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1 u leel lie All In its sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by I restrictions from either the administration or the student body. I The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Vubllcaiid'ns Board of the University b) t North "Carolina. 1 1 All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they j are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. 1 February 23, 1962 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXIX, No. 99 I Does It Make A Difference? UP Or SP? For the- umteeth time since the; organization of the University and Student Parties as the two major political factions at ; Carolina,' the UP is trying to tear down its image as the "fraternity party." 1 This same attempt at re-orienta-tion'has been carried on, at varying intervals, since as far back as 1037 f possibly before. Whether this mosi recent attempt will be either successful or enduring remains a doubtful question. Despite a sin cere, arid imaginative approach by UP Chairman Bill Criswell, chances s6em good 'that 'his party will again be saddled, with the fraternity label a label, that Is becoming increas ingly undesirable as the dorm vote gets stronger. . , . . ( , . . It doesn't' exactly, take Divine in sight to predict that the UP big f Ouf slate V.wfll be' heavy with in dividuals generally regarded as -"fraternity candidates," while the S? appeal to the dormitory voter will again be strong. ."...'' 'Most of the : reason for this is tradition,, a tradition so strong that it will take more than a shuffle of UP nominating procedure to over come it. Despite the UP's commend able attempt to guarantee a mini mum number of votes to each dorm, putting a dorm, candidate , across in a. UP convention will be a tough job. Too many factors are working a gainst.it.' . ' Firsthand most important, is the question of ; available candidates. Because of , UP's - traditional frater nitysorority affiliation, outstand ing dormitory candidates are sim ply, not available withiri the existing UP organization: And the fraternity and sorority blocs don't seem likely to go wholeheartedly for a new comer. ; r Ironically,, the . fraternity, , alba tross hanging around , the UP neck is its own tightly-knit, well-organized machinery. Its rigidity . make3 it difficult for. a dark-horse par ticularly one from a dorm to break into the UP. The SP, on the other handj is riowarid has been tradi tioriallyy . a somewhat j raggle-taggle outfit that flings wide its arms arid incidentally, i t s nominating convention -to any wild-eyed fire brand who can either out-debate or out-politic the other contenders Candidates pop up seemingly out of nowhere to buck and often unseat the hacks. TVTiile the UP is regarded as a party for the greeks, the SP is not generally seen as a dorm, party, al though it usually draws most of its support from dorms. This tends to make the SP less stable, naturally, but at the same time doesn't label it categorically as "dormitory." The dorm candidate and we mean the dorm-oriented candidate, rather than the stricter designation of dorm resident is hesitant to try to break into the UP machinery. The SP forurri is less discriminating. Anyone can speak and usually does. He might be beaten in his bid for a nomination, but he's heard. This, of course, doesn't always work in the SP's favor. The party can usually come up with some pretty novel not to say radical ideas. Some of them go over, others create considerable unpopularity and defeats. Others . are found accept able and some are carried out. The UP is not so receptive to "re form'' ideas, with the natural re sult that they usually come up with "safe" candidates. All of this naturally makes for a fairly solid, predictable party. Whether the campus will go for this orientation or for the less predict able SP is a question that won't be answered for more than a month. At any rate, the outlook for any real change in the UP's image whether real or imagined is painfully dim. Katanga Breaktliroiigl In what .looks like, a decisive breakthrough toward peace and unity in the , Congo, the Katanga Assembly has accepted the' Kitoria EDITORIAL STAFF Wayne prcJIyn..:, ',T..'. .''.Editor Harry Lloyd, Harve Harris" . . Managing .Editors , Executive News Editor M Jim Clotfelter, Bnx Wuamett , - .,, , News Editors Jim Wallace .' " "; !";" ' " Photography Editor Chuck -Mooney Feature Editor Ed Dupree Sports Editor Curry Kir kp a trick v V ? ; . -A??t Sports Editor Garry Blanchard - Contributing Editor BUSINESS STAFF TTm Burnett.-. ttstTicss Manager Mike Mathers .- vu. ,j : : , Advertising Manager 1 II U ! w 1 v. Jim. TSvANS.JSubscription Manager Jim Eskridge ' - . - . ' : u : ? , ',.-: . Circulation . Manager , . t. r-- Ta Datlt Tax Em Is published Wafly ctcept- Motwjay; exansJtoaUon:' pertodaf nd vacation&at is entered af gjcona-. class matter In the post office to Chapel mil. N.' C. pursuant wlth the -c ot March &, 1870. Subscription rates j M-M nr Bemester, $3 per year. i th Daxlt Tax Hzn- Is a Bubscrlber to the 'United Press International and itlisfcrft3 yithe Publleattoar Bbard: oTtiie University of North Carolina. Oiapel Hill. N. C. Editors Note: Carolina student Henry ' Mayer "is "currently" spending his junior year of study at the Uni versity of California, at Berkely, under an Inter-State Scholarship. The following, article, the, first of a two-parts, outlines life at that thriving coastal university, and of fers interesting points 'of compari son and contrast with Carolina. (Along Berkeley's Piedmont Av enue, about halfway up the first of the Berkeley hills and at the "top" of the sloping University of California campus, stands a row of houses ranging in architectural styles from ; "e a r 1 y Scarsdale" to "ramshackle Charles Ad dam s." Once private residences, the build ings now bear imposing titles indi cative of the work being carried on within: Center for International Stud ies, Survey Research Center, Insti tute for Personality Assessment and Research, and the Center for Hu man Learning for example. , At the hill's summit, commanding an incre dibly beautiful view of the campus and the entire San Francisco. Bay area, stands Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, home of Dr. Edward Teller & Co. It is symbolic that these two clusters occupy positions of glMgrph'sueyTorltyJ fjotJKey hold intellectual priorities as' well. The University, of California, in less than 100 years-has. men tothe top of the academic, rtes-large ly on the strength ptij. reeajci').e;n-' deavors and ; it$' rostef Kqf .'; Interjia-' tionally. respected( jprofessofs 1(ured to the Golden ;!West;'g superior ciimate both f o$' research and asthmaticsij pnd undarit f is-. cal resources. a afe'taiifr f.'fiis' h a r d-won repyi jatipn; -'nly ej"sit f professors ha ve . to continue , to make important contr'utipns'tx vfjie. - sclio- larship of teirjeilCC. lines,, and one ;can enseej h'ere ample evidence ot tHeV,o-c a I fed "publish or persi' .laH i eh has become a hacmeyed expression in academic circles. It is not difficult ; to .imagine the depressing effect f such' emphasrs fias upon the educational opportunities afforded the 15,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students who in habit the campus. Graduates, who are. theoretically learning to be re searchers in their own. right, are not sneered upon ; quite as often as are undergraduates, who for all practical purposes, are the university's step cKIldTenT When" tf anslated IhtcT fefms of everyday carnpus life, the pri macy of research means that out of the 41course listings in, :the; upper' $ysj6ijV: iAmericlaii i' Histoi;. p'eiarti ' meni, . onlj. 1Z, are t$erng . offered this year J including the: basic umpj sur'7 yeyj:. course);'.; ijnee thatthre lthfjof ; the .wwio.factyj' only I teaching; on.'a . part--timebasis.' in ' owejjj. 0 j be able; to carry; ; onVther independent; it vmeans tna those; f acydPty j xnenAers who Jpte in Berkeley because ihe want ' o teach! have shprtofd long lineoutde' witJ-.gie iesuit.thiat se4atyffcqnt?ici' is.;vvifuany possible ' '.ofc. estaBlishi?.Y.ei' despite this -basically - unfavorable atmos phere (from- the student's pouit of view) . the ' University of California indeed affords rich intellectual stim ulation antl educational bfdadth,' al though the classroom experience is decidedly second-rate. ; Education at Berkeley, then,' is a frustrating paradox. The campus a bounds with renowed professors, al though many remain . quite removed from the student community; politi- agreement between Premier Adoula and President Tshombe as a basis of discussion to settle the Congo' conflict. The acceptance is still tied to several conditions which imply further bargaining before the final ratification on which Mr. Tshombe insists. But the conditions now are not unreasonable. The principal Katangan condi tion deals with the mjam issue that split the Congo apart namely, centralism versus federalism. The Katanga Assembly demands ; a-new Federal constitution to replace the present centralist fundamental law. A Constitutional Commission - is now at work on that problem' " and since Premier Adoula agreed to" its creation it must be assumed tnat he will not object to a modification of the present law. Much work remains to be done to put the Congo on its feet as a go ing concern. But the removal ;of most foreign mercenaries from Ka tanga, the rapprochement' between the .Congo and Belgium ,'a p 4 i ;e changing policies of the European m I n i if g interests n Katanga all poml to a brighter future for thai strife-torn country, whicfi no;reckr less adventurism cair be permitted to: impair. - - -l New York Times ' , ' -v.. . . -'-&&r. : :vHV"AuS cal controversy and excitement thf lve'in"(Ke face ' ofah atithbrltar ian administration and, consequent ly r an'impofehr'studenrgoVernment an4 a flaccid student press; the at rriosphere is. charged with intellect ual, excitement .an. abundance of lecture series, concerts, films, de bates and rallies crowd the calend ar),' although' the formal aspects of he - educational process are often limited and ' unrewarding. In short," the? campus is (as its orientation booklet proudly boasts) "a good place to think." "Cal" is a good place to think, in par t, because education here presents 'a forrnidabje personal chal lenge, not a challenge in terms of demanding assignments, (although thejr do exist) - but a challenge to scale the barriers posed by the rigid .bureaucratic" means needed to con trol so large an enterprise and the lare enrollment which severely re stricts classroom dialogue. The campus is controlled by its IBM machine, and no aspect of the business of education, from regis tration to course changes to the pay ment of library fines, escapes the ubiquitous punch card. The cold, impersonal nature of the process and the complex tangle of regula tions and procedures (a system which Would" shame even the Penta gon) serve to reduce the freedom of movement one likes to associate with a college campus, although ad mittedly,' IBM life does have its humorous aspects. One never feels quite as funny as he does when, af ter a twenty minute wait, his IBM library "call card zips out of the pneumatic tube with "cannot lo cate" stamped brightly upon it. Ab solutely hysterical. A regular riot. The difficulties involved in the utilization of the library are import ant to bear in mind, because most courses at Cal are reading courses and demand a good deal of library work. An average class may have 75 to 100 members, although mass lecture courses taught by such worthies as -Mark Schorer and Dr. Edward Teller attract 800 to 1,000 students. In this situation there can be no student-professor exchange of ideas; the professor lectures and the student scribbles as much as he can remember into his notebook. He has no opportunity to formulate ideas, have them criticized and slashed to ribbons by his classmates and instructor, and then reshaped in the light of the new perspective the classroom dialogue has afford ed him. Super-Patriots Must Re-Direct Inquiry Peace ' .Moffi&ers9 In Ftitiiffe Time: The near future Place; In front of the White House , - ...a .... ,,The student picketers did, not-carry signs with clever slogans"? They carried white . flags and chanted, "We want peace at-any .price." The reporter ! was young and ' at firjst .just a, little" timid about inter viewing a picketer;. ;T hey1 looked' fanatical incl , belligerent But he slowly gathered his nerve and ap proached their leader. , "'I beg your pardon," said the re porter, "but I wonder if you. could make a comment on what the pick, eting is for." "Certainly", said the bright young college, studenti "As college students we believe' we represent the intel lectual elite of this; nation. There fore we . believe we. sbo u 1 d make known our belief on the world, sit uation. 'W6 are fer peace no matter what the priced We believe the Unit ed States should disarm immediate ly!" ' : :-: : "But Russia has not . agreed to disarm, tne reporter cnauengeu. "Russia!" cried the student. Why should Russia . have to, w. vher good faith to us? It is ur.'.duty to show our ; good . faith to, Russia. -1 would rather. crawl on my belly to Moscow than die. under, an atom bomb!" -; i . ' t " s .., I ... ? 'Do you have any support for this movement?" the reporter questioned.- ' - r- ? , -- ;' I- ' YeY siff;-!wl certainty -rdo?'- the student boasted. "We have the sup- ... . . . I - !. I 1 port , of none other than - Senator Lefty A. Peasement." The reporter was ?hjockect forr a moment. He knew Senator Pease ment was the liberal darling of Washington, s but : be had not real ized just how far left old Lefty WOUld gO. ;; ' The Reporter . thariked .tte..picketefr and t.ook a cab to tie Senate. On the . steps' of .the. Senate the reporter found a hundred ministers kneeling in prayer. One of the ministers, be ing finished with, his prayer,' came over to where the re p d r t e r was standing and spoke'; with a voice trembling in .emotion, 'The com munist's are the children of God. We should treat them as, our Brothers. Their god is our God!" "B u t reverend the communists have no god. save possibly Lenin," the reporter.blurted out. "Young man, I know nothing a bout the communist doctrine. But I do know they are the children of God; and deserve God's mercy. Let us join hands with them in peace," proclaimed the minister as he look ed .towards the street where Sen. ator Lefty A. Peasement was get ting out of a cab. : '""There 'is a. man of t God and a man! . -Pf , Jeace.":, the ppister said motioning toward the senator. , "The ppoffexcusedf himself from the rninister and hurried over to the senator j . ' . 1 "Don't have much time for an in- ,!) terview, son," the senator said in a voice that seenv.to ,bopm like a cannon. ?L suppose -you want to know' how I stand on the picketers and these prostrated holy men. Well, , I'M all for them', because they want peace. I want peace and by God I know the nation wants peace, and if I can ronly push through ,my bill on giving aid' to Red China, I believe we will et a hell of a lot of peace: ' You know my flogan,, 'give aid to the reds and they will love us to death. There are still: some back ward conservatives that don't go a long5 with my ideas. But I have the faith in the American people. They'll come around and see things my way just like they did when we gave a way Berlin. The" American people want peace and by God they're" get ting it! Well, son, I've got to hurry on. Got a committee meeting. We are reviewing a bill to change the words oh coins from 'In God we trust to In A. Peasement we trust. Don't look so solemn son. Tat is a joke." "Arid -with 'that' the sehator made his way. up the rest of the senate steps laughing all the way. It sounded like thunder. - t In language Jhat would become a Mississippi legislator, Messrs. Ad kinson and Jones have agaur come out in favor of the national anthem the pledge of allegiance, and preju dice. Not only have Jhey announced that he South's facial, prejudice is immortal before the. Supreme' Court, but that a promising prejudice a gains political beliefs can " become as eternal if we support H.U.A.C. Their stand in favor of prejudice is at leas a refreshing change -from the conservatives who seek to ; cloak their bigotry in more respectable . term; However, the Jaasic ignorance of , the belief is still manifest; 'Those who. fight the hardest to prevent the federal' government from J 'interfer ing" in.the livesfof the stajying and aged , 'are 'the t first . to . support its witch-hunting tactics against the in tellectual freedom and reform move ments of our society. -I ' ' l .-f '-sty Str.'f t:r . : " ' If . the two . gentlemen, have never, as, they claim, heardof . a . case in which an innocent person, has bwn "ruined" by H.UjA.C. they would do well to ffiid out more" about 'the institution' of which" they ar such vociferous "adyocates,. Recently, at Mount Qliye .College 'irj this stae arid at the jUmversity ; j jaf "Calif orrua, col lege professors have beep incrimi nated, harassed, and, fired..' What was their ::rime? Preaching subver sion (to -students? Threatening 'the President?r No. They had done noth ing more than 'tolow;1 teir",jntej lectuat curiosity f! to wander beyond the arbitrary' H.U.A.C. . boundary. The, F.B.I, had no .record or evi dence that,-.any attempt had.. been made, by hese men, to, subvert the government, but they were still put to the, mercy ,bt. 9 of their intellect ual inferiors who act as a commit tee for inquisitions-; ' " . , ,. y.::'t;.r: l.-:vr. x.r, j ' . In Webster's (definition , of "pre judice," he calls iV an n opinion, ,a-gainst-something-'without sufficient knowledge." To say that one should merely be awsf Commimism with out botliering to understand Its con cepts' and ideals is an attitude which reflects the most reactionary and apatheticl intellect. .This.. position, is particularly flagrant when any per son who , disagrees with H.U.A.C. may Jbe labeled a Communist. The most depressing aspect of the Adkinsoh-jones' article is their idea that anyone who does not go along with ""the existing , social ' order" should expect any consequence which society may choose to impose. It is probable that the possibility of punishment occurred to such social and political dissenters as Patrick Henry, iMahatma Gandhi, and Jesus Christ, but they were willing to fight the . existing order to make known their convictions. If the United Stat es is so unstable that it cannot al low radicals and nonconformists to express, themselves, it will take more than H.U.A.C. to correct the situation. The two writers state that "a certain stigma falls upon those who espouse the Communist cause, just as there is on anyone who promotes an unpopular cause." This state ment is giving the Soviet system an alarming amount of prestige since almost every accepted institution in American society was at one time "unpopular." t .. . . . Hopefully, .the "super-patriots" will, soon, realize that they should stop being so optimistic about the future of Communism and cast some attention towards the progress of , our own form of economy and government. HARRY DELUNG Simtli Act: Guilt By iciatioii Reflectioiis s The .Supreme Court's decision up holding the membership clause of the Smith . Act .is a logical extension cf. the, doctrines and attitudes which have produced a general decline of our civil liberties during the past fit teen years, hut it marks a further stage; in that, decline. The principle of guilt by association has become painfully familiar in loyalty-security proceedings and Congressional in vestigations, but it is carrying mat ters a long step further to make it the basis of severe criminal penal ties. ;Yet that is what we do when we permit a person to be sent to prison, not for any acts or state ments of his own, but soleiy for hi membership in an organization. Spe cifying "knowing" membership does not make the matter any different, since such "knowledge" is merely an inference which the jury is por mitted to draw from the fact of association. Ml The reporter got into a . .cab and ordered: the cab driver to take him to the Washington (Monument and he added, Hrh going to jump off- The cab. drive - laughed rand so did the reporter. . rfe " 'laughed so hard that he found himself crying. - ALAN GOLDSMITH The UNC legislature fhas voted itself into, the position of having to reapportion the . voting districts,, on campus, like most , state legisla tures, ; they , are faced - with 'the problem of which area will get. what numbej: of jepfesentatives.', The. rea son fof the need to jeapportion., is the! pewly.'. :,deyelop,i4rwal" ."dis-r (ri'cts, 'comprised of ie' ra'eirVipleed Craige and iArlnghaus dbpnitories We- kre -wonderini if these r u f a 1 areas will mcrorate sq that they can be overrepresented just as oth ers in the country are. 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