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Ptge 2 Wednesday, April 7, 1965 Georgia hditor bums Up t DTE -EdUemcid Pm Ovinion& of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and I columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of I sneir eutnors. . fl - i.-: , t ... WWW 'WW-W.BW.'iwyr GMAB AM Jubilee: A New Assess: menl One of the eternal verities of journal ism is that the facts all of them must come first. Perhaps the supreme criticism of any journalistic venture, be it news or commentary, is "it's inaccurate' Occasionally, however, some factor perhaps' the press of deadlines, per haps a shortage of sources, perhaps a simple lack of communication prevents the appearance of some of the facts. So it was yesterday, when the DTH saw fit. to chastize the Graham Memorial Activities Board for making certain changes in Jubliee, the outstanding week end of entertainment staged by GM each spring. ; .. . .? Certain misconceptions and inaccura cies conveyed by that eidtorial comment deserve correction, as well as reassess ment; First, our observation that "a splint ery seat in Kenan Stadium is far less desirable than a soft spot of Graham Memorial lawn," valid as it may be, is Irrelevant. The directors of Jubilee have no intention of putting the audience in the stands; rather, "blankets on the green" will be in vogue again. The Jubi lee stage will be "constructed on the playing field, and the ample Kenan turf Tjvill provide spectator space. There are actually a number of dis tinct Advantages connected with the move i The audience will not be as crowded; there are dressing rooms avail able for performers and rest rooms for spectators; combo parties can be held" in the adjacent Ramshead parking lot; and the grass will be kept dry by the canvas cover even if rain falls during the week prior to Jubilee. As for the complaint that the "atmosphere" will be destroyed., it is ' partially; valid; but GM AB assures us that- the finest sound reproduction equipment (installation cost:" $1,000) will be used to guarantee an outstnading concert. Aside: from that, "atmosphere" is largely a matter of at titude, and those who sincerely want to , have agood time will no doubt do so. i Further, the Kenan site will allow for some control over the two biggest problems with Jubilee outside "hell raisers", and alcohol. As we noted yesterday, both these difficulties went beyond enforceable and reasonable bounds last year. A full-time, maid had to be hired to care for inebriat ed females in the GM lounge, and the up roar created7 by uninvited "guests" caused havoc for the campus police. Thus, something had to be done. Moving" to Kenan was deemed the finest and easiest "solution. Guests who are really guests will not be barred; each Carolina student may invite one couple to share the fun if he is willing to as sume responsibility for their conduct. This is not just fair; it is a superior decision on the part of the program's directors. Jubilee, first and foremost, is ior Carolina students. They should not be forced to share it with intruders, but they should be allowed to share it with their friends. Under this "guest ticket" system, this will be the situation. ' As for alcohol, only one thing need, be said. The public display of acloholic .beverages is strictly illegal in North Carolina. Those who clamor that their "right" to drink has been abrogated by removing Jubilee to Kenan Stadium are wailing in the darkness; that "right" never existed. It is true that during Jubilee's first two years, the possession of alcoholic beverages by student spectators was often: overlooked by law enforcement officials. The traditions and -experiences of many years have shown University policemen that students who are not act ing boisterously . or offensively can be trusted to exercise good judgment and are better left alone. Otherwise, minor and inconsequential violations of the law would overburden campus and Chapel Hill policemen many times dur ing the average school year. ;; Despite this leniency, however, the official policy isand always has been to prohibit alcohol on campus. When GMAB took its stand, it was riot acting in defiance of student "rights;", the board simply took the only action it could take in attempting to end the drinking ; problem. It is easy to sympathize with the board, for the public outcry- against last year's violations was enormous, and Jubilee's directors are under significant public pressure. V Indeed, our only concern yesterday , was that the I enforcing of the regula- tibris was to be taken from the hands of students, and we remain firm in our con-'N viction that they haye enough maturity to obey the Jaw or suffer the conse quences, of its violation. : ' In summary, therefore, we support GMAB's basic decisions to move Jubi lee to the privacy of Kenan Stadium, and to make lits stand on alcohol clear. And while we regret the accompanying destruction of some of the aspects which have made the celebration unique and enjoyable, we feel that it is largely up to the student body to decide on the future status of Jubilee. Those who will accept the changes as necessary to the well-being of the Uni versity, and then proceed in the proper spirit of fun will probably find the week end as exciting and enjoyable as ever. Those who feel that the removal of disorder and misconduct will "destroy" Jubilee porbably should not have planned to be there in the first place. Three Good Ones Don't Miss 'Em Tonight the Senior Class holds its annual show parting shots. In the past, the speeches have proven to be of excep tionally high caliber. Judging from the I 72 Years of Editorial Freedom tta DsSy Tar Heel is the ofHcial news js3 catkm c! the University of North Carolina sad la piUshed fcy students dally except Mondays, examlaaStta periods and vacations. Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens, co-editors; Mike Yopp, Ernie Id cC vary, managing editors; Pete Wales, associate editor; Larry Tarle ton, sports editor; Mary ElUson Strother, wire editor; Mike Wiggin, nighty editor; Kerry Sipe, John Greenback', Fred Thorn as, staff writers; Bichard Cummins, Mike i 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 Baring ton, bus. f mgr.: Betsy Gray, asst. bus. mgr.; Wody m Sobol, ad. mgr.; J&hn Askew, asst. ad. 11 mgr.; Tom Clark, subscription mgr.; John S Evans, drculatibn mgr.; Dick Baddour; Jan J or gens en, Dan Warren, salesmen; Becky i Timberlake, Alexa Smith, secretaries. speakers tonight, this year should be no exception. Every speaker is intimately acquaint ed with a specific part of .Student Gov ernment, the campus or the University community. All speak well, and should provide an entertaining and possibly surprising) evening; Prior to the speeches, the Campus Chest Auction takes place. Students will have the opportunity to bid on items do nated by various organizations, and it is a general rule that there are some good deals to be had. The proceeds go to the ; Campus Chest, making the whole eve ning a worthy affair. We urge you to attend both shows we suspect you will be sorry if you don't. Incidentally, another excellent show comes on television tomorrow afternoon at approximately 12:25, when H. F. (Chub) Seawell Jr., the Sage of Carth age, takes over Channel 5's "Viewpoint" for a day. Now, our feelings on "View point," featuring Jesse Helmes, are well known, but it is well worth your time to watch OF Chub, who never fails to amuse, entertain and often "educate" with his lively delivery and classic :ounn try coloquialisms. Mm .kite .PiriHL g.O: Editors Note: The author is a former managing editor of the DTH and ; was a Harvard Nieman Fellow in 1231-52. By SYLVAN MEYER Editor, Gainesville, Ga., Daily Times, Written f r upj Among the reasons why events in the South have been diffi cult to understand is that they have been regarded piecemeal or through the eyes of partisans or through opposing quotes from the bitter opposites in the strug gle there.:' " : , , ... Taken incident by incident, the pattern is hard to see. For per spective, however, the scatter ed incidents must be viewed as a whole and some generaliza-, tions-evoked. And the basic gen eralization is that the central civil rights war is over. The central issues in controversy ov er consitutional rights, dating from the early 1950s, are de cided. : . ' The populace senses this in every southern state, with the possible exceptions of IMississ- ippi and Alabama where funda mental resistance is dead but doesn't know it yet What re mains of the war on constitu tional principle, against the hard core segregationist - white su premist faction is a mopping-up operation. ; There win be "more casualties as the light dawns late in small towns and in rural areas of predominantly Negro population, but the major strug gle is on a new level. Many Negroes and many whit es don't yet realize they are still arguing points long ago . set tled. But the effective leader ship recognizes it, and that in cludes the governor of Mississ ippi as well as the Rev.;, Mar tin Luther King. So some skir mishes, illustrated by Selma's recent problems, continue. These are pockets of anachronisms. They do not even qualify as rearguard actions because that cause is lost Bayard Rastin, who organiz ed the march on Washington, said it very well. He called on civil rights lead ers to recognize; that they are no longer .leading a ,p rotest movement , . .bait z a political ac tion movement. Their : post is made: They, hare- -a - national mandate, a national administra-. tion, an effective civil rights act. Those figures of national sta ture who wanted ; to deling to a two - class South have- practi cally surrendered- -Russell, Tal madge, Long -even - T h ur mond. ' V " .. . Senator Tahnadge, : a Georg ian whose father epitomized an ti Negro polities uot only re cognizes that the war is lost, he knows that half - a million Ne- "This Is Just In Case Jubilee's In The Stadium!" I- ;:;jr;i:SJSi$:::: iC5 s,s:?: i : - l - ; :9s;i:-:-.;w-5;:-s.--1 :-v 3 .. f '.; i. - i :::. -.r. :.-- . . .- Letters To The Editors Campus Radio Should Carry On Editors, The Tar Heel: I read with interest the sug gestions which Scott Edwards made concerning the proposed campus radio system. He is quite correct that the student body should be more concern ed with the control of the sta tion than any other aspect of the project. Unquestionably, the chairman of the Campus Radio Board of Directors should be directly re sponsible to the student body. For the station to become sub ject to partisan political whims Bad fMMj$G$ would be . an intollerable stua tion. . However", the thought of the campus being subjected to an other election after the abomi nations of the one which we have just endured is enough to give most of us nightmares. The newly elected legislature is the representative voice of the stu dent body. So far, not enough time has elapsed since the elections for resignations and partisan ap pointments to take place.; There fore, the new legislators should feel : more responsible to those who elected them than to any partisan obligations. To save the campus from the horror of another election, let the new legislature elect the first chairman of the campus Radio Board. Arrangements could cer tainly be, made after jthe station is in operation, to have , this po sition elected f by the .student body. . ' . - Gloria Stephenson 301 Spencer groes will be voting in Georgia when he comes tip for reelection. Revolution Is Over I would even go beyond what Mr. Rustin said. The revolution is over. Today's arena is not only political. It is social and economic, as well. The mere absence of public discrimination will no longer suf fice for Negro leadership. The movement is toward advantag es that will counterbalance an cient disadvantages. Mill i o n s of southern whit es have matured since 1954. Mil lions of Negroes will suffer fur ther indignities and disappoint ments before they themselves mature. ; Nevertheless, the new strug gles will be less violent than those of the past. In the area of economic ambition, the Ne gro may even return to his na tural ally, with whom he has not been joined since the early days of the Populists, .the economi cally deprived southern white. If class rapport has any vali dity; this will come about. So, the resistance to change in the South has -largely yield ed to the pressure of the courts, the federal government, fear of international embarrass ment, to its own costly and de sperate efforts to educate ev eryone, unequally or not. Other forces are at work too. The prosperity of the South, the invasion of Yankee capital and Yankee management (while able southerners- were moving North to run the corporations, able northerners came South as branch managers). Millions of Negroes moved from the South, reducing pressures to some ex tent but even more important ly proving the mobility of the Negro and his capacity in less restricted socieifces. Which brings us to another point about the South, and very likely about the North, too. It is the instructive value of crisis, lihe Mississippi murders, though brutal and needless, have a cer tain value; just as the Freedom Riders, the Peace Walkers and Oxford, Miss., and Albany, Ga., and the rest moved thousands of people. A modern community, domi nated by its economic power structure and anxious for order, . will not long tolerate chaos. Eventually, .people who don't want to see other people hit on the head or decent communi ties torn asunder begin to speak out. They want their communi ties restored to normalcy. When the crisis begins to Jass, as it always has, the pressure of de cent citizens, of the courts, of the courts, of the national will and of justice itself moves solu tions in. a constructive direc tion. I certainly don't advocate crisis, but Little Rock's trage dy .prevented . one in. Atlanta; Oxford's prevented one in Tuscaloosa.- Selma's - will prevent others. . Atlanta's school desegregation in 1960 was peaceful but pain . fully won. No one really knew what would happen. Four years later the mayor of Atlanta went to Washington to testify in favor of the civil rights bill. In 1953, Marvin Griffin became governor of Georgia on a states rights, "bitterly anti - Negro ticket. In 1962, Carl Sanders became go- Ruybum vernor on a ticket concentrating on improving educational oppor tunities for all citizens of the state. Of course, the principal harm done by the Sheriff Clarks and the George Wallaces today is that they keep the minds of their people off the larger problems of the South and the nation. They also let the people of the North find excuses for their own failure to build a completely non - dis criminatary society and point to the degraded South again. The speed of change, now, will vary from place to place. There is a shortage of Negro leader ship, especially in the smaller communities where a lack of job opportunities drives qualified young people away. The new Negro middle class, deeply concerned about racial image, must show more pa tience and empathy toward the Negro poor and ignorant. In deed, increased stratification of the Negro community is one of the new problems, or at east, is a problem becoming apparent in the new situation. It is one of the issues on the new plateau. The new issues are no easier than the old ones. Indeed, just shifting gears on problems is a problam. The Negro is searching for a new principle to justify such ac tions as bussing children across school district lines in order to achieve integraiton. This is quite different from nondiscrimin ation. It raises not only consti tutional questions, from the oth er end you might say, but feeds the white backlash idea. It pro duces concern in whites who have just made one, for them, difficult and somewhat exalting adjustment, that the Negro will use race for advantage rather than equality. A new tone of political Iibcr tarianism overlies the aspect of the new situation. A liberal must now be pro - Negro, not mereiy pro - justice for individuals. We saw in Atlanta, when Mar tin Luther King's SCLC joined striking workers at Scripfo, the issue of civil rights in a labor dispute. The workers were lar gely Negro, but this was the first incident that I know of in which a working, on - ths - scene relationship between the labor and civil rights movements won a wage issue on a picket line. Most important is the C i v i 1 Rights Act itself and the chan ged posture of the federal es tablishment. Before the act the federal government moved through policial pressure, mor al persuasion, the courts and constitutional legalisms, and these were often broadly mis interpreted , and misunderstood. The Civil Rights Act puts the U. S. directly ino the picture " now. The government can ad minister programs of reform. It has legislated itself out of the position of referee and into the position of participant. Additionally, the federal gov at once, on the entire field of social and economic reform. The economic opportunities act will try to move the disadvantaged Negro and white out of a hope lessly cycle ofpoverty and ignor ance and in the process will ex pose hundreds of thousands of southerners to constructive, in tegrated experiences. JBiiildiiig 'Chesr Drive Not Design WuncMoniI BITTER CITY By RANDALL RODEN The Carolina gentleman puffed himself up like a hog - nosed snake And stalked through the forest of tinker toys Infatuated with his two point O his frat an' his GTO mclining his head slightly and speaking reverently to the eye-dot painters in the Mickey Mouse factory Yes sir, yes sir! . three bags full ' Scowling at the silly freak the dirty beat-nik: " " ' reading writing . philosophy ' poetry God, what a phony! Disdainfully he turned his head from the higeous sight ignoring the night, . He regained the coveted warmth of the frat house complete with its built - in dpfpneo , i,on?cm nf erouD euts. He was a tarheel horn and bred, onaa a v-wecK blanket on his bed, Wi tn a pin striped pillow and a madras sheet. He sleeps with his scotch grains on his feet, i Easy boy, don't call him grit! LjS3SI2SEI . Straight-Forward Editors, The Tar Heel: ; In reply; to : 'the ; "Editors' Note", concerning the WUS edi torial and "answering" . my. let ter on the Gampus Chest: ; 1) The editorial explaining the World University Service was written only, after Pete Wales was contacted by a representa tive of WUS who was even more disturbed by this . campaign than L However, such editorials, printed earlier in the. campaign and covering each of the insti tutions to be aided, would serve to partially correct the publicity methods now being used by the Campus Chest. 2) Least of all did I wish to discredit the five institutions. In fact, I think each of them repre sents a major area of need, and I encourage everyone to contri bute as he is able and as he deems necessary. 3) The Campus Chest is need ed, but when it devolves from a "charitable" - organization to a charity in itself, desperately de vising ridiculous publicity stunts for naught but its own sustenance and "making a good showing," I encourage no one to waste his money on these hypo crticial apologies for solicita tion. - In short and in particular, ra ther than public lotteries, I pro pose straight - forward methods of solicitation, enabling one to make a true "contribution." Chip Sharpe " 220 Ehringhaus By ART BUCHWALD The New York Herald Tribune WASHINGTON Every once in a while I feel I should come to the defense of Congress. Our Re presentatives, who are constant ly saving us money, looking af ter our intersts, and keeping the peace have been under fire because of a silly building in Washington which has just been built to house their new offic ers. The Rayburn House Office Building was built to take care of 169 Congressmen and their staffs. It is modest in propor tions and takes up only two city blocks. The architects, build ers, and Congressmen managed to complete the entire thing for only $125 million, which in these days of high prices for marble and carpeting is a bargain. . Originally the building was supposed to cost only $64 mil lion, but unfortunately this price didn't include the plumb ing and welcome mats, and al though the estimate was more than doubled I see no reason why they American taxpayer should complain. Architecturally, the building has been a great success and has been compared, to some of the finest state penitentiaries in the country. It has been called 4Edifice Rex, "Forest Lawn East," and "The Seventh Blunder of t h e World" by some critics who do not know a good thing when they see it. But the majority of people are happy with its simple lines and modest grandeur. While it is beautiful from the outside, it is also functional from the inside. For example, al though the building is only four stories high, 15 per cent of the building has been allocated for offices and hearing rooms, and the rest of the space has been set aside for hallways, stair cases, and parking space for 1,100 automobiles. . Eight of the nine rooms set aside for permanent commit tees are two stories high and seat as many as 130 people. There hasn't been one wasted inch of room in the entire build ing. Each Congressman has his own washroom and safe, but his suite of offices has been de signed in such a way that if he wants to speak to his aid or staff he has to walk through his waiting room. This gives the Congressman ready access to his constituents, which is the way the architects planned iL There is a 60 - by - 20 swim ming pool, a 112 - by - 40 foot gym, five dining rooms, a cafe teria and a courtyard. The art work has also been praised by many. One critic called it the greatest example of Bolshevik modern in this country. Another said that students would come from all over the world to stare at the art work in amazement. In any case, the criticism of the Rayburn House Building has been unjustified. You can't build a "$125 million office building making a few mistakes, and if there was any hint that the buil ding was a waste of taxpayers money, Congress would certain ly investigate it. Wouldn't they?
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