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9- W$z Bail? tte Heel In :its: 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 are the ' indivdtial opinions of the Editors, unless otherwise credited; they do not necessarily represent the opinions . jo the staff '. The edi tors are responsible for all material printed 4n the DAILY TAR HEEL. October 26, 1962 Tel. 942 4 Welcome,' Jim BeaUy, AiDedicated Individual A living symbol -of supreme 'dedi cation, these are the words that seem best to describe Jim Beatty, a Carolina alumnus, and one of the greatest distance runners the world has known. It is indeed an honor and a privi lege to welcome him back to this campus. When he was here he par ticipated vigorously in numerous ..phases of Carolina college life, con tributing much to .athletics and to other extracurriculars. His services were appreciated by many his.ath Jetic powress was read about by all. But that which is played up and read about an athlete like Jim Beat ,ty seems too often to focus on the sensational on the isolated in stances of athletic success. We read most often about the "good. race" or the world-record time and not often enough about the great amount of personal sacrifice or dis cipline which are, so to speak, the "occupational hazards" of post-collegiate athletic endeavors. We read and talk about Jim's suc cess in particular track meets, but we seldom pause to reflect on the many many hours of work that have Vie You A Hude Student? In this age of hustle and disor ganization, too many crude and rude ;acts :are becoming a common-place occurrence. That which was shun .,ned by our.. elders seems to find its place in the younger student-generation as quite the thing to do. The faults and foilbles of students ,are, certainly, not without parallels in other segments of American so ciety, but they are none-the-less -disconcerting .when encountered .with overwhelming frequency. .A discussion of rude acts, per formed in most cases even uncon sciously, .would lead one afar, but .staying close to home, it is .with re gret that we note two - particular rude acts which seem highly indica tive of a thoughtless student body. :It is not so much that the student -body as a .whole commits these blun ders, but rather, by toleration we . seem to admit their acceptability. Not the worst, but the first and -most common rudeness we would mention is the frequency with .which .students totally indeed ignorant ly disregard .signs which plead for "No Smoking." These signs are tj ailu mar JCcel JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Editors Bill Ilobbs .Associate Editor Harry Lloyd Wayne King Managing Editors Bill CTaumett News Editor Ed Dupree Sports Editor Curry Kirkpatrick Asst. Spts. Ed. Chris Parran Matt Welsman Feature Editors , Harry DeLong Night Editor Jim Wallace Photography Editor Mike Robinson - Gary Blanchard Contributing Editors DAVE MORGAN Business Manager ; Gary Walton , .Advertising Mgr. .John Evans Circulation Mgr. t Dave Wysong . Subscription Mgr. Tmi Datlt Tab Hist is pnbllfhM Hy , tacoept . . Monday, cxamlxndl an period , ind vacations. It la aterd arieeofid class matter In the post of Sen la Chapel Bill, N. - C pursuant with Hm d of . March 8, IS 70. Subscription r t&so . Der Bmester, 43 ptr ytir. Tarn Daxut Tab Hxn is a subscriber to .th United Preaa Xniruafc.ot3l ,am& .utilizes the service of Vim llmm Bu reau. of Ah UaiYnsdty vof t forth Caro lina. " ' Published by the Publications Board H . the University .. of Morta Carolina, uiapel HtH. N. C. - 2356 Vol. XLX, No. 31 brought him that success; we tend to think of ...the great athlete in terms of glory and newspaper .head lines, rather than in terms of work , and personal ..dedication. And this puts the emphasis in the wrong place. The true strength and character of a Jim Beatty seems not to reside in the fact that he can outrun any other man in the world for two miles, but rather, in the fact that he is .a dedicated individual, that he has powerfully strong convictions, and that he is willing, in a time when most of us won't even walk to work in pursuit of the American dollar, to run miles daily in pursuit of personal and physical discipline. This dedication and pursuit of convictions makes Jim .Beatty and other amateur athletes of his stat ure truly great men. They do not receive monetary remuneration, they do not run in search of head lines; they strive in the pursuit of excellence, they sacrifice because of convictions and it is this for which we seek to honor Jim Beatty, a liv ing symbol of supreme, successful dedication. (CW) most often posted in new or "reno vated" buildings ; they seem to be pleading for the preservation of the desks and floors which suffer from the scars of cigarette burns; they .seem to ask only one small favor from the ''weed fiend" that he re frain for fifty paltry minutes from scarring and stinking up the place with his ugly habit. Surely, this is not asking too much. , It is not a demand, merely .a request a request that we passively preserve the limited supply of buildings and desks with which we ; are trying to educate ourselves. Second, and most disgusting, of the rude-students' habits is the; "packing-up" which occurs at the end of. a lecture period. In many, in stances, a professor will inadvert ently run his lecture or comments oyer the established time for a par- , -ticular class, but this seems, in most cases, to be in attempt to make a point more clearly to the class, in ran attempt to help them understand something. Therefore, we fail to see how the rude -student can justify shuffling his feet and books, as he packs up his junk to charge on to his next "educational" . encounter. How can he stop taking notes so rapidly? How can he forget the point being made so suddenly? We can only conclude that if the student's mind can be "turned off" so quickly at the end of the hour, it must never be "turned on" in the first place which must account for his ignorance. (CW) Happy Day The silly observances of '.'Days" for everything from Strained Grape fruit Juice Day to Organized ; Ping Pong Day has gone too :f ar. The Security Council of the Unit ed Nations .adjourned for five hours yesterday afternoon, in - the midst of the .all-important Cuban discus sions, to observe . U.N. Day. .And how .was ILN. Day observed? the delegates heard a concert given by the Leningrad Philharmon ic rOrchestra. (JC) (7 hi bJ-m Higher Education Board Was Evaluated Along -'-'MieKLiiieis (Eds Note: This is ihe third installment in an analysis of the state's . Board of Higher Educa tion .and its role in developing North Carolina's colleges and Universities.) By CHESTER DAVIS In The Winston-Salem .Journal and Sentinel in essence the subcommittees proposed to (1) turn .control of the board over to professional educators by increasing" . the board's membership from nine to ( 15 .and "requiring that seven of the 15 be college. presidents, .and (2) to strip the board of every regulatory . function it possessed. When you recall .that the Board of Higher Education originally was intended to be a regulatory edvisory body with broad powers and, what's more a board made up entirely of laymen with a statewide viewpoint, it is net stretching the facts to described these proposals as disembowel ing. The curious thing is that these proposals made by the subcom mittees were supported by Dallas Herring, a member of the Board -of . Higher Education, they were - at least accepted for the moment ' by Major L. P. McLendon, chair man of the Board of Higher edu cation, and they were approved by Dr. William Archie, executive director of the, Board of Higher Education. The fact these . men tolerated and . even endorsed what amount ed to the gutting of their own operation reflects disenchantment Dallas Herring), awareness that the ..board was not meeting the function for .which it was created '(William Archie), and the fact the doughty Major was sound asleep at the switch. But not for long. By May . of 1962 Major Mc Lendon was crying, "While I was silent and in this . the Major is kinder to himself than the facts justify) they gutted the board." McLendon's objections to the proposed changes ran along these lines: The claim that the Board of Higher Education must have reg ulatory as well as advisory pow . ers ,if it is ,to be effective. (This claim is entirely in line with the recommendations of the study commission which recommended the creation of a Board of High er Education in 1955. It is in line, also with the thinking of the legislature as reflected in the plain wording , of the : 1955 law establishing the board.) The argument ithat college presidents have no more busi ness serving on a board designed to regulate the colleges than the president of the Duke Power Company has serving on the State Utilities Commission. The claim a valid one on the facts that the law .which established the' board plainly ruled that college presidents and other self-interested persons should not .serve as members -of the board. The claim- more subject to question but very possibly valid that these changes would, in effect, place -;tne control, of .the Board of Higher .Education in the hands of the University of . The Other North Carolina. Here McLendon argued that the college presi dents on the board would tend to . support the university's position ' on all issues since they so badly needed the univerity leadership and political potency in their struggle for increased .financial .support from the General As ' sembly. , A .-QUESTION OF -PURPOSE The . essential issue posed by the sub-committees recommen dations was ! whether the Board ,of , .Higher .Education ,wasto je- r " main an advisory, and .regula tory agency controlled by ,dis- , interested Jaymen or ; whether, instead, it was to be changed to a purely, advisory-body dominat- . ed by college presidents. In posing t that question,- Mc Lendon triggered a great out burst of .editorial .and other wisdom. In the .main .this opin ion tended toward . two conclu sions: (1) that North Carolina had a real need 'for some .over- all board to plan and supervise the development of an; . educa tion system in a time of vast ex-. . pansion .and expenditures, and (2) that to be effective -such -a board probably should have reg ulatory as well as purely .advis ory functions. . Leo Jenkins and. Bill Friday, . two of the most politically potent educators in the state, supported the proposed changes.. Inasmuch , as the ; Board of Higher , Educa Uon , originally vwas established, among other things, ; to protect the university from the ambi tions of schools .like .East , Caro line College, the .two men. made strange .bed-fellows. JEn this i in stance they were not .willing , to c take on a .bitter ,and - probably prolonged fight as a price, for sleeping together. Instead they suggested a com promise. Their compromise pro- . posal was approved, by ;tfae ;ma- I ioritv f th Carlvle Commission on July -6, 1962. Under -this pro posal: The membership of the Board of Higher Education would be increased from nine to 11 mem bers. Of these seven would ,be laymen and four would be; col lege presidents. The president of the Greater University of North Carolina would be the on ly .permanent member of the board. The board's important power to allocate functions to the vari ous institutions would be , restor ed. The board's budgetary func tions would be jnade more ad visory and much less regulatory. The old idea of a line-by-line analysis of each institutions budget was ruled out. The board's power "to pre scribe uniform statistical prac tices' was watered iown to one of collecting, analyzing and pub lishing statistics on higher edu cation. , Under .the existing - law ,the -board . is "to plan ,and promote the development, of la sound, vig orous, progressive and coordi nated system of higher, education i in North Carolina." In .the .pro posed . cornprornise plan - this ?is - changed .fey t deleting -the words fftm "and promote." A TWO-FOLD PROPOSAL Boiled down to essentials the compromise proposal does two things : ( 1 ) it . gives lay men a seven-to-four majority control of theBoard of .Higher f Education, and (2). it so re-words the law that, the Board of Higher Educa tion is .made into more of .an advisory, .tbana. regulatory body. Even so, the compromise pian permits the board to retain some of its more important reulatpry functions. ,Jn j approving ;these proposed . changes, v,the . majority ,.of the Carlyle Commission made tlaese points:! fiFirst, i the .Board of Higher .Education, .as presently set .up, has -not fully met the purpose ior ..which it was Created. "The chief defect. of the Board of Higher Education is that it i-has. not provided the affirmative, ' creative leadership which higher education needs in this state." "It has not. done .the necessary , job -of formulating statewide 'higher, education plans and poli cies ..which have coherence and perspective. Urbroad trms." i (To Be Continued) betters To The Analytic:Speech Never have.so .many been, so hap py about so little sat .UNC. Monday night --Mr. --.Lowenstein ---talked .about ' Spain and the -Franco -regime. Part of .his audience ,vas disgusted; ,part .was romantically excited. JVIr. Lowenstein infuriated that part of his audience expecting a rigorous political . analysis . as it should be ki the case o'f Spain with a thorough desmription of the brutality of the Franco dictatorship, - more representative of a demogogic cam paign than of the business to which universities are usually dedicated. Then concluded, for thegood of the American and; the Spanish peo ple, that American aid to Franco should be stopped, as to enable a more . democratic regime to-come in to power : through ; free f elections. Granted that.LFranca's regime; is a dictatorship supported by Jorce, ithat the .Spanish workers Uving - condi tions are miserable relative to the ;rest fit .Europe", and -that Franco's era is passing for, the betterment - of Spanish . democracy through its .in- . tegratkm into , the . Common .Jfarket. But the fact that Mr. Lowenstejn pre sented .an. emotional jiewsrratber . than a-pohtical,. analysis .is.grnted too. It js -pitiful, at univecsity dedi cated .to intellect -rather than .emo tion, to bear -; a 50 minate p resenta tion of pain's poUtics engulfed in so jnuch , detailed' 'docurrientations' f t crimes committed byFranco's, police Talk Shouldri t Me H ron Out Of The Several times, during the preced ing weeks, it has been our great pleasure to be a guest of the Spencer girls and their fine piano. Seldom -have we -spent -more -enjoyable eve nings, and never have we entertain ed for ti -more gracious and responsive .groupof jjeqple. This gives the lie to the oft re peated maim that today's college audiences are .among ;the udest and Jeast .appreciative to. be -found. .In deed, after a too long spate of night of night club -.engagements around the county i we 'found the comely .-.residents j Spencer -dormitory to. be as. warm and receptive as any aud ience we have known. (Note , ,to ; those -girls from r Cobb ..who asked ior equal time: your piano has had "the.-.course.'-If -you pressure ,yor dorm mother, she just--might have it tuned, jcepaired orr replaced. "Try. it and see. ; , . '. vIt .was on a day not . wholly unlike rthis one Jthat .we. .were, sitting in. Pro fessor , Lyman i Cottea's icourse in .Modern' Poetry some .eight years ,ago. JTo ithe immediate left of us sat ,a good friend, who, when called upon . to speak, would deliver his .opinions in -organ-toned - rhetoric. iVe turned .to him and expressed the opinion that with a voice such as, his, he. should be, in radio or tele vision. VYou'reright," said Charles JCu- rait. - Vl've -been; giving it a lot of .thought Jately." On -the subject of courses, one of On Lincoln, MmMb, And "Cuban IM: By ARMISTEAP MAUPIN, JR. MAIL Last week's quote from Lincoln on racial inequality brought some fan mail from one of the ivy-covered minds at, Duke University. This one, admirer, informs us that it was "just .like a .damned conserva tive to live 100 years ,in the past." .And, after graciously conceding that many Carolina graduates had been so fortunate as to win posts in the vjKennedy administration, the writer concludes -that our "conservative propaganda lies won't work." CWell now. We're .a bit taken aback by ,this eloquent .assault on, our prin ciples. And he's right, of course. We conservatives do live in the past. .We cling .with a stubborn tenacity to such .outmoded documents as the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration, of Independence.. We live with the illusion that the de centralized government of. our fore fathers was .a desirable and healthy thing. We still .look fo a . solution to the. nation's problems in jthe philoso phies Thomas, Jefferson .and John Lockei, rather - than .entrusting our futures to the wisdom of Walter.JReu ther and Harry Golden . . . we're funny that. way. There's no doubt about it, Sam; Editors and to hear a speaker admit, .at the heginning of his speech, that he is emotionally involved in the problem Ao be,analyzdAaBd,.USCussed--sqien--tifically, ,1 .suppose But it .is more .pitiful ,to hear .an .attempted :dis- . cussion ,pn .-Spain ignoring the con sideration of .essential -iactors of Spanish jpolitical lif e , without which conclusions ..will necessarily ..lead to falsehood, suchas, ;1) .whatihrought abqut the Spanish Civil ,Warf i2) ; po htical alternatives of -Spain .at . the time, 3) .economic alternatives of any kind of regime after tbe.jwarand most ; important - 4) to what ..extent could Spain have been .democratized given the .anarchy ,,;pf vSpanish .insti tutions ,and, beliefs ..at the time. I am .sure .some people ;will think I am :.too petulant .and impractical, ior matters of .iiscussion, in asking for so .many "unnecessary . details" from .so far hack. Well, it is.a matter of ppinioa-whetber.we should.atjeast -iry', to .think .analj-ticaljy 4or not, .and - this is .also .a. reason wby -Ayn Rand hasn't been, the .only tone to preach at Gerrard.Hall. Hugo Spechar fPlielp9 Blanchard Rqip4in in Cuba To the Editors: FI woukl'like very-much to be the first contributor to a fund I -hope -to -see estabUshed -f or a - great -cause on .the UNC campus. This -fund will -be a part of the great GPTCC action levin fn-nV, '. Fryiie Pan . . . the most stimulating offered here at at university is Professor Hugh Hol man's course In the English Novel. You will have to look long and hard to -find a -move richly rewarding and deeply satisfying experifnee thn this. . . The weight lifting boys keep com - jslaining ;to us .that jiheir sport is be ing slighted. by the powers in charge. They suggest the weights be moved from the dark and chilly cranny of the Tin Can to a more appropriate place such as a certain unused room in the worm, snug confines of Woollen. -State has such a room set aside, as does Wake Forest. IIuw about it, -someone? .Special memo to coeds, , all .ages: The '.'Supplement on Women" in Oc tober's .Harper's- m3ga?ine may shock you , or .anger you, at it .is guaran teed to make you think .and examine ,your values anew in this constantly changing society, where pressure sems to come from all sides. Of par ticular interest to you is the article entitled, "Growing Up Female" by Dr. Bruno Bettelheim. Head it! then read it again. Our Franklin Street Favorite is our good friend, . Kemp Nye, .who used to be. a champion broad jumper for the .Marine Corps. If you .doubt this, ask him to diow the picture to you K. B. flying through the .air with the greatest. of. ease, dust think: he, used to.be breaking records; naw he's selling them. you made a good point there. Yes sir, a really good point. TEDDY William F. Buckley, Jr., editor of RATIONAL REVIEW, contends that tthe. argument against electing Ted Kennedy ,to the .Senate is not that he is the, brother .of .Jack .Kennedy, hut ,that he approves of Jack Ken nedy." .FIGURES -Since Wednesday was U.N. Day in N, C. or somehting, we were par ticularly interested in .some State Department figures on the subject. -This, -year the U.N. and its affiliated organizations will spend $302 mil lion. -The United States will pay. 47 of it. P.L. Jor the first time in a long tim. we. agree with. a DTII editor. We are referring to Chuck ..Wrye's wish that Larry Phelps and other members of the Progressive Labor Club woul ! . have a "very, very long" stay in .Cuba this Christmas. And this rai-n the point that the American Lesiu'i might .not be needed after all. For, if ,the . P.L. . keeps up at this rale, it, will pimply be laughed out of ex istence. .arangiie otherwise known as the "Get Phelps to Cuba Campaign". I believe the majority of the UNC students would aid this cause .and would like to en vision Larry Phelps accompanied by the, Progressive Labor Club .and the New Left roaming .around Castro's kingdom. This campaign will be conducted ,if. Mr.. Phelps in consultation with his publicity manager .Mr. Gary Clan- - chard, most noble supporter of free thought, will agree to the .following -conditions: ,1. That. Larry take all members of the . P.L.C, 'New ; Left, .and a dazen . other .useless groups at UNC .with him. 2. .That 'Phelps take Gary Blan chard .along to supply the great? news. story to the CHARLOTTE OD i SERVER .and .take our own out standing? .Jim Clotfelter, more com monly known as (JC), along so the ! DOT 'Can once again bring on-Lhe-. spot publication of distorted ce vs. .3. .That ; Phelps .and ..all . his corn grades stay in Cuba until I (and all .other students who .are sick from reading about Phelps) graduate. Maybe .some student who has lots .-of excess time on.-his hand could write or go to the State Department .and . express our desire to see Phelps get permission for JiLs Cuban trip. We could even send pickets to Wash ington or parade to the South BulM aiogd.have A Minute ior Thl?s' demonstration. Pending survival o: the Cuban campaign, one way tick ets on extremely slow boats to KeJ China will be supplied to the Phelps delegation. Morris. listen
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