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Serials Dept. Box 870 lff Sweet Flick mhi Trte of nonev" is t- S n Lfree Flick- Sl be- fSi and 9 pm-in Carro11 Ml Pep Rally A pep rally will begin to night at 8 p.m. in Flanttari um Parking Lot. Torches win be provided for the parade to Emerson Field. Beat Clem son! The South's Largest College Newspaper Vol. 74, No. 75 CHAPEL HILL NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 Founded February 23, 1893. N.C islature Will Meet To Consider Bam .Residence Colleges (First of a series of articles on the status of social frater nities on American College campuses.) By FRED THOMAS DTII News Editor Is "taps" being sounded for the social fraternity on the American college campus? "I don't know if the Greeks will make it," says Dean of Men William G. Long. In 1957 UNC boasted an en rollment of 6,000, and 25 per cent of its students were affil iated with one of 24 social fra ternities. Today, with more than twice that number of students, fra ternity members comprise 19 per cent of the enrollment and there is one less fraternity. If this indicates a decline in the strength of the fraternity system, what brought it on? Residence Colleges One of the greatest threats to Greek organizations nation wide is the thriving Residence College system. UNC got its first taste of this idea in residence hall living last year, and it has met with great success on campus, Pe titions are presently being cir culated by students whose resi dence halls are not now in the Residence College System ask ing that they be incorporated into the system this year. But Dean Long thinks frater nities are more worried about possible harm from the Resi dence College System than ac tual harm. "If a fraternity reaches its full potential it will always be beanbirds' Induct 18 To rnrrmensate for the an nual loss of some of its higher flying birds, the Order of the Old Beanbirds rose from its mvctio rnost this moraine to rnmnlement its flock. Flying low over the Campus nnH rhirnine lOVOUslv. the Beanbirds rousted 18 fledglings at dawn and received tnem home to nest in a myster cere- mnnv. The new birds are Joe "Lone - Legged Loon" Exum, .Tav "Pomarine Jayer" Foun tain. Henry, "Man-O-War' May, Schooner "Dumping Duck" Nowell, Jack "Nigger flnnse" Dunn. Bill "Bush-Tit" Parham, Jim "Red-Eyed Vireo" Van Bobbv "Glidine Puffin' Parker, William "Wagtail Wal loon" Ward, David "lieu ui er Parrot" Poer, Joyce "Worm - Eating Warbler" Watt. flave "Hod - O - My Thumbs" Harris. Martha "Dnmnbin Rlnssnm PumDer' Powell. Janet "Pale-Breasted ed Pigmy" Price, Ada Lea "Bay - Breasted Bunting" Macon "Rose - Breasted nmihpak" Remsbure. Ann "Crackline Creeper" Crutch- field. Susan "Rough - Legged Reef Goose" RusselL - J' " vSsj. MISS AMERICAN 500, Samantha Townsend, presents the winner's trophy to stock car driv er Cirtus Turner after the 500-mile race at New Rockingham Speedway Saturday night. one step ahead of the best res idence college," he said. "The Residence College Sys tm was never intended to threaten fraternities." Long explained that the sys tem was designed to provide meaningful social experiences for people who live in resi dence halls. "The plan was undertaken to improve what was originally a bad situation," he said. "Ac tivity has got increasingly bet ter." Long said of a residence col lege party he attended Satur day night, "I didn't believe I would ever see what used to be called 'dorm rats' throwing that kind of a party." Need Good P. R. In light of the new availabil ity of social facilities, frater nities should "accentuate the positive and decentuate the 'Mickey Mouse' aspects of Greek life," he said. "I believe the end result will be that fraternities will be strengthened in what they of fer and in what they stand for" because of pressure from the Residence College System. Another weakness in the fra ternity system pointed out by Long is the fact that "frater nities are transitory." "Fraternities could do many long - term things to perpetu ate themselves. But students are not long term," he said. He said he finds that many of UNC's fraternities have alienated themselves with their Kiel Says He Will Stop 1 Efforts For David Kiel, leader of the presidential recall forces, said yesterday all efforts to seek a recall election by his forces have ceased. Kiel made the announcement after yesterday's decision by the Constitutional Council of Student Government to dis qualify 33 pages of the recall petition. "As the request of the over 1,900 students for a recall elec tion has been denied," Kiel said, "the student body will Journalist Says Argentina Has Activists On Campus Colleges and universities in the United States can claim no monopoly on beatniks, cam pus activists and demonstra tors, it was said here Tuesday by a visiting Argentine news paperman and professor of journalism at the University of the Plata. Prof. Miguel A. Escalante, on a U. S. State Department visit to U. S. universities and cities, compared Argentine activists to those on campuses in the United States. HIV.''! "f. Are Fraternities Dying? r t- P$ , ! fas,, 4mm. .'. 1 WILLIAM G. LONG national offices and with alum ni, and have lost much of their tradition and continuity. Long contrasted the Greeks' year-to-year change - over with the system in residence halls whereby a resident ad visor works through the MRC and the administration in car rying out long-range programs. Most campus offices are still held by fraternity men, but Long predicts that as residence hall life get more vigorous men will get their political acquaintances in their resi dence halls and will have a greater opportunity to move into Student Government from there. 'X'X"X-X-X Recall Vote never have the opportunity to speak its will on this issue. "We can only hope that, in the future, more responsible leadership will restore to stu dent Government the respect and confidence it has lost through the action of our chief executive," said. Kiel referred to Student Body President Paul Dickson's con viction last summer by the Men's Council of a Campus Code violation. Campus agitators of Argen tina and the United States are alike, he said. He also de clared that the activists make up only a small minority of the total student population on any campus, whether in South America, Europe, Asia or North America. However, they make noise and construct a public image of subversion all out of pro portion to their size and influ ence and do damage to col leges and universities, in the -trj CJ 1 Id "s The senior from Fayetteville was selected from a field of 23 girls from North and South Carolina to reign over the race. Pose Threat Inferiority Complex "Fraternities have almost got an inferiority complex like the residence halls used to have," he said, "but not in the same sense. "Many fraternities are look ing at their future in the 'what the hell' sense." He also noted that the facul ty is becoming negatively dis posed toward fraternities. "Many on the faculty wonder if such a selective group is in place at an institution of pub lic education. "Fraternities are going to have to find ways to put the soft pedal on bad aspects and put the loud pedal on the many positive aspects," he said again. Long says he sees two ideas that might help solve the Greeks' problem. 1) The alumni could take up the cause of perpetuating the local fraternity. 2) The faculty could assume a more or less parental role. "I very much want to see fraternities make it, because they have very great potent ial to contribute positively to this campus more than any other single group," he said. "It is impossible to get so close a grouping working in the Residence College System. "But if fraternities keep up Pro-Campus Radio Forces Circulate Petition Calling For Student Vote By JOHN GREENBACKER DTH Political Writer Supporters of the proposed campus carrier current radio system said yesterday they will circulate a petition on campus within 24 hours which, if successful, will allow the stu dent body to vote on all radio legislation. The announcement was made by Campus Radio Com mittee Chairman John Stupak. Student Legislature defeated a key radio organization bill Oct. 22 which would have established the non-commerci- opinion of the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion's capitol correspondent in La Plata. Es calante has observed and written about rioters, demon strators and other activists at the University of the Plata and other institutions. He teaches journalism and literature. The Argentines have a de scriptive term for a certain kind of campus activist: "idio ta util," which means "useful idiot." A useful idiot is a campus activist who really doesn't know much or care about what he is demonstrating for or against. But he is ready to join a cause at the drop of a hat The real leadership rests in others who do understand Bas ic motives and goals. The lead ers, tiny m numDer use tne larger contingents joiners and haneers-on who can De led in almost any direction, if they are furnished literature and slogans suitable to their emotional needs in their readi ness to rebel against authori ty. Showing that campus activ ists are much the same the world over, Escalante said he can recognize similarities be tween Latin - American "idio ta u til's" and their counter parts in the U. S. who com mit nuisances in colleges and universities in this country. Some of the activists in Ar gentina seem to be inspired by Communists, he said. But there are many followers, left ists, Peronists, and many who are joiners of any movement that might be developed. their black-balling and Brooks Brothers bigotry I don't care if they don't succeed. "There is no place in the middle of the 20th century at a public institution for such practices." Long said the Greeks could keep the faculty off their backs if they cut out "joy rides" and the practice of keeping stu dents up all night during class weeks. "Also, if fraternity men con sistently performed higher than the rest of campus men, they would have no problem with the faculty," he said. He predicted that the frater nity of the future will have to put more emphasis than ever before on academics. He cited two reasons for this: 1) The matter of appeas ing faculty and administration, 2) The fact that every year's students are of higher intellec tual potential and are looking for an atmosphere condusive to learning. "By this I do not mean that I think fraternities should breed Little Lord Fauntleroys who sit around in philosophical discussions all the time," he said. Restrictive Caluses There has been national speculation that many frater ( Continued on Page 3) al radio's governing body and station management. The organization bill's de feat was considered by some to be a death blow for campus radio. SL defeated the radio bill after a campus - wide refer endum on the issue held early last month in which students voted three to one in favor of campus radio. Campus - wide referendums are not binding on the legisla ture. If the pro-radio petition is signed by ten per cent of the student body, a referendum on the radio bills will be held. If students vote in favor of the radio, the bills will be de clared passed without action by Student Legislature, and they will be sent to the stu dent body president. Campus radio would provide low-power AM broadcasting to all university residence halls and FM broadcasting to areas within a five-mile radi us of Chapel Hill. Writer-In-Residence Tells By DAVID ROTHiHN DTH Staff Writer UNC Writer - in - Residence Thomas Leon Rooke says he will probably finish his new hovel "by Christmas." There won't be much in it about Chapel Hill, however, although Rooke told the DTH he has "moved a sun dial from UNC to New Orleans." During the interview, he al so suggested the establish ment of a writer's workshop on the UNC campus and facetiously said a Klansman could possibly speak here to protest the speaker ban if it is not repealed or modified. Several publishers are in terested in buying his book, Rooke said, but the Atlantic Monthly Press has first grabs. The novel is set in New Or leans' French Quarter, he ex plained, and "really isn't sim ply a serious probing book. "It just deals with the ac tivities of four people in one day." A preliminary reading of the manuscript reveals one character who has a 44-26-41 figure, and there's some mod eling involved. Rooke called his new work "deeply psychological." The four people have a "love affair with the human Most Expect Commission To Recommend Changes By ED FREAKLEY DTII Staff Writer Word leaked off Raleigh's Capitol Hill yesterday that Nov. 15 has been set as the date for a special session of the General Assembly to con sider the recommendations of the Speaker Ban Study Com mission. The Commission will present its report to Gov. Moore this afternoon. Informed sources, who re fused to be identified, said yes terday that legislators have been notified of the date by the Governor. Commission Chairman David Britt will formally present the report to Moore at 2:30 today in the old House Chamber. Several legislators contacted by the DTH said they had only heard rumors and that they had not received any of ficial communications from the Governor. Orange County Rep. Donald M. Stanford, who lives in Chap el Hill, said he has heard noth ing. "I will be sorely disappoint ed if the commission does not return a favorable report," Stanford said. It has also been rumored that Nov. 22 might be a pos sible date for the special ses sion. However, the sources, who would not make a state ment until after the Governor makes it all official, said Nov. Opponents of campus radio have criticized its initial ex pense of nearly $35,000 and the fact that AM signals would not immediately be made availa ble to off-campus areas such as sorority and fraternity houses. In a statement issued yester day, Stupak and radio com mittee member Richard Cone ly said they will seek the stu dent body's personal approval for the radio bills "if the leg islature fails to reconsider campus radio and recognize the student mandate for its passage. "We do not believe we have witnessed representative gov ernment in action as pertains to the entire campus radio program," the statement reads in part. "The Student Legislature has flaunted the wishes of the student body, disregarding a referendum which they, the legislators, demanded." Stupak and Conely singled out in their attack representa- race," he said, but did not explain exactly what the phrase meant. "There is a turning point in their lives . . .," said Rooke, "... this is not surface writ- Looking up from a pile of papers, he suggested the writ er's workshop for the UNC campus "where there would be chairs and room for type writers." The workshop would be open "24 hours a day," he said. "It would primarily be a place for writers to work and talk ... It would make the writer - in - residence pro gram more meaningful . . ." Rooke recommended that the workshop not have a spon sor "as such," though it could be associated with The Caro lina Quarterly. He praised the existing cre ative writing courses at UNC, especially those taught by Jessie Render. "She is very loyal to her students," he said, "and always seems in terested in them, as well as their work." Rooke does not think UNC students should bring a Com munist to speak on campus if the speaker ban law is not re pealed or modified. "We ought to bring a Klans man instead," he said, refer- 15 was the definite date for the session. Most people think the com mission will ask that the law be amended so all university policies will be placed in the hands of the trustees. If so the boards will have the power to rule on who should or should not be allowed to speak on the various campus es. It is assumed that Britt, who speeded up his commission re port, has already given the re sults of the investigation to Moore. The Commission ended its hearings in Raleigh six weeks ago. Britt said at that time he felt it would take until "about the end of November" to go through the four days of pub lic hearings and come up with an answer to the problem. He later said it would be about the middle of November. Then he speculated that Nov. 10 would be the day. This leaves time for the leg islature to meet and amend the law before the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools meets Nov. 30. It has been rumored that the association plans to place North Carolina's state support ed colleges and universities on probation because they feel the law is an abridgement of aca demic freedom. Rep. Phil Godwin, who in troduced the bill in the House, tite Sandy Hobgood (SP), who told the legislature before vot ing against campus radio, "A thousand referendums couldn't change my vote on this issue." "We were told that if the student body, like a sleeping giant, were suddenly to be awakened with full knowledge of this power, that no one would be safe," the statement reads. "If that means that the stu dents would demand responsi bility from their representa tives, that is those legislators who stood with Mr. Hobgood in defiance of the referendum, we will awaken them to their power and be proud of the fact we did." Ban On TV WUNC-TV will broadcast Gov. Moore's announcement about the Speaker Ban Com mission report today at 2:30 p.m. r' v h ,J T. L. ROOK ring to North Carolina Grand Dragon Robert Jones' fre quent use of the Fifth Amend ment when testifying before congressional committees. "At least this would have the same effect as having a Communist speak," he joked. Political activity is nothing new to Rooke, who participat ed in civil rights demonstra tions here in 1963. He said, however, that his novel has kept him too busy to be active in the integration movement this year. Rooke recently wrote a short story about the South's race problem. "I did it most ly as a challenge to myself," Jt has said he may call for a statewide "referendum on the law to the last word to North Carolina voters. Moore has said he will up hold whatever the Speaker Ban Commission recommends. The law which was passed on the last day of the 1963 ses sion of the General Assembly forbids Communists and plead ers of the Fifth Amendment in subversive cases from speak ing on State-supported college campuses. Consolidated University President William Friday, Chancellor Paul Sharp, former student body president Robert Spearman and Student Gov student body President Paul ernment President Paul Dick son all testified at the Com mission hearings against the law. They argued the statue vio lates academic freedom and subjects the institutions of higher learning to political control. A compromise recommenda tion, halfway between reapeal and retention of the law, is expected to gain legislative ap proval. Many backers of the ban law have hinted they would support a compromise at a spe cial session. It is felt supporters of the law could work to place men who would enforce the ban on the board of trustees. The American Legion has promised to fight against any amendments in the law. After much controversy over the law Gov. Moore set up the study commission. Hearings were held in September and in October. Torches Burn At Rally Tonite Pyromaniacs and UNC root ers are invited to a pep rally tonight scheduled to start at 8 p.m. in the Planetarium lot. Torches will be provided and there will be a procession from the parking lot to Emer son Field for the bonfire. New cheerleader head Lar ry Roadman will lead the ral ly. Pete Haynesworth and Jack Betts are the new alter nates. Freshman girl cheerleaders are Romano Taylor, Ann Mar tin, Betty Lou Higgenbotham, Sandy Kelse, Carnie Rouse and Linda Sieber. Ginny Webb is an alternate. Frosh men are Bill Tate, Dave Strickler, Ray Lyles, Dave Bennett, Pat Patterson and Stuart Williams. Murry Peel and Lloyd Miller are al ternates. Of Book he said, adding he does not usually write about this sub ject. Chapel Hill, according to Rooke, has been used as a setting for many novels "be cause of the large number of writers here . . . Many of them in the past studied or worked here." Rooke himself came to UNC in 1955 after attending Mars Hill College, where he took three playwriting courses. At UNC be worked on an honors course. He was a student of John Elbe, author of "The Free Men." Rooke once worked with the UNC Press Bureau. Correction The DTH erroneonsly re ported yesterday that stu dents would vote Tuesday on a constitutional amend ment to make the offke of treasurer of the student body an appointive position. Student Legislature in fact did not pass this sec tion of the constitutional referendum bUL Only the offke of secretary of the student body could become appointive if the itsdents approve.
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