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Reading day poll shows
students favor it 7-1
By DONNA FAIR
Students voted
overwhelmingly in favor of a
reading day in an opinion poll
held on registration day, Dec.
1.
The final tally was 5,478
students in favor of the reading
day and 725 for an extended
exam period.
At present, the
administration has cancelled
the winter quarter reading day
and the faculty Calendar
Committee has refused to
incorporate reading days into
next year's calendar.
One explanation was given
by Dr. Robert Williams,
Provost. He told an SGA
representative that losing the
class time that would be
devoted to a reading day might
cause the University to lose its
accreditation with the
Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools.
Dr. Floyd Read, chairman of
the Claendar Committee, said
his committee felt a reading
day was not practical and
voted not to incorporate it in
next year's calendar.
Instead, they extended the
exam period an extra day.
He also said that he had
been told that members of the
faculty felt that the reading
day would be an all-day party
for the students, and that it
would not improve grades.
The SGA said the reading
day was not proposed to
improve grades, but to give the
students a rest before exams.
Arrangements for a reading
day fall and winter quarters
were made by the SGA. Action
against the delegation of
reading days was initiated by
the SGA's opinion poll.
The results of the poll will
be presented at the next
meeting of the Calendar
Committee, said Tom Clune,
SGA Secretary of Internal
Affairs.
Clune hopes the Committee
will reopen the subject for
discussion when given the
results of the poll.
'A Flea in Her Ear'
draws critics' praise
"One of the funniest plays from an unknown lady, making
ever written this is what
many critics say of George
Feydeau's "A Flea In Her
Ear a French farce opening
Dec. 10 in McGinnis
Auditorium.
The fun, according to
director Edgar R. Loessin, is in
the plot-a classic formula of
mistaken identity and double
entendres.
Here's the way it goes: A
young wife has "a flea in her
ear' and suspects her
blamelessly square husband of
infidelity.
To catch him she has a
friend write him a love letter
an appointment with him at
the Hotel Pussycat.
Complications and chaos
abound at the hotel as identites
are reversed and bedrooms
switched with everyone finding
himself in a compromising
position.
Major roles in the
production are played by Ben
Cherry, Barbara Simpson, Mark
Ramsey, Linda Taylor, Jim
Leedom and Sue Weisensale.
Tickets are now available at
the box office in McGinnis
Auditorium.
COMPROMISING POSITIONS Intrigues abound at the
Hotel Pussycat in the East Carolina Playhouse
production of Georges Feydeau's "A Flea in Her Ear"
which opens Dec. 10 in McGinnis Auditorium for a four
night run. Tickets are now available at the McGinnis box
office, by mail at Box 2712, Greenville, N. C. or by
phone at 758 6390. Faculty and staff tickets are $1.
Students with I. D 's may pick up tickets free. Pictured
left to right are Linda Taylor, Sue Weisensale and Jim
Leedom.
Pignani helped develop
spaceship trajectory
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By JANE KELLER
Apollo 12 traveled through a
"tube" on its journey between
Earth and the moon.
According to Dr. Tullio
Pignani, the chairman of the
Math Department, the "tube"
is an area within which the
space craft must travel on its
way to and from the moon.
Pignani was a member of a
four-man mathematic research
team for NASA.
The theoretical solution for
mathematically constructing
the "tube" and the exact route
of Apollo 12 and other
successful lunar missions was
discovered by Pignani.
"Calculating the trajectory
of the space ship was our
specific problem says
Pignani. "The trajectory is the
point at which the space craft
leaves the Earth's parking orbit
to the point at which it enters
the lunar parking orbit
Dr. Pignani said, "It is quite
simple to mathematically
calculate a straight line
trajectory, but the space craft
did not travel in a straight line.
Its path was a curve.
"Another very important
consideration is the fact that
the computers in the space
craft can only add and
multiply. They cannot subtract
and divide. A computer large
enough to subtract and divide
is too heavy and too large to be
included in the space craft we
now employ
Pignani described the
conditions under which he and
his colleagues arrived at their
successfu! "Patched-Conic
Method" of caluculatior
"After about a year of
examining the research in
celestial mechanics, especially
Siegel, the outstanding German
authority, I discovered that
none of their Drojected
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DR. TULLIO PIGNANI discussing lunar photos taken
by Ranger VII.
solutions would work in
solving our particular problem.
"It was one evening in a
restaurant in Huntsville (Ala.)
after a few weeks of intense
study and discussion together,
six or eight of us were having
dinner together and discussing
possible solutions, just talking.
Suddenly it came to me that
since the path of the space ship
had to be a curve, why not try
joining conic sections of curves
together?
'The idea sounded
reasonable to all. We began
feeding quadratic equations
into computers and came up
with the workable solution we
now have.
"It was one of the few
strokes of good fortune which
have come my way Pignani
said.
Pignani's efforts and
recognition while witn the
research team won for him the
position of consultant to the
Marshall Space Flight Center at
Huntsville, Ala.
Although Pignani, who
joined the faculty here in
1964, is no longer on active
status with NASA, he
continues to follow avidly all
space activity.
UNClaw professor addresses
local Civil Liberties Union
Bv WAYNE EADS
Dan Pollitt, professor of law
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, will
speak here Thursday at the
monthly meeting of the
Greenville chapter of the North
Carolina American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU).
The topic of his speech is
the relevancy of constitutional
law principles and concepts to
the work of the ACLU.
Pollitt is a professor of
constitutional law, labor law,
and criminal law at UNC. He is
a long-time attorney for the
ACLU, and once served on the
legal staff of the U. S. House
Committee on Labor. He is
also qualified to argue cases
before the U. S, Supreme
Court.
An organizer
Pollitt is also a political
activist, having served as an
organizer of Sen. Eugene
McCarthy's presidential
campaign in 1968. He is the
author of several law review
articles, some of which have
been published in the "New
Republic
One of his recent cases was
the defense of the professor at
Elon College who was on trial
because of his activities relating
to the Vietnam Moratorium.
Basic rights
The ACLU's role is to
protect the rights of every
citizen as enumerated in the
Bill of Rights. In keeping with
that function, the ACLU has
defended Communists,
Klansmen, and members of
many other controversial
groups whose rights have been
violated
While most public attention
focuses on the legal counselors
of the ACLU, laymen play an
important part in the work of
the ACLU. They serve as
researchers, as community
action program coordinators
and many other positions.
Those persons who wish to
hear Pollitt speak, or are
interested in the ACLU should
go to the meeting at 8 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 4, in the
Baptist Student Center on 10th
street.
Study skills
class begins
Dr George Weigand will
teach the Study Skills Class
Winter Quarter in Room I
Wright Building. The class win
begin Monday, December 8
1:00 p.m. It is not necessary t
register for this class.
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Open letter to students
, the students of East Carolina:
This past weekend we had the most successful homecomiuy
? have ever had in the history of the Student Government. It
the first time that a concert had been completely sold out.
However, grave problems did exist.
Because the seating capacity of Minges is only
nnroximately 7,000 and the demand for tickets was
qreater-much greater-than the seeating capacity, some
students were turned away. Dean Alexander attempted to help
this problem by adding an additional 500 seats, and these were
Ided by placing an additional number of seats in the aisles
and by adding more seats to the main section.
If a fire marshall had come into Minges either Saturday
affternoon or Sunday morning, he could have closed the
concert because we were violating fire regulations. But, even
this increasing of seats proved to be insufficient for the
demand.
As I mentioned earlier, this was the first concert in the
histroy of the University that was a sellout. We were totally
unprepared for this situation. Dean Alexander and the Central
Ticket Office, upon realizing the concerts were to be more
popular with the students than was expected, released tickets
set aside for the faculty and the staff to the students. This
i aused some members of the faculty and the staff to complain
to Dean Alexander, but he told them the concerts were paid
foi by the students; and, therefore, the students should be the
to get the benefits of the tickets. Also, several alumni and
supporters of the University wanted tickets. They were not
given tickets because of the great student demand for them.
rhe student tickets were exhausted late Wednesday
afternoon or Thursday morning before the concert.
Many students complained to me and to Dean Alexander,
g why there were not enough student tickets. I have sent
a lettei to the Legislature asking them to view the policy of
the CIO. It is my hope that the Legislature will allow a
revision of the rules and regulations regarding the CTO. I
suggested to the Legislature that they consider a policy which
would allow tickets to go on sale two weeks prior to a concert
foi the dispersion of the tickets. During the first week,
students only would be allowed to pick up tickets. The second
eek would be open to everyone-students included?to pick
up their tickets.
I do hope that the Legislature will also consider the number
of student guest tickets that were allocated last spring when
we allocated a thousand student guest tickets. Because this
guest ticket was heavily abused by many students, the
thousand guest tickets were soon depleted. Many people who
dated persons not attending East Carolina were forced to pay
S4.00 for tickets instead of $2.00 a ticket. In the future, I do
hopcthat the students here will respect the policy concerning
the student guest tickets.
It is my hope that the complaints of the students who could
not attend the conceits will be answered and acted upon by
the Legislature in the future. If we do ever have another
sellout, all students will have a chance to attend the concert.
The Student Government does apologize to those students
who were unable to get tickets for the homecoming concerts.
Oui only excuse is that Minges is not big enough. The number
ol public tickets released to people outside of the University
community was small, approximately 400. I have suggested to
the Legislature that a revision in the rules governing the
operation of the Central Ticket Office be made This was
suggesTed to me by a student wno wasnjrrable to ubiairi
tickets I think if this suggestion is adopted in the future,
students should be able to obtain their tickets for the concerts.
John Schofield
President, SGA
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What's a catamount?
Dead crane
symbolizes
school spirit
Many students have been
wondering why a dead crane
was hung on a tree in front of
Memorial Gym Monday.
Many have also tried to
make some sense out of the
sign attached to it which read:
"What's a catamount? First
win for ECU basketball team
A student said he saw the
dead bird lying in a mud
puddle behing Belk Dormitory
Monday morning.
He said that he and several
other students put the bird on
display at Memorial Gym to
show school spirit
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Jenkins initiates
police program
Plans to institute North
Carolina's first higher
educational program in police
administration and in
corrections have been
announced here.
President Leo W. Jenkins
said Tuesday that the
University's current base of
courses dealing with crime and
delinquency will be used to
develop significant curriculum
and structures for a
comprehensive program in the
field.
An advisory committee will
be formed to facilitate
development of the program.
"We are faced with a
demanding crisis in the field,
and recent events have
illustrated the need for and
the role of law enforcement in
human relations and the
prevention of crime Jenkins
said.
ECU's program, he said, will
be coordinated through the
new Department of Social
Welfare and Social Work in
collaboration with the
Department of Psychology,
Sociology, and Political
Science for the time being.
Former students arrested
for putting up posters
Two former East Carolina
students were arrested early this
morning and held under S50
bond for putting up posters in
the Greenville area.
Greenville police charged
Daisy Albritton and Mitch
Marshall about 2:30 a.m. for
posting signs concerning Dr.
Ralph Abernathy, president of
the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, and his
scheduled visit to Raleigh on
Dec. 6.
Abernathy will speak at
Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium
in a statewide workshop of
SCLC.
The two SCLC volunteers
weie driven by Deborah Byrd,
member of the organization's
state Board of Directors. Miss
Byrd was held for questioning
and later released.
Whitney Hadden, chairman of
the campus student rights
organization known as GAP, said
this morning that GAP, SCLC,
and the Black Action Committee
at Rose High School would
jointly call for a silent
demonstration today to protest
the arrest.
In a leaflet distributed this
morning oy GAP, a siient,
symbolic demonstration was
announced for the Federal Post
Office in downtown Greenville
at 3:00 p.m. The leaflet
denounced the arrest as "simply
another example of the
harrassment and intimidation
practiced by the Greenville City
Police against the people in
Greenville who arc working for
SCLC and for the peace
movement
Hadden said the group would
wear gags taped over their
mouths " as a symbol of our
lack of freedom of speech
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Inventive, poetic lyrics
Laura Nyro feels 'pulse of the city'
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By ROBERT McDOWELL
NEW YORK TENDABERRY.
Laura Nyro. (Columbia KCS
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impersonal city shapes the
artist, provides inspiration,
offers delusion, drugs, escape
and a subject for the blues.
New York: "Sidewalk and
pigeon ' you look like a city
but you feel like religion
Laura Nyro singing the blues,
the sensitive poetess feeling the
pulse of the city, reflecting the
love and the brutality, the life
forces and the death urges of
metropolis.
Laura Nyro's arrangements
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"New York Tendaberry" is
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An easily imitable tune, "Save
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Laura Nyro's second album
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Thursday, December 4, 1969, Fountainhead, Page 5
March supports strikers
SI-
By BOBTHONEN
Small clay tablets,
approximately 140 by 90
milimeters, presently in the
collection of the Oriental
Institute of the University of
Chicago were the subject of a
recent article published in
"Clio Medica a major inter-
national medical journal, by
Dr. William White, assistant
professor of history.
In this article, White details
the exact translation of the
microscopic cuneiform literat
ure written on one of the tab
lets in the Semitic languages of
ancient Mesopotamia.
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the sciences in their embryonic
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that this documentary evidence
of ancient Assyrian medical lit-
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Whites article goes into
depth about the prerequisites
to understanding the rise of
science in antiquity. He refers
to this rise as being "more me-
taphysical than physical and
refers to the attempts to isolate
data from the mounds of Meso
potamia which will neatly cate-
gorize into "objective-subjec-
tive" or "natural-supernatural"
as usually failing.
All of the tablets discussed
in White's article are summa-
ries, catalogues and outlines of
the longer series of texts which
were used by the physician and
the scribe in the daily practice
of their craft and the instruc-
tion of the students of both
professions.
White has lectured in major
universities in Belgium and
Holland on this subject and is
scheduled to lecture in Japan
next year. During the next fall
quarter, White hopes to bring
some of this information to
students here in the form of a
new course offering: "A Histo-
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Sciences
CHAPEL HILL
(AP)-Young Negroes marched
en masse on the University of
North Carolina campus to
support striking food service
workers Tuesday, but there
were no incidents.
A group of blacks, consisting
by police count of 132,
marched from a downtown
community center. They
remained on the campus for
about an hour, then marched
back to the community center.
Police Chief W. D. Blake said
the group included students
from Malcolm X Liberation
University in Durham, North
Carolina Central University in
Durham and North Carolina
A&T State University in
Greensboro.
The head of Malcolm X
University, Howard Fuller, has
been barred from the UNC
campus by court order after
being arrested last week on the
food service workers' picket
line.
Blake said the marchers
Tuesday remained on the side
walks while in the downtown
area and there were no arrests.
Monday night eight windows
were broken in the Lenoir
dining hall where the strikers
are picketing and windshields
were shattered on the cars of
non-striking workers.
Blake said the incidents
occurred during a rock
throwing flurry. He added
there were no arrests because it
was dark and police could not
see who threw the rocks. He
said pickets were on hand at
the time.
Meanwhile, the strikers
rejected an offer by UNC
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson
under which the university
offered to pay salaries for a
limited time of workers who
are not reinstated in their jobs
when the strike ends.
The strikers have demanded
that all workers be returned to
their old jobs, but Saga Food
Services which operates the
UNC dining halls has
announced that nearly a third
of the workers will not be
needed.
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Thursday, December 4. 1969, Fountainhead, Page 7
Summer Theatre
offers novel idea
for Christmas
Christmas gift iptions
to the 1970 season of the hLU
Summer Theatre are available
now through Dec. 20.
Summer Theatre general
manager Jim Slaughter sa.d
that "numerous patrons have
pointed out to us that Summer
Theatre subscriptions make
delightfully original Christmas
qifts for family and friends
Slaughter said the gift
subscriptions will be mailed in
a greeting card with the
sender's name affixed.
Subscriptions entitle the
h0der to see five musical
productions including "Hello
Doly "The Pirates of
Penzance "George M "A
Funny Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum and "Man
of La Mancha
"We feel that this is an
excellent opportunity for
people to enjoy Christmas all
through the summer months
Slaughter said.
Christmas subscriptions are
$18 and may be bought at
McGuinnis Auditorium or by
mail at Box 2712, Greenville.
Telephone orders will be
accepted at (919) 758-6390.
I he reel scene
I
Alice runs a cool joint
By A. W. OLSON
Arlo Guthrie's sardonic
.tory of how to succeed in
iving, short of skipping the
country, when your number
comes up makes for a funny
film.
Funny, because it has some
hilarious bits of humour but
funny also because at the close
all I could say was: "Well?"
The talking blues album,
"Alice's Restuarant which is
the film's basis, probably
proved to be too limited for
director Arthur Penn to make a
great short film, so he hired a
writer and with Arlo's help, he
brought off a good, slick
feature length 'movie
Officer Obie, Alice and all
the fools from Whitehall Street
do what they can to help the
story along. Snatches of the
last generation's defeated
idealism try, I suppose, to tell
today's turned-off left not to
take the revolution too
seriously.
Additionally, we're hipped
to the fact that with 20 or 30
bods living under one roof,
somebody is bound to get
uptight for space. Smack, too,
is 'revealed' as a quick way to
die.
When the film moralizes
these canons of truth we are
bored but when Arlo and the
events of the "massacree" are
related we laugh and sense that
in spite of all, Arlo is all right.
Besides lasting forever and
aside from the poor sound
system and incompetence
of the dude who's supposed to
keep the focus adjusted,
"Genesis I" was generally
worthwhile. It seemed that the
bulk of the 17 films just tried
too hard.
Too much subject matter
and not enough equipment
and, in some few instances, not
enough technical skill diluted
and otherwise potent melange
of film. "Breakfast Dance
"7362 "Orange "Now That
The Buffalo's Gone and
"Opus I" seem to me the ups
of the collection.
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Financial loss causes CUS death
TORONTO (CPS CUP)
The Canadian Union of
Students is dead.
Students at the University
of Toronto voted to withdraw
from the union Oct. 22.
Without Toronto's membership
fees the union, which has been
losing members for the last two
years, can't possibly continue
financially. CUSnow has fewer
than a dozen members.
Financially the union may
not even be able to meet its
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Martin Loney said.
"One of our greatest
responsibilities is to our
support staff, most of whom
have been with us over ten
years Loney continued.
'25,000 workers have just
been laid off in Ottawa The
Toronto vote had a record
campus turnout of 38 per cent.
5434 students voted 'no' and
2222 yes
In the last few months CUS
has been attacked as too far
left for the right and too far
right for the left. As early as
last February some radical left
students at the University of
things gO
better
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Waterloo near Toronto had
opposed CUS in a special
referendum.
Toronto Student president
Gus Abols, on the other hand,
was pleased with the CUS
defeat because it was a defeat
for the radicals. "This proves
to me that the radicals are no
longer the representatives and
the students have rejected
them
CUS President Martin
Loney disagreed that the
meaning was clear. "It's
unfortunate that the campaigns
haven't been fought on issues
but on stereotypes and slogans
we were prepared to tight on
CUS's policies that's not
what happened
The end of CUS may not be
the endoi a national student
organization. At Toronto
Abols said he would try to
form a new union with other
campuses that rejected CUS
The new Union would be
"non political" and would
work for "student reforms
Abols was instrumental in
the preparation of by-laws for
an alternative "federation"
circulated at the last CUS
congress in August. It was
unpopular among radicals and
moderates alike and died on
the floor of the plenary for
lack of a seconder.
Founded in 1926, the
Canadian Union of Students
was the world's third oldest
national student organization.
Still operating are Britain's
National Union of Students
and the All Student Council of
the USSR.
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IMC. AH PER president Dr.
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physical education professor
he,c, said the theme of this
year's convention is "Tell It
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Hooks announced that the
convention will open at 11
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executive board meeting.
The three day convention
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general sessions and business
meetings which will feature a
number of presentations and
lectures dealing with various
aspects of health, physical
education and recreation.
Opening the first general
session at 8 p.m. Thursday will
be Dr. Celeste Ulrich, professor
of physical education at the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. The topic of her
speech is, "This is For Real
President Jenkins will
welcome the convention at the
first session.
Among the many topics to
be discussed throughout the
convention are: "Back to the
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Black Dance? "Stop the Class
I Want to Get Out "A Child
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Voting rights
may be extended!
I
Bv BILL CONNELLY
Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON
The House of Representatives is expected to pass an
xtension of the 1965 voting rights act, or at least adopt a law
place it, before Congress adjourns for the year.
But in the Senate, where voting rights legislation is
entrusted to Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jrs subcommittee on
constitutional rights, no action is insight.
Advocates of an extension had hoped to complete action
before the heat of the 1970 congressional elections. In the
,te, however, there now seems little prospect of movement
on voting rights before warm weather returns. The 1965 law
expire in August.
Ervin, a bitter foe of the 1965 act, obviously is in no hurry
tend it for another five years, as provided in the House
liciary Committee's bill. He also is opposed to the
titute measure proposed by the Nixon administration,
loreover, Ervin's subcommittee aides say there has been
little oi no pressure for action from the White House, the
Justice Department, or other senators. Four days of hearings
ere held by the subcommittee in July, but nothing has been
clone since.
The 1965 law suspended literacy tests in every state and
ility in which fewer than half the voting-age residents were
itered and voting in the 1964 presidential election. By this
idard, of course, the law applied almost exclusively to the
Smith, with its thousands of unregistered blacks.
t covered all of six states Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
lissippi, South Carolina and Virginia and 39 counties in
th Carolina Also included were one county in Oregon and
in Hawaii.
Undei the law, the attorney general was authorized to
? and veto any new election laws in those states that he
(Itemed discriminatory. He was authorized, too, to send
;i.cjistins and poii watchers, if needed, to the affected
In any case, the act has been effective in most Southern
1 ites, and civil rights groups argue that it must be extended to
plete the enfranchisement of blacks. Some fear that if the
expires Southern states might reinstitute literacy tests and
promptly call for new statewide registration, thereby purging
tin.1 hooks of many new voters.
I ederal courts might not be able to stop such a mass
h.enfranchisement, moreover, until after the election or after
the hooks had been burned.
The Nixon administration has called for continued
protection of voting rights, but opposes a straight extension of
the old law. It wants a new act abolishing literacy tests
nationwide until 1974. This would honor President Nixon's
campaign promiseto Southerners that he would never support
"regional" legislation, such as the 1965 law.
The administration bill would change (some say weaken)
the attorney general's procedures for reviewing new state
voting laws. It would allow new residents of any state to vote
hi presidential elections, even if they did not meet the
residency tequirement for voting in local and state elections.
Ant! it would create a temporary, nine-member commission to
study vote fraud.
Some congressional staffers also feel the Nixon bill would,
perhaps inadvertently, pave the way for a constitutional
amendment allowing direct popular election of the president.
One major problem in direct election would be the diversity
of state election laws, which could cause inequities in a
nationwide popular vote. For example, some states allow
citizens to vote at 18, but most do not; some have literacy
tests, some do not.
Fairness would demand some federal voting standards,
which would force Congress to share yet another responsibility
with state governments. Under the administration's voting
rights bill, some initial standards would be established.
There would be no literacy tests. Every citizen could vote
foc president wherever he lived on election day. The Justice
Department would be authorized to move against vote fraud in
any state. Thus the federal role in election laws would be
established.
The Department has not mentioned direct popular election
1,1 connection with the voting rights act. But some lawyers and
political scientists quickly made the connection.
Whatever the case, the administration bill has its critics.
Some argue that in making the law apply nationwide, even in
Places where it does not appear to be needed, its enforcement
W,H be weakened. Without focusing special attention on the
3?uth, it is argued, Congress cannot keep Southern
communities from returning to then old discriminatory habits.
A casual observer
from the Bema
Spiro has spoken and the middle class milions have a new messiah. With awsome regularity the
American effort in Viet Nam is going down the time honored corridors of a frustrated crusade.
In the early 60's, simple and straightforward actions in the approved containment of the
communist menace brought about new but not surprising reactions. The U.S. responded with one of
its many possible options, namely escalation for the application of increased pressure against the
enemy. However, in direct
antithesis to the optimistic
promises of the Pentagon
planners, escalation did not
bring about an immediate
result. In fact. President
Kennedy found no amount of
increase could get around the
inability of the ruling and
hated clique in Saigon.
Under Johnson, escalation
succeeded escalation and
scheme fell before scheme. An
aroused academic community
and a mass of sullen youth
began to object to the
seemingly endless regress of
our military position. Johnson
was unable through all the
traditional pressure points of
the cold war diplomatic
machinery, I. to enlist Russian
aid and 2. to get allied support.
Finally he was unable to turn
back the tide of traditional
military energies and find a
path for reconciliation. After
stoppino. the bombing, which
was much more costly in men
and planes than tactically
effective, L.B.J. refused to run
again.
Enter Mr. Nixon. Fully
armed with all the old mottos
and arguments of the
Eisenhower days Nixon has
found his way ever more
difficult. The silent majority is
still silent and as every week
goes by, is less and less of a
majority. In the weeks since
the November Moratorium it
Dear Editor:
I am told that
black markets go with the
unsettled conditions of war,
but I am not happy to know
that unscrupulous Vietnamese
are growing wealthy while
inflation threatens our
democratic institutions at
home. I understand that a draft
is necessary for carrying on a
war, but I think involuntary
servitude is unAmerican. I can
imagine the pressures that
cause the Saigon government
to imprison its political
opponents and censor its
newspapers but I do not
believe keeping such a
government in power is worth
any more American lives. I do
n n believe it is necessary or
useful to continue this war.
Paradoxically, the people
who are doing most to
promote these American ideals
today are those who take the
unpopular position of opposing
has become more and more
obvious to the American
people-even the most
r o m a n t ic ist ic V.F.W.
zealot that Washington has no
new answer and is locked into
an eternal cycle with a brutal
enemy who understands the
American predicament with
merciless logic and profound
insight.
The next step in the
horrible drama is now
unfolding in precisely the way
it unfolded after the failure of
the crusades, the German
defeat in World War I and the
Korean conflict. It is now
progressing into internal
accusation and bitter invective.
Nixon blamed a "bad press"
for his first presidential
dissaster, Spiro is now blaming
the press and its more
outspoken followers for his
second. Amidst such anger and
emotionalism, the
administration and the pent-up
frustration of hundreds of
thousands of middle class
citizens are searching for the
"traitor in our midst" who
betrayed our righteous cause.
Already, many lesser political
creatures are demanding
investigations of the press,
T.V radio and youth activist
groups. Needless to say, the
human mind acting as it does
will cause many to seek to out
do Spiro in their efforts to
"hunt out the heretics and
unbelievers" those who have
frustrated the national will and
"burn them at the stake
The very nature of the T.V.
image and the total electronic
quality of contemporary
news-gathering make - such
phrases as "objective"
obsolete. The vain pleas that
news media be "neutral" and
tell exactly "what happened"
demonstrate an utter stupidity
in the face of Twentieth
Century communications.
What Spiro really wants is
editing, but editing favorable
to the romantic nonsense of
the past, not the past as it
really was but as he would like
to think it was. The past where
American troops committed no
atrocities, where highly placed
military gold bricks were not
merely tools of the costra
nostra stealing millions from
the draftees pay, where super
heroic generals, Lee and Foch
and Eisenhower planned great
campaigns and saw them
through to victory is just no
more.
The massive complexity of
the Viet Namese struggle and
the participatory nature of the
home front involvement is such
that all are partakers of the
sorrow and the dying. Spiro,
these words would I address to
you (to paraphrase Judy
Collins), War!s illusions you
recall, you really don't know
war at all.
The forum
their government. As the
reports of the October 15th
Moratorium went round the rid
- publicized in Iron Curtain
countries by the Voice of
America as well as by Tass -
what was the message?
America is disunited? Yes, but
we have never claimed to have
only one mind, only one
opinion. The message went out
to people in all the Communist
dictatorships in the world that
even in time of war, the
government of the United
States is a government of the
people.
A lesson was taught about
the way to change government
policy. The conditions under
which the lesson was given
made it much more telling.
Communist citizens could
identify with the democratic
method, and their governments
had to praise the action.
Already in Czechoslovakia,
:?:?:?
Yugoslavia, the USSR, people
had dared the much greater
hazards of protesting violations
of freedom there. They are
stronger now because of the
leadership of the United States.
When we have strengthened the
democratic forces in
Communist countries, are we
not winning the real war?
The buddies of the man who
has been killed in a frontal
attack don't feel they betray
him when they abandon that
operation and attack from the
enemy's rear. I believe that
those who seek to stop the
fighting are doing more to
insure that our honored dead
shall not have died in vain than
are those who insist that we
keep charging up Hamburger
Hill.
Mrs. Edith Webber
MML?JUu?? 4frVM' -?,
Reading day loss
should be protested
The recent action of the Calendar Committee of
the Faculty Senate in abolishing the reading day is
deplorable. For once the University did something to
help the student get a better education only to have
this committee negate the good that was done.
The forum
Deai
Almost all reputable schools have reading days.
Many of them have a week between the last class day
and the first exam day. Students at Yale, Brown,
Harvard, Carolina, Duke, etc. find it hard to believe
that some schools do not have at least one reading
day.
East Carolina University should have had reading
days for years now. The students here should have
demanded a free day, if not several free days, to
study and collect their thoughts before being tested.
But they didn't. Now that we have had a reading day,
we should demand that it be retained and lengthened.
The idea to abolish it is absurd.
The need of such a day (or days) is obvious. The
student needs a time to "unwind" before he is tested.
Many students have papers due on the last week of
school. Many professors are inconsiderate enough to
give tests on the week before exams. By the time a
student h3s turned in his papers and taken before-final
tests, he is mentally and physically fatigued. He
needs a time to r
dents need an extra day to study before
Some will argue that the student does
is day if he has studied as he should have
But, let's be realistic. Students do not
what they are supposed to do. The reading
7 well be the difference between
student passes or fails a course.
us
:eels that the reading day was abolished
and unprofessional reasons. Why
ii professor want to deny a student more
to learn? Could it be because that professor
knows that he will be required to work the extra days
that quarterly reading days take up7 After all, the
larterly reading day does make the academic'year
(and professor work year) three days longer.
Wake up ECU! Stop processing students and start
educating them.
We strongly urge the retention and the lengthening
of the reading day.
Things,nrt people,
should be tried
The University has taken the lead in establishing a
program to train the future law enforcement officers
of the state in modern methods of crime prevention.
The editors congratulate those concerned for this, but
we wonder how effective this will be until attitudes
toward the law and law enforcement in general
change in this country.
The central theory of British law (the parent of our
law) is that in an action before the courts only things
not persons are tried. Out of this grew the concepts
of the rights of the defendant being more important
than the rights of the state, and the concept that the
"law is no respector of persons
The British are so used to this concept that the
police have no second thoughts about giving Prince
Philip speeding tickets (he has gotten three).
In the United States however, the police have been
frustrated by persons who expect their misdemenors
to be overlooked because of their standing in the
community. This frustration is strong enough to
cause the police to vent their hostilities on the
politically impotent.
Education of law officers is needed and indeed is
past due, but the public must also be educated to the
purpose of law enforcement.
with interesl youi d
remarks in the List issu
ol thi
Fountainhead as I am sure you
read mine. I would like to take
this opportunity to expound
upon my disappointment with
the action tak n !y the
Calendar Committee of the
Faculty Senate. I think the
Student Government
Association was slighted in the
respect that we weie not
notified of what we considered
to be an important meeting of
the Calendar Committee. As
y ou are so well awai e,
beginning this year we have full
voting rights on academic
committees. If we are not
notified of these committee
meetings, we cannot
participate in the government
of the University
I disagree with the actions
t a k en by t h e Calendai
Committee for several good
reasons which I think only a
present student or one who
graduated within the last yeai
or so can understand. A
reading day is not designed to
give a student a chance of a
bettei grade because in many
cases the exam grade does not
influence the final grade. My
reasons for wanting a reading
day are simple, and they are as
follows.
Being that we are on the
quarter system, the work load
in t erm s of read i ng
assignments, term papers, and
special projects, can become
quite severe. It is often the case
that a student's reports and
projects, etc are due within
several days of each other. By
the time the quarter ends and
the exam period begins, the
student is often mentally
fatigued. To me the prime
importance of the reading day
is to allow the student a chance
to rest before taking his final
exams.
I do not agree with the
comment that a reading day is
a wasted day, because if it does
help a student in his final
exams then that day is
certainly not wasted. I do not
believe that the extension of
the exam period to five days
would be of much help because
that would only increase a very
tension filled week. I know
from personal experience that
by the time the exam period is
over, a student is quite
fatigued, extremely tired and
m some cases in a nervous
state. Therefore, an extension
of the exam period would in
my opinion only extend that
period of tension and
nervousness.
Another reason a reading
day is important to me, besides
9'v.ng the student a chance to
rest, is to give the student a
chance to catch up. By this I
mean quite often ma'
professors insist on giving tests
the last week of the quarter
lust before the exam period
starts. This has happened to me
and a number of my friends
who had several tests on the
week before exams. Th.s is also
the usual period uvhen - ?
apers and projects are al
rherefore, the student
not have an opportunity
lo his necessary work,
These are my reasons foi
warranting a reading day.
rhese are also the reasons for
warranting a leading day foi a
numbei of the students on this
campus.
I would sincerely appreciate
it if you would call a meeting
ot the Calendai Committee at
youi expressed convenience
and r eco ns id ei actions
ei ning the reading day.
John Schofield
President, SGA
Deai Editoi
(J n c e a g a in I ti nd i t
nt to write about
certain inadequacies thai exist
in the management and services
of the tern on the
i npus
Students here are being led
dov ; i primrose path" with
high d prices,
psi ces, a nd stale
outdated management.
I et's )ii take a loot' at one
small aspect of the situation
mentioned above. I would like
to call this the "Ice Cream
Scoup Syndrone
Was the ice cream scoup
originally designed foi use in
serving scrambled eaas and
unshed potatoes? Of course
not. If it had been it would
have been called a scrambled
egg scoup 01 a mashed potato
oup, not an ice cream scoup.
I consider this type' of service
JS being an insult to my
intelligence
After all who in the hell
wants to pay 13 cents for a
scrambled egg and then wind
up With only half the amount i
v?u Paid for. If a restaurant :
served meals in this fashion :
they wouldn't stay in business :
two days. !
Y,)u the students of East j
Carolina-University don't have ?:
put up with this type of ji
service. ?:
The next time you go
through the food line you can
demand that you be served in ?
the civil manner, and if you are 1
not then just don't order that 5;
item. ?:
You as students have th
P?tobrin9thiscafwJ:
,ts knees, all you havPt0
to quit eating there.
J?e Gent,
'y
Dear Editor:
1 am takjng this opportunitv
to clarify 111,
- Problem
concerning h(.meco
conceit tick ?'
that
ing
Mahoney raij
November 11 jssi
H is unfortunate that many
students were unable to obtain
concert tickets when
individuals no, connected with
the University wen ible to do
so.
I, for one, was unable to get
concert tickets through the
Central Ticket Office only
because I waited until the last
day to do SO. The Ticket Office
was opened threi earlier
than usual foi thi pose
of accommodating the student
body Having tin .btain
tickets should not
problem.
One may validly n akeacase
on the premisi tl liS our
('he students') ,ming
and that enough ti I -tsshould
have been madi ble for
all students.
The opinion i student
body is obviously i r ofa
remedy for this :
i esult, many proposals arenow
being considered by Dean
Alexander in an effo I to find a
solution.
Tom Clune
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