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r - f AGE mo THt DAILY TAR HltV qt2 fclxi-SStoEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, cr - Honor Council 'I he Wc. men's Honor Council bi partisan selection board h;is made its selections, and have left ques tions. Aiinvw is ciMinot lie Riven uriless one wants tc r sort to McCarthy like tactics, but the following o,!irstiu!s should l.e rai.ed: I low conif out of 4.") girls, only 9 were deemed canable? Mow Kiinc out of the nine, three were from the same soroi it '.' Mow conie that three out of four applicants of the same sorority were chosen? How come the same sorority has had many'mem bers of the Council before and lias had the chair mariihip for the past two years? How come this sorority was represented with three sS ink fits on the selection board, while everv other organization .was either not represented or bad only one member? There may be some legitimate answers to these luestions, and if so they will be printed. In the meantime, a n minder should be made to those who did not t selection board endorsement, that a petition of twenty five students submitted to the (hairman of the election board will enable them to run. :md if they feel that they are qualified, they should. 'I he editor will personally sin a petition for any he d t-rn , qualified to run. University Yesterday, this column discussed the necessity for commitment to education. Today, it is necessary to point out the problems of growth as it affects the .rmwTMty. i'rorn projected figures, one can see that the University will have a student population of some thitl: in the vicinity of 14,000 in 1970. '1 hi type of growth, practically doubling tin j revrnt enrollment, will radically alter the character of the University. It will necessitate perhaps twice a, many laenlty numbers and double the size of the toAii o! Chap I Hill. Mori over, statewide higher education will be in the vame dilemma. At present, although the University has plans for mteiiir' the future physical needs of the Uni vuity with regard to facilities, it will not bp able to Jome to j-rips with the problem of the altering pei$M?i.il nature of the University. Carolina, as' many other schools have doiie, may M y well jo (Ioaii the road to the situation whiT- the vtu lent i- no longer an entity but rather a num ber', where the faculty is devoted to research but not to teachin:;. and where edncation is a machine nude tool. It cm happen ve ry easily un'ess some planning takes place now. There needs to be planning on the state I' el to sip' off some of the excess studentry into lower colleges, making the University of North f'.irohna in if; three branches the apex of education hi the v'ate. This means planning for more colleges I expansion of some of the smaller colleges. Moreover, tin- criterion of selectivity has to b? : re ti'.idly enforced at the University so that it tan truly be the superior school in the state sys rr. Perhaps this type of limitation of attendance here, coupled with expansion of attendance at si-VmiN in othtr levels and the needed expansion of facilities may more properly insure for a mainte nance and raiding of standards at the University. (ioiu back to the need for a commitment to educat.on. a solid faculty, in part, depends on the .-(mount of mo:;iy available for salaries, and only a w hob hearted commitment can provide for the cali ber prnfevors necessary to place the University on the top level. To those who pride themselves on the cpi.dity of North Carolina education, it must be notd hre that the University ranks quite low on the ra!im: of the American Association of Univer sities. Th.is deficiency needs to be cleared up, and progress must be made. On the student level, the character and nature of vudent Government will have to be radically altered in order to meet the demand of a huge stu dent body. Necessary facilities such as a large stu dert union, recreation areas, and improved dormi tory structure will be necessary, for the case may well le that the fundamental unit of student gov ernment may nM be the campus, but the dorm and student center. Administratively, the problem will be exceeding ly complex, unless the administration completely negates any control over student action. The prob lem of knowing 7.000 is an almost impossible one, but the problem of knowing 14,000 students with a bu.i'ed staff will be impossible. If nothing else, this should prove how great the necessity of a commitment to education. If some thing else, it should ask the question of the value of a University, its purpose, and its role in transi tion. It should point up the question of whether rrowlh on the scale that the University is growing is desirealih', nad whether basic values will not be altered in the process. It should be a request for some adequate plan- ning before education becomes that corruption called mass education. Planning is necessary nation wide, statewide, and locally. This must be done soon. The official student publication of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, where it Is published daily except Monday and examination periods nd summer tcrmv Entered as second class matter in the f rsl office in Ch.ipel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 8 IH70. Subscription rites: per se mrster, $fl.50 per vcar. i a 1 1 eifflon it,."., I f ..ilc J t .r '-: ,ivrr- -I 1 ' N, r sh (."arc Tin, i Fuitor CURTIS GANS Managing folitors CHARLIE SLOAN, CLARKE JONES Hu sinews Manager WALKER BLANTON Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN An Address Marion A. Wright (Tlie following is Vie first part of (a speech made Sept 16 be? fore the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Council on Human Relations) You will recall that Stephen Leacock wrote an essay on Oxford University. He began by saying, in effect, "Ten years ago I spent a day at Oxford. Recently I spent another day there. So the reader will see that what I have to say about Oxford is based upon observation extending over a" period of ten years." Just one year ago I made a talk in Charlotte before this same group. Here I am again tonight. So, anything may say about Char lotte is based upon observation extending over a period of one year. I don't know whether Mr. Jones has a genius for getting me herein times of crisis in school. affairs or whether crisis has become a normal condition. When I was here a year ago integration was taking its first timorous step in Charlotte schools. Tonight we meet in the wake of the Supreme Court decision in the Little Rock case. Both events may well become historic. I hope it will not harrow your feelings if we recall the situation which prevailed here a year ago. For a brief and unhappy moment Charlotte was in the world's headlines. With the facujty which the press sometimes exhibits for exploiting the sensational, certain events which occurred here were blazoned abroad. The ugly foce of the mob was unmasked for all to see. An erect and poised girl who bore an ordeal with surpassing dignity was on every television screen. . Well, I venture to remind you of those events in order to point a contrast. A week or so ago your schools opened without the slight est echo of last year's turbulence. "J4ie city took the event in stride, turning asfde with deserved contempt the inflammatory exhortations of John Kaspcr. (By the way, can you think of a more stupid approach to winning friends and influencing people than to go to Charlotte and attack Billy Graham and Harry Golden?) The apostles of violence were soundly rebuked; Charlotte set an example to the rest of the South. No one, I think, may doubt that the peaceful token compli ance with law is but the prelude to later actual and thoroughgoing 'observance of the court's decrees. Those of us on the outside merely see results. But surely those results did not automatically occur. In the past year there must have been intelligent planning and dedicated effort of many people, of many minds and hearts, to produce this profound change in com munity sentiment. One knows, without being told, that the Charlotte Mecklenburg Council on Human Relations has played a significant rcle. From occasional reading of your newspapers, from watching your TV stations and listening to your radio, it is evident that all have fully discharged their historic and traditional function of furnishing intelligent and responsible community leadership. Religious, and other concerned groups have used reason and persuasion. No one, I am sure, will be disposed to rest on his laurels. There will be no occasion for resting until the last vestige of a segregated school system has disappeared and the national promise of equal opportunity has been fulfilled. v So, the Charlotte school board's decision of a year ago was his toric in the life of this city. The Supreme Court's decision of Sep tember 12 was historic in the life of the nation. We are still too close to the event and the excitement of the moment is too intense for one to gauge its full effect. But it would seem that even now at least a part of its significance may be appreciated. 1. There is to be no compromise in the national effort to give an equal chance to every American child. The nation is resolved that there shall be no such thing as second-class citizenship, second-class education, or second-class childhood. In only the narrowest sense did the court declare the law. In the broadest sense it declared the national will and spoke the na tional conscience. Insofar as the President is the nation's voice, his prompt appeal for faithful observance of the decree also reflects all that is best in American thought. The participation of the Justice Department, while grating upon the tender sensibilities of our poli ticians, is applauded by the nation as a whole. Remember, it is a Justice Department. What is it to do if it does not seek to secure justice for every American citizen? The forces, economic, social, moral, spiritual, which have thus far given the movement for equal rights its resistless momentum, will not abate. On the contrary, they gain strength throughout the world. The South has become a small fortress in a state of seige. If the be leaguered garrison fought for an honorable cause, we might applaud it for its heroism. But, when the cause, stripped of its tawdry pre tensions, stands revealed -as an effort to preserve a caste system with in a democracy and to embalm a part of the dead 18th century within the living 20th, those who defend the citadel become not heroes but objects of scorn. . 2. The decision further means that there is to be no surrender to mob action. Just as y:u here in Charlotte turned back the threat of violence with firmness and resolution, so, the nation, speaking through the court, has met that threat on the national scale. It required granite-like strength of character to meet the Little Rock challenge. How persuasive must have been the argument that, unless you retreat from a high moral position, there will be violence around Central High. This is, of course', judicial blackmail, the ef fort to control and shape a judicial decision by placing a court in terror. Everyone, of course, hopes there will be no violence. But con sider the alternatives. Endure violence or declare for all Americans particularly children that the lav is supreme, that human rights are sacred and that surrender to a mob is anarchy. (To Be Continued) is n m t t J "You Fellows Serious This Time?" Mim jL -t:fe fei fi rt m i 4 Letters Do What Mother Says' Monday, Nov. 3, 1958 To the writer of a letter in Sunday's Daily Tar Heel On Tuesday night, November 4th; Dr. J. W. Sta ley, an assistant professor in the Department of Phys ics, will speak informally to the DKE fraternity con cerning current scientific advances in space, the like lihood of reaching the moon in our lifetime, and the relative positions of the Russians and' Americans in this regard. Dr. Staley was invited this fall in tha unamimous eagerness to continue a program which was begun last winter. This program Operates simply and effectively: a faculty member is invited to have dinner, deliver a few introductory remarks on the subject chosen by his hosts, and submit himself to a "question and answer" session whien. may last twenty minutes or three hours. This is education in the finest sense. The boys present are not in aTnoisy group in the house bar; they are sitting individually, thinking individually, and, most important', -acting individually. Your letter of October 31st which appeared in the Daily Tar Heel is a source of wonderment and cu riousity to me. You lament the lack of concern, the over-abundance of complacency in our University, and especially in the fraternities where the students are too involved in Thursday to Tuesday weekends. I want to make it perfectly clear that I heartily agree with you in your lamentation on a general scale. Complacency" and lack of concern are far too prevalent among the students here; but why single out fraternities about which you plainly know so little? I know of very few boys who missed classes over the weekend and I know of none who will not ar rive in Class until Tuesday. To be sure, there are some who personify all of what you say. There are '.gathered clients" in bars who never hear the ques tion. There are some who could not be convinced that a problem exists. There are even some who do not restrain on Wednesdays. But, happily, these comprise the minority. And let's not be unfair to ourselves this minority does not exist solely at Chapei Hill, but at every collega and university in the country. Surely the importance here is not that we use our editorial page to criticize the minority; rather it is that we take action to save newcomers from joining the minority and to encourage everyone to think and act as an individual, to be concerned about the world in which we live. We believe that we are do ing something about this how about yourself? In cidentally, if you're not busy Tuesday night, ycu'ro welcome to join us in our discussion. Robert Hastings Perry Dot Dotson A Television Program Niiiht Editor O. A. LOPEZ Nick Etagdasarian . The recent CBS television pro gram, "The Plot To Kill Stalin," has been much in the news late ly for two reasons. One of them has been because of its excellent production and the other, the one which has made world-wide head lines, has been its fraudulent at tempt to reconstruct history. In 90 minutes of the most de ceptive acting-. In the annals of the theater, CBS further severed U.S. Soviet relations by charging that several high Sovett officals as assinated Stalin in his sick bed. Directly after the show was over, a report emanating from Moscow claimed it was "a filthy slander against the Soviet Union and the Soviet Government' In addition, the CBS correspondent in Moscow las politely "asked to leave the People's Republic. Indeed, although the idea of communism has never' appealed to me, this is one time my hat goes, out to them. By its actions CBS has cast an uneraseable black mark on the pages of American, history. When the only way we can glorify dem ocracy is to shatter another coun try's reputation (as dreadful as it may be), then there is some thing radically wrong with our system of government. Newspapers, magazines, and most important of all, government officials have so distorted present day Russia, that one cannot help associating horns and fangs with a certain Mr. Khrushchev." Granted that the Communists distribute more, much more, prop aganda then we do, it is still not in accordance with American tra dition for our government to, "in vent" history to suit itself. And, since CBS has received no offical reprimand from Washington, it can 'safely be assumed that the nation's leaders fully agreed with the television version. This "hate the Reds" campaign has now reached its full , force in this country. Perhaps it is an ad mission of our own inadequacy to keep up with the Soviet's grow ing might. Whatever it is., things couldn't get any worse if we spent a little more time cleaning out our own closets. v However now that television has entered the mud slinging .racket, it's been rumored in the streets of Moscow that a popular .Red T.V. program is casting actors for its version of "The Scheme To Poison Roosevelt's Chicken Noodle Soup"! Liberal traditions and individual freedoms which have been the strength and fame of our University in recent years are in danger. Freedom is already being eaten away and apparently a lot of peopb aren't going to realize this until the freedom is gone. Perhaps by then they won't even realize what has happened. At this point it is going to be hard to check this erosion. It will be said that something is a problem a threat and leaders will give loud voice, protesting that, "This is the way we want it." "We were elect ed." "What does this have to do with loss of free dom." "What you propose wil result is chaos." This I believe: There are people on this campus who are aware of the current problem and they are concerned. There are others who sense that some thing is wrong, but they don't know what it is. Some have given up hope of improvement. This summer I participated in discussions of an up-to-date, unified judicial system for this campus to replace our present patchwork of councils and courts. There were outstanding campus citizens in terested in this plan because of the need for an ef fective, efficient, representative judicial system. This was a plan that would be fair-to all BUT You can't do things like this There will always be some hot shot legislators who weren't consulted or didn't get 'their way and they'll pull every string, play any trick, or say anything to satisfy themselves. There will be a few people who will lose their jobs because the new system will have found a more effi cient way to handle their duties. There will be that ever present army of people who "just can't imagine a carriage without a horse pulling it" Perhaps, you can think of a few such people. They won't offer anything better, but they will shout down any idea that isn't theirs. So what happens? Some try to work these things out piece by piece a bill here, an amendment there and the patchwork juilt becomes even larger. In fact, by the time a good bill gets through, you often can't even recognize it as the ofte it started out as. What happens when you suggest a change? You contact somebody for a comment and what do you get silence. Sure, they're against it for their own reasons, apparently. I grant that nobody has to say anything the people who answer, "5th Amendment' to "What is your name?" don't have to say anything and I will defend their right but face in the crowd, offer.) Editor: r At . un me morning of November , 1958, the sun rose over a saddened campus. The dawn had brought with it the promise of a grand day, however; the you won't ever have much to weatner went unseen on the unhappy campus. Classes went on, but they were not accompanied by the cheerful hustle and bustle of other d If you are willing to allow the existence of a expressions clouded the faces of men and women council with the power to dictate to you the clothes as they trudged to class. All over the locality hun you are to wear at an age when many high school dfeds of students choked down their coffee and graduates are completely on their own at an age doughnuts. The food had no taste on this mornin" when you are old enough to vote for. the President for what student of Carolina could bring himself to of the United States your ideas are miserably be- enjoy his traditional breakfast, on the day free park hind the times. - ing on Chapel Hill's main-drag was to become part of the Dist If you get a personal satisfaction out of dividing Voc K ' . , the citizens of this University along class. divisions fabled formTcens Carlina'S ui j'cai, juu aiiumu gu uuck iu prep scxiooi ior a few more years. J. S. Fletcher If you believe that legislation, execution, and justice function along a division by sex, you might find some support in elementary schools. If you would not be willing to give up your job in favor of a better system, you might just as well admit who you are out for. Variations Gail God v in Sooner or later, each Derson no matte These are the kinds of people who are eating they are or how old they are has a rude awakening, away at our liberal traditions and individual free- This awakening may occur because of something th2 doms. Right now they are the people who are run- Person read, because of someone the person met, or ning the show. Name them over in your mind. May- simply because his shower water was too cold, be you voted for one of them. Maybe you didn't have 111 this moment, life stops as suddenly as a mov- mucn cboice. Maybe you didn't know how much dif- ins picture film stops when the projector breaks. ference it made until you found out that last year the Women's Residence Council had pushed through rules discriminating against freshmen in the wake of -overwhelming opposition from the student body--in spite of the traditional "no discrimination by class." Maybe you didn't realize that the people you voted for were people who believe that the dictates of a personal sense of good taste in university stu dents must be supplemented by the dictates of the Dean of Women and women's councils lo even a standards committee. And the last strip of film is ' smacked indelibly upon the on- , looker's mind. He must look at , , its image because the movie has stopped and it is dark. In this moment, the spectator ' j is forced to look at his own life I as objectively and as coldly as if it was someone elses. He may not J like what he sees. j But what he does about it after this cruel gift of insights comes To what point have we come that we would look to higher authority for such detailed personal di rections;? Are we er schools, or will we be a leader in freedom, in dependence, and maturity qualities lacking in manv schools in the South. This is not a finishing school.. It never was in tended to be a finishing school. Such a purpose is superficial indeed .compared to the functions of this University. I will not mouths. be satisfied to be ruled by such shut I. guarantee that there 'would be mouths if a new system is proposed. scure reason they'll be against it no good it is. a lot of shut For some ob- matter how This message is not addressed to these people. This message is not addressed to these people be cause nothing short of an act of God is likely to change their attitudes. This message is not addressed to campus "leaders" in general, br-cause.they do not have the power necessary to remedy the situation which exists. If you fall into one of the following categories, you won't do much to remedy .the situation either: If you are willing to let your sorority or fraternity direct you and decide for you, you don't have much to offer this University. (If you continue to be a is what makes up the drama of all mankind. e can do one of three things: he can close the book, say. goodbye to the person, or adjust his show er water to "warm" and resume his iinticfoM.,, to model our University after oth- lfe forever fighting down the gnawing dissatisfac- j uui ui ms neart. Or he can vacillate from that moment on between decision and indecision. He can do this for the rest of his life. Or he can make a clean break. The person who does this is as rare as the person who gives up smoking m one day and as rare as a beautiful flower growing out of a barren rock Everyone is marked for a releasp Hatt a Perhaps you t didn't realize the , implications of f the terrible insight. Everyone is the college stu- your choice for legislator, councilman or representa- Jfuf Sh years of classes to dfscover five. You should now. Student government makes "b Ttleor this school much of what it is. Those in authority he hates doing a job he finds boring' only to rea" have recognized the fact that university student3 that there is still time to get a different job in co'nv should learn to take care of themselves. This is ; pletely different surroundings. Everyone is the man compliment to our liberal and progressive heritage sheca"13 7 bCen living itn someone he or It is a great challenge and a wonderful opportunity ts if relllyneclsarh f aWak?si Up and asks: yet we have elected people whohave taken cur another day?" y Wlh this. Person freedoms away and are even threatening to destroy As previously mentioned, there are ' three il- our individuality. ternatives from which to choose when "the hour nf -- )- . f , , ir.v........ decision" comes. V Before you vote for one person, be sure that you The everyone who ehoo. fom,;n ,.. ... are not voting for someone who is seeking to play ritated with their lives consist of the milk nf w. the role of your mother or father. If you have been ,"- Their choice has made it possible for the world voting by party, stop. Vote for people who will be l? continue flowing. All cannot make the break or progressive, unselfish, and above all advocates of CIatl0n would most certainly collapse. indivMua, freedom, U there is no person running stop in S'St'S? onfs who nut, vou, run yourself. who make the chapter headings in the historV books In the meantime, voice your opinions. Talk about A !y ,are e ones vvho start the revolutions good -u.ua mey are the ones who eive th rt nf these things with your friends. Find out what your repres entative is doing (and has done). Bi may be watching you. Big Sister already is. lis rmirocro to TUtvv i , . . . , representative is doing (and has done). Big Brother our rilvT maxing me DreaK wnen God! The water is cold.