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Eichmann Trial UNC NEW Bill Wuamett EDITOR Bill Hobbs CO-EDITOR Wellman Questions Justice Fred McConnel BUSINESS MANAGER Associate Editor Jeane Murdoch Editorial Assistant Jean Wells Sports Editor Marty Kruming Feature Editor Kathy Alsop Cartoonist Jane Hamlet Photographer Richard McKee News Staff Harry Tocce, Kay Barnhart, Don King Contributing Editors Irving Long, Mike Robinson, Garry Blanchard Mexico Correspondent Linda Cravotta Assistant Business Manager Scott Kleiman Office Telephone 942-2356 The UNC News is the official publication of the Summer School Publications Board f the University of North Carolina. It is published every Thursday by the Chapel Hill Weekly publishing company. All editorials appearing in the News are the opinions Aun-e uniacc r.fhonirica prpriitpH- thev dn not neces- sarily represent the opinions of the other members of the statt. Galloping Momism The University last week announced a new housing plan which Assistant in Student Affairs George Strong said was "designed to aid the freshmen and their ad visors particularly." Under this plan, an attempt would be made to achieve a proportional distribution of men in the four classes among 17 of the men's dorms. This, in theory, would give each freshman advisor an approximately equal number of advisees. The latter half of Mr. Strong's argument in favor of the plan is sound; it will aid the advisers. But will it also aid the freshmen? And how will it affect the upper classmen who may not have special "advisers," but live in the dorms nonetheless? The questions are ones that can be discussed on a number of levels, with surface difficulties immediately apparent. Mr. Strong stated that the plan would be flexible, but already a number of students have been as signed to different dorms than the ones they originally applied for. At least two of these students were quite upset when they learned they could not live in the dorm of their choice after having been registered there, and appealed to the Student Affairs Office. But there they learned that a ratio is a ratio, and that Student Affairs knows what is best, so don't worry about it. This situa tion will surely come up again. Another problem is that of being able to select one's roommate. A good roommate is obviously the most im portant factor in a satisfactory adjustment to dorm life. Yet this plan will greatly hinder roommate selec tion, since it will apparently be impossible for a boy to move into a dorm if there are already too many mem bers of his class living there. We somehow do not think the presence of 168 resident advisors living next door will be able to take the place of a good roommate. Dorm residents pay for their rooms. This should give them some voice in choosing where they want to live. Residents should be housed in rooms of their choice and Advisors moved in where needed. Under this plan, how ever, advisors will be located and students placed around the advisors. This is supposed to approximately equalize the ratio of advisees to advisors, and provide a good, clean, wholesome, academic atmosphere with the advisor playing the role of a big fat loving neuter mother with long apron strings. This then is the plan's real difficulty the paternal istic concept behind it. Education is a little more than going to class, playing intramural pingpong in the after noon, studying at night and drinking a big glass of milk before going to bed at 10:30. It also involves meeting problems that are not solved by having an advisor tell you your sub-conscious has an over-supply of it. Twenty years ago Philip Wylie coined the term "momism" in his "Generation of Vipers." The Student Affairs Office apparently likes the term. They should read the book that went with it. Richard Gelberman, has brus quely challenged Irving Long and me for our views on the Eich mann case. Gelberman's article, contributed to the UNC News for June 28, contains at least three statements that are contrary to documented facts, one other that is grossly misleading, and a final claim that strains my credulity although I cant prove it false. Gelberman assures his readers that "All stated information will be well documented." He then proceeds to say that Eichmann would never have been extradit ed, since Argentaine under Presi dent Frondizi is "a Fascist state." This is arrant nonsense. Anyone who has even read the newspaper headlines in recent years knows that Fascist gov ernment terminated in Argentina with the overthrow of Juan Peron in 1955. "Eichmann," Gelberman con tinues blithely, "had resided in Argentina for fifteen years." The facts are that he lived in Argen tina for eight years (1952-60); the years 1945-52 were spent largely in Germany and Spain. Gelber man goes on to say: "It has been established that no sincere at tempt had been made by the Ar gentine government to apprehend him." Despite one or two little publicized claims to this effect, no evidence has ever been ad vanced to show that the Argen tine authorities were aware of Eichmann's presence in the country during those eight years. The Israelis assumed that Ar gentina knew nothing, for they announced, after Eichmann's ab duction, that they would never disclose the place of his capture. This was as much as to say that no one, apart from his captors, kenw where he was at the time. But Argentine investigators dis covered the facts shortly after the kidnaping. Gant Shirt Men Easy Prey For Coed Hubby Hunters Peering 'neath the magnolia blossoms and in-between the ivy vines, this novice Carolinian sud denly confronts the essence of the collegiate conception of the new Old South. Gone is the sweet, subtle, ever-loving little old lavender 'n' old lace mode of life. In its place thrives a new Old South based on English Leather and India Mad ras. Gone, too, are thedays when dating and mating followed the two dictates of Scarlett O'Hara's "Mammy" in Gone With the Wind: (DA lady never says yes or no . . . only "Just as you say, Suh!" or "I might!" and (2) Young ladies never accept any thing any more obligatory from young gentlemen than books, candy, and flowers. The modern Carolina version of (1.) when translated becomes "H-, Yes!" or H-, No!" or even more often "H , if I know!" As for (2.), the modern rule appears to be "Never accept any thing less sharp than a scarab bracelet, cameo watch-band, gold monogrammed disc pin, or, best of all, a Baez album, complete with autograph and a string of hair." One note of cheer remains, however. TRADITION is not en tirely a thing of the PAST, for females are basically tradition alists at heart, and they still place a premium on the good old past times of collecting little things like diamonds, frat pins, lava liers, class rings, etc. And WHY NOT? Psychologists report that nearly everyone can benefit from a collective hobby and that it is only natural to go through this collective phase. This is especially evident on this campus where various clubs of collectivity are very-much-in-vogue. Most popular collections on campus include "unsats," just-drained beer cans, hang overs, gambling debts, and dirty laundry. Parental lectures are also high up on the list, as are drastic allowance cuts. ..Necessity tends to cause dras tic changes in normative values. For example, the following expose of fanatical female interest in male shirt types: Around campus, especially in heavily male-populated classes such as poli-sci, are springing up female cults of GANT shirt "counters." CAUSE:. BECAUSE those enigmatic Gant cloth hooks at the back of the yoke are the ideal answer to the prayers of those lovely, sweet, innocent children hoping to hook a hubby with one swift stroke. All it takes is a crook of her little finder through his Gant shirt hook, a victorious "Got 'cha!", and the mighty GANT MAN goes down to defeat, to the tender strains of the Carolina Coup d'etat Cha-Cha-Cha!" Another of the all-important undergraduate norms is the wear ing of sports clothes and, in keep ing with this practice, all co-eds are expected to be good sports at all times, whether on private snipe-hunting soirees or grape gathering in the Arboretum. Among the new Old South in telligensia, there seem to be two main trains of thought, both pre dominant among one-track minds, and both hell-bent on a com mon destination. The masculine school of thought points out an undesirable ratio of three males to one female and proposes a more broad-minded ratio to further world peace, so cial adjustment, and liberal edu cation. The female school of thought places the ratio at three females to one male and deplores the sit uation for less broad-minded rea sons. In spite of the obvious mathe matical differences between the two groups, the educational sys tem of the university appears to suffer not, and, from a biological point of view it actually appears to prosper. Language patterns, too, tend to undergo changes. Derogatory terms are much in vogue, though inconsistent in application. For instance, "cull" refers to an un desirable (to put it politely) male, but there appears to be no cor responding term applicable to the female. Perhaps, in time, the male in telligensia will introduce such a corresponding term as a "cull girl" or a "gull." In the meantime, may all the araMINTha JULEPS mix and mingle with all the TOM COL LINGS's 'neath the magnolia blossoms in search of the eternal truths of the NEW old SOUTH, CAROLINA-style ! araMINTha JULEP (Editor's note We feel sure that if Miss Julep searched a lit tle, she would be able to find a number of feminine terms cor responding to the world ."cull;" responding to the word "cull;" mentary or printable.) . Gelberman argues that efforts at legal extradition were under way in secrecy as early as Jan uary, 1960. This is patently im possible. In the first place, Tuvia Friedman's searchers were not even sure that Eichmann was in Argentina until March of 1960. Rumors had reached them the previous fall, but it took a long time to make sure. In the second place, the Argentine government was astonished to learn, when Eichmann was captured, that he had been residing there. They could hardly have been so sur prised if they had been rejecting extradition requests for months previously. An extradition treaty was con cluded between Israel and Argen tina on May 9, 1960 (see Quentin Reynolds, Minister of Death, p. 211). Just two days later, the Israeli searchers kidnaped Eich mann and spirited him away. No effort was made to invoke the newly-signed treaty of extradi tion. I rather wonder why they went to the trouble of drawing it up. I wonder, too, why Gelber man asserts that extradition talks were in process before the extra dition treaty existed. It sounds like a difficult discrepancy. Israeli's entire motivation in this episode was revenge. This is so obvious that I'm truly amazed to hear anyone bring it into ques tion. Consider this letter which Israeli Premier Ben-Gurion wrote to Argentine President Frondizi on June 9, I960: "This man Eichmann was the person directly responsible for ... the murder of every single Jew on whom the Nazis could lay their hands ... I need not explain to you, Mr. President, what it means for any people on earth to be the victims of such a Satanic murder campaign, and what profound scars such an experience must leave in a people's soul. Never, even in the age-old annals of our martyrdom, has there been such a fiendish atrocity . . . Hundreds of thou sands of the survivors are living in our midst, and hundreds of people in Israel and abroad would not rest until they had found the man who had been in charge . . . They regarded it as their mission in life to bring the man respon sible ... to stand trial before the Jewish people." In other words: "Mr. Presi dent, we hate this man so much that you must let us have him to satisfy ou remotions." If Gelber man can interpret Ben-Gurion's signed letter in any other way, I'd be curious to hear his inter pretation. And finally, there Is the so called "Moscow Declaration" which, according to Mr. Gelber man, provided for the delivery of all war criminals to the justice of their victims. I've never heard of it, nor has anyone else that I've talked to. If this Declaration was ever really issued, it could not have been agreed on by all the Allied powers, or it would have been influential at the Nuremberg trials which it ob viously was not. Wade Wellman Writer Says No Cards To K's What a revolting suggestion that students start chain letters to the two Big K's to halt nu clear testing! The money for the cards would be better spent in writing to parents and friends long neglected and the time used to read about the top goals cf Communist propaganda in the United States one of which would be the end of nuclear test ing for the U.S. R. W. WILSON
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