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Saturday, March 20, 1965
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I Opinions o the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and
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their authors.
Evaluation Booklet Is A-O.K.
We see the publication of the Course
Evaluation Booklet, with the support of
the administration, as a significant step,
toward true student autonomy without the
trappings of belligerence, as per Berke
ley. Our approval of the booklet was ex
pressed yesterday, in a favorable journ
alistic review. It is well - done, well-edited
and, from the comments we have heard
on campus, well received. The price is not
prohibitive, and the reading is worth the
admission fee.
It is the wholehearted approval of the
venture by the upper echelon of the ad
ministration that impresses us. From the
day Chancellor Paul F. Sharp came to
UNC, he has constantly supported the
students who run this campus, and his
confidence, we believe, has been re
turned with appreciation and hard work.
For the administration to just sit back
and let the students put out such a book
let is a phenomenon in itself. It dramat
ically shows that the Chancellor and his
, cabinet are confident that Bob Spearman
' and his cabinet will not do anything
which might reflect ill upon the Univer
sity. And the result of the Academic Affairs
Committee's work is indeed worthy of
this University. True, some professors are
taken to task from start to finish, but we
doubt that many students will deny they
deserved every bit of it.
When 35 questionnaires are received on
a course, all of which pronounce it a to -tal
flop, we are inclined to believe that
it is just that: If a professor has violent
abjections, we would request him to look
first at his method of presentation rather
than blaming the students who wrote the
evaluation.
Additionally, the booklet will serve the
purpose of making a few faculty mem
bers more conscious of the classroom
and less concerned with the number of
reports, papers, et al, which they can pro
duce to impress their colleagues.
But there will be faculty members who
object to the very idea of publishing such
a booklet, no matter what its content.
This is an unfortunate state of affairs,
and we can only ask them to, look into
the situation for the "Student Autonomy
they so often espouse in their tracts.
Student autonomy goes far beyond hav
ing a Student Government, and few re
strictions - it means that students
should be allowed to choose for them
selves and select their mode of life dur
ing their stay at Carolina. Their courses
are part of this, and they should not have
to walk into a class with no idea of its
worth.
This is the purpose of the Course Eval
uation Booklet, and it is exactly why we
favor its publication.
And The Stars This Week
MAN OF THE WEEK: Silent Sam, the
last . of the Confederate Army, who,
spite criticism being poured upon his
head from left and right, still takes it
without a grimace.
LIZARD OF THE WEEK: Any Dean who
doesn't go along with the new Spring
Vacation schedule.
DAY OF THE WEEK: Wednesday was
"Hate America" day in Viet Nam, putting
that nation one - up on the United
States, which celebrates "Don't Care
About Viet Nam" day every day.
LESTER CARSON AWARD FOR PHO
TOGRAPHY: To Jock Lauterer,; DTH
cameraman, who took such a terrible
picture of Don Carson, Paul Dickson and
Camilla Walters that it is possible the
Student Body will again try and elect a
pig.
LAST LAUGH AWARD, or WHO'S ON
FIRST? To President Johnson and
Governor Wallace, who for the past two
days have been trying their best to out
smart each other with the status of the
Alabama National Guard. At the DTH
deadline, Johnson was ahead ...
; UPSTAGE OF THE WEEK: After
weeks of ballyhoo about the U. S. space
flight planned for Tuesday, the Russians
quietly sent up two men of their own,
one of which actually ventured outside
the craft.
; BITTER PILL OF THE YEAR: Taker
lp? Satin Sar IfrH
72 Years of Editorial Freedom
The Daily Tar Heel is the official new3 publi
cation of the University cf North Carolina and
Is polished by students daily except Mondays,
examination periods and vacations.
Fred Seely-, Hugh Stevens, co-editors; Mike
Yopp, Ernie McCrary, managing editors;
Pete Wales, associate editor; Larry Tarle
ton, sports 'editor; Mary Ellison Strother,
wire editor; Mike Wiggin, night editor;
Kerry Sipe, John Greenbacker, Fred Thom
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 Lauterer, photographer; Chip
Barnard, cartoonist; Jack Harington, bus.
mgr.; Betsy Gray, asst. bus. mgr.; Woody
Sobol, ad mgr.; John Askew, asst. ad.
mgr.z Tom Clark subscription, mgr.; John
Evans, circulation mgr.; Dick Baddour; Jan
J org en sen, Dan Warren, salesmen; Becky
Timberlaks, Alexa Smith, secretaries.
Second Class postage paid fit the post office In
Chapel DM, N. C Subscription rates: $1.50 per
semester; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel
Is entitled exclusively to the use for repubiica
Hill Publishing Co., Inc. The Associated Press
lion of all local news printed in this newspaper
as well as ail AP news dispatches.
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by the professors who kept bugging
Student Government and the Book Ex
change about the publication date of the
Course Evaluation Booklet, then finding
themselves pronounced not - so - good
when it finally arrived. "
NEW CONVERSATION PIECE, or
HERE COME THE LETTERS TO THE
EDITORS: Isn't the Course Evaluation
Booklet something? . .......
SEMPER FIDELIS CITATION: To the
two battalions of Marines "who dramatic
ally landed through the surf in Viet Nam
en route to defend the Da Nang air base,
only to find they were greeted by (1)
some 25 photographers and (2) a bevy
of native girls with garlands. A local
wag commented yesterday that this was
an indication the only escalation in South
east Asia was the number of wirephotos
flowing into the nation's newspapers.
OUR NEW MONSTROSITY: The new
dorm behind Chapel Hill high school.
SUGGESTION OF THE WEEK: By the
Chapel Hill Weekly, which said that
everyone planning to build a store in
Chapel Hill would be required to post
his building's design in a public place.
This brings up the question: who would
have stood for the new Student Union
building?
VERNAL EQUINOX CITATION, OR
SPRING IS HERE: The first outdoor
party of the year was noted on Cameron
Ave., with three fraternity men, three
sorority girls and two pitchers of whiskey
sours mixing happily on the porch of a
fraternity house.
SURE SIGN THE CAMPAIGN'S AL
MOST OVER: A poster on the door of a
room in Old West, obviously put up by a
scholar who was finally bored to death
by candidates: "I'm Apathetic Go
Away.' -
FACT OF THE WEEK: There are
50,000,000 acres of sand dunes in the
world.
BONUS FACT OF THE WEEK: In
February, 1856, 200 sharks were frozen
to death in Charlotte Harbor, Fla., after
arctic winds made the area somewhat
chilly.
HISTORICAL DISCOVERY OF THE
WEEK: The Lost Colony, missing since
1590, was found yesterday. The entire
colony was discovered at the State
Legislative Building lobbying against
Daylight Savings Time.
Editors SinmeaF Kraffs
By PETE WALES
Associate Editor
Thursday's editorial blasting
Norwood Pratt, candidate for
DTH editor, is the most shame
less smear Seely and Stevens
have pulled this year.
Once again the innuendo, the
slightly turned fact, has made a
shambles of a perfectly respec
table candidate.
The first most obvious and
most blatant piece of character
assassination occurs in the in
nuendo about the Student Peace
Union.
Norwood Pratt was a mem
ber of the SPU two years ago
when that oeganization was
campaigning for ratification of
the Test Ban Treaty. The U. S.
Senate later passed it overwhel
mingly. :
Pratt was never chairman of
the SPU. Nor has he been a
member since March, 1963.
None of the
present mem
bers of the SPU,
so far as we can
tell, were mem
bers at that
time, Pratt no
longer has any
association with
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them, nor does he approve of
their present aims or practices.
Furthermore, he has not dod
ged the issue as the editors
claim. He has answered baiting
questions about it at nearly ev
ery dorm meeting.
Certain backers of McCrary
have spread out and out lies,
saying that Pratt is a Commu
nist. This image is further pro
moted by the suggestive editor
ial. This is the basest kind of
smear we can imagine.
As with the NSA campaign,
the DTH editors are trying to
ram a single point of view down
the campus' collective throat.
However, this ' time they don't
even have the facts.
The second point is exper-"
ience." -,,
Perhaps the most important
asset Pratt has is that he has
not been connected 4 with this .
year's DTH. He has the intelli
gence and creativity to bring a
new outlook to the paper and a
fresh approach. This is the main
point that makes him a better
candidate than McCrary.
He has had minor experience
with the DTH of two years ago
when he wrote several stories
near the teginning of the year
before leaving to work for the
Brooklyn Graphic.
At the Graphic, he was as
sistant to the editor for .six
months, gaining experience in
every aspect of newspaper
work. He wrote, edited, assign
ed stories, did lay- out and even
even had some advertising
experience.
It is this kind of total famil
iarity with a newspaper that is
essential to a good editor. The
fact that it was with another
paper again means he -will' have
new and different ideas for the
DTH. It will hot be, to quote
Seely's favorite phrase, "the.
same old show."
This year, Norwood has been
associate editor of the Carolina
Quarterly. This is significant for
two reasons.
First, he had the interest to
work, and work hard, for a
campus publication in a serious
effort to upgrade it. This con
firms his interest in the cam
pus, despite the fact that he
could be writing in New York
and be paid.
Second, he amassed one of
"Ili-Ho, Silver
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the largest and most interest
ed staffs to work for the Quar
terly in recent years. This in
dicates his skill in the most
important job any editor has:
staff organization.
This leads to the editors'
third phony point about staff.
They imply, as have McCra
ry's backers, that the present
staff of the DTH will all leave
if Pratt becomes editor and
that they will ba replaced with
three "flunkies."
This is totally false. If t h e
staffers truly "love it," as See
ly said, and I believe they do,
they will stay on no matter who
wins. Few, if any, will leave
should Pratt win, despite their
support of McCrary.
In addition there are several
competent student journalists on
campus, some with extensive
who are- not working for Seely
past experience on the DTH,
and Stevens, but -would join
Pratt's staff. " , .
Pratt's organizational anilities
have been proven. Staff will cer
tainly be no problem.
With regard to Pratt's propo
sals, the "stringer" idea is a
sound one. It has been tried
half - heartedly in the past'and
has failed, but there is no rea
son to doubt that it could work
and be tremendously effective.
It takes a little determination on
the part of the editor.
Readers Back Statue
am Will Not Be
Moved
Hate Is Clouding
Ribak Viewpoint
Editors, The Tar Heel:
One of the inherent disadvan-;
tages of complete freedom of
expression is that we are some- !
times exposed to the uninform
ed opinions of small minds,
such as Ribak's comments on ;
the editorial page of the March
17 edition of the DTH.
In the first place, although '
"Silent Sam" does depict a .
Confederate soldier, the inscrip
tion on the monument reads,
"Erected in memory of the sons
of the University who answer
ed their country's call in the
War of 1861-1865." UNC stud
ents and alumni fought on both
sides in the War for Southern
Independence,, and to dishonor
Sam is to dishonor both sides.
Second, the War was not "the
darkest blot on American his
tory." To the contrary, the
brave men who were willing to
sacrifice their very lives for
what they believed, no matter
in which army, wrote one of
the most glorious pages in the
history of the human conflict.
When we Americans cease to
honor the qualities of those
men who endured so much for
their beliefs, we will have ceas
ed to be worthy of existence as
a nation.
The idea that Negro slavery
was the main issue of the war is
absurd. General Lee was as
strongly against slavery as was
Abraham Lincoln, and General
Sherman as strong a believer in
it as was any Southerner. In
fact, such great men as Adams,
Jefferson, and Washington own
ed slaves, are wre to tear down
our monuments to them?
The monument is not to "mi
litant white supremists and
extremists," but to brave men.
Sincere in their purpose and re
solute in their determination to
defend their homes and herit
age. If it is an affront to anyone
to recognize courage and sacri
fice, if it i chsmofnl f
I memorate devotion to duty and
honor, if the actions of a few
bigots in Alabama today are
to be compared to the deeds of
heroes, what do we as a na
tion stand for?
When one's mind becomes so
clouded with hate that he can
not recognize the greatness in
men who, perhaps wrong by
modern standards in some of
'South' Building
Should Go Also
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Upon reading yesterday's
(March 27) letter in the Tar
Heel, we are in complete agree
ment with the writer that Si
lent Sam be removed at once
from the environs of Chapel
Hill. But such an action, in our
opinion, is not enough:
What about South Building?'
We feel that this edifice should
be demolished immediately.
The implications of the name
"South" suggest bigotry and
right - wing extremism The
founders of the University ob
viously had racial discrimina
tion in mind when they built it
in the early 1800's.
The South Room of Lenoir
Hall must also go. Here again,
the word "South" suggests that
it is a meeting place for racial
bigots. It must be removed from
the cafeteria building as soon
as possible:
Also the South Wing of Me
morial Hospital. The name sug
gests Southern right - wing ex
tremism. It is imperative that
this portion of the hospital be
destroyed without delay.
Last, but by all means not
least, we would like to petition
a boycott of the Daily Tar HeeL
Confederate soldiers from North
Carolina who fought during the
Civil War were called Tar-
h We" hope fervently that the
students and the administrafaon
seriously consider our requests.
And we would like to make our
further demand; that South
Road be closed to all traffic. -John
Edward Stewart
John Edward Bnchan
Jeff Saleeby
Battle-Vance-Pettigrew
Obviously the present editors
would not admit thai they lack
ed determination.
With regard to McCrary
himself. We have not seen him
campaign but we know him to
be a good, solid college jour
nalist. He worked for the N. C.
State Technician before trans
ferring here this fall.
He was a reporter this fall
and was promoted to co-managing
editor this spring. We sus
pect this may have been poli
tical, since Mike Yopp had betn
doing a more than adequate
job in that spot and needed no
help. Ernie has not been man
aging editor for very many is
sues, especially with the cam
paign, but we don't doubt his
ability.
The big difference between
the two is in imagination. Pratt
has the ideas, both for newspa
per management and for edi
torials. He will take stands,
which will be infinitely ncre
interesting than reading vihy
washy editorials.
We don't know that McCrary
will be a bad editorial writer.
W7e haven't seen enough of his
work. We do know Pratt will bo
interesting and exciting.
The time has come for a
change in the DTH. A breath of
fresh air is always welcome,
The establishment needs to be
put out to pasture.
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their beliefs, fought and died for
their conception of the rights
we demand today, he becomes
little better than the men who
so pervert the ideals Confeder
ates fought for as to fly the bat
tle flag of the Confederacy ov
er the capitol of Alabama to
day. Steven Kropelnicki, Jr.
314 Parker
Image As A Sex
Diety Disgraceful
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Al Ribak has spoken out for
a noble cause. Certain elements
of thinking on the University
campus have long suspected
that the metamorphosis of Si
lent Sam into a . local sexual
deity (it is said that he fires
his gun any time a virgin pass
es) was a plot on the part of
certain traditionalists to shift
the emphasis from his original
image of Civil War Hero to a
more popularly acceptable im
age. This shifting has been so
carefully carried out that Silent
Sam has all but lost his initial
face and fame. We cannot lay
all be laid to the door of mod
Freud and the advocates, of
free love.
Instead the "blame" should
all be laid to the coor of mod
ern humanitarian - Christian -liberal
thinkers. Actually it is
not a "blame" but a laurel that
should be placed there.
A century after the strife of
half-nation against half - na
tion has ended, Silent Sam still
points the gun that failed. He
watches over the silent dead
.who died for the right to en
slave a part of our fellow man.
He is a monument who does not
go unnoticed by any outside vis
itor to the campus,
And we need not be remind
ed that to those visitors he si
not a local sex deity, but' the
embodiment of Civil War hon
or worshipped by a cult of a
different nature. He is the
greatest disgrace our campus
cannot afford.
Will Clauton .
Durham Road
Students Trample
Grass Like Sheep
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Perhaps it is too much to ex
pect college students to exercise
a little more grey matter than
common sheep, but it does seem
that they could. Like animals
who follow the leader, a goodly
number of our intellectual elite
is presently helping to destroy
the aesthetic beauty of our
campus.
I am referring to the ridicu
lous paths which are presently
being worn in criss-cross fash
ion t on the central campus
greens. For anyone who consid
ers the Carolina campus a
thing of. aesthic beauty, see
ing it desecrated in such an ig
norant manner is certainly dis
turbing. Should we erect electric fen
ces? I think it would be irra
tional and silly to try to keep
people from walking on the
grass, but I don't think ;t silly
to expect students to have
enough originality to take a dif
nough originality to take a dif
ferent route each time instead
of plodding the beaten path.
A Committee of One For Pre
venting the Carolina Campus
from Looking Like N. C. State.
Robert Lee Griffin
232 Parker
'Judas' Wales
Gets No Pay-Off
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Pete Wales raises several in
teresting points in his column
Sunday. The first of these is
when he absolves the Free
Speech Forum from any respon
sibility for the end of frater
nity discrimination. It was
wrong to criticize the Adminis
tration for not acting because
this only postponed the decis
ion. It is now wrong to criti
cize the five years it took for
action to.be taken because it is
all over and why drag up old
issues? Presumably there was
a time when it would have been
proper to criticize, maybe as
much as 20 whole minutes.
Wales goes on to explain that
we must not attempt to have
the speaker ban repealed on
any such idealistic and imprac
tical grounds as freedom of
speech. Rather we should not
talk of freedom, but see if we
can't trick the legislature into
repealing the ban. Practical re
alists like Wales know that this
is the way to proceed.
Of course, as of the time of
this writing, no bill has been in
troduced in the legislature to
modify the ban at all. I would
not expect a realist to be up
set at selling his freedom, but
. I would expect him to balk a
i bit when he doesn't even re
ceive his thirty pieces of sil
ver. Wales' views on the Free
Speech Forum have already
been stated. When the Idea first
tcame up he opposed it as not
the correct way to handle the
problems. When the Y took it
over and it became respectable,
he applauded it, but only after
the dirty work had been done.
"We sometimes wonder whe
ther Gardner and others like
him who habitually take a mi
nority position, abandoning it as
soon .as it becomes a major
ity position aren't really defeat
ists at heart." So writes Pete
Wales.
I would submit that there is
another possibility. Perhaps
Gardner and others like him
merely wish to accomplish
something in this far from per
fect world rather than sitting
happily with the majority, pat
ting themselves on the back for
what has been accomplished by
Gardner and others like him.
Frank Anshen
407 West Franklin
Senior Candidates
SP
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The Student Party nominees
for Senior Class officers are:
Bob Payton, President; Jeff
Parker, Vice - President; Lois
Black, Secretary; Samantha
Towns end, Social Chairman;
and Lois Shepherd, Treasurer.
If elected, we promise to
break the "do-nothing" attitude
of the past Senior Class officers
of the last three or four years.
We do not offer a lengthy, idea
logical platform, but rather a
short, realistic one which we
pledge to fulfill:
Our promises include:
1) A Senior ; Class - spon
sored concert with artists like
the Smothers Brothers, Dave
Gardner, or Johnny Mathis.
2) Senior Day in the fall when
Seniors will have the real class
spirit.
3) A campaign for late
hours for Senior girls.
4) A class excursion to the
beach in the Spring.
We won't promise more than
we know we can deliver; but
what we do promise we will
deliver. The SP candidates pro
mise to make our senior year
one that we can well remember
when we return in 1931.
Bob Payton
Editors' Note: The SP candi
dates felt it unnecessary to
submit endorsements.
JL
Since we feel that the offic
ers of the Senior Class hould be
experienced, capable and easer
to carry out the duties of their
positions, we are endorsing the
full slate of University Party
candidates.
John Harmon, the Presiden
tial nominee, Armistead Mau
pin, the Vice-Presidential nom
inee, as well as Kathy Can
non, the candidate for Treasur
er, Carol Payne, candidate for
Secretary, and Beverly Bailey,
candidate for Social Chairman,
meet these qualifications.
We are giving our unquali
fied support to these candidat
es, but their success depends
upon your votes on March 23.
IXarrison Merrill
June Troy
. Frank Martin
Priscilla Patterson
John Yokley
Jane Dallen
Bob Spearman
George Wainwright
Ed Stringer
Ellen Allea
Borden Parker
Gerry Hancock
Bill Webb
Bill Taylor
Wade Logan
Ed Freakley
Jim Smith
Kay Hoyle
- Claude Reynolds
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