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The Carolina Journal Wednesday, March 20, 1968 Page 7
5-Year Man
on Campus
With Ellison Clary
Here Are My Opinions
On The Controversy
Now that the “Rogues ’n Rascals”-Senior Class picture-place
ment controversy seems to have run its course, there are several
opinions of the various developments rattling around in my grey
Jitter which I’d like to air. I hope most readers will at least
find them tolerable.
Before beginning, I feel the need to explain why I felt so in
volved and concerned with the matter.
As a past Carolina Journal editor and a Publication Board mem
ber since its very conception, 1 was inclined to think in terms
favorable to Candy Kimbrell and the annual staff. Asa Senior
Class member and a representative of this class to the Student
Legislature, I leaned toward espousal of the Senior position.
Needless to say, the latter sympathy was victorious. This is
fact lor reasons which I will cite now.
First, as in “Cool Hand Luke”, what we had here was a failure
to communicate. I think, and probably a majority of students on
campus agree, that the lumping of all students into just one class
section rather than four, one for each class, is a major depar
ture from past yearbook layouts. For this reason, probably stu
dents should have been informed that this change was to take
place.
Why? Because the annual is a unique publication on this campus.
If a publication which publishes more often than the yearbook,
such as the Journal or Barnstormer, should shove fervently into
a major change in layout or format students can readily voice their
opinions in regard to this and it enough of these are negative,
the editor can make another swift switch with the following issue.
Peruse Once A Year
Nowhere To Turn
Letters To The Editor
Black Man Has Caused
Nation To Flourish
Dear Editor:
It is indeed interesting to see
how one white man has related
to the situation concerning Blacks
and whites, and to a condition that
exists in a social and more im
plicitly the human sfiiere of life.
By giving vent to your sensitivity,
you hae shown me, (and I by no
means represent a general consen
sus for all Black people) that a
white ca can have soul; but have
you recognized without realizing
what’s occurred and what’s
happening now?
Looking through albino eyes has
tended or attempted to strain out
the impurities or what is really
there, and when a personal ex
posure to the situation results,
it can’t be expunged by paltry
methods such as pretending it does
not exist or failing to deal with
it. The problem exists here and
now and it is in black and white,
and many things have been sha
dowed because of the white man
standing in the light. The “gro
tesque, ugly American” is being
dethroned and the cultural fab
ric falling with him; one that
offered no warmth or comfort
for the black man. Now the plump,
pompous pig is trying to pluck
his way from the places made
putrid by him, but where is he
going and how far will he get?
The Black man has been ex
cluded from the mainstream of
“American” life, and this life
has shown him too many discrep
ancies existing between standards
and practices; where in a land
of the free, home of the brave.
he has been trapped by social,
civic, political and economic ini
quities. The institutions in addi
tion have offered little, and Amer
ica has proven to be no land of
milk and honey, but a concentra
tion of black men in locales that
breed disgust and contempt.
White paternalism (won’t get
it), there has been too many hand
outs already to pacify and keep
the Black man quiet. There can
be no more hanging and burning
or beating them, the pain has
been unbearable and to ward it
off, they’re fighting back. The
“cotton picking, tap dancing,
mammy singing darkie” of a few
generations looks up from below
and finds one black like him,
turning a page of a history book,
doing the African wist and not
singing to some woman, but for
his freedom. You don’t even hear
the freedom songs anymore; The
banjo picking, seed spitting days
are over. The people are tired
of going hat in hand, eyes toward
the floor, shuffling for the right
to live. He couldn’t do it with
segregation and the defacto ele
ment proved to be more of a
farce; he won’t do it by one like
him placed in a firm or company
as an engineer so (they) can say
it’s “integrated”, only to find
out the engineer was a custodial
one.
Historically, this nation flour
ished and became one of the leading
and most productive ones because
of the Black man. He was vic
timized and thought of as inately
inferior and placed in the fields
to work where the body was too
busy for his mind to wander. If he
was“a good nigger”, he was taken
from the fields where I imagine
the heat was almost unbearable,
and put in the “big house”. He
would have much rather remained
where things grew and where life
was raw; the only trouble was,
(Continued on Page 8)
We’re A Winner” Causes
Racial Fuss Across Country
Dear Editor:
The hit tune, “We’reA Winner”,
by Curtis Mayfield and The Im
pressions is said to be constantly
stirring up racial fuss across the
Not so in the annual’s case. Students peruse its new volume
but once a year and if it contains some major revision which
they find difficult to accept for some reason there is nothing to
do except hope for a better book next year. Or have a book-burning,
which really serves no constructive purpose.
Kimbrell missed several opportunities to explain her proposed
change to students.
She could have provided information and explanation to the
Journal as soon as she decided upon a change. The Journal could
have run it as a news story along with an editorial dealing with
its pros and cons and students would have been in a position to
weigh this material.
Or she could have explained her position after the Senior Class
passed its resolution to request the Pub Board look into the pic
ture-placement matter. Maybe if communication had come here
Seniors might not have felt the need to go to the board.
Even at the board meeting, explanations would have been wel
come. Or at the legislature meeting during which representa
tives voted to stop the flow of annual funds.
But meaningful communication didn’t come. Just statements
about deadlines and lack of time.
It must be admitted that in the latter stages of the controversy,
communication lag was probably as much a fault of the Seniors
as of the annual editor. Nevertheless, the major blame must be
placed on the annual.
Another reason for my position in the matter is the course
which action in the Pub Board took in regard to the Snerios’ re
quest. It simply reaffirmed its non-interference policy in regard
to campus publications except in cases of liable and extreme
bad taste.
Traffic Officer
Needed To Stop
country. Some radio stations and
D.J.’s feel that this record pro
moted racial antagonism between
the Black and VVhite community.
It is deleted from their regular
Violators Of Signs
schedule of hit tunes. If the pub
lic doesn’t hear it over the radio,
they will surely go totheir nearest
record shop and buy it or hear
it through some other means.
This type ofactionistaking place
in many cities of theDnitedStates.
The actions taken by these sta
tions aren’t solving the problem
of racialism but creating a new
one. More harm than good will
be done by not playing this record.
If this record was by the “Beatles”
there would be no controversy at
all, but complete acceptance.
I would like to commend WGIV
and WAYS for their fine way of
playing a wide variety of tunes
for the public to enjoy. Which
also includes “We’re A Winner”.
I am glad that these stations find
(Continued on Page 8)
Dear Madam Editor:
Just about every morning after
I have risked my life and auto
mobile to enter the campus off
of Highway 49, I see two or three
cars driving down the one-way
road beside the main parking lot
in the opposite direction to which
traffic is supposed to go.
The purpose of this one-way
road was for safety, so that as
students are crossing the road to
go to classes they will have to
dodge traffic in only one direc
tion.
I urge that the school traffic
officer, Mr. Young, position him
self at the one-way cut oft and
issue these traffic violators tic
kets.
Thank you.
Clary Showed Contempt
For Kimbrell’s Decision
Chip Wright, President of
Circle K
Dear Editor:
This letter is addressed not so
much to you as to Mr. Elli
son Clary, one of your more voci
ferous and less polite staff mem
bers. It was most obvious in last
week’s article by Mr. Clary cover
ing the recent Pub Board contro
versy that Mr. Clary demonstra
ted not only his contempt for
Miss Candy Kimbrell’s editorial
decision, but also reveals a lack
of williigness on the part of Mr.
Clary to credit Miss Kimbrell
with her titles. Seven times in
the article he refers to her as
“Kimbrell,” not Miss Kimbrell
or Editor Kimbrell, but “Kim
brell.” Once, only once, was Mr.
Clary considerate enough to refer
to Miss Kimbrell as “Rogues ’n
Rascals” editor Candy Kimbrell.”
On the other hand, Mr. Clary
would hardly consider naming
“Mason,” “McCall, ” or “Har
ris” in this manner.
Does this practice tell you some
thing about yourself—Mr. Clary?
Rodney T. Smith
(P.S. A well taken point needs no
catalogue of endorsements to tes
tify to its validity.)
Thus Seniors were given the feeling that there was nowhere
to turn save the legislature, so that’s where they turned. There
should have been some alternatives within the board for the Seniors.
Board Chairman Dr. Darryl McCall mentioned possibilities of
editor censure or impeachment in a board meeting a week later,
but these measures and their procedures are not spelled out
Finally, I’d like to discuss the bill passed by the legislatore
which withheld all annual funds until such time as the Seniors
and the yearbook could come to some agreement.
This bill, without doubt, was dangerous. In all likelihood, more
dangerous than most legislatore wildly imagined. Eklltorial tree-
dome was at stake, but fortunately tiiere is a great deal of real
doubt in regard to the bill’s legality.
Unfortunately, however, the ^b Board had been lax enough
in its constitution to make many legislators feel this bill was
perfectly legal.
The legislature decided although it appropriates funds to the
Board in a lump sum to be divided among the publications as
the Board sees fit, it could deliberate about annual money since
it might be considered a line item in the Board’s total request.
Thus it contended it could alter annual resources without consult
ing the Board.
It might be mentioned that the annual served to abet this line
of reasoning by submitting an additional request for funds to the
legislature finance committee on the same night. This request had
not been presented to the Pub Board for its approval as is re
quired.
The Pub Board will have to tighten its financial loop holes and come
to a concrete understanding with the legislature if editorial free
dom is long to remain a reality on this campus.
But the Board is a young organization, just over a year in age,
and it will in all probability straighten out its problems.
Although rather distasteful in many aspects, controversies of
the type we have just undergone can serve to mature this campus’
various organizations. Let’s hope this one does.
This
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Joe College.
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worried
about
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future.
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