8 The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday October 12. 19?.
Greg Porter
Editor
Ben Cornelius, Managing Editor
Ed Rankin, Associate Editor
Lou Bilionis, Associate Editor
Laura Scism, University Editor
Elliott Potter, City Editor
Chuck Alston, State and National Editor
Sara Bui lard, Features Editor
Chip Ensslin, Arts Editor
Gene Upchurch, Sports Editor
Allen Jhrnigan, Photography Editor'
Rebates small but good
Overenrollment is the bane of all college housing administrators. Though
it is common practice for this University to overenroll a little each year to
assure full dorm rooms and thus tax dollars from the state legislature, the
attrition rate normally guarantees the size of an entering class will stay at a
level desired by admissions officials.
But some years more persons than expected sign their acceptance form -and
the headaches begin for housing officials w ho have to find rooms for the
new students. Tripling is the only way to make the extra spaces. And it's a
method that obviously no one relishes.
But this year the Department of University Housing has decided to
compensate those 1 77 freshmen still tripled as of Oct. 3 or later. The move is
gracious and only fair, but we wonder why Oct. 3 was chosen as the magic
date. Assistant Director of Housing Peggy Gibbs said Monday that Oct. 3
was chosen because, "This is just an unreasonable length of time to expect
students to live in triples."
Setting the cutoff date at Oct. 3. however, excludes 313 of the 372 tripled
rooms at the start of the fall semester from rebates, which are computed as
20 percent of the nightly rate charged for a certain hall. If you asked a
student who had to be tripled for more tan a few nights he would certainly
tell you that length of time was "unreasonable."
Perhaps Sept. 1 , or 10 days after the halls were opened to freshmen, would
be a better cutoff point. Though the rebate total would be higher than the
maximum $9,168.60 level this semester, it would not come close to the 1973
rebate payments of $35,000. That year 1,800 persons were tripled in 600
rooms.
But as it stands, the Department of Housing is still to be commended for
trying to soothe the pain of the unavoidable hassles of overenrollment.
Sherman spared UNC
Seldom in the South does one hear anything good about William
Tecumseh Sherman. The red-haired general is best remembered for his
famous "March to the Sea" which cut a swath of havoc across the South.
The vivid scene in Gone With the Wind in which Atlanta burns is Sherman's
icon.
But today is University Day, and if the truth be known, we wouldn't be
celebrating the long and esteemed heritage of this First State University
were it not for a moment of mercy on the part of the marauder Sherman. 1 n
the latest issue of Alumni Review, Editor Roland Giduz relates an
interesting but little known order from the general, to wit: "If you reach the
, University, do not disturb its library, buildings, or specific property."
The stay of execution for the University was simple and direct, but the
manner in which it was obtained was considerably more complicated. Two
days after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, President Swain and former
Gov. William A. Graham set out to proffer a surrender agreement from
Gov. Vance to Sherman. But die-hard Jefferson Davis, holding out in
Greensboro, sent Confederate troops to apprehend the peacemakers. The
Confederates arrested Swain and Graham, only to fall into the hands of
Yankee troops. Rescued by their enemies, Swain and Graham took thier
plea to Sherman, who received them politely and granted their request.
The University, then the second largest in the nation, was saved. Today, it
remains one of the finest institutions in the nation owing to the unlikely
mercy of one of the villains of Southern history.
Alternative
To the editor:
Finally, the Athletic Association ar.d the
ticket office have decided to char.gs Vr.e
distribution system for student ticks:. to
home football games, even though their
motives are somewhat suspect. Granted the
association is here to make money, it is a
business and the profits go to support
athletics here at Carolina. Granted also that
the association was losing money when
unclaimed student tickets could not be sold
to alumni and the general public. Still, it is
unfortunate that it took a question of money
to prompt the ticket office to action, since if
they had had the best interests of the students
at heart they would have changed the system
long ago. Standing in a sweltering mob
outside Kenan Stadium for hours and then
trying to make your way to the gate while
being pushed and shoved from all sides is
very annoying, as we can all attest to.
Thus, 1 am glad that for the South
Carolina game the ticket office is
experimenting with a new system of
distributing tickets before the day of the
game. Saturday mornings should be much
more relaxed and enjoyable. However, the
experimental plan does not go far enough.
The experimental system is very similar to
the one which has proved very successful for
basketball games. But demand for tickets to
basketball games is much greater than that
for football games, and the ticket supply for
basketball games is of necessity much
smaller. Therefore, due to the greater
availability of student football tickets,
dating to football games is much more
prevalent than dating to basketball games,
and large groups of people are able to sit
together. Unfortunately, having to pick up
tickets two weeks before the game is unfair to
students. First, those students that choose to
take a date to the games are forced to know
who they are dating at least two weeks before
the game, which is unreasonable. Second, it
is almost impossible to get large groups of
people together two weeks before the game,
because there are simply too many conflicts
during the week.
1 would like to outline a distribution
system which would alleviate all of the above
problems. During fall semester, instead of
receiving a non-transferable athletic pass
into which holes can be punched, each
student would receive a hook ol stubs, w ith a
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85fft year of editorial freedom
to ticket distribution system could make it easier
ici ir.i'd stub for each home game. At a
yss: 'errr.iMd distribution date the proper
m j.ft could be detached from the book and
rtttttvi for a student ticket. In addition,
t.ie v.-.'a would be transferable, i.e.. a person
.r .i ir.i-.rt than one itubcould get more than
cr.e ticket. However, when entering the
m ad. urn. every student ticket would still have
to be accr,mpan;d by either a valid student
10 or a date pass, as at basketball games.
My suggestion is that student ticket
distribution begin on the Monday preceding
the game and last until the day of the game,
with tickets being offered to the alumni and
the public affair Wednesday. And, no matter
how many students wanted to tit together,
all that is necessary is for one student in the
group to collect the stubs and redeem them.
This would be especially inviting to
fraternities, sororities and dorm groups who
like to sit together. For example, suppose 30
fraternity members and their dates want to
sit together at a game. It could be the
responsibility of one brother to collect all 60
stubs for that game, and then at the student
ticket distribution exchange them for 60
tickets together. The tickets would then be
distributed to their owners. The bearers
could then go to the game as late as they
wish, and when entering Kenan would only
need to present a valid student I.D. or date
pass. In short, under this system the Athletic
Association does not lose any money, and
the students are able to sit together at the
game and get their tickets at a reasonable
length of time before the game with no
hassle.
Barry W. Burt
Zeta Beta Tau
220 Finlcy Golf Course
Making things up
1 o the edior:
1 guess if some people can't win with the
truth, they start making things up. The
conservative Orange Committee, which has
tried to unsuccessfully to prevent students
from registering to vote in Orange County, is
now trying scare tactics so students won"t
register. 1 hey are trying to tell some students
that if they register to vote in Orange
County, their parents will not he able to list
Allen Bakke too young
Hv JOS EAST
Homer Plessy had a mixture in his blood seven-eighths
white, one-eighth black. He was arrested when he refused to
ride in the "colored" coach of a railroad train as Louisiana
statutes required in 1895. At first he denied being Negro: but
then he decided to go to court. Plessy said the statutes
violated the 13th and 14th Amendments and told the court
that state-enforced segregation stamped Negroes with a
badge of inferiority.
The court said no. It told him that separate was equal.
Allen Bakke wasn't born when the decree was made.
"Separate but equal" a simple enough proposition. But the
power was monstrous: a legal sanction lor racism; a barrier
between races, a world geared lor whites.
William (irier and Price Cobbs were trying to describe to
the nation what they called the "Black Norm." (irier and
Cobbs were black psychiatrists w ho studied black behavior
and found character traits in blacks that were considered
pathological. However they called such traits "adaptive
devices." I hey said that every black must develop a "cultural
paranoia." a profound distrust of whites. He must be on
guard to protect against hurt lor his own survival.
Cirier and Cobbs said that every black suiters, but must
hide the misery. He develops a sadness a cultural
depression normal, ihev say. for a black.
The open hearth: Trust in the orchard's keeping
By JIM PA TE
II you are fortunate enough to have a
fireplace. I know you must be glad that
the weather has finally turned cool
enough to have an evening fire indoors
in comfort.
Although I am not so lucky. 1 love
fires on open hearths, for they offer the
one form of destruction that is creative.
Village fireplaces arc. I suppose, slowly
being stirred to life now after spring and
hot summer's idleness. People are
burning the fallen trunks and branches
of magnificent shade trees which
provide much of the beauty for which
Chapel Hill is noted. Through unknown
eons, trees have been home to many
creatures including ourselves. They
have, for generations, given us shelter,
satisfied our utilitarian and artistic
needs, comforted us with their heat and.
from the orchard trees, provided us with
fruit to color and flavor out Southern
fall.
And so the fall fires burn. Smoke rises
in the chimney, giving savor to the
outside air. and the wood turns to O.me.
to embers with a mystic flare and
thence to ashes from whence we came.
If he has escaped the alluringev il spell
of singing commercials, the siren
perversion of grown men serenading
their automobiles, the perceptive
watcher by the hearth may fill his soul in
an evening with a good book and a
generation of content.
Fall is the time of gathering oneself
and the fruits of one's labor to survive
the winter. It is a time of grapes and
jelly; of winemaking; of putting up
things lor the last time in the year; of
hot. freshly-made applesauce. As we sit
by our evening fire, the red skin and the
crisp, white flesh are mere memory, but
the applewood in the open fire returns to
one the trust that was in the orchard's
keeping. Although it is rare. 1 have had
them as a tax deduction. This is a total
falsehood. The test for tax exemption of
children is merely that the parent provide
one-half of the support and that the child be
a full-time college student. There is not a
word in the law about residency or voting. I
know that some students may have been
scared away by these lies. I hope they will
register for the May primary even though
they have missed the N ovember city election.
Gerry Cohen
Voter Registration Chairperson
Orange County Democratic Party
letters to
Succession in focus
To the editor:
I would like to commend the Daily Tar
Heel for its article ("Gubernatorial
succession: political clout or political power
grab." Oct. 6) discussing the issues behind
the succession amendment on the Nov. 8
ballot. I believe an open discussion of the
issues is imperative to ensure passage of the
amendment. However, several important
arguments that deserve attention were
omitted from the article.
The lack of gubernatorial succession in
North Carolina can be traced back to
colonial times, when the executive of a state
was someone to be feared and restricted.
Accordingly, the legislature was entrusted
with sufficient power to allow it to overcome
the governor's wishes. Even in 1977, the
legislative brach holds a distinct edge over
the executive branch in constitutional and
statutory powers. Passage of the succession
amendment will be an important step
towards balancing the two branches of
government.
It is generally conceded by political
scientists that a governor has only two and
one-half to three vearsol effective leadership
in a lour-ear term. By giving a governor a
chance to run lor a second term, the six
months at the end of the first term, in w hich
he is usually powerless because attentions
Allen Bakke concerns himself with defining the degree of
special help owed to minorities "all deliberate speed" is
enough. Allen Bakke never rode in the back of the bus.
"It could have been any black man that night. I guess. It
was at the time civil rights protests were everywhere. I was
walking down Tarron City Road to go to the store for a loaf
of bread to make sandwiches. I his car drove up with seven
white men in it. and they started shouting at me, but I kept
walking.
" 'Nigger come over here. . .Nigger, you one of those
loud-mouthed Martin Luther King niggers?"
"1 lelt sick. They knocked me dow n and jumped on me. I
tried to scream, but the heaviest man pressed a crowbar
across my throat. . .they stripped my clothes. . .the pain."
Aaron slowly unbuttons his Army jacket and strips to the
waist. Cut into the flesh across his chest are the letters KKK.
Then he unbuttons his belt and let his pants fall to the floor.
Heavy scars cover Aaron's groin, and where testicles once
were is a mesh of crude scars that criscross his crotch.
f ears stream down his lace.
The talks ol goals and quotas, ol quality point averages
and test scores. Allen Bakke never knew Jim Crow. He never
knew (ear.
occasion to burn it and there is no
livelier fire than applesauce makes.
For me. fires on the open hearth are
one of the whole and simple
satisfactions of life. They are of an
insular world that barkens back through
thousands and thousands of generations
of our kind. At their most basic level,
fires are still such a good experience.
You see the fire and.cW the heat it's
not some foreign wind, warm and dry.
spirited out of unseen slits in your wall.
As we sit in the late evenings of
autumn and burn the years, the future as
well as the past seems to dance
enigmatically before us in the bright
flame and crackle. As I gaze upon the
tlickering tongues. I see through one
have turned to the next governor, are saved.
In addition, the year of organization
required in most instances at the start of a
term is unnecessary as the second term
begins.
The trend in the United States is toward
allowing at least two four-year terms for
governors. (Twenty-three states allow
unlimited terms.) Georgia passed the most
recent succession amendment in 1976,
becoming the 43rd state to allow its governor
to run for re-election.
The opponents to North Carolina's
succession amendment are not keying on the
the editor
arguments for and against succession, but
instead are clouding the issues by focusing
on Gov. J im H unt's role in the passage of the
amendment in the General Assembly.
Granted, Hunt was the major force behind
the passage of the amendment, but it would
be difficult to imagine it passing without
strong leadership from the governor's office.
The opponents are attempting to portray the
amendment as one that is solely by and for
Jim Hunt and not for good government and
effective leadership in North Carolina. On
the contrary, the amendment in no way
assures the election of Jim Hunt in 1980 but
instead gives' the state's voters an
opportunity to re-elect him if they so desire.
The last five governors of North Carolina
have been in favor of succession. Two of
them, Terry Sanford, a Democrat, and Jim
Holshouser, a Republican, helped form a
bipartisan committee that is now working
for the passage of the amendment on Nov. 8.
In the long run. succession will benefit the
Republican party as much as the Democratic
party in North Carolina. Republicans here
found it easier to elect a governor than a
majority in the General Assembly in 1972
and will probably find the political situation
comparable in future gubernatorial election
years. Having control of the executive
"branch for a possible eight vears instead ot
just lour could improve the minority partv's
stature in North Carolina signilicanilv.
'ML P"
to know Linda Brown
million yesterdays, back to the flame
that sparked some primate's
imagination and lent gleam to his eye. 1
reflect upon the counting and then
wonder aloud. "One thousand, nine
hundred and seventy-seven whats?"
These paltry lew revolutions around our
parent starfire lose their meaning and
significance. I ponder what yet
unknown ill effects our animal psyche
might suffer by now living so totally
apart from what was for so long our
species' most intimate friend of nature in
this tiny world. I reflect on where I've
been and wonder where 1 might go
So let the wind howl and bluster and
sweep its aisles through the dark upper
sky. Let angry cold waves beat the
However, the GOP now appears unable to
see beyond the possible re-election of Jim
Hunt in 1980 and has taken a stand against
succession. This movement is not
unanimous, however, as several leading
Republicans have come out in support of the
amendment.
The election on Nov. 8 promises to
produce a low turnout as it involves only
highway bonds, local elections and the
succession amendment. As usual, students
can make a difference if they will take the
time to vote.
The activities of the opponents of the
succession amendment amount to nothing
more than a smoke screen to cloud the real
issues of succession. However, succession is
a question that needs to be considered on its
merits and not on the popularity or
unpopularity of one man.
Dean Hobbs
78 Tar Heel Mobile Ct.
Allocation questioned
To the editor:
Last Tuesday, Oct. 4, the Campus
Governing Council (CGC) met and
proceeded to digest its remaining
unallocated student funds for this year. As a
member of the council, I am appalled at the
procedure in which the items were enacted.
First, the agenda did not even include the
galactic $14,980 request of WXYC for
discussion that night. Since the agenda was
supposed to be just that, it came as a shock to
me that the appropriation had been
approved. I had left at 10 p.m. to do some
school w ork (that stuff some people actually
do have to accomplish) after our meeting
had succeeded in burning up the better part
of 120 minutes. In the light of the fact that
my own experience as a radio engineer for a
campus radio and TV station which had 24
hour, seven-day radio (FM) and. an
additional three-hour (plus television
wrestling, basketball and gymnastics) TV
broadcasting day, I see the cost of our station
at UNC as quite great. The station I am
referring to above was running on a $500 a
year budget, which provided for purchase of
only a minute quantity of surplus
equipment. Our equipment was not new,
true, hut we could provide the services
icquired bv out community of 15.0(H)
Linda was only 1 1 . a small girl w hose bright eyes lit up and
whose pudgy cheeks parted when she smiled. But she didn't
like walking 55 blocks through railroad tracks and crowded
streets to attend the black schools across town. She wanted to
go to that white school five blocks from her home. Being that
young, it was easy enough to dismiss her desire as naive. And
maybe she would have given up trying if her dad. Oliver,
hadn't insisted. And maybe she would have gone on
wondering why it had to be that why, why the white kids had
to learn by themselves, why her skin placed her in a different
school, why she couldn't have what the white kids had.
So. perhaps slu- was oblivious to what happened on that
day in late May 1954. She didn't know that her name would
be recorded in history books. She couldn't feel the
revelations, the power of the precedent. She didn't
understand all of that. She just wanted to go to that white
school five blocks away.
And she did.
Allen Bakke talks of discrimination in reverse. He says it's
unjust. Things aren't fair. He was too young to know Linda
Brown.
Jon East is a senior journalism major from Winston
Salem, N.C.
deserted beaches, the cold turn bitter for
another year and, as the sky goes to
frog-belly white, sheets of ice shroud the
landscape in a gleaming pall bending
trees over in silent submission to the
inexorable kismet of nature; with an
occasional protesting snap, the limbs
are strewn across the ground for another
year's gathering and burning.
But as the far-flung reaches do their
worst, the warm fire inside is a world
complete. It is a privilege of intimacy,
until the flame dies, with all the outer
elements tamed, transformed, and
made companionable for the yearning
human soul.
Jim Pate is a junior journalism major
from Fairmont, N.C.
MSQJ
on groups
students and 30,000 city residents
adequately.
Next comes the $500 for the Black Student
Movement (BSM) Cultural Awareness
Week. My only discouragement in the
appropriation of this sum is the fact that the
bill failed once and later must have been
approved after my required departure.
Legislative branches should not act more
than once on a bill; the requirement should
have been for the request to return to the
Finance Committee for a reconsideration.
By providing a no-interest loan of $10,000
to the BSM , CGC has tied up a large fraction
of student fees for a length of time which
makes it impossible for me to believe that the
services and goods received for it can be
realized in this fiscal year. This means that
the students who provided the money shall
probably not get the opportunity to observe
its expenditure. I am not against small
($1,000) loans to organizations, but do feel
that such a large amount of money as above
sets some precedence for other organizations
to follow.
Lastly, a true educational experience was
presented formally for funding by the
Association for Women Students (AWS): a
conference for women students throughout
the state of North Carolina. AWS requested
$150. a small sum compared to all of the
above questionable appropriations.
Apparently the amount of money was small
enough for the CGC to relate it to their own
pocket books, and the bill was defeated. I
hope that AWS resubmits a request to the
Finance Committee, with the request
divided into categories representing
assistance in paying the $ 100 debt incurred in
the women's conference and an additional
sum of money for sending delegates to a
national women's conference. '
It is unfortunate that all of these
appropriations are of no interest to the
graduate and professional students on
campus, but if 1 expect CGC to act
responsibly in its actions to us graduate and
professional students (nerds), I should first
attempt to get them to act responsibly to
undergraduate students.
David Hackleman
President, Graduate and
Professional Student Federation