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Pge 2 IP Wednesday, February 24, 1965 DTH Editorial Page j Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and II columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of 1 n I' m meir authors. f.y. Maverick House Pushes Off In the midst of an era in which "apathy" has come to be a too-frequent attachment to "student," any effort which promises to widen the gap between those two words is both refreshing and inspiring. An example of such an effort is the Heart Fund Vpush" promised for the coming weekend by the residents of Maverick House, nee Craige Residence Hall. If the mavericks successfully exe cute their plan (and having viewed their past projects we have no doubt that they will), they will provide an enor mous boost not only for the Heart Fund, but also for the public image of Caro lina students. This is not to -say that the UNC pub lic image should be given precedence over a worthy organization such as the Heart Fund, for if there is a war worth waging anywhere, it is the war against America's number one health hazard. Nevertheless, the opportunities for gains by students this weekend cannot be overlooked. What better way exists to combat charges of disinterest than to exihibit interest that extends to hard work and the unselfish donation of time and money? Too many college students, we have found, are content to curse the public which calls them lazy or apathetic with out endeavoring to rise above the un favorable image. Too often, talk is a substitute for genuine concern or ac tion. Too often, we protest against the world's . scorn for us when that scorn is most deserved. Thus, the efforts on behalf of the Heart Fund by the residents of Maver ick House may be considered a joyous exception, to an apathetic norm. How ever trivial this 'push" may seem to those contemplative souls who are con tent to turn their bitter discontent in upon themselves or outward against so ciety, it will at least obtain some im mediate results concrete and other wise. This is more than can be said for all the ragings and whinings of the dull, selfish beings whose only tool is disgust. The Time Is Up For Rep. Powell From The New York Times Cloaked in Congressional immunity, Representative Adam Clayton Powell has spewed forth in the House of Repre sentatives a new welter of unsupported accusations akin to those that had al ready resulted in his conviction for defamation of character when he . re peated them outside that privileged sanctuary. Mr. Powell now has judg ments totaling $210,000 outstanding against him; he is in both civil and criminal contempt of court; he dares not venture into his own Congressional dis trict for fear of arrest. How long will the House tolerate such flagrant con tempt for law? While the chairman of the House Edu cation and Labor Committee was re galing the House with his sophistries, some little-known facts about his dis , ruptive influence within Haryou-Act, the Government-financed $118 million pro gram for combating poverty in Harlem, were coming to light. Livingston Win gate, who was installed as executive di rector of Haryou-Act at Mr. Powell's insistence, has dismissed a highly quali fied social worker, formerly a member of the faculty of the New York School of Social Work, for having resisted Mr. Powell's efforts to turn the project into a personal political instrument. The ousted official has charged that a lawyer and a public relations man, both closely associated with Mr. Powell in the past, have been named consultants to the agency at fees of $10,000 each. Without denying these allegations, Mr. Wingate has sought to justify the dis missal as necessary to "the security , of; the program." The real question is what ; useful accomplishment is coming Out of this important anti-poverty project. Con gress should inquire closely into how Federal funds are being spent before permitting a venture, noble in aim, to be ruined by a self -aggrandizing politician. We Long For Judicial Freedom Dean of Men William G. Long appar ently tried again Monday to slip some thing past Student Government, but he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar. The arresting officer was Bob Spear man, President of the Student Body. The controversy arose when Dean Long, disturbed by numerous incidents of misconduct (water fights, firecrack ers, etc.) on the third floor of Winston Hall, asked eleven residents to move elsewhere. His office had somehow de termined that the eleven were largely responsible for the mischief, which had become sufficiently frequent and blatant ..as to destroy any undisturbed atmos phere conducive to sleep or study. Now, there can be no quarrel with . proper disciplinary action for those who repeatedy break residence hall rules. I II It I pu Hatlg ar wl 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publi cation of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. Fred Seely, Hugh' Stevens, co-editors; Mike Yopp, Ernie McCrary, managing editors; Pete Wales, associate editor; Larry Tarle ton, sports editor; Fred Thomas, night editor; Mary Ellison Strother, wire edi tor; John Greenbacker, Kerry Sipe, Alan Banov, staff writers; Pete Gammons, asst. sports editor, Perry McCarty, Pete Cross, Bill Lee, Tom Haney, sports writers; Jock Lauterer, photographer, Chip Barnard, cartoonist; Jack Harrington, bus. mgr.; Betsy Gray, asst. bus. mgr.; Woody Sobel, ad. mgr.; Jim Peddicord, asst. ad. mgr.; Tom Clark, subscription mgr.; John Evans, circulation mgr.; Dick Baddour, Stuart Ficklen, Jim Potter, salesmen. Second Class postage paid at the post office in Chapel IEU, N. C Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republica ttion of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. Such cases, however, are the jurisdiction of the Men's Residence Council court ' not the Dean of Men. By stepping in without consulting anyone, Dean long assumed the responsibility of administ ering official sanction on eleven resi dents with due process. Fortunately, the students knew their rights, and complained to the DTH. We referred the matter to Spearman, who called Dean Long and took issue with the proposed abrogation of the student judiciary's responsibilities. After a short argument, Dean Long relented, and the case has been turned over to the Attorney-General's office, ex actly where it should have gone the minute Dean Long heard of the matter. Long, in a statement yesterday after noon, explained his actions as seeking "to rectify the problem and to prevent certain students who appeared to be headed toward obtaining official disci plinary records from reaching such a situation." If they were indeed engaging in ac tions detrimental to the residence hall, then they should be tried before the MRC Court. That body has been noted for its fairness and comprehensive study of cases, and we are certain the 11 will receive a fair trial. If they are found guilty, they should be disciplined. These are the rules which student government has set up with University approval, and these rules should be followed. It is not the administration's place to meddle with the student judiciary any more than it is the student's place to disturb his hallmates during study hours. At the Free Speech Movement rally last week, Dean Long, representing the administration, told the crowd that stu dent problems should be taken to the elected student leaders. ?eV hope that in the future they will be without hesi tation or roadblocks. Definition Of Fraternities Not; Taken Very Seriously 9 i i 4 ft .4 Editors, The Tar Heel: Mr. David Owen defends "dis crimination" in his Feb. 18 let ter in the Tar Heel. According to Mr. Owen, since all fraterni ties are based on a certain form of personal discrimination, it is silly to object to discrim ination based on racial or relig ious bigotry, or any other "quirk" of the present frater nity members. For Mr. . Owen, all forms of discrimination are equal. But this argument is nonsen se. It is like saying that since government is based on coer cion, it can use any kind of coercion it pleases. Yet one'of. the crucial ideas of democracy is that all coercion is not equal and that governments must be sharply Tegulated in their use of it. , . Or, to use a different anal ogy, Mr. Owen's argument is similar to the idea that since all business is based on profit-making, no one has a right to inter fere with whatever a business man may do to make a profit. But this argument hasn't had a serious advocate in 100 years. Everyone - acknowledges that businesses must be regulated in the public interest that busi nessmen should not be allowed to mislabel their products, to make false chalims, etc. All discrimination is not eq ual. Discrimination on the bases of talents, abilities, character and so on is legitimate. D i s crimination on arbitrary and ir rational bases is not. Fraternities . are not private 'clubs. They are campus organi zations which are already regu lated by many university rules. Regulations about having wom en in rooms, for example, are made by the administration. Few people believe that frater nities should be exempted from having to meet the standards of civilized behavior. Few .would argue, for example, that fra ternities could use any hazing procedures they like includ ing ones that threaten the well being of pledges. likewise, fraternities have no right to use procedures in determining who can pledge which are based on racial and religious bigotry. Now, 20 years -after, World War H, it seems to me we should have learned something about preju dice. It is not an innocent, private matter. Rather, the existence of organizations based on bigo try is a continuing insult to a portion of the community, and an -encouragement to vicious sentiments of group superiori ty. Mr. Owen declares that do ing away with restrictive claus es would ."'in essence destroy the entire .fraternity system." It is strange to hear this said when on other campuses such clauses have been done away with without wiping out all fra ternities. But more important, it illus trates Mr. Owen's narrow-minded notion of what a fraternity is. Apparently he has never ta ken the word "fraternity" seri ously. For him, it means dis crimination, not brotherhood. . To the extent that fraterniti es on this campus cannot ap proximate the standards of common brotherhood, they are a discredit to themselves, to the University and to those who condone them. Lewis Lipsitz Dept. of Political Science . ft " -:-i 7 ' , ' ' , y ' "I , i , , r : l -- f , '''''' ' ' ' ", ' ' 4 ' ''"''y', "' XI ''' j "; ' y . i IT "',$-1 - ' t -0 i. r-- V X. fe rs y y v w ' -y , : t 2 .. J 6 A f y'Tx t- rr' ; v? -: ; 1 1 Byra: On Religion Blast One Pro One Co: Faith Different From Religion Editors, The Tar Heel: Since most of his readers seem to have mistaken Mr. By rum, or to have taken him light ly in his critique of "religion," I feel called upon to second his comments. His comments do not take is sue with faith, but with religion. Note this distinction. Faith is what Paul Tillich defines as ul timate concern what one in the end takes most seriously. Religion, on the other hand, is the sum total of ritual, formu las of belief , and the like, which constitute the varieties of hu man response to encounter with what is ultimate, or divine. It is dangerous when we hu mans, whose understanding is finite, begin making unqualified judgments about the divine truth which is infinite. This is to confuse revelation, which is God's, with the reception of rev elation, which is human. If we take our own formula tions of belief about God and pronounce them universally and forever valid, we commit the sin of pride, or self-righteousness. That is, we set ourselves up as the equals of God, who alone possesses truth in any fi nal form. The religious tradition itself teaches that God's incar nation (becoming flesh, not word) in Christ is alone the "wray, truth and the life." What Mr. Byrum rightly at tacks is a way of believing which refuses to admit its own essential human ignorance and sinfulness. He attacks the spe cial interests who claim that God is on their side, and all others are wrong. He attacks human institutions which claim to possess truth in its final form, when this is the proper ty of the ultimate alone. The divine does reveal itself. Some men do find that to be themselves authentically they must do certain things. But theirs is not the right to claim that what is valid for them is valid for all. Rick Edwards YMCA President Adept Acrobat Flips For Atheism Editors, The Tar Heel: To say that my ' viewpoint differs from that of Mr. Jeff Byrum with regard to Christian theology and social concepts would certainly be an under statement. To attempt to ela borate on my personal concepts of Christainity would certainly be out of place in the columns of this paper, equally as out of place as I felt Mr. Byrum's ti rade to be. Religious viewpoints are rarely changed by journalis tic debate. Certainly Mr. Byrum has put forth no ideas that I have not heard before. His quotes smack loudly of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" while his vernacu lar is very obviously that of the dormitory bull session. Its intel lectual qualify is hardly equal ed by its emotional pitch. I presume that as far as Mr. Byrum is concerned, I am one of the "misguided humanist," or perhaps some of the "leaven in the 1 o a f " ; this is not the point. I do not wish to argue over what I consider to be the virtues of Christianity as oppos ed to what Mr. Byrum reputes to be the freedoms of-atheism. I do find however -Mr. Byrum's concepts to be somewhat fuzzy if not misguided, and it is par ticularly to this that I direct wha criticisms I have. I do not consider religion to be a "hangover from the Dark Ages", nor do I feel "we sac rifice our humanity at the al tar of the false god, Religion." That which we use as the bas is for our relationships with oth er human beings and for under standing our relationship with the universe, if not our relig ion, has at least religious over tones for us, be it a belief or a disbelief. While there are those of us who may "juggle for Jesus", Mr. Byrum himself seems quite adept' in his acrobatics for Ath eism. He seems at least as ea ger to make his disbelief in. Christianity seem 'relevant";' as he implies Christians find it necessary to do with the teach ings of Christ. He appears to disbelieve as strongly as he im plies the most ardent Christians believe. Who is to say who is the more fundamental? To my point of view Mr. By rum's approach is at least as fanatic as he seems to feel that of certain Christian groups is. There seems to be a question as to whether or not he is also "standing naked in absurdity." He seems at least as interested in imposing bis concepts and views on Christians, as he feels that they have imposed their views upon non-Christians. In short, Mr. Byrum appears to be at leased as religious as those Christians he criticizes. If an alka-seltzer is really needed for our religious hangover, Mr. Byrum will need one too; and, if we are sacrificing our hu manity at the altar of religion, I hope Mr. Byrum will join me on the pyre. John Craig 109 ycock Hall Issues Raised By Gardner Valid Edtitors, The Tar Heel; ... Following Friday's rally at Y Court, there must have been no more confused group than the " N. C. General Assembly. These conscientious gentle . men had hoped to protect us from political extremism of the left. If all they saw Friday were hands raised in obscenity and fireworks thrown wantonly, if all they heard were explosions, vain choruses of 4Dixie," and crude vituperation from the au dience, while the speakers showed mature calmness, they must have realized who the real extremists were. They must have thoueh thst they were observing adolescent morons whose only emotion be sides lust was cynical hostility,' whose naive rebellion did not comprehend the agony symboli zed by their Confiederate flag. Why would so many act so immaturely, trifling with impor tant issues? What were they im itating in their crude way? That scurrilous personal attack against James Gardner in last Tuesday's DTH which so unfor tunately set the tone of campus reaction? How ironic was Pete Wales' lament Friday morning that "The issue is no longer the is sues, but the way they have been handled"! Perhaps some blame is Mr. Gardner's some the whole community's. Some blame also lies, though, with the DTH for not keeping salient issues in the foreground. No one should deny the con cern of Messrs. Stevens and Seely for this University. With other leaders they have worked hard and long to woo legisla tors from the Speaker Ban Law. Their alarm that such work might be pointlessly de stroyed is understandable. Per haps their fear for UNC dimin ished the clarity with which they understood James Gard ner's intentions or his basic message, with which they might well agree. The issues raised must be dealt with thoroughly. The inte grity of the University is at stake. We cannot condone insti tutionalized racial segregation. We must not sacrifice, for ap propriations, a free forum in which serious ideas are serious ly debated and their implica tions acted upon. . .. . We will utilize the right o. free speech to discuss important matters and to praise mature attempts to deal with them such attempts as the Ad ministration is now making, such attempts as are still need ed in areas like wages, promo tions, and recruitment. , Bill Griffeth 426 Whitehead Circle Rednecks At Rally Like Mississippi Editors, The Tar Heel: After attending the "rally" at Y-Court today I happened to come across Friday's edition of the Daily Tar Heel, In the issue was a sensible editorial calling for responsibility on the part of Mr. Gardner and company in presentation of their ill-conceived grievances. I went to the rally out of cu riosity, not sympathy, and I think the protesters were re sponsible; but, I cannot be sure, for I was prevented from hear ing by all the "responsible" boo ing, hissing, and exploding fire , works. Oh yes, it was all very funy at first, but soon it took on a distasteful flavor of rudeness and abuse. Certainly the "rally" was a poorly inspired result of an in significant incident; however, those "cool" hecklers showed that perhaps Mr. Gardner is not really nuts. Something is wrong at Carolina when a redneck ele ment an gag a speaker, no matter how ridiculous his views may be. The heckling did not shock me it just reminded me of my home, Mississippi Michael Crowell 206 Manly Ban Unnecessary When Mob Rules Edtiors, The Tar neel : If there was ever any ques tion of what sort of mind con ceived the Speaker Ban Law, it . was answered loudly and public ly this past Friday in Y-Court. There, several hundred future leaders of America proved they were just as adept at quieting a "subversive" idea (or any idea, for that matter) as any of their more seasoned solons. The idea is simple: don't let the man speak. II a person dis agrees with and or can't com prehend what the ' speaker is saying (or wishes to say), such person may take one of two channels. First, there is the tried and true method of passing a law to keep his kind away from our impressionable youth. Secondly, there is the quicker way reserved particularly for the electorate. This takes a cor tain amount of practice for it involves the chanting of f i h t sones, the singing of '"Dixie" off-key, and the ability to calm ly throw exp!osives into a crowd of your friends and neighbors. For those of you who mis?ej this little segment of "Lifs in these United States," you need . only envision a man speaking of the evil of rattlesnakes from th f bottom of a rattlesnake pit. C When the classic methods c r mob censorship are used in the middle of a supposedly "cr.lkiht ened" University, and are ac cepted as being mere schoolboy pranks, the oft-heard claims oi "academic freedom" sound a hollow as the minds of our rat tlesnakes. "I may not agree with what. C you say ..." J Ben L. Jones r 40 Rogerson Dr. f Cmx Of Religion Is Brotherhood Edtiors, The Tar Heel: From all appearances, seems that the DTH has only seen pro per to publish negative replies to Mr. Byrum's article. Thes? people who have answered seem to have the attitude that only God, Mother and Country are sacred. But worse, they also seem to feel that it is natural for relig ion to be "commercialized." It should be remembered that if Christianity were in its natural state, as Christ taught, there would be no Christian propagan da, or even churches. All Christ taught was the Brotherhood of Man and a belief in God a very simple religion. I say, "Good for you, Mr. By rum! More people should real ize the Fallacy of Christianity." Jane Marcotte Town House Apts TEP Violate Strict Silence Editors, The Tar Heel: I would like to address this letter to Mr. Goodwin with re gard to his article in the Tar Heel Saturday. . Mr. Goodwin apparently as sumed that because the Hock field family are close friends of ivir. ivans, ana Decause uaipn Grosswald is a close friend of the Hockfield's sons, that there fore Ralph Grosswald is a close relative of Mr. Evans. Since Ralph is in no way related to . Mr. Evans, and since Mr. Good win's major criticism of the IFC's strict silence rule is the restrictions it allegedly places on relatives of freshman mal es, I fail to see how Mr. Good win arrives at his conclusions that the dirty rush charge on the TEPs is unfair and unfoun ded. His conclusions are not on ly illogical but entirely irrelev ant to the issue in the TEP case. Mr. Goodwin: the TEPs, through Mr. Evans (their Inter-' national President), attempted to and succeeded in what amounts to buying a pledge. Ac tually, this is not the issue ei ther, because as morally and ethically wrong as this prac tice may be, it is not illegal ac cording to IFC rules. The issue at hand is that Mr. Evans of fered the boy financial assist ance prior to the end of strict silence. It has been stated in defense that Mr. Evans: 1) was not aware of strict silence when he spoke to Grosswald; and 2) he spoke to Ralph not of a TEP of fer of financial assistance, but of fraternity scholarships in general. .oexng 1101 oniy an extremely active alumnus of TEP, but an officer in their national to boot (not to mention that he lives on ly 12 miles from Chapel Hill), it is absurd to assume that Mr. Evans knew nothing of the strict silence regulations. What he doesn't know about fraterni ties and IFC rules on this cam pus isn't worth knowing. Concerning the statement that Mr. Evans spoke to Grosswald not about a TEP offer, but of fraternity offers in general, this too lacks crdibHitye. That would be comparable to the New ork " about the bonus he could get if he joined another football team! In short, the TEPs have clear ly violated both the spirit and ; the word of the strict silence rule, and mast now pay the con sequences if the IFC's rules and regulations are to continue com manding the respect they have presently. Admittedly, strict si- ; lence does pose problems, but a fraternity's blatant disregard of this rule to suit its convenience will not solve, but merely add to the problem. Ken Mann 107 Fraternity Court
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