North Carolina Newspapers

.Volume 72, Number 115 5fly latlg afar ?f 71 Years of Editorial Freedom Published daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations, throaghoat the aca demic year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. 'Arms And This Spring the Carolina Symposium will bring many speakers of great sta ture to the campus to discuss some of the most vital issues facing our society and the individual. Is the development of a "warfare-welfare state" destroy ing our traditional concepts of individ ual freedom and action? What are the changing values of our society and what are the changing values of the individ ual? Can the civilian government main tain control over a mammouth, well es tablished military complex? These questions are of moment in v our rapidly changing society, and this year's symposium promises to be one of the most productive and exciting ven tures into this realm that has yet been . held. But the subject is complicated, Akers Ignores Change Of Clothes Not only does Dick Akers consider . all civil rights demonstrators unwash ed and badly dressed, he has officially . refused to recognize the name change of the Inter-Dormitory Council to the . Men's Residence Council. . Akers, Student Body treasurer, told . MRC President Gerry Good that he . would enter the MRC's appropriation . for next year under, the IDC in his bud . get proposal. He told Good that he would . not recognize the name change made . last semester. Akers is the same gentleman who wrote us a letter earlier this spring The First Gut Shot: Are More To Come? Raleigh News and Observer Wherever the original blame may lie, they are manufacturing ill-will for North Carolina in the trial of the pro fessors in the Orange County Superior Court in Hillsboro. Already in important centers in the North shock and surprise has been reg istered as a result of the 60-day sen tence given a young Duke math teach er for joining a group including Negroes peaceably seeking service at a Chapel Hill cafe. Perhaps, though we'll have to wait for the result of his appeal to find out, he violated valid law. He may have been indiscreet. Certainly his action was unpopular with some. But it cannot be forgotten that many will share his own feeling that he acted in terms of his conscience for what he believed was equality under law in his country. The 60-day sentence for trespass at a public cafe will seem vindictive to many people elsewhere. And already the words, "Chapel Hill which once seem ed a term for enlightenment, are now being bandied about as words in the company of Oxford, Mississippi, and Al bany, Georgia. The protestors and demonstrators may be responsible for this. So may some Gary Blanchard, Dave Ethridge Co-Editors Managing Editor Associate Editor News Editors Copy Editor Sports Editor . Asst. Sports Editor . Photo Editor Reporters : Kerry Sipe, Administration Jeff Dick, Municipal John Greenbacker, Student Government Editorial Assistants! Shirley Travis Nancy McCracken Staff Artists: Chip Barnard Science Editor . Mat Friedman Reviews '. Hertry Melnnis Business Manager Art Pearce Advertising Manager - Asst. Business Mgr. Asst. Advertising Mgr. Sales . Circulation Manager Subscription Manager The Man'; A Vital Question of those who stand stubborn in chang ing times. The word already has been spread in Chapel Hill and the nation, too, that the wife of the proprietor of one segregated cafe stood above a floor ed demonstrator and urinated upon him Such action in supposed defense of Southern customs gives a sickening im presson of some of those who assume to defend old ways in Chapel Hill. Of course, some of the demonstrators have gone to idiotic extremes, though, so far as is known, none to such inde cent extremes. It is clear, however, that there are extremists on the side of cus tom as well as change in Chapel Hill. And the unusually severe punishment of a young Duke professor who made his demonstration in orderly fashion gives the impression that in the Chapel Hill area the scales of justice are sag ging on the side of one group of ex tremists against others who seem ex tremists, too. The University, the development of the Research Triangle, the State's pres tige are innocent bystanders in this sit uation but they could be the chief vic tims, also. A Double Honor UNC Law School senior George C. Cochran has brought new and mean ingful honor to Carolina in distinguish ing himself to the extent that he has been awarded a coveted clerkship to the U- S. Supreme Court. This is believed to be the first time that a graduating student in any North Carolina law school has ever been se lected for such an appointment. His torically the appointments, whose chief criteria is scholastic achievement, have gone to students at institutons such as Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame and the Unversity of California at Berkeley. And even then, only 19 law clerks are appointed, so being selected identifies you as the absolute cream of the crop. George bad already given great evi dence of being that anyway, but this appointment removes all doubt. We wish him luck in his new position. And we wish Carolina luck in continu ing to produce scholars of such estim able rank. Fred Seely- Hugh Stevens Mickey Blackwell Peter Wales Linda Riggs John Montague Larry Tarlton Jim Wallace Fred McConnel Sally Rowlings Woody Sobol Frank Potter Dick Baddour Bob Vanderberry John Evans Bob Holland Thursday, March 12, 1964 Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C pcrscant to Act of March , 1870. Subscription rates: (4.53 per femes ter; $8 per year. and for each student to get the most out of it, it will be necessary for him to prepare and study beforehand. This month discussions are being held with some of the outstanding facul ty members, on this year's subject, "Arms and the Man". These discussions are being held in fraternities, sororities and dormitories, and will provide an excellent opportunity to engage in real interchange with some of the better faculty members an opportunity that presents itself all too rarely in this University. We urge all students who plan to at tend the symposium to attend as many of these preparatory discussions as pos sible. Watch for announcements of the discussions in the DTH, and go. complaining about the dress of the average civil rights demonstrator, say ing that one could always judge a man by his clothes. However, he refuses to acknowledge the attempted clothes change of the MRC (from IDC). Trite as Akers' action may be, we are compelled to point it up and observe his absurd bigotry. We would readily and happily pass him by were he not in such an impor tant position, reflecting upon all of Student Government and the students themselves. Our Spy 'Onward And Upivard . . .5 By FRANK CKOWTHEE DTH Spy WASHINGTON The time iias passed when I am able to remain silent about certain events in Chapel Hill. One may preserve one's restraint only with carefully nurtured disci pline, but my near apoplectic state of the moment and my in stinctively competitive nature impel me to protest most vigor ously. I refer, of course, to the re cent public conflagration of Kite Flying in Chapel Hill. Were I not of reasonable marrow, my indignation would burst forth with a more dys peptic ferocity. But one adapts oneself to a temperate mien in middle age (where J find my self at 31, after an agonizing reappraisal of things temporal, and when weighed against the lamentable child minds of the Republic). There were but few things held sacred by my nether world contemporaries, and Kite' Flying was supreme among them. It was something we cherished in reserve, a sepa rate peace, if you will, where in life's patent absurdities were sheeted into the solace of a breeze. This latest display of pub lic defilement, however, egged on by the once good offices of the Daily Tar Heel and abet ted by one Joel Fleishman (who now must be branded a traitor to my generation for actually having participated, with seeming impunity, in such debacle), has cast a dank shadow of aspersion on Kite Flying as a Way of Life. Gentlemen, I must confess to being appalled. You have made an egregious error in so vulgarizing a traditional pro fession. The eternal curse of Ben Franklin upon all your houses. The very thought of a pub lic display! Crass publicity! Beauty queens! Ill-begot and maligned rules and regimenta tions! Why, one is almost dis posed to consider your actions less than innocent perpetra tions of a sub rosa communist plot,- yet another mad en croachment of aristocratic pleasures. It also smacks of the 'those-that-think-young' set. Well, well, I go on, don't I? In the final analysis to invoke a favorite campus catch-phrase), no ex post facto revulsion is of any purtenance. Behold, the thing is done, and neither God nor Barry Goldwater may re voke it. So be it. Within the limits of security imposed upon me by sacred rite and considerable letting of blood, I am at liberty to re veal that I find myself among the charter members of the St. Thomas Society of Kite Flying Fellows (with Ladies in Wait ing), duly chartered by the Diet of Cassowary (vide, Windward Islands Concordat of 1867) and, pity sake, don't ask me what an Australian bird was doing in the Caribbean. As a Founding Flying Father of said society, I do herewith, herein and whereas tender, but with out extending diplomatic recog nition, an invitation to engage in mortal combat with our happy few. In that your shab by contingent reeks of ama teur standing, this engagement will be entered into on the home estate of the ranking champions, that is, St. Thomas in the American Virgin Islands, at a date mutually convenient but under rules stipulated under the aforementioned Con cordat. If you must persist in your current endeavors, bear the following in mind. No machine-made kites are permissible. They must be made by hand or imported. (Japanese kites are out, but German kites, which attack and cut down other kites, are most desirable don't you just love the inventive German mind?) It is required that nothing other than Martinis be par taken while you are in action one may lose more kites that way, but then who the hell cares after the first pitcher? Night flying is very fashion able. You may either paint your kite with luminous mix tures, or hang a small lantern on the tail. Westinghouse makes an excellent fine wire for heavy kites, and it is most effective in bringing down small planes. Chinese kites are not the best flyers, but they are often decorated with marvelously pornographic etchings. Women are barred from launching and flying kites, un fortunately, but you'll find they're very good at reeling them in while you mix an other batch. Enough. This correspondent will be in Chapel Hill some time before June on a State visit; I shall be happy to meet with your local representa tive, on neutral grounds, at that time. - Meanwhile, onward and . upward. 'V i Va;aZ &&F?' Vr-'-Sf , -1 1 LLjrL I I a ''''-s 1 1 - -s - ' "The Political Pigeonholes' Right Or Left Editors, The Tar Heel: I read with particular interest a story in the Feburary 25th is sue of THE DAILY TAR HEEL reporting the results of a survey designed to reveal the composi tion of the study body with re spect to political orientation. The thought that someone consider ed the survey a significant and worth-while undertaking prompt ed me to voice a long standing disenchantment of mine with the character of political discussion, among students and others, over the past two or three (or more) years. The general type of ques tion or statement that I want to single out as the object of my disenchantment reflects, as does the survey reported in THE TAR HEEL, a concern primarily with Where some person or political outlook belongs on- the political specturm, i.e., whether candidate X is a conservative or a liberal, whether the author of this or that book -is a rightist or a leftist, whether so-and-so is a Marxist or a Jeffersonian. I don't want to deny that this sort of issue has a place in political discussion. But I do want to deny emphati cally that there are no issues which are more important, that there are no issues which clear ly take precedence over any question about which political pigeonhole someone belongs in. If no issues are acknowledged to be more urgent than questions political classification, then it seems to me that political dis- cussion at that level can only become progressively more pointless and futile. The reason, it seems, should be relatively simple to grasp. I had a teacher once who put it to me this way. "It doesn't do you any good," he never tired of saying, "to know all the an swers if you don't know any of the questions." I think that his remark sums up in a sentence the PRIMARY (though certainly not the only) task facing stu dents in a university. Their task, in my own fallible judgment, is to strive toward an increasing sensitivity for and grasp of the Heelprints Looks like certain elements in the House are trying to get the Farm Bill plowed under. 'Then there's the Don Carson doll you wind it up and it runs. Four bandits dressed as priests held up a post office in New York state. Hmmm, sounds like a cassock-and-dagger story. Definition: Camel an animal that looks as though it had been put together by a committee. EVERY KILOWATT COUNTS- 1 iWJiy' ly.nr.jy - ' ' i - '4 9" i. iAmxmAwAi aaAk Waaaca Letters To The Editors large and pressing PROBLEMS that confront them as partici pants in their own changing cul ture. This seems just as true in the area of politics as in any other. The reason that it disturbs me to see students dissipate so much of their intellectual and imagina tive energy in trying to decide which political pigeonhole peo ; pie , and positions belong in is that such a concern, taken as a dominant one, obscures and sub verts the more urgent task of trying to understand what the PROBLEMS are to which var ious political positions are ad dressed. Cultural, including po litical, problems, if they are gen uinely significant, are neither conservative, liberal, rightist, leftist, nor even Marxist or . Jeffersonian. They are simply there, HUMAN problems so fundamental that they undercut all the schemes of political clas sification that we might be prompted to devise. I'm sure that it is a source of some comfort, even for those who have not lost sight of such problems, to have their respon ses decided for them once and for all by calling themselves liberals or conservatives. But this convenience is" bought only at a very high price when one allows one's place on the political spec trum to displace one's own CON SIDERED JUDGMENT in deter mining how political and social problems are to be met. That the "liberals" or the "con servatives" will succeed or fail to dominate the affairs of the na tion seems to me less a threat than that in our concern to find a political pigeonhole we fail to call the pigeonholes them selves into question, that we fail to ask how adequately the re sponses associated with places on a political spectrum can re solve the problems we face, and, most importantly, that we fail to weigh the cost of relinquishing the advantages of independent and genuinely responsible in quiry into our problems against the cost of the easy comfort of a political pigeonhole with its ready-made solutions, whether liberal, conservative, rightist, leftist or what have you. It is Southern senators will have to Russel up some help to stop the Civil Rights Bill. Simile: as hard on your tires as that "construction" on Camer- on Ave. Spring training has started, but some campus politicians don't ap pear too eager to play ball. Is there some significance in the announcement that local de monstration leaders plan to stage their fast next . door .to Harry's? 1 3 I t x "'o 1 J W-"- my contention that the growing concern, evident in political dis cussions of the past several years, with classifying people and positions which puts a high er premium on the results of a survey giving the distribution on campus of conservatives, liber als, moderate liberals, moder ates conservatives, etc., ad nau seam, than on the serious consid eration of the question that Wal ter Lippmann raises in, . THE PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY,, viz,., whether states can be governed adequately in the modern world within the institutional frame work of democratic constitution alism. I would hate to think that my students, to whom I have as signed Lippmann's book as a text, are really more concerned with placing him as a liberal or a conservative than with think ing seriously about the urgent problem that the book calls at tention to, the problem of exam ining the effectiveness, not of this or that political program, but of . the very framework of democrat ic constitutionalism itself. I can not help but think that a shift of emphasis in the direction of questions of the latter sort is long overdue. I hope it will not be long in coming. Leon Galis Department of Philo sophy Boycott Editors, The Tar Heel: We, the undersigned, would like to have it known that, even though we may, or may not, ap prove of the tactics of the Chap el Hill Freedom Committee, we agree with its basic ideals, those of racial equality. Although some of us have no desire to become involved in the Civil Rights Dem onstrations and have never so much as carried a picket's sign, we intend to at least do our own small part by boycotting those businesses which refuse to ad mit that all men are equal, re gardless of race, creed, or na tional origin. Eddie Hoover Cyril Allen Richard II. Kraft Walter P. Forys, Jr. Van Cornelius Alan Case Mensah Addison Edwin R. Henken Bob Thofas Roger Kelley Lorenzo Lewis Virgil S. Crisafulli Emerson G. Dickey, Jr. Fred Hmton Tommy Spencer Charles Crumley Tommy Dougherty James F. Hicks, Jr. vv--f -" 4i UurJcSttvcn:: iMrllHidden Booby Trap' There's a lot more to the Residence College System than meets the eye. The system, proposed last week by Dean of Men William G. Long and given rousing ap proval by a number of Uni versity oTi V'A 7""' cials. has been called a means to m a k e stu- dents feel they 1 are more than "holes punched ! in an IBM card." I At first i 9 ' glance, and even after some scrutiny, the system has the appearance of a positive approach toward an admirable goal. But there is a hidden booby trap, and perhaps more than one. First of all, let's look at the plan for a moment. Dean Long's design, if carried out, would probably result in: social activities centering upon specific residence areas and the pooling of financial resources for social purposes. newspapers for the specific residence hall areas. giving official residence college names to the various residence areas. each residence college having a president and each resident hall having a chan cellor. faculty advisors for the various residence halls or units. campus chaplains for the residence colleges. deferred fall rush for freshmen. Dean Long has even gone so far as to suggest that the resi dents of the various residence colleges might wear emblems on their jackets to signify their positions. Now, as I stated above, cer tain aspects of this plan seem to be practical and desirable. If they are successful, there is little room to doubt that the residence hall dweller will be more secure, better cared for, and consequently happier. But now let's look for the booby trap I mentioned. First of all, keep in mind that obnoxious new rule that will require all freshmen to live in residence halls next year. Then we'll follow Fred die Freshman to UNC and watch him take up life in say, Carmichael Residence College. Sooner or later we'll find the trap. Freddie moves into Car michael College (formerly the upper quad) and immediately finds a wholesome, pleasant at mosphere. His roommate is a senior who has lived in dear old Carmichael for three years, and loves it dearly. Freddie i quickly introduced to his fel low residents and given a beau tiful patch to wear on his jacket. A few days later, Freddie signs up for the Carmichael Cuties tag football team, and he is encouraged to battle tooth and nail against the Fri day College Freeloaders. He proves himself by scoring twice and is rapidly accepted into the group. Next Freddie is informed that the first big social event of the year, a Homecoming Party, is scheduled for the weekend. His roommate helps him find a date, Freddie shows up at Maultsby's Cabin wear ing weejuns and white pants, and wakes up the next morn ing with a hangover. Every week there is a meet ing of the College, and the president takes special pains to see that the new freshmen are growing to love dear old Carmichael. He sells sweat shirts in the official colors, leads group singing of the of ficial Carmichael songs, and re minds the new boys to wear their official emblems at all times. During the year, Freddie uses the Carmichael quiz file to pass Math 6, reads the "Car michael Chronicle" (the offi cial residence college news paper), and meets with his college's faculty adviser about his courses for the second se mester. When he meets a resi dent of another college on the street, he is apt to give out a mild jeer, for after all, every body knows that the guys over in Cathey Residence College are a bunch of "lizards." By the time semester break rolls around, Freddie is thank ing his lucky IBM cards for strategically dropping him in the very best residence college on campus. He is ready to die for dear old Carmichael, and heaven help the man who sug gests that he might be better off doing something for Stu dent Government or some campus organization, rather than selfishly devoting his time to his residence college. Then, early in the second semester, it happens. Freddie picks up a copy of the "Daily Tar Heel," and there, in big headlines, he reads: "FRATER NITY RUSH BEGINS TO DAY." He turns to his room mate. "What's a fraternity?" he asks? "Never heaid of 'em," says his roommate.