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Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, October 16, 1966 In Our Opinion.... Keep The Home Fires Burning, 'But Keep Them In The Stoves One cool morning a few days ago, the residents of Victory Vil lage were awakened by the fright ening sound of a siren. Looking out of their windows they saw a fire truck rush to a halt before one of the prefabricated apart ments. This particular fire was quite small and involved only smoke damage in one apartment. But it could have been much worse and endangering the lives and proper ty of, the more than 2500 people in the Village. With the approach of winter, the threat of a fire in the Village is greatly increased as residents light their oil space heaters for the first time. Now, at the close of Fire Pre vention Week, is a good time for everyone living in the Village to give their homes a thorough fire hazard check with special empha sis on the heaters. According to John Hinson, man ager of the Victory Village rental office, "The greatest danger of fire in the Village is caused by the use of the space heaters, and most of these are caused by carelessness." Because of the serious conse quences a fire could have if it got started in the Village, the village maintenance crew is available at all times if any tenant has prob lems with his heater. The crew recommends that anyone who does not know how to operate the heat ers should call them for a demon stration before attempting to light one. They offer a few helpful hints on the process. (1) The fire should be lighted within 30 seconds after turning on the oil. (2) A hot stove should never be relighted until it cools. (3) If too much oil floods the fire pot, the excess oil should be carefully mopped out before any attempt is made to light the fire. ' Living as closely together as the resident of Victory Village do, each tenant is responsible not only for the safety of his own family and property, but also for that of his neighbors. The cost of fire is so great and the means of preventing it so cheap that the risk hardly seems worth taking. Be careful and be safe. JUDILYN SIPE. Women Are Where They Belong Campus women have apparent ly awakened to the fact that they can indeed be a power in campus politics. For too many years, campus pol iticians have held to the idea that coeds are capable of holding the positions of social chairman, sec retary and maybe just maybe treasurer. :Nqw. the. Student Party, which: ran the first candidate for a campus-wide office more years ago than we can remember, finds its convention half controlled by campus women with coeds running for nearly every class office. We doubt the party faithful of yester year anticipated such a develop ment when they championed the right of women to hold office. But to the women who will be voting and seeking office in the SP and UP conventions tonight and tomorrow night, we wish them our best. We challenge them to prove to the skeptical male population on campus that women students do know what is going on in student government, do have the best in terests of student government at heart, do have the ability to make wise decisions in terms of campus politics. It has been a long time in com ing, but the question of the wom an's role in student government is finally being put in the lime light. We're counting on them to prove their claim to recognitionwe're behind them all the way. Party Conventions Analyzed (Continued from Page I) The largest single block comes in from the men of Morrison who have some 100 members. With the women in the UP . . This year's total party mem bership is 25 to 30 per cent female. This is about the same percentage that the women had last year. The play for office is not quite as great on the part of women in the UP as it is in the SP. But they are definitely in there, and could well have as many spots on the final ticket as the SP women. Women candidates are expect ed for the offices of social chair man, secretary and treasurer in each class. Of a total of 36 proba ble candidates for nomination, 10 are coeds. The most exciting race promis es to be the one for president of the class of 1970. This event pits Alan Albright against Carl Younger. Both are Morehead Scholars. Albright, from Gastonia, comes to the campus po . litical arena with the distinguished record of having been president of the North Carolina State Student Council. His opponent for the nomina tion, a Winston-Salem native, also brings with him a wide experience in positions of leadership in high school student governmental or ganizations. Another interesting nomination campaign spots two non-North Car olina natives Terry Colby and Rick Miller in the race for the presidency of the junior class. Nei ther of these two has had any great part in the student govern ment organization at UNC, but both have been quite active in leading residence hall and fratern ity student activities, and both were members of last year's var sity swimming team. Chairman Kiel said he was "ex tremely pleased with the fine cal ibre of the candidates seeking nom ination. There will be many close contests. I am looking forward to an interesting and exciting convention." i lailg ar Ql 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 animation periods and vacations. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N C Subscription rates: $4.50 per seme ter; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hm Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N C -Vv , . ' ' : fsjof dironk I s HeKp5;fr om ;.-Hit Moor Can rise cAone cCVsU drmV more. : - y. .' j. y T. . rea-co c K 't t- .'- - J ftf J In Letters .Keralt Praises Dl" Congratulations Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I just want to congratulate you for putting out the best Daily Tar Heel I can remem ber. The paper is livelier, better written, and far better made up than any. in repent years. Your editorial use of the good photographs, of Jock Lauterer; and Ernest Robl; the editori als on subjects that matter; the good makeup and good headline-writing they all con tribute to an excellent news paper, and you should be proud of yourselves. Charles Kuralt CBS Correspondent DTH Editor, 1954-55 Manners Go Begging Editor, Daily Tar Heel: A couple of days ago I wit nessed a very touching inci dent in Lenoir Hall. A student (male) was sitting at a table, both feet resting on a chair near by. He was com pletely relaxed. Also at the table was an attractive girl, sitting properly in her chair. After a while the girl got up and replenished her coffee. The boy stayed completely re laxed. When she returned to the table, she spoke briefly to her polite friend and got him a second cup of coffee. Such devotion should be encouraged. Sturgis E. Leavitt, Kenan Professor of Spanish Emeritus Stop The Klan. Editor; The Daily Tar Heel: On Tuesday evening, October 11, I visited the Ku Klux Klan booth at the North Carolina State Fair. While there I in quired about the recent beat ings of students at the Durham Klan rally. A Klan official became very angry at my questions, ans wering with derogatory state ments. For example, he stated that one of the students who was beaten deserved what she got. Why? Because she was from the University of Califor nia. I later attempted to photo graph the Klan booth (as I had many other features of the fair). The same Klan official accosted me outside of the booth, and threatened me with a beating, yelling "I haven't beat up a nigger all week" and added that he was very eager to beat up someone. By this time I was sur rounded by 15-20 persons who made various remarks such as "nigger lover". I was able to leave safely because an SBI plainclothesman interced ed. Whatever the reasons for the Klan's representation at the Fair, there can be no justi fication for their tactics of threat and intimidation. I re fuse to believe that the people of North Carolina approve of violence and. intimidation by any group. It has been chiefly our fear fulness and apathy rather than any real power of the Klan itself which has enabled the Klan's methods to be effec tive. Without public fear, the Klan's threats become empty. Paul Seder Arthur French Frustrated Customer Hits Trading Stamps Go starving into any grocery store or drive up on a last drop of gas to any station pump There you will find the shopping world's kismet; and only if you're lucky will you find what you need. Shirtless enter any department store, shoeless enter any shoe shop, trunkless enter any baggage ware house, earless enter any car lot, and hopeless enter any store. Exaggerated today, untrue yesterday, but possible tomorrow. It's not the fault of the farmer, miner, or manufacturer there are still plenty of needed cus tomer goods available. The plight lies in "Shell money," "Esso Tigers," "Atlantic initialed glasses," "3 of a kind," "football mustangs," "cereal surprises," "grocery dog races," "Ra leigh coupons," "Aunt Jemima pancake box top win ners," "S&H Green stamps," "plaid," "king korn," "fam ily" and "gold bond" stamps, Chrysler and magazine sweepstakes, and dog food prizes; not to mention il limitable more. Advertising has gone quixotic. Today buy Atlantic Imperial and receive with your high test gasoline, your own initialed glass, S&H green stamps and a chance to enter the sweepstakes contest. Buy Minute brand, enriched, pre-cooked, no boil ing, five-minute rice and receive a special recipe book offer, a 3 of a kind chance ticket, a pile of plaid stamps and a stomach ache. Tomorrow buy four hundred and fifty gold bond stamps, five sweepstake entry blanks, an Aunt Jemima pancake box top, one eight of clubs or ten of spades 3 of a kind card, a "win a mustang" entry blank, and receive with your purchase a bottle of hand lotion, a pack of cigarettes, and a box of dixie cups. The day is coming when the public will buy green stamps instead of quality, the day when the public will have to make up its mind between "Shell money" or gasoline, "Raleigh coupons" or cigarettes, "box tops" or pancake mix. Do you really want a tiger in your tank? Education Reform At Berkeley Progressing Soviet 'Unpersons9 Historian's Problems What to do about the "un person" remains a major prob lem for the Soviet historian despite the liberalizing trends of post-Stalinism, according to a specialist on Russian his tory in the current issue of The South Atlantic Quarterly. "For a full generation, all Bolsheviks and many non Bolsheviks .who fell afoul of Stalin, particularly during the purges of the thirties, became for the purposes of Soviet his torians non-existent persons, historically as well as physi cally," explained Dr. Warren Lerner, associate professor of history at Duke University. Among those whose exis tence have been officially ig nored are many old time Bol sheviks and close associates of Lenin, including even Leon Trotsky. "The technique of the 'un person' relieved Bolshevik historians of the embarrassing necessity of having to face up to facts contrary to party doc trine," Lerner said. The technique continued, . in a modified form, even after Khruschev's anti -Stalin speech before the 20th Party Congress in 1853. Some of the unpersons were (! specifically rehabilitated; but many others were not.";" ' Such purges! )ulrCoinmunist leaders as Karl Radek could not be ignored in the 55-yolume collected works of Lenin, which was to contain all the known writings and correspondence of the Soviet leader. The solu tion, in this work which was concluded in 1963, was to pre sent just enough information to get by. By reading it, Western his torians have at least been able to find death dates for a number of Soviet leaders who had been unpersons for de cades. Many of these dates fell during the years of Stalin's great purges. As Dr. Lerner put it,". . . looking through the biographical sketches, one finds that 1937 and 1933 were good years for dying." In the 1960s another oppor tunity for clarifying the status of unpersons came with pub lication of a new Soviet his torical encyclopedia. But ap parently Soviet historians are not being permitted to take that opportunity. The first eight volumes have no references to Nikolai Buk harin, Grigory Zinoviev, and many others. Dr. Lerner ex pects Karl Radek and Trotsky to also be ignored. "After many years of re appraisal, it seems that the "unpersons' have made some faint progress," Lerner con cluded. "They have belatedly ;earned the right to a histori cal burial as evidenced by citation of their death dates in recent Soviet publications but not yet the right to a his torical autopsy." Thanks To Frats Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chapter of the American Red Cross wishes to express its appreciation to the Interfrat ernity Council, and to those individual fraternities who al so gave additional donations, for their assistance in the Santa Claus Ditty Bag project, whose purpose is to make sure there is no serviceman in the Viet Nam area who is forgot ten on Christmas. Through its staff serving with the United States forces throughout Viet Nam, the Red Cross is providing an avenue for channeling these gift bags directly to servicemen. This is a tangible way to show that we are solidly be hind our fighting men in Viet Nam. It has helped to make this Christmas a memorable one for every man or woman on duty in Viet Nam. Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chapter American Red Cross Big Celebration Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: This is to clarify the occur ences surrounding our bag-piper-in-residence. Far be it from us to allow our pledges to celebrate a fes tival of the bagpipes and go dancing madly in the streets. It is totally infeasible that any of our pledges would ever act in such an ungentlemanly manner and go parading in front of Spencer dorm. No; we wish to make it clear that this is an honor reserved for the brotherhood only. The truth is that we were actually celebrating the dis-. covery of peat bogs just north of Glascow in 1748, in our usual manner. While such a discovery may not mean much to most, it means a great deal to the C.H.P.B.A. (Chapel Hill Peat Bog Association). So we beg indulgence and extend our sincerest apologies to anyone we may have dis turbed or offended Tau Epsilon Phi Bagpiper-In-Residence Committee (Editor's note The following article from the Daily Californian describes some of the reform in education currently being initiated at the University of California at Berkeley.) By PEGI HENDERSON Educational reform at Berkeley, while making headlines with major developments such as the Mus catine Report, has also been making quieter progress in many departments. According to Neil J. Smelser, assistant chancellor for educational development, many departments have been working on improved teaching techniques. Many of these experiments remained undiscovered until Smelser was asked by the newly created Board of Educational Development to get reports from depart ments on experiments m education. This survey so far shows that there are several dozen experimental programs now in operation, ac cording to Smelser. Many of these are variations on the tutorial ap- . proach first instituted here last year by Paul H. Pieh- ;: ler, professor of English. In the tutorial system, a few students are assigned to meet regularly with a professor and teaching assist ant. This program has spread in various forms from . the English department to dramatic arts and sociology The comparative literature department also uses this method in classes which meet in various residence halls, instead of on-campus classrooms. Freshman and sophomore seminars, which began in the history department, may also spread, according to Smelser. The history department is also offering a small enrollment course of about 25 students, which will feature professors speaking on their particular special ties. Another trend, according to Smelser, is the prin cipal of a compact, brief course bringing students from many departments or divisions of a department together. Such an arrangement gives students com mon experience in one area before they specialize An example of this is a course in contemporary natural sciences which integrates the natural and nhvs ical sciences. In some programs, the aim is a closer connection between the professor's research and the student's classwork. . whrn f V? thG Z0l0 department, where upper division and honor students are given the opportunity to participate in a type of proseminar conducting highly specialized experuiients PrSeRUnar' According to Smelser, this is one way in which to utilize more research centers and manpower toward teaching while continuing research He also said that this type 'of class could be applied more widely, to the social sciences for ex ample. ' In the German department, the training of teaching assistants is being changed. A senior lecturer is if ' charge of all TAs who teach lower livision German This professor lectures to and trains the TaTX0 each have to take specialized courses in and observe the classes of other TAs UUAUgy The French department is planning similar train- " ing for its teaching assistants. ain The music department is instituting a rs to ta.ee one-half hour of -
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