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Speaker Ban Decision:
core One
And so the saga of the Speaker
Ban does indeed have a happy en
ding! It is a story which began on a
rather black note in the Spring of
1965, when reactionary and anti
University forces within the
General Assembly passed the
"Gag Law'" with the speedy
precision of an executioner br
inging down his axe.
The law was introduced, non
debated and enacted into law so
quickly that by the time
Consolidated University President
William C. Friday arrived in
Raleigh, after getting an urgent
telephone call about what was hap-,
pening; the legislators presented'
him with a fait d'accompli.
And the Consolidated University
was stuck with it.
Opposition to the bill arose from'
throughout the state, and came to a
: head in Chapel Hill traditionally
j and proudly the freest state
University in the South.
The students wouldn't stand for
it. They ignored it, invited com
munist speakers to test it, signed a
petition and marched down to
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson's
house one night to give it to him.
The faculty reacted in pretty
much the same way.
It was made very plain: The
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill simply wasn't going to
stand for such nonsense. It just
wouldn't go here at a University
sculptured by such a man as its
.first President, Frank Porter
Graham, one of the foremost defen
ders of human and educational
rights this nation's ever known.
Finally, the General Assembly
amended their handiwork to some
extent. It placed the responsibility
for approving speakers in the
hands of the Board of Trustees,
who passed it down to the chan
cellors on the four campuses.
But still, that wasn't enough to
satisfy Chapel Hill". This law was
evil, in the finest Machevellian
tradition, and it would not be
tolerated even in its diluted
form.
It was one of the clearest
breeches of the right of free
speech, one of the most flagrant at
tempts of red neck politicians to
curtail academic freedom, to which
this University had even been a
victim.
It clearly had to go.
So a group of students banded
together with two banned speakers,
communist theoretician Herbert
Apthecker and Frank Wilkinson,
and filed suit in the Federal Court
in Greensboro, asking that the law
be declared unconstitutional.
Monday, after many months of
aprehension that the suit would be
lost on grounds of some technicali
ty or another, the three-judge panel
ruled: the Speaker Ban is indeed
unconstitutional.
But is this the end of tre story
or is it ju;st a chapter in the history
of the relations of this University
with this state?
For this University, free though
it has been from state political
domination, has a long past of
near-entaglements with it. And
sometimes, those "entanglements
were near enough to hurt, to set the
University a-reeling, even if they
couldn't knock it off its feet.
- For example, there was that in
cident last year when Jesse
Helms demanded over the
airwaves that the University do
something about Michael Paull, an
English grad instructor who com
mitteed the terrible sin in
Bvls&ms Ucrzr
Pamela Hawkins, Associate Eaitor
Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
For UNC
Jesse's eyes of teaching seduc
tion to freshmen, seduction as
romanticized and alluded to in the
lines of the poem, "To His Coy
.Mistress," thatis.
Then there was the time, even
more recently, that Gov. Dan K
Moore who has been somewhat,
less than an adamant defender of
this University's a c ademic
freedom started name-calling
against Howard Fuller, a Negro
activist who was lecturing to one
section in the graduate school of
social work.
In both cases, it was a case of
the state against the niversity. In
both cases, the University was
hurt. In both cases, the University
won.
And so it did again Monday.
That is something to be thankful
for: not that students once again
have access to some rag tag com
munist or the other for a speaking
engagement, but that , . this
University's precious freedom once
again has been reaffirmed.
That students of this University
reacted so adroitly to a challenge
against its freedom.
That the law has proven a shield
for freedom against prejudice and
politics
That.
That, in essence, The Good
Guys Won Again.
The Lan
Of
The Free
From The Minnesota Daily
ft
An incident in Orangeburg,
S.C. last week should remind $
anybody who thinks otherwise $
that the long fight of the fifties
and sixties for civil rights is $
hardly over yet: Attitudes die
anexcruciatinly slow death.
Orangeburg is the home of $
South .Carolina State, a
predominantly black school in j:
an overwhelmingly white!;
town. Last Tuesday the grow
ing tension between the
residents of the town and its :
students reached a new pitch j
when the students tried to in- :
tegrate a downtown bowling
alley. The students ended up
fighting police, and seventeen
; of them were arrested. The
solution to this diplay of
: rashness was to send in Na
: tional Guardsmen and state
j troopers to block the
: downtown area from
students.
j Last Thursday one of the
: students threw a piece of
wood at one of the troopers
I and hit him in the face. The
troopers responded by firing
:j into the group of assembled
ij students, killing three of
: them.
ij Orangeburg, ' S.C., the
United States of America,
:j (Land of the Free), 1963.
Rush is a bad system.
I'm not attacking fraternities. I'm on
ly saying the present method for choosing
pledges is wrong.
Fraternity mem
bers go through an
entire semester in
which they're not al-
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Then, when the mag
ic rush period starts,
" they are beseiged by
mobs of hopeful rush
ees they have to
meet and decide on
the spot if they like
GINGRAS them or not.
Letters To The Editor
rv 37
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To The Editor:
I should like to examine' some of the
statements made by Allard K. Lowens
tein (last Sunday night in support of
Senator Eugene McCarthy's candidacy.
Statement 1. "The only thing holding
the Johnson campaign together is the
feeling that he is inevitable. . . As a
matter of fact, it is hard to find anybody
who wants Johnson." (italics mine) Com
ment: Overstatement and
oversimplification are, of course, ex
cusable in a political campaign.
Statement 2. "The problem is that
everybody thinks he is the only one who
doesn't want LBJ." Comment: How could
any dissenter be so insensitive to the ob
vious? Statement 3. "If Johnson continues to
send boys over to die in Vietnam, there is
no way on earth he can get elected."
Comment: Never have our war aims
been explained so clearly! Save your
breath, Senator Gene, you're as good as
elected!
Statement 4: "If we can show public
disaffection with the Vietnam policy,
there is no place in the Democratic party
Johnson can hide' Comment: Well,
there's no place like home.
Statement 5. "Why' Gene
McCarthy. . . would only have to run
well in the primaries, not even win, to in
dicate the discontent of Democrats and
the unpopularity of Johnson." Comment: -Ignore
statements, 1, 3, and 4.
Statement 6. "There comes a time
when someone is so right that you must
take a stand with him, win or lose."
Comment: Lose? Ignore statements 1, 3
and 4.
Statement 7. "We all owe a debt to
McCarthy, a man doing a difficult thing
! at a difficult time." Comment: With all
that support? Ignore statement 1.
i Statement 8. "The mythology of the
war is falling apart. The mythology was
j: that the war was going to be won." Com
f ment: But then mythology never could
stand careful examination, could it?
i; s Statement 9. "We are at a crossroads,
: if the present course (m Vietnam) is
;i pursued for another four years, what
5 hope remains to save the country?" Com
i ment: Sen. McCarthy could run again.
It is hoped that Mr. Lowenstein will
soon visit the campus again. He certainly
ttent
Ths Daily Tar Heel accepts all
letters fct publication provided
they are typed, double - spaced
and signed. Letters should be no
longer than 300 words in length.
We reserve the right to edit for
libelous statements.
It's equally rough on the rushees.
They have to decide in the short period of
three or four nights if they like a given
fraternity of 50 or so brothers well
enough to stay with them. Rushees also
run the risk of of getting balled at the
fraternity they want.
How can anybody honestly say they
can judge another person on the basis of
his performance under such strained con
ditions? Any given fraternity is besieged by
rushees. On a good or bad night (depen
ding on your point of view) over 100
rushees can invade a house.
The brothers run around meeting,
shaking hands and having names shouted
at them. They in turn must shout then
names over the roar of the crowd and
htlmmitUiW hi
is more of what everybody needs.
Howvever, if he cannot make it, perhaps
.Hr. Lipsitz, who is equally adept at count
ing an empty auditorium and in
terpreting it as a thumping endorsement,
will favor everybody from time to time
with the same type of political analysis.
Ben Bartley
414 Rosemary
Art Of Dropping
An Add Course
To The Editor:
The- recent session of drop-add has
made at least one thing apparent: pre
registration is becoming an increasingly
insignificant thing.
Countless numbers of students pre
registered f or courses only to find they
had been closed out of the course on the
first day of classes. A class planned for
forty is jam-packed with ninety students
at its initial meeting. The professor has
nothing he can do. Many students must
be dropped. .
What The Heck
Attacks'-Pose ReBiitational Paradox
By LOU HECKLER
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS
DEPARTMENT: There seems to be a bit
of paradox floating around campus lately
concerning our coeds, typical and
otherwise.
" Efforts have been made forta couple
of years now to emancipate the women
from old out-dated rules which govern
their behavior. Did I say govern? I meant
dictate.
The pity of the thing is that in the
midst of this move for more freedom,
two coeds have been attacked or at least
slept with by the male of the species.
The girls certainly have their rights to
push for more freedom. They can pro
bably handle it. The question is, can the
men? - ; . '
Another problem might arise m the
certain status a girl achieves in being
forcefully approached. I heard a couple
of guys talking the other day and it went
something like this: :
"You hear about M being at
tacked the other night?
"Yeah. You know, she must be
alright. I always thought she, was kinda
cute." .
So-o-o, what's a coed to do? Does she
force the man off or help him along his
way- ' .'
make an attempt at conversation.
By the end of an evening the rushees
have all been asked the same question
over and over by brothers cf the same
and different houses. The brothers in turn
have just about been exhausted cf their
stores of small talk, feeling that they
must have said the same thing and gotten
the same answers at least a hundred
times. - . x
After all the rushees have gone back
to their dorms, the brothers get to sit
around for hours and hours discussing the
various rushees. If I could have a nickel
for every time I've heard, "Oh, he's a
nice enough guy. I sat right over there on
the couch and talked to him for about ten
minutes,"' I'd be a rich man.
The problem is that you have a
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Two Coiitr adiction
Thus, drop-add gets worse and worse
with students hustling all over campus
trying to find some course open. The
result is almost assured: a student ends
up taking a course he has no interest in
simply because it meets at a time he has
open.
How can a student be motivated to
study in a course he does not even
want? -
Most students who have tried to take
P.E. 41 or RTVMP 45 or Speech 44are
accustomed to putting down an alternate
since these courses are so popular. But it
does not stop there. Upper level Political
Science courses as an example are nearly
impossible for an undergraduate to get.
For seniors its different. Many pre
register less than the required number
of courses and just show up for the first
day of class at a course they want. The
professor, sensing the dilemma, dismiss
es the problem by admitting just seniors
and grad students. The undergraduate
sophomore or junior who was told he
could take the course and who has the
class ticket to prove it is out ot luck.
The undergraduate deserves a better
shake. When he is granted a ticket, he
should be guaranteed a course. The ones
THAT'S LIFE DEPARTMENT: A
professor was lecturing his class the
other day on ways to sell life insurance.
He explained that there are several
things to remember. One, you have to
convince the person that he needs the
protection. And, two, you must sell the
person, not the product.
Someone asked if it might not make
him more popular.
"I guess that might be the case," the
prof explained stumbling. "You know, I
suppose it does make you popular wiih
your family."
Which makes me wonder this: haw
popular do you want to be? After all, if
you, get too much like insurance, your
family just might love you. .to death.
THAT'S THE WAY THE MONEY
GOES DEPARTMENT: All this flack cf
late concerning President Johnson's pro
posal to curtail spending abroad could
have serious repercussions on this cam
pus and others throughout the country.
Many of the schools, ours included,
have cooperative arrangements with
schools in Europe. This is not even to
mention the student union-sponsored trips
to various exotic places each year.
Can you envision some of the future
GM ads if this thing goest through:
brother who's known a person fcr ten
minutes and yet he's got to stand up and
give a character reference for the guy.
It's a bad system.
The tension on the part cf the rushees
who just hope to God they're not being
balled at THE house they want and the
tension the brothers feel hoping they get
all the good guys they want, gives the
whole situation massive ulcer ten
dencies. In short, there must be a better way
for fraternities to select pledges.
I'm not coming out against deferred
rush by any means. Without deferred
rush, freshmen would have an even
tougher time making a realistic choice of
fraternities.
The real problem comes when
freshmen have to choose a fraternity in'
the short rush period. They make this
choice on the basis of the few minutes
they spend in each house plus the rumors
they hear about such houses' image on'
campus.
Fraternities and prospective rushees
could get a more realistic view of each
other if the fall semester could be used
as an informal rush period. This informal
rush could mean inviting prospective
rushees to dinner or to pre-arranged,
discussion (my grandfather would have"
called them smokers) or anything else
that would give both sides a change to .
meet on peaceful terms. ;
As I sit here nursing a swollen right 1
hand and larynigitis, I can't help but'
feel that there must be a better way"
somewhere.
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without should look elsewhere.
get their required courses in before their
Seniors should also be encouraged to
last year. The reasoning of "I need the
course to graduate" should have been
thought of earlier.
The student body is expanding rapidly.
The problem is certain to be greater next
year and the year after.
If pre-registration is to have a func
tion, the student should be assured that
his first day of class in a selected course
will not also be his last.
Lou Heckler
105 Chase Ave.
Of Lizards
And Such
To The Editor:
In reference to Randy Myer's vitriolic
caricature of Bruce Strauch: lizards do
not have scales!
Jay Biggs '
Granville West
"GM Plans a Trip to Nassau! Yes,
you, too, can bask in the glow of the
warm tropical sun on the radiant white
beaches of exciting Nassau. We think
youH love being there, but because of the
President's embargo on international
spending, we can plan the trip for just
three hours, 17 minutes.' Sign up at the
GM Information Desk."
JACK SPRAT COULD JOIN NO
FRAT DEPARTMENT: Rush, rifh,
rush. See the boys rush. They are trying
to join a fraternity. Brotherhood, kinship,
fellowship.
Ah, but take note of these lines from
an anonymous pen:
Blue is true,
Yellow's jealous,
Green's f oresaken,
Red's brazen, ;
White is love,
'and black is death.
You know, I couldn't have said it better
myself.
BLANKET PRIVILEGE
DEPARTMENT: The great philosopher
and teacher Cicero once said: "There are
more men enobled by study than by
nature."
That cat must never have been to the
arboretum.
But, what the heck.