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Because North Carolina is not
ready for room-by-room coed
living, the UNC administration had
decided Carolina is not ready to
continue and support an experiment
that has proved to be successful.
Two weeks after the decision to
end the room-by-room experiment
on second floor Winston, we finally
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Letters to the editor
To the editor:
When 1 picked up the DTH Tuesday, 1 was
amaed at the front-page story by Laura
Yandcll about the meeting of Chancellor
l alor. Dean Houiton and the residents of
second floor Winston. Being the WCAR
reporter who covered the meeting (and
haing a tape recording of the meeting to
refer to). I can only say that Ms. Yandell's
story is one of the most accurate and well
written pieces of objective reporting that I
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hear the real reason for the decision.
In a meeting with second floor
residents Monday, Chancellor
Ferebee Taylor said he believed the
UNC legislature might adopt
legislation to end or alter UNC's
concept of coed living and visitation.
He also said N.C. citizens might
believe the situation to be improper.
Now that we understand the
politics behind the decision, we
question the decision itself.
Dean of Student Affairs Donald
Boulton has said he believes the
second floor experiment to be
successful and he has had no
evidence to the contrary. Second
floor residents say their living
situation this year has been more
educational than any other part of
their education at Carolina, and
they didn't mean education about
the vices either.
The atmosphere on the floor has
beeri good; men and women alike
treat each other as human beings
instead of sexual objects.
There is no evidence for belief that
room-by-room coed living leads to
promiscuity, drug problems and
loose morals. The floor has been
without incident of sexual activity
among floor-mates, contrary to the
misinformation published by The
Charlotte Observer last week which
Boulton says misquoted him as
saying the situation "spawned
sexual activity."
Although Taylor has said, "We
shouldn't separate ourselves from
the love, support and affection of the
people of this state," we believe these
elements should not determine
educational policy. .
If Carolina's policies were in
keeping with the feelings of North
Carolinians, women probably
wouldn't be here and neither would
blacks, nor would we be able to hear
radical speakers on campus.
There have been many fights in
the past concerning this University's
policies. Some have been won. Some
have been lost. But at least there has
been a fight to preserve what this
University believes is right.
Now do University
administrators believe room-by-room
and other kinds of coed living
is worth fighting for? Apparently
not.
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2 reporting '.praised .toy
have seen in the DTH this year.
The only Haw is that one statement is open
to misinterpretation (and it is relatively
minor). The article implies that Taylor
suggested that the students see the Board of
Trustees. Actually, it was Janet Stephens
who first mentioned discussing the issue with
the Board of Trustees.
Only after this did Chancellor Taylor say
he would help set up the hearing at the
Board's meeting on Friday.
Otherwise. 1 must congratulate your
reporter on a very good article.
Van Knowles
417 Morrison
Happiness is a
personal matter
To the editor:
What's all this squabble about whether or
not Chapel Hill is truly liberal and
"progressive"? To remedy the so-called
"repressive atmosphere around here just
about everything has been suggested from
running our mouths to having a nude protest
on South Building!
But, do all these labels and suggested
actions really matter? Isn't the real issue
around here whether or not we students are
truly satisfied with our collegian lives? And
true happiness. I've found, is a personal
matter, not a matter of policy decreed from
some shady niche at the tope.
God is alive and peering haughtily over the
edge of the snack bar entrance of the Student
Union. Yes, brother, believe and ye shall
prosper; commit blasphemy and God will
make it rain on your sign. So it is written or
at least, it is now.
Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I do
not wish to tread on the toes of anyone's pet
deity, but some things simply cannot be
tolerated! Secular causes deserve equal time,
and either Cosmic Muffin is greedy or his
earthly helpers have a compulsive desire to
have the entire cube by the Union covered
with religious talk. It is time for a full ex pose
of this heavenly media saturation campaign.
This must be carried to the highest
authority even if he is a Nixon supporter.
My first observation of this phenomenon
(hereby referred to as Godtalk) was when I
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BRIGHT ABOUT THIS SORT OF THING!'
Seth Effron
Energy shortage
All the news about the energy shortage
continues to be one of the most baffling and
strange events ever to be seen in this nation.
As much as Americans want to believe the
shortage is real, the Nixon administration is
so indebted to the big wheels of the oil
industry, it is difficult for Americans to see if
Nixon's heart is really in making the oil
companies hold down excess profits and
provide better service.
Congressman Les Aspin (D-Wis.)
released, in the Congressional Record the
names of contributors and amounts of
contributions made by executives and major
stockholders of major oil and gas companies
to the Committee to Re-elect the President
(CREEP). CREEP received over $2,305,482
in gifts from the oil royalty. This figure is a
significant percentage of all the money raised
in the Nixon campaign.
Over 2 million dollars can do a lot in
helping the President determine energy
policy or any other policy for that matter.
Rep. Aspin has said, "1 believe that the
fact that 4 1 3 individuals directly involved in
the oil industry contributed over 5.7 million
dollars to the President's war chest goes a
long way to explain the glaring inequities in
this administration's handling of the energy,
situation."
As has been true throughout Nixon's two
True happiness can only come from a
lowly carpenter who lived a little less than
twenty centuries ago. Instead of just wasting
time with trivial and external matters, the
real answer lies with Jesus Christ.
Joy Locke.
635 Ehringhaus
Insecurity or
spring fever
To the editor:
Some friends and I witnessed an incredible
sight last Thursday night. About 300 male
students, roaming from dorm to dorm, were
yelling and chanting for other students to
throw down their underwear. This
phenomenon is traditionally known as a
panty raid.
The crowd included a large number of
spectators, among them an old couple. My
friends and I gathered up the courage to ask
them exactly what their opinion was.
"Well, I'm certainly amused by it," the old
(over 65) fellow said. His wife agreed. "But
I'm amazed that college level students
cannot find something more original to do.
This kind of thing was popular ten years ago.
I wholeheartedly agree with demonstrations
made for a worthy cause. I think our
generation needs students pushing for
change, but this is senseless. It infringes
upon the rights of students who want to
study. A college education is tremendously
expensive. I'm amazed that these students
was but a small child. A doting relative
chucked me under the chin and clucked,
"God loves you. My response at the time, to
the best of my recollection, was How could
he? He hardly knows me. and love is a very
complex emotion, you know..."
Later, I remember ads that said somethinj
like, "Worship the evangelist of your choice,
but get on your knees, peasant!
My home was not oppressively religious,
but I always resented having to watch
moralistic soap operas on Sunday mornings
instead of Laurel and Hardy. I remember
one about the torment of a young man as he
struggled against common sense to report a
traffic violation to his father who was a
defrocked nun. Where are shows like that
now? Nowhere. I also remember the story of
terms in office monied interests always win
out in the debate over what comprises the
public good.
In the energy crisis what seems to make up
the good of the consumer has fallen to the
wayside as "big oil" has been able to cash in
on their obviously manufactured energy
crisis. While oil tankers sit off-shore because
piers and tanks are too full to take their
cargo, consumers wait in lines miles long to
get three dollars worth of gas (which
amounts to no more than 6 gallons of fuel
since prices are so high).
Just like Nixon refused tq listen to
students in the late sixties and early seventies
about the evils of our involvement in
Southeast Asia, he refuses to listen to truck
drivers' complaints in the energy crisis.
Independent truckers have been
protesting the high cost of fuel by ref rising to
move goods on the highways, and blocking
up truck stops across the nation.
The Raleigh News and Observer reported
on its front page "Trucking halt effects may
hit food stores." The article goes on to point
out that a major poultry processing plant in
this state was going to shut down and N.C.
grocery stores would begin to feel the pinch
and display empty shelves by the end of the
week.
The heavy handed tactics of the truckers.
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are wasting their parents' money in this
way."
At that moment a bucket of water came
cascading down upon the howling crowd.
("Holy Moses!" someone yelled)
"Apparently some students must agree with
you," we commented.
We asked him why he believed these
events occurred. A release of tension
possibly? "I'm an alumnus of this university
and I don't recall building up tension. 1 think
it is a lack of security. In the mob one feels
like part of a group."
"I think it's spring fever," said his wife.
Bill Perkins
Donnie Davis
Tom Stevens
Reader wants
IDs on photos
To the editor:
Why can't you identify the subjects of your
pictures?
This school is too anonymous and faceless
as it is.
I think your pictures are good but I think
more people would look at them if they knew
who and what they were looking at.
The main reason I'm complaining is
because I was one of those nameless
individuals who appeared in your paper.
Randy Thomas
Rt. I. Pittsboro
a chubby adolescent coed who (with God's,
help, no doubt) lost about fifty pounds. As a
result, her beauty overwhelmed all the butch
guys at school, and she wound up tearfully
confessing that she was in trouble. Of
course, she was ultimately saved by the
discovery that the lab results had been
wrong. Clearly, a case of immaculate
misconception.
Which brings me to the present.
While working on our most pressing,
worthwhile (if secular) cause, my friend (I'll
call her Adlai) and I were attempting to paint
revolutionary slogans on the cube. Earlier in
the week, one of our previous efforts had
been rudely plastered over by a fanatic
religious group. In symbolic retaliation (also
to rephrase our pressing slogan) we began
is baffling event
shooting and harassing other truckers
cannot be condoned, but their reasons to
protest are valid. While they are paying
through the nose for fuel, major
corporations continue to report huge
increases in profits, raising dividends to
stock holders, and raising prices.
While corporate profits soar, violence,
food shortages and work layoffs continue. In
three states the national guard has been put
on alert as truckers slash tires and shoot
drivers who refuse to go along with their
protest.
The president ha told the nation he has
had enough of Watergate, and believes the
nation has too.
Truer words have not been spoken.
Unfortunately Nixon and the members of his
administration have failed to realize the
meaning of Watergate goes beyond "dirty
tricks." Watergate means huge donations
from the heads of major corporations to
insure no government interference in their
rape of the American consumer.
Watergate means waiting in line for
gasoline for an hour or more. Watergate
means truckers shooting at each other, and
empty shelves at the neighborhood grocery
store.
Yes, America has had enough of all this,
and it is about time the government took
Mnnsic
The music facilities in Hill Hall are
"simply medieval."
That's how Kenan Professor of M usic. Dr.
Lara Hoggard, once described the crowded,
antiquated building which currently houses
the burgeoning music department.
While chemistry students experiment with
the latest laboratory equipment in the
spacious, modern Kenan Building, music
majors must attempt to practice Chopin's C
major nocturne on pianos whose middle-Cs
won't sound. While social science students
view a history film comfortably in Hamilton
Hall Auditorium, concert enthusiasts are
forced to huddle on the floor or stand in the
foyer to hear the Carolina Choir perform at
Hill Hall. This is unfair.
In the past two years, other departments
have requested and successfully obtained
expensive new facilities. The chemistry
department received the monstrous Kenan
Building. The social science department
obtained air-conditioned Hamilton Hall.
The Playmakers should be moving into the
modern Paul Green Theatre within the next
two years. Yet, incredibly enough, no
building plans exist for the music
department.
Overcrowding is the keyword around Hill
Hall. Last semester, for instance. Dr. Joel J.
Carter, chairman of vocal instruction and a
well-respected, permanent faculty member,
had to share his office with two other voice
teachers because there were simply not
enough offices for all. Music majors are
feeling the pinch, too. Some students have to
get to Hill Hall by 7 a.m. or remain as late as
10:30 p.m. to reserve a practice room.
Aggravating the situation is the increased
student interest in music. According to Dr.
Edgard H. Alden, music department
chairman, the number of music majors has
covering that side of the cube which bore a
large cross and the inscription 24 Hour
Prayer, Feb. 2 (wouldn't one get hoarse?).
Since it was already Feb. 2, we weren't doing
any evil. Just as we finished painting the side,
the proverbial heavens opened and the rains
poured forth upon our proverbial heads. To
make a long story longer, all the pure, chaste,
white paint went oozing dow the drain,
along with our cause.
Now 1 never put much stock in the old
man above, but now I had a personal grudge.
"Curse you, oh blessed being!" I screamed.
"Curse you, Martin Luther, Billy Graham
and Shirley Temple!
I was rather cross actually.
By this time, a curious crowd wearing
seamless white smocks had gathered. They
looked like art students run amuck.
They began to chant, "Four more years!
For more years! Dean is lying!" I began to
fear for my life. 1 was afraid they would try to
turn me into a '49 Hudson, or deny me
freedom from a variety of living situations.
We had started to run. Suddenly, a large,
hairy hand came down from the sky and
blocked our path. Adlai threw a bucket of
red paint at it, and the ocean of mud in the
Union parking lot parted and the pharoah
(who was writing out a traffic ticket was
drowned in the flood.
All was quiet. Yet, I wonder if this was a
singular incident, or if all normal people
have been shot down by a reckless authority
figure? Anyway, perhaps we can all profit by
this earthshaking experience.
Can God be approached through the
trustees? I doubt it. Although, they probably
are members of a mutual appreciation
society.
Revenge is sweet; after all, an eye for an
eye; a tooth for a tooth; a sign for a sign. If
religion be the opiate of the masses, play on.
And now for Stephen's footnote: All the
world is a stage; the play was just poorly
cast."
And now for my footnote: Student input is
a myth, and until proved otherwise, we
students have no logical course except total
cynicism.
This column is the work of a severely
disillusioned person.
some positive steps to correct the deplorable
state of affairs.
While Richard Nixon stands firm against
gasoline rationing state legislatures are
giving their governors the power to ration
gas in their states. Hawaii is already
rationing gasoline and New Jersey, whose
landscape is dotted with oil refineries may be
moving to rationing gas as early as next
week.
Congress, Nixon, and government in
general are going to have to do something
soon to correct the present situation. The oil
companies must be made to account for the
fact that since there is more oil (heating
mainly) available now than this time last
year and why isn't more available for the
consumer. Proper legislation must be passed
to encourage and establish a decent mass
transportation system for the nation and our
cities so people do not have to be so
dependent on gasoline for private
automobiles to get them place to place.
Unless something is done to ease and end
the current energy problem the nation will
continue its course of violence, food
shortages and corporate rip-offs.
Nixon pronounced that there will not be a
recession this year. Well, he might be right,
but if the nation continues as is. it may be in
store for one hell of a depression.
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doubled since 1967. Furthermore, there were
2,710 students enrolled in music courses in
1970-1971. In 1972-1973. there were 5.822.
Alden stated recently.
Fewer than half of those who signed up for
Music 81. the Evolution of Jazz, got the
course. Finally, the Tuesday Evening Series
was so popular with students in 1972. that
the music department added the Thursday
Evening and Sunday Afternoon series to
their concert roster.
The department has been coping as best
they can. Space is being utilized as efficiently
as possible. "There's not a broom closet in
the building that is not being used." Dr.
Wilton Mason Jr., music professor, said.
Nevertheless, as with many problems, the
predicament seems to run in circles. With the
mushrooming campus interest in music, the
department feels that it is not fulfilling its
responsibilities to the students if it does not
add new courses to the curriculum or expand
the number of sections of each course now
being taught. Yet, the department cannot do
this while facilities remain hopelessly
overcrowded.
The University administration has
promised the department space in Person
Hall. Unfortunately, renovations are now
going on in the building. When they will be
completed is still unclear. Although the new
space will ease the severity of the
overcrowding problem, it will not eliminate
it. "
Doesn't the music department, whose
graduate program is rated one of the best in
the Southeast and whose quality
performances are well-respected across the
state, deserve better facilities? We think it
does.
Kevin McCarthy
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