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vj Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its &
editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range Si
of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors, x
ERNIE McCRARY, EDITOR
JACK HARRINGTON, BUSINESS MANAGFU
Commies At Wake Forest
The student legislature at Wake Forest says it's
going to bring a communist speaker on campus sort
of a protest in sympathy for us state-supported schools.
The president of the student body, Jerry Part
ney, said, "I hope it will help to demonstrate that the
logic behind the (speaker ban) law is fallacious, that
the Communists are not superhuman persuaders, as
some people think.
"We're not afraid of what the Communist has to
say. If we become afraid of different viewpoints, we
are indeed in bad shape," he said.
There is nothing new in his logic or approach.
Students have been saying this since the law was
passed more than two years ago. And it is still just
as true now as then.
On the surface it appears that Wake students are
risking nothing in this action because the law does
not affect private schools. Hardly any school in the
state, however, has been meddled with more than
this Baptist-supported institution. The concern which
its trustees and nearly all "good Baptists" have had
for the morality and character of Wake students has
been evidenced by such petty things as an on-campus
dance ban.
It is not illogical to think that some of those
protectors of innocence will be upset about the flaunt
ing of Communists about the campus.
Whether they do anything about it is another
matter.
Actually the person everyone should feel kinda
sorry for is that yet-to-be-selected representative
from the Communist party's speaker bureau. Those
folks at Wake will give him hell.
A New Vocabulary Phrase
A new phrase has been added to the American
vocabulary "Alabama justice." It refers to decisions
in race murders in the South.
It can best be illustrated by these examples:
On March 25, 1965, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old
housewife from Detroit, was carrying dem
onstrators back to Selma, Ala., after the march to
Birmingham. She was shot in her car. One of the three
men charged with her death has been tried. His case
ended in a hung jury.
On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers, Negro field rep
resentative for the Mississippi NAACP, was killed by
-a sniper as he got out of his car at home. The trials
"of his accused murderer, Byron De La Beckwith, have
twice ended with hung juries.
On Sept. 15, 1963, a teenaged Negro, Virgil Ware,
was killed after the Birmingham riots following the
bombings of a Negro church. Two white boys con
victed of manslaughter in the case are free on pro
bation. On April 23, 1963, William Moore, a white Balti
more postman was shot and killed during his "free
dom walk" from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss.
No one has been charged with the murder.
On June 21, 1964, two white and one Negro civil
rights workers were killed and buried by a bull
dozer near Philadelphia, Miss. The U. S. Supreme
Court is waiting to hear the case.
On March 23, 1964, Mrs. Johnnie Mae Chappel,
a Negro woman with 11 children, was killed in Jack
sonville, Fla., after a racial demonstration. A white
man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for man
slaughter, but charges were dropped against three
others.
On July 11, 1964, a car pulled alongside one being
driven by Negro Reserve lieutenant colonel Lemuel
Penn. He was killed by shotgun blasts from the car.
Three men associated with the Ku Klux Klan were
charged with the murder one was not tried and
the others were acquitted.
On Aug. 14, 1965, Jonathan M. Daniels, a 26-year-:
old Episcopal ministerial student, was killed by Tom
: Coleman, a parttime deputy sheriff, in Haynesville,
: Ala. A young Catholic priest, the Rev. Richard Mor
: risoe, was severely wounded in the back. Coleman ad
.mitted the shooting, but he was acquitted "self de
: fense." The verdict was reached in one hour and 29
: minutes.
Of course there is another side to "Alabama jus
tice." On April 23, 1963, a teenaged white boy, Leslie
: Luttes, was killed after racial disturbances in Augus
ta, Ga. Six Negroes were sent to prison for terms
ranging up to life.
On June 6, 1963 a little closer to home Fred
: Link, a white mechanic, was killed during racial
" trouble in Lexington, N. C. A Negro was convicted
of second-degree murder and sentenced to four to
seven years.
So long as local courts have jurisdiction over cases
of this sort we can expect similar decisions with con
sistency. Even now the Justice Department is trying
to have all racial murders heard in federal courts.
When the states shirk their responsibilities they
shouldn't be surprised when they lose their rights.
Eathj (Far Lfcel
72 Years of Editorial Freedom
The Dally Tar Heel Is the official news publication of :?
the University of North Carolina and is published by 3
students dally except Mondays, examination periods and
vacations.
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Liberal Comment
Tutorial Projects Give
Undereducated Negro
Chance For Self-Help
By TERRY FOWLER
The situation of the Negro 120 years ago
is largely responsible for his dismal situa
tion today in American society. And his sit
uation today, unfortunately, must willy-nilly
condition his position in the United States
tomorrow. For the Negro to become more a
part of society, not only must that society
change its attitude toward the Negro, but
the Negro himself must be changed.
From this perspective, educational proj
ects and community action projects in
which Negroes themselves take part hold
promise in having as important an impact
on the drive to make Negroes members of
and contributors to our culture as laws
promulgated from above, laws which on
ly suggest rules for legal and economic
equality. The fact that racial discrimina
tion has socio - economic ramifications is
often lost sight of in the heat of moral ar
guments, while in fact the socio - economic
effects themselves are the best rationale be
hind the only partially a priori moral
grounds against racial discrimination.
How can we help the Negro, or, more
appropriately, how can the Negro help him
self, psychologically as well as legally, to
the opportunities in the United States for the
pursuit of happiness? It takes guts to come
down to earth and answer this question
modestly, "conservatively," if you wish
tutorial projects.
Education is obviously a potentially pow
erful tool to help the Negro, but people
have found it difficult to influence the pub
lic school system directly. Tutoring centers
outside the school have been formed in the
last few years, therefore, centers where a
child can go and get the personal atten
tion he needs to encourage him substan
tively and psychologically in his studies,
when he does not get this encouragement
at home or at school which is often.
The first tutorial project, sponsored by
the Northern Student Movement, was
launched in Philadelphia in the summer of
1962. Its huge success was written up, and
$60,000 was received to set up programs for
the summer of 1963 in eight cities, includ
ing Chicago, New York, Boston, Detroit
Hartford, Washington, D. C, and Philadel
phia. The parent organization, the NSM,
has since become less entranced about tu
toring as an idea and has turned to other
activities, but several of the centers start
ed under its auspices have continued to
thrive.
These projects are characterized by vary
ing philosophies of the role of tutorin in
helping the Negro, as well as by varying
environments. The people in the Philadel
phia project, thoroughly disenchanted with
their city's schools, have set up a series of
community schools which present a viable
alternative to the formal schooling the chil
dren might receive in the city schools The
Chicago project on the other hand, consid
ered by some to be the finest project go
ing, has formed study groups of tutors and
tutees to examine defects and to suggest
remedies in the municipally - finance pub
lic education.
Since the summer of 1963, several dif
ferent types of tutorials have been tried.
The more usual project is a creature of
out-of-town and even out-of-state college
students who have little in common with
the local communities in need of help. Of
course, many of these are still energetic and
exciting programs. For instance, all . five
colleges in Greensboro "have coordmated
their tutoring activities into a particularly
active central organization; the leader, a
charismatic figure himself, has managed to
equip his outfit with money from Scars
dale, and with jeeps from the North Caro
lina Fund to transport children to school.
Another type of project, called "com
munity based," can be run in several ways.
At all times trying to reach the goal of
maximum adult participation within the
community, tutoring projects of this sort
are likely to be staffed by people from such
sources of manpower as VISTA, or a full
time volunteer of some sort.
One of the more original attempts to
start a community - based project is oper
ating in Berkeley: organizers are going
around to Negro high schools to encourage
students to start tutorial projects in their
own community. Those interested are
brought to the Berkeley campus, given an
orientation course in running a program,
and then sent back to start work among
people who already know them well.
Even a little tutoring gives the under
privileged child previously unattainable per
sonal attention, the lack of which is one
of the greatest barriers to his educational
and therefore social advancement. But an
other serious barrier lack of cooperation
and initiative from the parents and kids
themselves requires more imagination
than raw manpower. White middle class
college students, no matter how many of
them there are, are seldom the ideal bear
ers of aid (much as they would hate to
admit it) when participation by the adult
Negro community is so important. The
toughest nut for the tutorial projects to
crack is, then, developing the skill as well
as the zeal to transform or indeed to de
velop attitudes toward education among
those who never perceived it as relevant to
their condition.
Letter To The Editor
NAACP Officers 'Dismayed
By News Story Of Meeting
As officers of UNC-XAACP, we wish to
express publicly extreme dismay at the cov
erage of our September 30 meeting by The
Daily Tar Heel.
Coverage of the meeting occurred with
out our knowledge. It is true that the meet
ing was considered open. We always wel
come people to our meetings who are in
terested in our work in the area of civil
rights. We do not welcome irresponsible cov
erage such as we received by The Daily
Tar Heel.
The Daily Tar Heel has made the future
of progressive race relations much more
difficult on this campus by unnecessarily
arousing anti-Negro sentiment. Statements
of individuals discussing possible policy of
the NAACP were given in The Daily Tar
Heel as the actual policy of the NAACP it
self. Weighing facetious statements equally
with serious discussion of policy, and seri
ous discussion of policy with actual policy
is example of the most irresponsible journ
alism. The most extreme distortion concerned
our interest in fraternities and sororities.
We consider the segregation of these insti
tutions which are granted their very exist
ence by the University as an insult to Ne
groes and all people who consider this Uni
versity as one supported by the people of
North Carolina. We do not advocate test
rush of fraternities. In fact, that idea was
rejected. We do advocate that Negroes who
are interested in fraternities and sororities
seek admission to them as would any stu
dent. We ask supporters of the NAACP to dis
regard most of what they read in The
Daily Tar Heel article. We will continue to
work for more complete campus integra
tion in ways that we deem responsible.
We wish to extress to University offi
cials that any statements made by Daily
Tar Heel reporters concerning our policy
were completely unauthorized.
David Rothnian
We ask The Paily Tar Heel to print in
full this statement. This we feel is the
least The Dailv Tar Heel can do to coun
teract the completely unfair image that the
WACP has received as a result of inaccur
ate irresponsible news coverage.
Charles Miller
Edith Hubbard
Phil Clay
Juan Cofield
Lila Fikes
((executive committee of L'NC-XAACP)
(Editor's Note: NAACP members met
with the editors on Sunday, October 3 and
submitted the above letter. They admitted
that the statements in the news story of
their meeting were accurate, but they were
concerned about the impression which the
story as a whole would make. Their princi
pal complaints were that they did not know
a member of the press was in the audi
ence, and that statements made at the
meeting were quoted and printed without
their approval.)
LETTERS
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Readers' Digest Says
That Sex Is Now Tn'
The sex maniacs and the beatniks now
represent conformity on the nation's cam
puses. At least that's the impression one gets
after reading a Readers' Digest article by
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of The
Power of Positive Thinking.
He even quoted one Radcliffe senior as
saying:
"Stealing food from the dorm refrigera
tor would be more condemned around here
than fornicating on the living-room couch."
Maybe Dr. Peale's right. My best friend,
a Harvard freshman, sent me newspaper
clippings about a doctor who prescribed
contraceptive pills for two unmarried coeds,
and the only reaction of my buddy whom
I'd considered a fairly moral chap was:
"Wheel!"
Heck, what's the world coming to? And
by golly, Koeb Egdelwonk, another friend,
writes from a college on the West Coast:
"When I got to the University of Jerke
ley, the faculty told me to go along with
the crowd and grow a beard. They also
said that they were only human and that
it was impossible to grade my examina
tions objectively if I got near them after
having combed my hair or taken a bath.
"So I went to all my classes wearing
old khaki pants, sweatshirt, sneakers with
no socks.
"I thought my fellow students accepted
me until one day the president of my class
walked up to :ne and said:
" 'Who do you think you are, big shot
wearing dirty sneakers just so you'll get
a better grade in English lit?'
"At that point, I quit trying to impress
people.
"I took a bath-
"I wore a shirt and tie and jacket to
concerts and plays.
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ing me like some sort of social outcast, a
filthy, untouchable savage. All my profes
sors gave me poor grades, and time and
time again, the girls refused to date me.
They said I had a bad reputation.
" 'I'm just sick of being phony,' I told
the university psychiatrist. This is the way
I am.'
"Then I explained that I chose to ignore
the squares because I had read Dr. Nor
man Vincent Peale's Readers' Digest arti
cle. " 'The conformist is in no way a free
man,' I quoted Dr. Peale as saying. 'He
has to follow the herd.'
" 'Yes,' the psychiatrist answered. 'But
society must abide by certain rules; other
wise, man is doomed. We're rich and pow
erful and prosperous, sure. But moral con
fusion can mean the decline of civiliza
tion. " 'Koeb,' he continued, 'I know you won't
like this, but from now until the end of
school I'm putting you on marajuana cig
arettes. And while you're at it, how about
reading more pornographic literature?'
"Tom Jones" would be a good book,'
I said, 'wouldn't it?'
" 'I agree with you,' the psychiatrist re
plied, 'except that that's a classic, and I
might get in trouble with College Students
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claimed. 'There's something with proven
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you ye settled your moral crisis, I want
you to go out and seduce a few coeds.' "