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September 2G, 19G2
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'Pete Mullis'
There's going to be quite a bit
said about the life and death of
Clyde "Pete" Mullis, and much of it
will come, no doubt from his old
students.
Papers throughout the state will
carry the news of his death to the
attention of those who knew him,
and many of those who read it will
be, no doubt, his old students.
Pete was a man who seemed nev
er to know a stranger. You met him
and he was yours; your teacher,
your handball partner, your fan,
your friend. He was a controversial
figure, an active man, one who has
done much for the University, and
he will be missed.
He had traveled extensively,
spreading wherever he went his
strong belief in the value of physi
cal education. He seemed not oc
cupied with theory, or too concerned
with research, but rather he was a
man who believed in activity.
He believed in participation. Prior
to his last illness, he spent hours
actively participating; teaching,
demonstrating, and playing. He was
a skilled athlete, who continued to
enjoy rigorous exercise long after
most give up the attempt.
His name, his greeting, his humor
will be remembered by many; by
those who just happened down this
way and somehow got to know him,
by those he worked with through
out the state in continual effort to
spread the doctrine of physical fit
ness, by those he served, and those
he taught.
He was an ardent fan of Tar Heel
athletic teams. He attended sport
ing events almost religiously. He'd
made it to about every football
game in . some twenty-odd years ;
often working, sometimes watching,
he was always there.
You might have seen him down
close to the track, on Fetzer Field,
maybe at the finish of a cross-country
meet. He was there quite often,
wearing that comfortable brown
coat, a stylish green hat, and with
his hands in his pockets. He had a
soft wide smile, a smile that was
broken often to blurt out that same
familiar, "Howdy, howdy."
He was a fine man, and he will
be missed. By his friends, no doubt,
and surely, by his students. (CW)
'Big' Issues
Carolina's political parties always
have been interested in Safe camp
us issues, to the detriment of broad
er problems dealing with the quality
of education, and the student's role
in the total community involvement.
Insignifcant. petty problems
ranging from the physical state of
television sets to setting up cen
tral quiz files have continually
plagued the intellectual resources
of both the University Party and
the Student Party.
But Monday night the SP chair
man may have hit rock bottom. Ife
expressed the party's concern over
the high price of football date tick
ets (a concern which we wholeheart
edly agree with the price of date
tickets should be nominal, if not
free). But his plan of action to mo
bilize popular support behind this
earthshaking problem was astound
ing. He proposed an SP resolution,
a Student Legislature resolution, a
dorm newspaper campaign, meet
ings with anybody and everybody,
and finally (he was apparently ser
ious when he suggested this . . .),
a campus wide referendum.
Imagine what would happen if all
this effort were expended on a
worthwhile issue the campus
code, infringements of academic
freedom, campus speaker policy,
open honor council trials, UNC Ne
gro enrollment, University growth,
etc., etc. But these problems must
wait wait until we solve the
mammoth issues centering around
10-cent candy machines. (JC)
A Case?
The Honor Council has been shak
ing in its collective boots over the
impending results of a court test of
its jurisdiction. But lest they forget
it, there are some questions a lot
closer to home that merit their con
sideration. Consider the case of the fight fol
lowing Saturday's football game.
All evidence shows that the partici
pants who were most deeply involv
ed and who came out the worst were
in such a .state at the time that they
didn't know what they were doing
and can't remember now.
A lot of people would like to know
how the Honor Council defines an
ungentlemanly- act. Is a student ex
cused from his ungentlemanly acts
merely because he was drunk at the
time? We don't think the Council
can stop drinking at football games,
but it should make it clear that all
Jim Clolfelter
.Chuck Wrye
Editors
Dave Morgan
Business Mgr.
students will be held accountable
for their actions whether drunk or
not.
If the council doesn't know it,
there is more at stake today than
whether it can legally try a student.
It must decide if it is actually will
ing to.
Harry Lloyd
Chairman
It is truly marvelous how the
University Party manipulates its
chairmanship around to suit the im
mediate situation.
Last spring Phil Smith decided to
resign as party chairman and nam
ed Don Curtis to take his place. Of
course this wasn't even remotely
legal, but nobody seemed to mind,
least of all the University Party
members.
Throughout the summer Curtis
acted as UP chairman, but this fall
he decided not to return to school.
So, as coolly as you can imagine,
Smith announces that he will "re
main" as chairman, since he never
legally resigned in the first place
although everyone acted as if it was
legal last spring.
. . . How would YOU like to be
"UP Chairman For A Day"? (JC)
Isnt He The Fellow That's Always CompL
lo Ihe Club Committees?''
BILL DOWELL
D
i-Phi Should Not Collapse
This Wednesday at 8 p.m. the Di
Phi will be having an executive
meeting to decide its future. .
The future of Di-Phi hasn't always
been too cheerful. It ran down hill
from the nation's oldest college de
bating society to an organization
filled with medium safe debaters.
Most of the time in the past couple
of years it hasn't been filled. The
old Dialectic Senate was finally
merged with the Philanthropic Lit
erary Society several years ago af
ter an all night meeting in which
Curtis Gans pleaded as one of the
two last remaining members of the
Senate for a merger of the two
bodies until they would have again
enough members to separate.
Last year the two bodies, com
bined, met several times with less
than six members. A lot of the
time it didn't meet at all. There
was a lot of talk then about dis
banding it and about its value to the
University. A lot of the students
felt that it was a mastadon attempt
ing to survive in an atmosphere that
no longer wanted it.
In a way this opinion is not too
far off. Debating societies like the
Di-Phi have collapsed all over the
country. .
Yet there were a few remaining
students who thought that together
with the DTH, the Di-Phi holds one
of the few hopes of ever unifying and
giving direction to the sprawling,
desintegrating UNC campus.
If the Di-Phi folds up, and it won't
REACTIONS BY WUAMETT
12 New Definitions
For UNC Scenes
ships are by their recipients.
Graham Memorial This is
This week a number of students
are starting their first year of
classes at UNC. Although these stu
dents were given an orientation
period, we feel this program is in
adequate. The following description
of places and rules on campus is
designed to remedy this inadequacy,
and present a true picture of the
"Carolina Way of Life."
South Building This is the ad
ministrative center of the campus
and the historic home of UNC's
mother-in-residence. If you're in
trouble, you can get help there.
And if yours is a really serious prob
lem, they'll refer you to a competent
psycho-analyist.
Y-Court This is the intellectual
center of the campus, appropriately
located directly beside South Build
ing. Current philosophical problems
are debated there daily, such as
the ultimate reality of Bass Weejuns,
and the either choice between filter,
and non-filter cigarettes. You can get
lollipops there, too.
The Old Well This center of beau
ty on the campus also symbolizes the
University's link with classical
scholarship. The water tastes like
the pipes have rust in them. The
link seems a little corroded, too.
Silent Sam This tireless veteran
is the guardian of campus chastity.
His gun was last fired in 1924. Its $2 The Beach This is located ap
barrel is now filled with pidgeon t oroximaWv MO miles east of the
droppings. $ ABC Store. Rollcall is taken every
The Campus Code This is UNC's t Thursday night at 7. There is a late
answer to the. Ten Commandments. :f registration fee of five dollars and
Its wheels of justice grind exceed- a fine of five cents for every square
ingly often. Don't get caught jay- ij inch of anatomy without a suntan.
walking in Mill Bridge, N. C. That's The fine is dismissed if you can
ungenUemanlylike conduct. If you - prove you have been drunk during
want to cuss a Council member, yell all the daylight hours of your stay
"double jeopardy" at him. I there.
Carroll Hall In this auditorium,r UNC This is the intellectual cen
the YWCA holds discussions andjUter of the South.
if half of us have to get up there
and talk to ourselves, the country
might as well fold up.
It operates on the same basis as
the House of Representatives, with
pretty much the same rules follow
ing "Robert's Rules of Order."
When they are out of date the
U.S. will be out of date.
The Di-Phi is important because
it offers the last place on the UNC
campus where people can get to
gether and actually exchange ideas.
It is the last unified body on the
campus capable of talking about any
thing other than violations of dormi
tory quiet hours. Moreover it is
about the only body left on campus
that cares to talk about anything
other than dormitories and quiet
hours and football games and sex.
If the Di-Phi goes all that will be
left will be a bunch of square eyed
troglodytes discussing the most com
fortable way to die from atrophy.
There may be a few groups left who
might utter some opposition to seg
regation, declining civil rights or a
crumbling University, but they will
be disorganized groups and nothing
more. The old fire and integrity of
a body that launched presidents and
governors will be gone. It's the last
step towards dismantling an educa
Graham Memorial shows free flicks. 'i tional body and turning it into a cat
The last Y speaker complained that tie herding pen.
the sound echoing off the empty The kind of people the Di-Phi
seats hurt his sinuses. An audience wants and needs now to keep it
member complained that the speak-1 going have got to have enough guts
er hurt his prejudices. No similar to be able to stand for something,
complaints haye yet been made by . That's getting to be a hard thing to
free flick viewers. find in a country that used not to
, T , Ube afraid of anything.
ThL ? , TT!ri 1- !0tleyf The price of inactivity and atrophy
xviuieneau $f in a University is cowardice and
to uie umversuy. ii was neeueu -,
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&"stimiditv Tt Tpada tn an inrrpa;(
nhnnt 35 much as most of his schlar-. . , ,
SEP student sav
1 in the number of times you hear a
jsLuurriit Day, u lauici uc lieu
tne j than dead."
center ot recreation iur uie w. -j Di.phi represents UNC's last
There were 189 people waiting tog attempt to convince the rest
play ping-pong there last Saturday. fgjof the worW that it .g somethijag
The program committee there hopes more than a country club for South
the General Assembly will vote UTn gentlemen. On the University it
enough money next year to buy a j the one that couM con.
third table. f ! ceivably make North Carolina a
The Aboretum This center of nat- "'2 University capable of leading the
ural beauty is appropriately located : State and the South towards some
across the street from three wo- 4 goal, if not glory, at least integrity,
men's dorms and directly behind W There is going to be an executive
a fourth Nature's process of per- meeting o fthe Di-Phi this Wednes
petual creation can be seen here at day after that anybody's guess is
gOOa as lO wnai win uayyt:u. uiic
thing is certain: it won't die. As to
which people are going to make it
live, that's a different question with
a different answer.
its finest. .
The Orange County ABC Store
This popular refreshment center is
located about two miles east of the
campus in the Eastgate Shopping
Center. Age limits are irregularly
enforced there. (If you can see over
the counter, you're old enough.)
REFLECTIONS
Campus politics got off to a
typical start this week as the Uni
versity party again changed chair
menby juggling their by-laws and
the Student Party held a public
meeting and discussed practically
nothing. Perhaps something was
being saved for a more exclusive
Academic Freedom
Is Not Dead Here
DEAN HENRY ERAXDIS
la The Chapel Hill Weekly
Academic freedom is not dyins of
neglect. The University faculty is
not afraid to speak, nor are its op
portunities to speak curtailed. There
are "nervous nellies" among the
faculty who hesitate to state con
troversial opinions openly but these
faculty members are afraid of the
wrong tiling.
This is the state of academic free
dom at the University here as it ap
pears to Law School Dean Henry
Brandis.
Dean . Brandis examples: some
members of the faculty joining the
picket lines in recent months urging
local theaters to integrate; another
member of the faculty speaking free
ly in favor of segregation; an "al
most daily" expression of opinion by
faculty members in classrooms and
in scholarly writing on highly con
troversial issues.
The climate of public opinion has
been more tolerant in recent years,"
said Dean iBrandis, "though how
long this will remain true I do not
know. What was regarded by very
large segments of the public twenty
five years ago as highly reprehen
sible conduct by faculty members is
now regarded as proper expression
of opinion."
Of the faculty members who ex
press themselves on "highly contro
versial" issues, he commented,
"While a few extremists of differ
ing viewpoints might like to see
them fired, there has been no major
agitation for such action. There is
little danger that they would be
fired if there were such action."
Dean Brandis broke down the con
cept of academic freedom into three
components.
"One relates to the University
faculty member as a citizen. There
are some public issues which fall
in the area of his teaching, and on
these he may well have special com
petence. Here the faculty member
has some duty to speak. There are
other issues for any one faculty
member, the great majority of is
sues on which he has no special
competence. As to these, he is an
ordinary lay citizen with the same
privileges and duties as any other
citizen. He is free to speak out or
not as he chooses, but any citizen
who yaps at length on every public
issue will soon lose his audience and
his effectiveness.
"A second aspect of academic
freedom is its relation to the fac
ulty member as a teacher and schol
ar. Here, of course, he can and
should express any sincerely-held
viewpoint which is consistent with
scholarly and personal integrity. He
should make it clear to his students
when he is expressing personal
opinion as distinguished from accept
ed fact. He should point out con
flicting opinions held by other schol
ars, and he should have a decent re
spect for the right of his students
to form their own best judgments.
The faculty members I now best
conform to these standards, but are
not at all reluctant to express their
views publicly or privately."
Dean Brandis said that in his own
teaching he frequently criticized
court decisions, saying that if he had
been the judge he would have "tried
to reach a different conclusion."
"But on an average of once a
semester," he said, "I tell each
my classes that the court's deer
is authoritative, not mine."
"I ask you," he said, "whr-:!
you .have encountered any fat u
members who are really afr.nd
speak out because of fonr of :
punitive action by their feHo.v f
u!ty members, by the admiui:
tion, or even by the Trust tes
there is any such fear, it wow
more likely of Trustee acliun.
faculty member of my acq j a in
has expressed to me any fear
administration or the TrusU-os
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The third aspect of academic f:vc
dom is its relation to the fact.!:y
member as a participant in Univer
sity government. Opportunities f r
of University government and .'.
icy," are general and depart irwnt.d
faculty meetings, faculty conn nit -tees,
the Faculty Council, and "di
rect access" to the top adminis
trators and the Trustees.
"Any faculty member who dis
agrees with a University decision."
said Dean Brandis, "but who has
made no effort to make his vokv
heard through internal channels wl.de
the decision was being made, shtoid,
in my opinion, think a lon:; ti no
before challenging it for the li.t
time in public. If he has taken ad
vantage of his opportunities to in
fluence the decision, but finds him
self in a minority as inevitably hap
pens to all of us at times w h. it i.
his duty?
"To my way of thinking, he .-hould
carry on a public fight only v. !.. ::
firmly convinced that failure to re
verse the policy will do the Uni
versity irreparable injury.
"'If every dissent on every i -. ;:
goes to the press, then most cer
tainly there will be irreparable in
jury to the University. The adminis
tration's job, tremendously did ice!:
at best, will become impossible. Ti -'
end product will be that the -: -sibly
responsible faculty and admin
istrative agencies will be supplant
ed in day-to-day adminstration by
the Trustees and the newspaper edi
tors." Dean Brandis concluded that de
spite the fact that "ultimate Inn.,!
power" over University policies i-;
in the hands of the Trustees, and
that the administration of the Uni
versity is public business, it d,,, s
not follow that the University's ad
ministrative agencies should "!
prived of their responsibilities and a
sort of anarchy created in Univer
sity affairs . . . through incessant
bickering in the newspapers."
One qualification of academic fro-'-dom
is that it "does not go to th
point of guaranteeing to protect ti.
faculty member against public cri
ticism. But any faculty member vd. i
refrains from speaking meri-ly ' id
ealise of fear of public criticism can
not be emboldened by the Yi.-i'.hv
Committee. The number of mk-m
faculty members must be r. !' .
small."
This small number, said Dt-.-a
Brandis, are the "nervous in -.
who hesitate to speak for fear .-:
becoming embroiled in controvci - .
"If a small minority of fa' uHy
members is afraid and no faeubv
member has told me he is afraid
I see no cause for fear oriiiiatirn! i a
Chapel Hill," he said. "Certainly
the faculty members I know be: -t an'
not afraid to speak."
Letters To Editors
gathering
of party "brains.
To the Editors: ff
I h2d lunch the other day with u
an elderly woman who had lived ,4
for years in Hong Kong, and the v"s
Philippines, but was born in Vir- '
ginia, lived in New England, and '
California. She should, by any stand
ard, have been global minded, but
you would never have known she
had ever been out of Virginia. She
was opposed to integrating the
schools, lunch counters, movies,
churches, trains or buses. She said
her family had always pensioned
their servants and that was all the
Negroes wanted or should get.
I said "But Negroes are no longer
satisfied with a paternalistic status.
They are citizens and they want the
rights and priviliges of citizens in
a Republic." She got more and
more rabid. I finished my lunch and
bade her goodDye. As I left she flung
at me "Nigger lover!"
One enters into a dialogue in order
to discover the truth, but these ex
tremists on both sides are interested
only in winning an argument.
Socrates, who was called the wis
est man, said he didn't know any
thing, he wras a searcher after the
truth. He never told people what to
think. He employed dialogue to make
those who followed around after
him, asking questions, think for
themselves. You can be sure he
wouldn't have had any followers if
he had lost his temper.
Harry Golden said the other af
ternoon that he was discriminated
against because he was a Jew, t! a
there were many places he coulia
go, but it was a private not a 1-
discrimination, which made it .
no importance to him as h:,- a
he enjoyed his legal rights. It is ,
discrimination we Southerners ha'.'
got to accept sooner or later, an
the sooner the better it will be f
all concerned. Everyone has a ri: n.
to his private life, which irclad
marriage. The law ends where ;
man's private preferences x . in
and that is as it should be.
Otelia Connor
To The Editors:
It is understandable how su:fi. i a
records are not kept by the II-: ;
Councils since very few stud -ni
have the note-taking or shorthar,
ability to keep up with the rat.- a
which testimony is given. Ihm..- :
there is a problem; it is nece- ar;
for the Honor Councils to look !a
a solution.
The records that would he h'.:.'.r.
ed by recording the testimony on ia
expensive tapes at low speeds .then:,
be a useful supplment to the t . : !
that are currently being ke; a 1.
recordings would be well worth :: -small
expense which they v.ou! 1 ,;,
volve.
This system is presently wo: k a
very effectively in the honor c. a
cils of several other school i
would make possible the ea-y of n
ing of complete records on ad tr: -
D. Ahern Ihv