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One of ths good things that will
probably come out of all the
Watergate Nixon administration
scandals is that politicians may learn
to be extra cautious in their actions,
making sure that all is above board
and undoubtedly ethical.
Before doing anything, the elected
official should think of all
consequences and decide whether he
is doing the right thing, morally
speaking.
We hope this thought preceded
the appointment by Student Body
President Ford Runge of his
executive; a$ si s t ant , ; Ric h a rd j
Letch worth . to: thlirpositibrr: of
Elections Board chairman.
Yet his announcement of this
appointment, which has yetUo be .
approved by tnVCifmp lis GdVeriimg
Council Appointments Committee
showed not the least bit of concern
that people might think, the
appointment a little bit on the shady
side. '
The thought did not seem to enter
Run re's mind in considering this
appointment that there is something
wrong, ethically speaking in
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Politics
"Politics is like coaching football: you
have to be smart enough to understand
the game, and dumb enough to think
it's important."
Eugene McCarthy
Such telling criticism is only too true of
Richard Nixon. He understands politics too
well for our own good, and combines the two
with his constant football analogies. Gerry
Ford, as we all now know, is a "team player."
One wonders whatever happened to plain,
old-fashioned statesmen.
Nixon seems to feel that his pigskin
comparisons are effective, though few have
proved phraseworthy. Perhaps football
elicits a gut reaction in Americans which
Nixon wishes to capitalize upon. Perhaps it
speaks to the common man. or, to be less
offensive, the Middle American. Perhaps
Nixon only seeks to add inspiration to his
leaden prose. But, more probably, he can't
think in any other terms.
Too few political analysts have considered
the meaning behind the football phrases,
concerning themselves instead with quaint
Letters to the editor
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To the editor:
Ms. Truitt Brown's letter to DTH of 1-18-74
is irritating, but mostly disheartening. I
do not understand why a (possibly valid)
argument concerning music criticism by Mr.
Bisbort so casually and unnecessarily
includes a put-down, albeit by implication,
of gay people.
Ms. Brown comments: "Mr. Bisbort, lean
readily tell that only of late did you discover
music. I mean real music, not a bunch of
long-haired faggots screaming obscenities
and cute rhymes."
I wonder why the sexual orientation of the
given musicians is of such importance that
she feels compelled to refer to it in the terms
used; the generalization is probably
inaccurate, anyway, as well as irrelevant.
Most importantly, the comment seems
designed to evoke a distinctly negative
reaction on the reader's part, and docs so at
the expense of homosexuals. I wonder why
Ms. Brown feels her wordscriticisms derive
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appointing a person that has been
vital in the "Runge administration"
to a position that requires fairness
and impartiality.
This is not to say that Letchworth
will not be fair and impartial. He
probably will be.
The announcement of the
appointment showed little
forethought on ethics, as Runge said
Letchworth might keep his position
as executive assistant, depending on
the work load.
It looks like the only concern in
the appointment was the work load.
; Letchworth; has since quit . his
position as Runge's uright-hand
man; however, he will be keeping
his same desk in RungeV Suite C
offices. It looks as though the
campus elections will be run directly
out of Runge's office.
None of the circumstances of this
appointment show concern that the
running of the student elections
appear fair. It is also unfortunate
Runge appears to know no one
unconnected with his
administration who can handle the
job in a competent and fair manner.
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idioms like "perfectly clear" or Ziegler's
immortal "inoperative."
George Allen was painfully aware of the
great difference between politics and
football during the- -1972 Super - Bowl.
Sometimes one sport may closely parallel
another in minor detail, but these two
American pastimes are fundamentally
incompatible in their basic premises. Close
analogy is detrimental to both sports and
leads to further confusion of objectives and
techniques. ,
Certainly it's fine for a President to think
of himself as a quarterback if he wants to,
but it is easy to extend the analogy too far.
"Winning is not the important thing, it's
the only thing," is both a quote from Vince
Lombardi and Richard Nixon's motto.
Nixon seems to agree with most coaches in
condoning foul play within certain broad
guidelines, two opposite goals, and a huge
arena. Teams function, by their very nature,
without commitment or belief in anyone or
anything outside themselves. To Nixon it
doesn't really matter which way he's going as
long as he's moving the ball.
greater validity by derogatory reference to
"long-haired faggots." ,
Ms. Brown, among others, may accuse me
of over-reacting. After all, it was a peripheral
remark, and (obviously?) unthinkingly
written. Who cares?
Name withheld
upon request
Student objects
to offensive word
To the editor:
This letter is in response to Truitt Brown's
letter in the Friday issue of The Daily Tar
Heel. To be more specific it is in response to
one word in his letter: "faggot."
I, as a homosexual, object to the use of this
word and others like it. It is a derogatory
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onsumerism and free
" Warning to alt incoming students: Chapel
Hill is a Rip-off
Remember hearing that from your friends
when you were accpeted here? Remember saying
that to the new group as they were being accepted
here? You probably do. It was probably yesterday
or five minutes ago. To a large extent. Chapel Hill
still is a rip-off.
Until recently, merchants in this area had no
way of knowing or discovering what students and
other consumers wanted. All businesses knew was
that they were staying in business. Since they were
staying in business, their products must be selling;
and if their products were being bought, then the
customers must be happy. Right?
Wrong! The syllogism is logical enough, but it
does not explain the persistent truism above.
Obviously, communications between consumers
and merchants in Chapel Hill is lousy.
The Student Consumer Action Union was
formed to give the Chapel Hill consumer a voice
and to give the Chapel Hill business community a
tangible mechanism to respond to. SCAU is not
only discounts and pamphlets. SCAU also
investigates consumer complaints concerning
anything from apartments to shoes.
Bruce Sampson
Wiroims
Ah winter, thunderstorms; sunny days.
Dean Smith, rain, and the biennial defeat of
UCLA. It was enough to make you wanna
throw up. Mike sat up and looked into the
mirror and frowned, "Shit! Classes. Where
the hell does the weekend go?" Suddenly the
telphone rang in the living room. Jumping
out of bed, Mike stepped into a fresh pile of
dog shit, and then encountered it's former
owner, "Goddamn dog," he shrieked,
kicking the dog very un-SPCA-ish.
sports: strange friends
Though Nixon's sense of political reality is
accurate enough to give him success without
achievement, victory without renown, even
the ground he has gained seems to have been
lost. Most of his team has been removed for
foul play, he can't fake very well or give a
decent pep talk, and he only seems able to
throw the bomb. Or perhaps we should make
that plural.
Thankfully, Henry Kissinger is a good
downTield receiver and makes up for much
of Nixon's inaccuracy and indecision. Even
Rosemary Woods has become remarkably
athletic to help out, but Nixon still has to
punt a lot. Like ("I won't resign") Agnew,
when Nixon is most defensive he becomes
offensive. Four quarters with Nixon and
politics would have remained a game. Eight
quarters and it's a tragedy.
In the short space of one year Watergate
became a floodgate, Americans have grown
used to being kept in the dark, and Nixon
still seems to have his edifice complex. The
Year of Europe faded faster than Kohoutek.
To make things still worse, mistakes breed
more mistakes. In return for one gap on the
remark and a slur against a segment of our
population.
Many people who pride themselves on
their open-mindedness and concern for the
feelings of others; and who would never use
such words as "nigger," "kike," "spike,"
"gook," etc. use "faggot" and "queer"
without any hesitation.
People who use such epithets only reveal
their own ignorance and bigotry. And,
though the usage of such words as "nigger,"
".pick," etc. has ceased in intelligent circles,
ne use of "faggot" still continues.
But times are changing. Homosexuality is
now recognized in medical and psychiatric
circles as an alternate life-style and not as a
"sickness." It is time for the rest of the
population to grow up and realize this fact
and to remove such slurs from their
vocabularies.
Name withheld
by request
WC AM performs
useful function
To the editor.
There was a small article on the front page
of 773? Daily Tar HeelS&n. 18 mentioning
the fact that WCAR has only $ 193 left and so
Bill Snodgrass considers the managers
incompetent and wants the station put off
the air to avoid creating a deficit, which
"Student government law does not allow."
I am only a freshperson here, so 1 don't
know how the Yack is funded, but skipping
merrily across the page 1 read that it has a
S2.0C0 deficit, which is a lot more in the hole
than $193. Flipping through to the editorial
page we see that there has been no quorum at
another meeting of the Judicial committee of
CGC, leaving the impression that the
The complaints are taken in person in Suite C
of the Union or over the Hotline (933-8313).
Complaint investigators (student volunteers)
contact the businesses and hear their side of the
story. Misunderstandings are cleared up;
compromises are made; and new policies are
initiated. The consumers gain by being better
educated and getting their money's worth.
Business people gain by developing better
consumer relations. Good relations with
customers mean better business, not merely
staying in business.
An example of SCAU action came last
November. A student came to SCAU
complaining about a pair of shoes he bought in
Chapel Hill. He wore them for two weeks, and
they fell apart. Naturally, he took them back to be
repaired. The manager said he would charge the
student a $4 wearing fee plus repair costs.
Then the manager said the wearing fee would
be $ 10. The shoes were $25 originally. They would
end up costing the student around S40 and two
months of time that he was not able to wear the
shoes because they were somewhere in
Connecticut being repaired. Then the student
brought the problem to SCAU because he was not
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"Hello!"
"Mr. Canalope?"
"No this is ... "
"Mr. Canalope this is Henry Bismark
Johnson III of the Mobile Oil Credit Card
Bureau in St. Louis. Your last payment has
not yet been received by us and if .... "
"Hey man my name is Michael Ross!"
"Trying to hide from us will do you no
good, Mr. Canalope. We, here at Mobile Oil,
have the best credit card surveilence system
tapes we now have five, for one attorney
general we've had four, and for one ITT
scandal we now have three: The Milk Fund,
the Wheat Deal, and the Hughes Caper.
People have watched Nixon's grandstand
plays as eagerly as Monday night football,
and as regularly.
And yet his incompetence is less
noticeable . because Congress and the
Democrats have failed to seize the initiative
and make their own opposing drive. As far as
running the country goes, a President, even a
bad one, just doesn't have much
competition.
Nixon continues to make as much yardage
as possible with the tapes while the nation is
tiring of the repetition, even of injustice.
They turn off Watergate as quickly and as
painlessly as the evening news, especially
with the power shortages. Without voter
concern Nixon may be the only man to live in
the White House for four years and still not
be President. Hopefully, our quarterback
doesn't have the statue of liberty play next up
his sleeve.
members don't really care about all the work
that has gone into the Judicial reform bill.
If lack of apathy is any indicator of the
worth of something, than WCAR must be
fairly worthwhile, because people spend a lot
of time and effort there, and the labors of
other people are respected more than in
some of the upper levels of organizations of
CGC.
To be practical, it would also seem
ridiculous to waste the investment of time
and money that has been put into the
equipment.
I believe that WCAR performs as useful a
function as most CGC funded things around
here, and maybe more than some.
Laura Dekerson
1 1 1 Spencer
Letters
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opportunity for expression of
opinions by readers through letters to
the editor. This newspaper reserves
the right to edit all letters for libelous
statements and good taste.
Letters should be limited to 303
words and must include the nanre,
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and address them to Editor, The Dally
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in the Nation. Why right now our spies are
watching you."
Mike hurriedly covered himself, not
wanting some Bernard Barker type getting
his jollies from seeing him there talking on
the phone, with dogshit all around his foot.
"Listen man, I ain't who you're lo'oking for
and what kind of spies are you rattlin' about
anyway?"
"Well, Mr. Canalope, since the oil crisis
has started, the President has given each oil
company a national security rank.
Therefore, in the interest of national
security, and in order for us to stay in
business, we must start surveilence
procedures against our customers for the
good of the country.
"This is crazy, some kind of a crazy
dream," Mike said. But the smell of
decomposed Purina Dog Chow convinced
him otherwise.
"Oh, 1 assure you, Mr. Canalope this is no
dream. We are very real. As a'matter of fact
we have your parents under surveilence as
well as your girlfriend and we have strong
suspicions that you may well be a
Communist or Pro-Arab. So as I was saying
your failure to pay the balance of this bill
may result in your deportment as well as
criminal . . . ."
"Deportment! Communist?" Joey is that
you? Come on man, don't keep bullshitting
me, I'll be late for class."
"Sir, I have previously stated that my
name is Henry Bismark Johnson III and I
represent . . . . "
"Okay Joey, enough is enough. Now you
either tell me You're kidding or I'M
GONNA HANG UP!"
"I see, Mr. Canalope, that you are going to
need persuasion. Therefore, you leave me no
alternative but to have my agents bring you
in."
In the background noise of the telephone,
Mike heard a loud buzzing which
corresponded with a loud knocking on his
door. The dog shit was not the only smell
now in the room as tear gas canisters began
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getting his money's worth. He also was not
satisfied with the stories he was getting from the
manager. One of SCAU's investigators went to
work on the problem.
Although thisstudent waited a longtime before
bringing his problem to SCAU, it was not too late
to do something. Fortunately, the student had
been polite and had not created any antagonistic
feelings. When the SCAU brought the situation to
the attention of the store owner, a new pair of
shoes was given the customer. Moreover, the
owner apologized for the inconvenience.
Most local businesses still adhere to the slogan
"the customer is always right." If they are not
giving consumers what they think is right, it is
because the consumer is not speaking up. Do not
wait until everyone concerned has forgotten the
incident. If you've got the "ripped-ofP blues, use
the Hotline (933-8313). Call SCAU and gripe.
Consumer protection is an important factor in
free enterprise. Consumers must vocalize what
they want so business can produce sellable
products. This is the Student Consumer Action
Union's purpose and this is what SCAU will
continue to work for.
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to fly into the room through the windows.
Gasping and strangled. Mike threw the
receiver down and ran toward the back door
which suddenly fell forward with a hail of
machine gun bullets ripping through the
wooden panel. In rushed four armed men
wearing gas masks who surrounded Mike.
Nearly blind and strangled, Mike stopped
still. He was supplied with a gas mask and
ushered back to the phone. One of the men
held up the receiver to Mike's ear.
"Now then. Mr. Canalope. about the bill
that we so desperately need paid . . . . "
"I'll pay. I'll pay, coughed Mike. "How
much is it?"
At this time a masculine voice broke in on
the line, "Sir, your call has lasted nearly forty
minutes and the rate will triple at the sound
of the gong."
"Just a minute operator, I thought that the
rates went down with the length of the call,"
Johnson said.
"Not with the Chapel Hill Phone
Company sir. It is Our policy with the energy
shortage and all that . . . ."
"Wait." cried Mike. What number were
you trying to reach, operator? 967-0101?
"Come Mr. Canalope why not consent to
pay the ....."
"Excuse me sir did you say 967-0101?" the
operator asked.
"Yes, that's me Mike Ross."
"So sorry sir, there must have been some
mistake. Is this the residence of Mr. James
Q. CanalopeT'
"No! It's me. Mike Ross!"
"I'm afraid I'll have to redial your call for
you sir. But you will be charged for . . . .
"Like hell I will." shouted Johnson.
Mike hung up the receiver with the
operator and Johnson still arguing. The
agents, without saying a word quickly left
the apartment which now was wrecked.
Mike, shaking, took off the gas mask,
stumbled into the bedroom and fell down
across the bed. Soon, however, he jumped
up.
"Shit!" He'd forgotten to clean his foot
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