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Volume 72, Number 105 Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post f , Af f Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant to Satlg ear igtl m 71 Years of Editorial Freedom $8 per year. Pe&Iished daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations, throughout (he 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. This One Bears Watching, A friend of ours recently took a test ; to determine his proficiency in French, as part of the entrance requirements to a graduate school. Like many of his classmates in simi lar situations, our friend did quite poor ly. Not that he couldn't make general sense out of what he was given to read; he could and did. And it's not that he couldn't translate the material, after a fashion. He could do this also. But, as , his examiner noted, our friend couldn't : think in French he couldn't therefore, qualify as anywhere near proficient in language. Fortunately for our friend and many other students bent on continuing their education on the graduate school level, this lack of proficiency wasn't disquali fying in itself. It just meant that he'd have to get to work in the months be tween now and fall and leam how to think in French. This situation would be understand able if our friend hadn't studied French 4 in college. But he had for a year and a half, the required length of time. Never theless, he wasn't anywhere near profi cient in the language when the chips ' were down. This is not to knock the French de- ' partment. But it is to suggest that the Recalcitrant, ' One of the things we shall never mourn, if it ever passes from the scene, is the era of computerized education. Computers are obviously a boon to man kind, and a boon to scientific and not-so-scientific research, but in some depart ments on this campus the faculty seems to have stumbled upon computers and embraced them the way a small child finds a new toy. We would never deny that every : discipline offered at this University : should be reviewed and scrutinized with every new approach to knowledge avail able, but it is cause for serious concern Gary Blanchard, Dave Ethridge Co-Editor Managing Editor Fred Seely Copy Editor . Linda Riggs News Editors Mickey Blackwell Bob Samsot Associate Editor Hugh Stevens Sports Editor John Montague Photo Editor . Jim Wallace Reporters : Kerry Sipe, Administration Peter Wales, Campus Affairs Jeff Dick, Municipal John Greenbacker, Student Government Editorial Assistants: Shirley Travis Nancy McCmeken Business Manager Art Penrct Heroic Courage At Auburn U. By DREW PEARSON AUBURN. Ala. When you get off the plane at Columbus, Ga., Enroute to Auburn University, the first thing you see is a large signboard which reads: "Im peach Chief Justice Earl War ren and Save the Republic." The sign is painted in striking colors, obviously an expensive job, and below in bold letters is the sponsoring signature: "The John Birch Society." One of the next things you see on the streets of Columbus is a teenager in a Beatle wig. The Beatles that very same day had finished their tour of the U. S. A. and arrived back in London. Fads travel fast. But at Auburn, things had changed. Not only is the Negro student, Harold Franklin, going about his business without a bodyguard and without insult, but the student leaders of Aub urn have shown such courage in thumbing their noses at Gov. George Wallace's high-handed ra cial policies that he has put at least four of them' on his black list. The governor, in addition to taking time to speak all over the 49 states outside Alabama and running for President in some of them, also has time to keep a list of so - called subversives. Their chief crime has been op posing his views of race rela tions, and the chief criminals at Auburn ft are Harry Wilkinson, editor of the hard-hitting univer sity paper, "The Plainsman"; Old Moss - Backed Editors when a department emphasizes the use of computers to the point of partially neglecting the old, perhaps, but classical approaches to knowledge and learning. The day of the computer has been with us for quite a while in the scien tific fields, but only recently has it re ceived extensive acceptance, in such fields as Journalism and Political Science. Certainly the use of computers can aid the study of these subjects to some extent and can facilitate the teach ing of the subject, but as a point of personal prejudice we would much rather get our facts and theories filtered through a man's mind than a bunch of tubes and wires. Of course this is all just railing against reality since we are quite con vinced that it is only a matter of time before we will be subjected to a comput er's analysis of a Bach chorale or a Car ravagio painting. This recalcitrance in the face of the inevitable naturally puts us in the camp of such fearless organizations as the Anti-Digit Dialing League, the Anti-Zip Code League and unalterably opposed to such far-sighted organizations as SINA (Society for Indecency to Naked Ani mals). But then, we're supposed to be unpopular. Diane Snottey tA Ifcinisville, his associate editor, lUkArj IJoettch er who comes from Texas and is one of the ICam-.man'f col umnists, and John Jeffers, &on of the Baptist minister who fear lessly preaches better racial re lations and, who despite a lot of criticism, preaches to the largest number of people in Aub urn every Sunday with one pos sible exception. The one possible exception is Rev. Powers McLeod, a Metho dist who has also bucked the policies of Governor Wallace and is high on his black list. All of this points to the fact that there is a courageous white minority in Alabama which dares buck the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens Councils and ruth less segregationists led by Gov ernor Wallace. To say that this minority is courageous is an un derstatement. It actually takes courage of a heroic brand to stand out against the majority. Rev. Mr. McLeod, for instance, was abused and excoriated when he had the first Negro student in history, Harold Franklin, stop by his office en route to his first class at Auburn. Real purpose was to make sure no gun had been planted in Franklin's bag gage which would have given university authorities an excuse to throw him out. Franklin attended his first day of classes without mishap, partly because Bill Van Dyke, giant all-star guard on Auburn's foot ball team, came up to him, stuck out his hand and said: "I'm glad Friday, February 28r 1964 Monsieur - Senor level and mode of instruction in foreign languages, at UNC and elsewhere, is inadequate. Or that the standards for passing such courses are too low, and that too many students are being al lowed to skim through- Or both. We note this state of events by way of pointing up the need at UNC and elsewhere for close attention to the re sults of an experimental language pro gram underway at Indiana University. According to last Sunday's New York Times, the program is based on the principle that one becomes proficient in a language by using it not just for three hours a week in a more-or-less rote manner, but by using it rather than English in the study of some regular subject. Indiana plans to offer a special sec tion of the History of Western Civiliza tion in French, and Latin American His tory in Spanish. Robert F. Byrnes, chair man of Indiana's History Department, said that such language training will be extended to include a number of other courses in specialized fields of history if the experiment proves successful. Clearly, this is one experiment whose results UNC ought to be vitally inter ested in- Success should pave the way for upgrading the effectiveness of UNC's foreign language instruction. to have you here." For befriending Franklin, Rev. Mr. McLeod has had pressure from some members of his con gregation to leave town. At one point opposition became so in tense that he called his wife and children together for a family conference, fearing life had be come too disagreeable for his children. The decision was summarized by his son Lewis. "Daddy," he said, "I want you to stay here until they run you away." McLeod's brother Fletcher, al so a Methodist minister, has re ceived threats from the Klan. The first threat came when he was preaching at Brewton, Ala., and a warning voice came over the phone: "Preacher, you've been out mixing with the nig gers. We're gonna burn a cross in front of your church." "I'll be glad to have the pub licity," McLeod replied. The second warning came in the form of a threatened whip ping party. "Be sure to bring at least three men," said the Methodist preacher. "Why?" asked the Klansman. "Because I've got two barrels on my shotgun and I'll take care of the first two." The Central Methodist Church in Montgomery also showed cour age when it invited Auburn's Negro student to speak. Two of Governor Wallace's private snoops were in the congregation with tape recorders to report to the governor an what he said. Absolutely! We Should Stay Out And We Should Readers Foot In Mouth Dear "Sonny in One," "I wouldn't get in a ring two miles wide with the guy. Unless you gave me a machete. Or a gun. And six bullets. It would take that many to get Sonny down on one knee." We thought, as we read your article Tuesday morning, how stupendous it would be if Gaseous Cassius could disprove the snide remarks from that elementary gibberish: "The Champion will win in side of three. Seconds not rounds. . . . Don't look for a long fight. One guy parked his car in a twenty minute zone to watch the second Liston-Patter-son fiasco. I wouldn't even turn off the ignition fox this one . . . The betting here is not whether clay will win or lose, but whether he will show up . . . The only way Clay can survive the eighth round is by hiding under the ring until the ninth." Look familiar, Mr. Kirkpat rick? It should! At exactly 10:50 p.m. on the same Tuesday, "The Greatest" threw all of that sarcasm into your face. He did exactly as he predicted only it happened in seven rounds. Yes, the impossible had hap pened! Clay had put his fist where his mouth was and made truth of sarcasm. Someday, Mr. Kirkpatrick, you will learn that a certain amount of common sense must form the foundation of sarcasm. A "foot in the mouth" is a common ail ment of sarcastic commentators. We read your article again at 11:10 p.m. We enjoyed it much better the second time. As a matter of fact, we even chuckled to ourselves. The chuckle was at your expense, Mr. Kirkpatrick. The undersigned of second floor Stacy, Gene Rector Ralph Harris Jan J. Crawford John MacNichoIos Dave Sen telle Clyde Wilson Shocking Editors, The Tar Heel: It was a very shocking experi ence to see on the Sunday news page (Durham Morning Herald, February 9) a destructive piece of propaganda regarding those who have the courage to fight the "speaker ban law" an ar ticle which used the name of Duke University in the wrong context. It was doubly shocking to see that error repeated in Duke's own student Chronicle, February 11th, with the head line: "University architect, But ler praises gag law." A University is a front line of defense of freedom of speech of the right of a Mr. Butler to express his views, as well as those of his opposition to ex press its views. The error in this instance is in categorizing the speaker inaccurately because this inaccuracy leads to the false conclusion that he is an official spokesman for Duke. I think a great deal of the Chronicle. I enjoy it and admire those who work so hard to turn out an imaginative newspaper with a great deal pf information Make Other Countries Do As We bay I TO CUBA Letter To The Editors KO Kirkpatrick i and in general a progressive, 5 constructive point of view. My I reason, then, is not to carp but to say that this paper means so much that we hate to see it sacri I fice accuracy for the price of a sensational news story at least ( about Duke University details. ! Students have been inquiring about this particular affair and ' have been confused and dis 1 turbed. i ' : One of the most upsetting as pects of this distorted picture is the unkind statement about -Chancellor Aycock, an intrepid educator, respected and highly regarded by the Duke faculty. If there are those who have any doubt about Duke's belief . in freedom of speech one has only to remind them of the Trinty College tradition, the Bassett case, Dr. Few's master ful handling of the Norman Thomas visit in the days when Thomas was considered contro versial, and President Emeritus Hart's and President Knight's words championing academic liberty. ! Mary Trent Semans '39 Legislature Editors, The Tar Heel: For the first time in my three years of residence at this Uni versity I attended a session of Student Legislature. The occa sion which moved me from my usual skeptical and indifferent attitude toward student govern ment was the special session held last week concerning a reso , lution on civil rights. For those who have never wit nessed a session of the Student Legislature, I recommend that they do. Perhaps confusion is innate in politics or perhaps I just never realized that repre senting people could be a com plex task. Nevertheless, amid the noise of many talking and few listening, there was a cer tain subtle display of political fireworks apparent. Case in point was one vote on the controversial "boycott" pro vision. On this particular vote there was a tie which threw the decision to Speaker Bob Spear man (UP) as to whether the "hnvcott" Drovision would re- rf JT main in the resolution or be tak en out. For the first time of the evening Spearman seemed to be at a loss for words. Out of the political shuffling which followed a UP legislator, Heelprints i Gaseous Cassius sort of gave Sonny the cold shoulder. Then there's the Billy Cunning ham doll you wind it up and it fouls out. Looks as if Bobby Baker came Fifth, rather than fourth. Definition: Bargain sale a place where a woman ruins one dress to buy another. Residents who don't take pro per care of the new social room Of TWiom Affairs ! Dotson, stood up, was recogniz ed, and asked, "Is it too late to I change my vote?" ! Spearman gladly granted per- mission. Dotson changed his vote : in favor of the boycott provision advocated by most of the SP legislators, thus breaking the . tie, giving the SP a victory, and relieving Spearman of the neces sity to make the decision. There is nothing particularly unusual about a fellow changing his mind, but it was apparent to many of us on the back row that Dotson had changed his vote against his will, for immediately after changing his vote he stalk ed out of the room in disgust, leaving an obscene explotive ring ing in our ears! Why did a UP legislator change his vote apparently against his will to give the SP a victory? Why did he make this sacrifice? What political maneuvering on the UP side of the aisle could have prompted Dotson to give the victory to the SP and take the decision out of the hands of Bob Spearman? Was it because the UP leaders wished to save Spearman from the necessity of committing him self on the boycott issue, and if so, why? While I can not claim to be on the "inside" of either political party, I do suspect that there was more than the boycott issue at stake in the above drama. I hope that those of us who have heretofore been indifferent about the way we are "represented" will attend some of these ses sions and find out just what shenanigans are going on. Robert Lee Underwood, Jr. 440 Ehringhaus Four-OI Editors, The Tar Heel: The other night in a Student Party meeting, I understand that some reference was made "To shooting down the Great 4-0." The only person I can associ ate with that number 40 is Ken Willard. Now Ken is a damn good halfback, and a pretty fair outfielder too. Why anyone would want to shoot him down is be yond me completely. Perhaps the student party member who made that state ment would like to clarify it for me . . . I'm kinda dense at times . . . especially on campus politics. Don Curtis facilities in Joyner may get call ed on the carpet. Simile: as high as the prices at the Book Ex. Heard about the Jesse Helms foxtrot? Your partner is Armis ted Maupin, and you step to the right, then step to the right, then . . . (Danced to the tune of "Poor Jesse One-Note.") Now that February is drawing to a close, we wonder if Chapel Hill is ready for a whole month of march. Tar Heel Toll: 'Puritan The Greensboro Daily News CHAPEL HILL Those who ask themselves why CO R E chooses the university village for an "open city" showdown may need to update their memories of Chapel Hill. The home base of Southern racial heresy (as some have thought it) is certain ly an unlikely candidate for the first American version of what Madame Nhu calls "barbecue shows" yet even they have been threatened. One explanation is obvious: To day there are two Chapel Hills; an old Chapel where Horace Wil liams tethered his goats and everybody knows everybody else, and . a Chapel Hill the trading town. With the Research Tri angle drawing thousands of non university people, the old town is lined with haberdasheries and flanked with costly restaurants. Suddenly, too. One place, for instance, which refuses to admit Negroes to its soft lights and $12 steaks was ten years ago little more than a gas station vending barbecue on the side. As a dual city, then, Chapel Hill has not even a trace of that "business power structure" which is elusive in the most com mercial town for much of the power remains with the univer sity and the university is of ficially neutral. The "Freedom Committee," however, holds up to Chapel Hill merchants the "progressivism" of the univer sity, demanding that the mer cantile city conform to an ethos long attributed to academic Chapel Hill. This is not to suggest that the mercantile reaction is entirely ' orthodox. The mayor of Chapel Hill, to hear the demonstrators tell it, has taken a do-nothing, wait-and-see attitude; but he has also delivered himself of the fair ly startling view that it is "crim inal" of a business to deny a Negro service. Yet agreement is slight be tween the merchants and the "Freedom Committee." The mer chants, increasingly put off by lawless tactics, insist that the town is roughly 90 to 95 per cent "open." The demonstrators say that figure depends too largely on places where racial bias is not at issue. The student paper, in a survey of over 100 business es where racial bias is pertinent, claims it found some 25 per cent in some way discriminatory. To find the other explanations, one might look in on the demon stratorsthe "Chapel Hill Free dom Committee." Though it is only a few blocks from affluent Franklin Street, the side street committee headquarters, in a large dusty room over a run down funeral parlor, is another world a world presided over by John Dunne, a young Ohioan who A R eview 'Favorite Game9 By BILLY "The Favorite Game", by Leonard Cohen. The Viking Press, New York. $4.50. This touchingly lyrical first novel by Leonard Cohen is the soul-revealing epistle of a young man. The young man in ques tion is localized in time and place the present time in Mon treal. The almost disconcerting present and the heretofore much unpublicized Canadian city blend to make the book contain an even more astonishing revelation. The protagonist is the author, who describes himself in a section to be identical with the dust jacket picture. It is the story of an un duly sensistive youth who makes his way through the "hard, cruel world" with remarkable ease and with a great variety of people helping in his search for the up stream spawning ground. Judaism, and Lawrence Breav man's saturation with it, forms an important part of the book that distinguishes it from others of its kind and puts it in a class different from others of an al most similar nature. Breav man's childhood, his friends Krantz and Lisa, and the games they played change the tone of the book, and the reader learns of the would-be sexual experi mentation of Lisa and Breavman in a childishly comical serious ness. Krantz serves as a meas ure of Breavman's vibrant awareness, and it is Krantz who offers the practical service of those who are put into the posi tion of curbing the over-active imagination of their best friends and at the same time provide a basis for their friendship to con tinue. Breavman's home life is brought so impressively to the reader's mind that he is en tranced at the thought of the inquisitive young boy who at his father's funeral notices that his bearded uncle doesn't wear a tie. Breavman's attitude to death is the unsullied, morbid interest of the naive. When his white rat dies, he buries it under the pan sies which flourish, and the young boy takes new interest in smelling the pansy that his fath er wears in his buttonhole. It is this quality of reality-compassion with a maaarbe vicious- Res gave up his Morehead Scholar ship and dropped out of UNC n lead the demonstrations. T h o "freedom committee" is a co;:i:. tion of protest groups r:m:,r from CORE his own to the o dent Non - violent Co-or iiru Committee to the NAACP. The movement's architects ;r, ! leaders, as well as its boost' ; , among the students, weir !h:; zeal amiably enough. But it one must admit, a rather f... . sort of revolution for the (! rr onstrators say quite frankly He are not protesting any one thin: in particular but a condition i whole spectrum of grievance. Their attitude, indeed, is zealous than it is categorical an ! politically ingenuous. Many of the demonstrators aii their supporters would cem n have awakened relatively recent ly to racial injustice, and ti many it has the outrage of r. v elty. "Heck," one of the sfu lor.t 'pundits confessed, "I was in t:-,p Navy for four years and never thought much about the race question until fairly recently" Shakily grounded as t h e v would seem in the intractable historical postulates about race politics upon which most of fher elders, segregationist and ine grationist alike, proceed, their vision of the future is both freshing and frightening. Thv are ,for instance, politically de fiant vastly impatient i:N "moderates" who plead the slow ways of the political barterir? svstem, as with legalists who in sist that their use of scofliaw tactics undercuts their mot vi tal weapon law and order. Irs its extreme form, this view emerees in statements st?rh ss. "to the average Negro. Sanford and Lake are little different both simply 'white governors ir Raleigh.' ' The Chapel IL3! Freedom Movement burns, finally, viih an almost Puritanical resolve that the demonstrators tvill eith er bring the old town into the kingdom of the enlightened (r they will soundly thwack its rep utation for racial progress end invite the world outside to hear the hollow sound. Doubtless they exaggerate this reputation and misunderstand its sources. But they think they have leverage here, for if they change the racial climate they believe they can reduce the state's industrialization rr s pects. Certainly the sym'HiTs of slow but sure chance upon which white North Carolina increas ingly comfortable white North Carolina plumes itstlf are asVs on their tongues. Racial injustice, in their pristine vision, is stag gering: It must be changed dn tically. That is the formula, liU it or not. KEATING ness that makes the hero ap pealing throughout the book, Inn? after one's interest would hrvc flagged at the well known ado Ieseenta dventures. These are much more Breavman is sus ceptible to more intense feelings and betrays them with a dis arming honesty that is remark ably successful with the many understanding women in his life. If he can be said to be promis cuous, it is an explained promis cuity, one that is understood by this man's, and every man's, capacity for living and fetl'n? needed. Paradoxically Breavman makes quite a fetish of his need rather than that of those around him. His detachment from his hypochrondiac mother and his egoistic relationships are symp toms of his self-infatuation that draw the thin line this side of callousness. Breavman's affair with Shell is handled with such poignancy that had there been any doubt as to the autobiographical qua lity in the book it would surely be demolished by the account of the delightful hedonistic adven ture between two kindred souls. Breavman takes a job at sum mer camp, courtesy of his old friend Krantz, and he finds an other kindred soul in one of his small campers, Martin Stark capital S, small i, small a. small r, small k, no e. It is this af finity for the young orderly mind that indicates Breavman's wish for freedom and individuality more than anything else in the book. He excuses the boy frora the boring round of camp acti vities so that he can satisfy him self by counting blades of grass and killing large numbers of mos quitoes in a nearby swamp. This episode is so powerful ia style and content that the read er must take some time to re cuperate before finishing the book. Sensual and intelligent, the book places itself on the "altar of love" to be sacrificed 'corny as it sounds and probably is if thought about in this manner too long) in the same manner as does Cohen himself. The read er can realize with what motiva tion the author has asked his question and found the answer. r 7
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