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Saturday, February 27, 1365 , DTE Editorial Page J Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and ff - columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of II their authors. - And The Regular Season Ends The Duke game brings an end to a season many are happy to see close. It has been a disappointing year for the team: They were rated as high as eighth in the nation in the pre-season polls, and now are fighting for their lives to finish in second or third place in the conference. But, of course, the Atlantic Coast Con ference tournament lies ahead. If the Heels beat the Blue Devils today (and we h think that will be the case,) then they will go into the dogfight next weekend as the favorites. Despite the shoddy . performance against Virginia Tuesday, the Tar Heels are the hottest team in the conference. They have hit their stride, and despite a record marred by eight losses, they are today the best around. The Blue Devils will be out for re venge this afternoon. They don't like to lose at homeand Cunningham and Co." edged them at Duke Indoor Stadium in January, 65-62. The Dookies didn't like what happened that night, and, like elephants, they don't forget. Of course, there won't be a spare tele vision set in Chapel Hill this afternoon, just as there won't be a spare seat in poor old Woollen Gym. For, despite the efforts of a few rabble rousers, the cam pus is solidly behind the team and Coach Dean Smith. We are ready to see the Dookies go down today, and we are eager to see a repeat next week in Ral eigh. But it's one game at a time, so let's just worry about stomping the visit ors today. Give 'em hell, Heels. Judge Gwyn: A Man of Vision Honor Systems: Should From The Charlotte Observer Judge Allen H. Gwyn is a man of breeding and genteel background who has spent 26 of his 71 years on the bench, dispensing justice to countless individuals according to the laws of North Carolina. If our society were one of rigid class distinctions, he would qualify as a Bour bon, a member, of the elite or, if we may use the term, an aristocrat. It is of more than casual interest, therefore, that such a man has a deep curiosity and sense of responsibility to ward the luckless and the less able mem bers of our society. His concern was - vividly illustrated at Salisbury Monday when he called into Superior Court the parents of children who had dropped out of Rowan County schools. . 7 N6 law -violation was involved,' for .the children had quit school after their 16th birthdays. The -judge- assured par lentrarcMIdrenrin advance, that this -"little session of inquiry" was not called for the purpose of abusing them, but so that he could get "a better picture of the entire situation." Parents showed up to represent 25 youngsters, and the youngsters were there too. The judge talked with each, listening to the reasons lame and not so lame given for why each child had quit school. When the session was over, one thing stood out. Much of the "dropout problem" which in turn causes us so much woe in terms of crime, poverty and other prob lems is directly traceable to, the par ents of children who quit school early. Blame is not automatic, nor easy. It is difficult to chastise parents who . must work on different shifts, leaving almost-grown youngsters to themselves much of the time. And what good is it to blame par ents who were dropouts and the children of dropouts? Especially, how does one blame parents who work hard, abide within the law, and who have taught their children to "stay out of trouble" but do not have a speck of curiosity about the world outside their own im mediate surroundings? Perhaps it isn't provable, but curi osity, even in a semi-literate parent, may be vital. Expressed in family conversa tion, even in the presence of magazines around the house, it transmits itself to the children, and they in turn are quick ened and stimulated to learn. But this is only theory, and there are others, and many factors that influence children to quit school. Nevertheless, Judge Gwyn's "session of inquiry" put the spotlight on the source of most of these causes, the parents. He got "a better picture" of a knotty, elusive problem, and so did we. The Awards Come Flocking In MAN OF THE WEEK: Luther Hodges, former Secretary of Commerce and pre sently Sl-a-y ear chairman of the Re search Triangle Foundation. Supposed to work "about an hour a week," Hodges showed up five days last week, working eight hours each day. LIZARD OF THE WEEK: A picket at .the Xerox Corp. protesting the com pany's sponsorship of the series on Uni ted Nations. His sign read, "Xerox Pro motes People-Eaters." SIGNS OF OUR TIMES CITATION, or, HONORARY HIPPROCRATES AWARD: 72 Years of Editorial Freedom 1 1 I P m 1 fa The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publi cation of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens, co-editors; Mike Yapp, Ernie McCrary, managing editors; Pete Wales, associate editor; Larry Tarle ton, sports editor; Fred Thomas, night editor; Mary Ellison Strother, wire edi tor; John Greenbacker, Kerry Sipe, Alan Banov, staff writers; Pete Gammons,' asst. sports editor, Perry McCarty, Pete Cross, Bill Lee, Tom Honey, sports writers; Jock Lauterer, photographer, Chip Barnard, t cartoonist; Jack Harrington, bus. mgr.; Betsy Gray, asst. bus. mgr.; Woody So&eZ, ad. mgr.; Jim Peddicord, asst. ad. mgr.; Tom Clark, subscription mgr.; John Evans, 'circulation mgr.; Dick Baddour, Stuart Ficklen, Jim Potter, salesmen. Second Class, postage paid at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc. The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively, to the use for republica tion of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. vt&ewrx'i&QQi'G&ei&tt -- To Dr. Bill James of Hamlet, defeated candidate for Congress, discussing the liquor problem in his area: "We have a few people come (to the hospital) at night, but I . don't have as much night work as I used to. Used to have to come up here and sew up a few almost every . night, but since people around here stopped drinking paint thinner there isn't too much of that. "Not since they got the whisky store in here. Before that these people were drinking paint thinner and Clorox, all kinds of things, and they'd just go wild. You'd have to call the police in here be fore you could sew !em up. Just go crazy. I'm against whisky, I don't drink. But there's one thing the whisky store did. They're drinking bonded whisky now.". SCHEDULING OF THE MONTH: Last night, with the sophomore talent show, a freshman basketball game, a top bas ketball game on television, a Playmakers production and excellent films, at both downtown houses all slated for approxi mately the same time, thus assuring be low average turn-out for each. NEW IDEA IN NAME-CHANGE CRI SIS: With the fires blazing away at our sister institution in Raleigh, perhaps it should be called "Pyro Tech." CLAIRVOYANT OF THE WEEK: Larry Tarleton, DTH Sports Editor, who through Thursday had correctly picked 33 of 36 basketball games, better than anyone in the state. The three he missed were in order, a double-overtime, a last second shot and another double-overtime. If he can't get a job, he can always make money at the races. You I urn In violations? ; i i t t The Albany (N.Y.) Knickerbocker News "Have you ever cheated in an examination?" "Do you know others who have cheated?" "If you knew another student had cheated, would you report him or her?" "Why?"- With the recent cheating scan dal at the Air Force Academy in mind, I have put these ques tions within the last week to some 60 students at several up state colleges and universities. To one group I addressed the questions verbally. To another group, I submitted the questions in written form on slips of pa per - and asked for written an swers to be returned - anony mously. their answers on cheating, for it's no surprise or secret that there's a great deal of cheating in high schools and colleges. However, I did want to learn what they think of the so-called honor system, particularly the West Point and Air Force Aca demy honor codes, which re quire cadets to turn themselves in if they cheat and to turn in anyone they know to have chea ted. . The answers are interesting in their reflection of the changing American moral climate. Of the 30-odd who wrote their replies anonymously, only one admitted ever having cheated, but all . wrote that they knew others who have cheated. Of the other 30 to whom I address ed the questions verbally, all but five admitted that they have engaged in some form of cheat ing and all said they know oth er students who cheat. Obvious ly most members of the first group hestitated to put down their replies in writing e v e n anonymously. . On the question of whether the students would report a" cheater, those who wrote their replies an- onymously were split close to 50- 50. But the overwhelming ma jority of. those who replied ver bally said they would not report a cheater. . . . ; The minority those who would turn in, a cheating fellow student gave .such reasons as "Because cheating is unfair to those student who have studied hard to pass an exam" and "to protect the validity of the exam system.". ' But the" majority those who would not turn in a cheater gave a revealing variety of rea sons. These were the most com mon: "How he or she gets through college is none of my concern." "I don't condone cheating, but I'm realistic enough to know that our society not only winks at it, but sometimes even applauds the cheater, who gets away with it. Why should I alone fight the, system?" '; ; - v "I've been brought up on the theory; that it's -wrong to tat-; tie-tale. . Today it's the inform--er who frequently is more de spised than the cheater.' "To be frank, I am afraid of becoming involved. Once you report an offender, you become a part of the disciplinary pro cess. You may be called as a witness. You lose friends. You're considered a hypocrite or a trai tor. What's the percentage?" "As far as 1 can see, the big goal in today's society is suc cess - particularly financial success, with little regard to how - you achieve it. How many of today's most power ful politicians and business ex ecutives have reached their pre sent positions through the use of some cheating along the way? This is the way the adults do it, so how can I buck the system?" .. On the basis of replies such as these, it would appear that what is wrongs is not the ser vice academies honor codes, but our changing set of moral values which condone and even permit grudging admiration for the "operator," the fast-buck ar tist, the income tax evader and the political fixer. The parent"' of one resigned Air Force cadet unwittingly spoke for the new moral stand ards when he complained bitter ly: "I've always taught my boy never to rat." - Without realizing it he was us ing the jargon of one particular American code the underworld's. "Now, Boy, Just 'Cause It's T He East Game In Woollen. . ." r i . , , , ' ' . - ' I ' s ' ' ' ' , ' t s ' - S,. ' , 1 ' 'i : . , - - . - ' " f Ll. . i' " - --'- , - r ' fJnV l''-w4, 7X1-v- - :,f - 7j M 'v- k x " . :"v 'yfj:: r A .ryyy "f- V Y-r X - W " - -I o 'i yy "'yf rjSS'i y--.- Jyy: Jff- - - y-lss AVv; 'A' - 1 -if , yjbi' &r P - yfvy:y::y yy 'fAl:s:"A Arr' - 'J y'r, p ' I I'- - f H - ' li?"$y$ y vf u ; V, - A- vki i'-' !' 't' i"Xy "'? 5 r -" 1' ''-S', i nmtttiiWHrii ; To Clarify Position Liberals The Minnesota Daily Every so often liberals are challenged to define themselves on the left as well as on the right. Occasionally they have to suspend the sport of fighting con servatives to undertake the much more demanding task of separating themselves from the less responsible elements in their own camp. It's a healthy but exacting experience. The challenge usually takes the ironic form of an attempt to stretch liberal tenets to the point where they defeat their own ends. The younger liberals seem especially prone to a mild affectation which makes this test even more difficult. Right-wingers have been call ing so many things Communist for so many years that many li berals have been driven to the point where they see nothing as Communist. So many groups have also been termed Com-munist-fronts that some liber als assume there . Is no such thing. So many, things follow the Communist line" that it is often assumed that nothing can ever serve Communist purpos es and be at cross-purposes with their own aims. Yet every once in a while a group forms with the specific in tent of infiltrating other groups Young liberal groups are espe cially vulnerable because they sometimes especially naive. A small number of people whose first and conflicting loyalty; lies ' elsewhere may attempt very quietly to use a larger and more stable group to lend prestige to activities that would never justi fy themselves on their merits. The word "Communist" isn't important. The point is what they do. i; These attempts are often fur thered by the brand of liberal who will jump on the bandwag on of any cause that sounds worthy. They tend to pooh-pooh infiltration attempts, and almost always - underestimate the dan ger. The civil' libertarian emphas is of much of liberalism takes a queer twist here. While na tionally it is an elementary opnit that there is no - danger of Communist takeover, that confidence should not automati cally apply to every labor union, every PTA, or every student club. J. Edgar Hoover (who isn't al ways wrong) has suggested a re cent upswing in CP youth indoc trination efforts. He has over stated these things in the past, and may be doing so here. But it should be noted that with the advent of the communists in this country the libertarian view could no longer make such easy recourse to Jeff ersonian scrip ture for the answer to every problem. tiTne new element which the Communists have injected into. the picture," Norman Thomas notes, Vis their asssertion of a right to the protection of laws which in power they would abol ish, a right to do . . . what they would punish ... if they should come to power." We speak, theoretically about the national threat these people pose, but the threat to small groups is concrete. "These people are the first dis senting group in American his tory to make a virtue of lies and deceit," Thomas goes on, "the first to reduce all social ethics to the appalling simplicity of the commandment: Thou shalt at all times obey party or ders. There is no other moral law. " The American Communist Party is probably not the sla vish tool of Moscow the right wingers speak. "about. It defini tely is, however, a brood of in tellectual slaves who resign themselves to absolute conform ity in order to . give strength to their small numbers. Small numbers can't do much in a big country where, as Har ry S. Truman noted, "every dis ability that can practically be applied to the Communists is already on the books." But they : can do a great deal in small groups with members sincerely . interested in furthering high ideals. History is a good teacher of '.the things that result. Inaccurate News Needs Clarifying Editors, The Tar Heel: There seems to be some dis crepancy between the news ar ticles in the Feb. 21, 1965 issues of the DTH and the Civil Risrhts Advocate concerning the pellet that struck a window in Kenan Dormitory. The following are two obvious incongruities or at best definite news slants: 1) Advocate: "A third stu dent . . . was peppered with glass, though not iniured." DTH (auoting Campus Po lice Chief Arthur Beaumont): " There was a hole in the win dow you couldn't even put a pen cil through.' " 2. Advocate: MA witness not ed that two cars had driven by on Battle Lne at thflt moment and the police speculated that the shot came from a passing car." DTH (Again referring to Chief Beaumont): "He said the dorm itory faces a residpntlal are and "it could have been a kid playing it looked accidental to me.' " Understandably, the DTH and the Advocate would interpret such an event in quite different manners. -However, in a news ar ticle, the facts should not only be synonvmous. but all of the facts should be printed. The Advocate is published by the Chapel Hilll CORE chapter, and as such is not directly re sponsible to UNC students. How ever, the DTH is published by students with funds taked from student fees and as such must present a responsible interpre tation of current events. Facts must never be altered to "save face" or to preserve the pride of the DTH staff. Was the incident at Kenan ac cidental? WTere the two cars con nected with the incident? -Did police "soeculate" that the shot "came from a passing car?" As one of the financiers of the DTH, I deman an answer to these questions; because if an FSM Rally could result from on ly a few hurled insults, I want to be fully prepared and forp wanted of whatever may result from a fired pellet. Sandra Cathryn Edwards 308 Whitehead 'Kid9 Deserves A Good Send-Off Editors, The Tar Heel: I wish to speak in defense of the Tar Heel basketball team and their leader, "The Kanga roo Kid." Regardless of what hannens in the next few weeks, I think all UNC students should stand up for the Tar Heels and their cap tain. Whether Billy Cunningham leaves this University in a blaze of glory does not depend on whether they win or lose the game although a win would help. It depends on how the students react when he plays his last game with Duke. If the students criticize Billy and his exploits, which are many, he will prob ably think that they really do not care whether he leaves or stays at UNC, and I'm sure many would like for him to stay. I'm sure the maiority of the students at UNC (with an excep tion of those on the State cam pus at Raleigh) will have tears in their eyes when he leaves the Duke game Feb. 27. He has led the Heels to "Victory" on many occasions and if he goes into the pros, I'm sure whoever gets him will benefit greatly. As far as the Heels being bet ter off without him. Well, that's not the way I see it; and in a way, I hope this theory is prov ed wrong. No, I don't like to see the Heels lose, in fact, that's the worst thing I could think of. They don't have to lose to prove this theory. There are many close games, which no one can deny. Yes, I hope Bobby Lewis and Company come through with a good season next year. Bobby Lewis is a very good ball play er, but I'm sure no one will ever forget Billy Cunningham. A Coed Name Witheld DTH Birthday Loses Meaning Editors, The Tar Heel: On this, the Tar Heel's birth day, I recalled that last year the DTH stood out as a voice of liberalism and good sense on both campus and "outside" is sues. This image is rapidly be ing shattered by recent report ing and editorial stances. First, there came virtual cha racter assassination of Mr. Gardner, uncalled for even by the extremity of his position. Then the student body was told not to be too active in try ing to remove the burden of the speaker ban law. Our student leaders, we are told, are work ing quitely, behind the scenes, to reach an accommodation (This indicates cither that the democratic process is being thwarted by lack of communica tion with the governed, or more likely, that nothing at all is be ing done). We would not var.t to embarass the University, you argue, by demanding the rights of citizens. I would contend that the grea test embarrassment to the Uni versity is its lack of free speech, combined with a docile student body. Of all people, you, the press, should be concerned with the maintenance of first amend ment freedoms. A third retreat from your for mer standards came with the in- Finally, I was shocked by ing at the room of 2 civil rights accident or prank. Surely, you planation" is credible. And if any recent event on campus merited an admonishing editor ial, this was it, yet editorial comment was totally lacking. These positions have led to the inescapable conclusion that the Daily Tar Heel has fallen to the position of being the apolo gist for the antidemocratic, conservative, and segregationist elements on campus. One of the many horrors of this is that I don't know if this was dene on purpose. ' Kenneth Sherrill 304 Hillsboro Street Peacenik Bravery Is Not Admired Editors, The Tar Heel: Last Saturday, on our w a y downtown to get a beer, we en countered in front of the post of fice a group of our student com rades advertising to the world the solution to its problems. We were struck with wonder at th; simplicity of their solu tion. Why hasn't our nation yet grasDed the beauty of it? Don't the leaders of this great coun try realize we must stop mis using our military power to blackmail the people of North Viet Nam in their attempt to free their southern neighbors from Western imperialism? We admired the righteous fa ces of these young men and wo men, so enrapt in their visions of peace and order that they seemed unconcerned with mer' : physical appearance. "Stop U.L - aggression in Viet Nam," "Im mediate cease - frre neotia tions" read the flyer handed tq lie iiv iiriu viii iriu i :j 1 1 u -m. We can only agree. Removal j t'U nprmff North Viet Nam and her compd-1 triot, Red China, to liberate sU of Asia and later maybe Aft fr ca. Occupied with this heavy ; task, the Communist will offer i no threat to the United States, and the black spectre of war f will be forever banished. Vf; ? shall have attained peace in our s time. What a glorious prospect M There will no longer be any need to sacrifice our lives Cf property to any cause. What a timeless solution! Had we adopted it in the forties, mil lions of American lives and bil lions of dollars could have been The Communists are peace lo vers and advocates of nonagrec sion. Haven't they proved it by their support of wars of libera tion in Korea, Cuba, and t h e Congo? Haven't they proved it in their refusal to adhere to false treaties which they were tricked into signing by the war mongering west? m Or in their suppression of dirty capitalist interventlonism in Hungary in 1956, and by their valiant e f f o r t s in freeing the people of East Berlin from th-2 degrading influence of the foreign-dominated western sector? Surely the enlightened Commun ists would be glad to negoitate a settlement in Viet Nam, keep ing the interests of the pop'e closest to their heats. We feel certain that the youn men and women who now ad vocate peace at any price in Viet Nam will be among the brave few who will advocate "multilateral cease-fire negotia tions" when the world move ment takes steps to liberate us. Bill Chaffin 10 Old East Steve Flanagan 205 Ruffin UNC As Liberal As Mississippi Editors, The Tar Heel: I want to thank the DaiW Tar Heel (with their argumentum ad hominem tactics), the frater nities (and their exclusive 'bro therhood clause), and the ac tive spectators of the rally in the Y-Court, for giving me the true image of Carolina. From now on I can say that Carolina is a very liberal uni versityabout as (if not equal to) liberal as the University of Mississippi. Herman Mixca Jr. 217 Joyncr
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