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gyy in Danwich restaurant who
heard an explosion Monday night
but kept on eating until someone
yelled, "Fire!" then took his salami
on rye and ran. He probably had
heartburn.
The Lettuce De Thankful for Our
Daily Dread Award to Gloria
Steinem, who dumped her tossed
salad on the ground of the Carolina
Inn last week when she was told it
was non-union lettuce.
The Make Mine A Furburger to
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81 Years Of ' Editorial Freedom
Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed on its editorial page. AH
unsigned editorials are the opinion of the editor. Letters and columns
represent only the opinions of the individual contributors.
Suszn Miller, Editor
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The first woman in North
Carolina history to be awarded an
athletic scholarship will be here next
fall playing tennis.
The University hasn't wasted any
time taking advantage of a rule
change in the Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
finally allowing athletic scholarships
for women.
The people here involved in
making this award are to be
commended for taking this initial
step towards advancing women's
athletics at Carolina.
Apparently the Athletic
Association has wanted to offer
athletic scholarships to women for
several years. But the AIAW
prohibited scholarships because
they were viewed as a negative rather
than a positive influence on
intercollegiate athletics. This
attitude that scholarships have
brought evils to athletics was
Eastwood
appears in
DTH movie
Clint Eastwood plays his familiar
role as the tough, silent, don't-mess-around-with-me
cowboy in this
week's DTH movie.
In "High Plains Drifter" he's out
to avenge another murder. Movie
time is 11:15 at the Carolina
Theatre. Admission is $1.50.
Get blitzed and see it with a friend.
W. Wagoner II
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There's a forgotten segment of our
population when it comes to civil rights. The
blacks, the Indians, the descendants of
Italians, etc., all have their minority voices
heard loud and strong in the halls of
legislatures and back rooms of lobbiests.
But, there's a segment of our population
drawn from all theethnic divisions the men
and women behind the locked doors of our
mental institutions.
In June, 1973, the North Carolina State
General Assembly enacted legislation
guaranteeing each patient in a mental
institution his civil rights, rights which for
years had been abused and ignored, to the
point of being criminal. Today, there are still
"mental institutions" which flagrantly ignore
these rights!
Two weeks ago the Chapel Hill police
found a man abandoned in a car on Franklin
Street. For sake of identity call him Mike.
Obviously in serious condition, he was taken
to the Emergency Room at North Carolina
Memorial Hospital from which he was sent
to the Intensive Care Unit. For four days and
nights this man lay unconscious. On
Thursday evening at 10:35 p.m., he regained
consciousness while two of his closest friends
were at his bedside.
Though unable to talk, and unable even to
properly focus his eyes, Mike knew the! two
friends who were with him and was able to
respond by answering squeezes of his hand.
After half an hour of consciousness, he
slipped into a deep sleep from which he was
to awaken Friday morning, no longer in the
coma which threatened to be his last
existence in life.
When Mike's friends arrived Friday
Mental patient's
Go Award to the Chapel Hill dogs
who, in blatant disregard for health
regulations, loiter in the Union
snack bar. Maybe that's why
someone is always finding a hair in
his Tar Heel special.
The It's a Dog Eat Dog World
Award to all the candidates running
for student body president and DTH
editor.
The Let Sleeping Beauties Lay
Award to all the UNC men who had
the courage to participate in men's
liberationist Warren Farreli's
beauty pageant for men Monday
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based on abuses considered
prevalent in men's college athletics.
This national organization,
however, found itself facing lawsuits
because of this discrimination
against women and, instead of
trying to fight expensive suits, the
rule against scholarships was
changed last April.
But the state organization did not
overturn its rule against
scholarships until this past
September, but .when it did so, the
UNC physical education
department and Athletic
Association quickly moved to award
the first scholarship.
The award to Carney Timberlake
will not be just a token award, and
plans for more scholarships for
women are now underway.
One scholarship will certainly not
change immediately the complexion
of women's athletics here. But now
that UNC can award scholarships to
"qualified women athletes," we will
begin to see more talent in women's
athletics, which in turn will spark
greater interest and larger crowds,
which in turn will generate more
money into the athletic program for
women. With more money, the
number of scholarships will
continue to increase along with all
the trimmings of a good athletic
program.
The women's program should be
able to learn from the mistakes of
men's athletics those so-called
evils in recruiting practices and
other aspects.
We are glad to see the University
taking this first step towards a real
women's athletic program.
morning, he was sitting up, watching
television, feeling much better, and was
attempting to feed himself though his fine
muscular control was still somewhat shaky.
But, he knew who he was, where he was, and,
most importantly, rationally knew those
around him.
The nurses and doctors in the Intensive
Care Unit repeatedly assured Mike's friends
he was improving and could very soon leave
the unit. It was suggested he would be
transferred the next day. to either 3rd or 4th
floor, west, which are medical units of
NCMH.
At 6:30 p.m., Saturday, afternoon, one of
Mike's friends called to inquire about Mike's
condition and was told he had been
transferred. The receptionist asked the man
to hold just a moment and then gave him a
telephone number at which information
could be obtained about his condition.
When the friend dialed the number, a voice
answered "4th Floor, South Wing."
God Damn! There had to be some
mistake. The telephoner then asked the lady
to repeat what she had said again and was
told, "4th Floor, South Wing. May I help
you?"
"Yes. Could you tell me if you have an
admission by the name of Mike?"
"Yes, sir. He was brought over about half
an hour ago."
"Why?"
"It was felt he should have continued care
and evaluation. We were only notified about
45 minutes ago he was coming over."
"Could you tell me what the visiting hours
are, please?"
"Yes, from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. However,
night. Another turn in the liberation
screw.
The Fight for Peace Award to
student body presidential candidate
El Libre, who said Wednesday he
was a pacifist but pledged to blow up
Hanes Hall if elected.
The Students Should Be Seen and
Not Heard Award to UNC Trustee
Margaret Harper who asked if
University students expected to be
called in anytime the administration
had a decision to make.
The Have A Heart Award to all
the professors who scheduled tests
Tim Sims
Story hasn
Some scientists at MIT have discovered
that mixing one part methanol to nine parts
gasoline yields a fuel usable in cars which
produces 50 less pollution and 20 better
gas mileage. Mass produced, the mixture
could cost as little as 14Vi per gallon.
Methanol is made from natural gas, and in
order for this discovery to become a
consumer reality, the government or
industry will have to finance the search for
natural gas.
Union Carbide is now working on a plan
to produce Methanol from garbage. If this
research is productive, the country could
solve two problems at once.
Yet, when asked last week what the
government is doing about the gas shortage,
the Assistant Director for the
Transportation Department, Robert Binder,
said, "We're suggesting carpools."
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Letters to the editor
Apology meedledl
To the editor:
I am somewhat shocked by AWS's
treatment of one of its guests for the
Women's Festival. I'm referring to the visit
on Saturday of Judge Elrita Alexander, a
black woman judge from Greensboro.
he cannot have visitors, as he has not had a
psychiatric evaluation by one of our staff as
yet."
"When will this be done and when can we
see him?" .
"He probably will be seen tomorrow or
Monday by one of our staff."
"Can we come to bring him some of his
clothing and personal effects?" '
"Yes, but you will not be able to see him or
'spealc with him."
On Sunday afternoon, two of Mike's
friends entered the hallway of 4th Floor,
South Wing, with a suitcase and paper bag
containing, among other things, clothing,
cigarettes, chewing gum, writing paper,
books, magazines, and a note to him.
assuring him of their continued interest and
that they "would be back to see him as soon
as possible."
On Monday morning, one of Mike's
friends started calling the hospital at 10:30
a.m. to find out his condition. He was told
NOTHING! He was told he would have to
talk to the man's doctor. The doctor proved
impossible to get in touch with by telephone
as she refused to return the call or to accept
repeated further calls.
Monday afternoon, another of Mike's
friends, after trying repeatedly all day to hear
from his friend, finally went to the hospital.
He was given the same run around as had the
other by telephone. After finally raising his
voice and showing his obvious irritation at
the shitty way things were being handled, the
DOCTOR deigned show herself to inform
the worried caller she had not even bothered
to do the supposed psychiatric evaluation
and no she wouldn't be doing it that
rights
for Thursday. It was the St.
Valentine's Day Massacre all over
again.
The Hot Air Can Put You Into
Hot Water Award to the Internal
Revenue Service Hot Line designed
to help with 1973 tax returns. A
recent survey found that nearly one
third of the answers given out were
wrong, which could mean audited
returns. Thanks but no thanks.
The Lincoln, Blinkin' and Nod
Award to President Nixon for
linking himself with Abraham
Lincoln, who remained firm in times
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President Nixon was elected in 1968 on a
promise to end the war in Vietnam. In 1973,
all American troops were brought home, yet
U.S. tax dollars, by the millions, still pour
into the war coffers of the Thieu regime.
Since the American pullout, some 50,000
Vietnamese have died in the continuing
Indochina War, sponsored, in part, by
American money.
The Spirit of Detente abounds between
the Soviet Union and the United States we
ive them all the wheat they want and they
give us a promise of payment. A promise,
incidentally, which has never been kept
before.
Meanwhile, in the country, an estimated
one million people go to bed hungry every
night.
In the Soviet Union, the harrassment of
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AWS didn't publicize the event and it
scheduled two other events at the time of the
'judge's speech. .At a reception prior to the
speech given by ! the YM-YWCA Black
Relations Committee, AWS chairperson,
Amelia Bellows merely showed up for a few
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afternoon and no, no one could see him, and
no, no one could talk with him, and no, no,
no, and so on.
"We feel he needs to be here. He doesn't
need to have any stimulation. We know
best!" she said.
There is no point going further with the
above. The point I am trying to make is that
this man was transferred away from an
intensive care ' unit of a major hospital
without the prior knowledge and approval of
those who care for him and locked behind
guarded doors in a mental institution,
unable to even see his friends or talk with
them.
What happened to the sweeping reform
laws enacted in 1973 by the North Carolina
State General Assembly? As has happened
so often in the past, they were ignored. The
man's civil rights were flagrantly and
brutally violated. He had repeatedly
requested to be allowed to return home.
Instead, he was locked away from humanity.
Why can things like this happen in a modern
day hospital? Because there simply aren't
enough people who care about these people.
They are labeled and pigeonholed,
stereotyped, and stripped of all
individuality.
Fortunately for the man in this column he
has friends who are not willing to bow to the
highhanded, almightier-than-God attitude
taken by this woman who calls herself a
doctor. Legal steps were threatened before
he was released, steps which will continue Tn
our courts.
But, I beg you to consider this question:
"What happens the next time someone else is
railroaded into a situation such as this? Will
that someone be you?"
of crisis. Nixon's blink was so firm
his eyes were stuck shut not to see
the Watergate mess. With George
Washington's birthday coming up,
we'll probably soon hear him tell us
he never told a iie either.
The It Could Create Adverse
Publicity Award to the S.C. state
legislature, which has tentatively
approved a bill to make Winthrop
College for women fully
coeducational.
The We Always Knew It Was
Guenevere Who Ran Camelot
Award to actress Vanessa Redgrave,
angea since
personal freedom continues unabated, and
Jews and Christians are persecuted, and
intellectuals and artists either toe the party
line or are sent to labor camps and mental
institutions. Or exiled, as in the case of
Solzhenitsyn.
Yet the President has been pushing the
Congress to grant "Most Favored Nation"
trade status to the Soviet Union.
In Newark, New Jersey, a famous
cathedral, worth an estimated several
million dollars sits a snug four blocks from a
ghetto area where children have no soles on
their shoes or heavy coats for winter.
In Chapel Hill, N.C., a famous university
sits smugly in place, its philosophy and
religion departments debating about the
"continuum of human existence," while
racial and political discrimination rages, and
ffoir
minutes.
While Judge Alexander was here, the
responsibility for entertaining her was left to
persons not involved in AWS. This in itself
was not objectionable as those persons were
happy to do it. But the circumstances were a
disgrace.
The DTH, which has made a point of
giving full coverage of all other AWS
functions, simply ignored Judge Alexander.
Due to the judge's shoddy treatment, I
suspect that AWS was not genuinely
interested in her as someone who had
something significant to contribute to the
festival, but that she was invited in some
misguided attempt to appease campus black
women.
In fact it appears that one of the members
of the "Women in the Media" panel was
invited partly because AWS mistakenly
believed she was black!
To invite a person of Judge Alexander's
achievements and intelligence (or any of the
distinguished media women) anywhere for
such a purpose is to gravely insult that
person.
As a black woman, I was a bit pissed by the
entire affair, but an explanation and apology
is not due me, but Judge Alexander.
Linda D. Williams
834 Morrison
Shelton column
praised, enjoyed
To the editor
In response to Mr. Huston's response to
Satlu
who announced this week she will
run for a seat in the British House of
Commons on the Revolutionary
Workers Platform.
If It's Tuesday This Must Be
Belgium Award to the organizations
showing continual travelogues for
International Week in the south
lounge of the Student Union. Take
20 steps and you've already been
through three exotic countries.
The Streak of the Week or Turn
the Other Cheek Award to the UNC
student who ran nude through the
Carolina Inn lobby to celebrate his
20th birthday.
the welfare rolls, crime rates, and other real
problems of human existence grow.
And you wonder "Why does the
Symbionese Liberation Army kidnap a rich
man's daughter and demand as part of the
terms of her release 150 million dollars
worth of food for the poor?"
In Huntsville, Alabama "Honor America
Day" will be held again this year for Wallace
ite types who agree in principle with Nixon's
proclamation that, "America is a great and
good land," i.e., "you trouble-makers shut
up now, you hear?"
Flag waving and fried chicken and
podium thumping will not solve, or in any
way be relevant to solving, the disparities in
this country, some of which are outlined
above.
As students of this University, we are
supposedly preparing ourselves for the
future, if only our own personal futures. The
Nyle Franks of the world may try to recreate
a lost time of student concern for us, and the
Jean Swallows may rationalize their non
involvement as "lying in the grass and
waiting," but ultimately, the only force
which will make us concerned enough to DO
anything will be ourselves.
I don't really believe this generation will
improve over the last one, nor do I believe
that this generation of students will retain
any more of its humanistic righteousness
than the last one did.
Some of us will get into the cliched middle
class syndrome via the average social life on
campus, some of us will enter that sterile,
self-possessed, helpless world of academia
via graduate school. We will be many things,
perhaps, but will any of us be FOR anything
which will realize the concerns our
generation has so often talked about?
I look at the wide range of students on this
campus from frat rats to "library dwellers,"
as a friend of mine describes the budding
academes perched horribly in the corners of
the library on Saturday nights, and I think
very few. And I wonder which ones?
Don't be surprised when you let events
conspire against you to move you from
concern about injustice, etc. (I'm so sick of
that word injustice) to concern about
yourself. Adam did it, and the story has
never changed.
o Alexamndleir
Ms. Shelton's response to Shaney-the-dog, I
feel compelled to respond. The column was a
vignette (from the French word for
"vinegar"), a bittersweet comment on one
aspect of life. Ah, too true it spoke to those of
us who have had experiences with the
damned beasties who throw up on the rug
and answer nature's summons in the house .
simply out of spite! Ms. Shelton's column
was a comment on growing up in America,
on being a person and yes, even on our
relationship with the Eternal. We hear you,
Stella! (Stay out of neutral!)
Faith Lapidus
301 Joyner
Chemist doesn't
share viewpoint
To the editor:
In reference to a recent letter in the DTH I
would like to point out that all chemists do
not share Mr. Young's views on priorities as
such, by placing music in his category.
I (and no doubt many others) owe their
sanity to the existence of various art forms.
Should we discontinue or even diminish
subsidy of our arts?! Functioning as human
beings involves more than solving the
"mysteries of the world"; and besides, who
cares about your jacketed flash photolysis
cells anyway? (no offense Dr. Meyer)
I need music!
H. Wayne Richardson
405 Kenan
Susan Miller, Editor
Cathy Farrell, F!anaging Editor
Dill Welch, News Editor
David Eskridga, Associate Editor
Nancy Pats, Associate Editor
Kevin McCarthy, Features Editor
Elliott Warnock, Sports Editor
Tom Randolph, Photo Editor
Ernie Pitt, Night Editor
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