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October 20, 1962
Tel. 942-2356
Vol. XLX, No. 26
Intramural Department:
Something For Everybody
If there is any department in this
University worthy of continual and
inmitierated praise, it is the De
partment of Intramural Athletics.
This able organization, now under
the directorship of Tommy Johnson,
formerly under coach Walter Rabb,
has taken upon itself the task of
providing opportunities for athletic
competition for virtually every stu
dent on campus. They endeavor to
provide something: of interest for
everyone. And to an amazing1 de
gree, they succeed.
When a student comes to a uni
versity the size of Carolina, the
odds are often quite high for his
being swept up into an unaccustom
ed depersonalization, even in a set
ting as pleasant as Chapel Hill, and
particularly in the area of athletics.
Many students, indeed, more than
most realize, come to Carolina as
former All-State or all-star athletes,
having attained quite a bit of suc
cess and recognition in various
types of sports. Yet, though he may
have been a big name and highly
qualified leader in his high or prep
school, for varying reasons he does
not continue to actively participate
on a varsity level, when getting to
UNC.
Many of these individuals decide
that upon entrance into college they
will eliminate much of their sports
activity and concentrate more on
their academic work. Yet the pleas
ure and penchant for vigorous exer
cise, once firmly imbedded, cannot
be dropped so easily. Most former
varsity athletes continue to enjoy
competition and just plain partici
pation throughout all seasons of the
year.
But then, all students to whom
the Intramural Department directs
its services are not former athletes.
Many students have never competed
"officially" or taken a particular
?port seriously, but yet they too en
joy .some form of organized sports
activity. And their interests are of
vital concern to Tommy Johnson
and his staff.
The demands and interests of an
active student body are unlimited;
from fly-casting to football, from
fencing to archery, from table-tennis
to wrestling, and this is as it
should be. And this is where the
Intramural Department takes over.
They have established an imagi-
JIM CLOTFELTER
CHUCK WRYE
Editors
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Managing Editors
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Curry Kirkpatrick Asst. Spts. Ed
Chris Farran Matt Weisman
Feature Editors
Harry DeLung Night Editor
Jim Wallace Photography Editor
Mike Robinson Gary Blanchard
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DAVE MORGAN
Business Manager
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native program which has some
thing of interest for every type of
star or quasi athlete on this campus.
They have never stopped expanding
their horizons or efforts to reach
every single student at this Uni
versity. The number and variety of
organized events which they spon
sor is virtually unlimited.
Quite often, when the depart
ment would undertake the initia
tion and promotion of a new activ
ity, the student response would be
practically nil. But, fortunately for
the student body, the department
would double their efforts, increase
their publicity, and polish up the
programming to turn the event in
to an affair of campus-wide appeal
and participation.
A case in point is the highly suc
cessful Co-Rec Carnival, held just
the other night. As indicated on
the sports page, participation in this
event has continued to increase al
most every year since its innaugu
ration. Last Thursday night, rough
ly over 500 students took part in the
relays and games. There were stu
dents from fraternities, dormitories
(men's and women's), and from
sororities.
Which points at another favorable
aspect of the intramural program.
The Department does as much, if
not more, than any organization on
Icampus to eliminate differences,
real or imagined, between dorm res
idents and fraternity members.
They not only sponsor competition
between the two, but organize ac
tivities which have the two groups
working together for mutual bene
fit. And along these lines, we must
note that the department also orga
nizes and sponsors the pledge relays,
which have taken the place of old
Hell week. They furnish the equip
ment, the officials, and the patient
organization for all activities.
Which in turn draws attention
to another note-worthy aspect of
the Intramural Department's pro
gram. There seems to be a maxi
mum amount of cooperation be
tween the Department of physical
Education, which supplies and
maintains the indoor facilities, and
the Department of Athletics, which
supplies and keeps up the outdoor
facilities, in a coordinated effort to
provide activities for every student
on campus.
The Department of Intramural
Athletics should be highly com
mended for a job continually well
done. (CW)
Stay A While
It is with interest and a touch of
glee that we note the intentions of
Larry Phelps and some other mem
bers of the Progressive Labor Club
to make a trip to Cuba during the
Christmas vacation.
Indeed, we would like to take this
opportunity to extend to them best
wishes for a long and delightful
stay. The sincerety of our concern
prompts us to go so far as to reach
deeply into our purse and offer some
meager financial assistance, in
hopes that their visit might be a
long one, very very long. (CW)
J Jhapel Hill. N. C
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George Bernard Shaw, from his
play Caesar and Cleopatra . . .
"Some nations achieve greatness,
enly to learn that greatness de
stroys nations of men who are not
great."
ST - H i y 1 -- ,
Concerned Miss. Moderates
ear eh For Racial Solution
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Mississippi
cries with three voices. The seg
gregatioriists and the integration
ists have been heard from. In the
following dispatch, a noted Mis
sissippi editor speaks his views on
behalf of the men in the middle,
the moderates. He expresses the
opinions that both Washington and '
the statehouse" are at fault in the
Old Miss crisis and that immedi
ate school intergration is not the
read to racial justice.)
By HARRY RUTHERFORD
Editor, The Tupelo Daily Journal
Distributed by UPI
Thoughtful Mississippians today
are searching their souls for a solu
tion to the Ole Miss crisis and to
others which they feel will follow
as integration spreads to public
schools.
They wish they had the answer to
the deep-rooted cause of the riots
which rocked the university when
Negro James Meredith sought to
register under the protection of 700
federal marshals.
But they know the answer to the
real problem the problem far deep
er than color of skin lies beyond
their immediate reach. They fear it
also lies beyond the joint reach of
state and national capitals even if
by miracle both should drop their
cynical political approach and seek
the common good of Mississippi
whites and Negroes.
Even amid growing determination
to preserve law and order there is
.growing frustration among Missis
sippi's responsible leaders.
In Jackson they see a governor
wed to violence without indication
that he would use the Highway Pa
trol, the state's only adequate police
force available to rural areas, to
maintain peace when integration of
public schools begins.
In Washington they see a federal
government which builds tension
with every move, snatching away
the tools which responsible leaders
might use to work their state out of
its long-term crisis.
Grade-a-year integration, pupil
transfers, even the educational qual
ifications for voting all are being
challenged in one court or another
with indication that they will soon
be wiped out by judicial or executive
decree, leaving Mississippi's respon
sible leaders virtually unarmed in
facing an overwhelming tide.
Mississippi in the aftermath of the
Ole Miss riots finds itself under
strong and ceaseless federal pressure
to yield unlimited political voice and
unrestricted personal association to
a group which in many counties of
the state represents an overwhelm
ing majority, yet in no way is pre
pared to take over management of
government and schools.
The color of this group happens
to be black. But it is doubtful if that
fact lies at the heart of the integra
ion problem for more than 10 per
cent of those who strive to prevent
the Negroes' emergence to a domi
nant role.
Behind the Ole Miss crisis and
ahead of Mississippi for twenty years
to come lie facts for which the
world little cares but which the
state's thoughtful business, civic and
church leaders provide an almost
insurmountable obstacle.
Concerned Mississippians today are
speaking out in agreement that law
and order must be maintained at all
costs, that there must be no repeti
tion of the emotion packed rioting of
Sept. 30. But beyond that point even
the most sincere leaders each the
personal friend of Negroes by the
score can hardly go.
For there are no supporters of un
restricted compulsory integration
among 'Mississippi's leaders who op
pose Gov. Ross Barnett's call to
violence, any more than there are
among the governor's disciples.
Be hind the Crisis:
The reason is simple. The sin
cere leader strives to lift his com
munity and its people to a higher
Jevel of personal development.
And thoughtful Mississippians are
convinced that this is impossible if,
through unlimited vote by those who
can't read and unrestricted integra
tion, they give conrol of local gov
ernment and schools to the state's
Negroes.
In some counties half the Negro
men who would be running affairs
under such circumstances have no
more than a fourth-grade education.
In the typical delta county of Tun
ica there are 803 Negro adults who
have never entered a school door
and only 134 who have completed
high school.
In neighboring Sunflower County,
there are 8,840 Negro adults who got
no more than a sixth grade educa
tion, compared with 3,400 who pur
sued their studies further.
Even congressmen from regions
outside the South sought this year
to require a sixth-grade education
for voting. Yet Mississippi leaders
see its admittedly abused educational
standards for the ballot being top
pled with all possible speed by the
Justice Department, leaving many
counties open to rule by persons
white and colored of sixth grade
education or less. In fact, approxi
mately half the Negro men in the
state have no more than a fourth
grade education.
Today, it is true, Negro school at
tendance is rising. Colored students
in most counties attend newer and
better buildings than are available
to whites. And Negro teachers in
many counties receive higher pay
than whites. But as of today there
is in Mississippi only one Negro
adult out of twenty-five with a high
school education. In some counties
the ratio is one in fifty or sixty. And
the white adult knows only the edu
cational and cultural standards of to
day's Negro adult riot that of young
sters who may follow. .
, Hence, the thoughtful leader in
counties of heavy colored popula
tion, however interested iri the wel
fare of Negroes of his community,
tends to ask himself: "Arri I justi
fied in turning over the government
of my country to people a majority
of whom do not even have a sixth
grade education? Am I justified in
throwing open' schools without the
safeguard ; of pupil assignment and
transfers?
Can I risk the still further reduc
tion of my state's educational stand
ards, which already are critically
low?
: The Dilemma: -
Faced with such- a dilemma the
thoughtful Mississippi leader today
is going only so' far. He is speaking
out in opposition not only to rioting
such as that which blackened the Ole
iMiss campus but against violence
and lawlessness in any form at any
time. .
Beyond that, however, he does not
see how he can invite unlimited
compulsory integration which, under
current trends in federal policy,
would apparently swamp rural White
schools wtih colored children.
In major cities, segregation by
residential neighborhood tends also
to segregate the classroom. Only Ne
groes with money, ability and edu
cation move' out into the white resi
dential areas where' they are eligible
to attend white schools.
But in some rural Mississippi areas
the number of Negroes who got no
further than the fourth grade is larg
er ttian the : total white population-.
And, for the latter to surrender their
schools to such a majority regard
less of color is a move a thoughtful
community leader does not Voluntar
ily make.
Hence Mississippi's responsible
leaders face a dilemma for which
they see no immediate solution and:
from which they fear continued ten
sion and possible outbreaks of vio
lence. If the federal judiciary and the
White House leave them such tools of
government as' reading qualifications
for voting, reasonable specifications
for pupil allotment, limited control
over student transfers, and a grade-a-year
integration plan, then busi
ness, civic and church leaders who
understand the trends of the times
can possibly win" the battle for law
and order.
But in the face of continuing pres
sure for what many whites consider
a demand for total and immediate
surrender to untrained and unedu
cated Negro "jTianagement," the ten
sion of the Ole Miss crisis is likely to
be repeated many times in Mississip
pi as integration moves down to the
public school' level.
And with the highway patrol in ef
fect demobilised for duty in such
situations if ft was ever intended to
handle themthe chances of explo
sion are high.
Students Should
Know Amendment
To the Editors:
Students here at the University
can make a valuable contribution to
our state. On November 6 the peo
ple of North Carolina will vote for
or against several amendments to
our state constitution these amend
ments are very important to North
Carolina. The amendment which
most concerns us as students and to
which we direct the attention of this
letter is the amendment for court
improvement.
For years our state has suffered
because of the disorganized condition
of our courts. Certainly many Caro
lina students have suffered at the
"justice" of certain Justice of the
Peace courts. However, the problem
lies not in certain courts but in our
court system and organization as a
whole.' The proposed amendment
would combine all North Carolina
courts into a General Court of Jus
tice, consisting of three divisions
appellate" division, Superior Court
division, and District Court division.
The idea of the new organizational
structure is to insure equal justice
to all persons in our State.
The Student Committee for Court
Improvement will be providing in
formation' about the amendments to
students and others all over our
state. We urge every student to avail
himself of the opportunity to read
about and understand this important
amendment. Furthermore, we urge
every student, whether North Caro
lina resident or non-resident, to at
tend the committee meeting on Tues
day night at 7:30 p.m. in Howell Hall
and learn how we as students can
effectively express our concern for
the Court improvements amend
ment. Dwight Wheless
Lee Ralney
Co-Chairmen of Student Com
mittee for Court Improvement
Personal Attack
Is Uiigentlemanly
To the Editors:
I am not attempting to turn the
Daily Tar Heel into a debating
ground for any personal disagree
rrieri between Mr. Exum and myself.
A riewspaper is supposed to present
something more than uncomplimen
tary remarks directed towards indi
viduals. However, I feel that i mu-t
write in defense of my own name. I
regret that Mr. Exum must attack
my name, or rather the "unusual
spelling of it. It seems a pity that
he must make fun of a good Poli.-h
name in retaliation to an article at
tacking only the presentation of his
icieas.
What this freshman must realize
is that the caliber of his own writ
ing skill and thoughts deserved ju-t
such an article which I wrote last
week. If he wishes to change the en
tire idea of hi.s article in which he
presented a comparison of Luther
and Bamett, that is entirely left
to his own inadequate discretion. 11
I did not understand this comparison,
it is certainly not a discredit to me.
but rather to Mr. Exum's ability to
express himself.
Again I regret that this young man
must attack a person's name and
historical background, ami not his
opinions, in a vain attempt to gain
recognition of his ideas. If Mr. Exum
learns nothing else while at this uni
versity, I do hope that at sometime
he will be able to accept construc
tive criticism and to attack this criti
cism with a maturity and under
standng which he evidently does not
possess at the present time. 1 advise
him to take a course in remedial
English composition and to learn
gentlemanly etiquette.
I will not write another letter con
cerning this topic, because the ideas
presented have already been belab
ored to a point of worthlessness. So,
Mr. Exum, if you must write again
feel free to express any slander you
ish. You will not get a retaliation
from me. Any more space used by
our articles in the Tar Heel, I am
sure, could be put to better use.
J. Stogowski
Legion Inquiry
To the Editors:
Col. Henry Royall and the Ameri
can Legion would like to investigate
the University of North Carolina hop
ing to find some Commies. I su.n.uot
investigating them as I think such an
investigation would unearth a good
deal of ignorance which i.s unseem
ly in a University town.
Arid while we are in the business
of investigations let's investigate one
Harper M. Peel of Hamilton, N. C
whose illiterate and Nazi, anti-se-mitic,
scurrilous letter reveals sue h
a sick mind that one wonders ho.v
he ever got past the Director of
Admissions.
Mary 15. (lilson
Commarido Football Tactics:
Is Winning Worth All This?
Carolina, as you are probably pain
fully awaf, is off to a headlong
start toward a losing football sea
son. With three losses in three tries,
and two of these strictly nolo con
tendere, it would seem to the casual
observer that the Tar Heels need at
least a minor miracle to hoist up to
a break-even season.
As can be expected in times such
as these, the riatives are getting rest
less. UNC alumni, hungry for vic
tory for lo these many years, are
fret and situation reports on the
Educational Foundation, which kicks
in a hundred thousand a year for
athletic scholarships, indicate pres
sure is building.
The situation at Carolina is in some
respects comparable to what it was
at the Univ. of Kentucky up until
last January. For several years Ken
tucky had been in the football dol
drums. Then it decided to end the
lean streak. The university brought
in a new coach with a "Win at any
cost" philosophy.
The new program at Kentucky,
as described in last week's issue of
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, closely re
sembles commando training. The on
ly things missing are deadly weap
ons. The coach is doing everything
humanly (some say inhumanly) "pos
sible to make up for this lack by
transforming the players into deadly
weapons.
Charlie' Bradshaw took over at
Kentucky last January with an 88
man squad. By mid-September, be
fore Kentucky played its first game,
53 players had quit. They had va
rious reasons. "I'm sure Coach Brad
Shaw's methods are necessary to de
velop a winner," said one, "but I
don't believe winning is worth the
price?' Another said, "The way I
look at it, football is Coach Brad
shaw's business. But to me, it's a
sport and not a business." Another
said, "Charlie Bradshaw teaches us
to punish, to destroy the other man."
A star halfback left the squad say
ing, "I refuse to be anyone's train
ed killer."
A rival Southeastern Conference
coach said, "It's obvious that tin
practices were made so brutal tha'
untalented players were forcer to
quit. It's not a new pattern. It's an
old one set by Bear Bryant. lie ! !
the same thing at Kentucky, at Tex
as A & M, and at Alabama. He made
it so tough on players with little
ability that they quit, leaving him
with plenty of scholarships to recruit
more talented boys."
The obvious aim of the program
at Kentucky is, as SPORTS II JJ S
TRATED put it, Total Football. "'.V.
it pays off perhaps not so much for
the player as it does for the . ).-, !
and for the coach, who, after aii.
is evaluated on a stark and simple
basis: he's a success if he wias an !
a failure if he loses."
According to Auburn Coach Ralph
Jordan, "The new hell-for-lealher,
helmet-busting, gang-tackling game
they're playing here in the South
eastern Conference Ls the only :!;.::"
that can win."
It might very well be that it i
the only game that will be ah'.e i
win consistently in the Atlantic Coa-l
Conference, too, along with a bra!
conditioning program similar to
those at Alabama and Kentucky.
Carolina can do it, of eour-e. A: y
school can. All it has to do is i . :
a man with a knowledge of foot
fundamentals and the terr.perarrvr.:
of a Marine drill instructor, and
its sights on winning at any co-t.
Two obvious questions .should f.:.
be settled, however: "'Is winr.ir
worth this kind of price?" ar I
"Why?"
These are quest ks that ultirru..
ly must be faced, and any in.-titut. a
fed up with losing football .i:r--would
do well to answer them be: re
the Charlie Bradshaw or Bear Bry..r.:
arrives, rather than find itself in t: e
awkward position of having to e -
them afterwards.
Tlie Chapel Hill Wetklv