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In its sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhambered by J restrictions from either the administration or the student body. ' I I The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of' j Ihe Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. I All editorials appearing 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. January 20, 19G2 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXIX, No. 83 At Southern University Suppression The closing down of Southern University at Baton Rouge this week because of "continuing racial agitation' 'is a sorry comment on that university. Hiding behind a statement that "there can be no communication in any kind of mob situation," Dr. Fel ton G. Clark, president of Southern, demonstrated that holding on to the traditions of racial separation was more important than student feel ing, higher education, or free expression. Students began demonstrating when seven leaders of a downtown protest against racial segregation were ordered off the campus. Rather than protecting these seven students' right to rebel against injustice, the university cast its vote for suppression and ex pelled them. This set off angry demonstrations and again the uni versity acted against the students by closing down. The students, admittedly, were neither quiet nor orderly in their demonstrations. They were angered by the university's obvious display of unconcern for the right of the seven to believe what they chose. But the question at Southern is not whether the students were or derly or not, but whether the rea son for demonstrating was a valid one. In this case, it undeniably was. Whether the seven students were right or wrong in their protest is likewise not the primary question. The basic point of issue is whether the seven students had the right to peacefully participate in a cause in which they believed. It was this right that sRould have been honored by Southern. When it was not, the student body rebelled. Not only was the university closed, but every student must re apply before he can re-enter if and when the doors are opened again. We sincerely hope that not a single student will reapply until the seven students who were ordered to leave are allowed to return to classes. When a university closes its doors against students when they act against an injustice, that university is not worthy of the name. A col lege campus is the last place that 1 should deprive an individual thej right to hold beliefs. la:1 The Judiciary The announcement that the At torney General's staff will be avail able for longer hours during final exam period in order to take care of reported violations of the Honor and Campus Codes comes as good news. With a staff member available for longer periods, a dual advantage will be gained: Investigations can be started sooner, minimizing the possibility of error as facts become confused. Reported violations can be handled from the beginning by the staff, making the proceedings a student orjeration from start to finish. The added pressure of final 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 Tim Burnett.. ..Business Manager Mike Mathers Advertising Manager Jim EvANs..Subscription Manager Jim Eskridge Circulation Manager Tnm Dailt Tah Hzez. is published daily except Monday, 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. Tex Daily Tab Hns is a subscriber to the United Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. Published by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill. N. C. m It exams always causes an upswing in the number of reported viola tions. The staff will now be able to take care of the added work more effectively. But this is not the whole story behind the change. The Attorney General's staff, al though no member of it will admit it for publication, is not entirely happy about the fact that the un availability of a student to receive reported violations has often made it necessary to have such reports turned in to the Office of the As sistant Dean of Student Affairs. This means that the student judi ciary is not entirely a student opera tion which is what it should be. Although the longer office hours during the exam period were not instrumented merely as an experi ment, we understand that if the new policy wrorks well, it will be continued throughout next semes ter and thereafter if personnel is available. This new procedure will prob ably open up some interesting questions in regard to the judiciary as a student system. Most viola tions reported come from faculty members. Only a few of these come directly to the Attorney General's staff. Will faculty members continue to follow this procedure when a staff member is available in the Attorney General's office? Or will the faculty have complete confi dence in students' ability to handle the job completely on their own? The answers will be important, indicating whether student govern ment and student autonomy mean what we think they do, or whether they are merely words that look good i na catalogue and sound good in a speech. BOOK REVIEW: JFK Has Responsibility Of Which He Wrote Twenty Years Ago "Why England Slept:' John F. Kennedy, 1940, Wilfred Funk, Pub lisher. A country's defense program has on more than one occasion de termined that country's power at a conference table. In the case of England in 1910 it was rather her unpreparodness that led to a policy of appeasement which culminated in the now famous Munich con ference in September, 1938. This, at least, was the thesis of John F.' Kennedy, who after just two years in England was able to write this scrupulously objective work; his conclusions wee based on a thorough knowledge of British institutions although he had spent the greater part of his university days at Harvard. This work was Kennedy's graduate thesis which earned him honors in International Relations. The book, moreover, was acclaimed in 1940 as a best seller and has just been reprinted. The relevance of the book today is obvious. Kennedy's object was to penetrate a little deeper into the emotionalism that accompanied the Chamberlain policy at Munich. It was his belief, after carefully reviewing many facts and figures, that Britain's weak bargaining posi tion in 1939 could be accounted for by her inability to go to war at that time. The logical reason for this could be found in the principles that make up capitalism and de mocracy. The economic system, the posi tion of labour, and traditional for eign policy were all more import ant than the decisions of leaders; although there was lack ol fore sight and misjudgment on the part of Britain's leaders, the political institution was such that at any time these leaders could have been replaced had the members of Par liament and the Britih people felt that this was necessary. In Novem ber 1935 there had been a General Election and the people had reg istered no dissatisfaction with the Government's policy. In 1939 Churchill replaced Chamberlain; by this time it was too late , . . Eng land was at war. The lessons that could be learnt from England's failure to rearm were directed by the author to. American and Englishman alike. "We cannot escape the fact that democracy in America, like demo cracy in England, has been asleep at the switch". There had been inherent weak nesses of England's institutions in the face of a belligerent totalitarian nation. The constitutional structures of England and America had much in common and it was Kennedy's wish to reveal these factors and present them in relation to Eng land's plight in 1939. "Democracy and capitalism are institutions which are geared to a world at peace. It is our problem to find a method of protecting them at war." Little could he realize that just 20 years later this would be his responsibility. TIM TETLOW 5 ST he All Night Stand i Almost every Carolina student has had the doubtful pleasure of staying up all night to study for a quiz or write a paper. Professors cannot understand how students get, themselves into such a position, that" they have to stay up all night, but we students know it is easy. Here is how it happened to me. I knew I had a big night of theme writing ahead of me, and so I ate an early supper so I could get an early start, planning to be in bed by two. I got back from supper a little after six and decided that since I was going to be up so late, I na turally needed a little rest. So I de cided to rest until seven. After the clock shattered my dreams of an A on the already fin ished paper, I propped myself up and began to think, about my date the next Saturday of course. Then my conscience brought me back to the gruesome topic of my theme, the Carolina Co-ed. When my roommate came in with two other guys and wanted to play bridge, I decided I needed the relaxation to clear my mind, and the bridge game lasted until 10:30. THE NEXT half hour was spent convincing my roommate that he should stay up and keep me com pany; after all his grades were not so good either. Back to the type writer. At twelve I had the title of my theme, The Carolina Co-ed; I was pretty proud of it. Then my roommate asked me the time, and that naturally reminded me of the trip we were going to take the next summer. One o'clock. Three sentences and a half hour later another guy came in and said he was studying for a quiz and saw our light. He wanted to know if. I had any old Sociology quizzes. No, but I remembered some of the ques tions. 2:15. My roommate suggested the three of us go to Durham to get some coffee and scrambled eggs. He was truly an inspired person; I wish he had not flunked out. Anyway the eggs were good, and the coffee coun teracted the sleep inducing effects. On the way back to Chapel Hill good old roommate asked if either one of us had seen Hillsboro at night. Neith er one of us had and who were we to spoil a spirit of adventure? Hills boro is rather quiet at 3:30 a.m. We had just taken in all the fun in Hillsboro, when we noticed a strange little road; and roommate, a de scendant of Admiral Byrd, had to see where it went. Well, it led to a little farm town with no stores and worse, no service stations, and we were almost out of gas. So we con tinued up the road in search of gas . Did you know that the bus station in Danville, Va. stays open all night? We bought post cards at the bus station and sent them to all our friends back at UNC, unsigned of course. ' When we finally found gas, we headed back to UNC. I don't think my car saw less than 100 miles per hour that morning and it still groans when I mention Danville. We got back at seven, and the theme was written by nine. Good old roommate cut a class to type it for me. I'm sure I never would have gotten a B on it if I had not stayed up all night. See how it is done, professor? DON SHEPPARD Greece Tries To Remain" Aloof From Red Neighbors By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst When Nikita Khrushchev remarked that war would not spare the famed Acropolis of Greece, he did not en dear himself to the Greeks nor did he frighten them. Nor did the Greeks tremble in the first few days of this year when the Soviets demanded a blueprint of the Greek military structure on the grounds that it ctmld pose a threat to Soviet borders. The answer was a firm suggestion to the Russians that they mind their own business. As a nation firmly aligned with the West through NATO, and more lately through association with the European Common market, Greece tries to remain as aloof as possible from its Communist neighbors. Difficult Position But, since nearly 25 per cent of Greek export goes to the Soviet Union and other members of the Communist bloc, and she has com mon borders with three Communist countries, such an attitude is not always easy. Lately, this geographic proximity has been the cause of more than common interest. The Soviet Union, occupied in Berlin, in Laos and with internal and party problems, still has found time to probe the western Mediterranean end of the NATO defense line. As a Balkan nation, Greece also must watch for changes which may occur as a result of the break between the Soviet Union and Al bania. Greece still is in a state of war with Albania and still is pressing its claim to a strip of southern Al bania which the Greeks call northern Epirus. Since its break with the Soviets, Albania has been seeking improved relations with the West, including an offer to resume diplomatic re. lations with Greece. YUGOSLAV SITUATION' Since its own civil war and Yugo. slavia's break with Stalin, Greece has maintained consistently friendly relations with Yugoslavia. But no- Greece suspects a change may be in the making in Soviet-YugosU relations, especially since the Soviet-Albanian break. The alarm bell for Greece was an official Yugoslav suggestion that Greece recognize the existence of a Macedonian minority. Since Yugo. slavia has set up Yugoslav Mace donia as a republic of the Yugoslav federation with a language of its own, the suggestion seemed mure than a coincidence. Contributing to any Greek consid eration of the Balkan situation is the knowledge that Communist bloc nations still harbor some 70.000 Greek Communist guerillas who fled after the 1946-49 civil war and now are awaiting another chance. Absence Of 'America Firstism' book's Most Interesting Feature Talks on American Law, edit ed by Harold J. Berman, Vintage paperback, $1.25. Sixteen members of the Harvard Law School Faculty gave the ser ies of broadcasts to foreign audiences which have been compiled into this book. The talks were sponsored by the United States Information A gency. The Harvard professors agreed to do the broadcasts on the condition that no censorship should be imposed "scholarship and propaganda don't mix," said editor Harold Berman. The absence of America Firstism accordingly is the book's most in teresting feature. The book opens with an historical review of the background of Ameri can law, showing its links to English and other European systems. Profes sor Berman thereby explains t o foreign audiences a primary reason for the close U. S. European rela tions which the underdeveloped na tions often misunderstand. Trial by jury and all it entails are covered in the next several sections of the book. "Rights of the Accused" is the continuous theme of these sections. Prof. Roger Fisher had a tricky assignment: to explain to foreign au diences (to whom the East-West pow er struggle appears largely irrevel ant) why the United States places re strictions on the free speech of A merican Communists and others. In an excellent portrayal of the U. S. legal position on speech which incites to crime, Fisher said in part, "Even if a speaker intends to accom plish the overthrow of the govern ment and even if his speaking has a tendency to generate action, the speech is permissible so long as it is in fact advocating doctrine rather than inciting to action." Aimed at those foreign listeners who doubted the sincerity with which the U. S. championed freedom of speech was Fisher's conclusion: "Let me illustrate that point by exercising some free speech here and now. The Government of the United States today imposes ser ious restrictions on the liberty of Americans to go to the mainland of China . . . This restriction limits my ability to talk directly with people in China to whom I might wish to talk. ... I believe the restriction now being imposed by the United States Government is contrary to the principles of the First Amend ment ... I am firmly convinced if is unwise and a serious mistake." "" Prof. Arthur E. Sutherland had an even more difficulty task: to ex plain to the world, which is made up primarily of colored men, why parts of the United States denies full con stitutional rights to its colored citiz ens. Sutherland does an adequate, if not particularly dramatic job. Sections are then devoted to ad ministrative law, labor law, busi ness enterprise, commercial trans actions in American law, property "The Face Is.Fqniiliar". law, the legal profession, and legal education. Too much space is de voted to these subjects which are probably of very little interest to foreign audiences. The portion on international law is an intelligent appraisal of the U. S. attitude toward the United Nations and foreign countries: hopeful but wary. International law is shown to be more important, according to Prof. Milton Katz when one realizes "the immense importance of differ ences in degree; the realistic differ ence between a little better and a little worse, and between a little bet ter still and a little worse still." Prof. Berman concludes with a section on the philosophical aspects of American law. It is "rationalist, empiricist, idealist, realist, moralist, positivist, individualist, socialist all at once." -sJIM CLOTFELTER Ir i I I About Letters Tli Dally Tar Ceel lavttrj readers to use it for expres sions of opinion on current topics regardless ef viewpoint. Letters must be siloed, con tain a verifiable address, and be free of libelous material. Brevity and legibility in crease the chance- of publica tion. Lengthy letters may be edited or omitted. Absolutely none will be returned. -1 Kappa PsVs Visit Pals y Hospital r To the Editor, On Thursday evening, January 11. a small caravan of half a dozen or more cars proceeded down Highway 15-501 enroute to the Cerebral Paly Hospital in Durham. These cars contained brothers and pledges of the local chapter of Kap pa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, on their way to give a party for the children at the hospital. The young sters seemed very happy to have these visitors, and they seemed to enjoy the party equally as well. It was the first they had had .si net before Christmas. Gifts were pre sented, refreshments were served, there was lots of talk, and the Kap pa Psi's departed with a feeling in their hearts warm enough to meit the snow that lay on the ground out side. All agreed that it was well worth the trip just to see the radiant smiles on the faces of those children as they talked and played with them. It made them appreciate the many things they have to be thankful for. Sincerely, Hal Reaves, Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity A
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