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I In its sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the administration or the student body. fi The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of If the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. f ; 'All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the j personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they jj are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. If II September 25, 1962 I Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLX. No. 5 1 Military Draft Every male college student must eventually run into personal taunt ing Threat which constantly hangs over his collegiate clays: the mili tary draft. To the 1962 college student there has always been a compulsory draft he has never known anything else. He carries his draft card around with him, writes the draft board whenever he changes his ad dress, gets married, or quits school your Big Brother on the local, friendly draft board is always watching you. . Every man plans his life from age 18 on, around and in spite of compulsory conscription. He decides if he wants to go to college after he graduates from high school, or serve his army bit first. He decides whether he wants to remain in school, even if he is getting nothing out of his .education. He often de cides whether to get married, how soon to get married, or even wheth er to have a family all these de cisions often depending on w7hat his draft status is. After college he decides whether to join the army then or wait and be drafted for two years of the most menial armed forces duties. His decision as to a career, wrhat career and when to begin it, is in fluenced by the compulsory draft. Graduate schools everywhere have been swollen by students hoping to qualify under the "26 provision" whereby if he escapes the draft un til he is 26, he is safe from it permanently. The two years of drafted servi tude to the State are looked for ward to with dread and despair . . . despair over the wasted time, wast ed in the prime of life. But the col lege man has accepted the draft as inevitable and so he plans his life accordingly. . . . But the peacetime draft has not been in law for very long. The first Selective Training and Service Act -was passed in 1940. The draft ceased to exist from 1947-48 when the Selective Service Act was passed. The Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1951 was extended in 1955 and 1959, and provides for a "ready" reserve. The last extension will come up for con sideration this winter, since the draft act is scheduled to lapse on June 30, 1963. Some indiviuals and groups are seeking the end of the draft. Others are equally opposed to the draft, and its effects on the lives of young men, but are either afraid or un willing to oppose something as "pa triotic" as the compulsory draft. But some, like Adlai Stevenson, say: , "I think I speak for every person in America, that we will count it a better day when we find that these military needs can best be met by a system which does not mean the disruption of the lives of an entire generation of young men; which lets them plan their education, and get started more quickly along life's ordained course." (JC) More False Rumors Almost annually the Women's Residence Council is subject to quite a bit of sharp criticism from all sides. The latest flurry of rumors about that dreaded organization seemed to give credence to the com plaints about what has at times been labeled as an "absurd" orga nization. However, with the slightest bit of checking, what begins as an off hand remark and balloons into a slanderous rumor, is usually dis closed as being no more than a plaintive wail from the lips of some one justly smitten by an efficiently run and conscientiously directed residence council. The latest flow of nonsense was complaining about the large number of coeds that had, as rumor had it, been "unjustly" campused for fail ing a quiz on information presented in the Carolina Handbook. It was circulated about that the new coeds had been required to learn the names of all student government officers, that they- had to know the names of heads of campus publi cation, that they had been told to memorize reams of useless informa tion. Rumor had it that almost 50 of the Nurses Dorm had failed the quiz, and that scores of other coeds had been correspondingly low. Since the campusing of those who failed took place on the all-important first "big" weekend, the biting cruelty of this supposedly unfair quiz was seen spread all over the campus. Had anyone bothered to check in- Jim Clotfelter Chuck Wrye Editors Dave 3Iorgan Business Mgr. to the actual contents of the quiz, Nthey would have had good reasons to look with curiosity upon any coed- who openly admitted to failing it. The quiz is the same quiz that has been given for years. The informa tion it asks for is indeed vital to any understanding of the rules gov erning activities under our systems. The information asked for should be part of any sensible coed's education. Indeed, those who would com plain about having to learn the name of the Chancellor, or the clos ing hours in the girl's dorms, or procedure for signing out for a weekend, ought, for their own safe ty, to be campused for the duration of their collegiate careers. (CW) DTH Policy Only twice in the modern history of the Daily Tar Heel has the news paper had co-Editors: two persons who campaigned in the campus elec tions as one candidate, and who share the responsibilities' of the editorship position. The only other co-editorship com bination (Louis Kraar and Ed Yod er in the mid-50s) did not individ ually sign their editorials, and so both assumed responsibility for what the other said. The policy of this co-editorship will be to initial each editorial "JC" or "CW" to identify the writer. No editorial wall be printed with which one of the editors substantially dis agrees, but neither editor necessar ily agrees with EVERYTHING which is said by the other. We think this policy will make possible more freely written edi torials, while retaining a coherent editorial policy. Jim Clotfelter Chuck Wrye DTH Editors "You Forgot Something; . INsAn d OUTs On New Frontier Ey Congressman (N. J.) Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. On the New Frontier you are eith er IN or OUT. Some of the people who are IN are Robert Frost, Pablo Casals and Harry Truman. Roger Blough was OUT but he is now IN. Sen. Smath ers was IN but he may now be OUT. Bobby is so IN he is way OUT . . . Teddy will soon be IN, they hope. Pool parties in Bobby's back yard are IN . . . as are many of the guests. Harvard professors are IN. Princeton professors are OUT. M.I.T., Minnesota and Dartmouth are IN. Rutgers, Columbia, Purdue and Cornell are OUT. Twisting on the New Frontier is obviously IN, the mashed potato is OUT." Antiques are IN, modern OUT. Every one thinks the ADA is IN but it is really OUT. Needless to say, the AMA is OUT. It is IN to make fun of it. The white tie is OUT. At the Jus tice Department shirtsleeves are IN. Talk about the Stock 'Market is OUT. Africa is IN. Spain is OUT. So are France, Belgium, the Neth erlands and Peru. Italy is IN. Chi ang Kai-Shek is so far OUT that he is IN. The United Nations is IN. Chester Bowles was IN. Now he is OUT. Testifying before Congressional committees is OUT. Pat Brown thinks he is IN. Sec retary Freeman has a feeling he is OUT. It is IN to refer to the New Fron tier Hospitalization Bill as Medi care. No one knows yet whether a tax cut is IN or OUT. It is OUT to watch "Ev and Charlie Show." The Washington Post is so far IN that it is almost OUT. The NY.v York Herald Tribune is coming b jcU IN. To be 'mentioned in He .tmYs column is IN but The New Y.n; Times may be on the way OUT. Senators who want to be I.N are OUT. Only their votes are IN. Sou thern Democrats are IN. Doris Fleeson is OUT. Roscoe Drummornt doesn't care whether he is IN or OUT ... so he is IN. Drew Pearson Is OUT. But a Drew Pearson column is IN. Membership in the Metropolitan Club is OUT. The Capitol Hill Club can never be IN. Neither cars Rich ard Nixon, Barry Goldwater or Nel son Rockefeller. To be seen with one of the astro nauts Ls IN. Traveling with JFK on the Presidential plane, the Caro line, is IN. It is better than a jun ket. Nehru is IN. Souvanna Phounu is IN. So are two button suits. Touch football is going OUT but Bobby hasn't been told yet. Water skiing is IN . . . for the summer. Golf is an enigma. Respect For 'Dialogue 'Liberal' (The following editorial was writ ten by Martha MeNeal of the Mich igan Daily editorial staff.) (It is reprinted as an excellent example of intelligent self-critic ism criticism of an ideological group by one of its members. Those "liberals" (and conserva tives") more interested in Dogma than in truth might benefit from this editorial JC.) The so-called "student movement," as it continues to grow, is enorm ously privileged in the United States. We who would battle for integration, disarmament, freedom from colonial ism, wherever it appears, and all the rest, are privileged simply in the fact that we are permitted to express ourselves against many of the powers that be. We like to call those powers "con servative," and ourselves "liberal." And yet, the student movement now and then exhibits its own kind of anti-intellectual conservatism a con servatism especially vicious because it threatens a perversion of the broadest ideals for which we stand. The essence of intellectual liberal ism is constant, fundamental re-evaluation of ideals and premises, means and ends. Thus liberalism is not a goal, it is a process and a method. Intellectually it is the most grueling of methods, admitting only one ab solute, that there are no absolutes. Liberalism requires that everything be constantly under question, even as we act; that the mind be con stantly in turmoil; that all ideas be admitted to the dialogue, and, most important, that the dialogue itself is of higher value than its possible res olution. From this concept derives the po litical tradition of freedom of speech and thought, which the student move ment so stoutly defends. Historically, political liberalism, even in some of the more dubious forms it takes today, has grown out of a long and searching intellectual tradition. As students, we are ob ligated to master the intellectual tra dition as well as its present political implications. As students, (for we have chosen to be students) we are obligated to listen and think a little more than we talk. And as liberal students, we are especially obligated to listen to and think about the ideas with which we disagree. But some members of the "student movement" have decided, in complete contradic tion of the intellectual philosophy of liberalism, that they are in posses sion of the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. There fore nobing else matters, except that this "truth" be communicated as forcefully as possible, with little time wasted in further questioning. We must, of course, act, and take the chance that we may be mistaken. But we do not have to act in the ex clusion of further thought. Is it not an interesting phenomen on that the National Student Asso ciation found itself able to solve the most difficult problems in the world in two and a half weeks this sum mer? Obviously most of the dele- Stud ems O ften Not Liberal gates arrived with their opinions securely pre-formed. A little more serious study and a few less "reso lutions" might allow us all the chance for a greater and more real istic impact on our world. Persons of liberal political persu asion cannot afford to assume that they are the only ones who possess insight, integrity, and courage. The left wing of the student movement has its own contradictions for in stance the condemnation of "pater nalism" on University campuses is suing from the same mouths that advocate socialism on the national level. We ought to define our terms more carefully; we ought seriously to worry about where welfare ends and control begins. As students, we ought to worry about how far, in fact, we CAN be relied upon to govern our own lives and to theorize about the government of others. Af ter all, we came to the University in an admission of our own ignor ance. Nothing can be labeled intrinsic ally wrong simply because it is tra ditional or old-fashioned. There is a certain honor which we all owe to traditional concepts the honor of serious appraisal. If we are liberal humanists, the mere fact that other human beings have believed in a certain idea gives that idea signific ance and dignity. It is absurd to accuse conservatives of hypocrisy, dishonestly, and mo tives based solely on the desire for personal gain. Laissez-faire capit alism, for instance, is based soundly on a very real and very important moral ethic. Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged," for all the pover ty of her literary technique, has popularized the capitalist ethic with amazing skill and clarity in her nov els. It is a courageous and logical ethic, and must be reckoned with honestly as the fruit of a long clas sical intellectual tradition. The op position deserves our wholehearted respect, if not our agreement. We need the courage to recognize the flaws in many of the things we support. We need to be able to mus ter a certain amount of healthy con tempt for our friends the "under developed countries," who condemn us as "materialistic" out of one corn er of their mouths and then ask us for the products of our "material ism" out of the other. We must be able to face the civil war in Algeria with genuine discouragement, and to recognize that revolution not secure ly based in a long intellectual-political tradition as was our own is of somewhat dubious value from the very beginning, however valid its moral force. We must have the honesty to real ize from the Marjorie Michelmore postcard incident that some Africans have as yet no concept whatsoever of freedom of speech and opinion. The tragedy of Marjorie Michel more is not that some Nigerians were insulted, but rather that she had to apologize and beat a hasty retreat simply for speaking the truth as she honestly saw it. We must see clearly and critically just where our ideas will lead us, and where they will not, and we must never fail to count the cost, not only in our own coin, but in the coin of honest hum an beings of all opinions. Most of all, we need to respect the drama and the meaning of the hum an dialogue. We are not the only participants, or the only heroes. Much of importance is being said ven though it is not we who say it. Other minds are reaching just as far as ours in the interpretation of freedom and justice, and these in terpretations may not be dismissed simply because they disagree with our own. Integrity is a peculiar thing it comes now and then in all political shades and our most important study may well be to find out how and why. W7e are in danger of nar rowing our concepts until they mean nothing except to ourselves. As stu dents, and as interpreters to the world of the highest and best that we can understand, we have a duty to remember that there are more things in heaven and earth than are yet dreamt of in our philosophy. Lyndon Johnson is OUT. Ho al ways was. Texas is OUT. Billie Sol almost got IN. Now even mention of him is OUT. Remarking that the New Deal was grand is OUT. The phrase "One Term" is OUT. Because of Adlai Stevenson, New York is OUT. Newport, Hyannis Port, Squaw Isl and and Palm Beach are IN. Glen Ora is going OUT fast. Pecos, New ark and Gettysburg are OUT. The Fireside Chat is OUT. The Press Conference Ls IN. Reporters are IN. Publishers are OUT. No exceptions. Television is OUT, except when JFK is on. Sinatra is OUT for all time. Peter Lawford took care of that. Morton Downey may be taking his place. Among Republicans it is fashion able to be OUT. Among Democrats it is fatal, unless they live south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Super patriots are OUT. Congress is OUT. The watchword: Sophistication, (With apologies to "The In and thn Out Book," Viking, 1959, which yo i should read. If it is not IN, it ou ,: t to be.) From The Greensboro Daily News Praise For Dean On Bar Stand . . . Th e Song Of A Modern Vigilante A poem: I sometimes fancy, as I spy That I excel the F.B.I. Right now I'm making little lists Of folks I think are Communists ; I have no proof on anyone And yet the lists are lots of fun. All friends of foreign aid, I think Must be set down as rather pink. A little pinker, not far off I list perforce the college prof. And pinker yet the student crowd That lauds the Bill of Rights out loud. U.N. supporters, as I've said, Are always ipso facto red. And redder still on my red list Are all the integrationists. Just for measure, in my labors, I add a few of my close neighbors; Thus I rejoice that loyalty Resides alone in you and me, Although before my work is through You may, good friend, be listed too. (The following is the text of an introduction of Dean Henry Brandis, Jr. to the freshman law students on the final night of their orientation program. The introduction was made by Charles Katzenstein, Vice-President of the Law Student Association. Because it pays tribute to one so worthy, we feel that it is of interest to all. CW.) And now as the evening commences I have a privilege I deem rare. I want to tell you about a distinguish ed native son of North Carolina. Born in Salisbury a discrete num ber of years ago, he began his high er education with an AB degree from the University of North Carolina, graduating as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to receive his LLB from Columbia University, where he was tapped into the Order of the Coif. Later Catawba College bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He is a member of long standing of both the New York Bar and the North Carolina Bar and he practiced law with a prominent New York firm for several years. He returned to North Carolina to become Associate Director of our famous Institute of Government and in 1940 he joined the faculty of the Law School. Two years later he was on active duty as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve. He did not sail on calm waters. His duty included ser vice at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, aboard the fighting U.S.S. Texas. When he returned to inactive duty it was with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. From 1917-43 he served as special assistant to Frank P. Graham, U. S. representative on the U. N. Com mittee of Good Offices in Indonesia. A professor of law since 1947 and Dean of the Law School since 1949, he has also been a tireless and imaginative leader in public affairs on both the local and state level. As a visiting lecturer he has been in demand by some of the nation's leading universities. His efforts on behalf of this law school have won him and it na tional recognition, honor, and re spect and he is now serving as a member of the Executive Commit tee of the Association of American Law Schools. Here at the Law School he has always put the needs of his students first and foremost. For you, as it has always been for every genera tion of law students his office door will be wide open. No finer example of his concern for the well-being of his students exists than his recent stand on the results of this years' Bar Examination. It took great personal courage and selflessness. By his efforts he removed much of th' sting from this unfortunate experi ence for those who did not pa-s, and for their families. There are many outstanding men in the legal profession, but there are some men for whom even this high praise is somehow not enoui.h. To adequately describe them to others we must use a word properly reserved for such occasions, an. I that word is . . . GREAT. One d;-s not meet such men very often, an 1 that is why I feel so keen a sense of privilege here tonight, for the man I am to present to you not only for tonight, but for your next three years IS GREAT and he honors us 11 by his leadership, and by his presence here tonight. Letter To the Editors: Because I found Chuck Wrye' September 23 editorial very "moov ing," I have taken pencil in ha.v to illustrate my pragmatic views this gigantic business called football and on a basic fault in Mr. Wrye' argument. Although I have alien-! ed this University for only on week, it appears evident to me tha collegiate football is played not t "build strong bodies in 12 ways," a some people would have us bc-lk-vt but to provide an exciting contest f 40,000 fans five times a year. I lieve then, that football ir, a forr of entertainment, entertainment f.. students, for alumnae, arid enierto:: ment for the mink-clad, RolLs-Royc-. transported University trustees. A part of this entertainment ; the cheerleader squad. The gre:: arious leader of this squ.id has 0 vised a clever banter that is guar :.: teed to entertain everyone on t' Carolina side of Kenan Stadium. Everyone, it seems, except our :: nipotent TAR HEEL editors. Gentlemen, enjoy yourselves ir. year as judges of all men, but leave our sacred cow alone. David KneM 1
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