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The Carolina Jolrnal
RICKY R. DANCY, Editor
HOWARD PEARRE, Associate Editor BETTYE TRAPPS, Feature Editor
DON SPRIGGS, News Editor
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
STAFF: Barbara Sue Thomas, Hu9h J. Horsiey, Ellison Clary, Erlene Mabrey, Gloria
Roberts, Mary Morsan, Ava Newman
LARRY KEITH, Sports Editor
Chief, Tommy Estridge, Parris Hastings
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1926
Red Honeybees Ruin Writer’s
Faith In Scientifie Method
Dear Mr. Moore
We should like to take this opportunity to welcome you
to our campus. We would also like to address a few remarks
and questions to you while you are here. The subject which
we would like to concern ourselves with is, as you have
probably already guessed, the speaker ban issue.
Mr. Moore^ just where do you stand on the speaker
ban issue? We remember your comments on the necessity
of academic freedom during the warm supimer months, and
now we have been exposed to your comments on this same
academic freedom during the cooler winter months. Hot
and cold may be a desirable feature for running water, but
it doesn’t impress us too much when it concerns basic
freedoms guaranteed every U.S. citizen under a grand old
document called “the Constitution’’. You see, Mr. Moore, we
just don’t understand you.
As the top-ranking member of the board of trustees,
and alumnus of our sister campus at Chapel Hill, and as
Governor of our great state, we feel that you, of all people,
should aid us in our fight against the enemies of intellectu
al freedom. Your recent actions, however, lead us to fear
you as a foe.
Have you really fallen prey to all of that malarkey
about our young innocent minds not being strong enough to
withstand the onslaughts of alien ideas? We hope not, for
our faith is strong. It is your faith that we are not certain
about. We have faith in our democratic institutions, and we
had faith in the leaders elected to serve them. But your
actions, Mr. Moore, have raised grave doubts among our
democratic society.
We have always been told that our form of democracy
was based on tolerance, and that it was this tolerance whichi
made us iboth great and strong.
You will have a chance, Mr. Moore, while you are on
our campus today to reaffirm our faith. You can do this by
assuring us that your actions and behavior concerning the
Aptheker controversy were merely lapses in your powers of
judgment and that disgraces such as this will not occur in
the future. If you do assure us of this, Mr. Moore, please
mean it this time. We are tired of double talk.
Once again we would like to welcome you to our
campus and we hope that your visit will be a worthwhile
one for all concerned. We hope you will receive cordial
treatment. But, the respect you receive today will be for
your position, and not necessarily for the man.
Leaders Needed
Are you a leader? Do you think you have something to
contribute to our school? Do you refrain from fainting
when someone mentions the word work and follows it with
“without any monetary compensation”?
If you can answer yes to the above questions, the
student body needs you.
With student body elections coming up soon there have
been NO announced candidates as of yet for any of the fifty
plus student body offices.
If you are a leader please come forward. Your services
are badly needed.
Keep Up Good Work
Congratulations and thanks for a job well done are in
order for the student and administration departments
which have done such a great job of lining up top ra e
entertainment for student enjoyment. We refer to the
appearance of Sabicas, and the booking of The Alpacas,
the Knights of Music, The Shirrelles, and The Zodiacs for
up coming appearances.
Most responsible for this all star line up are the
University Union and the Student Affairs office.
Thanks group, you’re doing great.
By KEARNY SMITH
Journal Staff Writer
Conclusions of experience may
be misleading. Even in the field
of science point of view must be
reckoned with.
A qui,et student who sat by me
in Psychology 201 utterly and
completely de’stroyed my faith in
the scientific method one day in
a matter of minutes.
The textbook (the one used in
1963) described an experiment
Now, are you sure your talk will serve “an educational purpose,”
Mr. Moore? Have you ever belonged to any organizations which seek
the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government? Have you ever
pleaded the 5th Amendment in any . . .
with honeybees, hoping to show
how these busy insects commu
nicate — assuming that bees
tell one another where the
sweetest nectar is to be found.
(Obviously they haven’t learned
to be piggish about goodies
yet).
The experimenting I^.D. and
his assistant set a sauoer of
sugarwater in the field not far
from the beehive. The assistant
stood at the saucer and marked
with red paint all the bees that
found the sugarwater. The doctor
(having the more important task)
stood at the hive and observed
tb,e behavior of the returning
bees, splotched with red paint.
Hopefuily, these painted hees
would tHl their fellows where
the sugarwater was. And sure
enough, the bees in red buzzed
in a certam pattern: facing alt
one Erection, doing a certain
number of cireles, and a dainty
little backflip.
Quite ingeniously our psycholo
gist had noted these maneuvers
and their meaning. The bees had
given the a;smuth in degrees from
the sun’s angle and the distances
in the number of rotations. The
backflip had been from all
indications an emphatic gesture.
Masterfully concealing my en
thusiasm for the march of sci
ence, I patiently explainpd to my
classmate the revelations of the
experiment.
“Why is there any rea'son to
support that the bees were
talking about sugarwater?” he
asked, “They may have been
saying, ‘don’t go over there cause
a man will put red paint on you’
—Letters To I’he Editor—
Reader Satirizes Campus Progress
After driving down the four
lane, well-lighted driveway to
U.N.C.-C., I parked in the two
level parking lot; flipped the
attendant a dime, to guard my
1926 Edsel, and entered the
covered walkway, on my way to
see The Beatles, The Rolling
Stones, and Tennessee Williams,
reading William Shakespeare.
I noticed that we were having
a water show in our cattish pond.
There were twelve lovely water
nymphs cavorting in the slimey
slue. There is nothing more
enthralling than to gaze in awe
at the glimmer of the moon in
the mud of catfish flats.
The parking lot was ablaze
with the glow of our basketball
victory bonfire. We had lost more
games than any school in the
United States. It seems that our
coach had flunked out of school,
and we’d been awarded the booby
prize ... a solid gold deflated
beach ball.
Our recently completed College
Union (1978) was rocking to the
strains of the four Mongolians,
while three students were doing
the frug, forty-two were in a pile
in the corner doing something
else, and the guardians of virtue
present at every dance were
chasing three students who were
using the school bell for a beer
mug. .
To better view the situation, l
gazed into my U.N.C.-C. class
ring, better known as “The
Thing.” It was mailed to me
three years after my graduation;
with a rocket ship blasting
through a bund; of pine cones,
zooming through a bell, flanked
by two C’s. all on a slime green
and white background. Face ap
peared in the stone to try to
Speak to me. but alas, before he
could utter a word, nine tru.stees
led by the governor swooped
down from the clouds, protected
my mind, and silenced the voice
forever. After all. I'm still very
impressionable. I’m only 79.
Good-bye for now.—BATMAN
LBJ Criticized
Dear Editor,
I have kept inside of me a
feeling of utter resentment and
disgust for so long that I feel I
cannot actually go on calling
myself a human being unless I
voice.
We as people in the United
States are so very worthless that
we deserve everything that we
are now enduring. By this that I
say we are enduring I mean to
start with the poor excuse we
have tor a decent government—
especially the head there of—and
gn all the way down to the
gisantic farce we are running in
Vietnam. We have grown so
apathetic and lazy that I pray
our fore-fathers cannot see the
shame that we are bringing on
the ideas they died fighting for.
You can now see why I am so
concerned. While our great and
proud leader tools around the
country in his big jct speaking so
very eloquently, our brothers and
friends are in Vietnam dying so
that he can speak and we can be
bored by it. Is this what we and
the rest of the “great society”
are supnosed to agree with, or
is it th^t vve are just too lazy to
actually do anything about it.
But before you laugh this little
article o'f it would be best to
remember that we are part of
the available youth. Maybe be
fore long some of us may wind
ud over there.
up dec
What is all this actually
accomplishing? In the way of
good, nothing. The only accom
plishments are the depletion of
material resources, incireasing
of the national debt and the
senseless death of America’s
young men.
If we are going to be the
champion of freedom, then let us
shine our armor and climb on the
white steech of freedom. But if
not, let us get out of Asia before
China or North Vietnam decides
to set this paper tiger on fire.
As for myself, I ^m for
fighting in Vietnam, for the
reason that anything worth living
for is worth dying for. Most of us
know this. But do you know our
war has to send men in to kill or
be killed and then after a few
have been killed and wounded
then turn around and pull them
out. Who was our great military
mind who figured this strategy?
This is the first time since the
dawn of history that there hasn’t
been some type of front line in a
war and we are actually fighting
a war.
Well, now comes the best
part. What are we going to do
about it? Some of our United
States senators are discontent,
but they need our backing. Do
yon think we are the only
college students who do not
want to die for something
worthless? Our country Is full
of them.
Now I have done all I can. I
am willing to start the ball
rolling, but I am only one. I need
help, lots and lots of help and
you are the only ones who can
help me. Please, now is the lime
for us to act before it is too late.
Let's unite and start acting like
Americans before we end up
dying for nothing.
■ " Ronald R. Martin