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Opinion
Evans Witt, Editor
Tuesday, November 14, 1972
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Today you, the students, will
vote on reforming SG for the third
time in the space of nine months.
Each time it has been up for a
vote, more than 65 per cent of the
students have voted in favor of
reforming Student Government.
Each time the plan for changing
Student Legislature into a more
responsive, and more responsible
body has been put to the test of the
ballot, the students have called for
the new structure.
Each time the referendum for a
chance for a change has been before
the students, they have asked that
Student Government be given that
chance.
And yet the students must vote
again today on SG reform. Legal
maneuvering and deceit of various
types have prevented the reform
plan from going into effect as the
students have clearly voted for.
Those who oppose the Epps'
Plan, as it has been called, have
used all types of devices to prevent
its going into effect, the latest of
which was a suit before the Student
Supreme Court.
Letters to the Editor
E
ditor slinging uracil
To the Editor:
Saturday's editorial by Evans Witt
("Jesse versus Nick") is a marked contrast
to his column of the day before. On
Saturday Mr. Witt levels an attack on
Uncle Jesse for his use of underhanded
and unethical tricks to defeat Mr.
Galifianakis for the U.S. Senate. I agree
with all that was said by the Editor in
that column, but I also wonder if the pot
isn't calling the kettle black.
Mr. Witt asks how many times we
must vote before "the dim-witted campus
conservatives realize that their political
ambitions mean nothing to most
students." He later charges that
"conservative members of the elections
board . . . tried to sabotage a
referendum ... to subvert the obvious
will of the students." The obvious intent
of such remarks is to brand all opponents
of the Epps Plan as conservative; such
could not be farther from the truth, as
Mr. Witt is well aware.
Those of us who oppose the Epps Plan
do so because of an honest belief that
Student Government can be reformed in
such a way as to make it meaningful
without removing the students from it.'
We remain committed to substantial
reform of Student Government, but not
under a plan which merely brings one
branch under the control of another. To
list those non-conservatives who feel this
way would consume more space than is
Pidgin Papers
The night they
I planned to write about the defeat of
a local semi-pidgin (Nick Galifianakis),
but I changed my mind after reading
David Zucchino's (sports editor) "Heels,
Chile: food for fodder." A Chilean friend
of mine invited me to see the match.
There is an enormous gap between what I
saw there and what Mr. Zucchino (his
name points toward a pidgin ancester)
could see. Very soon the crowd
discovered that the Chilean team was not
a match for the Tar Heels. The Chilean
players knew that beforehand. They had
two things in mind, the famous 104-37
with Maryland, and the last game with
the University of Pittsbourgh, where the
Chilean team won by one point. We were
talking with my Chilean friend and his
fellows countrymen before the match.
They had come to learn, they told us, and
they were learning a lot. They had played
eleven games in a row (once a day for the
for reform
more time
They oppose it for two reasons:
(1) some think the plan will not
improve SG and (2) some politicos
fear for their political futures on
campus.
It is possible that the plan will
not improve Student Government;
but the Epps' Plan is a two-year
experiment, not an irrevocable
change. The students would have a
chance to vote on the success of the
new structure in two years.
For those who oppose the plan
out of personal fear all one can
say is they are in the worst
tradition of representative
government.
The only factor that can kill SG
reform today is apathy: if you
don't get out and vote for a chance
for better Student Government,
you will help the current system
continue its slow disintegration.
The plan offers a chance for a
reversal of this trend toward less
responsive Student Government.
Get out and vote today to give
your Student Government a chance
for improvement.
available; the point is that all who oppose
the Epps Plan are not "dim-witted
conservatives," as some proponents of the
plan go to such pains to implicate.
As for the remark about political
ambitions, this is not true, either. As for
me, I am a senior, with not a single
political plan or ambition, and I hardly
consider myself "conservative" (I even
voted for McGovern, Evans), much less a
"dim-witted conservative."
Regarding members of the elections
board, if Mr. Witt has specific charges to
make, let him state those. If he means
specific individuals, let him name those
who acted in an unethical way.
Otherwise, let him take note of the
source of his resentment toward Helms.
The Editor's charge against Helms is
that he relied on a campaign of
mudslinging and false claims to win the
election. Who is throwing mud this time,
Evans?
Ed Polk
One final vote
for SG reform
To the Editor:
Here we are again returning to the
polls to vote on a referendum that passed
a month ago by 72 per cent. I am sure
that all of you are beginning to wonder,
last eleven days) with different university
teams in America. The day of the match
with the Tar Heels they had got up at
four thirty in the morning. "What about a
siesta," I asked them. No siesta was
possible, they kept on moving and
moving.
A good sports editor takes care of this
kind of details. That is why Mr.
Zucchino's column not only is a bit
arrogant, but is not that good as a piece
of journalism. He lost three .quarters of
what really happened there. He must be a
busy student and perhaps did not have
time to interview the Chilean players.
Okay, but, why did not he mention that
the shortest of the Chilean players (about
five feet) was the very best, and that the
crowd repeatedly recognized this and
cheered the player? (When Florida beat
us last year, the star was also a very short
black player, I remember.)
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Pressures during the 'college stint
The American way of life has always
been identified with pressure. The
pressure to succeed. The pressure to earn,
be important, make waves or what ever.
But nowhere else can there be more
pressures than those experienced during a
four year college stint.
The first and last years are well known
for their ability to produce the greatest of
pressures. Being a freshman, one seeks to
at least get off on the best foot so that
perhaps later he can take a breather
during the semesters of the sophomore
and junior years.
He is bent on making a. good show so
that he can impress the folks back home
or keep his scholarship. And
psychologically, this good start helps
defeat that attitude that maybe college
isn't the right place for you.
And then, even if things don't go quite
right the first year, the blame can always
be laid on the fact that this was the first
what does it take to reform student
government? It seems that after 72 per
cent of the voting electorate casts their
vote for the Epps Plan, this would be
enough to set student government onto a
more progressive and efficient course, but
obviously the referendum vote hasn't
been able to stand up.
The reason it hasn't been able to stand
up is because a small group of
conservative legislators have been able to
pull out different kinds of bills that were
passed in student legislature two or three
years ago that even the Elections Board
chairman is not aware of. These bills have
contained numerous technicalities about
elections procedures, wording of ballots,
types of signatures, and any other kind of
minute detail you can think of. Any time
the Clerk of Student Legislature,
members of the Elections Board, and a
few student legislators get together to get
an election overturned, they normally
have the ammunition to do it. Reason:
Student Legislature has passed enough
bills with minute technicalities that any
election ever held could possibly be
thrown out. Obviously the spirit of fair
play and the spirit of running a clean
election doesn't mean very much to some
people.
The October 17 election is now a part
of student government history. We have
to again plan for the future of Student
Government on this campus. The election
drove Chile down
The crowd was a good one. Both sides
received cheers. That made a very good
impression on the Chilean players. They
left Chapel Hill happy with the
experience. As a matter of fact, they were
happy with the whole trip to America. I
heard very positive comments on the
different campuses they had been on sfc
far.
Personally, I had never been in a
basketball game before, never in
Carmichael, I mean. So, in a way, I shared
the experience of the visitors. This is an
extremely colorful experience, so much
light in the air, so much loud music (a
very good band), the cheerleaders, the
public and the cops, very beautiful. And,
I did not expect to see such a big public
in that occasion.
I could not but think on small Viet
Congs fighting tall and well-fed American
boys. The physical difference was
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year and therefore a little disappointment
might be expected, even unavoidable.
The second and third years seem to be
the best for whatever one deems of
greatest priority, usually depending on
what he accomplished that first year.
If he didn't do so well that year, he
uses these years to catch up and
hopefully have the fourth year to rest. If
he did well, the second and third years
were used to "vacation" while still
maintaining some semblance of
educational purpose other than beer
drinking and "doping it up."
But then the days of "reckoning" are
upon you. That last year (hopefully)
when it all comes back to you why
you've spent the last three years in
sejf-imposed bondage seeking that elusive
sheepskin.
Suddenly it dawns on you that this is
it. By now you're supposed to be well on
the way to bigger and better things, both
in comments on
today is inevitably the last opportunity to
reform an ailing Student Government this
academic year. Although I was able to get
a Student Government Instant Loan
Fund through the Student Legislature,
that does not make up for all of the
inactivity of Student Government in the
past. Student Government needs to be
reformed now while there is still some
semblance of life still in it.
I am calling on you, the student body,
to make this final trip to the polls to
reform the Student Government once and
for all. If we allow a small group of
conservative student legislators to control
the future of Student Government, then
we, as the voting majority, have defeated
our entire reason for even going to the
polls.
You voted overwhelmingly for
Student Government reform on October
17,. let's do it again today. Vote "YES"
for Student Government reform.
Richard Epps
Student Body President
Reform election
handled poorly
To the Editor;
I am quite distressed at two items that
appeared in the DTH last week. I find
them highly contradictory to what I have
amazing. These Chileans (with the
exception of the short star) are tall
fellows in their country. Here they
looked small and frail. It seemed a
struggle against the impossible. We all
perceived that very soon. After the first
half, the whole thing became not to
repeat the famous Maryland experience.
I also thought on the semi-professional
quality of the American amateur sport. I
have the impression that Chilean
professionals sometimes happen to be less
paid than American university players.
The system of scholarships for sports
weakens at least half of the concept of
amateurism. You get paid for playing.
Coaches have a lot of power over their
players. -They can ask for what they pay
for. We all know that the Student Stores
keeps exploiting us to pay these kind of
sport scholarships (those are for football,
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academically and financially, if all goes
well this last year.
But then, here's where the pressures
exist. How many hours this semester?
How many pass-fail courses? How many
electives, how many required courses?
And for many, just how serious should I
take all of this?
This is the year of rationalizations. "I
don't need to go to class today because I
went twice last week." "I can miss this
test today because I can take a make up
and be better prepared." "I won't take
this course this semester since it might be
offered next semester." No doubt many
have opted for these and other
"rationalizations" rather than what was
best in view of this, his last year.
These last year pressures can lead
many to make a bad decision which may
render most, if not all, of the previous
three years fruitless. These decisions may
be academic, social, or moral, but
collectively they may well be the ending
personally seen and experienced.
A front page article Monday, Nov. 6
quotes Mr. Epps as saying that the past
Elections Board chairman, Larry Eggert,
did not tell the new chairman, Leo
Gordon, about the SL bill concerning
referendums. I was most incensed at this
statement because I was witness to a
conservation held in 2527 Granville
South some two weeks prior to the
election when Larry told Leo about the
bill and earlier efforts to deal with it.
Apparently using this "fact" as a basis
for bis statements, Mr. Epps proceeds to
lambast Larry and other unnamed
elections board officials for their part in a
"conspiracy" to defeat this bill. The lead
editorial on the Friday Nov. 10 issue then
uses this "fact" to impugn the integrity
of the elections board officials.
Mr. Witt, I refuse to accept these bits
of balderdash as responsible journalism.
The DTH and the Epps Administration
are falsely striking out and maligning
people in their frenzied frustration.
The source of discontent over the
referendum results lies in mismanagement
occuring in the elections because of the
chairman's bad judgment. In other words,
Leo blew it. As a past elections Hoard
official, I saw numerous unforgiveable
mistakes on Leo's part. If a "conspiracy"
existed, it lay in the hands of those alert
to a malfeasance of office.
If a court made of Epps appointees
feels there were too many irregularities,
who are Richard Epps and Evans Witt to
complain?
Richard Whittecar
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of Evans Witt
To the Editor:
As soon as the presidential election
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point of a well intentioned start three
years earlier.
How then does one cope with these
first and last year pressures? Certainly not
by adopting a conviction the entire four
years is for one purpose and one purpose
only: to get an education. This can be
mentally depressing and socially
disastrous.
On the other hand, achieving a balance
between academic priorities and social or
other priorities seems to be the best
solution. Moreover, it really is the only
solution.
For many of us this advice conies too
late and for others it's something that
they've heard a million times and, like
most things you've heard that often, it
means less and less with repetition.
For a senior like myself though, only
until I heard it the millionth time did it
really mean anything. But by then those
rationalizations and misplaced priorities
had taken their toll.
reform
was over and the outcome was four more
years of President Nixon, the McGovern
people started calling 61 per cent of the
American people dumb asses. The trouble
with you McGovern people is that you
think you are right and everybody else is
wrong. George McGovern is not Jesus
Christ, though he might think he is. Yes,
Mr. Witt, four more years of Richard
Nixon and thank God only five more
months of you.
Robert A. Brogden
1809 Granville
Arab students
protest debate
To the Editor:
Concerned Arab students wish to
protest the appearance all over campus of
pamphlets announcing a debate between
the Arab Student League and the Hillel
Foundation. The title of this debate as
appeared in the pamphlets is "Should the
Palestinians control Israel?"
We protest the above because:
1 - No such thing as an Arab Student
League exists on campus.
2 - No Arab student is involved in such
a debate.
3 - The Zionist-inspired title makes it
sound as if the Arab students are involved
in a debate advocating the control of
Israel by the Palestinians. This is
definitely a misrepresentation. We feel a
more appropriate subject for the debate
would be "Has Israel any right to expel
the Palestinians, born to the land, and to
replace them with Zionists brought from
all over the world?"
Gilbert Najjar
M. Riad
Mohammed Qasim
Abdallah Dabbagh
Fouad Naifeh
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Witt, Editor
Norman Black, Managing Editor
Jessica Hanchar, News Editor
Howie Carr, Associate Editor
Lynn Lloyd, Associate Editor
David Zucchino, Sports Editor
Bruce Mann, Feature Editor