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The Good Morning Miss Dove,
Whatever You Are Award to the
New Jersey school board who fired
school teacher Ms. Paula M.
Grossman after it was learned she
had had a sex change operation in
1971. Ms. Grossman was married to
Ruth Grossman and the couple had
three children.
The All the World Is A Stage
Award to the UNC Elections Board
for holding a meeting in the Great
Hail balcony at the same time a play
was being rehearsed. Talk about
upstaging!
The Either You Cut It Out or We
Cut It Off Award to. Georgia
State Senate Republican Leader
Armstrong Smith who proposed
that Georgia be the first state in the
nation to include castration as a
penalty for rape. He added that
castration would provide the mayor
of Atlanta with "a new tool to deal
with the problem."
movie
is Arlo's
estaurant
You can get anything you want at
the DTH movie this week primarily
because it's Alice's Restaurant
starring Arlo Guthrie.
The flick which made draft card
burning look like kindergarten
starts at 11:15 p.m. at the Carolina
Theater in downtown Chapel Hill.
The price is a mere $1.50 so see it
with a friend.
The Wonder Who'll Be in the
Centerfold Award to Playboy
Magazine for buying the book rights
for Spiro Agnew's novel. If they
can't get Jill St. John, maybe Henry
Kissinger isn't busy.
The How to Make Friends and
Influence People Award to Dede
Bernardo who entertained 3,000
stranded motorists in the Florida
Keys for seven hours with a topless
go-go dance.
-The Students? What Students?
Do You See the Students? I Don't
See the Students Award to the UNC
administration for deciding that
there is no more need for student
input on the academic reform
question of the four-course load.
The When You Say Beer You've
Said It All Award to all the
candidates for student body
president who didn't let the free beer
do the talking at a "meet the
candidates" night in the Great Hall
Wednesday. In spite of the offer of
free beer, few people showed up to
hear the candidates, speak.
The Get High on America Award
to the U.S. Navy which was offering
free rides in a helicopter to promote
the travel opportunities of the Navy.
The Wizard of Odds Award to
Gov. Jim Holshouser who is
advocating a volunteer gas rationing
system based on alternating days for
gas purchases according to license
plate number. The odds are even you
won't get any gas anyway.
The By Any Other Name, They'd
Smell the Same Award to Elections
Board for allowing candidates for
political offices to use pseudonyms
on the ballots. Next thing you know,
Jonathan .Livingston Politico will
announce.
To the editor
I would very much like to thank the
Association of Women Students for the
exciting and interesting women that they
have brought to our campus during the past
weeks.
Gloria Steincm's appearance was a boost
to the feminist movement in Chapel Hill, but
her action in support of the United Farm
Worker picketers in front of the Carolina
Inn was a tremendous expression of her
concern for all oppressed peoples.
Jane Fonda also urged solidarity with the
oppressed throughout the world by urging
support of the Political Prisoners in South
Vietnam, especially those women
imprisoned there.
Folksinger, Holly Near, who. travelled
with Ms. Fonda in the Indochina Peace
Campaign for several years, stressed this
solidarity through her songs about women,
the war, and the oppressed.
As a result of the encouragement of Ms.
Fonda and Ms. Near, many people
expressed an interest in supporting the
prisoners in South Vietnam through local
group action. Anyone wishing to join us in
support of these prisoners can do so by
contacting me at 933-5374 or by calling 967
7244 and leaving your name and phone
number.
Diane Spaugh
BSM concert
superb, moving
To the editor
Sunday afternoon's concert of the Black
Student Movement Gospel Choir, directed
by freshman Lucy Shropshire, was superb.
Anyone who missed this outstanding group
should scramble at the next chance to hear
them perform. Well-rehearsed arid "in the
spirit,", their moving renditions established
immediate rapport with an eager and
responsive audience. Rhythm, relaxed
atmosphere, poised stage presence,
smoothly planned transitions from
beginning to end ... it was all there.
Both Lucy Shropshire and Francine
Randolph exhibited a pianistic and
conducting style which betrayed nothing
short of sheer enjoyment and total
involvement. The soloists, all of whom could
have been amplified for better balance (at
least for those of us in the back), received
encouragement from choir and audience in a
way that clearly said more than just, "Take it
easy." It said, "You can make it so beautiful;
let it be now. Although all the soloists did
well, Mona Simmons and Cliff Harrington
deserve special praise for their expressive
interpretations, and Lucy Shropshire for her
impressive vocal range and rhapsodic style.
The dramatically percussive "Christ. Is
Coming Back," a stop-and-go type of
recitative, featuring a trio (Ms. Shropshire,
Ms. Randolph, and Roosevelt Farmer)
backed by the choir, was incredibly fluid,
and resoundingly together. At the end cf the
concert, the delighted audience gave them an
enthusiastic standing ovation.
It was well worth hitching a ride from five
miles out to witness the tremendous power of
every hard-working, talented person there.
Gloria H. Fernandez
Chapel Hill
Peace's Dean
explains game
To the editor
Finding myself distressed over the recent
article entitled "Peaceful Conditions Not
Necessarily So" by Susan Shackleford I feel
compelled to write for several reasons. First,
I wish to apologize most sincerely for any
unladylike conduct on the part of any Peace
College student after the recent particularly
spirited game (which Peace lost) against
Carolina. Prior to the position which I now
hold at Peace College, I was an
intercollegiate coach for eight years. Based
on this previous experience, I feel that I am
' qualified to make several observations. 1
would like to place the post-game noise and
behavior in the proper context arid set the
record straight concerning the atmosphere
which was created during the game.
I object most vigorously to the implication
in paragraph three of Miss Shackleford's
article and the statement of Raye Holt which
implies that Peace players were rude and
' rough. They certainly are not rude and in the
spirit of competition I am sure even Carolina
players are at times rough. Perhaps the
following comments will help set the record
straight:
1. In eight years of intercollegiate
competition in basketball, the technical
(team) foul called against the Carolina coach
was the first such foul we have ever witnessed
against a woman coach.
2. The technical (team) foul called against
a Carolina player (for unsportsmanlike
conduct) was the first such call we have
observed in eight years of intercollegiate
competition.
3. The court side behavior of Carolina's
assistant coach was as antagonistic as I have
seen exhibited by any woman coach. Had the
game been played under ACC rules, she
would have been assessed numerous
technical fouls for being on her feet
(normally protesting an official's decision)
while the ball was in play.
4. Five responsible adults, four of whom
were visitors on the Peace College campus
(including a high school coach and a
physician), reported that they observed all
post-game activities and that there was
absolutely no physical contact as reported by
Raye Holt. ,
5. The group of 40-50 Peace College
students were congregated in the exit from
the playing floor to cheer the Peace players
as they individually left the gymnasium.
They did indeed cheer and chant most
im aims
I hey struggled for Carolina
Blue
My freshman year they were all in my
Portuguese class. Excited about the next
four years, eager to do well, thinking even
though they said they weren't about
making the Pros, or just making the greatest
team every to play football in Carolina Blue.
Mansfield, Early, Hite the ones I
watched the closest. There were others a
whole bunch of them.- Big, strong, kind of
glorious.
Do you know what it's like to go through
Spring Training? Makes the football games
look tame sometimes. God, how they
sweated and hurt and kept on going like
there was nothing in the world but getting
the time on that goddamn 40 down, down,
down.
"It's cort-oo. Mr. Early, not cort-oh," Dr.'
Clark said a hundred times. "Final o's in
Portuguese are pronounced u not o.'"
Mansfield was the smartest. Maybe the
toughest, too. Everybody thought he would
go the farthest. Washed out of Canadian
football a year ago.
Hite was my boy, though. Slow, small
for a back. Has some great games, had some
lousy games. He always had such big, lonely
eyes. Everybody said he was a "good kid"
and he was good inside, too but he wasn't
a kid.
Never got a chance to be with the
determination he had to have to help out
with the family and hel out himself. He
laughs loud for a small, slow back. Helps
manage McCauley's Bar now.
McCauley's Bar. 11:30 P.M.
Saw the sad forms of former college
jocks glorious on Saturday afternoons, or
at least admired, as they struggled for
Carolina Blue. Now, here, the idols of
freshman girls and skinny boys sit drinking
and smoking and laughing too loudly at old .
jokes or stories.
They hang on to each other like drowning
men, the waves of ear-splitting rock music
engulfing them. They do not have to think
about what they will never have again
struggling for Carolina Blue.
Getting beer guts and contemplating the
cigarettes they really don't like, they watch
their strong hands holding the glasses of
good times the liquid of lost love, the gusto
gone sour. The smiles they wear cost as much
as a draft Bud. Or two.
The old jokes about dumb football jocks
and -the slurs about stipends, payed-off
professors, etc. seem very cruel now. It
makes you ashamed that you laughed at
them, or criticized like when you first
realized racial jokes were not funny
anymore.
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Four years went by. Some of them
dropped out, some of them got cut, some of
them made it. Mansfield, Early, Hite they
all made it. But they'r all through struggling
for Carolina Blue how.
I used to curse at Early when he missed
tackles sometimes he fumbled around like
when he didn't know how to pronounce
Portuguese verbs. And Hite. Fumbled on the
one yard line. The one yard-line! Damn you,
Billy, we could have beat State this year.
But now the cursing and the curser seem to
be what was fumbling around. Wonder what
Billy's eyes looked like when he got up from
the one yard line. Sometimes when he's not
laughing in McCauley's you can tell.
That "crop of talent" as some
unthinking, metaphor-murdering
sportswriter once put it has given their bit
Tor Carolina Blue. Maybe for many of you
that Rah-Rah stuff never meant much.
Maybe beating that bunch of animals, the
Wolfpack, didn't mean a thing. Maybe you
even smirked'or tut-tutted about the athletic
cross the academic world is stuck with.
Maybe you bitched and griped about
"priorities" in reference to the football team.
Maybe that's because you weren't
educated on a practice field or didn't try to
understand what it means to work your ass
off to wear Carolina Blue. Lately, I know I
don't understand it enough.
But go down to McCauley's Bar some
night about 1 1:30. Look at them now.
Please. No more theories and pseudo
concerned remarks about
"dehumanization." It won't take any of them
back to those Saturday afternoons and
struggling for Carolina Blue.
We lost something when "Give me a CI"
became a cliche or something only the
uninspired could get caught up in. That's all
any of them ever asked of us cheer us on.
Help us out. When we're good, when we're.
bad let us hear that "Go Carolina!" one
more time.
Mansfield, Early, Hite, all the rest of
them. They busted balls for your alma mater,
see. And in the dark smokey corners of
McCauley's bar they rest now. Though ncn:
of them have ever said it, they are sayhf ,
Don't let the next "crop of talent" go by your
notice.
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heartily, vocalizing their support for their
ball team.
I apologize to everyone concerned for any
heckling which may have taken place after
the game. I apologize even more sincerely if
any abusive' language were used at any time
by Peace students. I am, however, proud of
our team and of their leadership. We can
look back and have no remorse for what was
reported as poor conduct on their part. They
have behaved as ladies in every respect, and I
do not feel that an apology is necessary. We
are proud of them, of their
accomplishments, and of the way they
represent Peace College.
Janice Edwards
Dean of Students
Peace College
Bellows' reply
raws criticism
To the editor:
I would like to address this letter to
Amelia Bellows concerning her reply to
Linda Williams's letter.
Amelia, I am sure that you will remember
that two hours before Judge Elrita
Alexander was scheduled to speak, AWS
had not found anyone to introduce her. You
so graciously offered to do it, but explained
that you were not good at such things. So, I
was elected.
You did run over to Greenlaw to make
sure that everything was set up. Coming
back, you confided in me that you were glad
that you had thought about it. The mikes did
not work. Ms. Alexander had to speak
without one.
There seems to be a discrepancy in your
reply to Williams. During the course of the
reception, you admitted to me that you
thought that one of the women on the media
panel was black. You said that you were
surprised when she turned out to be white.
AWS did nothing in the way of inviting or
confirming that the judge would be in the
festival. All the details were taken care of by
the Black Relations Committee of the YM
YWCA. In light of this, you or someone
from your organization could have, at least,
escorted Judge Alexander to and from
Greenlaw.
Emma Pullen
B-39 Carolina Apts.
Steinem protest
was legitimate
To the editor:
In reply to Mr. Marvin Saltzman's letter
of February 14: Mr. Saltzman, in your letter
. to Ms. Gloria Steinem, you state that she
sould be "a little more consistent" in her
protests against non-union personnel
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service. Your letter chastises Ms. Steinem for
protesting non-union lettuce while accepting
the services of non-union personnel at the
Carolina Inn. You heavily insinuate that this
was a hypocritical action on her part and
that if she desired a more relevant and non
hypocritical demonstration, she should
protest the presence of twenty-five
"individuals on death row" in North
Carolina. Mr. Saltzman, I will attempt to
show you the errors of your ways.
Come, let us reason together, Mr.
Saltzman. Ms. Steinem was protesting the
use of lettuce picked by non-union personnel
primarily located in the state of California.
The use of this non-union personnel has
enriched the lettuce-growers of California by
allowing their exploitation of cheap-labor
border Mexicans while depriving other
Mexican-American citizens of the right to
unionize effectively and demand basic
minimum wages for their field labor.
These are the facts of the case now let us
direct ourselves to your hastily conceived
argument. To criticize Ms. Steinem for
dining in an establishment that employs non
union personnel, while she protests the use of
non-union lettuce, is wickedly unfair and
only illustrates your failure to understand
the issue at hand. The two situations are not
similar and your effort to link the two as
equal only undermines the efforts of Ms.
Steinem and other socially conscious
Americans across the nation to correct the
gross evils now existing in the lettuce fields of
California.
In conclusion, your mention of twenty
five convicted capital offenders on death row
in North Carolina as a legitimate area of
protest for Ms. Steinem is so out of place in
this issue that it need not be discussed any
further.
Ms. Steinem's protest was legitimate, to
the point and void of any hypocrisy.
John A. Richardson, III
302 Pritchard Ave.
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