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Page 2 Friday, April 30, 1G5 i if i Opinions o! the Dailv Taw tti - . . . , . oic c&prcssea in us eaiior- m tri oIumns covering a wide range of views. 8 reflect the nersnnni & r vyuiuua weir auinors. w trxmmmsgmm It's Here At Last Thank goodness Jubilee is finally here. It has been such a hot item of interest so frequently cussed and discussed that for a while it looked as if the event itself would be an anti-climax. But there is no chance that will happen. The weatherman says "fair, with the temperature in the 70s." More than 1,300 guest tickets have been issued by Graham Memorial for "invited outsiders." Dates have been made since weeks, even months ago, and a general state of anticipation has the whole campus in a good mood. And South Building seems pretty calm, even though the show will be taking place just outside its doors. All the makings are in the works for this to be the best weekend in the year. There is no reason why it should not . be and there is no excuse for behavior which might endan ger the return of Jubilee for more good times in years to come. ' Or even worse, consider this consequence. If our good friends in the General Assembly hear next Monday that a drunken orgy has taken place in Chapel Hill they might get in the mood to pass some new legislation. The law would probably say that no state-supported college or university jnay allow anyone to use its facilities for speaking pur poses, who: (a) has taken the Fifth in refusing to answer questions with respect to actions while under the influence of alcohol, or (b) is known to be in favor of sex. The University's budget is yet to be approved, but of course we all know our fine legislators wouldn't stoop so low as to try to "teach us a lesson" by juggling with funds for higher education. Many times the way something is done is just as import ant as what is done. A program such as Jubilee falls into that category. Confusion And Mrs. UNC It's a good thing Mrs. UNC contests aren't held often. Open warfare might break out among student wives and their families if they were. The contest which ends today is just a publicity gim mick for the premiere of MGM's movie "Joy in the Morn ing" which will be held here May 5, but it had good poten tial. Ten organizations, most of them wives clubs have en tered contestants, ' and the one chosen Mrs. UNC will win about $600 worth of merchandise from local merchants. But the method of choosing the winner has caused such an uproar that some of the women are sorry they ever entered. The contest is being run as a direct vote election, with ballot boxes in the participating stores. The real break down, however, has come from the fact that the rules vir tually legalize ballot stuffing. Supposedly, anyone who can sign his name may vote, but some eager mothers want the representative from their group to win so badly that they vote in the names of all their children even the babies. Voting in every store every day is allowed, which mul tiplier the problem. The storekeepers and clerks cannot be expected to keep a close watch on the voters, and it is a simple matter to pick up a handful of ballots and walk out the door with them. The meetings of some of the clubs have . reportedly been spent lately marking large numbers of ballots for its candidate. The original purpose of the contest to picK the ideal campus wife" has been forgotten and some of the con testants and many bystanders have called it a farce. The contest is a good idea, Dut something has gone wrong. Perhaps the prize is too large. The incentive to ,iMget out the vote" seems to have run wild. The whole thing has resembled a campaign for political office, com plete with posters, newspaper advertisements and behind-the-scenes politicking. A lack of central control has confused everyone and in an attempt to be democratic the contest's planners have not been too successful. The basic setup leaves something -to be desired because it prevents the participation of al most anyone from outside one of the 10 groups which have "sponsored candidates, t We're not worried about the outcome, however. The qualifications of each of the candidates assures us that any of them deserves the Mrs. UNC title. It is by no means the fault of the candidates themselves that so much dis sension and contusion has occurred, Calling AH Chairmen The Carolina Symposium is already getting its big plans for 1966 underway. . The job is a tough one, and it will take the hard work nd cooperation of many people to get it done. George Butler, Symposium chairman, and his officers will begin interviews for committee chairmanships next Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Symposium's Y-Buiiding office. Sign-up sheets, available there and at the desk in Graham Memorial, should be filled out before Tuesday. Committee positions open are Publicity, Related Dis cussions, Intercollegiate Seminar, Social and Hospitality, Physical Arrangements, Finance and Office. Complete in formation about each committee and its function is with the chairmanship application form, which can be obtained at the sign-up places. ; This biennial program has existed in various forms Since 1927. The series has brought wide acclaim to the University and has attracted many top speakers from a variety of professions. 5 Butler and his officers have already made a good start, but they neecj committee chairmen to help with the task qf organizing the program. We urge qualified students to take an interest in this work and give, it your wholehearted support. Second Class postage paid at the post office in Chapel IXi, The Spring Papers ' nemies Of. Natural Allie By JAMES GARDNER And TIMOTHY RAY Second In A Series - In our first paper we contended that the Free Speech Movement and the three other liberal action groups on this campus, SPU, NAACP, and Chapel Hill CORE have failed to stimulate significant dialogue or social change growing out of free dialogue because they have failed to understand the structure of the larger campus community. We have described that larger commu nity structure as one that can be under stood best as a successfully functioning "consensus establishment." It is a social model in which a large number of semi autonomous student and faculty groups function for the most part cooperatively with a decentralized administration, itself dependent for economic and political ex istence on a larger consensus establish ment within North Carolina. Questions of power among parts tend not to come to real prominence within such a social model as long as a consensus as to goals and procedures is maintained. Exactly the same thing is true of any liberal action group ing that operates on the model of its own consensus establishment. We hold it to be self-evident that any consensus establishment, powerful or weak, liberal or conservative, large or small, needs free self-evaluation and the stimulus of respectible, radical critiques from with in or without its borders if it is to be healthy and creative. Why have the liberal action group on this campus in the last two years or so failed to achieve this goal of a productive critical dialogue within the University?; We contend that their failure lies in not under standing the structure around them "and within themselves. This failure has led them to make three very unrealistic de mands upon those outside their tiny mem berships who would, more understanding approached, be their natural allies: The demands liberal action groups have made upon their natural allies within the student body, especially the graduate in structors, the faculty, and members of the administration sympathetic to their gen eral commitments have been excessive and unreasonable. As a result,, the liberal groups have alienated and antagonized those without whose aid and counsel they are absolutely powerless to begin produc tive dialogue and effect any major change 6& Shhhh.'" -gWM!W,.w.ii..v.-.n.. i IMIIIIW....II.J.WU- r-'-v;;,ll'-,lllll:lw ' s ' v ; ' ' V jr , i 1 v ' " lr J ' , it r 7- v; V . ."-.,.T -t -.W.-.-.V . .--,-.w j.- ..v..- v a I-' V s5&g of opinion or behavior on this campus. With few exceptions undergraduate opin ion here on matters of a social, political, economic and academic, nature is carried onto the campus out of the heart of the consensus establishment of the white middle-class Protestant society of the mid South. That society, as study after study has shown, is essentially authoritarian, the base of authority residing in family struc tures centered about a strong father and a submissive-aggressive mother. The only rebellion against that pattern of authority which the majority of Carolina undergrad uates are capable of mounting on their own strength is against already ambivalent and therefore vulnerable attitudes on the parts of their parents toward sexual mores, drinking, religious practice in general, and ideas of proper dress and discipline in work. These have been the only foci of ten sion within the local consensus establish ment for some time now for the great ma jority of undergraduates. Questions of ide ology whether it be political, social, ?co nomic, or academic philosophy simply do not arise in a deeply significant way. They will not, cannot, arise on this campus un less the liberal action groups who wish to challenge received values in these areas win the respect and support of a signifi cant number of parental substitutes among the graduate instructors, full-time faculty, and administrative deans and advisors with whom the students are thrown into contact. These are the forces liberal ac tion groups have alienated by making A Lesson In Liberty From The St. Louis Post - Dispatch Recently the University of Missouri's Board of Curators adopted a resolution re asserting the school's "historic mission of search for truth." ' The resolution says that faculty and stu dents shall enjoy "the same rights of free speech and opinion as other citizens." Such resolutions ought to be - unneces sary at great universities steeped in aca demic . freedom, but the statement proved useful at a House Appropriations Commit . tee hearing where it was read .by Uni versity President Elmer Ellis. One state representative asked Presi dent Ellis about newspaper articles print ed in Jefferson City and Rolla about so cialists on the campus. Dr, Ellis said there was a small socialist club and one facul ty member who was a socialist, The leg islator asked why the professor .was re tained. "Because he does his job," Dr. Ellis replied. This is the nub of the matter. A pro fessor who teaches well is entitled to his job and his opinion if he does not Use his teaching as a forum for propaganda.- This lesson was learned many years ago at most major universities, Unfortun ately it sometimes has to be retaught to a few Missouri legislators. But, then, there tnay be some value to repeating lessons of liberty. have three impossible demands upon them. The first foolish demand they made upon their potential allies is to a k these allies to accept the lamentably u it self critical and basically anti-intell?ciua! atmosphere within the action groups, v.'o have failed to recognize that, rightly enough, concerned graduate instructors ar.1 faculty do not wish to surrender the intel lectual integrity that is their hibit ar.1 gift within their own academic disciplin- to thoughtless and ill-coaceived action, however well-intended that action may ho or however heroic its appeal. The genus, acadsmicus is seldom acti vist unless the proposed action ever, -h? action of sharply critical dialogue pro ceeds out of unimpeachable intellectual e amination. A thoughtful man must be challenged with thought he can respect if not initially agree with. To declare care ful intellectual sorting out obstructionist t r weak-willed is to invite the quite justifiable disdain of those whose life work is thought. The second unreasonable demand, close ly allied to the first, is to ask our poten tial allies to swallow a worn-out and weari some rhetoric of professional liberalism at the same time rejecting the fruitful tie v terminology of current research in politi cal science, sociology, psychology, and the , study of academic institutions themselves a discipline as yet unchristened with an ."ology" term. - By assuming a morally superior stance that seems to need no thought, we have isolated ourselves from the enormous re sources available to us locally. We are not saying that thoughtful men have not shout ed or sung "Freedom Now" or "R?ttor Red than Dead." They have, but in the streets and not in the careful, exploratory dialogue out of which all effective street action has come. In such dialogue, care less assumptions that all fraternity men or all administrators, or all persons of a non-activist nature are per se on the "other side" have no place. The third destructive demand has been ah unwillingness to undertake the hard, slow research into the nature of the con sensus establishment without which any real challenge to it is doomed. Only fools risk something let us say their work able if uncomfortable berth in the estab lishment for nothing. By failing to un dertake genuinely respectable and intel lectually challenging research into what or may not bs an enemy, the action groups have made an enemy of much of the University. They then have attacked it at its periphery where it is always capable, pos sessing superior bulk and momentum, to changes and remain unchallenged to un dertake any radical self-examination ex change. To picket the hospital for instance without knowing the full facts of the rela tionship between the Division of Health Affairs and the Board of Trustees and the General Assembly may be emotionally re warding hut cannot possibly win the sup port of an intern until he is offered a chance of winning something he has come to feel and know is significant. And with out the aid of some interns, some faculty, some administrators they need not be many but they must be intelligently com mitted any cause at the hospital, for example, is doomed. The same pattern holds true throughout the University. The Center Ring Ku-Klux Klan: 'Beware Of False Prophets. e e By JOHN GREENBACKER DTH News Editor ..: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. "Right now Americans are looking up at the sky and wondering when Russian bombs are going to come falling down on them." The speaker was slim, well dressed, and spoke with an even - tempered voice. The crowd accepted his every word, and some even looked up in anticipation. "The Nigras in American are being duped by the communist conspiracy." Robert Shelton, a native of Tuscaloosa, Ala., gas station attendent, and Imperial Wizard of the Knights of Ku Klux Klan, had been speaking for nearly an hour, and he was destined to speak for an hour more. Skillfully he fed his listeners a mam moth jumble of suspicions and ad homi nem arguments casting doubt with equal fervor on the intentions of U. S. govern ment officials and the majority of the Am erican people. "Now let's talk about Lyndon Baines Johnson," Shelton said, obviously singing an old refrain. . "Hell no! Let's not!" rasped a voice in the crowd of nearly 5,000. Sir, I wish you wouldn't use language like that," Shelton admonished, unaware of his own irony. "We have ladies and little children in the audience." He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. 'I'm sorry you people have to stand up out there," Shelton apologized, "but we haven't as yet contracted with the Shino la Shoe Polish Company to buy enough black polish to smear on our faces so we can get a municipal building." He wasn't the only speaker. Two men who called themselves "Reverend" also spoke during the rally, and in every other sentence they invoked the name of Jesus Christ. The first to speak was a fat man in a business suit. With all the bearing and de meanor of a toad, he rolled up to the microphone. Like a steam engine, It took him a little time to build up speed and power, but within a few minutes he was harrang ing the crowd with his strident croak ings. "You got to believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ the Lord or suffer eternal damnation!" His beady eyes glistened from the moist protoplasm of his face. His violently contorted mouth grimaced with every new phrase. The "Reverend" spoke of love. "You newsmen out there! I know how you print lies, but, bless God, even you can be saved by the love of Christ Jesus, if you'll only believe I "You can forget your white heritage," he told the crowd. "You can go down to nigger town and carry on with some black wench!" With every thought he mixed the Bible with racial hatred. "If the good Lord had intended to make you black, he would have made you black." He was gasping for breath now, and the strain of his exertions had caused his thick, coarse skin to dribble sweat. It was oozing through the thin fabric of his shirt, "You can have little mongrel children, but your sinning will condemn you to the sulphurous pits of hell - fire and damna tion for eternity." But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. A Klansman mounted the platform to ease the crowd's tensions with a few jok-r es. They were about "the niggers." Each one was filled with more hate and vilifica. tion than the last. t "Now Bob Shelton can call 'em 'ne groes ' but Ah call 'em by the only way Ah know how: with a little n' and two g's' " Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake; far their's is the kingdom of heaven." "And then the ole nigger preacher sees this high yaller wench lying on the bed, he decides to change his mind," The stories continued. "An you know, this ole nigger woman tole the welfare man she just had to have another baby so's she could get herself another raise!" His, audience loved him. . Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. The second ."Reverend" came fo the stand, dressed in a hooded robe of jet black, Hi3 voiee and intonation bore resem- blanee to that of Billy Graham, but in the heat of his fervor the voice broke, words came harshly, and the darfc, cabalistic folds of his robe waved mysteriously in the wind. "Oh God," he sobbed, "Why can't our younger generation have a vision as I did?. How can they all be saved from, sin? "God, help us," he begged, "God, help us J" Before the rally ended, the Klansmen and their ladies had to perform one last ceremony. Standing iq the middle of a bare field, its heights towering into the night air, was the cross of Jesus Christ. With lighted torches, the Klansmen mads a vast eircje, paid homage to its massive timbers and then destroyeel it com pletely with their flames, . The white and red robes passed in re view, symbols of a Jost generation. living in a modern world. Someone in the crowd uttered the single word, TUiful," ftu I say unto yea, Jove year enemies, bless them that corse yon, do good to them tbat hate yon. that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heav en. For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. IIO??P KLANSMEN watch as a 50 foot Mzh cross erupts in flame to end PS E3aa rally last weekend near Dur ham. Photo by Jim Rambo.
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