Friday. October 7, 1977 The Daily Tar Heel 9
Isolated W. German terrorist groups have no connection with students
The column entitled "West Germany
paralyzed by youthful terrorists" (Oct. 4) is
one of the most misleading stories I've read
in the DTH this year.
The "youthful terrorists" that Peter
Hapke haphazardly throws in the same pot
with left-wing students have, in fact, no
connection with any student movement
whatsoever. While some students may
oppose tightening security measures
themselves, they have little sympathy for the
terrorist actions of the Red Army Fraction.
Haying just returned from a year at the
Free University in Berlin (reputedly one of
the mot ' left-wing of Germany's
universities), 1 can say that students are
nowhere near the boiling point. Actually,
just as in the U.S., they have cooled down a
lot since the activist days of the late 60s and
early 70s. Any suggestion by Hapke that the
actions of an isolated terrorist group could
bring on a full-scale student revolution is
simply absurd.
Georgia Harder
605 Airport Road
participating in terrorist activities though in
fact the students are not connected with the
Baader-Meinhof gang.
I was very pleased to read the letter of
Edward Heyman, whose analysis excellently
describes the real coherence of terrorism,
government and society.
Sabine Drehmann
218 Spencer
Come oft throne
To the editor:
The regulations on lofts in dorm rooms
were supposed to be sent out on Sept. 26. It is
now 1 1 days later, and Condie is still holding
us up. It is time for Condie to come off his
throne and do his job.
Tommy Lasitter
203 Mangum
Insult to injury
To the editor:
Southern Bell has now added the final
letters to the editor
To the editor:
I read with growing astonishment the
article about West Germany by Peter Hapke
in the DTH last Tuesday. Was that the same
country which I left seven weeks ago? Did
the students return earlier from their
vacation to become murderers and to make
the revolution? Does W. Germany stand
before a civil war? Peter Hapke drew this
picture probably because of ignorance of the
actual situation. From this article I'm sure
that many American students have gotten
the wrong impression about German
students' supposed involvement in terroristic
activities.
There exists no relationship between the
students and the Baader-Meinhof group and
the Red Army Fraction, the groups who are
responsible for the murders of Ponto,
Buback and Drenckmann, except the fact
that many members of both groups are
former drop-out students without any basis
in the universities. The student governments
do not even support the ideological ideas of
the terrorists; just the opposite, students
express their disapproval of these kinds of
"revolutionary strategies."
Indeed the German students are "angry"
about the attempt to clamp down on the
liberal movement, but these attempts of the
government cannot be justified by the
assertion that the campuses are a breeding
ground for radicals. However, the
government's goal is to cut off the critical
movement of its politics at the universities. It
tries to denounce the students for
insult to our consumer senses. On Aug. 18
the company filed a request with the North
Carolina Utilities Commission to increase
phone installation charges from S20 to $70.
Just multiply $70 by the number of new
connections each semester incredible! It's
hard to believe that the Chapel Hill
Telephone Company charged $7.50 just this
past spring!
Several years ago the North Carolina
Utilities Commission allowed Southern Bell
to double the pay phone rate from 1 0 cents to
20 cents; it was one of the first companies in
the nation to do so. An updated telephone
directory will not be ready for circulation
until December, yet we must pay 20 cents to
contact our only complete source of new
phone numbers.
Visits to the business office are futile.
After an unduly long wait, the receptionist
allows the customer to speak with a
"business representative" over a phone. If
you have made the effort to stop by the
Southern Bell office, it is very demeaning to
speak to a representative over the phone
rather than face to face. Hidden in the back
room, strapped to her chair with red tape,
Ms. Mystery Representative uses her well
modulated voice and ultra-pseudopoliteness .
to fend off the public.
If you can identify with our predicament
as prisoners of Southern Bell, write the
North Carolina Utilities Commission in
Raleigh and voice your opinion before it's
too late.
Write this address: Mr. Hugh A. Wells.
Executive Director; Public Staff, N.C.
Utilities Commission; P.O. Box 991.
Raleigh, N.C. 27602.
Eileen O'Grady
Pam Belding
Diane Porter
302 Pittsboro Street
A 'young schooler'
To the editor:
Call me obnoxious, burnt-out and
incoherent. Make fun of me. Laugh until
your elitist head bursts. Go ahead. I can take
it. Because, you see, I'm a "young schooler."
I've been where you have not. I'm "hep" to
what's really happening.
Obviously the statements of D. C. Malle
concerning marijuana were written by some
intolerant law-and-order buff attempting to
mislead those who have never experienced
the drug. Any intelligent effort to persuade
citizens as to the true facts on a social issue
would surely have relied on U.S. research
findings. A German study has only slight
relevance to American marijuana smokers
(unless it reveals new ways to acquire that
very potent German hashish). And for those
who have never tried marijuana, a German
study should be only of intellectual import.
Can an ex-policeman from Georgia really
enlighten the UNC student body, one of the
most heterogenous mixes of attitudes and
practices around? I would suggest he observe
the antics of UNC alumni on football
weekends if he really wants to describe abuse
of body and mind; otherwise, we should be
spared his brand of inductive logic.
So as you write your commentaries on life
and tell pothcad jokes, just remember that
the majority of research on marijuana in
the U.S. and elsewhere has given the noble
weed a clean bill of health. Marijuana docs
not turn your brain to grits, but large doses
of"D.C.M."do.
Fred Mills
Rt. 3, Box 493
Qlad to be a Grit
To the editor:
As a former Dukie, happily turned Grit,
let me applaud the very appropriate action of
the Carolina Cutie in the Intimate
Bookshop. If this was such an offensive sight
for the three Duke Sweeties, I hope in the
future they'll just stay over in Durham (more
commonly known as the Armpit of the
South) with their "Duke gentlemen." They
can have their stuck-up, spoiled brats; I'll
take the more humble, friendly, fun-loving
Grits over here in the Southern Part of
Heaven.
I'd rather be in Chapel Hill any day.
Melanie Bock
1905 S. Lakeshore Dr.
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