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Thursday, February 2; 1967 Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. All un signed editorials are written by the editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal views of their contributors. ' Scott Goodfellow. Editor 'If I Have To Listen To Barry Sadler Music For Five Minutes More, I'll Scream!' P The Experimental College "1934: Can Man Survive? If not, why not? If so, how?' This is the title of one of the courses to he offered by the Ex perimental College when it opens for registration later this month. The idea behind' the College is simple: to encourage students and professors alike to meet together for non-credit seminar discussions with all mechanical and policy de cisions made by the group them selves. Seminar leaders are to ex periment with new subject matter, particularly contemporary topics. As an an innovation at UNC, the Experimental College is perhaps one of the most exciting products of the educational reform move ment. The courses offered are non credit and rely heavily on response from students. They will doubtless prove a dynamic indication of the direction which students them selves would like their education to take. There has often been a com plaint that present higher educa tion has the steadfast intention of inculcating the college student with the same material that the pre vious student in his position was given. Furthermore, many courses have been charged irrelevant to the modern world, that is, not use ful. The College is intent upon pro viding an alternative. It does. Instructors have suggested their seminars meet in the Carolina Inn, GM, the Rat. Classes have been limited to 15 persons. And the , subjects are fascinating:- - Lesser known contemporary poetry The musical round Negro American literature Chess N e w materials, techniques, and ideas in sculpture (plastic foams, fiberglass, self -curing clays). The courses number about 30, and will be described both in the DTH and a catalogue to be pub lished soon. The project itself was conceived by sophomore Jed Dietz, and is similar to programs at several other universities. The Experimental College repre sents a break from structured learning, a pathway to the discov ery of what the process of educa tion can mean. It is founded upon the response of its participants it will doubtless be a new experi ence. The foreseeable horror is the day when the College will issue Drop Add forms. But if such i day ever came, the usefulness and excite ment of this educational innovation will have j proven itself. Until North Vietnam Gives In That Vietnam letter. "Rather than ease our debts, the Secretary (Rusk) confirmed bur fears," Student Body President Bob Powell reported after he and 42 other student leaders met with Rusk Tuesday. "We have a greater concern now than before we wrote the letter," he said. And there was reason for con cern, for while Rusk impressed all with his cordiality and intelligence concerning Asian affairs, he could not convince anyone that he had a clear goal in mind for our present Vietnam policy. It must be realized that ' the group did not intend to say the war was wrong. They asked its pur pose. They asked what situation would halt it. They expressed the widespread dissatisfaction among college students. They noted that college students are not as anxious to participate in the Vietnam War as people have been in past wars. The Secretary listened. Are we willing to negotiate a settlement? "Yes." And then the big question. Is a political settlement possible? It was here that hopes were put down, for it was evident to those present that there were no condi tions which seemed acceptable to Rusk. It appeared that we would keep waging war until North Viet nam gave in. The Secretary's problems are ob viously immense. The cliched phrase "commitments" neverthe less embodies a wealth of prin ciples. Neighboring Southeast Asi an countries such as Laos, Thai land and Cambodia are surely threatened. If the II. S. negotiated with Ho Chi Minn and the NLF (Rusk equates them), would these parties really represent all the dif ficulties? And it was not Johnson's administration which first sent troops into South Vietnam. These are problems which only a Secretary of State can under stand fully. They are problems which, are not easily convincing to one hot burdened with the con cerns of running the policies of a country such as ours. Vietnam is a very alien place. Over 200 student leaders have signed that letter now, and many more are expected to join. The letter expresses student doubts about our goals; it does not con demn the war. A new letter may be forthcoming and hopefully will help to clarify the situation. Evangelist Billy Graham said early this week, "Vietnam is dif ficult, confused, complex and per plexing. I can make no moral judg ment on the question of whether we should have had troops there in the first place." Neither can we. hpSaUu ar Qt 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Goodfellow, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Bill Amlong, Managing Editor John Askew Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris Associate Ed. Don Campbell News Editor Kerry Sipe Feature Ed. Sandy Treadwell .. Sports Editor Bill Hass .......i Asst. Sports Ed. Jock Lauterer Photo Editor Chuck Benner r. Night Editor STAFF WRITERS Lytt Stamps, Ernest Robl, Steve Knowlton, Judy Sipe, Carol Won savage, Diane Warman, Karen Freeman, Hunter George, Drummond Bell, Owen Davis', Joey Leigh, Dennis Sanders. CARTOONISTS Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex amination periods and vacations. nJ!!!? ClSS Jtage paid at Post Office in Chapel Hill N C Subscription rates: $4.50 per seme ter; $8 per year. Printed by the W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. 1 V I G I L Uw I 31? V ,--5 Collegiate Press Service eadline: BU Bans ROTC H Collegiate Press Service BOSTON, Mass. Boston University's voluntary Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program is expected to lose academic credit and curricular standing in Febru ary in a formal faculty vote on the issue. . Following a bitter campus wide debate over the merits of the ROTC program, the fa culty indicated in an unoffi cial poll on Jan. 5, that it fa vored abolition of academic standing for student military training. The debate over ROTC was sparked by the Boston Uni versity NEWS, the student Georgetown Allows Booze In Dorms WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) A rule prohibiting drinking in dormitories has been unex pectedly reversed by George town University. Officials said the new policy, which allows all men to keep both beer and hard liquor in their rooms, was designed to help students develop personal responsibility. According to the Reverend Anthony J. Zeits, director of student personnel, authorities Who have studied the campus drinking issue have concluded that "the formation of young men is facilitated when they are given the freedom to choose whether to use or not to use alcoholic beverages." Georgetown officials also said the move was made to end the pretense of enforcing an un-enforcible rule a pri mary consideration, according to several students. Studies of other colleges which allow liquor on campus have shown that "most stu dents do not over-indulge when allowed to have alcoholic bev erages in their dormitories," Father Zeits emphasized. The step taken by George town is a surprising one, ac cording to Gerry McCullough, news editor of the student pd per. . No one circulated petitions or flyers in support of campus drinking. For the past four years, Mc Cullough added, student lead ers have been trying to lib eralize Georgetown's policies. Dormitory curfew regulations have also been relaxed this semester, he said. With the lifting of the ban on campus drinking, George town, a medium-sized Roman Catholic institution, has be come the second college in Washington to allow the privi lege. The other is George Washington University. As an interesting sideline, McCullough noted, "business is really booming at the cor ner liquor store." weekly, last September when it published a three-page at tack on the University's Ar my - Air Force cadet pro gram in its opening issue of the year. The NEWS called for an end to ROTC's "pri vileged" academic status on campus and urged that the ROTC program be made an extra. - curricular activity. - "ROTC makes no pretense of being open to free and crea tive discussion of the mili tary and its alternatives," the NEWS said. "Rather it is in doctrination. It is propaganda issued by a military hierarchy beyond the University's con trol " The paper charged that the campus military "simultane ously offers official credit, awards 'Professorships' (out side the jurisdiction of our own faculty), speaks on official platforms, receives free rent, occupies precious classroom space, and in general mani pulates a totalitarian discip line behind the mask of educa tional sanctuary and under the name of the University we all constitute." The editorial was accom panied by a faculty petition calling ROTC "inappropriate in purpose, substance or con trol to a university curriculum The editorial brought sharp reaction from groups inside and outside the University. President Harold C. Case is sued a statement that "to rule ROTC off-campus . . . would be as much a denial of the traditional rights and privi leges of students as to make it mandatory." The underlying argument, he said, is "the question of whe ther we really approve of armies at all." Iowans Husk Corny Ronnie (Editor's Note: This first ap peared as an editorial in the Iowa State Daily.) Politics, impulsive state ments, and poor reporting have resulted in mass confu sion and concern over what Ronald Reagan is doing to Cal ifornia education. But after piecing together Reagan's recent proposals and statements, there is an unmis takable conclusion that it will be bad for the University of California, especially for Berkeley. Reagan began his education proposals by announcing that the University of California's budget request would be slash ed in his budget, from a re quested $278 million to $190 million. This means a 10 per cent reduction from the amount granted last year. To help make up this loss, Reagan suggested charging $400 tuition per student when tuition has never been charged before. Reagan said there would be scholarship money for those who could not pay. He also said one of the bene fits of the tuition would be to keep radicals who just want to demonstrate off the campus. He did not define what a radi cal was. . . The sudden, tuition increase", which has to be approved by the .Board of Regents, would, affect thousands of students who are pinching pennies to pay living expenses, book costs and a $243 per year charge for registration. Those who had planned their expenses and worked to save money for college suddenly have been faced with the possibility of not having enough money (It costs an estimated $2,000 per year to attend Berkeley now.) Reagan has since retracted the ' $400 proposed tuition and says he now favors a lower figure. But the damage has been done. Reagan's disregard for stability and confidence among the academic community has now made the University of California a place many top students and faculty would not want to go. Reagan has control over the University of California offici ally only as a member of the Board of Regents, but there is evidence that his actual in fluence is much greater. University Pres. Clark Kerr, seeing funds being cut from the budget, called for a "freeze" on admission of spe cially qualified high school se niors. This was apparently misinterpreted by the press and Reagan's administration as a freeze on all prospective students. Kerr and Reagan did not get along before the budget cuts, most likely because Kerr and former Democratic governor Pat Brown were good friends. Reagan has also criticized Kerr for allowing radical stu dents to demonstrate on cam pus. Yet the Regents themselves are probably as responsible or more responsible than Kerr for the poor handling of, the Berkeley situation. The Board has been unable to reach a decision on Kerr for two years. They only considered it this time after Kerr asked them to decide once and for all whether to give him a vote of confidence or fire him. The indecision seems to indicate lack of leadership among the Regents, not the president. Thus, the University of Cali fornia is left without a presi dent, with a proposed tuition of an uncertain amount for students, with a recommended $88 million budget cut, and with constant pressure by Rea gan to curtail radical student activity. The present uncer tainty has reportedly caused ' many faculty members to con sider leaving. In one month, Reagan is well on his way toward under mining the greatness of the University of California. What may we expect in a year? eter tiarns America's Vanity H urts Fure Policy Ml IWIUHMIMIIJIIH ? k'7' ' "- V'' i ' ""3 Protest has been a traditional method of exDressing discontent in the United States. From our national beginning, disobedience has stymied forces which en croach upon the basic rights of citizens. The Boston Tea Party, John Brown's raids, the Populists and the sit-ins are all great symbols of right ful rebellion in America. - On the' other hand, America has not been devoid of ugly disobedience, rang ing from vigilante mobs or Ku Klux Klan lynching raids to criminal syndi cates or ghetto riots. The fact remains, however, that rebellion has been a real factor in America's struggle towards im proving its democracy. In recent years, the word protest has developed a negative connotation to many Americans. This, of course, has been the reaction to the constant pressure which social improvement groups have placed upon the American democratic system. This pressure has come mainly from civil rights groups, headed mostly by vibrant, intelligent young people. The dedication of America's young people to fight a never-ending battle against oppression and injustice has placed a tremendous strain upon the older, more conservative generations. It has brought out the incon sistency between many people's ideals and their actual beliefs. The reaction of the inconsistent has been to close their minds and very often pass-off social protest as being un-American, Communist-inspired and in the interests of those who favor the overthrow of the "American way of life." At any rate, protest has developed an uneasy if not ugly connotation. It is interesting to note, in the light of this, the jubilation with which most Americans greeted the news of rebellion in Red China. It would be easy to dismiss this elation as a furthering of honest American concern over the freedoms of the Chinese people. This, however, is an easy explanation which, in fact, is not the truth. The American reaction of jubilation is the sigh of relief over the seeming deterioration of the Chinese threat to our nation and its military forces. It is a national' self -centered reaction and involves really very littie: concern over the actual freedom of the Chinese people. - Their freedom is a hopeful by-product of this revolution, a result which would certainly ease the tensions; of the cold war. ; - The revelation is that the great ideals of freedom which are supposedly ; held .by, most Americans, are often merely fabricated excuses for the furthering of self-centered desires of our people. It is a defense mechanism employed when the beliefs of the majority or ruling elite are shown tobe inconsistent with their ideals. Calling something or someone un-American is a method of defense to protect the inconsistent, to protect the status-quo and their democratic image. The idea of the United States being the great protector of oppressed peoples of the world is ridicu lous. This can never be true until America becomes a little less concerned with its vanity and a little more involved in making the interests of the oppressed the supreme interests of our own. New College Cures Ills Of Education (Editor's Note: This article appeared in the Duke Chronicle.; UNC is presently experimenting with a new three-hour edu-; cation course which employes the pass-fail grading system.) By EDIE KELMAN , A not-so-surprisingly increasing number of bright people are finding themselves questioning the actual value and effectiveness of contemporary American col lege education. They are frequently confronted with the fact that their once-enthusiastic aspirations toward; the ideals of education have been beaten down to the level of realisic pragmatism which of necessity drives out many of the beauties of learning to become f in filled, wise, forward-projecting individuals. Instead they are forced to become predominantly sensitive to the pressures of career-oriented programs, of monetary concerns, and of prefabricated moral, social, and intel-: lectual systems to which they must compromise their J yet untested, and incomplete, but nonetheless compel-;: ling personal hypotheses. To the point then . . . For those whose present state of mind, especially concerning education, is in need of some inspiring ideal of relatively uninhibited; genuine personal development, don't give up all hope. New College in Sarasota, Florida, is a reality, the em bodiment of an educational system in its most beautiful': realization in the United States: no grading system per. se, no imposed course structure, study programs tail ored to the individual, emphasis on the self-realization and 'self-overcoming,' instructors living with students, an extremely impressive administration and facultyr and a good deal more . . . all of which combine to enable (one wonders if almost least of all) the achieve-:-ment of an A.B. degre in three years, though this time span too is flexible. The emphasis is on knowledge and understanding of concepts and conceptual relation-: ships, on the attainment of wisdom employable in all'; aspects of life rather than on collections of automatic; scope-limited facts. The hope of New College is the development of: potential leaders with wisdom and foresight in a world whose dire lack of such denizens becomes increasingly: frightening.
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