THE DAILY TAR HEEL Sunday, November 13, 1966 Mm Our Opinion Letters To The Editor IT, 9 e're Killing Old Political Mack? umans- JIiLILlCu. i Page 2 Am w -m- THT H lit It's All For Peace , 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 STAFF WRITERS Don Campbell Lytt Stamps, Er nest Robl, Steve Bennett, Steve Knowlton, Judy Sipe, Carol Won savage, Diane Warman, Karen 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. 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. Post Office in Chapel Hill, N C Subscription ratPs- ti ' tpr- r- w semes ter, $3 per year. Printed bv the W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. Croclter Barrel . 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 He needs a bit more training. msh t&?p& Ors Ww M fa ft K np-t jm,.mm .Hwiwn-""-Nt 4km

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