! In Our Opinion . . ,
eorganization Of Trustees
Too Many Cooks . . .
R
n Best Interest Of-UNC
.We were most pleased to learn
.-of the proposals that former Gov-
ernor Luther Hodges' nine-mem-ber
commission is considering for
; presentation to the General As
,'sembly in its report concerning
;the reorganization of the UNC
Board'of Trustees.
The shortcomings of the board
; have been recognized for some
;time, and, in fact, this is the sec
ond commission that has been set
J up in recent years to study the
v trustee selection process. The first
commission was formed at the re
quest of then - Governor Hodges
'-in 1957. This group, the Proctor
Commission, concluded in 1959
that "pressures exist to select
some individuals to serve on the
Board of Trustees who have no
demonstrable special qualifica
tions, interests, awareness of ed
ucational problems or time avail
able for such service."
The report further noted that
"some individuals whose experi
ence, competence and record of
service furnish a valid basis for
their retentionon the board are,
for reasons unrelated to the best
interest of the University, hot re
tained." ;-y .;'
We agree with educators who
have testified before the Hodges
commission saying the 100-mem-ber
board is too large to be effec
tive and with those who have sug
gested that legislative appoint
ment is not the best means of se
lecting members. We believe the
University Board of Trustees
should be a select group of indi
viduals who have a thorough
knowledge of and concern for the
University and the educational
process without regard to political
loyalty, or .indebtedness for their.
appointments. The construction of
such a non-political, University
oriented body would of necessity
incur the discontinuation of -the
governor's assigned role as chair
man of the board.
A prime example of the inher
ent problems in the present sys
tem is the nasty controversy over
the Speaker Ban, the ' roots . of
which lay in the legislators' own
suspicion of the quality and com
petence of the Board of Trustees.
Once touched off, this issue was
complicated by the position of the
governor the Chairman of the
University ' Board of Trustees
could not champion the Universi
ty's cause in its disagreement
with the state because of his own
connection with the body respon
sible for the law.
This summer another former
governor, Terry Sanford, said he
did not think the method of select
ing trustees needed changing. At
that time it was rumored that the
Hodges Study Commission shared
these feelings. The Hodges report
is scheduled for completion by the
end of November and will go to
the General Assembly when it
convenes in February. In light of
Hodges' public statements con
cerning the recommendations and
testimony his , commission has
heard and is considering, it ap
pears these rumors were false.
The Board of Trustees holds ,
the key which, in the long run,
determines whether the Universi
ty will move forward, stand still,
or drop backward. We hope the
Hodges Commission report will be
one that will inspire the legis
lators to take the necessary ac
tion to keep the University moving
.,- rapidly forward.
ioters Deserve The
B
;V In the wake of segregationist
Lester Maddox's surprising victo
ry over former Georgia Governor
llis Arnall in that State's Demo
cratic gubernatorial primary,
there is widespread speculation
over what spurred this upset.
Arnall had the editorial support
: of most of the state's daily news
: papers none supported Maddox .
t Arnall had the record of a brilli
ant administration as Democrat
ic governor in the 1940s; Maddox
Jhad the record of selling ax han-
Jles for the purpose of clubbing
Jegro demonstrators. Arnall had
campaign headquarters covering
an entire floor of an Atlanta mo
tel; Maddox, his own campaign
ihianager, had a two-room head
quarters. Arnall had a well-paid
publicity crew; Maddox wrote his
own speeches and press releases.
k How, then, did he do it? Arnall
supporters blame : Maddox's win
on Republican voters who came
tmt in his support because they
thought he would be easier for Re
publican candidate Howard H.
( Bo) Callaway , to beat in Novem
ber. No doubt the GOP votes did
help tip the scales. But we believe
;a more important factor to be, the
actual application of a phrase now
tbeing tossed about in : anticipa
tion of . elections across the nation
this fall and in 1968 white back
lash. Militant black power advocate
Stokley Carmichael and his fol
lowers staged their show in Atlan
ta at precisely the most inoppor
tune time. And Lester Maddox
;emerged as the white saviour to
thousands of Georgia voters.
Although we cannot completely
.embrace Carmichael's philosophy
;df black power and anti-white vi
olence any more than we can side
Jwith the cross-burning KKKs, we
can easily understand why many
Negroes have followed the SNCC
leader in letting out the pent up
emotions that too many years of
oppression at the hands of whites
has created. We even concede that
when the storm of violence finally
settles, much good may prove to
have come out of the Negroes vio
lent rebellion.
But the riots in Atlanta were
the epitome of poor planning and
a total lack of realization of politi
cal realities.
Perhaps many of the voters
who supported Maddox this week
will get off his wagon in Novem-
ber and help elect his republican
opponent This would be the best
that could come of an unfortunate
situation.
But if the crusading segrega
tionist becomes the next governor
of Georgia, the state, the South
and the nation will suffer and
to Stokley Carmichael should go a
large portion of the blame.
74 Years of Editorial Freedom
Fred Thomas, Editor -
. Tom Clark, Business Manager
Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed.
John Greenbacker .... Assoc. Ed.
Kerry Sipe Feature Editor
Bill Amlong .. News Editor
Ernest Robl Asst. News Editor
Sandy Treadwell Sports Editor
Bob Orr ...... Asst. Sports Editor
Jock Lauterer .... ... Photo Editor
Steve Bennett, Lytt Stamps,
Lynn Harvel, Judy Sipe, Don
Campbell, Peytie Fearrington
- - Staff Writers
Drummond Bell, Owen Davis,
Bill Hass, Joey Leigh
Sports Writers
Jeff MacNelly ..Sports Cartoonist
Bruce Strauch .... Ed. Cartoonist
John Askew Ad. Mgr.
The DaUy 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.
Pnsf;fd class P"age paid at the
Post Office in Chapel Hill N C
Suhscription rates: $4.50 pe'r seme
ter, $8 per year. Printed by the
Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501
W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C.
In Letters
.Knocks
-EDTE.
Article Errs
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I am writing in reference to
the page in the Daily Tar
Heel which was devoted to
the profession of nursing Sept.
25, 1966. Although it is clear
.. .that these articles mainly re
flated to factual concerns of the
'profession, 1 some ' of'1 which'
jwere erroneous.. . I would like
" to focus on an underlying spir
it of nursing which was total
ly neglected in the material
presented.
There is a nebulous quality
characteristic of a profession,
and this is the most import
ant thing for the general pub
lic to initially understand
not the pay, or the hours or
the duties.
To quote Professor of Nurs
ing Marion Wood from that
page, the nurse "should in
terpret to her colleagues what
she does." As a registered
nurse working toward my B.S.
degree here at the Universi
ty, I would like to interpret
to my academic colleagues
the 'Reeling" which is nurs-
ing. '
This is the quality which en
genders pride and dedication
a "calling' to help human
ity on the part of nurses
and is all too often overlook
ed or misunderstood by a
journalistic approach.
Perhaps the reason the
nurse abandons the profes
sion for which she was pre
pared for some other endeav
or is because her role , is mis
understood bythe very people
' to;' whom she -dedicates- -her;
services. Nurses take pride in
an education which helps
them to develop "as persons
in their own right and in a
set of particular legal func
tions which they fulfill out
side any other authority; they,
in turn, use themselves as
tools to rehabilitate the sick.
The "feeling" which is '
nursing is far beyond the
scope of technical competen
cy or professional prepared
ness or any of the other con
flicts which center within the
profession itself.
The "feeling" does not fit
into the "servant" category
in which one is praised for
doing a job no one else wants
to do. The "feeling" of nurs
ing is being interested in sci
ence, in the miracle of the
human body and personality,
and learning to use the physi
cal care which illness re
quires to relate to another per
son in a dynamic and mean
ingful way.
By singling out particular
duties and not seeing them
as part of a meaningful whole,
the articles inadequately por
trayed the spirit of the nurs
ing profession which seeks to
regard the indivieual as a to
jtal being, not as a ."case,,"
"Because I felt the articles
concentrated on tPltfjetficial
aspects, I have trfedM des
cribe my feelings about the
meaningful past of nursing.
But since there wilj be as
many variations of this des
cription as there are nurses,
perhaps it would have been t
impossible for the writers to
have captured this ineffable
feeling which is nursing. The
important consideration is
that it is present, no matter
what its form of expression.
Linda Ward, R.N.
Soldier's Plea
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Advice to the male student
body. Join ROTC. Basic Com
bat Training is something to
miss.
Pvt. Hugh E. Partin, Jr.
Fort Dix, N. J.
Class of '66
$2
Mitt Fades Omi
From the Cavalier Daily
It is with a tinge of regret
that w note the passing of
the $2 bill, a much maligned,
rarely ued odditv of Ameri
can currency. Deemed bv the
Treasury to too little in
demand to b worth printing,
the bill will d'e a natural
death, with existing stocks pla
ced in circulation until they
run out.
The Treasury Department
estimates that its supplies will
last until rbout next June 30,
and ps the average life soar!
of the bill is something like
six years its diappearance will
be very eradual. with th- last
ones fading out of circulation
mavbe sometime in 1973 As
evidence of how little used
the two is, the Department
notes that $1 and $5 bills
wear out in 18 to 20 months.
The 2 bill has alwavs had a
special significance for the
University of Virginia, it bears
the portrait of our Founder
but it may be iust as well
from that standpoint that it is
b-mg phased out. Tt has nev
er done Mr. Jefferson any nar
ticular honor to have him
adorn a note; which is most
nopularly regarded t parimu
tuel windows and has often
Sf? l?kf upon' t0 th0'e in
nlclmed that way, as symbol
comparable to black cats and
the number "13".
In fact we cannot remem
ber ever seeing one of the bills
that did not have a corner
torn off or some number
scrawled on it. both scars
which come from mixing in
th? rough company common
to the tracks.
We do remember, however,
that whenever we got our
hands on a two, we would fold
it nesfly and bury it in the re
cesses of our wallet, as
FomPthing to be kept and
cherished, like a rare coin or
a Captain Midnteht Space
Rang r Decoder Key. (To be
kept, thrt is. until wefinallv
became flat broke and had
to spend the bill, and that's
when we learned how really
to confuse a chashier.)
At any rate, our childhood
awe must give way to a gov
ernmental decree. The o I d
sinner, first authorized by the
Continental Congress in 1776
under a measure providing
for $2 million in "bills of cre
dit for the defense of Ameri
ca," leaves its colorful heri
tage behind and goes to ioin
the dodo, the carrier pigeon,
and the five - cent cup of
coffee in the annals of extinc
tion. Be duly reverent and respectful.
The Deadly Dodge
Risks Local Lives
By MIRIAM HENKEL
The cat-and-mouse game be
tween Chapel Hill motorists
and pedestrians seems to be
i as established an institution
as the Old Well or the Arb.
; Not unique to Chapel Hill
nor yet universal, the game
pits leering motorist against
taunting pedestrian in fervent
combat. . ,
; The pedestrian sees each
" motorist as a fiend who care
fully aims his vehicle and
i gives it the gas as soon as
his prey steps from the curb.
The motorist in turn sees in
every pedestrian another ob
stacle deliberately and glee
fully obstructine his course.
Inded one side holds the
same degree of peril that the
other holds. Pedestrians aro
forced to play this game of
chanc1, closing thir eyes as
they dart across streets, trust
ing that fear of the law, if
nothing else, will keep motor
ists from running them down.
Motorists must become hard
ened and dauntless, never let
ting the pedestrian have any
ooDOrtunity for escrp-.
And the game reaches a fe
vpr pitch when th" irresisti
ble force at last neets the
immovable obiect. Two fqual
forces, equally determined,
, fac-toface in grupJ'ng com
petition something's got to
give.
Cat - and - moir is a fun
game as long as th mouse
wins. Rut let the ct win,
oven oncer and somehow all
the furi is gone.
Kerry Sipe
Movie Shows Scorn
For American Flag
Hardly anybody stands at attention anymore
when the National Anthem is played. We like to be
lieve this isn't a sign of decaying patriotism, The
American people have a characteristic of yawning at
conventionality; but they always come through with
the right spirit when the time for action arrives.
For this reason the outspoken flag-wavers such
as the Daughters of the American Revolution and
Moral Rearmament, Inc. have had only limited suc
cess. Yet America has never been without the sup
port of her people in time of crisis. The habits and
manners of patriotism really don't matter very much
anyway.
But, occasionally, something happens that just
doesn't set right with those of us who were brought
up singing "America" in grade school, saluting the
flag in Boy Scout meetingsjand pledging allegiance
at baseball games. v-
Several weeks ago one such event happened while
viewing a motion picture that had been playing at a
Durham theater for several days. "The Russians are
Coming," a United Artists release, wasn't a bad
show in itself. It was a humorous and lightly enter
taining comedy about a Russian submarine that was
accidentally grounded on a U. S. island off the coast
of New England:
The credits at the beginning ' of the picture were
displayed against a colorful animated background fea
turing the designs of the American and the Soviet
flags. Portions of first one flag and then the other
bounced around the screen to the music of a Russian
opera chorus. First the Blue Union, then a group of
stars, and then a portion of Qlct Glory's stripes are in
view each with the name'qf an actor, director, or
technician inscribed thereon. '
The finals of the credit sequence shows a wide
screen, Technicolor, panoramic view of the red,
white and blue. In one of the, flag's red stripes is a
tiny reproduction of the "hammer and sickle" em
blem of the U.S.S.R.
Chapter 10, section 175 of the United States Code
says "the flag should never have placed upon it, nor
on any part of it, nor attached to it any, work, in
signia, letter word, figure, design, picture or draw
ing of any nature." If the Code does not include the
name of Hollywood cameramen in its list of restric
tions, we feel certain that it should include the ham
mer and sickle, the world symbol for communism.
The whole design of the sequence from the pic
ture violates the U. S. Code which states that, "No
disrespect should be shown the" flag of the United
States ommaica IJ ,U4 lt '
J Perhaps someone has already called the attention
of the producers of the . picture to the matter., Per
haps they were unaware that the sequence might be
offensive. Maybe others ' did not find it so.. But it
made us grit our teeth. ." . ,;
MikeMcGee
McCarthyism BeUimd
HUAC, Speaker Bom
What is the HUAC? It is a group of United States
congressmen representing in dramatic form the be
liefs and thoughts of a large segment of the American
populations. ' '
The recent hearing concerning anti-Viet Nam war
demonstrators was not a plot by a few men in the
top ranks of our government to suppress free opposi
tion to an unpopular war. It was, rather, an expres
sion of the fears of conservatives and provincialists
throughout the country. j
Some of us have forgotten McCarthy's hearings,
but he is still there, crouched under the prosecu
tion table in the HUAC committee room, tying to
gether the shoelaces of everyone who sits at the ta
ble. What, then, we should be most concerned with is
not that the hearings occurred but the reasons behind
people's desire for such hearings.
The articulate people in this country who push for
free speech, civil rights and civil liberties are in the
minority. The average white citizen, more noticeably
among us Southerners, is a prejudiced, conservative
soul. His most persistent hallucination is of some
nameless, faceless communist who must be combat
ted. Now, we don't believe that at UNC, do we? We
don't think there is a communist conspiracy on our
campus. Subversives may come and go, but we be
lieve our students are smart enough t to spot a pro,
and intelligent enough not to follow him.
But the people of North Carolina don't trust us. Not
a bit. They see us as putty in the hands of the con
spiracy. We are merely pawns on Brezhnev's great
chess board. We are ready to rise up and throw off
our chains at the drop of an epithet.
So they are going to protect our young bodies.
They have given us a law to save us from the speak
ers who would surely, they say, make us come to
doubt the Tightness of the American way of life.
This law is different from activities such as a
HUAC hearing in that the congressmen are supposed
to be investigating vhether there is any communist
infiltration in the anti-war movements and stop it if
it is there. There stated goal is to search for knowl
edge, and then go home.
The speaker ban law is, instead, a permanent
abridgement of the right of free speech, a restriction
on the learning process which is basic to a modern
university.