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In Our Opinion ... You Don't Have To Be An Artist Or A Collector... 'XT,-.' . A 1-. T .1 rw-ii r k TT7 Tk k l. 1 ' 9 Always JL.ike l nis r or a r ew uays Aiier v acaiions. Since the floods tore through the Renaissance city of Florence, Italy, recently, leaving some of the world's greatest art treasures in shambles, newspapers and maga zines the world over have devoted pages to the matter. Stories have quoted artists' and art lovers' appraisals of the dam age. It is generally agreed that the greatest single loss is Cimabue's 13th Century Crucifixion. The greatest concentrated dam age was done to the archives in Florence the center of master pieces and art records that even the Nazis decided not to destroy. An expert from Rome took one look at the archives, standing as a reservoir, and dropped dead of a heart attack. Even the most uneducated peo ple of the world can understand the great loss. Even the most un artistic and unappreciative of art can feel some sorrow. But, for most people, the trage dy will soon pass from their minds. And it will remain the concern of a small part of the world's popula tion to raise the $32 million to sal vage the works, a task that may take up to 20 years. Perhaps this is as it should be. Perhaps the truly great works of art could not be great if they had a universal appeal. Perhaps the fact that an elite group of the world's citizens produced, pur chased and talked about the mas terpieces of Renaissance art al lowed it to attain its greatness. But there is something that the average John Doe and Joe College can do. The United States Com mittee to Rescue Italian Art has set as its goal to contribute $2,500, 000 for the salvage operations. This sum will come in small bits from all over the country. UN students, through the cam pus organization of the CRIA, will have an opportunity to contribute one such small bit. It might sound educated and impressive to say that all of us bear a great longing within our hearts to see the great works of art restored. But we all know this isn't true. Most of us will never see nor know about most the world's art treasure. But we should all realize its im portance. Indeed, for the sake of posterity these treasures must be saved. The campus CRIA will meet to morrow night. Those students with a genuine interest should attend. Most students here will not. And no one will be surprised. Once the committee is organ ized, however, they will begin to solicit funds funds to be admin istered by someone you don't know to salvage something you've never seen in a place you've never been. When you are contacted, stop and think it over. Consider the val ue of the crusade. Who cannot af ford one dollar? Who can honestly say that he does not feel he should contribute at least one dollar? It's not just for the artists. It's not just for the collectors. It's a large part of the common artistic heritage of all of us. Truly, it is our responsibility. Prejudice Still On Bench The Chapel Hill Weekly Three years ago, when civil rights demonstrators were lying in the streets, making witness in restaurants, and otherwise fretting genteel white folks, some of North Carolina's Superior Court Judges were detected using the law for a : cudgel and spouting raw prejudice that was hardly consistent with even the thinnest pretense of blind justice. At the time, this curious judi cial, conduct was excused or tol erated on grounds that defiance of the law by the demonstrators had' somehow shorn them of protec tion of the law in court. This idiot ic rationalization, while attempt ing to defend prejudice on the bench, served only to demean our courts still more. Demonstrators are no longer lying in the streets and the gen teel public is at ease, if still wary. Although times have changed con siderably, some of our judges have not. Judicial prejudice still pops up occasionally, like a de fiant fist in a peaceful crowd. Recently there was Judge John R. McLaughlin, presiding in Su perior Court in Monroe. A woman had been convicted in his court of manslaughter for shooting her husband during a party attended by whites and Negroes. In sentencing the woman, Judge McLaughlin commented from the bench: "There is no doubt in my mind that such dens of iniquity where white and Negro couples have par ties in private homes, drinking liquor and dancing, breeds this kind of trouble. As long as I am a judge, I will not tolerate this sort of thing. If I didn't punish this wo man, I wouldn't be fit for the job I hold." And then, with that classic line that invariably accompanies ex pressions of racial prejudice, Judge McLaughlin said, "Some of my best friends are Negroes." Maybe the Judge would have ' been rendered unfit for the bench if he had failed to punish the wo man for shooting her husband. But if the socializing of white and Ne gro couples at that party influ enced the Judge's judgment, as seemed to be the case, then he most certainly is unfit for his job. It is proper for a judge to loathe personally from the bench the shooting of one person by an other. Racial mixing, drinking liquor and dancing in private homes, all of which are quite leg al, are something else. Such con-: duct might be subject to a judge's private contempt, but not to his official judgement. S Satlg Slar 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed. John Askew ................. Ad. Mgr. John Greenbacker...... Assoc. Ed. Bill Amlong News Ed. Kerry Sipe .. Feature Ed. Sandy Treadwell r. Sports Editor Bill Hass . Asst. Sports Ed. Jock Lauterer ...... Photo Editor Chuck Benner .. Night Editor STAFF WRITERS Don Campbell Lytt Stamps, Er nest Robl, Steve Bennett, Steve Knowlton, Judy Sipe, Carol Won savage, Diane Warman, Karen Freeman, Cindy Borden, Julie Parker, Peter Harris, Drum mond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis Sanders. CARTOONISTS Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly The Daily, Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of Nortfi Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex amination periods and vacations. 'Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N C Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., S01 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. 1 M n 1 At btautord Seminar Students May Get Credit Letters To The Editor (Editor's note This is the last of a two part series on the Experimental College of Stanford University. The first of the series appeared before Thanksgiving break, and they were originally printed in the Daily Calif ornian.) By SUE WERBE The student co - ordinator of The Experiment at Stan ford University sees the pro gram as going far beyond the current series of seminars which discuss subjects not nor mally part .of a university's curriculum. "We are not interested in merely supplementing the Stan ford curriculum," said Barry Greenberg. "The Experiment is the first cohesive effort by the people called 'New Radicals' to do something in the educational environment." POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT Greenberg said, "We are trying to bring together people unhappy with the system to become a potentially import ant political group. Right now most political acts have been done on an individual basis." Inter - personal communi cation is important to this type of political group and the physical environment can con tribute to this. Right now the seminars are meeting at various locations off campus, but a central, ac cessible meeting area is con sidered most desirable. There is a possiblity that next quarter the old Western The Redl-Necked rR CtlOl Save Heritage . . . . Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: A note to John Greenbacker and an unknown editorialist: I am not a segregationist nor a red-neck in matters of race differences. I have no fear of the - "un - Christian, mongrelized society" which some white-supremacy groups foresee. But my : neck does' tend to get a bit red when an unin volved, unknowledgeable lit erary hack sets himself up as God, and, with pat, not-too-well turned phrases, ridicules and condemns a heritage for which, not too many years ago, thousands of men gave their lives. If you wish to sum up these ideas in the phrase "Fergit Hell," then let me assure you that I am one who will not forget. GaryS. Bebber Individuals Needed Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Prodded by Soren Kierke gaard and egged on by Sven Lundstedt, I have begn think ing about the ills of our so ciety. As I see it, the . biggest problem of our society is a lack of individuality. What this means is that the individ ual is slowly disappearing from the scene, and we are mass-producing generations of popularity-oriented people. Mass media such as TV and Reader's Digest are dictating our thoughts and attitudes to us, and the individual is be coming more and more apa thetic. The individual is afraid to reveal himself through emotion or though making a legitimate mistake. Consequently, everyone wears a mask of conformity. Nobody can deny that our so ciety scorns emotionalism as a sign of weakness and laughs at those who fail. Many peo ple are missing out on the ex periences that make life meaningful, because they are looking for pat answers with out going through the struggle to find the answers. We are learning to pass tests, but we are not learning to learn, to think or to search. There are many dead minds clogging the university class room. Where is the spirit of ad venture? Look at the dressing habits we have. The number of grit neck sweaters and rainy-day-grey checkered pants that I see on any one day is count less. Fear of public censure gov erns our activities. An ex ample of this is a typical girl's rather large wardrobe. A r girl wouldn't be caught dead wearing the same outfit within any given thirty - day period. And why? , There is a popular fear that this will somehow reflect a deficiency in her wardrobe. You simply must have a large wardrobe everyone else has. Yet what is wrong, rationally, with a girl wearing the same outfit all week long if it is be coming and if it expresses her? American girls generally do not pick their clothqs as ex pressions of themselves. Euro pean girls, on the other hand, very sensibly have small wardrobes which are very carefully, nicked. to be exmes- sions of themselves. - It is a compnment to remark to., a European girl, "Oh, look. You are wearing that nice red dress again," because the dress is a compliment to her and is a natural expression of her. Like Sfcev Lundstedt, I am stunned by some of the ir rational popular concepts in this country. Until this sick ness is cured, I see no hope for a healthy United States of America. How about a little more dissent, people? And I think we should start by reforming the educa tional system. Mass lectures and crowded classrooms cer tainly do not stimulate thought, which is the basis of the formation of the individual. And we could follow through by changing TV from a growth-stunting opium into a valuable cultural medium along the lines of the B.B.C. . And a definite need of this country is a number of re sponsible and intellectual newspapers pushing different points of view. The system now sees only a great mass of Federally - tinted journalism fearful of reproach from such fear and ignorance-born insti tutions as HUAC. I hope a cure is found for this country, because it has a potential for greatness which has not yet been realized. James T. Hudson, Jr. of the book in his column. The purpose of the book is ". . .to be an honest de- Shoddy Journalism Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: The article by John Green backer in the DTH on Young Amercans for Freedom and its current program of dis tributing free copies of "The American Cause" by Russell Kirk and John Dos Passos necessitates this article to clear up a few points. The Carolina Chapter of YAF was provided with sev eral hundred copies of this book by Constructive Action, Inc., another conservative or ganization. We decided to dis tribute these to various stu dent leaders, as we are cur rently doing. "The American Cause" is also being distributed in con nection with an essay contest, described on the last page of the book. The idea is to sug gest a solution to one of America's current problems based on the general princi ples outlined in the book by Russell Kirk. It is doubtful that John Greenbacker really read the book he was criticizing since he not only failed to mention the essay contest, but a 1 s o completely missed the point scription of the beliefs we Americans live by." It is not about Communism, but about the United States. I will not attempt to discuss this book in such a small amount of space. I will let each person who receives a copy of this book make up his own mind about ,it. realizing . - - - v v that Greenbacker's opinions A are oiasea ana superucial. , , It may be added here that the Carolina Chapter of YAF will have several hundred more copies of this book after Thanksgiving to hand out free to the student body-at-large from a booth in Y-Court. Since Mr. Greenbacker's opinion of "The American Cause" is dubious, his opin ions of YAF and its past anti NSA are hardly to be valued.. Not one member of the pres ent Carolina YAF was in the old chapter which aided, but did not control, the anti-NSA campaign in 1964. Green backer's opinion of the cam paign is unanswerable, then, by current members. But his shoddy journalism over the book casts doubt on his opin ions. A little more Ji i s t o r y of YAF at Carolina may prove interesting. The very first chapter of this organization here was founded by "lib erals" in an attempt to smear the name of YAF. They took part in various harmful ac tivities trying to do so, and succeeded. But the present Chapter of YAF is a responsible group of conservatives. We can be dis missed only by people such as Greenbacker, who violently responds to even the mildest disagreement with the current status - quo - statist ideology anyhow. And any responsible person who reads "The American Cause" will certainly agree that it is one of the mildest. As Chairman of Carolina YAF, I hope that all fair mi n d e d readers of "The American Cause" will thjnv about the book carefully, and individually, unlike Mr. Greenbacker. Douglas Stanton Victims Unaided Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I am one of the three stu dents who lived above the Varsity Theatre before it was destroyed by fire. Now that I have gotten somewhat settled, I would like to clarify a few points with the people in this community. First, let me say that this letter is in no way a plea for their sympathy, but merely an expression of my feelings for this community and the peo ple in it since my home was destroyed. I have not met the patrol man who has been credited and commended for saving six lives, but I would like it made clear that he did not save anyone. The only reason that the three of us who lived above the theatre were able to escape any injury was be cause of a coincidental phone call from a friend of mine in Monterey, Calif. I have not talked with her since I left that state over 16 months ago, and why she picked that time on that par ticular morning will always remain a mystery to me. But one thing for certain, it was that phone call that awakened: Simv neighbor and I, and. en : 1'abled us to escape the firer If we had depended on that patrolman or the fire depart ment, we would have had lit tle chance of survival because it was a good fifteen minutes before anyone bothered to even go upstairs and check. Furthermore, had they gotten to us then, by the time an ambulance arrived, as there was none on the scene, and we were taken to the hospital, it would have been too late. It was all we could do to get out when we did. I know this to be factual because I was on the sidewalk, dressed only in pajamas, when the patrolman arrived on the scene. Also, the three of us stood at the foot of the stair way for at least a half-hour and we know that we would not have survived that fire had not I received a long dis tance phone call shortly after 1 a.m. My greatest complaint about th entire affair is not so much the fire itself that destroyed nearly everything I owned, but the fact that if I had to depend on this town or the university, I would still be sitting on Franklin St. across from the theatre waiting for help. To my knowledge not one civic or church group in this town has so much as offered any assistance. And worse yet the university itself has never so much as bothered to even contact any of us to see if we were taken care of since the fire. Except for our friends, the only group concerned about any of us was the li brary welfare committee. One of my neighbors works in the library and the welfare committee began to collect clothes and money for him immediately after the fire. It was the only kind and decent gesture by anyone in t h i s town or who is connected with the university. They deserve a citation from the mayor of Chapel Hill rather than the police or fire department. The only thing that saved any of us from going off the deep end was our friends, who somehow got the news of the fire and were there to com fort us and see to it that we had a place to stay and were taken care of afterwards. I feel sorry for anyone who moves to this town without friends here. If he suffered the same tragedy, he might just as well turn around and walk right out of Chapel Hill because as far as this town or university are concerned, he is merely a damn student or a number. Robert P. Lnca Civilization Library on the campus may be used on an in terim basis. Greenberg said that "it now appears we may use this fa cility as a coffee house which physically lends itself to a place where people can talk about mutual problems and feelings." "The administration thought the coffee house may en courage drug traffic, but, through negotiations, they are now willing to try," he said. Many in the Stanford com munity think the functions of The Experiment are too vague. But Greenberg says, "Any uncertainty of the function of The Experiment is due to its having just begun. If we had a clear - cut idea, I wouldn't have a sense of excitement. I think ambiguity is what life is all about." DESIRED AMBIGUITY He feels that the Experimen tal College at San Francisco State may not have this de sired ambiguity. They seem to be immersed in their own bureaucratic structure such as having cour ses for credit and having over 1000 students enrolled, he said. Greenberg continued, "We had to make the decision to be attached to the structure or be outside of it we chose the latter." Hd wondered if the SF State experiment really offers some alternative to higher education and American society and if it is too legitimized to become a political instrument and do something for radicals. CREDIT UMBILICAL CORD "Credit may be an umbili cal cord attaching us to the structure. Wre want the kind of students who want to take a seminar and don't care about the credit," he said. But there is still the possi bility for credit under The Ex periment's directed reading program. Under this, a student could approach certain professors who are willing to give a stu dent a list of books to read, discuss and possibly write pa pers under the loose supervis ion of the professor. Some cre dit can Jbe obtained by this -method.' About 10 to 15 out of 25 stu dents involved in The Exper iment are taking directed read ing, and The Experiment is planning to make a list avail able of the 10 to 15 profess ors who are favorable to this program. NEWSPAPER Other tnan the seminars, The Experiment puts out a bi -weekly newspaper call ed "Commitment," and a quarterly journal. It also sponsors debates and has a symposium of the "New Stu dent." David Harris, president of the Associated Student of Stanford University, was in volved with the initial plan ning of The Experiment, but since his election last spring, has refrained from active par ticipation in it. "The Experiment comes clos er to people's lives than the university does," Harris said. "We are trying to work out a new definition to the term students' on a mass level. The definition has thus far been defined by faculty and admin istration, but it must be sup plied by the students them selves and then redefined the university with the stu dents' definition." Harris spoke about the prob lems of organizing at Stanford. "The people running Stan ford are stupid, but they're crafty. In addition, we are dealing with a politically naive community," he said. "Organizing at Stanford .is like organizing Crestwood Heights (a suburb outside To ronto, Canada). But if you can organize that, you can or ganize America." Probably most of the 10,000 students at Stanford h a v ( heard of The Experiment, bu very few are directly invol ved. GOOD IDEA' Doug Franco, freshman ir humanities, "thinks The Ex periment is a real good idea." He said, "Some kind of need created The Experiment and the Free Universities because the university has to pose some limitations on the curri culum, as the university can't accept things which are cur rent and transitory." Brad Taylor, sophomore in premed, also said, "I think it s a good idea. The main thing I like is it gives less of a classroom atmosphere and discusses things of general in terest." . But he said "one thing bad, in lots of ways, is that The Experiment turns out to be a sounding board of the New Left, and certain liberal as sumptions are made before the class begins." 1
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