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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Wednesday, November 2, 1966
John Greenback
In Our Opinion ...
Lonely BeaOi At Texai
atman, This Time It's A
iddler, But Not A Joker
R
Holy Bedroom! This sounds
like a job for Batman! .
If the mysterious girl - watch
er had been a few days later in
coming, everyone might have as
sumed him to be the Great Pump
kin. But he wasn't a few days later,
and the women living around cam
pus are justifiably frightened at
the thought of this masked prowl
er who popped up in the middle
of the night in women's bedrooms
first at Winston and then at t h e
Tri - Delt house.
An article in yesterday's DTH
concerning his Sunday morning
appearance at the Tri - Delt house
said, "The girls immediately call
ed police, who immediately sur
rounded the house."
But immediately was not soon
enough, and the prowler darted
down the stairs and out a side
door.
Local police said if they were
called quickly enough in future in
stances, the could probably catch
the prowler by surrounding the
area.
This was amusing for two rea
sons: first, we didn't know there
were enough policemen on duty on
the. night shift in Chapel Hill to
surround a house; and, a sec
ond, unless prowl cars were al
ready on patrol in the area of such
a call, we doubt even a Batmo
bile could arrive on the scene be
fore the prowler had time to jaunt
out a door or window.
But it was encouraging to note
that the police chief referred to
"future instances." No doubt the
villian will attempt to strike again.
Being ready for him is a good
start. But the police are not the
only ones who must be ready. De
spite our light comments concern
ing the police department, we real
ize they have plenty to keep them
busy. And tracking down an unpre
dictable masked lover is certainly
no easy task.
It would not be wasted if the
women of all living units here dis
cussed possible preventative solu
tions to this menace as well as an
effective way of alerting all resi
dents if the prowler appears.
Thinking About Slate Vote
j; Behold the independents.
f We don't recall ever having
f-seen an independent candidate for
fa class office. But this fall we
.have three one for president of
the freshman class, one for presi
dent of the sophomore class and
one for vice president of the sopho
more class.
In view of the function of class
offices, we tend to discount the im
portance of party affiliation of
class officers . - . T -
However since the question of
independent "candidates is raised,
we take this opportunity to com
ment on party affiliation in the
top two positions in Student Gov
ernment. The idea of electing the presi
dent and vice president of the Stu
dent Body under a "slate" system
that is, requiring that both of
ficers be elected from the same
party was tossed about widely
last year.
Briefly Editorial
We've heard of people being
hanged in effigy before. But we've
never heard of a group of college
guys planning such a hanging, then
calling the dean of men to get ap
proval as the men of Old West did
Monday night.
Now take those brutes from
South Bend that literally murder
ed the Tarheels. We wonder if
they got clearance through the
mc administration.
From Back Issues
(Issues that made the news in The
Daily Tar Keel on this date five, 10, and
15 years ago.)
Nov. 2, mi
' Two hundred and seventy-nine coeds
;will invade Cobb Dormitory next fall to
.displace the present male occupants,
v The mass movement depends on $50,
,000 ear-marked by the pending Univer
sity bond issue for conversion of Cobb
to suitable women's quarters.
Nov. 2, 1958
Pay telephones will be installed in
all men's dormitories, according to an
announcement made at Wednesday
night's Interdormitory Council meeting.
: The overall installation of pay tele
phones in place of non-pay phones in
men's dorms is a result of the recent
difficulties which arose when dorm men
placed long distance calls from non-pay
phones.
Nov. 2, 1951
The University of Virginia student
council yesterday asked all university
men to refrain from drinking on their
way to and from student dances on the
campus.
"Much unnecessary criticism" has
been heaped on the school "for exhibi
tion drinking."
It was fairly obvious for ev
eryone to see the difficulties in
herent in an administration whose
top two executives come from dif
ferent parties. And an amendment
was passed in a campus - wide
referendum under which the slate
election system would have been
operational in last spring's elec
tions. Then the tables were turned.
A popular office - seeker from
.South Campus failed to get the
nomination Jo president of the
" student body from the University
party. - Those UP members who
had supported him in the conven
tion, along with a group of SP
sympathizers and independents,
set out to get the slate amend
ment wiped off the books so that
this candidate could runset out to
this candidate could run as an inde
pendent without a vice presidential
candidate on the ticket with him.
The appeal was made to "give
this man his just right to run for
office," and, in another campus -wide
referendum, the amendment
was annulled.
We think it's time to begin
thinking once again about a slate
system for the top two SG posts.
Just think about it for now.
We'll have more to say in the near
future.
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.
Second class postage paid at the
Post Office in Chapel Hill, N C
Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes
ter; $8 per year. Printed by the
Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501
W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N C
It was business as usual in
the Tar Heel office two days
ago.
Heaped on the Associate Ed
itor's desk was the familiar
disarray of exchange news
papers from other colleges
across the country, awaiting
searching, ink-smeared hands
that would glean their pages
for the informative of the con
troversial. Out of the insides of the big
ones, the Daily Californian
from Berkeley,
The Minnesota
Daily, The Dai
ly Texan or the
Iowa Daily, old
names and
faces would ap
pear, and time
past would once
again merge
with time pres
ent:
A student
body president
fights attempts to censor his
speeches at a big midwestern
university, and his image ma
terializes from the final day
of the National Student Asso
ciation Congress, dressed in
shabby work clothes instead
of the usual suit, and the en
gaging eyes bloodshot from
whiskey and lack of sleep.
A fiery young radical on the
West Coast calls for the aboli
tion of the draft and promises
to flee to Canada rather than
fight a war against his princi
ples, and the swift form of the
high school halfback mo v e s
across the field toward the
showers, his open smile and
joyous words anticipating the
Saturday night celebration.
Twenty - one years of living
may be compressed into an in
stant inside the dirty, imper
sonal pages of a newspaper.
Monday it happened again.
The Daily Texan: Oct. 25,
page one at the bottom. Not
more than two inches , of per
sonal tragedy, strictly accord
ing to the A. P. stylebook.
He was a 19-year-old sopho
more from Newport, R. I., a
transfer student from the Cal
ifornia Institute of Technology,
and his roommate walked into
their apartment twelve days
ago to find him suspended
from a television cable.
"Justice of the Peace Rob
ert Kuhn ruled the death sui
cide by hanging. . .Funeral
arrangements are pending at
the Hyltin - Manor Funeral
Home."
1,500 miles away in Chapel
Hill, a person could fill a book
with those two inches.
The story would begin 17
years ago in a housing de
velopment in Norfolk, Virgin
ia, where children from two
happy families played tag in
the nearby woods, or searched
in the piles of refuse surround
ing the municipal incinerator
for the silver treasure of a
discarded vegetable can or
the pondered history of an old
shoe.
In the forest the trees grew
exotic fruit: chinaberries to be
dyed and strung, and heaps of
apples and pears. There were,
too, the poison purple berries
that grew in tangled vines
longing to be squeezed out in
to the potion jars of fledgling
witches and sorcerers.
The magic had fled four
years ago in Newport.
- The tall, gentle introvert
savored fleeting and self-conscious
moments of pleasure on
skis in the water of Brenton
Cove and Narragansett Bay.
Life was beginning to close
in on him even then, and later
that fall, in the late hours of
the night he worked with
desperate intensity to gain ad
mission to the finest of
schools.
. Nothing in life came easily,
and tiie knowledge of trials
ahead filled him with fear.
On the white sands of Vir
ginia Beach, his mother turn
ed to the loud and outspoken
junior from UNC and with a
simple appeal: "I wish you
would talk to him. He's scared
about college. Maybe you could
tell him what it is like or what
he can expect."
What could the junior say to
the freshman, who hesitated
to voice . his problems with
slow deep tones? ,
He could only respond with
tales of adolescent torment at
the hands of young beasts in
his residence halL
He drank to much his first
fall at Carolina, and wan
dered disheveled late at night
in indecision, a long way from
home. He told his younger
friend that after two years of
college the monstrous "period
of adjustment" was yet to be
completed.
He was no comfort.
The freshman left the fam
ous engineering school ex
hausted after one semester,
and transferred to the mam
moth state university, where
he changed his major and
rented an apartment before
the second year's ordeal.
On the Daily Texan's edi
torial page of Oct. 26, the aft
ermath had been recorded:
"The University community
consists of more than 30,000
persons. All are individuals
aware of their individuality.
Those who seek identify find
it hard to achieve and harder
to maintain. Many find iden
tity in social groups, clubs,
cadres and cliques. Still oth
ers are without ties of group
affiliation and often find the
path of life a lonely one. . .
"Persons react to problems
differently. The 'cold' nature
of the University . does not
help particularly. The ionely'
persons on campus often find
themselves as another hand
shake, number of name. Often
persons find themselves thrust
into all sorts of problems. . .
"The shift from anxiety to
adjustment to achievement
can be. a long path. If the
'lonely' student cannot make
this shift by himself or through
his associates, he certainly
should not hesitate to ask for
the help of the professional
services offered by the Uni
versity." The Texan's printed solu
tion came a day after the an
nouncement of death, capsul
ized as if from the back of an
aspirin bottle.
But twelve days ago in the
brutal clarity of mid - after
noon, no one was there to
hold the troubled sophomore's
hand or offer understanding
when he needed it most. In a
community of 30,000 hand
shakes and numbers, the en
lightened educational commu
nity, there was no communi
cation, no precious moment of
understanding.
Within all this there is a
very real and pertinent mes
sage for Chapel Hill and its
university. If this is to be
come a massive institution of
tens of thousands, then the
administrators must do their
utmost to personalize their
university's education 'and seek
out the individual student.
Above all the students and
teachers themselves must also
be quick to recognise and re
act to the student in a stress
situation.
Something in the education
al experience "at the large un
iversity will prove fatal to
many more young Americans
before the year has run its
course.
The deadly menace will not
prove to be a telebision cable,
or a razor or a bottle of sleep
ing pills. It is far more pro
found and more incidious. It
must be isolated by the skilled
hands of the understanding re
searcher, and eliminated.
Letters To The Editor
SimdemS mlh For Fair Profs
Modify Exams
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
This is my fifth year at the
University, and during tha
course of that time I have had
many different professors.
There are some that I remem
ber as outstanding men and
women, and there are t some
that I would "just rattier' not
remember at all.
What makes a good profes
sor in the eyes of a student?
He is one who knows his ma
terial, who presents it in an
organized and interesting man
ner, and one who is genuinely
University, and during the
matter how many he may
have in his classes.
But above all else, he is one
who is fair; fair in the types
of tests that he gives, and fair
in the way that he grades his
quizzes. .
This semester I have one
professor who has approxi
mately 100 students in only one
of his classes. I am by no
means an outstanding member
of that class, and yet he knows
me by my first name and
knows where I am from (and
he knew this the first time I
ever walked into his office.)
Recently this professor gave
a quiz covering all the ma
terial we have had so far in
the course. The test was all
essay, very comprehensive,
and covering all of the materi
al. It was not easy, to say
the least, but it was fair. The
questions were ones that dealt
with important points, and
ones that required thought, not
just memorization of insigni
ficant facts soon to be forgot
ten. Furthermore, the test was
graded fairly. Credit was given
where credit was due, and an
Honest effort was made to try
and understand what the stud
dent was trying to say even
when the answer was a bit
vague. The test was a learn
ing experience, not a memory
quiz.
Finally, even with more than
100 students all told, this pro
fessor invites students to come
to him for discussion of the
test, points they still don't
understand, a d questions a
bout the grading. He is a busy
man, yes, but not so busy that
he has no time for his students.
He is an outstanding profes
sor. I have another professor this
semester who falls into the ot
her catagory. The course is
not a statistics course (far
from it), but my notebook is
fuU of nothing but numbers and
charts. You can imagine how
fascinating the lectures are
Recently this professor also
gave an hour exam, and I have
never seen such a collection
of questions in my life! De
spite the fact that the read
ing material contains theories
practical points, philosophies!
and general knowledge, the
test merely asked for a par
roting of data.
No thought was required,
just memory, and memory of
the more unimportant materi
al, at that. In short, the test
was a real nuisance.
However, I had studied for
it, I knew my quota of facts
to back up the theories, and I
thought I had done fairly de
cently on it. I flunked it, along
with, many of my classmates.
The grading was absolutely
unbelievable. No credit was gi
ven for any understanding of
the material where the data
happened to be a few points
off.- Also, the questions were
obviously graded in a hurry,
and without much thought to
what the student was trying
to put across.
To ice the cake, this pro
fessor refuses to discuss the
test or the grading with any
of the students.
What kind of learning expe
rience is this?
Please understand, this let
ter is not sour grapes. Grades
per se are not the most im
portant of my worries. What's
done is done, and perhaps I
can do better on the next
one.
I am only asking you as pro
fessors to take another look
at yourselves and at your stu
dents. Are you providing them
with knowledge and under
standing, or just facts? Are
you giving them a chance to
really learn? Are your exams
a real test of that learning?
Take another look around
your classroom. Are your stu
dents obviously interested in
what you have to say, or do
they greet you with blank
yawn? Is there respect in their
relationship to you, or obvious
resentment?
Do your students come to
you to complain, or to dis
cuss? Do they come to you at
all?
Please think about it, profes
sors. Students are human, too,
and we will respond to you,
but only in the way that you
provide for us. Give every
student the chance to say that
all of his professors are out
standing. Terry Verduin
Reinstate Paull
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
I got an M.A. in English at
Carolina last year. Through
out my stay in Chapel Hill I
resisted the temptation to
write long letters of protest to
The Tar Heel.
There was plenty to protest
about the speaker ban, the
curtailment of free speech at
UNC but there seemed, and
there still seems, very little
good to be derived out of pro
testing. The majority of the frater
nity bloc couldn't quite com
prehend what was going on.
They couldn't quite make the
connection between refusing
Herbert Aptheker the right to
speak on campus and the loss
of UNC's national prestige.
I am now an instructor in
the English Department at the
Wright State campus in Day
ton, Ohio. Today Xerox cop
ies of an article in the Sunday
Times were handed out to all
faculty members. Chapel Hill
has again made the papers
this time by bowing to an ig
norant; Negro . baiting radio
commentator, this time in a
sphere without question . aca
demic. I will not cloud the issue by
going into the literary merits
of Andrew Marvell. It would
be more worthwhile to leave
Jesse Helms and his kind to
their football games and
lynchings and not attempt to
burden their intellects with
things irrelevant to their dai
ly lives.
The fact is that UNC has
suffered almost irreparable
damage because of this farce.
The officers of the school to
whom the students and facul
ty have every right to look
for some courageous action,
some sort of intellectual hon
esty have failed them miser
ably. The acting chairman of
the English Department has
demonstrated that he is doing
just that, only acting.
And that newspaper article
the one in which UNC and
not Michael Paull, comes out
obscene and filthy and revolt
ing, has been plastered all
over the bulletin boards here
and probably over the bulle
tin boards in other colleges
and universities across the
country as well,
I anticipate cries of "Who
ever heard of Wright State?
UNC is great."
I heard frat boys shout out
insults to Aptheker when he
.spoke across the wall last
year. Carolina students often
take the short view. Raleigh
politicians, a great many of
whom are UNC grads, show
that Carolina students do not
necessarily become wiser with
age.
As it stands now, Carolina
is on its way down. In twenty
years the men and women
who graduate from Wright
State will be able to point
with pride to their alma mat
er. It remains to be s e e n
whether or not UNC will be
able to offer accredited de
grees at that time.
I am very proud to have
gone to UNC I hope some
day to return ther,e , to . con
tinue my studies, .that is,, if
the school still has a graduate
program in a year or two.
I am very proud, also, to be
a friend of Michael Paull. I
resent deeply what the ad
ministration has done to the
school and to him.
Reinstate Paull now before
it's too late. And get the pub
lic relations staff on the ball
also. Good publicity is much
harder to get then bad pub
licity. UNC doesn't need any more
of the latter her worthy
chancellor has already giver
'her enough to last a million
years.
Neal L. Goldstien
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