Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL .Wednesday October 12, 1966 1 i Ik Our Opinion . . Happy Birthday UNC Richard Donor Today's observance of the 171st anniversary of the founding of the nation's oldest state university is more than just a half - day vaca tion from classes. Since William R. Davie laid the cornerstone of Old East on Oct. 12, 1795, the University of North Caro jian has assumed a leading role in the nationwide process of higher ed ucation. : It is only fitting that, once each ear, time be set aside to honor those who built this school and those who continue to give life to it. University Day this year takes on added significance because of two special ceremonies: the official installation of UNC Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and the designa tion of Old East as a National His toric Landmark. We appreciatively acknowledge those who have participated in the planning and organization of this University Day. And we hope you, the students, will join us in Memorial Hall today at 11 a.m. to wish our University a very happy birthday. r We Believe In Columbus t To Tell The Truth. ... who real ty discovered America? Today is October 12. In Chapel Hill it's University Day. In most of America it's 19 days until Hal loween. To Linus it's 19 days until the arrival of the Great Pumpkin. But let us not forget it is also Co lumbus Day. This is the anniversary so pur history books have taught us j of the day that an intrepid Ital ian, with his three Spanish ships, discovered the New World, America. ' It is bad enough that the signi ficance of this day has become all but forgotten ia our work - a - day society. But now the situation is worsened by the claims of a pro fessor from Christopher Colum bus' own native town of Genoa, Italy, no less this hemisphere ?vas actually discovered by the Et ruscans some seven centuries be fore our renowned navigator ever set sail. The third-graders, in their first history course, have problems enough trying to understand w h y the place discovered by Columbus is called America. They have to adjust to the fact that the land of Spanish claim has English as its native tongue. They are beset by legendary claims that Leif Ericson and his band of hearty Vikings were the first white men to set foot on this continent. But what will happen to their impressionable minds now that some Italian scholar says he has indisputable proof that non - indian types trod the rolling plains of America centuries before the birth of Christ? In reply, we have but this to say: Yes, Virginia, there was a Christopher Columbus. And he did, indeed, discover America. And to our challenged hero, may your bones rest in peace we believe in you. Conspirators In Bathrooi : The greedy American capital ists are everywhere apparently ?ven in your own bathroom. Charges were filed in Pitts burgh's federal district court last by the U. S. Justice Department char ging 15 of the nation's leading man ufacturers of plumbing fixtures with major price - fixing conspir acy. Charging collusion in criminal yiolation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, the complaint said the corpor ations have hiked the tag on the more expensive models of sinks, toilets, tubs and other bathroom, equipment, while dropping the low- priced lines a move involving about $1 billion in sales. The legal verdict, which could bring a $50,000 fine for each of the manufacturing companies and a similar fine phis' a year in prison for the indicted executives, has yet to be decided. If it turns out that the charges are valid, this could be the greatest infringment on one of man's most natural habits since the invention of the pay toilet. What is this leading to? Imagine Delsey Tissue Coming out with a new product lined, not with pastel flowers, but with dollar bills. Issues From Back Issues Sty laiig ar Qeel (Issues that made the news in The Daily Tar Heel on this date five, 10, and 15 years ago.) Oct. 12, 1961 Carolina's 18-48 victory over Clemson's cross - country team Saturday was no surprise to any one. Dale Hanson the jovial UNC coach has long been noted for his excellent teams and his present crew could develop into the best UNC has ever had. Oct. 12,1956 The founding of the University by General William Richardson Davie will be depicted in pagean try and pantomine today at 11 a.m. lihder supervision of Carolina Playmakers. : Numerous actors and musicians will be called upon to pantomine the cornerstone laying of Old East Building oldest state university structure in the nation. Oct. 12, 1951 , Blue Devil alumnus Johnny Long will have his musicians on hand to make with the music for the Fall Germans scheduled for November 2, the Tennessee week end, according to Jake Froelich, Germans Club president. Instead of the usual two dan ces, one each on Friday and Sat urday nights, there will be only one on Friday night this fall, the Ger mans Club reports. 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 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 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. Pofteo?LCl"SS Stage paid a the Post Office in Chapel Hill N r Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes! ter; $3 per year. Printed byOie Chapel Hill Publishing Co Inc snt W. Franklin St., Chapel HU1 N C Lyon Qffeirs Permmmi Edu&cm&wm (Editor's note The follow ing prticls is another in an in formal series describing edu cation at other universities both here and abroad. The DTH hopes that these descrip tions might serve as a valu able means of comparison be tween education elsewhere and education at Carolina. Richard Donor is a member of the Education Reform Sem inar established earlier this month bv Student Body Pres ident Bob Powell.) The thirty - three students who spent last year in Lyon, France were exposed to a com pletely new variety of people, ideas, and structures. There were so many unique experi ences during these ten months that to attempt to describe all of them and to expect others to understand would be futile. However, one aspect of our French is life is especially re levant and valuable for UNC, its students, administration, and professors at the present time: the education process, as we knew it, in France. The year for us was divided roughly into two parts. The first half was mainly devoted to an intensive French langu age and civilization course, giv en in French, in a special di vision of the University of Lyon. During this first half we be gan looking for and auditing classes which would corre spond to our UNC course re quirements. These courses were taken in the regular part of the University with French students, and constituted -1 h e most novel part of a truly educational experience. As American students in re gular French classes, we were expected to read roughly the same material as the ordinary French student. This scared many of us at first, since aca demically, the French Univer sity is about two years in ad vance of its American counter part. That is to say that when a French student , graduates from the "lycee" or high school, he is at the scholastic level of a rising junior in the U.S. Thus, the degree a French student receives at the end of four years of college is rated on just about the same level as an American master's de gree. Because of this differ ence, the work was sometimes a bit difficult for us but with the new type of classes and teaching methods we encount ered, the subject matter was always challenging and inter esting. The first reason for this was the position of the professor in the French University. A pro fessor in France has the dis tinct pleasure of being com pletely free from any adminis trative pressure concerning his publishing or ideas. He only writes a book when he wants and is ready to, and he can never be discharged for any , outspoken opinions which may differ from the ad ministration's. (In fact, he can- never. be fired for any rea son.) .;' The UNC observor sees t h e v value here in realizing that the administration of any French university is the Ministry of Education, a branch of thef; very centralized national gov- '' eminent. . .y.- 'Now, Will The Real Discoverer Of America Please Stand Up?' WMBim ill MMM-- ;:tfel lj Because of this complete freedom of time and thought, the great majority of profes sors we had were extremely interested in and knowledge able about their subject mat ter. They almost always had the time and the will to talk with a student who had a ques tion or a criticism. These men and women had, as their first concern, their classroom presence and its af fect on their students. But if the professors were good, one must also appreci ate the. French students. See ing that they were at the gra duate level and already spe- v cializing (although they had spent the same amount of time in school as we had), these students were usually immer sed in their subject and read , as much as possible on it. A third reason why we liked the systems to much was con nected with the courses them selves, most of which met only once a week for two hours. When a class did meet '.. twice a week, the second time , was for special seminars in ' which a student gave a speech to the class and professor on some relevant question. (One ;. of us had to give a speech on the American position in '.' Viet Nam). .;.t'.' 11 z f it w -a- This shortness of actual class - time meantthat the student spent the majority of his time doing relevant reading for him 'self and developing his own Mdeas on the basis of the professor's lectures. The important thing here is that the vast majority of our time was our own. We, as members of a regular French student .body, were consider ed reponsible enough to use this time constructively, which, because of the excellent pro fessors and class content, most of us did. Another excellent feature was the small amount of re quired reading. (I am speak ing now of courses in the Hu manities and Social science Divisions.) Of course, in a" lit -erature course covering a per iod of history, certain books had to be read, but even then, there was a great amount of freedom. The professors would suggest valuable material, but we were expected to read anything we thought relevant. We were, in fact, able to do this because we were not tested on details or very specific information. We were tested on our own ideas which were to have been inspired by the lectures and the few required readings. The fact that there was only one test, at the end of the year, was also novel since it took off any pressure to cram, and gave us time to see the material from an overall view and develop our ideas accord ly. There were some "disser tations" to do, but we were told that they were to be as original and different as pos sible. This attitude was car ried through to the exam al so, since the professors made it well known that if the stu dent simple "regurgitated" his class notes on the final, he would fail. The teacher only considered himself a means to the stu dent's individual development, and the exams were graded accordingly. . A final aspect of this process was absence of grades for the regular French courses taken in the second half of the year. (We did receive grades for the intensive French courses in the first half.) It was decided that we would receive either pass or fail since there were usually only two or three and since the French grading system is so totally different from ours. (One must remem ber that "pass" was based on the French professor's evalua tion of the student, and repre sented work of at least a B minus quality. Some will say that it was an excellent chance to goof off, but this did not happen in the majority of the cases. We real ized that for the first time grades meant almost nothing and that we could take a deep er, more real look at our sub ject matter. I can honestly say, and I'm sure that most of the group agrees with me, that last year was a drastically new and wel come type of education. Its de scription here will hopefully make people realize the value of a junior year abroad, as well as the opportunities and need for improvement at UNC. The objectives of this ex perience, which we hope and believe were achieved, can be described very generally as the following: 1. To show the important use and impact of arts, history, philosophy, and science in to day's world. 2. To show students that in tellectual activity must be a never ending process contin ued throughout life. 3. To destroy a tendency to over - conformity stemming from a specialized society which promotes almost entire ly from an organizational ba sis. In other words, we look ed at different aspect of so ciety keeping in mind the fact that we ourselves were members. LETTERS The DaUy Tar Heel ac cepts all letters to the ed itor for publication provid ed they are typed and double-spaced. We reserve the right to edit for libelous statements. .lew DiiBoi CMIbs le Hot Water (CPS)-The W. E. B. Du bois Clubs of America, under investigation as a Communist front group by the Depart ment of Justice, have touched off heated controversies at several colleges across the country. Attempts by local chapters of the Marxist oriented group to secure recognition as stu dent organizations have come under attack from school ad ministrators at Indiana Uni versity (Bloomington), Uni versity of Illinois (Champaign Urbana), and Temple Univer sity (Philadelphia) and have raised charges that the schools are violating student rights to freedom of associa tion. At Indiana, school officials arrested two DuBois Club members on Sept. 15 for tres passing, after students at tempted to distribute litera ture to participants at a school acivities fair The IU Dean of Students had prev iously told them to leave the premises. The arrests touched off pro tests on the IU campus, in cluding a free speech rally where both right-wing and left - wing students defended the DuBois Club's right to distribute literature. Campus Students for a Democratic Society staged a demonstration, and the local chapter of the American Civ il Liberties Union issued a protest to the school. The President;. of Young Conservatives said he thought the- DuBois Club was a com munist front but was opposed to :"shutting them up." A key speaker during the free speech rally, philosophy professor Micheal Scriven said since communism is not illegal in this country, "we should be able to hear their spokesman. It is not enough to tolerate its (communism) presence," he said, "we must fight to get it." He said students were being cut off from "differing opin ions which is "one of the foundations of democracy." The IU Board of Trustees had ruled last summer that the DuBois Club could not operate on campus as a regis tered organization while un der investigation by the Jus tice Department as an alleged "communist front." Dean of Students Robert Shaffer said he followed Trust ees' policy in asking the stu dents to stop distributing lit erature. . Klein, a graduate student in philosophy, was suspended. The other man was identified as a model for the art depart ment. Klein said he will at tend classes even though he is no longer a student. Both were released from Monroe County ' jail on Sep tember 19, after posting $500 bond each. A Bloomington Superior Court Judge who is also a member of the Indiana Board of Trustees will begin hear ings this week. At the same time, the Amer ican Association of University Professors and the American Civil Liberties Union are re portedly taking the University to court. The controversy drew indi rect mention from Vice Pres ident Hubert Humphrey who appeared on campus during the height of protest. Humphrey did not mention the DuBois Club by name, but said that a communist organization has a right to exist on any university cam pus, if it does not violate school rules. He added that such organi zations are of "little value" to students. In another - case, Republi can state representative Charles Clabaugh denounced a proposed University of Illinois DuBois Club. Basing his opin ion on Justice Department re ports, Clabaugh said the club was a "first - rate Commu nist organization they're no damn good." Clabaugh plans to fight the club's establishment on campus. Meanwhile, the Liberty Council, an off-shoot of the John Birch Society, announc ed an "all-out campaign' a gainst the club, according to Rubicon Review, a right wing publication. , Robert Bennett, local club organizer, said several paople have told him the University will not recognize the DuBoise club. If so, he will seek sup port of the American Civil Liberties Union. In Philadelphia, a DuBois Club chapter, refused recog nition from Temple University last year, has applied again. Last year, the club's consti tutional clause requiring mem bers to follow national policy was contrary to University regulations that chapters of national groups be autonom ous. The national . organization has since amended the con stitution and recommends ch apters to follow national poli cy, but allows them to deter mine their own. The appeal for recognition, to be brought before commit tee in October, may be reject ed if the club's policy is inter preted as contrary to another Temple University policy on controversial affairs. This policy, as stated in the Student Activities Handbook, encourages "maximum free dom of discussion and at the same time protects the Univ ersity's position as a non-partisan institution concerned with education as distinct from pro paganda." The policy, also prohibits groups from issuing material which is inaccurate, libelous or in poor taste, according to the handbook. Acting club chairman Tom Kennedy said the DuBois Clubs, if recognized, could br ing "an undistorted view of socialism" to the student body. The club plans to petition the student store to sell more boo on socialism written by social ists;sponsor speakers, oppose the draft, and participate in anti-war demonstrations. On March 4, the U.S. Attor- ney General's office filed a : petition with the Subversive Activities Control Board and charged that the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs were substantially dominated by the Communist Party and operated to give aid and support to the Party. The board, a five man panel appointed by the president following procedures outlined m the Internal Security Act of 1950, will hold public hearings. If the Board decides DuBois h. i tre coinmunist fronts, the dubs must register with the Attorney General's Office. The organization, however, filed suit with the U.S. District Anri? Tahington D.C on April 27 challenging the con stitutionality of thf Internal Security Act and requesting an mjunction to stop proceed- ' Action by the Subversive Activities Board has been de ferred until dispostion of court action and any resulting ap- "If 7

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