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Pise 2 . Thursday, March 25, 1965 Letters To The Editors jfiPSH ' JMitorwl ' Mage If Opinions of the Daily JTar FBeel aire expressed its editorials.bettersjmd f columns, covering 'att;ide rxmge tff views, reflect the personal opinions oj I their authors. The Year Ahead Today Eaul .Didkson Jives iiruthe glory of a vwll - deserved and lhard - earned victory, but soon the work begins , and if he is anything like his predecessor the year will be taxing, trying and often frustrating. . Student Government today is undergo ing a massive change. The emphasis is, and will be, on solving the problems of a "multiversity,", and Dickson . and :his fellow of f icers.mustwork toximprove out moded and often insufficient legislation. The main problem .facing .the new ad ministration will ibeHhe same Jaced by Bob Spearman setting up the Resi dence College iSystem .and prpperly .ad justing the students ito; the, new mode of residence-hall:life. This is-not oust ia? pet ; project of SG itdias J)een largely inspired ;by ;the force ful and farsighted ideas of Chancellor EauI iF." Sharp. The 'University adminis tration is. strongly behind ;the idea, and -sindeed:has provided imuchrof ;the impetus for the program. . Muclisvvork has .-already been done, as evidenced by the fact that two residence colleges'haveralready elected student of ficers andare pressing forward with oth--r changes. iBut much .more work re mains, -and -Student Government .will be c.reguired. to, exert itself .strongly .in order to insure that the idea.of the Residence' .College System Jbecomes in fact a Resi dence College System. ; -Another ddea : which imust be thorough- ComeJForth, OG! 'Inyesterday BTH,a!Iettei appeared; over;the collective signature oi "JThe Or- cder of -the Gadfly" urging the paper to 'Go-sponsor ?a ;rally 4n opposition to the j hamburger stand proposed for the cor-. oier tt)f Franklin and - Columbia -Streets.' ?The,iletter indicated ,that "OG" would j supply a symbol'; to be 'burned -at ithe . rraliy. .;: -' jQuTixesponse is that we don't normal-1 ly deal with organizations whose mum-; Jrs, -purposes .and tescapades are se icret; Awe Swill, however, accept QG's. challenge, witn one -reservation. Jf and ? .when ,OG makes the 'symbol" fknnwn; to sponsor a rally, .and 'burn .. . ,. iWell, j almbst-anythuiig. . 8 !j Gome forth, vQrder of ..the Gadfly, mid ! .we'll .unite ,against the rhamburger imen-j ace. . . SThe Charlotte Observer "An -awesome picture of the XUniver sity's .enrollment ..crisis - was cdrawn iby Charles Bernard, iUNC admissions offi- ,At:least once a.yearifor theipast.sev eral years the I Chapel Jiill i Weekly ihas printed a tnews .story beginning 'like ithat. 'Awesome picture" and "enrollment crisis" are well -.worn phrases: in Chapel Hill. Yet, every tyear the news lis greeted (elsewhere in the state: It couldn't Ibe that bad." jit is that bad.. Last week Bernard told .why: About .23,000 UNC jadmissionsiapplica ticn blanks-were sent out, about 112,300 of which - have -been filled out andireturned. Of :these8;580 asked .admission "in next y earts freshman class . -But the University -can 'onlytake afreshman'Class of about -2,100. About 1600 women have applied for admission ;as jfreshmen, ndtheUniver-. sity ;has rroom for ,only 24Q jjf Jthese. About 1,600 women have applied fo. ad mission as freshmen, and the University vhasrroom,for,bnly 240 of ;these. .Not rail refused students are qualified 'for admission, ;by reason either of 'high school .records ,or college board exam rscores. But . about jl;500 qualified North Carolina students have been turned away so;far, andBernard expects perhaps 300 more applications beforetheyear'&iflood ;ends. Bernard said ,he hoped "a good per centage" of students cturned away would tye -able ;to attend other state U supported Ciartl I11.5N. C SabscHpUon rates: SO per feVpcr year, printed by the xlTcledxcJasiyely toiiej:c for rpalslica. . - . -an ... tfHciautnes. nS well mm Sit nr(iiwnitr"" Jy .investigated is the jiow -.dormant Campus tRadio. Don Carson. did a great deal of research on the project during the past year, and if a full proposal can ever J)e worked out and presented, it could be of .great value to the campus. We hope that Carson will continue his work on the Campus Radio Committee, arid per haps someday bring its plans to fruition. A third challenge for Student Govern ;ment lies in the judiciary revisions pro posed by Dickson himself. Some of his proposals, which grew out of his work as . chairman of the Honor System Com mission, are sound. A few others need much revision before they can be accept ed. But all are worthy of discussion. If his revision is to succeed, 'Dickson must iollow up his initial report with hard work, more research and top-flight leg islation. The student judiciary is .still a big question mark in the minds of many fac ulty members, and it will be under at tack an the coming year just as it has i been under attack ever since it was in stituted. Dickson must be able to meet , the challenge. Fourth, there has been an increasing tendency on the part of some.members of :the administration to make forays into student rights. Too often we; have ob served several South Building adminis trators; attempt to take -justice. or. the ad 'ministration of student affairs into, their own hands, and the next student admin istrationimust always be on guard against - such impositions. Bob :Spearman has . done ; an excellent job of keeping: student - faculty - adminis trations on a high plane. 'He is respected and admired by the .entire University .Community, i and this leads to perhaps the hardest task facing 'Paul Dickson try ring to .establish . an . administration .which will have its own distinctive mark, ; Spearman should go down in the an nals of Student Government as the -.finest president of the: Student Body ever.iDick rsori jwill, .and - indeed .must, - attempt to emerge rfrom this shadow.. It, is inevitable that a President .willibe compared to the .jbne .he succeeded Spearman emerged iSpectacularly, iand mow it .is J3ickson!s itiirn. We wish Ihim jluck dn tthe .coming year. tHeiis,a;maniWXth:the?patentialttoibecome :a great ileader ; of tthis .campus, mnd Ihard Awork, -thoughtful ;actions tand i.diligence ( lareUheiingredients avhich ,will -make, him ; iexactlyithat. "9 as Course Study Blasted As Unfair .Editors, The TarJIeel: !The main drawback tof the 'Course "Evaluation" booklet vwas the. unforgivably flip edi 'torMlizing of Uhe -students who wrote up the material. tThe, pub lication, by the very -nature -of its attempt, had an obligation to be fair but it failed miser ably. . . , ' , If the ,"cute" - and' often cruW -remarks i included in , the book let sucn .as reterring to ,Psy chology ; 26 . as "this mess" or criticizing a professor's "cor ny jokes" were -taken directly from the student evaluation sheets, "they should have been quoted. If .they were merely in terpolated - by those who wrote the booklet, it was a traves ty on honest journalism. Remarks : about , one " profes sor's "corny pokes'' or - anoth er's "annoying sense of hum or" are unnecessary ? pieces of cruelty. They .are personal cri ticisms which have, nothing whatsoever to do with the ove 11 value of the . courses under consideration. I had anticipated that the booklet would be a serious : and detached commentary . on the merits , of- the, courses includ- ed. Therefore .1 felt that - clever remarks were totally . . eut of place. ; , . I was appalled that , a pub- mm$MMi Book!. et Crl fee: lila'ion officially santioned by uvdent Government should be aded Jy the crass student ..h vkvi4i- M VS 1111 as little work as PssiDle. Re njarks .like, ' .'the , crammer can y get away with waiting ar0und for awhile to jio . his studying," or, "If you want a good grade, Classics 75 is a good choice because you can et by wtn a minimum of work," lowered the level of the publication significantly. Instead jof fair evaluations of Iprofessors, many of the.-para-ip-aphs became barbed attacks . dismissing a scholar in .a few j noorly chosen words with no dis senting opinion stated. Since the publication was so anxi ous to reveal how little ; a stu i dent could get by with .doing, )l would say that ,the average j professor on the UNC campus' brings a good deal more to his ' classes than do the students. Susan Mclntyre 33 Oakwood Dr. ! Psycli 26 Analysis Galled Inaccurate Editors; The Tar Heel: ; A few of the judgments made by the course evaluation book let, I have found, do not in the least , coincide with my own experiences .with the courses described. ' : Its analysis of Psychology 2G and Dr. Daniel, instead of be ing objective criticism, is just so much verbose sarcasm. De scribing Daniel as an inept lec turer lacking interest -is -valid only in the case of the semi apathetic, .poorly - motivated student who assumes a pas sive role. Ho such a student it is .much easier to spend an hour tak ing lecture notes than to spend two or more reading the .text. Daniel's quizzes are based en tirely on the text. There is no way to avoid reading it. . -A ! multiple choice type of for- mat is used for tests. This kind i of ; test - requires a minimum of : familiarity with ' the course : ma terial. TThe student is .required -merely ; to recognize the cor rect ; answer. It is a f4guessing ; game" only if . tne stuaent . is ig- norant of the subject matter. !l: found the course quite stim ;ulating, but ;I don't recom ment it tfor .the student vwho cannot vread intelligently or : does not want to. The 1 large : number of low grades in tthe course result from a lack of interest on the part of the stu dent. And I certainly feel that one who -.generalizes 'his own frus trations in an introductory course into . a 1 tirade : against the whole department is making a vivid .display of his own lack ' of judgment and sophistication. Such an antipathy for psycho logy and psych majors in gen eral is characteristic of the de pendent student who expects to be "spoon fed" and reacts violently when this desire is frustrated. Daniel, then, is the poorest lecturer in the University be cause he expects his students to do a little work ,on their own i instead of sitting in class hearing what is "going to be on the next quiz. The ; booklet , also . claimed that no text was required for So ciology "52. .This .is not true. And .furthermore my impres sion of the course is the op posite of ?the booklet's. I am inot nearly as enthusiastic. The quizzes in my .9 a.m. section .are all cessay, .not the multi ple choice type described in :tbe summary. Why such a gross ; misrepresentation? The copy J read belongs to :a friend. ;I wouldn't waste a quarter .on it, or even a dime. . John Edward Stewart 8 Wance Hall You'd THirik Our Chines e Comrades Would Have A More Advanced ;Eorm Of Retaliation." colleges. :He said .he had ;been recom . amending UNC's i fourth branch at 'Char Ilotte. iBut tthe .fact iremains tthat mot ronly -re qualif iediin estate students unable to at tend ithe iXJniversity ttheir ttaxes support, but tthe University has ibeen d orced i to dn i crease vthe: degree ;of iselectivitydndts tad missions policy tto keep ifrom Ibeihg : swamped. "Despite ,a prediction of $68 million an additional istate revenue lin ithe coming sbiennium, XGov.-lDan Moore i decided to irecommend only $12 million more f or.all capital improvements iin :the state, col- leges and universities.included. "iThe iState iBoard vOf Higher Education ,a$kediQr:$83mUlion for, capital improve ments at state - supported colleges and universities. The Advisory Budget Com .mission chopped this to $23 million. 'If all of -this -money -plus -Gov. Moore's -recommended j$12;million were used on college campuses -(highly unlikely ) , the enroll ; ment crisis" .still -would Je "awesome" by about $48 million worth of unanswered needs. .. ., Nor should it be overlooked that the -state, in addition: to failing. to meet the capital needs of higher education, is mak ing therCostiof,that education greater :by requiring students to foot the.bills for new dormitories. If the r General Assembly allocates the funds as the governor recommended, vthe only capital improvements alternative for higher education will be a bond .issue. The Governor, evidently, held that door open for 1966 when he said ,he did not recQmmend.a capital improvements bond issue "at this time." - That door may be .held .open, but the : state classroom door will be tightly shut against .larger number of students for the next three or four years because iNorth:CaroUnaleadership failed to awak--en to student needs soon .enough. . ffvLJr ;Hr;:r'h; y'4 . . j n jjT - J - t s ;,sJV; 'ijA i ' i V Redd Pleas For Old Well Removal Editors,.The Tar Heel: Although, it may be argued that the enshrined temole known generally as "The -Old Well" has become a part of the UNC : tradition, it . certainly . cannot be argued that traditions should be maintained for tradition's sake., The ; primary purpose of the "memorial" was to associate a fictitious "honor" with one of the darkest blots of the history of the University of North Caro lina a common ,watering hole! What our ancestors believed -about sanitation is not the ques tion, but that today they should be condemned for what we know to be such morbid and .unhealthful practices. We have been made painfully aware of the , consequences of water con tamination through mass ty phoid epidemics brought about by such poor facilities. The Old , Well is a shameful symbol and I urge the Daily Tar Heel and Carolina student body to take up the cause of removing from the .campus this shameful commemoration of a disgraceful episode along with "Silent Sam" as suggested by another reader. -F. M. Redd 402 Ehringbaus -Quizes, Xectures ' T Lauded By Pupil Editors, The Tar Heel: The iinuch - lauded Course Evaluation Booklet, although for the most part a commen dable venture, commits at least one gross injustice. 'While "evaluating" Psychology 23, the author observes that Dr. Wil liam J. Daniel is a "poor lec turer," whose "langor and apathy" obscure the subject and whose quizzes are mere "gues sing games." In a truly ob jective spirit, the author pro foundly categorizes the entire lilil or James R field of psychology as "this mess." Such thinking has a possi ble explanation: it is often a characteristic of the Anal Per sonality that it projects its re pressed, "messy" urges and at tributes them to something ex ternal. I personally found Dr. Dan iel a stimulating, often humor ous lecturer. If his classes were not of great V2lue for quizzes, they were nevertheless infor mative and interesting. That his quizzes were reli able is attested to by the con sistency of most students' gra des. And their validity is ap parent to anyone who studied the material. The greatest vice of Profes sor -Daniel's quizzes was that they discriminated between the serious student and the dilet tante. Having spoken .with others who took Psychology 2G, I dis covered that several referred to Dr. Daniel's course as "the most informative introductory course I've taken." It there fore appears imminently possi ble that the evaluation of this course was not based upon u representative sample of stu dent opinion. The Evaluation Booklet is a bold attempt to fill a sore need and will undoubtedly be of great use. But more care should be taken with future ed itions: less excretion and more discretion, please. Sloane Payne, Jr. 5 Pettigrew Professor Defends Faculty Criticism Editor, The Tar Heel: After spending a fascinating hour. or so perusing the Course Evaluation Booklet, I want to add my voice to those who en dorse this work. It is a rare demonstration of constructive criticism, from the only possible source, of the most important work we tea chers do classroom instruc tion. I found both pleasure and .pain in .the comments made ; about many of my colleagues, and I am sure they join me in this. I suspect that I speak for many of the faculty when I say .that my only disappoint ment was that all courses, in cluding my own, could not be included in a much more am bitious, work. , Those of us who teach need desperately this kind of eval uation, and we need it often. I can think of no greater ser vice the students could render -the University than .to publish an all - course evaluation bock on a regular basis. It would be a monumental task but one which would return tremen dous dividends in increased fa culty awareness of the impor tance of classroom perform ance. To the students who put out this booklet, congratulations for a job well done ! William M. Hard Associate Professor, RTVMP v,fJ f fK J 'y' - Wit I . ' 'y, ' igger Red Studemlt TByART-BUCHWALD -I'lieNewiYorfcHerald .Tribune WASHINGTON - The recent student attacks on the , Ameri . can .embassy . in . Moscow had "some very interesting -s ide -Jights. It was reported that all the students who demonstrat ed against the embassy rwere 'foreigners, jmostly from Asia and Africa. From -a -very reliable .source, we have learned that the Rus sians are now hiring mercen aries to .attack .our embassy .rather .than using Soviet stud ents. - The reason for it iis quite simple. "The Soviet . government has discovered - that . ? the stud ent demonstrations have been interfering -with i the studies of its youth. There have been so many man i.hours jlost ? to at tacks on the the American em ;bassy that the Russians are afraid that ; they may not : have a graduating tlass :this June at Moscow University. A shake -. up i in the Soviet monstrations took place . about -a month ago and - a new com "misar, named Serge , Brakevitch was appointed to the post. Brakevitch ruled that no So viet student could attend a ;de monstration against the Amer ican embassy unless he main tained a B average. The Soviet students called 4ae - ruling -arbitrary and un- Mercenaries Demonstrate si fair. They .pointed; out that Chi nese students, Bulgarian stud ents and Czechoslovakian stu dents were permitted to i de monstrate with a D average and in some .case those who were .flunking out .were allow ed to attend. - But Commissar Brakevitch was firm in his decision. In discussing the , protest with the students, he .said, "Dem onstrating against .the Ameri can embassy is a privilege,, not a right. f It, is a . reward .for good grades. I'm 4not going to per mit .students to ten joy .themsel ves breaking windows and throwing ink bottles when they are not willing to w o r k in school for it." The Moscow University stud ents called a mass meeting and voted to boycott all demonstra tions against; the American em bassy until the order about grades was rescinded. This put the Soviet govern ment in , a T spot. , If - they called for a demonstraton against, the American embassy and . no one showed up, it -would, be very embarrassing for them. Yet if they gave into the stu dents, it would show, they were not in control of the school. To make matters worse, a "few days after the boycott the United -States started bombing tforth Viet Nam and it was jjaperative the ithe . Soviets hold Grade s a demonstration against the American embassy. Brakevitch was told to get - one going. Since he couldn't get any Soviet students, he went to Lumumba University, where Asian and African students were studying, - and asked them if they would be willing to hold the .demonstration. The foreign . students agreed to do ,it, and they were issued ink bottles, bricks, stones and Molotov . cocktails. . 'In the meantime, Foreign Minister Gromyko had prepar ed . an apology for the Ameri can Ambassador, Foy "Kohler, to be given to him as soon as Kohler protested. . But something went wrong with the demonstration. The for eign .students in Moscow thought they were supposed to attack the Soviet police as well as the embassy, and the po lice were forced to fight back, knocking down , many of the students. This brought protests from the students' embassies .and the Soviet Union was for : ced to apologize to their Com munist friends as welL -Brakevitch has now been re lieved of his Post and the. So viets are looking for a n e.w .Commissar of Spontaneous De imonstratons. There is talk that :Nikita Khrushcnev may be tcalled -back from .retirement for the job. By DAVID ROTHMAN DTI I Columnist Nigger - lover James Reeb was born in Wyoming. He was ordained a Presbyterian minis ter, but six years ago, he turn ed to Unitarianism. . He did this because he felt he could do more nigger - loving that way. For four years, Reeb work ed at All Souls' Unitarian Church, near Washington. He also attended classes at the JMount Vernon Unitarian Church, south of Alexandria, Virginia. There, he learned how to be a good. nigger - lover how to be spat upon; how .to bear the .pain of hot cig arette butts; how to cover your body when somebody is trying to kick your guts out; how to pray when you're being jeer .ed at by the Defenders of the Southern Heritage. Reeb mastered everything. -All told, -he become a very proficient nigger-lover. One day, Outside Agitators visited Peaceful Selma, Ala., where people of both races had lived in Harmony. What's -more, the - Selma niggers had known Their Place. But they didn't know it after Martin Luther Coon stepped in. Coon informed the Selma nig gers they had a right to vote. Perhaps the idea of niggers voting seems strange, but you have got to remember that Coon loved 'em. Maybe one reason be loved 'em was that he was a nigger himself. Anyway, after this Coon fel low came to Law-Abiding Sel ma, juvenile delinquency be gan to increase. So did tru ancy. So did the willingness of Selma niggers to be cited for contempt of court. That meant arrests -had to be eeo: made. That also meant more Outside 'Agitators were needed. James Reeb was one of the additional Outside Agitators called to Selma. On his arrival, Reeb irame daitely set' about DISTURB ING THE LAW - ABIDING CITIZENRY. He even Jeopar dized Highway Safety by walk ing down the street. Two weeks ago Tuesday, the nigger - loving minister dirK'J at a nigger restaurant in S;l ma. He finished his meal (which he ate in the company of two other nigger - lovers) and step ped outside. Four- Defenders cf the Southern Heritage accost ed him. "Hey, nigger!" they shouted. Then, they smashed the brain of the nigger - loving s. o. b. minister. The beating was witnessed by many Law - abiding Citizens o? Selma. However, they were too busy Obeying the Law to save the Outside Agitator from fur ther injury. For two days, the s. o. b. man of God lay near death. His wife was at his bedside when bis heart finally stopped seating. ;ne had flown to 'Peaceful Alabama from il Uigger - loving town of Boston, Mass. Somehow, nigger - loving Lyndon B. Johnson felt sorry for the woman. He dispatched a jet plane to return her to Boston. Later, the nigger - loving President told the s. o. b. pup pets in Washington that they should pass legislation to make sure that the niggers in Selma and other Law - Abiding parts of the nation have the right to vote.
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