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Pige 2 Saturday, March 13, 1965 I I 1 i . - i Editorial Page 'As It Stands Now, We'll Have 8 Hours And 27 Minutes In Lauderdale.' Opinions of tfie 'tdily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and columns, covering a, wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of j s i. 4.x m 5? THe Name Game Distortion Supporters of the N. C. State name change- bill have charged, among other things, that the Raleigh institution has been "neglected" in budgetary support from the General Assembly since it be came part of the University hi 1934. The charge Is simply not true, as the Raleigh News and Observer carefully pointed out yesterday morning. The newspaper brought to light data obtained from the Consolidated Univer sity office which show that, in the 30 years of; consolidation, the Raleigh branch has received 45.1 per cent of the funds allocated to the University, while Chapel Hill including the health cen terhas received 43.2 per cent. Thus it is clear that legislators and others who have been crving "discrim ination" have been poor-mouthing with out benefit of the facts. Had they both ered to find out that the Raleigh branch was receiving more money than any other despite possession of only 32.7 per cent of the enrollment (Chapel Hill has 47.5 per cent), they might have been less eager to complain. Indeed, the mere existence of their unfounded charges means that those who base their arguments on facts are now faced with the unenviable task of cleaning up the air behind a group of name change supporters who are ap parently content to let emotion be their guide. -The name change issue is a deiicate one which will affect the entire Univer sity, and it is certainly not the time to play fast and loose with the facts In deed, if there has ever been a time for the most careful consideration of all sides of an issue, it is now. ; Those who want the name "North Carolina State University at Raleigh" do have some points in their favor, much as we disagree with them. But they can only harm themselves, and others, by attempting to appeal their case on the basis of misleading or untrue informa tion. The record has been set straight, and those who slanted it will have to suffer the consequences of their error. Let us hope they refrain from making- similar mistakes in the future. Selma: Justice Sheds A Tear Justice shed a tear this week as man's inability to tolerate his fellow man end ed in death in strife-torn Selma, Ala bama. Rev. James J. Reeb, the Boston minis ter who fell victim to hatred and intol erance' in our sister state, leaves be hind a weeping family, a legacy of dedi cation to a cause, and a sober nation. Across the country yesterday, millions d Americans paused as they read the headlines proclaiming the tenth death in Alabama, racial strife since 1962, and as they did so,, probably most of them voiced an almost audible question: "Why?" Why Rev. James Reeb? Because he was in a place where he thought he was needed at a time when hate-filled men went seeking a victim. Probably they ,had.ho special reason for choosing James . Reeb, as evidenced by the fact that two of his companions were included irr the brutal attack that took his life. But there is a bigger question why anyone? The answer is an old one, and one which continues to plague this, a nation founded on the principles of freedom and justice. The answer is that for some men in the Selmas of the nation, hatred is stronger than understanding and "the preservation of tradition" a stronger mo tive than tolerance. As the world shed its tear, it also voiced the hope that the persons who committed this heinous crime would be brought to justice . . . a justice which they themselves obviously could not find in their hearts. But even justice now cannot erase the fact that a man has died,, and the line from a popular balled keeps returning to haunt those who view the violence in Selma: "How many deaths will it take? . It has already taken far too many. . ; And The Good Old Weekly Awards MAN OF THE WEEK : Everyone who had a part in letting Bell's chain of .hamburger stands know that they can take their "Golonial-Style" hamburger stand and erect it where it would do .most good that is, as far away from Chapel Hill as possible. LIZARD OF THE WEEK : The little bands of party hacks who are apparently touring, the campus tearing down any and; all opposition posters they can get their- hands on. THE QUALITY EDUCATION CITA- I fflp iatig ar If til 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publi cation el the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens, co-editors; Mike Yopp, Ernie McCrary, managing editors; P?te Wales, associate editor; Larry Tarle ton, sports editor; Mary Ellison Strother, wire editor; Mike Wiggin, night editor; erry Sipe, John Greenbacher, Fred Thom as yStaff writers; Richard Cummins, Mike Jennings feature writers; Pete Gammons, asst. sports editor; Perry McCarty, Pete Cross, Bill Lee, Tom Haney, sports writ ers; Jock Luaterer, photographer; Chip Barmard, cartoonist i Jack Harington, bus. Mgr.; Betsy Gray, asst. bus. mgr.; Woody Sobol, ad. mgr.; John Askew, asst. ad. mgr.; Tom Clark, subscription mgr.; John Evans, circulation mgr.; Dick Baddour; Jan Jorgensen, Dan Warren, salesmen; Becky Timberlake,, Aleva Smith, secretaries. Secosd . 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 nm Publishing Co., Inc. The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republica ttion xd all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. i 1 m 5S TION: To the Kellogg Cereal Co., which distributed 4.5 million biographies of Huck Finn on the backs of its Sugar Smacks boxes, only to discover they had given Huck. an "Aunt Sally" not men tioned by Mark Twain. FACT OF THE WEEK: At the most recent survey, there were only 270 liv ing Polar Eskimoes. OUR SPECIAL SAFETY AWARD: To the town fathers of Chapel Hill, who finally put a traffic light at the corner of Rosemary and Hillsboro Streets, after at least 13 accidents in the past 15 months at that corner. THE LENOIR HALL AWARD: To a dining room at a women's residence hall Rochester (N. Y.) University, where a one-inch bolt was found in a bowl of spinach. It was observed by the school newspaper that even though spinach provides iron required to build bodies 12 ways, it should not be given in such concentrated portions. GOOD NEWS OF THE WEEK: UNC's baseball team is not ranked in the Top Ten in pre-season polls. DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE MONTH: The "anti-necking" bill introduced in the General Assembly a week ago didn't pass, thereby preventing everyone from finding out how in the world it would have been enforced. WHITE MAN OF THE WEEK: Who ever decreed that the Confederate flag should be flown on the dome of Ala bama's State Capitol, thus relegating the American flag to a staff on the side lawn. THEY DON'T WANT HIM EITHER: Dean of Men William G. Long's office was moved from the third floor of South Building to the basement. FT"" f , ' ' .4f " V LLt"(' - ' - ft - f - 1 -in sc i f - in 4 7&&l1 J&J Letters To The Editors Campaign Taste Questioned Seely Overdoes Bid For Clark Editors, the Tar Heel: Admittedly the prestige and the quality of a college com munity depends on the abilities and the attitudes of its students, particularly its outstanding ones whether they are scholars, athletes, or Student Govern ment leaders. I also recognize that it is in the best interests of the University to try to "re cruit" this high caliber , of stu dent. - .. . , . .. UNC has many excellent op-j portunities to offer to this type; of students, and they are weir presented . throughout the state by agencies such as the More head Scholarship Committee and the " Student ' Government National Merit Scholarship Committee and : ; by . Carolina students and alumni as well. - Nevertheless, even in this fev erish yearly competition for outstanding young potential, Co editor. Seely's impassioned plea to Fayetteville's Rusty Clark is distasteful to me for several reasons . . - . Mr. . Seely . assures Mr. Clark that his appearance, will be re garded as something closely akin to the "second coming." His advent, Mr. Seely implies, will induce unprecedented swooning on the part of faculty, opposing basketball teams, the freshman class, ' and coeds. I was surprised that Mr. Seely didn' t mention the advantages of the Arboretum (Davidson doesn't have that either ).; Mr. Clark appears to be an outstanding young man. ' Never theless, : if he comes to Caro lina, he -will find that there are students who disagree - with his ideas, professors who doubt his genius, and someone might dare to run against him for freshman class president. I hope that Mr. Clark does not try to assume the role of mes siah supperman that Mr. Seely is trying to place on him. The article also contains a very derogatory implication about Student Government , in general. Mr. Seely awards the presidency of next year's fresh man class to Mr. Clark (who would vote against him? ) . If this decision- can be made a year in advance wtihout hav ing heard either candidate, then Student Government amounts to little more than playing in a sandbox. Such highly personal New approae By TIMOTHY RAY Third in a Series In Part II of this series, the change of the name "Free Speech Movement"" to "F r e e Speech Forum" was explained as being due to an effort to clarify the prevalent and dis torted understanding - of the ideas and efforts of Mr. James Gardner and others. It was pointed- out that Mr. Gardner's motive was the founding of an open forum, for the free discussion of ideas and in the significant social and ed ucational issues which had emerged from the activities of Free Speech Movements at Berkeley and elsewhere not in the sometimes disruptive methods by which- the Berkeley students had initially expressed their desire for a more free and creative educational experi ence. Also, it was explained that one can subscribe to a belief in the value of an open forum for the free discussion of ideas without necessarily agreeing with particular views on con temporary events and issues in Chapel Hill; This central idea has been spoken of highly by a number of influential persons in Chapel Hill. Chancellor Sharp wrote Mr. Gardner a letter in which he said, "Your desire to conduct forums on pertinent topics of interest to Carolina students is commendable." It has been the position of the Administration that efforts were being made at the highest, lev els of University authority to exert a constructive influence which might enable the North Carolina State Legislature to understand better the lack of need for, or appropriateness of, the Speaker Ban Law. It is best, this viewpoint main tains, to treat this issue through the proper channels, in order to avoid creating any undesira ble repercussions in the form of increased opposition to a re moval, or an amending, of the Ban. Now the Administration's viewpoint has a certain initial plausibility to it. Certainly, one would -think, our methods of opposition to the Ban ought not to be offensive methods which might actually reinforce the Ban and thereby undermine our , own efforts to have it re moved. Despite the apparent reason ableness, of this point , of. view, it contains, I believe, an enor mous fallacy that completely undermines the position's plaus ibility, once that fallacy is thoroughly, understood. I do not wish to criticize or underestimate at this time the Administration's efforts to have the Ban removed. However, the question does come to mind of how the University's future is to be affected by the removal of the Ban (if it lis removed), when that removal is accom plished by the means which the Administration has chosen. - If we are given back the trust and confidence of the Leg islature on the grounds that we are already safe from any pol lutive and infective ideas and that we will be vigilant to pre vent any politically unclean and unsafe messages from ever being spoken in our hearing, this will have profoundly seri ous and undesirable implica tions. Specifically, it will imply that the State Speaker Ban is unnecessary because we will have already imposed upoiJ ourselves an independent Ad ministration - sponsored Univer sity Speaker Ban. The chief reason for opposing the Ban is that it goes against the fundamental element in true education of willingness to listen to any point of view and to separate the good from the evil, the true from the false, by thoughtful and reasonable discussion and consideration un der the timeless, -if never uni versal, standard of intellectual honesty. . It is not, as some have argued,, that we are begging to have Communists come and speak to us in order to sop up their prop aganda. No, it is based on the fact that all destruction of freedom is done in the name of a high or holy cause, which is always said, by those who im pose it, to be so important as to warrant that destruction of freedom. But . all great nations and states that are supported by the suppression of thought become corrupted and - tyrannical. Therefore, the Ban is wrong re gardless of the cause that is said to justify it. Whether such a Ban prohibits anti - vivisec tionists, monarchists, anarch ists, republicans, hedonists, vegetarians, librarians or Com munists, it is always wrong. It follows that the way to deal with the Speaker Ban is not to purge ourselves automat ically so as to avoid external purging. That's a very trivial gain, in the final analysis. It may aid automation, but it does nothing for education. In fact, it harms education by giving a false appearance of freedom, and such hypocrisy is intolerable to the honest search for truth.' The only appropriate method for dealing with the Ban is to i ti Don Carson ' 1 f t no 1 ized recruiting ; should not be carried" on in this manner, if at all, when it . entails a con tempt for the judgement of Car olina students and also for Mr. Clark's. . Mike Byrd 620 Ehringhaus Pratt Misquotes DTH Reporters Editors.The Tar Heel: . ' It has been brought to our at tention that Norwood Pratt, can didate for the DTH editorship, used our names as references at a meeting in Joyner Hall M.on d a y night in conjunction with his campaign: speech. As we were not present at the time, we hesitate to 'attack the statements attributed to us con cerning Mr. Pratt's qualifica tions for the post. However, we do resent being implicated in any way with his candidacy without our express consent and ask that Mr. Pratt refrain from any further actions of this na ture. Tom Clark Kerry Sipe DTH Staff On March 23, you will choose "a man to succeed me as Presi dent of the Student Body. I do not envy that man. The admin istration of Carolina's Student Government complex- becomes increasingly difficult with each year. You have an important choice to make. If the man you choose is inexperienced in Student Gov ernment programs and inept in diplomacy with the University administration an unimagina tive and ineffectual Student Government will be the result and the Student Body will be the ultimate losers. For this reason, I was great ly pleased that Don Carson was chosen by the University Party as its. Presidential candi date. Don has an outstanding record of service to the Uni versity community. He is al most single - handedly respon sible for the initiation of sev eral valuable programs in cluding Residence Hall social room improvements and cam pus radio. Don was one of the initial backers of the Residence College System and has made many valuable contributions to the Residence College concept. Don's ability is a matter of record. I feel that the choice is clear. Bob Spearman Ernie McCrary The Daily Tar Heel needs an editor who is completely fami liar with every facet of the pro duction of a daily newspaper. It needs the kind of editor who will merit the support and en thusiasm of the experienced Tar Heel staff members. . It needs a man who is neith er a political radical nor a poli tical weak-sister. It needs an ed itor who knows enough to lead instead of follow, and will turn the paper into a smoothly op erating and constantly improv ing publication. We believe that Ernie Mc Crary is the only candidate who meets these qualifications. Mike Yopp, DTH Managing Editor Larry Tarleton, DTH Sports Editor Kerry VV. Sipe, John E. Greenbacker, Fred Thomas, DTH Staff Writers Tom Clark, DTH Subscription Manager, : Mary Ellison Strother, DTH Telegraph Editor Becky Timberlake, DTH Secretary Jim Hubbard, . University Party Chairman Sonny Pepper, President of MRC James VV. Light, Treasurer, Student Body Teddy O'Toole, Chairman, Student Legisla ture Rules Commtitee Tim Haithcock, Governor, Morehead Col lege Nita Wilkinson, Social Chairman, Freshman Sandy Hobgood, Chairman, V-Dorm Speaker Ii On Ga gL aw seek to acquaint the Legisla ture with the concept of educa tion and the concept of freedom, or, if that is impossible, to set an example of belief in these bring about an enlightenment of men's minds all across this great state, and result in a re instatement of democratic insti tutions and values. The founding of the UNC Free Speech Movement, ,or Forum, was grounded in the belief that freedom is the heritage of American students and that it is wrong to forbid students to demand that heritage. How often we hear it said that we had better watch out lest we disturb the Legislature before it has granted our re quests for more money. We should stop and realize what a disgrace it is to have such a thought. We do not want the right to tiptoe past a sleeping lion. Our forefathers fought and, in their fighting, gained for us the right to tread the paths of free dom without fear or servile cringing. To quiver in the lust for money is to sell our birth right for a mess of pottage. The criticism that is often made that everyone is opposed to the Speaker Ban and that it was therefore unnecessary and otiose to make public speeches in opposition, to the Ban is based on a failure to realize the fallacy in the view of the Administration. By attempting to address stu dents directly, Mr. Gardner and others of the FSM sought to make evident the need that the Ban be dealt with openly and be opposed by the entire University community as incon sistent with the ideals of, to use a phrase of Chancellor Sharp's,, the Kingdom ot the Mind. Dickson The office of Student Body President is one requiring a broad knowledge of all areas of Student Government and cam pus life. One whose view is nar rowed cannot hope to solve the immense problems which' f i n d their way to the desk of the President each day. Although his main area of con cern has been with the student judiciary where he has served on the Men's Council and as Chairman of the Honor System Commission and summer Assis tant Attorney General, Paul Dickson's concern and contribu tion has extended into all bran ches of Student Government, re sidence hall and fraternity life. Paul has ably represented Ehringhaus in Student Legisla ture this year. A former presi dent of Everett and member of the MRC, Paul has talked ex tensively with the Chancellor about residence hall problems, the possibility of more student participation on faculty commit tees, and other problems facing the University. Paul has shown sincere con cern for the University, the role it sees for itself, and the part students can play in enrichksg its life. For these reasons, we support Paul Dickson for Presi dent. Gerry Hancock Chairman, Carolina Political Union Rep. Jim Brame President, Sophomore Class Jim Medford Chairman, Collegiate Council of the UN Rep. Bob Wilson Chairman, Orientation Com mittee Rep. John Froneberger Co-chairman, Academic Af fairs Committee Nita Wilkinson Social Chairman, Freshman Class Rep. Hugh Blackwell Chairman, Publications Board Chuck Miller President, Lewis Hall Gene Barrier Vice-President, Senior Wyatt McCallie Co-chairman, National Merit Scholarship Commit tee Randy Old President, Everett Hall Lanny Shuff Co-chairman, Campus Af fairs Committee Byron McCoy President, Ehringhaus Hall Bob Smith Director, Educational & Cultural Department Bill Robinson President, Stacy Hall Norwood Pratt We urge all students to sup port Norwood Pratt for Editor of The Daily Tar Heel. He has the qualifications, the wide ex perience and the thorough know ledge of the University that the office requires. Moreover, he is gifted with outstanding writing and executive ability. Under his leadership, The Tar Heel will be a lively and in teresting newspaper, reporting news not only of Student Gov ernment, but also of the stud ents themselves. Above all, electing Norwood Pratt insures a fair and respon sible newspaper, intelligently concerned with student and Uni versity problems. The UNC campus is not dead. It is time the Tar Heel came alive. Pete Wales DTH Associate Editor, John Leonard President, Parker Hall Randy Old President, Everett Hall Wayne King former Editor, DTH Bill Schwartz Gerry Hancock Chairman, Carolina Politi- lina Political Union Mary Linda Lewis President, YWCA George Butler Chairman, 19GS Symposium Billy Cunningham Captain, basketball Paul Russell Secretary, Men's Resi dence Council Rick Edwards -- President, YMCA Chuck Wyre Former Editor, DTH Gray Temple Goettingen scholar Henry Aldridge Co-Chairman, Fine Arts Festival John Hill Varsity football Karen Parker Editor. UNC Journalist, Wright Doyle NSA candidate Steve Dennis Chairman, The Toronto Exchange, Vice-Chairman, 1964 Symposium Kay Phillips President, East Cobb Neal Jackson NSA Coordinator Sandy Alexander Curry Kirkpatrick former DTH sports editor
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