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7f No Paper Tomorrow age Special Monday Weather Sunny and milder; high 73-80. r IS I I i It II Founded Feb. 23, 1893 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1964 United Press International Service SO-SO CHANCE IS GIVEN Ilk ill Mm A TED residen Bulletin Late yesterday it was an nounced that r UNC " students could attend the Kennedy Tri bute Service tomorrow free of charge. A' statement from the gover nor's office said that "a num ber of large . businesses and in dustrial concerns have made substantial contributions to the Tribute,, and have requested the tickets . . . be distributed among college and university students. "The tickets will be available Sunday from 9 to 2 in the lobby . of Graham Memorial on the presentation of a student ID card.". AH seats for the tribute are re served. Harkness To Speak Richard Harkness, National Broadcasting Company news com mentator, will speak on "An In dividual's Responsibility in the World Today," tomorrow night in Howell Hall. Harkness, a newsman with over (Continued on Page 4 A Blind Man By KAREN PARKER "Blind people are segregated just like Negroes. If you're dif ferent you just don't fit in." This is the feeling of William Gupton, a blind student from Zebulon who attends the Univer sity here. The 24-year-old Gupton was born with a form of cataracts which were removed when he was a child. For years he had 20-200 vision, the borderline for legal blindness. In 1955 he de veloped glaucoma, a disease caused by an excessive amount Of fluid in the eyeball exerting too much pressure on the optic nerve. In 1962 he became totally fclind. , Gupton knew he was going to lose his eyesight for seven years !mt he didn't give up hope. "Knowing you're going to be blind is like waiting for death," lie said. "You know sooner or later you're going to die, but yon don't know when. You don't per mit yourself to think about it." When he learned he had glau coma he tried to prepare him self for jobs he could handle. He applied for jobs at several radio (stations but be was rejected. Bill Gupton And I i - ,1-jLJ rr7T'"TT'"" " v -1 : . , ' . 1 ' V X : .v.-:-:-:-: v':i :v:.:.:-y-:-:-Vo: v: ::-: :-y u v ..-s.-r.-: . ' - -"v., w DTH Publication Schedule If President Johnson attends the Kennedy Tribute Service in Kenan Stadium tomorrow, the Daily Tar Heel will publish a special edition Tuesday with complete photographic and written coverage. We will be unable to publish tomorrow due to pre vious planning which, at this late date, cannot be re versed. The final regular edition of the Daily Tar Heel will appear Monday, but, as it is scheduled to be printed tonight, will not have coverage of the Tribute. If the President attends, we welcome any photos or stories on the occasion written by members of the stu elent body. In 1960 I decided to enter UNC in the field of education," he said. "I thought maybe I could teach." He attended UNC as a pre education student for a year. His vision was poor but he could get around. His grades were good, so he applied for formal admis sion to the School of Education. It was a long struggle but Gup ton finally gained admittance. In the fall of '61 the infirmary ordered him to withdraw from school because his "health wasn't good" and staying in school would be "detrimental to his physical and emotional health." He stayed out a year and attend ed the Rehabilitation Center for the Blind at Butner. There he learned to travel independently by cane. "I had already learned Braille and typing at the State School for the Blind in Raleigh," he said. "My parents sent me there when I was eight. I studied the regular public school curriculum through high school level. "I really didn't like it there," he said, "because I feel blind students shouldn't be 'segregated' from people who have normal A Friend Come Views vision. That is taking them out of the mainstream of life. If sighted children and blind chil dren were 'integrated' at an ear ly age it would help eliminate negative prejudices against blind people and improve the emotion al attitudes of blind and sighted children. This improved concept among the adults of tomorrow would improve the future em ployment picture for the blind." In June of 1962 Gupton under went an operation for glaucoma. "There was a chance that I would keep my vision a little longer or lose it completely. The operation failed, but I knew I was going blind no matter what I did, so I decided to go down fighting." The Commission for the Blind is helping him through school by providing money for him to employ readers. His biggest problem is social, he says. "I don't get invitations to social parties. I have to plan my own activities or not have any, except for rare invitations to dinner at private homes." "I have problems getting dates with girls. I have dated 11 dif ferent girls on 24 occasions. All girls aren't scared away. We go His Braille Typewriter Photo by Jock Lautercr Invited To Kennedy By HUGH STEVENS The Daily Tar Heel learned late yesterday that a "possibili ty" does exist that President Johnson will be in attendance at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Service tomorrow afternoon. Washington sources called the report of Johnson's visit "nothing more than a rumor," and de? clined to make comment on the basis of the report. Hugh Morton, chairman of the Memorial Service, indicated yesterday that Jchnscn "might be here, but that the decision would not be made before early Sunday. The decision apparently rests with the President himself, and probably depends cn the wea ther as well as the Washington political situation. The Memorial Service, featur-j ing an address by Rev. iBilly Graham, is designed to raise more than $250,000 for the Ken-: nedy Memorial Library in Mas sachusetts. UNC to basketball and football games, shows, plays, concerts, programs of various types, and dinner. I enjoy going out with dates and groups of people just like anyone else." He is most annoyed at people's remarks about him. "There are always people who'll see me on the street and stop talking when I pass by, clear their throats or gasp. And there are people who make comments. "I was dating a girl at a bask etball game and I heard a boy say, 'Look. She doesn't have very good taste, does she?' "Once at Memorial Auditorium I heard someone say, 'What is a nice girl like that doing with him? She's wasting her time. She can date anyone she pleases.' "I asked a girl to a football game and she said, 'William I don't know if you should ask girls to football games or not.' "I asked her, 'Why not? Girls just don't ask boys.' " " 'You know, the crowds and all,' she said." "I thought for a minute and wondered why she was saying that. Then I told her I under stood. . She said she was sorry. I told her I was sorry too and hung up "Then there are always people who ask me if I know other blind students on campus. I ask them why, and they answer, 'Well, he's blind too.' "Not all people act this way toward me. These people are a minority but a very vocal min ority. "The boys in my dorm section are as nice to me as they can be. They are helpful and con siderate. I'm just one of the boys and that's the way I'd like it to be." Gupton has withdrawn from the School of Education and enrolled in the College of Arts and Sci ences. "I am going to major in English with emphasis on psy chology," he said. "After that I plan to go to graduate school and study rehabilitation of the physically and mentally handi capped." QUIET HOURS Twenty-four quiet hours will go into effect Sunday at midnight in all men's residence halls. Quiet hours will remain in ef fect until the end of the exam schedule. 14-Bill Flurry Ends By HUGH STEVENS Student Legislature, meeting both Wednesday and Thursday nights, acted on 14 pieces of leg islation and approved a large slate of presidential appointments to wrap up its business for the year. Several major financial bills were passed; including: A $600 appropriation to the Glee Club to aid in expenses for a World's Fair appearance. A $401.10 allotment to Avery, Parker and Teague Halls for the construction of a park near those dormitories. A $240 appropriation to defer expenses for the alternate dele iere Ted Kennedy, the late Presi dent's brother, and Mrs. Rose Kennedy, his mother, are sche duled to attend. Governor Terry Saoford and Commerce Secre tary Luther Hodges will also take part in the program. Tickets sales for the event have been progressing satisfac torily in most areas of the state, according to . officials of 2 More Put On Two more students were put cn probation for falsifying class rolls and another received two semesters probation Tor firing a rifle at a lamp post in Mai's Council trials Thursday night. In other cases cne student was given an official reprimand for a Campus Code offense at an other campus and his friend was found innocent. Another student, tried in ab sentia, was given indefinite pro bation for an auto theft. He is currently in a mental hospital. In the first case, a sophomore signed a friend's initials to a class roll when the friend was at the beach. The friend, a junior, had asked him to sign him in the day before. Both students turned! them selves in and pleaded guilty. They said that they did not realize that the action was ser ious enough to be tried by the Council. They -claimed they had not read the account of the pre vious trials on the same subject. Both students were given one semester probation. In the firearms case, a stu dent fired his .22 rifle out of the window of his residence at the base of a lamp post in an open area in town. He had been cleaning the gun late .at night and had fired it three times "on impulse." The shots and their richochets were heard by another student living nearby. He called the po lice who went to the house where the shots came from. The student readily admitted that he had shot the gun and was tried and fined in civil court. A Correction In yesterday's Daily Tar Heel, several statements attributed to Mike Lawler were actually a misinterpretation by the reporter. The DTH apologizes to Lawler, Dean Henderson and anyone else who may have been offended, and to set the facts straight we reprint in whole a letter we received yesterday. Editors. The Tar Heel: Yesterday's DTH quotes me as charging former Dean Henderson with "lying, openly and blatantly during the proceedings" of the Apartment Rule negotiations. This statement misrepresents my conversation with John Greenbacker. In our conversation we discussed various aspects of the Apart ment Rule "controversy" and the grave difficulty of communication. I related to John that: (1) Henry Mayer and Walter Dellinger reported a meeting with Dean Henderson immediately prior to our official negotia tions; they felt that he did not truthfully answer their questions regarding an earlier meeting with the Faculty Committee on Student Discipline. (2) Subsequently, I spoke' with Dean Henderson about this matter and the resulting confusion. He felt that he had an swered fully. I cited this example to John of the chaos, complexity and con fusion that characterized the entire situation around the Apartment Rule negotiations. I regret if my remarks have further contributed to the misin formation, faulty communication and lack of understanding that I had intended to dispel. Mike Lawler gates to the National Student As sociation Congress. A $400 appropriation to a newly - created Committee on Campus Radio for the purpose of investigating a "carrier Current" station. The park appropriation was originally passed on Wednesday night, but was reconsidered and amended on Thursday. Dave Rendleman SP) and Son ny Pepper (SP) objected to the inclusion of athletic equipment in the bill as it was originally pass ed. They said that such action set "a dangerous precedent," as other dormitories could presum ably ask to be reimbursed for Sunday Tribute the event. A number of ticket pur chasers probably will be unable to attend, however. No official announcement is expected on President Johnson before Sunday morning. Students are urged to monitor the state radio stations closely in order to find out the final decision. Officials of the service indi- Continued on Page Threp' Students Probation The Council found him guilty of a Campus Code offense and gave him two semesters proba tion, saying that the possible consequences of shooting the gun and the irresponsibility in volved made it a serious offense. In the third case, two stu dents were charged with caus ing disturbances in a men's dorm at a campus they were visiting. One was charged with using abusive language in front of a house mother and the other with throwing a waste basket down the hall. The two pleaded innocent. The first student was found innocent of using abusive lan guage, but the second was found guilty and sentenced to an of ficial reprimand. The Council told the two stu dents that although their ac tions would have been regarded lightly at UNU, they fiad a greater responsibility to act gen tlemanly while guests on an other campus. In the final case, a student no longer in school was found guilty of stealing a car and license plates and transporting both across state lines. He is currently serving a pro bationary sentence from a civil court and is undergoing psy chiatric treatment. Hie Council gave him indefi nite probation rather than sus pension, because it was felt that this sentence would better aid his rehabilitation. The de fendant's psychiatric difficulties played a major role in this de cision. SL Year such equipment. ''The purchase of athletic equipment is a normal function of residence halls," Pepper said, "and I am prepared to ask for a good deal of money to pay for such equipment if the legislature makes it a policy to pay for such things." The bill was returned to the floor, and tome $70 worth of vol leyballs. horseshoes, and similar material was stricken from the appropriation. The park itself will provide a recreation area for the PTA area. Mai King UP) introduced sep arate bills to establish the Cam ( Continued on Page 3) rr " ii i p - mm..m mil i.. mi ir .i.. i ""- ' V fN. j. . . - r 2""' "... w - . -x s.10 rk m f " ' 1 - i i h 'I r .'J " I I ii n "i i1tAiTi,i Vinrininti , , ; t". ., ......-1 FORE . . . Aycock's Army is shown here presenting a new set of golf clubs to retiring Chancellor William B. Aycock. Upon ac cepting the clubs and golf cart. Aycock denied rumors that ho would be participating in next year's Greensboro Open. LAWLER LOOKS BACK 3 By JOHN GREENBACKER As Mike Lawler sees it, Student Government faces its biggest problem in deciding what things are most vital to the Welfare of the Student Body. "We try to do too many things in one year," he said. "We must establish priorities." When he considered the goals his administration tried to accom plish while in office, Mike said, "There is no question that during this year we met many frustrations." Student-Administration Relations Mike has always felt that the students should have a more active voice in the policy-making of the University. "The Administration and the Student Eody each has an im portant perspective which should be utilized for the good of the University," Mike said. "I consulted the Dean of Student Affairs about student represen tation on policy-making bodies -and I received a negative reaction to my proposals. "I can't accept the idea that students are too immature to evaluate problems and make decisions." Besides the benefits that a student perspective would offer on administrative committees, Mike also emphasizes some long-range benefits. I "People who hove participated in Student Government or worked with the University administration in a leadership capacity usually develop a great sense of institutional loyalty," he said. "They make the best alumnae. "I would like to see student leaders on administration and faculty committees on a regular basis. The Student Body President .should he allowed to sit in on almost every faculty meeting as a more or less permanent member." Student Government Structure One of Mike's biggest concerns is over the structure of various Student Government executive branches. He feels some of them, particularly the Attorney General's Staff, should be modified. "My disagreement with Buzzy Stubbs this year was not over civil rights, as many people thought, but over the Staff and its organization, " Mike said.' "I feci the Attorney General should have a smaller and more competert staff and a more active defense council. "In the past two years judicial matters have been a concern of the rtur'cnts. These were my concerns and they have been manifested in the actions of Whitney Durand. "In other areas of Student Government more simplification will occur. Bob Spearman will continue this." Academics and the University "I think the atmosphere of relations between students and lac ulty members is dismal. " With some exceptions, the faculty is not transmitting itself properly to the students. "The faculty members are like scholarly cows and the students, Danish milkmaids. The student must milk out information. "The s'uent mut seek out the professor, but the professor mast lso ensraee the student. Mike has observed the workings of the University for four years ?s a student and he has some set ideas about the University's future. "As a state miversity, we must take in all kinds of students. There are manv pnerly nreparcd students who could do well here, but somehow they get lost. "The grading in manv departments is very stringent, an! we rjink rut too many pconTe who have the ability to stav in. These underachievers are offen fru'y creative persons, and too many of 'hem can't gt through our Genera! College. "We are trying to compete with other big state universities in 'he nation suo en mere afford to enaase big name faculty mem bers. We shouldn't enter an area in which we cannot comoete. "I th'nk the University should strive to be a mass institution with quality, personalized education. More of our money should be diverted into guidance facilities so many of our most able students won't flunk out because college is too much of a change." Many people on campus and in Student Government would (Continued on Page 3)
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