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PAGE TT70 THf DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, MARCH 10. U3 (MlMlloI L J Clomps u Mo : ' 'V"-- ' ' ;i Why I'll Vote For Larkins John Alley i i 1 ll.le K1- Miu.illy known n (I admired Mr. John I). I . I .ii kins In i ! c .1st eight (Mls. mil ! lecl thai he is Not th I ( iai olina's most it I s t a n cl ing Democrat and public sei - a n I. Candi date I kins holds . public i ec ml o ri -in; a quaitci rl a tut in y. Din iug terms i i S t ai s) in the North C.u olsua State Senate .Lar kins served as a member of ;n s c j) a r ; e i omtnittcc and has h c I d " c o in in i t ttv chaiiman ships: Public I'tibiics. HH7: Public Rouls. oi.m: Rule s C. o 111 111 i t icc. ii: I'n c m 1 o -nicnt ('oiiihii sation. 1 a 11 k.t- atul Curiciuv. !)(() and Appropii- .1 I i (Ml s. Ki'il and ir, . 1 .ai as also Ikui ( ".li.ii in. in n the- Adisoiv JOHN D. LARKINS . . nine senate terms .1 mi 1 111, ., .1 .1 i ni'M mmmm ..iijjlii miuii win ...( V ; :' i - . . t 4 v. JOHN ALLEY . Jchn likes John Reader's Repository Mr. Editor: .Jonathan Yaixlk-y wa conmient-n-j, on the st-ncmJ lack o; distinc tion of the bu'dings on this cam pus. I'J like to icint out some more 5vio-us shjritomins of two of chem. tho I am well aware that the in.senl a Jmiaistra'.on is a.s cMiceiiitici. it net a jiLcd deal more so. as 1 urn. Ls goin' to try to do f jjne:h!n. about tin- serious faults, and can-not be held responsible f t r h ..villi created them in the tii- t place. The main Itorary building as it s ards now is bo.h well airangcd an J h.;ndsome with tiie pes-sibe exception of the donuv. The light ing in .he .Uicks tho is only toler able, and Lr prolongixi sessions in a carrel, the li:t.!e p.iols of light of the lamps are very eye tiring. The main rete.ence room hasn't been pain;ed since il was built thirty ytans ago. probably partly because ot the acoustical plaster used, and the lighting is pour, especially in the rotunda. It is dra,rty in winder and despite the wasteluUy high ceilings, is a pressure cK)ktr in the summer. The overall drabneiss and dingi ness oi it, showing a need U.r general ie:iiniL;ung and refurbish ing, is in sharp contrast to other parls ot the buikiing. The.e are ulatively low archi tectural ab.sardi"ies in it, the tm ly one at mind being the cornice in fro at of the third lloor windows. Net sj with the Ileal. h AlfaL. s liibr:uy howeve. No librarian was sequence being that while all the consulted in phxnning it. the con books, belore 1940 have had to be put into storage and while there is a large flat root adjacent to the reading room, wliich would be "Kihineii'l Aulhorilics Tcslifv ' wo kins IWidgt t ( ioiintiissicn. Sviieiarv and Cih.t ii in.ui 1 1 it- I ) mik 1 .it i( I'aiu .mil National (iom iniiiii t 1 1 . 1 1 1 Imiii Ninth (iaio!ina. I iilining his nogi.im Mi. I.arkins has (allrd loi aiioiis uloinis h the net 'o finni 1. hu leasing aid to IDl'C.A I ION h tMin-lie million dollais (Sj.".(ioo.(moi: nunc U at t oiniininitv (ollt;gfs; .'I. a bet tei pusoiis sNstciii width will u-ijiiirc addi tional jv lsomirl: I. .in aiU-ii.ite wrHave piogi.nn lot i!u- . ;i d and sick: -,. shun ileal. nit j in the l.ngci tiiics; li. continued expansion ol 0111 indiistiial )it!gi am: 7. im iotl roads ptjnt i pallv lor mat ketiii'g pin posts: .nid s. lootl pi ot (. vsin indiistrics wliiiii will ileiaie tin- latniti ol hi.s a-gii- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 sin phissrs. Mi. I.t.ikins has lepeat l s.i i I that noihing is nioiv inijMntant thin i.iisint; the intonic li'el ol oin people. Insolai as leadership, is toiuctned Mr. l.nkiib holds the let old. lie was President li o-T. inpoie ol the State Senate at ;;?-vears-oltl (the xomi'gest 111. n eer to holtl this jms ition in Noil!) (iaiolin.n and lie has lield main legislative and Deinotratit Paitv os itioiis -s has Ikui pointed out e.nlier in litis at t it le. ( inhv-i natorial le. '.del ship it most ini poii.mt in Ninth (i.nolina due to the latt that our (.owinoi tlois not have the eto power a 4I0 the (toeinoi ol the other st ues. As a i t.ran ami leatlei in the North (i. -.olina Siatc Senate lor S eais. Mr. l.ar kitis would most likc! he able to work t 1 1 sc I with that brauth ot goeinmeiit in whith he has st 1 id will) distiiu tion. Ol all th.- lantlitlaies in the late hn (iov einoi. I leel that Mr. l.aikius is the best in humed on state pioblenis liom the largest to the smallest details ol state oeiiitiK'tit. I out e heaid Mr. l.aikius tell how many gal lons ol gasoline wete used b N. (i. sihool buses the pievioiis v.'.u. Mr. Larkins knows the pioblenis ol Noith Caioluia, tor he has leudeied a quarter ol a lentuiy ol seiie to his stale. (Mi. Allev is .1 s.nioi liom ( oULslxno. He is a long lime Iriiiul ol Mi. lukiiis This is the set ond in series, lomoiiow. IVob Ianes wiites on Malcolm Seawell.i Wi)t JDailp Ear )ti Th orridal stuiTent publication of the Publication 3ord of the University of North Carolina where it U publiied daily except Monda.t an- examination periods and summer terms. Entered is second clasa matter in the post office in Chapel Hill. N. C. under the ar of March 8. llilO Subscription rates 4 U0 oer ae niestcr. $7 on pr fear. Ihf Dail.f Tar Hel i printed hr the News inc.. Carrboro, N. C. fWl f v "0 I II I - ' . . I I II II WI-f f SV - I El I -' ;,fVi I I I I II II 411fl Perspectives Jonathan Yardley We see with little delight that the Southern Ite gional Education Board has patted our fair Uni versity on its broad back for an "effective experi ment in the area of educational economy and ad ministration." What this means is that the Univer- casy to expand onto, the roo! wasn't built strongly enough to bear the weight of the books. N'.ir was the library made large enough to begin with. The librarian had to begin planning when she moved in, s?ven years ago, some way to expand it. But the legislature has yet to appropriate the money for it. and in the meantime all sorts of desperate measures hae had to be taken, as for example when sit-v has preceded in eliminating small classes and one hundred thousand dollars wo. h oc medical journals were put in the hospital a. tic. where they would have been iitually ruined had they remained there thru an other year. They have now been put into a sabbasement of the main library, where they will be vi'.viial.y useless. Perhaps the crowning s.irpdity was planning the reading room of the library with handsome panelling - and vi.tualiy no shelves, with the re sult that the Hrt thing Uie li-brari-n had to do was to cover it up with makeshifts. The present admir.is-'. ration has shuwn considerably more judge ment in planning the pharmacy builOig. F'or the library th're, the..e will very likely be no space problems for twenty years. And they did consult a libraran, tso that it is likely to be easily ex pandable. To echo .Mr. Yardley tho. there are a lew needs more immediate ly pressing tlian a coliseum, and among tlxse would seem to be ojrie work done on he main li brary, and new or greatly ex panded medical library. McCluer Sherrard Dear Mr. D. B. Young: It is my understanding that as a student at U.N.C.. I am entitled to receive a copy each day of the renounced newspaper which you htad. Ln as much as I am forced to .subscribe to the Tar Heel by virtue of being a student. I feel that "come rain or come shine," your paper should be delivered. I realize that coasionally this may be impossible. 1 also realize that the recent snow su.ely must have handicapped you and your staff to an extent, however I see no reason or excuse for the paper no-t being delivered since March 2. Surely, there must be some eager beaver on your staff who would be glad to make the arduous jour ney to Victory Village. I trust you will give this mat ter your best attention. Ralph V. Church Victory Village P. S. I trust this letter won't in flate your ego regarding the qual ity of your paper. In truth. I am nwrely running low on line for my garbage can. has managed to t-quash tho student body into largo ones. The Foard went on to paint, in its report, a glow ing picture of the financial savings being accumu lative education by mass osmosis. And a Dr. Sey mmir Harris, from the Harvard Graduate Schcnl of Public Administration, admits with what must be a very satisfied smile that by 1970 the nation could save as much as two billion dollars annually through such measures. We are quite firmly in favor of saving money wherever money can be saved, but we are even more emphatically in favor of giving students the education they deserve and are paying for. And this education cannot be obtained in a class of 150-250 people. This is not education: this is a form of psychotherapy designed to lull, the student into complacent acceptance of the educational process and of the subjects being taught. Sitting in a clas of 200 persons is much like watching a rather dull motion picture in an over-crowded, stuffy little theatre. Concentration is next to impossible, inter est lags, minds wander. The man droning away at the front of the room miles distant, it seems could as well be a celluloid Rock Hudson or P'eter I.orre in a B movie. The student is not interested in economy, he is interested in learning, in advancing himself. If h? were not interested in at least one of these goals he would not be in college. To place the mere prac ticalities of economy before the dire necessity of giving him this precious education is to sweep away, in one swoop, all that a university was ever sup posed to be. Funds have long been a problem at Carolina. We operate under the surveillance of a rather stingy legislature which finds other institutions more Race Issue In Campaigns "Why are you so scared of the rcco issue getting in the cam paign?' a fellow asked the ether day. ' Why not le. ."cm fight it out?" Dr. I. Beverly Lake became a candidate for the governorship on Tuesday with the race issue tuck ed neatly in his briefcase. On Wednesday the N. r h Caro 'lina president of the National As socia ion for th? Advancement of Colcrcd People announced thai he will "vigorously" oppose him. Before many days have p;s.:d the Dciende.s of State Sovereign ly, Inc.. will prohibly announce th:tt it "vigorously" supports him. Editor's Corner By Yardley worthy of the financial aid from which we would benefit. But this is not an excuse for placing econ omy before education. The primary obligation is the same no matter what the circumstances: to give the student what he wants and needs an educa tion. And we strongly maintain that an education does not consist of a one way street running from a man with lecture notes to a bored student in the back of the room. An education consists of close give and take between two people who are willing and anxious to exchange ideas and knowledge in return for the mutual and individual gain which will result thereof. This is not the education we are being givn and judging from the Southern Regional Education Board report it is not tho kind of education we can expect to get any time in the near future. We can expect classes to get larger instead of smaller: we can expect to have more and more graduate instructors and fewer profesors teaching under graduate classes as faculty salaries stay at their low level. A great deal has been heard in the past few months about the great need here for a new student union and a coliseum. This is a genuine need, and the acquisition of these buildings would make the University a greater and a closer community. But in the hustle and excitement engendered by these prospects the most important element of all has been neglected: this is an academic community, and our first obligation is to ourselves as students. This obligation entails gaining the funds needed rections higher faculty salaries, and better class for education, and these funds must go in two di room facilities so that we can have more small, personal classes and fewer large, anonymous "classes". The University has. in the eyes of the Southern Regional Education Board and Dr. Seymour Harris, achieved a great distinction by its parsimony- Let us, however, check our pride. Rather, let us wait until we feel that we are all being given the chance to learn in surroundings conducive to learning. Then we will have the right to be proud. And people will immeaiaV.y be gin to i'crm idea? and shape al legiances, net or. the btu-is of Dr. Lake's character or pronounce ments but cn the basis of their h..'.ts. fe.'.rs and devotion where these organizations are concerned. Dr. Lake is a honorable man. He says that he will not accept the support of any lerson or or ganiza.ion whose program or state ments are designed "to cret.te or increase tort-ion." But candidates are hadry live agents when -they personify is sues that are laden with great emo tion cr iear. They can became tols of their followers. They can walk the high road, speaking calmly and carefully, and their campaign can be dragged into a gutter and the state can be drag ged along behind it. They can de liver a statement on constitutional law that would do credit to a John Marshall, and it can be translated along the backroads in terms of lunch counters and the NAACP ad "would you like your daugh ter . . .?" Something of that kind happened in this state 10 years ago. ' The race issue wss introduced into the campaign of Willis Smith, an emi nent lawyer, a former speaker of the House and president of ths American Bar Association. The candidate himself insisted that he had net introduced it and th..t he was in fact repelled by it. Yet people went about in his name and spread slander and sys tematically turned white against Negro and Negro against white. Dr. Frank Graham, as valuable a man as North Carolina has pro duced in this century, was smear ed and vilified and made to seem an enemy of the state and of his fellow citizens. The races were much lar'.her apart at the end of that campaign than at its beginning. And since race relations are persoal rela tions, thre can be precious little progress in an atmosphere of hos tility and suspicion. The governor's campaign has started on a high note. Candidates have been talking about improv ing welfare payments and paying teachers decent salares and build ing needed roads. That is the kind of campaign North Carolina needs , and mu.-t have. It cannot allow itself to be pulled into a back alley where dead cats are flogged at midnight to the beat of the tom-tom. Charlotte Observer - .-j ! C'tH f o o o o. A GtMIUMAH BUG. CAN 0g A CANFICATE Ok NOT IN W25 U6AVS5 rTOPtX. hr CANDIPATg5. , V !--Nr ' cv K voj qotto eg fm Asovg Aur WHAT PAttY WOUL9 PUT A CANPlPATg WWAT'S NOT Al fin A. ACWTt CMAU7 J. 1 v (wywxry XlhU f ( wastes j Al tfAST OHi. J ( S ? fci? I Write Them In rard tt) last week's sitdoun strike at the Hiliuav i;,-.v.t Howard Johnson Resta urant between Chapel Hill and Durham, it is time lor a little more prodding. At the time ol the demonstration, one participated in hv whit.' ami Negro students alike, includ ing some l-N(i students, the manager of the establishment promised that a conference would be held with the owners. A frrw min utes later, he stated mat such a confeiente would be a possibility. He now says such a confeient e will not be held. There seems to be certain note of inconsistency in his test imony. Is he going to hold a conference with the owners and students or isn't he? We ni he should. II ou sgrc you may write the owners at the following addreVes: Owners til the property where the build ing stands are: 1 Ion. Luther H.I lodges (io:rnor ot North Carolina State Capital Iiuilding Raleigh, Noith (i. ..olina at: I I S. Senator V. lAeiett Joidan St-: 1: Of! ice Iiuilding h'.ngton 1). C. c building is leased to: .Mr. !'a old .Makesj;ea e .Tivi s! to the Governor Slate (i ')iial Iiuilding Raleigh, North Caiolina A.s iesji'ii-:i)le leaders of North Carolina, e three gentlemen will be more than py to rettive your opinions on not only u LU i ; . iK !.;: th. 1 1 1 situation in width they are directly in- ed as private businessmen, but also the ( :tire scope of the sitdown question. Ve urge you to write them with all due haste asking that they, as businessmen, hold a con ference with the demonstratoi s, and a lead ers, bring about a situation whereby each and t very citien. regardless of rac ial affiliation, ic treated alike. Academic Freedom In a libeial (racially speaking) atmos phere such as pervades this I'niversitv, we ; .e both urprived and disappointed that fac u't and administration members have taken no public stand either pro or con 011 the sitdown strikes and equality in general since the latest rash ol incidents have taken plate. There -ferns to be a great hesitancy upon the part o! the faculty members to exercise their academic lrecdom, which exists here to a far gi eater degree than almost any other university in the countiy. We know them too well to believe t'n; t they are totally uncon ternetl with the events taking place around them. We also know the top administrators too well to doubt that they would ever resent a faculty member standing up for that in whith he believes. l et's go la u'tv. we re trving to smoke miii out ol the woods. Give us our opinions on tliis crucial issue. Powell And Kennedy New Hampshire's rather ridiculous Gov ernor Powell has t; .en to using old Nixon tactics against Senator John I". Kennedy, the leading Democratic hopeful lor the nation's top post. ln a primary eve slam against Kennedy, the New Fngland chief executive made a baseless, and il vou'll permit us to say so downright false charge that Kennedy was "soft" on Communism. Kennedy denied the accusation and then challenged Nixon, who e campaign Powell is managing, to repudiate the careless charge. This Nixon did, saving he had known Jack Kennedy since 19.17, and that the two of them have always been in complete agreement in their unflinching op position to the Red menace. Thus the man "who h. ; branded many opponents as soft on Communism mav ae linallv grown up. Well do we remember the Nixon campaigns for Congress and Senate when the overlv eager Califovnian threw more than a little pink mud. Perhaps Nixon is learning a few things. And perh; ps Powell will do the same some day. If Powell would devote half the time he spends worrving about Communism to the problcnis of his suite, New Hainpshiie would be a better place in which to live. What About This? 1. The nation is at war. 2. The nation is losing the war, badly 3. The nation must exert a .vastly greater effort. 4. There is still time . . . brother. 1 V
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