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Volume 72, Number 60 Wednesday, December 4, 1963 New Chapter I'i a LETTERS J EDiToRS 70 Years of Editorial Freedom 8 - ET " rApxt: University J f 7''" - " ; - Offices on the secooJ. floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Business, cir culation, advertising 933-11G3. Address: Box 1080, Chapel HID, N. C. Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. G, pursuant to Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4-50 per semester; $S per year. Published daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street. Chapel Hill. N. C THE DAILY TAR HEEL Is a subscriber to United Press International and utilizes the services of the University News Bureau. 'Luther Is Leaving (ivheeze, crank) Luther Hodges, our former "Bus inessman Governor" and a resident of Chapel Hill, will probably go down in history as the best known Secretary of Commerce the United States ever had. Sadly enough, this isn't because of his achievements in running his depart ment, although we understand he has done a most creditable job. It's not due, either, to any involve ment of Hodges in unseemly hi-jinx. Nor does he seem to have stepped on the toes of anyone in a position to re taliate by getting him fired. No, it's simply due to the machina tions of what appears to be a perpetual rumor-mill hidden .somewhere within Washington. The damn thing keeps cranking out reports that Luther is leaving, which he consistently and stout ly denies. He has denied it so many times, in fact, that it appears he has set some kind of record. One can only hope, with Hodges, we're sure, that the endless rumors will cease, now that the man Hodges supported for President at the 1960 Democratic National Convention is in the White House. We feel sure that Hodges would rath er be remembered for something other than denying rumors. We hope our fel low journalists in Washington will give him that opportunity by showing a little more responsibility when it comes to giving currency to unsupported rumors. Dead Nags And Candidate Lake I. Beverly Lake got his campaign for the 1964 Democratic gubernatorial nom ination off to a great start Monday by beating hell out of a dead horse. Speaking to a Greensboro civic club, Lake displayed the same irrational sus picions and lack of understanding which helped to keep him from winning the nomination in 1960. The Raleigh attorney and former Wake Forest law professor played on his old theme about the sinister nature of 'big government,' even going so far as saying in a press conference after wards that, "It is imperative to see that our children are taught to place their faith in freedom and to distrust big government . . ." What a sterile pitch this is, especial ly now, with the state and the nation facing such pressing problems, and the need to progress on all fronts so impor tant. We already have big government,' as , befits a nation of 190 million people fac ed with a huge population explosion and 1 a continuing migration from indepen dent rural living to interdependent ur ban living. ' The problem, as we have noted before, is to keep governmental growth orderly and to keep the whole apparatus respon sible to the people. Lake seems blissfully unaware of such obvious distinctions. Then too, in his remarks about teach ing our children "to place their faith in freedom and to distrust big govern ment," Lake gives evidence of danger ous confusion over the difference be tween education and indoctrination , the same sort of confusion which the Communists have made into a science. 1 Surely Lake can do better than this. Surely he must realize that this is a time for realistic solutions to real pro blems, not for caning old carcasses. The Silent Mast Find Their Voices The New York Times There ha -.,hn much talk in recent dayn t;f th; "sh&rje 0f Dallas." It is worth re&es&erfog that most of us, n m&lUT yrh&rz "rt li'tf have a share In tfc zih for atmoKpherc that zxTrZd OiZi ksA z. Ruby. In hia && V) fm Umhinz and UJt p;-f&.r evil anI vio- ;P.?fcrOjii'ii 2bz&n has called on -.jfvfcfi i Xjf&turxA&s z.rA blz'Ary, from f.Hfbe .ifiant .of .law ,.nd xho- who )ir "from the .if it moves only into the y&st fajo-':.'-y rf decent .-citizens who In the past jUwe rifcniwl vaguely, if .), xYMr own (MtniAiiiAibiiity i'or the .nativJiaj jiCffer-M&i.- zhai h? permitted the hte groups f!9 'lovirisii. But .there will V longer )mz txivs lor h&me in .Dallies or jn Vash rlon or Uevhere in the oouutiy if fi;e president ..appeal moves the amuz, f.-he M;I-rhteCvis .and -Uve ijl 4h .j-;.itt morK the ileacUsr of opiijivn jn Vh,U lidiOr Spwt KdUur Night Kdltvr .... Jim W&Uu4 Jim Wll .,,.,w., pob tiamit Reporter: Mickey ftUuthvjtll, AdrititratUm Peter VaU, Cawfru Aff'Hr Hugh Steven $, Student Government Editorial Aitant; Dale Keyser Linda McPhcrton Science Editor . Women's Editor Reviews Editor . Sue Slmondn Linda Ripgi Mat Friedman Diane I I He ,,, , . Steve Dennis the nation and in every community. ) There are some men in high places nationally and locally who have lent ; their presence and their tolerance to organizations founded on the principles of hatred and of fear. There are many more whose responsibility is not less- : ened by the fact that they simply have ' failed to speak out clearly and forcefully against the degradation of our demo cratic ideals. It is those who have looked the other way among the nation's opinion-makers the businessmen and labor leaders, the politicians and preachers, the school admin intra tors, editors, professional man, police chiefs and local officials who now, one must hope, will hear in the Presidents message the words of John Donne: . . never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Slop! Thief! JlopefuJJy the student community will tak; to h'-art the remarks of Chapel Hill om Detective Howard Pender zraphf vhen he warns against leaving tfm of value in unlocked cars and dormitory rooms. To be sure, it is a sad fact that stu dnt cars and rooms are not safe from , neak thieves, but it is nevertheless a fact ami we have to live with it. Htud-nts who neglect to observe the elemental safeguard of locking their th'xtrti, Penderxraph notes, unwittingly cauise 00 per cent of the trouble them--lve,i by offering rich pickings with a minimum of effort. L;t's start making the thieves' job at least a little more difficult, thereby im proving their chances of getting caught in the act. Let's keep those doors lock ed or keep valuables stored someplace else. And let's not hesitate to report ' persons who are acting suspiciously. ; This rash of thefts must be stopped. 11?&j$ i J REVIEW The New Deluge Observed By STEVE DENNIS And it was Fall in the year 1963, and Vintage brought forth yet another batch of quality pap erbacks. And the bookshelves which had been empty became less empty, and those which I. were full became even fuller. And it was an occasion for great rejoicing. The celebration of an ' intellectual mass was suggested, in honor of another victory at Random House, home of the proud parents . . . ' Jerome S. Bruner's The Pro cess of Education is, in essence, ' the expanded Director's Report from the 1959 Woods Hole Con ference at Cape Cod. The pur pose of this meeting was for ; members of several disciplines to discuss methods for improv ing the teaching of science in American primary and second ary schools. Included in the book are considerations of basic at titudinal factors influencing the readiness of students to learn and methods by which teachers might encourage such readiness and improve their teaching tech niques with, the information of- , fered by professional psycholo gists and scientists. ($1.35) The New Work! of Philosophy, by Abraham Kaplan, is a com pilation of lectures discussing contemporary movement in philosophy at UCLA in 1959 and ' I960. Kaplan recognizes three basic themes in the philosophies ; which he studies, rationality, activism, and humanism. In what could be termed a philoso phic circumnavingation of the globe, he discusses pragmatism, ' analytic philosophy, existential ism, the influences on Freud on DhilosoDhv. Communism, Indian philosophy, Buddhism, Chinese philosophy, and Zen. He ignores almost completely (only one reference in the index to "phen omenological base") the phen- omenologist philosophers, how ever. This is a serious oversight in a book aiming at inclusive ness. ($1.65) Art students, and in fact any one with an interest in aesthe- DISLIKE SOUTUDE PORTLAND, Ore. (UPD Hos pital patients queried in a survey here overwhelmingly picked two bed rooms and four-bed rooms over single rooms. Only 22 per cent of the patients questioned preferred single rooms. tics, will surely want to look , at Wylie Sypher's new collec tion of essays, Art History; An Anthology of Modern Criticism. The essays are arranged in a rough order corresponding to the periods which they cover, and lesser known articles have been preferred to those which make most anthologies, in order to extend the range of materials ! readily available to the student. A reading list with other selec : tions is included. Sypher believes his book is needed for two rea- sons: the great creativity in the 1 last seventy years has resulted in much new art which needs to be examined and criticized, . and he feels that many nineteen ' th-century decisions were the result of provincialism or a lack of enough relevant infor i mation. ($2.45) Jane Jacobs sounds the tocsin for another fight among city planners in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a no-holds-barred criticism of pre sent concepts and their historic origins. She believes her crit icisms are implicit in what 'city planners have done to the cities they have been allowed to plan. In an argument which she would not have extended from cities, I she explains why she does not think the Automobile is the chief culprit and develops her theory of the importance of the "inner city." "This ubiquitous 1 principle is the' need of cities for a most intricate and close grained diversity of uses that give each other constant mutual support, both economically and socially." She considers Le Corbusier's Garden City only the City Beautiful in different guise. ($1.95) Modern science seems self 's condemned to become ever more ' obscure to the average well . educated layman. The "Svi ! World of Physics, by Arthur ' March and Ira M. Freeman, is another in the growing list of popular accounts of the events and men beyond all the new complications, and an attempt to explain in simple terms just what these new developments say which could not have been said before. The book is chiefly concerned with quantum mech ! anics and relativity and other ' concepts which cluster conven iently and automatically around these two. ($1.45) Continuing the Council on Foreign Relations's admirable series of annual foreign policy surveys is The United States in World Affairs: 19G2, by Rich , ard P. Stebbins. Mr. Stebbins' aim is "to present a concise ' anaytical record of the Ameri ( can international experience in '' 1962" and "to appraise the year's developments in an in 1 dependent and objective manner and to place them in such his torical perspective as is possible so soon after the event." This book will probably be more use ; ful for an overview and as a , source of arguments than as the final opinion about 1962, which could hardly be expected in 1963. The influence the discussions ' of a possible United States of Europe have had on American Foreign policy and an analysis of this concept is Max Beloff's The United States and the Unity ' of Europe, a Brookings Institu tion Study. The book studies the events in this area since the Second World War, and how , American attitudes have affect ' ed them, both tactically and philosophically. Naturally, most of the emphasis is on the Europe of the Sixes and the European ' Economic Community (the Common Market). This is a book containing more facts and source materials than conclusions, which must wait for more developments to become definitive. ($1.65) Probably the most important book in the entire collection, from the standpoint of the paperback itself, is the reprint of Nina Potapova's revised text book Learning Russian. Langu age textbooks, especially in the elementary stages, represent a i considerable expense for stu- dents, since they must be bought and ideally should be marked for study and reference. Often, ' though, consecutive books will overlap so considerably that some must be sold. A series of - inexpensive paperback langu age grammars, added to the ! present paperback dictionaries, would be a great boon to stu dents. This book represents a predisposition on the part of at least one publisher to do some thing about this situation. For this Vintage is to be highly com mended. ($2.45) ... and in Chapel Hill the ' Intimate found room and the Bull's Head made room for these new arrivals. And students hungry for knowledge flocked to buy them. And lo, a few more courageous, read the books. Anc there was more rejoicing over this at Random House. POGO .Recovery 7?tr., The Tftf Ifref, Ttvo nation begins to recover. We Wk btflii m arxJ be";n to p)p(a back (JtLpftirT the parts of the puzzJe oalle'l "American Life." All of m take a harJ in returning the pieces lo their prop er places, but now we ore nvre conscious of the puzzle. We no?e with sorrow that someone has stolen one of the pieces awl others ore warped or frayed at the edges. When will we jsgain .see "Amer ican Life" whoie? Perhaps we never will, but then again, per haps we may. But only when we realize that each of us has a hand on the jig-saw, only when we learn to work together to re place those warped and missing pieces will the puzzle become whole. And instead of merely painting the new pieces, we must add color to the whole with our love, our pride, our devotion. Richard B. Conely 1200 Leon St, Apt. F7 Durham No Civic Pride? Editors, The Tar Heel, Several local chapters of na tional social fraternities take every opportunity to cast doubt on Barry Goldwater's contention that the fraternity system is "the last bastion of liberty" in the United States today, a contention that I, a member of a national fraternity for 13 years, find ab surd. Take a stroll down the north side of West Cameron Street from Columbia Street to the bottom of the hill. The entire block is clut tered with paper cups, beer cans, newspapers and assorted trash, rusty junk, and the remains of a Beat Dook float. Only piles of rotting garbage need be added for a perfect analogy to the poor est slums of New York. This sloppy mess is displayed directly across the street from the beau tifully landscaped lawns of the Carolina Inn for inspection by visitors to Chapel Hill. Many members of the fraterni ties responsible for the Cameron Street trash collection will even tually be leading citizens in their respective communities. I find it disturbing that they are al ready lacking in civic pride. H. D. Wagener Department of Geology Campus Let's Be Fair Editors, The Tar Heel, Thus far, no one has question ed the right of an individual not vested with a public interest to expel from. his premise those per sons whose presence he did not desire. It is absurd, therefore, to suggest, as you do, that one not fce allowed to discriminate before entry against anyone whose com pany he does not desire. Whatever fraternity leaders might use as a defense for dis criminatory practices, the heart of their argument should be that no defense is required. The very principal is one of discrimination; it's the reason for which persons voluntarily bind themselves to gether. There would be no ra tionalization for associating with a group whose membership was contra to the wishes of those who comprised it; and to command a membership averse to those re quirements which the group sets for itself is to destroy the ulti mate in individual choice. You suggest that the future policy of fraternities and sorori ties already established be dic tated by the administration using student sentiment as the measur ing rod. The ex post facto effect o? such a course is so blatantly unfair that it hardly deserves comment. Suffice it to say most, if not all, the fraternities and sororities located here would nev er have been established had their founders been compelled to open the doors without discretion. The Student Peace Union ob viously is open to ail those who want to join; but many don't ilike it, so they stay away. The same can be said of the John Birch Society, the NAACP. the ADA and the Manion Forum. Those birds who do like the various or ganizations flock together, and they try to fly in a common di rection because their hearts an 1 their efforts are set on a common foal. The point is that there i-; a jyoup or association to meet the tastes of all and the mem-tx-r.s. having come together, should t-'; free from the interests and interference of those from with out their group. It is not a requisite, even, that ' the goal be a socially beneficial one to justify an organization's ex istence. .Much criticism of frater nal life rests on the allegation that it is not "a truly effective community force," as your recent comment indicates. But that is not fatal. Again, the freedom which so many people insist up on compels that a voluntary body determine for itself whether it shall exisit to benefit society or for some other purpose not the equivalent of the United Fund. That an organization Is not a community force that some peo ple believe it ought to be should never be the justification for its abolition. If one group's desire should be imposed upon another group's activities, as is inferred from recent comment, then the institution of common slavery still would not be dead. The fairest and most represen tative method for solving the problem, it would appear to this writer, would be for those who want to integrate a fraternity or a sorority, or to admit all ethnic groups without discrimination, is to organize one which allows the membership they desire. No think ing person would object to such a plan, just as none should now object nay, can logically object 1 to the practices currently in force on this compus. Doug Liscle Erroneous Editors, The Tar Heel, Professor Robert Kozelka who is teaching for one year at the University of North Carolina while on leave from Williams was kind enough to send me an ar ticle which you carried in the Daily Tar Heel (approx. Novem ber 13). In that article you made men tion of the fact that the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Williams College went local when it was compelled to accept a Negro boy. In Che course o two short para graphs you made two completely erroneous statements. In the first place the chapter did not go local; we have the strongest national position of any house on the campus. We dis cussed with the National fratern ity at length the implications of Total Opportunity, a system which was introduced in order that all students wishing to gain admittance to a fraternity could do so. This agreement, however, in no way forced any house to accept a man which the house did not choose to offer a bid. The National fraternity is satisfied of this fact and our relations with them are excellent. With respect to the Negro boy who was pledged as a member of Beta Theta Pi; this boy was one whom all the houses were after. He was president of the senior class, an honors major, president of the College Council (student government), a member of the varsity lacrosse team, and a fine individual. I hope the above effectively points out your error and I trust you will be a little more thor ough in the future in checking the sources of your information. David N. Kershaw, President Beta Theta Pi Williams College Cheerleaders? By Walt Kelly t'O ffi.lA&. our iMtz x? you LAligtfg Cfft'i BIMKY'BQX") ONE CttCN BACK OUT CP THg WAT&R AN' I'M. RgAP YOU ANOTWfcS fSW w s mrmrw opr rvrm 40HM PiecT; IV2.-4- oAi xw&re fasti S. THAT Ul POl J U T MAT 1 f IT' XT I I fCZ Item V MAKS5T03 I Editors, The Tar Heel, I submit one emphatic amen to Jerry Haywood's letter of Nov ember 22. He spoke both of the deplorable behavior of some of the students and of the "barker who wears a cheerleader's outfit but sounds more like a marine drill sergeant with a bad hang over." Having seen every home game this year and most of them in the past two years. I know that both of these conditions un fortunately do exist. It seems that the behavior of H-,e drunks must be accepted not on the grounds of 'collegiate sophistication" as most of them feel, but with the understanding that they are little children who hopefully will soon grow up. But the "barker" is simply intoler able. At the Miami game Sat urday he not only shouted vul garities during the game (as Mr. Haywood pointed out), but he also shouted them at half time so that no one could hear the scores of the other games when they were given, and incited the Carolina students to extremely poor conduct in the form of shouting while Miami tried to call signals. Is this cheerlead ing? Here is one vote for the absence of "the barker and his toy" in '64. E. Joseph Waiton Jr. 1209 Hillview Road ,1 V
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