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Friday, December 3, 1965
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Opinion of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in Us
editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range
of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors.
ERNIE McCRARY. EDITOR
An Unusual Conference
University conferences and seminars are usually
a dime a dozen, but the one planned this weekend
merits more interest than most.
Student Government is sponsoring the Residence
Hall Officers Conference Saturday and Sunday, and
it is particularly well-timed. This is the make-or-break
period for the residence college system. The
recent student approval of immediately increased so
cial fees to finance the venture means that there is
no longer time for delay.
As with any new system, unexpected problems
will be encountered in the residence colleges, so stu
dent leadership must be exceptionally well-prepared.
Whether the student is a residence hall or college of
ficer should make no difference in participation in the
conference because the problems and goals of halls
and colleges are mutual.
Speeches by Dean of Student Affairs C. 0. Cathey,
sociology professor Dr. H. Douglas Sessoms, Student
Body President Paul Dickson, former SG president
Mike Lawler and Spencer Dormitory President El
len Allen should provide valuable information. The
topics will include the administration's role in resi
dence hall activity, recreation planning, the relation
ship between Student Government and residence col
leges, educational programming and cooperative ac
tivities between men's and women's halls.
Don Wilson, who has been making arrangments
for the conference, has asked each hall president to
bring an interested freshman or sophomore to the
meeting so that continuity in leadership can be es
tablished. As it is now, too many halls have no resi
dent with sufficient knowledge of the problems in
volved to take over leadership positions when vacan
cies occur.
The Saturday session will run from 2:15 to 6 p.m.
and Sunday meetings will last from 2 to 5:30 p.m.
The idea is not new. A similar conference was
planned last year, but it hardly got past the talking
stage. Plans are complete now, however, and consid
erable good for all campus residents can be accom
plished if residence hall and college officers attend
with enthusiasm.
Community College Neglect
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Greensboro Daily News
Accreditation now seems unlikely to be lost alto
gether to state-supported higher education because of
the speaker ban law. But just because it is available it
is by no means automatic for North Carolina's host
of new community colleges. That is the most signifi
cant item from the Southern Association's meeting at
Richmond this week. And it emphasizes anew that
North Carolina has dissipated its energies over a mere
phase of the accreditation problem.
Two features make the community college vitally
important. The Carlyle Commission (on education be
yond the high school) saw them as valuable adjuncts
to the higher educations system relieving enroll
ment pressures on established residential colleges and
universities, and putting college training within the
reach of boys and girls who can commute to a local
center.
Now the federal higher education act moving
toward the desirable national goal of making higher
education available to any student whose brains and
motivation merit it has made loans" and grants
available to lower and middle income families. But
these loans and grants may be awarded only to those
attending accredited colleges.
Five new community colleges Sandhills, Cen
tral Piedmont, Albemarle, Gaston and Southeastern
are without accreditation. The requirements for
getting it can be reduced in the main to two words:
faculty and books.
In both areas the problem is bothersome. Many
new community colleges lie fairly distant from urban
or older educational centers where a pool of qualified
instructors, full-time or part-time, could be obtained.
Nor can libraries, without considerable expenditures,
be collected overnight.
The problems of North Carolina's community col
leges, then, underscore not only the frivolity of those
who pretend that accreditation doesn't matter. They
are also the problems of potential thousands of Tar
Heel boys and girls for whom community colleges,
with the assistance of federal grants, are the feasible
and practical hope for higher education.
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(Editor's note: The following editorial
was written by T-Sgt. Peter G. Gainutsos,
editor of The Advisor, newspaper of the Air
Force's Second Air Division at Tan Son
Nhut Airfield in Viet Nam.)
Time was when a boy went to college
to study law, medicine, engineering, or one
of the arts. And girls went to get the Mrs.
degree. But for too many it is not that
way anymore
Today's crop of college cut-ups are no
longer content to swallow goldfish, crowd
themselves into ! telephone booths or small
foreign cars. They-and we refer to the mi
nority that makes the majority of the
voice-now insist on dictating government
policies, and are ready to parade, demon
strate, and sit in at the drop of a cause.
The latest gimmick among these intel
lectual midgets is a campaign to urge all
members of the Armed Forces to desert
their posts, rather than serve in Viet-Nam.
I have no quarrel with the right of the
individual to voice his opinion. However, the
hysterical babbling of these bourgeois boors
borders on sedition, if not treason. I leave
that to the Justice Department. It is a sad
day indeed when the words "honor, duty,
and country" have come to mean so little.
As a member of the military family, I
have spent the better part of my adult life
in the Saigons of the world. It never occur
red to me to disobey an order, or to
question the right of my Government to
send me anywhere to protect and preserve
its interests.
Like a lot of us here in Viet-Nam, I
have had occasion to be at the base the
atre during one of the memorial services,
and I have seen the slow walking and heard
somber music and soft prayers for those
to whom rotation dates are no longer im-
Letters To The Editor
Marchers Ignore Cause
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Regarding my recent letter (which, inci
dentally, was rather chopped up by the
editors and-or printers, and from which
several- key points-for example, the con
tinuing U.S. effort to improve the South
Vietnamese government with a view to more
freedon for its citizens-were deleted) and
the reply of Nancy Thompson, whom I thank
for her correction.
I must, indeed, plead guilty to repeating
myself and also to confusing my exposi
tion with a misplaced phrase. I would hope, .
however, that even my critic would accept
the sentence in question as it should have
read: "The word 'war' is a description of
a state of affairs." The misplaced phrase
could hardly have been a deliberate "resort"
since it obviously obscured the very point
I intended to make. Interpretation depends
not only upon definitions of words, but upon
their implied meanings in a given con
text. In the case of the foregoing sent
ence, the intended implication (which I
thought obvious) was as follows: ". . . it is
impossible to be for or against a state of
affairs in the same way in which one may
be for or against the cause of a state of
affairs.
Let me clarify still further: It is
irrational to discuss an event as though it
were a cause. And to discuss an event
and deliberately ignore its cause is to insult
not only one's own intelligence, but the in
telligence of one's audience as well.
Yet this is precisely what the "peace
marchers" have done. It is simply not
enough to say: "I am against the horrors
of war." The question is: "How are the
horrors of war to be eliminated?"
The "peace marchers" are apparently of
the opinion that if we will only close our
eyes to aggression it will go away- or will
at least be considerate enough to stop it
self at some happily suitable geographic
point. If we will just give the aggressors
what they are trying to take now by force
they will not want anything more.
All of history, I believe, demonstrates
the irrationality of such a view. Indeed, one
has only to go back a few short years
to the experience of the Second World War
to see what pacifism accomplishes. Quite
aside from Neville Chamberlain at Munich,
how can any historian or political scientist
worthy of the title choose to ignore the
resounding words of historian-philosopher
Oswald Spengler who observed in 1934
seven years before Hawaii was bombed:
"..America must not grow weary. The only
respect Japan will have is toward a nation
virile and strong like itself. To avoid war
the United States must maintain an atti
tude of calm and assured force.."
But the United States did not main
tain such an attitude.
Are we now to invite another near dis
aster for America, are we now to invite
another world war because some scholars
refuse to learn the lesson taught by historv.
purely the lesson is not so difficult to
understand: Aggression increases in direct
proportion to the lack of response to it.
I might add that I also am interested
in both sides of the argument. For that
reason I regret that my critic offered no
rebuttal to my contentions, but only an
evaluation of my semantic skill (which ad
mittedly, is far from perfect). Perhaps,
however, the absence of such rebuttal
speaks for itself.
Paul A. Smith
654 Ehricghaus
Pravda And DTH
Editor The Daily Tar Heel:
Congratulations DTH! You have won.
the Red Star award. Only a newspaper
supported with conscripted money from all,
but which caters to the interests of a few
can qualify for such a distinguished award,
ward.
Secondary requirements are (1) a qual
ity journalism typified by an ignorance of t
the distinction hetween presenting an issue '
and taking a stand on the issue, (2) mes
sing with letters-to-the-editor in such a
way as to delete the meat of the argu
ment which would neatly refute the edi
tor's arguments and to leave only an in
troduction and a conclusion that is out of
context and is thus meaningless, and (3) af
ter having done such messing to have the
the gall of putting the original author's
name at the bottom of the letter without
any indication that the letter has been tam
pered with.
Yes the competition was close, you clos
est rival bemg The Pravda, but after
reading the editorial page the Tuesday
morning of the campus radio referendum
and seeing the results of said policy on
the final outcome of the referendum, the
commissar's decision was final: the DTH
gets the Red Star.
If you are going to mess with this
letter, too, please be so kind as to use
little round things called dots to indicate
where you have tampered.
John W. Pettingell, I.
213 N. Boundary St.
Too Many Gifts
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Several Christmases ago I wrote that it
didn't bother a child to see Santa Claus
on every street corner. Recently I read a
report of a psychologist's talk to parents,
in which he spoke against live Santas in
the store, probably on the streets also, be
cause, with their loud voices and laughter, th
often shocked a child. It is all right to
have pictures of Santa displayed, and a
Santa in the parade, but let's leave some
thing of the magic of Santa Claus, the
spirit of love and giving, to the child's
imagination.
Once, when I was teaching first gra
ders, I told the fairy tale of the child who
rubbed his magic lantern and a
flying blanket appeared, and the child
soared into the wild blue yonder. One
child, his eyes big with wonder, asked,
"WHERE DID he GET his MAGIC?"
That was the $64 question then. It was
before the day of the air-plane.
It is a temptation, at this happy sea
son, to over-do the giving of too many
gifts to the child. , I have seen occasions
when I thought, the, gift-giving was exagger
ated, but I must plead guilty myself, for
my young son, after opening up his gifts
one Christmas, exclaimed, "This is too
much Christmas!"
It is easy to be carried away by the
Christmas spirit. Nobody wants to be a
Scrooge. But let's keep it under control. And
about Santa Claus. Let's leave something
to the child's magical sense of wonder!
Otelia Connor
Women's Rules
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
My first impression of Terry Fowler's
column on women's rules suggested some
nightmarish excerpt from a Baptist student-group
discussion.
It was hard to figure out. He says at
first he's going to reexamine the "basic
rationale" behind women's rules. He pokes
fun at intuitionist ethics, but seems to want
to justify the rules as administratively
practical because they keep girls from get
ting lost and inhibit panty raiders, and he
adds that "of course" they are practical
"in essence." But it looks as if his think
ing bogs down about half way through
(where he says "in any case") and he
switches tracks to cover up. From then on,
all he says, in essence, is that he wants
to abolish women's rules because we need
to practice making decisions, that under
the rules questions of whether, when, where,
and with whom to shack up are not suf
ficiently at our discretion for us to develop
into "responsible citizens" capable of hand
ling on our own the morally ambiguous sit
uations we'll be meeting later on in life.
It's a shame Fowler got sidetracked like
this, becasse the "basic rationale" he start
ed out to analyse is crucial in deciding
portant. I muttered my own prayers, as
well as giving silent thanks that it was
not me inside that box.
As I stood there, I remembered preach
ings of these mentally retarded adults back
home, and my compassion for a dead man
turned to shame, and then anger that they
dared to ask me to prostitute my pro
fession, ask me to bring dishonor to my
self, to my service, and to my country.
It is difficult enough to understand when
the supposedly learned citizenry take the
rostrum to rant and rave against our Gov
ernment, and thereby feed the propaganda
mills to the north, but to be subjected to
the meaningless chatter of these embecilic
sloths, whose idea of bravery is to lead a
panty raid on a girls' barracks, is more
than human dignity can bear.
It has been suggested that they all be
drafted into the service and brought to
Viet-Nam. I could not agree less. To put
these morons in a uniform is to insult
the memory of those who never came back
from Guadalcanal or Pork Chop Hill, or
those who did not survive the bombing of
the Brinks Hotel or the American Embassy
here.
Instead clean them up, cut their hair, and
take away their sweat shirts and sneak
ers and bring them to Viet-Nam to live
among the people. Let them expound
their theories about the good, the kind,
the misunderstood Viet Cong among the vil
lagers whose homes were destroyed and
their meager rice stolen.
Let them talk about war mongering to
the widow of a Vietnamese Army private,
who earns her fish and rice as a pros
titute, or the village woman who lost a
hand, one finger at a time, and finally the
wrist to these misunderstood Viet Cong be
cause she dared to stand up for what she
believed was right.
Draft them into the military? Never'
Ours is a proud organization mad up of
men and women who have ideals and prin
cipals and, what's even more important
men and women who have the courage and
the will to live up to those beliefs.
They take great pride in themselves in
their uniforms, and in their nation, quali
ties that the campus "cuties" have yet to
acquire. Until they do, they will never "be
long." Their voice will be that of the semi
deicated, the fool who will leave behind
only a legacy of shame, dishonor and
ignorance
LETTERS
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to the editor on any subject, particularly
on matters of local r 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.
whether or not to scrap women's rules, and
Fowler seems to have realized this. When
it's something like cheating, stealing, or
black lies, everyone can see sense in
rules. The "basic rationale" is obvious
the harm of cheating, stealing, and black
lies is obvious-and no one would be prompt
ed to reexamine the "basic rationale" of
the rules against them. The harm of dis
creet sex, in naked contrast, is not at all
obvious. The sense in having rules against
it is very hard to perceive, and the "basic
rationale" of the existing rules needs very
much to be reexamined. Try again,
Fowler?
' Bill Michaux
1018 Morrison
Vietnam Telegram
Editor. Daily Tar Heel:
In the November 19th issue of the DTH,
the Vietgram was referred to as 'The
special Thanksgiving petition supporting
U.S. involvement in Vietnam.." Both the
originators of the Vietgram and the DTH
presented the telegram as a non-political
expression of remembrance and gratitude,
and it was with this understanding that
many who are not in support of U.S. in
volvement signed the Vietgram. As one of
these many, I would like to clarify my posi
tion and request that the DTH clarify its
article of November 19th.
Bryden Manning
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