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FridayApril 14, 19J Page 2 rrpn U) As We See It Marciflio um itudents Have Place In N. C. Labor Fight By DON ENGVALL Perhaps the largest peace demonstrations ever to be held in the history of the United States will take place this Saturday, April 15. Several hundred thousand men, women, students, and children are expected to participate in this "Spring Mobilization for Peace in which will take the form of two mass demonstrations one in New York City, the other in San Francisco. While those west of the Mississippi are urged to go to San Francisco, thousands of others all over the east and mid In addition to these activi.

ties, students from Cornell iversity are organizing a mas draft-card burning ia which anyone is free to join. Forthe past several weeks they have been collecting signatures hoping to attain the miniaua 500, without which the burni will not take place. 6 west will be traveling to New York City to meet and assemble in Central Park's Sheep Meadow at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. Rain or shine. The idea for the Spring Mobilization was originated last November in Cleveland, Ohio, by the Inter University Committee for Debate on Foreign When will those darn kids ever learn that a University must be run smoothly? policy.

The Mobilization Committee's call reads: "We call for a mass march and rally at the United Nations in New York and at the birthplace of the U. N. in San Francisco, on Saturday, April 15, 1957. We march to affirm our respect for the principle of equal rights and self determination of peoples, acclaimed by mankind and embodied in the U.N. charter We speak to people around the world to mobilize to stop the war in Vietnam.

We declare not merely a protest, but a new beginning." Preceding the march and rally a 'peace fair" will be held in the Sheep Meadow. Entertaining will be folk singers Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, and Tom Paxton. Along with these three, veterans of the Angry Arts' will man and display about fifteen floats which will also take part in the three mile march through midtown to the United Nations Building. Here the rally will feature as speakers: Martin Luther King, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Stokeley Carmichael and Rev.

James Bevel. In the words of the late A Muste, the Spring Mobilizalioa Committee's original chair-man, "The feeling of let -down, of hopelessness, which overcomes us at times because the Johnson war-machine grinds on, is in the final analysis something to be ashamed of. Johnson and the war-machine are things to be faced, to stand up to, not to stand in awe of or cringe before. Our task is to disarm them, not to be morally and politically disarmed by them Did we really think the job would be easy and attained at a modest price?" Hitchhike, grab a bus, find a north-bound car. Come to New York.

It's a nice place to visit, too. 1 "What business do students have in a labor dispute?" is the question a lot of people are asking. The Answer: Plenty. The question and answer center about the fact that college students throughout this state are being asked to involve themselves in the struggle of thousands of textile workers to make the voice of Labor heard in North Carolina like it's never been heard before. It will probably be a long and bitter fight.

But it will be worth it, for what's involved is the bringing of some members of North Carolina's textile industry kicking and screaming, if necessary across the threshold of the 20th Century. And it is precisely because it will be a long and bitter fight for high stakes that students and indeed, every element of the communityshould rally behind the textile workers. We say this fully realizing that, there are a lot of things about the American Labor movement which deserve criticism. And we realize, too, that workers' strikes can be rough-and-tumble affairs with no quarter asked none given. And we also realize that there are many influential elements in this state with whom the Univer sity loses favor each time its students become involved in such matters.

But we realize most of all that bringing effective unionization to the textile workers of this state is one of those things which transcends expediency. It would be very nice if the textile workers' grievances could be satisfactorily settled around a bargaining table, thereby avoiding strikes with their accompanying picket lines and mob psychology and power plays. But this apparently isn't going to be the case. It hasn't been the way it's worked in the past, and there's little reason to suspect that the textile mills' management is going to experience a Cinderella change overnight and begin accepting union demands at the conference table. So it will probably come down to a strike, that nitty-gritty stage of labor relations during which both sides flex their muscles and the strongest man wins.

And that is why students must join in to swell the muscles of the unions and show the textile mills' management that not only the workers, but the people of North Carolina, too, are fed up with the way things are being run now. The Rape Of Court It was just plain finky, the way the proles reconquered Court early Thursday imorning with their hoses and brooms and soap-suds. Before the morning chill even had a chance to evaporate, khaki-clad maintenance men and their clipboard carrying supervisors were making Court just a drab patch of asphalt again. pl' T4my M- il j5 i -rr- ci V- "When it rains," grumbled one maintenance man, "they'll just track it all into the classrooms. "They just went too far this time." And in those 17 words was summed up the entire view of the Powers That Be or, rather, Cause Not To Be.

We'll admit that there probably are those whom. things like Chalk-. In's bother, and who grieve over the possibility of a wet, chalky shoe sole sneaking into a classroom or office building. But who really cares? After all, if somebody's going to get upset over a little chalk on the asphalt, how will they ever be able to cope with the spring blossoms that will soon be covering the red brick sidewalks. They were erasing the yellow and blue and red and pink and green graffiti, drawings and just-plain-patches-of-color that left over from Wednesday's Chalk-In.

And in so doing they were re- minding us that normalcy is normal here and that Normalcy and Pragmatism are supposed to be our watchwords not Spontanaiety and Creativity. The Advisor Systei A Farce Might UNC: Chapel Hill's Guardian Hill Weekly From The Chapel A good many years ago the University stood flat footed Florida Attorney Thinks Dirty, Dirty By ROCHELLE JONES Florida's sagacious state attorney Harper has launched his latest attack on rioting collegians. "The college cruds," says Harper, "are sexually promiscuous. They drink all night, sleep in their swill, vomit their filth and awake the next morning to resume with renewed intensity. The city neither wants nor needs them." Mr.

Harper, who takes his right foot out just long enough to insert his left one, is wrong. The students are not "college Cruds." Mr. Harper may neither want nor need the students. The city does. Several hundred students were arrested during the vacation.

Over 20,000 were not. Of those arrested, police estimate more than half were not college students who also had their vacations during that time. Some 25 per cent were waitresses, truck drivers, construction workers and assorted drifters. Most students are well behaved. Local residents in- vited students their '-homes -when motels and ho tels were booked; they praised- the collegians highly.

Most come to soak up the run, relax, and meet people. Mr. Harper's fabeled "sexual promiscuity" is largely that. Six or eight people in a room is rather inhibiting sexually. The "college cruds" are a financial necessity.

They spend an estimated $2 million. They attract more money. All the leading swimming suit manufacturers send representatives to spot the latest fashion trends. Milton Bradley and other companies come to Florida to test games on the college crowd before releasing them on the market. Three hundred local merchants, motel and hotel owners have signed a petition requesting the city to encourage the students to come.

"What would we do without them?" one asked. Mr. Harper has admitted he has received no noticeable support yet among Ft. Lauderdale residents. Thank God! One Harper per city is sufficient.

Otelia Connor My Expressions On Vietnam War Poeple ask. me how I feel towards the war in Vietnam? I detest war, and I feel hopeless about man ever settling his problems around the conference table, where each side works for mutual benefits. Then when I see and hear of the riots and the aimless existence of a number of young people, Thomas Jefferson's observation about human nature comes to my mind "The tree of liberty must be watered by the blood of patriots every 20 years, or we lose our liberty." Senator Carter Glass of Virginia summed it up at the beginning of World War II "People should have some greater purpose in life when they get up in the morning than to eat, sleep, and go to the movies." It makes one wonder if the easy life for everybody, the affluent society is the best way of life for man? Maybe so, if we could put the same dedication and sacrifice into obtaining worthy goals during peace that we use during wartime. The verdict of history, is that human nature can't stand too much prosperity, too much self-indulgence. When we cease to struggle, we cease to grow! What about universal including women? If universal conscription included everybody, meaning the ones who sit behind the desk, issuing the orders, I would say O.K.

If Hitler had known that he would be the first to go to the front-line trenches, he would never have started World War II. However, after one side attacks another, there is no choice but to strike back-Some things are worse than death, namely, living under Hitler, or Communism trust. This is a particularly appropriate time, however, for them to remind the public, especially mining company officials, that the guardians are on guard and as determined to protect that trust as ever. bunch. It doesn't matter if a student is interested enough in his studies that be takes 20 hours and finds it a little' too much work.

What a horrible thing to want to drop down to a 17 hour load. I really should have known better for trying such a terrible thing. I should have known be fore I took 6 courses it would be too heavy a load. The suggestion I now make is stay away from the College of Arts and Sciences Office. My recommendation is either go back to the General College or to try and get advice from a teacher or professor, who is not too busy or overcrowded to limit you to 5 or 10 minutes to pre register or considers you one of the hard.

That is what I plan to do. Lloyd Simon appointment book. Well he seemed to have no time avail-, able for the next 2 weeks. I inquired about the possibility of seeing another advisor. At this point the secretaries got very indignant and were extremely rude.

After a long verbal battle I got the satisfaction of, "wait in the hall and we will see what can be done." Finally I was elated in getting to see an advisor. No advice was offered. I was reprimanded for the nerve of daring to even consider to drop a course. The Advisor(?) said, "I have people in here everyday wanting to drop courses. They close our courses and then drop them.

We have to crack down on this." All I can say is that students certainly are a horrible To the Editor, Believe it! It is true. At the University of North Carolina as at other large universities the student is a highly impersonal creature. He is just one of the herd. That is my conclusion after my first visit to the Office of the College of Arts and Sciences, after I finished the General College curriculum. Receiving little advice from anyone, I made the mistake of taking 6 "courses this semester, a load which turned out to be a little too heavy.

After receiving a letter to drop one course from the instructor, I approached the secretaries in the Office of Arts and Sciences asking to see an advisor. Finding out for the first time who my advisor was, they then informed me he was not there and to make an appointment in his against the construction of a gas station adjacent to the old Presbyterian Church on East Franklin Street. The University's objections were almost entirely aesthetic. gas station would have done violence to the character of area. The dignified old church would have, been grievously damaged by the presence of such a neighbor.

And that beautiful sweep of campus from Franklin Street to the Old Well would have been cheek by jowl with an incongruity. Now the University and for that matter Chapel Hill and a good part of Orange County is faced with a threat that could a whole chain of gas stations and hamburger palaces piddling by comparison. The threat is strip mining. One mining company already ihas obtained land options. Another company reportedly is in Orange County.

The chairman of the University's Geology Department has described in vivid detail what strip mining and smelting could do to this entire area. The result would be an environmental disaster. The Geology Department chairman is greatly concerned. the University shares his concern is a question that no one seen fit to answer. No one needs to remind the Board of Trustees, President William Friday, or Chancellor Carlyle Sittersoh that they are guardians of a public She SaUg ar Qrel Bill Amlong, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Lytt Stamps, Managing Editor John Askew r.

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C. have to go and sit at church and be told something by the minister; we cannot think on our own. And the man who cannot think on his own cannot act on his own. An air of deadening superficiality pervades all levels of our society. Our children learn it on TV.

This is truly regrettable. This boredom, this inability to do things ourselves is deadening. It is eating away at the foundatons of our country. The Great Society feeds upon the rotting remains of a once healthy democracy. We must involve ourselves more directly in affairs that effect us, or we will lose forever that vitality which built this country.

And the places to combat this growing boredom are in the homes and in the educational institutions. UNC is an educational institution, so something must be done The symptoms are evident; now a cure must be found. Think about it. sures of the academic situation. But I tend to look at boredom as a national characteristic.

People today are bored with their roles. The ordinary man is caught up in a bureaucratic organization with no real purpose in mind. After shuffling papers all day, a man will come home and not know what to do with his leisure time. TV has become the opiate of the people. People sit around watching things, but they never do things themselves.

"There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book- without having worked the sum out for themselves." This is a national disease. Parents do not teach children to do things themselves. They issue disrespectful decrees from above the way their bosses do at work. Our whole society has become bored, we By MICHEL OB One may well wonder about collegiate activities sometime. What prompts the endless search for amusement, as seen in the traditional activities of TV, beer drinking, protests, pop music blasting down dormitory corridors, or sitting on the stoop (a definitely redneck characteristic) laughing at people who go by? Idleness is not to blame, for there is more than enough work to keep everyone busy.

I think boredom is a more plausible cause. What is the cause of the boredom? The lecture system is undoubtedly partly to blame, as is the subject matter itself. Dormitory conditions are hardly exciting. Then there is even an unconscious bordeom with the methods by which people try to re: lieve boredom. And boredom may be a defense mechanism used to fight the growing pres.