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- - "4 Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Tuesday, October 4, 1966 "Through the centuries, Chinese youth have maintained great Jfe Mr Opinion . David Rothman reverence of their rich cultural heritage. . . ." Viet Nam Fighting - On Live Television No' Room In N.C. For KICK "The God-fearing white people of the nation are in a majority and we will rule!" This was the disgusting theme of a meeting inspired by hate and fed on ignorance. A crowd of 2,500 at Sunday's Ku Klux Klan rally near Durham injected its occasional "Tell it like it is brother" as the South's fore most apostles of racism and ignorant-but-absolute white supremacy preached their doctrine, represent ed by this statement of one Klan leader: "As long as white people are gathered together as they are today no group of Negroes can beat us at the ballot box or any where." When one realiezs that the members of the Knights of the KK are American human beings, he cannot help but experience at least a mild feeling of nausea and fright as he wonders what the fu ture of humanity might be. We bow our heads in shame when we hear the proud announce ment that North Carolina is the nation's foremost Klan state. We bow our heads, then we look in the direction of Raleigh. Malcolm Seawell, former head of the Governor's Committee on Law and Order, made a brave at tempt this summer to have the Klan erased from the state's books of legitimate organizations. He found little sympathy from the di rection of the governor. When we see this organization spreading such inhuman propa '.. ganda, we cannot conceive of what might happen if it is allowed to continue to prosper in .the South. It is our feeling that the state, led by Gov. Dan K. Moore, should make every legal effort to relieve the state of this loathsome burden. The question was raised from the speaker's platform at Sun day's rally, "Is the South going to rise again?" And the answer came in shouts, "Yeah." We like to think the South will rise the south along with the rest ; of the country. Rise above the many of the ever-present prob lems that plague our society to day. Unfortunately, the KKK can but impede any hoped-for progress. H ow Long Can It Last? (William B. Schwartz 111, 21-year-old UNC senior, is an honors student in Political Science. More pertinent to issues at hand, he is a resident and native of Atlanta, Ga. After Lester Maddox's victory in the Georgia Democratic guber natorial primary last week, we talked with Schwartz at length, and found his sentiments much like our own on this matter. We had hardly walked into the DTH office yesterday afternoon when an enraged version of Schwartz called to ask us if we were, aware, of, the. latest - Georgia . political development, i It is L our - feeling that this issue is a matter J of concern to the whole South and : the whole nation, but certainly more poignantly to Georgians. We are happy to bring the fol ; lowing editorial, written by Schwartz, which speaks our feel ing on this subject with the extra personal feeling that only a Geor gia citizen could inject.) The nation was shocked last week when Lester Maddox won the Democratic Party nomination for governor of Georgia. At 11:15 a.m. yesterday, Atlan ta Congressman Charles Long street Weltner withdrew as the Democratic Party nominee to suc ceed himself for a third term in the U. S. House of Representatives. In his statement, Weltner said that the man who was known as the "symbol of violence and oppres sion" in Georgia was now the Democratic Party's gubernatorial candidate. Issues From Back Issues . (Issues that made the news in The Daily Tar Heel on this date five, 10, and 15 years ago.) Oct. 4, 1861 Two Carolina students who police said were caught in the act of painting "UNC" on various parts of the State College campus in Raleigh last Friday night, were given a strange sentence in court the next day the day of the State UNC football game. Judge Pretlow Windborne made the punishment fit the crime. He sentenced them to not attend the State - Carolina football game and to help the mainte nance crews remove the bright blue 1 "UNC's" from the buildings, the Me morial Bell Tower and Riddick Stadi um. ' Oct. 4, 1956 The Philanthropic Literary Society has passed a resolution admitting El vis Presley to its membership. Dave Mundy introduced the resolu tion which was. passed by a large ma jority. In discussion of the resolution, Sen. Mundy said the "gyrations of Presley" reminded him of some of the "Repre sentatives of the Phi." Oct. 4, 1951 Every red blooded Tar Heel is ex pected to be on hand today to give the football team an unforgettable sendoff when they leave from in front of Wool len Gym at 1 p.m. on the first leg of . its trek to Texas, according to Cy Mi rxtt, head cheerleader. Because he could not compro mise with hate, Weltner felt he was unable to support the Demo cratic party nominee as he, as a Democratic candidate was sworn to do. Therefore he withdrew, stating, "I love the Congress, but I will give up my office before I will give up my principles." As Georgians, we weep that a young, liberal voice will no longer represent us in Congress. As Americans, we weep that one of the states has fallen to such depths that a dynamic, dedicated man., is 2 forced" to abdfMbhhfsfficibe cause he cannot support an evil man. . We marvel at Weltner's display of courage. Most men would com promise with anything in order to remain in Congress. Yet Weltner has courageously shown the nation how serious is the state of Geor gia and, indeed, the South. There are many complex rea sons why the South has suddenly become so reactionary. One of these, unfortunately, is that men such as Lester Maddox are vici ously stimulating the latent emo tions of poor Southerners. ; The South is a valuable annex an area that has contributed much to the Union, an area that has grown and prospered. B' how long can we continue when, in less than a week, these two events occur in one of the leading southern states? We attempt to answer the ques tion and cannot. 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 BobOrr. ...... 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; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N C TrDftiuf TVT Ht- In Letters More LaftaB Madne Professor Irked Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Readers . of Friday's DTH were provided not only with a w front-page news, article and a I long editorial rfcbout, r., ecent f resignations from the 'Depart ment of " Romance Languages but also a crudely scrawled cartoon on the same subject. Despite the impropriety and the distortions of the article and the editorial, it was the cartoon which most attracted my attention: a hulking ogre flogging equally unattractive but purier figures to their knees, with the caption "And if anyone doesn't like it, he can ,quit!" Who are these oppressed but unlabelled wretches? Surely not Profs. McCrary, Jones, or Reedy, who in their short time as subjects of Dey Hall's Ming the Merciless not only have been promoted to the rank of associate profes-; sor and granted large annual? raises in salary but also have been given the right to create and teach any Spanish course . they pleased. Not being ruthless ingrates, ; these men would certainly bej chagrined at such a represen-; tation of their situation here. Ming's victims can't be the! men who departed earlier, for in each case a different; and very personal reason' existed, not involving the chairman in any way what-' ever. ; Surely not K. Schwartz, visiting professor for t h i s year from Miami (Coral Ga bles), a man whose deep, general idslike for Chapel Hill and its university was conceived upon his . arrival last July and announced be fore he had taught a single day at U.N.C. last summer. Your handling of this mat ter has done Dr. Hardre and the whole University a serious and unwarranted disservice. -Frederick W. Vogler Associate Professor Dept. of Romance Languages DTH Challenged Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: According to Webster's Dic tionary, journalism" is "writing characterized by a decent representation of facts or description of events with out an attempt at interpreta tion." If one holds 'this definition to be accurate, it seems ob vious that the DTH in its front page article, its editor ial, and cartoon of September 20 concerning the four resig nations of UNC Spanish pro fessors, has strayed wide of ethical fairness, objecti vity and accuracy. While the facts presented in the first two articles are true in themselves, the exclusion of other pertinent information and the general layout of the articles give the uninformed student the empression that the Spanish Department is being plagued by a mass exodus, 'and that.in each case the.. cause, is the same: .great difficulty, 'and'; aalhihistratiy tension in the department. ' ' For example, I did not read in either of the articles that Dr. Keller will receive a 70 per cent raise in pay at Kentucky. Also,, Mr. Camp bell, at the end of his article, says that last year there were four resignations from the Romance Language Depart ment. ' f . Reading the statement in its context, one gains the im pression that the causes of these four resignations are di rectly connected with the causes of the resignations of Dr. Keller, Dr. McCrary, Dr. Jones, and Dr. Reedy. What is interesting here is that Mr. Campbell fails to give the reasons behind last year's resignation, and leaves the rest to the uninformed reader's imagination. One must also appreciate the startling talents of the editorial writer in understand ing the real meaning of Dr. Keller's words, and in inter preting them to show that "his expression spoke words he did not want to say about his reasons for leaving." This is even more absurd when one realizes that it is used as the basis for the re mark that Dr. Hardre is the "pivot point of the unrest." As for the cartoon by Mr. Strauch, it may merit space in the DTH, but it does not deserve further comment. Something is definitely amiss ufthe DTH. I challenge its staff to explain and cor rect the situation. .Richard Doner Greenbicker Praised Editor, The Darily Tar Heel: John Greenbacker's article in Friday DTH was an en couraging spark in what hope fully can indeed flame into a genuine "educational revolu tion" at U.N.C. For the first time in a long while we have in Bob Powell a student government presi dent who has expressed his eagerness to confront the deep er problems of ths tudent in the University rather than pro vide us with but another worth less display of sand - box poli tics. And high on the list of these deeper problems of the Uni versity is its failure to ."meet head --on the tdifficulties.ac cpnipahying ItsTevplutiori' "T;o ward the "multiversity" com- plex which U.N.C. must in evitably become. The University, increasingly burdened with the responsibil ities of "mass education," must act now to avoid aca demic ossification and to edu cate thinking individuals rath er than mindless cogs for an institutionalized organization society. To be true to its purpose the University must exist for peo ple and not for things, and must enable its people to cre ate rather than regurgitate the culture and knowledge of their age. This is the University's high er responsibility, but it is be ing forgotten each year as the University grows by degrees into an imperaonal insitution having comparatively little in tellectual orientation beyond the lecture and the "quiz." The "quiet revolution" must arrest this drifting course if the higher purpose, of educa tion is to be maintained at U.N.C. Like most revolutions, this "educational revolution" needs a middle - class inspiration. So if we regard South Build ing as the administrative ari stocracy and the students as the lowly proletariat, we may turn to the faculty -for direc tion. And indeed, a substantial number among them have been awaiting these stirrings from the "masses," and are more than eager to enlist in a move ment so near their Socratic, pedagogical hearts. On the "proletarian" level we Have our activist cells among the students, and lead ership in Bob Powell and oth ers. Perhaps now too, in light of Greenbacker's contribution, we have in the DTH a mass medium to act as catalyst in combining these disparate elements to force a reaction. So now that the opportunity is ripe, let us all unite in this "quiet revolution," and make education at UNC an excit ing, memorable, and creative learning experience. NNv.v.sNv.w.wWttXv:x$ LETTERS The Daily Tar Heel welcomes let ters to the editor on any subject, particularly on matters of local or University interest. Letters must be typed, double-spaced and must in clude the name and address of the author or authors. Names will not be omitted In publication. Live TV pictures from Viet Nam will be technical ly feasible within a year, the president of NBC pre dicted recently. - Julian Goodman told the annual Conference of Radio and Television News Directors that this could be accomplished through the early bird satellite. No longer, then might the American public see Viet Nam battles only after learning their outcomes via radio and TV newscasts. Battle-watching, in fact, might become as popular and safe a spectator sport as baseball. After all, nobody would know ahead of time wheth er Hanoi or Washington had the winning team. But, realizing that television frequently influences the events covered thereby, one can predict to an ex tent how it will affect the fighting. Here is "Viet Nam Report, 1967": , Deodorant commercial. Then: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. In a few minutes the battle of the week will begin. Right now, however, while everybody is singing the National An them, we would like to make the following announce ments: "This program is being brought to you courtesy of Remington Rand, Lockheed Aircraft and the Gen eral Motors Tank Division. "And now for the day's late news flashes : "SAIGON Ignoring the pleas of the Constituent Assembly, Premier Ky decided to remain in office un-. til the new TV season begins. Ky said he wanted to star in another spectacular with Bob Hope. "WASHINGTON Officials expressed concern to day over Premier Ky's decision to remain in office. "Secretary of State Dean Rush told reporters toi day, 'He's a good man, but we simply cannot afford to keep him on not when this would cause Ameri-: ca's Nielsen ratings to drop sharply among our view ers at the United Nations.' "PARIS French President Charles De Gaulle said today he opposes live televising of the Viet Nam con flict as an unnecessary venture. "De Gaulle told newsmen, 'If you're really inter ested in the outcome, I'll be glad to furnish you with plenty of films we shot in Indo China in the 1950's.' "HANOI President Ho Chi Minh has asked for massive Chinese intervention in the Viet Nam war after being.told Jiemust escalate further if he wishes jto pre-empt 'Batman.' " ' I- ! SeriylJhe networks rrbbably won't be able to bring you any live battles at all. Network presidents will most likely realize their companies can make more money by showing "I Love Lucy" re-runs. .V.V.'.V.'.V.' UNG Called Inferior; Student Refutes Prof By FRANK DAVIS One day last spring as I walked to class, invigo rated by the fresh, clean air and beautiful aura of the campus, I said to myself, "It's really great to be at UNC, a first rate university," It seemed as though everyone in class was think-; ing on the same subject, or nearly so, for little effort was expended in the transition from Latin America to the relative merits of the colleges, universities and graduate schools in the United States. We students of UNC naturally placed our school in the highest esteem, but our revered professor look ed at the question differently, saying, "UNC is a first rate, second class university." He supported his position, pointing out that: 1. The curricular program is not very broad. 2. The size of the graduate school is not so large.1 3. The publications of the faculty are not so many as those of "first rate" universities. Wfi students responded in an understandable man ner, choosing to remain silent rather than show dis respect (or damage our grades). The professor's statement has bothered me ever since. It . must not go unchallenged and it shall not. UNC cannot be called a "second class" institution because of these three factors alone. Rather one must look at the results of the insti tution's efforts to improve student abilities for con tributing to and enjoying society's advantages as well as recognizing and solving its problems. Regarding the question in this manner, let us now say that a university can be fairly judged only ac cording to the merits of its students, professors, and alumni. They determine, through the challenges they pose for themselves and the way they recognize and meet such challenges, the product of their university. The UNC product speaks for itself and needs no enumeration or glorification. Distinguished professors, alumni and students constantly prove its worth. We will continue to do so as long as we regard our present position, and that of our fellow man, as one which can be improved through positively orient ed programs, realizing that improvement does not necessarily require "long and slowly developed" pro cesses, but requires recognition of our needs and am bitions plus driving desire to fulfill them. So let us assume our role and declare to those who judge us that it is our product, not our status that we are concerned with. , in r i
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