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UN.c Library Serials Dept. Box 870 Chap-1 Hill. N.C. lifli mm met. Elections Board The Elections Board will meet today at 3 p.m. in the Woodhouse Room of GM. CFl Seminar The Committee for Free In quiry will bold a seminar at I p.m. today at Polk Place. The South' Largest College AWsjxper-All-American Aivard Winner Volume 74, Number 114 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1966 Founded February 23. 1893 S&YXLfc with Ed Freakley Smff-Ti Crowding into telephone booths are out. Stuff-a-Ford is in. This contest will be held in conjunction with the Campus Chest Carnival on Friday, March 18. The group on campus that can cram the most people into a standard size Ford will be eligible to compete in the Inter college play off. The inter-collegiate champs will receive a $100 check from the Ford Motor Company. The group that wins here will be given free tickets to the Roger Miller show which will be in Carmichael Auditorium Tuesday, March 29. The tickets for the winning group are being donated by the Crowell-Little Ford Motor Co. The current record stands at 38. The DTH staff would like to participate but we don't have enough people on the staff to break the record. We would like the female cheer leaders, since there is no cheering left to do, to help us out, or rather in. ()ni More Time I'll bet you thought I forgot all about something that has been missing from the DTH for at least three weeks. Well TRIVIA returns. 1. Who was Superboy's sweetheart? 2. What stirring phrase ended the Superman TV show? 3. Who was Wonder Woman's sweetheart? 4. Who became Zorro when duty called? 5. What was the name of Roy Roger's dog? 6. Which prominent SDS member does not have a beard? 7. Who smokes a cigar, looks like Santa Claus and pro tects the innocent student? 8. What group on campus publishes the EWES' NEWS? ANSWERS: 1. Lana Lang 2. . . . truth, justice and the American way 3. Steve Jackson 4. Don Diego 5. Bullet 6. Jim McCorkel 7. Chief Beaumont 8. Student Wives' Club. Mathis Before Shoivtime: A Doivn To Earth Singer By STEVE BENNETT DTH Staff Writer The Johnny Mathis who walk ed onto the stage Tuesday night before an audience of 5,000 ringing with applause and began singing "On A Wonderful Day Like Today" was not the same Johnny Mathis I has just met back stage. The one on stage was the old Johnny Mathis I had al ways known the one on re cords and TV. He sang during most of the two - hour concert and left the audience standing up begging for more when he finished with one of his all - time greats, Tonight." As I walked into his dressing room before the show, I saw Johnny standing on the far side of the room looking in a mir ror while putting on his make up. The short, medium - brown skinned man turned wiping the reddish make - up from his hand onto his light blue dun grees, stuck out his hand and said, "I'm Johnny Mathis." Besides his casual pants ne You Would Think 4 M, , r Ijjjf1 V; yf 1 5 k- 't 1 L wore only a pair of low - cut dirty - white sneakers. His, face was almost orange from the thick coating of make - up he continued to apply to his face and neck. He ran the comb straight back through the grease - caked hair, mak ing it flip up in the back like bent wire. If I had had to pick him out of a crowd judging by his pro motions pictures, I would nev er have been able to do it. I asked what he thought of Carolina and Chapel Hill. "The campus looks lovely and has a nice atmosphere," he said. "It seems quaint and very early American. I espec ially like the relaxed feeling here." As he continued talking about how much he enjoyed playing to college audiences, I was thinking, "Is this the same Johnny Mathis I had been lis tening to and seeing on TV for years?" He seemed different more down to earth. He was a man with feelings and emotions. Ban Showdown: Students Shout 'Louder, Herbie!' By RICK NICHOLS DTH Night Editor They came to see a show down. Frank Wilkinson's wall-scene last week had been a tea party. This was the real thing. Before noon the low, stone wall near Graham Memorial had already disappeared un der hundreds of students. Across the street Kemp was bellowing, "Come on over and buy some records." Aptheker hadn't arrived yet. Television camera - trucks lined the curb. A red and yel low placard bobbed over the crowd, echoing Richard French's declaration, "I'd ra ther be an orphan." The 11:50 bell sounded and students began streaming from classes. They poured across campus toward the wall. The hundreds swelled to several thousand. It was a pep rally crowd. . . shouting, laughing . . . the same kind of crowd that whoop ed it up at the Gardner speech in Y court last year. But, it was a bigger crowd and a more watchful crowd. They flowed over the wall onto the sidewalk and into Franklin St. They perched on the roofs of TV buses. News men shoved for better posi tions. Then an NBC camera - man came shuffling backwards. Following the lens were Paul Dickson and Herbert Apthek er. Policemen asked the crowd to move back. Dickson and Aptheker didn't stop. They walked straight past the little, wooden platform selling "Free University in a Free Society" buttons and up the path toward Silent Sam. The crowd broke and surg ed toward the statue. Two well - dressed, bearded stud ents assisted Aptheker onto the concrete pedestal, which was the first time most of the mass got a look at him. Dickson climbed up beside him and began to speak. He had just introduced Ap theker amid a few roared boo's and polite applause when Cam pus Security Chief Arthur Beaumont stepped up and told Dickson that Aptheker would be arrested if he attempted to speak on campus. Already the students were charging back toward the wall. Some, sitting in a cluster on the grass, had never left. Dickson apologized for the ban prohibiting PA systems on the sidewalk and a student shouted, "The Tempo Room has one, why can't we?" Aptheker strained to shout above the traffic. He hit the Birch Society and drew snic kering. And he lash ed out against the Speaker Ban then they clapped. The beards, the frat men, the professors they all clapped. In a mintue he was finish ed. i'ne crowd took one more look and a moment later it was just another lunch - time in Chapel Hill. Aptheker THE CROWD that turned out yesterday to see and hear Herbert Aptheker was enthusi astic as it was mobile. They followed him around like the Pied Piper as he began tov speak at the foot of Silent Sam. then moved down to the north campus wall. Some climb Aptheker 3,000 IN THE CONFUSION at the feet of Silent Sam Herbert Aptheker (right) is told by Campus Security Chief Arthur Beaumont he may not speak on the campus. DTH Photo by Jock Lauterer Ban Law Deciding Factor In Resignation Of Arndt By ERNIE McCRARY DTH Editor A UNC faculty member has said he will definitely leave the University if any "contro versial" speaker is banned be tween now and next January. Another has already resigned and he said the speaker ban controversy "made the final difference" in his decision not to stay. ' Dr. Bruce K. Eckland, as sistant professor in the Dept. of Sociology told the DTH he will leave if the administration turns away any speaker with out proving he could serve no educational purpose by appear ing on the campus. He has notified Acting Chan cellor J. Carlyle Sitterson of his decision. He said other faculty mem bers, especially in his depart ment and the Dept. of Politi cal Science are considering leaving. "These departments are among the nation's best in their fields, and they may be seriously damaged," Eckland said. "When I say I'll resign if a 'controversial' speaker is ban ned, I mean a speaker of the nature of Aptheker and Wilkin son," Eckland said. "I do not, however, think ei ther of these two should be invited again, because I think any decision made about them will be political and will not Was The i w - jr. a:-"t m t . . - - ----- m i serve as adequate grounds for a test of academic freedom," he said. Eckland said Sitterson's re cent banning of Herbert Ap theker and Frank Wilkinson did not fulfill his criterion for resignation. J "Sitterson was acting more on the trustee's decision than his own, and this case has not provided us with the clear evidence we need to show that other controversial speakers will be allowed here," he said. "I encourage invitations to the controversial type of spea kers who fall directly under the law as well a borderline cases, so the academic com munity can have some con crete evidence that things are going to be straightened out," Eckland said. The 33 - year - old Illinois native has been in Chapel Hill a year and a half. He has three children. "I came here because this is one of the best sociology departments in the country. I like the Chapel Hill commun ity, and my wife and I cer tainly do not want to leave, but if I do go it will be solely on the speaker issue." Eckland said he has receiv ed "six or seven" offers of jobs with higher pay and rank at other schools in recent months, but "I have been very quick to turn them down in the past." Tied Piper9 Of Chapel Hill ed trees, booed and taunted Dr. Aptheker who here stands stoically for a while with Gary Waller, spokesman for the SDS below the Confederate memorial which had. incidentally a girl's nylon tied to its left leg. DTH Photos by Jock Lauterer. Tests isten Across I A letter from Eckland, ex plaining his position, will be printed later in the DTH. Dr. Walter W. Arndt, chair man of the Department of Linguistics, Slavic and Orien tal Languages, will move to a similar position at Dartmouth next September. "The speaker ban was not the whole thing," Arndt said, "but it made the final differ ence in my decision to leave. Another major factor was the educational advantages the change in public schooling will offer my three youngest children." Arndt said the University here matched the financial of fers he received from Dart mouth and other schools in an attempt to keep him. He said he is in charge of finding a replacement for him self, and the leading candidate has already turned down the job because of the speaker ban controversy, even though the position here would have been a "substantial promotion" for him. "He said he didn't want his children to grow up in a poli tical atmosphere not conduc ive to a free academic life," Arndt said. Arndt has been associated with the Unitersity 16 years and has been chairman of his department since last Septem ,! A k-:m: s 1 0 " Ban Law W Speech Attempted Under Silent Sam By ED FREAKLEY DTH Staff Writer Communist Herbert Aptheker came very close to breaking North Carolina's Speaker Ban Law before an estimated 3,000 students in McCorkle Place yesterday. The noon rally began when Paul Dickson, presi dent of the student body, escorted Aptheker to the base of "Silent Sam." Dickson made a few opening remarks and was about to introduce the 50-year-old director of the American Institute of Marxist Studies in New York City when campus security officer Arthur J. Beau mont interrupted. Beaumont told Aptheker that if he spoke, "I will be forced to arrest you." He told Dickson that if he "continued on campus" he would take him before the Honor Council. Aptheker told Beaumont he was not aware that he might be breaking any law. "I thought I was a citizen of the United States and had a right to speak," Aptheker said. "You have the same right I do," Beaumont said. 'The right to obey the law. And we uphold the law here in Chap el Hill," he said. Dickson and Aptheker then left the campus and went to a sidewalk just off campus where Aptheker spoke to stu dents. Fund Drive Speaking in front of "Silent Sam" Dickson said he was beginning a fund drive to fi nance a prospective court case. Someone in the crowd yelled at Dickson asking him if he was collecting the money for the Viet Cong. Dickson said the people col lecting the money would have letters signed by him. Referring to the NBC news team that recorded the mass rally, Dickson said, "This is not going to serve the best in terests of the University. But it is not our doing." He said the responsibility lies with the legislature, the board of trustees and the ad ministration. "This law and these proce dures have already done great damage. It is those who would have us believe they were serving the cause of and strik ing a blow for democracy who passed the law," Dickson said. "Wall of Repression" After retreating to a side walk which is separated from the campus by a 3-foot high wall and which has been term ed "Dan Moore's wall of re pression," Aptheker said, "I'm all. very sorry that my appear ance at your University has turned into a spectacle or some kind of circus." The grey - haired, bespec tacled Aptheker spoke from the same spot where Frank Wilkinson, head of the Com mittee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Com mittee, spoke just one week ago to about 1,200 students. "The main thing here," Ap theker said, "is not only the violation of my rights, as a citizen of the United States, but more, the violation of your rights as citizens and as stu dents who are seeking to learn and listen to whomever they might wish to listen to." Aptheker told students he had spoken here before, and observed that "the Universi ty still stands." Bill of Rights "This is hardly a law. The supreme law dealing with this case and our country is the Bill of Rights. I would suggest that it is the trustees and the chief of po lice who are violating the law at this time," Aptheker said. Referring to the appearance of Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society and a graduate of UNC, Aptheker said, "What I might say might be as educational as Mr. Welch." He said he would do any thing possible to help a court case. The Communist, who recent ly had his passport revoked by the State Department for his illegal trip to North Viet Nam, was in Y-Court yester day morning and talked with several students. Dickson said the next step in his fight against the speak er ban is to collect between $1,500 and $2,000 for the court case. "I'm going to court as soon as my lawyers advise me to do so," Dickson said. Red Scholar Accepts Bid One of two Communists scho lars approved by the adminis tration to speak here has no tified the University he will come March 22. Frederic N. Cleaveland, chairman of the Dept. of Po litical Science said Professor Vladimir Alexanrov notified him yesterday he would come. Alexanrov is on the faculty of Moscow University and is in the United States on a cul tural exchange program. He is based at the University of Indiana. Acting Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson approved Alexanrov's invitation and one to Dr. Ha nus Papousek, a behavioral scientist from Czechoslovakia, several weeks ago. Alexanrov was invited by Dept. of the Political Science and Hanus by the Dept. of Psychology. Sitterson said both invita tions are clearly in accord with the policy on visiting speak ers adopted by the board of trustees. Alexanrov, who teaches the history of the Communist Par ty in the Soviet Union, is in the U. S. studying American attitudes in writing concern ing Lenin. He will speak to two politi cal science classes and to a faculty - student colloquium. Ed Freakley.
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