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Pige 2 Friday, March 26, 1965 -M"'y'1"""-""- - i Tjjpiij'i'jjiJ 'i. u . y ti i h ltnTMTT'" UTM Ediioriai Page Opinions t th Da Tar HeeZ tire expressed in its editorials. Letters and J columns, coverinq a wide ranae of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors. i The Legislature Watches Baring . The Chapel Hill. Weekly xla a couple of weeks or so, hundreds of North Carolina citizens and taxpayers are going to start raising cain. They are going to raise cain because their sons and daughters can not be admitted to the University of North Carolina. And these sons and daughters can not be ad mitted,' even though they are qualified in every respect. The reason they-can't be admitted is because there aren't enough dormitories, classrooms, teachers and other necess ary facilities to -satisfy the demand. At Chapel Hill, existing facilities will allow admission of only a fraction of those students - qualified North Carolina stu- dentsseeking enrollment. A disgruntled parent who has been paying State taxes all these years might reasonably ask why there aren't facilities and teachers available to educate his Child. The answer is simple: the Legisla ture hasn't seen fit to appropriate the money. One of the reasons the Legisla ture hasn't seen fit to appropriate the money is that we haven't had a Gover nor in recent years inclined to exert pressure equal to the need. Unfortunate ly, we don't have such a Governor now, either. Today's enrollment crisis is not a sur prise. Its coming has been clearly ap parent for at least fifteen years. - And through all of those years, Consolidated University officials have pleaded for funds to help UNC breast the enrollment tide. It is a tide that is still rising and will not begin to level off before 1970. - In his budget message last week, Gov ernor Dan Moore made it clear that his administration will not tackle the prob lem. The only hope was a bond issue for a substantial construction program, and Governor Moore is not asking for a bond issue for higher education. He did ask for a $300 million bond issue for highway construction and the Legislature ap proved it forthwith. The voters also will approve it. Taxpayers might take some comfort from the fact that, while their sons and daughters can't get into Caro lina, at least they're riding smoothly. For some reason, most of the taxpay ers direct their bitter complaints about enrollment rejections to University offi cials. Logically, they should go, for the next couple of years or so, to Governor Moore who, incidentally, also raised cain several years ago when somebody at Chapel Hill suggested that his son might not be able to get in. Top Secret: End For 'End Up' The Martha's Vineyard Gazette ' "Hiese are two phrases, unrelated, so usual in speech and writing these days that no one seems to challenge them, yet they raise the gravest grammatical questions. One is "top secret," which we suppose is intended to mean the most important secrecy and actually means, many times, the best advertised secre cy itself, it admits of no degrees, top, ., 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publi- ; cation f fhe University of North Carolina and Is ipabSshed by students daily except Mondays, examiaatioa periods and vacations. 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The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republica tion of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. 3 i ti 1 I m Sis M 5J i I p II 'i si I! s ri i bottom, or in between; you either have it or you don't. Is it possible to make anything more secret by referring to it as "top"? Cer tainly you can make it more a mystery, and suggest to more and more people that they keep guessing what it is, and thus perhaps incur a greater risk of what is known as spilling the beans. A "top secret' is presumably known to all or most of the top people, and since it is amazing how many of those there are in our world of importance and self-importance, it may be imagined that a "top secret" is in a subtle sense less private than an ordinary or bottom secret which may exisit in lowly fashion between you and me alone. The other phrase is "end up." Noth ing seems .to end any more; it always "ends up." This does not mean it con cludes in a vertical position but only that it ends positively and no fooling around. But if something ends, can there be any question of finality? An end is an end, and ending is ending, no matter how you look it it, and whether the conclusion is reached by slow de grees of by sudden resolution. Just the same, most of us have fallen into the habit of saying "ends up" as a means of gaining emphasis, though already the emphasis is mostly lost through over-use and we are left with one more maiming of clear, forthright English. Notebook: Why Dickson Won Letters To The Editors (Continuedfrom Page 1) a return to the fact of Carson's popularity. It ' is true that Dickson lost big a year ago; it is also true tihat Carson won easily a year ago; but they -were not running, against each other and there in lies most cf the explanation. Last Year The grand - slam won by the University Party last spring is a unique event in the history of Student government ; the SP was1 buried, clearly and simply. And most -of this debacle was brought about by the presence cm the UP ticket of one Robert Spearman brilliant but not flashy, intelligent but engaging - emerged from one of the most hectic -and wasted years in Stu dent Government history un soifed by a frantic civil rights tussle.' He was a candidate who could not be beaten even by one of Ihe most rousing ampaigns myears. -" ' ' ' - When Spearman swept into of fice on the crest of one of the largest popular mandates ever, he carried Don Carson with him. This is not to :deny Carson his own hard - fought yictory; he earned it and he got it. But ne got it by beating one of the least inspiring candidates ever to vie for a campus - wide of fice, and while he captured his share of dorm votes, it was the fraternity districts that gave Carson almost all of his margin. , False Impression Thus the UP and a lot of others have labored complacent ly for a year under the false but reasonable impression that Carson tiorm man, Spearman man, and incumbent could flail the daylights out of Paul Dick son loser. They were dead wrong. Yes, Carson is a 'Hiorm man," and the originator " of the Residence Hall Improvements. Committee's major successes; but in a sense, Paul Dickson is a dorm -man al so, for he has been president of Everett and is an advisor in Ehringhaus. Yes, Carson was the incum bent. But the vice-president's job, which consists largely of chairing the legislature, is vir tually overlooked ty the campus sinless it becomes a seat -of con troversy. Carson, more than anything else, avoided contro versy like the plague. "While Spearman tandDichBon) was out fighting for NSA's life. Carson straddled a fence, just as he would do several times during the year. It kept him out of trouoie, true; but it also kept mm out of tne lime-light. Spearman Magic As a result, the Spearman magic never rubbed off. It remained within the boundaries of Bob Spearman's own image, and when election time came, Carson stood alone. He had only the HP's .great or ganization and some traditional stalwarts such as Maupin and King on which to rely. They were not enough, even though fraternity men by the hundreds flocked to the polls to vote for a dorm man just because he was on the UP ticket. Carson needed more than these things. He need to win among his . own ' element in order . to become president. That b could not tio it is tribute to Dickson and to the grass roots appeal of the SP. That Bob Spearman could tio it last year is no less a tribute to him; for if Don Carson's loss proved nothing else, it nrav ed that Spearman beat a good man' last yeara darn good man. am tealim Case IB C7 .IL'U, Fraternity Blamed For Pledge Trip Editors, the Tar Heel ; on those should be removed grounds alone. I must pont out that such an ideology would make a hero of Adolf Hitler, for surely there was a man who had high and himself. and thereby earn the right to wear a leather jacket with the gang insignia! In my opinion quite properly, the police arrest- t . j;mK4asl w A: k ea not utLiy aimwer ana ft. nTH ahmif fnnr frntorS his companions but the leaders idealistic convictions, and who Sliwh.fft of the gang as well. They fought long and hard for them ferttTallnTo f7om other SSfS partic, SMS SsSS ed as with what was hot said PJr v?me cie tw, r ho rrr,w ; hnouents, is it not just and the brothers as a minting Jf9 MM in th, M5P fhp i-n?i;? siUy episode to be punished al so ! Quentin Ludgm 305 CaldweU Hall - Editors' Note: The fraternity is being tried by the IFC Court. cause in the case, the impliea tion bemg that they were "led astray". So, why were not THE INSTIGATORS punished, also? : In the' opinion of most commentators- upon Shakespeare's "Macbeth," he is less guilty of - TZie!TihlJycU& Silent Sam Idol beth who taunted and urged m ' t i r him to do it; Similarly, a pledge 1 0 All IdeolOgV iaitnougn pernaps tney were "wrong by modern standards"). Although it is convincing, it is not sufficient to quote such an extreme example in order to ex pose" the danger in such think ing. My point is that the nature of such -justification is ideological. An ideology is a formula, a set of slavery, they struggle to per- way of thinking which may be petuate suppression of the Ie (unless he prove Dim that this is merely juding by my own "modern standards" and therefore invalid (as are all value judgments, according to them). I think that there may be a direction in man's life in the world which is neither modern, nor a standard, by which we may come to such a conclusion about the merits of the South ern struggle. The issue is important be cause the struggle is -far from over. Southerners still fight for PrOlCSSOr LaUfiS the same convictions, although thev are modernized. Instead to comprehend the actual rea son for Silent Sam blessing our campus. Point of information: Pvibak might be interested to know that the model for Silent Sam an Irish policeman from New York City who assuredly would not consider himself either s bigot or a racist. . y Claude M. Reynolds, Jr. 653 Ehringhaus self oe guided toy the moral ?) values of his ""brothers." To me, the instigators should not only be punished, but more severely; ;for they were the cause of.v these reprehensible acts rather - than the, somewhat stupid effectors. v! V ' Lest I be . accused ' of being anti - fraternity, let me state that often fratenities are excel lent organizations deserving no thing but praise. However, this Editors, The Tar Heel: When I first read Al Ribak's letter urging the removal of "Si lent Sara," although I felt in clined to-agree, I felt that the letter was at least tongue - in -cheek. But what is amazing is that- Ribak's half - in - jest, half - in earnest effort has cut through the mass of presup positions and unexamined: s sumptions which fill the atmo sphere like fall - out, and: are depends upon the .membership at least as dangerous and values stressed by each par- What is amazing is that the ticular chapter. , In. some, citi- only argument anyone has been zenship and scholarship are able to put forth for letting "Si stressed, in some the. ability to lent Sam" stand, is that he re- consume beer, and in some the presents ' some people who had art of "swiping."; : v . the courage to act decisively for applied to any number of situa tions. It is by ideologies that the minds of men are enslaved. I was born in Charleston, S.C. and reared in Raleigh. I have ancestors who fought on the side of the Confederate States in the Civil War. But in spite of the fact that I am a Southerner, I refuse to be a slave . to the ideology of the Southern Mysti que. My ancestors fought and were killed for their convictions about slavery, state's rights, and the agrarian way of life. I cannot praise them merely because they had the courage of their convictions.- It is their convic tions before . which they must stand - judged, and not their courage or cowardice. We , may continue our argu ments by calling the Civil War "The War of Northern Oppres sion," or "The War of South ern Insurrection," but it re- ero (unless ne prove self"); instead of secession and nullification, they struggle 10 maintain each state's own vot er registration methods; instead of a plantation economy, they struggle to maintain a rural way of life in the face of increasing urbanization. And all this struggle is done in the name of an ideology, a Southern Mystique. It is the white man who has become the slave in the South. If "Silent Sam" stands only to honor an ideology, he is an idol, and I, too, would call for the destruction of "Silent Sam." Jeff BjTura 206 Everett Statue Modeled After Irishman Editors, The Tar Heel: In reply to the "letter" ap pearing in the DTH on March 17 bv Al R'ibak, I cannot decide mains what it was: a misguid- In a large city 'recently, four Vtheir beliefs. If this is the only ed struggle on behalf of some members of "a "gang" ; watched reason for which "Sam" is al- questionable convictions. N o r as a nttn killed a passerby with - lowed to remain, then I think he can I agree with the relativists whether to agree with him and .y- .-.";-. V: . carry his proposal further or to , 1 Tliink Th e Weather Is Gettm' A Little Out Of Hand" - ' -- V -f '(!'!' f . ' ' , $ i 4'-. 1 ' I' " '- -- ' V v l , A 1 jF J r x , ( - X " J- ' 5 ' f , i : . - ' y ' j 1 1 V i - - - f ' l - : ' - r i - i - ? 1 ' i'' I ? - , -z , - - , - t I j v !- k t i , , . : '- , r l s t.i. ? ' $t? Z tr-sjv J "iT- s-vf- i r ii '$'1 ' ? ' Kf is'.. - ; l ; 1:11 JUix , j 1 --rv: v,0" - I ws.-- 41 Vi'' ' y -: "lie f i I jt J s - "I ?v'w'" I- - l ; , I J l 'f A x '' f'A - - f ? ' - V 4 - " f t r , v , . t x - ; , -55- , -r-i.Li,v 'r''T rC reject his reactionary ideas as those of a childish pranK con ceived by one with nothing bet ter to do. Maybe we "should do away with Silent Sam and all other bridges to the past. Why count heritage, why honor tradition, why be proud of . our past? Per haps we should do away with our national archives, our his tory books, our statues of Wash ington, Jefferson, Sherman, Lee, The Unknown Soldier, and other "Silent Sams." These men only committed their lives, hopes, dreams to the preservation of liberty as they saw it. After all, wasn't Washington a reactionary? Didn't he lead a . nation's forces : in a. revolt against their government? Shouldn't we look upon him as willing to "destroy the union" with England to promote the rights of subjects to make de cisions for themselves as to how . their national affairs were to be carried out? The same can be said for Jef ferson, Lee, and Sherman. Yes, even Sherman who was so en veloped with love for his fellow man that he burned a city to the ground to show it ! But we can't criticize Sher man can we? He was a North ern leader and these "all know ing" gods from the North have no trouble in "their land" and can know no feelings of bigotry vileges of those who fail to pass Bradley Article Editors, The Tar Heel: Curry Kirkpatrick's column on Princeton's Bradley is as fine a bit of sports writing as I have ever read. Congratula tions! Hubert Martin, Jr. Dept. of Classics Should Illiterates Have The Vote? Editors, The Tar Heel: I am writing about the recent demonstrations in Selma and in Montgomery, Ala., and Nobel Peace Prize holder, Dr. Mar tin Luther King. Yes, our nation's Negro popu lation is suffering injustices, but not just in the South. Look at the Northern Negro ghettocs. Look also at the Northern re cord of police brutality and discrimination. The Northern ministers, such as the late Mr. Reeb, shj'u'j check behind their own ears before seeking to clean the etrs of the South. Dr. King is a Scu therner and a Negro. lie has a right to help his people in the South. It is, in a sence, as though he were cleaning the dirt from behind his own ears, not his neighbors. Dr. King began by preaching passive resistance, as did Ghan di. His people began by practi sing passive resistance, and, perhaps, some would say tht they still do, but actually their "passive resistance" of 19C5 and Dr. King's "Deacemaking" have caused nothing but chaos through out the Nation. There fore, to have given Dr. King a peace prize, especially the Nt bel Peace Prize, is to make a fallacy of the late Mr.. Nobel's ..efforts. It has been said that fhe n? tion should concentrate its ef forts at home to give its citi zens voting rights. Perhaps it should be pointed out that if tne United states didn't intervene and direct their major efforts toward places such as Vict Nam, eventually having voting privileges would mean nothing. Also, we must determine just who is being discriminate! against. Is it the Negro, or is it all uneducated -people who have no knowledge of what tbey would be voting for? And also, we must decide whe ther to take away the voting pri or hatred. The North doesn't have its ghettos, its' Harlems; its little Italys, etc. Why not do awav with this "honor" called the Nobel Peace Prize? After all, even though Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others believe deeDlv that their cause is just, should we tors and the white martyr min- literacy tests, or to educate the peopie so that they caroi' wreck our nation's democratic system by following those who seek power for their own bene fit, a; can be seen throughottf world history. I ??sk the Nrqro demonstra- Peace Exchange Student Speaks Corp Color nay T?&i tee$i Obia isters to examine their acti os and decide for themselves v.l.e ther they are haloing their cause or harming it. Anthony C. Morttft 06 Parker Bigotry Level f iting the Colombian people are ! which the Peace Corps is bene health, education and housing construction. they devote their "lives, hopes. and dreams1' to the promotion of liberty and equality, should we deem it necessary to cast honors upon them? The South indeed fought over the issue of slavery. However, even a more dominant reason lies in the fact that the North was attempting, to force an eco- the South that was totally alien X alllllg; blowlv to the way of life known in the 0 J South. If Communism were being forced upon us, would not we honor them? Just because consider it a disgrace to sub mit without a fight? Whv then should we condemn the South Gonzalo .Arboleda, a junior ex change . student and education major from Medellin, Colombia, is an outspoken advocate of the Peace Corps. He is equally out spoken in his criticism of some aspects of the Corps' program. "In order to describe the Peace Corps' work in Colom bia, I must distinguish between the programs in the rural and the -urban areas. In Choco, "Many of them do not know should be trained in more spe- heen for the. Civil War . slavery w.v- pwi coi 1 u- VsOKMiiuid, n-ic .u4iiur, ui cidiizeu areas. ve aircaay nave nave pcisiiieu ior a Great ion. 90 per cent of the Deople in Latin America are Catholics, and most Peace Corps volun teers are Protestants. Vohin- The Peace Corps volunteers teers should avoid discussing re- for fighting for thp tmth in v. . . . ....... 1; -j, . . . ' - in ColomDia nave a gooa am- ngion wim tne local population, which she believed, even though (Uue. JLticjr v,uiiic ixtcv wtu vuuu- xui tuis w in iiuperu tne gooa try decided and willing to help, work they are doing. But, sometimes they find that "I have heard from many ed- they are unable to adjust to treated people in Colombia that tneir new envuuniiR-iH. me .feace corps volunteers there is a question, and a valid one, as to the morality of one of her 'peculiar institutions." Granted, slaverv in ANY FORM is wrong arid had it not ral areas in Colombia, the rwoDle. Mairy know a lot: I Peace Corps is working won- would not want to generalize, ders. They are helping in the "Xne of the worst mistakes construction of roads and hous- that the Peace Corps could es, in health programs, and in make in Latin America would agriculture. be to attempt to impose Ameri- "In the urban areas, many can culture on the native popu- people do not even know about lation. This has been done in the Peace Corns. Many peoole some instances, say that we don't need the "The volunteers should be Peace Corps in our industrial thoroughly indoctrinated in the C0m"mties- culture, language, religion, tra- The volunteers generally ditions, history, climate and have no technical training that geograoby of the region to which would helo in the improvement they wffl be sent, of mdustnal techniques. In the -"Once they are completely cities the primary service ren- familiar with their environ- dered by the Peace Corps is in ment, they should try to helD the field 01 education. Se people to develop along their o ?L ? J?1 there is own toes and not try to make ,at- de! Potion in- American culture fit in where it volved m Peace Coras er!r " ' m,fc rf in In urban areas, however, where Sgo is not necessarily good concept Even our own upper apartments are available. tM hSS, classes do not know the neces- .is iiot the case. - that is very im- ttes of our peasants The three mam areas. 4a portant "is caution" aDout relig- Peace Corps knows. many people in my country with fine general educations, but we lack good technicians. "The Peace Corps is a mir ror of the United States for the people in South America. These people will form impressions of the United States according to what they see in the Peace Corps. "Let one American act dis creditably and all the Peace Corps' hard - won successes in an area may be washed out; all Americans may again become-just Those Gingos.' , 'The Peace Corps is working toward an outstanding goal. The fact that the Peace Corps vol unteers live with the people em bodies a unique and important deal longer. In America we honor the per son who stands alone and fights for his beliefs. For this reason we respect Rev. King he fights for what he believes. If he did not, he would not count himself a man, an American. This is also why we honor the Confederate dead as evi denced by Silent Sam. He stands on this campus not for "the pri mary purpose ... to associate a fictitious 'honor with the darkest blot on American his tory," but in memory cf those young men from this Universi ty who gave their lives in the struggle to preserve their eco nomic and social way of life. Perhaps if Ribak would lay his bigotry aside, read his his tory, and maice a serious at tempt to look at the world with The an open mind (assuming he dos- sesses one), he might be able lJ.,.. Editors, The Tar Heel: Ciss-boom- Bah and Sect bey - Doo - 22 to graciously outgoing doe - eyed, blond, h1 telligent, straight - B, "Carolina Sweetheart," senior MatilJr, Gholon, who, while reacting in wardly to mixed couples, is try ing to accept Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt (Ncwswetfc, March 22). Good Luck, Matilda, keep try ing, perhaps some day yiu shall overcome. John Gill , Pvt. 1. Chapel Hil! -4.-.-.-;va: . j..,.;.,. i S LETTERS Th Dally Tar Ileel solicits ; ; letters to the editors at any time and on aay Btsbject, All letters mast be typed H DOUBLE SPACED and must he free of libel, Tfcc editors reserve the rijhl to edit lot length. Letters should be submitted at least two days prior to date cl publication. hi
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