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lu Our Opinion . Wilson Clark, Jr. In Your Sole, You Know The Left Heel Is Right If the shoe fits, wear it. Son which? foot does the "left heeled" shoe fit? It was certainly an amusing question raised in a letter in yes terday's DTH. And, indeed, a val id question. If one considers the Left Heel cover drawing to be a footprint, then it is a left heel. However, if it is considered to be the bottom of a shoe, then, without a doubt, it is a right heel. No doubt everyone on campus, including the members of Students for a Democratic Society, got a hearty chuckle from the sugges tion that the right left heel might be construed to mean that SDS has been taken over by right-wingers, imperalist warmongers, Min utemen, a hawk in dove's clothing. But we cease to smile and rise to challenge at the last point made in the letter: that the wrong-footed heel is "simply a faux pas, char acteristic of the confusion t h a ' continues to exhibit itself through out the publication in its treatment of current issues." When we first caught wind of SDS's intention to establish a news paper we wrongly assumed its main purpose would be to attack the DTH as being preiudiced. apa thetic, inefficient, unconcerned, uninformed, etc. It wouldn t have been the first time a leftist organization had lev eled such charges against the cam pus newspaper. And we were all set to fire our retort to the charges. But when the first issue came out a little more than three weeks ago, we didn't find what we were expecting. What we found, in-' stead, was , a neat r little booklet, . with; , an r attractive and eye-catching "cover, filled with well-written articles of opinion on matters of great pertinence to all University students. The first issue of the Left Heel can be called "bad" only in com parison with the two subsequent issues. For the paper has grown better each week. The co-editors Ann Schunior V "i. and Bryden Gordon wisely pick ed Monday as distribution day, thereby offering students some thing to read on the day when there is no DTH. As a result, every is sue, with a run of 1,500 copies, has been a sell-out. So, we do not consider the Left . Heel competition. Rather we con sider it a complement. A complement because it de votes its entire space to such mat ters as the war in Viet Nam, the draft, social reform. Matters that we feel need to be discussed by students, but to which we are un able to devote only a part of one page of our publication, and that not frequently enough. A complement because contrib utors spend a week working out imaginative, and at the same time very real, treatments of such sub ject matter. And, most importantly, a com plement because it undoubtedly causes its readers to think. Not necessarily to agree, but to think. The writers of the earlier-mentioned letter speak of "confusion . . . in the treatment of current issues." We tend to believe that confu sion in this case really" means an interpretation or comment with which the letter writers disagree. We're- not saying that we agree with every opinion that has been expressed in the Left Heel. Nor do we expect anyone to, any more than he would agree with every opinion expressed in any publica tion. But we think of a statement once made by Francis Bacon: Read not to contradict and con fute, nor, to believe and take for .granted: , but to weigh and con sider". ' " V ': ,v' '1 .--r--.?-v4 r, We wish every student on cam-' pus would approach the Left Heel with this attitude. Whether you are liberal or conservative, try to for get the "organization" behind the publication, and read and evaluate' each article for what it says. Then, be it a left or a right heel, if the shoe fits, wear it. White Lie Painted Orange O.K., News of Orange County, Halloween is past, you can take your false face off now. The false face we are referring to is the quaint little Old English script line beneath the flag which reads, "Oldest newspaper in the county, established 1893." We've faced and accepted our fair share of disappointments this year: football losses, cancellation of the Four Tops, failure of the Great Pumpkin to appear. But to pick up a local news paper and have it stare us in the face and tell us that we are not the oldest publication in the land of Orange was more than we could take. So, we set about our investiga tion: Within minutes the forces of right and justice led us to the Hu manities Department of Wilson Li brary. There we chanced to come upon a helpful librarian who spent a little over an hour leafing through Union List of Newspapers, a record of all American newspa pers published between 1821-1936. And what did we find? Well, what we did not find was a News of Orange County established in the year 1893. But, to be quite hon . est, we did find a Chapel Hill News founded in that year. And through a series of name-changes, this publication became the News of Orange County. However, and this is the big however, it was founded Oct. 12, 1893. Now the Daily Tar Heel marks its birth from Feb. 25, 1893 (and we have a photographic plate of the first issue to prove it) . Therefore, however and not withstanding, etc., the DTH is, in . fact, the oldest newspaper in Or ange County by just 13 days shy of ; eight full months. So there, News of Orange Coun ty, we would appreciate your tak ing the not-so off your front page.- 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. Taft Snowdon, Joe Bailey . Edit Ear Editors 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; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. i A Description am Francisco ;ate Editor's note The following is the first in a series of three articles originally published in The Daily Californian describ ing the Experimental College of San Francisco State.) By SUE WERBE There are no sit-ins, riots, rallies, or outside political agi tation in this revolution. It is one in education, across the Bay at San Francisco State College. r ' At State there is"1 a " Radical, student - directed educational experiment called the "Exper imental College" (EC). The EC defies normal definitions of educational reform. It has no rigid formula. For example, there are courses on "The Disc Jockey," "Street Poetry," and "Cyber netics and LSD.". The rather novel idea be hind the EC is that students should take direct responsibi lity for their education. It's surprising that " "a de mocracy has such an authori tarian educational system," said Richard Axen, chairman of the Higher Education com mittee of State's Academic Senate. According to the system there is always someone to say "here's what you should do your ideas aren't impor tant we know what's best," he said. . . "It is satisfying to find stu dents challenging this institu tion," Axen continued. Axen was chairman of the Academic Senate last year when it unanimously approved the EC. One thing unique about the EC is that it is continually in the experimental stage it is not so rigidly organized that it cannot be changed. The organizational structure of the EC is not intended to be hierarchial. Everyone who wants to may participate. This semester the EC is ex perimenting -with regularly scheduled town meetings for everyone to consider current problems and to direct work in existing or proposed ' new areas. And in the midst of all this flexibility the EC trains its members in an attempt to be come "self - generating," said Jim Nixon, State's student body president. Anyone can try to organize a course on anything. The only requirement is that he ac curately describe what he is trying to do. Students make the final de cision about whether a pro posal becomes a course, byv signing up to attend or not. Also, there is no fee for any of the courses, whether a per son is enrolled at State or not. There are currently 18,521 stu dents enrolled there. Anyone can enter a course by making an agreement with an organizer about what each expects of the other. Organizers work with each other in different ways. Some of the areas in this semester's proposed courses range from "Institute for So cial Change," to "Black Cul ture and Arts," to "Interper sonal Communications." These are not disciplines or departments. They are char acterized by t h e particular people associated with .them and the philosophy and style of working which emerges from participants. State's experiment has no single leader. Each participant joins in setting the conditions for his or her own learning. EC assumes that a student is capable of making an open ended contract with himself sto learn, and is capable of 'playing a major role in eval-. uating of his own performance. "We've proved that students can be stimulated by what is being done and can do it on their own," Nixon says. Some of the other courses being taught this semester in clude: "Non-Violent Defense," "Art: the Super Present," "Kinesthetics"; "Jazz: Twelve Innovators," "French 'New Wave' Films," "The College and War," "The Historical Development and Social Significance of Black Power"; "Field Techniques of Estab lishing Rapport," "Why Thea tre?," "Propaganda, Brain washing, and the Political Metaphor," and "H u m a n Growth and Development or Sex Education for a Changing Society." State credit is available in the EC for all persons en rolled in regular State classes. The credit-seeking individual is responsible for making the necessary arrangements, as each is different. The bulk of the courses tak en for credit are on a pass fail basis, but letter grades can sometimes be obtained if , the individual wants them. EC uses classrooms on State's campus and is able to register students in the same room as the regular students are enrolled in. The EC does hot have to pay any rental fee for using state's classroom. Working directly with the . regular college differentiates the EC from the various "free universities" around the coun try. Greg de Giere, sophomore and Speaker of the Associated Student Legislature said the name free university defines what it is and limits it." Like a free university, the EC offers courses not avail able in the regular colleges and also gives courses which are similar to those in the regular school's catalogue. Axen quoted Karl Rogers, an advocate of non - direct teaching, as saying that "as far as he is concerned, the only significant learning is self-propriated learning." He said studies have been made of students who come into college with certain atti tudes and values and leave with the same ones. College, in effect, made no impact. Axen believes the major rea son is that most teaching is done in ' an authoritarian at mosphere. Participation in the EC is not limited to students. "The EC is a way of me be ing involved as a person that's one of the reasons it ap peals to me," says Herb Kauf man, associate professor of English and humanities at State. There is a great desire on the part of the kids to be treated as people. That's my desire too," Kaufman adds. State President John Sum merskill told the faculty that, at the college, "change is long overdue in content of many courses and experimentation is overdue in teaching meth - ods." - . f Students are often spear- heading this experimentation for the faculty. They are tak ing things learned in different disciplines and bringing them together to bear on problems which they are concerned with," Summerskill said. "In the EC, a 1 1 students have a stake in the course, and they interact with each other to accomplish what they want," Nixon explains. The EC was started last se mester to develop a new style of learning and teaching, to serve as a model for what SF State migh ultimately become. The success of the EC, from 350 students, 22 courses ' . and 30 professors involved in some way last semester to around 1,400 enrolled students, 73 tc 78 courses and roughly 50 pro fessors this semester, can be attributed in great part to co operation with, not co-optiot by, the faculty and the ad ministration. The EC has succeeded in remaining on the border line between being taken over by the regular college and being in opposition to the school. The air of basic co-opera-t i o n among administration, faculty and the student body didn't happen overnight. It has come from hard work and un derstanding by all over the last four years. Nixon said this began when there was a "gradual on slaught of seriousness in the student government." The winning platform then was "free speech and an end to rah-rah government." ' Following that, there was a succession of campus political groups which got started and ended, but succeeded in pro ducing students involved with the quality of education and community action. Also important is that both the Academic Senate and the student government are auton omous bodies. The Academic Senate is the highest policy making body on campus. They created this right in their constitution a few years ago. The Associated Students also wrote their autonomy into their constitution. Since 1962, they have been very active and didn't want to be c a p tured by the administration. State's Associated Students allotted the EC $6,200 last spring. This semester the Associa tion gave the EC $15,000 with the hope that some other or ganization will provide the needed extra funds. The U. S. Office of Educa tion has expressed great in terest in the EC and is now in the process of negotiating with them for additional aid to meet the great expansion. Whatever You Do, Don't Vote Nov. 8 Within the next few days, it will be our privilege to ex perience the great biennial joke. . . . voting. On all sides, the cry is heard: "Register! Participate in Democracy! Vote." It is as sumed that there is some ele ment of choice involved, for is this not the very basis of the voting process? What is this choice? For the answer, one may turn to democratic theory, but eventually, epirical evidence must be given: the candidates and their issues. This evalua tion proves most disappoint ing, from Jim Gardner to Ron ald Reagan, Harold Cooley tc Pat Brown. , For an excellent demonstra tion of electoral principle, I heartily suggest liberal use ol televised media: after allowing one's ears to be beaten sense less by insane rhetoric, the deep, gut appreciation of the democratic process will sure ly be felt by any faintly intelli gent citizen. Such a nebulous term as "the Establishment" will pene trate the most deafened ear: this word, bandied about fre quently by critics of the John son administration, takes on new meaning when the alert patriot breathes deeply of the insane oratory of any well -groomed candidate. Party labels have long since lost what little meaning and significance they may once have sheltered. Basically, we see two giant bumbling monoliths, termed Republican and Democrat, struggling for the one igno ble purpose: power. Power to tax. To control. To draft. To dictate. To persuade. To influ ence. And most importantly, to perpetuate. Whether by quasi - nepot ism, or mesmerism over a true - believing constituency. . nevertheless, the common de nominator stares out: raw, sparkling power. In the Year Of Our Lord 1966, the aim of the politi can has not changed, but his I modus operandi has Lyndon's granddaddy, Huey Long, may have used grits and bullhorns, but Mr. America prefers Louis Harris and George Gallup. Be it California or New York, no self respecting man of the people would to twen ty paces without an opinion poll fresh off the press. Ideology, principles mean lit tle to the elitists (and by this In Letters I mean the thousandfold seek ers of public office,) and for good reason, since they seek political power as a means, not an end. A means to per sonal power. In this light, one can ap preciate the Earl of Shrews bury's letter to Baron Somers in 1701: "Had I a son I would sooner breed him a cobbler than a courtier, and a hang man than a statesman." An adequate example of the tragicomic hypocrisy of the modern political game may be found in the words of D o n Muchmore, a $500,000 a year California pollster: "I don't care if a guy's a Bircher or a part of the New Left. . . . when he comes to me, he needs help." In the same Newsweek arti cle (October 31, 1966) appears the following marginal analy sis: "Ethical shadings and pro fessional pretensions apart, the modern political pollsters are one and all hired for a sin gle purpose: to read the pop ular mind and get the poli ticians more in harmony with it." This strategy works beauti fully. Witness the Reagan -Brown race in California. Rea gan, formerly, a maverick firebrand and bitter critic of federal spending policies, has now turned to several top "con sultant managers" with the consequent result of almost sterile "boy next door" image. Reagan hardly brushes his teeth without advice on prop er stroking from his pollsters. In Pennsylvania, the scene can hardly be considered less ludicrous. Milton Shapp, con tender for the governor's chair, actually wears maroon socks to show his creeping individ uality over the advice of super slick pollster Joe Napolitan, who cautioned him against .this breach of etiquette. You, fellow citizen are but a fraction of a decimal point to the well heeled candidate. Show your respect,' your so lidarity, belief in the over powering accuracy of the Uni vac. After all, what differ ence does it make? Cooley will spend your mon ey for agricultural appropria tions ; Gardner on education (or to paraphrase Paul Good man, on "mis - education") But it will be spent, nonethe less. So, on November 8, take a walk. . . .many miles from the polling booth. R eader Desires Big Puppet Show Leader Wrong Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Just a word in defense of our head cheerleader: The re cent letter criticising our cheerleader is in great error. According to the "Layman's Committee for the Evaluation of the Adequacy of the Direc tor of Enthusiastic Rooters" the leader of our cheering sec tion lacks in dedication. Well, anyone who has seen our leader yell his heart out (as he does in every game), anyone who has seen him strut, leap, and bounce over the platform to the point of ex haustion, anyone who has been exposed to tie electrifying en thusiasm inspired by our cheerleader can not help but notice his dedication and his zeal. Besides, I fail to see how we can seriously accept the criticism of anybody who hasn't the guts to sign his own name to such a letter. Richard A. Taylor Helms9 Stooges Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I was interested to see on CBS television news some beautiful color shots of fall in Chapel Hill, and also to hear that some new contro versy has at last been stirred up at Carolina. I transferred to Vanderbilt this year after two years with Carolina and the esteemed Governor, and I was begin ning to wonder if something had happened to Chapel Hill. I've been here almost two months without hearing any thing about Carolina except the Notre Dame football score. ere Now that Marvel has re placed Aptheker as the "man of the hour," I have but one concern: What has happened to Governor Dan? Has Jesse Helms viciously usurped the crown and suc ceeded him as "Raleigh's Raging Pedant?" With Jesse's natural wit and fine speaking voice you could have a super puppet show done from the steps of South Building this year. Along with the rest of the nation I'll be watching to see the new developments in this case. Who knows? With Jesse finally making network tele vision there's probably a plot afoot by every broadcaster in Raleigh to stage a blood less coup for Jesse's title. I'll bet Carolina could real ly go places with Charles Ed ward Brown at the helm. Pete Ainslie Vanderbilt University Messy Pigeons Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Wilson Library is a nice place. It has nice clean col umns and nice fairly clean steps. Students like to sit on the steps sometimes. Students also like to stand by the col umns and look at the n i c e view toward South Building sometimes. There used to be no pigeons at Wilson Library. Two moved in Sunday. Now the steps aren't so clean. Now the plea sure of standing by the col umns and looking toward South Building has become a , gamble. Birds are nice. But so is Wilson Library. Why can't it stay that way? Joe Lawman.