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1I omeraiLii The state of the union, as the President observed the other day, is basically good. But the unique Lyndon Johnson touch in the strategy to make it better was clearly calculated to leave his political opposition in a state of consternation. He occupied so many forward positions on so many fronts that he left little ground open for his enemies to fight him on. He was for fru gality and a sound dollar, the magic words that always are an open sesame to a legislator's vote, if not his heart, except where the budget cuts affect his own district. But the President was also for the mightiest feder al assist in the nation's history to building of homes, schools, lib raries and hospitals. He was for being first to land Volume 42, Number 81 ilii ?A ' 1 Published dairy except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throoghoot the aca demic year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by5" the Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel HlH. N. C THE DAILY TAR nv.Kf. Is a subscriber to United Press' Internationa and utilizes' the w services of the University Chapel Hill Vs. Chapel Hill, to put it mildly, is in a cruel situation. The town is standing at a crossroads of some sort, and wheth er or not we're able to read the signs and take the right route will be decided within tbe next few days. An immovable object a majority of the Board of Aldermen has met an irresistible force a demand for com plete desegregation by a coalition of civil rights groups, headed by the na tional office of the Congress of Racial Equality. Suddenly, in' short, the much-heralded Negro Revolt has really hit home, and all of us, whether we like it or not, are in it up to our ears. How we come out of it depends upon how well we all face up to that fact. The only sure thing is that if there were an easy answer to our problem, somebody would have come up with it by now. In the face of the extreme tension that is developing, many doubts are be ing expressed about the integrity of both the Aldermen opposed to a public accommodations ordinance and the lead ers of the civil rights movement. . This is a poor way to begin trying to resolve our dilemma. The Aldermen can't simply be written off as a bunch of puppets dancing at the end of strings Gary Blanchard, David Ethridge Co-Editorn Business Manager Managing Editors Advertising Manager News Editor z Associate Editor Photo Editor Sports Editor Curry Kirkpatrick John Montague Jim Wallace Asst. Sports Editor Night Editor - Reporters: Mickey Blackwell, Administration Peter Wales, Campus Affairs Hugh Stevens, Student Government Jim Neal, Special Assignments Suzy Sterling, SG Committees John Greenbacker, Kerry Sipe Editorial Assistants: Dale Keyse Shirley Travis Linda McPherson Linda Riggs Science Editor Mat Friedman Women's Editor Diane HUe Circulation Manager Asst. Advertising Mgr. Asst. Business Mgr. SWc Edward P. Morgan: The State of the Union Message on the moon if nobody else want ed to cooperate and go with us but he had already cut back- some military spending, was going to level off our stockpile of enrich ed uranium and he invited the Russians to take similar steps to de-fuse the nuclear arms race. The President was for capital and he was for labor and sincerely against the sin of denying citi zens their full constitutional rights. He1 was for prudence but he also was for progress. His Compara tively short message to a joint session-of the' House and Senate in a dilatory and dubious 88th Congress was paced so perfectly that he did not throw away a single line. His soft, controlled drawl and meaningful pauses evoked 80 interruptions for ap plause though by no means all 70 Yean of Editorial Freedom Offices on the second floor of Grabati Memorial. Telephone' number: Editorial,', sports; news 933-1012. Business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C. Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant tr Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4.50 per' semester; $8 per year.- News Bureau. CORE: Where held by a goodly segment of our more reactionary residents. By the same token, local- integration ist leaders are not here simply to fo ment civil disturbances at the direction of national leaders out for a tactical victory. Both of these views are excessively cynical and take no account whatsoever of anything approaching humanitarian motives. And yet humanitarian motives are greatly involved. A truer view of the situation is that the Aldermen still think voluntary ef forts will work, and civil rights leaders think this is wishful thinking. If it were simply a matter of deciding who has the best case, then our problem could be solved easily. But it is not that simple. The fact of the matter is that a good many of the town's white and Negro residents want to see some visible sign of an end to the left-overs of our segre gationist past. They want the law to be with them, not against them. They want to have their wishes heeded for a change, instead of their opponents! The Aldermen and the Mayor know all this, but a majority of them remain unconvinced that a public accommoda tions ordinance is the best way to bring all this about. They fear a subtler form of discrimination will occur if the '. town's businessmen are forced to serve the public without regard to color. Who can say the Aldermen are wrong in thinking! this? Certainly we can't, but neither can the Aldermen prove they are! right. We, at least have the ' recommendations of the specially-appointed Mayor's Committee on Integra- . tion and the standing Committee on Human Relations to go on. Both have i unequivocally recommended passage of a public accommodations ordinance as the best way of solving the town's ling ering racial problem. The question now is: Where do we go from here? A meeting between the Board of Al dermen and- local civil rights leaders would seem to be a good place to start. Evidence of the board's good faith in appointing a- tthird negotiating com mittee Monday night would seem to be the best ways of temporarily, avoiding" further racial demonstrations. Art Pearce- Wayne King' Fred Seely Fred MeConnel Bob Samsot Peter' Harkness Jim Wallace John Evans Woody Sobol SaUy Rawlings Frank Potter - Dvctt S'addoiir' Bob Vanderberry For Everyone sections of the chamber applauded the same things. As at least one Republican re marked afterwards with slight ly corrosive scorn, the President's address "had something in it for everybody." And indeed it did. But the artfulness of the John son recipe was to mix the ingre ients in such a way that it was plausible to think everybody really could be cooking with gas if Congress would just be reason able. Despite their stock' and inevit ably deflating comments, this artfulness was not lost on the Re publicans. An. alert and season ed Capitol Hill observer who hap pended to focus his eye on Con gressman Charlie Halleck of In diana during the speech said the expression of the House Minority Wednesday, January 15, 1964 From Here? Leader seemed to say "Good Lord, he's done it to us again." And one eastern Republican senator, prominent for his moderate views, did say privately that even he could carry Arizona on such a platform as the Johnson state of the union message. All of which indicates that Sen ator Goldwater's own somewhat captious reaction may have been slightly hasty. Pressed for com ment in New Hampshire where he is campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination, the man from Arizona said the speech "out Roosevelted Roosevelt, out Kennedyed Kennedy and even made Truman look like a piker." If he had added Teddy Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover and William Mc Kinley to the comparisons Gold water would have perhaps struck a better balance. For the central significance rising like an obelisk out of the President's performance before Congress is that Lyndon John- .,; son means to occupy the political center, not just to sit there but as an activist engaging attackers from all sides. This was the ter ritory, and the position upon it, which John F. Kennedy aimed for and if he had lived, he might have . consolidated his power there. But this strategy is not new to President Johnson. He has worn it like a vest through most of his political career and he is a master at its execution. An invaluable advantage to the center, position is that it is so easy from there to trap reckless opponents and expose them in ex treme positions. This is a danger that Senator Goldwater faces more precariously at the moment than all the other Depublican prospects and his talk, just since last week, about abrogating the test ban treaty, encouraging an other invasion of Cuba, leaving the discretion about firing nu clear weapons to somebody other than the commander-in-chief,, et cetera such "tough talk" ex poses him even more. President Johnson, of course, is now exposed, too. He has set his goals and pledged to reach them, as swiftly as possible. If he stumbles the political injury to him and his party could con ceivably be fatal in a presidential election year. He may not be able to make more than token cuts in federal spending. He may aliens ate both . the liberals and the Southerners in the battle over civil rights. He may not be able to do enough to combat unemploy ment to satisfy organized labor and he may do too much in flex ing federal authority to hold the now surprisingly tolerant atten tion of business. Whatever he' does do, it will come, by nature of his political philosophy arid the location' of his strategic position, from some compromise. "Lyndon," a man who has known him long and well said today, "wants that specta cular 20-yard run down the field. He will settle for a five-yard gain: But some people forget that when he gets that, he demands five yards more, then another gain and another until He's where he wants to be." Well, the game is now on and we shall see what we shall see. "Wow No Escape From Recollection By HENRY MelXMS There came across your mind the desire to flee from reality and its burdens. You want to stop reading the morning papers, which remind you cruelly that the young presi dent is dead, when it always seemed so right that he should live to lead his nation on to a new greatness, an inescapable destiny. But the headlines and stories will not allow any ac commodation to this dream, be cause it was stopped forever in Dallas by a nightmare we have not overcome, nor shall. Would it help the pain of your loss by going to the woods? You think so. You could get in a bit of hunting before the season closes. Raise that rifle and fire. But the gun seems strangely heavy this time, and the tele scopic sight makes you suddenly sick somehow. Maybe it would be a fine idea to drive over to the beach and have a sumptuous seafood platter fresh from the sea. You note the sign on the cafe door saying that you are welcome because of your Function Of To Learn Or From the Journal of the Ameri can Association for the Advance ment of Science Today the dominant trend in our universities is toward trying to do too many things. What is the appropriate function of a uni versity? Should it emphasize community service; should it pro vide a base of operations for its faculty, or should it exsit to teach? Obviously it should exisit primarily for educating the young. This is the one function which it can uniquely perform and, in the long view, the most important. Other organizations can provide community service or furnish hous ing for those whose only interest is research. It .is difficult to know when a university is doing a good job of teaching, and those who judge university administrations seldom evaluate them on the basis of the quality of their human output. Ra ther, institutions are judged by some -on the basis of their foot ball teams; by -others, on their budgets, rate of increase of en dowment, or new buildings. Among professionals, standards are em ployed which in their way are as ; false- as the criterion of athletic prowess; for example, institu tions are rated on the number and brilliance of their academic stars. ' - - By "stars"' I mean men who in various ways have made a name for themselves. - But does the presence of such men necessari ly contribute much to the teaching function of. the university? Some times it does, but many of these men are only occasionally on campus or have little or no time for students. . Another fashionable standard for judging a university is the amount of research activity. Thus, university administrators tend to follow the "publish or perish" approach. As a result, many Look At 'Em 1 skin color, but the hospitality diminishes your dignity. You can not forget how important it was for him to open those doors to your fellow men so that you could really enjoy the feast set before you. . And as you eat, you think of other people you don't even know and have never seen who are at this same moment cringing with stomach pains while you suffer a slight attack of evereating. Back on the beach road you go and as you drive, "Impeach Earl Warren" signs loom into view, like so much litter. The radio announcer interrupts a program twice. A Texas youth who boasted he would kill Ken nedy had just been acquitted of charges because he said he was joking. A New York man had been ordered examined by a psy chiatrist after he was charged with threatening President John son. You go over to a barnacled fish ing pier and cast your rod. The look of the cascading waves with the feel of swaying poles under neath makes you feel small and A University: Be Known? scientists find it expedient to ne glect teaching duties. Those en gaged in research have always enjoyed advantages over the teachers, few of whom gain rec ognition even in their own institu tions. Under the present rules of the game, any scientist who teach es when he can do research must be unusually public-spirited or blind to his own interest. The re sult is to demean teaching. How can a professor approach a class with enthusiasm and adequate preparation if he is convinced that education of undergraduates is a secondary function of the uni versity? Few administrators would ad mit publicly that they give low priority to education, and indeed most would prefer to provide ex cellence in teaching. The diffi culty is that academic stars and research output can be easily identified and can bring acclaim to an institution. How many uni versities have gained renown for their instruction? The problem of establishing cri teria for - performance in teach ing is difficult. Many components must be considered in judging whether a man has been educat ed. Surely the accumulation of knowledge is important, and achievement tests are one objec tive means of measuring per formance. In scientific fields it should be possible to establish ad ditional criteria. On completion of his doctorate in science, a man begins to publish papers, or if he is in industrial research he begins to rise in the company. After 3 or 4 years one can judge his scien tific competence and potential. Among the needs in education today are well-established, nation ally recognized performance standards for educational achieve could assist in redressing the pre sent inbalance between research and teaching in our universities. GoP 2s."rtf bJ&.s>Q Post insignificant, even helpless. You watch children on shore go dashing into the surf with abandon and you think back over that time when you were surpris ed and pleased to see newsphotos of the President, bathing in the Pacific on his California visit m Everyone was happier then. You could remember how available he was with his presence and his flashing smile. Friendly people shook his hands and followed him out of the oceans. You thought of the Lincoln Continental con vertible, this time with his foot hanging grotesquely over the side and his smile now gone. He is now as unreachable as LETTERS POLICY The Daily Tar Heel invites comment from its readers in the form of letters to the editors, re gardless of point of view. Letters should be typed, double-spaced, and preferably short. Unsigned letters will not be printed, although a name may be withheld for good reasons. Letters must be free of libelous material, and must meet the standards of good-taste set by the editors. Columns and cartoons are also welcomed, sub ject to the same restrictions. Reward Editors, The Tar Heel: After an extensive three-year study of the Woman's Dormitory Rules System and extensive study of the psychological motivation for these Medieval documents, I have come to certain conclusions. It has been the policy of Mother Carmichael and her cohorts for these many, many years that their minions deserved only the stick and never the carrot. They have instituted a system of ra ther comprehensive command ments (example, Thou shalt not stay out past 11 p.m. on Monday thru Thursday; Thou shalt not be alone with a nasty man, at least in his apartment, etc:) If 1 these comandments are broken, you will suffer, besides severe pangs of conscience, the wrath of the Carmichael clan. This usual ly includes being campused (an unusual name for imprisonment) or being brought before the Honor Council (a small scale inquisition into your personal lack of honor). But the point is that most psy chologists agree that reward training is better than punishment-training. This has been quite well established with tests on mice and other forms of low er mammals (why not on co eds?). If you're going to consider co-eds as lower forms of mam mals anyway . . .? Why not pro vide a system of rewards? As a possible system let me sug gest: one gold star for each night on time, an extra gold star for a whole week without a late, competition between dorms to see which can collect the most books of gold stars, an honorary tea for the victor, an emblazoned King James Bible with the dorm's name in Carolina blue, and a leather-bound copy of the New Testa ment for each girl in the winning dorm. Footnote: It is absolutely necessary that only the New Testament be hand ed out. The Old Testament is ob viously much too salacious and worldly for tender young minds. Warren Ogden, 213 Hillcrest Dr. Sex Is Bad? Editors, The Tar neel: I jusf came back from the Sun day Cinema: Les Liasons Dang erueses, and am completely mys tified and incensed. Why did Gra ham Memorial get the censored version of the movie, but, what strikes me as more . incredible, why was it cut and blacked out in the first place. Is it thught that the scenes in question might plant "evil" thoughts that would contaminate American society? True, too many of us have an unfortunate childish attitude to wards sex as evidenced by the reactions of many at Carroll Hall on Sunday, but it strikes me that the censors are equally juvnile. Are people elevated by saying to them, "No, no; musn't watch that"? The obvious reaction would seem to be that sex is bad- By placing these taboos on what should be free and open we create unnecessary guilt and anxiety; this strikes me as being more harmful to our society, which the censors are so dedicated in pro tecting, than any possible out growth of the so-called "in- the line where the sea and sky meet. If we still wish to follow him, the way will have to t different. His tracks on the sands of immortality are etched ir ideas. They were fashioned fron all that made men wise and good loyal and brave. You look 'very hard and very long at that far-away horizon and try to understand that fa' out across the vast waters he fore you lies the world. It wat the same world that felt the same loss and the common grief, not just an unknowable land out o' sight, unfeeling or undisturbed. It was the same world out be. yond that he brought a little near er to the dream of peace. EDITORS morality. John C. Higgins, 217 Alexander Waste? Editors, The Tar Heel: Perry Young's words in last Sunday's Tar Heel were a waste of space. They were not inspir ing, enlightening nor curing, but were only time-consuming and de trimental. When he finally said what he wanted to, that fizzled also. In his attempt to say something profound, he himself demon strates the kind of thinking which helps to generate the same color barrier he apparently would like "to see broken down. Coloring the face is such a small, insignificant act; and to think twice about it, as Mr. Perry does, is much worse than not thinking of it at all. He calls the mummer's old fashioned, black-face comedy im moral. That's a pretty strong statement for an argument against using black coloring on the face; and when you think about it, it seems sadly ridiculous. Mr. Perry is making the color difference into a big thing. He, like thousands of integrationists, must lose his color consciousness and: realize that people are peo ple, black, white, green, or blue. "Uncle" Cleve 111 Grimes Wright Huxley Resolves Literai'V DicllOtOlllV J J Literature and Science, by Aldous .Huxley, Harper, 1963. 118 p., $3.50. By STEVE DENNIS Much has been heard recently on this side of the Atlantic about C. P. Snow's statements of the dichotomy between technology and the humanities in the Twen tieth Century. Literature and Science is a ra tional, analytic investigation of, this alleged split by Aldous Hux-' ley. Huxley can be said to know both sides. His brother is biolo gist Sir Julian Huxley, his grand father, Thomas Henry Huxley. Huxley explains the difference between scientific and literary writing as being the distinction between a style approaching math ematical certainty and one seek ing to encompass all experience in a single work. His opinion is basically optimis tic. "To the twentieth-century man of letters science offers a trea sure of newly discovered facts and tsntative hypotheses. If he accepts this gift and if ... he is sufficently talented and resource ful to be able to transform the new raw materials into works of literary art, . . . (he) . . . will be able to treat the age-old and perennially relevant theme of human destiny with a depth of understanding, a width of ref erence, of which, before the rise of science, his predecessors (through no fault of their own, no defect of genius) were incap able." This book is likely to be of interest and importance to read ers in many fields. Huxley has slight tendencies to over-write or to repeat himself, but the book is- a serious treatment of a press ing debate today.
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