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September 27, 19G1
Tel: 942-2336
Vol." LXIX, No. 8
Carolina's Fuiture
Calmly unaware of the impor
tance of the issue, Carolina students
are nestled with carefree ease m
the center of activity concerning
the coming bond issue.
The nearly six million dollars con
tingent -on the eight items involy
irig the University can make . or
break her future. If these issues
jpasswe can keep abreast; if they
are defeated the future is uncertain.
Passage is far from a sure thing.
The people or North Carolina have
yet to be made completely aware
of a multitude of facts concerning
the issue.
Clarification of the points will
help to insure passage, arid the stu
dents at Carolina must carry the
weight of explaining them.
There are many misconceptions
that must be clarified and explain
ed to point up the validity of eyery'
item on the proposed issue. Caro-t
lma must snow its heed, arid there
is no better, way to show this need,
than through the students f 6r vvnom
the University exists. Over and
over again it must , be explained
that passage will not . mean an . in
crease in taxes. No one can better
explain this to parents than their
sons and daughters at Carolina."
Letters must be written; -representatives
contacted, confidence
built. We must explain and explain.
And: when the explanation seems
clear, we must explain again.
'.The issue riiust be stripped of
partisan overtones, the worth of
the items on the proposal pointed
out to Democrats and Republicans
alike; ".
Every item, particularly those
concerning education, were includ
ed because of a definite need. This
must be emphasized.
, President Friday, Chancellor Ay
cock and other officials are working
with strength orn of intense dedi
cation to put the University's needs
before the eye of the public. But
their strength and hard work are
almost; iriMfecfual in the area
wnere ; effectiveness mast exist:
with' the people' of North Carolina
who will vote yes or no on Caro
lina's future.
The"- prime resporisibilTty on this
front belongs to the student. Every
in-state student represents aff irma
tfve Votes "if he or she Will but ask
his parents tti support the sale of
fronds when the votes conies in Nov
ember.' Yet, the bulk of us show only a
passing' interest, a faintly felt hope
that "it win pass."
; Jri . the' coming, weeks,, students
will be asked to put forth at least
a minimum effort .toward selling
the University;
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Guest Editorial
Britain's Changing Attitude
, A mass protest against nuclear
arms in Londonts Parliament Square
conceivably might pick-up more
participants now that the United
States" has" resumed testing.' '
i But neither such an eventuality,
nor. the cries against the jailing of
Bertrarid' Russet, the 89-yeaf;-oIo!
philosopher and anti-nuclear leader
for failing to keep the pea'ce, should
mislead us as to Britfeh opinion.
; ; There has been considerable agi
tation against our stationing of -P6-la'ris-anried
subriiarines in Scotlanfl
arid there will be soirie oppositioiij to
our resumption of testing. But
tnere is an evident swing away
from such an attitude undoubtedly
contributed to by Russia's unilateral
resumption.
'Significantly, the British F.oreign
Office was sending a message supp
porting our resumption of tests be
fore most Americans even knew
that, we had done so.
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, .But an even more meaningful in
dicatiotf 6f the change in outlook
came in tfe recent annual British
Trade . Unions . Ctorifeerice. ILast
year, Labor Party Leader Hugh
t&ltskitt wits soundly trounced in
votes, passing resolutioris calling for
banning the A-boriib and keeping
tfie ' Polaris subs out of British
waters. This year, it was just the
reverse, '
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A year ago, the Labor Party was
so split on the issue th'at it seemed
rinlikely ever to be a potent force in
the country. But now Mr. Gaitskill
$a?. Drought trie .party back to
gether, and while it might not un
seat, ithe Conservatives1 at the next
election,- it has chances that are im
proving. 1
Vhat the neutrals, so-called, will
besaymg about our new tests is a
different matter., After all, though,
after Belgrade, - does it really mat
ter? - ;
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Belatedly, the Daily, Tar Heel
would like to recognize the members
of this year's Orientation Commit
tee. Orientation , this year , was a
prodigious job well doneand stands
as a firm ..argument against any
plans to curtail it in the future;
The suggestion that the program
would Dehefit frbiri an jiidded Em
phasis on the academic side of CS
Iina' living is a suggestion well ta-f
efo: But a change in approach U riot
difficult to efttect wheri partrciplants
worl s deKgehtly and , effectively
as 'Hid, tne cunsetqrs this year.
"A "vote of th'a&k' is djiliacb. ?f
them as well as to the committee.
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' Madison, Wise.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Cam
pus: " .
.This is to. inform you that the
National Student ; Association (NSA)
does not represent you, despite what
you have been told. Its pronounce
ments and stands on issues do not
reflect your views and opinions. The
people who come to the Congresses,
where NSA policy i formed, are not
representatives of their student body.
The five national officers and ten
staff men who "execute" policy from
NSA's rickety four-story building in
Philadelphia likewise do not repre
sent you.
In short, although NSA is a con
federation of student governments
with a collective attendance of 1.3
million students, it is NOT typical.
It does not represent you. And it's
all your fault, you apathetic bums,
you; ; r ..
(s) Steven Roberts, Editor
The Harvard Crimson
Carey McWilliams, Jr.
Professor of Government
Oberlin College
THE ABOVE LETTER as a let
teris a phony. It does not exist,
except as here imagined. But its
contents are not phony; its contents
are a purely arbitrary compilation
o fsome of the views of Roberts and
McJVilliams as they appear stated
and implied in an article by them
entitled "Student Leaders and Cam
pus Apathy," which appears in The
Nation of Sept 16.
The article is an incisive evalua
tion of what NSA is and is not, where
NSA has been and where it is going,
and of what Conservation is and is
not. If you have the time, its two-and-a-half
pages merit a first-iand
reading.
Besides those stated and implied
views included in the imaginary let
ter here are some particularly perti
nent excerpts: ;
"Galloping apathy still dominates
most American college students . . .
(so) . . . NSA IS NOT typical. It is
an elite of interested students, awak
ening to a world they did not make,
but world they want to change. This
has not always been so.
, "FOR MOST OF its fourteen-year
history, NSA devoted itself to the
issues which concerned its member
student governments: college park
ing, home-coming dances, women's
hours, etc. It did so largely from
necessity, because its claims to legi
timacy rested on these student gov
ernments, which had virtually com
plete freedom to withdraw their col
leges from NSA when dissatisfied
with its policies.
"Contemporary collegiate student
governments are, to put it mildly, a
poor vehicle for transforming politi
cal awareness. They reflect the de
sire of the college administrator to
Most Americans in viewing the
overall world situation are now be
ginning to realize that the U. S.
may be forced to choose between
surrender and war. Since the end
of World War II we have seen an
increasing hostility on the part of
the U.S.S.R.
America and her allies have tried
to open avenues of peace between
Russia and the U.S. but ail attempts
have seemed to end in futility. If
there can be no accommodation be
ween ourselves and the Communists,
then the choice of war or surrender
is inevitable.
There is no comfort for the con
cerned in the fact that the surrender
may be either gradual or subtle, for
in world politics (contrary to popu
lar U. S. opinion) it is not "how
you play the game, but whether you
win or lose." The stakes of the
game are survival, and it is on this
fundamental issue of survival that
the choice of war or surrender will
rest. r
THE KREMLIN may be hoping
that the choice will be one of gradu
al, subtle and painless surrender.
But if Mr. Krushchev were to ex-
"avoid difficulties" at all costs by
eliminating the student from ail areas
of controversy -which . might "'re
flect on the university." (Note: The
reference is to Universities" in general-
and experience has shown
is most inaccurate where UNC is
concerned.)
"There is a close interaction be
tween student . government under
these conditions and student apathy.
The banality , of student politics re
pels, the student; the absence of
student criticism and interest leaves
student governments in the hands
of those who find playtime bureau
cracy and homiletics about alma
mater to be congenial pursuits. .
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"IT WAS THESE GOVERNMENTS
that sent delegates to the" NSA Con
gress; and the delegates annually
rose in" revolt against whatever
broader policies had ben pursued
by national officers, threatening to
withdraw or to form rival associa
tions. , "Under such circumstances, even
the most far-sighted national officer
was likely to develop an ethic of
cautious prudence and "responsibili
ty. This led to endless compromises,
and a pandering to the uninspired
interests of campus political re
gimes. "Tne toP stau? of NSA realized
that it was not. truly representative.
Consequently,' if tried even harder
to please, and largely submerged
any trace of boldness or imagination
it had in the silence of the times
a silence punctuated only occasion
ally by a boisterous football cheer
or a shrill female scream.
"THE LAST TWO years have seen
an already much-discussed "awaken
ing of the silent generation. The
sit-ins in the South, sympathy 'pic
kets and selective buying in the
North, protests against the House
Committee on Un-American Activi
ties and compulsory ROTC, the cam
paign for repeal of the loyalty oath
and disclaimer affidavit in the Na
tional Defense Education Act, and
enthusiastic support for the Peace
Corps all came in a rush.
"There was definitely a stirring,
a reawakening interest. In addition
to the protest, a rash of campus
political parties . . . sprang up.
So did a number of new magazines
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, With the current craze of fall-out
shelters .sweeping the country, the
old cliche, "He who goes, lowest;
builds safest," becomes all too true.
"flic Question il, Would It Be Proper
For Us To Tate Sides?"
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devoted? to political thought . . .
"NSA mirrored the change, but
not because it had become repre
sentative of the American student
(the large majority of American stu
dents remain unaware and uncon
cerned). There was, however, a grow,
ing interest among the leaders who
actually are NSA and form its policy
at the annual Congress. For the
first time, the association took stands
on such issues as HUAC, the Peace
Corps, Algeria, Cuba and nuclear
testing.
"THE STIMULATION of the
unique student protests aroused
NSA to take positive stands on im
portant questions, but in doing so
it was acting not as the National
Student Association, but as a consci
ous group of student leaders, far
removed from the sentiments of their
campuses and constituency.
"The value to . those who have
participated has ben immense, but
they are few. NSA has almost com
pletely failed to transport the initial
enthusiasm of the "movement" back
to the campus, largely because of
the understandable concern of ideal
ists for the moral content of issues
rather than the structure of social
and educational power or the day--to-day
realities of student life.
"This is where NSA stood as the
fourteenth National Student Congress
began (in Madison, Wise.) The dif
ference this year was the conserva
tive "challenge," which forced NSA
leaders to take a long look at the
association."
NSA's newly-elected president, Ed
Garvey, "emphasized the need for
bringing the experience of a Con
gressthe deliberations and, most
important, the defense of an ideal
in the face of strong opposition
to all students. This can only be
done, he said, 'by structuring the
Congress so that delegates won't
leave and forget what has happened,
but will go back to their campuses,
fight for the stands they have tak
en,' and translate policy into specific
programs.'
"SYMBOLIC OF NSA's renewed
interest in educational problems was
' a resolution condemning the theory
of in loco parentis as restrictive to trie
full intellecual and social growth of
the 'student: This doctrine, which
gives the college legal authority to
act as a "parent," forces the student
into a dependent relationship with the
school, rather than the beneficial
mutual give and take of an intel
lectual community.
"NSA, after years of frustration,
has finally emerged as a voice, if
not of the American student, then
of the American student leader. The
question is now whether it can trans
late the enthusiasm of a few into a
device for awakening the still "sil
ent" American college community."
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amine the opinions of the youth of
this country today, I believe he
would find a substantial tide of feel
ing: that if we can obtain the peace
which we seek and to which our pol
icy is dedicated, then we must fight;
There is a gnawing fear that we
may lose our basic rights in Berlin,
tha( the Communist offensive will
continue agfression in South East
Asia, and the U.N; will become not
an instrument of peace, but a kind
of international discussion group or
forum.
EVEN THE MOST dedicated lib
eral must be frustrated at the So
viet's refusal to end nuclear testing
and rearmament. But the frustration
goes much deeper to the belief that
the reaching of a peace between East
and West is futile. It is from this
futility and this bitter realization
that one turns toward a new and
fresh intellectual force which holds'
that there must be no accommoda
tion with the Soviets.
If Mr. Khrushchev or anyone un
derestimates this undercurrent of
opinion, he may find that the U. S.
has found the door to peace closed,
and only the door to war or surrend
er open.
'There are many Americans who
no doubt believe surrender a better
alternative to wan, but there are far
more who will never permit the
"grandchildren to live under com
munism." If the choice must be
made, then it will be war.
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Psychological State'
Aliead For Schoolroom Johnny
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPD The
schoolroom of the future will create
in Johnny a "relaxed psychological
condition" that will turn his mind
to long divsioh instead of to the
old swimming hole.
"Schools today are being design
ed from the human standpoint," Dr.
John W. Gilliland, University of
Tennessee education professor, said
today. "We are trying to construct
them to bring out the best in peo
ple." :
Gilliland is director " of the uni
versity's school, planning laboratory.
The laboratory was set up three
years ago to help southeastern U. S.
school systems get the most for their
money n ..building construction, in
structional ids and equipment and
school sites. Gilliland calls them
"working school buildings."
THE SCHOOL of the future "the
emerging school program" will be
a compact, air-conditioned, square
shaped building, circling a recrea
tion area, Gilliland said. The class
rooms will be in warm colors, will
have more comfortable furniture and
will be flexible in size because of
sturdy, sliding, sound-proof partitions.
Liberal use will be made of carpet
ing to cut distracting noise and cre
ate a "more relaxed psychological
condition, conducive to learning." .
"Now, we're paying more atten
tion to what the building itself does
to people, psychologically," he said.
The laboratory, . which.makes.its
services available free, although
most systems contribute to the grant
awarding organization, presently has
or is near agreement on projects in
Atlanta and Fulton County, Ga., Har
lan, Ky., and Kingsport, Alcoa,
Greenville Rockford and Chattanoo
ga, Tennessee.
ALABAMA'S AUBURN University
provides much of the enginering and
architectural advice. The laboratory
coordinates local efforts "to de
fine a program which looks ahead,
then interpret the program while
encouraging new trends."
In one county,. Gilliland estimates
the laboratory's suggestions saved
about $25,000 for -a system, .which
.bad,, three new.,schools constructed.
Dear Sir:
Tonight, when I returned to my
room, I saw posted on the door of
the "Ram's Room" in Cobb Dormi
tory, a sign which read as follows :
" 'Ram's Room Temporarily clos
ed due to the administration's (South
Building) lack of informed imagina
tion and confidence in the Student
Government." The sign bore the
signature of the president of Cobb
Dormitory, Richard Burrows.
I was a little confused to say the
least, for when I came to the Uni
versity two weeks ago as a fresh
man for orientation, I was lectured
enumerable times on how much faith
the administration puts in the stu
dents,' i.e. the Honor System, the
Honor Council, and the Student Gov
ernment. I would like to know then,
if the administration places so much
faith into the hands of the students,
why this administration is now step
ping into the bounds of the Student
Government.
James L. Rossman
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