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a Page 2 Friday, May 21, 1965 355 1 I : Qflp Batty Gfcr iI li Oolnions of th YlaiW lals. Letters and columns, covering a wide range of views, refiect the personai opinions of their authors. A Delay, Not A Solution The new parking regulations which the DTH predicted last Sunday are now law. . . The office of the dean of men has offered, reasons for the changes, but we still are not convinced that all the new r - t t rules are useful or necessary. The ban on parking on Raleigh Street and South Road will supposedly make it safer to cross the streets. Now, instead of sneaking out from behind parked cars, pedestri ans will be able to walk out into the path of traffic in full sight of tb,e drivers. Once all parked cars are removed from the streets and they are made into grand thorough fares, there is little doubt that the average speed of traffic will increase. So street-crossers may be more visible, but if cars are going so fast they can't stop for them, how , much has safety been increased? Dean of Men William G. Long says there are 8,800 automobiles on campus competing for 5,316 parking spaces. It does not reem very logical to decrease the number of available spaces. Crosswalks exist for the streets and it , should not be a major task to add a few more, rather than take away all parking places. It appears that the new rules simply endorse mass jaywalking on these streets. Perhaps the decrease in the number of parking spaces will be offset by a decrease in the number of cars on cam pus.' The" new rules state that any undergraduate with less "than a 2.0 academic average may not register a car. Long says that his guess is that only about 200 students will be affected by this ' regulation, but we consider his guess to be very conservative. We predict an upsurge in the num ber of cars kept illegally off campus. The rule that cars will be sent home after three park ing tickets, rather than five, may also reduce the number of vehicles on campus, but we feel that the present regu lations are sufficient if they were rigorously enforced. Registration was revoked for 73 cars this year, consider ably more than usual. But there are still many more cars on campus which have five or more tickets and they have not been sent home. Why pass stricter rules when the ones on the books now are not used completely? We support the zoning regulations .which require cars , to be left during the day in the lot for which they are reg ? isterecL Towing away cars parked in the wrong zone is a bit 'extreme, and it will probably keep every wreck in Chapel Hill working overtime. The regulation is unavoid able, however, because there simply is not enough space for everyone to park- near the center of campus during class hours. The increase in vehicle registration fees from $2.50 to $5 is unquestioned. . . . We also support the decision to eliminate left turns at the stoplight at the Cameron Avenue - Columbia Street in tersection during the afternoon rush hours of 12-2 and 4-6. Hopeless traffic jams are a common occurrence there now.. Assigning certain areas for overnight parking of motor cycles and scooters will be helpful in eliminating noise around residence halls. This regulation is welcomed by. everyone who does not own a motorcycle. We still see no real solution in these new rules to the basic problem of parking. The biggest stumbling block is an economic one. The General Assembly just does not give out money; for parking facilities. Donations and self-liquidating funds will be needed. Long says it may be possible to have off-campus park ing fields with a shuttle bus service within 10 years. That is about 10 years too far away. There should be more time spent trying to solve the problem permanently rather than delaying a solution with progressively restrictive regulations. Gflu Sathj QIar k?rl The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. . Ernie McCrsry, editor; Mike Yopp, associate editor; Kerry Sipe, managing editor; John Greenbacker, news editor; Fred Thomas, copy editor; Mite Wiggin, night editor; Fred Seely, sports editor; Richard Smith, asst. sports, editor; Andy Myers, John Jennrich, Mary Ellison Strother, Ernest Robl, Bob Wright, David Rothman, staff writers; Bill Lee Pete Cross, sports writers; Jock Lantcrer, photographer; Chip Barnard, art editor; Becky Timberlake, secretary. Jack Harriaston. business msrr Woody Sobol, advertising mgr.; Tom Clark, subscription mgr.; John Evans, circulation mgr. Second Class postage paid at the post of fie s In Chapel mil, 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 republication of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. m Vict Nam U. S. Investigates Campus Flare-Ups (Ed. note This is taken in part from an article by Charles Bartlett in the Wash ington Evening Star.) ri The concern in the capital over the campus flare - ups against U. S. policy in Viet- Nam - is - restrained by a reali zation that the objectors are a minority voice in their aeademie'eommunities. A government - team led by Thomas F. Conlon of the Foreign Service is winding up a 10-day swing though some Midwest ern campuses. It has been a rough, exhausting trip that disclosed that many students' approach to the involvement in Southeast Asia, is pointed and critical. They are gripped by the big policy questions and tend to ig nore the details of the situaion. The political unrest in the colleges is causing uneasiness that will be helped by ascribing all the blame to communists or even to bearded beatniks. The campuses have been pricked into liveliness by other stimuli the example of foreign students who occasionally man age to overthrow governments; the ap peal of the struggle for racial equality, and, above all, a spreading appetite for student freedoms. A study of the student problem is be ing prepared for university denas by E. G. Williamson and John L. Cowan of the Uni versity of Minnesota. . They note that while the concept of aca demic freedom, which is the teacher's right to stand up and profess his conclu sions, was imported from Germany in the early 19th century, the concept of free dom for students which was also practiced in Germany, did not reach this country until recently. The Minnesota professors describe the campuses . as now "engaged in a great re volution to free students from some of the vestiges of the colonial colleges." The students seek freedom to discuss issues of their own ; choosing, to hear the most radical and controversial speakers, to speak out against university policies, and to participate in deciding those policies. A careful survey, by the professors has shown a wide variance in the university acceptance of these freedoms. The freedom to discuss issues is accept ed generally, but almost one - third of the institutions do .not concede , the right to bring controversial speakers before student groups. The strife hinges on the students'' reach for new rights. ; This revolution is the backdrop for the campus clamor over Viet Nam. The pro-4 test emerges in the same spirit in which students at Brooklyn College agitated for the right to wear dungarees and the stu dents at Yale protested the release of a popular teacher. ; .1 The pattern is approximately the same in every place. A minority element of the faculty has " stirred a minority element of the student body to oppose the escalation of the war. ?. As far as can be learned a heavy major-5 ity of the students and faculty in every place are either behind the government or unconcerned by the issue. . Even in Madison, the circulators of a petition to support U. S, policy claim to have 6,000 signatures against the 2,000 sign ed to petitions to end the war. Government officials do not intend to turn their backs on the campus clamor or to ignore the efforts of Communists to add to the ferment. But the essential healthiness of the con troversy must not be lost in a return to the debate levels of the McCarthy era. "Let's See What I'm Responsible For." Braden Another Victory For The Racists By DAVID ROTHMAN DTH Columnist When Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina spoke recently at UNC he warned that "the so - called civil rights move ment" cannot "be separated from the to tal insurrection with, which we are faced." This "insurrection," he said, "includes the campaigns r and activties of the pro fessed pacifists protesting our Viet Nam policies ..." . Clearly, the Senator sought to identify the integration movement with the "Get out of Viet Nam" crowd. He knew that these people generally are not respected in North Carolina. Therefore, he reasoned, it would be logi cal to attach their stigma to the fight for human equality. Of course, the Senator had been helped along by the protestors themselves. They had attempted to link Selma with Viet Nam during the April 17 Washington "peace" mar.;h Monday, Charles Miller of the UNC NAACP invited Carl Braden of the South ern Conference Education Fund to become a martyr on behalf of the movement against the speaker ban. The NAACP. president could have chosen a better man. Fairly or unfairly, Braden is associated with communism; and the NAACP, to most people in this state, seem ed to be championing Moscow's cause. Chalk up another victory for the rac-' ists. Integration, it : appeared, was just another tool of the Red conspiracy; so be it. . Perhaps the Johnson adniinistration' Viet Nam policy seems "shocking" to many (though I myself do not think it is); certainly the Speaker Ban should be protested. But why drag integration into the pic ture? Doing so will only help Thurmond and the Ku Klux Klan, i ' i L V few s. i - V f 7. I iTfiilYnhm" i ii i "il' j v t hi ii n. n .W.m it in a mi ,i Xaaial. In The Mailbox Concern For Minorities Editor, The Dairy; Tar Heel: I'd like, to clear up the widespread confusion T- that ocurred in America when i Lyndon' Johnson, then vice - president, re- ferred to South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem as the "Churchill of Southeast Asia." V..'" ... : The strongly anti - communist minority in South Viet Nam was grateful for Ameri can' military aid, and feared that with American withdrawal they would be treat ed as mercilessly by the National Lib eration Front as Diem, had treated veter-" . ans of Vietminh after-1954, although a spe cific r provision of the ; Geneva agreement forbade; persecution of those who had fought 'against! he ? FrenchT The international? Con trol Commission received many complaints from 1955; onwards that ex - Vietminh had been thrown into concentration camps, or ' executed without charge or trial. ; David Halberstam who won a Pulitzer 'Prize last year - for his war coverage for the New York Times, says" in "The Making of a Quagmire" that at one time Diem had 13 different secret police organizations. He also reported that Maxwell Taylor in 1960 recommended fbroadening the base of the government, taking non - Ngo anti -communist elements into the government; making the national assembly more than . a rubber stamp; easing some of the tight restrictions . on the local press." Here was a proposal, for a 'little of that democracy we're supposed to be defending but Diem would have none of hV "The long standing abuses"- (the accumulation of grievances, the establishment of concentration camps for political opponents of all kinds, the ex ploitation of the villages, the oppression of the intellectuals, the rejected appeal of the 18 . notables in 1960) plus , the: attempted military coup that year, finally led to the revolt. : : " ; Diem's downfall, and the rebellion's suc cess, were largely due to the fact that he tried to turn back the clock of the revolutionary land, . siezures. ; In the name of "land reform" many peasants found themselves being asked to pay rent or com pensation for land they had long consid ered their own. I don't think Churchill - would have liked to have his name used to ; describe, this kind of amah. As just one example out of many i . . the dictatorial Ngo Dinh Diem gov ernment, which ruled from 1954 - 1963, wanted to assimilate the highlanders (mon tagnards) instead of acknowledging then own distinct ethnic and cultural identity." "It undertook a heavy - handed unimagi native program of Vietnamization. It show ed scant regard for long - standing tribal title deeds in allocating choice uplands to Vietnamese settlers from the crowded low lands. "The Vietnamese acknowledge that Y Bham (montagnards' leader, who spent se ven years in prison during the Diem re gime, is not. a communist, and that he has legitimate grievances "But montagnard leaders say that com munity spirit among the tribes has grown out of shared grievances against the Viet namese This has been particularly against A Revolting Feature Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: ' A revolting feature in the 1965 Yack the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house history (P- HI), wherein SAE repeats, in a sup posedly cryptic but actually all too obvious fashion, the racist affront which shamed UNC in February. jim Scott 615 E. Rosemary St. the progressive seizure of tribal lands. "So far, Saigon has not matched the communist (by this the author refers to the National Liberation. Front which has a small percentage of communists) promise of an autonomous highlands. The demand for autonomy seems to be widespread among montagnards. It was one of the principal issues raised last September during a Rhade revolt. . "That revolt was only partially quelled. Its leader, Y Bham, has fled, and the Rhade openly say that no reconciliation with Saigon is possible until he returns." In any eventual settlement in Viet Nam, the future of minorities must "certainly be ;a matter of concern, both the montagnrads and the strong anti - communists, but to support militarily a minority in imposing on an unwilling people what we think is good for them will cause few Asians or Africans to admire the American type of democracy. Constance Ray 202 E. Rosemary St Eroding Our Freedom Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I had hoped that the speaker ban law, ill as it fits a university and free society, would be administered by men eager to guard, within the law, the traditional aca demic right to know. After all, they repre sent this tradition. Vigilance in behalf of academic princi ples failed this week when Carl Braden didn't speak on the Chapel Hill campus. The law bars a known' communist. No body knows him to be a communist. The law bars someone who once exercised his constitutional right to take the Fifth Amend ment. Clearly he never did that. Temerity like that to which we were treated this week will quickly help to erode more of our precious freedoms. Let's be bolder in defending the rights we still have. John J. Honigmann Chapel HUl A Eea: In :TIie Wrong Birec By WILLIAM G. OTIS DTH Columnist ion The speaker ban proved no impediment to that hardy crowd who availed them selves of Carl Braden's remarks Monday night at the Episcopal Chapel of the Cross. They heard Braden. explain, not wholly in jest, that the United States Congress views as a communist anyone to the left of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce or the National Association of Manufacturers. Some in the audience were probably sur prised to learn that the House Commit tee on Un-American Activities is in reali. ty an organ of the Ku Klux Klan. Others might have taken exception to Braden's expressed dissatisfaction with the President, every single member o the Cabinet, and all but a handful of Unit ed States Congressmen. Nevertheless, Bra den seemed to win general acceptance from his audience, except for a few noisy right - wingers who persisted in asking foolish questions about the preservation of the republic. Anyway, those who heard Braden were priviliged to witness a very deft and able speaker. He seemed quite practised in evasion of hostile questions, and easily made fools of his over - zealous critics. However, Braden exhibited one grave weak ness which , rendered his remarks little more than dubious to the dispassionatf mind: he refused to deny that he has been a member of the Communist Party. Doubtless the objection will be raised , that Braden's membership or non - mem bership in the Communist Party is irre levant. If his goals are just, and his programs sound, what matters his political affiliation? Simply this: affiliation with the Communist Prrty is a prize won only by those whose commitment of party goals is complete and consuming; and who adhere to other movements only insofar as they can be used to expedite the goals of the party. J. Edgar Hoover put it well in con gressional testimony: "The Communist Party has always depicted itself to Ne groes as the champion of social protest and the leader in the struggle for racial equality. But the truth of the matter is that the Communist Party is not motiva ted by any honest desire to better the status or condition of the Negro in this country, but strives only to exploit what are often legitimate Negro complaints and grievances for the advancement of com munist objectives. "The Communist Party is attempting to use the Negro movement to promote its own interest rather than the welfare of those to whom it directs its agitation and propaganda. It may collect funds ostensi bly in behalf of Negro activiteisV hold dis cussions on civil rights, and increase its coverage of "Negro affairs, but behind all of this effort is its clear cut primary in terest in promoting communism." Thus the question of Braden's possible membership in the Communist Party is very highly relevant, for his credibility as a sincere adherent to the civil rights move ment hangs in the balance. We can prove neither the assertion that Braden has been a Communist Party member, nor the assertion that he has ne ver been. We can point out that Braden has declined repeatedly to confirm or deny affiliation. We can point out that he has twice been identified as a communist by an FBI agent. We can point out that Rep. Williams Dickinson has named Braden as a Communist. We can point out that Braden's inor dinate reluctance to answer questions re garding communist activity in the civil rights movement put to him by the House Committee on Un-American Activities re sulted in his conviction for contempt of Congress, and that thes conviction was up held by the U. S. Supreme Court. In sponsoring Braden, the NAACP has done a disservice to both its legitimate ef forts to secure equal rights for the Negro and to its reputation as a responsible civil rights organization. His appearance can only foster distrust and animosity among moderate whites. - The NAACP should make every effort to see that worthwhile efforts are not erod ed by suspicion. The appearance of Carl Braden was a leap in the wrong direction. Rimnin.g The University The Chapel Hill Weekly One of the questions raised in the wake of the Goodykoontz case at the University is to what extent, if any, students will have a voice in the hiring, firing and pro motion of faculty members. At bottom, this question asks to what extent students will run the University. Dr. Max Rafferty, California State Su perintendent of Public Instruction, in an interview in U. SL.News & World Report answered the question, firmly and succinct ly we think, as it applies to the University of California. Rafferty said: "A people's university has to be run by the people. There is a process set up in the California constitution which provides for democratic control by the people through their own elected and appointed regents. Now, you can't have two sets of peo ple making rules for the same institution. Which represents a broader spectrum of the body politic the relatively few stu dents at a university, or the millions of Calif ornians who support &nd uphold that university through their regents? "Obviously, the more democratic ap proach is to have the regents make the rules. They represent the people. The stu dents represent nobody but themselves. "I think the students should be consult ed. I think student - body government should be important and meaningful. But I also think that the people of California have to set the rules and the policies for the University of California and the stu dents are not the people." As we understand his position, Chancel lor Paul Sharp feels pretty much the same way about who should run the University at Chapel Hill. He also would consult stu dents, and would encourage in every way possible responsible student - body govern ment. But he has drawn a clear line be tween giving a hearing to student views and actual administration of the University. This is an eminently sound position, and perhaps the only one which could avoid chaos. The University at Chapel Hill has a long tradition of student freedom and an equally long tradition of student protest. It is a tradition worth preserving, and great care should be taken not to curb freedom or to stifle orderly protest. But tradition should not be used, by students or anyone else, as license to press unreasonable demands. Those who try to bend this tradition to such ends may create a brief flurry such as we have seen in recent days, or per haps provoke a certain disarray. In the end, they do only disservice to everyone concerned. I, t
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