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Page 2 Friday, October 1, 1965 J Ue Satlg (Ear wi j Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its $ j editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range : of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors. : ERNIE McCRARY, EDITOR jij: jijj JACK HARRINGTON, BUSINESS MANAGER The Great Flip-Flop Bit by bit, the irritants of our chafing parking regulations are being diluted at least a little. The changes just announced by Dean of Men Wil liam G. Long are for the benefit of faculty members only, but we certainly won't begrudge them. As one prominent faculty member put it earlier this week, "Here's a parking lot right outside my of fice. But who gets to use it? Secretaries and janitors. And I have to park in a lot all the way across campus. "Why, it costs the state $6 just to pay me for the time I waste walking from my car to the office every morning." A rather egocentric attitude, perhaps, but true. So another change is being made, and hopefully it will get hot-tempered faculty members off the neck of the administration so it can worry about bigger and better problems. "Get It While It's Hot! 99 Part IV "It Costs $6 55 Contrary to widespread belief, North Carolina At torney General Wade Bruton has neither died nor skipped the country. He's just been letting his deputy, Ralph Moody, run the show lately. In most cases this arrangement would pass un noticed, but the deputy has unburdened himself of so many controversial opinions lately that the fire has begun to crackle under his boss man's chair too. You see, everything Moody says is supposed to be with Bruton's approval and endorsement. Moody delivered a number of advisory, opinions recently, including a eulogy of the speaker ban law and a sneer at its opponents. He also made the point that if the law is altered or repealed, the General As sembly could still control speaking on campuses by playing with the school budgets. He said local school boards had the right to sus pend any student who wore his hair too long and re fused to dress according to "normal and accepted practices and fashions." Things were great up to this point. This sort of condemnation is just what a lot of folks like to hear. But then Moody said schools were going to have to quit running concession stands at athletic contests. As a matter of fact, they would have to quit selling insurance, school pictures and magazine subscriptions; too. The backfire was loud and strong enough to bring Bruton out of hibernation to personally reverse Moo dy's decision. In a letter to Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles F. Carroll, he did a full double back flipflop art said. "My staf and I have restudied the entire matter and, even though the law is far from clear, I have concluded that certain observations expressed in the opinions heretofore are too restrictive in prac tical application." Controversy had struck a vital nerve the tax payers' pocket. The immediate reaction of school of ficials all over the state to Moody's ruling was that extracurricular activities would have to be curtailed or subsidized by tax money. The "government in business" law on which Moo , dy based the original opinion is at best vague. It im plies that public schools are exempt from some of its restrictions, and as Bruton said, it would be "highly desirable" for the next General Assembly to make the intention of the law clear. In the meantime, we suggest that Ralph Moody in his concern for private enterprise obtain a con cession permit for the next football game in Raleigh's : Riddick Stadium to sell humble pie . Supply And Demand Lessons in economics can come in strange places. : You wouldn't expect it, but in front of Kemp's i record store is about as clear an explanation of the ; law of supply and demand as can be made. .' : Kemp has a big jar with umbrellas in it. A sign on the container says, "Umbrellas $3.60." A small : er sign says, "While raining $4." 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and Is published by students daily, except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. ' Ernie McCrary, editor; John Jennrich, associate editor; Kerry Sipe. managing editor; Pat Stith. sports editor Jack Harrington, business manager; Woody Sobol. adver tising manager. Second class postage paid at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C. 27514. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8 per year. Send change of address to The Daily Tar Heel. Box 1080. Chapel Hill. N. C. 27514. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co.. Inc. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all ap news dispatches. AV rO 1 wk The New Fraternity Liberal Comment Graham, Ike And LB J Represent Reactions To Los Angeles Riots By ROBERT KEISER After the eruption of the Watts district riots in Los Angeles, the white community responded, for the most part, jn three dif- : ferent; ways, each of ;which can be repre-f sented by the reactions of Billy Graham, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson. Graham (we will begin with the sacred be fore the profane) took a look around the area and honestly believed the riots were Communist-iiispired. Although no other public figures were willing to accept this preposterous and unproved conclusion, his general view, nevertheless, of seeing the outburst created by agitators, was accept ed by many others. Black Muslims, for in stance, were blamed, and the civil rights leaders, who advocate civil disobedience, were thought to have encouraged the riots. To be sure, Muslims were active, and the civil rights movement raised expectations which have not been satisfied, thus increas ing the probabilities of such deviant be havior. To point to these as the real cause, however, is to ignore the fact that the riots were essentially leaderless and a spontaneous reaction to a social situation felt to be intolerable. Although Eisenhower is intelligent enough to realize the riots were something more than a Communist conspiracy, his response is not much better than Graham's. A man long ago passed by history, Ike can only point to the riots as another instance of the increasing breakdown of law and order in this country. After a little reflec tion, however, we should ask among whom the breakdown occurred most, the Negroes or the whites. Some brutal acts against hu man beings were committed by the Negroes, but most behavior was directed towards the destruction of white-owned property. Actually, thirty-three of the thirty-six peo ple killed were Negroes, mostly as a re sult of action taken by National Guardsmen. And after the riots climaxed, gunstores in the area were bought out by whites, fear ful of the "black peril," an incident which hardly illustrates the white man's belief in law and order. Furthermore, Ike says a lot about law and order, but he casually ignores the cold statistics of the conditions underlying the riots. Eighty-five per cent of Los Angeles Negroes, for example, live in one per cent of the city's area. The schools in Watts, although legally integrated, are ninety per cent Negro in fact. A Negro male unem ployment rate of over thirty per cent re sults in lack of self respect and broken homes. To put it in plain language, the Ne gro slum dweller is being discriminated against and rejected in education, employ ment and housing and it does little good to exhort him to respect a law and order of fering him degradation rather than protec tion. Fortunately, President Johnson seems to recognize this. He admits the Negro must be given equality and self respect and the whites must help him out of the social con ditions which create such riots. We can praise the President for this, but at the same time, express two notes of caution. First, will Johnson, who like most Ameri cans tolerates a rather large gap between his ideals and his actions, really fight hard for the programs necessary to integrate the Negro Into the American nation? Certainly, we can improve the Negro's condition just ejiough.so he will no longer senselessly and violently rebd against the system, but - and this ii my second question will we feel the moral imperative to eradicate in full the cultural and social poverty in our midst, among both Negro and white? Mr. Pow ledge, a graduate of the Uni versity here, is a reporter for The New York Times. Bv FRED POMLEDGE DTH Editor. 1957-58 From ESQUIRE Buttons are great money-raisers, and no self-respecting organizer is without a supply of them to sell to potential ac tivists. They are also valuable symbols of identification; a button is to the New Fraternity man what a hat and tie are to an F. B. I. agent. One at - large ac tivist turned up in New York not long " ago, knowing no one, carrying his bed roll and wearing a button. He recalled later: "One way of making contact with somebody is with a Viet Nam button. I did this when I got to town. I walked up to somebody with a Stop the War in Viet Nam button on, and said, 'Where'd you get it?' He told me, and I walked into the office. They said, 'Can you run a press?' I said, Yes.' They said, 'You're hired.' " Buttons were used widely in the Ber keley uprising, which also produced some excellent silk-screen posters, reproduc tions of which hang in Student Left offi ces all over the country, next to photo graphs from the Birmingham fire-hosing and last spring's favorite poster, a large photo of a ten-year-old Vietnamese girl who had been burned by napalm. A Stu dent Left organization without a button of its own lacks status, own lacks status. Clark Kissinger, who has made a study of buttons, recently commented on the intricacies of proper buttoning: "The factors are diameter, colors, type of pin on the back, quantity, and the method of printing it. The cheapest button we've been able to make is 2.6 cents, and the most expensive one, used by S.D.S., is 6.4 cents. . . "The S. S. 0. C. button" (depicting white and black hands clasped in front of the Confederate battle flag, and print ed by S. D. S. for use by the Southern Student Organizing Committee until one faction raised objections to the use of the flag) "was really a landmark pin. It was the first four - color pin in the movement. Beautiful, too; one and one fourth inches, clasp on the back instead of a simple pin; we only made 3,000, which made it expensive and pretty much of a collector's item now. "There're some really important fac tors to consider in making buttons. There are celluloid buttons, which have the message printed on paper, wrapped around the shell, and then covered with celluloid, and there are those that have the message printed directly on the met al. If you're printing an enormous quan tity say, 25,000 or more it becomes cheaper to print on the metal. For small numbers you use celluloid. You get so you can look at somebody's button and you can tell what league they're in, be- Mary Richard Vester Th e Best Educated Students Are Oysters, Not Sausages What is education? Possibly the most widely held concept is what Sydney J. Harris called "the sausage-casing view of education." The student is seen as an empty sausage casing wait . ing to be "stuffed" with wisdom. But if you ever feel that you spend so much time studying that you don't have a chance to learn anything, you're probably dissatisfied with this notion of the function of education. Harris suggests that Socrates had a tru er idea of the purpose of education to withdraw knowledge from, not pour knowl edge into. Educational controversy that concerns it self with what goes into the student and not what is drawn from him is futile. To educated is to instruct and give practice in mental activity reasoning, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating, making personal judgments. To absorb a collection of mis cellaneous facts is not to educate oneself, not to use years at "the Greater Univer sity" wisely, if you will. Tha cantor han law may be considered an example of making lawful the popular misconception of what an education is sup- nncoH fr That IS. It lUtuaca UUVU fcV uv content of education rather than the con tent of the student, his inherent scrutiniz ing abilities, the truth that lies dormant in him. Anyone really dedicated to the . goals of true education has a firm faith in the student as a "sorter" who rejects as often as he accepts. Those, on the other hand, who see students as motionless vacuums who readily incorporate into their working philosophies all the ideas that are dished out to them, those of this "vision" don't know what the word student means. To be well-informed and to be educated are not the same. Education goes beyond informa tion gathering. Hearing communist speakers does not mean taking in, engulfing all they say, di gesting it and adopting it as a way of life. Nor does it mean listeners' minds will be poisoned or their rational faculties knocked out of operation by what they hear. Sydney Harris gives an analogy more accurate than the sausage analogy: stu dents are more like oysters than sausages. With proper stimulation they will open to reveal inner knowledge the only real knowledge. cause everybody has to follow these same rules of economics." During the last academic year, Students for a Dem ocratic Society caused 53,500 buttons to be struck by local button mongers: 5.000 "Part of the Way With LBJ" buttons; 3,000 of the landmark S. S. O. C. but tons; 3,000 "Jobs or Income Now" but tons for its Chicago community - action project; 5,000 "Chase Manhattan Part ner in Apartheid" buttons (to protest the bank's loan of money to South Africa); 17,500 "A Free University in a Free So ciety" buttons, and 20,000 "March on Washington To End the War in Viet Nam" buttons. Brother Kissinger can recite ail these figures from his memory, and he can be really funny about them, because he is still in that stage of student radicalism where he can afford to laugh at him self. He loves to tell about S.D.S.'s stroke of imagination in purchasing fifty air mattresses. They are used for conven tions and conferences, since there is no money in the budget for staying at ho tels. But there are mny in the move ment who are totally lacking in such humor, and they are the ones to watch. It is a safe bet that some of them will be working for labor unions or teaching within a few years. There were a few examples of this humor gap at the Philadelphia "Democ racy on the Campus" conference. The students had been presented with a pro posed "student bill of rights" that ef fectively placed college administrators where the students thought they should be, i.e., in the roles of caretakers and servants to the students and faculty. No self - respecting group of student ac tivists was going to adopt the proposed draft in toto without a little criticism, however. They broke up into small dis cussion groups, and the conversation went like this: Young man, fiery-eyed: "We've got the only weapon the labor movement has and that's- the ability to stop what you're doing." Handsome young woman, delegate from M2M: "If we have a strike, we'd better have it within the next few weeks. How about May 3, since May 2 is on a Sunday?" Young woman, leotarded and long haired and buxom: "All outside investi gative agencies should be barred from the campus." Young man, white - Levied and long sideburned: "But suppose you get robbed?" Young woman: "We'll let the stu dents and the faculty set up their own organization to deal with things - like that." "" Quiet, reflective young man: "I'd just as soon have professional cops do the investigating if I get robbed." Another boy: "Let's add that all re cruiting (or the R. O. T. C, the F.B.I, and the C.I.A. shall be prohibited" Another: "Hell, let's prohibit all re cruiting . . . well, no, not job recruiting." An intense argument developed in one small discussion group over seman tics. A youth's voice was heard repeat ing, "Freedom? What do we mean by freedom? We've got to define it . . ." And then the chairman of that par ticular small discussion group outshout ed the rest. "All right," he said, "we've had plenty of discussion on this sen tence. All those in favor of dropping the word 'unfettered' from the sentence des ignated number one, raise their hands it . . A participant, the quiet, reflective young man of a few paragraphs back, abstained with a look of disgust. "What a crock," he said, rubbing his naked .chin. "But I suppose it's better than apathy." Conclusion, Letters The Dally Tar Heel welcomes let ter to the editor on any subject, par ticnlarly on matter! of local or Uni versity Interest. Letters should be typed, double spaced and Include the name and address of sender. Names will not be omitted la publication. Letters should be kept as brief as possible. The DTH reserves the right to edit for length. P nm-ip? yi pFai.-c wo mean Y tfee, because And on to? op it, he refuses I oh n " SNOOPY HASN'T BECAUSE OF) OF STUPIP TO EAT UNTIL H0OR THUMB j I ( QOOO ) e i j EATEN HiS SUPPER J MV COT QIT1WB! HE 15 COMPLETELY HEALED J 1 M I Qpt J it ViNTu)orws?y thumb? J feels responsible. - u a Jjs LM s A i. tv a P jtfl mm,m,ft -WW p L TuP l ACT TIME I TElEb T J - - - TOP 'IM 'E PUT AClM M tKPlTAL Kft TH2EE WEEKS. fa as h - f IT FYS To
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