Seel Zn s seventieth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the University administration or the- stu dent body. All editorials appearing in the DAILY TAR- HEEL ar& the indivdual opinions of the Editors, unless otherwise credited; they do not necessarily represent the opinions of the staff. The edi tors are responsible for all material printed in the DAILY TAR HEEL. October 25, 1962 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLX, No. 30 Cuban Blockade: Campus Discussion And 1-A To the student who is 1-A with his draft board, to the student whose parents live in Washington, to the student who has a Navy friend in the Carribbean . . . the Cuban blockade crisis strikes him personally. The crisis also leads to very per sonal reactions. The first "quaran tine" announcement generally caus ed a dulled feeling of confusion what does this REALLY mean? Is is just another move in the Cold war propaganda battle or is this something different? How will Rus sia react will Soviet ships try to go through? The headlines Tuesday morning reinforced an uneasy feeling that this was different, that this was playing for keeps, and a resultant attitude that the President must be supported "in this time of crisis." The desire for national unity went to an unfortunate extreme when UNC students harshly criticized several student government officials for not whole-heartedly endorsing the blockade of Cuba; and when students criticized the Carolina For um for holding a discussion tonight on Cuba, on the basis that no dis cussion should be allowed "in this time of crisis." The uneasy feeling has remain ed, despite the casual comments heard everywhere that the Soviets will "back down" perhaps this is heard so often because we cannot conceive of what would happen if Russia didn't "back down." Yesterday afternoon the crisis became more acute: Russian ships heading for Cuba, U. S. troops sent to Florida, propaganda statements on both sides, frantic discussion in the United Nations. . . . The feared incident, when a Russian ship going to Cuba is stopped by an American ship has not happened yet (as of 7 p.m. Wednesday). As the Security Council argues the issues, as means of compromise are attempted, as th OAS coordi nates its proposed action against Cuba . . . there are still questions to be asked of himself by every American. Is a naval quarantine legal in in ternational waters and is it the best way to deal with the Cuban situation? How far wTill the Latin American nations follow the U. S. lead, and what will happen if and when they refuse to go along with Uncle Sam? Can the United States morally de fend their possession of bases ring ing the Soviet Union, and simul taneously (as Ambassador Steven son attempted with little success) argue that Cuba has no right to set up missile bases? . And how far are the American people really prepared to go to crush Communism in Cuba? These are questions which, it seems, should be discussed and an swered, even in this tense and dan gerous time. There is no time short of outright war when discussion is out of place in a democratic coun try. The President has acted strongly to curb a menace the menace of Communist missile bases in Cu ba. We think he has acted correct ly we fervantly hope so. We hope United States action al ways will allow the Soviets some "out" so they can retreat from a dangerous position and yet save face. We hope the president will con tinue in his resolve to keep the hemispheric peace, together with the Latin American nations al ways remaining open to negotia tions on those issues which are ne gotiable, within or without the United Nations. And we hope the American peo ple will never fear to dissent, to question their government at all times, in hopes of retaining peace in the Americas and the world. (JC) "Aren't We Supposed To Be Running Against Democrats?" Letter ' t - J - U.U Future Alumni The erection of new buildings on any campus is, indeed, a good sign. It is a sign of progress, progress in numbers, and, hopefully, progress in the educational enterprise. With the swelling enrollments, construction of more class-room' buildings is an absolute necessity JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Editors EDI Hobbs Associate Editor Wayne King Harry Lloyd Managing Editors Bill Waumett News Editor Ed Dupree Sports Editor Carry Kirkpairick Asst. Spts. Ed. Chris Farran Matt Weisman Feature Editors Harry DeLnng N'ght Editor Jim Wallace Photography Editor Mike Robinson Gary Blanchard Contributing Editors DAVE MORGAN Easiness Manager Gary Dalton Advertising Mgr. John Evans Circulation Mgr. Dave Wysong Subscription Mgr. Txa Daily Tab Em la published dally xcept Monday, examination period and vacations. It is entered as second class matter In the post oSlce in Chapel Hill. N. C pursuant with the act of March 6. 1870. Subscription rates i M-SO per semester, $3 per year. Ths Daily Tab Hzk. Is a subscriber to the United Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. Published by the Publications Board 9t the University of North Carolina, Cnapel Hill. N. C if the University is going to do its share in the higher education of the state. Thus, the continuing con struction of buildings on this camp us, an event too often merely taken for granted by students, should be cause for some immediate, if not lengthy, reflection on the part of everyone now attending classes in these buildings. There are numerous old saws about contributing alumni, but this continues to be if not absolutely necessary then at least an essential means to furthering the hopes and aspirations of present and future students. Trite as it may seem, we too often as undergraduates over look the fact that progress requires backing, not the least of which is financial backing or more col loquially put money. The University continues to gratefully receive gifts from the Kenans and the Moreheads, but this, alone is not enough; the burden of backing continual advancement in all areas of University undertakings should willingly be borne upon the shoulders of all who have been for tunate enough to receive education at UNC. And it is now now as under graduate students benefiting from the gifts of others that we should pause, look around and understand why we should do "our part" after graduation. (CW) Steno To Council 'Wait A Mi nu To the Editors: (Note all honor council members:) To quote a recent Daily Tar Heel editorial, "come on fellows, let's be serious." I read that you boys are going to spend $400.00 to buy a steno machine to record future trials. "This machine is operated by a clerk who speaks into a steno-mask. He identifies each speaker and re peats the exact words by persons at the trial." (See yesterday's Tar Heel for further information.) Pic ture this scene at the next honor council trial where this $400.00 won der is being used for the first time. Presiding Officer: I guess we're ready to begin. Are you ready with that machine? case is the University versus John Stimson Koznosky. He is charged with entering a girls dorm after hours. How do you plead Koznosky? Kosnosky: Not guilty! I was in that dorm during visiting hours. I just got lost and couldn't find my way out. P.O.: We'll have to clear hat up later. Our first witness is Steno.: Wait a minute, wait a minute! P.O.: What's the matter? Steno.: What did Koznosky say? P.O.: He pleaded not guilty. Steno.: (Into the mask) "He pleaded not guilty." P.O.: Our first witness is Adolph Gruber, Koznosky 's roommate. Will you tell the council what Koznosky was doing the last time you saw him on the evening in question. Gruber: Well, he was walking . . . Steno.: Just another damn minute! Don't go so fast. I can't talk in shorthand. Thus I reach the point of the drama. Court reporters are paid good salaries to use this machine and keep records. Are you going to get a trained person to use the machine or will it be somebody who may forget to plug it in? I would sug gest buying a good $200.00 tape re corder and have a reporter jot down the names of the speakers. It would be no trouble to add the names to any transcript of the trial, which I presume, is typed up after the trial. A home recorder would give you four hours of recording time if you used both sides of the tape. The $200.00 saved could be turned over to the Daily Tar Heel travel fund which I'm sure is somewhat de pleted. Or perhaps given to another worthy organization such as the Red Cross Cancer Research or even the Campus Chest. I would hate to see you boys waste $200.00 of the stu dents money on a project which may or may not prove successful. Charles Ericson C.'s Board Of Higher Education A tormy History And A Few Gains (Eds' Note: This is the second installment of an article on high er education in North Carolina. The first article dealt with the formation of ithe Board of High er Education) - By CHESTER DAVIS In The Wins ton-Salem Journal and Sentinel SETTING THE BATTLE STAGE This set the stage for the specific- clashes that were to follow. For example: Late in 1957 State College re quested permission to build 500 housing units for married stu dents, The board cut this request to 300. This triggered an outcry. Officials of the Greater Univers ity complained that while the board conceivably has an obliga tion to decide the policy ques tion of whether a state-supported institution should provide hous ing for married students the board had no business deciding how many such units were re quired. That decision, men like Bill Friday contended, properly belonged to the trustees of the Greater University. Some time later Eastern Caro lina College proposed to establish a four-year nursing school. The board vetoed this request, point ing out that the state aready had one such school and that it was connected with a four-year med ical school. Again there were cries of "excessive interfer ence," Eastern Carolina went over the head of the board, tak ing its case to the General As sembly. The college, as political ly potent as it is ambitious, won in this showroom. Thereafter, any time either, ECC or the Greater University had a dis pute with the board they had on ly to appeal their case to the legislature to win more than the board had originally agreed to give them. The university, for example, obtained a boost in faculty salary scales in this fashion. When, late in 1957; the board sought to send surveying teams onto the campuses of the Greater University to obtain information on physical facilities and the use of those facilities, the university refused them admission. Object ing to the competence of the people doing the survey and say ing that the presence of outside investigators would create prob lems, the university said it would gather the desired information it self and give it to the board. This it did. Throughout disputes like these you heard the same repeated theme: That the board was so engaged in regulating details that it was not filling its function of creating a system of higher edu cation in North Carolina, "Exces sive interference" with internal problems became a sore point on the campuses of the Greater Uni versity. President Friday and others felt that the board created anoth er obstacle between the univer sity and the General Assembly. In January, 1958, William Ay cock, chancellor, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said: "The executive head of this institution is, in the middle. He is the narrow neck in an adminis trative hour-glass. One bulb con sists of internal administration and the other bulb is superstruc ture. For the past few years the sands of administrative authority have been flowing from the in ternal bulb into the bulb of the superstructure." One month later W. C. Harris Jr. of Wake County, reflecting a common feeling among members of the university's 100 member board of trustees, said, "The university is slipping away from us . . . We have reached the point where we either don't need our board of trustees or we don't need the Board of Higher Educa tion." ABOLITION IS ADVOCATED The faculty of the Greater Uni- . versity shared this view. In February, 1958, a petition asking for the abolition of the Board of Higher Education was circulated on the Woman's College campus. In May of that-year a university committee, headed by Henry Brandis, dean: of the Law School at Chapel Hill, issued a state ment criticizing the board for its interference in university affairs. Such interference, the committee said, "is direct and ultimately can be devastating." By this point two facts were clear: first, that the presidents of the larger state-supported schools felt that the board was abusing is regulatory functions and ignor ing its function as an advisor and as an advocate and, second, that this fundamental clash was ag gravated by the personality of Dr. James Harris Purks, the execu tive director of the Board of Higher Education. Dr. Purks, who has since retir ed and has been replaced by Dr. William Archie, was an educator in the classic arts and sciences sense. He took a dim view of us ing the state's colleges and uni versity as places for vocational type training. In advocating this iew he sailed on a collision course with men like Dr. John Messick and later Dr. Leo Jenkins of East Carolina College. To these men Purks was just one more "aca-damn-ician." Moreover, Harris Purks was unskilled in the art of political diplomacy. Brilliant and know ledgeable, he lacked the ability to sell himself and his program to the institutions, to the legis lators or to the people. To ag gravate matters, he possessed a somewhat brusque talent for bruising what, perhaps, were too easily "offended sensibilities. By 1958 the uproar had reach ed a point where Governor Luth er Hodges felt compelled to in tervene. He asked a committee of University of North Carolina trustees, headed by Tom Pearsall of Rocky Mount, to sit dowTi with the Board of Higher Education and "work out the differences." The .upshot of these sessions was less of a compromise than it was a case of trirnrning the wings of the board. The trustees felt that the board was over emphasizing its regulatory func tions and that, to correct his, those functions should be clipped. The clipping was done by the 1959 General Assembly. That term of the legislatiure: Re-wrote the budgetary authori ty of the board with the intent of making this function more ad visory and less regulatory. Limited the board's authority to "prescribe uniform practices and policies" to one of prescrib ing "uniform statistical reporting practices and policies." Specially gave the individual in stitutions the right of appeal to the General Assembly in cases where the board sought to make an institution dscontinue an ex isting function or activity. By new wording added to the law, insisted that the board meet its objectives through "the co operation of all the institutions of higher education . . . each operat ing under the direction of its own board of trustees in performance of the functions assigned to it." This wing clipping and it was designed to be precisely that closed out the first act in the story of North Carolina's Board of Higher Education. It did not, however at least not in the minds of men like Leo Jenkins and Bill Friday settle the funda mental question. If it was the intention of the 1959 General Assembly to strip the board of its regulatory func tions and, according to men like Senator John Jordan of Wake County, this was the intention the actual changes made in the law did not do the job. For example, the 1955 act con tained these words: "The board shall make for the development of a system of higher education and shall have the power to re quire such institutions to con form to such plans." Those words were dropped from the 1959 act. But they were replaced by words almost as authoritative. They were, "All institutions included in the State System of Higher Education shall conform to the educational func tions and activities assigned to them respectively:" In short, the 1959 amendments did not settle the question of whether the Board of Higher education was to be a regulatory advisor agency or whether, in stead,, it was to be essentially an advisory advocate with a mini mum of regulatory authority. The first five years of existence for North Carolina's State Board of Higher Education were stormy. This agency, created in 1955 to plan and promote the develop ment of a system of higher edu cation in North Carolina at a time of enormous expansion, was intended to bring order in what, prior to 1955, was a disorderly situation; a situation marked by competition among the state-supported institutions, by duplica tions in the programs in those institutions and by a marked lack of any overall planning to meet the crisis a crisis born of the postwar "baby -boom" then sweeping down on the state's col leges and university with the force and inevitability of a tidal wave. By 1961 two facts were clear: First, the Board of Higher Edu cation, despite mounting friction and despite a wing-clipping ad ministered by the 1959 Legisla ture, had accomplishments. These accomplishments included: A Community College Act, passed by the 1957 General As sembly, under which five two year colleges have been estab lished. A series of laws under which nine of the 12 state-supported senior colleges were assigned specific functions. This put a curb on the somewhat exuberant ambitions of institutions like East Carolina College. Undertook a long-range program designed to beef up the state supported schools (both by ex pansion and by more efficient use of existing facilities) so that they would be better prepared to meet the fast-rising wave of scholars headed their way. One part of this expansion was a recommended $90 million capi tal construction program. A part of this program was achieved in 1959. A second part, turned down by the public in 1961, remains to be realized. Between 1955 and 1961, the board successfully increased sal ary scales in the state's colleges and universities, improved the libraries in those schools, estab lished a state-financed scholarship program experimented in new teaching techniques (closed cir cuit television, for example) and all in all, contributed to the bet terment of higher education in North Carolina. ACHIEVEMENTS INADEQUATE But and this is the second point these accomplishments, and they should not be minimized, did not add up to a system of higher education that was any thing like capable of meeting the crisis in the colleges that had become a reality by 1961. The state continued to do a poor job of preparing its young sters for college level work: Less than half the children who entered North Carolina's public schools in 1949 graduated from high school in 1961. In 1961 only 37 per cent of the state's high school graduates con tinued on to college. As a result, in 1961 less than 27 per cent of this state's college age children actually were in college. The national average then was 42 per cent. But even with this sorry record of preparation for college, North Carolina's colleges and universi ties were being inundated by a flood of youngsters seeking an advanced education. In 1961 the number of youngsters entering college in North Carolina in creased by 18,000. We can expect the same sort of an increase for each of the next five to seven years. The blunt fact is thst our state-supported schools the schools that must assume the greatest part of the burden of this rising wave of students are not equipped to meer. the challenge. TnE COMMUNITY COLLEGES Members of the Board of High er Education were awrare that this was the situation. They rec ognized, for example, that much remained to be done in the way of establishing two- year com munity colleges and, in some in stances, of advancing existing community colleges to four-year, senior college status. Major L. P. McLendon, chair man of the Board of Higher Edu cation, went to Gov. Terry San ford midway in 1961 to suggest that the governor appoint a citi zens commission to study the community college question. Other people and the group included Dr. William Friday, president of the Greater Univer sity of North Carolina were in clined to place the blame for conditions in higher education in North Carolina directly on the doorstep of the Board of Higher Education. "After all," they said, "the board was created in 1955 to solve a problem. In 1961 the problem not only remains unsolv ed but it i more critical now than it ever has been." Friday and others urged the governor to appoint a commis sion to study the entire question of higher education in North Carolina and to recommend ways and means for meeting tne chal lenge born of the postwar "baby boom." In essence this was the same general assignment given the Board of Higher Education in 1955. In September, 1961, Terry San ford appointed a 25-member Gov ernor's Commission On Educa tion Beyond the High School. Ir ving Carlyle, Winston-Salem at torney, was named chairman of the new commission. The com mission's assignment was "tn identify and define the state's needs in higher education . and to recommend the most effi cient plans and methods for meet ing those needs." One of the jobs perhaps, in the long run, the central job was to define the place of the Board of Higher Education, if any, in the state's educational program. RADICAL CHANGES FAVORED A number of influential mem bers on the Carlyle Commission Dr. William Friday, Dr. Leo Jenkins, president of East Caro lina College, and John Jordan, senator from Wake County ap parently favored radical changes in the entire operation of the Board of Higher Education from the outset. Their position was given a substantial boost by Dr. Harland Hatcher, president of the University of Michigan. Dr. Hatcher visited Chapel Hill in January, 1962, and spoke to the members of the Carlyle Commis sion. In his talk he warmly prais ed Michigan's Advisory Council of (College) Presidents. This council entirely advisory and made up of professional educa tors rather than laymen had done much, according to Dr. Hatcher, to coordinate higher education in Michigan. C It might be noted thst not all Michigan educators are equally enthused over the ac complishments of the council. Some among them say this ad visory council of professional educators has done little but add to the taxpayer's burden and di lute the standards of excellence in Michigan's university system.) Listening to Dr. Hatcher pome members of the Carlyle Commis sion began to nod their hea l-, and say to themselves, "This is precisely the sort of an approach we should have here in North Carolina." Within a month two subcom mittees of the Carlyle Commis sion came up with a proposal. Stated as kindly as possible, it was a proposal to gut the Board of Higher Education. (To Be Continued)

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