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Page Two THE DAILY TARHEEL - Tuesday, March 7, 1SG1 "You're A Big Boy Now You Can Help Push" atlp Wwc Pleel . . . Again 1 1 1 1 F 1 i I i$ tixty-eigbtb .year editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions rws either the administration or the student body. I i v : , ' -., . i ' " , - , II The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Publica- tidns Board of the University of North Carolina Richard Overstreet, Chairman - I j ' ' ' i . j . ' m, ' 1 1 1 1 " ' - ,i All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expres- sions of the editor,, unless otherwise credited they are not necessarily represen- tative of feeling on the staff, and all reprints or quotations must specif y thus. Wilson Hits Coltfelter. . March 7, 1961 Volume LXIX, Number 115 THe Constitutional Referendum: An Impressive Mandate Is Needed Today the student body Hvill vote on the proposed amendment to the Student Constitution which, if passed, will enforce considerable change in the operation of the U.N.C. honor system. A good deal; has been said-about the honor system iii the last six weeks, and up until iiow very little has been done. This bill. which has, been, passed, by .the Legislature, is the first concrete attempt to put the honox system back on a work ing basis aid get it away from the legalistic jargon and machinery into which it has fallen. If this amendment is to become an important, accepted part of the honor System' it must" be approved by an overwhelming majority of the student body. A powerful man date is needed to put the force of student opinion behind it. Without that mandate the amendments will be weak and subject to disputa tion. In the past we and many others have leveled 'a serious" charge of apathy against the student body of this University. Now we shall look tp - that - same body for denial or affirmation of that charge. If a small vote is recorded today we shall feel completely justified in everything tHat we have said; if, on the other hand, more than sixty per cent of the electorate shows up at the polling, places, we shall feel that there may yet be hope. Surely the importance of this referendum will not escape any student; whether or not it is passed will have direct bearing on every student who becomes involved with the honor courts in any way whatsoever. We urge the student body to vote today only by taking an ac tive part in student government can we insure its perpetuation. We also urge the student body to give an overwhelming vote of approval to the amendment it is a step in the right direction. A Chance To Do A Little Good Tonight the Campus Chest, with trumpets blaring and gongs clash ing, conducts its annual auction fiasco in Gerrard. The baloney, as usual, will fly from rafter to rafter, and the two rather foolish auction- eers will try "desperately to keep television sets from going for two dollars apiece.- .--- .y: ... "A number of fraternity pins may be auctioned, and we've heard scurrilous rumors to the effect that a '- number of well-known , females have donated- articles to be sold. Whether or not this is true will not be known until tonight. r No matter how -little is certain about the auction however, -at least one fact remains constant from year to year: the auction is invariably a ball. This alone should attract fifty per cent of the student body and one or two faculty mem bers. Assuming that the other fifty per cent are in the market for a good bargain, the place should be filled. With such enthusiasm being engendered, the event should be a success. Besides, the auction offers a unique opportunity to make a real contribution to others less fortu nate than ourselves. Ordinarily the joy of giving is one that is rather hard to grasp such an event as this action, however,: brings that pleasure into the light of day and makes it all the more delightful. Education Has Its Problems The problems of higher educa tion have been piling up in Chapel Hill in recent weeks . There has been much to-do on several occasions regarding basket ball, the NCAA, the ACC, etc. Right much of Chancellor W. B. Aycock's time has been put in on, that phase of higher education. He has had other problems, too. One of them seems to center about the place of parking in the realms of higher education. The parking involves both teachers and stu dents, which seems to be appro priate, in that both teachers and students are involved in other phases of higher education. At any rate, from now on if a i 2pmlg mr Peel" ' - JONATHAN YARDLEY ...... T ' Editor- ... .. Wayoti King, Mast Stewaht Bakzb - Associate Editors . M&bcabet Ann Rhtmzb . Managing Editor Edward Neal Riots - Assistant To The Editor Ejenbt Mayer, Jim" Clotfelteb News Editors ' Lloyd Little .. Executive Nevis Editor Susan Lewis I , Feature Editor Frank Pt-ttrsct - s-pnrt Editor Kabkt W. Lijyp .Asst. Sports Editor John Justicx, Davis Young , Contributing Editors - 1 Txm Btjrnett . ; Business Manager Richard V?nszsL-Advertlsing, Manager, John Jester Circulation Manager' Charles WHEDBEE&ubscription Manager The Daily Tab Heel is published. 'daily except Monday, examination periods t'Xid. vacations. It is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel llill, N. C, pursuant with the act of larch 8, 1870, Subscription rates:. $4 per semester, $7 per year. . The Dailt Tab Heel is a subscriber to the United Press , International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. ... Published by the, .Colonial Press, Chapel Hill. N. C student parks in a' -faculty or visitor parking space and is caught and fined five or more times, the Chancellor can revoke the right of the student to have his car with him at college. This undoubtedly will ' help students with t their mathematics, since they'll have to be sure to remember their numer als so that they don't get to the magic 'number of five. 'They can remember that "X" equals five, the "X" in this case marking the spot where the car used to be before the Chancellor sent it home'. The idea of allowing the student drivers four parking mistakes be fore the boom is really lowered couldn't be classed as really edu cating them for life beyond the campus. Some traffic courts on the outside are1 that lenient, but some aren'tj and this leniency on the campus could . get some of the young Bachelors of Arts in trouble if ihey happen to settle down in a town where the traffic court judge doesn't believe in giving a man four strikes before calling him out. The basketball problems of higher education seem to have been settled for a year, at least, at Chapel Hill. The parking problems Of higher education seem to be on the way towards something, maybe a solution, though there is no other place in the world where parking problems have been solved. There are, presumably, no other problems right now in higher edu cation at Chapel Hill. At least, if there are, they haven't come to re sounding public notice. v Bill Hobbs Editor Of The DTH: It is said that your columnist Mr-. Clotf elter ( f 'The - Southerner Must Listen to Criticism," Feb. 28 "in his pitifully " frantic scramble to belong to the ma jority has accepted unquestion ably every criticism screamed at his Southern home-country by the selfrappointed apostles of Truth and Right. I agree that the Southerner, like anyone else, should be wil ling to listen to criticisms offered by intelligent and generous men in a spirit of good will (although the Southerner has cherished the notion, perhaps backward, that one should right his own house before he seeks to right his neigh bor's and maybe we would all be happier if we minded our own business . anyway ) . Unfortunately' the Southerner has not' been so fortunate as to receive very much of this kind of criticism. Instead he has been the brunt of a good deal of condescending advice from people who are curiously unable to manage their own affairs, mixed in with a generous quantity of abuse and exhortations to repentance from sins he does not feel. The non-Southerner is, of course, honest, self-analytical and always gratefully open to criti cism. This is why Northern poli- ticians always graciously ac knowledge your point when you suggest an inconsistency in their determination to use any means to achieve more integration in Are We Individuals In Society Or Products? Y " From the "Raleigh Times. Bob Silliman, in his article on the "Yankus Loudmouthus," raised a most valid criticism against the supercilious, critical attitude taken by some northern ers toward their temporary home here. However, the message in his article could carry some disas trous implications. His point loses all validity if it is applied to the integration question at this uni versity....,,.,. Many students not included by Mr. Silliman have taken an at titude similar to that of the "Yankus Loudmouthus" on this issue. One of the most frequently heard comments in connection with the integration issue is, "It's those damn Yankee liberals com ing down here and stirring things up." From another group of per sons one often hears a statement such as, "All the Grits down here sure are bigoted and reaction ary." Both of these statements are absurd, weak, and irrelevant de fense mechanisms used by those who are unable to face their own dilemmas without shifting the blame to someone else.' All of us here are residents or citizens of the United States; we are not Southerners or Northern ers unless we make a point to think of ourselves, as. such. People from the North, and South alike often bring this irrelevant con sideration into . the issue, The equality of races is a na tional problem, not a sectional one. The problem is more acute, in the southern section of the country, but it is by ' no means isolated in that . section. Dis crimination is evident anywhere one wishes to look for it. There are many intolerant people from the North and many tolerant people from the South. . . It is pure foolishness to classify one's beliefs according to one's place of birth. It is even more foolish to do this in reference to people of our age. And this is my most important point:, we students at this uni versity are the youth the new generation of Americans. We are members of a new age; we are under1 absolutely no compulsion to blindly accept the judgements of oiu! elders. We are compelled to . give jtHem- full: consideration and respect. But we are also compelled' to form our own opin ions. ...... ;. We cannot excuse our actions (in either direction) by . saying that we are Southerners or North erners. We must ake our own decisions and be responsible for them as individuals,, not as resi dents of a certahv section of the country. .. . I am from Washington, D. C. I have , my own opinions on. the integration issue; ; . others have Women's Honor Council Chairman Speaks On Coming Constitutional Amendment Vote On Tuesday, March 7, the stu dent body will be voting on a constitutional amendment which will clarify and simplify our ju diciary system. All members of each council, the Women's Honor Council, the Men's Honor Coun cil, and the Student Council, are strongly backing this amendment and are urging each student to vote intelligently, having read the statements made, by those who have been directly concerned with the functioning of the councils. The major discussion has cen tered around the removal of the jury system. Currently, a jury is selected randomly from the mem bers of the student body; this jury determines the guilt or in nocence of the defendant, having heard the evidence and reviewed the facts of the case. We have, then, in effect, two juries: one jury is randomly selected, serv ing one evening, having had no previous training or experience, and having, in many cases, little or no interest in the trial; the One For All, All For Me. . . Is This Our Attitude Here? To The Editor: Dr. George Taylor's forecful article on student apathy in the first issue of Parlance was strik ingly illustrated recently in an incident in one of my classes. I presented what I thought was a challenge of the sort President Kennedy had in mind when, in his inaugural address, he said that Americans ought not to ask "What can my country do for me, but what can I do for my coun try." To the twenty-five students present, I read parts of a news release describing an opportunity to carry out President Kennedy's challenge. The International Cooperation Administration is going to select 150 young American college grad uates for two-year appointments to teach English, history, mathe matics and other subjects in secondary schools in East Africa. Fifty of these need not have any other qualification than a bache lor's degree; fifty must have had some professional, preparation for teaching. I asked anyone who was interested in thus serving the Government in a region where we are in danger of losing the ideological war to let me have their names so that I might nomi nate them to the proper authori ties. You know the answer. Not a single student even asked me for further details.,. If any student among the eight thousand now on this campus is interested in devoting two years of his life to this kind of govern ment service, I shall be glad to discuss the matter with him. My office is 313 Phillips Hall. A. C. Howell Professor of English second "jury" is the Honor Coun cil,, the members of which are eletced from judicial districts. The council members are trained; they receive experience- from weekly meetings; they- are inter ested in the trials.' ' - Even though no. two cases are ever alike or are compared in any manner by the council members during the trials, the experience is most helpful in aiding the council, by directing the thoughts of the members,' and by helping each person to realize the gravity of the position of the accused and the council. In rendering a deci sion of "guilty?. or "not guilty," each member weighs the facts not only with objectivity and justice, but also with a truthful awareness of the meaning of the two Codes. When declaring a sen tence, the members try to bal ance mercy toward the accused with the responsibility of up holding the Honor. Code and the Campus Code. Graham Walker Chairman, Women's Honor Council theirs. If they hold their opin ions as individual human beings, I will respect them and their be liefs to the utmost. If, however, they and their beliefs are simp ly products of such-and-such an environment, I refuse to respect them. If a person is just a product of certain conditions, his words are just that words, noises, fun ny sounds which come out of Ixi m Vu ut Txot ideas or- ' opiriiOrts, valid or' invalid. "We are of course ' all very much influenced by in numerable factors in the world. It would bef ridiculous to disre gard this, but it would also, be ridiculous to blindly accept it as having already determined our fate. . . . If we act in this integration question as human beings, isolat ed from our place of birth, form ing our own opinions and actions, people will be able to condemn or approve our ' decision with some accuracy. If our decision (assuming that we make one) is a product of our birthplace, a re action to physical causes beyond, our control, it will be meaning less. , Do we want to be individuals? Do we want to act on the world in which we live, or do we want to react to the world in which we live?. Many of the answers to these questions will be determined by the decisions and actions of each individual member of this com munity, . the South when all their constitu ents either live in segregated neighborhoods or wish they did. This is why the press in North ern cities put Southern incidents on the front page and bury their own, sometimes worse, race strife on page 18. Why doesn't Mr. Clotfelter look for himself? Why doesn't he take notice of the very real friendship evident between the 'races in everyday life in the South (and in the South alone) ? Why doesn't he put some of his tremendous analytical powers to use examin ing a little more critically the source and motives of the uproar against the Southerner? I see no resemblance between the people I know from Virginia to. Mississippi and the picture of the Southerner propagated by his enemies. I see instead a reflec tion of the inadequacies and ir rationality of the critic who must vent his aggressions on an ab straction a thousand miles from home and a false one at that. As for forgetting Nathan Bed ford Forrest and Jefferson Davis, not. only should the Southerner not forget but every American with any regard for his heritage should remember. As long as there is any respect for free men fighting for their homes with guts against long odds, devotion to principle and courage in the face of adversity and suffering, there will be this memory. The Southerner is no worse than anybody else, and maybe in some ways he's just a little bit better. At least he doesn't run off to Greenwich Village, join crack-pot causes or drink mar tinis instead of bourbon, and he has enough good manners not to criticize other folks for the fail ings he suffers from himself. Clyde Wilson Jr. MM Is Well! That s Swell! NEW YORK (UPI) Actress "Marilyn Monroe will leave Co- vaSTitia - Presbyterian Medical Center Sunday after three weeks' treatment for emotional exhaus tion, a spokesman announced. A hospital official said Miss Monroe's condition was good. She entered the hospital Feb. 11 after spending four days at the Payne Whitney . Clinic of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, one of the nation's outstanding psychiatric institutions. Her press representative, John Springer, said at the time that the actress had had a "very tough year" and was "just exhausted . . . really beat down, physically and emotionally." It was presumed that two re cent stunning blows contributed to the distraught condition which required hospitalization. One was the death on Nov. 16 of Clark Gable, her co-star in the new movie, "The Misfits." The other was the collapse of her four-year marriage to play wright Arthur Miller, her third husband. She obtained a Mexican divorce from him on Jan. 24. Chapel Hill A fter J I Dark i With Davis B. Young The Daily Tax Heel soliciis and is happy io prinl any.lei ler to the -.-editor- written by a member of the University community, as long as it is within the accepted bounds of good taste. NO LETTERS WILL BE PRINTED IF THEY ARE OVER 300 , WORDS LONG OR IF THEY ARE NOT TYPEWRITTEN OR DOUBLE SPACED. We make this requirement purely for the sake of space and timo. Today you are asked to vote on an amendment to the Student Constitution..- (The amendment upon which" you, will express a preference concerns the student judiciary. The first step for this impor tant document was to pass the scrutiny of the Student Legisla ture. This it did by a unanimous vote. As it comes before you today, it has the undivided support of the President of the Student Body, the Student Legislature and the members of the Men's and Women's . Honor Councils. There is extended organized sup port. There- has been no organ ized opposition. Even those, who might have been expected to op pose some of its provisions have praised the fairness of the amend ment. . We believe this amendment will, insure the most expedient and the fairest system for all stu dents. By passing this amendment today, the students have an op portunity to adopt what may be the best all-around judicial sys tem ever offered to them. By de feating it, the students invite faculty intervention and provi sions not nearly so liberal as those proposed in the amendment. It is a matter of record that this columnist has always fought, and fought hard, for making the Honor System something which belongs to all the students. I ask you to vote YES on this amendment. Tonight, one of UNC's most worthwhile organizations the Campus Chest will hold its big event of the year. We are, of course, referring to the AUC TION. Last year's sale raised a good ly amount of the total Campus Chest money. It's a good causa and a lot of fun. And besides that, you get to see the master auctioneer Ty Boyd. So come one, come all. Buy all, and don't stall. That's a couplet we picked up from Robert Frost on Friday night.
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