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Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Tuesday, January 31, 1966 Finals Merely The Beginning Finals always seem to end things. But in this case they are just a prelude to a packed semester. At home UNC will meet its greatest parking difficulty to date. Construction on the new wing to the hospital will obliterate much of the parking space which pres ently is marked by hopeless con gestion. The Hinton James dorm overlooks a dreadful scarcity of parking space, and planning for the student union regretfully cir cumvented parking. The report from the traffic sur vey company presently at work on campus should be ready in the ear ly spring and is expected to pro vide a basis for planning that will alleviate these problems. Peace vigils are still scheduled every Wednesday and have con tagiously spread to Durham. Next scheduled stop, Raleigh. Student Government is destined to a bigger part of the campus scene this semester with elections looming ahead in two months. It's Personally Speaking only a short time until dormitory room doors are wedged shut over stacks of political literature and residence college activities are suspended because there is no space on the bulletin boards to ad vertise them. Already Student Government is commanding great attention through the Co-op book sales at the Naval Armory. Lines have stretch ed well outside the building as stu dents compete for lower prices from this very tangible Student Government function. The pass-fail system will mark increased efforts toward educa tional reform. The proposal is ex pected to reach the Chancellor's examination committee soon. Two events, however, are prob ably the most exciting to look for ward to this semester. UNC's second-ranked basketball team seems to have an excellent chance at reaching beyond the ACC when NCAA competition begins. And finally, if all else goes awry, there is Jubilee. Mr. Christian, Order The Men To Stand By To Witness Punishment. Mr. Thomas Will Receive 50 Lashes. Up coming Election R epr esents Key To Vital Student Welfare (Editor's Note: Fred Thomas joined the Armed Services during semester break with the intention of completing his education later. He asked that the following be printed.) To those who have been so con cerned as to whether or not I plan to run jar president of the student body, to those who feel that my failure to repudiate to poster-pro-' pagated rumor has cast doubt on my integrity, to those who thought Iwas such a threat that they dedi cated prime portions of their pa per (or should I say Your Paper), to incisive remarks aimed in my direction and to theLgeneral run of J e mill students wH6 coutdh'r&afe less either way, I offer this word: No, I will not run for student body president. In fact, nothing has been further from my serious consideration this- year. Oh yes, I ive an interest in Student Govern 2nt. I think it has a real and im rtant place in the University. ....id I would very much like to see programs such as have been start ed this year carried on in the fu ture. But I have never been so naive as to think it my job to run the show. Those students ujho really un derstand Student Government, those who realize the areas in which it can and must be effective, those who know it can be more than a glorified student council, more than a way to get your pic'-, ture in the Yack, more than a bat tle arena for so much petty stu dent politics these students real ized when the first "I've Got A Se cret Poster" went up that my goal is not to fill the president's chair. The whole idea would be quite amusing. Would be, that is, if the matter at hand weren't so serious, if electing a student body president were just a game; if the offices on second floor Graham Memorial did not hold the key to success or fail ure in so many vital areas of stu dent welfare. But the matter is serious. It is no game. And your best interests are paid service or disservice by ' the person you elect. The day you vote for a student body president this spring will be one of the most important days of your academic year. I wish I could be here right up to that day to comment on cam paign proceedings and cast my bal lot. Unfortunately, I will not. For a number of reasons which have no bearing on or place in this col umn, I have decided to dis enroll from the University as of the end of the past semester. I appreciate the confidence you expressed in me last spring by electing me your editor. It's been fun for me and, I hope, bearable for you. It has been a learning ex perience, in more ways than one. I, wish I could tell every student and have him believe me the things I have found out about the University, about people in gener al, and, of course, about student politicians. I was amused by Tom Manley's letter in Your Paper entitled "Now Students Can Read Two Partisan Papers," in which he systemati cally attempted to show that I have been an SP editor. It's not hard to understand why he would say that. Last spring in my cam paign I emphasized my determi nation to wholeheartedly cooperate with whichever candidate was elected student body president for the good of the students through Student Government. This year I have done just that. And if giving support to judicial reform, educational reform, a student-run book exchange, the fight against the Speaker Ban, etc. if that's being partisan, then I guess I'm guilty. I further guess I might be guil ty of rambling if I don't close this . column soon. It's rather paradoxi cal Having to fill the editorial col umn every day, I have often found myself beating my head against the wall trying to think of some thing to write about. Now, realiz ing that I no longer will have an editorial column to fill, I can think of enough things to write a book about them. But I won't.. Not yet, anyway. Fred Thomas 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Goodfellow, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Bill Amlong, Managing Editor John skew Ad. Mgr. John Greenbacker Assoc. Ed Don Campbell News Editor Kerry Sipe A Feature Ed. Sandy Treadwell .. Sports Editor ?m"ass- Asst. Sports Ed. Jock Lauterer Photo Editor Chuck Benner Night Editor STAFF WRITERS Lytt Stamps, Ernest Robl, Steve xvnowiton, Judy Sipe, Carol Won savage, Diane Warman, Karen rreeman, Hunter George Drummond Bell, Owen Davis' vucy eign, uennis Sanders. CARTOONISTS Bruce StrauchJeff MacNelly The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of rui Carolina and is published by - cAv-cjji xaonaays, ex amination periods and vacations vJFZL?? P the V wince m jnapei Hfll, N c Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes! i, o per year. Prin u i ru i , j me w T i UDllshmg Co., Inc., 501 I A4Huuw ot., cnapel Hill, N. C. I lly I l ' iM)M't:mmmi In The Mail A Plea For Action From California U OeSl Peter Schrag Wit Editor. The Daily Tar Heel: On behalf of the University of California, Santa Barbara, we ask your help in informing the American public about the present problems facing high er education in the state of California. We especially ask every stu dent sympathetic with our di lemma to communicate his feelings to the Governor of California at Sacramento. This will make him cognizant of the7 fact that citizens, not only of California but of the United States, perceive the possible grave ramifications of politi cal encroachment of the au tonomy of the University. Such autonomy is a necessity for an academic community. If you desire information on the situation here, please write me. Higher education in Cali fornia is in a threatened posi tion. Help spread the word. John Maybury Editor, EL GAUCHO Official A.S.U.C.S.B. newspaper Otelia's P9s & Q's Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Recently I had finished eat ing and was standing up, get ting my things together to leave Lenoir Hall, when a group of women, or girls, came to the table next to mine. They took a chair, and put their empty trays on my table. I said, "It is a good thing I am leaving, or you would get your heads whack ed." One of them said; "We looked before we acted!" People who have been around for any length of time and still pull chairs without asking, deposit trays on ano ther's table, sit on one foot, put the feet on the seats of other chairs, who say huh and un-huh, ought to have their heads whacked. This year I have seen more girls sitting on one foot in Lenoir, and even some boys, than I have ever seen before. Two very nice boys sat at my table the other day. The one from the midwest put his knife and fork on the table, 1 resting on his plate. I laid them on his plate and told ; him not to use them as gang planks. He said "My grand father always put his like that, so it must be all right. I told him I meant no reflection on his grandfather he had the privilege of age, but it was not all right for him. The other student from an adjoining state, had one arm on the table as be ate. I pushed it off the table and told him I didn't allow him to eat with his elbow on the table. It is a wonder any of them sit with me. I was in Raleigh at a fam ily luncheon several days ago. When I entered the living room, one nephew extended his hand, while keeping his seat. I pulled him to his feet and said, 'You stand up and speak to me!" His wife laugh ed and said "She is the man ners minder at the Univer sity." Also, at this luncheon they got to talking politics. Some of them were old Goldwaterites. I told them "We don't talk politics at the table. Talk about something pleasant when you dine, and not about any thing you disagree so violent ly about." This manners business there never is any end to it. However, I notice many stu dents pull their shoes off, or put a paper under their shoes before resting their feet on the table at Graham Memorial. A few resent it when I speak to them, but you shouldn't ex pect 100 percent. As one stu dent remarked "Some people you can't help." All in all, most of our students are sweet about opening doors, saying yes-ma'am, and in gen eral, O.K.! Peter Schrag, author of "Voices in the Classroom," is associate editor of the Satur day Review's Education Sec tion. The following piece orig inally appeared in the New York Times. Speaker Ban At St. Mary's Gags Nazi The question of whether or not to bring George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the Ameri can Nazi Party, to the St. Mary's University campus in San Antonio embodies a prob lem that plagues any college not heavily endowed, com ments the St. Mary's Rattler. The problem, harsh as it may sound, boils down to "what price academic freedom?" Some would dodge the issue by saying that the man is a nut and does not deserve to use our podium to spread his ideas, but this is irrelevant. It is not the questionable sanity of Rockwell that irks those who oppose his coming, but, rather, the unpopular cause he espouses. We disagree with Rockwell on nearly every top ic, but we feel it is the right, if not the duty, of students to become informed and object ively critical of his ideas. If the cultural activities committee does ask to bring Rockwell here, it will proba bly be turned down by univer sity officials for two reasons. . First, Rockwell's appearance would hurt the "image" of the school, probably losing dona tions from valuable benefac tors. Second, the growing closeness of the Jewish and Catholic communities, due to a great extent to the work of the university's Department of' Sacred Doctrine, would be severely impaired if the Uni versity sponsored a speech by a vehemently anti - Semitic Nazi. We sympathize with those who have to make the deci sions on this sort of, difficult question. Yet, if students do not actively argue for aca demic freedom, decisions like these will not be given enough consideration. It is too easy to automatically turn away con troversy for fear of reprisals from the outside when there is no fear of criticism from within. We strongly commend t. h e Student Council, therefore, for its decision to go on record in sopport of efforts to bring Rockwell to campus. We hope those who make the final deci sion consider the educational as well as the financial goals of the university. Among the many thriving sidelines in American academ ic life, none has been growing faster than amateur student watching. Teachers and deans, psycho logists and clergymen, jour nalists and physicians all are enthusiastically immersed in examing and assaying What Ungergraduates Are Really Like and . What's Bugging the Students, Never, has one sec tor of academic speculation mushroomed so dramatically. Ever since Mario Savio di rected the Berkeley demon strations from the roof of that police car thereby making it America's best-known vehicle of protest academic punditry hasn't been the same. N Only three years ago we wereall speculating on such trivia as the admissions panic, the shortage of academic space, and the Ph.D. gap. But Mr. Savio changed all t h a t, launching campus pulse-feelers on an orgy of diagnosis and dissection that may con tinue indefinitely. Not an issue of a major national magazine goes by without new evela tions from the men and wom en who peep through the key hole of the undergraduate spir it. Although student-watching is open to all comers, it is en dowed with certain hasic rules. The ranks of a bona-fide practitioners are open only to . those who take all student or ganizations and protests abso lutely seriously, and who treat each of them as a major man ifestation of something more important. Whether his re sponse to the students is one of shock and moral outrage, or whether it is characterized by beard-stroking, pipe-puffing detachment, no legitimate commentator can afford to re gard any student outburst as trivial; indeed it is incumbent upon him to pont out that what ever this is it is not mere pan ty raid. Anyone demeaning the significance of even the most peripheral student pro test is in danger of forfeiting his membership in the union. There are other require ments. A good student - watcher should have a cosmic view. If his analysis does not include some basic comments about the state of our society, the technoligical dilemmas of our time, the bomb, slums and the multi-university, he is hardly qualified to comment at all. If he can add to these dimen sions some references to the identity crisis, the lack of role models, alienation and anomie, then he can count himself among the more distinguished members of the guild. In general, moreover, he would be well served to re member the general rule: the more extreme the behavior, the more socially significant it becomes. Although the fundamental requirements for student -watching are observed by all practitioners, there are these definite divisions within the craft: The Analysts These are people who categorize student groups according to ideologi cal persuasion, social . back ground and tactical proclivi ties. They are careful to dis tinguish between Du Bois Club Marxists, Progressive Labor Maoists. Students for a Demo cratic Society Activists and' the older, relatively square groups interested in primarily in passe issues like civil rights and peace. The Moralists These are people fascinated by sex, LSD and beards. Many of them are locked in a symbiotic rela tionship with the people they most despise. If the moralists didn't react violently to a shaggy beard, there would hardly be any point in wear ine one. Similarly, the mora lists depend on beards for moralizing. The Private Eyes These are people already persuaded that behind every student pro test lurks a Red agent, and they are now rather relieved, after the post-McCarthy hiatus, to learn that the Communists are still in our midst and that they are right on the campus, where they were always sup posed to be. The Social Flagellators Most of these people are ro mantics trusting in moral man and immoral society. Any student activist is virtuous sim ply because he protests; the more idiotic the protest, the more it demonstrates how brutally the society has de formed and damaged the pro testor. The kookier the com plaint, in 'other words, the more legitimate it becomes. Clearly there are other cate gories; university presidents, for example, are all of a kind. To them protests always il lustrate the level of maturity on their own campuses. If the students riot, it demonstrates their political sophistication. If they are apathetic, it dem onstrates their decorum and judgment. To suggest that there are absurd forms of be havior and that academic in stitutions exist partly for the purpose of protecting absurd ity is unthinkable. Occasionally someone even suggests that student demon strations really don't reflect anything very important. Such errors will undoubtedly be rooted out. At the same time student protests will become more prevalent and flamboy ant. We can't allow them to disappear. Too many adults depend on them. Pin-Stripe Facade, aggy Tweed Mind By ARTHUR HOPPE The search for a new President for the University of Cal ifornia appeared a mere formality today with the " post al most certain to go to Dr. Homer T. Pettibone. While other distinguished Americans, such as J. Edgar Hoover, General Curtis LeMay and Senator Eastland have been mentioned. Dr. Pettibone, except for one small 'handi cap, is ideally suited for the position. Tall, broad-shouldered, saver-haired, Dr. Pettibone looks every inch a university president. His extensive wardrobe in cludes baggy tweed jackets for strolls about the campus, con servative pin-striped suits for meetings of the Board of Re gents, and friends say his elegance in dinner jackets will prove a tremendous asset at fund-raising banquets. But it is his forward-looking program that has won him overwhelming support. "A great university, he says, deserves an unbroken record of excellence. And our first requiements to achieve that record are a quarterback who can throw long and a heavier defensive line." dtv ml w tn- te? Str0ngIy that a well-rounded univer h nrn academic Puits. To this end, he Sf Prosed a new multi-million-dollar building program- fonn'0 3 fcM wall around fach campus topped with barbed wire, searchlights and guard towers. "Order and discipline are essential to a quiet scholastic atmosphere," he says. "And I believe a widely-expanded campus security force, aremed with cattle prods, will insure MN fVT?ue' D-r P?ttibone hIds that sex has its place on each of the university's nine campuses. "The female sex has ite place on four of the campuses and the male sex on tion" SayS' firmly "Coducation sex educa- To consume the time and energy now wasted on the latter, Dr. pettibone proposes a unique work-study program. After classes each day the students would be marched to a new Student Activity & Jute Mill Center, where they would learn good habits make potato sacks and help put the university on a paying basis. . nletWf8?5' Du P5ib0ne feeIs the Presen confusing plethora of degrees should be replaced by a single one in iSTSSrSK EfCAn l6.CtUre h0Ur' he belfevL, should pen S2n2f?e f f egrCe' 3 l0yalty oath' the Star-Spangled femaLin T m Tboa of H. L. Hunt. The wdTfdLUtf' ? thG traditions of academ freedom, l?:St0 What6Ver appF0Ved e student of theUt;tSnf aw ttibne hPes t0 PrJect new image of the student so that the public will easily recognize a Cal "rbf1115 head and Wueydeni orm Plains imfv L grCat hdp m r0undinS them "P ex a breakS' 0356 Sme hardSned trouWe-makers stage bv Dr e?Sfiw mQTity of ReSents have been won nerfn fn V Program and his wide ex perience in penology. And he would have already been named caWp.UnIVerSlty Pr6Sident Weren,t for his onVsmall asticallf-lfTpr nVtrlk S3ys 0ne enthusi' hLdL."6 11 have plenty of assistants who know
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