University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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. improvements in the Student Standard of Liv- ing were amply com- pensated for. -4 3'4: A O i E: t r ' ' S l i i , -000- 000103;; a I A w, 939;: , zezoam MM .,. f. i u, v. .. v 0 0 0 . Ag. 33W f :39; ,1, 3'0 5 ctr ,, . O .3. .' :.O .0' g- tM . W. a 0.0. i A'. '0 0 0'. v . :gza' - - .3: .::::. ::.:::: .::.::; 5:0 X .5303: 12.20:.- '0;70:0: 005:0:0: 0: :W t A o :9 0.: 3? '9? '- 639$ .r .t. r v v- 05.0 ,0. :. 0;- y W .. t 0? 0. 0- 20:0 0 '30:. :I I I: 0 0 0 0 o , a: 1-920! 0' .23?! E91 On the face of it all, the students life bore the semblance of a happy one. The pass-fail system had been amended in his favor. Visitation kinks had been ironed out, and sophomore women were given the privilege of seif-Iimiting hours. Refrigerators were legalized in dorm rooms. Peti- tions seemed to catch the ear of the phone com- pany, even when the telephone would not. Hours for bus operations were extended into the almost wee hours of the night. Consumer Discount Cards were offered for the price of seven comic books. The Student Union moved to lessen the burden by installing an additional cash register to handle ttpeak-hour lines. A dorm was singled out for complete integration of the sexes, and the possi- bility of a fratority was in the offing. WUNC even opted for a rock music program to supplement its ofttimes dry entertainment. Regretabiy, such improvements in the Student Standard of Living were amply compensated for. Minor things, both irksome and costly, were never out of vogue. Library fines jumped 500013, and woe betide him who misplaced a reserve book. Chapel Hill cabs at long last called off their price war with New York taxis and added 150: and five minutes waiting time to their service. Milk began to chal- lenge the remaining portions of the cow for bodily worth, Climbing towards a quarter a half-pint. Cigarettes were 40$ instead of the over-the-coun- ter 2503 of a few years back. O

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Christmas remained for many but ttthe holiday before exams , when ttnot a brain was stirring . The Union ran out of playing cards. Fifth Dimen- sion tickets were scalped. The Kenan Stadium Drag Strip became a rude awakening to low- flying cars with the construction of two plain- clothes speed bumps. Chapel Hill's Finest, in their never-ending battle to rid the campus of non-white automobiles. were empioying ooathangers to enter illegally parked cars and backing into those who protested with the towing truck. The police HWhen you are down and out, you dont mind company likewise promoted their image by preventing a DTH photographerfrom plying his trade and con- fisoating his camera. Arson struck a number of campus buildings. The hospital reported two fires. Fraternities were, for a change, literally flaming. Campus chuggers noted wistfully that Virginia Tech was allowing the sale of alcohol on the col- lege grounds. And the familiar ballpoint pen was writing 'ttirst time. only time . Underlying such frustrating facts of life were the obligations of a University that must answer to a Board of Trustees that must answer to a State Legislature that surely must have been listening to WRAL: Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee is effec- tively barred from a teaching post for reasons of pressure . Sophomore men are restricted to campus housing when too many of them find off- campus hovels more acceptable than their con- crete confines. Somebody has to pay for all that concrete. Town water costs, controlled by the University, are increased behind the backs of the Aldermen. and in the light of the ensuing protests, the town is permitted home-rule of its own water supply, provided it come from some source other than the University take, Administration opposition to a Student Legislature amendment that would preclude the danger of double-jeopardy forces that student body to consider cutting off funds for the courts altogether. An RA in James resigns when he declines to follow the ttCansler Doctrine and play house policeman. Students are pre- vented from selling copies of the now above- ground Protean Radish, on University soil when an alert official recalls a ruling passed in the Forties banning any sales in competition with Stu- dent Stores. For the paranoid life was to be a bowl of drearies. For the weII-adjusted. a time of re- consideration. The news provided little respite. Locally. the names of friends could be spotted from time to time at the bottom of page one, along with the trial date. Harry, of Harry's fame, turned up dead from an overdose. Three new buildings were dedicated, two others drew near completion, yet two more bore the heavy stamp of expediency. Part of the medical complex was erected in vioe lation of zoning ordinances. NCNB sought to rehash the Tower of Babel scene and scrape the Carolina sky that floated six stories overhead. Four students drowned. A Jubilee wreck. An errant motorcycle. At times the larger scale tragedies which were readily available in a nation of 200 million were themselves a relief by virtue of their remoteness. Ritualistio slayings in California. Massacres in defenseless hamlets, The threat of marooned astronauts. Even Snoopy was in dutch with the Head Beagle. When you are down and out. you don't mind company. DleZZIRf -MAt-sz MA g cap daft shr- Wloif-M- a7, a kamgmjxgisamc MW? rectavs .dngSZ mJe$ WWW Wtagrm wa $5 x x forjcw .a.-. ojr-hp- s- ins. i, a 42152 cum , ith- mergma MJD pa anHAMovLcL, Padami QE W 2062. flu: A..ij ow.nauit,t Gtsa I mmbe. 0 rabidwhch h. :Qor' M .c. km: Ml; twisammrzoszka'minbiksa +tW3.V.IEmM-qu. , V wWMLIg EM. ., 2 or QLng :nx-