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x - n v- ' f ' " '. Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday, September 22, 1966 .fa Our Opinion . . . r. Jenkins, What Are You iding In That Secret File? 'Oh, East Carolina . . . why?' D H Strange things go on behind closed doors. And, apparently, strange things are contained with in certain closed files. According to a story appearing in yesterday's Charlotte Observer, the first blow of a one-two punch that may doom East Carolina Col lege's efforts to achieve universi ty status has been delivered. Dr. Jenkins has waged a bitter fight, displaying his brazen will ingness to tangle with anybody, anywhere. It seems ironic now that the unkindest cut of all may well come from a knife the ECC . president himself purchased. At his request, the 1965 Gener al Assembly voted funds for the college to employ consultants to explore the feasibility of establish ing a two-year medical school on the Greenville campus. The ECC-selected, ECC-em-ployed consultants went to Green ville, and early this year they is sued their findings. When ques tioned about the report Dr. Jen kins issued a four-page summary, suggesting that ECC seek, instead of a medical school, a life sciences and community health institute. It has since been learned that there was a more complete report lr a report that Dr. Jenkins was so anxious to keep secret that it .j -took 'a ruling from the Attorney General to place the report in the hands of the state Board of Higher Education. Although the board will not dis close the report's full contents, the Observer's man in Raleigh, Jay Jenkins, reports he has learned that among other things, the re port says the quality of ECC's of ferings in the field of science are inadequate to support a medical school. The second part of the one-two punch should come from another ' team of consultants that will be selected by the State Board of Higher Education to study ECC's readiness for university status, probably in late October. Dr. Jenkins has said time and again that he thinks ECC should be an independent university. But it is unlikely that educational ex perts will reach any different con clusion about the unfitness of the ECC science program to support university-level courses. We are disappointed,' but not surprised, at Dr. Jenkins attempt to keep this unfavorable report under cover. This is not the first time he has shied away from par ticularly sticky issues concerning ECC's readiness for university status. This only serves to strengthen our doubt as to Dr. Jenkins' true concern for a first-rate education al center for eastern North Caro lina as opposed to a college with a "university nametag." W orthwhile Project At Cobb ' The interest and enthusiasm demonstrated by the women of Cobb Residence Hall Tuesday night concerning student activi ties create an encburaging-'atmds-phere in which to begin a year. More than 200 Cobb students were on hand to participate in "Student Activities Night." The residence hall's social room was converted into what resembled a carnival midway. Tables were set up for nearly every activity in which a woman, student conceivably might partic ipate, and representatives from the various organizations UP, SP, YWCA, Di-Phi, Yackety-Yack, Carolina Quarterly, most Student Government committees, etc. were on hand to explain how stu dents could get involved and what they could do once involved. The session began at 10 p.m., DU, ZBT Testify To Greeks' Strength : Delta Upsilon and Zeta Beta Tau fraternities deserve public congratulations on their winning the Robert B. House Award as the most outstanding fraternities at UNC last year. The award is based on scholar ship, representation in campus af fairs, participation in the IFC and intramurals, house appearance and faculty-student relations. Much has been said concerning -what some say is a waning trend ;iri the importance and strength of the Greeks on college campuses across the nation. We believe the very fact' that UNC fraternities compete for an .award based on such criteria, the fact that our Greeks are mindful of the value that a fraternity can have in getting its members in volved in such, worth while endeav ors, serve to testify that fraterni ties have a definite contribution to make to their members, that they have a well-earned place on the college campus today. No doubt the DUs or the ZBTs : would have been happy to have the distinction of being the best :frat on campus instead of typing for the award. But it is a credit to the fraternity system at the Uni versity that more than one house could compile such an impressive point record in this competition. and when midnight closing hours rolled around, it was still going strong. We were especially encour aged at the -number-of freshmen who expressed their desire to par ticipate in some form of extra-curricular activity. The DTH often reiterates the opinion that students "get in volved" in what goes on around campus. But for all our pleading, and for all the invitations issued by organizations for students to become members, all .too many students never do so because they're just not quite sure how to go about it. Nancy Ehle, president of West Cobb, and Ann Hutchison, presi dent of East Cobb, are to be com mended for their idea and their efforts in staging this "Student Activities Night." Another vote of thanks goes to the men of Morehead College who helped the girls prepare the social room and constructed a refresh ment stand for them. 5tfp latlgSIar 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed Kerry Sipe Feature Editor Bill Amlong ... ........ News Editor Ernest Robl .. Asst. News Editor Sandy Treadwell .. Sports Editor Bob Orr ...... Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer Photo Editor Steve Bennett ... .. .. Staff Writer Lytt Stamps Staff Writer Lynne Harvel ... .. .. Staff Writer Judy Sipe .... Staff Writer The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex amination periods and vacations Offices on the second floor of Gra ham Memorial. Telephone numbers editorial, sports, news 933-1011- bus f,S' , JCjrcuIation' advertising-833-N C 2lTS: 1080' 0131)61 HiD' Pn? r Clf S JS?Stage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill N C Subscription rates: $4.50 peV se'raes: ter; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel mi Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill N C The Associated Press is entitled ex clusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this news paperasweU as all AP news dis- r ' - - t.-c .' I '-r i rt- i Ei i i w 1 tt in ra i. i .MSA A Good Thi (Editor's note The following article was written by NSA Coordinator Teddy OToole in response to some unfavorable remarks about the NSA Con gress made by the Associate editor.) By TEDDY O'TOOLE Yes, the NSA Congress is frustrating. Three times I say yes, the NSA Congress is frustrating, for I have attended three Congresses, and a thousand times I say , it's a gookl things for a thousand times I have reflected upon those NSA de legates who return from the Congress frustated, no long er able to be "satisfied" with our student government here. Among those once-frustrated delegates need I mention more than Bob Spearman, originator of course evalua tion, Paul Dickson, determined opponent of the speaker ban and Bob Powell, champion of education reform. . So it is that I agree with the general idea expressed by delegate John Grenbacker in his editorial "NSA Congress Disallusioning." So it is that I say there are twelve other delegates to that Congress somewhere on this campus who have undertaken the first steps toward true leader ship: the clash of their ideas with other student philosophies, the necessary accompanying frustration and the attempts to articulate their points of view to the students at the C o n g r e s s where Berkeley meets Salem, Harvard mets Tuskegee Institute, and t h e University of Chicago meets The University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill. After it is all over, the NSA Congress delegate has some deeper appreciation of John Milton's famous state ment in Areopagitica, a plea to the' British Parliament against censorship of b o o k s,"l when Milton says, "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister ed virtue." The delegate can no longer praise a fugitive and cloistered student goern ment. 'We have a big, active stu dent government. We have a student government that con cerns itself with everything from the price of laundry service to the speaker ban lw. We have well-developed political parties. We have dedicated leaders, and as Grenbacker put it, "UNC has every type of character found at NSA on its own campus, and many of them are a lot slicker here." But make no mistake; we are far from perfect. The one single thing that keeps the system going is a continuing stream of fresh ideas, and it is from NSA that those ideas come. Obviously, I think that the Waiis SMdy Sh ows Most Eioiers Adults From The Christian Science Monitor The California Attorney Gen eral's final disposition on the Watts riots of August, 1965, re veals quite a different profile of the typical rioter than had been previously reported. Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch says that a statistical dicates that the majority of rioters were male Negro adults who were employed and long-time Los Angeles residents. Up to now,, most reports have characterized the typical rioter as a juvenile 18 years of age or younger, out of school and unemployed, and recently transplanted from the Deep South. This report issued by the Bureau of Criminal Statistics indicates that only 558 of the 3,927 people arrested during the Watts riots were juveniles. It also shows that 60 per cent of the adults booked were convicted either of mis demeanors or felonies. But more than half of those con victed were placed on proba tion. There were 732 j a i 1 sentences but these averaged one month or less. Of the juveniles arrested, 88 per cent were returned to their own homes under proba tion supervision. Only 35 youths were sent to the juv enile camp program or the California Youth Authority. Socio-economic information compiled shows that 41 per cent of all the adults arrested indicated that they were mar ried. But almost 27 per cent were separated, divorced, or widowed. Thirty-two per cent of the adults were high-school grad uates. Another 12 per cent re ported post-high-school train ing. About half of the rioters told police they earned $200 to $400 a month. Twenty-nine per cent received less than $200 a month. Of all cases referred to the probation department, 75 per cent had lived in Los Angeles County for five years or more. Only 6' per cent had been in the county less than one year at the time of arrest. Lynch says that most rioters were charged with burglary. But, in the final analysis, the great majority of those so charged were convicted of trespassing. The Attorney General con cludes: "The relatively minor types of offenses for which the great majority of riot participants were convicted would seem to indicate that this group of individuals was not the same type of persons usually booked on sumlai fel ony charges." Lynch says he hopes this re port will be of some help to law-enforcement officials across the nation in their efforts to assess potential not situations. John Greenbacker Alienation Shows In Mights' Cause The American public got another look at racial violence at its worst last week when a mob of white men savagely beat a group of Negro children in Gre nada, Miss., after the children tried to enter a newly desegregated school. The beatings, which were administered with chains and ax handles while police watched motion less, were denounced Saturday by a federal judge, who ordered policemen to protect the children in the future. When he issued his order, Judge Claude Clayton described the incident as "savage and senseless," but in fact it is something more than human words have the power to describe. It is very difficult for reason able men to understand in their hearts and minds the motivations that prompt people to commit an act of this sort. If the victims had been anything but chil dren, the deed might be easier to forgive. What happened in Grenada serves to show the public that although Mississippi and other deep South states have been out of the headlines recently, there is still a long way to go before the South is com pletely transformed. This transformation calls for the complete reordering of a pattern of thought that has been embedded in the minds of many Southerners for years. Because this task is so difficult, it is very import ant that efforts to end racial prejudice among whites not be hindered by any roadblocks. We might define these obstacles as actions which have as their end result the senseless alientation of the white population or the division of the civil rights movement. Unfortunately, this destructive alienation has al ready reared its ugly head in America. Black na tionalism, black power or whatever one chooses to call it has done more to hurt the civil rights move ment than any other philosophy. Notice who spawned these ideas: the Muslims started it several years ago. Now prominent "civil rights" leaders, in a desperate attempt to achieve po litical power and glory, are playing on primitive emo tions and animosities to achieve their goals. Notice the recent statements of Stokely Carmichael and Adam Clayton Powell, who actively sow the seeds of discord for personal gain. Carmichael, during the riots in Atlanta which he helped to instigate, spoke vaguely of notions to form a .black republic out of certain areas that now comprise . part of the United States. , v r Tbe essence of American democracy and the key ! jo; its; success after nearly; 200 years can be attributed to two factors: its ability to compromise in a political situation in order to find the best course for the ma jority of the people, and its indivisibility. The black nationalists, like all racists, apparently have a limited knowledge of history when they advocate their views. It is time that all persons, both black and white, realize that the fruits of alienation and closed-mind-edness divided this nation over 100 years ago. A group of men untied under the banners of segrega tion and the denial of civil liberties attempted to carve a section of a democracy off for themselves. They failed, and we have a great country today be cause of it. The very thought of secession in the twentieth century is ten times more ridiculous, and infinitely more tragic. From the school house at Grenada to the Negro sectors of Atlanta, the forces of ignorance and aliena tion are fast at work. It falls on the shoulders of the people to stop it now, before it causes another century of anguish. J Q Utf Vanity' partiaUy out of anger at an old situation, this columnist is going to impose upon what readers he has to make a correction of an error in the editonal page two days ago pr . orsf M1? at can happen to a serious writ er m this business is for his column to run so long that f 6 ?P has t0 cut " Places, cessarily bad, except when the guy that lL fUf, thG f a chefraLr fill COpy' 7116 buter's way of cutting ulm?t 'S ? Tf emoniously chp off the ending. The en dtfnCt,HhaS ne f tW0 sequences: It can ciuici uesiroy ine meaning of th se ' or 11 can lose the m ot tte SnrinSL" yU rember article called "On a teZtoJZ WlU r"ber that a great rata storm had just driven a bunch of drunks off the street oS T r f --fu"; tt ends: CaUed Frank- Her leadership-training aspect of NSA is most important for our campus. Of major impor tance also, however, are the services offered by NSA. The International Travel Card, of fering travel discounts; the NSA Insurance Policy, offer ing the cheapest insurance to students to be found; and the Student Government Informa tion Service, which floods member campuses with v re source material for virtually any' project, are-' verjr impor tant, likewise, - the foreign student exchange programs and foreign relations scholar ships of NSA are important. But most important of all is that the delegates to the NSA Congress will never again undertake a student govern ment project in the same frame of mind as they did prior to the Congress. Bob Powell and Eric Van Loon, student body president and presidential assistant respec tively, will examine educa tional reform having digested material from every major college in the country on that subject. Nancy Ehle, Presi dent of West Cobb, will never initiate a Cultural Program for her hall without reflecting on her Congress experience. John Greenbacker will never write an editorial on the role of the student in civil rights without thinking of the debate on Black Power. Charlie Mercer and Steve Hope, sophomore Legislators, will never act on rule changes for women without comparing our system with that of other state schools. Ken Day, Cam pus Affairs Chairman, will not approach the parking problem as he did last year before attending a. Congress. Bill Miller and Phil Kir stein, members of the Men's Honor Council, will think of NSA's Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities when hearing cases. Ellen Sugg, Vice-Chairman of the Caro lina Women's Council will never plan another mixer without thinking of the enter tainment plans at the NSA Congress. 0avid Kiel, Chair man of the University Party, will never plan party action again without thinking of the "Slat" party at the Univer sity of California or the "Ac ion" party at Florida State University. Jonathan Gibson, President of the YMCA, will never or ganize his foreign exchange projects without consulting the NSA national office' for aid. Ann Brownlee, student legis lator, will never consider a bill on student discounts in Chapel Hill in the same light that she did before attending the conference. Yours truly, the veteran of three Con gresses and NSA Coordinator, will never again run a cam paign tne way he did last spring. Yes, they all went to the NSA Congress. They all re turned frustrated; they all clashed with alien philoso phies, collected ideas, and came home the better for it. It's a good thing. amber 71 particles of rald and Frank surpassed a sudden desire to jump out into it hra and let it wash him clean to the IZ hJST d6d by a roU of """ider, he remem aftetl6 Calm' UnfeeUng ViCe 0 ne;scasterTt from last aZ over the central United States tonight ' P anH?.e rai" S.UU distorted Pottles on the porch Purse Z nt as its STof aRathr r louys ot youth are echoed on a universal and infi mtely more perilous level by an IrSfhSSX
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