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'i STijc Bail? Car jfywl 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 TAJ? ffEEL are the individval opinions of the Editors, unless otherwise credited; they do not necessarily represent the o-pinions of the staff. The edi tors are responsible for all material printed in the DAILY TAR HEEL. "Wlitjf A Workout! I Hate People Who "' Hold Up Dinner Like That" Federal Aid's March 1, 19G3 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXX, No. 104 View Of Campus Politics: D y namicall v U nima gina ti ye To most s Union b? campus politics is an enigma wrapped in a mystery enveloped in a labyrinth of non sense. Campus politics and the resultant brand of student government is respected by some students who know it well and understand it for that reason; and is respected by others who do not know it well for that reason. But for the great mass who have only a fleet ing acquaintance with the political world of bus bills and honor sys tems, let us say it does make a dif ference to the student body who is elected, and on what platform they win. It matters because the student's money will be spent, be cause the student's activities for the next yetr will be planned, and because his academic, social and cultural life will come within the influence, such as it is, of student government. And it matters which people are elected, because there IS a difference between the candidates. Party are two groups, even more distinct than tJio.se in the UP. These groups could be called the Traditionalists and the Know Nothings. The Traditionalists believe in a liberal tradition, with its roots in the 1940s and 1950s and orders on tap from Raleigh and points North and West. The Know-Nothings have one be lief which they constantly reiter ate: student government is too ig norant and incompetent to act in any manner at any time and thus, it is safer to do absolutely nothing. THIS, we admit, is a bleak choice for the students. But it is not ab solutely hopeless. The New Greeks within the UP and Traditionalists within the SP both have able candidates and respectably-sane programs if they can squeeze the candidates past the orgy of party nominations and their programs past a dynamically-unimaginative student government. CAMPUS politics, for good or bad, is based on the two-party sys tem. Within these parties are sev eral shades of opinion and several brands of potential candidates, as well as the difference between the parties themselves. Within the University Party are two more or less distinct groups the Old Greeks and the New Greeks. The Old Greeks, with little attempt at subtlety, favor continued ab solute fraternity domination of stu dent government, with its result ing Greek control of executive com mittees, legislature, Orientation, honor councils and other SG func tions. The New Greeks favor winning elections. And that means a basic 'adnrission that dorm men are hu man. The remnants of the "third par ty" ISP has the potential of being a permanent Don't Care Fringe Group a healthy addition to the campus political scene. Within the opposition Student f)c5Bailp Earned JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Editors Chris Farran News Editor Wayne King Harry Lloyd Managing Editors Harry DeLung , . Night Editor Ed Dupree Sports Editor Curry Kirkpatrick . Asst. Sports Ed. Jim Wallace Photography Editor Mickey Blackwell Gary Blanchard Contributing Editors u DAVE MORGAN Business Manager Gary Dalton Advertising Mgr. John Evans Circulation Mgr. Pave Wysong Subscription Mgr. lu 1am Hm. im puOiUh4 Amity ceJpt Monday, examination periods and vacations It Is entered as seeond !ans matter In the post office In Chapel Hill. N. C pursuant witfc the act of March . 1870 Subscription rateei MM oer erocster. tS per year. Ths Daily Tab Bxbl ts a subscriber to be United Press International and utilizes the service of the News Bu nu of he TTnlvarsitT of North Crt Una. Published bj the Publication Bcr 4 lb Umwersltj- tt Nortr Carolina Thapel aiU N C . THE UNIVERSITY Party is giv en a choice between Larry McDevitt and Bob Spearman for the presi dential nomination. McDevitt is heir apparent for the Old Greeks. He is a Beta and a nice guy (really.) Spearman is the New Greeks' man. Despite the political handicap of intelligence, Spearman is given a good chance to get the nomina tion. Foid Rowan, the New Greeks' candidate for the UP vice-presidential nomination, is laboring un der the illusion that student gov ernment can be made into a ration al instrument for the student's wel fare. The Student Party is dependent more than anyone dares to admit on the decision of the handsome, intelligent, smooth-talking vice president, Mike Lawler. He is the Traditionalists man-on-the-spot and the Chosen One by all alumni and faithful of the Student Party Way Of Life, and would be a very strong presidential candidate. Per usual, the know-Nothings have no candidates and are reluc tant to support anyone else's can didates and so will vote against everyone. If Lawler doesn't run the Sp has a mass of oblivion from which to choose. It would be difficult to single out the most mentally-oblivious in such a vast selection. AND THUS the choice: between Tradition tempered with Nothing ness, on the one hand, and Greek ishness tempered with Less-Greek-ishness, on the other. In other words, the parties hold little hope. But then what is a campus po litical party but a collection of put standing or non-outstanding indi viduals? What makes up a great po litical tradition on campus, but a series of intelligent programs im plemented by outstanding student leaders? There are several out standing candidates this spring, if they can get by the organized mediocrity inherent in campus pol itics. (JC) : L'' -, ;:7j V. - A" - ' cA Jilli : "25? V 't - " f : - A II skshTe a4vRs jk C 'I Y Friends & Foes 4r Right Wing: 'Boring' Collegiate Press Service WASHIXGTON Tne friends of President Kennedy's new aid-to-education program are once again killing its chances of becoming law. It may seem ironical but it's rc thing new. Internecine strife be tween groups backing increased fed eral ajd to eduer.tion have killed similar programs before. Kennedy's sweeping new omnibus education proposal would assist Am erican education from the first rrale to the post-graduate level, through, construction loans, match ing funds and student loan plans. .Opponents of federal aid to edu cation are this year relaxing while the measure's proponents kill its chances. Once again, the apparent cause of death "will be the church state dispute: the administration program would give $1.5 billion to a??ist public elementary and sec rndary schools, with no aid to go to private schools at the same level. The main antagonists in the dis pute are the National Education As sociation (NEA), which considers the administration plan near-nerfect. ?nd the National Catholic Welfare Conference, which asserts the pro gram is unfair to parents who pay pubMc school taxes as well as extra tuition to send their children to parochial and private schools. Backers of the administration plan assert that federal aid to pri vate and church-supported schools violates the Constitution and the tra ditional doctrine of snarafion of church and state while the op ponents hold that the administra tion's way of doing things would discriminate against Catholic and other taxpayers who also pay to support private schools. These cp- Reactionary Likes Nobody But Self From The Village VOICE (A news story) Noel E. Parmentel, Jr. is easily bored. And when he is, he does something about it. He talks to himself. He doesn't talk to other people, because he finds most other people boring. When he does talk to himself, however, he does not, like a good reactionary individualist (he has no patience with respectable eu phemisms like conservative), go off into a corner and do it. He talks to himself in magazines and before audiences a practice which seems to indicate a ' concern for the social welfare 'of ojher peo ple that could lead to the most dangerous kind of right-wing re visionism. Parmentel recently talked to himself before the Greenwich Vil lage Young Americans for Free dom in a room in the Hotel Earle conveniently adjacent to the bar. The occasion was billed as "An Evening with iNoel E. Parmentel, Jr." There was some delay in op ening the proceedings while some one went out for a tape recorder. Parmentel's lawyer, who was in the audience, would not let his client speak without one. Finally a dra matically becpwled Rosemary Mc 'Grath, Village YAF chairman, in troduced Parmentel as "a political commentator ariid social critic" who has written; for Esquire, the Satur day Evening Post, National Re view, the Nation, and Common Wealth. Parmentel rose to his considerable height and moved on shambling feet which he later identified as cjay) to a table at the head of the room. 'No piack Robe' 'Unlike my friend iBjll Buck ley," he drawled, (Parpentel is a native from Algiers, Jxuisiana), "I will not read ypu an article of mine from Esquire Magazine. Unlike Bill Rusher, I have np black robes to put on, and unlike Norman Mailer, I have no scatological poetry to read." (A southern college has com plained that William Buckley, ed itor of National Review, agreed to speak there for a substantial fee and then got up and read an article he had written for some publication, ypliam Rusher, pub lisher of National Review donned black robes at Hunter College re cently, where be played a Su preme Court Justice in a mock trial of the school prayer ca$e.) Parmentel then went Qn to in form anyone who cared to listen that "the 'right wing has become generally a bore to the Ameri can voting pubjje." (parmentel is a self-confessed and staunch right winger.) "God knows what's goin to happen to us now we've man aged to bore ' the American public and each other. We've done' this by being boring, stupid . . and . . . dishonest and by encouraging fools, knaves, and hicks. . . ." MISSED ITS CHANCE The right wing, Parmentel ob served, missed its chance in 1960, when, "Americans had right-wing aspirations . . They had tried Eis enhower and got eight more years of socialism." The American people were embarrassed by the Russians, a bunch of "Asiatic barbarians," getting ahead of them in space, he asserted, and they "were fed up with socialism." In 1960, Parmentel said with some nostalgia, "we had a good candidate (Barry Goldwater) 'and some support." Goldwater, he contends, should have fought it out in the primaries then. "I den't think anybody could beat Kennedy in '64. . . . Now the nomination is worth nothing. In '68 he'll (Goldwater) be a tattered old property." As for GOP Senator John Tow er, a Texas conservative, Parmen tel "once thought he could make it, but I don't anymore. He muffed the Billie Sol Estes bit." Tower, according to Parmentel, dropped his pursuit of Ejstes when a right-winger told him to, lay off because Estes is a John Birchite' (which, says Par mentel, he is). Evidently Parmentel viewed this hot-potato treatment of Estes as bad strategy because new he doesn't think Tower "has any where to go at all." Nor, in his opjnicn, has the en tire right wing. " 'JThe right wing missed the boat by fomenting this quarrel -with Nelson Rockereller," which Parmentel thinks is pointless since '"Rockefeller has no politics." DREARY BORE' The right wing does have a mag azine, Parmentel conceded Na tional Review. "Its frantic search for respectability has become a bore, it's become a dreary bore." Bored with National Review, he wait on to YAF. "Now the YAFs. Aren't they a fine bunch of young people? Draft-dodgers, slackers. Two of their ieaders were recently dragged into the U. S. Army kicking and scream ing. I think it will do them a world of good." "I wjsh the right wing well," Par mentel said graciously, "but I de plore its antics." He was asked about one of its latest antics go ing into food stores and adorning items such as Polish hams with cards informing prospective pur chasers that they were produced in a Communist country. "If I were a grocer and any of those creeps came into my store ... I'd give 'em warning and then give 'em grape shot. Those silly people from Yonkers. He regards such activities as in vasions of privacy. He also regards sit-ins as invasions of privacy. He is also opposed to public libraries. He thinks they are "an extension of socialism and an attack on in dividualism." He is for General iWalker. Indeed, he admires him. The general, says Parmentel, is an honest man" "who has been treated badly by fools and knaves down in Washington." But if the right wing had an army, Parmentel would prefer to -have it led by Gen eral .MacArthur. "Our home is in the Republican Party," he said of the right wing. That's the "tnly place we can make our influence felt" in the country. "The Conservative Party is a divis ive force. We have to grow up and realize this is a two-party country and its always goin' to be a two party country." And "we can mark off the Democratic Party, including the Southern Democrats they're socialists in my opinion." How does the right wing cease to be boring? Someone asked, get ting back to the main topic of the evening. "Bores are born, not made." "What do you think of the left wing?" "Liberals per se are bound to be bores . . . although some of my best friends are liberal ... I had some hopes for the right wing, but it's beginning to act like the left wing." "How can we stop being bor ing?" "Clean house." "What do you mean by bore?" "Listen, sweetie, if you don't know what a bore is, I can't help you." "What's wrong with being a bore?" "I like bores," Parmentel re joined. Discussion then 'switched to the liberals' control of the communi cations industry. "Liberals are always going to control the communications indus try because they've got all the talent," Parmentel said simply. Some in the audience protested that it only seems that the . lib erals have more talent because they set the standards in the com munications field. Parmentel didn't buy it. "There just isn't much talent on the right, and I'm afraid there isn't going to be any . . . The left is always going fo come up with more talent than the right . . . Talented peo ple seem to go that way; I don't knew why, but they do." As for defense, he's all for it. He's opposed to . NATO but not to unilateral precautions. "I'm for arming to the teeth. ... the dirty bomb, I'm for the dirty bomb." He does not, however approve of using armed might against sovereign states like 'Mississippi. He is for Meredith's right to go to Ole Miss and he is for the state's right to stop him. But he is against the federal government enforcing (Meredith's individual right against the state's right. 1 Someone asked if there wasn't a basic contradiction in his logic. He wouldn't admit there was, and since he doesn't believe in public education anyway, he didn't see that it mattered much. "What do you think of Thomas Jefferson?" was the next ques tion. "I think he was a good archi tect." At that, a woman in the audi ence who thought that all the time Parmentel had bean talking to her and the others in the room, not realizing that he had just been amusing himself, rose and de manded with outrage in her voice: "Can I ask if there is anyone in this audience who takes this man seriously? . . . Obviously he doesn't believe in anything . . ." She walked out and everyone agreed that the left wing hasn't much capacity for self-criticisrrn On the House Un-American Ac tivities Committee, Parmentel said: "I don't think they have the right to investigate anybody. . . . That isn't my America that needs creeps like that. It doesn't need a bunch of people who pry into the private political thoughts of presumptively loyal American citizens ... I think they're a bunch of cheap, tacky, self - serv ing politicians. They're eight rate and I think they ought to be abol ished." On the threat of Communism, particularly at home: "There aren't any more Communists. Mao Tse Tung is the only Com munist." On Robert Welch: "Wrelch is honest and this is resented by the right wing, which is run by phon ies." He added that Welch is hon est but mistaken. "What," someone asked, "do you think of the Supreme Court, laughingly, as the interpreter of the Constitution?" "I think of the Supreme Court laughingly. Whizzer White is my favorite. .Mr. Justice Whizzer." On the U. N.: "I want to give Red China a seat in the U. N. ours." Parmentel, presumably having managed to dispel his own bore 'dom, stopped talking. Tne tape recorder was turned off. Everyone went home congratulating himself on the capacity of the right wing to laugh at itself. Letters Welcome The editors of the Daily Tar Heel gladly accept letters from students and other members of the Univer sity community. Letters must be free from libel, in good taste, and limited to 300 500 words. They should be typed, double spaced, if possible. Letters on any topic are welcome. All letters become the property of the Daily Tar Heel, and may be published unless the writer requests otherwise. No anonymous letters will be print ed, regardless of subject matter or worth. Every letter writer should include his signature with a cam pus address that can be verified. posing views are held by a sufficient number of Congressmen to iihxk passage or the legiskuici entirely, rs indeed happened in the la.u Con gress. There are some indications th;,t the two factions may co;r.;rorfL-e ti get some cf the legislation ihrui;.,h Congress, but tho groups have c: to settle on a suitable agreement. Kennedy's program would give in direct benefits to private schools tut these are called inadequate by Catholic spokesmen. One feature of the plan would make const rue; i a loans for specialized cassrooms and laboratories available to private schools, r.n;l ar.olher portion cf Iho program would extend the "for giveness" of National Defease Edu cation Act loans to teachers in pri vate schools. Since the two opposing faction have yet to settle on a compromise. "Washington educational circles ana' lobbyists are giving increasing sup port to a "salvage job" on the pro gram, to get through what can be gotten through this session. In other words, colleges and universities are hopeful that legislation benefitting both sides will bs divorced from th? omnibus bills and passed. Kennedy On Youth Problems Greensboro Daily News Greensboro has learned from its mayor's committee something of the local problems cf youth their mixed precocity and restlessness. There is, then, all the mode reason to study attentively President Ken nedy's message to Congress on Youth. For if there are "teenage" problems here, they would appear to be currents in a national tide of change that has put youth not for the first time out of kilter with our society. Like previous papers on mental health and education, the President's is a popourri of hard statistics, arguable conclusions and debatable prgrams. But whether or not Con gress passes the programs or agrees with the conclusions, it cannot dodge the hard statics. They point up a serious national problem. Juven ile delinquency is still rising fast: In the last decade juvenile de linquency cases brought before the courts have more than doubled, and arrests of youth increased P.G per cent, until they number almost 1,000,000 arrests a year in 19G0, 15 per cent of all arrests. Mr. Kennedy, far from throwing up his hands in puritanical horror or joining J. Edgar Hoover in advocat ing harsh treatment cf the average minor offender, believes that juven ile crime is related to other changes in the economy and society. Em ployment, for exampe, is a growing worry for American youth between the school-leaving age of 16 and 24. Youth between 18 and 21 (or1;: 7 per cent of the laboring force already account for 18 per cent of t)ur unemployment. And with the number of youth expected to ap pear on the labor market in the Sixties twice the number that ap peared in the past decade, this chronic unemployment promises to increase. These young people flow from everywhere into an already flooded market. The birth rate is up, of course. But traditional ab sorbers of the labor pool are fail ing farms for instance: "It is not likely," writes the President, "that more than one out of every 10 boys now living on farms will find full-time work in agriculture." Here, in deceptively cold figures, lie the potential roots of more juv enile crime. Mr. Kennedy believes that "the malady ... is a lack of opportunity," leading to "youth ful frustration, rebellion and idle ness." This may put it too simply. Greensboro's own committee dis ccmfortingly concluded that it is 'often just those who enjoy tho greatest "opportunities" who are most bored and frustrated. What works for the predatory packs of the Manhattan streets may not work elsewhere; and vice versa. Clearly, however, until somerr.e discovers that magic social elixir that will revive youthful idealism and imagination throughout the ranks of American youth, prema turely jaded and shallcwly preco cious as they are now, strictly ec onomic tragedies can be fought ty economic means. Mr. Kennedy plac es several proposals for Peace Corps-like and neo-C. C. C. organiza tions on Congress' doorstep. Con gress may not wish to pass them all. But all bear careful thought. And Congress certainly cannot avoid the scrutiny of youth problems to which the President's excellent mes sage summons it. f
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