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their authors.
The University's Role
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Fraternity
Clause
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No one, at this date, can, properly
pass judgement upon the . relation of
fraternities with discriminatory clauses 1
to the University of North Carolina,
Of course, several things can be said
for certain. One is that Chancellor Paul
F. Sharp and Student Body President
Bob Spearman are unalterably opposed
to having fraternities with national dis
criminatory clauses on the UNC campus.
Another is that the Congress of Rac
ial Equality should stay out of the in
ternal affairs of the University of
North Carolina. We are capable of solv
ing our own problems, and it is doubtful
that any help from, CORE, such as a
friendly demonstration or two, will be
Of any appreciable value.
And a third is that the fraternity
system at UNC will set up a yell that
can be heard to. Miami, Ohio, if anyone
in the administration (sets an arbitrary
limit on the time a fraternity has to
rid itself of a clause of any nature.
The opposition displayed by Spearman
and Chancellor Sharp is understandable,
as both have spoken out against the
clauses in eloquent, sincere fashion.
They have voiced their concern that
discriminatory clauses might be injur
ious to , the University's position with
the Federal Government because the
fraternities are chartered by the insti
tution. If this legal connection is strong
enough to place the University in jeo
pardy under the 1964 Civil Rights Law,
then the clauses clearly will have to go.
Throughout the school year, investi
gations have been conducted to deter
mine the exact legal status of discrimina
tory clauses as well as the moral and
' social obligations of fraternities to the
University community.. It is this type
of calm, reasoned approach on the part
of faculty administration and fraterni
ties which can and will result in a quiet
settlement of this most controversial
issue.
If it becomes obvious that the frater
nities which employ such clauses have
no legal leg on which to stand, then
the clauses will of course be ordered
out, and rightly so. Of more immense
and more complex proportions is the
question concerning the moral and so
cial obligations of" fraternities.
Assuming that no legal restrictions
interfere, there seems to be no over
whelming argument in favor or ordering
all fraternities to drop discriminatory
clauses. Granted, such clauses are, in
in essence, injudicious and silly. Grant
ed, they have very little to do with the
selection of pledges because the frater
nity members themselves vote their
personal convictions in making absolute
choices. And, granted, fraternities are
far from sacred. Still, the right of a
fraternity as a private, self-contained,
organization to set its own standards
for membership is hardly questionable.
The most important point is to ap
proach this situation with calmness
and deliberation. CORE and anyone else
challenging the right of Carolina frat
ernities to have discriminatory clauses
should pause and consider the situation
carefully before blowing off steam in
the courts or the headlines. Despite ru
mors to the contrary, something is be
ing done, and they may rest assured
that whatever the eventual outcome of
the current discussions and investiga
tions, it will be fair, responsible anel
out of court. , '....
Letters To The Editors
Two students visited the DTH offices
yesterday inquiring about a letter they
sent in which had not been published.
Needless to say, they were quite angry.
We don't blame them for being such, as
the DTH, has said it will publish any
and all letters which are acceptable for
publication. -
But, as it turned out, their letter
wasn't acceptable, and after we explain
ed the circumstances they willingly
agreed' and went presumably to write
another which would be of acceptable
standards.
So, once and for all, we take this op
portunity to say exactly what consti
tutes, an acceptable "Letter to the Edi
tor." The basic, requirements are that the
letter must be typed, double-spaced, not
of excessive length (no more than 350
words) and free of libeL
It must be typed and double-spaced
because the printers will not set in type
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The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publi
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is published by students daily, except Mondays,
examination periods and vacations.
Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens, co-editors; Mike
Yopp, Ernie tycCrary, managing, editors;
Pete Wales,, associate editor; harry. Tarle
ton, sports, editor; Fred Thoanas, night
editor; Mary Ellison Strother, wire edi
tor; John Greenbacker, Kerry Sipe, Alan
Banovt staff writers; Pete Gammons, asst.
spprts editor, Perry McCarty,t Pete Cross,
Bill Lee, Tom Haney, sports writers; Jock
Lauterer, photographer, Chip Barnard,
cartoonist; Jack Harrington, bus. mgr.;
Betsy Gray, asst. bus. mgr.; Woody Sobel,
ad, mgr,; Jim Peddicord, asst. ad. mgr.;
Tont Cfarki Sspription. mgr.; John Evans,
circulation mgr.; Dick- Baddour, Stuart,
Ficklen, Jisn Potter, salesmen.
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sonable length for obvious reasons, and
it must be free of libel because the DTH
can be sued for, printing such a letter,
even though someone else has written
it.
. .There are other considerations.
If we receive a letter that has been
mimeographed, it goes in the trashcan.
Why ? Simply because we will not allow
these pages to be a sounding board for
any organization only seeking to propa
gandize its position.
When we receive such a letter (and
we receive many each day), it is not
difficult to conjure" up the vision of
every other newspaper in the nation re
ceiving exactly the, same thing. .
A few of the newspapers, it is true,
will print the letter intact. We will not,
and we doubt there is any other news-
paper which seeks to be ethical which
will.
We encourage letters, and we again
say every one will be published. But
please observe the basis tenets of the
trade.
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no wall QC off AT nAure i9Scn9iiKae 1
Our case of shingles took a turn for
the better yesterday, when Dr. James
Taylor pronounced them 'much improv
ed' However, we aren't much improved,
as we still aren't allowed to shave and
our countenance is beginning to resem
ble a reject from a peace march.
Growing a beard is like catching a
cold you know it will get much worse
before it will get much better. The
blasted thing is now, in the itchy, stage,
and a bushy friend of ours told us yes
terday it would take at least another
weeX before we stopped feeling like we
were making love to a porcupine.
Of course, we'll be right in fashion if
the great anti-everything rally comes
off, and' perhaps we can offer our ser
vices to the FBI when they attempt to
infiltrate the movement. (FLS)
FCA BLASTED
Religion Is
Mass Opiate
"Tempers got so hot in here last night that they
turned of the heat for the day."
By JEFF BYRUM
After reading your article of
Thursday, February 11, entitl
ed "FCA Rally Features Yanks
Richardson," I can ignore the
situation to which it refers no
longer. A much more., appropri
ate title would have been
"Jocks Juggle for Jesus."
How much longer must we be
plagued by that onoxious phe
nomena called Religion? Why is
there not some Alka-Seltzer for
this hangover from the Dark
Ages?
Religion makes dupes of far
too. many people. Trust in God
is claimed on every coin, each
of which is an offering to Mo
loch. Almost every public meet
ing is opened with a prayer, re
gardless of its purpose or the
persons who attend it. Thous
and protest with righteous in
dignation when it is held un
constitutional to require pray
ers in public schools,- mean
while lauding separation of
church and state.
They fail to see that the two
enjoy a relation much more
subtle and incestuous than any
established church. Absolutely
insane ditties are played on the
radio advising listeners to "go
to church this Sunday." And
they go, in ever increasing num
bers to wallow in sentimental
prattling about "ideals" and
"standards of Christian con
duct," which is more dehuman
izing than a large proportion of
all "immorality.".
Money continues to pour
down the religious drain to pub
lish literature which would of
fend the intelligence of a 6-year-old,
were it not religious; to
pay. misguided humanists to per
petrate the silliness from pul
pits and confessionals; and to
build beautiful steam - heated,
air - conditioned, scientifically
lighted edifices for periodical
social gatherings devoted to
mysticism and morality.
But worst of all, the whole un
believable potpourri of senti
mentality, hypocrisy, and
downright deception is allowed
to exist unchallenged; for al
though all but a scattered few,;
the leaven in the loaf, are athe-,
ists, one must not, above all,
be sacrilegious.
The subtlety of this blight
which pervades our whole socie-"
ty could explain its success, but
to what do we attribute the tol
erance; and even the encourage
ment of its more obvious . hy?
per-developed outgrowths? s
I refer to the fundamentalist
rotestant and reactionary Ro
man Catholic groups which use
no subtlety but stand naked in
their absurdity. They make the
Bible an absolute rule book, not
to be disobeyed or questioned.
They censor books and films
of undeniable artistic and hum
an merit because unmarried
couples are portrayed as hap
pily . sleeping together. T h e y
must juggle for Jesus in order
to make the "teachings" of. this
great prophet" interesting and .
(for goodness' sake) relevant to
those who presumably would
not otherwise be interested.
They broadcast on the radio
on the basis of the Bible. They
ironically use ancient Semitic
documents to justify racial sup
pression. They claim to worship
God with gatherings consisting
entirely of emotionalism. They
claim, in effect, that prayer is
magical incantation.
They would remove foreign
languages from the public
school curriculum (as suggest
ed recently by an official of a
Southern state) "because if En
glish was good enough for Jes
us, it's good enough for us."
Could we not resist at least
these more obvious deceptions?
Have you not heard of that
madman," Friedrich Neitzsche,
who, almost a hundred years
ago, reported to- us that God
was dead? Not that there is no
God, but that we have killed
him.
And "how shall we, the mur
derers of all murderers, com
fort ourselves? ... What fes
tivals of atonement, what sacr
ed games shall we have to in
vent?" Would Nietzsche have
believed that even after a hund
red years we still do not
"smell anything ... of God's
decomposition"?
Those who speak for religion
must have some answer for
Dietrich Bonhoeffer who says
that Christianity has nothing to
do with religion but only with
Jesus. Christ.
They must listen to Scren Kie
rkegaard who says: "Let the
speaker be offended by Chris
tianity,, he is still human; .let.
him despair - of ever himself
becoming a Christian, he is yet
perhaps near than he believ
es; let him fight to the last
drop of blood for the extermi
nation of Christianity, he is
still human but if he is able
here to say: it is true to a cer
tain degree, then he is stupid.
Why must we sacrifice our
humanity at the altar of this
false god, Religion?
If this rally turns out to be
"the most inspirational thing
to happen on campus all year,"
then some serious questions are
raised about the University of
1 North Carolina.
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Letters To The Editors
Speakers, Editors Confuse
Gag Law Blame
Is On Democrats
Editors, The Tar Heel:
In regard to your editorial
entitled "Our Apologies" which
appeared in the Feb. 10 issue,
I accept your apologies as a
Young Republican on the condi
tion that you (1) clearly repre
sent the prevailing mode of
of opinion in the Young Repub
lican college organization, and
(2) recognize the originators of
the Speaker Ban Law.
As Charles Hooks, president
of the U N C YRC, affirmed,
the state Young Republican Col
lege Council has not taken a
stand either for or against this
controversial action. At the .
Charlotte convention last week
end, the College Council met
two hours before the Young Re
publican meeting.
The College Council did not
have access at that time to cop
ies of the Young Republican
platform, and, under the condi
tions which existed during the
roll-call vote at the Young Re
publican convention, the Col
lege Council delegates were not
present in full voting strength.
Consequently, the vote on the
entire platform was taken min
utes after mimeographed copies
were distributed to the small
body of delegates present. Dur
ing this interim period, several
delegates from the Chapel Hill
YRC and the UNC Greensboro
YRC spotted the Speaker Ban
clause and attempted to draft
an amendment deleting it alto
gether. When the vote was taken, the
convention had run 90 minutes
overtime, and the platform was
passed overwhelmingly as dele
gates hurriedly rushed the busi
ness matters in order to. beat
the motel check-out time.
Speaking as an individual
Young Republican, I am oppos
ed to both the wording of the
Speaker Ban Law and the phil
osophy behind it.
However, I take issue with
the Daily Tar Heel for not only
"inadvertently misrepresenting
their YRC position," but for
grossly underestimating the in
telligence of its readers. Since
it was stated in the preceding
paragraph of the aforemention
ed editorial that the College
Council has never taken a stand
on the law," why does the Daily
Tar Heel repeatedly induce its
readers to believe that the
Young Republican College Coun
cil has indeed taken a stand
one way or the other?
The reactionary thinking that
produced such an abortive
measure as the "Gag Law"
originated within the Democrat
ic Party, not within ours. I
suggest that the Daily Tar Heel
devote itself to the correction
of the multitudinous mistakes
made by the Democrats in their
legislative fumblings, rather
than attack organizations which
have consistently produced lead
ers of a more tolerant persua
sion, i e- Robert Gavin as op
posed to Dan Moore.
Unfortunately, I do not choose
to reiterate the Tar Heel's con
sidered opinion that there is
not a "spark of hope" left in
the tender mind of a college
Young Republican; - On the
other hand, I hope that the
Daily Tar Heel will use what
ever sparks its brilliant editors
can v muster to illuminate the
fulsome, stagnant depths of
the political party which creat
ed this monstrous law in the
first place.
WHson A. Clark, Jr.
313 Aycock
Mock UN Pages
Made A Mockery
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Having taken part in the
Middle South Model United Na
tions as a page, I was greatly
distressed to see- the disorgani
zation of the preparations made
by the various committees.'
As a recent transfer to Caro
lina, and being unfamiliar with
its procedures, I expected to find
a professionally organized as
sembly, with everything in
order. I was very disappointed
and disillusioned when my ex
pectations proved unfounded;
As far. as I know, Carolina
and the other schools participat
ing in the conference had been
preparing since before New
Year's. It seemed Thursday
morning, and even as late as
Friday, as though we had just
recently been informed that it
was to be held here.
Some general examples of the
disorganization are as follows:
In most cases the meeting
places were in no way prepared'
beforehand. There was no ob
vious or published seating plan
which remained constant, there
fore no way for pages to feas
ibly deliver messages.
In some meeting places there
was insufficient room for the
delegates, in " others there was
more than enough obviously
no one knew approximately how
many people would attend each
meeting. In some buildings,,
delegates were arranged alpha
betically according to country,
but this was of no help to the
pages in locating them.
The people who were asked
to volunteer were in no way
oriented or trained beforehand.
They were assigned certain
buildings and often had no idea
of the nature of the proceed
ings. When they arrived, there
was no organization, no one was
in charge, and then they were
expected to act smoothly and
efficiently. There was obviously
no . one in charge of pages and
relaying messages or if there
was, it was not evident.
I would advocate at least one
page orientation meeting as op
posed to throwing them in
among the wolves to fend for
themselves (and the Univer
sity). They acted as representa
tives of our school, as did our
delegates.
I also noted that when it was
impossible to locate the person
to whom " a message was ad
dressed, and it was necessary
to read the message to find the
sender, some of them read.
"Where should we meet for
lunch?,,, or "Guess what! Bill
got a ticket!"
We pages volunteered our
time and patience to help speed
the proceedings of , the confer
ence, not "to play pony express
for such. trivial, messages. Often
these messages sent pages tear
ing from one building to an
other in order to find the ad
dressee. . 4 ' "
I suppose this just added in
sult to injury but with' all the
other disheveled activities which
preceded it, the pages certainly
didn't appreciate it.
I-think if we are to fairly
represent our school which
some of us consider to be the
finest, we should show ourselves
to be efficient and well organ
ized to others.
I am willing to lend my time
to other similar and worthwhile
projects in the future to insure
that this doesn't happen again.
Hah Maureen Murray
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Waskow Speech
Missed The Point
Editors, The Tar Heel:
I am replying - to a speech
made before the model U. N.
by a Dr. Waskow, Resident Fel
low of the Institute of Policy
Sutides in Washington.
In his speech Dr. Waskow, a
political scientist, stated that
the U. S. retaliatory attack
against North Viet Nam was the
"stupidest policy ever underta
ken in U. S. foreign policy."
He gives as his reason that the
attack "might force the USSR
and Red China together."
I strongly disagree with Dr.
Waskow. He states that he had
intended to make his speech on
another subject but was "deep
ly upset over the events of the
past week." I submit that Dr.
Waskow was so "upset" that
his judgment was somewhat in
paired.
Surely Dr. Waskow must real
ize that the forces separating
Red Russia and Red China run
deep. Not only are the differ
ences in their respective ap
proaches to domestic and for
eign policy separating them but
also the more fundamental dif
ferences of Red China's need
for expansion and the historical
enmity between the two peo
ples. .
Red China has been actively
seeking to push Russia out of
Asia and Africa by arousing
racial prejudice after all Rus
sians are "white." Russia's an
xiety over Red China has been
so great that she long ago pull
ed out technical military assis
tance and assistance of almost
any kind.
A further argument can be
drawn from recent history. Dur
ing the Korean war, surely Rus
sia and Red China were much
closer and what's more Stalin
was still in control in Russia,
yet Russia did not at that time
enter the war.
I think the risk of Russia's
aiding Red China substantially
now is slim with all that has
happened between them. I sub
mit that Dr. Waskow's speech
is alarmist and irresponsible.
Lee Caruthers
623 Ehringhaus
THE CANDLE c
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By TIMOTHY RAY
A meteorite fell the ether
day. Inside the meteorite wns
a bottle, and inside the bcttle
was a piece of paper with writ
ing on it. This is what it said:
"There was once a village
called Sainoi. For fon.'i.tfcn
reasons there were always
hard fcelinqs in Sainoi between
a group that was called the
Greens and a group called the
Oranges. The Greens, who had
many college degrees, and who
rode bicycles, and drank much
whisky, lived on the west side
of town. The Oranges, who had
very few, if any, college de
grees, and who walked or rode
donkeys and drank lemonade,
lived on the east side of town.
"The Greens would get very
drunk while riding around and
sipping whisky. They would
lose their way and ride through
the Orange, side of town, sing
ing their college songs very
loud. The Oranges would get
mad and throw rocks. There
fore, the hard feelings con
tinued. "In the middle of town lived
several families called the
Drabs. Two of them, the Smiths
and the Jones, lived next to
each other. Mr. Jones was a
Green, by upbringing, though
his wife was an Orange. And
Mr. Smith was an Orange, and
his wife, a Green.
"In both households there
was frequent chaos, because
the fathers and mothers com
peted to be the boss. The Smith
children liked to sneak into the
Jones house and teach the Jones
children to play Hop Scotch.
"When Mr. Jones was being
boss, he would spank these
Smith children and send them
home, because, being a Green,
he did not approve of Hop
Scotch, naturally. But when
Mrs. Jones was boss, she would
play Hop Scotch with the chil
dren. This encouraged the
Smith children to come over in
larger and larger numbers.
"One day when Mr. Jones
was trying to get control of trie
household, he could not find all
the Smith children: they were
in the attic, the cellar, the gar
age, and the coal bin. While
he was chasing one group out,
more would sneak in through
the windows.
"Exasperated, he called Elbie
Jay, the strongest of the Greens
to. help him. Elbie Jay be,at all
the Smith children that could
be found, with a. big stick. This
sort of thing continued for a
long time, with first Mrs. Jones,
then Mr. Jones and Elbie Jay,
getting control of the household.
"One day, while Mr. Jones
and Elbie Jay were beating
Smith children, the oldest
Smith girl, Hoechy, came over
and whacked them both on the
seat of the pants.
" E 1 i b i e Jay was filled
with embarrassment and right
eous indignation. He quick ran
over to the Smith house and
kicked Mr. Smith in the stomach
very hard.
"Mr. femith called in his Or
ange friends, Cosy Gin and
Mayotzee Dung, who frowned
and said solemnly, in unison,
oyal brother, kind and true,
we are on your side. Then they
sat down and started sharpening
their pen knives.
' "When Mr. Jones and Mr. Jay
found out what was going on at
the Smith house, they tele
phoned their friends, McFord,
George, Ev, and Dean. All of
them bicycled over, except Dean,
who was sitting at home with t
sore throat, his feet in hot
water, frantically sipping Old
Fashioneds and muttering, 'Got
ta get well, for old Green U!'
"Meanwhile, the Greens had
kept cycling and getting drunk
and singing their college songs
in Orangetown, and the Or
anges had kept throwing rocks,
rotten oranges, and old whiskey
bottles that drunk Greens had
previously left behind. Finally,
since there was no police force,
Youtante, a small Drab man,
who had been elected Chairman
of the Village Council because
of his great impartiality, hon
esty and belief in free enter
prise, started knocking on
everyone's doors in town, ask
ing everyone to get together
and settle the Orange-Green
differences in a nice parliamen
tary way.
"But no one listened. Instead,
the Big Greens, a group of men
with ten college degrees each,
aimed a cannon at the Smith
house. Then the Big Oranges,
who hadn't gone to public
school, but who had received
certificates in guerilla warfare,
aimed a cannon at the Jones
house. Soon everyone was set
ting up his own little cannon,
aimed at somebody's house on
the other side of . town.
"McFord and Cosy Gin saw
each other on the street, called
each other dirty names, and not
into a fist fight. Then the
Greens fired the cannon aimed
at the Smith house, and the
Oranges fired the cannon aimed
at the Jones house. Soon every
body started firing cannons all
over town."
That's all the writing that
was on the paper; that was in
the bottle that came inside the
meteorite.