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represent only the opinions of the individual contributors.
Susan Miller, Editor
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The lack of cooperation among
student organizations on campus is
reaching an alarming stage.
This inability to work together is
seen in two concerns first, in the
Campus Governing Council's
debate over the . Residence Unit
Grant and Loan Fund bill and,
second, through the attempts to get
student representation on the
Affirmative Action Committee.
Anyone attending the CGC
meeting at which the RUGLF bill
was finally passed could not help but
see the tension between the
Residence Hall Association and the
two organizations representing the
Greek community. The statements
offered concerning the grant and
loan bill showed no room for
compromise, and no desire for the
two groups to reach a plan that
could work and please both groups.
A few members of the CGC
attempted to offer a compromise
plan, but the RHA and Greeks
seemed set on what they wanted, and
were going to stick to their positions
come hell or high water.
The RHA, Inter Fraternity
Council and the Panhellenic
Council are not mutially exclusive
groups. Their immediate areas of
interest are different, but each
group's overall objective is to make
life here a little more bearable for
students.
We hope the tension and threats
displayed at the CGC meeting were
just actions that came up in the heat
of the moment. The funding plan
has passed and is now available for
use by all residence units. The RHA,
IFC and Panhel should look for
ways to work together, because
Letters to the editor
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To the editor
This letter is not prompted by any frayed
feelings or personal offense. I will state now
that I, too, am dissatisfied and disappointed
with certain aspects of the 1973 Yack.
I write because I am allergic to critics who
use erroneous information to support their
opinion. Thus, I feel compelled to correct
Adrian Scott.
Mr. Scott begins his comparative review
this year's book to last year's stating:
"Instead of the sensual blue plush of last
year's cover, we have a gold embossed fake
leather padded surface..." Perhaps Mr.
Scott, you ought to take a second glance, as
the cover of the 72 book, instead of being a
sensual blue plush, is brown imitation suede.
Scott then goes on to say that "We also
seem to be back to the old 'yearbook'
concept, with posed frat pictures, posed
organization shots and thick honoraries
section." Again, I must insist that Adrian
Scott look at the72 book. Surely, you don't
believe Mr. Scott, that the fraternities and
sororities just happened to assemble on the
steps of their house, in Carmichael
Auditorium, or by a lake, etc., and that the
Susan Miller
Editor
Winston Cavln, Managing Editor
David Eskridge, News Editor
Mary Newsom, Associate Editor
Seth Effron, Associate Editor
Adrian Scott, Features Editor
Elliott Varnock, Sports Editor
Tad Stewart, Photo Editor
Ken Alien, Night Editor
September 25, 1973
many of the problems they face are
mutual ones.
Working together they could
more easily resolve their differences
and help each other out with theiT"
mutual problems.
Concerning the problem of
getting student representation on
the Affirmative Action Committee,
students and student organizaitons
seem to have little dispute that
students should be on the
committee. The problem is in the
lack of unity of effort in getting
student representation on the ACC.
Black Student Movement
Chairman Willie Mebane spoke
with Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor a
couple of days before the Friday
Faculty Council meeting about
getting students on the committee,
but his concern was only with
getting black student
representation.
Student Body Vice President Juli
Tenney spoke before the Faculty
Council meeting as a representative,
of students in general, but she has
had little backing from Student
Body President Ford Runge, who
seems to feel that it isn't his
responsibility to take a stand to try
to get students on the AAC.
Runge should not think that
because the vice president is taking a
strong verbal stand, he as president
does not have to do so.
These efforts by Tenney and
Mebane may do some good toward
getting student (including black
student) representation on the
Affirmative Action Committee.
However, student leaders will make
a stronger case for their agreed-upon
goal if they work together.
people in the pictures just happened to be
smiling and staring in one direction.
Last year's book and this year's book used
the same format in "The Greeks" sections.
Both have group shots, obviously requiring a
posed shot, with candid insets. (In fact, the
only difference is that the73 book places the
name of the fraternity in the picture, instead
of leaving it in the margin.)
This also holds true for both organization
sections. The sections in the two books
contain candid and posed shots.
And finally in that same statement is the
referral to a "thick honoraries section." The
honoraries sections in both books are done
on similar types of paper, are exactly 24
pages, and are represented by basically the
same honoraries.
However, even if it were true that this
year's book had a thicker section, it would
have not have been the reuslt of a staff
decision. Those honoraries that are listed are
determined by those which buy pages to be
represented.
Did you, Mr. Scott, even notice the color
and detailed sketches this year's staff added
to the honorary section? No, the fraternity
"So you wanna be a rock VT roll star, well
listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar and plug it in
and jump into a running shower cause that's
how you're gonna end up anyway ....
What do Buddy Holly. Jimi Hendrix.
Duane Allman, Al Wilson, Janis Joplin. Jim
Morrisson, Berry Oakley, Clarence White.
Jim Croce, Ron "Pigpen McKernan and
Gram Parsons have in common?
They're all with the dead now. (The state
of being, not the group.) That's one all
around rock n roller, three lead guitarists,
one organist, two vocalists and occasional
tambourine beaters, a bass player and a
couple of rhythm guitarists. Quite a band,
huh? Too bad there's no drummer.
The fact that all these people are dead
leaves us with several pressing questions.
The most importanat question is."Can there
be a just God in heaven who allows this
calibre of musician to die while the Osmond
Brothers continue to haunt us regularly from
the radio every six minutes?"
The answer to this question is obvious:
God is a teenybopper.
The second question must be whether
there is some kind of conspiracy going on.
After Duane and Berry died and Butch
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and honorary sections aren't simply "there
because they have to be." "
You. also, comment that "only at the very
end of the book are there a couple of really
outstanding pictures, the type that grab you,
that jump out of the page at you." Please,
Mr. Scott. Why the big secret as to which
two pictures?
Finally Mr. Scott, you state "The 73 Yack
gives you the overall impression of being a
collection of pictures taken because someone
was there with a camera, rather than being
planned in advance." If this is how you truly
feel, I fail to understand why you did not
take a lesson from the book. Mr. Scott, your
review of the 73 Yack gives me the
impression of being w ritten simply because a
typewriter was sitting in front of you, rather
than being researched in advance.
Kelly Muse
Layout Ed., 1973 Yack
714 Granville East
Hector's hotdogs
falsely labelled
To the editor:
On Aug. 30, 1 was in Chapel Hill visiting a
research assistant friend of mine. I had
occasion to go into Hector's across from the
University and I purchased a frankfurter.
After taking one bite 1 realized that the
product was not as advertised. I made a
complaint at the Chapel Hill Police
Department and Mr. L. Young, their legal
advisor, contacted the North Carolina
Department of Agriculture. The enclosed
original copy of their reply is made available
for efforts on your part to inform students of
this deception.
False advertising is severe enough, but
when it causes one to ingest substances in his
body unknowingly it is even more
despicable.
I was rather shocked that there was no
penalty, fine or judicial criminal action
brought against the management of
Hector's. 1 believe this activity of Hector's
Trucks got his leg broken, I wouldn't blame
the remaining members of the Allman
Brothers band for showing signs of
paranoia.
. Somebody out there doesn't like the blues,
obviously, but then the Byrds have few blues
roots and that didn't stop Clarence White
from getting hit by a truck or Gram Parsons
from having a heart attack. Parson's body
was stolen from the airport by a couple of
hippie-types in an old hearse and cremated in
what looked to a California sheriff like some
sort of Viking-like ritual. How does that
grab you? Better still, how did they grab him?
. . .and why? Perry Mason (Raymond Burr,
please) where are you?
Maybe a bunch of "Original Byrds
Fanatics" are trying to enminate everybody
who has played with the Byrds since David
Crosby left. My mind reels.
And how about poor Janis? My theory is
that she was murdered by a fanatic group of
impatient potential biographers.
Airplane crashes have claimed Buddy
Holly and more recently. Jim Croce, yet the
Jefferson Airplane has been crashing for
years with no fatalities so far. How come?
They found one ounce of marijuana in
Croce's plane, but they don't think this had
PRICE OF GAS SO I CAN
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should be publicized to the student body of
the Univercity of North Carolina w ho are the
main customers.
Harvey S. Kermit
Forest Hills. N.Y.
Dear Mr. Kornit:
Upon receiving your complaint from the
Chapel Hill Police Department's legal
advisor, an inspector of this department
made an inspection of Hector's Restaurant
relative to the advertisement of "All Beef
anything to do with the crash . . . unless they
were in a hurry to get to Mexico to stock
up...
There are few answers to the next
question: "Who will be next?" In fact, there
are so few answers that I don't know any of
them.
Since death seems to be, such an integral
part of a rocker's existence, why hasn't
David Cassidy died on "The Partiridgc
Family" yet? Such an important opportunity
shouldn't be wasted. He could ccn sing "I
Woke Up Dead This Morning" during the
fadeout.
Enough of this nonsense! This is a serious
subject. Everybody has to die eventually,
and maybe eventually comes quicker for
rock stars. At any rate, whenever one throws
in the towel and his friends have to pick up
the towel, it makes news.
Too much hard livin? Hard living doesn't
make a truck hit you. Jaywalking? Not in an
airplane. A life of "sin"? Why aren't we all
dead? Are musicians death prone? (Angels
play harps, but I've never seen one with a
wah-wah pedal.) Do the good just die young?
Why do these deaths always come in
bunches? (White. Croce and Parsons, all
since July.)
AFFORD GROCERIES IN
Frankfurter with Chili Sauce".
The inspection revealed that the
restaurant was in fact using two products
which were all meat but not all beef and a
third product which was a combination of
meat and extenders. An "all meat" product
may contain beef, pork. veal, mutton, lamb
or goat meat and poultry. A product labeled
as "all (species)." such as "all beef." shall
contain meat from that species only.
Inspector Fred Nooe brought this to the
ttou VW rWlTR "Does "ftlS
The only sane conclusion one can come
up with is that lots of non-"rock stars" die
young, too. which is probably the only
rational answer to any of these questions
(except the first one) and I suppose 111 have
to accept that.
But even though I mourn some of these
people more. than others, it still seems a
terrible waste that so many talented artists
should have to die as a by-product of a
subculture surrounding their art.
Of course, without the environment in
which they worked, perhaps very little of
what they created could have been pssiblc.
; Someone once said they hated sea-shanties
sung by people who'd never seen an ocean,
and I guess that applies here. You can't write
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down
and Out" unless you've been there, but isn't
there a way to go there and survive? I mean,
you can't write about death post-mortem. (If
enough people request it. I'll give it a try in a
future column...)
Anyway, cut your morning classes and go
home and put on the Byrds "Sweetheart of
the Rodeo" album (with Gram and
Clarence). And smile, not because you'll
nev er hear them again, but because you got a
chance to hear them while they were here.
7f"c Dew.. r-
ORDER TO STAY ALIVE
TO BE TAICEN TO THE
attention of the manager, wherebv the
portion of the sign vv hich read "All Beef" was
blanked out.
We appreciate your bringing this matter to
our attention.
E. Bruce Williams
Compliance Officer
Office of Consumer Sen ices
Div ision of Analytical Chemistry
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