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tmc Library Ssrialo Dept. Box 870 Chapsl Hill, N. C. Consolidated U niversity See Edits, Page Two Offices in Graham Memorial Wa Freedom Needed In Universities, Debaters Agree By JIM CLOTFELTER t n t- i j n t Dr. Russell Kirk and Carey Mc - Williams Jr. Tuesday night agreed academic freedom was indispens able to the university community but couldn't agree why. They were debating "How Much Freedom in Academic Freedom?' in Carroll Hall. "You can't have a genuine Uni versity without a considerable de gree of academic freedom," Kirk said, but often, "people who say academic freedom' actually mean academic power' the power to in doetrinate. They mean academic freedom for themselves only." Kirk, educator and columnist for the conservative National Review, said "academic freedom" was used as justification for hiring Com munists as faculty members, and for faculties which permitted the existence of low academic stand ards. Essential Value An instructor at Oberlin College, jvicvvuiiams said his defense of academic freedom was based on its "essential value" and not its "utility." "We must have more," he said, "than the ethics of mere prudence, more than mere convenience." Academic freedom, he said, is com posed of essentially the responsi bilities of the educator and the educated. McWilliams said the idea that one Communist on a University faculty would "corrupt" the stu dent body was "counterfeit logic." "Any picture of a monolithic Communist world is likely to err," he said. Liberate He favored accepting on a facul ty even "those whom you might think are wrong, those whose ideas are considered 'unsound'." The "perspective of idol-shattering" should be accepted in the acad emy, McWilliams said, because the ciasn Deiween opposite views could 1 best "liberate the imagination." As to Communists as teachers, McWilliams said "of course it is a risk," but in order to better seek the truth, the university should "let in the darkness" "admit, 'un sound' ideas." Kirk said the university "cannot tolerate the Communist as a teach er." The Communist's methods as teachers "are opposed to academic freedom," Kirk said. He does not openly announce his political views, but "rows with muffled ears," said the educator. Cannot Tolerate The Communist's "colleagues cannot tolerate him because he will never tolerate them." But Kirk said he felt the Com munist danger was much smaller than in former years "although the state is not withering away, the Marxists among us are." On defense of academic freedom, Kirk said the threat of its limita tion came as much "from within the academy as from without." McWilliams agreed that the "re sponsibility to retain academic freedom cannot be left with the faculty." Violations Both speakers itemized several instances of academic freedom violations to teachers for political reasons. Instances of denial of academic freedom because of dif ferences in thought on psychology and sociology were also cited. On low-or-high academic stand ards, Kirk said he sympathized with the professor who recently wrote that U. S. colleges were "turning into playgrounds." The National . Review columnist cited several examples where professors had been dismissed for attacking their school's low standards. "Unenthu&iastic students who re fuse to question or object ... in vite the professor to become a Ice Com secular indoclrinator," he said. i McWilliams said "demands al- ways are going to be made on the U. S. education system, which is "explicitly egalitarian and dem ocratic . . . And, in a sense, those demands must be made in a de mocracy. This is the 'pound of flesh' exacted by legislatures and other bodies which pay the uni versity's bills." "The academic city on the hill and the political city on the hill," McWilliams said, "have always been essentially the same in Am erica." On university textbooks: McWil liams called them the "curse of American education." Kirk agreed. and attacked the "holy textbook." I here were questions and an swer after the formal debate. Holinan Is Proud Of New Position iDr. C. Hugh Holman, Kenan Professor of English, and singled out this week to be the new Dean of the Graduate School, said that he felt "highly flattered and- great ly honored" by the appointment. Dr. Holman stated his desire to "maintain the high standards of the University Graduate School in this day of rapidly changing con ditions." He further noted that a good graduate school was vitally important to the image of the University both at home and abroad." As Dean of the Graduate School, Dr. Holman will be in overall su pervision of the School, includin; admissions and the programs of study leading to the degrees, MA, MS, Ph.D. in Philosophy and Ph.D in Education. Dr. Holman will continue to teach one graduate course a semes ter in Enslisii. in the field of American literature. U.S. Watching Construction Of Fish Port WASHINGTON (UPD The Uni ted States will watch closely the Soviet construction of port facili ties in Cuba and presumably will take "appropriate measures should it pose a military threat, the State Department said Wed nesday. Press officer Lincoln White told a news conference he did not know whether work had started on what the Russians have described as a "fishing port" in Havana Bay. But he declared, "Since the U. S. gov ernment is anxious to see that such facilities do not present a military threat to the United States or to the hemisphere, we will continue to follow with great inerest any port building activities in Cuba." Asked about rumors that some kind of port is under construction near Banes, in northeast Cuba, White said he had no information other than "speculation." Moscow announced in September its plans to build port facilities in the Ha vana area to serve both Cuban vessels arid Soviet trawlers which fish the Atlantic. Some officials have expressed concern that the port might be used by submarines or other military vssels. On another subject, White said the State Department knows of no Soviet-Cuban proposals being sub mitted to the Cuba crisis nego tiations at the United Nations, as reported from New York. "I don't know where these re ports come from," White said. "Nobody in this building , the State Department, knows anything about them." White also reported that the U.S. arms blockade of Cuba is continu ing, as are surveillance flights over the island. He did cot elabcrats. COMP nty ,;-.'-' I- - - ' , : sT8-, - V, - - '"-Hi i t&&msiM m x - - ' ,, ... m m t V .'4? - - - , " -, ' ji : ft ? f-v ',';- j ; 4 Sr. , iff . I , ' ' ' 4 ? ' '- ",t , iiinnrmv in inn m i ii'r v r ii n mi I in nMmwifrii..m. eif .. 1.-.. nmnniiw iiiniiiiii t , , . ,. yj Kirk and McWilliams Debate Topic Of LB J Pledges No Agreement To Aid Reds CHICAGO (UPD Vice Presi dent Lyndon B. Johnson said Wednesday the United States has not and will never enter into an agreement that will fortify Com munist imperialism "against the united action of free men" in the Western Hemisphere. Johnson also pledged that the United States will not make such a commitment covering any other part , of the world. "The purpose of the United States remained unchanged toward this hemisphere," the vice presi dent told members of the American Petroleum Institute convention. "We intend that the Americas shall be free of communism, free of those who serve Communist masters, and through the joint ef forts of the Alliance for Progress free of the seeds from which com munism grows. "The United States has not and we will never enter any commit ment by which Communist imper ialism shall be fortified against the united action of free men, in this hemisphere or any other." Johnson's statement appeared designed to pacify critics of Presi dent Kennedy's Cuban policy who have expressed fears that negotia tions between the United States and Soviet Russia would bar any future invasion of Cuba by non U.S. forces and permit the island nation to remain as a Communist foothold in the Western Hemisphere. Monogram Club To Unofficial The Unofficial Committee for the Unofficial Delegates to State Stu dent Legislature will hold an Un official Meeting of all Unofficial Delegates today at 4 p.m. in Stu dent Government Offices. Monogram Club Monogram Club will meet in Club Room of Woollen Gym tonight at 7:30. Plans for Christmas Par ty will be made, and a movie, "The Story of a Champion," about Jim Beatty will be shown. Naval Aviation RADM. Massey will speak to the NROTC Midshipmen in Carroll Hall, today at 12:00. His subject will be Naval Aviation, and tha public is invited to attend. Treasurer's Board There W2H be a sseetsg f the Seventy Years Of CHAPEL HILLS, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1962 Speedy Settlement Of Cuban Problem Seen By U Thant UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPD 'Acting Secretary General Thant, after extending consultations with U.S., Soviet and Cuban envoys, re vealed Wednesday that some prog ress is being made toward a peace ful and speedy settlement of the Cuban crisis. Cuban and Soviet diplomats put a joint plan before Thant Tuesday for solution of the crisis, but its details remained secret. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson and other U.S. negotiators con ferred with Thant an hour and 50 minutes Wednesday morning, but a U.'N. spokesman said the acting secretary general was not author ized to transmit details of the Cuban-Soviet proposal to the Unit ed States. High U.S. sources confirmed that they had no knowledge of a Cuban or Soviet settlement plan. Other reliable sources suggested that Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis ter Vasily V. Kuznetsov and Cuban Ambassador Carlos Lechuga, in their joint visit to Thant Tues day, might have put forward ten tative ideas that had not yet been formalized as a proposal. Played Up Propaganda Soviet and Cuban diplomats CAMPUS Treasurer's Board today at 4:15 in Roland Parker III. All treasur ers are urged to be there with copies of their reports and lists of names. Budget Committee There will be a meeting of the Budget Committee today at 5:00 p.m. in W'oodhcuse Room, GM. All members are strongly urged to at tend. Sophomores There will be interviews for So phomore Class Cabinet positions Thursday and Friday, Roland Par ker I, GM. The committees are: State and National Affaires, Fio ance, Publicity, Scholarship, TDorm Problems, Social Affaires, and Sophomore Secretariat. Wives Of Medical Students ... "Wives of i!J fifarifrta are Lay Editorial Freedom earn Academic Freedom Here Tuesday Night played to maximum propaganda advantage a U.N. spokesman's statement Tuesday that their en voys had discussed with Thant their joint "specific proposals for settlement of the Cuban problem." They refused to confirm specu lation that the joint proposals were based on Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's five-point demands head ed by the evacuation of the U.S. Guantanamo Bay naval base. They also refused to confirm that they contained a proposal previously rejected by the United States which also spurned Castro's five points for an inspection of sorts by the Communist-dominated Ha vana diplomatic corps to assure that Soviet offensive weapons had been removed from the island. Stevenson was called in by Thant at 10:30 a.m. EST, Wednesday. He left at 12:20. telling newsmen: "We reviewed the Cuban crisis in all its details. Both sides are placing emphasis on bringing the matter to as early a conclusion as possible." A few minutes later, a U.N. spokesman announced: "Ambassador Stevenson and the secretary general reviewed some of the more important aspects of the Cuban problem in the light of recent events." BRIEFS Show Beatty Film ing a bake sale Saturday, Nov. 17, at Fowlers Food Store. It will begin at 8:00 a.m. and last until food gives out Homemade cakes, pies, cookies, candy, etc. Campus Organizations Presidents and V.P.'s of all cam pus denominational organizations meet for dinner today, 5:30, up stairs in Lenoir Hall. Brief Meet ing. Wesley House There will be a supper at W7esley House Friday night at 6:00 p.m. Call for reservations before 2:00 p.m. Friday. A group will go to Greensboro to see "Carnival" af ter supper. International Affairs There will be a meeting of the YM - YWCA International Affairs Committee tonight at 7:00 is th6 Photo by Jim Wallace ; 1 if I ii ft Sill lYPlPassc favorably out of committee Pleads Case Before House WASHINGTON (UPD A Havana born singer told House investiga tors Wednesday that her Medical Aid for Cuba Committee was pure ly humanitarian and completely divorced from politics. The enter tainer Molitta Del Villar of New York City, testified before a sub committee of the House Commit tee on Un-American Activities that the organization she formed .last fall "is not and does not intend to be an agency of propaganda." Subcommittee members and ad visors questioned Miss Del Villar closely about other officials of her group and similar organizations. They said some individuals asso ciated with the medical aid move ment had pro-Communist back grounds. The grey haired, 44-year-old sing er, who said she has all but aban doned her career since forming the committee, testified that some $25,000 to $30,000 had been collect ed to buy medicine for use in Cu ba. She said the medicine was sent to the National Hospital in Havana under provisions of U. S. regula tions permitting such shipments. Miss Del Villar said the medical shipments were made as a human itarian act. "We have no concern with gov ernment," she said. "I have an abysmally ignorant political back ground." Faculty Lounge of the Carolina Inn. Dr. Dawson of the Political Science Dept. will speak to the group. Religious Emphasis YM-YWCA Religious Emphasis Committee will meet at 4:00 today in Tern Davis" office in "Y" Court. Flu Vaccine Influenza vaccine is available at the Infirmary for $1-00 per shot. It can be obtained daily, Monday through Friday from 9:00-11:30 a m. or 2:00-5:00 p.m. LOST Lost: One gold watch. Contact Linda Wood, 963.3004. Lest: A cocker - spaniel puppy, wate -with brown spots. Please call Sigma Nu House, 968-9077, if you nave any. information regard ing this. 1 '-. - 1-1 onor Council Challenged Ousted By BILL IIOBBS Former UXC student Anne Cart-1 ers appeal of her 1961 suspension' by the Women's Council will be heard by the Wake County Super - ior Court in Raleigh today at 2 p.m. The case as presented by Miss Carter's lawyer, John Manning of Chapel Hill, challenges both the due process" of her particular trial and the legal authority of a student disciplinary body to sus pend students here. The V omen s Council susoended UA 1 c r , , her on charges of having cheated on a Latin 1 make-up quiz. Her instructor, John Catlin, reported the incident and testified at the! Women's Council trial. He said she handed in the answers to the orig inal quiz rather than those to the make-up quiz especially made out for her and taken at a later date. Miss Carter appealed the case Money Bills Approved By Committee I - Three bills to appropriate money 1 for several campus activities were yesterday and will be acted upon by Legislature in its meeting to night. The iFinance Committee passed the following bills: (1) A bill to supplement the Yackety-Yack budg et with $951.60 from the General Surplus to rectify mistakes made in this year's budget (introduced by Jean Yoder for the Yack); (2) A bill to appropriate $210 to the Assistant Attorney General in the ield of Legislation to be used to publish a printed codification of all statutes of student government (introduced by Rufus Edmisten (SP) for Haynes McFadden); (3) (Continued on Page 3) JFK Seeking Sizeable Cut In '63 Taxes WASHINGTON (UPD Presi dent Kennedy plans to seek a size able tax cut from Congress next year despite the $7.8 billion deficit in the federal budget, authorita tive sources said Wednesday. High-ranking presidential advis ers were expected to affirm this publicly in speeches to a fiscal policy conference opening here Wednesday night. Some 150 busi nessmen, labor leaders, university professors, clergymen and govern ment officials were gathered for the conference, which is sponsored by the President's Committee on Labor-Management Policy. The conference began with a dinner at which Walter W. Heller, chairman of the Council of Eco nomic Advisers, was the speaker. Administration planning for tax reduction and reform in 1963 has been intensified in recent weeks even though it was clear to offi cials that the federal budget this year would be heavily in the red. The $7.8 billion deficit estimated by the Budget Bureau Tuesday contrasted sharply with the $463 million surplus planned by the President last January when he drafted the fiscal 1963 budget. It covers government spending and revenue in the 12 months which began July 1. Officials pointed out that even as early as August, when Kennedy decided against an immediate tax cut in favor of action in 1963, it ap peared that the budget would be in the red. Administration officials have said that regardless of the budget deficit tax relief for individuals and cor porations is a necessary contribu tion to the long-term growth of the country. Heller and other officials believe that the present tax structure si phons too much money out of the private spending stream into the Treasury, thereby retard m g achievement of fuH employment. Weather Clearing and cool, high in the 50's. Complete UP I Wire Service eiit to Chancellor Aycock and Pres ident Friday, both of whom denied "r.'A. ' YV, , A""A" u U1"e ? . u ! "r VJ" lu l"c ' As administration authorities took no further action, the case was appealed to the full Board of Trustees. On February 26, 1962 the full Board passed a resolution es tablishing a special committee "to make a thorough investigation of this entire matter and hear all in- : , luitoiw wai tics ciLic liictrwc 1 if Lrt ,u.. L Ri . . c.. i ., ;tf tu u- f , ducted an investigation during March, April and May of this year. It recommended that "the Board of Trustees should take no action; that the question of the readmis sion of Miss Carter to the Univers ity at Chapel Hill should be left where it has been placed by the Trustees and where it properly be longs with the Chancellor and the faculty at Chapel Hill." J By Stud Trustees Approve The committee also recommend ed that "no individual disciplin ary case be referred to or consid ered by the entire Board of Trust ees or any special committee thereof." The Board of Trustees unani mously approved this report oa May 28, 1962. On June 2, 1962 Miss Carter's attorney filed a "Petition for Ju dicial Review of Final Administra tive Decision of the Board Of Trustees" in Wake County Super ior Court. Another development in the case took place in June when Chancel lor Aycock readmitted Miss Cart er to school as a summer session student. Under normal procedure she would have been required to appear before or request rein statement from the Women's Coun cil. Aycock explained that Miss Cart er could not have asked the Wom en's Council for reinstatement at the time since her lawyer was challenging the legality of the Council in the courts. To have ask ed the Council for reinstatement would have been admitting that the student disciplinary system was legal. Not In School "Under the circumstances, I felt it more advisable to handle the case myself," Aycock said. Ha added that she had been out of school for two academic semes ters longer than the usual period of suspension. Miss Carter is not in school this fall. Aycock explained that she was academically ineligible because of her quality point average, but that her suspension was no longer in effect. Attorney Manning's Petition for Judicial Review in the Wake Su perior Court was answered last June by the N. C. Attorney Gener al. The state lawyer maintained that since Miss Carter had been readmitted to summer school, the questions raised in the appeal were "moot and academic." The state's answer alto said that Miss Carter "was suspended after a full and fair hearing according to the Rules and Procedures in force at the University of North Carolina." "Denied Rights" Manning's subsequent "Reply to Answer to Petition" denied that Miss Carter had the status of a regular student, "as she is a Sum mer Session student." It also maintained that she had been "de prived of her constitutional rights to complete the Spring Semester of 1961, to stand for examination for work taken for that semester and be given credit accordingly therefor." The state attorney general's re quests that the court dismiss the case were not granted. The hearing this afternoon was granted by Superior Court Judge Heman Clark on September 21. Judge Clark criticized the "poor" records of the testimony before (Continued on Page 3)