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Each day the parking problem on
the UNC campus and in the entire
town grows worse.
And yet no one seems to be
willing to take affirmative steps to
alleviate the problem.
While the University
administration leans toward
construction of multi-million dollar
parking garages financed by high
parking fees, the town committee
working on the problem seems to
be immobilized by the fear of
another debacle equal to last
spring's.
Remember that one the town
started a bus service that was
projected to lose money and it
did. The town's voters then rejected
a referendum to tax themselves to
support the system.
It seems neither the town nor the
University is willing to face the fact
that a solution to the parking
problem must be found and must
be implemented by next fall.
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A strange coincidence.
While in Chapel Hill last week,
John Lindsay, head of Newsweek's
Washington bureau, made a
prediction, not an uncommon
practice for journalists these days.
He said that a Senate
sub-committee would go to Denver
to question Mrs. Dita Beard about
her memo that is currently the
center of the ITT-Jack
Anderson-Richard Kleindienst
controversy.
He predicted that while the
Senators were questioning her in
the hospital room she would suffer
a seizure, showing that all this
controversy and investigation is just
a heartless persecution of a poor
sick woman.
Well, the Senators went to
Denver Sunday and questioned Mrs.
Beard.
Sure enough, during the
questioning, she suffered a heart
seizure or so her doctor said.
Strange how predictions come
true.
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Founded February 23, 1893
Evans Witt,
79 Years
of
Editorial Freedom
The Daily Tar Heel strives to provide meaningful news interpretations and
opinions on its editorial page. Unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor,
while letters and columns represent only the views of individual contributors.
Opini
on
Evans Witt, Editor
Tuesday, March 28, 1972
Although the administration
predicts no significant growth in
the size of the University for the
next year, so what? They made the
same prediction this year and ended
up with an over-enrolled and
overcrowded campus equalled only
by the post-World War II years
here.
Even if the student population
stayed relatively the same next
year, we can only expect the
parking situation to worsen.
More and more students will
have autos and will bring them to
campus, needing a place to park.
With all the time and money the
town and University have spent on
planning and on consultants to
solve these problems, one would
think they would have come up
with a workable plan.
But they haven't.
Two workable plans have been
developed though by student
groups working without pay and
without the help of high-powered
consultants.
One proposal has been put
forward by Lee Corum, who
worked with former student body
president Joe Stallings on it.
Corum's plan would provide an
additional 2,500 parking places in
lots on the fringe of campus and a
bus service to shuttle people from
the lots to campus.
Another group of students
headed by Jim Bedrick have
proposed a bus system Heel's
Wheels for the campus and the
community to be financed by
parking fees and the purchase of
year-long passes for the bus rides.
This plan calls for no more
parking lots.
Instead it calls for a system to
bring students, staff and faculty to
campus on convenient, frequently
scheduled buses that will run
through the entire town.
No action has been taken on
Heels' Wheels or, for that matter,
on Corum's plan.
Somewhere in the University
administration the plan is being
blocked.
Why? We are not certain.
By whom? We have some ideas
because there are members of the
Traffic and Safety Committee that
want to see something done about
the problem and done now but
they can get no action from the
"responsible" officials.
It's about time for the
administration to do something
about the parking problem.
Editor
Norman Black, Managing Editor
Jessica Hanchar, News Editor
Howie Carr, Associate Editor
Doug Hall, Associate Editor
Mark Whicker, Sports Editor
Bruce Mann, Feature Editor
Jim Taylor, Night Editor
On to the Mount of Olive
Everyone knows that the South has
always led the nation in the production
of evangelists not to mention illiteracy,
veneral disease, lynchings and hog
cholera.
H.L. Mencken once described the
South as a land where "Divine inspiration
is as common as hookworm," and
characterized the region as "the bunghole
of the United States, a cesspool of
Baptists, a miasma of Methodism,
snake-charmers, phony real-estate
operators and syphilitic evangelists."
And now, continuing in this great
tradition of the Mind of the South, we
have the Reverend Eugene Ewing of the
Church of Compassion, ("a non-profit,
religious, tax-exempt corporation a
purely religious organization," as the
church describes itself in its magazine).
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Letters to the editor
Anti-PI
To the editor:
I just read that the PIRG proposal will
soon be submitted to the Board of
Trustees. I could not help wondering
what student reaction would be if the
proposal were to collect SI. 50 from each
student to be donated to the American
Security Council rather than to PIRG.
Now the ASC is, by its own description,
"A non-profit research and education
association." I believe PIRG describes
itself in a similar manner. The ASC is
dedicated to the protection of freedom. I
think that most students would find that
goal just as worthy as that of protecting
public interests. But the ASC's research
has produced reports such as "Guidelines
for Cold War Victory" and "A Threat to
National Security: China's Admission to
the U.N." I feel confident that the ASC
could not win a referendum for student
support on this campus.
But what if it did? Suppose the
majority of students voting in a campus
referendum voted to tax each student for
the support of the ASC. I think we can
safely assume that among the students
opposed to such a plan would be some
students who presently support the PIRG
proposal. Now if these same students
were very strongly opposed to supporting
the ASC, would they criticize the "ASC
proposal" by criticizing the organization
itself?' I don't think so. I think that,
finding themselves in a position where
reason and self-interest led to the same
conclusion, they would discover that they
were opposed to the principle of forced
contributions to semi-political
organizations. They would argue, not that
the ASC was unworthy of support, but
that the majority had no right to force
this minority to contribute to any such
organization.
I certainly do not envy the Board of
Trustees the decision they must make. If
they apply those same principles of
justice and rights of the minority to
which almost every student is
"dedicated," then I believe they will find
it difficult to approve the proposal. If
they consider that in protecting the
minority, they deny no one the
opportunity to contribute voluntarily,
then they will find it very difficult
indeed. But what if they do not approve
it? Imagine the outcry from the student
body. One of the DTH staff is sure to ask
editorially which of those villains from
the PIRG poster the Board was trying to
with its headquarters at 5000 West
Lovers' Lane, Dallas. Texas 75209.
"I can help you." Reverend Ewir.e savs
in his mid-March edition of World
Compassion Magazine. "I can build your
faith for God to lift you out cf that
poverty, out of that state of sickness, out
of that state of trouble you're in . . .
Jesus Christ lives with me. He walks with
me, and I feel His presence."
Now, Reverend Ewing may well be
able to intercede with the Savior on
your behalf in the afterlife, but in this
vale of tears man does not live by soul
food alone - he needs bread.
Reverend Ewing has overcome this
particular problem with the aid of a
particularly earthy gimmick - the
payment book, or, as the Church cf
Compassion prefers to call it, "the Gold
Book Plan."
.RG minority overlooked.
protect. And, of course, someone has got
to compare the board members to Hitler.
After all, how could anyone who believed
in human rights be opposed to the PIRG
proposal?
Charles B. Pelon
204 Valley Park Drive
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Judge reports
ping pong match
To the editor:
The men's division of the Chapel Hill
Table Tennis Tournament was held at
Granville Towers Saturday, March 25,
1972. Results: Third place was taken by
Robin Garrett of Switchboard after a
grueling 3-way battle between himself,
Y.S. Lee, of N.C. Memorial Hospital, and
Eliot Cramer, student Psychology
Professor. Second place was taken by Lup
Ye Ma, of the University, a student who
edged out the former Chapel Hill Champ,
Brad Banta, UNC Law student.
First Place was taken by Stan Peele
who beat both Ma and Garrett, thus
becoming Chapel Hill Champ for the 6th
time.
First Place in men's doubles was taken
by Brad Banta, and Dave Carhart, a
university student. All winners now go on
to the District Tournament.
The Junior Championships, under the
sponsorship of the recreation department
will be held next Saturday, April 1, 1972.
This tournament established the
following Chapel Hill Table Tennis
Rankings: 1) Peele, 2) Ma, 3) Garrett, 4)
Banta, 5) Carhart and 6) (tie) Lee and
Cramer.
The next N.C. Tournament will be held
in Raleigh on April 15, 1972.
Stanley Peele
N.C. District Judge
Chapel Hill, N.C.
P.S.
With the Chinese team coming, it
important to publish table tennis news.
is
After receiving your gold bock, you
apparently tear out a new page each
month, wnte your prayer requests on it.
and send it, along with a
5000 West Lovers" Lane. Dallas. Texas. It
must be a pretty effective shuttle system
to Heaven, because World Compassion
Magazine is full of testaments fro
satisfied customers.
"Before I got the Gold Book Flan I was
in the valley of darkness, where there was
no hope for me." writes J J. of Sanford.
N.C. "Ever since I joined the Plan God
has given my family and me brightness,
and has answered all of my praer
requests."
"Since IVe been a Gold Book Member
seven years ago. I am in my second home,
and started out with nothing." writes a
semi-literate L.B.T. from Los Angeles. T
have been blessed with a wonderful
Brooks' review
unintelligible
To the editor:
That you have changed film reviewers
is in itself unfortunate; that you have not
offered a word of explanation, in view of
the decrease in quality, is unfair to your
readership.
Mr. Brooks may be most perceptive,
percipient and insightful (to use words he
might choose) in his appreciation of film,
but he seems unable to express any of
those perceptions in intelligible English.
What, precisely, does "quickly articulate
with demanding subtlety" mean? Or,
"ignorant of the illicit sides of social
action ... he is necessarily over-subjective
in his consciousness?" "Incorporated"
does not mean, as Mr. Brooks seems to
think, "used" or "assigned" or
"manipulated," nor does "function"
mean "role" or "means." Finally, though
it does eventually become apparent that
Mr. Brooks likes "The Go-Between," his
verbiage totally obscures his reasons.
"Realistic psychology . . . technical
articulation . . . theme and technique
"inseperable (sic) in their mutual
elucidiation" . . . Surely film criticism can
be clear and informative without being
simple-minded.
I am not suggesting that Mr. Firestone,
your previous reviewer, was invariably
brilliant and lucid, or that I consistently
agreed with him. But he did seem to
make an intelligent effort to review films,
rather than accumulate pretentious
phrases which must be reconstructed to
be understood.
Could we have an explanation, please?
Alice Franks
Carrboro, N.C.
Criticism needs
careful reading
Dear Miss Franks:
Thank you for your response to ray
husband two-and-a-half years ago. He has
a better job. I don't have to work. God
has blessed us so many ways."
prayer God ha;
rniiy with a nc.
and my
home and car." M.W. of San Diego writes.
"Please send me another Geld Book."
Despite Reverend Ewmgs obvious
effectiveness, there are heathens who
would interfere with his holy work. A
couple of months ago. some people tried
to get an injunction to bar his thnvirg
operation from the mails, but the case
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down. mabe because
of somebody's Gold Book request.
Even if the Church of Compassion is
making money, though, what does it
really matter" As another great Christian.
Pat Boone, put it, "God and business are
inseparable."
"This house, my Rolls Roce. Shirley's
J his wife) Cadillac. our clothes,
everything belongs to the Lord." he told
an Esquire interviewer. "The emphasis
among wealthy Christians today is Jesus,
it's Your bank account. Your Rolls
Royce. You show us what to do with
these fhincs. We are iust your stewards."
In other words, when Jesus wants Pat
Boone to take a vow of poverty. Hell tell
him.
But -let us return to Lovers lane,
where the Reverend is readying hime!f
for perhaps the most important mission
of his life - a visit to the Holy Land.
As Keverend twmg explains the
reasons for his journey, when Christ
returns for the Second Coming, hell open
his worldwide tour on the Mount of
Olives. (Look it up. says 1 wire
Zachariah 4:14.)
Now. if you follow this line of
reasoning, where do you think would be
the best place to leave a message for Jesus
to see when he returns to earth'1
Right. The Mount of Olives, and that's
just where Reverend Ewing is going
along with thousands of messages from
his followers, which he will "plant" on
the mountain.
This mission is so important to Lwing
that he even put out an extra edition oi
his magazine this month to make sure
everyone would have a chance to send in
a message. There's a special two-page
order blank to Jesus in the magazine (as
well as a box to fill in how much you
wish to donate) and "WHATEVER YOU
WRITE ON THIS ACTUAL PAGE WILL
BE LITERALLY PLANTED IN THE
HOLY LAND OF MIRACLES."
It's probably already past the deadline
for getting your epistle aboard the Mount
of Olives express, but just remember, it's
never too late to join the Gold Book Plan.
review. First, as the explanation you
demand: the staff of the DTH is changed
every year after the election of a new
editor. Secondly, as some criticism and
explanation of a more personal nature,
this:
This was my first review, and it is
natural, and I hope temporary, that I
fumble a bit verbally due to rustiness and
a bit of tension; however, I insist that you
are being unfair in labelling me
"pretentious," which implies a senseless
ostentation that I assure you I do not
foist. I think that your impatience and
conceit are a bit at fault as well as my
"verbiage"; when you come to a phrase
or word that demands a bit of thought,
time or effort to understand, why should
you assume that it is meaningless show7
Film criticism can be clear and
informative without being pretentious. It
is a beauty of our language that there is
such potential for expression, and it is a
beauty of films such as the
"Go-Between" that there is art that
demands the use of some of that
potential. Do not close your eyes m
disgust at some phrase you must think
about; complexity, when understood,
should be more rewarding than
simplistics. Had you spent the time
reading my review that you spent drafting
your compalint, perhaps you could have
deciphered such toughies as "technically
articulate" or "demanding subtlety." I:
you will read more carefully from now -'
with a bit more patience and interest, I
will write more carefully also
Thanks again for your interest -Bruce
Brooks
Roberts' has
parking solution
To the editor:
In all the hassle over the parking
situation and its possible solutions, the
obvious solution is being overlooked. The
problem should be sold to Robert's
Associates, who have already
demonstrated their proficiency for
dealing with parking problems,
specifically at Kings wood apartments. I'm
certain they would find the most
profitable solution.
Tad Smith
Kingswood Apartments