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Joni Peters. Managing tulitor
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l.ou Bilionis. Associate Editor
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Elliott Potter. City & State Editor
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Jeanne Newsom, Arts Editor
Gene Upchurch, Sports Editor
Rouse Wilson. Photography Editor
APO Chest: no better cause
If you're strolling by Ehringhaus field today, don't be shocked if you see
someone getting a pie in the face or a bucket of grits dumped on his head. It's
all part of the fun-filled Alpha Phi Omega (APO) Carnival to raise money
for Campus Chest, and it definitely merits student participation and
support.
APO expects to have over 30 booths manned by fraternities, sororities
and residence halls. Booths will feature everything from pie throws to
smashing a car to pieces with a sledgehammer. There also will be
performances by the UNC Jazz Lab Band, the Apple Chill Cloggers and the
UNC Parachute Club. Free beer will be provided.
The carnival, set for 6 to 1 1 p.m., is part of a five-part drive for the campus
charity. APO already has sponsored an auction and the Give-a-Friend-a
Flower Day this spring. "We help the charities whom we feel really need it,"
John Reid, APO Campus Chest chairperson said last month. "We want
local and campus charities because we feel our little bit of money wouldn't
help a national charity.
APO grossed $14,000 for Campus Chest in 1971, but since then the total
collected has decreased steadily. The fraternity this year has been trying to
make students more aware of Campus Chest's value to the community.
The APO Carnival gives the entire campus the opportunity to get
involved and have a good time. And more important, the money raised
couldn't go to any better cause.
Cop-out on desegregation
No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color or
national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of
or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving
federal financial assistance.
Title VI of 1964 Civil Rights Act
The buck has been passed.
Neither the federal courts nor the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare can figure out how to desegregate white universities and colleges
substantially and yet maintain the segregation of historically black schools.
But that's the law, according to District of Columbia judge John H.Pratt.
And without any idea how such a juggling feat can be accomplished, Pratt
has dumped the problem into the lap of the administrators of the University
system.
Aside from its paradoxical nature, what makes the decision so maddening
for President Friday and the Board of Governors is that UNC recently had
been praised for its model efforts to meet HEWs 1974 desegration
standards. North Carolina had, in fact, significantly surpassed the federally
sanctioned desegregation goals when the rug was pulled out from under the
state's University system on April 1.
Pratt ruled the 1974 desegregation guidelines insufficient to comply with
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Pratt interprets Title VI to mean there
should be swift, substantial desegregation with an exception for "the specific
problems of the black colleges.
But maintaining the racial identity of black institutions and
simultaneously desegregating white institutions is not only inconsistent
philosophically but also "mutually exclusive, according to Friday.
If Pratt wants to follow Title VI to the letter, he should have white and
black colleges shoot for a uniform standard as Friday has suggested: "That
standard might be the racial composition of current University-wide
enrollment (81-19 per cent), or of the state's most recent high school
graduating class 72-28), or of the state's whole population (about 78-22)."
As it now stands, the desegregation order makes a farce of the judge's
intent to "accomplish the goal of eliminating the vestiges of duality" in the
state's institutions of higher learning.
Yet Pratt offers no possible solutions to the quandary he has created for
well-meaning educators. Nor does he ask HEW to seek solutions.
"Without suggesting the answer to this complex problem, it is the
responsibility of HEW to devise criteria for higher education desegregation
plans which will take into account the unique importance of black colleges
and at the same time comply with the congressional mandate" to
desegregate.
Pratt's order is one of the great federal cop-outs on record. Rather than
deal with an admittedly "complex question," the government has set a goal
that may well be unattainable.
Harry Truman used to have a saying, "The buck stops here." But that
saying is, as the bureaucrats say, "inoperative' in Washington now. The
buck is passed on down the line to the defenseless seekers of federal funding.
If Friday and the Board of Governors want to keep those federal dollars
coming, they must either seek legal recourse or keep playing the'
desegregation game and continue to suffer its ever-changing rules.
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Ending misconceptions about lawyers
By ZESELY B. HA IS LIP, JR.
Editor's Note: This column is a
corrected version of one published in the
Daily Tar Heel yesterday.
American thought is plagued by the
belief that an education in the law
predisposes a student to political
mischief and corruption. Watergate
might never have happened, according
to the popular legend, if Nixon hadn't
surrounded himself with lawyers.
Russell Baker, in fact, suggested in a
recent column that the complexities and
irrationality of modern American
society are largely due to an overdose of
lawyers. He goes on to suggest,
however, that for a better public
understanding of the practical and
philosophical maze of legalism,
everyone should be given a legal
education, beginning in the first grade.
While Baker's column might be good
for a laugh, it was much better for a
grimace, because it reflects the
superficial and narrow view of popular
opinion. With a little thought, at least
three of the "lawyer myths" can be
exposed.
First, the view of defense attorneys as
Perry Mason or Judd For the Defense,
snatching a supposedly guilty client
from the grasp of justice every week, is
distorted. District attorneys, paid by the
people to prosecute legal violations, win
approximately four-fifths of the cases
they try. Obviously, not all of these cases
Any weddings in the Wild Kingdom?
To the editor:
The other day I noticed two dogs mating.
This would not have struck me as anything
out of the ordinary, except for the fact that it
brought to mind the notion of what true
"naturalness" actually is in sexual
relationships. A marriage counselor I am
not, but to my knowledge, there are no other
animals who go through a marriage
ceremony except for homo sapiens. My
human intuition tells me that somehow man
(in some cases) has deviated from the true
and intended path of sexuality.
James H. Pannabecker
609 N. Church St.
No civil rights for gay life?
To the editor:
In many of the anti-Save Our Children
letters, the civil rights of homosexuals were
equated with the civil rights of blacks. I
believe this equation is wrong.
Homosexuality is a way of life freely
entered into by an individual. Being black is
the result of birth. No one should be
penalized for being born into a certain race; a
chosen way of life inflicts on the chooser the
consequences of that life.
Society has the right to pass judgment on a
way of life. It has no right to judge birth.
t Paul Brown
Hillsboro
Fund raising praised
To the editor:
Not only do we have a dynamite
basketball team, but we also have another
great bunch of students who deserve some
praise. 1 am talking about the Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity which raised $1,000 for the
Orange County Council on Aging in Chapel
Hill by raffling off NCAA tournament
tickets. We should thank the members of the
fraternity, especially the president. Randy
Dickson, and the coordinator, Willie
McCain, for their thoughtful efforts.
Maryalice Quinn
Student Volunteer
Orange County Council
on Aging
And I knew pedantry
To the editor:
To Don:
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deal with murder or armed robbery a
large number are traffic or other minor
violations. However, D.A.'s have no
trouble getting convictions for major
violations. They are at least doing well
enough to keep this spate's prisons
overcrowded.
Second, the fact that John Mitchell,
Maurice Stans and Richard Nixon
not to mention innumerous
underlings were all lawyers should not
cast a stigma on the rest of the lawyers in
this country. "Birds of a feather flock
together," and officials of a similar
persuasion managed to put together one
of the most self-serving administrations
in America's history. But the legal
education of Nixon's cohorts was not
the connecting influence. They were all
bound together by their corrupting,
amoral belief that public power can and
should be used for personal gain, and
the equally corrupted belief that it is the
individual as President, and not the
responsibilities of the President, that
counts and must be served.
Finally, it is a misconception to
assume that everyone who goes to law
school becomes a courtroom attorney.
The basic skills a law student develops
are not the practical courtroom
methods and manners. According to A.
Kenneth Pye, chancellor of Duke
University and former dean of the Duke
Law School, a law student learns Jo
analyze the issues in any situation,
evaluate the evidence for the two or
more sides of the problem, and make
decisions about the alternative
ID
for having heard you
Reading your true confessions spanked my
life
Indignation welled within me
And 1 knew pedantry. . .
I'm sorry if this hurts you
You knew that the editorial page
wasn't designed
for your personal correspondence
But you persisted
You suspected your common verse of being
unfit
for official editorial scrutiny
Or you were afraid . . .
I'm sorry
that you are permitted to hurt me
How, then, can 1 convince you
Not to stay, to -go
elsewhere kindred souls can be your
purging agent
Your life is inflicted on me, stealing my space
and time
I'm sorry
if I am hurting you
Surely you could see though
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sensibilities
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solutions. When John F. Kennedy was
making his decisions in the Cuban
missile crisis, he depended as much on
the evaluations of various lawyers as he
did on the advice of the National
Security Administration and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. These skills are
important not only in the courts and
government, but in all areas of business.
It is probably true, as Baker suggests,
that "the complexity of almost
everything nowadays is such that only a
lawyer has a chance of waking up in the
morning and getting to the bathtub
without breaking half a dozen laws,"
and it is true that the Congress and the
various state legislatures are responsible
for the current maze of affairs. But the
problem is not in the law schools or the
increasing number of lawyers; the
problem is in the complex development
of American society in the last 40 years.
We must have citizens trained in the
law to help us live in the maze, or to help
us straighten it out. As a people, we will
have to decide together which course we
will follow, but that decision will not be
made any easier by semi-conscious
attacks on the very, guides trained to
help us. As widely-read and well
respected columnists, Baker and his
peers should consider speaking to the
public, instead of simply repeating
popular myths.
Zesely B. Haislip Jr. is a senior
English and economics major from
Winston-Salem, N.C.
You only steal, you do not share
appropriately
I cried with frustration at your first line
I don't want to hear comparable efforts
1 will not look back. . .
Sue
The light and the dark
To the editor:
Peter:
The wise men live in darkness, but the
happy men live in light.
Mo
The Sellouts saluted
To the editor:
Most of us realize that it's a dog's world,
but it is a shame that one must write a letter
to the editor to get recognition for
Village Visions
Logic favors
a six week
drop period
By BILL MOSS
andTAL LASS ITER
About this time last year the Faculty
Council reduced the drop period from
12 to four weeks. This was done despite
a poll that showed that approximately
three-fourths of the undergraduates at
UNC opposed this proposal.
Tomorrow, Professor C. Carroll Hollis
will introduce a proposal for Student
Government to extend the drop period
from four to six weeks.
Why six weeks? First, let's view the
rationale for reduction from 12 to four
weeks. The Report of the Committee on
Grading stated, "the committee views
the present policy of dropping courses
(12 weeks) as an important contributor
to the overall rise in undergraduate
grades. Therefore, the committee
recommends that the period for
dropping be four weeks from the first
day of classes. This period is sufficient to
give the student an opportunity to
survey the course content."
First, does a lengthened drop period
cause grade inflation? Maybe. Who
knows? Two more weeks will not
inflame significantly grade inflation.
Second, we are not proposing the
additional two weeks to allow the
student to "survey" the course. Six
weeks is usually enough time for a
professor to give at least one test. Then
an informed decision can be made by the
student concerning his ability, either
intellectual or time-wise, to handle the
course content.
Consider also the following facts:
students dropped as many courses this
semester as they did the last semester of
the 12 week drop period. So the number
of drops has not declined. Also in a
recent survey by Student Government,
100 faculty members were asked
"Would you object to extending the
drop period to six weeks?" The results:
Number Percent
Don't object 37 52.9
Do object 24 34.3
Neutral 9 . 12.9
70 100.1
Students and reason favor a six-week
drop period. The faculty is not opposed.
These facts should prevail tomorrow.
Student Body President BUI Moss is a
junior American Studies major from
Y oungsville, N.C. Tal Lassiter, a junior
pre-med and English major from
Washington, N.C, is Secretary of
Academic Affairs.
hardworking students while rows of Easter
bunnies and three campus mutts get their
pictures in the paper. (Whose University is
this?)
Last week I requested some publicity,
perhaps a photo, for the presentation of the
Chicano play, Los Vendidos (The Sellouts).
A group of former students of mine, on their
own and under no pressure from any faculty
(they're not in a class with me this semester),
got together and rehearsed and are now
presenting the play,' not only Wednesday in
the Pit along with the Spanish Club, but also
at Pittsboro's Northwood High School and
at Chapel Hill High School.
These students deserve recognition for
their hard work. Honest Sancho: Mark
Andrews; Miss Jiminez: Marisela Carrion;
Farmworker: Aldo Vallecillo; Johnny
Pachuco: Tony Hall; Revolucionario:
Francisco Tabernilla; Mexican-American:
Doug Arnold; Technical Staff: Sari Harrar
and Susan Navey.
Thank you.
Read Gilgen
Asst. Prof, of Spanish