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! THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, October 2, 1986 -Page 2 'You Guys Aren't Trying To Study Are You?' fun Our Opim ion ... ancellor's Policy Good ut Stops Short Of Goal Ch Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitter son's statement yesterday con cerning University policy toward racial discrimination in on- or off campus housing was a long-needed step in the right direction. : October, 1963, saw the Univer sity adopt its first formal pro-segregation housing policy in the form of a rule that stated, "Insofar as possible, initial room assignments will be made according to race." This rule, however, was repealed in September, 1964, during the ad ministration of then - Chancellor Paul F. Sharp. So, for the past two years there has been no admitted policy of discrimination in on-campus hous ing. Some students, notably James C o f i e 1 d, NAACP president, -charge, however, that a policy of discrimination is in effect at the present time. Although we do not deny this possibility, we do seri ously question such accusations, for we have yet seen no specific evidence of it. Admittedly, some students have requested and been granted changes in room assignments be cause they preferred not to live with a person of another color. We do not feel this is any way consti tutes "discrimination" on the part of the University. Every student should have the right to choose to live or not to live with any other person for any number of person al reasons. In other words, if John Doe doesn't like his roommate for whatever reason and there is another room available for him, he should be allowed to change residences. In connection with off-campus housing, there apparently is a pol icy of racial discrimination on the part of some apartment owners and managers. The chancellor's decision to exclude all realtors who discriminate from the Univer sity Housing Office's list of avail able private living accommoda tions is long overdue and warmly welcomed. But we were discouraged to see the Chancellor state his feelings that beyond omitting the name of a discriminating rentor from this 1st, the University can do nothing. We should like to think that this problem is a genuine concern of the University, that the admin istration is willing to work faith fully toward its solution. We are of the opinion that the University has sufficient influence in this town to be a major determinent in bring ing an end to such an unjust practice as racial discrimination in housing rental. ' The chancellor's statement was a step in the right direction. But one step does not take us far enough. Until racial discrimina tion in student housing rental no longer exists anywhere on- or off campus in Chapel Hill, the Uni versity will continue to be faced with the problem and the chal lenge to solve it. We hope more forward steps are forthcoming. Giving Klan A Helping Hand Sometimes it takes more than a magic mirror. to find out who is the fairest ol the fair. Sometimes, indeed; it is difficult to tell at all. Kelly M. Alexander, president of the North Carolina Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has urged Negroes to stay away from the State Fair in Ra leigh this month because a booth has been rented to the state Ku Klux Klan for the event. ; The booth was acquired Tues day by N. C. Grand Dragon J. Robert Jones and will be set up on a main walkway to broadcast Klan propaganda to fair patrons. It does not seem to be the kind of activity that shocks one to read about. The idea of a booth at the fair has more of the flavor of a county 4-H club than of the mighty and exalted Klan of the sovereign state of North Carolina . Undoutedly there will be oth er attractions at the fair designed to more efficiently turn aside the morals of our youth than this one. The crooked penny toss games have bothered us in the past. We've worried a lot about the dancing shows behind the huge painted canvas curtains on the dark side of the fair. But the proposed Klan booth seems about as harmless as the ladies' needlework exhibition in the homemaking tent. Things have been pretty quiet on the local racial scene for the past few months. Our large cities have not been able to muster the enthusiasm for a rolicking race riot. North Carolina just hasn't kept up with other parts of the country in the area of racial un rest. Until now there has beenv no issue important enough to rate an irate protest from the head of the state NAACP or the Southern Christian Leadership Council. "We consider the Klan's action a sophisticated insult to the Negro people of the state," Alexander told the press when he announced the Negro boycott of the state fair. This kind of statement must really give Robert Jones and his hooded horde a belly laugh. Then the Klan's proposed booth gained more prestige when Gold en Frinks of SNCC lodged an of ficial protest with Gov. Dan K. Moore, requesting that the Klan not be allowed to occupy the booth space. It's tiny, victories like these that keep North Carolina the great est Klan state in the nation. We are not surprised that mem bers of the Negro movement have not let the matter lie. They can not recognize the Grand Dragon's game of cat and mouse. Jones is too good a player. Years ago, before the Klan learned to turn the tide so well the other way, it was the one which was considered petty, pious and just a little odd-ball. Now it is pret ty apparent that the Negro faction is looking for a fight where none exists. If Alexander had managed to remain quiet when he found out about the Klan's advertising scheme, the event probably never would have received statewide press coverage. The NAACP could have continued its business of ad vancing colored people and the Klan would have been left where it belonged among the crooked penny-tosses and hootchy-kootchy shows. KERRY SIPE 2 Saily ar 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 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. . Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. mm i 43& VvVx S . mi In Letterg Big Mouthed? Paper Meddles Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: The pompous presuming, unmitigated gall of the DTH is absolutely astounding! From the day we arrived in Chapel Hill all we've heard from the editors of our great newspap er is "Senators, stay out of student affairs. Administra tors, we'd rather 'handle " our" own problems. Students, champion your rights to man age student affairs." This is good, we think. Students should handle their own affairs. But, by the same token, administrators should be left to handle their problems without the benefit of the DTH's big mouth. Dr. Hardre is a fine and cap able man. We suggest that you let him take care of this unfortunate incident and that you not further jeopardize the security of the graduate stu dents in the Romance Lang uage Department by "talking through your teeth," as you so aptly put it. We should also add that the quality of your editoralizing (viz., low, low yellow journal ism) was clearly indicated by that slanderous "cartoon." Have you no respect for the bounds of decency and pro priety? In conclusion, we suggest that you owe Dr. Hardre an apology for creating havoc, for even daring to initimate that he need account to . you, for ridiculing him, for presum ing to tell him how to run his department, for interfering in purely administrative affairs. We challenge you to "explain and correct" your blatant meddling! Susan A. Whitt T. Linwood Varnum Prof Explains Editor The Daily Tar Heel: After reading your quite complete coverage in this morning's Tar Heel of the re signations from the Depart ment of Romance Languages of four of our professors of Spanish, it seems appropriate for me to offer a commentary on the situation and your in terpretation of it. In the first place, I should like to say that I am sorry to Atheistic Teacher Corrupts Students By BILL MICHAUX The recent editorial sugges tion that "there is no more reason to be concerned over not having public prayers in schools than there is to be con cerned over not having them in factories, and stores and of fices" typifies the terrifying sophistry of the liberal con spiracy to undermine the bed rock ideals of the American way of life. Mature reflection recalls that, unlike factories, stores and offices, school is an impor tant agent of socialization. It plays a major role in the vital process of programming our youth with the ideals, the life goals, the loyalties, the beliefs, respects, morals, standards, guilts, values, attitudes, and behavioral norms which con stitute our cultural heritage. When I was in grade school, a freethinker slipped through onto our faculty. She became my second-grade teacher. For ahnost two weeks she conceal ed her purposes from the au thorities beneath,a charming social exterior and an attrac- !lmTe- In class she took f the mask and peddled apostacy to us. Militant though Jjn subtle hatred and rancor tilled her instruction. At recess we formed a circle to play dodgebaU in the center of a big square of asphalt. I vnr anUiTf0r jtoall that year and I was class champion. fmSft dodgmS almost definitely, long after all the others had been hit.. But then after a minute the teacher would start passing out the extra volleyballs to make things more hectic for me, and I would get dizzy, and she would laugh cynically and yell "Where's your God now?" I had a crush on a little brunette classmate at the time, and together we tattled. Our ideals gave meaning to our crush and became interlocked with it in convoluted causal chains. The mutual consciousness of the ideals, which were now forced back into subjectivity, remained as a trust unspoken because it was assured, a trust which, as we shifted the gears of our relationship in response to the changed situation, be came the wellspring of fun and banter, the glowing pyre that warmed our new life and in fused even its banalities with richness and meaning. It seems to me that the ideals which schools help pro gram into us give meaning to our national life in much the same way, and I suggest that those who so blithely acquiesce in the prayer ban ponder my experience with the atheiist teacher dismissed on my testi mony I seem to have retain ed my ideals, but her teaching destroyed forever my former animal commitment to them. It was replaced by spiritual anxieties which have never left me, and which regularly threaten to sap from existence the ordinary kind of vitality, and to substitute for it an un usual and frightening kind of individualism. see these men go; they are young scholars of promise and accomplishment, who are in some respects my proteges and in whom I take pride. I wish them every success at the University of Kentucky, which is in the process of ex pansion under its capable new president, John Oswald. On the other hand, as a re- suit of the departure of these young men, the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina is not going to fold up and die. As you know, we offer depart mentally courses in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and minor Romance tongues--from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century-all leading eventually (if a stu dent so desires) to a doctorate in Romance Languages. There will remain in the de partment, before the filling of the vacancies created by the departure of these four pro fessors in Spanish, twenty members of the professorial staff plus around ninety inst ructors of various categories. We plan to carry on opera tions at the same old stand. It is a pleasure to see that the Tar Heel is interested in "publishing scholar" as well as "good teachers"-an " anti tehsis that many of us have never admitted. We shall cer tainly miss the research eff orts of these four departing hispanists; nevertheless, the department will be able to continue to publish in the wide areas, both qualitatively and. quantitatively, that have br ought it distinction. Your portrayal this morning of the situation in our depart ment was, to say the least, a trifle melodramatic though possibly no more so than the resignation en masse of four of our fine voung men. I myself just last year con sidered seriously leaving the University; if I had I would have been a segment fand wrongly) of vour gruesome statistics of departure. On this point, it might be legitimate to comment on the rppalling bad taste of any vis iting professor who allows in the public print his opinions on a department of which, for only a few months, he has been a part; and. for your in formation, no visiting profess or "resigns" from a position to which he has not yet been onoointed. The Department of Romance Languages at the University is stronger than any one of us who might be its chairman or any one of us who might be a professor in its corps. The surge of life was brea thed into it in the 1920's by William Morton Dev and Stur eis E. Leavitt; and that vital ity, along with that of many other departments in Chapel Hill, will continue to make its contribution to the greatness of the University of North Carolina. W. L. Wiley, Kenan Professor of French John Greenbacker Maddox Nomination Is Georgia's Folly By the grace of the Democratic voters of Georgia, that great mythological bubble about the "progressive South" was deflated down to microscopic size last Maddox, former restaurant owner, profes sional racist and a man who describes himself as one "who will stand firm against Lyndon B. Johnson and the socialist Great Society," was given an overwhelm ing Democratic endorsement Wednesday for the office of governor of Georgia. That's Georgia, friends. The home of Charles Weltner and the Atlanta Playboy Club, where at its very heart the weary sophisticate can seek comfort in "the swingingest city in the South." Maddox, who closed his restaurant rather than comply with the 1964 Civil . Rights Act, handily de feated millionaire former governor Ellis Arnall for the Democratic nomination in a vote that was tinged with "white backlash" from the wake of recent Ne gro rioting in Atlanta. Arnell, a racial moderate, was one of the first liberals to be elected the chief executive of a south ern state. From 1943 to 1946 he gave Georgia one of the best administrations it has ever seen. Although some of the blame for Maddox's victory rests on the shoulders of Stokely Carmichael and his agitators, congratulations are also in order for many of the state's Republicans who felt Maddox will be easier for their candidate to defeat in the general election. The Republican turnout for the Democratic primary was unusually high. It is still incredible that the people of Georgia would play around with something so powerful as the Democratic nomination for governor with a man with such foolish and dangerous ideas as Maddox is in the position of capturing it. It was the talk of Georgia when Maddox closed his restaurant with "never" on his lips, andspent a portion of his life savings having a great stone monu ment marking the death of states' rights and segrega tion erected on the site. He had already salted away a pile of money while the U. S. Supreme Court was deciding his case against the rights bill by selling ax handles to his customers. He let them decide what they were to eb used for. When it comes to Gov. George Wallace of Ala bama, or rather former governor Wallace, Maddox is unequivocal. -With the air of a backwoods evangelist at an Easter morning tent meeting, Maddox often pro claimed, "George Wallace is one of the greatest liv ing Americans. "Everywhere I go I am asked about the Negro problem," Maddox has said. "I tell whoever asks that I will never change and that I would be proud to be a segregationist even if I were a Negro." Georgia's last hope rides with Republican nomi nee Howard H. Callaway when the voters go to the polls in November. He may be able to draw the same Republican support that Barry Goldwater found in the Georgia cotton fields in 1964. In a recent interview, Maddox claimed he had "God and the people" behind him. If the people of Georgia love God, they will realize that the time has come to "put away childish things." Blackout Pregnancies Flood N.Y. Hospitals From The Cavalier Daily What do you suppose is the most effective birth control device? Diaphragms? Plastic loops? Pills? They do pretty well, of course, but it looks like tele vision may top the list. That, at least, is one conclusion which might be drawn from the New York power blackout which oc curred just over ten months ago. The lesson made itself startlingly evident when an alert New York Times reporter, wandering through the maternity section of a New York hospital on Aug. 9, noticed a lot of hustle and bustle, and upon inquiring as to the cause was informed that the num ber of births for the day was at an unheard of high. Checking around, the reporter found the same to be true throughout the city, with the number of new babies running as much as three times normal. The date, of course, was exactly nine months after the power failure which left the entire northeast without electricity for hours. Now, we all know the impact that television has made upon various sections of our society (like the movie industry, for example, or college football), but when some sociologist cautiously suggested to this quick-witted news-hound that the "absence of TV dur ing the prime-time hours of the blackout may have been a contributing factor to the baby boom, he may have been setting off a large-scale reappraisal of the deep-seated psychological effect being wrought ori our behavioral patterns by the "tube." Or at least, it seems like such a reappraisal is needed. We, for one, would hate to see the country en gulfed by a crop of infants it could not feed, just because some sinister alien is going around flipping power switches.
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