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Serials Espt, THE ANIMALS OF TEAGUE DORM ARE THE NEW HOLDERS OF THE INTRAMURAL BASE BALL CROWN. SEE PAGE 4. i (A In The Edit Column THE EDITORS WELCOME 97 GUERILLA FIGHTERS TO CHAP EL HILL WITH A LOOK AT THE SLOGAN "POWER FOR PEACE." Seventy-One Years of Editorial Freedom Offices In Graham Memorial CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SIAY 17, 1963 UPI Wire Service Merit Scholars H ere Increasing By GINGER WHITE Next year UNC will have a sub stantial increase in the enrollment of National Merit Scholarship win ners. 16 new Merit Scholars have been accepted for admission in the fall. This is compared to the total of 13 Merit winners now enrolled in the University. Director of Admissions Charles Bernard believes that much of the credit for this increase goes to the work of a committee headed by Robin Brit which sponsored a spec ial National Merit Scholarship weekend last February. The com mittee invited finalists and semi- finalists to the campus for a round of conferences, sitting in on class es, parties and informal discussions with professors. The committee was set up as the result of a bill introduced in the Student Legislature by Bob Spear man. This is the first year that the special weekend has been offered to Merit students. "We wanted to show them just what we had to offer," said Spear man. "From the number who have decided to come, it seems as if the program was successful." All of the new winners are from North Carolina. All are boys ex cept for one girl who will be go ing into Pharmacy. The National Merit Scholarship Program was stablished in 1955. Brakhage Has Individuality In His Films This is the second of a series of four articles on the recent Re sponse Conference on "The Pur suit of Excellence in the Fine Arts" at Prince tion University. By STEPHEN DENNIS Stanley , Brakhage is only thirty, yet he has been making movies for twelve years. At the Princeton "Re ponse" Conference on "The Pur suit of Excellence in the Creative Arts," I had the opportunity to hear Mr. Brakhage and to see several of the films he has made. Brakhage's work is extremely difficult to characterize, for he is what he calls himself an ex perimental film producer and di rector. He moves in realms of the avant-garde cinema movement which make the works of Ingmar Bergman seem like familiar eel luloid productions of Hollywood. Brakhage has a unique aesthetic philosophy with regard to film. To him. the film should become more and more material for the reac tions of the individual sensibilities of the viewers in an audience. He edits his films with a sense of complementary colors. Part of the experience of watch ing one of his films is thus in the individual eye of the viewer and not on the screen or on the film which is running through the pro iector. A viewer's optic nerve "makes" part of what the brain registers as having been seen. If this sounds like a strange pro fessional ethic. Brakhage empha sized that all films are really twen- tv-four separate images being lm nosed upon a viewer's retina each second. All movies are thus shad ow plays and not forms of reality Consequently, any viewer is al ready creating part of his viewing Fxnerience. the illusion ot motion when he watches any film. Brak hage does not wont his genre to become a magic show where the secrets of the tricks are to remain hidden. Before the first film was shown, Brakhage advised his audience how to watch his creations. He advised them to forget anything related to their previous movie experience and to adopt a relaxed attitude lest the rapidity of images cause a headache. He emphasized that his images are not meant to be fullv comprehended as are those o Hollywood, but are meant to flow into each other and create moods on the screen. It is primarily a rapid succession of whirling colors, lines, and shapes which seem to explode, resolve, and then reappear again. If a film does not have to represent a form of reality, there is no necessity for it to have any aspects of drama. Is the work of Brakhage art? This is an important question, and one that is hard to answer. Some of the movies had a lyric quality to them, but before judging , them, one would need to view them at least twice, so that a very natural feeling of strangeness in this new genre could wear off. Brakhage compared seeing a film of his once to watching an ex tremely difficult poem by Ezra Pound flash once around the Times Square Buildin. , Funds are provided by business corporations, private foundations and similar organizations. The pro gram is based on an annual na tion wide campetition; Scholarships are awarded without regard to fi nancial need. However after pick ing the winners the stipends are then computed , according to the individual's financial need. The stipends range from $100 to $1,500 a year. ... . Of the total of 2,018 Merit Schol ars who have been graduated since 1956, 65 have won academic hon ors such as election to Phi Beta Kappa or other individual honor societies. Two out of every three grads have indicated plans for fur ther study. Among state universities in 1962 63, UNC ranked 12th in the num ber of Merit Scholars enrolled with 13. Plans are continuing to offer the special Merit Scholarship weekend again next year. Student Aid Work Change Considered The Office of Student Aid is cur rently considering a plan to cen tralize the apportionment of stu dent part-time jobs under a special student self-help agency. The hiring of all students in non technical and non-teaching part time jobs in the University will have to have the approval of the Office of Student Aid as to the stu dent's financial need and satisfac tory academic standing, according to Dr. Julian Mason, Director of Student Aid. Those sections of the University which hire students in part-time jobs will work with the Student Aid Office and inform the Office of op enings. These . employers are cur rently behig asked to; submit the number of job openings that will be available during the summer sessions to the Student Aid Office. The system will go into effect be ginning this summer, and will be under the direction of Mrs. Betty Caldwell, Assistant Director of Stu dent Aid, Dr. Mason said yester day. Young Democrats Set Up Committees The UNC YDC Executive Com mittee met Thursday to set up working committees and draft plans for making the club one of the most active in the country during the 1963-64 term, according to Lane Brown, president. The club plans to conduct mem bership drives during orientation, between Thanksgiving and Christ mas and during second semester, Programs featuring leading politi cal speakes will be held once a month during the term. Brown named Don Curtis, Bill Whichard and Dave Kitzmiller to the membership committee; Whit Joyner and Tom Bolch to the pub licity committee; Ken Bode, Bud Abbott and Ron Semone to the College Federation committee; Jim Craven and Johnny McCon- nell to the program committee and the entire executive committee to the committee "on constitutional re form. 9 Years Nine years ago today, at 12 noon, the University of North Carolina Press released Harry Ashmore's book, "The Negro And The Schools," describing the pathetic state of Ne groes in the Southern school sys tems, and pleading for some kind of reform. . Fifty-two minutes later in Wash ington, amid "an awesome quiet," Chief Justice Earl .Warren began reading the decision that was to reform, if not the school systems, what the South considered its "way of life." Separation of the public schools by race, Justice Warren concluded at 1:20 p.m., is "inher ently unequal." At 2:00 pm. Gov ernor Herman Talmadge of Georgia called for nullification. A few years earlier, in Gaines vs. Missouri, the Federal courts bad indicated that "separate but equal" was a poor approach to education, thus few Southern politicians, in cluding Talmadge, were totally sur prised on Monday afternoon. Miss ouri had argued that money had been provided to send 3aines to any "Northern" law school of Ins choice. Yack Editor Says Grads Didn h Pay Legum Criticizes Book's Burners By HUGH STEVENS Louis Legum, editor of the 1963 acKeiy-xacK saia yesterday mat oiauudie atuueuis were not in- eluded in the yearbook because they do not pay for the privilege. He spoke in reference to an in cident in which a group of grad uate students burned copies of the Yack in Y-Court Tuesday night. Ihe students were protesting the lack of graduate coverage in the Yack. Two graduate students stated yesterday in a letter to the Tar Heel that no one should be forced to buy a Yack if he neither wants or needs one. 'The cashier's office informs me that graduate students pay an activity fee of only $7.28 per se mester, compared to $9 for under graduates," Legum said. "This is done because it would be unfair to charge graduate students as much when they do not participate in as many activities." "We do not include their pictures in the Yack because there is less income from them and because a large number of them have had their pictures included during four years anyway." It is true, said Legum, that cer tain groups are organized and pay for pictures in the Yack. These include the Medical School, Law School, and Dental School stu dents. "If all graduate students had a similar organization and could pay a fee of about a dollar each for pictures, then the Yack would happily accommodate them," he said. "Until they supply us with the money to support the pictures, they will never be included in the Yack." Legum said that the Yack's budget is in the process of being cut right now, and it cannot af ford to include non-paying groups. "It seems to me," Legum con cluded, ""that students interested! enough to burn books should be interested enough to seek out a solution to the problem. Burning books is certainly an immature act not in keeping with the posi tion of graduate students." Two graduate students yester day said, in a letter to the Tar Heel, that "nobody, be he an under graduate, grad student or janitor, should be forced to buy a book he neither wants nor needs. Library fees, and other fees necessary to the maintenance of the Univer sity, we willingly pay. The Yack and the athletic program, among other things, cannot be justified on these grounds. Sell books and tickets to those who want them, but please don't force us to buy." The students, A. Newman and Jeff Churchill, went on to say, "We do resent having paid, for ourselves and our wives, wrell over $100 in our few years at UNC for yearbooks; why would we want two copies, when we won't even have room to carry away one for each year." GYM NOTICE AH students who use the gym and have baskets there are asked to remove all personal equipment (shoes, etc.) and turn in basket I.D. cards before leaving school. All baskets will be cleaned out at the end of summer school. New baskets will be assigned for fall semester. 'Black Monday9 Has Become Term Of Contempt Later, Rulimr Still Not In The arrangement should be to Gaines' advantage, the state's at torney said, since most Northern law schools were superior to the one at the University of Missouri. But Gaines was a resident of Missouri, the Court disagreed, and as such was entitled to an educa tion in Missouri. Either build him a law school "equal in all respects" to the one attended by whites, the Court ordered, or admit him to the University. Missouri chose the cheaper method, but in neighboring Mississippi a politician commented, "If that nigger had lived here, he'd have hisself a brand new law school." Building Gaines his personal law school, it soon became obvious, would not have made for equality. The "either-cr" precedent therein established was shortlived, and the Mississippian's comment was mean ingless. Of a total 11,173 segregated school districts, only five were im mediately affected by the decision: Delaware, South Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Kan sas. School officials accepted the Cooper BULLETIN ABOARD USS KEARSARGE, (UPI) Astronaut L. Gordon Coop er's space capsule was pulled out of the Pacific Ocean Thursday and pIaced on ship.s deck at 8:0i p.m. EDT. ABOARD USS KEARSAGE, (UPI) Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper came down "right on the money" beside the aircraft car rier USS Kearsage Thursday aft er a 22.9-orbit space flight that ended in breath-taking tenseness because of an equipment failure. Cooper was forced to fire his re-entry rockets by hand when the automatic attitude control system World News Briefs Reds Lose Contact With Mars Vehicle MOSCOW (UPI) Soviet scien tists have lost radio contact with I their "Mars 1" space proble although it is continuing its flight, the official Tass news agency said Thursday. Tass reported the last radio con tact with the space capsule took place March 21, when it was 66 million miles from earth. Wheeler, Ott Given Posts With Dean Grant Wheeler and Matthew Ott have been appointed to the posi tions of Assistants to the Dean of Men, Dean William Long announced yesterday. " Ott will replace Dallas Cameron, who will return to the UNC Law School to complete bis third year next fall. Wheeler will replace Bill Har riss, who will be entering Duke University Law School in the fall. Ott is currently a second-year student in the University Law School. He will temporarily in terrupt his studies while acting as an Assistant to the Dean of Men. Ott, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of Brown University. He has served on active duty in the Marine Corps before entering the University and is currently a Captain in the, Marine Corps Re serve. , iWheeler, also a native of Massa chusetts, is a graduate of Deer field Academy. He will receive his B.A. in English from the Univer sity in July. Wheeler is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and is a past chairman and vice- chairman of the Men's Council. He has also served on the Campus Chest and the Attorney General's staff. In addition, he has been elected to membership in the Or der of the Old Well, the Order of the Grail, the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the Amphoterothen Society. Wheeler is married to the for mer Nancy Longstreet. They have one child, age 6 months. Court's ruling with misleading calm. As a prophetic preface to the "mas sive resistance" doctrine that was to come, Virginia's Governor Stan ley called a "conference" to de termine how the ruling was to be implemented. The Supreme Court itself was un certain how the decision should be carried out, and the resulting hesi tation, it is now generally agreed, destroyed the effectiveness of Court ordered desegregation. The phrase, "with all deliberate speed," virtual ly reinstated the "separate but equal" doctrine. Some states, particularly in the Deep South,' began a massive school contruction program. They were not trying to prove that separate schols could actually be equal; th strategy was to make integration undesirable to Negroes. Other states resorted to j tenriined voluntarily, integrated pupil placement options, and somej their schools. In all but three Sou even considered private schools at thern states some measure of in public expense an effective alterna-; tegration exists in public schools, tive to desegregation. A few border One of these three has been order states permitted token - integration! ed to desegregate, to the few Negroes that-sought it.'' The 1954 decision has had some In most caies, however; schools effects, but' school integration was Bulls-Eye Landing In Completes Perfect of the Faith 7 spacecraft failed, tipping it and available helicop- decks for a lengthy medical exam- made by an American, swaying during his 20th orbit of the earth, ters were not used because the ina tion and debriefing. He walked gently beneath his peppermint But he brought it off perfectly, landing had been so close and there 'by himself to the sick bay with candy colored parachute less than landing only about 7,000 yards from: was less danger this way. this instruments still attached to five miles off the port bow of the carrier, closer than astro naut Walter Shirra's mark after six orbits last October. Cooper was jovial and joking when he landed and said he was "feeling fine." He was taken aboard the carrier to the accom paniment of shouts of joy from the 1,600 sailors aboard. 'He apologized for missing land ing on the number three elevator of the ship, the usual way of coming aboard a carrier at dock. The capsule was pulled close to the Kearsarge by hand to avoid Since then, it added, analysis of telemetric information showed that "troubles had appeared in the or ientation system of the 'Mars 1' station, as a result of which the direction of the station's antennas toward the earth was upset." "This prevented radio contact with it during subsequent sessions," Tass said. . "Attempts are being continued at present to restore radio communi cation with the interplanetary sta tion." Jadotville Threat JADOTVILLE, Katanga, The Con go (UPI) The entire European community of this mining town 80 miles northwest of Elizabethville threatened to burn it to the ground Thursday and return to Europe. The 4,000 Europeans are in revolt following the murder Wednesday night of a Belgian worker at the Union Miniere mining complex. Daniel Dendieval was kidnapped near the center of the town Wed nesday afternoon, driven to the na tional Congolese army camp 20 miles away and beaten to death with rifle butts by 12 soldiers. The troops concerned have not been arrested and their motive for the murder was unknown. More than 500 furious Europeans met at Jadotville's Union Miniere mine club Thursday and issued an ultimatum to the Congolese authori ties: either the Congolese troops are withdrawn from Jadotsville or all white women and children will be evacuated immediately to Europe and "we will carry out a scorched earth policy." WUNC RADIO, 91.5 FM Program Schedule for Friday Evening: 6:00 The Dinner Hour 6:55 News Summary 7:00 Music 8:00 Let's Listen to Opera with Norman Cordon "Falstaff" by Verdi 10:00 Ten O'clock Report 10:15 The Quiet Hours 10:55 News Summary 11:00 SIGN OFF FOR THE SUMMER remained, rigidly segregated, - and civil rights groups looked about for opportunities to force the issue. Clinton, Tenn., and Little Rock, Ark., were selected. Civic leaders in Clinton had spoken out for mod eration, and Arkansas already had integrated in some public schools and in the university. With compar atively little violence integration at Clinton was successful. Arkansas, however, has a governor with high political ambitions. When -9 Negro children appeared on the steps of Central High School, over 5,000 Fed eral troops were ordered in to open the door. Since 1957 public education has proceeded peacefully in Little Fock. Elsewhere, desegregation has been a failure. A handful of school dis tricts have so far as can be de After the capsule was hoisted to the deck of the carrier, twoj doctors talked to Cooper while he j was still inside the capsule. The j hatch cover was blown off minutes; later and Cooper stepped out onto the flight deck. Also talking to Cooper while he was in the capsule was John Gra- ham of the NASA recovery team was given instructions in manual on the Kearsarge. Jly firing the rockets by Lt. Col. Cooper emerged from the space; John Glenn, who said Cooper's caDsule wearing a bi2 smile and; appearing in excellent condition. He immediately went below D ninne sentencec; Year 1 By JOEL BULKLEY A UNC student charged with loit ering and failing to obey a police officer was sentenced to a year in jail and fined $200 Wednesday in City Recorder's Court in Birming ham, Ala. John Dunne, a 20-year-old junior from Brecksville, Ohio, was arrest ed Saturday outside the Birming ham City Jail while helping Negro parents locate their children, who were being released from jail. He King Claims Whites Made Some Errors BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said Thursday there was a "misun derstanding" on just what deseg regation was promised to Negro leaders to end Birmingham's pro test campaign. King told a news conference he felt there were "three or four errors" in a statement released by white negotiators listing what con cessions were granted, and that he was dissatisfied with their state ment. Sidney W. Smyer, a white busi nessman who headed a committee which met with Negro leaders, said earlier that the agreement called for one downtown department store to hire one clerk and there would be some job upgrading. King said, however, "We went away with the idea that this meant all the stores would hire Negro clerks. We expect clerks and upgrading in all stores." Local Negro leader Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth interjected "We would not feel justified that 3,000 Negroes went to jail here just for one clerk to be hired." King was asked if this meant the demonstrations would resume if the controversy was not resolv ed. He said "We are going to solve that through conferences with white leaders and not through the press." He said, however, "We stand pre Effect not cne of them. North Carolina, one of the more progressive states, in 1960 had only 77 Negroes in pre viously all-white schools out of 1,- 116,700 total enrollment, or 150 of one percent. To date, no North Caro lina school has been voluntarily in tegrated except the Chapel Hill dis trict, and even there "tokenism" is the rule. But the state's pupil placement law was questioned in a 1962 decision involving schools in Durham. No substitute has yet been devised. Attempts to implement the 1954 decision have been disappointing. The NAACP, rather than contest all the intricate tactics Southern legislatures have spawned, now seeks a ruling that -would force the school 'district to take the initiative in school desegregation. Without such a ruling, H adding Carter's 1954 prediction, that actual .integration is "a long way off," appears the case. "Black Monday,"- a term once used only by segregationists, has become the Negro's term of con tempt for Brown vs. Board of Tp peka. . Pacific his space suit. j The space flight went around the world 22.9 times and until the 20th orbit was functioning witn textbook precision. It was then that the automatic distance last October, attitude control system on the; The spectacular flight took 34 Faith 7 spacecraft failed. With 'hours. 20 minutes and 30 seconds less than five hours to go, Cooper firms was ri2ht on the money, Cooper came down from his his toric flight, by far the longest ever was charged with loitering after be ing warned to leave. Later another charge, refusal to obey the lawful j command of an officer, was added, He was released Sunday on $600 bond put up by the "Birmingham Movement." Dunne was convicted Wednesday on both charges and sentenced to 180 days in jail and fined $100 on each count. He has five days to appeal the decision but has not done so yet. pared to back up our demands with everything that is necessary. Have Faith "We want to reiterate that we have faith in the people with whom we are negotiating and we feel the agreements will go through at the time set," King said. King also said "we understood the agreement was that the lunch counters would be integrated 90 days after the halt of demonstra tions," not 90 days after it is de cided which form of government the city will have. The question as to the form of government was argued before the state supreme court Thursday. Birmingham citizens voted this spring to change from a three commissioner form to a mayor council form, but the three com missioners have refused to leave office on grounds their terms have not expired. jo Fine Arts Program Response Very Good By JIM CARR Response to the fine arts pro gram instituted for freshmen wom en to begin next fall has ben excel lent, according to Margaret Fol- ger, director of women's admis - sions for the University. Under the program 24 women will be admitted as freshmen whose field of study will be in music, art or dramatics.. So far, about 30 ap plications have been received. The plan callls for 10 to be ad- mitted in the music program, six thus far, it should be a great sue in art and six in dramatic art. ! recs " Probably two more will be ac cepted, but it has not been decid ed in what field. At present, nine have been ao cepted in music, four in dramatics, riculum. Whiie in the General Col and one in art. "These are only the lege they will take their elective s ones who have remitted their en- from their major field. A'.'r.y:: trance fees," Mrs. Folger said, j in a special program, they v. ill S "Others have been accepted, but working for a regular Bacher ef we have not heard from them. At. Arts degree. least two others have been accept-j They will be housed m Spencer ed in dramatic art and one in , Dorm, along with a'l the' r?hr music. j freshmen women living on cam- "We probably would have had a 'pus. "We do not plan to isolate greater response if the program them," Mrs. Folger said. "Thi.i is had been announced earlier," she merely in line with the regulations said. "As it is, many girls proba-jof the office of Dean of Women, bly have not heard about it, unless j After their freshman year, they they read about it in the newspap- will be eligible to he ar-y hcre ers." The program, established as -on campus, just Lie any ether a result of action by the Board of j women students. Trustees of the University, was announced on Feb. 3. "The caliber of the srmlirant has been extremely high," she said. "All of them had very high college board bcores and good high Flight the Kearsarge. Sixteen hundred sailors on the five-acre flight deck let out a yell as their ship dupli- cated the feat of recovering astro- naut Walter Shirra within visual from the time Cooper was blasted off frcm Cape Canaveral, Via., at 8:10 a.m. Wednesday until his landing in the Pacific according to .a preliminary official estimate made by Mercury control in Wash ington. .n Money for an appeal bond is be ing raised by the "Birnvngham Movement," Dean of Student Af fairs Charles Henderson said Thursday. Henderson commented, "The Uni versity is interested in Dunne's get ting fair treatment and returning to school as soon as possible." Henderson declined comment on what, if anything, the University is doing to assist Dunne. A spokesman for the legal depart ment of the "Birmingham Move ment" told the DTH that the group's attorney, Arthur Shores and An zel Billingsly, were trying to get convicted persons out on bond as soon as possible, but were falling behind because of the large number of convictions. Smith Named SP Vice Chairman A three-way fight for vice-chairman highlighted Student Party elections Wednesday night. Bob Smith edged Haynes Mc- Fadden and Dennis Myers in a hotly-contested election that saw vot ing go to a second ballot. Smith and McFadden tied on the first ballot, with nine votes each, while Myers trailed with five. On the second vote, Smith won by a 12-10 margin. As expected, Ncal Jackson, for mer vice-chairman, was unopposed for the top spot in the party. Other new officers are Diane Hile, secretary; Jeff Davis, treas urer; Vance Barron, sergeant-at-arms. school records. In addition, they all seemed genuinely interested in the program." The applicants have all been ! screened by the department in which they wish to study. Those ac- 1 cepted must c'd by hc - screenin2 boards as well as mect the entrance requirements of the University. "The program was instituted "n an experimental basis," Mrs. Fol ger said. "Judging from the high quality of the students accepted The girls will begin training in the fine arts during their fresh man year, in addition to following the regular General College cur- "I'm sure we uill have a great manv more applications next ' vear" Mrs. Folder said. 'I Cant say whether or not more will he j accepted then. That's up to the I Board of Trustee.;." oT SLLl I
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