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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Saturday, January 11, 196D
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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
Professors Violate UNC
Regulations On Testing
According to University
regulations, established by faculty
members themselves, class
instructors arc not suppose to give
tests or final exams in the last weeks
of class.
Unfortunately, that regulation is
being , violated flagrantly to the
detriment of the students.
A random sample poll of 100
students taken Friday showed that
about 25 of them had some type of
quiz or even a final exam scheduled
for next week, in violation of a rule
established by the faculty.
This occurence is of critical
importance since having tests in the
last week can severely hamper a
student in his studying for exams,
particularly since students here
have no reading days. The result of
this is that those students who are
stuck with professors who insist on
violating rules and common
decency are put at a severe
disadvantage with those students
who have professors who did follow
the regulations.
In theory, students do have
some recourse when a professor
break- ic regulations. However, it
is tw .ordinary for students to
,ppi , rhe instructor's decision to
uic a. ..unistration for fear that the
S.F. State Offers Lessons
For Carolina Colleges
From The Raleigh Times
Could there be a North Carolina
situation comparable to the tragedy
now being enacted on the Campus
of San Francisco State College?
The answer must be that there
could be such a situation, for we
have campuses with as many
students. Whether North Carolina
or any other state would have to
live through such a situation would
depend on how well North
Carolina's college trustees, college
administrators, students, politicians
and just plain taxpayers handle
themselves.
It should be admitted that we
have a real factor in our favor. The
San Francisco area is now a highly
volatile one, probably the most
volatile in the country, so far as a
concentration of hippies, yippies,
and various and sundry highly
militant groups are concerned. We
don't have such a volatile
atmosphere in our State.
However, we could have real
problems. The two key words to
avoiding them could be "patience"
and "tolerance." And, a great deal
of those two qualities would have
to be shown by the older groups
involved.
The authorities at an institution
shouldn't let a situation drift until
it reaches the unsolvable
proportions which now prevail at
San Francisco State. Is there any
indication that such drift would be
permitted on any of our campuses?
The answer there would be that
there is no such indication. On the
other hand, the authorities on our
campuses have shown a willingness
to handle student demands as they
arise. They have kept their doors
open around the clock, and have
been able to induce students and
authorities to work together in the
ancient spirit of the academic
community.
It should be noted, too, that
campus authorities have made it
plain to all concerned that the laws
of North Carolina will be enforced,
and that the enforcing will be done
in the name of the entire state and
not just in the name of the campus
authorities. Specifically, everyone
concerned in a situation is
reminded at once that there is a
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
instructor will find out who told on
him. While it is not true that the
instructor can find out who told on
him, the fact that most students
think this this is the situation has
left many professors feeling free to
give tests whenever they feel like it,
in total disregard of the regulations.
We strongly suggest that if any
student is saddled with tests in the
upcoming week that he report such
to the Dean of the General College
or of the College of Arts ana
Sciences. Students can do this and"
need not worry about their
professors finding out that they did
so.
In addition, we recommend that
any student who has a test in the
upcoming week in violation of the
rules and who perhaps subsequently
fails a course because he thinks the
test hampered him, should appeal
his failing mark to the appropriate
Dean.
While such an appeal may not be
successful (but we hope it would) it
is imperative that students do this
to inform their administrators of
the damage that can be done when
professors violate this rule on tests.
Maybe then the Administration" will
crackdown on these Faculty
offenders.
North Carolina law which prohibits
any person from denying to other
people full rights to use public
facilities. There is the reminder that
this law will be enforced
immediately if the occasion should
arise.
On the other hand, if campus
doors should be closed to militants,
if the situation should be permitted
to drift, things could get out of
hand. Once that occurs, a campus
gets to the point where there must
be a big winner and a big loser and
everybody really winds up as the
loser.
In virtually all such situations as
that now prevailing in San
Francisco, a relatively few persons
are involved in the militancy. On
that campus, for example, it would
be safe to estimate that not more
than 1 5 per cent of the students are
involved in the demonstrations, and
that at least 85 per cent only want
the right to attend college.
The campus authorities are
charged not only with the duty of
granting the dissenters honest and
full hearings, they also are charged
with the duty of guaranteeing the
nondissenters the right to attend
classes without interruption.
It is vital that educational
authorities keep, control of the
campus in their own hands,
something which hasn't been done
in San Francisco. The situation
there now has reached the point
where the Governor of the State is
running the campus. This is a
situation which is fraught with
almost as much potential for
trouble as would be the case of any
other off-campus power running
the institution.
But, if the trustees and the
administrators selected by the
trustees do conduct themselves and
the campuses without resorting to
outside control, virtually any
situation can be resolved to the
benefit of all concerned. But, this
does involve the cooperation of all
concerned, and to date North
Carolina has had that kind of
cooperation.
It is important during the
months just ahead, while the
legislature is in session, for all
concerned to remember how
important that cooperation is.
Steve Enfield
Dobbins A
Black is a word that often takes on
ugly connations like evil, craven,
sickening, depraved, and even sometimes
niggardly (better today as 'niggerdly').
Only recently, due to what seems like
some fantastic Madison Avenue gimmick
dreamed up by the Rev. Ralph D.
Abernathy's PR man, has the word come
to be associated with ideas like beauty,
pride, and manhood.
Two years ago, before this amazing
transition, a cocky bastard from Chicago
came to UNC as a junior. He was kind of
a crazy kid and often did unusual things
like singing with rhythm and blues
groups. So nobody was too shocked when
he applied to schools in the deep
South even though he wras as black as
midnight in an African jungle.
Being a non-white in a place where
"White Only" signs were everywhere
didn't bother him. You see, he was proud
to be a Black before slogans like "Black is
Beautiful" became fashionable, before
there was a Carolina Talent Search, and
before hundreds of UNC fans were
cheering such black athletes as Charlie
Scott or Bill Chamberlain.
Negro Profs
Unavailable
To the Editor:
In their efforts to promote racial
justice, the editorial writers of the DTH
are usually, in my opinion, on the side of
the angels, but today's (Jan. 8) attempt is
definitely an exception. The implication
is that, although the faculty has not
progressed to the point of wanting to
recruit black students, we are still too
prejudiced to recruit black professors. I
don't know of any departments where
this is so. If you do, you should direct
your remarks at them.
Speaking as a member of the
Department of Mathematics I wish to
assure vou that we put a high value on
mathematical excellence in whatever
color its enbodiment takes, and that ourl
efforts to recruit a person will not be
affected by his race. I used the future
tense because in the past, for obvious
reasons, the number of black
mathematicians has been extremely small,
and of this small number, I know of none
who could have been induced to come
here. .' . .
.,, There is no' formula for creating
"instant scholars", but as Negroes get
better educational opportunities, the
supply of prospective black professors (I $
do not mean "high risk" professors) will
increase, and so will their numbers on this
faculty. If you meant to imply that we r
should proceed at once to employ "high
risk" faculty, let me make the obvious
comment that a "high risk" professor is a,
much higher risk than a "high risk"
student and could only be justified by a
more high powered argument than I have
yet heard.
Sincerely,
W. Robert Mann,,
Professor of Mathematics
P.S. To allay any suspicions that may
arise in your mind when someone calls to
your attention that no women are
full-time members of our Department, let.
me assure you that we are all very fond of
girls it's just that very few are available
in the fields where we have openings.
Letters To The Editor
KnowMon
To the Editor:
I was fascinated by Bill Spencer's
sarcastic letter about me in Tuesday's Tar
Heel. In reply to it I shall try to overcome
the urge to be sarcastic, easy as it would
be. '
In the first place, Bill, I would never
deny that my "service to my country"
was even more ludicrous than you so
pathetically tried to point out. The
information you use in attacking me is, to
say the least, screwed up. The only way
you could have obtained exact
information would have been to ask me
for it, which you didn't, or to check my
Service Record Book in Washington,
which you would not be allowed to do.
To start off, I left the communication
school after completing the basic section
of it and then spent five months waiting
for a security clearance. I went to the
Naval Academy Preparatory Session
(NAPS) at the Naval Prep School in
Bainbridge, Maryland. I spent nine (not
two) months there and graduated with
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statements.
Spearhead
Once here he kept up his unorthodox
activities and expanded them to include
marching and organizing in causes related
to chfl rights and poverty. (However
commonplace this has become). He even
bumed a Confederate flag in front of the
fraternity house that will be celebrating
R. E. Lee's birthday next Sunday. (All
the while keeping up a Dean's List
average).
In time, he became the head of the
local Black Student Movements and he
recently entertained one of his heroes,
Stokely CarmichaeL
If all of this sounds like Preston
Dobbins just died and this is a tribute to
him, you're half wrong. Preston is very
much alive and at present is playing
Chancellor Sitterson's waiting game.
You see, Preston hasn't been satisfied
with every bit of his two years in Chapel
Hill. (Maybe that's what you feel he
deserves for having the temerity to come
here in the first place). But he doesn't
like the idea that there are so few African
history courses; that a white man is
teaching him Swahili (Funny huh? Well,
other UNC students are taught Hebrew
by a Jew); that there aren't enough Black
faces at a university supported by a state
that is more than 30 Black; and many
other demands which don't seem so wild
to him.
Whether or not they seem so irrational
to our leader, won't be known for
another few weeks, at which time he is
scheduled to deliver the administration's
verdict on Preston Dobbins' four years on
this campus.
The Chancellor, a sincere man who has
lived all his life in a world apart from
Preston Dobbins, will not be simply
saying yes or no to a student activist
group. Mr. Sitterson will either bestow a
humanitarian degree or brand the upstart
Black a Negro. He will be confronting
problems which have a dramatically vital
affect on the future lives of millions of
Preston Dobbinses to come.
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the highest academic average of any
Marine there.
Immediately afterwards I was
offered-I did not apply for the Navy
Enlisted Scientific Education Program
(NESEP). I originally refused on the
grounds that I was a crummy
mathematician and a worse scientist, but
I was told by a field grade officer that I
would be allowed to major in languages,
at that . time a Marine option in the
program. I then did three (not two)
months more at the Navy Prep School in
Bainbridge, for a total of twelve months
in Bainbridge.
You call this time a "courtesy" of the
Marine Corps. I call it a waste of the
taxpayers' money: The first nine months
were a needless repetition of the ninth
grade; the last three were an intensified
version of the first nine. I was at the
school because of something called
"orders."
OF COURSE I NEVER SAW A DAY
OF COMBAT, you dummy. Do you want
to know why? Despite all the school I
went to, I was never assigned anything
other than a basic Military Occupational
Specialty (MOS). In other words, I was
never trained to do anything in particular.
That is hardly my fault. Taking a
different view of the matter, why do you
suppose I was sent to the various schools
and programs I was? I wanted to be a
career officer in the Marine Corps. The
Marine Corps, in order to spend the
money they did, must have wanted me to
be a career officer.
I got out because I wanted to go back
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RATHSKELLER-4! can t tell you
what a brilliant idea it was to start
visitation. Jim The kids all think
they've got something exciting and
new. It'll be interesting when they
find out the real story."
"You're right, Lyie. The plan's a
masterpiece. First we thought up
the name -visitation. Figured that
kids would go home at Christmas,
tell their parents we have
'visitation', and the parents would
think it was some kind of religious
stunt."
"Ingenuous, Jim."
"Then my wife came up with
Host Committees. I expect they'll
solve a number of problems. First
of all, no one will want to be on
them-that'll slow up things. Then
everyone will try to thwart them.
The definition of an 'open door'
will stop 'em cold, though.
"Consequently the Host
Committees will fail and we'll have
to hire police to hawk about the
buildings. That'll improve the labor
problem."
"Jim, that's extraordinary
foresight."
"Oh yes, we solved another little
problem. By having visitation, we
compelled students to want to
decorate their rooms more.
Fortunately, we had this new sticky
stuff-Plastitak, I think they call
it which we over-ordered down at
the Student Store, so we made that
k
to school, because I met with so much
frustration while I was in, and because I
think Viet Nam is a military botch,
especially in the case of the Marine Corps.
The Corps, an offensive combat unit, is
being misused in I corps in Viet Nam.
Marines are put into defensive positions
without proper training in their
construction. I speak against the war
because we are not winning, because at
present we are doing nothing but keeping
score with the body counts. These
opinions are mine as well as those of
many of my friends still on active duty
who have seen, or saw, before they were
killed, enough days of combat to satisfy
your perverse qualifications for being
admitted to speak.
I am not, as many of my former
friends seem to think, anti-Marine Corps,
or anti-military. I still have great respect
for those in the Corps who do their jobs
with the degree of professionalism for
which the Corps has become famous.
There are, however, things wrong with
the military against which I have spoken
and will speak. Any ROTC or PLC
student (or even ex-ROTC or ex-PLC)
who thinks that there is nothing in the
service to criticize is, in the terminology
of the Naval Service, a Boot.
In closing, Bill, I wish you would
write another letter and explain exactly
what you meant with the first one. I
assume you mean I really don't have any
grounds to talk about the war or the
service because I wasn't in Viet Nam and
didn't spend two or three years at Camp
Lejeune. Being a reasonably sane human
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the only adhesive they could use on
the walls."
"Astounding."
"Then we came up with the real
clincher, the coup de eras of the
whole thing you might say. We
decided to make everyone sign their
dates in when they enter the
building."
"Why is that so abhorable?"
"First of all, it'll drive the
students mad to have everyone
pouring over the names of the girls
they're dating. There's simply no
way to keep everyone in the house
from knowing who you've got with
you. Furthermore, you can't bring
more than one girl over in a single
day, because the second one would
see the first's name."
"Marvelous."
"The fun part was the final little
monkey wrench I decided to toss
in. By claiming that they weren't
ready to properly receive girls, we
excluded fraternities from joining
in visitation until we've checked
them out. So I've sent out a little
touring committee. You know,
throw a little red tape around.
"And meanwhile, the wild,
partying fraternities can just sit
over there and watch the dorm-rats
disappear behind their partially
closed dormitory room doors."
"Most clever, Jim. It's
comforting to know that behind
the liberal, activist facade here,
there's a coniving, retaliatory mind
hiding out in South Building.
being, I am overjoyed that I didn't go to
Viet Nam, and anybody who wants to
spend more time than he has to at
Lejeune has something wrong with him.
The fact remains that I was in for five and
have had adequate contact with the
service in order to know what I'm talking
about, which is more than I can say for
what you wrote in your letter. The
taxpayers' money which you moan about
being wasted on me is exactly what I'm
moaning about, among a few other things
which you will discover when you go in
the service some day.
Sincerely,
Tim Knowlton
315 Northampton Terrace Apts.
Chapel Hill
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