THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Sunday, November 13, 1966
Mm Our Opinion
Letters To The Editor
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, He didn't say what they had
come to hear. N
Everyone expected to hear
drums and bugles. And they did.
arid see the firing of a 21 - gun
salute. And they did.
Everyone expected to hear a
lengthy invocation praising al
most everything from Mother to
apple pie and asking for blessing
on everything that wasn't praised.
And they did.
. Everyone expected to hear a
Navy Midshipman and an Air
Force Cadet eulogize the men who
fought and died at Midway, I wo
Jima, Corregidor, etc. And they
did. . .
Everyone expected to hear
these two military officer candi
dates promise the world that the
forces of the United States stand
always ready to thwart the spread,
of Communist aggression, to fight,
and if necessary, to die to perserve
our way of life. And they did.
But no one expected to hear
what Student Body President Bob
Powell had to say.
He spoke slowly, with his hands
first clasped together, then in his
pockets. He had no notes or writ
ten speech. He repeated himself
once or twice. We think his com
ments are worth respecting
again.,
"We're killing human beings."
This was the gist of his re
marks. This thought had been shoved
out of everyone's mind as he had
listened to the previous speech
es. It's easy to talk about soldiers
dying and killing. It's easy to think
of them as some special sort of
T
e rNews
MESA, Ariz., Nov. 12 (AP)
A 16 - year - old high school sen
ior forced seven women and girls
to lie face down on the floor, of a
beauty school today and shot them
in the heads, killing five.
This was the lead on an Asso
ciated Press news story which
moved over the wire yesterday af
ternooon about 2:45.
The story went on to explain
in detail how the youth killed the
women in quite bizarre fashion.
One statement made by the
arresting police officers caught
our eye: "Police Sgt. Ray Gomez
said Robert Smith of Mesa admit
ted the shooting, and told him he
first got the idea after reading of
mass killings elsewhere."
Our reaction, as student jour
nalists, to such a statement is to
shudder at the thought of our pub
lication inspiring a person to com
mit such a crime.
But let us be thankful that the
journalism profession has men
who are mpervious to such emo
tional reactions, men who see the
potential for a hilarious story
about an obviously mentally dis
turbed boy deciding to become
Briefly Editorial
If the Air Force brings its mis
siles and airplanes to exhibit when
playing in athletic contests, what
can Tar Heels take with them to
their away games?
A copy of the Speaker Ban Law
maybe?
We got some shirts back from
one of the local laundries the oth
er day, and now we understand
why they, had to hike their prices
over the summer. They have a
new button - snatching machine to
pay for.
The war in Viet Nam and the
housewives' war on grocery stores
are picking up some striking simi
larities. Secretary of Defense Rob
ert S. McNamara yesterday called
for a standardization of armed ser
vices chow. Look out for air
strikes on the local A & P next
week.
military breed or machines.
It's sobering to stop and realize
that the young men who have
died and are dying in wars all over
the world are no different from
any student that might be in your
classroom at the University.
"Throughout his history," Pow
ell said, "mankind has killed oth
er human beings because of his in
ability to live with himself.
'We should strive to make Vet
erans' Day in the year 2000, some
thing we look back on a part of
history not something we still
have to observe."
. It wasn't what everyone expect
ed to hear. It didn't sit too well
with a lot of people there. But it
was well worth the time it took
them to listen t& it.
And it would be well worth the
time it would take everyone to pon
der the matter.
A van with the Air Force Titan
exhibit in Morehead Lot this week
end bore the words, "Aerospace
Power For Peace." We remember
President Eisenhower's Christmas
greeting of the late fifties: "Peace
on Earth to Men of Good Will."
We hear President Johnson talk
about peace someday in Viet Nam
peace as a result of a war.
Must we equate peace with
power? Must we define peace as
getting along with those who agree
with us? Is there no way to realize
peace without the wanton killing of
human beings?
There must be. There has to
be. And the days surrounding Vet
erans' Day seem to be a fitting
period for everyone to ask him
self this question.
That
one of a group of famous mass
murderers.
It's men like this who produce
stories such as the one about yes
terday's mass slaying. And these
dedicated public servants don't
stop short of the spectacular.
Within 15 minutes of the time
the above - mentioned story had
cleared the wire the machine was
again clacking with a story tag
ged "With Mesa Slayings."
This brilliant piece of public
service journalism gave a brief,
but comprehensiave, listing of this
country's ten most celebrated
mass murders, accounting for a
total o f 82 deaths.
"He first got the idea after read
ing of mass killings elsewhere."
74 Years of Editorial Freedom
Fred Thomas, Editor
Tom Clark, Business Manager
Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed.
John Greenbacker Assoc. Ed.
Bill Amlong News Ed
Kerry Sipe Feature Ed,
Sandy Treadwell .. Sports Editor.
Bil1 Hass Asst. Sports Ed..
Jock Lauterer Photo Editor
Chuck Benner Night Editor
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Freeman, Cindy Borden, Julie
Parker, Peter Harris, Drum
mond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey
Leigh, Dennis Sanders.
CARTOONISTS
Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly
John Askew Ad. Mgr.
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. Editor: The Tar Heel:
In Thursday's Tar Heel was
a letter from a person who
signed her name as "Hilda
Crocker," criticizing a $600
student legislature approp
riation as pork barrel legisla
tion "to send a group of fa
vored students" on a four day
vacation to Harvard Univer
sity. As chairman of the Resi
dence College Commission of
the student government I was
concerned because Miss-Crocker
was terribly misinformed.
I called GM information to
find her phone number so that
I could inform her properly
abojut the Amherst Confer
ence, but they had no listing
for anyone by that, name.
The Dean of Women's Office
has no record of any student
by the name of Hilda Crock
er. Miss Crocker criticizes
those who voted for the bill
although they had argued
against it on the floor of the
student legislature.
Such righteous indignation
should come from one who
will not sign her real name
to a letter to the Tar Heel?
Please allow me to correct
some of Miss "Crocker's" mis
understandings. The trip was
a legitimate venture of stu
dent government. It was spon
sored, planned and conducted
by the Residence College Com
mission, a legitimate agency
of student government. It was
primarily a data gathering
trip.
The University of Massa
chusetts (not Harvard, by the
way) has a residence college
system less than four years
old which has as its primary
emphasis faculty - student re
lations, academic involvement
in the residence colleges, and
the creation of a "living -learning
environment" in the
colleges. We lack this empha
sis at Carolina. We need to
learn from them and adapt
the .strengths of their pro
gram to ours.
' This is good for the whole
University and cannot fall
under the title "pork barrel
legislation." , , .
'-Miss "Crocker" criticized the
trip for demonstrating a lack
' of fiscal responsibility. A great
deal of care was taken to
keep the cost of the trip to a
minimum. The students flew
on student stand-by, that is
for half fare (assuming the
risk of being bumped off at
D. C. or New York along the
way thus being forced to take
later flights). The airplane tic
kets were very little more
than bus fare.
The student legislature ap
propriated $607.99 to send ten
students to the Amherst Con
ference. One of the residential
' colleges appropriated $50.00
, from their own funds for the
expenses of their governor.
This $50.00 was deducted from
the sum of the SL bill bring
ing it to $537,99. -
The leader' of the group is a
fiscal conservative, as he told
the student legislature when
the bill was being debated,
and he returned to the Stu
dent Activities Fund, to be
refunded to the student gov
ernment general surplus, $52.34
which was not spent on the
trip. Student government spent
only $505.65, rather than
$607.99.
Miss "Crocker" criticized the
trip as a vacation. The dele
gates from Carolina to t h e
Amherst Conference spent
Thursday evening in meetings
from 6:00 till 12:00, Friday
from 9:30 til noon and from
1:30 till dinner. There were
meetings Saturday morning
from 9:00 till noon.
They met with administra
tors, faculty and students from
U. Mass at eight general meet
ings plus numerous smaller
conferences centered of more
narrow research topics. Each
delegate had. a specific re
search topic to investigate and
will be submitting their reports
within two weeks to the stu
dent government. It was no
vacation.
In fact, my guess is that it
will bear more fruit in signi
ficant changes on our campus
than either of the Reidsville
Conferences.
Chuck Longino
Chairman, Residence
College Commission
"Hitaa" Slapped
Editor, the Daily Tar Heel:
I was somewhat distressed
to see my sister Hilda's let
ter in the DTH attacking the
appropriation of the Student
Lesiglature enabling the nine
residence college governors to
attend the residence college
conference at the University of
Massachusetts as "a smelly
thing."
What is really malodorous
is Hilda's sense of values. Any
one who has watched the
growth of the monster dormi
. tories on South - Campus, the
.incipient division of UNC's
academic component of the res
hiale, the feebleness of the
cademic component of the res-.
idence colleges, knows that
our residence college system,
advancing though it is, needs
help.
Lacking monetary aidi from
the state legislature, we must
have the help that springs
from knowledge. As all b u t
five of the student legislators
agreed, the knowledge gained
by this conference would far
ass. Educates In
R
esidence Colleges
out weigh the paltry 4 cents
of each student's fees that
financed the trip.
Her accusation that the chair
man of the UP was "busily
helping the opposition's presi
dent feather his political nest
was particularly obnoxious,
ment is the politicians who op
noxious. My sister -doesn't seen to
realize that half of what is
wrong with Student Govern
ment is the politicans who op
pose an idea because some
one of the other party brought
it up. Hilda should be grate
ful that there are still a few
leaders on this campus that
put programs above partisan-v
ship.
Hilda has talked about "boon
doggle" and fiscal irrespon
sibility. She has never un
learned these phrases from the
Eastern North Carolina con
servative upbringing that we
both had.
At a time when student lead
ers of both parties are finally
beginning to do something for
the average student instead of
setting up dummy commit
committees, passing resolu
tions, or playing manipulative
politics, it is a shame that
some students, even one of my
own family, are still behind
the times.
Harriet Crocker
U. S. Passes Buck
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
This is to commend one of
our outstanding student lead
ers on this campus, Mr. John
Greenbacker, for his truly re
flective, independent, and pro
bing fact - finding and thinking
most, recently manifested in
DTH, Nov. 10, under the head
ing Cornpone Gives Pax Ame
ricana To Asia.
Greenbacker, like so many
times in the past, again de
monstrates his high integrity
and his compassion for the
truth even when it is to be
sought not in the mainstream
of American thought.
Like Greenbacker, I have al
:so found it deplorable that iC
, seems so futile, .really to..t-$ti&
sincere ' interest ' and indepen
dent probing into the tragedy
of Viet Nam.
As a European I have great
difficulties identifying myself
with the American official
stand on this overwhelmingly
important issue, but the most
typical campus reaction seems
to be either apathy or a tacit
agreement with Washington.
I have the feeling that ex
pressing dissenting opinions
will reflect almost derogator
ily on you, placing you in
a contempt category known as
"peaceniks."
Yet, the very lifeblood of
democracy is the encounter
of different opinions. In an in
creasingly conformist society
this might be only more so.
My reading about conformity
within organizations, including
the government, has led me
to the inference that confor
mity is one of our greatest
challenges, if not threats, not
only to independent thinking
in general, but to all kinds
of creativity and innovative
ness. Returning to Greenbacker's
article, it is of course an irony
tharpoliticians inherently must
be more concerned about sur
vival than about the truth. I
hold it would be less than rea
listic to expect a master poli
tician like your president to
say anything that a majority
of voters would not like him
to say.
The more closely he can mir
ror their feelings, the greater
the chances of staying in of
fice. He himself is very vo
cal about the value he places
on conformity, I mean consen
sus! This points up the fact that
the electorate never can abdi
cate its ultimate responsibili
ties for American foreign pol
icy. The incumbent adminis
tration is never free to de
cide but will forever be tied
down by the common. will" if
such a creature exists.
Typically, the pulse of this
nebulous creature is intermit
tently taken by the pollsters.
The real power wielders seem
to be the poeople asked about
their opinions by the pollsters.
This is perfectly according to
the principles of democracy,
but perhaps those being asked
are not quite aware of t h e
significance of their collective
answers.
This, then, points up anoth
er points: the responsibilities
of the pollsters in conducting
and interpreting their surveys.
I wonder if this is generally
recognized.
The pollsters are in a posi
tion of easily getting the an
swers they may want to get
by the phrasing and by the
very tone of voice in putting
their questions to the public.
Also, their sampling can be
decisive.
It should be very important,
therefore, that the interview
ers adhere to rigorous scien
tific standards and are as un
biased people as possible.
My final point centers in this
question: Is it not true that
there is cloudiness or ambi
guity as to whom are re
sponsible for, say Viet Nam?
A buck - passing seems pos
sible and has to some de
gree been carried on not
only between different admin
istrations but more important
ly between three other bod
ies: the executive, the legisla
ture, and the electorate.
As General Gavin pointed out
in his speech the other day,,
the legislature is more and'
more being by - passed and
the power wielding tends to
be increasingly a business be
tween the President and the
electorate. Hence, the deep
significance of the pollsters'
pulse - taking.
What are the implications of
this development for the fu
ture of American democracy?
How can ever the electorate
at large be sufficiently in
sightful as to what is wise for
eign policy?
Is there not a dynamic vi
cious circle in process between
the government and the peo
ple, both passing the buck to
the other, subtly so but still?
Sven Lundstedt
God Does Live
Editor, the Daily Tar Heel:
Recently the Heal printed a
rather nasty letter of a cer
tain Mr. Roush who attacks
the evangelist Billy Graham
and his espoused trip to Viet
Nam; however, not satisfied
in leaving matters there, Mr.
Roush then proceeds to an
attack on Graham's God.
While not wishing to engage
in a debate, with Mr. Roush
for he has every right to his
own opinions I cannot help
but feel that his letter is, in
essence, a representation of
the all too common spirit of
hostility and revolt against au
thority that has lately arisen
among so many in today's so
ciety. When Mr. Roush asserts that
any preaching by Mr. Graham
to the troops in Viet Nam
would "only serve to reiter
ate the shallowness of his
preachments and will be anoth
er indication of his 'god' " he
commits the frequent error of
so many crusaders who think
mission is to achieve ultimate
world reform indeed, a
Kingdom of God on earth
where all men are and live
as brothers. (It seems to me
that my bible teaches that the
Kingdom of God is not of this
world.)
Noble as this viewpoint
might seem, it does not repre
sent the true Christian mess
age. Christianity advocates inter
nal transformation through a
personal commitment of one's
total self to Jesus Christ as
Savior and Lord as a neces
sary preface to any external
reform.
Men's lives are changed as
their hearts are changed, and
not otherwise. Thus Mr. Gra
ham's preaching to the troops
in Viet Nam far from be
ing "shallow" would be most
relevant.
War and sickness and death
occur not because God is
"powerless" or too "indiffer
ent" to intervene, but because
man chooses to have God not
intervene. (Is this not irony?)
Thus chaotic upheaval is to
be seen as the ultimate re
sult of man's revolt against
God.
Mr. Roush's letter serves on
ly to re - echo the reality of
that revolt.
Ralph R. Joly
The Daily Tar Heel accepts
letters to the editor for pub
lication provided they are
typed and double spaced. We
prefer that they not exceed
300 words in length. The Tar
Heel reserves the right to
edit all letters for libelous
statements.
The dynamic quality of the
University of Massachusetts
can be attributed to close co
operation of faculty, students
and administration.
This goes deeper than simple
classrooms in the residence
halls. For example, the de
signing of the residence halls
was done by a joint student-faculty-administration
commit
tee and provides for resident
faculty fellows, with apart
ments in the halls, and library
space within the college. Each
, square foot of residence halls
is so planned, unlike the sit
uation at UNC.
The hundreds of classes
available within the residence
colleges are not only trans
ferred to the houses, but are
also transformed into more
informal, more stimulating
classes than is possible on the
campus. Some courses, such
as math and the sciences, do
not do as well in these sur
roundings, but the humanities
thrive in this related "home"
atmosphere. The students find
these classes more stimulating
and exciting and tend to par
ticipate more in the classroom
discussion.
Faculty participation in the
Ler?nC? C,!leg.e sste was
largely faculty .inspired as an
Xnh"5'610 the tremendous
growth problem facing U.
V13SS
There are at least three
leSuenl ,faculty fellws for
each hall ' plus the actual
tnT h6ld, there- These men
and women ead seminars, dine
with the students, and gen
erally add an atmosphere of
faculty involvement to the lives '
of the students.
This involvement has been
of extreme benefit to the fac
ulty, too, who until a few years
ago had little knowledge of
indent Droblems. This year
the resident faculty are being
nominated by the residents of
the colleges, and it is looked
upon as an honor to be so
nominated.
An important change in ad
ministrative policy allowed
this new faculty-student in
volvement. The administration
. now evaluates a professor by
his work in the residence col
lege as well as by his publi
cations. This system effective
ly eliminates the "publish or
perish" problem for the facul
ty, and many distinguished de
partment heads are intensely
active in the residence col
leges. The faculty, the students and
the administration consider
themselves "colleagues" of
each other. The involvement of
each in the other's problems
has developed an atmosphere
of experimentation, -openness
and unity, which has led in
directly to a more mature eval
uation of the students by the
administration. There are
self-imposed women's curfews,
a completely rule-free senior
women's dorm, an encourage
ment of individual study, bet
ter student living-learning fa
cilities and a real openness to
serious student proposals.
" The University of Massachu
setts is still experimenting. A
proposed "free" college on a
strictly "pass-fail" basis, will
bein in two. years. U. Mass
leaders admit that they have
a long way to go in student or
ganization and involvement.
But their experimentation is
beginning to show really posi
tive results. The faculty, the
students and the administra
tion there have accepted the
challenge of cooperative ex
perimentation for more ef
fective learning.
teve Knowlton
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