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. t ,. Tuesday, November 10, 1964 NcrGrefett Mck timet 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 ffill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. Why We Will Vote "When the current furor concerning the National Student Association be gan two weeks ago, we asked that the campaign be conducted on a high level, gave NSA our endorsement, and ex pressed the hope that the campus would truly have an opportunity to hear a both sides. Unfortunately, however, we have been disappointed. Most -of the material distributed by the anti-NSA forces has been of a negative tone, as expected. But it has also been largely distorted, to the point that the pro-NSA has been forced to allot much of its time to cleaning up the debris. - In the heat of an often-vindictive campaign, many of the relevant issues t have been touched upon lightly, if at all. There has been little, if any, con cern for the prestige of the University of North Carolina and there has been even less respect for student leaders. i . We prefer to look at NSA positively. It provides many .services, it does many things, and it is for these reasons we would give our support to continued af filiation: 1) NSA provides the leadership for the International Student Conference, which plays a vital role in combatting the international Communist, student movement. 2) NSA provides 25 international scholarships annually, many of which have been won by Carolina students. 3) NSA provides scholarships which bring foreign students to campus, suchT as Cecilia Gajardo (Chile) last year and Magnus Gunther (South Africa) this year. 4) NSA provides travel abroad in formation and cut-rate tours. It has offices in most major European cities. 5)NSA's value to student govern ment, we think, is great. The present work being done on revising the honor, code, could not have been possible with out NSA, nor could the Course Evalua tion Handbook, which will be available later this semester. 6) NSA national and regional con gresses provide an opportunity for our student leaders to meet and talk to Student leaders from many other Uni versities. Many of Student Govern ment's present programs have resulted from this contact. Sty latlg Gfar 72 Years of Editorial Freedom Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933.1012. Business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Cfcapel Hill, N. C. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, Subscription rates: $3:50 per semester; $8.00 per year. Volume 72, Number 44 44 55 Yes 7) NSA has always been an outstand ing voice against Communism. It has favored freedom of .speech and has op posed all political efforts to silence or cripple the educational experience. 8) NSA provides a low-cost life In surance plan for students at TJNC and other schools. We have become stronger in our sup port for NSA as the campaign has pro gressed. It is inconceivable to us that "responsible" students would lend their names -to such distortions as we have seen used against NSA in the past two weeks, and we could not, in any con science, support them. Political literature is expected to pre sent its point of view in a manner most advantageous to ' its position, and, of course, minor distortions are inevitable: Indeed in many cases they are permis sible. -But the thin line between major dis tortions and outright falsehoods is slim indeed, and some of the charges made in the past two weeks belong ob viously to the latter category. The pro-NSA forces have taken their campaign to the students. They have accepted a debate offer. They have gone door-to-door, they have spoken at every meeting they could find, they have dis tributed honorable literature. Among their number are most of the top leaders of Student Government who have served this University well Bob Spearman, Paul Dickson, Arthur Hays, Chuck Neely, to name only a few. They are not. of one political bent. Spearman is a liberal, but Hays is a conservative. Dickson is a moderate, while Chuck Neely is conservative. Thus, though these tried and trusted student leaders are of varying and often opposing political persuasion, they form a common front on the NSA issue. They are convinced that NSA makes, and will continue to make, a positive con tribution to UNC, and that Carolina should continue to be represented in its activities. We agree. There is no question in our minds that students would do unalterable damage to themselves, Student Govern ment and the reputation of the Univer sity of North Carolina if they were to vote against NSA. "Let's lutrrv. Jrir;;r: ;-.J ji-yi' -imLjjwi nipiirjinjiftnTrHr-ri-ni' fr-Trnr t at nwniS mrum'imiif- m IP"''l 'i ""'in n 'lW TT'-T-fr "" ' ' ' 1 mM"WVk f " ' iT-fi f fTl iiti Tifii .-r. ' i " i - . - x ' j ' , v ' ' , - f.' -I. ; . - 1 .' v 1: v-,' ':r. .: '" ; '- ' : . ; r; i.". ''p; -W;--.-. -!-A Parting Expert Explains Insurance Policy Editors, The Tar Heel: w Below are1 several misstate ments about the proposed NSA life insurance program which have been given wide circulation by NSA opponents. I have tried to answer each false statement ful ly. . Misrtateir.cnt: Commissioner of Insurance Lanier has flatly re fused to endorse the NSA life insurance policy. Fact: The C. Department of Insurance has approved the NSA policy for sale in North Carolina. The Commissioner has given the NSA policy exactly the same in vestigation and approval that he has given to the policies of other companies licensed to operate in I this state, no more and no less. Misstatement: NSA will make money on each policy sold. . Fact: Each policy application contains a box to be checked if the buyer wishes to donate his dividend to NSA. No UNC purch aser will be making any involun tary donation ta NSA. The policy is underwritten by the American Health & Life In surance Co. of Baltimore, Md., which is a wholly owned subsi diary of Commercial Credit Cor poration, also of Baltimore. The same plan with the same company has been approved by the Department of Defense for West Point, Annapolis, the Air Force Academy, and for au ROTC students. All 6f the above facts are known to the opponents of NSA because Armistead Maupin was included in a meeting of student leaders where it was all explained by Admiral Charles Kirkpatrick, former Commandant of the Naval Academy, who is traveling in be half of NSA and the Naval Acad emy Foundation Insurance Trust. John Randall UNC Law School Ed. note: Randall, a second year law student, is a former president of. Randall Insurance, Inc., and was an employee of the state Department of Insuran ce. He did extensive research on the NSA policy . this summer for the University. MRC President Endorses NSA Editors, The Tar Heel: The impression that Armistead Maupin gave of NSA in his col umn, "A View From The Hill," yesterday was completely false. I've enjoyed Mr. Maupin's col umns this year, but this time, he just got way off the track. I have been to an NSA Con gress, unlike Mr. Maupin, and it is far from the paid vacation he I've got to vote YES on NSA." Letters To The Editors Shots On says it is. All of us were up to all hours of the night for two weeks, debating issues and meet ing with students from all over the country, getting their ideas on how Student Government could be better run. For myself, I got many worth while ideas on residence hall life. Several other major universities have a set-up like ours, but one which works a lot better. The ideas and the materials I , got there have helped nie very much. Mr. Maupin also said it was a "carefully guarded secret" about where our money went on NSA. One of the first sheets put out by Student Government that I saw gave detailed breakdown on the finances and all the speak ers that have come around to the residence halls have explain ed this fully. I went and got these figures and will repeat them here. We spend $1,471 a year out of our total budget of about $180,000 on NSA. This amounts to 13.6 cents per student. We pay $170.50 a year for na tional dues and $60 for , regional dues. Out of this come all the programs from which students and Student Government benefit so heavily. In terms of money, we's been getting much more out of NSA in the past couple of years than we've put in. For regional expenses we pay $190 a year. This year, this money will go for three regional as semblies. One will be at Sweet briar on Southeast Asia. Another will be at Duke and will be a series of practical student gov- eminent workshops. The third has not been set yet. The campus committee has $74.50 for its yearly operations. The rest, $976, goes for send ing ten people to the summer Congress. Out of this comes the information and inspiration for many Student Government pro grams like the Residence College System and the Course Evalua tion oBoklet to be published this spring. All this helps make Carolina's Student Government and its stu dent body one of the most sophis ticated in the country and- tops in the South. . , Most of the schools that drop out of NSA do so either because of right wing activity against it from the YAF and the Birchers or because they just have. weak Student Government If Carolina has a weak Student Government, there might be no point in staying in NSA. But it doesnt I'm sure mat Mr. Maupin would have an entirely different opin ion of NSA if only he could know just how much it does for Caro lina. I hope heU consider run ning for delegate next spring, so he can go in the summer. I hope Carolina win vote yes on Nov. 10 so Mr. Maupin can have a chance to see what it's really like. Jen Fullwood . MRC President T1 The NSA How Moderate Are The Liberals Editors, The Tar Heel: ' As a rather befuddled freshman, :i "would like to ask the pro-NSA people some questions. First, if Mr. Spearman and Mr. Lawler are moderating forces in the NSA, then what are the liberals like? Second, was Mr. Spearman's civil rights bill at the 1963 Con gress (an even stronger one than the present Civil Rights Law) an example of our moderating influ ence? Third, why are we told that we are not bound to support NSA resolutions, and then two min utes later told that students throughout the world listen to NSA as the voice of American students? In other words we know we don't believe in it, but every body else thinks we do. Could somebody please explain this? Fourth, how much of our money is spent for the services of NSA? And how much of it is spent for a two week vacation for Student Government officials? Richard Urquhart 106 Aycock CERTAIN FEELING The best line we heard all week came from the man stand ing outside a polling booth in Harlem, waiting to vote: ln your gats, you know he's nuts. National w I Might Help Kill Apathy II THE DOWNTOWNER St. John's University Ed. note: St. John's is not pres ently a member of NSA. Last Sunday we attended the Metropolitan New York regional meeting of the National Student Association over at Pratt Insti tute. We were thoroughly im pressed by the facilities that the school offers to its students, in cluding a student union building. Yes, a student union at a Brooklyn-based university. But we'll discuss that some other time. The NSA is the one real means that students here have to gain contact with the outside world where other college students are doing someihing. Wouldn't you like to see St. John's students do something? Wouldn't you your self like to do something? We have a sneaky feeling that you'd just need to be shown what can be done and what is being done by students at other colleges. Our primary point is what stu The Readiness Will Wot Bring Peace By TIMOTHY RAY "The Candle" is -written with the idea in mind that the , world we live in, in that sense -of "world" that has to do with man's moral and spiritual existence, -is presently dark; that the tradi tional sources that Western man has relied on for illumination have dimmed to such a point as to leave us groping; and, finally, that, once one has become aware of this situation, one can either simply curse it or else attempt to generate, out of human existen ce itself, a feeble and flickering light. Controversy is exactly in line with this idea, for where there is the heat of open and unrestrict ed discussion, there is the pos sibility of light issuing forth. Ac cordingly, it was a great plea sure to see that Air. John Fairley considered one of the installments ' of "The Candle" sufficiently note worthy to deserve a refutation and preceed to offer his letter- in the Nov. 5 DTH devoted to that end. Mr. Fairley is arguing that no take a pacifist or bomb-banning stand in today's world is, in es sence, to take the attitude em bodied in Neville Chamberlain's concession of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich; and, further, that the position of wisdom lor us, as a nation, is to maintain a level of military preparedness that will prevent us from being caught off guard, as we were at Pearl Harbor. "Constant readi ness for war and surveillance," he says, "are America's only guarantee for world peace to day." I want to attempt to answer this in two ways, the first hav ing to do with nuclear weapons and the second having to do with war in connection with men as individuals. Perhaps Mr. Fairley and I un derstand different things by the expression, "world peace," but, as I use the term, the achieve ment of world peace, which I take to be something we've never had before, or at least something which is far from being the usual state of the world, is made ex traordinarily more difficult by the existence of nuclear weapons. I think that, if "world peace"::is 1 to mean anything at all, it has to include the idea of removing the imminent danger to the con tinued existence of the human race which thermonuclear wea pons constitute. I do not understand how just being tough, in and of itself, can lead us a step closer to world peace, in this sense. On the con trary, the longer is the exposure of mankind to this danger, the greater is the span of time in which the occasion can arise of a limited conventional armed conflict escalating into total deva station. It's a little bit like rid ing in an airplane: if you are exposed to X degree of danger per minute of flight, your likli hood of surviving a long trip is less than that for a short one. Certainly Mr. Fairley is cor rect in saying that the Commu nists want to dominate the world. But their efforts have been thus far devoted to subverting, not to blowing up, the world. One usual ly meets subversion, once it be gins to exist, by counterinfiltra tion, and guerilla warfare (which always requires the active sup port of the local population, some thing which cannot be compelled by force of arms), not by nuclear missiles. Student Associaiiou dents can do and are doing as far as changing conditions at their universities. Nobody here seems to realize what NSA can do. Its primary image to SJU has in the past been the fight between conservatives and liber als. The former want NSA oust ed, calling it a commie front; the latter want to preserve it as a means to overthrow authority. NSA is an organization of more than 300 colleges and universities throughout the country with some thing in common interest in the way they are being educated and treated by their institutions, in terest in the .things that will make a difference to them later on in life. . They express themselves on questions of the day education al, political and social. The voice of NSA is accepted as the col lective voice of the American student. That meeting on Sunday was to set the member schools of t C - w .0- .:: ,Jii2i ttqciih One doesn't fight a plague of locusts today by burning wheat fields: one fights them with in secticide, applied to the wheat before the locusts arrive. It's cheaper, more effective, and less bloody to make a country subversion-proof ahead of time than to descend later and attempt to shore up dictatorial regimes which have become despised by the "people and which the people do not care to defend, much less, to die fighting for. As Barbara Deepe said in last Sunday's New York Herald Tri bune, we could have gotten on much better with the project in South Viet Nam if we had exer cised some of our omnipresent power there by insisting on Gov ernmental reforms and security measures and if we had taken the local advice about how to go about setting up our strategic hamlet program, which failed for us, but which the Communists have used effectively. My second argument is that wars may be things that exist between nations, things that are precipitated by international con ditions and the behavior that poli ticians engage in when facing those conditions, but wars are always FOUGHT by individuals. It is you and I, or others like us, who pull triggers. Now I be lieve that a person is capable of reactions different from those of " a robot.' As another article in the Nov. 5 DTH put it, ". . . man . . . only exists when he has made use of the freedom of choice which is the essence of life." At this point, you see, I am no longer talking about nations, or what this nation can do when faced with the behavior of other nations. Our nation may go to war, and you and I may possibly have no control over this. - A nation, however, is a collec tion of persons, and a person. I believe, is capable of exercis ing control over his own actions. America may fight a Qwar, but it is always you and I who wear or don't wear the khaki, carry or don't carry the gun, pull or don't pull the trigger when aim ing at our fellow human. Let's think once again about ( Hitler, since he has been brought into the discussion. There has been a great controversy over whether or not the German peo ple were morally guilty in follow ing such a monster. Regardless of what the moral condition of the "German people" happen.s to be, in every case it was a per son capable of choice letting his mind and will be taken over and controlled by another. Any good "realist," faced with this choice, would have said, "What the hell, I can't change the world; so why should I stick my neck out?" And he would have followed blindly with the rest. Without such "realists," wars would never get fought. If "real ists" everywhere would become willing to stick their necks out, there would be enough protesters to stop every war machine. War would no longer be fought, and mankind could begin to enjoy world peace. Remember, the first question is never, "How can we make oth er people behave the way they should?" . The first question is "How am I going to choose to act in the situation in which I find my self?" the Metropolitan New York area together to communicate their mutual problems and solutions. There were seminars at the Pratt meeting dealing with academic reform, student welfare, student rights and student government evaluation and reform, in addi tion to foreign student program ming and community, involve ment. Wouldn't it be nice if St. John's partook of these conferences and could bring back some informa tion from the president and na tional staff of NSA? Wouldn't it be nice if our student leaders would talk out problems and see how other schools are solving them? , In short, there were nine SJU students scheduled to attend the . meeting. Four showed up. Five others didn't. Wouldn't it be nice if our student "leaders" thourfit about what they were scheduled to do instead of going to the races the nighi before and getting to bed at 4 a.m.? Candle
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