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As a general rule nothing will
happen to a girl who walks alone at
night across campus.
But there's no comfort in being
the exception to that rule. Not when
it means being the victim of an
assault or rape.
So far this year there have been'
three reported and publicized rapes
or sexual assaults on the UNC
campus. There may have been more,
but even one is too many.
Better lighting and increased
patrolling in secluded areas are
recent proposals to the
administration in an effort to halt
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Susan f.'.IIIer, Editor
Cathy Farrell, Managing Editor
Ci!l Welch, Naws Editor
David Eskridge, Associate Editor
Nancy Pata, Associate Editor
Kevin McCarthy, Features Editor
Elliott Varnock, Sports Editor
Tom Randolph, Photo Editor
Ernie Pitt, Night Editor
Stella Shelton
Recently,
1 read a short article in the
newspaper about a brave collie who
saved several small children from a
burning house but died in the flames
himself. After allowing my heart to
return to its normal size, I could almost
see writers of Reader's Digest and
children's stories clamoring for the
rights to that tidbit even though the
doggie wasn't too smart. I mean, did.
Lassie ever die in a forest fire?
Obviously, the world of television and
literature have had their share of such
heroic canines.
But real world dogs aren't like fhat.
For example, take one Shaney, a
doggie who lived with my next-door-neighbors
for 14 years. You math
majors have already figured out that
Shaney was at least 98 dog years old.
Funny, she seemed older.
Shaney was a nervous, cowardly,
selfish and generally mean little bitch all
her life. She was mixture of chihuahua
and Unknown Breed, which combined
to give Shaney an appearance not unlike
that of a brown and white wharf rat on
stilts.
She was more or less a house dog,
sleeping exery night (and most of the
day) in a wicker bed near the heating
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attacks on coeds.
But students, as well as the
administration, should do
something besides express concern
over the problem. The Campus
Escort Service is one way.
But the service, sponsored by the
Residence Hall Association, is not
working as effectively as last year
because of low student response. At
present it is only operating from
Kenan dorm. Lack of use by coeds
ended the service in Spencer dorm
last semester. Lack of male
volunteers has practically ended
service at the Undergraduate
Library as well as plans for escort
service to Hill Hall, Phillips
Computer Center and Granville
Towers. These areas remain
unprotected, as does South Campus
and the dangerous area around
Kenan Stadium, where two rapes
occurred.
The escort service cannot survive
unless female students participate. A
phone call to 933-7600 connects the
caller with the central service in the
undergraduate library. Volunteers
at that number (and more are
needed) will give the caller the
service number in the area she wants
to reach. The simple act of dialing a
phone brings a safe trip home, if you
live in an escort area.
But if you live on South Campus
or at Granville Towers, you're going
to have to wait until the service is set
up. And that can't be done unless
more males volunteer as escorts.
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vent in the Jeffreys' kitchen. When it
came time for one of Shaney's frequent
poo-poos, she would stand near the
door until someone came to her
assistance. Or if no one was around,
Shaney let our a series of irate barks that
left no doubt as to what-she-had-to-do-and-now.
Once outside, however, Shaney
promptly did her business in the yard.
Ours.
Shaney got older. Once the Jeffreys
started going to their beach house every
weekend, someone had to be solicited
from the ranks to care for the doggie,
who by now had a pretty set daily
"routine."
Well, fifty cents a day didn't seem too
bad.
My instructions were to feed Shaney
and let her out for a romp (hah!) and
repeat same procedure at suppertime.
Not bad. Shaney would eat or rather,
inhale her special H and D Dietary
pup food, report to our yard for her bm
and come back to her own house, where
I put here in the kitchen until the next
chow-time.
But after a couple of years, Shaney
was really a very old doggie. If I were a
few minutes late for her 9 a.m.
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fee?
Enlisting as a volunteer entails
giving up only two or three hours a
week. So far few students have come
forth willing to sacrifice this much.
Rich Beaudry, escort service
coordinator, estimated the service
needs at minimum 180 more
volunteers and even that will
provide only one excort at a time in
each place.
Most UNC students like the free
atmosphere of this University and
are glad that the administration in
recent years has been moving away
from the in loco parentis attitude.
Yet at the same time students seem
to expect someone up there to do all
the work in making this campus a
safe one. Granted the
administration should take
measures to insure safety, but this
doesn't mean holding students'
hands and walking them to their
doors. Students shouldn't expect
this nor should they even want it.
The type of freedom we have at
this University places responsibility
on the individual. And it's up to
individual girls to have the common
sense not to walk home in the dark
alone but use the escort service. And
it's up to individual guys to
volunteer their time to make sure
there is an escort service in the first
place.
The administration is attempting
to do its part. We ought to do ours
and support the Campus Escort
Service. Take advantage of it before
someone takes advantage of you.
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breakfast, Shaney had generally already
taken her morning constitutional on the
kitchen floor.
I would clean it up and feed her. I had
to hide a tiny pink "heart" pill in her
food. (To this day, 1 think the pill was
actually a placebo.)
When we caught her at it, we would
chase her off to her own ground. But still
our backyard was like a primitive mine
field which left the shoes of the careless
smeared with Shaney's indiscretion.
(The back steps still bear the stain of a
million frantic scrapings.)
Occasionally Shaney would be
interrupted in mid-squat by a gray and
black blur of claws and fur known as
Mrs. A (for Alley), our cat. Even though
she was bigger than a cat, Shaney was a
true-yellow coward when.it came to
Mrs. A. Mrs. A, the fertile matriarch of
a long line of felines that roam our block
to this day, used to chase the chicken
dog until she tired of the game andwent
5 off to conceive another litter.
And speaking of conceiving, Shaney
never did. Shaney was spayed or
"spaded" as folks in the 'burg say. While
a normal Shaney was merely
obnoxious, a horny Shaney was
intolerable.
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The following is a summary of a
complaint handled by the Student
Consumer Action Union.To protect ths
innocent, the names have not been
changed.
Robert Botsch came to SCAU
November 21, 1973 with a complaint
concerning a lease he made with
property owner Robert Oakes. Botsch
had signed a one year lease for an
apartment in Fidelity Courts. In the
lease was a clause that said that given 30
days notice and approval of the leaser
(Oakes) of any prospective sublettees,
the leasee (Botsch) could sublet the
apartment.
Due to job circumstances Botsch
found it necessary to envoke that clause.
He contacted Oakes' secretary to find
out the proper procedure for subletting
the apartment. The secretary told him to
send the prospective couple to the office
to fill out the appropriate forms. On
October 26, Mr and Mrs. David
Anuforo were introduced to Mr. Oakes
as prospective tenants. Mr. Oakes let
them fill out an application but told
them that nothing definite would be
known until Mr. Botsch gave notice that
he was leaving. On Oct. 29. Mr. Botsch
delivered his notice.
Having heard nothing from Mr.
Oakes concerning the Anuforos, Mr.
Botsch informed Mr. Oakes on Nov. 5,
that the Anuforos were willing to move
Letters to the editor
Students
To the editor:
Of course every Carolina fan is ecstatic
when Bobby Jones is lauded as ACC
Player of the Week. But what about the little
guys behind the team, the fans who wait
hours for tickets and scream themselves
hoarse rooting the Tar Heels to victory?
Putting aside modesty for the moment, we
would like to nominate ourselves as ACC
Fans of the Week. We've been with the team
at each of their last five games, both at home
and on the road. We delighted in the Tar
Heels' home win over Wake Forest; we held
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And then the fateful summer of '72.
Shaney was in her fourteenth year; I, in
my nineteenth. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffreys
took off to the beach one weekend in
July.
"If anything happens to Shaney, it's
PROBABLY not your fault," Mrs.
Jeffreys had reassured me Friday night.
Shaney had been feeling poorly, you see.
Saturday morning found the Jeffreys'
kitchen floor literally covered in doggie
barf. I found it with my bare feet.
Shaney was a very, very sick doggie. She
could not even stand up. I called the
Jeffreys' daughter, who had an employe
of her father's rush Shaney to the
veterinarian's. I don't know how much
Shaney redecorated the interior of the
guy's car in transit, but I do know the vet
sent her honie. Not much he could do.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffreys returned Sunday
night. 1
To no one's surprise, Monday
morning marked the Demise of Shaney.
I was absolved of all blame, and Shaney
was laid two feet under with all due rites.
Now, every time I see the brown dirt
(nothing will grow there) and the faded
red plastic poinsettia of Shaney's grave,
I kind of miss her even though she
messed up our yard and the Jeffreys'
floor and got chased by a cat. I mean 14
years or 98 dog years is a pretty long
time to live beside somebodything
without acquiring some feelings.
But . ... what can you say about a 14-year-old
dog who died of natural
causes I
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in Nov. 6, the day the Botschs wanted to
leave; therefore, Mr. Botsch wished to
sublet to the Anuforos. Mr. Oakes then
informed Mr. Botsch that he did not
wish to rent to the Anuforos since they
were "foreigners" (the Anuforos are
Nigerian), and Mr. Oakes had found
foreigners to be dirty. Mr. Oakes then
told Mr. Botsch that there were other
people interested in the apartment. In
fact, around 10 people had answered a
newspaper advertisement about the
apartment.
On November 19. 3 days after the
Botschs moved, Mr. Botsch came to
claim his security deposit, The secretary
informed him that he would receive all
of his deposit except one week's rent
since the sublettees Mr. Oakes had
found could not move in until one week
after the Botschs had left. The Anuforos
had been willing to move in at the time
the Botschs left and no rent would have
been lost.
Mr. Botsch then came to SCAU and
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our breaths as Bobby Jones dropped in his
spectacular four second shot at Duke; we
marched confidently and proudly in the Beat
State Rally, felt crushed when defeated, and
were again elated over Carolina's triumph
against Maryland.
The true measure of our dedication as
fans, however, is evident from the supreme
effort we exerted in order to attend the Wake
Forest game in Winston-Salem on
Wednesday night.
A Monday call to the Carmichael ticket
office proved futile, and a subsequent call tq
the Wake Forest athletic office nearly
followed a similar pattern the game was
sold out. Fortunately, . not five minutes
before our call, a Winston-Salem man had
phoned saying that he had two tickets
available for sale. After some wheeling and
dealing with this gentleman, we were
guaranteed the seats and told where to pick
up the tickets the night of the game.
Another obstacle threatened our Tar Heel
devotion the gas shortage. Following two
days of frantic searching we demonstrated
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Explain fuel prices
To the editor:
We used to read discussions in the DTH
which explained rising consumer costs,
especially meat prices, by invoking the law of
supply and demand operating in a relatively
free and competitive market situation. While
that may or may have been the correct
explanation, it was at least conceivable.
A similar argument is one of those used by
government, the oil industry, and Russell
Roberts to rationalize the increased cost of
fuels. Other arguments have included the
Arab oil embargo, and an increase in
production and exploration costs for
domestic wells.
But fuel prices rose long before the
embargo took effect, and, due to "leakage,"
' it has had very little effect anyway. Besides,
only a very small percentage of our oil comes
from the Arab countries. Production and
exploration costs certainly cannot have gone
up enough in the past year to account for the
rise in fuel prices which has already
occurred, let alone the even greater increases
which are predicted in the next few weeks or
months.
Fuel is supposedly being allocated
regionally on a nationwide scale on the basis
of last year's consumption patterns. This
allocation, it seems to me, removes fuel
prices from the realm of competitive
bidding, eliminating the effects of the law of
supply and demand. Fuel rationing would
do the same thing. In other words, no matter
how much the distributors and consumers
might be willing to pay, their allocation will
remain the same, since demand is held
constant by artificial means.
My question, then, is: how can the law of
supply and demand possibly be used to
Women .propose
jock raid here
To the editor
What's happened to the women of UNC?
Let's bring back the jockey raid of old. Girls,
don't stand in your rooms and throw
panties come out and demand jockeys.
Let's meet in the Pit, Sunday, February 10,
at 7:30 and have our jollies.
Lisa Fordt
Mary Rice
Carolyn Turner
J-1I Royal Park Apts.
also contacted the Fair Housing Office
in Greensboro. SCAU complaint
Investigator Franklin Drake contacted
Mr. Oakes. Oakes repeated his anti
fcreigner sentiments. He told Mr.
Drake that foreigners were dirty and
that he knew this because he had rented
to some Pakistani people once. Mr.
Drake advised Mr. Botsch to take the
case to small claims court. Mr. Drake
also volunteered his services as a witness
for Mr. Botsch.
On January 8, 1974 at 9:30 a.m. the
case came to trial. June C. Merritt was
the magistrate presiding. Judge Merritt
declined to hear testimony from either
Mr. Drake or Mr. Anuforo. Mr. Oakes
stated in court that he would not rent to
"foreigners or foreign-looking people"
because they were "dirty" and they
cooked smelly things. He also told Mr.
Anuforo that he had nothing against
him personally. Mr. Oakes won the case
because Mr. Botsch had moved out
before the thirty days had expired.
SCAU contributes this column to
keep the community informed. Our goal
is to improve relations between business
and consumers. Improved relations
depend on understanding and
cooperation from all sides of the
community. If you have any questions
about business practices in the area, call
933-8313 or come and see us in Suite C
of the Carolina Union.
willingly
team on
our dire need to one gas station owner by
pleading could he at least siphon some
gasoline from a friend's car into ours.
Convinced of our desperation, he relented
and filled the tank.
Wednesday arrived and along with it a six
hour siege in the gym waiting for Clemson
tickets, and afterwards, a quick getaway to
Wake Forest. We made it by 7:15. but the
water hose burst just across from the
Winston-Salem coliseum. An hour was lost
while the car was repaired.
The Carolina-Wake game began for us 1 1
minutes into the first half. It seemed as
though we had barely sat down before the
game was over, Carolina had won, and we
were once more on the road.
Going to the game meant an overall
investment of thirty-five dollars and a one
day combined input of 24 hours for Carolina
basketball.
Was it all worth it?
Yeah... Hell yeah!
Polly Howes
Kathi Roberts
245 Cobb
justify increases, especially post-allocation
increases, in the price of fuels? Without
competitive bidding there is no good reason
(as if there ever was one) for any further
dramatic rise in prices, if one will agree that
the embargo and production cost arguments
are invalid. Perhaps your economics
columnist could provide us with an answer.
Art Thayer
317 Vance St.
UNC men resent
lack of attention
To the editor
Within the last few days, while rejoicing
over the fine quality of the events to come in
the Women's Festival, I have heard several
men make surprising comments concerning
the Festival. Instead of viewing the events
with open minds, as opportunities for all
people on this campus, these men have been
critical and even revoltingly nasty about
several of the events.
Finally, today I heard the comment which
I feel is the key to this resentment: One man,
reading a poster entitled u Men's Liberation"
and concerning the Warren Farrell speech,
stated sarcastically, "Finally someone is,
paying attention to us!" Another extaimed,
"It's about time!" Their conversation ended
in laughter as they read of Mr. Farrell's
position in N.O.W.
It Suddenly occurred to me that the men
must resent giving up the spotlight to the
female for two weeks; however, the saddest
aspect is that because of this resentment,
they are rejecting the best political, social
intellectual, and cultural events to occur on
campus this year. Perhaps Mr. Farrell does
have a real message for them: that a real man
is secure enough in himself not to have to
worry about his masculinity, but only his
humanity.
It also occurred to me that on January 3 1 .
1974, a group of males planned an "all
campus panty raid," and called for total male
support. There seems to be a message in this.
Is this the level upon which the typical
"Carolina gentleman" (and I use that word
very loosely) thinks of women? From the
reactions I have heard from males over the
past week, I fear the answer is "Yes."
Lynn E. Wesson
2711 Granvil!e South