Wednesday. December 11, 1968
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Letters To The Editor
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
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Dmc Anil Napalm: Is It Right?
Dow, Lipsitz Match Minds
In Debate On Morality
A Dow Chemical Company
representative comes to campus
today armed with with arguments,
not napalm, for a confrontation
witli representatives of the New
Left.
The representative will be
debating political science professor
Lewis Lipsitz at 8 p.m. in Gerrard
Hall pi the question of Dow's
moral right to make napalm and
their -ilit to recruit on campus.,
Most campus radicals will
probably be there eager to put the
Dow man on the spot and learn
what he has. to. say. However, if the
situation . is as usual, there will
probably-IxHcw-people there from
the other side of the fence to either
back up the Dow man or to try to
learn from the radicals. This is
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highly unfortunate.
Agnew Attacks The
Aspect Of Poverty War
One of the few really beneficial
contributions of the Johnson
administration seems headed down
the drain at the hands of the
Republican Administration.
Vice President-elect Spiro
Agnew told urban administrators at
a national convention in New
Orleans Monday that participation
by the poor in poverty programs
should be encouraged "where they
can make an effective
contribution.'"
"All too often participation of
the poor has been construed to
mean playing both patient and
doctor; when all too often the
unhappy result has ranged from
protracted delay at best to
extravagant boon-doggling at
worst."
One of the best features of
Jonhson's War on Poverty was his
incorporation of the poor into
some essential aspects of the fight
letting them be both doctor and
patient. An now Agnew wants to
eliminate that participation because
it has too often been inefficient.
In expressing such a desire
Agnew' s ignorance of the problems
of poverty shine through clearly.
What he is asking for is a
remodification of the poverty
program' so that it will work to
bring the poor back into the
economic mainstream of the
country without doing anything to
bring them psychologically and
politically back into the
mainstream. And, if the Nixon
administration succeeds in getting
the changes that Agnew advocates,
they will quickly find out that the
efficient organization that they are
seeking will do little to really
improve the situation of the poor in
the country.
The main poverty program that
has been the subject of attacks by
politicians have been the
Community Action Programs that
Dale Gibson, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Harvey Elliott, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr., Advertising Manager
Middle of the roaders and
conservatives on campus have a
tendency to complain bitterly
about the strength and
vociferousness of persons on the
left but they themselves never show
the desire to either try to learn
what the radicals have to offer or to
confront hc radicals with their
own ideas and try to stand up for
their views rationally.
Tonight will probably be a
repeat of the usual, with students
complaining in their dorms about
the radicals and such but not
bothering to show up at Gerrard
Hall for the. big debate. ; ,
We hope not. We hope that you,
radical, middle of the roader, or
reactionary, will come and try to
learn from the others and offer
them something to think about.
allow the poor to get together and
request funds from the federal
government for certain activities,
such as adult education, child care
programs, etc. These programs have
often not been the most effiecient
and there has probably been a lot
of money spent by CAP's that,
should . not have been spent.'
However, what Agnew wants is
more inefficient and harmful in the
long run than any boondoggling by
an organization of the poor.
The Economic Opportunity Act
of 1964 recognizes in establishing
the CAP that there is more to
poverty than a sheer money
problem of the poverty-stricken.
The CAP program, the bill states,
seeks the "elimination of poverty
or causes of poverty through"
d e v eloping employment
opportunities, imporving human
performance, motivation, and
productivity, or bettering the
conditions under which people live,
learn, and work."
To accomplish that goal takes
more than just an efficient
organization run by a bunch of
government bureaucrats or local
politicians, which is apparently
what Agnew thinks it takes and
which he wants.
By having control of the
programs the individual can
eliminate that personal sense of
inadequacy and helplessness that
characterize the poor and which
keep them from advancing in our
society. Elimination of the
psychological problems the poor,
both black and white, face is far
more important than any amount
of efficiency and until these
problems are eliminated there is
little hope that the poor can enter
the mainstream of America, making
efficient expenditures of money
foolish, when they exclude the
poor from decisionmaking.
Best
Booklet Needs
To The Editor:
The most important information in
the Course Evaluation Booklet is what
Warren Schonfeld and Joyce Davis
included in the preface: only about half
of 300 different members participating
gave their permission for their evaluations
to be published. It seems that in the next
Evaluation Booklet to come out a special
effort should be made to publish the
evaluations of all the teachers
participating good and bad.
I recognize that, a certain amount of
teacher cooperation is helpful in putting
together this type of report, but to
publish an incomplete evaluation booklet
is to sacrifice the ouality of it to comply
with the demands of the teachers who get
poor ratings.
If it takes extra time to interview
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Chapel Hill Weekly
UNC9
Maybe it was only unlucky
coincidence, but few things have been
more awkward for UNC than for the
Consolidated University to unveil its
Long-Range Planning Summary at the
instant that the UNC Board of Trustees
was recommending the adjunction of
Wilmington and Asheville-Biltmore
Colleges as the fifth and sixth branches of
the Mighty Oak.
The Long-Range Planning Summary is
a splendid document, charting the
Consolidated University's course for the
next decade. Supported by statistics,
charts, reasonable projections and God
knows how much prayerful
consideration, it tells that the four
branches of the University are doing now,
what needs to be done in the decade
ahead, and what the University could do
given proper support by the State.
In a foreword to the Summary,
President William Friday says:
"This study gives the best estimate
now available of the probable demand for
university educated manpower in the
next decade. It also shows clearly that the
University of North Carolina (four,
branches) and the other institutions that
furnished the information used in this
study (Duke and Wake Forest) have
programs either in being or in the
planning stage that could meet this
demand."
(Not a word to be found about the
need for two more UNC branches to do
the job.)
"The demand will be met," Mr. Friday
goes on, "if the University (four
branches) is given sufficient support to
provide the necessary staff and facilities
and, further, if enough Qualified and
motivated students apply for admission
to certain critical fields.
There is not, in the University's entire
Long-Range Planning Summary, "so much
as a fleeting mention of
Asheville-Biltmore and-or Wilmington
Colleges.
A great deal of attention is paid,
however, to the present University
branches at Greensboro and Charlotte.
Greensboro is credited with "making
steady progress to University status,"
some years after having been adorned
with nominal University status. Charlotte,
the Summary notes, "has just established
itself as an accredited undergraduate
college," some three and a half years after
having been legally declared a university
(Please bear in mind that those are the
Consolidated University's assessments of
its two urchin branches.)
The Long-Range Planning Summary
students against the wishes of the teacher
in order to get a truthful publishable
evaluation of their course, then it is
worth it. On the whole I think the
booklet was worthwhile, but doesn't the
student have the right to know the truth
about the uninteresting, ill-prepared,
unconcerned teachers too?
Mike Kessler
109 Fraternity Court
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states, "A problem which confronts the
University is that of strengthening,
enlarging, and enriching the programs of
(Greensboro, and Charlotte) without
inhibiting the continued growth of
(Chapel Hill and Raleigh)."
The Board of Trustees' solution to this
particular problem, as to how to nourish
two stepchildren without draining the
parents, is to adopt two more
stepchildren.
The Long-Range Planning of the
Consolidated University, as opposed to
the eager recommendation of the
University Board of Trustees to bring
Wilmington and Asheville into the fold,
raises some disturbing questions.
One question is whether the University
is making any sort of effort at all to
follow the legal guidelines for adding new
campuses.
Under the legislation enacted by the
1963 General Assembly, the trustees
must find that sufficient educational need
exists to justify establishment of
additional campuses. No such need has
been substantiated. In fact, the
University's own Long-Range Planning
Summary states clearly that the existing
branches are sufficient to satisfy
projected demands.
Under the 1963 law, it must also
appear probable, to the trustees, that
additional funds can be made available to
establish and maintain such additional
campuses without impairing the quality
and extent of instructional and research
programs at existing campuses.
To put it charitably, the trustees
haven't the foggiest notion as to whether
such additional funds would be available.
If the trustees had to make a wild guess,
they would have to say chances will be
ghostly at best of rowel ing that kind of
seed r money out of the Legislature
anytime soon.
The law governing the grafting of
additional branches onto UNC is subject
to approval of the State Board of Higher
Education, and then approval and
provision of adequate financial support
by the General Assembly. 1
It might be noted that the State Board
of Higher Education has just issued a
landmark study report calling for a
central agency which would oversee all of
North Carolina's institutions of higher
learning. Bv sheer coincidence, the Higher
Education 'Board's report preceded the
UNC trustees' recommendation by a
matter of days. The Higher Education
Board's recommendation for a central
agency was a direct challenge to the
University's autonomy. To suggest, or
Faculty
letter from a "liberal" soldier of the
"Kennedy-Humphrey" classification. LU
Donald P. Martin. He asserts that.
. . . there are certain institutions which
can not be democratic and can not be
primarily concerned always with the
welfare of the individual. One of these is
the military."
Since you. Lt. Martin, are in your
words, "a liberal." do you not hold ideals
of democracy, the right of people to
choose their own form of government,
freedom of speech, etc.? Does the
military not contradict these
ideals especially when your U.S. army
supports tyranny and fascism in Vietnam.
South America, and even in Chicago.
Perhaps you have been brainwashed by
the liberal hypocrisy so widely
disseminated in the United States.
In the words of Herbert Marcuse. "Its
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even dream, that the State Board of
Higher Education will nowfly right into
the face of its own proposal by approving
two more branches and more
empire-building for the Consolidated
University, is to suggest the fantastic.
And yet, that is exactly what the trustees
are asking the Higher Education Board to
do.
Conceivably the University would
press on, despite a flat no from the
Higher Education Board. Such things
have been known to happen. But then
would come the matter of approval and
funding by the General Assembly.
No prudent soul would predict what
the General Assembly might do about
higher education or anything else. But it
should be noted that Governor-elect
Robert Scott is already on record as
recommending that the basic structure of
higher education in North Carolina, in
particular the Consolidated University's
structure, be allowed to set a spell,
without any radical changes. Even the
trustees would have to concede that
adding two more branches would be a
pretty radical change.
Then there is Thomas J. White, State
Senator, Advisory Budget Commission
chairman, Appropriations Committee
chairman, and UNC trustee, who will
serve in the 1969 Legislature as Governor
Scott's legislative liaison man. When
Charlotte College came up for adoption
by UNC, Senator White stood alone in
protest. He thought the University was
moving too fast. He still thinks so. And
yet, when the Wilmington and Asheville
recommendations came to a vote, Tom
White, as a UNC trustee, was in favor of
adoption. Why this obvious change of
heart? Well, Old Tom said, in effect, so
long as they're tying the UNC rag on
every bush, they might as well tie it on
Wilmington and Asheville too. A sterling
piece of logic, refreshing in its candor.
The final Question, then, is what's
behind the whole move in recommending
that the University bring in Asheville and
Wilmington as its fifth and sixth
branches.
The Consolidated University itself
argues persuasively against such a
proposition, at the same time that the
Board of Trustees urges its
implementation. This could be written
off as a staggering arrogance of
power for the University to show such a
recommendation to be ill-conceived,
ill-considered and unjustified, and then
expect its acceptance simply because the
University recommended it; We cannot
yel assign that sort of arrogance to UNC.
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(this society's) productivity is destructive
of the free development of human needs
and facilities, its peace maintained by the
constant threat of war, its growth
dependent on the repression of the real
possibilities for pacifying the struggle for
existence..." To you. Lt. Martin, I
surest you examine the relevance of
Marcuse's exposition on one-dimensional
thought in his book. One-Dimensional
Man.
Sincerely.
Charles Richter
Assistant Professor
Grad Remarks
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To the Editor:
In a letter to the Tar Heel on Saturday
(Grad Hits Demonstration) an army
lieutenant makes a few ill-informed
observations about the nature and
necessity of military discipline with
which I would like to take issue.
As an example of military discipline
the writer describes a tactical order given
by an officer to an enlisted man in a
combat situation. He points to the
absurdity of the EM's refusal to carry out
the order on the grounds that he is a free
citizen, and doesn't have to.
Unfortunately, the lieutenant uses this
argument to demonstrate that free speech
(indeed, a free' mind) in the armv can
not be permitted. An analogy in civilian
life illustrates the error: it is not
necessary to suspend and'or abrogate the
right of free speech to cause men to stop
at red lights or to pay their taxes, in other
words, to obey lawful orders.'
The military's myopic view is that the
only alternative to total discipline is
anarchy. "Perhaps," writes the lieutenant,
"many of you who have not been in the
service find this idea to be authoritarian,
an infringement on the personal freedom
of the individual." There are many of us
who have been in who feel the same way,
lieutenant, primarily because of the
inability of officers such as yourself to
understand what personal freedom and
individual dignity mean.
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Sincerely,
...... . Martin H. Violette
209'2 McCauley
Another possible answer is that most
of the UNC trustees are uninformed,
misinformed, or addled. That answer also
is hard to buy.
The only other possible answer we can
come up with is that the expansion is a
cold-blooded political move, calculated to
buy the University broader legislative
support, to whip up popular adulation,
and to frustrate the State Board of Higher
Education.
Whether intentional or not, the
University has given the back of its hand
to the Higher Education Board's
recommendation for central control of all
institutions of higher learning. And
whether the Higher Education Board's
recommendation is sound or not, the
University has responded with a flat no
without waiting for a fair public hearing
or dispassionate legislative examination.
The University has, in our opinion,
made a political decision and then,
altogether lamely, attempted to support
it with educational arguments.
The only conclusion left to be drawn
is that the University of North Carolina is
now willing to trade its institutional
integrity for legislative clout. It will, by
bringing in Wilmington and Asheville by
whatever pretense, be able to pick up
.support from Mountain and Down East
legislators and their constituents.
Regardless of the appropriations and
public esteem that might accrue, the day
the trustees' recommendation wins final
approval will be a sorry one for UNC.
This University, which has been so
contemptuous of the legislative
log-rolling, the groveling for public favor,
and the regional university status
accorded to East Carolina and those
others, will have gone them several times
better in shouldering its way to the
trough.
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