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t " April 23, 1961 - Volume LX1X, Number 146
Students Under Suspicion:
Is This The Horior System?
In light of the huge number of
books missing from Wilson Li
brary, the dorm search currently
in progress could hardly be called
drastic action. .
As a matter of fact, hardly any
thing short of utilizing a Spanish
style Inquisition - could ' be inter
preted as drastic action under the
circumstances. The abhorrent situ
ation' cries for violent action-of
some sort.
Nonetheless, the particular tact
taken by the Attorney General a
full-scale dormitory search is
hardly the kind of action that an
Honor System would suggest. On
the contrary, the principles of the
Svstem seem to forbid it.
Although we don't seem to have
earned the right to the privileges
inherent under a give-and-take
system of freedom and responsi
bility, the fact remains that we
shouldn't be subjected to tech
niques that are more reminiscent
of a police state than a university.
We are certain that no student
will be moved to cheerful coopera
tion through being subjected to
search particularly when the
search was unannounced.
The most unpleasant thing about
the search is that it is being con
ducted by dormitory advisors who
are paid by the University. The
right of the Attorney General's
staff to use employees whose pri
mary responsibility lies outside the
realm of "the student judiciary is
questionable. The fact that the ad
ministration gave its okay makes
one wonder if South Building de
sires cooperation, or merely sub
servience. The idea of associating
University-salaried employees with
an action emanating from the At
torney Geenral's office certainly
does not seem advisable, under
any circumstances.
A dormitory advisor cannot func
tion well without the trust and
respect of the dorm residents. He
cannot command respect and en
courage trust if he is used as a
policeman.
As to the students who were
found to have books in their rooms
without proper authorization, we
are only sorry that they could not
be moved to return them without
coercive tactics.
We urge the Attorney General's
staff to call off the search.
Even more strongly,, and more
importantly, we urge any student
who still has books in his room, or
elsewhere, to return them. Perhaps
their return will encourage the
campus judiciary and the adminis
tration to reconsider the neecssity
of instigating such searches in the
future.
No one likes to be put under
suspicion. The only way to avoid
it is to be above it.
The President Takes The Risk
No need to kid ourselves, as some
of the pundits are doing: Jack Ken
nedy has decided to risk a third
world war.
His decision to bolster the Lao
tian army with uniformed U.S.
"technical advisors" amounts to
concession that we're sending to
Laos men who can man the guns
as well as aim and repair them.
His declaration that the United
States is prepared to move into
Cuba unilaterally if the latin
American states continue to sit on
their good intentions is an invoca
tion of the biggest stick in the
Monroe Doctrine.
In both cases, the President plays
with dynamite. We are confident
that he knows it.
Irony devolves from the fact that
he may get away with it. It is wide
ly believed that Moscow not only
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respects a show of strength but
would hesitate to provoke a full
scale war over Cuba or Laos. Short
ly after the new American policy
was announced the Russians re
portedly agreed to call for a cease
fire in Laos, starting next week.
If Kennedy does get away with
it, the world will applaud his cour
age and not merely the free
world. If he doesn't, the holocaust
nears.
This is the boldest gamble of our
generation. We choose to believe
it was necessary, though we wish
the need had been explained more
precisely to the American people.
In Laos, the Communist forces,
supplied by Russian air-drops, have
been threatening to wrest the
country from its largely-neutral
regime, thus giving the Reds a base
from which they could subvert
much of Southeast Asia.
In Cuba, the recent landings
confirmed what the U.S. alreadys
knew: Fidel Castro's army is equpi
ped with jet planes, tanks, and
cannon supplied by the Soviet bloc.
If he ordered action to stop the
landing of such supplies the Presi
dent could cite precedent: In 1914,
to block the landing of German
munitions in Mexico, President
Woodrow Wilson ordered the U.S.
Navy to seize the port of Vera
Cruz.
And yet, the prospect is awe
some. Jack Kennedy ' plays with
fire, with presumably knowledge
of the consequences,4 and with ob
vious determination. !
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But he plays, as well, with des
tiny. The Asheville Citizen
Try Some Fuir
Old as the West is young
Romantic as the West is indif
ferent 1
Bright as the West is Dark
Charming as the West is gloomy
Amiable as the West is sinister
Cultivated and gracious as the
West is dynamic
Religious and other wordly as the
West is aggressive and acquisi
tive. By Orizu of Nigeria, from
Without Bitterness
Quoting the above prose, Dr.
McLeod Bryan, one of the organ
iztrs of the operation Crossroads
Africa, and a recent lecturer at
UNC, emphasized "The Image of
America Among Africans."
The purpose of the three-year-old
African program, which was
nicknamed the "pilot Peace
Corps" in a special CBS broad
cast, is to eradicate the one-sided
impressions which Africans
have of Americans. These im
pressions are based mainly on
American movies and over-zealous
missionaries, stated Dr. Bryan.
. THIS SUMMER three hundred
students from the United States
will go to Africa to work and
study with the Africans. Cross
roads Africa, which was formu
lated before the Peace Corps was
-ever considered, emphasizes send
ing multi-racial groups of stu
dents . . . white, Negro, Indian,
Oriental.
In the early stages of Cross
roads, there were few students
Pat Carter
And
If
Ph
ileas Fogg Knew About Yuri...
(Note: When Soviet Maj.
Yuri Gagarin circled the earth
in 89 minutes April 12 and be
came the first human being to
fly around earth in a space
craft, it was immediately noted
that he had read Jules Verne's
Around the World in Eighty
Days. One might wondr how
the hero" of that book would
have rfelt if he had known of
the fact. Let's 'imagine.
Phileas Fogg uttered a short
laugh. "So Yuri beat my time,
did he?" He lifted his shoulders
as if to shrug it off. "Eighty-nine
minutes and one second, I be
lieve?'' We nodded in compliance and
prepared to take down any com
ments the bested globe circler
might make.
Phileas Fogg settled back in
the worn, comfortable armchair
in the cozy apartment of his Sa
ville Row mansion. He had lived
as sumptuously after his trip
around the world as he had be
fore. "GENTLEMEN OF THE
press," he ventured at last, "I
have no regrets that someone
has beaten my time . . . for you
understand I did it purely for
the sport of it and I enjoyed my
self immensely."
A sad smile settled upon his
face then and he breathed a
heavy sigh.
"I rather feel sorry for the
chap. He missed the best part,
you know the Red Sea, Medi
cine Bow, The Ganges," and the
delightful company of that de
testable Fix, who, upon looking
back gave Passepartout and ml
some rather develish fun.
"But," he mused, "I suppose
young Gagarin did as well as I,
for after all, what did I gain?
Ah yes, Aouda my wife. You
were the prize!"
WE GLANCED at our watches,
realizing that Mr. Fogg would
quit our company at precisely
half-past eleven to walk to the
Reform Club.
He would put his right foot be
fore his left five hundred and
seventy-five times, and his left
foot before his right five hundred
and seventy-six times and direct
ly arrive at the imposing edifice
in Pall Mall.
What would they say to him
tonight? Would he open the door
and announce as he had once,
"Here I am, gentlemen?"
Quite possibly. You see, they
still gather at the Reform Club of
an evening and partake of Chesh
ire cheese, the whole being
washed down with several cups
of tea. After dinner they draw
up to the fireplace and talk of
trade and finance.
NO, THIS EVENING will not
be noticeably different. They will
discuss the world situation and
undoubtedly the talk will fall
upon the Soviet Cosmonaut.
But Phileas will protect him
self quite subtly. "You know,"
he'll say', "the chap is a real
blunder at Whist, I hear."
With that, the hero of the day
will be forgotten and the players
will settle down to prevent Mr.
Fogg from winning his usual
twenty guineas.
Phileas, however, will have
his mind on something else. "If I
lost 24 hours while traveling
constantly eastward," and he
shuddered when he thought of
how he had almost lost the
twenty thousand pounds he had
wagered on the trip, "then Yuri
should have gained 24 hours, or
four minutes each time he crossed
one of the 360 degrees on the cir
cumference of the earth going
westward.
"THEN, HIS FLIGHT time of
108 minutes subtracted from that
would mean he landed 22 hours
and 12 minutes before he took
off."
While Phileas Fogg at Lon
don's Reform Club puzzled over
this, he dropped five guineas to
Thomas Flanaagn.
The object of his deep con
templation, Yuri Gagarin, how
ever, was worrying of nothing
but the 'weightlessness' feeling
that the beautiful Vodka was
creating in his cosmonautic head
at St. George's Hall, and how he
might . go about composing his
first work of literature. '
REFLECTIONS
Russian Nikolai Ladnov has
been sentenced to a ten-year
prison term possibly for taking
Communism a little too much to
heart.
Mr. Ladnov was found to be
the prince of Russian romeos, a
lover who boasted a hevy of 521
girl friends. Using an alarming
amount of free enterprise, this
Red roue devised an elaborate
filing system to keep track of
his women. He even gave each
one a serial number.
But he was finally tripped up
and authorities put him in the
pokey fast apparently not find
ing justification in the Marxist
concept: "From each according
to his abilities; to each accord
ing to his need." . . .MJR
interested in applying for it.
"In fact," said Dr. Bryan,
"three years ago Africa was dis
cussed in three terms only: ladies
at polite garden parties talked
about African violets; ladies at
church meetings discussed Afri
can missions; and would-be ad
venturers dreamed of African
safaris with a little Tarzan mixed
in." This year Crossroads had
approximately three thousand ap
plicants for the 300 available po
sitions. Crossroads hopes to eradicate
the many unfortunate images
the African has of the Ameri
can. Their critical observations
will be difficult to erase, how
ever, because of the truth which
exists in many of them. It is
apparent that to change their
basic observations, we will have
to better ourselves.- Americans
are battling more than Commun
isf, if only they would become
aware of the fact.
The following are only a few
of the African's observations of
the U.S.:
1. AMERICANS STILL SPEAK
contemptuously of Africans: The
African Negro is still regarded
by Americans as the lowest cate
gory of races. Our "Little Rock"
and "New Orleans" are quite
well known to them, as well. The
prejudice against Africa stems
from slavery and American-made
jungle movies, says Dr. Bryan.
2. Americans are hysterical in
regard to Communism. The first
question any African leader is
asked by an American is "Are
you going Communist?" This in
feriorates the Africans, who
pride themselves as going neither
East nor West but African.
3. American missionaries go on
"soul salaries": Some mission
aries collect souls as hunters cap
ture game. In addition, most will
work only with their own home
church and with no other group.
4. AMERICANS EXPORT
"Garbage Can" culture: Our
records, movies, big cars, sex
coy.ered paperbacks and coca
cola is what the African asso
ciates with the American cul
ture. Now that television has
been initiated in Africa, the U.S.
is even sending old canned TV
shows such as "Highway Pa
trol," "The Lone Ranger," and
situation comedy shows whose
comedy misfires with the Afri
can. It is hoped that Operation
Crossroads . can perform its dif
ficult task. The Peace Corps will
soon be joining the effort. The
real effort has to come from
Americans conscious of their im
pressions. Soon Africa will have her own
bombs and missiles and the tide
will turn. We will need Africa's
friendship.
"Our ace card," said Dr. Bryan,
"is that we are conscientiously
trying to work out a pluralistic
culture based on equality of
races. Whether we will accom
plish this too late, however, is an
other question."
AT BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
indents Revolt Against 'Gestapo-Lilfe9 Rules
(Note: Last month Bowling
Green State University in
northwestern Ohio, a typical
American campus, was rocked
by a series of student demon
strations. Administration offi
cials dismissed the disturb
ances as "spring fever" but
many students claimed the
roots lay deeper in a steady
encroachment of their aca
demic and personal freedoms.
The conflict is one that has
parallels in colleges across
the country. In the following
dispatch, a UPI correspondent
reports on its repercussions
actual and potential.)
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio
(UPI) Bowling Green State
University in this modest north
western Ohio community of 8,
000, about 20 miles south of To
ledo, appears much the same as
other state universities.
The school, founded in 1910, is
known for its high academic
standards and fine athletic teams,
particularly football and basket
ball. ' r
But last month this typical
state university campus became
the scene of a three-day demon
stration, involving upwards of
2,000 of its 6,000 students.
The disturbances on March
26-27-28 reached the point where
the university president declared
a state of emergency and called
in the state patrol.
At one point, the demonstra
tors surged into the community,
alarming many of the towns
people although there was no
violence.
SOME INVOLVED in the dem
onstrations,' including several
who were expelled, went to Co
lumbus to air grievances before
a legislative committee. One
called the governor to complain
about the treatment of students
at the university. -; v
What is the feeling on the
campus now weeks after the
demonstrations about what lay
behind them? ' 1
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STUDENTS GENERALLY
blame the administration of Dr.
Ralph WV McDonald, - university
. president for the past 0 yjears,
who they claim is a stern, un
yielding disciplinarian who treats
them as juveniles, i
McDonald came here in 1951
from Washington where he had
been head of ' the National Edu
cation Association's division on
higher education.
McDonald, 59, a native of Illi
nois, ran for governor of North
Carolina in 1936 as a "Democra
tic liberal" but lost by a 3,000
vote margin when the absentee
ballots were counted.
Both students and faculty ad
mire what he has accomplished
in his drive to improve the fa
cilities and academic standing of
the school.
But students maintain his rules
are dictatorial and are enforced
in a "gestapo-like" manner by
the campus police.
Some of the faculty appear to
lean toward the students' cause,
but take no official stand. Many
students contend faculty mem
bers fear to speak out because of
possible loss of their jobs.
McDONALD AND OTHER ad
ministration officials feel the
demonstrations were nothing
more than spring fever that got
out of control.
But a sampling of students in
dicated they feel that the demon
strations which began as a harm
less water fight1 actually devel
oped into what they described as
a widespread protest of policies.
- They said the causes had been
festering for some time and only
fear of expulsion or other pun
ishment had held them in check
previously.
At least eight students were
expelled as a result.
Chief among grievances raised
in the aftermath were claims of
double jeopardy in student traf
fic court after municipal fines,
censorship of the university's
newspaper, not enough represen
tation in and ineffectiveness of
student government.
THERE WERE OTHER com
plaints of bans on coeds kissing
dates goodnight in front of the
women's dormitories and charges
of "gestapo-like" enforcement of
the ban on beer drinking, both on
and off campus.
But Don Brenner, a BG grad
uate, said there never was any
censorship of the paper in his
two years as its director. "It is
not a student newspaper, but a
university newspaper,'' he said.
"Ijt tries to represent both sides."
But he admitted "we have been
too overcautious in the printing
of controversial material."
Brenner said he expected some
modification of the paper's poli
cies by the journalism activities
committee, composed of students
and faculty, which determines
the policy.
McDONALD SAID he knew of
no ban on coeds kissing their
dates goodnight in front of the
dorms.
"The rules of conduct for the
women are set down by the As
sociation of Women Students. I
have delegated that authority
completely to the AWS as did
my predecessor."
AFTER THE demonstrations,
McDonald sent letters to both
parents and students. He restat
ed his support of university rules
although admitting "there can be
no doubt that Bowling Green's
regulations are different from
those of many other excellent
institutions."
He said he studied the griev
ances and "it was quite apparent
to me that many of these de
serve careful consideration and
do indeed warrant attention and
action."
He indicated any changes would
be 'decided in consultations be
tween the administration and the
student council.
When the students left for Eas
ter" vacation they hinted further
demonstrations would occur when
they returned. They returned
without incident, however, and
adopted a watch and wait policy.
Meanwhile, the administration's
investigation of the disturbances
continues.