SSSgianuary 14, 1965
THE DAILY TAR HEEE
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The Disinterested XJiiiversity
Should Be More Consistent
By VICKI PACKER
From The Daily Illini
What a change to come back
jo you, University, after being
fiome where my parents trust
me. And it was great not hav
ing to come in at 10:30 or 1:00.
you see, my parents show how
much they care about me by
trusting me.
And now I come back to you
who neither cares nor trusts me.
But I'm not really asking you
to care about me. I'm not even
sure I want it. I know to you
I m just an ID number and that
you don't even know my name
or what I look like or what I
think.. And I k n o w you don't
care.?
I know that in DGS Biology
I was just another student in a
LETTERS
Communist China
Should Be In UN
Editors, The Tar Heel:
The entire world has been
shaken by Indonesian President
Sukarno's declaration that he
has withdrawn his country from
the United Ntaions.
This action was the result of
the attempt by the UN to medi
ate a dispute between the new
Federation of Malaysia and an
agressive Indonesia. Malaysia's
selection as one of the new
members of the Security Coun
cil served as the catalyst in an
already explosive situation.
, The. western world is concern
ed about Indonesia's withdraw
al from the UN because it less
ens the chance of a negotiated
settlement of the crisis.
However, there is still a ma
jor world power excluded from
the UN with whom peaceful ne
gotiation is equally important.
This is, of course, Communist
China,
China has the world's largest
army and has recently proevd
that she is a potential nuclear
threat. That the Unisted States
can afford to withhold recogni
tion from the government of the
world's largest nation, let alone
refuse, her a seat in an interna
tional forum is incongruous with
her concern about Indonesia.
How do our leaders expect to
maintain world peace without
taking advantage of every op
portunity for negotiation be
tween nations?
Until Communist China is
admitted to the UN and recog
nized as a nation, no interna
tional treaty or organization can
ever attempt to insure world
By Steve Berkowitz
124 Ehringhaus
The object of our concern was a
small, wedge-shaped mollusk found in
southern waters where we planned to
lay telephone cables.
Like others of its genus Martesia (of
the family Pholadidae), it is a borer.
Usually it bores into limestone or
some other substance to find a home.
Would it could it bore into our
undersea cables?
At the time, we were testing the
performances of proposed dielectric
Blasts Women's Rules
lecture of 500. I know that you
didn't care if I was confused
and couldn't ask a question be
cause the lecture was too big.
I know that in Psych 100 I
was just a member of the au
dience who watched the lecturer
on television. And I know he
didn't even know any of us
were there because he was look
ing into the TV cameras. And
I know that in my quiz sec
tions I am just another under
graduate who sometimes inter
prets the regularity of the class
room by asking questions.
But I am not criticizing you
for this. I understand. I real
ize that with 27,000 students you
cannot possibly care about
them as individuals. "Indiffer
ent. Flatly indifferent" is how
Stephen Crane described the
TO THE
EDITORS'
Speaker Ban
Takes Its Toll
Editors, The Tar Heel:
One notes the death of the
eminent 71-year old British ge
neticist J. B. S. Haldane last
month in India. Dr. Haldane ac
cumulated numerous distinc
tions and honors for his work
in population and statistical ge
netics. He, among other things,
performed many bizarre physi
ological experiments on hi m
self attempting "to advance the
cause and knowledge of sci
ence." Currently Dr. Haldane was
noted for his research with
DNA deoxyribonuceic acid
the genetic code holding the se
cret to the reproduction of life,
for which he had been invited
as a guest of the University to
lecture.
He had once been the editor
of the Communist Party Daily
Worker in London in 1940-41 but
quit disgustedly upon discovery
of what the Russians "were
really doing to their geneti
cists." No proof of his member
ship in the party was ever ver
ified. Dr. Haldane regarded the an
swers to certain questions im
posed on visiting professors un
der the Speaker Ban Law as a
"moral indignation and affront"
and refused coming to Chapel
Hill. The University lost anoth
er provocative . and controvers
ial speaker to that Ban's noose.
One is reminded again of what
Mr. Jefferson said, "For here
we are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead-nor to tol
erate any error so long as rea
son is free to combta it."
John D. Froneberger
108 Winston Dorm.
universe. And I know I am
living in an indifferent world
where most people don't even
know I exist, much less care.
But University, your problem
is that you are not consistently
indifferent. If you don't care
whether or not I flunk out, if
you don't care whether or not
I learn in my classes just so I
don't disturb the precise mech
anism of your educational ma
chine, why should you care what
time I come home at night? ,
You are not even consistent
about your rules and regula
tions. If you are to have rules,
you should enforce them. At the
University of Michigan they
have room check at closing.
This is not good, but it is con
sistent. You punish a few mar
tyrs a semester who happen to
get caught, hoping to warn oth
er students. But all this teaches
the other law-breakers is to be
careful not to get caught.
Surely you cannot be afraid
the parents would criticze you
for your indifference. You do
not care if they blame you be
cause their son flunked rhetoric
or their freshman daughter went
on pro. And they do not even
blame you for this. They real
ize that their child is responsi
ble for his own life and mis
takes and they blame him for
not studying more.
Your reputation would not be
hurt by allowing students to be
responsible for their personal
lives. Bennington has 6 a.m
hours. The University of Wis
consin and the University of
Colorado allow freshmen men to
have apartments and senior wo
men to have keys. The Univer
sity of Michigan, which has
room check for freshmen and
sophomores gives keys to all
junior and senior women. At the
University of Chicago and Har
vard women are allowed in
men's rooms. And yet parents
have not stopped sending their
children to the University of
Michigan or Harvard.
We come to you to become
mature individuals. You help us
to become adults by forcing us
to be individually responsible
for learning in the classroom
But by not giving us the chance
to decide for ourselves when to
come in at night, you are taking
away the freedom we have
come here to find the free
dom which allows us to become
mature individuals.
Perhaps you will say fresh
men are not mature enough and
must be given hours. They come
here, you might argue, not
knowing how to study. And per
haps you are right. But surely
apperclassmen who can legally
marry, drink, enter the Army
and vote can decide for them
selves how late to stay out.
The solution would be sim
pie: Give upperclass women
keys as at Umversity of Mien
igan or have separate dorms
similar to Arbor Suites or at
Miami of Ohio where there
would be no problem of com
plicated enforcement.
We were
wary
of
materials for undersea cables at various
simulated depths, temperatures and
ocean pressures. We also tested for
resistance to marine biological attack.
The testing showed that our cable
covering wouldn't be attractive to
pholads, and in nearly fifteen years of
experience with undersea telephone
cables we have peacefully shared the
ocean bottom with them.
But we had to be sure we could. In
the telephone business, reliability is
Immigration
Gives British
Race Problem
From The Dairy Califomian
Pmhnhlv not since the Nor
man Conquest of 1066 has Great
Britain been known to the world
as a country of immigration.
On the contrary, to most Am
ericans, England is mainly a
country of emigration. Yet
there are about 800,000 colored
immigrants in England at pre
sent. Most of these immigrants
come from the West Indies. On
Jamaica and on the Bahamas,
there are established agencies
that specialize in bringing West
Indian Negroes into England.
Many of these had been job
less in their places of birth and
now receive jobs in the British
Isles with their perennial labor
shortage tendencies. Others are
attracted by higher wages.
Of the present 800,000 immi
grants'. 165,000 come from India
and another 100,000 from Paki
stan. Most of these entered
Great Britain during the last
eight years, building up a vir
tual stampede during the last
two and one half years because
immigration controls were fear
ed. In many areas, these immi
grants have been welcomed as
white Britons for jobs of "high-
cer status." But soon, the 33
cities that took the bulk of the
new settlers, with over 2000 of
them each, faced problems that
sound very familiar to Ameri
can ears: Housing discriminat
ion, job discrimination, de fac
to school segregation and the in
formation of colored ghettos.
Instead of spreading over the
country, new immigrants tend
to establish themselves in t h e
same neighborhoods as previ
ous immigrants. These are no
ticeably areas where housing is
inexpensive.
Then, as now, restrictions on
immigration are the only solu
tion to assure adequate adapta
tion and thorough integration.
Already, there are some re
strictions under the Common
wealth Immigration Act. No
new Pakistanis, for instance
can at the present register for
immigration; first, the present
list of applicants must be filter
ed through during the coming
years.
But still more stringent laws
are yet expected. Conservative
vote in Parliament during the
lations should be an over-partisan
concern.
Just like in the proposed new
immigration laws for the u. S
immigrants would be rejected I:
their education is insufficient or
if their value to the country is
doubtful. This would eliminate
much of the "waste" immigra
tion, people who become a bur
den to the society instead of be
ing an asset upon immigration
Some politicians and laymen
m Britain have wondered wheth
er integration of colored immi
grants is possible at all.
Until a short time ago, it was
assumed that all of these immi
grants were just temporary
workers who would return to
their native countries in d u e
time.
But only 10 per cent of them
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everything. We must do all we can to
safeguard service from interruption. No
threat is too small to ignore, not even
that posed by a tiny mollusk.
Right now we've got other problems.
Out in the Dakotas, hungry squirrels
and field mice are nibbling on our wires.
We have to run.
m Bell System
American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
and Associated Companies
6FSM
A . minority . is . powerless
while it conforms to the ma
jority then; but it is irresis
tible when it clogs with its
whole weight.
Henry David Thoreau
There is much to be said of
the events at Berkeley and for
the quick-witted students who
gave the nation a lesson in the
powers of minorities. Perhaps
most amusing were the reac
tions of awe by the news media
and mild panic by the rest of
the nation. So much the better.
The members of the Joint
Budget Committee met with the
University administrators on
campus December 15, and
among the more interesting
questions posed was "How have
wre avoided a 'Berkeley' here?"
Vice - President Chamberlain
gave a "sometimes - we - won
der" look and talked for a mo
ment about student conduct,
etc., but the purpose of this
editorial is to say that in real
ity the Administration was far
too modest.
The events at Berkeley could
not have happened here.
Ten years ago I feel I could
have made the same statement
for an entirely different rea
son; OSU was the Cow College,
populated mainly with vocation-'
al trainees whose desire it was
to get the diploma and get out.
Student freedom, or the exer
cise of it, under such circum
stances is of little interest.
Today there are students, at
least an active core of them,
who take an interest in the is
sues of freedom, in the men
and policies which govern stu
dents, and in reforming those
policies with which they dis
agree. But for two reasons, both
lying primarily with our Admin
istration, there will be no 'Ber
keley.' First, years ago, and without
fan-fare, CSU adopted policies
on the freedom of student ex
pression of such a liberal na
ture that they remain surpass
ed by few universities. The free
dom of students to speak on is
their media without restriction,
actually do return annually, and
their children are practically all
too well established in the new
environment to seriously consi
der an exodus to the countries
of their fathers.
After all, as all Common
wealth citizens, they carry a
British passport.
But two lady sociologists have
drawn parallels to earlier in
. stances? of mmoirty croups : m
their recent publications. The
English Jewery, for instance,
presented the same kind of pro-
Diem oeiore its emanicipauon.
Since then, Jewish ghettos
have developed from slums into
garden neighborhoods but
they have remained ghettos.
Jews in Great Britain show
little intention of absorbing and
inter-marrying with people out
side their ghettos.
Many think of ultimately go
ing to Israel. Thus, through eco
nomically a most valuable part
of Great Britain, Angelo-Jews
can scarcely be spoken of as
"integrated."
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to form political groups of their,
own choosing, and to invite
speakers of their choosing is
clearly established. Such sweep
ing privileges granted students
takes considerable courage for
the Administrators, who can on
ly sit and wait for the phone
call from an irate parent, pol
itician or taxpayer with the
blunt question: "What kind of
place are you running up
there?" (The authenticity of this
would gladly be upheld by for
mer Colorado University Presi
dent Quigg Newton, who receiv
ed a few too many such phone
calls following a display of lack
of discretaion by a student edi
tor.) There is certainly no other
school in Colorado with such
weeping freedoms, and the fact
that these policies have gone un
tested and unused for. so long
is the fault of the students (and
to some extent the faculty)
not the Administration.
Students must also bear much
of the blame for bur some
what backward system of social
rules, about which they have re
mained quiet far too long. The
Administration has given to stu
dents the vehicles to speak with
out restriction; it is for the stu
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- dents to make their dseires
ces, I have NEVER known a
student plea to go unnoticed by
the Administration, and in most
cases action has been taken in
one form or another.
Which brings us to the sec
ond difference with Cal Berke
ley, where the administrators
succeeded in making colossal
fools of themselves for almost
two straight months, and failed
so pathetically in their dealings
with students that one cannot
help but compare their bungl
ings with the usually srraight
forward operation of our own
Administration. President Kerr
of Berkeley apparently wished
to ignore the FSM group on the
chance that they would go
away. They didn't. He then
made a series of mows to mud
dy the administrative waters in
the hopes of merely pacifying
the students. That didn't woric
either, so he backed down a
notch, hoping to make some con
ciliations before disaster struck,
all of which only succeeded in
making him look like a comic
Gestapo.
One must grant that the very
size of Berkeley makes commu
nication with students more dif
ficult, but it is inconceivable to
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would ever ignore a student
group, or would ever attempt
the kind of alternately sneaky
then patronizing efforts of t h e
Berkeley administrators.
Our state legislators may
breathe a sigh of rclirf at the
news that there will be no 'Ber
keley', but it seems to me an
ironic and curious fact that the
very reason is because of our
liberal policies.
As for students, they of all
people should never shun con
troversy. They should never
cease to demand those things
they desire; they , should never
stop short of asking for policies
which embody the philosophies
and ideals they hold to be their
own. It still amazes me that
our student government follows
such a reactionary path, al
most terrified of rocking the
boat or siding with their fel
lows into controversy.
In spite of this, interested stu
dents will continue to make
waves, to act with the liveli
ness with which students should
act, and to fight for their caus
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