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Pat G 'OUR TIMES' COLUMN OF COMMENTARY BY SMITH HEMPSTONE Washington-In all probabil ity, L. Patrick Gray III will be confirmed by the Senate and will make a good, perhaps great, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And yet one wishes, some how, that President Nixon had not nominated him. It is not that The Gutenberg E Hope's BY HARI (Note:T he following is an exac with Pat, who, this pest summe kind: a-neuterizing operation.) All right, Hope, stop laughing 4 and don't leave out anything. Yi sex change bit, they'll buy this. When I was a little child, I of things my mother did to me when out my ears. Did she really have when everybody played "doctor. ent? I suppose - shut up, Hope - th You see, when I was 10 years old and moved out of the house an gone. It was all very frustrating. There are some things that I out. Like, why did boys and gir: If we didn't, there would be no be so much simpler. Here, I'm Lights To The Editor: Do me a favor and print this let ter. It concerns the Underg raduate Library. Would you guys fix those lights or give us some flashlights to study with? Also, the human race as a whole enjoys to study in tempe ratures under the surface of Venus. If you refuse our demands, we will shoot your mother's arm off and if that doesn't work, all the militant intellectuals will sneak in.plas tic coated paper cups for hot drinks and hide them. I hope we have made ourselves clear. STEVEN ROSS Cheerleadling TO THE EDITOR: What does the Dean of Mi nor ity Affairs know about cheer leading? JOHN C. BLACKSHIRE, JR. Feheley TO THE EDITOR: I am writing to protest and certainly to question a cheap and disgusting shot at one of the candidates for Student Body President, namely Pete Feheley. I question why the incident, alledged to have taken ray Will M his acaderhic background is undistinguished (172nd in a class of 476 at the Naval Academy), that his legal experi ence has been limited largely to wills, trusts, taxes and estate administration, or that his back ground in government has been confined to brief stints in Justice and HEW. Pat Gray is a Nixon Republi can who worked for Nixon's election in 1960 and 1968, and xperiment Intervien XY HOPE t transcription of a conversation r, had the first operation of its mnd write down everything I say, Du hear? If people will b.uy that ten wondered about the strange she gave me a bath. Like washing to use so much soap? And later, 'Why were girls and boys differ it I was always a confused child. t my parents sent me to the store d into another city while I. was never have been able to figure is have to cover up everything? use for clothes and life would going to rip up this photograph place in November, took until a week before the election to come to print. Mr. Borton's questionable accusations smack of political manipulation by opposing candidates and I believe this is quite apparent to anyone who read the letter. Those students who know Pete Feheley surely know that Mr. Borton has written a ridiculous little tale. I know that Pete Feheley would never con duct himself in such a manner. Carolina has been plagued by petty schemes in almost all its student elections. Let's not let Mr. Borton drag us down again. FRANK CAGGIANO FORMER JUSTICE USC SUPREME COURT Problems TO THE EDITOR: One of the major problems facing this country is coping with change. One does not t)ave to read Future Shock to know this. The psychological dif ficulties presented by rapid change are paralelled by institutional ones. Our institu tions give us stability, but they can become straight-jackets. I think it is self evident that institutions developed before modern communications - before the automobile, the tele phone, radio, television, etc. . ake A G even allowed himself while act ing director to make speeches during the 1972 campaign which were essentially parti san. As a man who spent 20 years as a naval officer, he is of course loyal to the office of the presidency and to the Con stitution of the United States. But he has a personal, parti san loyalty to Richard Nix on-the man, the politician-which is the hal With A of my favorite puppy, Didi. See stop laughing! Anyway, I decided that there i and what the hell, with boys and @ days, I figured that I ought to g Hill Institute of Technology and g fresh out of those, so I say, "Hey Then I can go in everybody's bathi abortionist who could castrate m Isn't he cute? Anyway, when I came back to place to put me, so I just camp Russell House and I could use eil that great? And in the evening, I; and looked at those dirty magazin are airbrushed out - you know wl b Dammit, stop laughing, Hope tragedy and you keep laughing. the World Turns" will buy this? more pictures, or show you some horny? I really wish you would comments. Stop laughing ov Iters to the editor : must either adapt to the chang ing economic and social situa tion or be replaced. The national government has made it into the twentieth cen tury and is dragging the state governments along with it. But our local governments have failed almost completely to adapt. And It is our local govern ments, drawn as they were in conformance to the dictates of a horse and buggy culture, that have the greatest need to adapt. What has gone wrong? Basically, as improvements in the modes of transportation and communication forged new patterns of economic and social activity, our patterns of local government remained unchanged and they no longer bear any meaningful relation to our economic and social realities. It is not unus'ual for a city, a single economic and social unit, to en.compass twenty or more such units. How can we realistically talk about city planning in situations like that? How can we meet change if we can't plan? Another requirement for planning in a democratic soci ety is an informed citizenry. And how can we have informed citizens if the newspapers have to report on the actions of several local governments as well as state and national activ ity? In this era of mass media, our local governmental units - opinions ood FBI lmark of every top Nixon appointee. That, after all, is how he came to Mr. Nixon's atten tion and why he stands before the Senate today. Which is not to say that Nixon appointed Gray only because of his loyalty. Like almost all the other top Nixon appointees, Gray is able. But there are other men, othei lawyers, of equal or greater ability, dedication and energy 'Neuter' Look, I'm tearing it. Dammit, was too much confusion in life, irls looking so much alike these D down to the good old Society et a sex change. Well, they were , why not change me to neuter? oom?" So I found an out-of-work e and here, look at his picture. Carolina they didn't have any ed out at the first floor of the :her bathroom I wanted to. Isn't just played with my ball of yarn es where the girls' private parts tat I'm talking about? . Here I am, giving you pure By the way, do you think "As What about if I tear up a few pills that keep me from getting stop making all those obscene er there .... are rapidly becoming invisible to the man on the street. In the larger cities like Atlanta and Philadelphia I have met many people who did not know in what township or county they resided. We must make our local governments visible again and to do this we must make them correspond to the new pat terns of human activity. How can we do this? Some few cities, like Jacksonville, have managed it. Others, like Columbia, have not. And our rural areas need change too. The rural units need to be much larger in order to take effective action in a political environ ment that is in danger of being dominated by the ever growing power of the central govern ment. How can such a sweeping change, the consolidation of overlapping city and county governments into single units reflecting actual socio economic structures, be accom plished? I think a national crusade supported by both political parties is needed to provice the impetus. But, if we are to maintain our federal sys tem, the changes must be effected by the individual states. Under our system the local governments are crea tures of the states. They must remain so if our federal system is to survive. There will be fantnast,even. Director who were passed over because they lacked the single pre requisite: proved and absolute loyalty to-the person of Richard Nixon. One redeeming factor in the situation is Gray's honesty and fair-mindedness: It is at least .possible to believe that he will leave his partisan.p 'ical affiliation at the door of the director's office, that once con firmed-he will serve any and every President with the same loyalty he accords to Mr. Nixon, just as Hoover served Nixon with the same fidelity as he did FDR. But the very fact of his close political association with Mr. Nixon makes it unlikely that Gray will get the chance. He will not, like Hoover, serve for life. Indeed, it is unlikely that Gray will remain at the head of the FBI for the 13 years remain ing to him before he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70. For the FBI director, like any other government official with the exception of federal judges and civil servants, serves at the pleasure of the President. Hoover was immune to dis missal because he had a potent political constituency both in the nation and on Capitol Hill. But Gray is unlikely to have the opportunity to create a mys tique of political invulnerability before a Democratic President moves into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. By appointing a political associate to the directorship, Mr. Nixon has established an unfortunate precedent which conservatives may one-day have cause to rue. fanatic, opposition to such sweeping institutional change. The local units are like coral heads built up by the encrusta tion of vested interest. How many politicians will dare to support a movement that will change the grass roots of the system? How many lawyers, realtors and bureaucrats will support changes that will make their fatted calf lean and efficient? How many members of the great white flight will support a movement that would make them live with the prob lems from which they have fled? How many blacks who now see an opportunity for power in core city areas will choose to be part of a larger unit in which their power will be diluted? When one asks these kinds of questions it is easy to become discouraged. But there is a more important question. What will happen to this country if our local units don't cope with change? The answer is simple. .The government which is cop ing will become ever more pow erful, the national government will become absolutely sup reme and our federal system will have failed. Big Brother is waiting. TODD M. ACKLEY (See LETTERS, Pae 9)