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Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday, February lb, mo7 QllfB Mmm Star If m Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed . hi its editorials. All un signed editorials are written by the editor. Letters and colamns reflect only the personal views of their contributors. SCOTT GOODFELLOW, EDITOR History May Clear GIA ' "No NSA staff members . . . . were drafted. The (Central Intel ligence) Agency looks after its own." , Bit by bit, the fantastic scan dal was surfacing. Where yester day there was only a shell of con fusion, today that shield has been ripped away to reveal a compli cated arrangement vulnerable to attack on almost every front. " In a story virtually designed to provoke controversy, ramparts magazine said yesterday that the CIA was so involved secretly with the NSA's international program "that it treated NSA as an arm of U. S. foreign policy." But somehow the whole situa tion was easier to understand. When we began to reflect on what the conditions were back in the ' early 50's when the CIA first of fered monetary aid to the NSA (at about $200,000 a year) , it is easy to understand the reasoning. At that time we had launched in to the well-known Cold War. Stu dent conferences throughout the world were still being attended by groups with a Communist back ground, particularly delegations from Eastern Europe. These groups made concerted efforts at controlling the conferences. j And at the time "Communism" was a particularly dirty word. It was under these conditions that the CIA offered financial as sistance to the NSA, a group com posed of responsible, representa tive student leaders. The assist ance was given in order to help these students represent us at the international conferences. The tendency today is to think of the NSA as a liberal, often rad-: ical organization. Such was hot the case in the 1950's. The tendency today is also to think that "Com munist" is not as bad as "Red Chinese." This also was not the case 10 years ago. Thus the circumstances which prompted the CIA to help support the NSA can be quite effectively explained. The problem arises when one realizes that it was the NSA and not the CIA that ter minated the relationship this year. The NSA is no longer represen tative of U. S. foreign policy, a sit uation which has basically existed for several years. When these con ditions arose, it should have been the CIA which ended the transac tions. It was not. Thus whereas these past few years seem to indicate that the CIA has not controlled NSA thought, the CIA cannot escape the criticism that it has irrespon sibly : spent much money during that time. Vigil Still Significant A group of Carnegie Tech stu dents, calling themselves the So ciety For Prevention of February Fifteenth (SPOFF) staged a de monstration Tuesday, saying , that they picked February 15th because it 1C llttorlr MMfliMit Cfrfrtfnmnr But they were wrong. They were wrong because on February 15th there was a peace vigil in Chapel Hill. The peace vi gil was just like the one last we k and the week before, ut it was still significant. The fact that the vigil is regu larly the same is one of the fac tors which make it a strong de monstration. The vigil never sought publicity, as most demonstrations do. This fact is obvious when one considers that there are dozens of far more effective ways of grab bing publicity. These ways were not used. . Rather, the vigil was founded as a meaningful reminder that there are many who are gravely concerned over the wisdom of our troop employment in Vietnam. And it is a reminder week af ter week after week. Furthermore, although the vigil may make an impression upon an observer one Wednesday, it will remind him of this impression every Wednesday, Valentine's Day 5: Is Embarrassing Rats. We missed it. And today we started getting ose embarrassing Valentine causing him to ponder further his own feelings. We have long supported the de monstration as an excellent means for expressing disapproval pf jhe war, poHcy? Perhaps bur approv al was because such a demonstra tion was better than draft-card burning or mere apathy. It is far too easy to con demn yesterday's vigil as another in a long series of -monotonous sidewalk blockades. But the faces of the participants are just as in tense as they were weeks ago. Of course. they could sit at home and feel their concern, but they have chosen to try' to affect others in a mind-to-mind, idea confrontation.-- ... In a university community, such as yours, it is good that those who feel strongly about an issue choose such a means to express themselves. Yes, February 15th was signi ficant in Chapel Hill. i -"g them was a big box ec ith cookies, brownies, and ispie balls. And they cd with popcorn. Alt ': we decided that it was icrial, since if it had bttltt -mi buttered it would haMfone r Jsrs for the rice knsfctolL . i in with it. As it i by there, snap- ping,cyffint I . . . Tkfcftai, ::2 from Salt Lake Cte aL : to V05 hair spray it : i; : t consider ed sutve ai. -:cz immedi ately accefai jy t .:::"! e DTH staff me. And :.:'t long until only h pope ; :Idng was left. "Stau'abou. : :f," they said. Ah well, uvj he ir.v:t have an arrtatawigjiit. 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Goodfellow, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Sandy Treadwell, Manag. Ed. John Askew Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris . ... .. Associate Ed. Don Campbell . News Editor Kerry Sipe : ... . Feature Ed. Jeff MacNelly .... .. Sports Editor Ernest Robl Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer Photo Editor David Garvin Night Editor Mike McGowan .... Photographer Wayne Hurder ....... Copy Editor STAFF WRITERS ; Lytt Stamps, Ernest Robl, Steve Knowlton, Carol Wonsavage, Karen Freeman, Hunter . George, Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis San ders, Penny Raynor, Jim Fields. CARTOONISTS Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly. The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North v 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 SW Chapel Hill, N. C. 'Suppose we had about 200,000 vice-presidents?' P.Q. I : - V K m I vf Pr ml js& sL Negro In America Negro Pride Is Essential In Aiding Economic Fight , (Editor's note: In recognition of Negro History Week, the ; DTH presents; ; the second . of three articles on the Negro in America. This essay, edited from Time magazine, deals with what the Negro has and has not gained.) By JAMES COFIELD ; The new factor in U.S. race relations and politics that has come to be known as backlash is more than merely the re action of some white people to Negro -rioting or cries of ,fblack power." The attitude of many white Americans is influenced by the belief that the Negro has made great gains in a relatively short time, and that he now . would do better to stop agitat ing and consolidate what he has won. At the same time, much of the new militancy in the Negro community is a re sult of frustration over what. Negroes 1 consider the snail's pace of progress. Beneath the pfLssion and rhetoric, these two tfawg pose a root question about the state of the Negro in the U.S. today: just what advances have -and have not been made by the na tion's 21 million Negroes? Practically all of the gains - have been made by the grow ing Negro middle class, which constitutes a minority of the Niegro population. That is .the heart of the problem, for it leaves behind the lower-income Negroes, notably the families that are below the govern ment's $3,000-a-year poverty line. This class contains 60 of all the nations Negro youths, -the very people who are in the vanguard of disorder. While the income of the middle-class rises, that of this great mass is declining. It is almost academic to ask what the Negro wants. He ' wants what the white man has. This means not only posses sion but opportunity and op tions. It means a fair shot at the iiecessities of jobs, educa tion and housing, as well as the intangibles of political power, social acceptance and a sense of pride. How much of that has he gained? The following balance sheet gives some indication of the Negro's recently acquired assets and persistent liabili ties. JOBS The employment situation has become better for the middle-class and worse for the lower-class Negro. While un employment among whites has been declining, Negro unem ployment has been climbing. This is because the jobless rate in many Negro slums has soared to 25 and automation ... has eliminated a lot of man , ual jobs traditionally held by i lower-income Negroes;: t Negro employment in profes sional and technical fields has risen 130 in the past decade; the number of Negro lawyers has increased 50, since 1950. In the South, Negroes are be ing hired for the first time as clerks, policemen, nurses in white hospitals, and teachers in white schools. However, dis crimination is still far from eliminated. Some employment agencies, for example, use codes to alert prospective em ployers that the applicant is a Negro; One of the more un yielding barriers to the Ne gro's advancement is put up by craft unions. Largely be cause of union bars, the in credible fact is that since 1957 the number of Negroes at work in the U.S. private economy has scarcely increased at all. The number of Negro jobhold ers has risen from 6,721,000 to 7,747,000 during that period, but the gains have been pri marily in government jc&a. EDUCATION While still appreciably be hind the whites, Negroes have made impressive gams in edu cation, particularly at the col lege level. Outnumbered by white students 30 . to 1, the number of Negroes in colleges and universities has risen to 225,000. For the Negro who never gets to the college level, things are considerably bleak er. In a recent study of 650,000 children, the U.S. Office of Ed ucation reported that, com pared with whites, the average Negro child actually attends newer schools and has newer textbooks, but is less likely to have modern scientific equip . ment or competent teachers. HOUSING Getting good housing is per haps the most difficult hurdle of all for most Negroes. One tragedy is that urban renewal often means Negro removal replacing shacks with vertical ghettos for middle-income Ne groes and forcing lower-in-groes to move to even mean er slums. Because the Negro urban population has almost doubled since 1950, the ghet tos are spreading. When given the choice most Negroes are not terribly eager, to move next door to the white man. Even in the 17 states arid 31 cities that have enact ed fair-housing codes since 1953, thousands of huge, mod erately priced apartments tow ers are pure white. The Ne gro's desire to enjoy the su perior schooling of a white neighborhood is very much tempered by the fear of strik ing out alone. . POLITICS " The political t advances have 7 been fairly large: the potential is even larger. The number of Negroes running for elective office has risen 25 to 30in the Democratic party over the past two years alone. This past" autumn, a record 210 Negroes of both parties tried for seats in the state legislature, and hundreds more for other local offices. Despite these gains the. Negro will not reach his full potential in politics until he becomes more diligent at the polls. SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE The most obvious and hu miliating forms of discrimina tion have become illegal or unfashionable (at least in the North), but there are subtler problems. Negroes, like the Catholics and Jews somewhat earlier, desire social accep tance. This slow acceptance caused the Negro to look in ward and, in so doing, he has Wgun to discover a long-sub-mergsd sense' cf pris. Ttss gssss is esssnti&I to resist ing the lower-class Negro's oth er social and economic ills, since only pride can overcome the defeatist attitude that has contributed so much to the high rates of unemployment, illegitimacy, delinquency and crime. All Negroes, without excep tion, seek the white man's freedom of choice. The Rev. James Jones, the white Epis copal Urban Vicar of Chicago, who moved into a Negro ghet to, argues that Negroes will not live up to their full re sponsibilities and potentials as citizens until the white major ity grants that freedom. "In the ghetto," he says, "there are no choices, no pow er, ; notability to make re sponses? Therefore there is no responsibility." The UJS. has certainly come ah incredibly long way since Abraham Lincoln, shortly be fore the end of the Civil War, asked his logistics experts to determine whether the U.S. could muster enough transpor- . tation to export Negroes only to be told that Negro babies were being born faster than all the nation's ships could carry them from the country. The Negro has been a per manent part of America ever since then, and perhaps the greatest advance of recent years is the realization by white people that this problem cannot be ignored. The Ne gro's recent progress, far from making him content, has great ly intensified his aspirations. The job of helping him to meet his legitimate needs may weH continue to be the nation's most urgent domestic business for decades to come. Class Attendance Is Teacher's Job ' . By BOB GARDNER Who should decide on the policy of class attendance? All too often, college professors enjoy the benefit of a captive audience by wielding the club of com pulsory class attendance over the student's head. A great many of our larger lecture classes here at UNC have turned into a dull affair of one droning voice and sixty pens scratching across paper nothing else. By requiring his students to attend nearly all classes with the penalty of a lowered grade for those who fail to comply the professor is often able to escape the re sponsibility for making his classes interesting or for providing material to make the student, think and ex plore for himself. He is assured of a large audience, ready to take down his every word, to soak up this information very quickly and to forget it just as quickly once it is dis gorged on the examination. In most European universities the student is re quired only to be present for examinations. If he has acquired a good knowledge of the materiel covered he receives a passing mark as simple as that. More important, the professor who begins to backslide into dull, repetitive lectures will soon find his class desert ed, for his tudents will be crowding into the classroom of a more dynamic and interesting teacher. It's an at mosphere of "produce something for your students or else" and stimulates greater effort as well as a lively intellectual exchange. American students pay a lot for their college edu cation, but they have no assurance, other than the good fortune of finding interesting professors, that they will get their money's worth. It is entirely possible, almui i probable, that the student will go through four years of college with only a handful of professors who really made him think for himself. But he will be re quired to sit through countless dull classes when he could have learned more by a half hour of textbook reading. By the time he reaches college, a student is old enough to decide for himself what is and what is not worth the money he pays for it. The responsibility should lie with the professors for assuring class at tendance but only through making classes as mean ingful and worthwhile as the student deserves. Let those who don't wish, to put out more effort lecture to half-filled classrooms. - , , , ui ,; 'iir.v Invasion Of Tnfoe Evades Individual By GREGORY PEELER Television is making idiots and bums out of our nation's respectable citizens. People would much rather sit and stare at the "big eye" than do almost anything. People prefer watching television to reading novels, let the grass grow knee high rather than miss the world series, get flabby glaring at the picture tube in stead of exercising in the fresh air, substitute a good program for a stimulating conversation and dedicate hours to the invention hours that could otherwise be spent doing something creative or useful. The humgn race has been literally invaded by the "big eye." There is a T.V. in every living room, bed room, hospital room, recreation room, motel room and a few offices. People's lives are dominated by the mon ster. They go into debt for years in order to see their programs in color. They plan their days according to the T.V. schedule from "exercise with Dolly" to "cook dinner with Molly." It has even been said that television is educational what an education! Those with T.V. degrees accom plish wonders in a lifetime. They can shoot bank rob bers, cattle rustlers and wives without getting the gun out of the holster. They can become medical experts with Casey and Kildare's supervision. They can have illegitimate childrendivorces, several affairs and even murder a relative or two under soap operas' guidance and influence. Grandstand athletes really get a work out with T.V. sports that last from early Friday night until late Sunday afternoon. A diploma in T.V. edu cation will take a man anywhere. Children also get a liberal and varied education from television. From the ripe age of three they get stuck to the tube and never really get unglued. Chil dren's imaginations are greatly stimulated in the right direction by programs such as "My Favorite Mar tian", "Tarzan", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Beverly Hillbillies." "Gunsmoke" and "Gomer Pyle" are wonderful aids to building vocabularies. Cap tain Kangaroo helps a child in the awkward years of sneak a look at "Peyton Place" or "Combat", they get a lovely picture of the big bad world. Of course, there are exceptions to these rules but on the whole, television is cramping the human race. Overcome the invasion of the tube and rejoin the so ciety of human beings with keen minds and individual personalities.
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