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to - . f . . - r " , , , r wit C U FSF Brings ' TM Page 2 . . . Friday, March 5, 1965 VJETKONSr Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of iheir auihbrs. i Dec ision On The Greeks "At long last, the -University is ready to move on fraternity and sorority discrim inatory clauses. According to Dr. -Herbert Bodmah, 'chairman of the Faculty Committee on Such a statement will be a major step forward in the lifting of essentially irrele vant membership requirements from our social Organizations. It will also allow local chapters to choose members accord- Fraternities and Sororities, the' University ing to their own standards, ; and not ac will make a statement on clauses ' today cording to arbitrary requirements set by or tomorrow. We expect that the com- (distant -national offices. A. mittee report recommendinjg - a "ban on such clauses will be presented to the Fac ulty Council today, and that van admin istrative statement will follow The statement will probably give all campus chapters a time limit for obtain ing a f waiver of their clause from the national office. Provision for this has alreay been made that -allow any chapter to "ball" a man by the four UNC fraternities which have clauses specifically related to race ' or religion. Nothing definite has been done 'by the sororities. ' 'Colorful' Still Means All "WHite Spectators at the Atlantic Coast Con ference basketball tournament this week end will no doubt be impressed by 'the '"color" 4 surrounding the event. "But they may also find it difficult to refrain from . noticing the color of the participating players they are all white. This js a deplorable situation, especial ly since the ultimate winnerof : the 'tour nament is almost certan to face opposing 'teams in the NCAA regibnals which fea ture Negro t players who reside in the ACC's four-state -area. (An example is from any other chapter because he is not "socially acceptable." -Such a clause serves the same purpose as those that -are being banned. Whether f or mot these clauses will be banned in the report is unknown. It was this clause - that caused the Yale chapter of "St. Anthony's "Hall to be be sieged f by ' "brothers" from the ' University of Virginia when they initiated two Ne groes without 'giving the national a chance to ball them. This kind of clause should also go. It "is Unwarranted control of 'local member ship -by people who. have virtually noth ing 'to ' do with that chapter. As 'for the greater problem of local fraternities discriminating on the basis of race or religion, no legislation can solve it. Fraternity and sorority members must re-evaluate for themselves whether or not they can maintain a viable "brotherhood" once-beaten Providence,, which features hile categorically refusing to consider -I " it 1- i two exciting sophomores from North Ca rolina both Negroes.) ; ' WTe can't speak for the institutions out : side of North Carolina or for the private " schools within our boundaries, but the obligation of this University is clear. The .State Board5 of 'Higher Education has signed a pledge saying to the nation "we do riot discriminate." If that is indeed the case, how much longer should an agency of this institu- tion continue to discriminate at its own expense? non-uaucasions or non-unristians. it is our feeling that one cannot have a social organization in -the educational context that is at all meaningful if certain groups are discriminated against. All of us have, prejudices. Some ofois don-like people frOm small towns, others hate Yankees. Yet in a fraternity or a sorority,' one can come into more intimate contact With people a little different from oneself. And more of ten than not, we learn to like 'theni. The University is finally ready to make itself clear on this subject. We only re- ;it is both hypocritical and ridiculous gret that, the students couldn't' have done to fail to recruit every - bit of available it themselves. f talent, but that is exactly what happens when : we allow competent Negro players to pack off to other schools while we wait ,for Negroes to "volunteer" and "make the team." At long last the University is removing the equivocation from its policy on social discrimination by race and religion. "It is up toUhe students to follow the cue and make this; policy meaningful. Use Both Hands (To Drive) Please! If you -think there's nothing quite so on any public road or highway while romantic as a Sunday spin in your jalopy embracing a companion or while the op- erator's arm is resting on the seat behind with .your -honey's head on your shoulder, be careful. The N. C. General Assembly may-make front-seat snuggling illegal, or at least the finer forms of it. By means of an "anti-necking" bill which he has introduced in the House, or. around a companion." Now, it's pretty obvious what Rep. Rob erson has in mind. He wants to cut out one-arm driving, a cause with which we Rep. Paul Roberson of Martin County heartily concur. It's pretty uncomfort- hopes-to make it unlawful "for any per- able to see a 'two-ton automobile bearing son ' td steer or, operate - a motor vehicle down on you while the driver casually flicks the steering wheel back and forth with one finger. Our feeling, howver, is that Rep. Rob erson has attacked only part of the, prob lem. Admittedly, driving lovers (or lov- ing drivers) abound on the highways, at- I tempting to perform simultaneously two t two-handed tasks. II euning rrt rr m 4 V ? , r.. Biit the report 'will be only a step in -really "opening our social organizations. ' Four fraternities will ' remove their formal clauses, but slightly less formal gentle man's agreements will undoubtedly per . sist. Besides, tthere are approximately -six other fraternities on campus with clauses mm m . r U V LJ at -taw !,-', - tk "l rm. Letters To The Editors S&ag :-.liaw' 'Hurts University Legal Question Is Not At Issue Editors, The Tar Heel: Mr. "Otis' letter, headed UNC," has this ; to recommend it. over the general run of sim-, ilar pronouncements that it is spber in. tone .and written in intelligible English. But t w o i points should bermadein re- sponse. : ther it is either wise in itself or They may derive greater sat conducive to the ends the spon- isfaction from having state fea sors apparently had in mind ching - institutions which pro when they whisked the decree claim and inculcate certain val through. Ther substantive issue, ues.and axioms they hold dear which has been set forth and and shield them from re-exami-illustrated ad' nauseam, is that nation, and instill fear and fur you can't have a university, tiye curiosity about other val whether you "own" it or not, ues and axioms which they de and impose upon it arbitrary test, also without examination; outside control of who may institutions, that ensure that speak there and what he may their young people grow up to say or not say. become as much as possible like If the Legislature wishes . to 1 . fms ' -' ban speakers on .iDoHtical " : so tne scholars who know TJy'PETE" WALES Associate Editor The Phoenix that was James Gardner burned out spectacu larly, but something much soun- ' der is rising out of the ashes. The FSM has changed . its name to the FSF (Free Speech Forum) and has found a new sponsor,4 the YMCA. What Gardner and other po tential FSM recruits realized "was that the principles on which the first -fiasco were founded were in fact worthwhile. The failure was due almost entirely to poor publicity, most of which was well-earned. FSF will meet today at noon in Y-Court to start off under its new image a series of weekly, open-air meetings. Speakers on the topic of the week will be presented, ' then any interested passersby will be allowed to de bate the ssue further. The iHpQ lc in- T??" deed a healthy one, something students would be well advised to take full ad vantage of. The goal pro fessed by FSF is "the enrichment of the Univer sity community." The means is the outdoor, public forum, where the average, run - of -member may be , enticed into discussion. The same person might never come to a schedul ed auditorium meeting. An equally important goal, and part of the goal of enrich ment, is to make all segments of the University community a part of this revival. FSF says that it wishes to get faculty talking to administra tors, administrators to students and students to faculty. It asks that students be con ; cerned about more than their grades or their Saturday night date. It asks, that they partici pate in that great vague exper ience called education. FSF asks that faculty mem bers turn away from the re search into the meaning of line 43 in Book I of Paradise Re gained, and that they look into the meaning of the community around them. It askshat administrators j slow "down and talk to the rest of the world before they plan us right into Morgan's Creek and mall over Franklin Street. And then it asks that we all get together and start talking with the State. It asks that the University reassume its tradi tional role as independent and responsible critic of society. FSF is basically a friendly movement, designed for basi cally friendly Chapel Hill. It plans - no demonstrations, h burns no crosses. It's just a great, big, happy, but meaning ful, bull session on the state c( the campus and on the role of the campus in society. What could be more a propos to Chapel Hill? Indeed what could be more a propos to the time of year, when students' minds -naturally wander from the routine and it's time to open the" shutters and do the spring cleaning? This University has plenty of spring cleaning to do and it needs very much to open some of its shutters. Because this Un iversity, like manv others gation, it is developing another ing specialized blinders. Having overcome many of the problems of one kind of segre gation, t is developing another much more insidious and far more stifling. But there is no one minority grouD in this case. Everyone suffers from it. All members of the Univer sity community, save a very feu unusual faculty members and student government leaders, have shut themselves off from life around themand from any new ideas that might acciden tally penetrate the barriers. It's spring, and time for the University, all of it, to join na ture in doing a little reawak ening of her own. To quote our favorite third-rate poet and a Carolina man, Lawrence Fer ling hettiwe are "perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder." Whereas the past four years may not qualify as 'perpetual ly," it feels like it. We heartily endorse the new FSF in its first meeting today, and hope that UNC students, fa culty and administrators will give it, and themselves, a chance. Baker Is A Smoke Screen For . Pot Shots At Johnson grounds from states wriecL fora, One is-that, while deprecating? rfiTVTvT k Tarnul: V t If, on the other hand, it wishes the McCarthyist habit of dis- counting any cause or - prob lem, however ' just or press ing, if - it seems : to enroll sus pected "leftists'.' j among its ad vocates, he comes close to doing just- this in suspected "leftists" among its advocates, he comes close to doing r just this in the very next paragraph. The x por tentous admonition at the end of his letter - is c just such an irrel evant anneal to oreiudice, and mmhihm: or mMjri TDrn":"'X""y-"" 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The Dairy 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. 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The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republica ttion of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. the thousands of folks who persist in holding up the roof of their car, or cling ing to an outside mirror, or just plain jj arm-dangling? -Maybe they aren't so pre- occupied as the neckers-on-wheels, but i they are more -numerous.. -I . 'Perhaps something can be done about this type, too. And while we're at it, how about , an anti-canine amendment? We've , always felt a little uncomfortable to see some 1 huge l)oxer or collie licking : a driver's face, giving ad . lib signals out the rear window with a paw, or thrusting a smiling countenance into the breeze. V Isn't there some - way to . make those things wear seat belts? to have a state-sponsored uni versity, it may create and main tain the facilities and atmo sphere for it to function, and with a lot of money, tender care and luck, it may continue to have one. and care what a university must be and -who essentially consti tute a university, will gradually leave, and the legislators and voters will have such institutions. 'Or they may prefer to main tain a place where rival view points that exist, . and some not yet-thought of, are examined for But it can't have both at the ai?d with students and subject- ed to impartial and informed judgment, as far as human Dre- judice permits, -and with care ful regard for a multiplicity of criteria, moral and intellectual implications, and socio-political same time: the Nazi and Soviet institutions and various ex-universities of South Africa a n d the American South have de- prof oundly unworthy of a col- monstrated this forcibly. lege student TW WicTa frkTC! on1 tmf nf A The other point is that, con- not absolutely have to compre- -SSSSE X s. If so, they may trarv'to hisimpressi6n, nobody hend why this is, though one; lSS??1..'40 . ;th reallv Hnnhf fhof fh Vfof w wishes "thev wnnTd , a m?re. demanding vision and islature has the legal right, 1 at fine and dispassionate minds least? pending judicial review or nave tried to help them under new -federal legislation, 'to pass stand it. If university graduates a Speaker Ban of the sort ' we among them : do not, it ' is dis- af e now saddled ' with. Similar- quieting and should spur us to mission. I have no idea which of the two they will choose. But again, they can't have both. wobody "owns" a university. ly. the Congress could tomorrow make universities less parochial for the moment they, think they uuixaw me ivivrv, or tne -JOhn lccl1 - nuueu rainer man Birch' Society, or the teaching of more so. nuclear physics without FBI ' But whether they do or not clearance. , does not affect the mutually ex-' The question was, and is, whe- elusive options just indicated. do and act accordingly, it is no longer there. I agree this must be annoying. Dr. Walter W. Arndt Linguistics Dept. T in Gmwd. The Albany (N. Y.) Knickerbocker News Without questions President "Johnson's friendship for former Senate majority secretary Bob by -Baker and Ex-White House aide Walter Jenkins somewhat tarnished the Johnson image in the 1964 election campaign. It is at the same time a mark of the President's popularity that he survived so well and a warning to men in high; places to police and monitor what as sistants are saying in their nam- es. Aside from this, however, we -fail to see the connection be tween a private insurance deal and the President's official life. The "charge" now under con- gressional investigation is that -a Silver Springs, Mr., insurance-agent bought $1,208 worth of unneeded advertising on a Johnson-owned Texas radio sta tion as the quid pro quo for selling Mr. Johnson a $100,000 life insurance policy. Messrs. Jenkins and Baker got in the act because they are said to have made the deal in -Mr. -Johnson's behalf while he was still in the hospital recov ering from a heart attack. Even though the two were Johnson aides at one time or an other, the government was not involved. No official favors were promised, granted or implied. Nor was governmental pres sure applied. The insurance bro ker could have withdrawn at any time, but apparently he thought he had a good deal, as well he might. Though he patronized the ra dio station to the tune of $1,203, he stood to make' well over twice that amount in commis sions from the policy in the first year alone. There is hardly a business firm in the world that one time or another does not, with perfect propriety, re ciprocate with other firms to their mutual benefit. If a president errs and strays in the conduct of public office, he should be brought up short. But if a congressional commit tee finds itself investigating a private transaction that is well within the business ethic it should forthwith move along to the next subject. flats w FOB By TIMOTHY RAY Mr. William Graham Otis has completely dispelled the illusion it. Thus he leaves out any ex plicit reference to the fact that, as 'American 'citizens, we have that everyone in the University certain rights and freedoms is opposed to the Speaker Ban iaw. it was a comfortable il lusion and it is rather sad to see it chased away. Of course, while the illusion was present, some of us opponents of the Ban sometimes had the feeling that we were boxing at shadows, since there was no one here to 'try to convince. But now we Know that there is at least one curtailments made in the public interest, it has struck down oth ers. It is 5 instructive to " recall the case 6f . Yates v. United States, in 1957, in which a distinction was made ' between urging oth 'ers to overthrow the govern ment violently (the illegality of He roes, however, make an ing to cause others to believe implicit reference to that . fact m intellectually that the govern statmg that the legislation by ment OU?ht to be violently over- mf " ' guaranteed to us by the Bill of Rights and other amendments to the United States Constitu tion over and above what this 'State has the power to add or detract. ' the General Assembly "would be binding1 until and unless nil- articulate defender of the Ban ed void in the courts," and also m stating -mat me reaerai courts have upheld in "the past, on our campus Mr. Otis argues that past dis cussion of the merits of the law have involved "futile and irre " levant discussions" of whether Communist arguments a r e 'truthful and hence valuable, or deceitful and thus worthless." There is no question but that Mr. Otis is correct -in thinking that such arguments are irrele vant to the question of the Ban. But it is certainly news to hear mat past discussions of the Ban strictive statutes. This approach badly mis construes the nature of the op . position to the Speaker Ban Law. The opposition has never argued that the State legislation is not legally binding in this What it has thrown (which was declared to be not illegal). In addition, one test of legis lation curtailing free speech that has been quoted in many decisions as a valuable prece dent is Justice Holmes' state ment, in Schenck v. United Sta tes, in 1919, that the "question in every; case is whether the words used are used in such cir cumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they w il 1 de facto sense, wnat it argued is that (1) the law is bring about the substantive ev- devoid oi any ae jure icgiuma- lis mac congress nas a ngnt to rv and (2) that the law -is ob- jprevent" (Cushman, Leading . have involved this issue for that jectionable, since it curtails the 'Constitntional cases, p. 399). presupposes that 'someone normal function of a Univers- The frustrating experiences of would actually defend the arsu- sity to hear all sides of an ar- Communists, such as -Russian vnonti- rtf n . j. .P mmionf ! ambassadnrs. whn srmke nn guiuu" - Now from the standpoint Tof this campus prior to the Ban, ctmrrural i e., legal consider- testifies eloquently to the patrio- ation the de jure legitimacy oi ut icauwuw; w uvuui smu- an iiu be established n ents to communist propaganda. menis 01 " Communist nartioc and no one has publicly or journastically sided with or at tempted to defend Communists or tneir arguments around here Mr. Otis bases his'nnnniHAn .-hpn a test case occurs to the critics of the Ban on his and Federal courts uphold this 'position that the University "has particular law. This has not hap no freedoms or prerogatives ex- opened While it is true that the icept those granted to it by the Supreme Court has upheld cer . State," which owns and supports: tarn curtailments of free speech, The open and fair-minded dis section of this , propaganda, in question - and - answer sessions surely constitutes a blow stuck for 'freedom, rather than t hre creation of a. "clear and present danger." The case against the Ban has never assumed that Commun ists have, as Mr. - Otis put it, "Academic truths," nor that the State is obligated to provide a ' platform for advocates of sub version. Rather, it has been from the standpoint 'that we have faith in the philosophy of our democratic republic and we welcome any man who is brave enough to come and test the strength and reasonableness, if any, of his position against the strength and reasonableness of ours. To be afraid of such a confrontation of minds is to show a lack of faith in the pow er of truth and of democracy to make itself clearly understood. Regarding " associations which have declined to convene in Chapel Hill because of the Speaker Ban," which action Mr. Otis attributes to "too - easily provoked sensitivities," rather than to the law itself, would Mr. Otis please inform us of the k political dangers - inherent in American physicists hearing a paper on electrons and positrons read by a Russian or Czech physicist? ,. We cannot demand the asso ciations of scientists to restrict their membership to members Of the non-Communist "world, since it is of the essence of the scientific method that one must look for truth in any relevant place. The 'scientific method is impersonal: one's ability to un derstand natural phenomena is - not held to depend upon one's politics, age, race, sex or creed. A recent neurological confer ence in Cuba, attended by non Communists and Communists alike has shown an interesting recepitivity on the part of the Communists to biological princi ples which contradict the offic ial Soviet biology of Pavlov and Lysenkil. And if a Czech or Polish scientist makes a dis covery, why deprive American scientists from knowing about it? Lastly, Mr. Otis charg es that, in-reality, some oppon ents of the Ban "are among those whose disposition toward a form of government other than our own is and has been evident." In other words, he believes, and encourages the lamentable belief, that to oppose the Ban is to be in favor of Commun ism. This reminds the reader of the mthods of McCarthy, who would address the Senate, "I hold in my hands a paper with the names of Communists writ ten on it." This is outrageous: Mr. Otis is calling some of us Commun ists but he won't say who. I defy M.r Otis to produce the name of one jsingle Communist presently at the University of rorth Carolina and to show that this person is really a Communist.
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