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Question: If I start taking the Pill will
the size of my breasts increase? Signed,
Hopeful.
Dear Hopeful: While hormones
contained in the Pill are important in
stimulating the growth of the immature
breast, they produce little or no growth
of the fully developed breast.
The estrogen in the Pill may cause
some women to retain water. This can
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Letters to the Editor
Application of ERA far in
To the Editor:
All this fuss about ' the ERA is
ridiculous. We don't have anything to
1 j. - A 1 TT1
worry aooui even n u is passea. i ne way
the states go around interpreting the
Constitution and the decisions of the
Supreme Court, it will be forty or fifty
years before it takes effect. Look at the
way North Carolina is reacting to the
ruling about abortions. Look at the way
the whole country has reacted to such
things as the fourteenth amendment, or
Brown vs. Board of Education. The
litigation from all the protests of unequal
application of equal rights will extend
long past the day when the Commies have
taken over.
Morris Gibraltar
Putney Court
P.S. My roommate requested that I add
his one final thought on the ERA:
namely, how soon some people seem to
have forgotten that Sandy Koufax led the
National League in that very category for
five consecutive years, beginning in 1962
and ending in the year of his premature
retirement, which is to say, 1 966.
SL should back
exchange group
To the Editor:
Once again this spring, Student
Government will decide whether to
continue its support of the Goettingen
Exchange. This program, which has
existed for a number of years, allows two
students from the Georg-August-Univer-sitaet
in Gottingen, Germany to spend a
year studying in Chapel Hill. In return,
. the government grants scholarships to
two Carolina students for a year's study
in Goettingen. As one of this year's
participants, I am naturally biased in
favor of continuing . the exchange. I feel,
however, that there are a number of valid
reasons for all members of Student
Government to support the program once
more this year.
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.
cause the breast tenderness which
sometimes occurs. If there is any
enlargement of the breast due to water
retention, it is temporary and disappears
when therapy is discontinued.
Question: Is self-fellation physically
possible? And if it is how common is it?
We have a bet riding on this so please try
to answer this in your column. Signed,
Wflling to Bet.
Dear Willing to Bet: Self-fellation is
possible for some males. According to Dr.
Wardell Pomeroy, field director of the
Institute for Sex Research and coauthor
' cms wo.fEpBtmi
North Carolina requires that 85
percent of all UNC undergraduates be
residents of the state. Especially with the
drastic rise in out-of-state tuition, the
University runs the risk of isolationism
and a certain provincialism. The
Goettingen Exchange and other
international programs are an important
safeguard against such limitations. They
insure that different realms of experience,
diverse ideologies, and various academic
systems are represented and discussed at
Carolina.
The two German students from
G e 1 1 i ngen-living with UNC
undergraduates, taking part in the
numberous ISC activities at Carr Dorm,
often leading German conversation
groups play an important role in
broadening the social and academic
spectrum in Chapel Hill. The many UNC
students who come into contact with
them learn of and experience a part of
Germany which lies beyond textbook
facts.
The other half of the program two
Carolina students in Goettingen-is, from
my personal experience, equally valuable.
Living with a German family, following
the German elections, simply eating and
talking with countless Germans has
enriched my understanding of the
country and its people. On the one hand,
I have recognized different perspectives
of some of our problems and hopefully
an insight into how we might solve them.
German universities presently share many
of the difficulties one finds in
Chapel Hill: rising numbers of. students
and the ensuing loss of individuality, the
need for academic reform, the widening,
student-teacher ratio, the desire of
students to effect social change while still
in school.
I certainly do not claim to have found
perfect ' answers to these problems, but I
do feel that my year in Goettingen will
better enable me to analyze the
difficulties and find new alternatives and
solutions. I am, therefore, convinced that
upon my return, I can contribute more
Editor
David Woodall, Managing Editor
Mary Newsom, News Editor
Howie Carr, Associate Editor
Lynn Lloyd, Associate Editor
Winston Cavin, Sports Editor
Bruce Mann, Feature Editor
Scott Stewart, Head Photographer
Dean Gerdes, Night Editor
of the original Kinsey studies, the
Institute has specific records of
somewhere between 25 and 50 males who
have been able to fellate themselves to
orgasm. Most of these males are in their
teens. However, they do have histories of
men in their 30s, 40's, and even 50's who
were capable of the act.
Question: What influence does
marijuana have on sexual activity? I've
heard that pot acts as an aphrodisiac, and
on the other hand I've heard that
smoking pot can reduce sexual interest.
What am I ito believe? Signed, Curious.
meaningfully to the University
community.
In conclusion, I urge the members of
Student Government to support the
Goettingen Exchange again this spring.
The tuition of the two German students
will be taken care of by Student Aid. The
relatively small amount remaining for
living expenses, books, etc. is surely a
worthy investment.
John R. Byerly
34 Goettingen
Wiesenstrasse 18
Carr has right
to his version
Dear Folks,
I feel like someone who always
thought only kooks wrote Ann Landers,
and then wrote a letter themselves. But
I've heard about all the nonsense I care to
hear about the article on bars written by
my esteemed and provocative friend, Mr.
Howie Carr. I beseech you, fellow
Americans, to turn a deaf ear to the
accusations of a coalition
Gay-Liberal-Yankee Conspiracy which is
trying to abridge freedom of the press by
denying Mr. Carr the right to present his
Gerry Cohen
Some Democrats in Raleigh think they
have latched on to the "perfect" solution
to both the Presidential primary problem
and the 1972 party debacle.
Instead of facing the issue of the
Presidential Primary, they will simply
move it to mid-July, along with the rest
of the primaries.
A second reason for this is to
"shorten" the campaign which "bored"
the voters, to "save money," and to
"increase participation."
Every reason above is so easily
disproven as to wonder just how they
were thought up. More importantly
around here, the "reforms" will
drastically, change local politics. '
Will moving the primary really shorten
the campaigns? The Greensboro Daily
News has pointed out that it may actually
lengthen the campaigns. As of now,
candidates announce around the first of
the year, and electioneering runs right
through the runoff primary on June 3,
for those candidates that survive the May
6 elimination. '
The voters thus have a respite from
June 3 until Labor Day. Even such' big
spenders as Skipper Bowles did almost no
campaigning over the summer.
Moving the primary til July and the
runoff to . August guarantees that from
the time . candidates announce until the
November election, there will be
crn?nioiK campaigning.
Dear Curious: The relationship
between the use of marijuana and sexual
interest and activity is complex. Many
people who are high from smoking
marijuana tend to become reflective and
turn inward, thereby decreasing their
interest in others, including sexual
interest. Many others report that being
high enhances sexual interest and
enjoyment. One of the theories about this
increase in enjoyment is that, when an
individual is high, time is perceived to go
very slowly. As a result, they report
experiences of prolonged orgasms.
We must emphasize, marijuana does
not cause sexual stimulation and as far as
being an aphrodisiac, there is no such
thing.
Question: Is there a vaginal discharge
which occurs within the last week or so
of the cycle which indicates that a girl is
no longer fertile and that it is safe to have
intercourse without fear of conception?
Signed, Coed.
Dear Coed: Yes, there is a vaginal
discharge which is associated with
ovulation, but this is really only of value
to the gynecologist. You see, there is a
constant secretion from the glands of the
cervix and the only difference is that the
secretion at the time of ovulation is clear
as opposed to cloudy.
The individual girl is not aware of the
change in character of the secretion.
Therefore, it is of no value in determining
ovulation.
Question: Are men's breasts and
nipples sensitive to erotic stimulation? It
seems only fair that there be a mutual
exchange. Signed, LBG.
Dear LBG: Men's nipples are sensitive
to erotic stimulation. The Kinsey
researchers interviewed numerous males
for whom stimulation of their breasts was
part of lovemaking. They also
conjectured that most male breasts may
besensitive to erotic stimulation, but are
not aware of it because their female
partners do not caress them in this
manner.
(Questions should be addressed to
Lana Starnes and Dr. Takey Crist, in care
of The Daily Tar Heel, Student Union,
Chapel Hill. N. C. 2 7514.)
the fntiuire
version of the truth.
The truth will stretch more ways than
either a Playtex Living Bra or the tissue
that fills one; a lie is as good as the truth
if you can make someone believe it; and
an educated man should be able to
distinguish between a lie and poetic
license. Anyone having previously read
any of Mr. Carr's work would not have
possibly taken his evaluations of the bars
in Chapel Hill as either serious or
objective.
Over half of everything Howie writes is
bull shit to get a reaction, and you guys,
Mr? Gay and. Mr. Indignant visiting from
up north, fell for it! You didn't see Mr.
Santa, that bastion of civil liberties, write
a self-righteous letter to the DTH
protesting Mr. Can's article, now did
you?
Mr. Indignant, I no more think your
visit to Clarence's makes you an expert
on that reputable establishment any more
than Mr. Carr's visit made him one. And
Mr? Name Witheld by Request, I'm sure
Mr. Carr shares the gratitude I feel for the
gay bars in town. Maybe now the walls of
the men's rooms in the Graduate Library
will quit resembling the advertisements
for a meat market (any pun quite
unintentional, I assure you).
Stephen J. Herring
Carrboro and the World
primary
In this politically complex time, it is
unlikely that major candidates will
announce later for a primary simply
because it has been changed.
Even if candidates announced later,
there would be no decrease in the amount
of campaigning.
So why does it matter? With a primary
in July, turnout would be incalculably
less. Not a single one of the 50 states has
a July primary. Up until five years ago,
July primaries were more common (there
were three or four of them) but citizen
complaints of inconvenience led to their
abolition.
During July, people are away on
vacation. Many college students are
travelling. Many families are away from
home, as increased productivity (or union '
demands) have led to greatly increased
paid vacation.
Faculty and teachers traditionally have
"vacations" the entire summer.
Campaigning in the summer will be
rather ludicrous. Let's face it, people are
more interested in their own recreation
plans.
What is good about a May primary? In
North Carolina (which has the 17 !6 year
old vote), a spring primary-and runoffs
allow high school students to register and
.vote when the opportunities for learning
about the candidates are great.
My own research of primaries bear this
What the faculty giveth,
the faculty taketh away
Not too many students go to
Faculty Council meetings and it is
easy to see why. Most of the time
in session is taken up with reports
of sometimes dubious significance
and pious declarations of purpose.
But occasionally the faculty decides
to take actions and usually does so
in a manner that touches each
student.
Last Friday, the council did take
an action but it is more of a kick in
the seat of the pants to students
collectively than a light touch.
What did the council do?
Oh, not much; just eliminated
almost all the flexibility in using
pass-fail. Not much.
Only four hours
What the faculty approved at the
behest of the administrative boards
of the General College and the
College of Arts and Sciences was to
limit to four the number of hours
of pass-fail credit that can be taken
in any one semester.
Until this action was taken there
was no limit on the number of
hours that could be taken in any
one semester, only an overall limit
on the total number of pass-fail
hours permitted.
Of course, the faculty soothed
their consciences by approving the
second part of this provision,
permitting all credits in excess of
12 hours per semester to be taken
pass-fail, if and only if the student
is taking more than 1 5 hours.
Wasn't that nice? If a student
wants to take an overload they'll let
A few ffrani-imi-aid
cost calculations
One of the reports at the
Faculty Council meeting Friday
listed the total amount of money
spent by the University on athletic
grants in aid last year.
The . total for all sports for
1971-72 was $420,456.06.
The totals by sports for spring,
1972 are: baseball, $15,561.53;
basketball, $23,634.98; fencing,
would be disastrous
out. In the 1970-72 period, average
turnout in the 50 states for a May
primary was 65 per cent. For June, it was
49 per cent, for August 53 per cent, and
for September, 52 per cent.
If school is the big thing, why not have
a September primary, as the next
argument arrives.. Some familiarity with
the complexities of election
administration - would indicate that an
October 5 runoff, with the results not
certified until the 10th, means that
ballots would not be distributed until
about the 20th of October. If there are
any challenges, the date could be
extremely close to the general election.
This still sounds insignificant, for if
the ballots get printed by November 7,
isn't this time enough? Unfortunately,
the majority of college students vote by
absentee ballot. Unless ballots are printed
at least 20 days before the election,
absent people will simply not be able to
vote.
Then comes the incredible second
reason for July. The Democratic
leadership (embarrassed by George
Wallace's win in the primary) want to end
the primary , to preserve a hold on
delegate selection. Instead of repealing
the law, they will move the primary until
after the national convention.
: This unbelievable cop-out is somewhat
ludicrous. The voters of the state will be
presented with a blank ballot.
Evans Witt, Editor
Monday, February 19, 1973
him take two or three whole
courses pass-fail.
The faculty's action means that
students can no longer aim for a
semester, usually in the senior year,
in which several courses are taken
pass-fail, and the academic demands
of the last semester in the
University are reduced. It means
that students who are participating
in time-consuming extra-curricular
activities-including working for
The Daily Tar Heel-will not be
able to use pass-fail to reduce
academic pressure to any major
extent. It means that students who
are facing a particularly heavy
burden of outside responsibilities
whether job- or family-oriented-will
not be able to arrange an
academic schedule to permit greater
attention to those outside burdens.
But their action makes the
faculty feel good. They have helped
protect the academic integrity of
the University. They have
prevented those lazy students from
using the system to their advantage.
(Like professors and the tenure
system?)
The faculty also gave the
students four weeks instead of two
to make the irrevocable decision on
pass-fail each semester. A little
change that will benefit the
students.
There's the balance to the
Faculty Council's actions-one little
change to benefit the students and
one giant step backwards from
flexibility and rationality in
academic affairs.
Guess the students lost again.
$200; football,
soccer, $1,239;
$5,382.74; tennis,
$136,963.58;
swimming,
$7,130.75;
track, $16,291.09.
Football also had 123 out of the
total 150 grants-in-aid for fall,
1971.
Thought you might like to know
how much athletic scholarships
cost.
If George Wallace won, it is because
the majority of Democrats wanted him. If
the presidential primary is abolished
because of that, then George Wallace was
right.
State Democrats claim that their
campaigns were obscured by interest in
the Presidential race. Considering most
races in North Carolina prior to 1972 had
few issues, this last spring's primary was a
model for any civics class, for with the
attention on national issues, the
candidates were forced to compete for
news time by taking positions on Issues.
No longer was it major news that Pat
Taylor had campaigned in Raleigh. If Pat
Taylor said nothing, then the national
elections were covered. Taylor and
Bowles did speak to the issues, as no
candidate had ever done.
The presidential primary is a healthy
thing. It should be kept, and the
candidates' supporters in some method be
allowed to choose the delegates.
As for local politics and the July
primary, just remember that 7,000
students voting locally and 3,000 faculty
and spouses make up about 35 per cent
of the voters in the county.
A mid-summer primary would have a
huge effect on Orange County politics.
This legislature has so far been the best
in memory. I hope it stays th3t way.