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Harry Bryan, Editor
Tuesday. September 23, 1971
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'pjok-d Kcp. Perry Matin,
Juir.:i;jh A the House Committee
on ili'-'lur 1 duration, as saying
forces behind fiov. Scott's plan for
retn;.t';ri: higher education in
North r.irohnj have won their
surnnier-!' kittle.
Pointi!;e out that a joint
committee on the restructuring
iwi: had almost unanimously
;;ppro-.evl Scott's plan to set up a
board o! ret-ents to run North
Carolina's lo state-supported
wrmeNtL'v Martin reportedly said
he had no doubts that the N.C.
(Iejier.il Assembly will follow the
c o m m i 1 1 e e ' s r e c o m m e n d a t i on .
Si nee the (Jovernor first
announced his plan for
deconsolidation last February,
forces behind restructuring have
claimed to have the votes in the
Ciencral Assembly to carry the plan
through
Obviou dv their early claims were
unfounded: if most legislators had
favored the Scott plan, the issue
would have been settled in July and
there would have been no need for
the Assembly to reconvene Oct. 26.
However, recent events have
shown that supporters of Scott's
plan may not be bluffing this time
and may actually have the votes.
Sen. John Burney and Rep. Ike
i V advertisements
along toll
A producer of television
commercials. Norman S. Morris, has
conjectured that children are more
adversely affected by commercials
than by violence on television.
If Mr. Morris's statement is true,
the problem of future generations
has already been synthesized into
our brains and value systems.
As children, our Saturday
morning entertainment was
interspersed with plugs for GI Joe
and Harbi dolls, miniature time
bombs to our development.
1 he affect of these dolls, as
Morris conjectures, was to teach us
that true happiness means acquiring
a complete set of accessories.
Toy producers saw to it that no
"complete set of accesories" was
ev er a a liable.
We learned to expect more than
was necessary.
But toy manufacturers are not
the sole offenders. Fashion
designers "encourage young girls to
wear lipstick before they are
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Harry Bryan, Editor
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Andrews, two of the legislators who
have voiced the strongest
opposition to deconsolidation, held
meetings the weekend of Sept. 18
in an attempt to gain support for
their own plans for restructuring
higher eduation without making
major changes in the Consolidated
University.
Though Burney at one time
controlled enough votes to prevent
passage of Scott's plan, the
meetings held in Wilmington and
High Point drew little support, and
both Burney and Andrews have
been forced to back off a bit from
their opposition.
Further, as Martin told the
Associated Press, statements
backing deconsolidation made by
William B. Aycock, former
chancellor of the Chapel Hill
campus; Dickson Phillips, dean of
the UNC law school; and John
Sanders, director of the Institute of
Government, have not helped the
opposition.
So it appears that possibly
Martin's claim of having the votes
necessary for passage of Scott's
plan is not a bluff, that
restructuring will take place and
that higher education in North
Carolina will fall prey to the
political maneuvering restructuring
was supposed to prevent.
of kids
kissable and training bras
long
before puberty," Morris says.
Cereal companies advertise their
product as "he-man' foods that
guarantee protection from
neighborhood bullies, giants and
any other travesties Mother Nature
might throw before an imaginative
youth.
What happens when two "good
guys" on the same cereal diet
happen to disagree?
Morris writes, "without a doubt,
today's young generation is more
product-oriented than any previous
one. The exposure that children
now have mainly through TV to
constant explosions of materialistic
values must have some drastic
impact on their thinking.'
Is this what has happened to us?
Have our values led us to expect
too much from our social
environment? Is it possible that our
society has already developed into a
materialistic happy farm . . .
... in the valley of the Jolly
(ho, ho, ho) Green Giant!
Keith Weatherly
.North
Last Monday I managed- to wrangle an
invitation to accompany three Young
Republican Clubnight on the UNC
campus and it was a rare opportunity to
question firsthand one of the brightest
stars in North Carolina politics. It is
always quite an accomplishment to
engage a conservative politician to speak
at this liberal mecca, but it is certainly a
feather in the cap of YRC President Mike
O'Neal to get such a prominent
Republican Congressman.
The fact that Congressman Broyhill
was graduated from UNC takes much of
the bitterness out of my mouth when my
liberal friends remind me that
ex-Congressman Allard Lowenstein was
also schooled here.
It was an extraordinary treat to have
the Congressman a captive audience to
our questions during the short drive from
the airport and later that night over
dinner. He was extremely receptive to all
our queries and answered them with
be
Daisy Junge
(Last night, as the newly elected
president of the Graduate and
Professional Student Federation, 1 spoke
to the GPSF Senate about my plans and
policy suggestions for the commg year):
Let me begin by distinguishing two
kinds of problems before us: substantive
issues and organizational needs. First, and
undoubtedly more important, are the
substantive issues affecting large numbers
of graduate and professional students. Let
me list some: the tuition hike for
out-of-state students, problems with the
residency requirement, with the future
status of T.A.'s, and with the university's
schedule for tuition payments, housing
inadequacies, consumer problems,
questions concerning the campus traffic
bureau and long-range educational
concerns, including curriculum planning
and flexibility, examinations and an
adequate system of appeals, student
representation on departmental
committees in departments where this is
still arbitrary or unheard-of. These
problems confront us in significantly Large
numbers ail across campus.
I hope the GPSF will give highest
priority to these needs shared among so
many of us.
Let me point out the ways in which
the flexibility of the GPSF Constitution
makes it practical to work effectively in
these areas. The GPSF Senate brings
together representatives from every
school and department which chooses to
participate. These representatives can
bring forth and articulate problems
shared by any significant number of
departments. They can, to some extent,
share practical suggestions or innovations
which may have arisen in various
departments. As the defined problem is
recommended for study and action to a
committee, the senate continues to be the
single most representative and direct
channel for communication. If we can
keep that communication active
throughout the year, every committee
will be able to reach graduates
throughout the campus.
To make communication as simple and
thorough as possible, I would like to
make four recommendations.
First, I propose to send out to each
senator a GPSF newsletter from the
Executive Board every two weeks. In it,
committee chairmen will be able to make
announcements and briefly explain
problmes they meet and whatever
progress they are achieving. The
Executive Board will also use it to
summarize pertinent discussions or
decisions from their weekly meetings.
Second, I will continue to use the DTH
column for in-depth coverage and analysis
of specific issues as they become timely
or reach a new stage of consideration.
Third, I recommend that the Senate
meet once a month to facilitate
inter-departmental discussion of issues as
they develop. This is especially important
since all departments will undoubtedly
not have a member on each committee.
Fourth, I suggest strongly to the
senators that each department compile a
listing of its members and of their phone
numbers, indicating senator,
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surprising frankness. He was genuinely
interested in our opinions and asked
questions freely. Congressman James
Broyhill is not an average run of the mill
political hack. His primary interest is his
job in Congress - not aspiring to higher
political office - as ft appears is everyone
else in Washington.
Congressman Broyhill gave an excellent
address to an almost capacity crowd
which included many non-Republican
spectators. After his speech the
Congressman fielded questions from the
audience with the same openness that he
did with us privately. This is a remarkable
quality in a politician today. Several
questions were aimed at embarrassing the
speaker, but were answered with a relish
that showed a strong dedication to his
beliefs. Congressman Broyhill is not a
"me-too" politician; he says what he
thinks - not what he wants you to hear.
Most sources around the state feel that
Broyhill is a prime candidate to unseat
Senator B. Everett Jordan (or whoever is
ime need recognition
departmental officers, arvd committee
members, all of whom we will need :d
reach at various times.
Let me no turn to the Executive
Board committees and to the issues with
which each is directly concerned. As yc-u
know, membership on these committees
is voluntary. We need members for each,
and for some, we need a chair-.,-.-..
Briefly, the committees:
(1) Carolina Against Tuition - an
adhoc committee set
during th;
summer to coordinate work on problems
connected with the out-of-state tuition
hike. Jerry Harder and Ron Mar.Jel are
chairing this committee and will be
holding their second mass meeting
tonight.
(2) Educational
Curriculum deals with
curriculum questions.
Planning and
a wide range of
Jim Becker is
chairman.
(3) Financial Assistance and
Admissions. We need a chairman. This
will probably be a small committee, but it
have to work on clarifying the
'recruiting" mentioned in the House Bill
on tuition (a student "recruited" for a
"special talent" will be able, at the
discretion of the Trustees, to pay a lower
tuition rate) and on the payment of
tuition by installments.
(4) Teaching and Graduate Assistants.
Again we need a chairman, to work on
the status of TA's next year under the
tuition bill. The committee will also work
Ken Ripley
'Fronts'
Recently, while I was scanning the
morning newspaper, I caught a glimpse at
a story on the soon-to-be opened Disney
World in Florida. The articles described in
detail the efforts of Disney designers to
create a realistic "facade" of fantasy. The
substance of the park is strictly artificial,
but the "image" is realistic and complete.
The Disney people put up a good front
for entertainment purposes. And it
doesn't take long to see other fronts here
on campus the oak panelling that is
sheer veneer; the fancy stores with stone
on the outside, brick on the inside; the
dorms with impressive exteriors, old and
cramped interiors.
The quickness and glibness with which
we build our desired images into our
buildings sometimes seem to me to reflect
the personal "fronts" we put up.
We have masks, all of us, those nice
facades of personality we erect that hide
our true feelings and fears. We build our
"images" for others to see, then spend
the rest of our time maintaining them
the "super stud," trying to convince
others and himself of his manliness and
virility; the "Carolina Coed," southern
sweet around her date but profoundly
different around her suitemates.
There's no limit to the variety of the
masks we wear, and sometimes it seems as
if we change our own mask at will, being
all things to all people.
the Democratic candidate) in 1972. I
wholeheartedly agree. He has the
potential of going far as he wants in
politics, but the Congressman is not an
ambitious person. As Congressman from
the Tenth District, Broyhill enjoys
tremendous popularity. After attempts to
gerrymander him out of Congress failed,
the Democrats resigned themselves to the
fact that Broyhill was there to stay. The
Congressional seat is his for as long as he
wants it, but there is always the hope that
he can be persuaded to seek bigger and
better things.
The soft spoken Lenoir native is a
strong Nixon supporter and is not
ashamed to say it. Although some of
Nixon's recent actions have been
somewhat opposite traditional
Republican policy, Congressman Broyhill
sees only optimism for the current
administration. In his speech last Monday
night he emphasized that the primary
problem of the Nixon administration is
an openly antagonistic Democratic
o- the salaries, duties, and. if necessary .
on the representation of TA's w.thm
departments.
(5 Student Life. As vice president of
the GPSF. Kent L:o?et coordinates a
number of student life sub-committees.
The Consumer Affairs Committee is
already filing complaints and suggestions.
Lilona Smith (law) is acting chairman
We need a Housing c ha urn an. to
continue the good work begun b the
Housing survey which came out with the
4 No Vacancy" report. That survey, to v:
the record straight, was initiated b two
graduate students m Pcu Set and
sponsored by the GPSF. Preyed as a! way s
for lack of funds, the GPSF .i the
survev
also
bv
St
Government and the administration The
No Vacancy " report suggests strong!
that further stud and action are needed
on rental conditions and on deposits
given to the landlord. We need a strong
committee here.
A committee on student fee, finally,
will have to look into traffic stickers,
possible abolition of student activity fees
(this is up to the Trustees), problems
connected with the past surpluses of
Student Government funds.
Apart from our own committees, but
certainly complementing them, another
group is beginning which I would like to
support wholeheartedly, the Triangle
Public Interest Research Group. This
group is being set up by Brent English.
ide true
"If I'm not careful." a friend confided.
"I slip. 111 tell people what I think, what
1 want. But whenever I do try to let my
barriers down, to be "real," I can't find
anyone who'll let me. So I don't."
Few of us do. It's often so easy to go
along with what others think of us. to live
up to someone else's expectations. We
want to be accepted by those around us.
and we'll pay any price to gain and keep
that acceptance. So many of our masks
arise out of simple conformity, so many
that you can walk across campus and
divide out the stereotypes - the
"Carolina Gentleman," the "Carolina
Coed," the resident radical.
Of course, not all "fronts" are bad.
Some arise out of the necessary expedient
of getting along with each other, of
getting a job done, of conducting business
while managing to survive. Teachers,
businessmen, professionals in all fields,
live the "fronts" they feel is best suited
to their work.
Sometimes, even, the "front" is all we
have protecting us as a defense against
unbearable pressure. Two years ago, when
three UNC students were killed in a
boating accident, I had to write the news
story for the Tar Heel.
I spent all afternoon on that story in
the calm, professional pursuit of the
facts, interviewing people, gathering
information, coldly writing the best story
to have
Congress. Nixon lacks the support of a
unified legislative branch to find solutions
to this country's problems; without the
persistant efforts of men like Broyhill,
the Congress would find itself in a
complete stalemate.
Congressman Broyhill sees the
Republican Party as the party of the
present and future in North Carolina.
One-party domination has been present
much too long. Politics has become
stagnated in this state, but with young,
enthusiastic men like James Broyhill, this
deplorable situation is quickly coming to
an end.
Politicians with the stature of Jim
Broyhill are rare. Few men readily put
the Interests of their constituents, the
interests of the country and the interests
of their party above personal political
ambition. In a very modest way Mr.
Broyhill explained his political outlook
for North Carolina and it did not contain
any political "deals" for himself. His one
and only goal is to make two-party-
h
ho addressed the Senate and is offered
whatever communication helps the GPSF
can provde .
Finally, ore basic pr'.hme re mains . the
issue of recognition In l letter of July
H. Chancellor Sitterson recognired the
GPSF. conditionally and temporarily, as
"sens-independent ." W still depend on
Student Government tor allocation of
activity fees V.thouch we hate sure!,
achieved a partial victory in getti-g
department funded, many for the first
time, our goal is not yet completed. We
have no real guarantee of funds for the
GPSF itself, nor any guarantee of
proportionate. equitihle funds for
dep'ttmefs ,n the f t ? It is e'ea that
we need m.one ever, to maintain
adequate communicat .on.
We are determined to press on for full
and final recogn.it. on as a separate
government. In the same letter, the
Chancellor indicated that we should
continue to follow "democratic
processes" We need, therefore, to
petition for a campus-wide referendum to
be held later this semester. But we must
begin to work on it now with two
committees, one to plan the canvassing of
support, one to work on the wording and
"ten " petition .
We neeu recognition and u k.orouary
of equitable funding. We shall then be in
that much better a position to work on
the substantive issues facing graduate and
professional students
feelings
I could. When I went back n tne dorm
the day's work completed, only the
could I break down and mourn the death
of my best friend on campus My "iront'
had gotten me through the day. the
unpleasant and heartbreaking i..h
completed, but it could n 'l last at r.;gh;
I still had to face myself.
So it is with the masks we all wen
even the "necessary" ones. Somewhere
along the line we have to lace oursehev
and if we even want to break down the
barriers that separate us from others,
we've got to be able to he ' real'' t.
others. Our masks, however good, are
only disguises, and they're deadly.
Whenever our masks come between us.
in all their superficial shallowness and
deception, they kill the chance of making
contact, of reaching out to people,
getting to know and love them How
many times do we fall in Jove with wbut
we see, not what is really there How
many times is our trust betrayed, our
feelings shattered, by the falseness of j
"front" we trusted '
"Fronts" lead to stereotyping and
labeling as we depersonalize and classify
the masks without ever really knowing
the people that wear them. 'I he fraternity
system still suffers from their bad image,
but is it really deserved'1 We complain
about being labelled, but 4are we that
willing to drop the mask''
And, I suppose, the question o. .an
we? For all the damage our masks anJ
fronts can cause in our relationship to
others, the most tragic thing is what they
do to us.
We adopt masks for many reas .n-
selfishness, fear of rejection, survival, if is
is our fortress against the outside. But at
best we find our fortress is a prison, . We
are confined to our ma-k. (-r
personalities and expectations are limited
to what we wante others to sec, n -t what
we really want to be. We risk exposure if
we go beyond the confines of -our mask,
and we stifle inside our deception
And if we want to really be ourselves,
to be able to say what we think, Jo as we
feel right, feel as we want to fee!. ur
"fronts" can kail us. Sometimes we fin J
ourselves so caught up in our nao, we
begin to believe them. We become the
front, and if we exist only on the surfa.e,
we face emptiness. shallowness,
deception. We become, in a very real
sense, the "hollow men." And whatever is
"real" within us can suffocate.
At the old costume balls, the masks
came off at midnight, and the people
stood revealed.
Isn't it time for the party to end1
Broyliil
politics a reality in this state.
If Congressman Broyhill aspires to
higher office, the Republican nomination
is his for the asking and m this writer's
opinion his chances of winning are
excellent. He is under great pressure from
the White House and his own state party
to enter the race; a lesser man would be
easily swayed.
If you have not already guessed, I am a
constituent of Congressman Broyhill. I
did not gather my observations for this
column in the one night he was on
campus. I have been closely following his
career since 1968 when he became my
Congressman and have talked with him
several times since. You may or may not
agree with his politics, but you must
admire the man. It is not easy for a
Republican in a Democratic state.
I am overjoyed to have such a
representative in Washington and hope
that he will run for the Senate, but
regardless of his decision North Carolina
is lucky to have Jim Broyhill.