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Page 2 Tuesday, May 11, 1965 In The Mailbox I 5 r Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in Its editor ials Letters and columns, covering a nrm i-nrr, r viAm reflect the personal opinions of their authors. i You Are Invited . . It's that time of year when secret honorary societies come forth and bestow the great favor of initiation upon the fortunate few. - "Loyal orders" exist for practically everything, but we see a definite void yet unfilled. We propose a new society, the Loyal Tar Heel Order of Carolina Gentlemen. It will not be a secret organization and no initiates will be forced to stumble around campus " or nearby boondocks at 4 a.m. There will be no discrimina tion in selecting members and there will be no stereotyped initiation speech, filled with "welcome" cliches. Some of the existing societies charge an initiation fee of almost $15, elect some new officers and disappear until next year. We will eliminate this rather unethical practice by making the LTHQOCG an organization which really has something to offer. The fee will be a paltry $5. Member ship will be limited to 8,000 students. A beautifully en graved certificate of membership will be given to each initiate, but the really unprecedented thing is that the LTHOOCG will have meetings. Mass gatherings will be held next September 18, Oc tober 2, October 16, October 30 and November 6. The site has been, tentatively set for the south stands of Kenan Stadium. Consider this to be your formal invitation to member ship. Send $5, cash or check, to the Editor, Daily Tar Heel chairman of the LTHOOCG and you will soon be a part of the most elite society on campus. . Medical College, Junior Grade THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Last week's preliminary report by the Medical Center Study Commission gave the lie to Eastern North Carolina charges that Charlotte was determined to land a state med ical school regardless of its merit and need. I The commission includes three Charlotteans who joined in the report to the General Assembly that neither Charlotte nor East Carolina College should get a medical school at this time. Instead, the commission recommended that the state finance expansion of the existing facilities at the Univer sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and student-aid pro grams at Duke University and Wake Forest. East Carolina partisans, including Senate President pro tern Robert Morgan of Harnett, began at once to attack the integrity of the committee rather than debunk its find ings. Morgan doubles in brass as chairman of the ECC board of trustees. The progress report (the commission asked that its study be extended beyond the 1965 session) said Charlotte and Charlotte College are years away from any serious 1 A r C 3i 1 1 1 T4. 3-3 3 4- consiuerauon oi a lour-ytmi uieuicai suiiuui. n auueu mat a proposed two-year school at ECC would be wasteful and futile. - ' Both Sen. Morgan, and ECC President Leo Jenkins im plied that commission members had made up their minds against ECC before the study began. But anyone bothering to read the 33-page report would be most unobjective to deny the validity of the commission's findings and the in tegrity of its efforts to get at them. In addition to Dr. James M. Alexander, Dr. Addison G. Brenizer Jr., and John W. Rankin of Charlotte, the dis tinguished study group's membership includes William F. Henderson, executive secretary of the N. C. Medical Care Commission chairman; Dr. W. Reece Berryhill and Dr Henry T. Clark Jr. of Chapel Hill; Mrs. George L. Car rington of Burlington; Dr. Joseph C. Hinsey, director of the New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center; and Dr. Vernon W. Lippard, dean of the school of medicine at Yale University. The study is being directed by Dr. John B. Truslow, formerly dean of the Medical College of Virginia and most recently executive dean and director of the University of Texas Medical Center at Galveston. These are hardly people .whose motives should be im pugned. Nor is the ECC rah-rah talk' engaged in by Presi dent Jenkins any serious substitute for the kind of solid information and opinion in, the preliminary report. To the cry that there were no members from east of Raleigh on the commission, we would remind the people that the study resulted from a proposal by Dr. W. D. James of Hamlet in 1963 that a medical school be established in Charlotte. The two-year , school at ECC was not a burning question at that time. The interest of the General Assem bly was to select well - qualified commission members without regard to places of residence. The report revealed that the commission yielded neith er f o prejudice nor expediency in affirming that a matter of this importance and expense shouldn't be, decided by a public-opinion poll, by political pressure or by individual institutional ambitions. . As for Charlotte's part in this matter, we are willing to take "no" for an answer until such time as conditions may change enough to sustain our case for a medical school! While ECC has not taken the report in the same spirit, the General Assembly would be flying in the face of the fiscal and medical realities of the hour to make an initial appropriation of $1.5 million for a medical college, junior grade, at Greenville. Goodykoontz Tops Teacher List aily Wwc wl i $3 m II The Dally Tar Heel is lie official sews publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily exeept Mondays, examination periods and vacations. Stteesd Class postage paid at the pest office in Chapel mil. NT. C Subscription rates: 54-53 per semester; $S per year. Printed fey. the Chapel CHI Publishing Co., Inc. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed ia this newspaper as wen as all AP news dispatches. f I IS SSI I if IJ Editor, The Daily Tar Ileel: In my four years as an undergraduate, I have witnessed a great deal of conflict and controversy about the University. Some of it has, by my own standards, been tri vial, some has not. A news item in Wednesday's DTH gave me the greatest shock I've received since becoming a student here. The item con cerned an organizational meeting of stu dents and faculty members interested in the "publish or perish" policy which has received recent emphasis by the release of Dr. William Goodykoontz from the De partment of English. I had previously been aware of the "publish or perish" problem, but as such a system seemed to me to be incompatible with higher education, I had considered it to be more fiction than fact. . It was implied in the news item that Goodykoontz had been relased because he failed to publish. As student, I have only incidentally been aware of which profess ors have or have not published. I do not know if this was the reason Goodykoontz was released, but I am sure that the dismissal he received made no mention of a lack of ability in teaching, for in this area he excels. I may be suf fering from a misunderstanding, but I had supposed that this was the job he was hired to do, and this he has done. Since I have been at the University, I have had four faculty members I would consider as teachers, and Goodykoontz tops the list. The DTH was to offer further disappoint ment Thursday. After reading the news item, I immediately turned to the editor ial page, fully expecting an editorial re view of the situation. There was none. I can only hope that this will not be the case in the future. Past months have of fered an abundance of news, editorials, and letters on coed dating practices, metered motorcycle parking and hamburger stands. Personally, I have little concern for such subjects, but I am concerned with the qual ity of the education I receive, and that which will be available for future genera tions. If the "publish or perish" policy exists, and causes the firing of men such as Goody koontz, it is the system that must go, and not highly qualified teachers Terry Ronner 203-B Branson Flurry Of 'Facts' Counters Column Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: A few facts to falsify Rothman's at tempt at a column last Thursday. Rothman: The progressive' dogma- "Help Me, Charlie, I'm Not Supposed To Be Tapped T Z K 99 Tonight. v - f "'tV 'i- "M TUffiV V.Vi UMO May Prove Useful To Mayors From South By ART BUCHWALD New York Herald Tribune WASHINGTON The Honorable Rep. William Dickinson of Alabama has just put in the Congressional Record his char ges of sexual orgies in the march from Selma to Montgomery. While everyone is concerned about these, the main prob lem at the moment seems to be what's happening in Washington when a Southern Mayor visits this town. Recently another Southern Mayor, this time from Arkansas, was bilked in a flim flam game in Washington. As with the Mayor of Selma, Ala., the victim was out on the town looking for fun and games. Instead his guide left him holding a brown envelope with newspaper clippings in it in what has now become known as the "Mur phy" game. ('Put your money in this en velope mister, so it will be safe.") Many public-spirited citizens in Washington have become deeply disturbed by what is hap pening to our Southern mayors when they come to the nation's capital. They've de cided something has to be done about it, not only to protect their good names, but also to protect the good name of the city. The trouble seems to be that when a small town Southern mayor comes to Washington he doesn't have enough to do at night He's left more or less to his own devices and, not knowing the ways of a big city, he's bound to get into difficulty. Therefore, a group of citizens have de cided to start a sort of USO for small town mayors, where they could come in the evening and play ping - pong and get hot dogs and hamburgers and meet nice girls from good homes instead of the type, they are bound to run into if they're left on their own . The UMO (United Mayor's Organization) as it would be called, would avise mayors on where they could get clean rooms, what there was to see in Washington, and how to avoid being cheated by undesirable elements in the city. "Why do you think mayors are so sus ceptible to the flimflam game,'M asked a spokesman for the UMO. He replied, "We have Mayors coming in all the time, many from small Southern towns, homesick and far from their famil ies. "If they had a decent place to go in the evenings, they wouldn't be tempted by all the debauchery in Washington. We owe it to them to see they have someone to talk to, a friendly ear to listen to their troub les, and a person who can keep them from getting their pockets picked. "I know that if our club had been going neither the mayor from Selma nor the mayor from the town in Arkansas would have lost any money when they were here." "Sir, what is your advice to a small town mayor coming to Washington for a meeting?" Tirst of all, he shouldn't speak to stran gers no matter how accommodating they sound. Secondly, if anyone tries to sell him something like the Washington Monu ment, he should check with a reliable source to make sure the monument has not been sold already." "Thirdly, if anybody suggests 'enter tainment' not of a theatrical nature, the mayor should reject the offer and. report it to one of our chaperones at the clubs." "Isn't it true that many mayors who are afraid to integrate at home are trying to do it in Washington, D. C. ?" "That seems to be the problem, he said "We believe in integration, but we do not 'think it should take place after 12 o'clock at night. , That's when all the trouble starts." tists" are too busy worrying about Viet Nam and similar matters to attack this situation (that only 84 Negroes attend UNC( with the same vigor they use in denounc ing U. S. foreign policy." Fact: Our little group is very aware of the tokenism of UNC integration, and since UNC administrators have not re cruited at Negro high schools unless epcifi cally asked by a high school, we have set up a recruitment program to remedy this lack. We've spent hundreds of hours writing to Negro high schools throughout the state, getting information, and asking if we could come and speak to juniors and sen iors. We have driven probably thousands of miles to these high schools, spending valuable time and money to present our program of slides of the campus and in formation about financial assistance, ad mittance requirements and curriculums. We have taken students on tours, ar ranged interviews, gotten information -for them. Faculty members have helped us financially. (No publicity from the Tar Heel though.) Rothman: "UNC students have asso ciated the protestors' radical stands on oth er issues with their support of integration." Fact: This misassociation is more the fault of the press than our fault because we happen to have minds that function on more than one topic. To my knowledge, no member of Chapel Hill CORE or UNC NAACP belongs to SPU. Not that I am dis crediting SPU. I admire anyone wTho acts on his convictions. I am just saying that a distinction must be made between groups, a distinction that the DTH constantly ig nores by calling us all The Unshaven Ones, the 'Progressive dogmatists, or whatever. Neither local or national CORE or NAA CP have taken a stand, radical or other wise, on the other issue Rothman men tions, Viet Nam. Individual members have individual opinions, ranging from the view that we must die, if necessary, to make men free everywhere to the view that civil rights aren't going to do much good after World War III. Individual members act individually on these beliefs as their con sciences dictate. The vast majority of people active in civil rights are not active in the peace protest; they haven't time; we have work to do. But for the ones who are, what of it: We're not allowed to think on two issues at once? Roghman's shabby coverage of the peace march on Washington locally, and efforts to find any stone to throw at civil rights nationally, have led people to think we are all one, dirty, bearded, screaming bunch of idiots, "viewing protest as an end to it self." Sorry. Wish reporting were quite that simple. , Rothman subjectively decides that thus, we "lose one of their few legitimate bat tles: the fight for racial equality." He may find that in the long run, his personal be lief that the peace protest is not legitimate is false too. Our wars are certainly our most important international issues, as civil rights is our most important domestic is sue. Public discussion and active expres sions of opinion on such a vital issue are to be expected and welcomed, not discred ited and shushed merely because you dis agree with them without knowing what they really say. Rothman: " End the wary!" the stal warts yell. Then, once they catch your ear, they admit they don't have a definite solution in mind." Fact: It is ironic that on the same page one finds Constance Ray's excellent letter on a solution to Viet Nam, one of many, ideas which have appeared even in the DTH letters and reprints. Carol Schmidt 326 Kenan Faculty Urged To Take Action Editor, the D aily Tar Heel : I for one am delighted to see a Students for Teachers movement springing up, but I must admit it seems one - sided. Why have alert, unpublished teachers deliver brilliant lectures to an audience of students who have become exhausted from working overtime on term papers? Students will have to devote their whole energies to classroom listening if they are to be properly appreciative of their teachers' new high - powered perform ances; it is therefore imperative that the faculty institute a simultaneous Teachers for Students movement to liberate us from the oppressive system which threatens us with dismissal unless we research dozens of subjects in a year and submit our ideas to our classes on paper. J. K. Honck 400 McCauley St. Letters The Daily Tar Heel welcomes let ters to the editor on any subject, par ticularly on matters of local er Uni versity interest. Letters should be typed, double spaced and include the name and address of sender. Names will not be omitted in publication. Letters should be kept as brief as possible. The DTH reserves the right to edit for length. Breaking Up I Power Blocks By CHRISTOPHER KELLERMAN .The past year and especially the past six months have witnessed a phenomenal amount of independence and realignment within. the traditional two power blocks. This has been particularly noticeable in the case of the Western alliance since President Johnson took office. The President has been so very successful in domes tic affairs that the international scene has witnessed an almost "couldn't care less" attitude being developed by America to ward her allies and the non - aligned world. . This disintegration can't be attributed on ly to Washington since both the countires of Western Europe and Asia have been follow ing increasinly independent paths. French President Charles ds Gaulle seems to have succeeded in disrupting NA TO and the Atlantic alliance. The mixed nuclear fleet seems to have been shelved indefinitely, and America no longer seems very interested in organizing a European nuclear club. France is boycotting the SEATO ministerial meeting set this week as a direct protest toward American po licy in Viet Nam. Last week Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko was in Paris and there is every indication that the Russians are keen to improve relations with Western Europe, especially now that relations with America are so strained over Viet Nam. De Gaulle has always sought to im prove east - west relations independently of America, and his policy seems to be paying dividends. France has also been improving relations with Britain, although admittedly this has been on purely techni cal, non-political projects. And Britain is still very far away from applying to join the Common Market again. Germany, perhaps America's strongest ally in Europe, will face elections in Sep tember, and there is still no clear indic ation of whether Germany envisions her future in a Gaullist Europe or in the At lantic community. However, the shelving of the mixed nuclear fleet obviously snub bed Germany the most since they had the most to gain by getting a finger on the .nuclear triggjer, because unlike Britain and France, Germany has no independent nuclear deterrent. Relations with Britain have also cooled off partly because the left wing of the La , bor Party has always been traditionally anti - American and this feeling is start ing to spread through the rest of the party over America's policy in Viet Nam. Prime Minister Harold Wilson received a rather cool reception in Washington re cently, and I don't think Britain's efforts to seek negotiations with China and North Veit Nam have been really appreciated by President Johnson. Turkey is another interesting case of al lied independence. There seems to be de veloping a 'modus Vivendi between Turkey and Russia, who in the past have been bit ter enemies, especially since Russia has recently supported Greece over Cyprus. Turkey is also hoping to cut her military commitment with NATO, which in the past has been crippling. In Asia the story seems to be the same. Pakistan, an important country in SEATO, has been having very important negotia tions with China and President Ayub Khan has recently been in Peking. Although these negotiations have probably been at the ex pense of India, they nevertheless show in creasing independence among America's staunch allies. Although this trend is not new, it has certainly been heightened by American pol icies of the last few months. There is no doubt that the daily bombings cf North Viet Nam have been greatly resented in Europe and although only De Gaulle has shown open hostility, there is a general feel ing that America has gone too far. Presi dent Johnson recently canceled the official state visite of President Ayub Khan of Pa kistan and Prime Minister Shastri of In dia, which also seems to indicate a general American disregard of world public opin ion. President Johnson's plans to visit Latin America and Europe with a possible meet ing with Khrushchev's successors receded into the background because his domestic commitments leave no time for foreign travel. Perhaps the most blatant disregard of allied opinion was the case of the Domin ican Republic Under President Kennedy the Organization of American States seem ed to have acquired great importance in solving both political and economic prob lems within an American framework, and there was great hope for even closer ties among all the countires of the western hemisphere. However, President Johnson seems to have had no prior consultation with OAS countries before sending in U. S. troops. One wonders whether the problems of a Central American country could not have best been solved by the OAS rather than by unilateral action. The eastern block has also become in creasingly fragmented. Independence from Moscow, which was started under Khrush chev, seems to be continuing in the sarr.r direction. Even Bulgaria, traditionally Rus sia's closest ally, just managed to suppress a recent revolt demanding increased Bul garian independence. Sino - Soviet relations also show no signs of improving although increased Amer ican military participation in Asia could lead to a narrowing of the rift. A simple division of the world into wes tern, eastern and non - aligned countires is becoming less meaningful every day as new shades of affiliation develop. Inter national relations based on a bipolar system of east and west each centered around one great power has given away to numer ous complexities and rifts.