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'.W.VAW.VlW..V."lV.V f,W.W,V.'t.WWV State Bond Issue Quality Or Quantity Education For UNC? Heel j In its sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by ' restrictions from either the administration or the student body. The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of f ; the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Ij All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the I personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. November 2, 19G1 Tel. 9 12-235G Vol. LXIX, No. 38 Censorship A recent letter to the editor lodg ed a complaint against what it call ed "dictatorial censorship" on the editorial page. We would like to make clear, if possible, what measures of "censor ship" are brought to bear on letters. The DTII attempts to print every letter received for publication. We will print any letter that is signed, regardless of viewpoint, if it is libel-free and in good taste. We' do ask that letters be as brief as their subject will permit. To put this in concrete terms, we will print any letter under 400 words. If a writer desires to have a longer let ter printed, we will be glad to do so if the writer will call us before hand and explain why he needs ex tra space. We do ask that writers exercise a fair degree of reason in realizing that there is a limit to available space. If we receive more letters than can appear on a single news paper page, then some letters must be held until a later date. If, for some reason, a letter does not appear within a reasonable time, then the writer has only to call the DTII office to discover the reason in every case, there is a reason either the letter was unsigned, a personal attack unreasonably long, etc. If the DTH is in error in not printing a letter, then we will quick ly remedy this if the writer will contact us. To our knowledge, the DTH has this year refused to print only four letters which were signed. Three of these were vicious attacks on vari ous persons and had no place in print. The fourth was blatantly pro fane and obscene. We impose only a few restric tions, and these are imposed only for the sake of space and compli ance with libel laws and good taste. As anyone who has read the edi torial page regularly can testify, even these restrictions are only loosely adhered to. If this constitutes dictatorial cen sorship, then we stand guilty as charged. State Affairs Seldom does a committee at Caro lina do a job so well that it causes a stir throughout the state. Seldom, also, do individuals devote them selves night and day to doing a job well. When both of these rare occur rences turn up' in reference to tlse same committee, it is cause for com ment. Tom White and Larry McDevitt have done, and are doing, an excel lent job in promoting the bond issue through the State Affairs Commit tee. Both have expended a stagger ing amount of time and energy in organizing and carrying through the projects of the committee. The Torch for Education Mara thon run across the state, which is going on now, is receiving a warm reception in every town through which the runners pass. Both McDevitt and White de serve commendation for their wrork. This project and the others car ried on by the committee are cer tain to have a great effect on put ting over the bond issue. GOP In South The Republicans are playing both ends against the middle in their efforts to establish the GOP in the South. This campaign, which came to Chapel Hill yesterday with the "Paul Revere" panel of Republican congressmen, is going especially Strong in Texas. Last year, John Tower became the first Republican U. S. Senator from Texas in many decades. Tuesday, former President Eisenhower stumped Texas for John WAYNE KING Editor Mascabex Ann Rhtmh Associate Editor Lloyd Littli Executive News Editor Bill Hobbs Managing Editor Gabby Blancbabb Assistant Editor Jr&c Clotitlter Assistant to the Editor Erava Vauchw News Editor Nanct Babb, Linda Cbavotta ' .. - Feature Editor Habbt W. Lloyd Sports Editor David Wvsqnq Subscription Manager Jim Eskbjwk. .Circulation Manager Ed Dufree ..Asst. Sports Editor ft. Jim Wallace... -Photography Editor TIM BURNETT Business Manager y.m Mathtbh : Advertising Manager : The Daily Tab Heel is published daily except . Monday, examination periods and vacations. It Is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapsl Hill. N. C pursuant wUh the -act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates; 4.50 per semester. $8 per yea. i The Daily Tab Weel is a subscriber to the-United Presa International and utilizes wrviBCT w " r, ! tftmM &9 University of orthCarQ- M bllsned by the Publications Board ft tttoeVnivehity ,of North Carolina. 11 Chapel HilL-N. C. ::-: I 'J Goode, Jr. Republican candidate for the House of Representatives. General Eisenhower, the "Paul Revere" boys, and most of the other Republicans working on the South play with the conservative Southern position as skillfully as if they had been taking lessons from "Tricky Dick" Nixon. Look, for instance, at the Revere men: On, the one hand, they attack the Kennedy administration as having "reneged" on its civil rights cam paign platform. They also claim that Republicans stand for "State's Rights" (local synonym for "Segre gated Schools.") But on the other hand, the GOP 'Saviors' refused (in Asheville) to say whether a Republican congress would take a strong stand on civil rights and shied away from clarify ing what they meant by "States Rights" in relation to segregation. In short, Republicans are attemp ting to gain strength in the South by posing as the Segregationist Friend and Home Companion. But they're not so friendly when one tries to pin them down to specifics probably because of the growing influence of the Negro vote both here and in the North. They're burning the candle , at both ends, playing both ends against the middle it's the same old saw, " We hope they are counting their chiekens before they have hatched. Remember what happened to Rich ard Nixon ?, Bill Hobbs Educational Program Gets Back-Handed Compliment Moving Into 'New World'? University Student Says Shell Vote 'No9 Nov. 7 A Raleigh pastor has paid North Carolina's quality education program what seems from here to be an un qualified, back-handed compliment. Dr. Albert G. Edwards, pastor of Raleigh's First Presbyterian Church, says the program is geared to "the better-than-average student without regard to others. Under-average chil dren are being ignored and forgot ten in a system adaptable to only a few." What he seems to mean by this is that North Carolina schools have, or are, turning their backs on all Frat Man Answers Charges In the Friday, October 27, 1961 is sue of the Daily Tar Heel there ap peared an article written by a. Miss Nancy McFadden. The f ollowihg is my answer to the grosser fallacies and the "absurdities of her left-field reasoning. To quote iMiss JVlcFadden: "There is no harder rejection to take than the Fraternity rejection." This may well be true to some de gree in a significant number of cases of fraternity non-acceptance. How ever, this is not to speculate on the degree of depression, if any, in curred by the institution of the blackball. Nevertheless, I must reject the tormented 10-year-old reasoning pre sented by Miss McFadden (holder of two Master's degrees (sic to sub stantiate this age-old argument. . To the dusty archives of the his tory of this disputed friction point, Miss McFadden had seen fit to add her own fuzzy reasoning, a bit of religious mysticism, and an argu ment for alleged moral decline of such people under the "duress" of non-acceptance. To quote Miss McFadden: "Just as a hypothetical question, would Jesus have gotten a bid?" "Some people slowly begin to drink more and more so they won't have to face what it means not to have a bid." "Others lose interest in studying, flunk out of school, and go some where else." THE REASONING of these argu ments hardly deserves rebuttal". Tier argument is based on points that are shaky, ill-founded and illusionary. Perhaps (Miss McFadden may have known a someone who reacted to the situation in this manner children often make it to college somehow. However, all of this being equal (and excusing the fact that a woman is writing about fraternities) it is hard to believe that the article was in deed written by a supposedly highly educated individual holding no less than two (Master's degrees from two high ranking institutions. To reiterate, iMiss McFadden does have a point the problem of post non-acceptance depression does exist though fraternities do try to moder ate it. But, at least in my exper ience, the problem is by no means as extreme as she would lead us to believe. There are exceptions, but they are rare indeed from what I have seen. I have at least enough confidence in the majority of col lege freshmen not to expect this sort of childish behavior. To begin with, fraternities have that right that is implicit to any group or individual the simple right of choice of company. Fra ternities want men of some level of maturity. Here Miss McFadden gives a reasonably valid outline of this maturity in the last paragraph of her article: "They learn to know themselves, and how they appear to others; they learn to accept themselves, and how they appear to others; but above all, they learn to like themselves." To this I would add "like themselves" . . .as they are. Here is a bit of the essence of maturity a bit oT what makes a fraternity man or any man. The sort of people Miss McFad den seems to argue for could be little more than lost boys in college whose alleged recourse to drink, loss of academic drive and other symp toms of sheer escapism could be safely labeled as indicative of a childish mentality. In short, (Miss (McFadden, you well know that haste makes waste and perhaps your article was written in some sort of emotional haste; but in any event your article is waste, expressly for panty-wastes. Steve Lindell but students who are geniuses. If this is true, then he is most cor rect and we join with him in pressing for a re-evaluation of the program. But is it true? Or has Dr. Ed wards lent his office and high per sonal reputation to an opinion with out being able to rationally substan tiate that opinion? His statement, quoted above, is one of airy generalities. Further, the statement has not been accompanied by validating information in any of the several dispatches and editorials we have read concerning it. Yet the charge undoubtedly has, and will, influence the quality educa tion sentiments of many North Caro lina voters, who know only that a respected Man of God has criticized, the program, so the program must be bad. Yes, everyone is entitled to his opinion, including Dr. Edwards. That is not the point. The point is responsibility. Does Dr. Edwards' charge result from a close and careful scrutiny and appraisal of the program? If it does, where are his findings? Or is the charge frivolous, repre sentative of but a slight and fleet ing examination of the program? From here, Dr. Edwards seems to be an unqualified critic who has paid North Carolina educators and sponsoring politicians a very high, if back-handed, compliment. For he implies that they are aware of the value of high goals in education as elsewhere, aware that people are not easily or accurately categorized blanketly as clods or geniuses, and aware that individuals young or old usually . respond to higher goals with better performance. . Garry Blanchard I am an American citizen. I am against a competitive base for our society. I do not think nations should com pete with one another. Every na tion making policy considers only what is in the interest of a Univer sal Brotherhood of Man before con sidering its own interests and needs. One of the major premises of In ternational Politics is that each na tion regardless of its power is equal. Sierra Leone is entitled to as much weight in the making of international decisions as the Soviet Union. The foundation for world govern ment is the United Nations General Assembly where nations of the world are represented equally and are responsible to world moral public opinion. Thus the world's course un der majority rule would conceivablly be decided by the naked, the illiter ate, the uneducated, and the starv ed. We hope one day to equate their status with ours. We must not reward individual initiative. We train exceptional peo ple with a mediocre education, con form them to mediocre standards, levelling them to a mediocre, homo genous mass. We always point out to them that mediocre people made this country great. We ask of them in class to listen to lectures and repeat the lectures in quiz books. Any creative or spon taneous contribution is discouraged because the world needs cold hard, impartial' bureaucrats with no faith, no convicitions, and no ambitions. And thus we move into The Brave New World the "last best hope" of man. Norman Smith Tim Tetlow (From the Charlotte Observer "Letters" column): Since I became eligible to vote, just three weeks ago, my interest in our government and its spending programs has taken on a new view that of a person with the right to officially approve or reject the measures put before the American public. As a student at the University of North Carolina, a state tax-supported institution, I have observed dur ing the past year that a great deal of money is put into the construc tion of new buildings. On Nov. 7 we, the voters of North Carolina, must decide if the need for more such spending is worth a bond issue of $61.5 million. Here at the University, a good portion of our $13.2 million will go for addi tional dormitory construction to house the rising enrollment. While it is supposedly a good in dication that more and more young people are seeking a colleg educa tion, I think that this emphasis on the numbers of students and not necessarily on their ability to profit from such guidance is a mistake which is keeping the academic standards much too low. Even a public institution such as the University must draw a line somewhere. So rather than drop the line lower and add more to the numbers, we would do well to find out just how many of the students presently enrolled here are actually worth the space they are occupying. I shall exercise my newly-gained privilege on Nov. 7 by voting against the $13.2 million section for the Uni- "Well, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" versity of North Carolina. The present housing situation is critical indeed, and its improvement would be worthy of the appropria tion. But this excellent place of learning does not need more dormi tory space just to increase the numbers of uninterested, unthinking school children who can afford to flock here for a few years of fun. Brenda Smilh Balcony Building Suggested To the Editor, The headline in this morning's Daily Tar Heel (October 26th) that theater picketing was scheduled to resume on January 3rd unless full integration is achieved brought the undersigned readers to a careful con sideration of our situation. Because highly conflicting opinions exist con cerning the question of theater inte gration, it is not likely that a resolu tion may be reached which would be fully agreeable to everyone involved. Such a solution, however, indeed exists. This solution involves the construc tion (from funds half supplied by the theater owners and half by a fund-raising campaign on the part of others involved) of balconies in the two existing Chapel Hill Theaters. The merits of such action are im mediately evident. The bottom floor of the theaters would be maintained on a segregated basis. This would satisfy those who do not favor inte grated theaters. The balcony would be opened on a fully integrated basis. This would satisfy the Negroes in that they would be admitted to the theaters. It would also be pleasing to the liberal and Christian or liberal Christian elements who would be able to attend motion pictures in a fully integrated balcony. The theatre own ers themselves would benefit from the increased number of admissions which would in time cancel the debt imposed by one half of the cost of contsruction. It is hoped that the above sug gestion will receive the serious at tention of the diverse elements mentioned. It seems an answer ac ceptable to all. Joe E. Greene Joseph R. John 1 No Planning Former President Eisenhower, whose administration spent millions training and equipping Cuban refu gee troops for something, says "There was absolutely no planning for any invasion in my administra tion." White House sources say, "The general is in error." We submit that the outcome of the invasion clearly bears out the contention that there was absolutely no planning. The Atlanta Constitution Ideologies Endangering Man's Existence The October 25, 1961 edition of the Daily Tar Heel contained a criticism on my article which appeared on October 17. As the criticism missed my point, I shall re-state my first intention as plainly as possible. The criticism was based on an assumption that my article was maintaining that America should re linquish her freedom and subjugate herself to communism in order to avoid world annihilation. This, how ever, was not my whole point. If I were in Soviet Russia and if they were to allow me to speak, I would say that they also should give up trying to extend their doctrine so as to save the world from annihilation. I did not intend to confine my' dis cussion to either side. ' My discus sion, was on the human folly which is endangering the existence of their own beings. WHAT I WANTED to say was that human beings as a whole, with out distinction as to their ideologies, should become wise enough to real ize that their firmly held convic tions to their ideologies are en dangering their own existence. , The communists can identify their ide ology with the basic elements of human civilization just as well as one can do freedom with the civiliza tion. When our forerunners struggled for the " realization of their ideolo gies, there was not the possibility of a holocaust of the entire world. They were allowed to behave so be cause they had less knowledge of science. The modern world, how ever, has to be more cautious be fore proceeding in such a manner, since the potential dangers are so infinitely greater. It is in this sense that we have to modify our tradi tional ideologies. We must realize that the period which demands heroic deeds for one's ideology is passing. If this period is not passing, we have to endeavor to urge the transition as soon as possible. As the field of science went into the New Era and changed its older ways, one should not seek on the glory of the old era in the phase of ideologies. We have to realize that as long as we main tain (By "we," I mean human beings as a whole) our own convictions blindly, the ultimate result will be certain destruction of the whole world. If any ideology is aiming at the betterment of human life, it has to secure the existence of human life first before people start to expound their ideologies. What is the use cf freedom or communism if we de stroy the whole world? In case a nation confronts a necessary choice between either subjugation or anni hilation cf the world I strongly hope the nation has the courage and the wisdom to choose subjugation to save the possibilities of a betterment of the world in the future. Ilaruo Konishi
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