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Questioned
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Having entered UNC this fall
as a graduate student and there
fore still being relative outsiders
to the traditions and modus Viv
endi of the campus, we feel
somewhat hesitant to assume a
critical position at this early
date.
We both entered Carolina be
cause of its excellent academic
reputation and for the quality of
its faculty and student body
alike and hold the institution in
high, esteem.
However, having attended an
all-male unversity in Virginia as
undergraduates, an institution
where the honor system is the
heart and soul of the campus,
we were shocked at the decision
of the Honor Council last Thurs
day night in the action it took
regarding a UNC senior who was
indicted under five counts of the
Campus and Honor Code.
Far be it from us to pass judg
ment on a fellow student for pub
lic drunkenness or indecent ex
posure. This is not the aspect of
the trial which really concerns
us.
The aspect of the trial which
shocked us and motivated this
letter is the action the council
took toward:
(1) the student's possession of
a stolen staff parking sticker
(2) the student's lies to the
police
(3) the student's subsequent
lies to the council during the
actual trial.
How the council could take any
action but expelling this student
from UNC altogether is beyond
our comprehension, for this it
seems to us is about as flagrant
a case of dishonesty as could oc
cur. If this violation of the Hon
or Code only prompted a one
year suspension, we would be in
terested to see what sort of viola
tion would prompt the council to
dismiss a student from this cam
pus completely.
A sound honor system does not
go hand in glove with an educa
tion institution of high academic
standing but must be built and
nourished over the years by in
stilling in the student body a deep
rooted respect for it until it, in
fact, becomes a way of life.
Honor is like pregnancy one
cannot be a little bit honest.
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David , C. Montgomery
Skip Essex
Ed. note: Student Legislature
has refused to give the council
the power of expulsion.
One Leader
Overlooked
Editors, The Tar Heel:
What is an effective class presi
dent? On Oct. 14, you mentioned
that the sophomore class president
"might as well have gone ahead
and abolished the post anyway."
Are you aware that that year
our class went from $98.42 in the
hole to $32.65 to the good? Be
cause our cabinet did no one
major thing (due to lack of
funds) the many things we did
do went unnoticed.
That was the first year a class
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earned more than $100 in a sale
uptown. Our cabinet spent eight
hours washing cars to help pay
the bills; many of us spent a num
ber of hours working for the Cam
pus Chest Carnival in the name
of our class; and we originated
the idea of open class meetings,
one of which worked rather well
with a combo afterwards.
I do not resent this being call
ed a do-nothing year half as much
as I resent Charlie Shaffer's name
being left off your small list of
effective class presidents. Most
of the ones you named accom-;
plished no more than one or two
major events.
Our class in our junior year
created and carried out several
projects which make class offi
cers worthwhile. The Faculty
Variety Show not only took in
$500 and gave those working in
the show a great deal of out-of-class-rcom
connection with many
of the faculty, but it also gave
the students who attended a
chance to see that their teachers
are not always as they appear
in class.
The College Bowl between
dorms fraternities, etc., was an
ideal invention for a scholastic
competition, which if developed
further and carried on could have
become an important campus af
fair (There were more entries
than there were weeks to have
the contest).
The Junior Teacher of the
Month project was to recognize
the favorite teachers of our class.
Granted this was started by Ray
Farris' class, but did they at
tempt to have every junior vote
for this? We did and it was work
trying to find them all.
Our senior year under Shaffer
we had a senior recognized each
month for their scholastic work,
something which is usually over
looked by class popularity con
tests. There were, of course,
three combo parties for our class
and many of the other usual pro
jets (picnic, parting shots, etc.).
In my opinion you overlooked
Charlie Shaffer in your list of ef
fective presidents.
Woody Harrison
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A Trick On
Chapel Hill?
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Chapel Hill. Ah, Chapel Hill,
the Southern Side of Heaven. A
citadel of knowledge once describ
ed by a noted author as a place
where "there is something in the
air."
Alas, tragedy and woe. Just 12
months ago a certain fire-station
appeared as a bad omen of what
was to come. At last the villain
is about to strike.
An image of it rests in the
front hall of Wilson Library. A
close inspection of Harrelson Hall
and the Student Union on the
N. C. State campus gives one
a taste of the impending tragedy.
However, the buildings that house
the School of Public Health and
Pharmacy hint at what could yet
be.
Who plays this trick on Chap
el Hill? Surely it is but a joke.
The trustees, the administration,
the faculty and the students can
not be blind!
Is "progress" the excuse for
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such a trick? Would one call
Harrelson Hall set in the center
or Williamsburg "progress "
Likewise, would one call Old East
set in the center of Brazilia
"progress?"
Ii "progress" is to be the fate
of our fair campus, then soon
the atmosphere will be that of a
five and ten cent store; yet, even
so foul as that of a modern, shop
ping center.
William T. Auman
353 Tenney Circle
Goldivater
Is Defended
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Among the more venomous de
nunciations of Senator Barry
Goldwater I have had the mis
fortune to read is the following
paragraph from Mr. Wales' col
umn entitled "Whither the GOP
After November?"
"Never in our memory has
totalitarian extremism such as
that espoused by Robert Welch
of the Birch Society or that of
the Ku Klux Klan been condoned
and endorsed and even exploited
by a candidate of a major po
litical party."
Apparently Wales is unaware
that in mid-August Sen. Gold
water directly repudiated the Ku
Klux Klan and, as on innumer
able previous occasions, repeat
ed his specific denunciation of
Robert Welch, and stated that he
sought the support of no extrem
ist organization, right or left.
Wales continues his remarks:
"This complete reaction against
everything new and progressive,
against social change itself, has
come as a result of a society that
is becoming increasingly large
and specialized and out of the
understanding and control of the
average individual American."
Disregarding the disturbing im
plications of such derisive esti
mation of the individual Ameri
can, note how closely the essence
of this statement parallels James
Jackson's assertion that, in con
trast to the Republicans, the
Democratic National Convention
exhibited a real "viability in ac
commodating to the pressures
and demands of the new realities
of our age." Jackson is the edi
tor of the Communist Daily Work
er. But Wales is not a Communist,
or anything like one, and as as
sociate editor of the DTH, he is
presumably intelligent and ob
jective. Why then, does he en
gage in such malicious villifica
tion of Sen. Goldwater?
I believe the answer lies in the
nature of Goldwater's candidacy.
Barry Goldwater represents a
noble departure from the cynical
diet to which the American voter
has become accustomed.
He does not ask the American
people to barter away one or an
other of their liberties for what
some politicians call "security."
He does not ask the farmer to
submit to a Department of Agri-
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volume and price of the harvest
and that sends planes "over his
property to see what he is plant
ing. He does not ask the worker to
abide with a self-perpetuating
clique of labor politicians who
speak independently on a wide
range of social issues, who live
sumptuously with union funds,
and who have forgotten what a
dinner pail looks like.
He does not ask the business
man to prostitute himself for
government contracts in the for
lorn hope cf immunity from bu
reaucratic harassment. He does
not ask the aged citizen to for
feit his retirement benefits if he
earns enough to buy a good cigar.
He does ask us to examine the
America we inherited, the Amer
ica we have created, and the
America we want to bequeath to
eur children.
It is for asking this question
that Barry Goldwater has become
the most bespattered man in re
cent American political history.
It is for this sin that he is as
persed by Lyndon Johnson as a
"raving demagogue" and by nu
merous others, such as Wales, as
a creature of the night riders and
as a pawn of the militarists and
warmongers.
Wrote the "Cincinnati Enquir
er" in an editorial: "To see the
viciousness of the villification
heaped upon him is to begin to
understand the desperation with
which his enemies are trying to
cling to the perverted political
order they have been foisting
upon America.
"Their purpose is to do consid
erably more than defeat him at
the polls: they seek literally to
crush him lest any other muster
the courage to ask them to ac
count for their sordid works."
Those who look beyond Wales,
beyond the calumny directed
against Sen. Goldwater, can per
ceive the central issue of the
campaign: Whether it is the des
tiny of the American people to
become the servants of a levi
athan state at home and to cow
er before totalitarian aggressors
abroad.
Barry Goldwater says it is not.
And in your heart, you know he's
right.
My vote: Barry Goldwater.
William Graham Otis
225 Joyner
Stringfellow
Views Upheld
Editors, The Tar Heel:
The editorial criticizing Wil
liam Stringfellow last Friday
could only have been written by
a person too young to remember
the rise of European fascism.
It was also ridiculous in call
ing Stringfellow a theologian. He
is a lawyer. He knows far more
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about politics than the youth
ful editors of the Tar Heel.
He is a Christian, which is
far more than I can say for
some theologians. He takes his
religion so seriously that it af
fects his whole life. I wish that
more theologians would involve
themselves with life as String
fellow has done.
Fascism is so subtle and evil
that it can creep into our society
without being recognized. The
subtle fascists are using him.
I wish the editors could live
in Mississippi as I have and see
American fascism in action as
I have done. I suggest that the
editors talk with some of the
people now living in Chapel Hill
who escaped from Nazi Germany
if they wish to find out the. truth.
I have talked with several of
them and they say that they see
many of the same signs in Amer
ica today that they saw in Ger
many. I deplore Communism as much
as anyone. There is no sense in
turning fascist in order to avoid
Communism.
Remember that European fas
cism used the cry of anti-Communism
to gain power. Our gov
ernment is too fine a thing to be
lost to a totalitarian system of
any kind.
Mrs. John A. Zunes
Windsor Circle
Praise, Not
Repudiation
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Last night, or rather yester
day, the officials of Craige Hall,
true to their campaign promises,
once again circulated polls in the
dorm. This brought to my at
tention the present bill pending
in student legislature:
"which would praise the ad
ministration for the repeal of
this (discriminatory) policy,
and would establish a com- -mittee
to investigate further
discrimination in housing pol
icy." Let's have three cheers for the
legislature. For once they seem
to have the right idea. It may
turn out that a policy of praising
administration for its wisdom
will work a lot better than a
policy of deriding the administra
tion for its every mistake.
Further, I think Carolina Coeds
look just fine. I think, though,
that it might be a nice idea to
to submit all the complaining
students to psychological testing.
Maybe there's something the
matter with them.
Charles D. Allard
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Our editorial eye lights this month on paperbacks
that are frankly, unabashedly timely. The first
provocative case in. point is The Radical Right
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the talents of nine distinguished sociologists and
political scientists, including David Riesman,
Peter Viereck, Seymour M. Lipset, and the book's
editor, Daniel Bell. Contributors comment specif
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rence of extreme rightist movements in America ;
the radical right in '60s politics ; the revolt against
the elite ; climates of tolerance and intolerance in
England and America ; and, inevitably, the John
Birch Society. It's an objective, incisive study
and eminently worthwhile.
Equally timely, is Paul Bohannan's Africa and
Africans (Natural History Press, $1.25) . Pains
takingly separating myth from fact, Professor
Bohannan (of Northwestern's anthropology
department) surveys colonialism and the slave
trade; tribes and families; markets, politics,
courts, religions, and arts; and the nature of
Africa's new nationalism and neutrality. Most
reviewers have agreed with the N. Y. Times Book
Review critic, who cited this as "perhaps the best
short general book on Africa."
We suspect that folk and freedom songs will out
last even the ever-present "Hootenany." A hun
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collected by Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer in Songs
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