WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, I960
r.w.i: two
Editor's Corner
McGee And
Our World
Scnatoi (ialc ltdtr til Voiiiing is a
mill nukes .i good deal ol sense in .1
.mil ,i;r win 11 must politicians ,ur con
tent in di ll with jil.it it udes ; (I gem 1 ali; ics.
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h is out l ok is one w h it h
t 1 met I 1 mi' il n l 1 csh in; 1 h n-
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licic I. isl neck as llir Ic.itui'.il mii-Nt .11 the
Iciith nmi.il Noiih ( '.n nlin.i Coiituil mi
Win lil. MI. in. V'r,i! u his n 1 .1 1 t i ne t 1 1 n . 1 1 c"
M)ith ol totiunciit .iii.I Iiii.Iki cxploi .11 ion.
li(.c is .1 luitiKt histi: pio!csMr .it
m 1i.1! uiiiv c.s'l ies. 1111 hilling ihr I'nivci
siiv 1 I Vi his l ist post be'oc h.'irg
( h ilnl In mi; 111 st i i 1 1 1 s i c men's iliil). in
tin- t.il! nl h-,S. W illi this academic bwk
ininnl. li Lit advocates, .is tiiihl I ir c
j n 1 till. .1 m iss i i h.nmc 1 1 nicii( 'i si 1 : 1 1 c" 1 1 .s
x i 1 1 1 collets .md univ ci ii ics in othci lands.
I he Vn Hm lii K tii it siiiiU abioad should
hr rt iiitcM'.il. .md indeed. .1 icquiicd pail
o 1 .11 h st udriit s rihu .tl ii m. I I r pro pi scs that
the t'. S. ( .o i-i iinunt t i 1 1 . 1 1 1 4 c something like
.1 tnillii 11 iit.l tils .1 u.n to sindv in othei
oitnttiis. I his i, luniMUMil to t!u' liu-nw ol
V 1 100- 1 1 1 1 K 10 Ik iii'4 th,o.ii am ml now in the
Senate I his wo. ild oliini!s!v In1 .111 expen
sive pi ojiosit ii -ii. im .is MiCcc j)oinis out.
siiiiin'4 tlu' challenge uc I. we will he cx
pensive .md will icipiiie ingciiuilv .md s;k -liliii'
on the put l the Ameiii; 11 people.
.Speaking on the win Id sitn.ition in gen
et. il. Mi dee linted to the dangers piescnt
ed l 0111 .ittitndes .md t 0111 pl.r. em . Hi
st, ited th it iheie is a tendeiuv lot tis to lecl
th.it we h.ie "atiivcd" .itwl ic.uhcd the in
n.'.leol 111. m's possihilii ies. In icahv.as lc -(ee
pointed out. we possess the gicatcst as
soitment o iiMiess .md nnnei cs-ai gadgets
in the hiMoi ol mankind. What we pissess
mate! i.i 11 . w e 1. 11 k niw .11 ulv .
lie loin lied, as all ica'Uts must, on the
levolulion ol lising cxpet tat iotis, dlai Stev
eiison's hiilli. nt pln.isi- loi descbing the
win Id ol to lav- I he people ol the woild hae
been shown our siandaid ol living and wish
to equal it. P.ul instead ! altcmp:iig to lop. c
the imi oiunriH d pi1 p!es to how to out will
.md ,11 1 ept 0111 wa ol lile. McCce s.is we
must ti to inidei st.md them. He was quick
to point out out icndeiiiN toiomleuiu those
iiiiiiiliies whiih 0.1 not have a deinoi 1 ;.'. ic
I m 111 oi gov ei nineiit . and then added that
01 11 ount 1 v . when it w.is soling, was am I limn
Imt puielv di hum 1 at ii . You don't legislate
demo, v. 11 v 01 Iteedoiu: it is something whiih
tomes liom within, a coiucpt whiih takes .1
long pel iod to loiiiiition those who live 1111
di 1 it.
And then he oiu hided with the woi Id ol
The Campus
Is At War
P. W. Carlton
Tin- relation -hip at UNC between
i" els and nun is truiy startling,
tiiotv lu'hg a sni pi ii;i amuiint of
iacivility and coldness present.
'Ilh.s reeius oJ,l in lihl oi Caio
lina's re;)iita'.i.m as the '"iTiarriage
.lHi.e..u."
I' is a vell-sul)ttintiate.! i::et
thai uoiiii'n transler to UN'C as
j',n:ii,rs lor tlie prime purpose oi
nut tin.; a male and. inck!e..t.iliy,
eompKiir.g their dej;.ees. T!ic re
: nit of Ills sLitruien. up.m tl;e
e.:ed will he She elieiiing 01 a eh ir
aete.istic rebuttal in the form of
a vehement denial. It is dil.ieuU
to understand the attitu.ie of in
dividuals involved. There's no.h
i: Wi oiv in seeking a husband.
No one ii!i dispute the loic in
volved in plaeing oneseli in a posi
tion where there are more pos.Mjil
iiies. mine. we say. ii.-h to
be hvieked.
The eoed eonfror.ted with the
above statement oi purpose rc
simbles tor all the vv..r.d a small
irl caught vvi.h liayers in prover
bial enokie jar. She bri.s.les. red
dens and begins to .-pout tomes
upon tlie virtues ot pure lesearea
ond s.udy. So uiia.-ihat smoke
seuvn doe. n't idler die act that
die majoray, 1 n;.te escape hatch
Majority ot Ihj coeds are herj,
w n h sex bai.ed rod and reel in
hot little hand tor the express pur
po.se of subjugating young man
hood. On the other hand, the noble
Carolina gentleman is here with
tlie prime purpo.se in mind ot eat
ing, drinking and seducing as
many women as possible - and
incidentally getting a degree. The
man's poMiiorf Is a little less de
teiisible. siiKe he is. ia the ey.s
"What Fin Kcally Afraid Of Is Thai lie Miglu Forgcl
The Spirit Of Tlie George M. Humphrey Plantation"'
Sanford
Letter
The French-Alqerian Dispute
BY ELLIOT CHERNIN
(From the Antioch Record's "University Series")
tUPS) Five years ami this week the present
Algerian revolution. led by an inspired nationalis-
ti) live .11 tie faction demanding independor.ee. erupted with
of m. ral bloody violence. Long before the smoke of social
values. Nevei theless, the attitude and political unrest cleared away, the (iener-d Un-
is p.evoleiit. These indiv Liua.s ion of Algerian Muslim otudents (UCJEMA) had
are avoiding that which the coeds formed, giving Muslin; students a national voico
seek just as pasMonatciy a pus for the first time.
The formation of t'GKMA in the dust of vio
lence was designed, in effect, to end suppression.
oi our culture. sceKi:tf
opposition to our set
what he nets
,1. due I irel
will Mi.t' lie an
to tlie 1 Mjiiil.u i ill
i)l( isii hi in that pan nl the wmlil. (V Min
is the iniHiili.il id these people toileclnp is
;el ilipiiiileiu mi the aiil supplied Id
ti inn i 1 1 w .
sl..il Will
lor
tlu 111 I he Neiiatiu liiaiiiianis we must step
up inn a 11 1 t m.iuiil incuts to ihcin. lie is 1 i'ht.
( in h hiding, he used the si 01 nl Rip 'an
Winkle, (ild Rip went to sleep in t 7; nndei
a liiilish King and awoke in ly'.l under an
Aiiieiiian I'lesident. Me h.d U it through
the uxoliilioii. In Milicn own winds: "(.d
help lis il we sleep tliJough lhi UNohilion "
Slusser's
Problems
I he I ditot and Managing I'ditm ol I he
Daih I .it Iliel wish'to make it puMic that
il l iank . 1 Ripi Shisser isiT't ;i!lowel to go
to ( .11 mans, it's a shame.
Be My Valentine
1. Th nation it t wmr,
7. Th nation it losing tha war. badiy.
3. Tha nation mutt txait a vantly graatar affort
The utrnial Mudcnt pubhcatlun of the Publication
a;d of the University of North Carolina where it
la published duly
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and hummer terms.
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the News Inc., Carrboro, N. C.
siule. Hero one linds a vital di
ll 11 ace in the phi. usoph.es of ilu
two iaetions.
So aIuu h.ipp.ris? Some male
ir.ults a coed oy pe..kiag i.ar
castically ot lu-r "g;a.". 'Ibis is
a iiiiilul attempt to deled han
self. poor trightenod towl, from
the perfidious tema!e"s wiles. '1 he
coed then saubs the next ten lioys
.she mecU tiy pointing her na.se at
the pi ime meridian and stalking
pompously through campus. The
sauboed boys lcel they've been
p'.". sonal'y sp.it upon, since thiy
aio obv iously so irre is'.ably hand
some, and in turn begin to snarl
a! unattending coeds. It's a vicious
cycle. Sixai everybody hates ev
i:ybo.ly 01 the opposite so. lkys
be.'ra to date ufi campus an I the
coeds 1 at least some' sit in i.n
the weekends, fuming at the in
altentiveiK'S.s of the 1 h a gentle
nun. It may be that many ot the
provocation and' deplorable living conditions of
Muslim students at federally cMitraUcd French
universities in Algeria. Aliliuugh thre were aboii
11 times more Muslims than Frenchmen in Algeria,
federal universities admitted only about one Mus
lim for every nine Europeans. Hostility toward and
persecution of Muslim students was open and un
checked. Hut the dramatic story of a student community's
struggle for freedom began l ng before November
of 1934. It started at that instant when widespread
dissatisfaction became no longer a whimpered ru
mor in hack alleys, but a growing reality among
strongly nationalistic students who, along with
ITiKMA. could explicitly charge the French gov
ernment with:
(1 Suppressing the Arab language and Arab
Islamic culture; (Ll) deliberately isolating and starv
ing an existing Algerian educational structure:
(3) recognizing only French as the official lan
guage although there were about 11 limes more
Muslims; and (4) providing primary education for
virtually all European children but only about 17
percent of Muslim children.
From the outset. I'CEMA expressed mora! sup-
i:-! flnn't intend to cut nnvone
Told on camous. The large male P"rl for ,hc fundamental objectives of the revolu-
population breeds a kind of easy
eontidence on the female's part,
and she ceases to conform to the
standards males have set up for
girls. 1 ie. throwing themselves
trustingly at all campu., swains,
no matter how gross." Naturally,
male pride is hurt, and one finds
the men plotting dark and evil
things lor coeds, as. stealing their
panties and cutting otf their li
quor ration.
This repre.-entation. though ex
;iLeeraied. is a very real part of
rnmm.s lile iust now. The attitude l'x,ent tncrt'
- 1 - 1- - 1
versuv comers in r ranee, iiseu
tion. which eventually led to a growing number of
unwarranted arrests, kidnappings, tortures and ev
en killings of UGEMA leaders and members.
The Research and Information Commission of
the International Student Conference (ICS) cites,
for example, the case of Kacem Zeddou. who died
after severe tortures. The body was taken to sea
by French police and cast out in a lead-weighted
sack.
At the University of Algiers, itself, the Mus
lim student body, vvbich numbered about 500 as
opposed to 4.500 European students, was the ob
ject of greater antagonism. European students were
allowed to carry weapops of all sorts. To a lesser
was a hostile attitude in some uni-
;'i:;''JV4fr'.' .- H
DAVIS B. YOUNG
Assistant Editor
RON SHUMATE
has been prevalent lor several
years, a growing lack of rapport
between the sexes. This is not a
good tiling. Marriage Ls necessary
for the propagation of more at
omic scientists, desperately need
ed in the destruction ol humanity.
Face the facts, girls, you're
dealing with a group oi green
young men, who are frightened by
that gleam in oiir eyu and that
professional attitude. You must be
nice to them, for they are a ne-ce-ary
evil. Certainly it hurts to
be ignored or leered at. but con
ditions are bad all over. Try to be
understanding and keep that pep
sodent smile shining, no matter
what.
Men. gather your courage and
don't be deterred by the story
faces of the uniformed coeds.
They're trying to cover up their
insecurity and are too proud to
admit that they need and want
you. You must pu.-h on and riwk
the consequences of dalliance if
you hope to achieve that coveted
goal of the Carolina gentleman,
immorality. These girls can be
taken advantage of, if handled
carefully. There's a good chance
you'll wind up married, but that's
the breaks.
In May of 1956, when Muslim students found
conditions unbearable. UGEMA called for its mem
bers to boycott all French universities, both in
Algieria and in France. The strike had the ex
pressed purpose of allying the young intellectual
elements of the student community with the Al
gerian revolutionaries, whom the French officially
regarded as a few agitators who lacked broad pop
ular support.
At Paris in October. 1057. UGEMA lifted the
strike, pointing out that the original objective,
drawing the attention of pablic opinion to the
"desire of UGEMA to engage itself fully in the
struggle of the Algerian na'irn, had been ac
complished." "With the nationalistic sentimen's of Algerian
students clearly slated, they becar.' liable to a
series of police measures. At regular intervals po
lice dragnets took place. In Paris, p dice officers
halted all pedestrians who. by their complcxious,
appeared to be North African. UGZMA leaaers
were regularly followed by police and subjected tt
sudden searches of their rooms at any time. UG
EMA members were arrested, generally on the
vague charge of "'threatening the external security
of the state." In these cases of student arrests,
French jurisprudence was conveniently ignored,
and students were held indefinitely or tortured Oi
both.
ICS cited he example of Miss Djamila Bouhired.
who. testified: "I have been from 9th to 25th of
April without interruption interrogated and tor
tured . . . During three days, 17th to 19th April,
I was given electric treatments. The electrodes
were placed in my sex organs, my ears, mouth,
under my arms, on the end of my breasts. (They
lasted until) I became delirious and fainted."
This is but one instance of the reign of terr r
which lasted from September 1957 to January of
1959. Some Muslim students were guillotined in
Algiers on circumstantial evidence.
UGEMA was dissolved early last year as the
result of an unlawful raid by police acting under
orders of President Hone Coty. Its treasury was
confiscated. Leaders and members were perse
cuted in increasing numbers.
The dissolution of UGEMA had profound con
sequences for Muslim students. There was no long
er a union in Fiance to defend their interests. More
terious. their physical insecurity was vastly in
creased by the possibility that any association a
mong Muslim students could be interpreted as "re
constituting a dissolved league" which originally
was branded unlawful.
Muslim students, as a whole, refuse to knuckle
under to the imposition of French culture and
language on the Algerian nation.
Many Muslim students, rather than return to
the French controlled Algerian universities, emi
grated to Tunesia and Morocco where, for the sake
of freedom, they live under the most deplorable
conditions imaginable.
At the present, Muslim students have these
choices: emigrate to other North African countries
which cannot afford to house or educate them;
completely submit to the French controlled uni
versities when they are able to enter; or act in
their own interest, a crime for which they can
literally pay with their heads.
Editor:
Your editorial "Sanford and
IPs Issue," which appeared in
Friday's paper, forces one to con
clude that you have not careful
ly examined Mr. Sanford's pro
posed program, and leaves the
impression that you are grasping
about desperately in search of an
excuse to support some other can
didate. I am sure that Mr. Sanford
would heartily agree with your
idea that the economy of the
state must be boosted before edu
cation can be improved. He has
stated repeatedly in speeches
throughout the state that we must
work to better the condition of cur
agricultural workers and to bring
more industry to the state and
then, hav ing improved these bases
of our economy, devote the result
ing increases in revenue to the
betterment of public education.
Your editorial at'empts to por
tray Sanford as an idealist ob
sessed with one particular project,
the improvement of public educa
tion, and to give the impression
that he is unrealistic about the
necessity of first bringing more
revenue to North Carolina. Noth
ing could be further from the
tru.h. Sanford has said that the
' task of attracting and develop
ing new' industry is never com
pleted." He has stated that to sug
gest today that additional effort
be placed behind North Carolina's
industrial expansion is like sug
gesting that Hank Aaron increase
his batting average or that Mike
Souchak improve his golf game.
"... North Carolina must expend
additional eifort and conceive ne.v
ideas and devise new approaches
if we ae to continue to gain for
North Carolina the advantages of
the mid-century industrial revolution."
As long ago as November, l'JoG.
Sanford was saying that a con
tinuing campaign for diversifica
tion ol industry in the Tar Heel
state is vital if the state is to
build its educational program. He
has long been urging, citizens of
North Carolina to "lend a hand in
leading a new crusade for public
education, through the medium of
a more determined effort to broad
en the state's economic base with
more and diversified industry."
Allow me to repeat that last part
for your benefit, ". . . through the
medium of a more determined ef
fort to broaden the state's ecj
nomic base with more and diver
sified industry."
Take a gocd long look about you,
Mr. Editor. You will search long
and hard before you find a can
didate for governor wi.h more
sound, logical, progressive prop
osals for the State of North Caro
lina than those of Mr. Terry San
ford. Bill Wichard
Gems of Thought
The essence of snobbery is to
' assess value according to a wrong
type of scale; the snob is always
trying to measure beauty with a
thermometer or weight with a
clock.
Arthur Koestler
Snobbery is pride in status with
out pride in function.
Lionel Trilling
Every great man is always be
ing helped by everybody; for his
gift is to get good out of all things
and all persons.
John Ruskin
No true and permanent fame
can be founded except in labors
which promote the happiness of
mankind.
Charles Sumner
Merit is worthier than fame.
Francis Bacon
Omnipotent
Editor . . .
Editor:
Now tli; t the omnipotent editor ol the
DIM has made public his feelings (omcni
iiu; the present existence o! "peace! wl per
sevcrence"' in Greensboro and stated that
those students ol A&T are part ol the process
ol closing the tap between the races, please
permit me to also say something about this
mess.
Kirst of till, what riht has anyone, bh.vk,
blue, white, pink or purple, to obstruct the
lunctionino () a private business- The A!v I
students mit;ht as well say that they intend
to drive the F. XV. Wooluorth Store out ol
business il they are not served at tlie lunch
counter.
1 contend that since tlie store is private
ly owned, it litis the sole power to make po
licy re;ardint; whom to serve rnd whom not
to .serve -at the lunch counter.
-You have chosen to call the students' ac
tion courageous, and have compared said
courageous action to that "which was dis
played by the good Negro citizens of Mont
gomery, Ala. in their boycott of the city
owned bus line " May 1 call your attention
to the two words "city owned'?
I too think that the Negro citizens of
Monttortei v had a legitimate gripe, but soley
because T the before-mentioned two words.
Sen ndly, I think that this "peaceful per
sevcrtnee" is doing anything but helping t
close the gap between the races. We South
erners, especially in North Carolina, are try
ing to make the best of a most unlortinuvte
situation whiih litis arisen since the Supreme
Court stuck its nose into the question ol ra
cial discrimination. This display by tlie AS; I
students is, I think, a direc t outgrowth ol the
action of the Supreme Court.
11 ease excuse my wandering to the Su
preme court, but I wandered as you wan
dered to Montgomery.
1 ; .11 certain that all students here are
i verjoved to learn that you "were privileged
to see. on several occasions during 1 ();, and
;,(" the dispute in Montgomery-
YourT-xhortations to the A&T students to
"stick to their guns" and continue their
"good light" seems a little out of place, in
this case. It seems to me that any dispute
must eventually go to the conference table.
if there is to be ally "ttmiTOmTM liwcme-ffoove
all must go to that table.
Separation of the Negro and white man
is a custom with its roots in the beginning l
time, and this custom of such long standing
c annot be disc aided in a lew short yea. s. This,
however, is exactly what the NA.UT, the
Supreme Court, and now the A.vT students
are trying to do.
we are till in agree-
:i.
ith
No one
ial tensions, eith-
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1 am unite sine that
ment that the human society is a complex
tl.ino-. It tlwi-f he dissenters I would advise
them to enroll immediately in Sociology
The ronmlexitv of our society increases wi
even demonstration such as the one under
discussion, and too great a complexity may
eventually lead to the downhill ol any so
ciety. I ur-e the A.v-T students 10 put their guns
back inlheir holsters or back on the wall and
leave them there. I also urge any white per
son to do the same, whether he is sympathiz
ing with the A&T students or trying to pre
vent them from demonstrating
should strive to inc rease ra
er consciously or unconsciously. I say con
sciously or unconsciously because 1 am quite
me that some are quite conscious that they
are building rac ial tensions to a higher pitch
and that some are truthfully unconscious
th; ; they are doing so-
The present situation in Crecnsboro.
which has spread to several other cities, is
most delinitely increasing racial tensions, not
only in the respective cities, but in all areas
of the state and possibly of the South at large.
1 personally can see but one solution to
the problem a:id that solution has already
been discounicd by the Supreme Court in
ltl. 1 am speaking of the Couit' s rejec tion
of the l'lcssv . Ferguson case in its decision
ol ii)-, j. T he court in iS'.ifi let the cWtiine
of "separate but equal" stand. That is the
solution of which 1 speak-
Probably the AS: T students would reject
such a plan at the conference table. If the
are opposed to such a plan, they should all
go back to class the would have cut them
selves out oi school at CNC bv now and eat
in the school cafeteria.
In all probability the day will come when
. Negro and white will sit at the same lunch
counter, but 1 don't think they will drb.c
r.wav lroin the curl) in a i)fo or even 1
model automobile.
Edsel M. Odom