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Page 2 Sunday, October 24, 1965 ,w.v.v.v.v.v.v. 8 ije Satlg ar ifcel Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors, : ijii ERNIE McCRARY. EDITOR jiij JACK. HARRINGTON, BUSINESS MANAGFU DTH Editor Ernie McCrary is in the infirmary. During his absence the associate editor will serve as acting editor. Expressions of opinion appearing in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of the editor. Monday's Space Flight Greensboro Daily News It is a measure of how blase we have become about manned space flight that the preparations for the mission on Monday of Gemini 6 have gone almost unattended by publicity. Where only two years ago a space flight commanded rapt attention from planning through completion, now the public seems to regard trips into orbit as little more than routine. More than anything, this is a tribute to the suc cess of the entire space program. Through six mis sions in Project Mercury and three in project Gemini, no lives have been lost or, for that matter, serious ly endangered. Even technical difficulties, such as the failure of a fuel cell during the flight of Gemini 5, have been surmounted with relative ease and accept ed calmly by astronauts and ground crews alike. The dangers are there, however, and during the flight of Gemini 6 they may be greater than in any previous mission. They will be posed not by the length of the flight it is expected to end after a day or two but by its complexity: for the first time, man will attempt to rendevzous and dock one space vehicle with another. At least an hour and 41 minutes before Gemini VI is launched, an unmanned Atlas-Agena rocket will be put into orbit. When Astronauts Walter Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford follow it skyward in Gemini 6, their task will be to link up with it. The maneuvering will be intricate. Absolute precision will be required. The margin for error will be very narrow and the danger thus considerable. Yet whatever the dangers, the astronauts are well trained and the control centers remarkably resource ful; the mission would not be undertaken if space au thorities were not confident of its success. That is a confidence the nation undoubtedly shares as it wishes Commander Schirra and Major Stafford a good flight and a safe return. A Pretty Protest -- Durham Morning Herald Of all the petty, misdirected protests against this J country's role in Viet Nam, burning one's draft card :: is the pettiest, most misdirected. : It is on a par with the shows put on a decade ago by fundamentalist preachers who burned revised c editions of the Bible before carefully invited audiences ; of newsmen and photographers. In all such cases of ;I contrived exhibitionism, the only thing shown is an ? unflattering commentary on the persons who contrive the exhibition. i Perhaps Congress inadvertently encouraged this I nonsense by making destruction of draft cards a fed- eral offense and thus offering an easy way to indulge ; the martyr complex that seems so much a part of ; the Viet Nam protest movement. Of itself a draft card I isn't significant. Neither is the small fire it makes nor - the strained gesture that results. ; Those with an honest religious aversion to mili tary service can far better demonstrate their belief and move others by the hard process of becoming a -: it is their moral duty to flout the law of the land so ' far as the draft and military service are concerned will find ample opportunities in time to follow through : with this even harder demonstration. : If there were enough young men willing to make -such painful demonstrations of protest, we have no doubt they would indeed make an impact on this ; country. But when a few seize on the flashy, con trived idea of flouting a dubious regulation, their pow der to move anyone is small and fleeting. Like those who burned the revised edition of the Bible, they ex- pose their own urge for sensation and self-dramatiza-: tion rather than any evils in what they put to the torch. ;fcv:'i':::::':W 'Let's Co Sunshine It's Tennis Time!' Letters To The Editor v-; V J " ' ' . - s i 1 S TWr VMLY TA HttL UNC And SPU Are Now Bound Together In Carolinian Minds 11 0 I .""."V. . ...... ... if? Satlg Sar 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The Dally 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; Barry Jacobs, managing editor; Fred Thomas, news editor, Pat Stith, sports editor; Gene Rector, asst. sports editor; Kerry Sipe, night editor; Ernest Robl, photograph er; Chip Barnard, editorial cartoonist; John Greenbacker, political writer; Ed Freakley, Andy Myers, Lynne Harvel, Lynne Sizemore, David Rothman, Ray Linville, staff writers; Jack Harrington, bus. mgr.; Tom Clark, asst. bus. mgr.; Woody Sobol. ad. mgr. 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 Ihis newspaper as well as all ap news oiBi . -V X' 5 1 I 0. ..;.X-;-X-X''-;,;' r . . mm j . . MM By FRED R. HARWELL The time has come for student govern ment to take action in the face of a grave danger to the University a danger that already has attacked and weakened Caro lina and a danger the student government can best and most effectively squelch. "We're from the University of North Carolina" read one of the signs carried last weekend by a picketing member of the Student Peace Union when that group pa raded around the John F. Kennedy Special Forces Center at Ft. Bragg. That demon stration was but a drop in the rain barrel that overflowed around the world last week end as radical and pacifist (and radical pacifist) groups expressed their opposition to United States participation in the war in Viet Nam. It is this "We're from the University of North Carolina" and not the views of campus radicals that poses the most immediate threat to the shaky aca demic security of this University. And it is this danger that student government should and could move swiftly to kill. Why the sign reading "We're from the University of North Carolina"? This is an excellent question. It has not been an swered, but the obvious reason is that it was an attempt to link in some way the name of this University with the activities of the Student Peace Union. Specifically, of course, it may have been intended only to tie in the University with Sundays march. But the chance looms large and thunderous that this overture might be ex panded into a complete symphony. Considering the circumstances, it was a crude but well-timed move. It is just such campus radicals as these that lend justifi cation all over the state to the speaker ban law. Twist motives and talk of legalities all you will, a majority of North Carolin ians who support the law will say they do because of 'those beatniks" at Carolina. Considering the circumstances as they ap peared last weekend, it's hard to argue with these people. "We're from the Univer sity of North Carolina" only tied the knot tighter that binds UNC and SPU together in the minds of many North Carolinians. It would, of course, be impossible to convince any intelligent person who is aware of the proportions of the facts that UNC has been taken over by the SPU and its radical approach to reality, or that the SPU is but an extension or a voice of secret views held by a University that is seeking to put an ultra-liberal or even com munist hex on the young minds of this state. But to the person who does not see the facts in their true proportions, these ideas come effortlessly when there is some thing to light the fire. Several fires, un doubtedly were lit last weekend, but what is worse, many barely glowing embers probably burst into full flame. There is no question whatsoever that the sign carrying pickets at Ft. Bragg last weekend damaged this University. There is little question these same pickets will go on damaging this University in the future, unless they are stopped. Whether their views inadvertantly correspond or conflict with the dominant strain of thought on campus, 20 do not represent 12 thousand. This misrepresentation will continue until something is done about it. It is for student government to take action. Why student government? Obviously, for students to take action themselves would be the most effective means of eliminating the blight. Aside from the fact that stu dents would be censoring students, they would at the same time be demonstrating the true feelings of at least a majority of the student body and expressing those feel ings through an organ that could rightfully say: "We're from the University of North Carolina." Secondly, action by student lead ers would absolve the University adminis tration of the chance that it might have to take action sometime in the future to re strict student freedoms. The tolerance of the administration has a limit. It must not be exceeded. What action? That is up to student gov ernment leaders. Those leaders should bear in mind, however, that the pickets last weekend broke federal laws and endan gered the security of a United States mili tary reservation. Although a precedent was set during the racial demonstrations here that participants would not be tried by the student courts for activities that resulted in civil or criminal actions, that precedent does not apply in the case of the SPU pick ets last weekend, for two reasons. First, and of least consequence, their actions at Ft. Bragg last weekend carried far greater ramifications than did any civil rights dem onstration in Chapel Hill. The picketers at the special forces center did not merely lie down in front of the traffic in a small town of 13,000, they attempted to interfere in op erations of global significance. Secondly, the picketers defeated any hope of using the precedent as a defense by the very sign they carried. "We're from the Univer sity of North Carolina" clearly takes the demonstration at Ft. Bragg out of the realm of personal or moral convictions. It drags in every student who attend this Univer sity, and makes it impossible for any sin gle individual who took part in the demon stration to defend his actions on the grounds he meant to express his opinion and his alone. In its mildest interpretation, the demon stration at Ft. Bragg was "ungentleman ly." Student Government takes action when somebody makes a scene in front of thirty five thousand fans at a football game and drinks too much. It is time Student Gov ernment did something about those who made a scene in front of four and one-half million North Carolinians and the rest of the world, too. LETTERS The DaHy Tar Heel welcomes letters to the editor on any subject, particularly on matters of local or University inter est. Letters must be typed, double spaced and must include the name and address of the author or authors. Names will not be omitted in publication. Let ters should be kept as brief as possible. The DTH reserves the right to edit for length or libel. Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: On October 25, 1965 Dr. Erik von Kueh nelt - Leddihn will speak in 08 Peabody Hall, at 8 p.m. Dr. Kuehnelt - Leddihn in forms us (the Carolina Conservative Club) that he prefers an openly hostile audience to a passive one, that he welcomes debate with the left. Dr. Kuehnelt - Leddihn follows in the Middle European "Neo-Liberal" tradition, classifying 'liberals' into four basic schools: (1) "Pre-Liberalism: This was best repre sented by Adam Smith who was strongly deistic and advocated an economic philos ophy which emphasized Freedom." (2) "Early Liberalism: This philosophy of the early 19th century placed less emphasis on economics. The most able writers of the group were Alexis de Tocqueville, Lord Acton, and Jacob Burckhardt. Tocqueville once said 'I love with pas sion freedom, legality, and respect fpr rights but not democracy . . . Liberty is the foremost of my passions.' Burckhardt, 'foreseeing the drive toward identity,' wrote 'tyranny will raise its head in the next (the 20th) century." (3) "Late Liberalism: This school, best exemplified by the Manchesterians and Herbert Spencer, was strongly economic. Unlike the Pre-Liberals, their intellectual forebears, they were often agnostic, lead ing to their condemnation by Pius IX." (4) "Neo-Lberalism: This school derives its intellectual inspiration from the Early Liberals. They are strongly Manchesterian, oppose government intervention, seek to preserve competition, but unlike the Late Liberals, have a theological foundation for their philosophy of freedom." Dr. Kuehnelt - Leddihn challenges the very intellectual identity of those on the American left, terming it "pure instinct," while stating that intellectual diversity is much stronger on the right: "it has a purely intellectual basis, wanting others to be not like themselves." This gentleman's reputation as a schol ar and a critic is most impressive. Hav ing taught at Georgetown University, Ford ham University and Chestnut Hill College in the United States, and Beaumont College in England, Dr. Kuehnelt - Leddihn's ex perience in the academic community is substantial. In addition, he has contributed to Commonweal, America, Modern Age, and is currently European correspondent for National Review magazine. This distinguished scholar challenges the latter-day liberal, and is prepared to en gage all comers. Wilson A. Clark, Jr. President Carolina Conservative Club Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Wednesday's DTH brought to light a real atrocity. I had no idea campus coeds had to make their beds by ten o'clock. "This policy (of bed making and-or dual standards) is an anachronism," intone three Cobb girls. From this statemet it logically follows that the policy in question was fitting for the coed of yesteryear. Hence, taken at their word, the coeds of today must be of better stuff than their ancestors. Sadly, most males will admit they aren't the men their fathers were. This being true, and men and women being equal up to now in the eyes of God and nature, women have obviously become better than men. In this case, the dual standard should not be abolished but reversed! Might I suggest that dorm girls take a page from the sorority book and employ white jacketed male wretches to perform the bothersome household tasks no modern woman should know. Perhaps a Boys Bed making Corps, the BBC, would be in order. They could make girls' beds (bringing to mind an old proverb) at that impossible hour of ten. The BBC would help boys dis located in this sexual revolution. Also, the paltry wages (one shouldn't overpay a boy, he'll get uppity) would help finance the ex pensive weekend entertainments necessary for us drones to amuse today's intellec tually jaded coed. In my petty male way I've always har bored a grudge against dorm rule 15, which prevents me from taking my bicycle, or parts thereof, to bed with me during scary thunderstorms. Dave Fox 128 Parker Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Are the "Craige Dormitory boys" really inept? Only to those other dormitories who merely boast of their greatness, especially Morrison Dormitory, may the men of Mav erick House appear to be inept. Inept at what? At the underhand tactics of stealing and humiliation, we may be in ept, but at carrying on worthwhile and out standing activities, we are not. Who was the leading dormitory while Morrison was still an architect's problem struggling to raise its head above the mud and muck of Schroeder's Swamp? Maverick House, that's who. Among the activities beneficial to both residents of Maverick House and the Uni versity carried on at Maverick House are the first successful inter-dormitory govern ing body, the Speaker Forum, the Outstand ing Professor Award, the Motorcycle Scramble and the Gymkhana, and its own newspaper, the Tarpit. What has Morrison done? Morrison said we couldn't get our gong back. We knew where it was, and we had formulated a plan on how to get it back, but we were asked by Dean Long and Chief Beaumont to refrain from disturbing Mor rison's tranquility in order to return our gong to its noble institution. Morrison had our gong, but the thieves were not men enough to return it in per son. Instead they put it in an elevator and arranged the return in such a manner so as to humiliate Maverick House. Their at tempts were unsuccessful. They only proved that there are some residents at Morrison who are childish and immature. Morrison's motto must be: If you can't beat them, play Mickey Mouse games and try to hu miliate them. Maverick House is number one and will continue to be number one. The only thing we have to worry about, as far as Morri son is concerned, is getting something stol en or getting hit by paper airplanes. Louis J. Sipka, Jr. 219 Maverick House Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: "Inept?" Not the men, the boys of "Big Morri." Stealthily, with prowess and au dacity the Moes infiltrated the hallowed halls of the "old Mave" and proceeded with the utmost of skill and polish to capture their prize. Their quest for the Golden Gong successful, the Moes had made a name for themselves. No longer need the marauding Moes be overshadowed by the daring deeds of the Mavericks, for they had profaned the unguarded, sanctified chambers of the Golden Gong and had tak en it for their own. Back into the dreary swamps went the "Moorisons." Their quest was won, their cause lost. "All that glitters is not gold." In uncouth hands the Golden Gong was not a symbol of prestige and spirit, but a dis dainful piece of booty. Tired of that un wieldy toy, of gloating in their fleeting moment of stolen glory, beset upon by Chief Beaumont and other Mavericks, the Moes returned their ill-gotten prize with typical backwoods protocol and aptitude. Perhaps if accomplishment came as easy as stealing a gong, Morrison could, in fact, become number one. , Ralph C. Kirby 527 Maverick House Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I was quiet impressed by Alden E. land's recent essay on Maupinism versus SPUism (Oct. 21, DTH). Seldom does one find such r6se agility and command jdJ the English language; and he argued his' point with an engrossing clarity. However, this dexterity does not make his reasoning correct. For instance, I fail to recall a single case before now in which a group that, after turning its back on its country, was labeled as "patriotic." Nor have I ever known of a group which, having publicly demeaned its country in the eyes of the world was called "responsible citizens." I always thought that those people who ac tively supported an enemy to his nation were called traitors. Lind, however, has taken just such a group, the Student Peace Union, and cud dled them in the arms of moral satire like a whipped puppy. Even in the face of the SPU's recent actions martyring the Viet Cong and decrying U. S. "intervention," he fails to see that this puppy is rabid to American democracy. Their aims are not, as Lind implies, to strengthen our democ racy by exercising "the critical responsi bilities of American citizenship," but to un dermine it in every way possible. They hide behind a cloak of respect for the blood of young Americans in South Viet Nam to spit on human nobility. They spray mud on the robe of national integrity by openly supporting Communist aggression. To these creatures of vile reasoning, I offer nothing but animosity. Proudly, then, I place myself, along with Armistead Maupin and the majority of Carolina students, in the rank of those Lind has chosen to call "inpenetrably stupid." If I must be "inpenetrably stupid" to sup port the righteous cause of my country, then I say so be it. Russell A. Marion 434 Cameron Ave. Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: As I was standing in the YMCA build ing this morning (Oct. 20), the campus SPU chairman, Charles Schunior, came in. I think that the reason my attention was focused on him was due to his unusual man ner of dress a clean shirt and tie. He proceeded to the other side of the bulletin board, where the "For Rent" notices are displayed. As most people probably know, each notice is on a 3 x 5 card and is sep arately attached to the board by a single thumb tack. Or, at least they were. What Schunior was doing was removing thumb tacks from some of the notices and then attaching two notices together with one thumb tack. He then took the thumb tacks which he had "obtained" and went outside, whereupon he tacked up a sign which asked people to contribute money to the SPU so that the SPU could contribute it to CARE, I would suggest that the SPU take the first fifteen cents from their con tributions (assuming they collected at least that much) and go just a few steps further into the Y and purchase a small box of thumb tacks. Leon W. Barber 171 Bagley Drive
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