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Suicide For The GOP?
Despite the crushing defeat suffered by its Presiden
tial nominee, despite the loss of Senate and Congres
sional seats, despite the confusion which currently
reigns in its national headquarters, the Republican
Party is not close to death.
However, they can easily kill themselves, and judg
ing from the events of the past few days it appears
they just might be making an effort in that direction.
The arguing among GOP leaders notably Nelson
Rockefeller and Richard Nixon bodes ill for attempts
at "party unity."
It doesn't take much to see that the only way the
GOP is going to revive itself is for the members to get
together and immediately decide not to attempt to
purge anyone.
There are excellent GOP candidates left in the fold.
Gov. William Scranton, despite his naivete at San Fran
cisco, has great potential as a Presidential candidate
and, indeed, as a President. He is one of several..
And he, or someone like him, can be effectively
promoted for 1968. The party itself will have a good
chance in 1966, as it will not have to run against Lyn
don Johnson in the Congressional races.
The GOP is financially in the black, a situation the
Democrats cannot claim.
It has at least 25,000,000 people who are ready,
willing and able to support it, plus a large, though un-
known, number who defected only because Barry Gold
water was the Presidential nominee.
It has made solid gains in the South.
It gained one State House in the election.
It gained a senator from the nation's most popu
lous state California.
The GOP, we think, is a long way from death. Only
alack of reason can seriously harm the party at this
time, and there is every chance in the world the party
can regain its lost power in" the 1966 elections.
It can only kill itself.
Class Officers? Who?
With all the tumult and shouting about NSA, many
have forgotten that another campaign is in progress.
We speak of the current battle for the right to be a
class officer.
With very few exceptions, the two parties have put .
forth excellent candidates, notably the sophomore class
but extending into the freshman and junior. as well.
We have often commented on the lackadaisical at
titude class officers in the past have taken, and we
hope we shall not have to do so again. They can be
beneficial, if only those elected to them will take a
little time and use a bit of effort.
There are no regulations requiring a straight-party
vote, the candidates have made every effort to see the
voters and the candidates are good. We urge you to
consider your choices well.
A Long, Bad Streak Ends
Yesterday afternoon UNC's seniors played Clemson
for the fourth time. As freshmen, they lost 28-27. As
sophomores, they lost 17-6. As juniors they lost 11-7.
In Jim Hickey's first five years as UNC mentor, -Clemson
won by 20-18, 24-0, 27-0, 17-6 and 11-7.
The year before Hickey came Clemson won 26-21.
But bad things, like good, must come to an end, and
yesterday Frank Howard and his Death Valley crew
were strangely quiet. Virginia and Duke, the teams left
on UNC's schedule, took a long look at the score and
began to wonder.
It doesn't look like we are going to have to wait
until basketball season to see a winning team.
JSJ 1
Larry Tarleton
Sports Editor
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Rational
By PETE WALES
Associate Editor
We would like to interject a
note at this point in the heated
and negative war now raging
over our membership in NSA.
This column is intended only
for those who are still attempt-"
ing to reason out their vote on
Tuesday. Those who don't want
to even think about it can stop
here.
One of the real issues at. stake
over NSA is the present trend
of the organi
zation and its
possibilities for
the future.
In the past,
NSA has been
primarily con-
i rerned with: 1)
- j civil liberties
Jm of students; 2)
the international free world
student movement; and 3) serv
ices and information for mem
ber campuses.
The one area NSA has not
really gotten into yet is perhaps
the most: logical issue for their
type of organization: educa
tional reform.
What could be a more rele
vant topic for mature students
of the United States than the
problems of the rapidly chang
ing university in American so-
LETTERS
NSA International
Work Helps U.S.
Editors, The Tar Heel:
I would like to add three
points to the current NSA de
bate. 1) The following is a repre
sentative example of what I
have found without exception
to be the anti-communistic pos
ture of NSA leaders.
In 1961 a Fair. Play for Cuba
Committee was seeking recognition-as
a campus organization
from the administration of my
undergraduate college (Carle
ton College in Minnesota.) At
the time there was no apparent,
disinterested source of reliable -facts
about the FPCC.
I sent my questions to a na
tional NSA officer I knew and
received an informative, cau
tionary reply. which was help
ful to the administration., It
Was highly critical of the na
tional leadership and backing
of FPCC. I have never met an
NSA leader who was naive
about such matters.
2) The outstanding though
largely unsung work of NSA
through its International Com
mission should be a matter of
real pride to all of us (I should
caution those crying for "tan
gible" benefits that the signi
ficance of this kind of work
does not often take material
form).
Through its overseas repre
sentatives NSA's IC has estab
lished communication and rap
port with national unions of
students and their leaders. It
has clarified their misunder
standings about our nation, its
policies, current events and
basic ideals.
Many of these student or
ganizations and leaders have
considerable influence on their
governments. We tend to ig
nore this fact as we do the
potential significance of rela
tions with these students until
we read about visible student
influence in South Viet Nam,
Korea and Turkey, to name but
a few,
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Educational Reforms
Approacli
ciety and the radical changes in
teaching methods occurring on
most campuses.
NSA has run out of many of
the main social and political is
sues involving students. The
Congress too has become much
more moderate over the past
two years to the point, that
many people found this year's
assembly downright dull.
Gone were the days of, the
1961 Congress when Fulton
Lewis, III, debated Michael Har
rington on HUAC, and when T
William Buckley came to help
out Lewis at the end.
In its place were normal
everyday students concerned
with problems related to stu
dent government and the cam
pus. The best debate of the
whole Congress was over a
resolution to limit NSA reso
lutions more strictly to stu
dents in their role as students
on the campus.
The thought of "this even
coming up for debate three
years ago would be preposter
ous. Gone were the fire-breathers
from the right and left. The
YAF had withdrawn to attack
NSA from the outside and the
liberals got bored with hear
ing about student government
problems.
The Communists, contrary to
TO THE'
EDITORS"
This work is more than a
force against Communism,
though in an indirect manner
it has been that too. Rather the
IC has effectively represented
our nation's noblest bi-partisan
foreign policy goals to influen
tial groups and leaders who
would otherwise contrast our
claim to "free world" leader
ship with American student
complacency.
Much of its work could not
have been carried on . without
the supplementary support of
private American foundations
impressed with its significance.
Yet this work must be done by
a national organization like
USNSA a loose confederation
of student governments which
can stand on equal organiza
tional footing with internation
al student organizations.
3) NSA's past officers and
significant policy guidelines set
by the national student con
gresses have in the main been
no more "liberal" than have
the central bi-partisan domes
tic and foreign policies of the
last four national administra
tions. In the light of this and
the work of the International
Commission, the applause for
NSA from national political
figures of both parties is
understandable.
In short, our potential disaf
filiation from USNSA would
seriously undercut a bold and
exciting endeavor. It would be
senseless not to vote to sup
port our present USNSA af
filiation. Bob Althauser
; Graduate Student, Sociology
Student Bangs
Coke Macliine
Editors, The Tar Heel:
The fact that NSA only, costs
13.6 cents per student, as you
have stated, somehow fails to
impress me. A coke from the
dorm machine only costs a .
dime, but if I deposit my
money and get no results, I
usually bang hell out of it.
Jim Fowler
-. , - . , 2 Pettigrew.
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popular fiction, were never in
it in the first place.
Fortunately, at the same
time NSA ran out of political
and semi-political issues, it
received a grant from one of
the prominent private business
foundations to establish a sal
ary for a permanent staff ex
pert on higher education.
This staff member, Roland
Liebert, from the University of
Wisconsin, started work this
fall and is already carrying out
research on modern teaching
methods (TV instruction and
the like) and on the massive
problems of the expanding uni
versity. Students on this campus and
faculty and administrators as
well have complained of the
impersonal computer university
by the IBM card.
Chancellor Sharp said in a
major address here recently
that he had noticed an inten
sive reaction to this among col
lege faculty across the coun
try. He said that an attempt is
being made to emphasize per
sonal approach in teaching
methods.
This debate among educators
has really just begun in the
face of a boom in the. numbers
of students trying to get a col
lege education.
This debate is now being
carried on in all the profes
sional associations of higher
education like the American
Association of University Pro
fessors (AAUP) and the Ameri
can Council on Education
(ACE) of which our own
President William Friday was
just elected chairman.
NSA is currently affiliated
with both of these groups and
is the ONLY national student
group with a seat on the ACE's
executive committee.
Where NSA is now attempt
ing to represent you is not ca
political issues (most of these
are defunct, but on matters of
educational reform.
The student voice in these
matters is invaluable to edu
cators. The principle that students
should have a voice in these
matters is the very principle
underlying student government
itself. This has been primary
among the goals of Student
Body President Spearman this
year.
President Spearman, inci
dentally, has been the most
attrociously slandered indivi
dual in this entire campaign.
UNC students apparently have
no conception of his intelli
gence and abilities; nor do they
realize what many in high po
sitions have realized: that he is
probably the best student leader
in recent university history.
Intelligent students at Caro
lina should realize what the
most rational criticisms of NSA
are directed at are no longer
real problems in NSA. They
should realize that these objec
tions to NSA, however valid,
are being and may be further
corrected in the near future
by continued participation in
NSA.
It would indeed be tragic if
the negativism which has per
vaded the country in this elec
tion year should be used to
negate the beginnings cf im
portant work in the field cf
education which concerns us all
so directly.
It would be tragic if the
voice of partisan politics, bein4
so successfully exploited in this
campaign, should silence the
intelligent voice of intellectual
ideas and educational reform.
It would be a blot on the edu
tionally liberal traditions of the
University of North Carolina to
vote in the negative on the
NSA referendum Tuesday.
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