripley
onl Food: a Bromise
There's a song Christians on campus
like to sing that begins with the assertion,
"We are one in the Spirit, we are one in
His love," and goes on to say, "And we
pray that all unity may one day be
restored."
Last December at Urbana, Illinois,
12,000 Christian students from all over
the world - concluding the last meeting
of an Inter-Varsity triennial convention
spontaneously and emotionally began
singing that song as they filed out of the
mammoth indoor arena for the last time.
They meant what they were singing, and
everyone there was caught up in a proud
proclamation of unity and mutual love.
Christians sing this song here on
campus, but for us it is more than a
proclamation - it's a promise and a
challenge.
For too many years. Christian unity
has been little more than a broken
promise. With too few notable
exceptions. Christian history has been
marked by division and mistrust, hatred
and isolation, as the Church split into
fragments. Denominations proudly
asserted their superiority, sects clung
stubbornly to their "true" Christianity,
Christians battled over doctrines,
practices, means and goals. If the world
has ever seen an unloving group of
people, it has too often seen the Church.
Yet when Jesus sent his disciples into
the world, as "lights" in the darkness of
Tar Heel
the week
it will cease publication next
month.
The Bring the War Home
Award- to Mayor Ronnie
Thompson of Macon. Ga., who
reportedly ordered machine guns
used during racial disturbances in
his town this summer and who
plans to sell machine gun tie tacks
and lapel pins at SI each for his
re-election campaign.
The You've Got Nothing To
Complain About Award- to
campus blacks who have
complained about the lack of
University sponsored activities for
blacks. C'mon guys, what about the
watermelon feast yesterday in the
pit?
The You Can't Have Your
Eggroll and Seat it Two Award- to
the Nixon Administration which is
trying to seat both Red China and
Nationalist China in the United
Nations.
The We Hope Not Award- to
Bob Hope, who will appear at the
N.C. State Fair Oct. 15.
The John Crow Law
Enforcement Award to John O.
Crow, Jr., deputy commissioner of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who
was almost arrested by militant
Indians Wednesday for blocking
reform programs. A melee broke
out when the group's leader was
thrown down a flight of stairs by
police.
The Campus Crusade for Price
Award- to Ralph Nader associate
Brent English, who proposed
increasing student fees by S1.50 to
form a consumer protection group
here. How much would out-of-state
students have to pay.
Brent?
The Thanks For Nothing
Award- presented annually to
Student Government, which
continues appointing committees to
study problems that never get
solved.
The Why Don't the Giants Do
Something Like That For Willie
Mays Award- to Pope Paul, who
was elected to his exalted position
by the cardinals.
selfishness and hatred, he made it clear
that a distinguishing difference between
Christians and non-Christians was to be
the love and unity they manifested.
"A new commandment I give to you,"
Jesus said, "that you love one another;
even as I have loved you, that you also
love one another. By this all men will
know that you are my disciples, if you
have love for one another."
The early Christians " considered
themselves as a new community, as an
organic body of people united in their
faith and in their actions. Decrying the
lovelessness and self-centeredness of the
pagan world, Paul wrote to the Lphesians.
"Rather, speaking the truth in love, we
are to grow up in every way into him who
is the head, into Christ, from whom the
whole body, joined and knit together by
every joint with which it is supplied,
when each part is working properly,
makes bodily growth and up-builds itself
in love."
The early Christians had their
problems, and their dissensions, but they
were "set apart" from others by the
strong unity they had. and the love they
bore. "How those Christians love each
other," one pagan observer noted.
Christianity was a bright promise, and the
body grew.
Cancer afflicts that body today, in
some cases quite badly. There is still a
Bob Lenski
.Disrespect for
Editor's note: l.sst in a th e-psrt St nt j
Archie Carr. a biologist at the
University of F!ond3. maintains that
"probably in the long run the mot
destructive enemy of the natural v. or! J
will turn out to be the capacity of
humans not to change nature and
environ emnt but to be persuaded to like
the changes, no matter how dismal the.
are-j'st so no obvious public health
haiard is involved."
If this observation is applicable to
people in general, it is particularly
applicable to a highly transient
population like Chapel Hill students.
They may not even realize that things
here were ever much different.
Anyone who disagrees that Chapel
Hill's environment is deteriorating,
probably does very little walking-or does
it with his eyes closed. He should try a
cross-campus w3k, beginning on bast
Franklin and proceeding south through
the campus' different historical zones.
Perhaps at the conclusion of such a
walk-the endless sea of parking spaces
and mobile units which characterizes the
hospital complex along Manning Drive
and is representative of "where we're-at"
now-he would agree that something had
gone wTong somewhere, that what was
begun with beauty, order and tranquility,
had ended in ugliness, chaos and
mechanical glare.
I know the objections to this
conclusion. "Older areas look better,
because the trees have had a chance to
grow." "Hospitals are necessarily more
utilitarian in appearance-for one thing.
can fV.
Charles Jeffries
The Black Student Movement has uen
on the UNC campus for a little over four
and a half years. In these years it has
routed out two food services, taken over
Manning Hall, succeeded in starting a
Black Studies program and generally
given the black student on campus a
group which he could readily identify
with.
These few accomplishments are within
themselves enough to make any casual
observer take notice of the organization
even though he may not agree with the
group's tactics.
After last Tuesday's meeting and the
suggestions that came out of that
promise, but now it is more a challenge.
Christians have come a long way in the
last few years to restoring some of the
promise of unity and love.
Denominations are gradually breaking
down their barriers. Christians are slowly
breaking down their barriers of religious
and racial prejudice. Some fresh air is
blowing into Churches, slowly, and the
institutions are not without hope.
Christian groups on this campus have
come a long way towards unity. Three
years ago. different groups were almost
hostile to each other, pledging unity but
acting in competition and mutual bitter
criticism. There was little communication
not only among the different groups but
also among the groups and campus
religious centers. Christians on campus, in
these groups or not, were generally
apathetic and silent. It was a frustrating
time for everyone.
Christians on campus this fall are
optimistic, and with reason. Gradually
the groups and the different religious
institutions on campus are breaking down
their mutual distrust. Communication
and sharing among the different groups
has grown stronger, and the groups - like
Campus Crusade and Inter-Varsity - have
grown closer.
Campus Christians jre surfacing,
getting together across denominational
and group lines, and are rediscovering
thai the mutual tics we have as Christians
BSM
th:
on
They are all partially valid, b.t r.:r.e
of them alter one central. irdor-table
truth: certain parts of the Chape! H:l!
campus (the older one were designed to
accomodate man. while others i the newer
ones'! were designed to accomodate the
automobile. The result ;s ireas of
womrleteiv unlike character.
The trend toward lar.dscap
favor
machines over
. i .: . o 1
restricted to the UNC campus, or course.
It can be seen throughout the t.n ot
Chapel Hill (simply contrast Fa-!ga:e to
Franklin Street!), and on almost every
campus in the country.
If people really prefer the environment
they are getting today, and are full;,
conscious of the choice they are making.
I'll willingly accept my more pastoral
taste as minority opinion. But 1 don't
believe for one minute that noM
students, if they thought about it. would
choose surroundings resembling Manning
Drive over the park-like atmosphere of
the old campus between Cameron and
Franklin.
Why, then, aren't people asserting
their right to choose the more human
environment? Perhaps in a town with
Chapel Hill's reputation for
outspokenness, we should worry more
about such stifling complacency than
about the environmental deterioration it
leads to.
Why this complacency? In large part,
it is because our highly technological
society has destroyed a vital part of the
human consciousness - the part which
reveals its
meeting, it is clear to see that the
organization is about to come of age.
Just as age comes to a human being, so
it does to an organization. As the person
matures he becomes aware of the things
around him and, if they are to his dislike
he avoids them or he attempts to change
them.
The aging of an organization is no
different. Upon recognizing the issues
which confront it, a group takes action to
see that the issues are settled or
eliminated, but just like the individual
human, the group can choose to avoid the
issues also.
The BSM has chosen to confront the
of
unity
are stronger than the ties we have to any
organization, any pet doctrine. Christians
at UNC are beginning to show that they
do love each other, and that their love is
real and powerful.
But the year, however optimistic, is
still beginning, and though the promise of
unity is greater than ever before, there are
still seeds of division to watch out lor.
The barriers between the
non-denominational Christian groups on
campus and the institutional centers and
chaplains are breaking d own. but more
communication and understanding
sought by both sides - is still needed if
these two parts of the body are to
function together.
A strained, unspoken tension exists
between the charismatic Christians on
campus and other Christians - and in this
tension there is mistrust and separation,
"brotherhood" in name only . Unless both
sides can learn to accept and appreciate
the unique value and contributions each
can make, unless we can truly confess one
Spirit active in all Christians. love and
unity will give way in a terrible mess.
But unless Christians on campus
continue as they have begun, joytully
bearing one witness to one Lord,
accepting (he challenge to love each
other, our claims to love and unity are
not even promises. They are broken
dreams.
' '' M A
the environment
helped u to relate intimately to our
physical w or Id and sere a peror.al role
m shap.ng it. Increasingly . American
seem to relate to their surroundings only
:n a subconscious way. tend to accept
whatever environment w? ire "given."
failing not only to compare it critically
with other possible environments, but
even to perceive any personal role in
attaining thoe environments, we fje
environments, but even to perceive any
personal role in attaining thoe
environments, w e face & crisis of human
imagination, and a crisis, of human
potency .
It is time we recognired that it is
seldom other people who are dishing out
environments, with a thoughtful eye to
human preferences, but more often the
blind and inhuman forces of uncontrolled
technology. With a momentum of their
own. these forces will make more and
more of man's decisions for him. until he
reasserts himself. And if he won't do it m
Chapel Hill, where will he do it"
When I said that some technology
undermines human consciousness. I had
several destructive influences in mmd.
Foremost among these is the dominance
of the automobile in our culture.
It has transformed the landscape,
certainly, but it has altered our
perception of the landscape even more'
The automobile menu
nobility -complete, carefree, "cheap"
mobility. The two words are almost
synonymous. People with easy access to
cars correctly perceive themselves, to be
mobile creatures to a degree that those
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maturity
issues which it has recognized as relevant
to its members and in doing so has proven
that it has matured. The off-campus
tutorial program, which was started last
year, shows that the group recognized the
importance of educating the masses of
people whom the University has
systematically eliminated as a source of
insight into the problems of black people
and has considered them only an
"employment pool."
The black library and the Black Ink
are indications that the group recognizes
the importance of helping the black
student outside the usual university
framework which for so long seemed to
stifle the individuality of black students
and attempted to integrate him fully into
the white world.
The formation of a black radio
program shows that the organization sees
the need for the black student to be
informed and entertained in the manner
in which he is accustomed, without
having to purchase a S270 stereo system
to pick up all-black WSRC in Durham.
With these programs underway or still
in the planning stages, one can easily see
that the BSM is well on the way to
becoming a mature organization.
Yet there is a facet of maturity which
should be kept in mind. That facet
concerns goals.
Unless the group makes concrete plans
to achieve specific goals, all of the
thought that accompanies the recognition
of a problem or issue of relevance is
wasted.
Although the lailure of an individual
t achieve a goal might cause the
individual to destroy himself, the failure
of a group to achieve a goal should be
accompanied by increased effort, not
disintegration .
In the past, lailure by the BSM to
achieve some of their goals has resulted in
the downfall of the organization's ability
to attract ail of the black students on
campus. And without members, an
organization may as well commit itself to
a stale of non-existence, or death in
human terms.
As you have probably discovered by
now. the purpose of this column this
week is to praise the ideas of the BSM
and to urge it to carefully plan its course
f action on the issues it has recognized,
tor all too many times the integrity of the
black student on campus has been
criticied due to the inability of the BSM
to mature and come oj jite.
with only horses or buycles o
transit never could
But th.s perception has
accompanied by another one tl
e r.virone..nt
."ommoo;? v
As man achieves complete
rdom to roam.
from the burden of responsibility for h.s
immediate surroundings He can let the
go to seed, hit the road, ad f.-,d t!v
good life over the horizon.
The catch h that when an er.f.re
nation is led to believe it can s.s
"escapist" in this manner, nobody is
at home fending the front lawn And ji
America is d.scovenng. the res..'s
catastrophic.
City fold flee to the suburbs.
Fasfemers flee to California, the wealth-,
abandon old resorts and flee to the
Caribbean. Rare Farth. refuting its -ame.
sings blasphemously "the highway s
brother." America decays.
If California indeed repree-:.
America's cultural future, we should
a good look at it. In los Angeles, millions
rush about on countless freeways whu'n
lead nowhere. since the freeways
themselves have consumed the land.
L A has surfaced in Granville low.
where students willingly live m Mighu-J
surroundings- a sea of asphalt ar.l
uutomob;!es-to have the "freedom" . ;
excape to better places.
The ulternative-that of" banishing the
cars, ripping up the asphalt, and using in
land m a creative way (they're t r i .c
gardens on West Coast campuses)-has no?
occurred to many. Could it be that the
uutomohiie. destructive fo earth, air. fire,
water and body, also tends to rot the
mmd''
Letter
Arnold storv
must be iold
To the editor:
I have not yet seen a complete, tact
account of the circumstances surround. ::c
Billy Arnold's death. Without evidence t
the contrary, we are left to believe tlia
the reason the whole story has not been
told is that the truth is mcnminjlmg to
the UNC football program and ils
members, and to college football .i a
whole.
Here is the story I compiled from
three eye-witnesses, who wish to remain
anonymous for obvious reasons.
Bill Arnold fell after the seventh ot
eight wind sprints. He managed fo get
back to his feet, but in lining up t t the
eighth sprint he lined up pointing in th
wrong direction. One of these witnesse.
said his eyes appeared to have rolled b.ic.
into his head. During the eighth sprint.
Arnold fell as he started off, got up.
stumbled, tell, at which time two uuiho
picked him up. yelled at him and sh-ved
him along to run some more. Arnold
managed fo linish the sprint. K.t
collapsed as he finished. I wo players
tried to help him, but were told to leave
him alone. Arnold managed to stun. He
and crawl his way t the gate. Outside t le
gate, two players helped him get h;
helmet off and helped him walk.
One of the witnesses said that Arm. Id
collapsed completely at this time, t.i'hm
to the ground and hitting his h-ad ' ihe
pavement. He was then roiled onto the
equipment truck and taken, no! t the
hospital, but to the locker room. When
Arnold did not respond in the I vker
room, he was then taken to the h -p. fa!.
Witnesses estimate that thirty :m;
passed from the time Arnold . !!jp . 1
outside the gate to the time he j- finall;,
taken to the hospital. In ijm- '
heatstroke or heat proOrifi . I
understand the time which ehp-e-.
between stroke and treatment i criti.al.
These questions come to my mmd a-. I
try to relate to this man's death i. a r.
accident. Why was Bill Arnold i rccd r
made to keep running after he had f il'.-r
down several times, and was obv: .a ! ill
or injured? Why was he no! examined
the team trainer, whose responsibility ;t o
to examine players and determine if ?hey
should see a doctor? The tramer '
supposedly required to be on the !;-.' 1 i!
all practices. Why was Bill rn -!J r t
taken to the hospital when lie teU
unconscious outside the gate''
An accurate story of the circurr; ! j'. .e .
surrounding Bill Arnold's colhp-e h -'
be told, not to increase anyone's mi ery
and suffering, but to prevent are.
recurrence. I do not know wh tv.;
authority to investigate : death
surrounded by mysterious circ-m Oai.e .
but I do know that they have A r:-:
their responsibility.
Michael (. Serr .
100: S. ( o!u::.r a ?
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