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PAGH 2 SUMMER SCHOOL WEEKLY AUGUST V'ltSJ- letters Editor: Having a limited background of experience with , newspapers and after recovering from the initial shock of reading your July 25 edition of the Summer .self with the fact that you have a' valid-even if not sound-basis for presenting the recent Student Government Poll in the manner in which you did. Attention tStow Profs! More Speed !s Wanted Cher in the Social Science Dept. there's a certain prof who - seems to enjoy teaching extra classes between the hours of 3 p.m. a id 6 p.m. during the last three days of Summer School. To avoid any question as to our friend's identity, let it merely be stated t:iat he is the only one of the major domos who taught Social Science ' School Weekly, I consoled my- 1 during the first session. We would like to say that we think it's wonderful that our Ph.D. friend has such unbounded, seldom seen initiative. It isn't often that our local educators demonstrate such devotion to their tasks. ; Yet, it makes us greatly irritated when we suddenly discover - i have argued this with sev to our utter amazement that said prof is holding these extra gather- eraj stu(jems aireadv mgs because he was so long winded mat ne just couwnt mase u through his entire course in the prescribed time. Soooooooo, instead of his students being able to pursue such healthy activities as The Summer School Weekly, or Kessing Pool or the Tempo Room, they, were forced into a littlesmoke filled room in Saunders Hall for uninspiring lectures about Fulton's Steamer and the Opium' Wars. We will grant that the Social Science curriculum as currently !" presented is bad. Yet, profs in other depts. who are teaching equally ' messed up courses, somehow find time and talent enough to wind their ways through the summer's labors without subjecting students to needless "extras." 1' Profs have no right to require attendance at after hours ses Rtons according to University regulations. If a class meets at 9 a.m. every morning, it can only carry on its legal business between that - time and the perscribed termination point. " Thus, we have established that there is no such thing as an extra session with compulsary attendance. But, what about our subject in the Social Science Dept.? He knows the rules and says t "very simply to his classes, "tonight we'll have a three hour class. ; I am not enforcing attendance, but would highly advise that you , come." - -! t What kind of a play on words is this? Let's define the rules- . For instance, if the State De partment conducted a national poll to determine if the Ameri can people preferred commun ism to democracy and 32.1 per cent of the population voted for communism, I believe this would be extremely news worthy. How ever, I don't think that the 32.1 per cent would rate such a big headline and news story except, perhaps, in Pravda or the Na tional Guardian. Not that I'm saying the Summer School Week ly ' has a "red tinge" on the contrary. ' Where else could stu dents print or read a paper and see editorials and news stories condemning their governments policy? I just believe your mis take was in not confining the ' emphasis and your comments and set our academicians on the rieht road. If our friend can't make it through a course in a semester, let him find another place ,;fout the "'"ority vote to the 4n vKcnlav kU ohilUv . W Glw.M ' ko'-th cam i'ith 'a ;W -is it U PerliapS . ith a student. ... Guest Editorial Khrushchev, :0 Bl ckc?cJ tf4Fl? fjtyf And i Barbaric Murderer realize it, but many students I talked to were those who had voted against action in Lebanon "bu just didn't like the way you 'wrote H up.. J ; '. 1 ; I wonder what the. Russian stu dent visitors will . think of the Vpaperf ".,' . -.,,v . .... . . Name withHd by request 5.- Mr. Khrushchev must, be in a grimly tight corner to have made j4r'tmJ.self; Jour more ghosts. The ; execution of Imre Nagy, General -r&aleter, and two other Hungarian Communists points irresistibly 'rto a great crisis in the Soviet leadership. Nothing like it has. hap- )ened since the months that followed Stalin's death.' Then the "col ' Jcctive leadership" made short work of the security police by exe cuting. Beria and doing away with his underlings. Even this seemed hi its effects like a liberation, for it put a snuffer on the police as the ever-present arbiter of life and death in Eastern Europe. ""'r''; Since then the Soviet leaders, most notably Mr. Khrushchev, " 'had avoided bloodshed in the. domestic upheavals that from time to time packed some of them off to distant places. Mr. Khrushchev seemed to have opened up a new era within the party by turning fcack on the Stalinist error which he denounced at the twentieth congress. All that is over. The Hungarian leaders have been exe- cuted, not in the heat of repression two years ago, nor again after.. fb1anner, screaming that 32.1 per a show trial, but, like Beria, secretly, in hugger-mugger, without ?eiH student body agreed ' so much as a word of the indictment being breathed until the. Uh your former editorial was : sentence had been carried out. ' t With this act the Communist leadership not only throws over any hope of presenting itself to the uncommitted as a sensible, cool, reformed body of men who have grown out of Stalin's barbar- : ism;.' it throws over any hope among Communists outside Russia that they might be allowed some free play to meet local needs in their own way. This is a heavy price to pay for the execution of men at a time when the Soviet policy strives to present a smiling face abroad. The decision to pay it can have come only from men who saw ! their power gravely threatened and who sacrificed all else to keep their grip over the party. What comes next is still in dark ness; but it would be surprising if before long more ghosts did ' not appear at the Kremlin's table. - , . Hungary showed the rigid limit which the leadership set on any attempt to meet national feeling; it must not jeopardise the supremacy of-the party or of the Soviet Union. These executions ,' suggest that in enforcing the limit, the leadership cannot avoid opposed t this intervention. You Editor: . - I noted with interest the arti cle in Jim Harper's sports col umn which you wrote. It was very interesting. 1 suggest you might" stick to sports. The fourth page in this college news paper is, of course, slanted and justifiably so. Students of this university- want to hear, of UNC sports, and want to hear of them favorably. However, your front page editorial was in very poor taste. Your five-column a bit misleading. In the first piace, fewer than 30 per cent agreed. You feel it significant that this group supported you. Is it not also somewhat indica tive that 65 per cent disagreed? And .that this "large segment of our campus" is, indeed, in what might be termed Wash ington's 'majority camp?' " And why was President Gans' statement shoved to the very bottom of the page? Has he fal len in your disfavor? You state on page., two the proper place for slanted articles that God and the world are i . ... Rea'd&rY Repository ' 'v.-. ; Former Tar Hee! Staffer Ben Taylor Takes A Long Pot-Shoi At Summer Editor Dear Editor: I can no, longer sit back and see you, Mr. Editor, take the Summer School W'eekly and mould the entire paper into a mouth piece for the opinions of one august individual . . . yourself. Your July 25 edition of the Summer School Weekly mad6 me realize what your position means to you ... a chance to use the power of the printed word .to cram your own opinions down the throats of summer school students. You don't exsist to serve the student and neither does the pa per, anyone who reads your editorial of July 25 will realize that. Your very words prove my point . . .."However, if 00000 had supported .us, we would still stick to our guns. This paper shall always represent the views of the editor, regardless of public opin ion." Perhaps the editorial page shall mirror your opinions, but never the entire paper! Now I ask you, Mr. Editor . . . since when does any media of communication radio, television; newspapers, magazines, or what ever conduct its business and its presentation of the news witli absolutely no regard for the reader? When you' conduct your Summer School Weekly with the atti tude that the opinions or ideas of the 3,000 or more readers of your paper don't count worth a .damn, then I believe that it is time you reconsider your position and the responsibilities it carries. According to the poll conducted recently by the Student Gov ernment Board, 333 out of 508 people participating believed that President Eisenhower had acted justifiably in his decision to send Marines into Lenanon. Now, I'm no mathematician, but I . believe that most everyone would say that the figure constitutes a majority. But the very slanted news story.. which appeared on page one didn't' exactly give the impression! But did', the-front page lead story of July 25 scream out that the majority of UNC students felt that way? No, it did not. In stead, it revealed the fact that slightly more than a fifth of the total number of students queeried did not agree with - President Eisenhower's actions. Is not the reason for' this slanted account of fact embeddod in the ; fact that you, Mr. Editor, are among that minority fifth' and that your convictions were so strong, that-they ; impeded you greatly In performing the most direct task df any journalist . presenting the facts as they are. J The Summer School Weekly could . ; . and indeed, should?'. . have presented the facts as they were . . , simply, that the; student body was 2-1 in favor of the action taken, in Lebanon. This was a gross mistake. And if the Summer School Weekly can so distort one story, then I fear for the remainder of the Summer School editions. You have done one of two things, Mr. Editor. You have either grossly misunderstood the ethics, of journalism and the accepted practices of a profession long noted for its diligence in presenting the facts as they are and conducted the story about the results of the poll in the manner you did out of ignorance ... or you have revealed to the Student Body that the Summer School Weekly in its entity, is yours and shall continue' to reflect your views, "Re gardless of student opinions." Admitting your abilities as a journa list, I can only conclude that your fallacy lies in the latter proposi tion. ' x You have greatly overstepped your legal bounds as Editor, Mr. Young. Bn-TylM i sooner or later reviving its inheritance of blood. , Manchester Goardun Eisenhower And Dulles also state that .."this, paper shall always represent the views of .the (cap) Editor, regardless of public opinion." This was an oversight, I am sure. You meant to say, of course, that this pa per's editorial page shall always represent the views, of the editor, etc. This is a very fine senti ment,, indeed. , Very noble. And, regardless of the opinion, it As the week drew to a close, all was not quiet on the Western ; front, but on the Mid-Eastern sector of the World's battlefield, the; , Arabian Nights were a little cooler. . It would now appear that President Eisenhower's gamble of . dispatching troops to Lebanon and Britains move in sending mili-v.tarv- force into Jordan has worked. Few if any of us now feel that . ; World 'War, m is an immediate threat. ,;should read as the, editor chooses. . Ilnwpvor- thp tmicrWt ink U nnw ahfaH Mrtw cun uf win hark Bu the. Pa&es should not, .f our lost prestige in the region of the Fertile Cresent? Can we buy oil from the new Iraqi regime? Is Nasser a man that can be trust- , d? Will the Summit Conference in the U. N- be a success? Can we train technicians to go into the Middle East and show these , people that we are concerned with their"-welfare? " These are questions that Ike and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles must answer and answer to the satisfaction of both sides. ... With constructive leadership, the world will survive. Without it, we will perish in a maze of radiation and fall out. necessarily. This sort of thing somehow brings back unpleas ant remembrances of last year and one Neil. Bass. Please, Mr. Editor, play fair. Don't let your' . '.'power" go to . your head, . Keep ' your opinions out of ' the head lines. Or go back to sports. Wally Kuralt Editor's Answer . After considerable thought and after talking to many students, I have come to the conclusion that I owe some sort of an explanation to the readers for last week's issue of The Summer School Weekly. Wally Kuralt,' in a letter, addresed to me, called our front page story dealing with the poll a "front page editorial." He is partially right. It is very debatable whether I should have attached a lead headline dealing with a minority, of the campus. We admit our strong feelings on the U. S. Mid-Eastern intervention policy, yet also admit that the handling of this story is justifiably open to crit icism from readers. - Now, to the. criticism of our editorial page statement that, . . if 00000 had supported us, we would still stick to our guns." This paper shall always represent the views of the Editor, regardless of public opinion." Kuralt is absolutely right that this should have read "editorial page" rather than "paper" We apolo gize for this slip and chalk v it off to too many Bufferins. On the other hand, we were trying to make a valid point: So many Edi tors and political leaders consult, the Gallup Poll before taking their stand that the result is the kind of insipid journalism and policy which has led to our present crisis. We have (in the words of the Declaration) "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind," but we shall "never REPEAT NEVER, alow any "Poll" to dictate the editorial policy of this paper, js that quite clear, Gentlemen? And speaking of "power mad" people, have 'you guys talked with the bartender at the Tempo lately. Here is a man with real power. We envy him, especially the way in which he. has captured our staff. ' " We have little objection to the comments appearing in these three letters, with one BIG exception. In the letter appearing at the top of the second column there is a very sly and nasty remark about this paper having a "red tinge." We will not attempt to make a cute rebuttal. Our only comment is "not no, but hell no." Any r?d tinge we have is better Ivnown as suii tan. Chalk off last week's mistakes to youthful exuberance and have our assurance that we shall not make them twice.J hanks for the letters V.'al y, Ben- aid blank.,, t illing the- editorial. page?thi3 wek was. a. breeze;: ' -V . ' - ' . - EDITOR (
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