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Em Our Opinion Letters To The Editrr o o o Why Have Morrison House AlUti plffliftIM C .Names Not Been Approved? The postponement of the dedi cation of Morrison Residence Col lege, originally set for Oct. 23, came as quite a disappointment to the men who live there and had looked forward to the dedication ceremonies during homecoming weekend. The hold - up is due to the fact that the Building and Grounds Committee has not yet approved the list of names for the houses (floors) in Morrison. All the house names already approved by the Dean of Men were selected in honor of dis tinguished UNC alumni except one. This exception was James Iredell, a state citizen who pioneered in the establishment of the Univer sity. We doubt the committee's failure to act is a result of dis approval of any of the proposed names. Why, then, has nothing been done since the committee was sent a list of the house names last May 23? Apparently, the committee just hasn't got around to it. We realize that the Building and Grounds Committee has much pressing business which it must handle. We know that the commit tee does not have weekly or monthly meetings like other committees do. We also under stand that the fall meeting of the committee has been delayed in order to have an architect present to discuss certain construction proposals for the committee's con sideration. Nevertheless, we feel this group has let the men of Morrison down by its failure to understand the im portance of having the house names approved before homecom ing weekend a time when many of those men being honored would have been able to be at Morrison for the dedication. We can't understand why a brief meeting could not have been held sometime in the past four-and-a-half months to consider this matter. Or, if such a meeting were too impractical, why copies of the quite explicit letter which the the committee's chairman re ceived could not have been sent to the members for their approval. It seems like such a routine matter certainly a segment of establishing a residence college which the men of Morrison never thought would jam up their whole operation. But it has. Editorial Odds ' n' Ends UNC students aren't the only ones who are faced with traffic sticker problems and increased food prices this fall. In fact, they're not the only ones in this town. The Chapel Hill School . Board Monday night approved a plan to raise the price of local school lun ches by five - cents. Look out Lenoir Hall there could be a large influx of busi ness as a result of an elementary school student backlash. About those stickers. It's those Chapel Hill school kids. They've found a way to lick the problem. Students who ride school buses are required to have stickers to get on buses. But school bus supervisor R.D. Smith told the School Board this week some of the students aren't bringing their stickers with them. So when somebody shows up with out a sticker, students inside the bus pass one out the window. At first we thought it was a big economy drive much like Presi dent Johnson luanched when he entered the White House. We walked into Student Gov ernment offices and found them very dimly lighted. Upon investi gation we learned this was not an attempt by the student body pres ident to stretch SG dollars. It was just that a couple of their long flourescent tubes had burned out and they were having trouble get ting them replaced. J Even Dr. Leo Jenkins' support- From Back Issues Issues that made the news in The Daily Tar Heel on this date five, 10 and jl5 years ago. Oct. 8, 1851 Two men students, rommates, were found dead in their beds in Cobb Dor mitory about 11:30 a.m. yesterday. A 'short time later a coroner's jury was organized. After viewing the bodies in the room and hearing testimony from -;several students, the jury ruled death was due to unknown causes and order ed autopsies performed. Oct. 8, 1858 It's cost a buck to get a haircut in Graham Memorial's barbership from now on. The student union's officials yester day said they had raised prices from 85 - cents to $1, effective immediately. Oct. 8, 1951 At its regular weekly meeting Sun day night, the Carolina Political Union unanimously adopted a resolution pro testing discrimination among students on the basis of "race, creed or other ir relevant considerations" and specifical ly advocated admission of all students to alLalhletic events on an equal basis. y ers don't agree with him 100 per cent. In his column "By Ways Of The News" in the Raleigh News and Observer yesterday, Charles Craven stated his personal desire to see ECC become a part of the Consolidated University. "I found math to be just as tough there as I found it at Caro lina," Craven said, "And I'd like to say that Dr. Leo Jenkins has contributed a great deal to t h e : school's fine development." Then Craven took issue with Dr. Jenkins: "But when Dr. Jenkins, in ar guing that the legislature would be non - partisan as to EC appropria tions, says that the legislature 'has proven over the years it has the ability to make intelligent de cisions,' that's rash. Very rash. "Why I know even legislators who wouldn't go out on a limb with such a statement as that." UNC Chancellor J. Carlyle Sit terson can take comfort in viewing a problem of great seriousness at UNC - Charlotte. The entire student body at Charlotte was sent home yester day morning because of a "severe water shortage." Our Chancellor has his fair share of problems. But at least he has been fortunate enough not to have a drought to complicate matters. 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 0rr Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer Photo Editor Chuck Benner Night Editor Steve Bennett, Lytt Stamps, Lynn Harvel, Judy Sipe, Don Campbell, Cindy Borden...... - - - Staff Writers Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Bill Hass, Joey Leigh ----- Sports Writers Jeff MacNelly ..Sports Cartoonist Bruce Strauch .... Ed. Cartoonist John Askew 1 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, -examination periods and vacations. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel mil N C Subscription rates: $4.50 pe'r seined ter; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N.'c. Mrs. Schwartz Reacts Editor, The Dally Tar Heel: a Mr. Vogler misdates our dis like of Chapel Hill. As he was not here, he was not aware of some extremely unpleasant correspondence between the Romance Language Depart ment here and my husband in Miami (Coral Gables) which started in February, 1868, three months after my husband had in good faith and extreme naivete signed this year's con tract. This was quite different from previous correspondence in which Dr. Hardre expressed hopes for a long, productive association over the years. The unpleasantness was both professional and personal. We arrived in Chapel Hill on July first. We have been told we arrived at the wrong time, but when else would someone with three school -age children, who was to start teaching later in July, arrive? For over eight days, no one remotely connected: with the University acknowledged my existence. This did not happen in Clin ton, New York; in WatervMe, Maine; in Burlington, Ver mont; in Fayettevfile, Arkan asa; nor in Miami (Coral Ga bles), Florida. Everything nice that had been told us about Chapel Hill as a place to live with regards to school, housing, and other everyday matters turned out to be, to put it politely,hope ful overstatements. We were shocked at the prices of ne cessities. Nobody ever bother ed to give us a catalog (and still has not). No wonder it was not neces sary for school to be in ses sion for us to have a general dislike for this place. I was treated as beyond the pale even though I am not Irish. Was this, I wonder, because I had the "appalling bad taste" to have had a fourth child in my late thirties (peo ple in Miami (Coral Gables) like babies!); or was it be cause, perhaps, I married a man who was raised in the Jewish faith? Mrs. Eessel Schwartz DTH Malicious Editor, The Daily Tar Reel: I'm sure I speak on behalf of other recent Ph.D. gradu ates in romance languages ii expressing my own personal shock and disgust over your editorial of September 30 com menting on the resignation of four faculty members from the Department of Romance Languages. Such malicious suoposition is completely uncalled for, particularly when so many of us who spent many years as graduate students in the de partment realize that the sub stance of your coverage is no more than a mixture of half truths and downright lies. Most unforgivable of all is your slanderous attack on the chairman, Dr. Jacques Hard re, a gentleman who has con stantly strived in the most fair manner to build an even great er department, who has de voted practically all his time and energy to the overall de velopment of what is possibly the most admirable and chal lenging program of graudate study in the country, and who has always gone out of his way to be both counselor and friend to graduates and undergraduates alike. I suggest you speak with his students on the subject; and, while you're at it, consult a few of those "other leading department members" (and -7-mean leading members), with whom Dr. Hardre has for some time been in a "state of constant disagreement." You might, be surprise; and certain others might be deser vedly embarassed. The department in Chapel Hill, of which so many of us are proud, was, like other dis tinguished departments, built by great men, leaders who al ways demonstrated a serious and honest concern for every thing and everyone involved and who, above all, displayed a fidelity toward the (Apart ment and its ideals. You can be well assured that Dr. Hardre is carrying on the admirable tradition establish ed and developed by, such fig ures as U. T. Holmes, Alfred G. Enstrom, W.L. "Wiley, and Nicolas Adams; and you can be further assured that he has had and will continue to have the faithful support and coop eration of these leading mem bers. It appears to me that you owe Dr. Hardre, as well as the department isetf, a hum ble apology for a gross injustice. What Ya Gonna Do When The Well Ham Dry . . . v pt c CHARL0TT6 1 f .v Tt3 CAivT-Ta tfcl- John Greenbacker TTtN This afternoon in Reidsville, a group of 30 student leaders and 30 faculty members and Pdministrators will begin a special two - day conference on the student's role in Uni vesity policy making. The conference is the idea of Student Body President Bob Powell, and the topics for dis cussion will cover a wide va riety of subjects. Some of the suggested topics are fascinating: JJ-e-posibility for student participation in the admiss ins Pcefs may be discuss ed. The student's evaluation of admissions material might throw new insights into stu dent selection. . stuents might participate m programs that evaluate and appoint faculty and adminis tration personnel. The admin istrators that sit on the pres ent committees are not the ones that have to sit through a professor's lectures, and are not usually informed enough to determine the quality of ed- Meet I GFeat Idea ucational experience the pro fessor is presenting to the stu dent. . . . ix. Student participation in t h e process of determing student fees and the school calendar has also been suggested The problem of curriculum planning has been recommen ded by Powell as one that with the students' viewpoint in mind. . Types of grading systems are always of interest to stu dents and the initiation of a pass - fail system of grading win probably be a point of d How the University should reSe itself to the draft and military service poses er problem. May feel gras should In ot b a criterion in the draft V and would recommend tnac University not cooperate with such a system of seiec ti0The question of the overall efSuvfness of Je q Honor System as a method of mam taming academic discipline is likely to be discussed. Though all these topics bear close examination, the over all problem of education re form will be the highlight of the entire conference. This, after all, is at the very heart of the purpose of college ex perience for any student, and it is the subject that has most concerned Student Govern ment officials since the begin ning of school. It must be stressed that this conference is spawned in the between the faculty, adminis tration and the student body. Powell and the other stud ents participating have as their goal a high degree of mutual understanding be tween the three groups, for un less understanding is present, there can be no progress. For these reasons above, the Reidsville conference is a truly fine idea, and it is a credit to the foresight of Stu dent Government and the Uni versity administration alike. James M: VEas Asst. Pref. of French Univ. ef T.llssouri Militarist Ad Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I deem it only proper to take not of a major step for ward in the educational oppor tunities available to UNC stu dents. Since the offerings of the university are somewhat lim ited, it is always a matter for rejoicing to hear of supple mental programs made avail able by other public agencies in areas in which the univer sity has fallen short. Specifi cally, I refer to the education al program now offered by the United States Army, as advertised in the October 4 DTH: "Is parachuting your cup of tea? Killing silently? Blow ing bridges? Join Green Ber ets (army reserves), learn these skills . . . Lt. Werlien." In our enlightened age, we all are well aware that each and every person should have the opportunity to develop his intrinsic talents. Likewise, it is. only just that each indivi dual be permitted to pursue his own personal interests. Heretofore the university has been grossly unfair to those whose basic talents and in terests lie in such realms as parachuting, bridge - blowing, and silent killing. But now, thanks to Werlien and "the greatest educational institution in the world," those whose "cup to tea" is silent murder, etc., have full oppor tunity to acquire these skills. As a small to&en of our ap preciation, I humbly suggest that Werlien be offered a chair by the university. What a distinction it would be for UNC to have its very own Ke nan Professor of silent killing. Larry Walker Dept. of Political Science Theater Bleeds Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: It's trivial, but typical. Cha pel Hill's own omnivorous, pil laging, repulsive, regurgita tion called the "New" Varsi ty Theatre has again scram bled to squeeze, bleed, or oth erwise "take" the students of U.N.C. Last year, some remember, the "theatre" imposed prices as high as two dollars for a single, regular movie ticket. Also was erected a slapdash cardboard sign with "New" Varsity Theatre scribbled on in magic marker. Inside, the floor was still sticky, the carpet still stain ed, the seats little improved, the projectionist still incompe tent, and the air still stank. Today one can see "Gold finger for $1.00; Sunday "Dr. No" for $1.00. Last Sunday, those with cars could drive to Durham to see James Bond (if those with cars wanted to see or hadn't already seen James Bond) in both movies at Durham's Carolina Theat er, for the same price of $1.00. Assuming that a Carolina gentleman would be accomp anied by a lady, or that a UNC coed would be escorted by a male, and assuming too (a large assumption) that nei ther film could be missed, the price inconsistancy of two dollars for the same enjoy ment, could mean the differ ence between Lenoir Hall or the Rat. It is trivial, but it is typi cal. Arthur M. French Neutrality Sought Im Southeast Asia , (Editor's note The following article appeared in the Aug. 6 edition of The Economist, a widely respected British publication. It was written by their Asian cor respondent, who unfortunately remains unidentified.) One strategy that might produce peace in Indo china would be for America and its allies simply to pull out of Vietnam (taking anyone whose life was in danger with them) and allow Hanoi to reunify the country in its own fashion. The Vietnamese might spend a decade rebuilding their country under a communist regime, the Thais might put a quick finish to the insurgency in their north-east, Laos and Cambodia might have peace and unity and China might remain strictly non-aggressive and concentrate on its mountainous economic task at home. In five weeks in Indochina during which I spoke to many people who were bitterly critical of the American operation I encountered only one person who advocated this solution: a British Labour mem ber of parliament who had not been to Vietnam. The unfortunate fact, as most critics of the Ameri cans admitted, is that a humiliating American with drawal from Vietnam now might well be the very thing that would encounter the Chinese to move into a phrase of active expansion. Now that the West has got so deeply into the quagmire, armed resolution might be the only sensible policy but there are limits to the way this resolution should be applied. Anything that forces North Vietnam closer to Pe king is clearly mortgaging Indochina's future. The possibility of North Vietnam taking a Titoist line in time is a real one, and should be the West's goal, forcing Cambodia closer to Peking would be also un fortunate and unnecessary. And the West should think for a long time before doing anything that makes it harder for Peking to come into the United Nations and begin a dialogue with the rest of the world. While no Chinese troops are engaged m Vietnam,, some doubt about China's inten tion to swallow Indochina must surely be enter tained. It would be quite wrong to ask for or expect a WCSt frm Laos or Cambodia, rnZ f ' deZ?e. t0 remam free of communism. Commitment would impose intolerable strains upon toem, as has already been demonstrated in Laos. f1 Cann0t be neutral Mediately as even the Buddhists appreciate - it must either fight the Vietcong or go under. s But neutrality might be possible, with luck in a ew years' time. Meanwhile everything should be ne to defuse the issues that are troubling the area Cannot south Vietnam and Thailand, America's allies be persuaded to see reason over CabocUa's frontiers? Laotian neutrality should not be accompUsh ed further. A line cannot be held in Indochina hv rn?ii tary strength alone unless the Wesferit ready to recolonise these countries. enca is They cannot be bastions of the West Krfi u should have a chance of eelowa of Me in freedom and of DrovMino ? " 01 Me out commitment 8 " we need.
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