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represent only the opinions of the individual contributors.
Harry Bryan. Editor
Friday, December 3. 1971
Indent interests
must not
In replying to criticism recently
leveled at the Office of Student
Affairs. Associate Dean James O.
Cansler said 'Tuesday that office
should not be an "advocate" of
student interests.
Instead, he said. 'The Office of
Student Affairs has the terribly
difficult job of being a liaison
between some student interests and
some administration-faculty-trustee
interests.'"
However, we must ask, Dean
Cansler, who finances the Student
Union? Who finances the Student
Health Service? Who pays
dormitory rent? And who finances
and does the work for the student
judiciary system?
It is the student body through
student fees.
And since students are pouring
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mtporltaiice of
BOULDER, COLO. . .On Wednesday,
Nov. 3, ll71, citizens oi this town, home
of the University of Colorado, awakened
to find they had elected a city council
composed of what the student newspaper
labeled "left liberals".
Boulder resembles Chapel Hill in its
situation and makeup, but the best
comparison can be made between the city
of Boulder and Orange County. Boulder
is a college town of about 65,000. with
17,000 resident students, while Orange
Country is quite similar. Chapel Hill has
about 26.000 residents. 10.000 of whom
are students, (much of the Chapel Hill
student body lives outside the corporate
limits of Chapel Hill)
About o.OQO CU students registered to
vote in Boulder, and about the same
number are expected by many to register
in Orange County.
Boulder, like Chapel Hill, is a town
long noted for its activism in a state
where the liberal community is small, but
while Orange County has many black
persons who might be expected to
participate in some sort of coalition with
students and liberals. Boulder has only a
small "street person community" and a
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ow about taking some
JUL-LL
Christmas is in the air, right? The
snow bells jingling, the cash registers
tingling.
And throughout the world, wherever
they are, homesick Southerners are
singing. "I'm dreaming of a wet
Christmas, just like the ones I used to
know."
With only 22 days (A more accurate
measurement for college students might
be milligrams of speed) left until
Christmas, it might be wise to start
combatting the inevitable hassles that
follow in the wake of the holiday season.
Like whether or not to buy your
mother a Veg-O-Matic. a Kitchen
Magician or a Ronco Splatter Screen. And
try ing to decide if your old man needs an
Inertia Nut Cracker more than a Fleming
Glass and Bottle Cutter or a Steam-Away
Wrinkle Remover.
matter
thousands of dollars each year into
the Union, the health sen ice. the
residence colleges and the student
judiciary, should they not have
representation in the office that has
ultimate responsibility over them
aside from the Chancellor?
Since students are the people
these organizations are supposed to
serve, shouldn't the student body
have a voice in determining what
their functions should be? Granted,
each of the organizations
mentioned either has some type of
advisory board on which students
are included or is run up to a point
by a student group.
But where is the direct student
involvement in the decision-making
processes of the Office of Student
Affairs itself?
The Committee on Student
I n v o I v e m e n t in University
A d m inistrat i ve S t ru c t u res -ch a i red
by Dr. Gordon Cleveland and
composed of members selected
from the administration, faculty
and student body - recommended
to the faculty Council the
formation of a board to help
determine the policies of the
Student Affairs Office. That board
would have been composed of 10
students. 10 faculty members and
the dean and associate dean of
student affairs, and it would have
given students the representation
they deserve.
Unfortunately, it was not
accepted by the council.
However, we remain firm in the
belief that Student Affairs must
serve the student body and that it
will not truly meet student needs
until students are given a direct
voice in runnina it.
few Chicanos and Blacks.
In the latest elections, citizens of
Boulder elected a black as mayor, a
recent female CU graduate, a political
science professor and two
liberal townspeople to the council. There
were 17 losing candidates in the election,
six of them radical students. As I will
show, most of the ultra-radicals were
rejected by even the student voters.
More important to many critics of
student voting are the many bond issues
which appeared on the Boulder ballot.
Four bonds, on library expansion,
recreation center construction and park
acquisition, received a city-wide 70
percent positive vote. A proposal to study
the size of the city got a 65 percent plus,
and a charter amendment to limit
building heights to 55 feet won 52-4S. A
proposal to limit the size of the city to
100.000 was defeated 42-58.
The student vote was more liberal on
all of the referendum issues (toward
higher spending or for greater powers for
the city), but by only 4 to l) percent,
with the highest difference being on the
ZPG 100.000 amendment.
Interestingly, the ZeroPopulation
But the worst part of Christmas is
having to stay at home for three weeks.
This is the time when you really get to
"communicate" with your folks, unlike
Thanksgiving when everyone was too
busy belching and falling asleep during
football games.
So. in the interest of stilling all
conversation between your family and
yourself, here's how to handle any
question that might arise.
Suppose your old man. in a rosy glow
after the office Christmas party, tries to
play it buddy -buddy by asking you:
"What kind of lines do you use on 'em
nowaday s?"
After resisting the initial urge to
answer, "Well, one of my best is 'Let's
take some bad acid together and protect
each other,' " you answer. "Oh. the same
old stuff, maybe it's easier now. but the
Lou Bonds
Getting
A University junior on campus decided
he would beat the reparation system th:
year. He camped out in front of Har.es
flail with many other juniors and seniors.
The purpose was to get a low registrar::
nurr
increase the
getting every course he wanted.
After shivering thrcugh the night, the
junior saw the Planes doors open and the
Sire begin to move. Within half an hour,
he was out and happily showed a
registration number in the low ore
hundreds. Chances were good he would
set every course he wanted, even the
popular coun.es.
Unfortunately . he was closed out
four courses. He had registered for five.
Having not selected four alternate
courses, he must go through drop-add.
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vote in
growth amendment was rejected by
students because they felt it would keep
low-income housing out of Boulder.
Although most students in Boulder do
not pay property tax, their tendency to
vote for bond issues was significantly less
than the combined student vote for the
liberal or radical candidates.
The election saw 23.000 go to the
polls, and the turnout in the non-student
precincts was about average for a city
election (70 percent). The five liberal-left
candidates received between 38 and 42
percent of the vote, while the
conservative-moderate incumbents ran
six, seven, eight, 10, 12 in the race,
garnering 30 to 33 percent of the votes.
The radical candidates did poorly,
receiving between one and 16 percent of
the vote. The best student candidate was
the cartoonist for the Colorado Daily.
Students rejected the radical
candidates in favor of the liberal-left
coalition, who ran first, second, third,
fourth and sixth in all three student
precincts. Pudim, the cartoonist, ran fifth
in student districts, while only eleventh
city wide.
The city editor for the Colorado Daily,
told me that most students picked
same old stuff, you know."
And your father will know, not
because he ever got anywhere with the
lines any more than you did, but because
he watches television.
He knows what it's like today.
He watches "The Mod Squad."
f'chrissakes.
Your aunt and uncle will also be
dropping by for a holiday visit.
"Is that my little nephew?" she'll ask.
"You've grown so much."
"So's his hair," your uncle adds, but
you've got to remember that writers are
like that, and he is a writer. Why. if it
hadn't been for your uncle's diligent
literary work, there wouldn't have been
half as many anti-peace, anti-black letters
in the local newspaper over the last ten
years.
At dinner, as Unc is staring sullenly
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candidates who could work well with the
whole Boulder community, and had
strong liberal platforms, while rejecting
candidates who. w h i ! e perhaps
ideologically closer, apparently could not
run well off campus or who might hurt
the city.
As he said. Boulder students can't and
won't elect five radical students to the
Boulder City Council, but no candidate
can win without substantial student
support, and the future will see students ( r
the Board itself.
The first test of I'NC student vviing
will come in the May h primary for two
Orange County Commissioners, and if the
Boulder city election was any indicator of
student voting, we can expect to see a
Black and a young Chapel Ihllian on the
County Board.
If you don't register. you can't vote.
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An interesting beneficiary ot the
election was the Colorado Daily itsclt.
which received S2s0O :n political
advertising. Interesting!), th
advertisers were ::i o d e r
conservative candidates trying
themselves known to the
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into his cot tee cup. he'ii 1. ok up and
mutter. "I'll never know wn the hcii you
didn't pledge up with my eld house."
"I would have, but my tassel loafers
were at the shoemaker's during rush
week." you could explain, if you wanted
a belt in the mouth. Or y ou could answer.
"1 did go through rush, Unc. but I got
blackballed when I couldn't find a dale
for Pig Night."
"Oh well, that fraternity stuff doesn't
really matter anymore." y o u r
peacemaking aunt will chime in. "I'm
sure he has a good social lite. How's that
: i r I you t o o k t o : h e
prom . . . w hatser name'.'"
Oh Jesus, you think, she must be
talking about that high school
cheerleader. I haven't seen her since I s ;ld
the old b2 Rambler with the front sea's
that reclined all the way to the SaA.
bad
-..hat they expect from college. If they
des.-e more, then alternate method must
Ke -.:ggeted To th? present registration
s s-rrn Then pressure must he applied on
r t - t
Th; requires a study of the current
rer.:ra:;or. :?m. It works on priorities,
a y tem heheved to be fair to students
competing for classes. Seniors, except fo
-are instances, usually get the courses
they s-.gn up for. I: vacancies remain in
n r-la' clashes they are distributed to
u". r. then sophomores and freshmen
l,ased on their rectration numbers.
Pr v ems u '.! arie m any reps: rat: on
s-:em. but we must ask ourselves. "!
this the best system"
1 reshmen and sophomores have little
trouble getting into courses required for
genera' college. Problems arise when they
try t - select elective. There is no
question of whether genera! college
course are dered or not. You have to
i a . e i
m desired elective is hard to
S a student can struggle through two.
maybe three years, ot college without
taking a single course he really wants. Is
:ha: what I'niversitv students want?
re then
ilternatives to the current
I here are. One way ts to change the
priority system. Random selection w ould
a!L ! registration numbers. Perhaps it
would work to designate certain letters of
the alphabet a "priority letters" and
everybody whose name began with the
letter would be selected for courses first.
I hen there is the old standby . the lottery .
These alternate system only change
who gets into courses and who doesn't.
Student select their courses on the basis
of how good the professor is. whether
they are interested in the course and.
realistically, what kind of grade they
expect from the course. Popular courses
will remain closed.
Letters to the editor
Aspirin use leads
to heroin addiction
l o the editor:
While reading many articles lately on
the danger of marijuana leading to heroin
use. I became worried about a problem
which most Americans seem unaware of
the danger of aspirin leading to
marijuana and thus to heroin!
With my limited resources I have been
unable to make any kind of nationwide
.or conclusive survey, however. I have,
made a personal survey, with the aid of
several friends, into the drug usage habits
of groups in the Chapel Hill area and, to
my dismay, I have discovered that (ltM
per cent of the marijuana and heroin
users in this community have started off
by taking aspirin! Thus, I think the only
solution is to immediately demand that
the government take some action on this
issue.
If worse comes to worse, perhaps the
only solution is to ban the use of aspirin
thereby, undoubtedly helping to curb the
use of more dangerous drugs such as
marijuana and heroin.
Mary Stewart
2f23 Granville South
Gilliam's efforts
reveal sincerity
To the editor.
The DTH evidently has an ideal reader
in Mr. Randy Cnttenton. His move to
recall Charles Gilliam and the charges he
has made reveal him to be solely
dependent upon what he reads in the
newspaper. Charles Gilliam's record of
by-law reform, his efforts to salvage the
twenty thousand dollars Suite C sank into
Student Graphics, and his research on
questions of finance and judicial
legislation belie "rit tent on's charge that
"Ave:!, I was involved with one girl this
summer (It's true: when you were in New
York last Ju'y you voted seventeen times
tor the Monde who was running for Mus
Rheingoldi but right now I'm just playing
the field," you answer.
Of course you don't add that the field
is between your couch and the television
set, and between your apartment and the
store that sells beer and Zig-Zag papers.
At this point, though, the pregnant
pause i Speaking of abortions, Lenny
Bruce "nee philosophized that "the only
an onymuus giver is the guy who knoeks
up your daughter" ) is broken by the
arrival of your cousin and his wife. You
remember turn - the guy who graduated
from L Mass m l'W and now works in a
management trainee program.
1 vV. rod- if th -.x idl't has gotten any
better, vou think to vourself as he walks
d
together
Another alternative is some form of
open registration. Open recstrat.on
would allow students to repster for the
. o -rsrs
thev
like, then the reour,
would be allocated to rrciJe space and
professors to meet the demand. If the
resource do not exist, a system, could he
used whereby "first come, first erved"
would determine who gets into courses or
a system of profe.sor's permission, only
might serve.
There are problems in these systems
also. More paperwork would be required.
Resource might not be available.
Students would have to go from building
to building to get professors permiss-.o-.
But the paperwork will be required of
the faculty and it is the faculty wh s
would resist the change. There may rot
be enough resources to insure every
student getting in the course he wants,
but current resources could be
redistributed to make a more equitable
system. The resources and professors for
graduate schools are approximately ten
time higher than those going for
undergraduate studies. More resources for
less people doesn't make sense. Finally,
student are not protected from making
trips from one budding to another in
order to get a course. Looking at
drop-add. it seems there would be little
difference in walking mileage.
The registration office says that many
more than 50 per cent of enrolled
students get the courses they want. This
figure is based on the number of student
forced into undesired courses, either
through requirements or the amount of
difficulty getting desired courses takes.
Clearly, alternatives exist to the
current system. The real problem is
getting students to decide whether the
present system suits their purposes or
whether change is needed. If change is
desired, then students must put their
demands into action. Otherwi.se, the only
change coming will be those satisfying
more facultv members.
Charles is turning SL into a circus.
As for the charge that he is promoting
"student enterprises and the making of
money as an end unto itself." there's the
unkindest cut of all. It ts due chiefly to
the efforts of Charles Gilliam and Rob
Grady that the choir, debate team.
Carolina Symposium, marching band and
other cultural groups are not now
operating on the half-budgets to which
last year's student administration would
have reduced them.
As chairman of the Publications
Board. Charles responsibility is to
concentrate upon the financial activities
of the various communications
enterprises. But for the successes of that
board, SL would be presently submerged
in all the debilitating and exhaustive
matters necessary to straighten out the
finances of the Graphics operation. Mr
Crittcnton's concern (which I believe was
not entirely autonomous) is entirely
misplaced.
George I . Blackburn
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into the room.
"How's your hammer hanging,
buddy?" he says. At least he answered
your question.
"Hey buddy," he tells you. "I'm going
to give you some good advice: if you
want to make good jack when you get
outta there, you gotta be involved. You
know, something like student
government. You doing anything like
that?"
"Yeah." you tell him. T was thinking
about running for the legislature, but my
campaign manager got busted on a morals
charge just before the start of the race."
If none of this stuff works, I can only
recommend the immortal words of Van
Moirison, who advised peopte in one of
his songs to "go underground, and get
heavy re.-.t . a.'.-d rw.r have tv w rr.
"bout what is worst and what is best."