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A. p. Page 2 Saturday, May 15, 1965 "Cpltriotrs cf tfes Daily Tar ilifel are expressed lit Its editor. lals. L&ttrs tffid 'columns, covering a wide range f views, $ rettm 'the $fHalfcpimdiisfne1r authors. A Chance For Both Sides (jbvgfiior ttari K.oore has been maintaining a silence i on .just about everything that has been more painful than hts tffrtps, "But de-spite "his aitrrient, lie finally saict a rm6utKf ulUiurs day, rf he 3ast fracl todty settled from SeMtoi ftaftrti &6dtts changes 'aVout Moore's 'lack of leader s1lp, When the govern nor Started talking ' A rribve is afckrt in General Assembly td abolish the BdaM 'tjf Higher Iducatidh. It apparently is rnofe serious than Tfidst observers first thought, ijecause Moore has taken a stand Ort the issue, $te said it duld be "uriwise" to abolish the board, but, "i rjelieVe the ho&fd primary functions of long-range "plan ning and coordination should be redefined arid strength efled.'V gislatioii td carry out sucrt improvements is being prepared at his request, Mddrd said. it is too early to tell just what he 'has in mind, but the chances are that the board may dome out of the hassel.with sdme needed ifnprovemerits rather than abolition. And the governor finally cdmrnehted on the speaker ban law arid its pdssible effect oh adcteditation of state schools. fee said he will rrtfcet before next week with officials of the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges about the problem, fend he will "report my findings td members of the General Assembly." Moore said he thinks there is rid threat to accreditation, but he does not want to "overlook any possibility, however remote ';. " " .-. .' rlis wdrds ate late, and riot forceful by any means, but tftey afd bettfei1 than fldthing at all. As Senator 1Scott said Tiday, 'Moore '"gave 'us the thun der" lmtivMt'7we;jed;ttOw is the fain." DTH Awards Of The Week Most Comforting Fact of the Wek: Classes end in nine days. Mbst Interesting Fact of the Week: The AFL-CIO has said the 'average American Worker needs $123 a Week to "maintain the necessities of life." This amount leaves noth ing for luxuries, and savings, the la bor federation said. The "minimum" budget would provide one egg per person per day, one smit fevery two. years for -the wage earner and 3 5 dresses a year for his Wife. It Would be interesting to see how she divides that dress, Quote of the Week: Wrestling coach "Sam Barnes, who ptltehed a bodk, "Ready, Wrestle," this year. His team eridedthe season .with a 4-5-1 record, and Barnes said, "It just g oes to show you can publish and perish at the same time." . . : . -"'.. :':,-. ' ; DdVt Kid Ydttfl Aitfard: To Army Chief of Staff Geh eral Hkr61& K. J6hflsoriwlK has issued aii order teHirlg 'drill instructors-to clean tip iheir language. "I do not believe that we need blink at or coridone those instances where the im propriety of the actions of our leaders and instructors can be interpreted clearly as) offensive to many of the individuals who are subordinate td them," he said. . Most. Unfair Contest of the Week: One of the frogs en tered in next Wednesday's state-wide frog-Jumping compe tition in Raleigh. The tmnamed specimen has an obvious adv&ritage in the contest he has three legs. . Disappdintfnent 6f iht Week: Cultists in a primitive vil lage of New. Guinea recently sprtead the word that a giant egg would appear in the sky and hatch American boods and dollars on the people. Nothing .happened. What has hap pened to diir foreign aid program? A Painf ul Silence t tfKC students haVe the opportunity1 to hear a national debate on the issues concerning Viet rJam. A closed circuit radio broadcast from Washington may be heard in Carroll Hall, Gerrard rlall and Roland Parker lounge in Graham Memorial. McCtedrge Bandy, adviser to President Johnson on Viet Nam, and George Kahih, director of Southeast Asian Studies Program at Cornell University, Will answer questions from a panel of academicians, half supporters of government policy in Viet .Nam, half oppdsed to it. Regardless of personal viewpoint, the program can be df value to every student. A local panel discussion will be held in Gerrard after the radio broadcast, and there the doves" and "hawks" will be able to express their opinions. The meeting will be worth little, however, if only "one side" shows tip. We Join Student Body President Paul Dick-, son in encouraging all students who can to attend the forum and discussion. "Dating Much Lately, Tred?" Ulp lath ar wl The Daily Tar Heel is the efficfal news publication of the University tof Nsrth 'Carolina and Is published by students dally except Mondays, ex aMfnation periods and vacations. Ernie McCrary, editor; Mike Yopp, associate editor; Kerry Sipe, Managing editor; John Greenbaeker, news editor; Fred Thomas, copy editor; Mike Wiggin, night editor; Fred Seely, sports editor; tUcaartf Smith, asst. sports eOItor; A&df Myers. John Jerinricb, Mary Ellison Strolhcr, Ernest tloti, Dob Wright, Darid llothman, staff writers; Bill Lee Pete Cross, sports writers; Jock Lauterer, ph:oi6grapher; Chip Barnard, art editor; Becky Timberliie, Secretary, lack Harrington, business mgr.; Woody So&cl, advertising mgr.; Tom Clark, subscription mgr.; Jofci Evans, circulation mgr. , Second Class postage .paid at the pst of lice La Chapel mil, N, C. SalbscriptioB rates: $.sa per semesten tS per year. Printed by the Chape! IliU Publishing Co., lac. The Associated lres is stitled exchisirely to iba nxa for repnblicatlon ef all local news printed in 3 Newspaper as wen as all news tiispste&es-. '. . -V ' Iwrvrtw vi - , " "- ? ': i. i : ' - : : , . : mit? -i . ; i : ;. i-. ?- - S: : ' ---:: -I i - A 1 " " ' ' " I Ml,' , " ' S : ' "' ' . ' f ' if rX A K ft - - - ' If , 'J' " fc . . -i , ' - "sw-. . r " - t, , ::::::-:-:.: ' " " " "" " ir 1 --- : ' . o 'v""g7l 5 .V- ' " --'-' " ,xl. " f ; i " ' , 1 " -"- 1 4 -J I ; 1 . . ." .;' .' " rl1 ti ': M.i..w.T,K.,.,yaL3tLAM:Mijii i r .w.w... t, vuhA rf 'ft wmi-i iii l i HMf In Tie Mailbox Too Few Talented T Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: The student critics of the University's proportions of emphasis on research, pub lication and teaching ability, havs, in re turn, been sharply criticized. As reported in state papers, Chancellor Paul Sharp has identified such critics as "professional students who become profes sional agitators." If they are radicals and beatniks, then it is clear that they cannot be right in this dispute. They are merely part of that notorious disgruntled minority that is causing all the trouble, on all kinds of issues, all over the country. Hopefully they have been effectively silenced by this expose of who they are, and now the ad ministration can return, undistracted, to the business of running the University. But suppose they were right. Suppose that poor teachers were too abundant in the classrooms of the University how could the problem be dealt with? The an swer up to now has been clear: poor teach ers cannot be too abundant; poor research ers perhaps, unprolific publishers certain ly. But poor teaching is no problem. There is no such thing as poor teaching; there are only poor students students who, when they do not succeed, organize into mass movements of criticism. Otelia Gnboses Si des In Publish Or iPerishJ Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Many students have asked me which side I was on in the publish or perish con test. I have answered that I was on the side of good teaching. I believe research and publishing is im portant, but it should not tak- precedence over good teaching. I have audited classes here, where it was perfectly evident that the professors were primarily interested in the book they were writing for publication, and not interested in the students they were teaching. A few people are able to do both. A way should be found to enable Who Pitched? Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Where does the sports editor get ma terial? In past weeks, discrepant reports of a North Carolina newspaper and the Daily Tar Heel . have presented a confusing pic ture of Carolina sports events away from home. Coverage of last Tuesday's Caro lina - Duke baseball game appears to re veal the party at fault. The Daily Tar Heel neglected to inform its readers that Danny Walker had started the game and had absorbed all five hits, three errors and the three tainted runs. When Walker was lifted in the fifth inning for a pinch hitter, Bud Cohoon took over and faced the minimum 15 batters in the last five innings. Cohoon completely baf fled Duke's power hitters as he struck out seven, got seven to fly out and claimed the other putout himself with an assist from the first baseman. Jeff Jorgensen 419 Ehringhaus Ed. Note The story in question was indeed incorrect. The circumstances of the game were given the DTH sports desk by the Duke publicity man, and an early DTH deadline made checking back impossible. A Horse Doctor Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: UNC Chancellor Paul F. Sharp said in a Parents' Day speech (Daily Tar Heel, May 11): "Appointments, preferments, rank and salary are conferred on the ba sis of professional competence determined by professional peers and colleagues." This was said in seeming reference to the accusation by students that the Uni versity is not retaining or promoting pro fessors unless they publish. The head of a leading University de partment was once chosen by his peers and colleagues and brought here no doubt on the basis of his professional compe tence. He turned out to be a horse doctor. thillips Russell 300 Chase Ave. the; majority to concentrate on one project at a time. Perhaps they could write during the summer. - But the University should grab a good teacher and hold on to him, even if it has to give him a year's leave with pay. I am not qualified to pass judgment on the current debate involving Dr. William Goodykoontz. I have not taken his courses, nor have I talked to the administration. However, I did attend the rally at How ell Hall in Goddykoontz's behalf recently. I never saw anything like the spontaneous enthusiasm for Goodykoontz, or the stand ing ovation they gave him when he left the platform. I decided he was worth at least one audit of his class, so . the next day I sat in on his class, and I found him very good and interesting, and I may add, that his subject was one thst I was fa miliar with, as it is one of my favorite courses. I don't think the students in these dem onstrations are radicals. I know many of them, personally, and they are fine young men. Of course the final decision in hiring and firing rests with the administration. It could not be any other way. But the students have a big stake In this matter also. The administration should welcome the opinion of the students in determining whether professors are effective, or inef fective teachers. I may say in closing that I was very proud of the University students who dem onstrated for good teaching at the Y Court. They exercised self-control and restraint, but they left no doubt about the serious ness of their intentions to be heard in this, and other cases like it to come. I thought how fortunate UNC was, not to have the rioting, and rock-throwing, etc that is going on in this country, and . alf over the world, not by the communist, but by the young people. The youth of to day are willing to suffer and go to jail for what they believe. Can we older ones say as much for ourselves? Otelia Connor Cbapel Hill Letters The Daily Tar Heel welcomes let ters to the editor on any subject, par ticularly on matters of locaJT or .Uni versity interest. Letters should be tvped, double spaced and include the name and address of sender. Names rfll not be omitted in publication. Letters should be kept as brief as possible. The DTH reserves the right to edit for length. Fislisticfe Are Fine Bociul Critics- And 7 Tim Ills Of Society By TIMOTHY RAY DTH Columnist Through the DTH William G. Otis has recently blamed social critics for juvenile crime, abstract expressionist painting and sculpture Tassu'miftg That's what "paper mache, metal scraps, and garbage" refers to), illiteracy among high school gradu ates, and a catalogue of Social ills. It aooears that he believes that, first, the world was once a paradise; second, so cial cfitics wrote a few books which every body hurriedly read, and then, as a result, civilization was destroyed. Any writer would be thrilled if he bslieved th3t words could so profoundly affect human institu tions, though the kind of writers that James Gardner and I are hope that our words would improve the world, rather than reduce it to the sort of jungle that Otis seems to perceive it to be. I am reminded of his response to my criticism of his defense of the speaker b3n. In that article, he said, first, that 1 had accused him falsely of saying that all anti ban people were communist; second, that the sciences weren't affected by the ban anyway; and third, that the General As sembly passed the ban in order to protect taxpayers from having to support a plat form for subversives. Regarding the first point, he is partly correct. Otis didn't call all anti-ban people communists. He exempted anti-ban Gold waterites. His original statement was that some of the anti-ban people favored a change in our form of government. This was clearly meant to be an hv dictment. Yes, I would like some changes: I would like the North Carolina Governor to possess the veto; I would like a rule UNC One year or so ago, I should have said there were poor teachers. But now I am a teacher. Now I know the burden is upon the students, not upon me. To depart from this irony, I would ob serve that there is truth and wisdom in what has been said in defense of research and publishing; to take the opposite stand is insanity. - But what seems to have been asked by the student critics is not a de emphasis on research, but rather a greater appreciation of good teachers and a keen er emphasis on teaching ability, especial ly at the undergraduate level. A reason able request, and in some quarters of the . University, long overdue. , When, the University gets a student, he does riot necessarily know what a Univer sity is, or what he ought to be doing there. Some students go four years at UNC, and never find out. Without good teachers, they weft may never find out. It is folly of the most idealistic sort, to imagine that a student will enter the Uni versity with such natural curiosity and academic devotion that he will go to the library and learn, on his own, despite poor teaching in his classes. No, he will more likely, if he graduates at aH, compute how many Q.P.'s it takes to get Outj squeeze through just barely, and make the best of things by partying and dating,, or goirtg home to mother every weekend. He will emerge unchanged from the University, but with ticket in hand. This happens most easily when classes are dull, teachers undhallenging, ideas left lifeless in the pages of a poorly written textbook. And then the administration has to con tend with a poorly educated public, and with foggy - headed legislators who can't get the idea of what the University is try ing to do. (Most of those -legislators grad uated from N. C. State or Chapel Hill.) Doesn't anyone wonder, why? Part of the answer lies in poor teaching. There are some poor teachers at the University, large numbers of them. There are too few really talented teachers, and these are apparently too little appreciated. But I shouldn't bother to write this letter if I didn't think that it is a great iristifu :ion; it should not be prevented from en riching itself and strengthening itself through good teachers on the undergradu ate level. Hubert Hawkins, Jr. Lexington . that COiigress cannot grant tha President the power to decide when to make war, as it did, in effect, last August, regard;.-.. SEATO. I think this power should stay v i n CongresSj as before. In the context Otis' remark, these changes appear trivial, since they would not communize America. If he did not have in mind changes th..; would make' the nation communistic, h., ' remark is irrelevant and confusing. If Otis thinks that the ban hasn't hurt the sciences, he should ask the scientist here about the physicists who have re fused to join the faculty because the;, oh ject to the ban. Third, if the taxpayer; were the reason for the ban, they eouij have been completely provided for by a rule that no one can give money to a com munist for speaking here, build an audi torium that isn't already needed for n on communist speakers to speak in, or sche.1 ule a communist speaker at a time ar 1 place when there was a non-communi,: speaker in need of that particular tin.e and place. Of course, to be consistent, they would have had to rule out the purchase c any communist books or periodicals with tax money, which they did not do. The whole point of phrasing it in "taxpayer terminology was to attempt to avoid mak ing the elimination of freedom of speech blatant, which failed. Otis compares us with children who pro test over fishsticks. I have nothing against fishsticks. I don't like, however, to see ra cial discrimination still practiced any where. I don't like to see any populace, in cluding this one, uncritically accept any war that its government is involved in, be cause I think wars, on the whole, have done mankind incalculably more harm than good, and because, in every war, each side seems perfectly justified, to the people on that side. As far as demonstrating goes, I think one should have more than "the license of our dedication" a lot more one should have examined all the facts he can and then have done a lot of calm thinking. Otis doesn't like protest. I don't suppose he likes to see women voting either, be cause it took protest to get woman suff rage. Let's look and see, although that's an unavoidably risky business, because if we decide, after we look, that something or orther ought to change, and if we act on the basis of our beliefs, then we become known as "radicals." The term has a ten dency to stick; some "radicals" like it aft er they get called it a few times. Actually, it can be a useful term to distinguish peo ple Who don't believe in the business of saying: "Okay, I'll Ieatfe X alone, to please you, if you'll join me in trying to change V," from everybody else. Otis calls us adolescents. From his tone, "one .would 'expect to see seme aged his torian shaking his head over the decadence of modern society. But, no, it's only a fel low student, defending the present state of things from change, or maybe it's some point in the past that he prefers. It's hard to know which. Hour Is Late For Ban Acion The Charlotte Observer Avid supporters of the speaker-ban la.v imposed in 1963 on state-supported institu tions of higher education have not been swayed by the most reasonable arguments against this gag rule. Even those legislators intellectually op posed to the restriction have, with a few notable exceptions, feared to speak up for repeal of the hastily enacted law. As Gov. Dan K. Moore told a group of North Caro lina editorial writers in Chapel Hill last month, "It's simply not politics to try to take the law off the books." The legislature is scared to death to try to do anything about the law in this ses sion. Gov. Moore has been no help with hi; expedient approach to the whole subject. For this new crop of lawmakers to give the matter the kind of thoughtful discus sion and debate it did not get in 19C3, someone will have to summon the courage to introduce repeal legislation. When university accreditation is threat ened, with all that is implied in the loss of reputation, faculty and academic standing, the hour is more than late. And The Enemy Is Ut The News and Observer Students at UNC are embroiled in a new fuss. A number of them are standing tip for a 50-year-old lecturer whose one-year contract in the Department of English was not renewed. No one should fault the students; it will be a sad day when vocail vehemency does not from time to time punctuate life at that vital institution. But no one need mistake the fuss for the issxie,, either. The part time instructor, William F. Goodykoontz, has a "history of dissatisfaction at other institutions,' according to the department report which recommended against rehir ing him. And at Chapel Hill, apparently, fee gets along with the boys and girls, but is a cocklebur with his colleagues and those responsible for him. Also, unfortunately, he seems to lack potential either as a scholar or as an administrator. - The Chapel Hill campus is a tolerant at- mosphere hat there are no squatter's right's there on the bottom rungs of the ladder. Temporary faculty posts at a university belong to men on the move, either up or out. c The stimulating Issue the students have grasped at is the "publish or perish" no tion. Many laymen would agree that this prod too often seems to result in learned writings about the irrelevant. But Goody koontz has not published too little; records at Chapel Hill indicate he has published nothing, has contributed no new knowledge to his field besides his degree paper years ago. Skillful teaching methods are hardly half the scholarly teacher. The ardor with which some students are defending Goodykoontz will do no harm. They wi21 come to know him and them selves better. Chancellor Paul F. Sharp recognized this In quoting a comic strip character who spoke more truth than he knew in exclaiming victoriously, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
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