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Mildred and Alexander
Alexander Solzhenitsyn has been hopping from headline to headline as he
blasts U.S. policies of detente, is snubbed by the White House and in turn
snubs the White House by rejecting a reluctant invitation to drop by any
time. Around Boone his name slides in and out of conversations as a new
rumor entertains the town.
It seems that local developer Hugh Morton and Sen. Jesse Helms are
trying to convince the Russian author to abandon his home in Switzerland
for a cozy residence on Grandfather Mountain.
That's the talk anyway.
Whether or not there is much fact in the mountain grapevine, the picture
of Solzhenitsyn cozy in his Blue Ridge chalet is a curious one. Jesse Helms
would be happy to have another prominent personage in the state who
shares his extremist views on Communism. Hugh Morton would be happy
because he would have an internationally known figure connected with his
tourist attraction at Grandfather Mountain:
And tourists would be happy. In addition to being able to cross
Grandfather Mountain's "Mile High Swinging Bridge and to chat with
Mildred the Bear in her "Natural Black Bear Habitat, they could take
pictures of the kids with that elfish looking foreign fellow with the funny
name. And all for the price of admission.
Parking in the dust bowl
i While you're watching the plays in the Playmaker's Theatre this week,
maybe you can find a parking space in the Union parking lot.
After all, construction on the new Paul Green Theatre hasn't started yet,
and there's plenty of space.
Heaven only knows when the first plans for the new theatre were made.
History has it (and has had it for several years at least) that the Union Dust
Bowl would be cleared of all vehicles one miraculous morning, and
countless hard-hatted workers would swarm over the area, like the slaves
that once swarmed over the pyramids: till lo and behold a new theatre would
arise, unlike any theatre previously seen in the western hemisphere, wherein
such plays would be performed as might grace any stage in New York or
London.
Then came a minor detail called a construction estimate, which just
happened to run a few million dollars over the General Assembly's
appropriation.
So now, the plans are being revised cheaper, the dust still swirls over your
parked car and ours, and the poor Playmakers (who probably park their
cars in the Union Lot too) are sweating three plays in a crackerbox never
meant to seat twenty thousand students.
Get your tickets while they're hot. ,
Backwoods justice
Nostalgic longings for the Old West are still thriving in the hearts of North
Carolina lawmakers. Priding itself on its Southern progressivism, North
Carolina remains the only state in the Union that can declare any
lawbreaker an outlaw and thus allow any state citizen to shoot it on sight.
The solons in the General Assembly in Raleigh introduced last session a
bill to repeal this obsolete rite, but that bill itself was shot down
substantively.
Perhaps the decision was in the interest of democracy power to the
people. But it's a pretty primitive use of power when anyone in the state can
use any power as he thinks fit to apprehend any person declared fleeing from
justice even if that fugitive's name is unknown.
. jQf course, the General Assembly has seen fit to update itself' somewhat, 1
used to be that either two justices of the. peace or any district, &upGPQrrOrir
appellate judge could issue ari outlaw proclamation. In l973vhoweve'r, the
marriage makers were divested of that power.
Welcome to the 19th century, pardnuh.
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83rd year of editorial freedom
Speaking out on SHS
UNCs Student Health Service (SHS)
hopes to be located in a new building within
the next three or four years. Because the
proposed facility could significantly alter the
delivery of health care to students, student
opinion should be a significant factor in the
decisions affecting the new building.
The SHS, the UNC Facilities Planning
Office, and an architectural firm have been
working for the past four years designing a
new building that would house the SHS
exclusively.
As planned, the three-story building
would be arranged in a modular fashion,-
with expanded space for all present sections
of the SHS. Separate space is set aside for
services that previously have not had their
own areas within the SHS; for example,
specialty clinics. Whereas the current facility
contains a total of 17,000 square feet, the'
new facility would contain approximately
58,000 square feet, over three times as much
space as the present facility. The new facility
would be connected with North Carolina
Memorial Hospital (NCMH) by corridor.
That connection is necessary for NCMH to
provide the SHS with food, supplementary
radiological services and other services.
The plans for the new SHS building have
run into some snags. In April 1974 the Board
of Trustees approved a site between the old
Nurses Dorm and Kenan Stadium for the
proposed building. However, architectural
plans for the new building would extend the
occupied area beyond the approved site into
an area designated as a park.
The park area, called "Meeting of the
Waters, currently exists as a wooded area of
approximately 5.27 acres between the
stadium and the medical complex. "Meeting
of the Waters was set aside as a park in the
1950's to insure that trees would be left in the
hospital complex area-
Some members of the Board of Trustees
and several UNC professors are concerned
that an intrusion into the "Meeting of the
Waters' area would by harmful. They fear
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News Editor
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that cutting down trees in the portion of the
park that the SHS would occupy would be a
dangerous precedent for intrusion into the
remainder of the park .
Because of this intrusion, the Board of
Trustees recommended in their June 1975
meeting that the Chancellor consider
alternative sites and or alternative
architectural plans for the building.
The SHS and the Facilities Planning
Office firmly believe that the site initially
approved with the encroachment into the
park is the best possible site for the new
building because the building could be
connected easily to NCMH by corridor and
would have two access routes. The most
important advantage to the site, however, is
that the architectural plan considered to be
the best by the SHS, the Planning Office and
the architects, would fit there. The
architectural . plans would have to be
significantly altered for that building to fit in
another site.
The alternative to finding another site for
the preferred building is to adopt another
architectural plan to fit into the initially
approved site without intruding into the
park area. A high-rise building would be the
only option, and a high-rise would, for all
practical purposes, destroy the particular
health care concept for which the modular
design is perfect. Because of increased fire
safety measures and other safety factors, a
high-rise would cost considerably more than
the preferred three-story building.
One important aspect of the proposed
The Apollo-Soyuz space mission, which
comes to an end today, has been hailed as a
symbol of U.S.-Soviet detente. But,
ironically, it appears that those who have
been so enthralled with the cooperation
involved in arranging the handshake-in-space
(ail to fully appreciate what an
accurate reflection of detente the joint space
venture has been.
Once again the Soviet Union has
negotiated and carried through a can gain
can't lose bargain with the United States.
Once' again U.S. leaders have shown their
propensity for trading technology, getting
little in return, simply to show the world that
we can be very friendly.
It must be said that, as an individual
component of the entire policy of detente,
the U.S.-Soviet meeting in space may prove
worthy of praise. However, as a symbol of
the broader scope of U.S.-Soviet relations,
Apollo-Soyuz is piercingly indicative of the
foolish, ask-nothing-in-return way in which
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If the founding fathers and authors of
our Constitution could witness the
present' state of bureaucratic disarray
tle'ieipnha' created they'd be
nothing less than dumbfounded.
The number of abusive acts
committed by faceless, avaricious
federal agencies and a lordly federal
judiciary are legion. Court edicts tear
children apart from parental
supervision; entire state legislatures sit
helplessly by in astonishment as federal
judges who hold office during "good
behavior nullify with the stroke of a
pen laws enacted by the peoples general
assemblies. Institutions of higher
learning, after recovery from the
upheaval caused by the imposition of
earlier federal doctrines "explaining
how it should be done, are convulsed
anew with more spasms as Washington
ideologues continue with their
pronouncements.
Our Constitution, notwithstanding
the above developments, has not failed
us. It was never intended to sanction the
overreach of the federal government
and the travesties of law by which both
liberal theorists and practitioners alike
plans
facility is the expansion of services offered.
There would be a pharmacy which would
supply all prescriptions and manufactured
stock drugs for both outpatients and
inpatients. The presently cramped facilities
for Mental Health and Health Education
would be greatly expanded. Clinics for such
specialties as gynecology and dermatology
would be located in their own modules.
There are some questions which should be
raised concerning the allocation of space
within the new facility. Space allotted for
inpatients would house forty beds (sixty-five
beds in an epidemic). This space seems
extravagant, considering that the largest
number of inpatients in the SHS at one time
in 1974 was 27, and that inpatient admissions
to the SHS have been declining from year to
year. The space allotted for gynecology may
be insufficient if the demand for
gynecological services increases.
However, the overall plans for the new
facility seem efficient and progressive when
compared to the present facility. It would be
a shame if an excellent building(the plans for
which have been applauded by other
universities) could not be built on the only
site which is perfect for the structure. Steps
could be taken to insure that the SHS
building would not be a precedent for further
encroachment into "Meeting of the Waters
park in the future.
Bill Bates, Student Body president, is a
member of the SHS Committee of the Board
of Trustees. If you have an opinion
concerning the new facility, let him know
before the Board of Trustees reconvenes in
early August. If you would like to know
more about the proposed facility, please
come see me in Suite C of the Union from 2-4
p.m., Monday through Thursday. Make
your voice heard in a decision which
definitely involves student welfare.
Katie Newsome Campbell, student health
advocate, is a senior psychology major from
Winston-Salem.
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the United States has pursued detente thus
far.
In almost every agreement concluded
between the United States and the Soviet
Union within the past few years the Soviets
have received tangible benefits in exchange
for little more than their agreement on paper
to lofty principles. This fact, of which the
space mission is a pointed reminder, has
resulted because the United States has been :
far too trusting in its dealings with the
USSR.
The root of the problem is the inability of
the American people in general and the
refusal of U.S. policymakers in particular to
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have sought to control every aspect of
our lives. Big government does big
things, but for the ultimate ascent of
what highest purpose?
Most liberals can be expected to
continue displaying their arts and
sciences. They up to now have captured
the preponderant share of the more
preeminent social issues of the day.
They closed their phalanx in the sixties
with measurable success; today many of
their own champions are fleeing the
front line as they come to grasp the
substantive order of our external
realities.
Today, the people are searching, or
more appropriately, waiting for the
arrival of an effective political force that
has both the tenacity and realism to.
honestly confront the myriad of
confusing dilemmas that trouble
America.
The sentiment of the citizenry and
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We need revolution, not
Switchboard, like many other non-profit
rap line crises centers located in and around
the United States, is facing the problem of
inadequate financial support. Because of this
such centers are being forced to cut back on
services, or discontinue operating
completely. An attempt to alleviate this
problem is under way in Chapel H ill, by non
paid Switchboard volunteers, who are
circulating petitions and collecting
signatures, which will hopefully convince the
state government, specifically the North
Carolina Drug Authority, that not granting
the $35,000 Switchboard is requesting will
run contrary to the interests of the people in
this community.
The questions and thoughts 1 raise are not
specifically directed toward the N.C. Drug
Authority, nor government in general, but to
the Switchboard staff, and to the people in
this community who may or may not
support Switchboard and similar agencies.
The first question I ask is, whose interests do
government and governmental agencies such
as the N.C. Drug Authority serve? This
question is important because that's where
Switchboard is seeking it's main financial
support. My second question (which
involves Switchboard), is whose interests do
therapy and counselling, (whether in a
professional or hip setting), serve?
It is my opinion that therapy is a part of
and strongly supports the U.S. ruling class,
it's imperialist practices, and the oppressive
institutions which uphold it. When therapy
isn't specifically supporting that system, it's
supporting itself. Therapy in the United
States parallels the history of U.S.
capitalism, from the individual
entrepreneur, (psychiatrists, etc.), to the
large scale social control of the masses. In
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take into account that the Soviets,, unlike
ourselves, see detente as a means to an cad,
rather than an end in itself. The folly of
detente lies not in the worthy aim of relaxing
tensions so as to lessen the threat of nuclear
war. But the particular policies by which that
aim has been pursued by the United States
could well have the effect of eventually
eroding the precarious balance that today
exists between the U.S. and the Soviet
Union.
Herein lies the error, for if the course of
detente is not changed, the end result might
well be a situation in which the nuclear
confrontation detente seeks to avoid would
be more likely than it was even during the
Kennedy years.
It is a basic assumption of Marxist
Leninist ideology that the capitalist system
will one day collapse of its own volition. A
related tenet holds that a push here or a
shove there that might help capitalism along
the way to its "predetermined" fate, without
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polity today is moving in the direction of
taking government off our backs, giving
us peace of mind and privacy, leaving
our schools and representative
assemblies alone, and reducing federal
bureaucratic interference in private
enterprise. These governmental
subversions, thankfully, are now being
seen for what they really represent. Of
particular significance is the belated and
disquieting realization that the federal
courts, especially the Supreme Court,
have for intolerably too long a time
usurped the powers of the legislative
domain, especially in the fields of
criminal law, education and taxation.
Federal judges appointed for life and
accountable to no one have effortlessly
seized the prerogatives and power of our
elected representatives, not only
interpreting law but in effect making law
as if the courts were a second legislature
of our central government.
The liberal intelligentsia swears by big
government and believes that all human
and social infirmities are capable of
solution by "government power, that
behavior and individual conscience can
be legislated, poverty eradicated from
the face of the nation through a new
"cure-all" government program and so
on.
With the capacity of self-delusion that
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other words, therapy serves the status quo by
bolstering the power of those who run this
country. This is done by insisting that
people's problems originate from people's
own heads. This passes the blame from
societies' sick, oppressive, political realities.
to the individual whose discomfort is
probably a result of the lack of power and
control over his or her environment and life,
plus the mystification process which is
forced upon people by societies' oppressive
institutions such as schools, churches,
hospitals, clinics, etc. This combination of
oppression plus mystification alienates
people from their environment and lives,
causing them to retreat into their own "sick
selves and relationships rather than to deal
with their overall oppressive living situation.
Switchboard, and rap centers alike, spend
an incredible amount of time and energy in
social welfare and patch-up type work that
established institutions (hospitals, clinics) do
not want to deal with. By providing
alternative services, these established
institutions are relieved of the obligation of
dealing with socially caused problems. Rap
centers, rather than being programs set up by
young people to meet their own needs, are set
up and financed by adults to treat, counsel,
or contain rebellious "kids' whose
sexual social aggressive drug . behavior
totally threatens and embarrasses the adult
world. These young people are labeled as
"sick" and "dependent", and their behavior
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endangering the position of the Soviet state,
is a very sensible move. . .
Detente, then, signals no change in Sov.et
strategy, just a change in tactics. It does not
mean that the Soviets have decided to
peacefully coexist with the U.S. on an eternal
basis; they will do so until it seems
advantageous to do otherwise. The Soviet
Union's present acceptance of detente
merely indicates that its leaders feel nothing
more can be gained by a pohcy of
confrontation for the time being.
The danger for the United States lies in i the
possibility that American leaders, blinded by
their intense desire to trust our adversary for
the sake of peace and pressured by an
American public which has always ignored
the realities of world politics, will allow the
already eroding military and economic
balance to shift too far in favor of the
Soviets. If this were to happen, and if the
American desire for peace were
misconstrued as weak-willed appeasement,
the temptation to speed the demise of
capitalism through the use of force might
take precedence over the will to wait and
watch as it crumbles all on its own. It is not
being alarmist to say that, were the Soviet
Union to yield to such a temptation, a
nuclear confrontation could be the result.
There is no reason to abandon detente
especially if the only alternative is a
resumption of the Cold War. But there is
compelling reason to modify the course it
has taken during its brief history.
The United States should continue to talk
with the Soviet Union and attempt to
conclude mutually beneficial agreements
over the broad range of economic, cultural,
political and military matters which will
further the aim of peaceful coexistence. But
we should ever keep in mind that: 1) while
detente will never be viewed by the Soviets as
a permanent arrangement, it may in fact
become one, as long as the balance does not
decidedly shift their way; and 2) that the only
way to prevent such a shift from occurring is
to insure that the U.S. gives no more than it
gets from any particular economic, political,
or military agreements concluded.
The Apollo-Soyuz space flight is over by
now, and the particular goals set for it have
been achieved. If the current course of
detente can be changed to a more rational
tack in the future, perhaps the same can be
said, as the years go by, of this most crucial
element of U.S. foreign policy.
Richard
student.
Whittle is a graduate journalism
many of the more ultra-liberals have, it
becomes understandable why
"experience for them involves not the
reversal of earlier mistakes but simply a
recognition of the same mistakes time
and time again. When one of their
projects displays its inadequacy and
ultimate failure, we are presented with
yet another project that, if nothing else,
will serve to nurture an already
ravenous federal bureaucracy. I
The people have painfully learned
that the national bureaucracy never
adjourns, that power is safest in their
hands, that decision and policy making
is wisest in their own neighborhoods
and not a judge's chambers and that
laws are most responsible in their own
communities.
If the more lofty character of our
country is to be maintained and the
political system reformed, we must
invert and cleanse the entire systerrjuso
that Americans of noble intent and high
purpose will rally our cause against the
espousal of staggeringly expensive,
disruptive, and vain liberal programs
and policies, and re-examine our
methodology for producing change.
Ralph Irace, contributing editor of the
Tar Heel is a graduate student in
journalism.
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is explained to be a result ol personal
problems. Then they are encouraged to grow
up, to become independent, to accept their
parents' values, to return to their schools,
families, and communities, and to be like the
others.
If such an approach is not adhered to.
government grants and subsidies from
private foundations are cut, forcing the rap
center to choose between selling ova or
collapsing. Selling out would make rap
centers like all other institutions, oppressing
and mystifying people, and winding up with
a staff with the desire to grow and perpetuate
themselves.
1 feel that the business of a rap or crisis
center should be to put itself out of business
by helping to transform society so that
people won't need such centers. What most
people really need is not therapy,
counselling, or brain-numbing drugs, but a
good dose of revolution. SUPPORT JOAN
LITTLE!
Ron Molinkiewicz is a
pharmacy psychology double major from
Detroit, Mich.
The Tar Heel welcomes dissenting opinion
to its editorial stance. This column by Ron
Molinkiewicz represents a response to
"Switchboard: a broken connection" in the
July 25 issue. Anyone interested in offering
reasoned dissent in a reaction column is
invited to contact the associate editors of the
Tar Heel.