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"In The Name Of Frcodcni"
The fate of the Stockholm Peace Petition has effectively
put an end to what used to be the most popular form of politi
cal expression among students at Chapel HilL Hundreds of
students are completely unaware of many of the investiga
tions that are being carried on at the University concerning
their political activities and their loyalty. Politics has become
a dirty word, just as "civil liberties" has become a suspect
term.
ADMINISTRATION LIMITS SPEAKERS x
(2) Since the Unfortunate experience of the John Gates
affair, few organizations have dared to bring controversial
speakers to the campus I know this from personal experi
ence. The tendency now (which is due in large part to the
Administration's past attitude) is toward "safe speakers"
namely, local Democratic politicians, military men in abun
dance, or safe conservatives like Taft or Thurmond. ;
Certainly I favor having these people, and more of them,
but the absence of the point of view with which we are most
in disagreement is dangerous and disheartening since,Jf for
no other reason, it deprives us of the opportunity tq procure
intelligent reasons for being opposed to such people.
(3) If fear of non-conformity has had such results upon
the students it has been disastrous upon the faculty. When
the Board of Trustees attempted to administer a loyalty oath
to students and faculty members, the "Administration defeat
ed the move in a courageous statement, "If We Are To Keep
the University Free." Then the Administration quietly insti
tuted their own political questionnaire for faculty members.
Only two individuals of the faculty Phillips Russell of
Journalism and Joseph Siraley of Physics dared to speak
out in opposition during a faculty meeting, although the local
Association of College Professors issued a formal protest to
the administration. A similar quesiionaire, beaten down by
courageous individuals at more enlightened institutions such
as Harvard and Chicago, literally lore the University of Cali
fornia to shreads. Not a public murmur from our faculty
only, private grunts! The faculty has yet to recover from the
intellectual set-back created by this questionnaire.
(4) The worst effect among-the faculty members has been
noticable defensiveness and unwillingness to take stands.
This is particularly striking when compared to the activity
of the faculty of 1940 and the activities of the faculties of other
institutions today. This trend is especially evident in the social
science departments. Professors continually apologize for
their views, state over and over that they aren't communists,
are fearful of being reported by students as having expressed
dangerous ideas, and never encourage, as they once did, stu
dnts to engage in political activity.
More importantly, the professors themselves are reticent
about engaging in political activities or taking a stand on
such controversial issues, for instance, as segregation. Nell
Battle Lewis and Dave Clark through their literary efforts
successfully utilize the fear psychology in limiting free
speech and free inquiry.
SELF APPOINTED SENSORS
(5) All the above, however, are relegated to a rather in
significent role when compared to the activities of those self
appointd censors of student opinion and guardians of the
faculty minds. I refer specifically to the activities of one John
Clark, his brother Dave, and others of their persuasion as
found on the Board of Trustees.
I cannot recall or conceive of any other institution of high
er learning which has permitted a man to sit on the Board
of Trustees and at the same time to use the best methods of
the Gest&po to intimidate students.
In the case of John Clark the battle over conformity finds
expression in the race issue. The question here is not whe
ther one is for or against segregation, but for the right to hold
an opinion contrary to that of John Clark. In the lst year
this man has written letters about students to the mayors of
their home towns, and to other prominent officials throughout
the state in an effort to intimidate those students because of
their views, which were in opposition to his own, sowing the
seeds of fear and distrust, possibly of disloyalty, and caus
ing an untold amount of mental duress to those who are the
object of his attacks.
Only Tuesday morning, the Dialectic Senate received a
letter from this man demanding the names and addresses of
all -those who had voted in favor of equal treatment for all
students in recent resolutions.
These people, in all probability, face an ordeal similar to
that faced last year by the President of the Student Body
and the President of the YMCA, when they were concerned
with a similar issue.
An even more flagrant example of the ordeal which stu
dents must undergo is found in the case of a gentleman who
identified himself as a Mr. Rutledge from South Carolina. He
attended a student political gathering as a guest, after which
the President of the University received a letter completely
Letters to the Editor
Madam Editor: '
Another symptom of the dis
ease of "f ear," which you dis
cussed in Tuesday's editorial,
is the lack on this campus of
speakers on controversial issues.
"It is my understanding that in
the past the various depart-
the social sciences
a practice to bring to
ments of
made it
the campus speeches on all sides
of all issues. What hag hap
pened to this, practice.
Apparently the "market place
of ideas" theory of education has
been abandoned.
distorting th facts of the meeting and naming certain students
as members pf a subversive group. This information has since
been forwarded, in the case of at least one student, to the
office of a prominent Southern senator, who is now passing
along the false information in a graduitous fashion to a number
of government agencies as posible evidence of disloyalty.
As a rjssult, this student will probably never be able to
pass a security check. -
These are but a few of the examples with which J happen
to be personally familiar.
Many more ought be brought to light in the pages of the
Daily Tar HeeL soon. i -
REPRESSION ... FRIGHTENED POWER
Who is to blame for this situation? Certainly it would, be
presumptuous of us to pin the blame on any one group such
as the Faculty, Administration, or Board of Trustees. And,
in all fairness, it should be said that the Administration has
withstood rather well, and with courage, a number of the
most flagrant cases of student intimidation. Certainly it has
retained its integrity better than many other institutions, but
greater effort and -greater courage need to be shown if we
are to reverse the dangerous trend of events of the past few
years. We are today quite properly interested, in frustrating
Russian military and political power and in restoring peace
throughout the world. However, our methods thus far used
in achieving this goal indicate that we are coming uncom
fortably close to the adoption and practice of many principles
found in the communist lexicon.
"Repression is the way of frightened power," said a man
closely connected with Chapel Hill, and "freedom is the way
of enlightened faith".
The duty of the University is clear,-for if we have no faith
here, then where can faith be found?
Dick Murphy
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Student groups share the re
sponsibility for this void. The
most notable example is the
Carolina Forum whose -express
purpose is to bring men of ideas
to the campus and yet whose
best effort in the past two years
has brought military meri who of
course say nothing.
It is a pathetic situation on a
college campus when the most
stimulating : speaker in several
years in "Bob" Taft.
Allan Milledge
Madam Editor:
In -Tuesday's basketball pro.
gram, Mr. Julian Scheer states
"We'd like to say a word of
thanks, too, for the fine co
operation the cheerleaders have
given us with their loyal and
devoted support throughout the
season. -
This is either the finest bit
of sarcasm ever, or Mr. Scheer
is thinking about one of the
other sixteen schools who meet
us in Southern Conference play.
THEY have cheer leading. The
only cheerleader seen in Woollen
gym this season was a Duke
man and he certainly did not
intend to be co-operative.
" After the low ebb of the Fur
man game I decided to do
something about the situation,
even if it meant asking President
Gray himself to lead the cheers.
With the help of Mr. Jake Wade
I located one. He co-operated by
assuring Mr. Wade that he would
have TWO cheerleaders at the
game tonight. We Had a band.
It was wonderful. I thank the
A. R. O. T. C. and whoever
arranged their appearance.
Those two cheerleaders how
ever, eluded me.
Let's elect a basketball cheer
leader. Perhaps then, when our
team comes on the floor, they
will know quite a few of us care.
Dorothy O'Sullivan
Off Ca ITipUS
Let's see. The way we. get it
is, if- you want to read more,
you've got to read faster; but if
you read faster there is no guar
antee that you'll understand
more than you did when you
read slower. Clear?
Well, they're giving ten-week
courses in speed-reading at the
University of Louisville.. We've
just received word that one class
increased its average reading
speed 87 per cent, the best in
dividual improvement being
from a start of 216 words a min
ute to 760. Can't go into details
here, except to say that word
groups are flashed upon a
screen at a rate of from 280 to
700 words a minute and your
eyes are asked to grab them as
they flicker by snatch and re
tain. Sounds downright dizzying.
Collier's
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Managing Editor
News Editor
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Society Editor
Feature Editor
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