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I i Seel I i In its sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by I restrictions from either the administration or the student body. The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of 1 the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. I All editorials ab bearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. i January 19, 19G2 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXIX, No. 82 it Humiliation The judge who handed down a suspended sentence to Charles Van Doren this week said he could "read the humiliation" in the 35-year-old former Columbia Univer sity instructor's face. Had the judge been granted the ability to see the faces of perhaps ten thousand teachers and students across the country at that moment, he would have seen the same hu miliation on them. Van Doren, re gardless of his contribution and re morse, could not erase the feeling of guilt that were mirrored in his face. Nor could he displace that same feeling from others who, be cause of their association with edu cation, were participants in his guilt. Some of that guilt lies with the television industry which allowed the farce of rigged TV shows to be carried on. It is shared by the viewers wrho were interested in Van Doren, not because of intellec tual prowess, but because he was amassing a large sum of money. A portion of the guilt, too, must be laid to a society which holds money to be a higher goal than in tegrity, which has little interest in ability except as an asset that can be turned into dollars and cents. Iut, appropriately, the man who bore the brunt of these shortcom ings in our nation temper was a teacher. And it is for this reason that most of Van Doren's collea gues in education are as shame faced as he. Why was Van Doren's offense so abominable? Why was it his case, and not that of the other defen ders, which drew banner head lines? Why should his repentance be more obvious' and his shame greater than that of others? It was not because his pay-off was the largest; it was not. An other contestant "won" over $220, 000. Nor was his crime any greater. But Charles Van Doren is, or was, a teacher. His association with edu cation made his violation more flagrant and his humiliation more more deeply felt and widely shared. When it is a teacher who has committed a crime, particularly when it is one that involves a bar tering of ideals and the perpetra tion of a fraud, then the attention given that crime is, and should be, greater. When Van Doren sold out, he sold out not just as a man. He sold out as a part of a profession that should loathe compromise and honor intelligence for its own sake, not because it can be translated in to dollars. The Van Doren case and its sim plications are saddening enough in themselves. But the other infamies involving education are called to mind by it. "When Van Doren was sentenced this week, all the basket ball scandals, the episodes of cheat ing, the lying and compromising all of these were flung in the face of education. The time has long since past when someone should have begun to wipe the humiliation off the col lective face of education. Sorry, A Letter Was Misleading So We Didn't Put It In Print To The Editor: m i 1 Q Pmlr, mar 9eel EDITORIAL STAFF Wayne King -...Editor Margaret Ann Rhymes Associate Editor Lloyd Little Executive News Editor Bill Hobbs Managing Editor Jim Clotfelter, Bill Wuamett " News Editors Jim Wallace Photography Editor Chuck Mooney Feature Editor Harry Lloyd... Sports Editor Ed Dupree Asst. Sports Editor Garry Blanchard Contributing Editor BUSINESS STAFF Ttm BuRNETT....BusiTiess Manager Mike Mathers Advertising Manager Jim EvANS..Subscription Manager Jim Eskridgk Circulation Manager Tbx Dazlt Tab Bra. Is published dally except Mctoday, examination periods and vacations. It Is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C. pursuant with the act -of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester. $8 per year. Thk Daily Tak Heel is a subscriber to the United Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro- 1published by the Publications Board at the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill. N. C. " , s Donald P. Will Jr. Editor's Note: The above space contained a letter from Donald P. Will, Jr. of Durham. In his letter, Mr. Will suggested that we should not have printed Charles Alan's letter condemning mental health program's (Jan. 14 issue) because such a letter is "misleading." Our policy is to print all letters, regardless of viewpoint. We have adhered to this policy until now. But, since Mr. Will has informed us that it is the "duty of an editor to refuse to print misleading ma terial," we have complied. We thought his letter was "mis leading. So we didn't print it. Should we continue this policy? Robinson's Ramblings Gun Bearers!'? i According to the 19C0 census Chapel IL11 is the richest commun ity in the state with 27 per cent of its families earning $10,000 a year or more. So it's not strange for chari ties on fund raising drives to think that they'd be well received here. But some townspeople have criticis ed their neighbors and students for not being generous enough. An ap propriate reply has come from a Wake County woman, who prefers to remain anonymous. Please, No More Pleas! I give to charities galore; All those that knock upon my door Find me ready to disburse The contents of my dwindling purse My money's spread from Nice to Nome; " But charity begins at home And home is where my money stays Or else before too many days I'll join the throng and make a plea Door to door-in the name of me! Conservatives and liberals will both be interested in these bizarre and informative happenings around the nation: South Carolina When asked how he felt about NAACP Special Coun s e 1 Thurgood Marshall's appoint ment as a' federal judge recently, South Carolina's Governor Ernest Rollings replied: "I'm just as glad Martin Luther King doesn't have a law degree." Massachusetts: Robert H. W. Welch, Jr. founder of the John Birch 1 Society, told the Roman Catholic 1 Archdiocese of Boston last month that "not more than one-half of one per cent" of the Catholic priests in the U. S. are Communist sympathiz ers. Minnesota: An English teacher in Wrenshall, Minn., was reinstated one week after he had been dismissed for having his students read "1984." Michigan: State Attorney General Paul Adams recently ruled that Bible instruction in the public schools violates both the state and federal constitutions. Texas: Under a new Abilene, Tex as ordinance, both parents and theater operators are liable to fines up to $200 for allowing children to see movies rated "objectionable." North Carolina: Chapel Hill's two movie theaters are fully integrated the first in the state but less than one quarter of the audiences are Ne groes. MIKE ROBINSON i! i II 1 i I About Letters The Dally Tar Heel Invites readers to use it for expres sions of opinion on current topics regardless of viewpoint. Letters must be signed, con tain a verifiable address, and be free of libelous material. Brevity and legibility in crease the chance of publica tion. Lengthy letters may b edited or omitted. Absolutely none will be returned. The Return Of The Little Magazine In the gargantuan belch of Am erican publishing houses' output to day, it has become a truism that it is impossible to read all that one wants to read. Our Senators are tak ing speed reading courses so that they can read what they are sup posed to have read; students re peatedly complain that if the day only had five or six more hours they would be able to do their social science or parallel reading. This is rapidly becoming!: symptomatic of the age of the digest, the paperback library and the brief survey. Even in specialized fields it is a rare scholar who can speak for the entire body of work he represents. One is constantly selecting and con densing his . projected reading list, and usually finishes little more than the essentials. , Most publishing houses are no help in the matter of reliability of their product as a rule, he excep tions can be named on the fingers of one hand; these are generally the avant-garde paperbbok" publishers who reliably go out of business after a year or so and are never resur rected. - Currently I am keeping my fingers crossed for Angel Island Publica tions, a small California house which is not yet firmly, established except for its ' quarterly Contact, currently in its ninth number. However, it has several other not able distinctions! '"It has saved Nel son Algren's excellent "Chicago, City on the Make," a decadent paean to the human of Chicago, which the city fathers consigned to a critical limbo for liking all the wrong things about Chicago. It has also put into print "A ' Fly in the Pigment" a delightful semipicaresque novel about a fly who escaped from a Renaissance painting to view Paris in the raw. Its approach is a hilar ious blend of stream of conscious ness and social caricature. - , Further into the select library of Angel Islanct is "A Country of the Mind", an anthology of the best pub lications of the . highly-regarded "Western Review" by its editor, An thony West. And Probably the most appealing of all the Angel Island books now on the market is the Photographic essay "I Am a Lover", a sort of "Family of Man" for San ATTITUDES By Clotfelter Certain elements in the Ameri can political situation appear to believe that the fate of Christianity is to be decided in Katanga province. The same persons who worship at the image of rebellious Katanganese President Moise Tshombe as a brave "anti-Communist", also are fond of applying the term "pro-Christian" to him. Strom Thurmond, distinguished solon from South Carolina, in a Jan. 8 attack on the Kennedy Administra tion policy in the Congo, referred to the "anti-Communist, pro-Christian Katanga province." Campus columnist Martin Luther Wilson took the Thurmond position a step further by attacking the United Nations as a "godless organization." The absurdity of the Thurmond and Wilson statements should be easily seen. The fact that some per sons swallow that bunkum, however, Those Loyalty Oaths & Subversive Groups Mr. Nichols, of the "Michigan Daily, in his ' valiant attempt to place the blame for the loyalty oath on the John Birch Society and other "radical right" groups! makes one error" of fact! He says that' the Ku Klux Klan is "not listed as sub versive." This is incorrect: The KKK is among the several hundred or ganizations listed by the Dept. of Justice as being subversive! Any communist, fascist, or totalitarian group that advocates overthrow of the US government or approves of "the commission of acts of violence to deny other persons their rights under the Constitution of the United States" is subversive. Mr. Nichols makes a graver error by implying that' anyone1 who sup ports the loyalty oath 'avoids as sociation with Catholics, Negroes and Jews," shuns the Nat'l Council of Churches, supports Trujillo, and criticizes ' Kennedy. He implies that "right to work laws 'are evil; while Khrushchev it not. "Nicholas uses the same techniques of slander and "guilt by association" that he con demns so vehemently as a device used by those who would get tough on Communists. ..- . What is Nicholas so shook up about? The loyalty oath, which reads: ' ' "h , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America 'and will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all its enemies, foreign and do mestic." '; The members of Congress that voted for this oath (all of them, no doubt, members of the John Birch Society,) must be condemned f or ask ing poor Nicholas to swear allegi ance to his native land. For to ask someone to Jpledge allegiance to the flag" is obviously a fascist plot to take away our freedoms. SAMUEL S. JONES, JR. leads me to state the obvious. The controversy in Katanga does not in any way, in any shape or form, concern Christianity or any other religion. Even if the conflict did concern religion, there are just as many Christians in other provinces of the Congo as there are in Katanga. The United Nations, as a body, cannot be "godless" just as it can not be "God-fearing" or "pro-God." Because so many divergent religions are represented in the U.N., it is incomprehensible that it should be come either a religious or an anti religious organization. Possibly the Strom Thurmond re vivalist element sees some major Christian precept at issue in the Congo. If the United Nations was aggressively attacking the Katanga nese province (which it is not), then that could be what Thurmond and his boys are calling godless and anti-Christian. But this same revival ist element advocates war on Cuba, war on mainland China, and in some cases, aggressive war on Russia so it's not U.N. aggression which Thurmond thinks is anti Christian. Hopefully, Thurmond is not refer ring to the hackneyed line about "atheistic communism." Even if the Central Congolese government of Cyrille Adoula and Joseph ' Kassa vubu was Communist (which is com pletely false), religion would still be irrelevant "to the Katanganese prob lem. The solution to the Congo mess must be realistic, open and honest. No spiritual questions are involved. It is a choice between chaos and stability. An independent Katanga represents chaos. A unified Congo is necessary for African stability. . . - i JIM CLOTFELTER Francisco. The excellence of Jerry Stoll's photography is constantly shocking, intimate, moving. A genuine love of his subjects and lucid, uncannily pertinant quotes edited and garner ed by Evan S. Connell from very various sources make this book come alive for the reader. The quotes range from Lewis Carroll, Thomas. Wyatt, and Count ess Tolstoy's diary to letters, upani shads, drinking songs and brother hood oaths. "I am a Lover" is one of the finest photographic essays and human documents to be published in the United States. Our campus should be especially cognizant of the success of its quart erly, having as amateur yardsticks the small successes and failures of almost a dozen such in memory. Issue number eight, for example, features the advanced makeup and design patterns produced by a small dedicated and talented staff. It manages to print a short stgry on the racial issue, "Lunch", by Keith Lowe, on brown paper with out editorializing or going overboard after its own cleverness. It has a photographic section featuring social charicatures by Seymour Locks; a long short story by R. V. Cassill about Paris, which in its course does not open the raw wounds of any cliches; an advertisement that is easily as entertaining as most small magazines' content for Angle Is land's forthcoming "Artists' and Writers' Cookbook, featuring a beef burgundy by James A. iMichener, a garlic soup by James Merrill ,and an Italian passion salad by Jerre Man gione. This book, or rather quarterly, is becoming increasingly available and at the same time' entertaining. It is a welcome sign to the weary, frus trated, or disllusied re sie5ao trated, or disillusioned reader that Angel Island Publications shows none of the omens of now non-existent art magazines. It may be with us (the intelligentsia) for a long, happy, time. JOE WILLIMAN A Scientific Survey OfLikke r urmmng Chapel Hill is a quiet little town. For years it made me curious to hear people from Durham, Raleigh, and even as far away as Winston Salem, refer to it as "Whiskey Hill." It raised a question," one which every Tarheel must face head-on, glass in hand, sooner or later: Is there too much emphasis on drink ing at the University? (Perhaps a more interesting question would be, "Is it POSSIBLE to place too much emphasis on drinking?" Since this question has no answer, however, I shall ignore it.) I decided to turn to science for an answer. Psychologists say it "is easy to determine what is import ant to a person by listening to" him talk. By noting how often certain words or ideas turn up in his con versation, you can pretty well tell what he is thinking about. With this theory in mind and a clipboard clutched in hand, I headed to Harry's for an evening of inten sive research. It must be remember ed that this was not what is called a "controlled situation," in fact, it must have been pretty uncontrolled. A few of my notes were very diffi cult to decipher they seem to have gotten wet some time during the evening. I have didived my results into three catagories: " " I. Number of references to what was consumed: Beer 18, bourbon 12, gin, booze 8, whiskey scotch7, liquor, rum, Vodka 4, screwdriver, spirits, moonshine, P. J.J one each. (Bfarid faarnes are included under their general cata gories.) II. Number of references to the act of consumption: Drink 37 (this includes such varia tions as " . . . like a fish") guzzle 4, on a binge, on a tear, getting high 2, on a bender, on a toot, soaking it up, swizzle, toss it off, wet your whistle, get loaded, one each. III. Number of refenrences to re sults: Drunk 22 (this includes dead drunk, drunk as a lord, stinkin' drunk; etc.),' high 14 (as a kite, a flag, etc.), plastered, hungover 8, out 7 (passed out, out of it, out cold, etc.), out of his mind, polluted 4. boozed up 3, bomber, intoxicated, tipsy, stiff 2, inebriated, d. ts, sous ed, seeing pink elephants, fried, shel lacked, tanked, and three sheets in the wind, one each. This is 217 references to drinking in four hours approximately fifty per hour, or less than one a minute. One interesting sidelight I had not expected: the only subject that came close to whiskey in popularity was sex. While the vocabulary was not nearly as varied, the rate of occur rence was phenominal. Conclusions : 1) Whiskey is not emphasized in Chapel Hill to the exclusion of everything else. 2) The name "Whiskey Hill" grew out of envy just plain envy. BOBBI DAVENPORT ! t 1 ; S ;
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