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Pge 2 Thursday, March 18, 1965 . ' " '--"-w.v..v..v.-.-.,w;,w DTH Editorial Page . 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 ineir aumors. i Lack Of Qualifications When the campus campaigns began, editorial notice was given that the DTH would not devote itself to wholesale en dorsement of candidates. We believe that the role of a student newspaper in such circumstances should confine itself to setting the record straight, and endorse ments should be used only oh occasions qualified than his opponent. It is now clear to us that the record of one candidate Norwood Pratt should be put in order, i- We do not advocate unopposed candi dates, and for that reason we welcomed ' Pratt when he announced. We have list ened and watched and weighed his pro posals, but we f cannot, in good consci ence, stop there. In short, we echo the unanimous de cision of the Publications Board: Nor wood Pratt i& not qualified for the post of Daily Tar Heel editor. - " Our objections to Norwood are neither personal nor political; we are simply ' concerned about his ability, and hence about the future of this paper and this University.' And while we are also concerned about his reluctance to address himself to some important points (such as his af filiation with the Student Peace Union), we realize that he is engaged in a po litical race and therefore has the right NOT to say anything he chooses to avoid. We make note, then, of more practical considerations: Experience. Pratt has said that he worked on the DTH during the editorship of Jim Clotfelter and Chuck Wrye, vet a perusal of that year's issues reveals tUni i-: . a a xi if uicil ins name appeared just uiree times - twice as m the signer of a letter, and once in a news story reporting his elec tion to the steering committee of the Student Peace Union. When the editors ; addressed their thanks to the staff r at year's end, they mentioned 27 people by came; iNorwooa trail was not one oi them. .'" Further, an inquiry to a newspaper for " icjrhich Pratt was a' summer employee re veals that he is remembered chiefly for hi$ ability to sell advertising Finally, we doubt the benefit of his : experience as Associate Editor of the Carolina' Quarterly, since that publica . tion does not resemble a journalistic venture in any way, shape or form. - Staff. Three people are mentioned most often by Pratt as the heart of his proposed staff. Of these, one is not a . , student at this University; another has teen absent twi of the last thrp.p sp- mesters; the third, mentioned for Sports Editor, apparently has no qualifications except that he was a football player. Proposals. Pratt has stated that he will realign the DTH staff so that the Managing Editor has less work and more time to supervise. Such a change was instituted on the staff earlier this year by Pratt's opponent. Also, the "stringer" system proposed by him seems entirely impractical. It has been tried. It has never worked, - The lifeblood of the DTH is the people who love it and expend their talents on its behalf. Mr. Pratt has apparently done, neither during his residence at this Uni versity. It is for this reason that we must question the basis for his candidacy. We are certain that he is a man of integrity and sincerity, but so is his op ponent, who has been associated with the DTH throughout the year and who left the staff only to campaign for the editor ship. ..-.- Sincerity and integrity, however, are not enough. The DTH is a unique insti tution, with unique opportunities and pe culiar problems. Those opportunities and problems should be handled by a man who is familiar with them and who has demonstrated . his knowledge and devo tion in dealing with them. Such a man experienced, capable, dedicated is a candidate hi this cam paign. His name is Ernie McCrary. Ah9 Spring! If you aren't bogged down with quizzes or apathy, there's plenty to do on cam pus this weekend, and just about each event is worth, attending. Tonight, the Moral Re-Armament Task Force hits town with a good group of entertainers and a worthwhile message. It's sponsored by the Carolina Forum, and should provide an evening which is far; better than sitting around .shooting the13u.ll. . m . v 4 Friday brings two shows the de bate between the candidates for Presi dent of the Student Body and the Freshman Weekend. Both are open to the public and both are worth seeing. The debate, scheduled for Gerrard Hall at 7:30 p.m., will pit Paul Dick son and Don Carson in a no-holds-barred match. Questions will be tossed at both by DTH staffers, and the audience will have a chance to give their two cents' worth. The freshman show, featuring Dionne Warwick, the Tarns, Guitar Kimber and something called Dr. Feelgood and the Interns, will be at the Durham Armory. Admission is $5 a couple, and the show lasts from 8 p.m. to midnight. And then there's always the abore tum ... - The Marxian Theory Of Bumbershoots We've never had much to say in favor of socialism (as a matter of fact, we're pretty much dead set against it) . But an 72 Years of Editorial Freedom 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 $eely, Hugh Stevens, co-editors; Mike Yopp, Ernie McCrary, managing editors; Pete Wales, associate editor; Larry Tarle ton, sports editor; Mary EUison Strother, wire editor; Mike IViggin, night editor; erry Sipe, John Greenbacher, Fred Thorn as ,staff 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 Barnard, cartoonist; 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. Second Class postage paid at the post office in Chapel BUI, N. C Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel ssaxj pajepossy oqx anI Sujqsuqnj nm eanqndsj joj 9sn qj n aAfsnpxa pnnn si ttion of all local news printed is this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. :Qjufi:rfiTTrif,r-i-"l'A'-w'Aft"' idea was proposed to us in the wake of yesterday's monsoon which, we must ad mit, has a certain amount of appeal. It involves the socialization of campus um brellas. The idea, as we understand it, is that the University should simply take the funds from student fees to establish a permanent stockpile of about 11,000 bum bershoots, and issue one to every student. (Small fees could be charged for colors other than the standard black, and for repairs.) This procedure, supposedly, would solve the problem of students who never have an umbrella. A radical proposal? Not really, for umbrellas apparently ceased to be. pri vate property at this University a long time ago. One young lady informed us' that she had two of them appropriated by light - fingered patrons of Lenoir Hall yesterday, and another student reported that his five dollar investment lasted just fifteen minutes. Thus there seems to be a certain amount of merit in mak ing umbrellas available to all on an equal basis. It probably wouldn't work, of course. Umbrellas are a bit like paper clips and safety pins in that the more you buy, the faster they disappear. . Where do they go? We don't know. . . but four of ours have disappeared this year. 0VZ 'I Don't Mind Those Letters To The Editors. But This Is Ridiculous . .V ,, v&'sd& " i i - - - V i TO V. 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Under the old system it was possible to make a grade point average of as high as 3.8 and still not make the List be cause somewhere an otherwise "A" student had made a "C". Yet Mr. Crip Course might squeeze out a semester or tour to say 3.25 and disregarding the question of "C's" altogether. At any rate, your failure to publish the new Dean's List only adds to the Ion 4 line of editorial refusal to recognize an equitable solution to a problem, even when it hits you ever t:. head. William R. rh:nip; USC Law School What Will I Ever Say To My Son? Letter appearing in the Char lotte Observer. After viewing the excellent movie "Judgment at Nurem burg" on television Sunday night and hearing Spencer Trae ey's noble speech on man's moral responsibility for injus tices perpetrated against others, that which followed seemed bit ter irony indeed. On the late news, I witnessed what I had not wanted to see in America and never wish to see again. The on - the - ptr coverage of Alabama state po lice using such brutality to dis perse a group of Negroes (hu man beings) made my blood run cold. Even dangerous mobs are usually handled with more dis cretion and regard for life and limb than this peaceful Xearo group was. f easy "B's" (Archaeology, As- rve seen TV covera iaa i ft : T A ry . . . Residence At Amherst Colleges To Include Faculty By DAVID ROTH1YIAN i UNC's residence college con- 1 cept at least partially agrees with a report recently released by six faculty members of Am- herst College. Entering students, the report, i says, believ-e that college is a:j place "remote from the great world." The students "expect to J form close personal, not to say intimate relations with his teach- ers." ' But, the report continues, the freshmen, shortly after their 1 arrival at college, realize how.! little their desires can be fuK filled. t '.'.And. ai&eM5fS,nii4y"-ffetel even h.more cneatea. iney "discover. how few, if any, faculty mem-' Ders Know tnem weii enougn. to write a convincing letter of" recommendation (for employers or graduate schools)." ; The students, then, are faced with a choice between "total re bellion and deference." The Amherst faculty members feel that at their school, students have chosen ' deference; at Berkeley, rebellion. The solution? The Amherst plan is some what more radical than UNC's. It involves, for instance, doing away with fraternities. But other features of the plan seem quite akin to the Chapel Hill approach. In the place of fraternities, the report recommends a sys tem of resident units known as student societies. UNC's approach also involves the organization of social activi ties on a regional basis. At Amherst, the proposed so cieties would provide extracur ricular relations between faculty-and students, and, in fact, four professors : would become associate "members ' of each' "so ciety. -, - - -t - -- -i . . , This . closely parallels;,: the" resident adviser system at UNC, substituting faculty for seniors and graduate students. Every . classroom building, the Amherst committee sug gests, ought to have a comfort able lounge where students and teachers might meet. In these rooms, students would thumb through current newspapers, read or play games. The n UNC equivalent proba bly is the planned social rooms. There will be stereo, thick carpets, and the other niceties of life missing in the average dormitory. The Amherst committee also recommends that teachers meet with interested students to dis cuss mutual problems and oth er questions over coffee. UNC, through the YMCA, has a dormitory speaker program. Undoubtedly, it likewise offers a means by which faculty and students can resolve their, dif ferences. There is one proposal in the Amherst report not in effect heceJf-JLL. were put into .prac tice,, each student would be giv en several tickets each semes ter entitling him to invite facul ty members to lunch or dinner at no cost to either. This proposal deserves to be looked into, but one fact is quite evident: In the interest of student-faculty relations, the tickets should purchase something other than the Lenoir Hall "special" lest cheated students revolt a la Berkeley. tronomv. Classics and D. A., or even RTVMP) and be hailed by the University (and you) as, worthy of recognition for real academic achievement. I am sure that you and most of your readers know of cases exactly as I have described. Un der the new rule, the problem has been rectified. So what if someone who made a "C" is named to the List? Even on pa per the effort, brains, or what ever is necessary to make the grades balances out, with at least a flat 3.0. In reality even you must real ize that the extra effort to pull a grade from "B" to "A" great ly outweighs ihat necessary to turn a "C" into a "B". Don't forget that in order to make the List under the new ruling a person with a "C" had to make at least one "A". Did you?? As for the number of people on Dean's List this time, per haps this is an indication that the administration hasn't been lying all these years when they told us the entering class es were smarter and smarter. While the best method for de termining the membership ,of such a list has admittedly not yet been adopted, the new re quirements indicate that the ad ministration has taken a giant step in the right direction. Perhaps your passion for stan dards might be satisfied by lim iting the number of possible "C's" to one, or by raising the necessary grade point average of the numerous "sit - ins" and "lie- ins," and as a general rule the participants were simply picked up and carted off to jail. On oc casion I have seen tear gas used, but this was incredible. Those Negroes were merely exercising their right to peace ably assemble in protest of al leged discriminatory voter-registration procedures. They weren't resisting arrest. There was no attempt made to arrest them. The Alabama officers simply began to beat them and wouldn't even allow them to flee the cloud of tear gas. I heard a woman scream. I've got a son. Will he grow up to respect the law and trut. the uniformed policeman? Can he, after seeing this kind of flagrant disregard for human beings demonstrated by symbols of law and decency? If a Charlotte police officer asked to see my driver's license and I refused to comply, would he have a choice of arresting me and taking me to jail or beating me with his biilv club? "Shouldn't the Alabama state police have arrested the Ne groes? Shouldn't Gov. George Wallace be ashamed of this in cident? Doesn't this reflect bad ly on all police officers? Are Negroes human beings? Isn't this grist for the Commun ist mill? In God's name, what's hap pened to us? James Brock Charlotte me An wer 10 . By TIMORHY RAY Seventh in a Series It is usually with pleasure that I read Associate Editor Pete Wales' column in the DTH, as his thinking tends to be very sound as well as clearly ex pressed. Suspecting that his ar ticle opposing this series was planned several days before it appeared, I had expected a strong argument which it would be difficult to answer without investing considerable time and energy in research and in inter Viewing members of the faculty and administration. - .While I am pleased that he : has let me "off so light in his article of March 14, VPpKtics Ys. Ideals: Ray Wrong , onB a n , Rights," I am disappointed by the style and content of his ar gumentation. First I will speak to his ar guments on civil rights and then to his more substantial point of view on the Speaker Ban Law. Wales is at pains to make the point that Gardner's stand did not hasten the recent University decision against fraternity, clau ses. I would like to point out that, by my question, "But why, I have wondered (and I address this question to every person with authority here), wasn't such action taken earlier?" I meant chiefly to justify the stand of the Free Speech Move ment, in opposing as it did, dis criminatory clauses. Per haps there is also an overtone of suggestion that I do not be lieve Dean Long's statement that the proximity of the two events was coincidental. It was my intention to relate the inter view with the Dean in a neu tral fashion, so that, if any par tisan thinking were done about the part of that interview which I was relating, it would be done by the reader, inde pendently. I did desire to lead the read er to reflect that now is a ra ther late time for such a decis ion, but not late in the sense of being a few day's after Gard ner's Statement, so much- as late in the way a great University- ought to act, late in being over d decade since the Supreme Court's -decision against racial discrimination, late in healing the wounds left by slavery, the War Between the States, Recon , struction and Jim Crow legisla tion," late in changing to a pat tern of behavior, or at least of policy I that ought to character ize Americans, and late in hu man history. If, as Wales argues, the stand of University officials was de layed a few days to prevent the , impression that the Free Speech Movement had hastened them on, that is hardly interesting, muclf less'an argument. WalesTmcely says, "To criti cize now is hollow indeed. Ray is a little late." Yes.,it is late, and, in a sense, :evenlIiQjlow.tBut what I believe Wales fails to realize is that my intentions on this matter are rather-0 make very clear the patterns Of the past, as well as I have been able to perceive them,, to the extent that these patterns are relevant to the eva luation of the Free Speech Movement that existed here recently, than to alter the cours es of history. If my memory served me, I criticized, if less thoroughlylast year as well, and with somewhat different in tention. : Regarding .the stand of the adniinistrator who praised the judge, I am puzzled to under stand what may be meant by saying "He made it as a private citizen while serving jury du ty " He made it while declin ing jury duty, though that isn't the central issue. Evidently Wales and I differ as to the role of administrators. Many of the things that admin istrators of universities do now are not, to my mind, things that ought to be done. I think that regulating students' and teach ovvners." I cannot say for that. ers' behavior, eliciting and di verting giant streams of money, and in short, webbing the to tality of a university into the woof and warf of public life, child-rearing practices, industri al recruitment, and the waging of hot and cold war, are all ex traneous distractions. In my view, in orcer for true learning to survive in the mod ern university (or "multiversi ty," to use Dr. Clark Kerr's dis maying term), the institution needs rather to secure itself from the encroachments of ex ternal ideological, financial, and parental forces, which would tend rather to shape a univer sity after their own respective images than to let it be the inde pendent agency of inquiry and social criticism that it has tradi tionally striven to be. It follows that I think that, if an administrator has anything to do, with courts, it should be in such areas as reasoning with them to get them to leave our people alone, or making sugges tions as to how they might bet ter operate. That an administra tor might choose to do the re verse in private life strikes me as thoroughly inappropriate for a person in such" a role. On the issue of the Speaker Ban Law, I believe that Wales is setting forth some beliefs of his own, which are interesintg, even if, in part at least, con fused. Some of his statements have the force of assertions that thus and so is the case, while others urge a way of viewing governments and universities which importantly differs from my.own. - Considering the latter first,' which have rather to do with a man's persuasions and attitud es than his opinions on factual matters, I seek to point out that Wales' viewpoint is an insult both to our Legislature and our. University. - Now these are harsh words, but it is surely an insult to regard the legislators as men devoid of the natural light of reason. Wales urges that it is preferable "to go talk pol itics with our owners," and to "cajole" them, than to speak logically, in the hope that men can speak straight and clear words to the minds of their fel lows. I have already pointed out that, if we take the attitude of children who have masters to be plead with, instead of free men speaking what may seem hard words to other free men, then we shall never have our ar dently desired freedom: if the Ban is lifted, why will we not continue to be under constant surveillance so that our behav go astray? How can we ever exercise our freedom if to do so would be to betray the val ior can be corrected if we pilot' icians," and thereby invite the restitution of censure? Therefore I am not urging that we "go down to heroic de feat knowing that God and rea son are on our side," though that would be an honorable course of action. I am urging that we re-evaluate our concept of victory. To win a battle against the "bewitchment of men's minds," to use a phrase of Wittgen stein's, is not to win the war. For that reason I cannot agree with Wales' statement that "We just want to get rid of the Ban." No, we want to stay rid of the Ban. We want to walk upright in the knowledge that the ques tion of academic freedom is no "academic" matter, net a mere question of whether House Bill 1390 continues to be both on the statute book and the minds of men or simply cn the minds of men. I want to know concretely whether, were Professor J. B. S. Haldane still on earth, we could in good conscience hear him and even invite him to join our faculty, regardness of what his political record is, or might have been. Perhaps Wales speaks for the present DTH staff when he speaks of the legislators as "our But this terminology commits him to regarding a University as a group of buildings and a pile of money, or as some kind of domesticated animal, trying to maintain its "growth." However useful physical ac coutrements may be, they are not the same as the process of teaching and learning. The pro cess of teaching and learning, and the minds of free men, can no more be owned than can the Multiplication Table, t h e English language, or the, still to me rather mysterious, Per iodic Table of the Elements. Regarding the more factual assertion that "academic free dom, alas, is no political right. Dut an academic ideal," I would direct Wales' attention to a re-examination of the First Amendment to the United Stat es Constitution, which says, in part, "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacably to assemble, and to petition the go vernment for a redress of grie vances." In line with the standard mod ern practice of interpreting "Congress" as referring to States as well as Federal government, it could surely be argued that the Speaker Ban Law is unconstitutional. It is for this reason that some, such as former UNC President Frank Porter Graham, have urged ma king a legal test case of the Ban. Wales viewpoint even ex ceeds that of the conservative political theorist, Professor Sid ney Hook, who argued, in a re cent issue of the N. Y. Times Magazine, that, in America, "academic freedom" means on ly Lehrfreibeit, freedom to teach and to do research, in con trast to Dr. Paul Goodman, an eminent social critic, who urges that we should have, as well, Lernfreiheit, freedom for students.
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