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Volume 75, Number 153
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROUNATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1968
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.Draft Denounced
As Un-American
By TODD COIIEN
of The Daily Tar Heel Sia
"The draft is antithetical to
the basic principles on which
this country was founded,"
said George Vlasits, speaking
Fnday in McCorkle Place to
a crowd of about 100 persons
on alternatives to the draft.
.Vlastii, a former UNC stu
dent who returned his draft
card last October and now
calls himself a "full time
outside agitator," explained he
has five social and political
reasons for his opposition to
the Selective Service System.
First, he said the SSS is
"discriminatory to the poor,
to minority groups, and to
those who voice dissent."
As an example of the SSS's
discriminatory acts, he cited
the fact that out of the 135
sons of Congressmen presently
eligible for the draft, only two
serve in the. armed forces,
and they are volunteers.
Second, Vlasits said the SSS
exerts a control of lives, being
designed to "channel people
into areas where the govern
ment feels they should go."
He quoted General William
Hershey, director of the SSS,
who once said, "we are defer
ring individuals so they would
be more valuable to the
government and we intend to
use them as we need them,
rather than letting them go
to college merely because they
care to themselves.'-'- .
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Vlasits further quoted
Hershey as saying, "I think
you should keep a string on
(deferred students) so if you
want to use them you can,
and you can compel them to
stay where you want them
because you have a string on
them, and if they don't stay
Hawkins Gets Plurality
In CHOICE 968 .Election
By LOUISE JENNINGS
OS The Dally Tar, Heel Staff
Dr. Reginald Hawkins,
Negro candidate for governor,
overwhelmingly defeated all
other candidates in the Choice
'63 vote held here Wednesday,
nesdayj
Hawkins with 1,260 votes
beat Jim Gardner, his closest
opponent, by 545 votes.
Gardner received a total of
715 votes. Democrat Bob Scott
Negro Students
Hold Prisoners
COLUMBUS. Ohio (UPI)
About 750 Negro students took
over the Ohio State University
administration building Friday
holding two vice presidents ana
four school employes prisoner.
Thev eave uo control of the
building late Friday afternoon
when university oinciais
'agreed to a five-point plant
to help resolve Negro
grievances.
The Negro group held Ohio
state vice presidents Gordon
Carson and John D. Corbaliy,
a campus security officer, two
secretaries and another
employe prisoner. The Negroes
wired all the building's doors
shut after allowing other
employes to leave.
An hour and a half later,
they permitted Corbaliy to
leave to discuss the situation
with Community Relations
Director Clifford Tyree and
Walter Tarpley of the United
Community Council.
Carson then was permitted
to attend the negotiations
under guard.
The Negro demands included
Negro counselors to relate to
the problems of Negro
students, Negro history
courses and more Negro
faculty members.
The protest was triggered
Ty alleged mistreatment of
Negro girls earlier this week
where they should, then you
put them where you can be
sure then you use mem."
Third, Vlasits maintained
that the draft denies due pro
cess to people involved. He
said draft resistors are
"virtually sentenced and con
victed by local draft boards
rather than courts of law."
Fourth, he stressed that the
present system of selective
service is an immoral one.
'He said the whole basis of
his belief is that "You don't
just go, you decide whether
or not you go."
Vlasits condemned a system
in which the government does
not allow the citizens to make
the decision that only he can
make and then takes the
responsibility for all the killing
as essentially "an immoral
system."
Finally Vlasits said the draft
is used to fight wars without
justifying those wars.
The speaker offered three
alternatives to the draft.
He said the draftee could
apply for conscientious ob
jection but qualified that this
was a difficult classification
status to achieve.
He said a draftee could
emigrate to Canada, but that
would alleviate the problems
of only the individual, not of
the nation and the system.
Finally, Vlasits pointed out
that a student could resist the
draft, fay non-cooperation,,. and
face the "possible and pro
bable penalties."
He said it is important for
people to question themselves
as to whether they will be
able to live with themselves
if they believe something is
wrong, but go along with it
anyway. (
ran a close third with 655
votes.
Mel Broughton came in
fourth with 536 votes, and the
other candidate on the ballot
Jack Stickley got 352 votes.
A total of 3,638 vote was
cast.
Hawkins carried a large ma
jority of the votes from both
and in out of state voters and
received a total of 545 of the
961 out of state voters and
by a bus driver and a campus
policeman.
Demands drawn up by
Negroes and agreed to
Carson and Corbaliy were:
That charges against
the
by
the
bus driver and noliceman will
be processed quickly and in
the meantime the two will not
be in a position to come into
contact with students.
That persons empaneled
for the hearings will not be
connected with police opera
tions; the review panel will
include persons from the back
community and administration
representatives.
That the university ad
ministration will provide the
campus newspaper with a
statement of various programs
undertaken to deal with black
student problems, including the
cost assigned to each program.
The statement is to appear
during the week of April 28.
That the university ad
ministration recognizes the
black student faces unique pro
blems in American society and
at Ohio state and that the
university continue and expand
lis Qffdrts to 'ensure these
black students do not face
these unique problems.
That an office be establish
ed on or before May 15 to
deal with the problems of
black students.
Bill
By RICK GRAY
'of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
After a two week delay the
proposed South Campus Bus
system passed Student
Legislature with unanimous
consent.
The system -will begin buss
ing students from South Cam
pus to class and back on May
6, the Monday after Jubilee
according to John McMurray
provided the bill receives the
approval of President Robert
M. Travis.
The bill passed by SL ap
propriated; $750 to pay for the
715 of the 2,677 in-state voters,
voters.
Democrats led the voting in
both categories with a total
Of 2451 to the Republicans
1,187. Democrats received 713
out of state votes and 1,738
in state votes. Republicans
totaled 248 out of state votes
and 939 in state votes.
Republican winner Gardner
received 186 out of state and
529 in state votes. The other
Republican Jack Stickley
received 62 out of state and
410 in state votes.
Scott totaled 90 out of state
and 458 in state. Of the other
two Democrats, Broughton got
78 out of state and 458 in
state votes, while Stickley got
62 out of state and 410 in
state votes.
In an earlier mock election
held in Y Court in March
the results were similar with
Hawkins leading and Gardner
coming in second. With 2256
ballots cast Hawkins received
565 and Gardner received
550.
Scott followed with 489.
Stickley came in fourth with
379 and Broughton got 262.
No differentiation was made
between in and out of state
votes.
Presidential ballots from
UNC were sent to Washington
to be tabulated along with 1453
schools from all over the coun
try. Results will be returned
next week.
Choice '63 results will be
announced on television and
over the radio. Gubernatorial
results will also be publicized
before the May 4 primary in
North Carolina.
"There has been an in
creased awareness on the part
of youth about their affect on
the future," according to UNC
Choice Chairman Bruce Jolly.
"Choice 68 gives them a
chance to make their voices
heard." he added.
McCarthy's recent surge is
an indication of the influence
college students can have,
Jolly pointed cut.
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Negro Activist Howard Fuller
. . speaks to protest on causes of poverty.
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operation of the line for one
week. The administration is
paying the expense for a se
cond week of operation.
Two busses will be chartered
from the Raleigh City Coach
Lines. A transportation
engineer will be " s e n t " t o
Chapel Hill by the company
as soon as the check is
deposited with the company.
"I think this system is the
best thing that Student
Government has done for the
students all year," McMurray
said.
"If the students respond and
the experiment is successful,
we can work on this project
over the summer and hopefully
have a chance for a permanent
line of some sort for next
year," he added.
The bill was passed by SL
with no opposition, and only
one amendment was tacked
onto the bill. The amendment,
offered by University Party
floor-leader Larry Richter,
established membership on the
Student Transportation Com
mission. Lacy Reaves, who introduced
the bill along with McMurray,
stated he would accept
Richter's amendment a s
friendly. Richter said that it
was not proposed as a friendly
amendment however.
After David Kiel had ruled
SL Appropriates
.ars
By RICK GRAY
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
Student Legislature Thurs
day night, in addition to ap
proving the bus system,
created three student govern
ment scholarships.
The total appropiation for
the scholarships was for $2,100
to be given to three students
over a period of four years.
In other action the body ap
propriated $61.18 to the elec
tions board in order to hold
Tuesday's run off election.
. The only requirement on the
recipients of the three
scholarships is that they meet
the minimum entrance re
quirements and be participants
hi project Upward Bound.
Larry Richter, UP
floorleader, and David Kiel,
SP paiiimentarian, spoke for
the bill.
They said that the
scholarships would go to three
students who had met the
minimum entrance re
quirements, but had not been
admitted due to the com
petitive system of selection.
Each of the three students
will receive $87,50 per
semester to cover tuition.
Only negative debate on the
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the amendment out of order,
the body appealed the chair's
decision and it was reversed
by unanimous vote of the
body.
, Kiel was chairing the session
in the absense of speaker Jed
: Bietz who had laryngitis.
The amendment, passed by
consent of the body, named
to the committee Bill Darrah,
governor of James; Jed Dietz,
Vice-President of the Student
Body; Bill Courtney, governor
of Ehringhaus; John McMur
ray, legislator from James;
Ben Taylor, governor of Scott
College; Ernest Hodges,
governor of Craige; Parker
Hudson, ex-governor of Mor
rison; Al DuBose, governor of
Morrison; Len T u b b s ,
governor of King College;
Lacy Reaves, legislator from
Morrison; and Rick Page,
governor of Morehead
College.
McMurray, who along with
Darrah is co-chairman of the
commission, says the com
mission hopes that the system
will be self-liquidating.
To be so, McMurray says,
31.25 students will have to ride
each bus on each one-way trip.
Too supplement the income
from fee ten cent fare, the
commission is soliciting ad
vertising from the downtown
merchants.
Funds
bill came from Bob Hunter
who stated, "Student Govern
ment is not a social chari
ty. . .this is a noble idea, but
it should not be done."
Bob Manekin countered with
"It's about time that Student
Legislature did something for
a worthwhile cause."
The previous question was
immediately moved and the
bill passed with only minimal
opposition.
Before the legislature settled
down to clearing up old
business, Dick Levy resigned
his post as legislator from
James.
"I'd just like to resign from
the legislature," Levy said.
"One reason for this resigna
tion is that I do not want
to vote on the bus bill. . .As
for the other reason, I have
noted an increasing cynicism
enveloping student legislature
and student government, and
feel that it is a warranted
cyneism."
Calling his three years in
legislature "frustrating," Levy
asked the legislature to quit
promising everything and giv
ing nothing, and to begin to
get something done.
hip
'Power
By GENE WANG
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
"Integration is not the
panacea or the uptopia
power is the ball game."
Howard Fuller, a ' social
worker with Operation
Breakthrough in Durham,
began UNC's participation in
the nation-wide moratorium
of classes.
The tone of the day was
set by a group of concerned
students who put up a mock
cemetary at 6 a.m. in Polk
Place by the flagpole.
The cemetary, containing
about 400 graves, was intended
to be a arning and a memorial
according to a spokesman for
the eleven students. A sign
in the area said: "Here lies
the class of 1968."
About 300 people gathered
in McCorkle place at 9 a.m.
to hear Fuller and three other
persons speak on con
temporary problems.
According to Sam Austell,
organizer of the boycott, the
turnout was very pleasing.
"We had as many as 500
people at times," he said. "The
seminars were also well at
tended. Austell did not know how
effective the boycott had been
since he had been at the rally
all day. Attendance at the rally
itself varied with the time and
speaker. Betwen classes
students would leave and new
ones arrive, indicating that
some were still attending
class.
UNC Offers
Flick Course
Next
Students may sign up with
their advisors during pre
registration for a new course,
"The Movie as Art," to begin
next fall.
Cross-listed in the catalogue
as Engksh-RTVMP 42. the
course will meet in one section
from 4 to 5 p.m. Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
All students may sign up
for the course, but preference
may oe given to uose wno
next year will be juniors and
seniors, according to the
course professor, Dr. Kimbell
King.
Films will be shown Wed
nesdays in Carroll Hall from
3 to 5 p.m. To meet the cost
of rental, a fee of about $10
will be charged for the
course.
According to Dr. King, "The
purpose of the course is to
train students to explore the
film as a form of art.
"Occasionally movie scripts
will be studied for the literary
aspect of the film."
The course will consist of
one section that may number
as high as 300 students, Dr.
King said.
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Fuller spoke on the problems
of the blacks who are not
affect3d by integration; those
who live in the ghettoes.
"What about those who don't
want to live with whites?" he
said. "Their lives have not
been changed by integration.
They naed adequate housing
and schools."
Fuller said that although the
blacks have greater op
portunity now, there exists a
white power structure that op
presses Negroes.
The only difference is that
the oppression is more covert
than overt, he said.
Fuller also said that the
result of this oppression was
that the blacks also suffer
from poverty of the mind.
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Protest Disciission
By J.D. WILKINSON 0f the established, "proper
of The Dotty Tar Heel Staff channels method of
A crowd ranging in size up grievance-expression to bring
to aDout titty persons gatnerea
in MCCorfcie Place tnoay
afternoon to participate in a
group discussion on poverty
and. racism in the United
States.
The discussion was one of
three open forums scheduled
as part of the student protest
"teach-in" day. It was led by
Reggie Hawkins with
assistance from Hey wood
White.
The poverty-racism forum
began at 1:00 p.m. and lasted
for two hours. During that
time a great number of ideas
were expressed,' many nf
which conflicted with each
other.
Almost everyone agreed that
tfaere is a serious race problem
ana mat mere is a serious
poverty problem, although
there was some disagreement
as to the extent of the latter.
Most of the discussion was
centered around the causes of
the two problems and posible
solutions for them.
Those questions inspired
debate and expression that was
sometimes inspired
sometimes inspiring, very
often extremely articulate, and
always interesting and worthy
of consideration.
Hawkins began the forum
by giving a definition of racism
which divided it jnto two basic
areas: "institutionalized"
racism (racism on a national
social-political-economic level)
and personal racism.
This led into consideration
of the black reaction to white
racism, and especially the
violent aspect of that reac
tion. Hawkins expressed his view
that violent social disruption
precipitated by the Negro peo
ple is the result of the frustra
tion brought on by the failure
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Aging Poet John Beecher
addresses Friday's protest in McCorkle Place.
- "The whit man hates us
and has taught us to hate
ourselves," he said.
According to Fuller, the only
way to undermine this white
power structure is for blacks
to setup one of their own.
"My life should not b
dependent on the whites," he
said. "This doesn't mean that
I hate whites after all some
of my best friends are white."
"If that's separate but equal,
it's separate but equal."
Sandy Sellers, the wife of
S N C C organizer Cleveland
Sellers, spoke in place of her
husband.
Sellers was unable to attend
because he was being sen
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.adequate action.
4,We've tried everjlhing
else." he said, "and it hasn't
worked. This seems to be the
only means left. We don't want
violence, but it seems to be
working."
The general opinion seemed
to be that violence would be
less successful in the south
than it has been in other parts
of the nation, but ideas varied
concerning what the ultimate
reaction of white, middle class
America would be.
One person suggested that
proper grievance procedures
had not been utilized in the
past to the extent possible and
said this might be because
Negroes have not been suf-
ficientJy aware of the irm?
open to them.
Hawkins answered by saying
that the black people are im
patient at the slowness of such
methods.
'Negroes," he said, "are no
longer willing to accept a
gradual process. . .We want it
(equality) now."
Those present went on to
discuss the apparent need of
white America to establish its
"superiority," the Negro de
mand for better education, the
conflicting theories of black
separatism and total in
tegration, miscegenation as a
possible solution to the race
problem and as an escape
from the problem, birth con
trol as a remedy for the na
tion's dire poverty problem,
and the problem of raHiimg
motivation in children raised
in culturally - deprived
families.
The forum ended with a plea
for individual action on the
part of all Americans to fight
the problems of poverty and
racism.
DTH Staff Photo by Sam WUUams