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"Starting Someplace Else, Of Course!"
letter ttoin ellitiati
September 23, 19G2
Tel. 942-235G
Vol. XLX, No. 4
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Well, the clever new group pf
cheerleaders came up with some
new cheers to go with those pretty
uniforms.
This group of highly spirited,
conscientious hollerers should go
down in the memories of all Caro
lina football fans, should go down
into the deep depths of an abysmal
hole.
Occasionally, during the course
of an athletic contest, a sudden turn
of events will disappoint the play
ers, coaches, and fans; an unex
pected penalty, an unrecovered
fumble, a disputable call by the
officials any one might elicit a
spontaneous loud Boo. Fans are ex
cited, cheering, expecting, hoping.
They want their team to get the
breaks, and when their team suf
fers a sudden setback they might
just boo. It is excusable.
Eut it ought to stop with that
one sudden impromptu boo.
No clever cheerleader should use
his talents or his position to pror
mote further booing, if any action
is to be taken on his part, it should
be an effort to discourage further
booing.
We realize that there are those
who would maintain the exisitence
of a big difference between "Moo"
and "Boo."
To those deluding themselves
about the difference, we say: Hog
wash !
To the players on the field, to
the refrees, and to the fans in the
stadium "Moo" sounds like "Boo."
For all intents and purposes, espec
ially under the circumstances, the
cheerleader who draws the "Moos"
is prompting the crowd to boo.
Perhaps he does not realize this,
perhaps he does not care. Perhaps,
he knows what he is doing and
thinks it clever.
We do not. We don't think it
is proper. We don't think it is
necessary. And we don't think
much of those who do. (cw)
R
ecords: Where?
For years there have come mild
requests from students, the faculty
and administration that, the men's
and women's Honor Councils conduct
their trials in a more orderly, judi
cial manner. One of the major ob
jections has always been "insuffici
ent records."
Each council appoints a "scribe"
to keep records of the proceedings
of trials. These records are often
brief and unenlightening, never
complete. Since all trials are closed
to both the public and newspaper,
there is no way to substantiate the
scribe's record of court proceed
ings. Any body which hears ap
peals (such as the student-faculty
review board) finds itself in the
position of having to re-hear a case
because of the inadequate records
kept.
Hie complaint of inadequate rec
ords was pushed into the public
view Friday by Wake County Sup
erior Court Judge Heman Clark,
who is to hear the Ann Carter
case.
He said he was "really amazed
that a thing as important in the
life of a student as being expelled
for cheating could be conducted
with as little in the way of stand
ard procedure and with as poor
facility of recording what trans
pired." This procedural sloppiness by the
honor councils (the Women's Coun
cil in the Carter case) leaves them
wide open to just criticism (parti
cularly from Ann Carter's lawyer.)
When there is an insufficient
record of proceedings and no out
side observers are allowed to see
the trial, it gives substance to the
Carter charge that the Women's
Council is, or can be, a biased body.
The general picture of council
proceedings as seen by the Superior
Court judge Friday is not pleasant.
He sees a picture of an inefficient,
secret group which is very little
interested in justice. It is up to the
men's and women's Honor Councils
to make the appropriate reforms
to change this picture, (jc)
Carrie Nation
Go. Terry Sanford has suggested
that male escorts for" Raleigh's
Debutante Ball should take a "no
drinking" pledge.
We're sure the students would
agree if Mr. Sanford simultane
ously would agree to a no-drinking
pledge for all governors, (jc)
Stood Up
Comment made by a University he believed. I'm behind him 100 per
:f Mississippi student: cent.'
''Gov. Barnett stood up for what
Jim Qotfelter
Chuck Wrye
Editors
Dave Morgan
Business Mgr.
Good for Gov. Barnett.
We hope the distinguished Mis
sissippian is ready to follow the
lead of some others who "stood
up for what they believed," the
Southern Negro demonstrators
who went to jail for what they be
lieved. Welcome to the club, gov-
Campus Politics
GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS
To the Editor,
This fall the various shades of
political though at UNC ale squar
ing off for a good, healthy tussle
a tussel so violent and emotional
that it shouldn't be recommended
for those who prefer to live safely.
Most vocal, of course, are the lib
erals, who range all the way from
Democrats to Marxists, having very
little in common, save for a be
lief that race segregation is crimi
nal and had better end several days
ago. This attitude might get a more
sympathetic hearing of its advocates
could express it. without frothing
at the mouth or throwing a fit; how
ever, we live in a time when it's
fashionable to act as if the very
mention of race segregation threw
us into paroxysms of mortal out
rage. Arguing with an integrationist
is much like arguing with a funda
mentalist. If you don't agree, you'd
better keep your -mouth shut.
Local conservatives find some re
lief in the campus YAF chapter,
but U.N.C. liberals do not yet have
a firm, durable soapbox to squall
from. Efforts have been made to
organize liberal clubs, the most
spectacular being the New Left, a
short-lived group that started with
a whimper and died with a bang
last spring. Its members described
their views as "left-of Kennedy,"
many of them so excessive that
they made one thing Goldwater
must be essentially correct. -They
flourished their trumpets, called in
the Marxists, the Socialists, and
other assorted dreamers, and then
abruptly dissolved, giving no ex
planation. This, however, was just a prelude
to the farce. Dennis King arrived
with his . Free Labor Party, de
voutly organi2ed on Marxit-Len r,
ist principles. N'ow we all kri..v
about Dennis King, a zealuin cra
Eador and an ex-Ros.ierucian, who
proclaims himself a "Marxir.t,' de
votes himself to the cultivation of
"Marxist scholarship," and bores
to tears anyone who will listen to
him on the subject. So far, the
community has been tolerant of
this clarion call, but the local dis
ciples would do well to know that
the slaughter of Peter Fechter, who
bled to death for ." minutes on Ber
lin concrete, has deprived the Marxist-Leninist
movement of any claims
to forebearance. If the local group
(which doubts the loyalty of Cus
Hall) continues its agitation lur
enough, we may have to remind in
members that they register as
agents of a foreign power. As a
sample of their thinking, I quote
King's oral assertation that "the
East German people would light
a war to keep the benefits of Marx
ism." Well and good, but our
friends in Moscow do not consider
that a Marxist state yet exisits even
in Russia, let alone eastern Europe.
One tends to regret that the cam
pus does not have a Socialist group
to balance off the extremes of liberal-conservative
dogma. '"Social
ist," of course, is an epithet of dis
approval, used by the Gold. vat c:
clan to describe anything they don't
much care for. In plain fact, the
Communist sees the Socialist as a
mortal enemy, one to be exterminat
ed at any cost. And no one should
think that the liberal democracy
of the west is a government for the
people. It is plutocracy run riot.
WADE WELLMAN
F
reedom Lost By Surrender, Not Force
The Rev. Charles M. Jones on
liberty and the essence of free
dom, from the serman printed on
this page:
"Most students come to the Uni
versity of North Carolina because
it is a liberal University. No one
will tell them to study at certain
times, there is no curfew or lights
out - rule, they may drink if they
wish to.
"He will boast to students from
other, universities of this freedom.
And , h i the name of v freedom he
lives. I, a . meandering, . undirected,
loose Jife Then he runs into some
one, or something and is mastered
perhaps , it is the love of a girl,
sometimes it is a study, sometimes
it is a cause, sometimes a chosen
vocation always it is something
which is overpowering in its de
mands upon him.
"Then and only then is there
liberated this power of thought, of
creation of beauty, of affection. It
is a profound paradox of life that
only those things that take posses
sion of us, our voluntarily choseD
loyalties, liberate us."
...(The following is the text of the.
.sermon, entitled "To Secure the.
.Blessings of Liberty," which was.
.delivered by Rev. Jones last Sun-,
.day at the Chapel Hill Community.
.Church. Mr. Jones is pastor of.
.the chu?.ch.)
By The Rev. Charles M. Jones
One hundred seventy-five years
ago tomorrow in Philadelphia the
Constitution of the United States
was signed and we are called to
celebrate that event this week.
Our celebrations of this moment
ous historical event should be not
only with pride and praise but
with a critical look at what we,
the celebrators, have done with
the Constitution we have inherit
ed. Ask any American, "Do you
believe in liberty?" we will get
a reflexive rather than a reflec
tive answer in the affirmative.
Freedom, like God and mother,
everybody is for. Few words
greet us in print or public speech
more than the word "freedom."
Before almost every activity and
institution of man we will place
the adjective "free." The in
dustrialist wants "free enter
prise," the worker wants a "free
labor movement," the educator
and student want a "free univer
sity," the newspaperman wants
a "free press," and the minister
wants a "free religion." The sir
will be saturated this week with
wrords from politicians on the
glory of our Constitution and the
blessings pf liberty it confers
upon us.
Inasmuch as there will be no
lack of prideful praise and con
fident assertions of belief in lib
erty, let us think about what
needs to be done in our day to
carry on with the grand inherit
ance of liberty which got its start
with the signing of the Constitu
tion. Abraham Lincoln once said,
"The world has never had a good
definition of liberty and the
American people, just now, are
much in want of one.." This is
doubly true now. Liberty means
one .thing to Senator Eastland,
" another to Senator Humphrey;
one thing to the President of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce and another to the Presi
dent of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations and the American
Federation of Labor; one thing
to the NAACP, another to the
Citizens Councils; one thing to
Fulton Sheen of the Roman Cath
olic Church, another to James
Pike of the ; Episcopal Church.
We are much confused about the
meaning of liberty.
Trie' final word concerning the
liberties we enjoy comes from
our Supreme" Court but it is not
enough to let the -judges make
thsei decisiqnsand then, if we
' dis'agree, circumvent them ' or
submit grudgingly; or if - we
agree, gladly comply. Clarifica
tion of whatiwe mean by liberty
must come 'in the minds of. our
citizens if liberty is to expand in
its meaning; and application. This
will not be - easy because it Will
mean for some of us the sacrifice
of economic advantage and social
privilege. However difficult it
may te we must bring our ideas
of liberty to bear on problems
and experiences our founding
fathers never dreamed of.
NOT INHERITED
We must also realize that while
we can inherit great concepts of
liberty, we cannot inherit liberty
itself. Freedom is not an inherit
ance, it is an achievement and
a difficult achievement. I stood
early one morning this summer
with a seven-year old boy in a
small town in the . Smoky Moun
tain ranges. Pointing to a high
peak with a fire tower on top he
said, "I want to go up there."
Not wanting to give the usual
frustrating answer we give to
such questions "you can when
you grow older" I replied, "You
probably will." Quick as a flash
he said, "After dinner?" He had
not seen that between him and
that fire tower there were three
mountains to be climbed and he
did not realize the strain it would
put on his short legs and the
day would be gone before he
made the first mountain. Free
dom is a high peak in human
experience and its achievement
is not easy. There-is no doubt
we are ready to pay the cost to
achieve it.
If we are to have liberty in the
nation at large we must first be
liberated, free persons as individ
uals. Liberty is a public matter,
difficult as that; -is, is easier
achieved than as a personal and
spiritual possession. Personal lib
erty has always been difficult to
come by. St. Paul wrote on one
occasion, "WHERE THE SPIRIT
OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS
LIBERTY." It may be of some
help if we can see what he meant.
The religious system in which
he had been reared circumscribed
his life with laws, prohibitions,
restrictions and- observances.
Every time "he-" turned around
there was some legalism to di
rect him and this irked him. He
wanted Hberty-rJropm to move
around in intellectually, morally
and spiritually. Paul says he be
came free from "the-law by be
coming a bond-servant of Jesus
Christ. He formerly had been a
slave to the law, now he became
a slave of Christ and found free
dom. Except to the well-trained
theologian or an,, orthodox Christ
ian these words , and the exper
ience behind them will be mean
ingless. Slavery.'calls- to rnind our
early history when men were
brought against their will to our
country and kept-, in servitude.
Paul means that he chose the
moral and spiritual ideas and
ideals of Jesus to be the con
trolling factor in his life and
found he was freed. For example,
before this freeing experience he
was bound in his associations
with men by a rule forbidding
friendship with Gentiles. But in
his relations with "men Jesus had
a "free" spirit. When Paul chose
this spirit he was free from this
prohibition and moved freely "into
.,the companionship of all men and
-of this be could say, '.Where the
spirit of the Lord is, there -is
liberty." :
FREEMAN 'ENSLAVED'
Paul discovered one of the
profound laws of human life,
i. e., that only when one finds
something gloriously worth living
and striving for are his originality
and powers liberated. From one
viewpoint one rnay say that Al
bert Schweitzer has become a
slave to Africans and their needs.
It is plain he lets his work there
take precedence over all his oth
er desires. Yet it is precisely his
commitment to Africa that has
given his intellectual, professional
and moral powers such free ex
pression. Most students come to the Uni
versity of North Carolina because
it is a liberal University. No one
will tell them to study at certain
times, there is no curfew or lights
out rule, they may drink if they
wish to. He will boast to students
from other universities of this
freedom. And in the name of free
dom he lives a meandering, un
directed, loose life. Then he runs
into someone or something and
is mastered perhaps it is the
love of a girl, sometimes it is a
study, sometimes it is a cause,
sometimes a chosen vocation
always it is something which is
overpowering in its demands upon
him. Then and only then is there
liberated this power of thought,
of creation of beauty, of affect
ion. It is a profound paradox of
life that only those things that
take possession of us, our volun
tarily chosen loyalties, liberate
us.
The real test of the liberality of
a university is not simply the
lack of authorization control oyer
the lives of. its students. A univer
sity is truly liberal when the ad
ministrators and professors by
the quality of their lives and the
presentation of intellectual, moral
and spiritual ideas and ideals
bring about the voluntary com
mitment of students, to arts,
sciences, humanitarian causes
and spiritual ideals that hitherto
unexpressed powers of thought
and action are liberated.
It is a tremendous experience
to be mastered by something high
and lovely. Until we see freedom
not so much as a heritage but as
an achievement we ...will touch
neither its height nor depth."
As we look critically at our
present use of our inheritance of
freedom it becomes apparent.
there are some areas where4ree
dom is indispensable and at the
same time difficult maintain.
One such is freedom of-thought
Coerced thought- is not -thought.
- Scientific research thai is cperiL-"
.iQ-fit predetennined concfaswns
is not-scientific researchv-We-
recall how in Hitler's day no
anthropologist was free to bring
forth pro-semitic results in re
search. In Russia today it is well
nigh impossible for an economist
to bring forth research not fav
oring state capitalism as prac
ticed there. And this is not un
heard of in our own country. Not
too long ago the Soverign State
' of Alabama employed one of our
professors to do research to prove
that the Negro should be segre
gated and that mixing whether
in schools or. marriage result in
weakening both the Negro and
. the white races.. Freedom as the
very essence of education;
- It is likewise of religion.-Coerced
religion eithor in thought,
mortality or observances is not
religion. The strength of. religion
is personal conviction and ex
perience. Both Roman Catholic
ism and Protestants have done
their share of coercion and per
secution in times past and it has
always proved stupid to engage
in it. To have men repeat creeds
they cannot believe or endorse
customs they abhor is as foolish
as to think one can fudge in add
ing two and two and get three.
Liberty in religion 5s the very
essence of religion.
COERCED ART
Freedom is necessary in the
arts as well as the sciences.
Coerced art is not art. In re
cent years it has become the
custom of small towns to have a
play written to celebrate some
historical event and incidentally
draw people to the area for
spending purposes (or is it the
other way around?). In some of
these plays the author has pre
served integrity but in some it is
apparent the drama is primarily
a self-contgratulatory one and
misleading not in what it de
picts but what it leaves out. The
observance of the 100th Anniver
sary of the Civil War has pro
duced plays that make one wond
er how the writer lives with him
self. We need in our time to see
that some freedoms are more
important than others. In this
church you might at some time
time pass a rule that the minis
ter serving this church should not
smoke or drink alcoholic bever
ages. I should hope you would
not. But: if you did, I believe I
would abide by it, rather than
try to circumvent. However, if
you should at some time pass a
rule that the minister serving
this church could not speak from
the pulpit the truth he thinks he
has found, or follow his consci
ence into forms of public protest
involving civil disobedience then
you would have touched the vital
nerve of freedom. .
Freedom to think and make
public the results, freedom to love
what is lovely and choose what
one deems to be right is the es
sence of freedom and needs great
ly to be guarded. You may be
wondering why this is called to
your attention for in this country
we have few external regulations
in this regard. We seldom lose
our freedom in these respects to
any external force. We do fre
quently lose them in these areas,
however, because we surrender
to a most dangerous enemy, the
tremendous pressure of custom
and standardization.
It is discoraging to see how
-urfree students are in; he free
university. They are alike as
' peas in a pod." They look, alike.
think alike and act alike. There
is no individuality m them. If
you object saying, "But there
are some individualists. We do
have some beatniks." You surely
have noticed that all the beatniks
dress and act like other beatniks.
Even the non-conformists are con
formists. What is said of students can
: be said of our general population.
Advertisers know that all they
must do to sell a product is to let
us know that everybody is buying
it, that everybody expects us to
buy it and we will be more popu
; lar with eyerybody if we do buy
; it. Our liberty of thought, of con
1 ' science, of moral action stands
in peril chiefly to our on sub
mission to current popular
thought and custom.
LIBERTY FOR ALL
Let me offer you one more ob
servation concerning our use of
the liberty so wonderfully stated
in the Constitution we have in
herited. Under the Constitution
we have done pretty well in "se
curing the blessings of liberty"
for the majority of our people.
Nevertheless, we must recognize
that a large minority of United
States citizens have never had
and do not now have the bless
ings of liberty granted them. Our
present task is to extend liberty
to include all. Recently churches
have been burned and persons
have been fired upon for trying
to secure liberty to vote. Despite
the eight-year old Supreme Court
decision against discrimination in
public education small progress
has been made in most Southern
states, no progress in others. It
is still a costly and humiliating
procedure to secure that right. A
good part of our population mu.-t
travel miles and miles without
being able to purchase food in
public restaurants. Beaches,
swimming pools, hotels are closed
to them. The liberty to marry a
loved one of another color is de
nied. All this is shameful in the
light of our inherited liberties
set forth in the Constitution.
Because we live in the State
of North Carolina wihch is lib
eral, and in the Town of Chapel
Hill which is even more liberal
in comparison with other South
ern states and towns we tend to
see ourselves as unqualifiedly lib
eral. We tend both to overesti
mate our own progress and to be
unaware or indifferent to the
denials of liberty elsewhere. We
feel that our Negro citizens should
be glad we are making such pro
gress and if perchance they d f
fer with us and wish to ask the
courts to make a decision we
white persons are offended. It
will take time we say.
Let us not forget this is t1:-1
175th anniversary of the Consti
tution WTitten to secure the ble - s
ings of liberty for the people of
the United States and it is Y)
years since Lincoln issued the
Proclamation of Emancipation.
Negroes have indeed been pa
tient, it is we that have been dila
tory. To secure the blessings of lib
erty for all our citizens will le
difficult; difficult for seme of us
to differ with a neighbor, difficult
to one another's presence, diffi
cult to give up Enecial privileges;
and economic advantages, diffi
cult to aporooriate monev v. hen
it is needed. But liberty was cost
ly in the first place and it will
be-costly to extend it and secure
. . Jts blQssirs. .for .Cur i CzU.