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fit-"" CTu sell Pge 2 Saturday, March 6, 1965 I - . - Is Editorial Page it P Opinions c the J??i2 Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and 1 columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of j their authors. II . ' - -.--in - We can always go to their embassy. They sure are poor sports! 1 , aV Ll mm m & Faculty Points The Way The policy on discriminatory clauses in fraternities and sororities passed un animously yesterday by the '.Faculty Council is a good step, but only a step, in" the right direction. The decision gives all fraternities and sororities a year and a half to abandon their discriminatory clauses or waive their obligation to follow national policy. This places the University unequivoc ally in the position of opposing racial and religious discrimination in social or ganizations. It is consistent with the policy set in 1959 forbidding any new fraternities or sororities with clauses to establish chapters. It js also consistent with the long overlooked principles which are a part of this institution, the principles of education. Men and women will never learn to look past, color if an outside or ganization forbids them to consider such people or if the University tells them it is all right. It does not, in any way, infringe upon the ability of a local chapter to choose The Weekly Awards Return MAN OF THE WEEK: Robert Ansett, a San Diego bakery salesman who promised he would leave the country "to escape socialism" if Goldwater lost. He left yesterday. Good-bye. LIZARD OF THE WEEK; Arrrgh. WISE MEN OF THE EAST: The N.C. State alumni who went on record yesterday as saying the present name of the institution was "ridiculous," and backing another name for the Raleigh school which, as far as we can see, should be termed with just about the same adjective. ATTILA THE HUN MEMORIAL AWARD: To the State Legislature, who will" start J their4 bi-y early j aunts to the far reaches of the' state April 2, with a visit to Wilmington. Two years ago, they held sessions in four separate cities, thus inspiring an editorial cartoonist to proclaim, "Join The Legislature and See The State!" ( Continued from rage 1 ) astonishment. Within every brain, the question came, uttered or not. "THAT'S Billy Cunningham?" "That!?" Yes. It was Billy. He came out, not running, but ambling, with a strange leggy walk that made him look awkward and rickety. His hands hung straight down at his sides, his neck was bowed forward, and his shoulders slump ed as if his uniform was too tight in the back. But that wasn't all His mouth hung open as if he was a little awe-stricken by the people and the lights and perhaps even the fact that he was there to play His hair, which was red but looked pink, was in disarray and a strand of it hung over his fore head. His hair wasn't the only thing pink about him, though. He was pink -pale pink, like a baby's skin, except that there were places where he was white in the K middle of the pink, and a baby is pink all over. His "face was flushed, and as he stood there in the middle of the ! floor he fingered a medal around his neck. Then he dropped in down his shirt front and took the palm of his left hand and pushed it up across his nose. He stood there, as if afraid to ask anyone if he" could play. Finally the line disappeared in front of him as the other ,fresh ment whooped and shouted and burst toward the basket spin ning lay-up shots through the orange rim while running at their top speeds, which were collect ively dazzling. Billy stood a second, waiting, and when the ball was thrown to him it seemed to have been thrown too hard, and there was a split second while the crowd wait ed to see whether he would catch it, or if it would knock him down. But he took it and his legs mov ed, slowly, as if it was a great effort for him. Laboriously he approached the basket, and then he lifted himself effortlessly, 'al most imperceptively about five inches off the floor. An awkward left hand pushed the ball up against the backboard and it re bounded through the rail with a soft swish. Billy didn't even Jook whomever it pleases as a member. The policy is not stated as well as it ;migh.fc have been. It -would have been far mere positive and far more to the point to have simply stated that chapters must establish their own membership require ments and leave the national out of it. This would have circumvented the al most certain problems now facing UNC of "gentleman's agreements" and shady "socially acceptable to. the national" clauses. This was considered in the committee but passed oyer. But the University cannot, and should not, do all. It has merely set the guide lines. It is up to the members of fraterni ties and sororities on this campus to truly exhibit the characteristics of edu cated ladies and gentlemen, and to open their minds and their doors to all cate gories of students for membership consideration. The sooner this happens, the stronger the system will be-PETE WALES OUR WEEKLY AMAZING FACT: In West Germany, there are 16 times as many writers as retcatchers. GOD SAVE THE BRITISH EMPIRE CITATION: Tp David Frost, British television producer, who put on a teleT vision show on birth control so vile that 23 members of . jthe House of Commons signed a petition calling it "grossly of fensive." ' MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER: A Raleigh drive-in is currently featuring three films which the teen agers shouldn't miss namely, "Mill of Stone Women," "Corridors of Blood," and "Werewolf in a Girl's Dorm." LESS HOURS, MORE LEISURE ; TIME, or THE INSCRUTABLE ORIENT AWARD: To the United States . Infor . ' : ...... ,rtuJ m.ation Agency, wjirch yesterday closed all five libraries and reading rooms in . Indonesia, thus leaving half the popula tion of that country with no place to stone but their own. TJi e First Time I Saw at it, just lowered his head and summoned up the strength to amble to the back of the next line. It was that way all through the warm-up period. BUly stood and looked awe-stricken and scared, and when he got the ball he chug ged toward the basket and posh ed it up with that same left-handed motion which didn't impress ahybodyr ' Later, when the team separated and began shooting individual shots, it - was the same. When Bijly got the ball he stood there holding it for a while and then, as if it were terribly difficult, he would uncoil a bit from his constant slump, leap into the air (but not very far) and hurl the ball toward "the basket wjth a flick of his wrist. But he wasn't impressive or sensational .doing it, and the fans began "to think 'this kid looks lost out there," and tlie fellqw next to me said he couldn't be as good as the sports writers said. But then the game started and there 4e was in the center pircle to jump. He won .the tap, and seemed tto soar to an inordinate seemed to soar to .an inordinate told himself that it jwas just an illustion because hsi opponent had mistimed the jump" and bad harcF ly gotten off the ground. And then Billy moved into the post position and just seemed to stand there, unmoving, while the game went on around him and the varsity's defense kept the ball away. The game was a couple of minutes old when it happened. The varsity relaxed a moment arid a bounce pass twent into the gap "and there was QmnHgham, with the ball cradled in his hands. It seemed like five seconds be fore he moved, though it wasn't even one tenth pf that. Then he bounced the ball against the floor with his big left hand, his head made 3 strange movement to the left and everybody in Woollen Gyrn look ed that way. Suddenly there was the ball moving to Ihe right, jiot the left, and Billy Cunningham thrust himself into the air as easily as a balioon rising from your hand. There he '.was, bang ing in the air. ' w:.v.Xv.W.::-i::-; Billy The varsity center had been fooled, and now he made an excellent recovery and jumped to block the shot while Billyhs left arm : cocked for the shot. But I swear to you that ,when the op ponent . came down, Billy -was still up there. He did a mid-air pirouette, his left arm made two strange movements, and the ball soared off his fingertips and over the edge f the rim. When it drop ped through, the crowd looked beneath the basket, but Billy was gone, long gone, even while the ball was " plummeting toward the hoop and fame. He knew. Qown at the other end a few seconds later, the varsity brought the ball down, and Silly stood under their basket, bis mouth open and his arms still dangling. Then someone took a shot, but it missed and came High off the rim, up where nobody could get it. The crowd .watched it float through the haze. And then it was gone, snatched put' of its flight by a huge left band that seemed to soar toward it for several moments before picking it like a grapefruit. ' We looked, and there he was again, standing under the basket with the ball" tucked under one arm, his shoulders slumped pro tectively over it and his mouth open. "Suddenly someone rose and screamed "Way to go, kid!" and the crowd cheered and cheered and cheered. The Kangaroo ; Kid had been born. Entered as second class postage at Chapel Hill Post Office. " i 1 LETTER'S 1 ft The rjally Tar Heel solicits letters to the editors at any I 1 II time and on any subject. AH fetters must be typed DOUBLE SPACED and must be free of KbeL The editors I i lengQu Letters should be fl 1 submitted at least (vn Han 1 prior to date ct publication. 1 1 F Speech jree Chapel Hill Image Slips In France Editors, The Tar Heel: Here in France there exists something called the "American myth." America, the myth goes, is a land of loudmouthed, un couth boors, who live in sky scrapers and herd minority groups into ghettoes. . ; It' , is 'a ' land where . the . de gree of civilization is reckoned in terms of telephones, TV's,. ra dios, and cars per capita. It is a land where people spend each year more on peanut butter than Spain spends in . its national budget. We are viewed as a land of extremes, anomalies, and vio lence, and it is not altogether uncommon to hear someone de scribe us as a cultureless so ciety. These unfortunate concep tions result, of course, from mis-' . information and a . tremendous lackof communication. Yet, last Saturday (Feb. 20), there appeared on page two of the local paper, Le . Progres (cjre. 450,000), the following ar ticle about the United States (Translated below) :" "Chapel Hill, N. C, Feb. 19 (From UPI-Paris). Widespread Ijeckkliiig interrupted a student meeting at the University of North Carolina here today. The meeting, protesting a law pro hibiting Communists or certain users' of the U. S. Fifth consti tutional amendment (protection against self-incrimination) from speaking herej was riot met with general enthusiasm. Fireworks and various expressions of sou thern regionalism disrupted this meeting attended by over. 1,000 students. There were no arrests . . . " (clippings from Chapel Hill seem to indicate that this article is accurate.) The Progres then continues with a rare editorial comment: ". . . it seems strange to us that a law such as this could have been enacted. It clearly li mits the guarantees "of free speech. In an area of trie Knit ed States where the rights of the individual are greatly em phasized, we do not understand why this meeting failed to re ceive widespread support . . . The Americans continue to per plex and mystify us." The atricle certainly mystifi ed my landlady and the two neighbors and most likely many of the half million other readers. Actions such as these certainly do not help eliminate the "American myth" oyer here. Tony Mason UNC-Year-At-Lyon Fraternities Home For Fellow Bigots Editors, The Jar Heel: ' Before the Tar Heel's lucid editorial on the fraternity sys tem, and the various letters of frat men, I riiust confess I had" a somewhat hazy conception of just what the fraternity system was all about. I had always felt that somehow fraternity had something to do with brother hood. . . Fortunately my mistaken no- - : .-::-:: o:--.- ::::-:-: v X-:- ::-:::-;:. -viLfc. Jf- -- --Ax------;-5-.- Sx :; . Letters To The Editors And tion has been rectified ; and I now realize that fraternities in actuality ' are. devices for like minded bigots to perpetuate their bigotry. I also realize that it is proper for fraterni ties to perpetuate ; bigotry at UNC, because in actuality they are private organizations n 0 1 really connected with UNC . This is all very' clear to me, but I fear that there are still some innocents who may n o t realize that fraternities are not connected with UNC..1 In order to help solve their confusion, it might be helpful if these private organizations were to cease us ing UNC facilities for their func tions, if they stopped setting academic requirements for their members - jointly . with the Uni versity administration, if the University ceased chartering them, and if the Daily Tar Heel ceased turning over the bulk of an issue or two ja year to the IFC to explain the bene fits of living in a fraternity, I understand that these things don't make the fraternities any less private organizations with the right to be bigoted as they choose, but I am afraid some people might not understand. Frank Anshen 407 West Franklin St. Quarterly Caters To Outside Talent Editors, The Tar Heel: ; Last night I was visiting across the hall and I happened to notice a eppy of the last is sue of the Carolina Quarterly peeking from the waste basket among the latest issues of the Tar Heel. Having nothing bet ter to do (since the .occupant of the roorn was busy writing a short story for his English 34 class), I picked up the jnagazine and began ihunabing through it. At first glance I had fleeting visions concerning the so-called literary "itch" at Carolina and my heart swelled within me. Then, as I turned to the credits page, I slumped Jack' in horror. Have I been the innocent dupe of an insidious plot to warp my impressionable young mind? Is someone trying to pull the wool over my eyes? There was not .one short sto ry, one poem, one piece of art in the entire rnagazine for which a UNC student can take credit! What is wrong with the Uni versity community? Is there no creativity left on this campus? I seriously doubt it. Are the edi tors of the Quarterly so narrow minded that they refuse to con sider at least one decent stu dent writer or poet among a supposedly intellectual commun ity of 10,000? - . I have been under the .impres sion that the Quarterly is edit ed and published by students of the University pf North .Caro lina And I think I am correct in stating that the four publica tions at UNC (the Daily Tar Heel, the Yackety Yack, t h e Carolina Handbook, and the Ca rolina Quarterly) are all watch ed over like sheep in a flock by "the same Publications Board. If this is true, why is.it that ! the Quarterly editors find it be neath their dignity to function Glaii ses as a part of as well as at the expense of the University? If there is a simple explana tion for this I would be person ally grateful, to hear one, and I am sure that many other UNC students have also. been wonder ing if they have been somehow cheated. . - Harold Parker Ehringhaus tj inn 1 rs? Peter B, Young? Editors, The Tar Heel: Although it is somewhat dis tasteful to do so, since it digni fies his letter, I would like to reply to Peter B. Young's let ter in the March 2 Tar Heel. ' If Mr. Young represents WRAL, " which he certainly seems to, I think that he may be looking for hew employment shortly ' reference Jesse Helms, proponent of "The Am erican Tradition" AND the Speaker Ban Law; WRAL, how ever (thank goodness),; is not being discussed here. .More to the point is the fact that free speech does riot re quire free listeners. Although I think the 'most ejoquent re sponse to Mr.' Gardner's "rally" was the majority's absence, those in attendence had every right to jeer at him precise ly in the same manner as those members of various racial or ganizations jeered at a former governor of Mississippi last year at Carolina, and students jeered at .Governor Wallace at the University pf Maryland. Without doubt, these incidents are unfortunate, but if I remem ber correctly, WRAL, propon ent of free listeners, certainly detracted from Governor John son when he was here. Two members of their "news" team began to break down their cam eras and lights about ten minu tes after the Governor started speaking, then walked up on the stage and removed their micro phone. This is politeness? ma turity? consideration? Mr. Young, you speak, sir, with for ked tongue! And to Pete Ivey, laurels. In association with a North Carolin-r na broadcaster, myself, the sta tion I work for received a copy of the editorial. We did not put it on the air. That is our choice, that is, as to what is newswor thy. Other stations, I have found, did air it. Regardless of who aired it and who did not air it, the fact remains that an administration openly in favor of the repeal of our Speaker Ban Law did let it go out from the news bureau. And the facts remain that the Tar Heel did not libel or slan der Gardner, that the editors did use some concrete facts to draw' some solid conclusions, that they are in favor of repeal of the Speaker Ban Law, arid that they are popularly elected by the student body. Now, Mr. "Young, why don't you and Jesse chew on that for awhile? James W. Sturges 108 Graham House ARMISTEAD MAUPIN, JR. Word has it that ex-Governor Terry Sanford might open a TV station in Raleigh. Word has it, also, that this station will attempt to counter balance the "ultra-conservative" programming policies of WRAL TV. And a good thing, too. WRAL" has' gotten far too right wing these days. The commer cials, in particular. The com mercials have gotten downright Fascist. The following advertisements have been revised and edited for broadcasting from a liberal TV station. We respectfully sub mit them to Governor Sanford for his careful scrutiny. (1) A nice old lady and her daughter are baking a cake in the kitchen of an average Am erican home. There seems to be a disagreement. NICE OLD LADY: . . . but, dear, you don't need to pay for my operation. Just let the gov ernment handle the hospital bills. DAUGHTER: Mother, please! I'd rather do it myself! CONSCIENCE: Calm your self. Sure, you've bad a rough day. But, don't take it out on her,. The Great Society now of fers relief from . . tension, pressure, pain.. . . through its .new worryrfree plan of Medical Care for the Aged. . (2) Two political types are Greeks ObUgmfed To The University In reference to Lewis Lip sitz's letter, Clarjc Crampton's analogical gymnastics were per ipheral. Focus is needed on the main issue at hand: that is, whether the University is moral ly right in eliminating a criter ion of fraternity membership, rather than whether the Univer sity is legally and practically capable of doing so. Fraternities are chartered by the University, owe their exis tence in their present character as such to the University, and are wedded to this institution in a variety of organizational, and non-organizational ways - which help define their privileges, im munities and responsibilities. Insofar as this is the case, fra ternities are not private clubs. Mr. Crampton, h o w e v e r , would argue that they retain their private character enough to determine absolutely their own criteria for membership. But ;would Mr. Crampton deny that fraternities are part of a larger community? First, .it seems, as If formal arrangements . e. g., the Un iversity's granting of charters, faculty jurisdiction interlock the fraternity system pretty tightly with the rest of the Uni versity. Second,' the fraternities must feel some strong obligation to the University community, one of' the ' criteria for membership being involvement in extra-curricular activities. These two points about frater nities' connections with the Uni versity community are hardly in sympathy with Mr. Cramp ton's wish to insulate them from that community's standards. 11 Otelia Is On v v i t I Warpath-Wifli Umbrellas Dear Sir: This day, March 2nd. wasn't my "day. Or,"w'as it? I had to go on the war-path again. I was reading the newspaper in Lenoir, waiting for the line to open. My attention was di rected to the table next to me. I watched a while, then I went over to the table and told the two girls that I had yet to see them address a single remark to their table companion, a male. "You should include ev erybody in your conversation," I said, 'and I don't like it." One of the girls made a nod in the male's direction by ad dressing an occasional remark to him. But the other girl ne ver a glance or word. Soon they were joined by a third girl, who promptly threw Si newspaper 03 my table. I picked up the paper, whacked her with it and told all three of them that when I wrote up the Carolina Gentleman, some of the girls wouldn't be included While I was eating my lunch ? I noticed another student, eatr ing with his cap on. On my way out, I stopped at the table and asked them, there were eight of them, if Ihey -wexe Ca rolina students. They answer. ............ j standing in the Senate Cloak room. The younger one jsptaks nervously. BAKER: Gosh, Lyndi, I'm so excited This ismy first appear ance at ari investigatory hear ing and . . well . . frankly, I'm not sure whether I can stay cool and calm. LYNDI: Don't be iilly, Bob by. You'll always stay cooi and calm as long as you've got the TRUE-BLUE SECRET. (3) A slightly bored and list less group, of college students are eating at a local delicates sen. Suddenly, as the music bursts into an exuberant jingle, the students drop their corned beef sandwiches, dash jubilant ly into the street, and fling thernselves into the paths of on coming cars. "Come alive! Come alive ! You're in the Protest Generation!" (4) A man and his wife are conversing in an oval room in a large white house. MAN: Shucks, Bird, what am I gonna do? Hubert's a good fejla and all that, but sometimes he scares me. He might git too blame powerful! WIFJE: Your worries are ov er, dear. Science has discover ed a REMARKABLE new heal ing substance, called PREPA RATION H, that shrinks the Vice-President without surgery. The University's standards in clude affording every member of the academic community an equal opportunity to educate himself outside, as well as in side, the classroom. This means ' an equal ppportunity to participate in the community's organizations, all of which con tribute to the learning process. If Mr. Crampton wishes to form a private club all his own .which, indeed, he may wish to call a fraternity having mem bership criteria more in keeping with his Neanderjhalic morals, that's fine. But an organization so defined shoulders no respon sibilities supporting' the ends of the academic community and therefore should not be accord ed the privileges of belonging to it. That "the processes of dis crimination will continue to be the mode ;of acceptance and re jection in the recruitment of fu ture 'brothers' " is saying noth ing except that fraternities will continue to choose their own members. As occupant of a par ticular place in the commun ity," however, the fraternity chooses according to certain im plicit and explicit norms grow ing out of or compatible with its relationship with that commun ity. Fpr instance, a woman would not be admitted (I as sume) into a fraternity. It is high time the University made explicit the prevailing norm of equality of opportunity as applied to campus organiza tions. Sheron Reiser 77 .Maxwell Road Terry Fowler 413 Patterson Place The Manners ed, "Yes." J pointed to the cap and asked if he was a student. He said he was a professor! I told him, "We .don't wear hat? in the house at Carolina." When i got to trie door I held it open for a blind student and his guide. A student followed be hind them. I put my hard on his arm and told him, "I don't hold doors for men. They hold the door for me." He tried to hold the door open with his arm but he was on the wrong side and it was kinder awkward. I removed a pencil from be hind the ear of one student and told him I didn't allow him tc carry his pencil behind his ear." "Only clerks keep their pencil behind the ear (Not ev en clerks park the pencil be hind the ear now.) I tcld him to put the pencil in his pocket and "don't you let me catch you with it behind vour est again." I didn't know him However he hadn't heard about the ban on pencil and he took it in good stride. By the way, I thLik the Care Una girl, on the whole, is love ly. They are all very courteous to me. Today was the exception jthat proves the rute - - -Otelia-Connor
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