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Tuesday, December 15, 1964 Volume 72, Number 66 Nash Of AAUP Blasted Elir Daily Star Siwl 72 Tears of Editorial Freedoxa ehofxfttill rUnir uty wfefcfc first to Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8.00 per year. Published dally 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 Hill Publishing Company, Inc. 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. U A Time To Give But Christmas is a time for giving, but the way things are these days we just don't have the resources to do much giving, and many of those whom we ad mire will unfortunately be somewhat slighted. Our staff, and our friends, in Student Government, are among those whom we must omit at gift-giving time. But, if we were millionaires, this is what some of them would get: Mike Yopp, our Managing Editor, would get a bed to put in the office, as he seems to spend just about all of his time here. Larry Tarleton' over in Sports would regain his bachelorhood so he could date a few of those girls who come up to us and say, "Who is that CUTE boy over there in the corner?" And Pete Gammons, his assistant, would get a sweater with "North Caro lina" on it, so he could get rid of his Groton School relic. Pete Wales, of course, would get a membership card in the Ku Klux Klan,. and Betsy Timberlake a new typewriter which automatically turned out the Campus Calendar, Alan Banov and Ernie McCrary would get a much-deserved salary raise, and John Greenbacker and Kerry Sipe a few less stories to do. Over in Student Government, Bob Spearman would find a new car under his Christmas tree, Don Carson would, unwrap Don Curtis (who else?), Arthur Hays a new pipe, Paul Dickson a few more votes, Jim Hubbard a certificate allowing him to purge several members of the University Party . without the in cumbent backlash, Don Wilson an Os car for his intrepid work in Dramatic Arts 51 (Acting), and Sherry Stanley a Course Evaluation Handbook, ready made. And Dean Long would get a Residence College, Chancellor Sharp a few less telephone calls and Dean Carmichael a few less women's rules. feut we're poor, so we really can't do anything but wish. The Conference Money Well Spent The student - faculty - administration conference concerning the proposed Residence College System proved to be a smashing success this past weekend, offering hope not only for the Residence College System itself, but aiso for fu ture relations between the.tliree groups.; The conferehce'jjicRwas held at the Penn 4-H Center near Reids ville, , did not solve all the immediate and specific problems of the proposed sys tem. If anything, it raised new ques tions for the planners to consider. But it did place students, professors and deans on an equal footing and allowed them to approach this exciting new con cept in the University's organization in a unique spirit of unity. Every aspect of the Residence College System was not just discussed, but dis sected, analyzed and evaluated. Out of the frank, off-the-record discussions came many new proposals some realis tic,, some challenging, and a few simply ' amazing. But whatever their relative, merit: all the ideas grew out of an at anosphere of complete candor that should serve as a model for future meetings of " this type. And certainly everyone who attended would be quick to speak in favor of more such gatherings. By removing the discussions from the time-consuming everyday duties of the campus and placing them in an undisturbed setting, the conference planners insured that the discussions would not be curtailed by-the ringing of telephones, the hum- . 5tyr Satlg Star Efcel it a e Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens Co-Editors Mike Yopp Managing Editor Associate Editor Prte Wales Business Manager Jack Ilarrivfton Asst. Bus. Mgr. : V.ii$ ;ray Photo Editor - Jock Lauterer Advertising Manager Woody. Sobol Asst. Ad. Mgr. '. . Jim Peddicord Sports Editor Larry Tarleton Asst. Managing Editor Newt Editor , Copy Editor , Night Editor . drum duties associated with an office or the desire to hurry off to a beckoning party. Instead, all were, able, to limit their thinking to the problem at hand and to spend as much time as necessary in discussions, conferences or--in a few imems. Ernie McCrary Alan Banov Sports Reporters Mary Ellison Strother Fred Thomas Pete Gammons Pete Cross, Tom Haney, Al Kaplan - Chip Barnard i BiU Lee Art Editor Intramural Reporter Subscription Manager Salesmen .. Tom Clark Dick Baddour Stuart Ficklen, Jim Pottes Subscription Manager . . Tom Clarkz Circulation Manager .. John Evans Reporters 1 . John Greenbacker . Kerry Sipe V . The result -;-was a session f ihaf mean much to the future of this Uni versity. The Residence College System will probably take on many new and important aspects as a result of it, but that is not the most important factor. More important is the new atmosphere of understanding that was created be tween leading members of the faculty, the administration, and the student body. Let us hope that future problems and ideas of this magnitude will also be discussed in such an atmosphere, for understanding is the key to progress the progress that Carolina must have if she is to realize her potential. Our Weekly Awards The snows are threatening to fall, but even that won't deter the weekly DTH Awards. So ... . . MAN OF THE WEEK: Billy Cun ningham wins in a landslide, a landslide of 48 points, that is. We realize he took quite a few shots, and had some trouble at the free throw line, but a record is a record, fans. LIZARD OF THE WEEK: The de fenders of the Germans Club, who said their raucous performance at the Fall Germans Concert should not be criti cized because those who took objections to the drinking and loud noise were "guests," even though they had paid out six bucks a couple for the right to be a guest. CAMPER OF THE WEEK: Jane Du berry, a Duke University coed whose disappearance sparked a massive search. When found near Chapel Hill, she told searchers she "just wanted to be alone for awhile," claiming the whole thing had been touched off because she had flunked a psychology test. DEAL OF THE WEEK: The purchase of Cameron Village shopping center in Raleigh by an insurance company, who shelled out a reported $8.4 million for the right to own a shopping center with all the inconveniences of downtown. BEST CHRISTMAS SEASON BUY FOR MARRIED COUPLES: "His" and "Her" sports balloons, which can be bought at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas for a cool $6,850 each, including flying les sons. HEADLINE OF THE WEEK: In the Raleigh Times, reminding readers there were "Only 13 Shoplifting Days Until Christmas." . Faculty Activists Regarded Trite Editors, The Tar Heel: Professor Arnold Nash's I e t ter in the DTH of Dec. 4, in which he defends the recent ac tions of the campus chapter of the AAUP holding a closed meeting, was reminiscent of the old saying: "With friends like that, you don't need any ene mies." Not that Prof. Nash is to be singled out for blame, mind you. If anything, he is to be commended for his candor. For what the good professor seem ed to be saying, in effect, was tend, because of the potentially seems to ask. al pomposity, and have a at that the local chapter of the daring nature of the ideas ex- Some will undoubtedly say discussing the prohTe t s AAUP is in the main just a pressed in the process of free that I am being too hard on we know are there, and out in 1 4 mm O . ' A i i narmiess group ot pedigreed and tun aeoate ideas wnicn, prof, j, m translating his the open if you please, bccai people good fellows all who respond to the subtle stirrings of social responsibility by com ing together (rather infrequent ly) to discuss matters that are largely beyond their power to influence, even if they, had the bad taste to want to influence such matters. And the cloak of , anonymity rightly surrounds such - meet ings, he would , probably con- inaccurately reported, might misrepresent the actual posi tion of one or all of the par ticipants in this exciting ad venture in group dynamics. What the good , professor seems to be wondering, in sum, is why the devil all this com motion by certain members of the Fourth Estate and the body politic in general? "Is there nothing sacred anymore?" he Is It MERY Or MARY Xmas?' i ...... 64 i; ? jt 4 - h " I , - - ' - ' . J r " .' -A ' - ,'..- - "r." " r , ' . " i f A rZf's ' i'-" i;z:i"' 3 t - -rs.., r , vi;x :c i& x Yfyf ?r - - : A ' x" V -:i - f- v, TV" " , " ' JP ' 1 - t " ; . , ' , ' , " SX'" , ' jr - ' t ' " ' " " ;J L' ' - v-i' A- ' --ri I - t r f ! , I I ; N " v "I If ' ' i I V" - - V'c v ' i - s- ' ' ' f. ..v.r- : r. u ",f;,r .n,,,,.,,........'.. - - ' .n..i. k, , remarks as I have above. Those who say this would probably be right. After all, the local chap ter of the AAUP did come out against the Gag Law. Despite this sterling demon stration of courage, I am re minded of another occasion last year, when the Town of Chapel Hill was gripped by po yitical paralysis in the wake of civil rights demonstrations, and Prof. Nash led the local chap ter of the AAUP in staging a thrilling demonstration of moral myopia. Reminded of this fact and others concerning the AAUP's suffocatingly narrow definition of its proper role, and mindful of the present storm of criti- we are interested in what k happening at our state Univer sity. What the public is ako sav ing, it seems clear, is that "if Prof. Nash and his friends don't do this they can't expect less public hostility (in the form, for example, of Gas Law), tut more. And what former students of yours, like me, are savins, Prof. Nash, is that this desire by the public is not really the burdensome wrench in the ma chine of progress yoi think it is. Rather it is an op portunity to show the public that the University is not pop ulated wholly by professituij wool - gatherers, heedless- d cism directed at the AAUP, I their social responsibilities wonder when Prof. Nash and his like - minded faculty fellows are going to awaken to t h e meaning of all this criticism, and to an understanding of the opportunity it contains. For it seems to me eminent ly reasonable that the criti cism of the AAUP is a far broader criticism of the facul ty in general, which the AAUP as an independent - seeming body happens for better or for worse, to symbolize to the general public. The criticism means that the public looks to the faculty for discussion about, euner airaia 01 controversy or so unimaginatixe as to be in capable of it. It is an oppor tunity to show the public that there also exist in academe men of good will, deep learning and robust spirits; men who h a v e not lost the intellectual bold ness and spiritual temerity which supposedly brought them to their places of present privi lege; men who are possessed of a bit more passion and spark that the "typical member" of the AAUP, whom you so aptly described in your letter as "one who in addition to his oblica- '---"' . i ' ' Letters To The Editors Liberals Attackedl Twice Neely Returns To Me-Tooism Editors, The Tar Heel: Chuck Neely, in the Dec. 10 Tar Heel, claims that Barry Goldwater's "disastorous" de feat last November has thrown the Republican Party into the position of an "impotent critic" and "non - existent opposition" on the American political scene. It strikes me as rather naive to think of the votes of 27 million Americans, or four out of every ten voters, as an "impotent" and eli nigh non - existent" force. - The article calls for the Re publican Party to reject the "perverted dogma of the new conservatism," the "unrealistic escapism," and the "nilhistic rebellion" that was supposedly characterized by Gold water's candidicy. Neely claims that the new task of the GOP must be to work for "positive, progressive legislation," yet somehow the party at the same time is supposed "to play a vi tal role ot restraining the auth- tism is repugnent to the Amer ican people. I don't propose, as does Mr. adopt more of a "me too" po sition in order to regain lost power and to restore a more conservative approach to Amer i c a n - government. The GOP should simply, use as their base the 27 million Americans who did support Barry Goldwater and his conservative ideas, in spite of the candidate's many mistakes and often inflexible thought. ' ' They should certainly temper slightly this Goldwater conserv atism, for it obviously must be made more appealing ; a n d ac ceptable to the' public. They should find a dynamic, attrac tive and politically mature can didate for 1968, a conservative candidate, not a pseudo -r Re publican like Rockefeller or Romeny. Basically, they should continue to work from a truly conservative foundation. ; This , and not a . general reversal of thought, as suggested by Mr. Neely, is the logical formula for a 1968 Republican victory. The irony of this article, how maker becomes a bearded old man who wears red and gives things away. The liberal back ers of Santa Claus display a perverted political acumen in choosing as the target for their propaganda the innocent chil dren of our land, who are taught that something can be had for nothing. The source of this bounty (the very thought f which is foreign to our free enterprise system, in which nothing is free) is, like big government, big; and, with a brazenness of which even the present Administration is not capable, Santa Claus is dressed in red. The shrewd liberal backers of Santa Claus, finally, have realized that a sparing use of their tool is liable to be more ef fective than would be a year and leadership in resolving, the tions to his special field of studv problems of the University; and that the public is greatly dis appointed to get neither from a group which should be vit ally concerned with both, if for no more noble reason than en lightened self - interest. The press and the public un doubtedly are of the opinion that some problems must arise when you put more than 12,000 people together in one spot and set them to the task of educa tion. The press and the public undoubtedly also believe that it is most unlikely that the Chan cellor and the President can possibly be aware of all the problems and complications in volved in operating a Universi ty of this size everything can't possibly be all sweetness and light. But becuase the AAUP seems to be trying to convey that im pression, one is invited to be lieve that anonymity cloaked the AAUP's meeting not be cause they probably wouldn't .be, and neither would much else of substance for that mat ter, in which case anonymity in the best traditions of a bad bureaucracy is not only con venient but essential. Be this as it may, what the public including many in the University community are saying to the faculty, especial ly as it is represented by the AAUP, is: Put aside your false propriety, your profession- and research seems' to have rather more interest in such top ics as the role of the Univer sity in society or academic free dom or the government of h i s institution than does perhaps his colleague who as a professor tends to restrict his academic concerns, as teacher and as re searcher, to his discipline." Such a statement as the fore going, Prof. Nash, which coven "rather more than 200 faculty members," strikes me a; more of an indictment than n. a mere description. I mean, it': awfully nice of you fellows to k so good as to take dutiful note of what I had always regarded as prime responsibilities of men all men, - especially learned men in a democracy. But for some reason I am, not ex actly overcome with enthusi asm for your sentiments, which border on being condescending. But then, perhaps my lack of enthusiasm really results from the realization that you and your 200 or so fellow AAUP members supposedly represent UNC's faculty activists. What I shudder to wonder, are t h e faculty passivists like? Gary Blanchard Princeton, N. J. Editors' Note: Blanchard was DTH co - editor last year and is presently attending ths Wood row Wilson School of Public Affairs. De Gaulle Spurns Texas Hospitality By ART BUCIIWALD The New York Herald Tribune It is not generally known that President de Gaulle planned to visit President John son right after, the elctions, but somehow plans went askew. This is what happened. A few days . after the elec tion President de G a u 1 1 e 's "I have the bomb. I do nor have to go." "But, Monsieur le presl dent, Chancellor Erhard did it. After the measurements, you and Mrs. de Gaulle will be es corted outside to a barbecue." "What Is barbecue?" "It is a .Western type din ner consiting of pork ribs, sau- round bombardment; they bring Foreign Minister came into his sages, beef briskets, and chick- the bearded gentleman in when it is cold and wet, when resis tance is low. But eternal vigilance is t h e price of freedom! What do we know about the Sanata . Claus plot? What can we do about it? The ; plot is clearly well ever, is he was formerly an ardent Gold- oritarian bent of modern liber- water disciple, as indeed he was. I only hope that the rest of the Gold w a ter disciples aren't as eager as he is to aban don their cause. I, for one, am planning to continue the fight. alism." How can this be? What is modern liberalism other than a massive accumulation of "positive, progressive" legislation?" Greg Low 208 N. Columbia St. Barry Goldwater was defeat ed primarily because of the "rash" and "trigger - happy" image which surrounded him throughout the campaign. He al so was a relative novice as a politican who consistently said the wrong things at the wrong Left Wing Plot time. He did mdeed approach Sl.CPf gni Present Vs Editors, The Tar Heel: ideas negatively, always tearing down big government, but seem- The idea of Santa Claus is ingry never communicating to . one of the most. insidious and the public as to why big govern- dangerous pieces of liberal de ment and totalitarian Commun- magougery wtih which our be- Santa Claus Is ism should be opposed, and why his suggested alternatives were better. leagured American way has had to contend in recent years. Santa Claus is not a native of His choice of running mate our shores; this product of the wj oiguuicant POU- teeming, wstzruiauie rui Kitux frivol ftninf T T j;j - . . . i . s J 1 uciu gams. e cua receive &omewnat ot a raw deal from the press; and many pf the Republican regulars desert ed him. These are the basic rea- J?7 Barry GoWwater lost in 1964, not because cbnserva- East was imported in 1644 by Dutch immigrants, and remain ed a harmless folk custom un til relatively recently, when the lunatic left began their devi ous use of him. Once a year, the biggest news- pie believe in Santa Claus prov es that they were given things at Christmas when young. The sources of these gifts must be found and checked; until then, emergency laws should be pass ed against the giving of any gifts during December and Jan uary. The plot, equally clearly, has much misguided intelligence be hind it. Our school and univer sity teachers should be investi gated, to see who the Santa Claus braintrust consists of, and how much egghead support it has. Finally, a massive education program must be undertaken at the nursery school and kinder garten levels. One way to ob literate the idea of Santa Claus would be to have Christmas parties for the youngsters at which they would exchange play money for their gifts, thus early becoming fiscally responsible, and at the same time learning the true meaning of Christmas in America. How can we have separation of church and state with Santa Claus in Washington? Name Withheld office and said. "Monsieur le president, I have just received word from our ambassador con cerning your state visit to the United States. I have the tenta tive schedule with me." "Good. WThat time do I get to Washington?" "You're not g o i n g to Wash i n g t o n. You're going to the LBJ ranch in Texas." "Alors?" "We will fly directly from Paris to Texas, where you and Mrs. de Gaulle will be met by President Johnson and M r s. Johnson in a golf cart." "What is a golf cart?" "It's a small car that Ameri cans use to play golf in." "Have you been drinking?" "No, Monsieur le president. It is traditional on the LBJ ranch to ride around in a golf cart, and our security people feel it's safer than if you drove around with him in his Lincoln Conti nental." en legs cooked over a smokv fire and smeared "with a very hot sauce. It is served with hot chili beans and sour dough bis cuits. For dessert there is fried apple pie, served with six-shooter coffee." "I am not only not going, I am getting out of NATO." "Monsieur le president, our ambassador says it is import ant that you and the President sit down and talk." "When do we do that?" "Probably after you write names in a cement block in front of the ranch house." "WThat is that?" "You have to get on your knees and write your name in a block of cement. It takes the place of laying a wreath." "Monsieur le ministre, I think I must ask you to resign." "I am only repeating what is in the cable." "But when do I get to tr.lk - to the President?" de Gaulle The Foreign Minister continu- said, ed. "The first thing will be a "Right after the sheepdog act. tour of the ranch. The Ameri- You will witness trained dous can President will in all prob- rounding up sheep on the rart:h. ability start chasing his cattle in the golf cart." De Gaulle said, "I am not going." "Please, Monsieur le presi dent, listen to the rest of the schedule. After the tour you will go to the main house to rest and meet the President's rel atives. Then you will be measur ed for a 10 - gallon hat and cowboy boots." It's quite moving. Then you will have your talk. After the ial'c ifcere will be a joint press con ference held on a bale of hay and protocol hopes you will wear your Texas hat when you appear for it" "Is that all?" de Gaulle said. There is one more para graph. The ambassador wants to know what are your feelings about getting on a horse?"
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