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U. 11 C. Library Serials Pspt, Bor 870 CbapeJUULU, H C Today's Weather Chance of rain. Ifeaf lira Does your prof, read the Tar Heel? Copies are being delivered to most campus buildings. Tell himher to call ns if heshe doesn't get one (933-1165 after 2 pan.). 5) ,22!i?Graham Memorial Mayor Blocks School Boor In Alabama Photographer Hurt Itt Wild Scuffle fNOTASULGA, Ala (UPI) A small town mayor, standing in the school house door and back ed by Gov. George Wallace's state troopers, presented Presi dent Johnson with his first school desegregation crisis Wednesday by refusing admission to six fright ened young Negroes. Six other Negro students were admitted to a previously segregat ed school in nearby Shorter with out violence, although about half of the white student body stayed home. The state troopers, dressed in yellow slickers to protect them from the drizzling rain, remained on the sidelines during the Nota sulga confrontation, but local po lice clubbed a white photographer into submission and about 50 jeering, cane-wiedling whites rcughed up newsmen. Gov. Wallace remained at the state Capitol in Montgomery dur ing the showdown and later con tended Mayor James Rea's stand in the schoolhouse door was a community affair. "Local authorities should be al lowed to handle local affairs," said Wallace. He refused further comment. The governor made his own schoolhouse door stand last year in an attempt to block desegre gation of the University of Ala bama. He quickly backed down, however, when the late Presi dent John F. Kennedy federaliz ed the Alabama National Guard and gave the Guard orders to en force the court-ordered desegre gation. The Notasulga violence erupted when a bus carrying the six high school age Negroes rolled up to the entrance of the school that serves both grade and high schol stxmdents in the farm com- i munity. . Local police, tipped ahead of time that a white photographer was on the bus, leaped aboard and began flailing away with clubs. The photographer, later iden tified as Vernon Merritt III, 23, an employee of the Black Star Agency of Birmingham, was drag ged from the bus kicking and screaming. The six young Negroes sat in stony silence staring straight ahead while the wild scene un folded. An explosion, which sounded like a loud rifle shot or fire cracker, caused them to jump with fright momentarily, but they quickly regained their compos use and again sat silent. Officials later said the noise was caused by one of Merritt's cameras as it shattered against the side of the bus. Merritt, badly shaken but not seriously hurt, tried to run after he was dragged from the bus, but a sharp command from an officer stopped him short in his tracks. '"Hit the sonofabitch," someone in the angry crowd of whites yelled as Merritt sat moaning cn the ground. While the local police were tussling with Merritt, several of the white hecklers turned on other newsmen covering the show down. One white man made three lunges at a UPI photographer, try ing to knock his camera out of his hand. At least one camera was smash ed by the cane-swinging whites, and one heckler used the crook f a cane to latch onto the cable of a sound-television camera, and then he started running. State troopers also stuck their hands in the front of camera lens and tried to impede the (Continued on Page 6) 200 By FRED HARWELL An "anti-CORE" demonstration broke out in Ehe Upper Ouad about 9 p.m. Tuesday. A small group of students began the demon stration in opposition to the Congress of Racial Equality's recenUy strengthened drive for total integration in Chapel Hill. Leaders of the rally said it was not a demon stration against integration, but against the tac tics of CORE, specifically the February 1 ulti matum. . - One student carried a sign reading Govern ment by law not by threats." Another, sign said "We support the Chapel Hill police." Another student pounded a washtub drum. They marched around the Upper Quad, across - y' '"" i - , 7LiiT"T """" '" .T)r" l :l' i ' -tip n mum pimmi , - i Mff LJ hi W PJ&ti, vi Li Iff 3 , is r . lff i n ?fy " t " l" I .W,'Zi V frtj- r , ft' I I i r - -if rt- ! it I . , t 'JMw- I i : L i II Y - o : y-::i ml i ' x . - M t i 1 i . - -11 I y ' jMt v - - i I Spring rush means clean-up time for UNC fraternities and sororities, and this pledge is no exception from all others on campus. Sunny Lab Reports Mace Council. In Crisis By DTH STAFF The Men's Honor Council passed its first major crisis of the new year peacefully last week. The crisis concerned a Coun cil decision in a case involving lab reports last month. Four students were tried for lying when the students turned in lab reports without doing the experiment. The students were found inno cent by the Council. The faculty member con cerned, backed by his depart ment, considered taking action of his own against the students. 'Z. After consultation with Student Government and Administration officials, however, the matter was resolved by the release of the students' grades. The department said that the students had violated scientific integrity by basing their work on an experiment that they had not performed. The instructor said he felt that the experiment was part of the work involved in the report. The case was confused by the testimony of the defendants, who said they had not intended to deceive the teacher about doing the experiment. They said that they had com pleted a series of equations that made up most of the lab report, but had made up the figures they expected to get from the experiment. The Council ruled that the students had not intended to breach any code of ethics in the lab reports. It said that the regulations of the Department on lab reports were not clear. The students, it said, had per formed what they thought was the meat of their assignment, but had not realized the neces sity of doing the complete ex periment. The Department felt that a bad precedent had been set. It Sitterson Speaks On Academics Here Dr. J. Carlyle Sitterson, Dean of the College of Arts and Sci ences, will speak at a meeting of the In-Service Training Pro gram for staff members of the Office of the Dean on Women Feb. 13. Sitterson, who marks his ninth year as Dean, will speak on the academic atmosphere of UNC. The meeting will be held in room 105, Hanes Hall, at 4:30 p.m. Protest COR w3 News Analysis that students could at any time fake an experiment in lab re ports. The Council has said, how ever, that this decision does not allow students to falsify their lab reports by appearing to have done work they have not actual ay done. The Council ruled that in - this case work had been eli- minated without ' the intent to imply that it had been done. The Department decided that justice had not been served by the Council and withheld the grades of the four students. It said it would give a grade . of F to the lab reports in ques tion. This would lower the course grades by one leter grade. Student Government leaders, particularly President Mike Lawler and Council Chairman Whitney Durand, felt that such action would be in complete de fiance of the Honor System. - They reasoned that if faculty members were to be allowed to overrule the Council , in this way, the whole idea of a student-run Honor System would be invalid. After several conferences in volving Durand, Lawler, Dean of Student Affairs C. O. Cathey and the Department Chairman, the instructor decided Tuesday to release the grades they had originally planned . to give the felt that the case would mean Hodges Heads AFROTC Joseph L. Hodges III, a sen ior from South Boston, Va. has been named new Carolina AFROTC Cadet Group Com mander. He succeeds Walter H. Crumpler, a senior from Salem burg, N. C. The position of Cadet Com mander is the highest attainable within the Cadet Corps, and is selected on the basis of leader ship, experience and scholastic standing within the Corps. Hodges is a member of the Ar nold Air Society and Scabbard and Blade, both military fraternities. Raleigh Street, and into the Lower Quad chant ing "Down with CORE." Over 200 students poured out of the dorms to join the demonstration. Many others hung from windows or stood in the doorways watching. At one point Phil Baddour, chairman of the student Judiciary Committee, came out of a dorm to warn the group against the use of of fensive language. The demonstration lost steam quickly in the face of warnings by other students of possible Campus Code infractions. Three Chapel Hill policemen arrived at the scene on foot as the crowd was dispersing after the fifteen minute demonstration. - CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. FFRRTTAT?v Weather has made raking leaves, washng windows and sweeping porches a bit easier, but it's still hard, hard work. (Photo by Jim Wallace). students. Several Student Government leaders and members of the Council feel that, the Council made a mistake in this hairline case. The case was clouded a great deal by the special circum stances surrounding it. How ever, the decision does not set any precedent for faking ex periments. One thing the case shows, critics of the decision said, is that the gathering of evidence was not-handled as .well as it could have been by the Attor ney General's .staff.-" The- pre sentatinl'bf the "caselwas ' some-k iimes unclear to the Council members who were not versed in the ways of performing lab reports. They say also that the stu dents have been charged wi cheating rather than lying. A conviction for cheating would have resulted in an automatic F for the course, , whereas a lying conviction would . not. . The Council, the critics said, needs to take a close look at itself after this close call with its intra - University relations. The decision was made before the laboratory procedures hau been thoroughly examined. The Department also came in for criticism for- its loosely or ganized policy regarding lab re ports. Policies for lab reports vary necessarily from course to course, and it is often unclear to students as to just what the policy is. The Council said that the four students apparently did not try to deceive their instructor but were ignorant of the lab policy in their course. This is a weak excuse for them, it said. A section is to be included in next year's handbook for fresh men telling them to always check with lab instructors about their individual policy on re ports. . Student Government officials will try to obtain laboratory policies for each course and in clude them m tne nanaDuua.. Welfare Money May Be Lost Due To Marches Juveniles convicted for the re cent demonstrations in Chapel Hill may cause their families to lose their welfare payments, ac cording to Orange County Direc tor James Wight. If the Juvenile Court should sentence demonstrators to a state training school, the welfare pay ments would cease automatically- Penalties handed down in simi lar cases in - other areas of the state have included fines, proba tions and sentences to training schools, Wight said. However, Wight added, "a sur prisingly small number" of the juvenile demonstrators in Orange County are welfare recipients. Most of them are from middle income families. The County welfare office in vestigates every case thtat comes before Juvenile Court. There have been none of the demon strations yet because no petitions have been filed with the court. ItoFmy Le ML Opposite Bills To Be Voted On By Body By PETE WALES Civil rights demonstrations will be at the center -of debate to night in Student Legislature's first meeting . since Jan. 9. Two major bills wil be debated: 1) A bill upholding lawful dem onstrations but condemning civil disobedience. Cases involving the latter will be prosecuted by the Attorney General's office. 2) A bill to prohibit the At torney General from taking ac tion on the student demonstrators. The first bill was introduced in January by Borden Parker (UP), I but was amended in the Ways and Means Committee yesterday. I The second bill was introduced wjr xjixi uu au&iiu. v ui in j emu- ary. It was reported from the j Judiciary Committee yesteraay. Mike Chanin (UP), former party chairman, said yesterday that the UP would seek to pass a compromise bill that would: 1 Support voluntary integration of all places of public accommo dations. 2) Condemn civil disobedience. t 8) Leave all investigations of 3.-Vnpus. Code- "violations r: from demonstrations to the discretion of the Attorney General. The SP is supporting Straughn's bill. For both bills, legislators will consider to what degree it is Constitutional for them to inter fere with the student judiciary. In other business, Mike Chanin (UP) will ask that his bill in support of an amendment in Con gress granting tax deductions fc the costs of education be tabled. The original bill was defeated in the Senate Tuesday with the help of the Administration. Chan in plans to introduce a new resolu tion asking the North Carolina Congressmen to introduce another bill similar to the one defeated in the Senate. A bill urging the University Buildings Department to check in to the fire safety problems of the residence halls will also be considered. The bill was introduc ed by George Lundbury (UP) Jan. 9 as a result of a recent fire in Parker Hall. A bi-partisan bill, introduced by Neal Jackson (SP) and Chan in, will set the size and member ship of the UNC delegation to the Consolidated University Stu dent Council. The need for the bill, introduced Dec. 12, came from the most re cent CUSC meeting. It was felt that the delegations of the three member schools should be chang ed to be as similar as possible. An appropriation of $313.00 for the UNC delegation to the State Student Legislature later this month will also be considered. Darst Murphy (UP) introduced the bill. I Eckerd's Druggists Opens Local Unit Eckerd's Drug Store, the new est business in Eastgate Shop ping Center, will open for busi ness today at 9 a.m. The Eastgate Eckerd's will be the 37th Eckerd store in North and South Carolina,' Georgia and Tennessee. It will have a mile and a half of shelf space, 10,800 square feet of floor space, and a complete line of Eckerd's stock. Though Eckerd's has larger stores, the Eastgate store will be one of its largest. William Christie, manager of the new store, said the nature of Eckerd's business is impos sible to define in one word. Eck erd's sells 'drugs and a wide variety of other items including ft, iqaa Sit-In Bills Peru Beiges Battle-Torn Area LIMA, Peru (UPI) The gov ernment imposed a state of siege Wednesday in southern Cuzco Province and arrested 14 Communist agitators after clashes between land owners and red-led peasants in which 12 persons were killed and at least 32 injured. Communications ' difficulties with the Sicuani area, 75 miles south of Lima, where the clashes occurred, limited de tails. However, some press dis patches indicated perhaps as many as 22 persons were killed in the clashes involving an es timated 8,000 persons. The state of siege semi-mar U. S. Airlifts NICOSIA, Cypress (UPI) The United States air-lifted most American women and chil dren off this tense island re poblic Wednesday as hatred be tween .the Greek and .Turkish communities boiled " dangerously close to a full-fledged . civil war. The U. S. ambassador, stand ing firm in his bomb-shattered embassy, threatened to call out the Marines to protect remain ing American citizens against what he called "an organized Thefts Investigated. By BOB SAMSOT University officials . are investi gating a serious rash of thefts which occurred in Everett Dormi tory over the semester break. Chief of Campus Police Arthur G. Beaumont said yesterday, "We've had thefts before, but this is something else." Over $600 have been stolen from rooms, some of . which were lock ed, by an irony-minded burglar. Rooms have been opened and burgled. Notes have been left, scrawled in obscene language and ending with "the Phantom strikes again." Chief Beaumont traces the burglaries back to the theft of a pass-key before the Christmas holidays. A set of keys was taken from the room of a sleeping dormitory official and all of the keys were found in the shower minus the pass-key. "It's embarrassing to us," Beaumont said, "since we rent groceries, hardware, toys, cos metics, furniture, and seasonable merchandise. The store will also have a lunch counter. Christie, who will head a staff of 23, has been in the drug business for 30 years, except for four years in the Army during WTorld War II. He is a native of Durham, where he was manager of the Broad Street Eckerd's be fore corning to Chapel Hill, He and his wife and daughter will continue to live in Durham. The Eastgate Eckerd's will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mon day through Saturday, and from 12 noon to 8 p.m. Sundays. The store's telephone number, not yet listed in the Chapel Hill Tele phone Directory, is 929-1178. United In Spotlight WORLD NEWS BRIEFS tial law was decreed by the government for 30 days. Professional agitators have incited peasants in the Cuzco area to seize privately held lands on grounds it belongs to them. The trouble started Tuesday when a predominantly Indian mob, organized and led by Com munists, tried to seize farm land around the village of San Pablo near Sicuani. Farm own ers, farm hands and local In dians rallied to drive the squat ters out of the area. The ensu ing clashes developed into the worst violence in recent Peru vian history. From Cyprus campaign against us." New violence flared in the inter - communal dispute, and long - seething " bitterness ap peared to be reaching the flash The first of five chartered air liners carrying American wom en . and children to safety m Beirut, Lebanon, left here early Wednesday. There are about 1,700 Ameri cans on the island, and more than 800 were aboard the flights. Bein a room to someone, give him the key, take his money and then have him go home and come back to find he's been wiped out." None of the stolen articles, which range from suits of clothes to typewriters and radios have been traced to pawn shops near here. Dean of Men William G. Long said he is taking steps to pre vent the recurrence of such bur glaries. He said the actual time of the thefts has not been de termined, but that it is fixed as "sometime between the break." Long said that apparently the thefts occurred while some of the residents were on the floor. Beaumont said that the thief is evidently someone familiar with the faculties of the dormitory. Knowledge of the thefts has led to some false claims of losses. Beaumont said, "Thefts we've had before have been mainly due to somebody's leaving his room open and somebody else taking a radio or a sport coat. But it's gotten to the bad stage now, where this mobster, to use the term loosely, comes in, decides what he'd like best and takes what ever he wants," he said. "It's not a case of an out sider just wandering in once in a while, or somebdy needing the money from a pawn shop or even a prank. This " character's taking all these things and they're not turning up anywhere. They're just disappearing." He said his office will continue to investigate the situation as far as it can, "without turning the school into a police state." "We are hampered, though," he said, "because we can't search everybody as they go in or out of the dormitory. A lot of peo ple advocated that when they came back and found themselves wiped out. But they're the first ones to object if we want to search their rooms. Steps are being taken to stop this rash of thefts." Press International Service -r gM Ell SL Committee Meeting Ends In Argument By JOHN GREENBACKER A bill upholding "lawful dem monstrations" but condemining persistent violation of commun ity laws was reported out of Student Legislature's Ways and Means Committee without com ment yesterday after, a stormy debate. Initial argument over the bill, originally introduced by Borden Parker (UP), concerned how strongly the bill should con demn student demonstrators, and later progressed into an ar gument over what was to be considered "lawful demonstra tion." The bill was lengthened from the original two articles to three articles. Article one, as amended, now states, "This body goes on record as feeling there is no vio lation of the Campus Code for participation in lawful demon- BULLETIN Approximately 70 demonstra tors. Including at least 12 -whites, marched! through downtown Chapel Hill last night. There were no incidents. Tw group inarched up the south sidewalk of Franklin Street, crossed at the Post Office and. sang freedom songs for ten min utes before walking west towards Carrboro. strations which have as their objective the attainment of con stitutionally guaranteed rights of all citizens." Article two states, "This body does not, however, condone the willful, premeditated and per sistent violation of the laws established by the community." Article three states, "This body urges the Attorney Gen eral of the Student Body to sub mit to the Men's and Women's Councils the cases arising out of the recent demonstrations." Pandemonium broke out in the Woodhouse Room of Graham Memorial when Student Party Floor Leader Phil Baddour was not given the opportunity to submit substitute legislation for the pending bill to the commit tee. When lack of a quorum was announced by Chairman Neal Jackson, cries of "railroad job" and "they're pulling the wool over my eyes" arose. Baddour first termed the ac tion "very impolite," but re tracted his statement after he learned that his objectives had been misunderstood by the committe. Baddour, however, did criti cize University Party leader Mike Chanin for threatening to get his party to vote against the bill if a compromise measure was not reached in committee. Chanin denied he said this. Chanin said he approached the Student Party to seek a com promise measure on the issue, but he was "rudely asked to leave their presence. Need A Job? The following companies will recruit on campus next week: Monday. Feb. 10 NASA, Langlev Research Center; Scott Paper Company; W. R. Grace & Co., Cryovac Division; Chubb & Son, Inc. Tuesday. Feb. 11 Colgate- Palmolive Company; Ashland Oil & Refining Company; Proc ter & Gamble Company; E. 1. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Wednesday, Feb. 12 E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.; American Brake Shoe Company; Trust Company of Georgia; Phillips Petroleum Company. ' Thursday. Feb. 13 General Electric Company; Deering Mil- liken, Inc.; Branch Banking it Trust Company; The Procter & Gamble Company.