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tr.lUe.Llltrrary Serials Copt, Box 870 Clmpst E1XI., H.C. ftr it Tic Weather Raindrops Founded Feb. 23. 1893 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROIJNAJurday, MARCH 14, 1964 United Press International Service WHATS CONSPIRACY?' .eribera To peaJl ;ton Ch Tomorrow At Eight Sil alleiiges By PETE WALES Dr. Will Herberg, leading expert on the role of Judaism in American culture, will speak tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Hill Hall, sponsored by the Department of Religion. He will speak on "Religion in America: Paradox and Prob lem." "Dr. Herberg is both erratic and brilliant," said Dr. Sam Hill, chairman of the Depart ment of Religion. "He is one of the most popu lar college lecturers in the Country." Dr. Herberg is well-known to students here for his book "Protestant, Catholic, Jew," which has been described as the main source of all analysis of religion in American cul ture. The book is a text for courses in sociology, history, and re ligion here. Another book, "Judaism and Modern Man: An Interpreta tion of Jewish Religion," has been acclaimed by Reinhold Name Change Proposal To UNC Trustees RALEIGH (UPD The sec retary of the Execuitve Com mittee of the Board of Trus tees of the University of North Carolina today said "the execu tive committee apparently feels the present name" for NC State "leaves something to be desired." Archie Allen made the state ment after the committee had been approached by members of the NC State Alumni Asso ciation for the name change and equitable distribution of the university trustees. Alumni President M. Ed mund Aycock told United Press International that he felt the proposals received a cordial reception, but added that the name change was more favor ably received than the alum ni's position of equal represen tation for the three units of the Consolidated University on the board of trustees. Aycock suggested NC State University as a possible alter native. Allen said the name change proposition was taken under advisement and further hear ings on the matter would be gin with special sessions of the executive committee, probably beginning in April. English Prof Named Editor Of Journal Dr. Norman Eliason, UNC professor of English, has been named co-editor of "Anglis tica," a journal of English lan guage and literature published in Copenhagen, Denmark. Eliason replaces Prof. Kemp Malone of Johns Hopkins Uni versity as American editor of the series edited by three internationally-known scholars. Eliason has won international recognition in his specialty of the language and literature of England in Anglo-Saxon times. He is the author of "Tarheel Talk," an account of the state's vocabulary and word origins. He joined the UNC Department of English in 1946. Demonstrators Get Another By JEFFREY DICK Judge Raymond B. Mallard declared the second mistrial within a week in Orange County Superior Court when a jury an nounced it was unable to agree on a verdict yesterday. The declaration came when the jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Dr. Peter Klopfer " after eight hours of de liberation. The jury was split 10-2 in favor of conviction in the trial of the 32-year-old Duke University faculty member char ged with trespass in a sit-in at Watt's Restaurant January 3. The first mistrial was declar ed Monday in the case of Dr. William Wynn, UNC faculty V - "Ilk WILL HERBERG Niebuhr as a "milestone in American religion thought." Herberg will speak at a brunch at the Hillel Founda Campus All Campus Calendar Items must be submitted in person at the DTII office in GM by 2 p.m. the day before the desired pub lication date. TODAY BSU Bake Sale all day, Fowl er's Food Store; Eastgate Shopping Center; car wash at BSU Center, 151 E. Rosemary; proceeds to LISTEN, summer Korean missions project. Bavarian's Combo, 8-12 p.m., Rendezvous Room. Panhellenic Council will sell Katydids from 9-5 downtown and in Eastgate. WRC will hold interviews on March 17-18 for candidates for chairman of WRC in the spring elections ; girls interested should sign up at the GM in formation desk before Tues. MOVIES Carolina A Global Affair Varsity Sword in the t Stone Free Flick 7 & 9:30 p.m., The Spiral Road. LOST & FOUND Lost pair brown-rimmed glass es, contact Bill Marks, 129 Ehr inghaus. Lost heavy white carcoat with hood, 2 books Guide to Wash ington, D. C. and French Made Simple; contact Bill Amos, 423 Ehringhaus, reward. Lost pair of plastic black-rimmed glasses; contact Dane Fox. 968-9150. SUNDAY Hillel Brunch 12:30 p.m., Hillel House, Dr. WTill Herberg, "WThat It Means to be a Jew." Festival of Jewish Music 4 p.m., East Duke Music Room at Duke, Julia Mueller, viola; Ruth Friedberg, piano; John Hanks, tenor; Isabel Samfield, soprano; Peter Hellman, flute; and Frank Bennett, percussion. Canterbury 6 p.m., Episcopal Church, "Death and Resurrec tion." SP 7 p.m., 08 Peabody, panel discussion on women's rules. Religion Lecture 8 p.m., Hill Hall, Dr. Will Herberg, "Re ligions in America: Paradox and Problems," public is invit ed. Jr. Class Girls' "Powder-puff Football" League 2 p.m., Fetzer Field, discussion of rules, technique and possible member, charged with trespass during the same anti-segregation protest. The Wynn jury was out for 14 hours deadlocked at 11-1 before Mallard declared the case a mistrial. The Klopfer case has been scheduled for retrial next week along with the second Wynn trial. Of the four cases brought up for trial stemming from the same sit-in at Watt's restaurant, only 'one has reached a verdict. In that case, tried during the last regularly scheduled session of Superior Court, Dr. David Smith, another Duke professor, was found guilty of trespass and (Continued on Page 3) Mists tion tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. Interested persons may make reservations with Rabbi Joseph Levine. In addition, he will lecture to the Religion 32A class at 1 p.m. Monday in the Murphey Hall auditorium. His subject will be "Religious Group Con flict in America Today." The class is open to the public. "Dr. Herberg is the main Jewish spokesman in the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish dialogue in America today," Hill said. "More than a dozen major studies have been opened up by his book, "Protestant, Catho lic, Jew." The book is a kind of norm in the field of reli gion in American society. It has opened up a whole new field of scholarship." Herberg is a graduate pro fessor of Philosophy and Cul ture at Drew University, a Methodist school. He was for merly on the staff of the Wash ( Continued from Page 3) Calendar scrimmage. Westminster Fellowship 5:30 p.m., Presbyterian Student Center, worship, 6 p.m., sup per; 6:45, program "Death: the Medical and Philosophical View." UP Convention 7 p.m., Carroll Hall, nominations for NSA, student body officers, student legislature, and senior class of ficers. SPU 1 p.m., upstairs Lenoir, subject: Socialism and the Peace Movement Is there a Necessary Connection? MONDAY Religion 32A class 1 p.m., Mur phey auditorium, Dr. Herberg, "Religious Group Conflict in America Today," public is wel come. SP Advisory Board 1 p.m., RP I. Order of the Old Lampshades 4-5:30 p.m., parlor of Nurses' Dorm. Symposium Related Discussion 4:30 p.m., RP II. Course Evaluation Comm. 4:30 p.m., Woodhouse, organization al meeting. Jr. Class Finance Comm. 5-6 p.m., Grail, to discuss powder puff football game. Newman Table 6 p.m., Lenoir, informal dinner. Statistics Colloquium 4 p.m., 265 Phillips, Prof. Bose will lecture. YWCA 3-5 p.m., today-Wed., Anne Queen's office, Y-Court, interviews for committee chair men of YWCA. CWC :30 p.m., Grail Room. TUESDAY WAA 5 p.m., Women's Gym, in terviews for the office of WAA president. Outdoor Play Try outs Set For Today Tryouts will be held today for parts in seven outdoor dramas coordinated by the UNC Institute of Outdoor Drama. The tryouts will be held in the Forest Amphitheater from noon until 5 p.m. Call-backs for actors whom directors may want to hear for a second time will be held Sunday at noon. Anyone 18 years of age or older may try out for parts in the productions. Auditioners are expected .to be available for the entire outdoor drama summer season. Representatives will audi tion all persons interested in serving as actors, singers, danc ers, and technicians in the pro ductions. The seven productions to be represented at the auditions are: "The Lost Colony" by Paul Green and produced at Manteo, j N. C; "Unto These Hills" by Kermit Hunter, produced in Cherokee, N. C; "Home is the Hunter" by Robert Emmett McDowell, produced at Har rodsburg, Ky.; "The Found ers," a new production this year . to be oroduced at Ma toaka Lake Theater, Williams burg, Va.; "The Stephen Fos tery Story" by Green, produced at Bardstown, Ky.; and "Honey in the Rock" by Hunter, pro duced at Beckley, W. Va. 4PSf wi !. vHk! ) y ' p'?c Issac Stern, one ol the world's great violinists, will play in Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. Monday. Students will be admitted with ID cards. Election Laws e vised By JOHN GREENBACKER A bill revising the elections law and another appropriating $330 for the UNC Debate Team were passed by Student Legis ture Thursday night. The elections law amend ments make legislative dis tricts coincide with judicial districts on campus, clarifying qualifications, renumber the districts, and improve the pol ling station placements. Rep. Bill Straughn (SP) ob jected to the listing of candi dates on ballots in alphabetical order, saying in a close election the candidate highest on the list usually won. His proposal to have positions chosen by lot Action! By FARYL SINS Romance? Crime? Whatever the subject, the UP Campus Action Board should be able to shed some light on it. A recent survey taken by the Board revealed that many stu dents thought the campus was too dark, so the UP has ar ranged with University offi cials to have large wattage bulbs installed in our lamp posts. In addition to finding that the campus was largely in the dark, the board also discovered that certain people had been left out in the cold. Lower Quad residents complained about cold drafts in their shower rooms. Currently, new thresholds are being installed and weather stripping is being put around the doors. R 'J.B.' Extended i 1 lilt ; - Foster Fitz-Simons and David Gulletle appearing in the Caro lina Playmakers' production of "J.B." The play has been extended to Tuesday. Tickets are already sold out for the extra presentation Monday and Tuesday is absolutely the last day the play will run. By SL was defeated by the body. Student Party Floor Leader Phil Baddour expressed sur prise that the University Party did not object to the bill's pro vision which prohibits a mem ber of a judiciary body to live outside his district. "We've (the SP) been trying to get this thing through for years," Baddour said, "but the UP always stopped us." The bill was passed unani mously after several minor changes were made. A bill to appropriate $1500 to the Sophomore Class for the publication of a handbook de scribing the fields a student may major in at the University was sent back to committee. Rep. Arthur Hays (SP) ques tioned the advisability of ap propriating so large an amount for the unproven project. Recommitment to committee was moved by Rep. Darst Mur phey (UP), who wished the body to consider immediately the appropriation to the De bate Team. Privileges to the floor were given to Haywood Clayton, debate team president. Clayton itemized his request for travel expenses that the team would accrue in attending a regional debate tournament. The body debated the advisa bility of the team's traveling by plane to the event, but the added money for the trip by plane was left intact after Clayton explained the reasons for his request. The body recommited to com mittee a bill to define the pro cess on executive appoint ments. The Welfare Committee re ( Continued on Page 3) Thru Tuesday dp .Distric -A- -A- -k Dr. Sitton's Letter Solicitor Thomas Cooper Orange County Courthouse Hillsboro, N. C. Jear Mr. Cooper: Having read in various newspapers about the charges of conspiracy that have been brought against several individuals associated with the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee, I have be come puzzled as to whether or not I too am liable for indict ment. There are many of us here in Chapel Hill who have as sisted in the work of the Freedom Committee, although we have not actively engaged in sit-ins or other forms of civil diso bedience. We were not aware that a person could be cited for conspiracy for having helped in the planning or organization of an act of civil disobedience. For this reason I write to ask that you . clarify for us the meaning of conspiracy, so that those of us who may be guilty might abide by the law and give ourselves up. Speaking for myself, I have on two occasions driven demon strators to restaurants for the purpose of their asking for serv ice and refusing to leave if service was denied them. I knew what they were doing. I agreed with it and I wilfully and know inly assisted them in their act. I also drove several young people to the Pittsboro Road, I believe it was on February 8, where upon they sat in the path of traffic for the purpose of repre senting as dramatically as possible the critical need for action in our racial problem. My wife Sharon, a senior at Duke and editor of the Duke literary magazine, was among those partici pating. A party of about twelve white men emerged from a nearby gasoline station and attacked the demonstrators, includ ing my wife, beating them, tearing at their clothes and drag ging them by their collars out of the road. One of my students in our group was a young crippled boy who walked with diffi culty, his legs slightly bent at all times. Yet he too was viciously beaten by the men. I must say that in my estimation the behavior of the demonstrators throughout this horrifying ordeal was thoroughly courageous and admirable, showing a restraint and dignity not shown, unfortunately, by the cowardly individuals who wantonly attacked them. I have also upon occasion donated money to the Freedom Committee, as have many respectable citizens of Chapel Hill. Not knowing the law, I am also puzzled as to whether this would count as conspiracy. I have lent this group my sympathy, ad vice and support in every way I thought lawful. The recent action citing certain people for conspiracy thus makes me wonder if perhaps my actions were unlawful. If so, I would like it known that I am willing to comply in my arrest and am willing to supply any and all information about my actions that I ran recall. I should point out that my involvement with the Chapel Hill civil rights movement came only after thoroughly examining the situation and my own motives and was a deliberate, willful act on my part for which I have no shame and am willing to take full responsibility. Before lending my support to the Committee, I had a lengthy conversation with Chancellor Aycock here at the University where I am employed as an Instructor in the Philosophy department. The Chancellor advised me not to par ticipate in acts of civil disobedience. It was his opinion that re prisals might be made against the University by certain legis lators in Raleigh if I or any other faculty member got arrested. I disagreed with him. My conviction was and is that the free exercise of one's conscience can never under any circumstances harm an educational institution, whereas the cowardly refusal to take a stand would certainly sooner or later hurt our Uni versity most seriously. I say this, by the way, as a native-born North Carolinian who loves and respects our state and her great University. Nonetheless, I complied with the Chancellor's wishes, or at least I thought I did until I learned of the recent citations for conspiracy. Now I am unable to decide whether or not I am guilty of wrongdoing. I ask you, then, not only for my own sake but for the benefit of many others in Chapel Hill to make an explicit statement on what is to count as conspiracy. Should I be liable to arrest, I may be found during the day at my office at 112C Caldwell Hall on the U.N.C. campus. At nights I am at my home at 106 Buchanan Blvd. in Durham. Respectfully, s Robert M. Sitton Army Tests Stump Champ Cassius X LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CPI) Cas sius Clay emerged from his re match with the Selective Service system's aptitude test Friday smil ing, but a bit nervous, and said "this was a little tougher than the last one." Clay declined to guess how he made out on the test saying only "all right, I guess I'll know when they call me." He said he did have difficul ty with the section of the test which involved matching up var ious shapes and symbols. His remarks came after he emerged from Nicholas General Hospital here where Selective Service tests are given as part of the Army induction of personnel by local draft boards. The test given Clay was net an intelligence test, but rather one which is de signed to reveal the aptitude of men entering the Army. Results of the test were to be sent to National Selective Serv ice headquarters in Washington for processing and results then to be returned to the local board. It is expected to take about four weeks before the results are made known, normally the test results would go to a state headquarters (Continued on Page 3) -n -k -k Soviets Still Hold May Be Tried In BERLIN (UPD Soviet au thorities are holding three U.S. airmen shot down by a Rus sian fighter and the Americans may be tried in a Communist court, an East German foreign ministry spokesmen said today. The spokesman told United Press International the Rus sicms are now investigating the airmen's "personal responsi bility" for what the Soviets call their spy flight. Auction Scheduled For Memorial Hall Wanna buy the goal post from the .'63 Dukc-Carolina game? Twenty-five passes to the Carolina Theater? A twenty piece set of china? These are a few of the hun dreds of items which will go on sale at the annual Campus Chest Auction to be held Tuesday night in Memorial Hall. Donations for the sale were made 'by residence halls, so rorities, fraternities and nu merous merchants from ' the Chapel Hill area. Some more of the notable items to be sold will be a 21- o By GARY BLANCIIARD UNC Philosophy professor Robert Sitton has challenged the validity of conspiracy charges filed against local in tegration leaders in connection with recent racial demonstra tions here. In a letter which he sent copies of to several daily state newspapers, Dr. Sitton asked District Solicitor Thomas Cooper "to make an explicit statement on what is to count as conspiracy" so he can de termine if he ought to give himself up for his indirect in volvement in the demonstra tions. Sitton's letter also quoted UNC Chancellor William B. Aycock as advising him against participating in civil disobedi ence tactics because "reprisals might be made against the Uni versity by certain legislators in Raleigh." Contacted for possible com ment, the Chancellor said he had "no comment whatsoever" on the matter. Sitton's letter says he "dis agreed" with the Chancellor. "My conviction was and is that the free exercise of one's conscience can never, under any circumstances, harm an educational institution, where as the cowardly refusal to take a stand would certainly sooner or later hurt our Uni versity. "I say this, by the way, as a native-born North Carolinian who loves and respects our state and her great University. "Nonetheless, I complied with the Chancellor's wishes, or at least thought I did, until I learned of the recent cita tions for conspiracy. Now I am unable to decide whether or not I am guilty of wrongdoing." Sittin told Cooper his letter of inquiry was prompted by news reports of conspiracy charges being brought against leaders of the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee, a coali tion of five civil rights organ izations which has directed re cent street demonstrations here. The leaders include UNC as sistant psychology professor Albert Amon and two UNC students, Ben Spaulding and Thomas Bynum. All are free on $500 bond, pending a hear ing Monday in Orange County Superior Court In Hillsboro, They are charged with induc ing Duke Professor Robert Os born to violate the state tres pass law by taking part in a sit-in demonstration at Watts Grill Jan. 3. Sitton said he has lent the Freedom Committee "my sym pathy, advice and support ia every way I thought lawfuL' (Continued on Page 3) American Fliers; Communist Court A trial may result, he said. The United States had de nied strongly the Soviet "spy plane" charge. The spokesman said it was "unlikely" the three U.S. Air Force officers will be tried by an East German court. He said it has not yet been determined whether the Soviets have a "legal basis" on which to try the Americans. "In order to file charges, one must have evidence," he said. inch television set, a gift cer tificate for a portrait photic graph, a champagne-steak din ner and a set of luggage. Two auctioneers, one of them Kemp the record man, will con duct proceedings. Proceeds will go to five charities: The World Univer sity Service; The American Friends Committee; The O'Ber ry School for Retarded Chil dren; the Murdock School for Retarded Chll.iren; the World Clothing Fund. Campus Chest officials hope that many students attend the auction with as much money as they can muster. o
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