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Page 2 In Our Opinion ..... I Who's Afraid Of Jesse Heli The University That's Who THE DAILY TAR HEEL Innocence Terrified By ItTTmage Of The Satyr Thursday, October 20, 1966 V A V - Sloane Letter shows : The relegation of graduate in structor Michael Paull to "duties other than teaching" is a monu J mental tribute to WRAL-TV's man : ager Jesse Helms and his never ' ending campaign to misconstrue the image of and cast public dis ; favor upon the University, i It is also a sad commentary on the ability of public opinion or, i better stated, public misunder - standing to alter the course of ; academic freedom. : ' Helms, who would make a good ; running mate r Lester Maddox, : has long been noted for his reac ' tionary approach to everything that happens in Chapel Hill. He pro i vided one of his most outstanding disservices to the cause of educa- :tion Monday night when he broad ; "cast an incomplete account of the story concerning Paull's Eng t jlish class. K Without taking the time to learn ' to full account of the situation, WRAL-TV news shocked its listeA ers Monday night with the an nouncement that a UNC English instructor had embarrassed his class by asking them to write com positions of an "objectionable na ture" detailing the proceedings of a seduction. This broadcast and a newspap er article the following morning made no mention of the poem which was the center of the topic, nor did either of the two news med ia even hint that the assignment was in any way related to legiti mate course work. We were not at all surprised to find Helms in the center of such a "contorted picture. We've more or less resigned ourselves to accept ing him as one of the unavoidable evils of out society, .v But we are quite distressed that Vis-rasping tongue should be so " -werful as to cut through the re spected walls that protect acade mic freedom from an often -misunderstanding citizenry and influ ence our administrative leaders to remove this instructor from his classroom. We were not in the classroom when Paull gave the assignment. Perhaps he did not make himself sufficiently clear. Nor were we there when some of the composi tions were read aloud. Perhaps some portions of them were offen sive to the young ears in his class. If this was the case, then he indeed would not be going to far to apologize to his class mem bers. If there be members in the class who feel they simply cannot bear up to a thorough study of some of the priceless though of ten naughty literary works of the ages, they should be allowed to transfer to another section. We were pleased to notice that Chancellor Sitterson's public state ment to the press made it perfect ly clear that no punitive measures were to be taken and no charges would be lodged against Paull. But then, what greater insult could be hurled at a member of the teacher world than to remove him from, his classroom? And what greater threat could be posed to teachers in general than to see one of their colleagues squelched in such a manner? We have, from time to time in various situations, expressed our displeasure with the fact that the University hops when the public whistles. Here is another unfortun ate example of this. We hope many others will join our outcry against this policy, and especially, this specific case. The following parody on "To His Coy Mistress' ' was written, by Dr. Kenneth- Reckford associate professor of classics. We hopeTit says as much to you as it did to us.. To His Coy Had we but World enough and Time, this quick surrender were no crime: we might, with months) and years to waste, pet and seduce the public taste, and even Helms' marvelous tongue might turn to business better sung: yet though love grows through every hour and loins ungirt maintain their power, freedom is something won't stay hot when laid within the ground to rot. If education, when it's free, still propagates democracy,' why must we exile or castrate the minds of those who'd serve this State? Dr. Kenneth J. Reckford Associate Professor of Classics Issues From Back Issues Oct. 20, 1961 The reverse "sit - in" case of a ; DuKe University divinity student :; will be head this Tuesday in th e Chapel HiU Recorder's Court. Edward Opton, 21, requested service at the Negro counter in the Chapel Hill Bus Station last June 21 and was charged with trespass ing by the grill'3 owner, Leo Elia dis, when he refused to leave. Oct. 20, 1956 An intrepid group of Carolina gentlemen returned to Chapel Hill .this morning empty handed after an all - night attempt to statue nap the University of Maryland's terrapin. The unsuccessful attempt was the culmination of two weeks' pre paration during which routes, ren devous, and time schedules were arranged in the greatest possible detail. Oct. 20, 1951 The Terps gave a fine exhibition , of offensive football in the first half and Carolina completely dominat j ed the second half, but couldn't make a right move when they got close to the Terp Goal. The victory was the first one by Maryland over the Tar Heels since 1926 and apparently the Terps l have cleared the last obstacle be tween themselves and an undefeat ed season. 6 iatlg ar 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott Goodf ellow, 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. 'Postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel mil, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter, $3 per year. Printed by the W. Franklin St., Chapel Kill, N. C. mmmm f T . ' - sateh :.r '1: v t Asylum In Canada (Editor's note This is the second and final article about American students who have fled to Canada to avoid the U. S. draft. The author is a columnist for the Collegiate Press Service.) By ROGER RAPOPORT TORONTO "I've always thought a man had an obliga tion to go fight where his country tells him to," says Corporal Ron Mcintosh, a ca reer soldier with the Cana dian Army. "But it seems to me that the United States hasn't given its boys much of an explanation on why they should go to Viet Nam. So if they want to come up here to escape the draft it's fine with me." Most of official Canada views things the same way. Police, civic, and university administrators as well as the press solidly endorse the right of U. S. citizens to avert con scription. U. S. diplomatic and military officials are not visi bly dismayed by the situation either. "There's no reason to get your blood pressure up when you have a few hundred draft ' dodgers amidst 30 . minimi draft registrants," National Selective Service Director Lt. Gen. Lewis b. Hershey said. "You can't have a sawmill without a little sawdust and these draft-dodgers are just sawdust. Besides I don't think they are much of an asset to the United States. I've told my Canadian friends that they are welcome to them." rCa,a,d seems to ob lige. "We don't even think about it," says a spokesman for the city of Toronto in the ??,P?fh new citv hali. What s the saying: What you don t know doesn't hurt you " he says whimsically. A spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ex plains that the draft status of u. S. immigrants is not a matter of Canadian concern. And the Toronto Globe and Mail wrote in a recent editor ial, "The granting of politi cal asylum is an accepted principle in all civilized coun tries. Canada cannot, decently breach this principle." At the University of Toronto admissions director E.M. Dav idson says the draft status of American applicants is not a factor in admission to the school. "We admit exclusively on academic and behavioral grounds." Davidson has noticed no up surge of applicants from American men to the school. In fact, the number of U. S. male applicants has fallen off in recent months. "But that's probably because the draft is draining off a lot of our pros pective American; students," he explains. - Several Canadian organiza tions actively assist ex patriates. The Student Union for Peace Action with head quarters at 659 Spadina St. has become the Welcome Wagon for American draft 'dodgers. It helps new arrivals to settle. . While SUPA leader Tony -Hyde is quick to explain that -his organization "makes no move to get people to come up here," it has published an informative 15-cent pamphlet f called, "Coming to Canada?" " for Americans concerned about the possibility of being ,a drafted." ' The informative document includes all pertinent informa- tion on such crucial matters as deportation, extradition, customs, and landed immi grant status (a prerequisite to Canadian citizenship). In es sence it says that coming to I Canada poses no major prob lem for the draft dodger who ' plans ahead. Hyde says the pamphlet is "our fastest selling item at present. We get about 50 re quests a week and the num ber is growing." But he is quick to point out ' that the pamphlet is no mon- Coeds Like Babies? Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: in Sunday's editorials there appeared a most interesting line: "Women are where they belong." The article accused , the coeds of having risen from their second-class citi zenship. The line is most interesting, -but does it not miss the point? ine coed can never rise from her second-class position until she assumes the responsibili ties for her own existence, the -same responsibilities that her male counter part assumes every day. The coed cannot compete in a real sense; Many articles have been written concerning the views of . one sex toward the other. Interesting, but how can you expect a coed to act mar a f Vi m A v- uiau iiiuiuuic u you treat her like a four year old child? Federal courts refuse to up hold a university's position in the question of in loco paren tis. Do not the Women's Rules violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Must someone file suit with the Federal District Court before the University will step into the twentieth century? So far, on this campus, I have found about four girls worth dating; with all the others I felt as if I was dating my eleven year old sister. Is this the way we want our coeds to be? Recently an Arkansas poli tician went on record stating that women should be kept in the home, barefoot and preg nant. Could it be that the ini- tv skttpps? Why is the University afraid to let women compete in the real world? Is it afraid that they can't? Charles D. Allard eymaker. "We lose two cents on- every pamphlet since we send them out airmail at 17 cents. But we want to do it that way since a lot of our orders come from urgent cases." Another organization aiding draft dodgers is the Fellow ship for Reconciliation, a small Christian pacifist group. The group's Canadian Nation al secretary, Brewster Kneen, says he tore up his "draft card into fine pieces and mailed it back to the draft board," after moving here from Cleveland. Kneen says one of the most encouraging things about Can ada to new arrivals is the lack of "pressure to become Canadian. No one makes you take on some kind of super ficial idealogy. It's not like American where you must do it or get drummed out. I'd much rather bring up my kids here than in Cleveland." Nicholas Volk, U. S. Vice Consul in Toronto says he is not worried about the a i d Canadian groups are giving American draft dodgers. "It's none of our concern," says Volk. "We feel it's a matter for the Canadian government. We are guests here." And one draft dodger re ports that a woman who had been actively finding homes for the new American arriv als was recently visited by agents from the American Se cret Service and the Royal Mounted Police. When the officials ques tioned the woman about her settlement activities of the previous weekend she offered the perfect alibi. The woman explained that she had gone to see "Don Giovanni" at the Stratford, Ontario, drama fes tival. "Everyone thinks that be cause the United States is a democracy," says one expa triate; "that we are obliged to follow all its laws. But that's not true. Simply be cause the draft law was dem ocratically passed doesn't mean we should be pro hibited from going against it." Gen. Hershey disagrees. "Congress never took notice of political reasons for want ing to stay out of the Army. You couldn't run a democracy if everyone obeyed the laws he liked and defied the ones he didn't. WTiy you couldn't even run a fraternity unless everyone went along with ma jority decisions." The history books tell us that many of the mid-lQth century immigrants to the U. S. were leaving central European countries to escape compul sory service. And a lot of them became fine citizens here." The Selective Service direc tor contends that American conscription "provides the military strength to protect Canada and keep it draft free. As long as you've got a big brother around you don't have to learn how to box." A Misunderstanding The letter to the editor from Dr. Joseph Sloane in Tuesday's DTH has caused some consternation in the DTH office, and the questions he has brought up probably could use some clarification. The criticism of the Tar Heel coverage of the re cent Keidsville Conference on education improvement (as you wish, Dr. Slaone) should probably be divided into two distinct areas. Dr. Sloane's basic criticism was of an editorial written about the conference by DTH Editor Fred Thomas. It should be remembered by all concerned that any opinions about the success or failure of Reids ville are bound to be colored by the over - all pro ductiveness of the particular seminar which the com mentator was a part of . Though editorial writers may disagree about the ef fectiveness of the methods employed towards the ac complishment of this objective, they do so only out of a zeal to see change enacted quickly and compre hensively. Fred Thomas happened to be less impressed with the results his group produced than he might have been had he been assigned to another seminar. The criticism of Fred's editorial is certainly welcomed as another side of the coin. There is another aspect to Dr. Sloane's letter which should be dealt with separately. This is the implica tion that the DTH has not sought to further the aims of Reidsville because the conference was not given adequate publicity in the newspaper. This point could probably stand some debate, but it is certain that the DTH does have some credits to its name on this issue. Dr. Sloane and others who were involved in the Reidsville Conference must understand that the entire DTH staff is certainly committed to the concept of education improvement, and will fully encourage any efforts towards this goal. There can be little doubt that some of the seminar groups were less stimulating than others, mainly be cause so much depended upon the characteritics of the dividuals involved and the ability of the moderator to channel discussion. Lpng before plans, for the Reidsville Conference were formulated, the DTH began publishing a number of articles presenting the possibilities for education improvement. Not only have they dealt with the prob lems of the educational process on this campus, but they have also covered many of the improvements currently being made on other campuses across the na tion and around the world. Such articles will continue to appear in the pages of this newspaper. With the continued .individual r committment from Dr. Sloane and other members of the faculty 'and ad ministration, we can be sure that change will come about. And in turn, those who have doubts about the Tar Heel's position on these matters may be assured that the spirit of Reidsville will continue to live in the pages of this newspaper. John Greenbacker Peter Harris Student's Thoughts Drift In The Fail The longing to break away from Chapel Hill grows stronger in the late days of October. Each dried leaf that crunches under your step sends your mind twirling many miles from Chapel Hill. You remember the frosty mountain evenings, and the ear ly morning scent of pine. Visions of the shimmering ocean at sunrise awak en the dormant impulse to tear down the beach, drift wood in hand, and a dog by your side. Thoughts of the cool, brisk, New York wind whip ping through your raincoat become more vivid each time you think about it. Your mind wanders and your hand grasps for the girl's hand. The sight of red and golden leaves in Connecticut, the laughing faces of the past these all flash in front of you. Even the stench of a Third Avenue or eighth street bar fascinates you once again, and the funny times with the fabulous people from nowhere send you chuckling. You wonder at the kids who go home to their small North Carolina towns every two or three weeks. How do they feel? Do they long for the mountains and the trout streams, or for the city and its cold, tall buildings which enclose the sweet, snappy music of Billy Taylor? You remember the foggy, tilted vision of a swizzle stick in your scotch and soda. Romantic notions can not help but pass through your brain. Yet, it all comes back to Chapel Hill, because a part of you has become attached to the Hill, a men tor, the tumbling leaves and the blooming dogwoods. You did not plan it that way, but. . . The adage that youth is wasted on the young aches your body, for you know that even youth, itself, does not have the time to burst forth with all the energy that nature prescribed for it. The good times at school are worked in between long, dry periods of study; the summer rests with a job, blow - outs, and no regrets. Thus, you realize that the few really good times must be great times, and you count on your memor ies being as fabulous as you wish they will be when you are older.
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