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Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Priday, February 3. ioa7 'And We Feel That The Dorms Will Provide A Much More Stimulating Place For Classes To Meet.' ow To Stop H Jim That Mag Mail Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. AH un signed editorials are written by the editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal views of their contributors. Scott Goodfellow, Editor Grand Damsel Of Exchanges An informal basis for the ex change of ideas with other college students of different backgrounds has always been sought by students everywhere. Such "exchanges" have been promoted particularly in recent years as students decided that textbook familiarity is insuf ficient. The grand damsel of UNC's ex change programs ended another season Tuesday on a note of exu berance. It seems that every year's Tor onto Exchange is always felt to be better than the previous one. And perhaps this is the mark of suc cess, for certainly this year's ex change outclasses them all. Well we remember last Novem ber during Dook Weekend when the Canadian troop came to Caro lina. Occasionally one of the Toron to students would escape from the GM group gatherings and make it into our office for awhile. The ensuing discussions were always fascinating. Conversations resulting from the return trip by UNC students last week are equally intriguing. Exchangees acclaimed the meth ods of informal exchange such as bull sessions and parties. The more informal, the more effectively ideas were exchanged. Even sem inars proved somewhat restrained. "It is almost a privilege to talk with someone who has a van tage point from where he can real ly see what's right and wrong with you and your system of living," said a returning student. But the really different aspect of this year's Toronto Exchange was their method of selection of participants. Every applicant was asked to spend some of his time learning about Canada before be ing interviewed. And selections were made upon a basis of group cohesion. In many recent years the pro gram has given the impression of including many student leaders in a high - leyel exchange. Perhaps this is partly due to the natural desire of many student government people to do all possible to help the university. But this year seemed different. The group liad been selected for each other and they went na turally together. The new arrange ment indisputably benefitted the program. Yes, the grand damsel of ex changes ended another season Tuesday. And she looked lovely in a new dress. . ril W' i& fc &&i 'ffl s" fpw. - less fen Score One More For Refon The educational reform move ment has achieved a crowning coup. It's gotten girls into boy's resi dence halls. Classes began in residence halls for the first time Wednesday. And Dr. hrjSenQnchea proponent of informal discussion, led the way by bringing two girls into his class. ... on the eighth floor of Morrison. Between the pass - fail system, the experimental college, and the re 'dence hall classes, it's hard to kr p the reform movement satdght, but the last item certain ly has benefits distinct from the others. , The system is similar to a plan in operation at Amherst, and rep resents an attempt to humanize the Noisy Vigil Is Most Newsworthy We find to our surprise that Chapel Hill's peace vigil was car ried by a national wire service yes terday. And not because it was peace ful. It seemed that the thing to do was. paint yourself a placard, grab your patriotic records, and hurry on over to the post office for the Wednesday noon doings. Sure enough, the peace vigil line was its usual 200 strong and stret ched well up Franklin Street from the post office. But they were si lent. And the opposition was noisy. Across the street a BVP dorm record player blared Barry Sadler and John Philip Sousa. And pla cards presented humorous slogans. Certainly few types of demon strations are more restrained than a silent vigil. Its strength lies in the dedication of its participants and the number they can amass. But while the spirit of the par ticipants may not be broken by ridiculing music and noisy opposi tion, the impressions of the on looker are surely weakened. And, after all, what is a demonstration for? It is a comment on the status of demonstrations in Chapel Hill that the pro-war group chose to be rate the anti-war group rather than attempt a demonstration of their own. Perhaps demonstrations are simply frowned upon. Or perhaps they didn't feel a need to demonstrate. learning process. Amherst students and officials had only praise for their own program, saying that stu dents found the informal atmos phere of the residence hall more conducive to a real interest in the subject matter. , The :p.rro..g;rfa m: here; offered through residence college promo tion, presently includes three courses which will expand in number if success is reached. Change seems to be the process earmarked by educational reform for both revitaliizng and easing the learning process. In this case, a longstanding university regulation has been discarded in favor of the movement. It is good to see that adminis tration support of the reform move ment is not restricted to approval of merely functionary additions to curricula, but rather extends to dis carding rules which are barriers in name only. The residence hall classes are welcome. But then, who knows, maybe now Morrison can peti tion for University status. Proposal Is Made To End Junky Texts (Editor's note: This propos al came in an editorial in the Daily Iowan. It is a bind we all find ourselves caught in.) College textbooks are get ting more expensive and their quality is getting worse. , -It once was that texts were written by people who were seriously concerned with im proving the way that their field was being taught. Now the emphasis has shifted away from seeking real academic achievement; professors, it seems, are concerned by and large only with what will prove to be the best source of income. It has always been the prac tice in academia for experts in their field to write texts. But it is becoming apparent that this practice is becoming too much of a business for professors, and this is leading to a lot of mediocrity in both the texts and the teaching. ' f Publishing is, indeed, good business for professors. Much of the risk in publishing that other writers face won't af fect the professor, who is as sured of enough sales 'at a high price if he insists that his classes use the book, and can persuade friends at other universities to do the same. The quality of the book will have nothing to do with how R Sije iattg (Far 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 TreadweU .. Sports Editor Bm Hass. Asst. Sports Ed. Jock Lauterer ...... Photo Editor Chuck Benner 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. Pncnr CSS P?Stage Paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N C Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 VV. Franklin St., Chapel HOI, N. C. Berkeley Beats onald's Rap (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article, reprinted from the Christian Science Monitor, is taken from a talk by Garff Wil son, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.) The student on the Berkeley campus has been defamed and caricatured. The representative student is not a beatnik or' a weirdie or a rebel. He is a clean-cut, serious, intelligent, idealistic student, deeply involved in his studies, proud of his university, and keenly aware of his responsibilities as a citi zen. News media seldom give the representative student any notice. Newspapers, TV and radio record what is bizaare and sensational. For example: You are aware that in December, 1964, 773 people were arrested in the Sproul hall sit-in. Do you know that in that same semester, 3, 540 . undergraduates made the honor roll with a B average or better? A year later the percentage was raised one point to 22 per cent. You read that hundreds of dollars were raised in Decem ber, 1964, to bail out sit-in students. Do you know that in the same semester $9,602 were raised by students for Cal Camp for underprivileged children, staffed by 50 volunteer students? You read that, last year four students were suspended for participation in also-called "dirty word" demonstration. Do you know that in the same year, 262 students spent 20,000 hours in Resource Volunteer Program tutoring students in Berkeley public schools? You read that this year three or four students were disci plined for defying campus rules. Do you know ' that 10 times that number cleaned off 200 cubic feet of refuse from a Berke ley hillside, removed 200 old tires from Albany mud flat and Cleaned up the east side of Aquatic Park? This was volunteer work. You read that this year mobs, including some students, have marched in parades protesting the Vietnam war. Do you know that there are now serving (or have recently served) overseas in the Peace Corps 560 Cal students, far, more than from any other campus 'in the nation and do you know that this spring more than 1,000 additional Cal students applied to serve? You read that the Vietnam Day Committee held a "rowdy" dance in the campus gym. Do you know that last year 205 stu dents joined Volunteers in Service to America and many more are in the process of joining? You read that last March about 800 students walked out of the Greek Theater to protest the appearance of Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, but are you aware that 12,000, remained to give him more standing ovations than any Charter Day speaker has had? . You have read that frats hold beer busts, break windows and swipe street signs. Do you know that for more than 30 years the frats at Cal have financed a, Big Brother program in Berkeley to help rehabilitate delinquent boys? Do you know that last term, the all-frat scholastic average was 2.61 com pared to an all-living group average of 2.55? well it sells. The result is that professors are chucking togeth er all sorts of junk and call ing it The Required Text. This in turn results in too many mediocre texts on ' the same subject, instead of a few good texts. This "also " means' higher costs, since it is far more expensive to print small quantities of many different texts. It is the students who ' pay the price of all this need less duplication, and it is the students who suffer from the resulting lower quality. If the rewards of being in the publishing business are necessary to keep professors from seeking more remun erative fields, then we would sooner bear the expense in in creased tuition so that we could at least get to use some decent texts. Too often it is the people who write texts who decide whether or not a given class or department should use it, and it shouldn't be that way. We would like to see the ad ministration take the initiative to establish some sort of sys tem whereby texts would be judged on their actual merits by a disinterested committee or board, rather than on who the author is. Perhaps a national commit tee could be established, with unbiased experts in every field making recommendations to all college departments on which texts are best. The pub lished results of an unbiased study would undoubtedly raise the quality of work being done, and the resulting smaller num ber of texts on the market would lower costs consider able. A disinterested and fair judgment would insure that the best texts will be used, and would discourage profes sors from wasting their time and ours on the junk they are . now pumping out and making us buy. David Pollen Dull Yanks? The Charlotte Observer We've always felt that po litical contests are a lot more interesting in the South than on the other side of the Mason-Dixon line. And now we have a concrete example of one of the reasons. It's all there in the Code of Criminal Procedures for New York, Section 809, Subdivision 3, Section 901, to be exact, and the penalty for violation is a fine of not more than $250 and-or six months in jail. They've made it illegal to '"pretend to forecast the fu ture." No wonder their politics is dull. Why, we wouldn't give two hoots for an election if one candidate didn't darkly predict the utter destruction of all that we hold dear if we should .be so addlepated as to elect his opponent. Editor's note: This article first appeared in the Virginia Cavalier Daily). By DAN K. SHIPP During his tender undergra duate years, the University stu dent receives not only an ed ucation in such matters as the history of the French revolu tion, how to integrate a func tion, the social structure of the peasants of North Kali mantan and how to write a successful English theme the night before it is due, but he is also prepared in great mea sure to face the world into which he will merge in a few years. Aside from the obvious social awakening of his col lege years, the student is giv en a chance to solve many o the practical problems with which he will be confronted all his life. For an example we cite the - problem of junk mail. We have long suspected that the University finances itself in part by selling computer-made lists of students and address es to publishing concerns across the country. Even be fore matriculation, the stud ent finds himself deluged with mail offering fantastic deals on every magazine in Christen dom, and this mail continues throughout his college career. "So you're going to college," read the earliest mailings. "Read our magazine, Newsy, and you will be the best informed student in any group." Social success is in sured, one is led to believe, to the student who reads New sy. He will be the center of attraction in any gathering, sought out for his awareness of what is going on in the analysis of mankind's trau mas, all gleaned from the pag es of good old Newsy. The mailings generally offer a deal whereby the student ("because you are a student, and we LIKE you") can get a certain number of issues of a magazine for a fantastical ly low rate. The form is often a "personal" letter from "your friend" Melvin Jones, director of the School, College and Uni versity Direct Mailing and Fan tastic Deal Division of New sy Magazine Industries. That we suspect ' Melvin of being - some sort of machine is irre levant, but we do wonder why, after an initial order is fill ed, the student never hears from him again. After all, we thought he was interested in us students, and he wrote such a nice letter. Another favorite type of comeon is the "something for nothing" approach, sure to win the heart of the penniless undergraduate. The magazine offering seventeen trips to Europe for some lucky sub scribers, as well as a good YM-YWCA Needs Tutors Too often the steady, con structive, behind - the - scene jobs in which students are en gaged, are forgotten in light of the more spectacular hap penings on campus. This sad fact is brought out most candidly in today's arti cle by a California professor on the true nature of the Ber keley student body. At UNC, many student pro jects linger in obscurity, us ually due to the lack of publi city given them. Perhaps, it would be just as well if they were allowed to wander their own way; how ever, it has come to the at tention of this reporter that the students who lend a helping hand to so many needy peo ple in the Chapel Hill area are themselves in need of help. They need volunteers. - The YM-YWCA, the campus organization which is respon sible for most of the tutoring projects in Chapel Hill, has re ceived new demands from four elementary schools and both Chapel Hill High and Phillips Junior High. Tutoring at these schools in volves working closely with two students for the spring se mester. Especially needed are math whizzes and quick read ers. . Like so many of the pro grams to which Americans de dicate themselves each year the "Y's" tutoring projects provide one of the greatest op portunities for gaining valuable experience in understanding people. This writer knows many peo- "v udvc iouna a real meaning in helping people younger or less fortunate than themselves. Tutoring is one of the most constructive ways to become involved in the finer aspects of Carolina life. It is well worth your while to drop by the "Y" and investigate the possibility of helping a young kid through the tutoring programs. deal on 37 issues of Newsy Just put the token with your lucky number ("no one else has this number") in the YES slot on your lucky order card. And of course, the pur. veyors of public information are not really just trying to sell the magazine. Of course not. If you don't want a sub scription, just slip the token into the NO slot (to be found in a very inconspicuous corn er of the order card, not quite large enough for the token to fit) and Newsy will still let you know if you have won the prize. Sure. How many people do you know that have won something without taking out a nine-year subscription to good ol' Newsy? So what can the student do about all this junk mail? One way to stop it is to order the magazine; but ordering every periodical that offers a sub scription would run into the hundreds of dollars, and we don't recommend it. There are several approaches that one can take which, although they may not stop the flow of mail, will at least upset the entreprenurial system . a bit. And so what if one person out of a total mailing of seventy-three million may not have a terribly great effect' The personal satisfaction of revolting against Newsy is re ward enough Most offers include an en velope, addressed, stamped and ready to return, right? Now the magazine has to pay postage on any of these that are returned, so one should simply take all the literature furnished by the publisher, place it in the envelope and mail it back, having made sure NOT to fill out any of the forms. Or perhaps one could fill in the card, ordering 87 issues, but remove all refer ence to his name and address. Not only will this provide the company with a dose of its own medicine, but it will have to pay for the mailing of all of it. As the junk mail gets heav ier and the trash can begins to overflow, an even more ex treme tactic is recommended. Take the forms provided by World, a competitor of New sy, and send them to Newsy in Newsy's postpaid envelope, and vice versa. And as a final touch, if the mail continues, one might very well indicate to some maga zine that Mr. Melvin Jones, c-o the Newsy Building, New York, would be interested in a subscription. See what he thinks about Junk mail after that. Cockle Shells Durham Herald The Air Force consultant who finds a note of authenti city in Michigan photos of un identified flying objects no doubt cheers UFO fans. After all, who really knows what is flying around? A few years ago, several people told how a flying saucer landed in Bladen County one night and how they went aboard for cocktails. And they had hang overs next morning to prove Reagan In The Midst Of Psych Blarikness, Worse than an arid desert, no sand, and less than land. Little children playing in playgrounds; Thud, my head falls off and they play with it, Kick, toss it's okay, it's hollow Scenes of a swallow . . . California brain and California glow, feel the salty wind blow. There's a new Spring, outside where Indians, Hillbillies, and Turplids play the game of Sunshine. Christmas : so : pretty, . if s a pity, to be missed. Peter Harris rr