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.Selma:' The World Waits
The confused and tense situation in
Selma, Alabama grew even more hectic
yesterday, leaving- the world a little be
wildered . . . and angry.
On Sunday, the Alabama state police
apparently chose to interpret Gov.
George Wallace's order to arrest viola
tors as a license to attack them. His in
structions "to use all the force neces
sary", were obviously overstepped, and
the result was a deplorable spectacle of
beatings, tear gas, whips, ropes and
mounted officers being used against
those who could have been quietly ar
rested, at most. '
Yesterday, however, the troopers
simply turned back a marching band of
hundreds of Negroes without violence,
demonstrating to the world that the
brutality of Sunday was hardly "neces
sary." Bad judgment ha3 been the byword
in Selma for weeks, since the very be
ginnings of the voter registration drive.
On Sunday, it reached its zenith.
Now the world waits, its collective
eyes focused on the small Alabama, city.
The question is an old one: Will justice
prevail ?
Don't Complain If You Don't Show
' One of - the most disgusting campus
campaign spectacles in years occurred
Monday evening . when a scheduled ap
pearance by the campus candidates in
Alexander Hall was canceled because no
audience appeared.
Such an event is evidence of student
apathy of the most repugnant variety.
The candidates deserve the courtesy of
an interested audience, and every stu
dent has a personal obligation to himself
and his. fellows to inform himself and
vote carefully. The lack of attendance in
Alexander (which last year was a hot
bed of campus politics) reveals an in
credible unconcern with both manners
and responsibility on the part of a large
number of students.
If past history is an accurate indica
tion, many of those who didn't bother
to put in appearance Monday will gripe
the loudest when the returns are in.
Their complaints, like their attitude,
can be summed up in one word absurd.
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Cbntmunicaiiou Key
To Viet Policies
' By PETE WALES
Associate Editor
' What really makes our highly
specialized and centralized po
litical system frightening is any
kind of break-down or short-circuiting
of communications.
The recent White Paper on
Viet Nam and Johnson's general
press policy on the war is a
graphic example.
Through extensive exercise of
Presidential powers, Johnson
has created an attitude of total
apathy and what James Reston
calls fatalism among the Amer
ican people toward our Viet
Nam policy.
The situation
is so complex, sr L
inconstant a n r f "
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Letters To The Editors
rass Is Always Greener . . .
An old and persistent complaint which
originates annually from the ranks of the
apathetic and uninformed on this campus
is that "Student Government doesn't do
anything." Nothing could be further from
the truth, as the top-flight performance
by our executive, legislative and judicial
bodies during the recent years will at
test.
As proof of the soundness and effec
tiveness of our Student Government, we
offer, a contrast with the University of
Miami. A news item in this week's Hur-,
ricane, the campus newspaper,-; report
that "Student Government- met for 32
minutes Monday." The story further, says
that the meeting was the first of the
semester, that the president and treasur
er of the Student Bodv save reports total
ing less than three minutes, and that
the president announced that the group.
would meet "maybe three or four times
this semester."
One has only to compare this farce
with the weekly sessions of our Student
Legislature, or the comprehensive sum
mary of Student Government presented
last week by President Bob Spearman, to
realize just how fortunate we are. While
our representatives debate a $200,000
budget or provide funds to remodel social
rooms, hundreds of campuses across the
country are faced with apathetic, ridicu
lous; organizations almost as ludicrous as ...
Miami's.
Everyone has a right to complain about 1
things that displease him, of course; but
we can't help feeling, after hearing the
plight of many of our fellow students,
that those who offer a sweeping condem
nation of our Student Government just
don't know what they are talking about.
Viet Nam, Colombia Struck
Rodriguez Wrongs
On Latin America 1
Speaker Ban's Taint Is Spreading
The Durham Herald
The, mischief of North Carolina's ill
considered speaker ban is spreading be
yond the ban's avowed targets state
supported colleges and universities. The
corrosive effects of this law are showing
up in the General Assembly itself.
Reporters have found legislators loath
to discuss amendment or repeal of the
ban openly. They would prefer that any
change in this law to protect the state
from Communist hobgoblins come about
like the ban, itself, through artful legisla
tive maneuver.
lp Satiu SFar
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Such an end to the speaker ban can
be as bad in its way as the ban. It im
plies that we have so confused ourselves
with the mere propaganda of freedom
that respected men in the legislature
dare not speak out on nit-picking anti
Communist legislation lest they risk be
ing widely misunderstood. v So far from
ridding ourselves of the enfeebling fears
manifested in the speaker ban law, re
peal or amendment by stealth would
manifest them in yet another time and
place.
How can it be that this state, alone
among the 50 states, is so frightened for
its system of higher education that men
of unquestioned honor and patriotism
fear to label the speaker ban law as the
humbug it is?
When this self-same meddlesome idea
was suggested at the last session of the
Virginia legislature, legislators and state
officials answered with a quick "no
thanks." Yet we in North Carolina go
on implying that our hold on freedom
is so precarious we dare not allow men
or women to speak on any subject on
state-supported campuses if those men or
women are Communists or have even
been suspect of a Communist taint under
certain circumstances.
This is not a law for free men seeking
to protect their vigorous free institutions.
This is a law for cowards and those who
believe they can only protect freedom by
destroying aspects of freedom 'them
selves. Despite the pussyfooting on repeal and
or amendment of the speaker ban so far,
we hope leadership will yet emerge with
the courage to oppose openly the letter
and the corrosive spirit of the speaker
ban law. Then, and perhaps only then,
can North Carolina hope to be done with
both.
Editors, The Tar Heel: '
In response to a letter by Iv
an Rodriguez published by
you, I would like to make the
following remarks.
His first reference to the
"hundreds of strikes" which
are suggested to happen in La
tin American universities is
grossly exaggerated, clearly
misguided and suggestively ma
licious. If the remarks came
froma casual visitor to Latin
America it would be easier to
understand his misconceptions.
Coming from- a Colombian stu
dent one cannot help but won
tder about the reason for his con
fused and misguided letter. ?
The flexibility and freedom
that the American students
have in choosing their subjects
are relative and debatable and
not synonymous with precise
specialization or cultural back
ground that will be of some val
ue to them in finding their pla
ces in society.. At the same
time "the mechanics of Aristot
le, the Thomastic theory and
the sociology of Saint Simon"
seem to parallel more effective
ly a scientific search for de
mocracy, than would the me
chanics of analytic geometry.
I would suggest that any fur
ther comments from Mr. Ivan
Rodriguez on Latin America will
come from a more realistic,
conscious, truthful and less pre
judiced analysis, and I hope he
realizes that his outburst has
done more to add to the miscon
ceptions that the American peo
ple have of Colombia and its
people who, as a general rule,
make an effective contribution
to the betterment of Latin Am
erica and who I doubt would
agree with Mr. Rodriguez in
that what's good for Chicago is
good for Antioquia.
Alvaro Saborio
401 Connor
Southeast Asia
Issues Complex
Editors, The Tar Heel:
The ever more violent news
from Viet Nam and, by point
ed contrast, the still deliberate
silence from the White House,
betoken, to my mind, a kind of
quite connivance in disaster on
the part of our officialdom in
Washington which ought to
arouse even the most lethargic
of us to question and appraise
American policy in Southeast
Asia. This would be an onerous
task enough even were we given
the precious and undiluted facts
of our involvement there by the
administration. .
It is made terribly more try
ing and infinitely more neces
sary by virtue of our being giv
en only the sparsest and most
jingoistic explanations of w h y
we are in Viet Nam and what
we are doing there. My ire could
as well be directed at our Wash
ington policy-makers as at our
Washington policy but perhaps
the men will in time speak.
Their policy has already spok
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The issues in Viet Nam (and,
indeed, in all of Asia) are, to
my mind, far more complex
than just Red China's threaten
ing pose implicit in her mili
tant concept of Communism. Of
course, her message and influ
ence are real enough for all to
take just alarm, but I maintain
that her revolutionary appeals
and material support to t h o s e
who heed them would not be so
tellingly apparent and success
ful were it not that the major
ity of Asia's peoples see some
validity and hope in their great
neighbor's calls to disinherit the
West and build anew their
own society.
Communist promises conceal
eventual enslavement, we may
vainly argue to those who have
known nothing but government
al tyranny and to whom Com
munism appeals as the far less
er of the evils they have ex
perienced by Western hands and
by the hands of their own
scheming elites. The principle
cause of our torments in South
Vietnam is not the Viet Cong
or North Vietnamese infiltration
or Red Chinese support and en
couragement of the insurgency
effort.
The cause is the cowed and
bewildered and frightened pea
santry who allow the Commun
ist guerrillas support and con
cealment. That the South Viet
namese leaders have failed their
people and that we, in turn, have
failed to do much about this
since becoming involved there
is, I feel, the unhappy precipi
tate cause of South Viet Nam's
collapse before Communism.
Other elements in the Vietna
mese situation that vex and
complicate our policy are the
various realtionships among and
between the power groups with-
Scholarship Replaces Grades
The Tulane Hullaballoo
California Institute of Techno
logy is beginning a program of
a type comparatively rare in
American colleges and universi
ties: it wants to emphasize scho
larship instead of grades.
Freshmen will get regular let
ter grades on tests and papers
but at the end of the semester
will receive only a pass or fail
mark for each course.
The purpose of this program
is to relieve the freshman of the
ever increasing pressure for a
"good" scholastic average so he
can "get ahead."
During his first year he will
have the opportunity to possibly
think about what he is doing,
rather than just how well he is
doing it. Once adjusted to col
lege life the student should be
ready to enter the mad scram
ble for a sufficient average to
impress Daddy, Mother, gradu
ate school, prospective employ
ers and other students, but with
one slight difference.
Perhaps in his year's sabba
tical from the competition he
will have the opportunity to de
velop a sincere interest m his
studies. Then grades can be a
product of scholarship instead of
the all too frequent reverse.
At a school like Tulane with
ever increasing standards of ad
mission arid equally increasing
tuition this program might be of
great value. At least it ought to
be considered.
in South Viet Nam herself and
impinging upon her from the
outside. .
To what extent can we fairly
say that the Viet Cong are in all
important ways subservient to
Hanoi's control, and the same
concerning Hanoi's relationship
to Peking?
Furthermore, how vital in Viet
Nam, nay, in all of Southeast
Asia, is the traditional antipa
hy regarding Chinese attempts
at domination in the area?
My feeling is that, concerning
these perplexing questions and
others, our policy has been dan
gerously myopic and uniformly
crassly expedient. We have
attempted to override with a
singularly ..unsophisticated mar
tial approach the subtle moti
vating impulses of the Vietna
mese peoples and their Asian
neighbors. This has proved, dis
estrous to them and extreme
ly dangerous to us.
There is still time to manage
our honorable disengagement
from a dishonorable situation in
to which we have blundered with
honest if not f arseeing inten
tions. We can begin by halting
our unjustified and crudely pro
vocative air attacks on N o r t h
Viet Nam. We can state our
deep desire that the South Viet
namese and North Vietnamese,
unforced and unmolested, be en
abled to freely select the party
and leaders more nearly respon
sive to their wishes and needs.
We .can request that the In
ternational Control Commission
for Indochina serve as a forum
where the representatives of
North and South Viet Nam and
the United States can talk out
their grievances and arrange,
hopefully, for a peaceful integra
tion of all Viet Nam under in
ternational guidance and protec
tion. We can finally pledge what
ever economic and technological
assistance such a unified Viet
Nam might request.
There is still time while the
world waits and wonders what
Far East agony is yet to come
for the United States to faithful
ly and fully act as the leader
among nations it pretends to be.
There is still time. But will we
act?
Phillip Podlish
415 Connor
Otelia, Cultivate
Your Own Garden
Editors, The Tar Heel:
I would like to comment brief
ly on Mrs. Connor's latest letter
of criticism.
Who is Mrs. Connor to judge
the manners of others? The cor
rection of the manners of total
strangers is a very serious
breach of good etiquette, as a
matter of fact, it is RUDE.
Today I was shocked to dis
cover "Mrs. Connor's Undefin
able Book of Etiquette" includ
es carrying a pencil behind the
ear in its list of etiquette brea
ches. Also, the word "kinder" puz
zeled me. I have never before
seen it in print and my diction
ary neglected to include it
Could Mrs. Connor have erred?
Maybe Mrs. Connnor could
spend a little less time correct
ing the faults or others and
concentrate on correcting those
of her own.
Tony Gardiner
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along with what
ever escalatioi
he pleases. t
Senator Strom Thurmond re
marked the other day, and not
without justification, that the
next logical step would be use
of nuclear weapons. A few short
months ago, he might have been
called trigger-happy and an ex
tremist. Today, it may be ex
pected almost any minute.
The recently published White
Paper, the first substantial word
to come out of the White House
on Viet Nam in ages, is almost
ludicrous in its superficial an
alysis and propagandists tone.
The 75-page document attemp
ted to "prove" that the Viet
Cong were largely supported
and bolstered by. infiltration of
north Vietnamese troops with
Chinese weapons. This was to
justify the recent series of "re
taliatory" measures which in
some cases lacked antecedents.
In fact, the vast majority of
infiltrators from the North are
South Vietnamese natives enga
ging in a civil war which Wash
ington almost refuses to ac
knowledge. The illusion created is that the
war is being caused by the
aggression of another power.
The truth is that the problem is
largely an internal one.
The main thing the Vietna
mese would, like is for every
one to go away: North Vietna
mese, Viet Cong, General
Khanh, the United States ev
eryone. But nobody will, and even if
they did, chaos would still reign.
Johnson's political tactics
have been to keep the press, the
Congress and the country gues
sing. ...
He obtains Congressional ap
proval for his air strikes after .
the fact when to oppose the ac
tion would be unamerican.
The press is not given a
chance to question the Presi
dent in formal news conferenc
es, but is given briefings in
stead. The men doing the brief
ing give selected facts only.
They have no authority to give
the why's, or to comment on
general policy.
The American people are led
to believe that bombs don't kill
women and children, they only
blow up military installations.
Anyone who has any idea of
what a "military installation"
in North Viet Nam looks like,
knows there are a lot" of peo
ple affected by the bombs. Jut
imagine North Viet Nam bomb
ing the Brooklyn Navy YTird.
What's more, the State De
partment is put in the polttna
of supporting virtually JSnithd
of government, no matter hew
repressive or undemocratic!, be
cause it is operating itnjdlrj the
illusion that this is a war of two
countries rather than a civil
Congress is just beginning to
react to the President's high -handedness.
Several of the more
liberal senators are joining old
regular Wayne Morse in voic
ing their protest. But nothing
concrete has been done. No
committees, closed or open, are
looking into matters themselves.
The questions at hand are the
extent to which Johnson has ac
tually declared war without Con
gressional action, and whether
or not the President should in
fact have more extensive auth
ority in this age when security
decisions must be made so
quickly. These questions have no
simple answers.
But the larger ethical ques
tion of communications is in
deed answerable. This is the key
to the smooth functioning of any
highly specialized system.
Communication with the Con
gress and with the people must
be far greater if the country is
to be really involved in and
concerned for its own future. It
is the oil that keeps the com
plex machine running smoothly.
However much the campus
looks down on peace marchers
and critics of the consensus, it
should at least acknowledge
the central point made. We do
not know enough of what our
government is doing in South
Viet Nam, and we don't know
that it's right.
If democracy is to survive, if
free thinking is to survive, we,
as students, must make an ef
fort to find out about ourselves
and what we are doing.
We must do a little commun
icating of our own to keep the
great machine working.
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For Those Who Side With
Lewis Carroll A Poem
This poem is for those members of our population who
re politically inclined toward Lewis Carroll. It is a
modification of Carroll's JABBERWOCKY and is one
f a forthcoming series entitled Wonderland Revisited.
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Demagogy
Twas November and the slithy Reds,
Did gyre and gimble in the Kremlin.
All whimsy were the voters heads,
And the Viet Cong outgrabe.
"Beware the Demagogue, my son!
The tongue that bites, the plots that hatch!
Beware the Lyndon bird, and shun
The frumious Bakersnatch !"
He took forensic sword in hand ;
Long time the misnamed foe he sought
So rested he by the Liblib tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in realish thought he stood,
The Demagogue, with words of corn,
Came braying through the Fabian wood,
And promised to yesterday's born!
And the Romans jumped the track.
One, two! One, two! And through and thru
. The forensic sword went snicker-snack !
He proved it dead, it doled out bread
"And has it won, the Demagogue?
Take up your arms by GOPish chum
One hopeful day ! Callooh ! Callay ! 1
WE SHALL OVERCOME!!"
Twas November and the slithy Reds.
Did gyre and gimble in the Kremlin.
All wrhimsy were the voters heads,
And the Viet Cong outgrabe.
Paul King
411 Ruffin