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Volume 72, Number 75 Students Protest Multiversity , . I c ML r f r . Edncatioii He IK . Activist iom 72 Tears of Editorial Freedon ? Wednesday, January 13, 1965 I I I Genera Wants o 5 I li 1J9t Offices ea the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1(30, Chapel BUI, N. C Second class postage paid at Cae Post OSce in Chapel Hill, N. C, Subscription rates: $159 per semester; $8.00 per year. - 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 Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. N..C. liquor Laws Need Revision A change, seems to be necessary in North Carolina's hypocritical liquor laws. One of these days, perhaps in the 1965 General Assembly, a brave legislator will introduce a bill to legalize the sale of whiskey by the drink, and the state will take the first step toward admitting what it has known for a long time. . Legal prohibition has not been in ef fect in North Carolina since 1935. Wine and beer are sold in restaurants through out the state, and whiskey by the bottle is available in 54 of the state's 100 coun ties. . The basic law in the state is the Tur lington Act, adopted in 1923, which bluntly states that the use of intoxicating liquors is prohibited. Since , its passage, however, the Act has been amended to give the counties local option on the question. Pubic demand has brought other changes which tended to liberalize the law. For instance, in 1958, the attorney general's office ruled that in counties with liquor stores it was legal to operate a locker system in a private club. Other changes have made North Carolina a "brown paper bag" state, i.e. a state where you can mix all the drinks you like as long as you keep the liquor in lu Batlxj ar iui Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens - CoEditor8 T Mxke Yopp Managing Editor Associate Editor -Business Manager Asst. Bus. Mgr. .. Photo Editor , Pete Wales Jack Harrington . Betsy Gray Advertising Manager Asst. Ad. Mgr. . Sports Editor News Editor Jock Lauterer Woody Sobol Jim Peddicord Larry Tarleton .' Alan Banov Asst. Managing Editor Ernie McCrary Copy Editor Mary Ellison Strother Night Editor - Fred Thomas a brown paper bag. As the law now stands, you may take concealed liquor into a restaurant or club and mix all the drinks you wish, but the entire bottle must be consumed on the premises or left behind. If you have only a few drinks and then carry the bottle with you with the seal broken, you are violating a state law. Yet, the problems that can result from drinking the whole bottle at one sitting are too obvious to recount. It is no wonder that support for a change in the laws is growing, especially from the tourist sections in the mountain and coastal areas and in the large coun ties of the Piedmont. Chamber of Com merce and other promoters of conven tions, trade shows, and fashion shows provide most of the support for revision. They are convinced that the present liquor laws han.dicap them in trying to land large conventions and meetings. In Charlotte the Chamber of Commerce recently asked its members what the city needed for continued growth and pro gress. Ranking at the top of the list was the desire for legal sale of whiskey by the drink. Later the Charlotte News conducted a poll on the question which showed that 65 per cent of those questined favored sale by the drink. About half of those opposing the question said they favored total prohibition. But for a change, to be made, there must.be a legislator who is willing to introduce the bill; This element seems to be lacking because introduction .-oi: such a bill could possibly mean political disaster. Sooner or later, though, such a bill will be introduced. When Terry Sanford became governor in 1960, he started some programs which he knew could hurt his popularity. But he also knew that the state needed these programs, and ignoring personal loss, he pushed his programs through the legislature. We wonder if a 1965 legislator will have this insight. LARRY TARLETON - Whither The Dixie Classic? - t (Continued From Page 1) University . officials, is primari ly interested in insuring that a repetition ,of the 1961 scandals do not occur. - (Basketball fans will . remember that a classic game was involved in the "fix" a charges which brought about de-emphasis and a curtailment of recruiting in that year.) This news from the Gover nor's office does not make it completely clear that Dan Moore wants only the scaled down tournament. True, refer ring to a tournament as the "Dixie Classic" does not make it the Dixie Classic, but the term nevertheless conjures up visions of eight nationally- . ranked teams battling day and night in the smoke-filled spa ciousness of Reynolds Coli seum. If this is the goal which the Governor has in mind, the possibilities for a return to a full scale Classic are worth ex amining here. Qnce The Biggest During the decade of the 50's, it was common knowledge across the country that North Carolinians were basketball crazy, and the Dixie Classic played no small part in creat ing such an image. , . v Where else would 12,500 peo ple turn out to see basketball on Thursday afternoon? Where else could a tournament be found that had six of the na tion's top Ten, as the 1959 clas sic did? Where else could mighty Cincinnati be felled twice in the space of 24 hours? The answer is, nowhere and herein lies the primary ob stacle to it ever happening , again. ' ' With the glorious success of o the Classic and other tourna ments Jike it, dozens of com munities all eager for the mil lions which basketbaU fans spend in attending such events o scurried to grab their share of the loot and prestige. By 1964, some 50 tournaments clogged the holiday calendar, from Madison Square Garden to the Bluenose Classic in Canada. With so many events search ing for top teams, many schools found themselves rushing from city to city in search of tro phies. Only a few of the tour naments still involve more than four teams, and these are con fined to the big metropolitan areas such as New York or Los Angeles, where attendance is no problem so long as one or two of the nation's elite are in the field. Whether the Dixie Classic could re-establish its prestigous position amidst so much com-, petition is debatable. Duke, Wake Out? Furthermore, sources at Duke and Wake Forest, both of whom competed in the old Classic, in dicate that those schools might not be interested in returning to the fold. The reason is clear: money. By playing each other at Greensboro during the week after Christmas this year, both schools realized a greater profit in one night than they ever re ceived from a three-day Dixie Classic. Obviously, they might desire to continue scheduling their own holiday games and avoid the hectic Classic with its lower profits." (Carolina is not exempt from this situation, either. Estimates of the school's net from the Vanderbilt game in Greensboro are in the neigh borhood of $10,000.) In its later years, the Dixie Classic had trouble drawing fans to the Saturday afternoon games, in8 which the losers went through the motions of decid ing seventh and eighth place, and there is doubt that the tournament could draw enough today to make an eight-way split really profitable especial ly with weaker fields than be fore. Gamlibngr Potent Force Finally, the gambling flare up of four years ago has not been forgotten, and the bigger the tournament, the harder will be the security of the partici pants. The University would be terribly shaken if another big time scandal were brought on . by the pressure for big-time basketball. Thus, when the difficulties surrounding holiday play are considered, the Trustees' deci sion last spring appears to be especially generous. Only a few tournaments bring together more than four teams, and a two-day series appears to be the best way around the eco nomic problem. The only question which re mains, then, concerns Dan Moore's position. Does he want ,to return to the eight-team Dixie Classic? He has not chosen to make that point clear, and that is certainly his prerogative. It does appear that the "conflict" between the Governor and the University hinted at by the state press is small, if it exists at all. It seems unlikely that the Governor was trying pur posely to upstage the Trustees in his remarks, though he would have done well to make mention of their decision for a four-team tournament. The facts indicate that the two-day event could eventually lead to the reinstatement of the Dixie Classic, but only if top teams can be obtained, the eco nomic problem solved (espe cially as it affects Wake Forest and Duke), and the stigma of the 1961 scandals erased by a trial period during which the tournament is conducted clean ly. Then, and only then, will the revival of the Classic be a wise or feasible move. And by that time, if all goes well, the Clas sic will no doubt have all the support It needs from the Governor, the University, and anywhere else. J Also, the decade was one "of prosperity, the era of the pop ulation explosion in higher edu cation. Colleges began to re spond to increased organization al needs with bureaucracy and the IBM machine. Many students were new to the prospect of a college degree and affluence. For them, it was an introduction . to an entirely new culture. Not knowing how to respond, and not being told, they set themselves to rooting for the football team and dress ing sharp. But apathy; feeds in itself and eventually repulses its disciples. Thus the secessionist "beat'' generation made a quick trans formation to the activist gener ation. A cause, civil rights, ral lied many -of these to its ban ners, and a youthful President . founded the Peace Corps. ; . This fall, on the Berkeley campus, at a, time when much of the imemdiacy , of the civil rights issue 'had subsided, and in the midst of a one-sided Pres idential campaign which defied issues, a new enemy was dis covered. - On the surface it was a re calcitrant administration, out of touch with its constituency, which was denying the right of free speech. More significantly, the enemy . was what has come to be call ed the multiversity. The surface enemy did every thing possible to arouse senti ment against itself t h r ou g h sheer insensitivity. The movements grew to in clude a large majority of t h e students (75 per cent according By PETE WALES Associate Edtior Christmas vacation cooled off Berkeley considerably, but the forces that started the Free Speech Movement are broaden ing the attack. FSM at the University of California began as just anoth er student protest, one of many, and mushroomed into one of the most significant expressions of student feelings in recent years. The reasons? Timeliness, coupled with help ful resistance from those in au thority, and a rather remark able leader, Mario Savio. College stud ents were hit with a tremend ous wave of apa thy during the early 1950's which has per meated the Am erican campus until recently. The McCarthy period had much to do with the silencing of those in ,a position to criticize their society. Reminiscence Of A Bicycle By JOE HODGES It seems a long time ago, the Christmas morning when I was a wide-eyed and happy boy finding a new English bicycle under the tree. I remember well that none of the other presents to a UNC graduate now at the even caught my eye as I hur ried out the door with my new , bike. It was shiny black with silver chrome and three gears and handbrakes. I could barely reach the ped als, but when my parents sug gested that we exchange it for a smaller one, I insisted that I was big enough for. it. I must have logged 100 miles that day on the narrow street that runs in front of our house. And that night I reluctantly took the bike back outside when my parents told me I couldn't keep it; in the house. I have lots of boyhood mem-; ories about that bike. There was the time I won the bicycle races at the fairgrounds and got teni free passes to the movie; and) the time a friend and 41 rodef to the other end of the county and back in a single day; and; the time the front wheel caught in the gravel throwing me over; the handlebars and requiring! six stiches in my hand. There were the cold morn ings when I thought my fingers would freeze to the grips on the two-mile ride to school. There was the time when a sin- gle strand of barbed wire serv- ; ed as a handy repair kit a long ways from home; and the time ' I took the whole bike complete- , ly apart and spent two days : figuring" how to put the gears ; back together and still had parts ' left over. The years went by. I entered high school and got a driver's i license and my bike was retired to the back of the garage where ' it collected dust in complete id- ' leness. It wasn't until midway through my freshman year at college that I realized my bike, would be perfect around-campus transportation. I brought it to Chapel Hill dur ing the exam break and spent several afternoons on the lawn beside the dorm getting it work ing again. The tires had rotted and had to be replaced, and liberal use of the oil can was necessary to make any of the parts move. With an old faded and tattered Army gas-mask bag strapped on the back for books and a cheap flashlight fastened to the handlebars for dangerous night riding around Chapel Hill, I was ready for action. For four years I used it con stantly to ride down to the gym for intramurals, or down town for a beer, or to the li brary, or language lab, or laun dromat, or to class. When I brought my car to school, it stayed parked most of the time as I saved gas and time by rid ing my bike, Some people kidded me about riding it; they said it just wasn't cuiiegiate. uut i knew that the uve to ten minutes it saved ten Berkeley campus) and a num ber of the faculty. These stu dents were not just beatniks or, rhetoric are the most important political radicals. They were av- things to be gained from a col- erage students with real griev- lege education along with intel- ances. lectual curiosity and a faculty Savio, an honor student (3.9 for criticism, we are horrified, average), had the perception to Professors assign fewer term see that this mass support could papers every year, because they be harnessed to attack a host of don't have the time. This in turn ills in the modern multiversity, cuts down on the number of tim- There was resentment at the es a student will go to see the dehumanization of education, professor during office hours, the IBM-card student, the in- As we have said many times creased bureaucratization of the before, there is no time and academic community. Students or desire on the part of most were confounded by the mono- professors to talk with stud lithic structure of the campus, ents out of class. They no long The university had become the er allow dialogue in class. And modern incarnation of Kafka's anyone who thinks that sub castle, stantial intelligent discussions , Sensing that these sentiments go on over the tables in Lenoir were not peculiar to Berkeley, Hall and fraternity houses is Savio has been spending much nuts. of - his time traveling to cam- Thus rhetoric is out. A vast puses around the country. He majority of students could not works through FSM sympathy hold their own in an intellec- chapters, appealing to students tual argument about anything, to confront the issues facing much less speak grammatical them and in turn to point them English. out to the faculty and adminis- Reading is the only thing left, tration. And the way some professors He encourages students to give examinations, most stu- demonstrate to shock the auth- dents don't learn how to read orities into action. Then there properly either, is the conference table for the An inestimable amount of in- three parties to work out their tellectual curiosity is quelled by problems togehter. courses geared to the lowest The problems he reveals common denominator alone ' As firm medievalists who be- to drive any normal human to TiPVP that reading, writing and activism, given au opportunity ith The only block to a break s of the Berkeley situation on thU campus is the good faith d; played by the three major st-dc-tors of the academic commun ity. The success of the student faculty - administration confer ence on residence colleges in Reidsville last month is an ex- ample of what can be done v, a little communication. Besides this conference, f ere has been an amazing increase in consultation and advising among the three groups on z major policy decisions the problems facing teh Ln versity. The fact that many of those problems are virtually insur mountable given present trends seems less harsh when people talk together and honestly in to work out solutions. Savio would find the Chapel Hill situation in an advanced stage in that people are able tc, face issues without demonstra tions because enough of them have shown their concern an;' sensitivity. Chapel Hill and other univer. sities should watch Berkeley closely, however, because such a situtaion leading to mass dem onstrations can develop vith exist in a very real way here with the general unavailability frightening speed. at ujno. of professors. Increases in numbers of stu- And no one develops his abil dents will far outrun the in- ity to criticize when he cannot creased faculty over the next speak in class, when there are two years. It-is difficult to find no papers and when the quizzes seats in many lectures. Stu- are obiective. aents seiaom nave a cnance to ask questions and even less time is devoted to discussion. individual student, are enough THE GOAT Our record this year has been unusually good. Our problem i to maintain it, to continue to progress together toward con structive solutions to the tre mendous problems facing the These developments, along campus in the highly charged with the lack of identity for the activist ws. How To Buy Your Cultah 'ft Wake Ga: Editor's Note: Both of the following letters were written immediately - after the Wake Forest same. The DTH has been unable to publish them until now. What Is Wrong With Basketball Editors, The Tar Heel: Well, I sat down to listen to By FRED IIOBSON Once culture had a little something to do with back ground. You either had it or ycu didn't and if you didn't, you couldn't. Then came the nouve an riche and the nouve au bour geois, for that matter and started something entirelv new. You could buy culture. Honest ly. Maybe it didn't cost quite as much as a new house or car, and maybe it took a little longer to soak in but, sure enough, you could buy it. Or, at least, you could buy enough of it to make other peo ple think you had it, and that's what culture's for anyway. So along came canned cul ture in several forms. " First, factory art. Everybo dy's got to have something con versational hanging in the wsll. Picasso's preferable, but any ol' pseudo - Picassonic non-entity will do. There's a factory in Los An geles which turns out hundreds of paintings a day. Paris street scenes sell best, but abstracts go well too. The factory em ploys ten or 20 artist, and ev ery aesthetic one of them turns out 20 a day so very much better than that ineffiei ent Michelangelo who took ov er 30 years to paint the Sistine Chapel, and then didn't even sell it. Also, antiques. Once they had something to do with aristocra cy. If you had them, you were. Now you buy them and become. The fact that they were once in somebody else's pre-Revolution-ary past doesn't matter. You've got 'em now. And finally, there's the prac tice of bringing in an interior decorator to select books to go on your shelves. You aren't sup posed to read the books ex cept maybe one special clas sic you specialize in conversa tionally. For the others, it's a good letic teams? How much longer ldea buy an outline series . a j. .. ? i . . j; mubt we patiently explain that V3 Draws Fire in case a guest wants to dis- game plans that work. It's de termining who the starting line up should be and getting them our talent has not been Doten to perioral as a team. Basket- tiated, or state that our aca- ball is a team sport and part of demic excellence prevents our that team includes the coach, fielding an equally excellent Sarcasm is not the way. athletic team? I fail to believe that Caro- The Wake Forest basketbaU linas personnel is that poor, game Wednesday night left most characters are superficial, etc. Yeah, I know it's one thing to of the Carolina spectators stun- And it lets you know which sit at home and criticize and it's ned and ashamed. One wonders authors are reallv best the how the University could field sincere ones always are. Know a team that could play with how to pronounce the names or sucn an apathetic attitude. The fundamentals of basketball were (3 cuss them. The Plot Outlines of 101 Best Novels is a ver' perceptive, well-written piece. It lets you know important things about the novels for cor. versational use like which another thing to get . out there and actually do the job. But a coach is supposed to do the job. Yeah, I know Dean Smith is the Heels again Wednesday with a good coach. He has racked up seemingly tossed to the four win tis. ii nuns to see Carolina be annihilated, but it hurt?? or 20 times a day added ud to about 15 of my fraternity bro- a 6 - 6 record with the eighth a Jot of time and I was cinvinc- thers, now it's half-time and I'm best team in the country, Con- eo ot its practicality, even if it by myself. Could be tnai its wasn't a social asset. iust that the noils were wrong Next week I receive my de gree and leave the University I've long looked forward to tak ing ray bike with me to my first Air Force assignment on a pilot uaiuuig uase w n e r e all the sider what our record would be if Frank McGuire were still here. Yeah, I know the Dean has a big job to do, and if he can't keep up the tradition of fine Carolina teams, he should start looking for some smaller shoes to fill. - - Name Witheld p.hnnf narolina's potential, nut I have a dfiferent idea. Whose fault is it? That's the question Tar Heel fans are ask ing and they deserve an answ- TTnr ran tt team have All- roads are straight and fiat r AmAriran and the No. one soph- planned to pamDer it with th mr in the country, two other same loving care that has made soph standouts, a strong retur- 5 5? & 25r nSZ Wake Forest Loss Last month in this "friendly credentials and what was suppos- httle village" someone stole my ed to be the strongest bench in bike, The thief probably thinks the conference, and not be able he got a pile of junk that no to put together an offense? one would Dav $m f- k v mans more than got more than that. In stealing subsSuthtg every two minutes, students of this university bow that bicycle, he stole part of mv tt's Sanitag an effective offense our heads and mumble excuses life. iwwmy . P putting to gether for the performance of our atn- Raises Questions Editors, The Tar Heel: How much longer must we as more to see an almost complete deficit of desire. No team has more devoted followers than the Tar Heels, but the current performance of the team leaves many wonder ing what is happening to the talent that began the season. Even sophomores jell after elev en games. Why hasn't our back court problem been solved? Where are the basic offensive patterns and aggressive de fenses? Most Tar Heel follow ers ache with each loss and many are beginning to wonder whether the emotional invest ment is worth the price. T. J. Koontz F. W. Avery . . Medical School the top six Russian writers. They're quite popular. Dostoev ski is particularly sincere. Sa linger's not anymore. He's gau che. Know what that means? (Also, very parenthetically; have your bookshelves above a fireplace - with wood in it from the Forest of Arden or something. Never burn the wood though. Some very much con fused people they're proba&y gauche think that's what fire places are for.) If you do all this and of course have Bach, Beethoven (not the Fifth, but something eke) and Tchaikovsky in t h e house you're cultured. You're well-rounded. And you're very democratic, because you've proved that any body in America can grow up to buy anything he wants . . . maybe even a background he doesn't have.
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