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U.n.c. Library Serials .Dept. Box 870 Chap91 -mib Mff Edition Officc3 in Graham.Memorial Ife Sssflg Today's Weather CLOUDY AND MILD. CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1963 United Press International Service UNCs M&M Boys Streak For Home 75 Of Carolinians DON'T PheliDS Make Dorm L- Cross-country runners Art Maillet (left) and Jimmy Meads fin ish in a virtual first place tie yesterday as the Carolina harriers defeated Duke 21-36, for an undefeated dual-meet season. UNC fin ished 7-0 in the ACC and enters the Conference and State Champion ships as heavy favorites next week. (See page 4.) Photo by Jim Wallace F acuity Unaware Of Trial By PETE WALES "I haven't the slightest idea of what you're talking about." This statement, made by Law School Dean Henry Brandeis, was typical of over half the reactions of selected faculty members to last week's decision to drop stu CCnts from the Student-Faculty Review Board. The new. Faculty Review. Board met last night for the first time to hear an appeal by a freshman who had been convicted by the Men's Council for falsifying an at tendance roll. The freshman pleaded guilty but was appealing the sentence cf two semesters probation. The Board reduced the probation time to one semester. The Student Body President was invited to attend the review but did not attend. "I felt it inappropriate to attend the meeting while the student community was still so seriously concerned with the way the changes were made," President Lawler said. The chairman of the Men's Council and all the witnesses of the original trial testified in the leview. Records of the original trial were also presented. Members of the faculty inter viewed about the changes an nounced by the Faculty Commit tee on Student Discipline over a week ago had mixed reactions. Over half of those interviewed were not sufficiently informed to comment. . "I'm against it," said Dr. Dan Pollitt, professor of law. "I think we ought to have stu dents participating ... and if we're not, I think we ought to outh's Best Minds North: Prestige By SUZY STERLING "Many and probably most of the brightest graduates of Southern colleges pick graduate schools in other parts of the country for their advanced study," according to Dr. John L. Snell, dean of the Graduate School at Tulane University in a report released recently. However, according to Dean Wallace, associate dean of the grad school here, "The problem is not serious at UNC. We get more applications than we can handle, possibly second in num ber only to Texas." But the fact remains that those graduate students receiv ing fellowships are, for the most part, not using them in the South. In the past three years the pro portion of students using national fellowships to study in the South has decreased from 17 to 13 per cent. Eighty er cent of southern stu dents awarded Woodrow Wilson fellowships left the region for :. : ... -J- Change talk it over with them." Dr. J. Carlyle Sitterson, dean cf the College of Arts and Scien ces and History professor, felt it was "improper" for students to sit on the Review Board. Dean Sitterson was chairman of the Faculty Executive Com mittee in the late 1940's. "We heard all appeals from the student courts at that time. There were no students or Administra tion officials on the Board. It was done solely by the faculty. "As for the method in which the decision was made, I would have to be better informed about the factors and procedures going on in the decision before I could comment." "I think there are two sides to the matter," Journalism Pro fessor Walter Spearman said. "I think there are good reasons why students should be excluded from the Board, but since the Board was a joint student-faculty one, and had been recognized as such, I don't think the change should have been made without consulting the students." "I don't know the facts," RTVMP Professor John Clayton said. "According to Gary Blanch ard (DTH Co-Editor) and Bob Spearman (Student Body Vice President), the students were not consulted. "If this is the fact, I would regret it. I would hope that the faculty would consult with the students before making the change. "As a general matter of philo sophy, I regret the change. My personal preference would be to maintain a student-faculty board of review." their advanced study. Since 1960, the number of out standing students in the South allotted National Defense Educa tion Act Awards has decreased from 35 to 28 per cent. These facts yield an inescap able conclusion: Eighty per cent of southern stu cther regions in graduate edu cation, is," as a result, "losing many of its best young minds to these other regions." The report indicated only six Southern graduate schools with national reputations. Included were Virginia, Vanderbilt, Tex- as, Tulane, Duke and UNC. But it was noted that "The South has far too few graduate schools of this caliber.And none of these listed in the top ten of the nation. Few of the outstand ing students in other regions think of taking graduate edu cation in the South." Grad students here indicated several reasons for this "export of Southern brains." Surprisingly enough, the pres tige of a Ph.D. from a northern f ' Is Want Speaker Editor's Note: Due to early deadline, only part of Sen. Martin's Wednesday night speech could be reported. A complete story of the speech follows. By DIANE IIILE "I believe that if the speaker bill is properly explained as you students understand it, 75 per cent of the North Carolin ians wouldn't stand for it," State Senator Perry Martin told the UNC Young Demo crats Wednesday night. "I have explained the dan gerous implications of the so called Gag Law to many civic organizations and I found they agree with my objection to it." The Democratic Senator from Northampton County, who is "considering running for Lieu tenant Governor if the right gubernatorial candidate is cho sen," discussed legislative re districting, the so-called Gag Law and the defeat of the Court of Union Bill. "I feel that the speaker ban law is the greatest legislative mistake since 1900," he said, "and I said so in the Senate." "the bill was railroaded through legislature and it was not considered in any of the many legislative committees, nor was it placed on the offi cial calendar. Instead, it came from the House by a special messenger and a voice vote was called before the Senators real ized what was going on. "The next day we managed to rally enough votes to defeat the bill. However, it was claimed that the revote would be em barrassing to the President of the Senate, so the idea was dropped." Senator Martin called the bill a great insult to State-supported institutions, to the people of North Carolina and to the Fifth Amendment. " ."I also believe that this h suit will be removed before any of you present are elected to legislature," he said, "and if it is not, I hope you will re move it." Commenting on the legisla tive redistricting, he said: "Because some states have refused to redistrict, Supreme Courts are taking action by in cluding such matters and prob lems under the equal protec tion clause. I am glad and proud that North Carolina legislature was able to resolve its differences in the four-day legislative session instead of in the Supreme Court." "The decision was difficult. It was necessary to approve the Little Federal Plan, a con stitutional amendment soon to be voted on by the public, in order to accomplish redistrict ing. We had to place between 90,000 to 91,000 in each district without cutting across county lines. This is difficult when we have counties whose population ranges from 275,000 in Meck lenburg to 4,000 in Tyrrell." "I must also give credit to the legislature for their great est act of courage," said Mar tin, "and that was the defeat of the Court of Union Bill." The bill proposed to organize Going Cause school was at the top of the list. It was also emphasized that a "higher quality of education was expected" from those schools having a national reputation. Secondly, the students indicated that there are "wider job oppor tunities" in the North. It is "eas ier to get a job moving from the North to other regions." Getting a Ph.D. from the South was said to "limit the region of job possi bilities." Other less important reasons indicated were better Northern Library facilities, possible racial trouble in the South, and the desire to see another part of the country. Dean Wallace noted that al though the over-all graduate school here was not one of the top ten in the nation, "Some departments at UNC are best in nation while many others ap proach national stature." He agreed that 'the majority of graduate schools in the south do not compare in quality to the ones which are attracting tie out standing student." Bali- 50 justices who would decide if the Supreme Court has proper ly exercised its power. "The Supreme Court has served our nation well since 1790," he said, "and in all times has been the real salva tion of this nation. From Mar- bury vs. Madison to the Brown case to the religious issues i there has been nothing compar able to the Court in the salva tion of democracy of this na tion. "It is no time for a country to kill its umpire and look for something better. If life is 4 Organizations Get Funds Frozen Four campus organizations have had student government funds frozen for failure to comply with budget committee regulations, Dick Akers, student body treas urer . .announced yesterday. The organizations and . their chairmen are the Carolina Forum, ' John Ulfelder; the Honor Sys tem Commission, Jane Yeager; Chamber Concert Tonight The Moscow Chamber Orches tra, under the direction of Ru dolph BarsharL, will open te tenth season of : the Chapel Hill Concert Series with a concert to night in Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. UNC students will be admitted free by ID cards. f - Fourteen strings, supplemented by two oboists, two hornists, and a harpsichordist-organist com prise the ensemble. All the mu sicians are graduates of the Mos cow Conservatory. While the repertory's founda tion is music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this core is augmented by the works of other periods. The Orchestra was formed in 1955 by musicians eager to play a repertory not usually perform ed in concert series. They gave what time they could spare from their jobs with opera, symphony orchestras or music schools. An immediate sucess follow ing its 1956 Moscow debut, the Orchestra was added to the Min istry of Culture's group of dance, musical and dramatic ensembles. The Moscow Chamber Orches tra is an orchestra of soloists and each is heard in a solo part during the course of the program. The program for tonight's con cert includes: Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K 201 by Mozart: Divertissement in F Major, by Bartok; Visions fugitives (ar ranged by Barshai) by Prokofieff ; and Concerto in B Minor for Four Violins by Vivaldi. ALL SAINTS DAY A public procession with chant ing of the ancient litany of All Saints will highlight a Scholars' Mass at St. Thomas More Catho lic Chapel on Gimghoul Road tonight. The procession will begin at 5:15 p.m. from the basement of the chapel. Solemn high mass will be held after the procession, with a sermon by a Jesuit priest on "The Pursuit of Knowledge in the Presence of Truth." All Saints Day is an official Holy Day of the Roman Catholic Church. $53,512 GRANT A grant' of $53,512 has been awarded to Dr. Lyle V. Jones by the National Institute of Health for continuation of his study on aphasia, the speech malady which primarily affects stroke victims. Dr. Jones is director of the Psychometric Laboratory at UNC and professor of psychology. For the past five years Dr. Jones has been working with a University of Chicago team to determine the differences be tween normal speech and the speech of aphasia patients Martin changing steadily among races and creeds, then tews must change. It is up to the young citizens to defend the Court." Senator Martin also made a plea for young Democrats to participate in government. "The Democratic - party is in real danger," he said. "Many mistakes made in the last legis lative . session were made by Democrats not worthy of the name. If these people take con trol of the Democratic party, North Carolina will no longer be known as the "Citadel of Free dom" in the South. the Men's Council, Whitney Du rand; and the Women's Council, Carolyn Pinion. Akers said the organizations fail ed to appear before the budget committee as requested to discuss their finances. He said that all campus organizations receiving student funds were instructed to appear in order to find out what their responsibilities to the com mittee will be. "We have set up a system whereby every organization will be required to furnish monthly statements to us," Akers said. "We will issue periodic financial statements based on these re ports." Akers indicated that the organi zations will have their funds with held until they comply with the regulations and are prepared to issue monthly reports. Drive Tonight Only $43,012 is needed to raise and reveal the mystery of the fifth flag. Five flags will report the prog ress of the 1964 Community Chest Drive which begins today. The first four flags will each repre sent 20 of the total quota, and will flutter daily on the corner of Franklin and Columbia Streets. The fifth flag will not fly until the quota has been reached. Approximately 500 Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents have agreed to help in the campaign according to Mayor Sandy Mc Clamroch, chairman of the drive. Proceeds will benefit nine charitable organizations with the Red Cross receiving the largest share. The cooperation of merchants, as well as that of area news media, has been assured. Chest Van Doren To Speak Mark Van Doren, Pultizer Prize-winning poet who is con sidered one of the best American poets now writing, will present the Weil Lecture here on Nov. 13. The lecture theme will concern the position of classical educa tion in the development of citi zenship today. Van Doren, 69-year-old native of the 'all but invisible village" of Hope, 111., now resides in Falls Village, Conn. He became a teacher a sec ond choice to becoming a writer at Columbia University in the fall of 1920. Although his teach ing plans were short-term, they continued uninterrupted for al most 40 years. He was awarded the Pultizer Prize for poetry in 1939 and his stature as a poet has grown steadily since. In addition to his poetry, he began writing fiction and non fiction stories in the mid-1940's. One of the most recent publi cations of his works is "Mark Van Doren: Collected and New Poems, 1924-1963," which con tains more than 800 poems span ning a period of 40 years, some published for the first time. The Weil Lecture will be pre sented at S p.m. in Hill HalL peeciK is speaker .Ban Law Violated? By GARY BLANCHARD and DAVID ETHRIDGE Larry Phelps, a spring gradu ate of UNC and a self-acknowledged Marxist-Leninist, spoke informally on campus Wednes day night. During his talk, Phelps re portedly referred to himself as "a communist, with a small 'c' " apparently meaning he is a com munist in philosophy, but not a member of the Communist Party. However it Is still uncertain whether his speaking violated the Speaker Ban Law, and if so, who is responsible for the viola tion. The double-pronged uncertain Professed Marxist Talks About Cuba By JOHN GREENBACKER and HUGH STEVENS Larry Phelps, a former UNC student who calls himself a "Marxist-Leninist," told Ever ett dorm residents Wednesday night that "Cuba's revolt is the most important historical event since the American Revolution." Phelps and John Salter, also a former UNC student, spoke in the dorm about their trip to Cuba in defiance of the State Department travel ban. The discussion was prompted when Phelps, a former Everett resident, came to visit a few of his friends in the dorm dur .ing.. the...,, afternoon, ,., bringing: Salter along. They agreed to carry on an informal question end answer period with inter ested students in the dorm so cial room about 11:30 p.m. "Why do you think the Cuban government sponsored the trip?" Phelps was asked. "They feel they have a story to tell which is not being told here, and they believed that we (the students who made the trip) could tell it," he said. "The U.S. has a Berlin wall of its own around Cuba." Salter told the students, "about 70 per cent of the Cuban people are behind the government. About 20 to 25 per cent ere apathetic, and five to ten per cent are counter-revolutionary." "The people are willing to defend their country," Phelps said. "A quarter of a million U.S. lives would be lost if we try to invade Cuba." In reply to a question con cerning the Cuban people's po sition on Russian aid, Phelps said, "the Cuban people want Russian eid. They feel it is the aid of a friendly nation its pur pose is not insidious." Phelps said the Cuban people are aware of the plans and ideology of the Castro govern ment. "People know what they are doing when they revolt," he said. "Castro has always edu cated the people about his in tents." WTien asked if the original revolt was intended . to place a Communist government in power, Phelps answered, "cer tainly there was shock when Harvard's Dorms Used For Orgies CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPD Wild sex parties at Harvard Uni versity, the nation's oldest col lege, were disclosed Thursday by Harvard officials. College Dean John U. Monro said visits by coeds and other women to Harvard dormitories "has come to be a license to use the college rooms for wild parties and sexual intercourse." Under college rules, Harvard men may entertain women in their rooms from 4-7 p.m. Mon day through Friday and from noon to midnight on Saturday. Monro's disclosure of the par ties by "a few" of the university's 13,700 students were made in the Crimson, Harvard's under-gradu-ate daily newspaper. His remarks were confirmed as authentic by a college spokesman. ty hinges on several factors, which cropped up in a DTH in vestigation following the inci dent. First, Phepls was not invited to speak by any "authorized" student group. Yet only student groups "authorized to invite visiting speakers" are covered under the Board of Trustees' directive of July 8 implement ing the controversial law. Phelps spoke at the unofficial request of several students liv ing in Everett Dormitory. Second, only one of the law's three prohibitions could possibly apply to Phelps. This is the sec tion barring speakers who have the announcement on intentions was made, but the circum stances in the country forced Castro to become Communist for the benefit of the people. The people believe in Fidel. When the people don't see, Fidel will explain." Phelps and Salter were asked why the people didn't form a democratic government if they were so interested in it. Salter replied, "The people have a voice in the govern ment. All workers are members of local party groups called Syndicates. There is only one party. Each year, ten 'best workers are chosen from all the 7 .Syndicates in Cuba, and . they are admitted into the ruling body of the party." Salter admitted that the inner party sets the qualifications and chooses its own membership. He did not comment as to whether this form of government was an oligarchy. Phelps admitted that the diet of the average Cuban was not as good as before the revolu tion in many respects. "This is to be expected after such a radical change in the economic system," he said. He said he felt living was better for the people under Castro than ever before. Anger was aroused during the discussion when Phelps made several derogatory statements about U.S. aid to Vietnam, and confessed that he cheered when he saw films of U.S. helicopters being shot down in Vietnam while he was in Cuba. During the discussion, Don Carson, an Everett resident, read to Phelps the text of the state Speaker Ban Law. Pheips said the third part of section one (which concerns persons who have invoked the Fifth Amendment concerning subver sive activities applied to him. Many of those present expressed the fear of adverse oificial re action. At one point, a report sive activities applied to him.) by Peter Williams, another resi dent, who did not wish the meet ing to be publicized. They were restored only after the reporter said that he had not been as signed to the story by the Daily Tar Heel. Monro said he and Dean of Students Robert Waston "have been badly shaken up recently by some severe violations of our rules and recent standards of be havior and the feeling that the college itself seemeed to be con tributing to an atmosphere of 'don't care.'" 'Trouble has arisen because what was once considered a plea sant privilege allowing women in dormitories has come to be a license to use the college for wild parties and sexual inter course." Harvard, founded in 1636, shares classrooms with Rad cliffe, a women's college. A series of meetings between students and officials were held recently but failed to resolve a disagreement over changes in house roles. taken the Fifth Amendment "in refusing to answer any question, with respect to communist or subversive connections, or acti vities, before any duly constitut ed legislative committee . . ." Phelps said during his talk that he felt this section applied to him because of his recent ap pearance before the House Un American Activities Committee (HUAC) while it was investigat ing last summer's trip to Cuba by 59 Americans, including Phelps. However, a check with Lou Russell, a HUAC staff member in Washington, revealed that Phelps took the Fifth Amend ment four times during his testi mony, but only in answer to questions concerning his associa tions with Jacob Rosen and John Salter. 'Both are known members of the Progressive Labor Club, an avowedly Marxist-Leninist group more militant than the U.S. Com munist Party. Salter is a form er UNC student who went to Cuba with Phelps.) Thus whether Phelps is cov ered under the Fifth Amend ment section depends on a lesal decision as to whether Phelps' refusal to answer HUAC ques tions about his associations is the same thing as "refusing to answer any question, with re spect to communist or subver sive connections, or activities," which the law specifies. The other two prohibitions of the law apparently could not apply to Phelps because he is not "A known member of the Communist Party" and he is not "known to advocate the -overthrow-of '-'-the U.S. or state constitution. The third factor clouding the issue is that the law says no college or university supported by the state "shall permit any person to use the facilities of such college or university for speaking purposes" who falls under the law. However, the law provides that "This act shall be enforced by the Board of Trustees . . . or by such administrative per sonnel as may be appointed therefor by the Board of Trus tees . . ." The Trustees' directive says that "This policy shall be en forced by student representa tives of student organizations authorized to invite visiting speakers ..." It therefore appears that re sponsibility for the execution of the law is vested solely with the "authorized" person issu ing the invitation to the speak erand no "authorized" person invited Phelps to speak. However, University officials were aware Phelps was speak ing end an administration repre sentative attended the meeting after checking with his su perior. The representative, Matthew Ott, assistant to the Dean of Men, said he was informed of Phelps' scheduled appearance about half an hour beiore it oc curred. He was also informed that Everett Dormitory Presi dent Paul Dickson had refused to allow the dormitory social room to be used for the talk. Ott therefore called Dean of Men William Long to deter mine what should be done. Chancellor William B. Ay cock said Long queried him about the matter, asking him if he had "any information that would put him (Phelps) on the taboo list." Aycock said he told Long that he was "distrubed about it, but I couldn't say whether he (Phelps) could speak or not." Ott said he received word back from Long "that the social room could be used." It was. Phelps, joined by Salter, discussed their Cuban visit from 11 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. "What was done was the only responsible thing that could be done under the circumstances." Long said late last night. "If we had had concrete evidence that he was a self-avowed com munist, whatever he means by that, that would have put a dif ferent slant on the thing. "But we didn't have that evidence then," Long continued, "although we feel we have it now. So we would have to step in end prevent him from speak ing if he tried to speak in the future, knowing what we know now." ! I
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