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Harry Bryan. Editor
Wednesday, March 8, 1972
The environment
must be
Results of a study of voting
records in the House of
Representatives, conducted by an
organization known as the League
of Conservation Voters, shows
North Carolina's congressmen
ranking extremely low in
supporting key proposals on
environmental issues.
Compared to other state
delegations, North Carolina's
congressmen ranked 37th in the
nation during the past session.
The highest score in the N.C.
delegation was, surprisingly enough,
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Harry Bryan, Editor
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Mark Whicker Sports Ed.
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Jim Taylor Night Editor
Murray Pool .... Business Mgr.
Beverly Lakeson .... Adv. Mgr.
The Bayit
UNC
There's a hole in the bagel. Somehow,
the bread's center has been lost. And
nobody knows why.
A student at UNC might easily feel
that he is surrounded by bagels, things all
around him that are not whole, that have
a gap right in their center. Chapel Hill's
academic structure is such a bagel.
At UNC we can study history:
American history, European history,
Asian history, African history, Islamic
history, Black-American history,
Christian history and ancient history, to
name just a few. We can also study Old
Testament and when through, be
contented that we know what there is to
know of Jewish history. There's a hole in
the bagel. It is a sad truth that many
Lou Bonds
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The "Elephants and Butterflies and
Contraceptives" booklet currently
circulating around campus is probably the
most exciting thing that has happened on
the campus this year. But its coming is
too late to help with really serious
problems that most males and females
have experienced. Where was the booklet
when we needed it in our childhood?
Believe me, kids need help. They've
always needed help with the traumatic
experiences of growing up.
I got the chance to view the girl's side
of the problem last week when I
discovered my younger sister was going
through her first trauma-THE TRAUMA
OF THE FIRST TRAINING BRA.
The whole experience is very
embarassing to her. For one thing, the
whole family knows she has a training
bra. Usually, a mother is the only one to
an issue
that of Republican Rep. James T.
Broyhill. But even though Broyhill
led the state, he scored only 58
points out of a possible 100.
Next came Nick Galifianakis and
Richardson Preyer with 54 points
each; Roy Taylor with 40; Wilmer
(Vinegar Bend) Mizell, L.H.
Fountain and Earl Ruth with 20;
Charles Jonas and Alton Lennon
with 13; David Henderson with 4;
and Walter Jones with 2.
That's an average of 27 points
out of the possible 100.
All but Broyhill, Preyer,
Galifianakis and Taylor favored
spending federal funds on the
supersonic transport, and obviously
all were against a number of other
important environmental proposals.
Evidently, North Carolina's
congressmen have been willing to
sit back and cater to the industries
that have been pouring money into
their campaigns every two years.
From the looks of their voting
records, they must not really care
about the fact that streams and
rivers are becoming more and more
polluted while cities all over the
country are being choked by smog,
and a land that was once beautiful
becomes uglier and uglier.
Strong legislation must be passed
to replace the token laws now in
effect if the slow death of the
environment is to be stopped. And
despite their great eloquence when
talking about conservation during
their campaigns, N.C. congressmen
are not going to support positive
legislation unless they come under
pressure from voters.
The campaign now moving
towards the May 6 primary may be
a good time to begin applying that
pressure.
academic structure is
individuals, numerous Jews among them,
spend their lives believing that that's all
the Jewish history worthwhile knowing.
Yet thousands of vastly significant years
of the Jewish people are ignored by our
curriculum.
But certainly we should find the
theological aspects of Judaism within the
religion department! Outside of the Old
Testament course previously mentioned,
one can find only sprinklings of Jewish
thought in existing courses. Again, the
bagel has no center. Nowhere can we find
a single course whose primary concern is
Jewish theology, a religious discourse that
includes many of the greatest minds and
writings in the history of mankind.
Opportunities abound for learning the
im
know, but when there is a sudden need
for Kleenex in the house and no one has
a cold everybody knows little sister has
started wearing a bra.
One thing that really bugs her is when
there is only pink Kleenex in the house.
As it has a tendency to shift, this can be
very embarassing with a white blouse.
The boys at her school know she has
started wearing a bra. For years, it has
been an unwritten law that when a girl
shows up at school with her first bra, the
boys notice it by pulling the elastic and
popping her. Poor kid has several battle
scars to show for her trauma.
It takes girls a while to learn the art of
stuffing a bra. Woe to the young girl who
discovers she hasn't done it right and one
side of her chest appears larger than the
other. What's a girl to do?
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ames
To the editor:
As a resident of James Dormitory, I
would like to commend you on your
excellent editorial of March 6t 1972,
concerning the new entry restrictions
being observed in James on Friday 2nd
Saturday evenings. However, some
clarification is needed. The dormitory is
locked between 6 p.m. and 3 a.m. with
two ground floor lobby doors being the
only points of entry. At these doors are
stationed Pinkerton guards who require a
UNC ID of all entering persons. In the
case that the person does not have an ID.
he is registered at the lobby desk and
must wait for his host to countersign for
him and escort him beyond the lobby.
In addition to the Pinkerton guards,
one campus policeman is on duty in the
lobby only, and two others are on duty in
the parking lot surrounding the
dormitory. Under this policy, as you can
see, no student or guest is arbitrarily
asked to produce an ID once he is inside
the dormitory, rather, every person
entering the dormitory must identify
himself; once inside the building he is free
to move about unquestioned.
The policy succeeded in averting the
harassment and potential danger so often
previously experienced by James students
during the past weekend, its first period
of operation. Although it does pose some
restrictions and inconveniences on
residents and their guests, James students
have expressed their satisfaction with the
policy, realizing the necessity of it.
Vicki Ann Norwood
716 James Dormitory
Fountain lauded
by Wadsworth
To the editor:
Since I am sure that our UNC students
would want to know something about all
candidates before casting their ballots, I
submit the following information on our
present congressman, The Honorable L.
H. Fountain:
Congressman Fountain is a UNC
graduate of the Gass of 1934. As a
student during this era of the "Great
Depression," he developed an
understanding and a concern for the less
privileged.
He has served with distinction in the
Congress for more than 19 years. He is a
high-ranking member of several important
committees, is called the "Watchdog" of
the Food and Drug Administration, and is
the fourth-ranking member of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee.
Congressman Fountain was the
honored .recipient of the N.C.
Distinguished Public Service Award in
1971 - North Carolina's Outstanding
Citizen. He was cited for "dedicated and
devoted service to his fellow man during a
35-year career in various positions of
public trust and for wisdom, courage,
integrity, creativity, and sound judgment
languages of the modern world: French,
Spanish, Hausa, Chinese, Swahili, Arabic,
etc. Biblical Hebrew is offered also. But
there's a hole in the bagel. Don't expect
to hear such Hebrew spoken in Israel;
Biblical Hebrew is a far cry from modern
Hebrew. Can anyone deny the
importance of Israel in world affairs?
Should a major university such as ours
remain in such a state of oblivion?
One could go on and on, citing more
holes in more bagels. One could note the
misconceptions that are prevalent in
America today concerning the Jewish
people and Judaism, their civilization.
The time has come to begin filling in
these holes.
The demand for Judaic studies on the
:an1t 6firt
Some girls mothers let them go to the
store by themselves for their first few
bras. This is a mistake especially if the
mothers haven't explained the finer
meanings of bra SIZES. More than one
saleslady has been sent into hysterics by a
young girl (very flat chested) who asked
for a 36-D bra, just like the one Mom
wears. The way I hear it, it's not easy to
take up a bra the way you take up the
hem of a dress.
I can speak more knowledgeably for
the guys side of traumatic childhoods.
For the guy, who has been endoctrinated
by the society to hurry up and "score", it
is: THE TRAUMA OF BUYING THE
FIRST PROPHYLACTIC.
Now, everybody has told the guy that
he should have a condom. They tell him
where to buy it and shove him off in the
general direction of the drugstore. But
policy
and for his unceasing work on behalf of
American agriculture.
Jarr.es t'. Wadsworth
Assistant Director,
Residence Life
Writer called
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To the editor:
In the Tuesday. March
4-.- -v"
the DTH, we couldn't help but notice the
outstanding piece of journalistic rectal
excretion by Keith Weatherly. This is the
only term we could find to fit our finer.
(Ha! With all the grace and delicacv of "a
bull elephant ) drawn article which instead
of appearing in print deserved to be
flushed down the nearest receptacle for
the above mentioned matter.
Mr. Weatherly. we have watched yoai
heartbreaking tears wash down the
editorial page for such causes (?) as
Charles Gilliam, Rob Grady, etc.. ad
nauseum, and have said nothing thinking
that perhaps your juvenile tantrums in
print would eventually cease. However,
like a spoiled child, who sometimes needs
a spanking for curtailment of vicious
immaturity, the time has come for
someone to verbally give you your
spanking.
Mr. Weatherly, or should we address
you as Keithy, since it would be more in
keeping with your projected mental age.
you have finally done the ultimate in
making a journalistic ass of yourself.
When you viciously attack a man of
Richard Epps' stature and proven ability
and dismiss such accomplishments as
chairman of the Men's Honor Court, a
position demanding the utmost in ability,
fairness, tact, understanding, diplomacy
and a deep concern for his fellow
students, as well as being president of the
Order of the Old Well (you might well ask
"whatever that is" since it is hardly
probable that you will ever have a chance
to find out on a first-hand basis! ) and say
that these are not indicative of the ability
required for the position of president of
the student body here at UNC. you are
showing a complete lacking of the
understanding you should have if you
were any kind of student at all of whom
UNC could be proud of from this
institution.
Mr. Weatneny, you scream so piosly
about the "liberals'" on campus and
"pseudo-serious types" who you claim
put Epps in office for assaugement of
their collective ego trips, but, sir you are
wrong. The people on this campus who
put Richard Epps in office are the people
who are sick and tired and fed-up to the
teeth with the "conservative" likes of
Gilliam, Grady and all of the rest of your
little power-playing clique who have
heedlessly gone about your merry ways
dragging Student Government through
the muck you created as a cushion for
your own inadequacies.
UNC campus is quite evident. At this very
moment, over one hundred students.
Jews and non-Jews alike, are taking
non-credit courses in the Free Jewish
University sponsored by the Hillei
Foundation. Last week in a mere two-day
sampling, over five hundred students
place their names on a petition that read:
"We, the undersigned, feel that Jewish
studies deserve a place in the University
of North Carolina curriculum. Courses in
modern Hebrew, basic Jewish theology,
Jewish history, and Jewish literature
deserve special attention."
The Bayit, along with other interested
students, is presently petitioning the
administration and the relevant
departments to fill this great void.
time
they leave out a few very important items
like how to use it.
Okay, so the guy is in the drugstore.
What next? Somebody forgot to tell him
WHERE - in the drugstore to look for
them. So a good deal of time is wasted
searching the shelves for the damn things.
Are they in the medicine section? The
shoe polish section? Well, then they must
be in the section where women's tampons
are kept! No? Oh God, he's sot to ask the
druggist.
It never fails that when you approacl
the druggist, there's a sweet rosy-cheeked
old bag standing at the counter. You
think she's spent her life standing at the
counter waiting for young boys like these
to whisper in the druggist's ear:
"1 want ammxphlltic."
"A what?"
"A prmghdlactic."
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noticed that The vote totals shrmed the
largest turn. -out at the polls :n the history
of UNCI1 It would be a little easier to
swallow perhaps had Grad or someone
like him won. wouldn't it? .
God. Weatherly. even as a conservative
m;u:h-r:ece ou stink! One more thing.
You are rich: about the election, showing
ho the students feel. They feel damned
sick of a few of the tired, washedvut.
faded old conservative cronies who have
hung around Student Government like
the political hacks sou are for so many
years plavins power-names with parlour
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And. perhaps ou miaht be riant about
one more thing. The "youth vote" will be
felt. But contrary to vour lauching
assertion, there area lot of 'political hacks
who will be swept out of the conservative
back rooms and out from under the rocks
and rotten logs where they May.
Les Waconer
Richard N. Sides
Jerrv C. Monteith
Dwiaht Hall
Sammy Love
Kent Cobb
Hugh Raxter
Drew Cobbs
Chip Stain
Ken Led ford
"Avery House"
G v in ii a s t blasts
DTH coverage
To the editor re: March 6th sports
article "Gymnasts Fifth in Meet"
If Tar Heel sports writer Don Davis
were really serious about sports writing.
he would have done better to have gotten
off his butt and written his article about
the S.I.G.L. (Southern Intercollegiate
Gymnastics League's) regional meet in
Memphis, Tennessee a week ago. after the
meet had taken place. Sports coverage for
gymnastics has been deplorable the entire
year. Most gymnastics reporting has been
days late and also inaccurate. This last
gem was certainly no exception. It was
more than a week late and statistical
information was not correct. Joe Burt
took sixth on side horse, not fourth as
was reported. That's an average of fifty
percent correct statistical reporting. Not
bad for an unserious sports writer.
As for Tar Heel gymnast Rick Fox, I
have seen few people more dedicated to
and serious about gymnastics that Kick.
Despite what Mr. Davis may think. Rick
chose Carolina wisely over Georgia
Southern College. Carolina's
internationally famous coach Pred
Sanders has built the Carolina team from
scratch, with no scholarship money. He
has receiveu various awarus irom tne
S.I.G.L., ranging from a Coach of the
Year award to an award recognizing his
service to the S.I.G.L. as president of the
organization.
Georgia Southern's coach is a former
track runner, a far sight from Sanders'
status as being fifth ranked in
international gymnastic competition.
Carolina's team is now the top ranked
nonscholarship team in the South. All of
these things make Carolina a more
plausible choice over Georgia Southern
for any gymnast.
Davis also botched it when he said the
trip to Memphis was a disappointment for
the Tar Heels. On the contrary, the entire
coaching staff and team was quite
satisfied with their performance. In a
team meeting after the meet, Head Coach
Fred Sanders said he was "very pleased
with the whole team." No Don, Memphis
was by no means a disappointment. The
only disappointment to the Carolina
Gvmnastic Team was the mediocre
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"A what? Speak up. son."
That damn lady is right next to you.
"For God's sake man, 1 want a
prophylactic!"
"Oh I see. What do you want one
for?"
Now you feel like a very, very small
parasite. But the worst isn't over.
"What kind do you want?"
Since this is vour first time at the
drugstore, you don't know what kind of
prophylactics are sold here. Bat you
remember the names of the ones in the
filling station bathrooms.
"I'd like a Dixie Deluxe, please."
Now why is the druggist laughing?
What's wrong with Dixie Deluxe? You
feel ready to run and hide your red face
in the pillows, but the guy -amidst a great
deal of laughter-hands you a Trojan and
vou're all set
necessary
reporting by the D.T.H. sports staff.
Sen Fdkms. L .N.C. Gymnast
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Morehead vote
rates dissolve'
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for or agatr.st a new constitution tor the
presently existing ' forehead Residence
College. This new. constitution will call
for the restructuring of college
government and funding.
V.anv of ou are probaMv wondering
w hy this sudden chance. Several weeks
ago one of the member dorms of
Motehead deeded to disaffiliate with the
college. Some officers and senators feared
that if one dorm voted out a trend might
begin. It was deeded that Morehead
would revamp.
The question we ask is. "What, good
will this restructuring do?" At present the
college receives $2 from each resident and
-one nothing. Charlie Swift, past
social lieutenant governor, resigned from
his rot after the Senate voted to freeze
all funds for social activities. Morehead
will have neither a Campus Chest carnival
booth nor an ivicuon donation as it has tn
the past. The juke box preentl in the
Cellar will be removed immediately.
If the college cannot serve an useful
purpose as it now exists, what possible
purpose could it serve when u receives
only 50 cents per resident. It has been
suggested that this monev w ill be used to
operate an office and in any way that the
Council sees fit. Is all this necessarv '
People uie worried about w hat would
happen to the Cellar if Morehead were to
dissolve. How many people are using it
now 1 The largest crowds that have used it
fr 1 j
non-college organization.. t present, it
appears that the Cellar w..i'.d remain
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Morehead Residence College to remain in
existance as it exists now or as it will
exist under a new constitution. If you
agree with us and favor dissolving
Morehead Residence College, vou are,
therefore, in favor ot neither
constitution. Let vour voice be heard
Don't vote for either, simply write
dissolve on vour ballot.
Bobby Stern - Academic Lt. Gov. and
past Secretary Morehead
Charlie Swift - Past Social It. Gov.
Morehead
Donna Lipshit. - Speaker of Morehead
Senate. Past Social I t. Gov.
jim Womble - President of Aycock
Dorm 71-72
Carl Beavers - President of Lverett Dorm
71-72
Ray p0icy - President of Lewis Dorm
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Mlke New,rie President of Stacy
Dorm 71-72
Jane Panton - President of Last Cobb
Dorm 71-72
Gayle Hughes - President of West Cobb
Dorm 71-72
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vet for what? The girls in the training(
bras have been taught that guys,
graduated from the drugstore experience,
are no-nos. The older girls won't have
you. What do you do with the
prophylactic?
The thing to do is stick it in your
wallet. Usually it stays there for about a
year or two. The only time you take it
out is when you reach for your wallet to
pay the school cafeteria cashier for your
lunch. Out pops the prophylactic and
tears begin to well in your eyes. By the
color of the wrapper, everybody knows
how long the thing has been there.
Reflecting back on the traumas of
youth, 1 wonder why somebody doesn't
get these things straight with young boys
and girls. Everybody has to find out
sometime. Even Mother and Father, the
folks vou'd think vou could count on.
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