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Serials' on Box 870 Co-op Members leftctl Campus Affairs members are reminded to call Alan Al bright or Andy Gordon at 92J 2822 to sign up to work on the Co - op. CI Social Group Meets Thr Graham Memorial So cial Committee will meet from 4-5 p.m. in the Woodhouse Room of CM. 'To ITrite JFcH fa Better Than To Rule' Volume 74, Number 78 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1967 Founded February 23. 1893 0 Protest Powe etter ay Personal Opinioim By DON CAMPBELL DTH Staff Writer "The opinions I signed my name to ar3 mine alone," Student Body President Bob Powell said yesterday, in dis cussing the open letter sent to President Johnson last week expresssing concern about the Vietnam war. The letter was signed by 100 student leaders from 100 col leges and universities through out the United States. "i didn't sign the letter on behalf of the University or of Student Government," Powell said, "I signed it for my self." The letter, sent to the White House on Thursday, has re ceived wide attention in news papers and magazines throughout the country. Powell said the letter was not intended to criticize or embarrass the president. "The letter is basically a report of a growing feeling among students," he said. Powell said, "I sincerely be lieve there is a growing dis affection with the war and XvXv.v.v.w.w.v..v.v.v.v. The text of the student lead ers' letter to President John son may be found on page 6. V.V.V.V.V.'.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.VV- especially with the draft." The letter was simply an ex pression of growing concern with the war. "There is not the onerous stigma attached to trying to avoid the draft today, that there was in previous wars," he continued, "I think this is because of the nature of this war." The war just doesn't seem important enough to die for, Powell added. The story behind the letter has been widely confused, ac cording to Powell. The idea of the letter arose during the conference of the National Student Association last summer at the University of Illionois. There was a discussion at the meeting about "who is most effective in protesting the conduct of war, liberals or radicals?" It was decided, Powell said, that "responsible action could be more effective than using the rhetoric of the New Left." Al Lowenstein, a former president of the NSA and a Vietnamese General Awaits Further Orders By MIKE McGEE Special To The DTH General Nguyen Chanh Thi, former commander of I Corps, Army of the Republic of Viet nam, is living in an exclusive apartment house on Connecti cut Avenue in Washington. This is the man who has led his army in Central Vietnam to many victories against the Communist guerrillas. This is also the man who played a large part in the un successful struggle by army units and the Buddhist hierar chy against the Ky govern ment last March. The general's apartment is a comfortable one, but the walls are bare, the furniture simple. The only break from the military-like austerity is a portrait, on an end table, of the general in his uniform. The forty -three - year - old Thi presents a very imposing appearance, in spite of his small stature. Though he speaks very good English his aide, a graduate of Baylor Uni versity, acts as translator. When does Thi plan to re turn to Vietnam? "In August I received orders from my gov ernment to go to the United States for five months. Now I wait for orders to go back to Saigon after January." He doesn't know what he will be doing when he returns, but hopes to be able to serve in the military. Does he have any ambitions for politics? "I have always been a soldier; I do not think about detailed political prob lems, but only about how to win in the field." But the struggle against the government last March was surely a political problem, vasn't it? - KX "A I Bob Powell graduate of UNC suggested the writing of the letter. Low enstein is now a practicing lawyer and a Reform Demo crat in Brooklyn, N. Y. The delegates debated the suggestion, but could not agree on the wording of the letter. Some 200 of the dele gates met after the general meeting, at 2 o'cock in the morning. They invited Lowen stein to attend and make suggestions. Powell said the group stay ed up "all night" drafting the letter and distributed it to the 200 delegates the next morn ing. The delegates were asked to sign the letter and mark a box indicating whether they would "sign seen or sign un seen" in case the letter was redrafted. A steering committee, com posed of student leaders . in the Northeast, was picked to make further drafts of the letter during the fall. Drafts were then sent out to the delegates, asking to them , to make any corrections they; wished. ! By the 1st of November, Powell said, the final draft was made. Student leaders in different regions of the coun try! were then asked to distri bute the letter to student lead ers in their region, giving them the opportunity to sign the letter. By December 1st, 175 signa tures had been received, 90 of them student body presidents. The steering committee wished to have 100 student He explained that as com mander of I Corps he was nat urally required to work very closely with the people and with the government. Because he always worked for the best interests of the people, they liked him. Suddenly, in March, he re ceived orders to report back to the Saigon government. The people didn't like his The rV-' ' ? . , - i I . -;.".vjk . t I - "5 rL . " i - ! gMM illllMW : " - ' M body president signatures, and by Christmas that number had been reached. "I was really surprised at the reaction in the South," Powell said. "Six people in this state signed the letter, four of them student body presidents." "Some people may try to connect the letter with the NSA," Powell said, "But there's no connection." "The letter was signed on an individual basis," he said, "Everyone who signed it had the chance to make any cor rections in the letter to suit them. "Furthermore, the letter is considerably more moderate, than the resolution on Viet nam passed at the NSA con vention." Does Powell expect an an swer to the letter? "We would like for the President to respond public ly." Powell said. "We tried to be honest in writing the letter and we certainly hope to hear from him." "As we noted in the letter to the President," Powell con tinued, "In a speech to the student interns last year, the President said he recognized and discussed problems that have been troubling members of our generation. "We took this opportunity to discuss some of our thoughts. This is a report to him on how we feel about the war." I Photo : ,v V. (.r ...... V- :; Vt '' Finish V. 1 ' ' At 1 V, V. : : I Wake Forest 1 I See Page 5 being removed. When he re turned to his headquarters aft er a meeting in Saigon, great crowds of people were there to receive him. The people feared that the government of Premier Ky was becoming a dictatorship. "The Vietnamese lived for one century under French rule, then for nine years under the oppression of Diem; there are General y V - " fer f.j. Mv i r i: V J i i oi . . THE FIRST WEEKLY peace watch was held yesterday noon in the chilly drizzle that sprin kled the some 100 to 150 silent protestors that stood for the lunch hour in a line that stretched from the post office.corner up Franklin Street French Teachers Applaud Hardre For Long Service Prof. Jacques Hardre, chair man of the Department of Ro mance Languages was singled out for special recognition at a meeting of the American Association of Teachers of French just concluded in New York. Hardre was presented a sil ver tray for "distinguished services to the American As sociation of Teachers of French from 1949-1966." The tray is inscribed with signatures of Hardre's col laborators over the past 17 years on the Executive Coun cil of the Association. many Communists coming to Vietnam now. "There are no strong politi cal parties in Vietnam be cause all the leaders were killed over the years. The peo ple were right in wanting to form a popular party against the Communists which would represent all the people. The people require a popular gov ernment." The general insists that there was no organization to start the demonstrations against the Ky regime. It was a "spontaneous effort by the people," which he felt it was his duty to support. The people wanted the gov ernment to be voted by the public, and still insist on this. But he knew, and argued to this effect with the rebels, that any requirement upon the gov ernment by themselves should be quiet and disciplined, be cause disorder is good for the communists. General Thi does not talk like a man who has partici pated in a struggle which was a failure. He speaks confident ly about slow progress toward democracy in his country. "We hope, step by step, with the help of America, to ad vance to a democracy. "So far, we have a parlia ment elected by the people; finally we hope that the lead ership in Vietnam should be useful. Those leaders who love their country should be used, "As for me, I only hope to fight the Communists in the field. I am a soldier." General Thi fought with the French Army in the years be fore the Geneva settlement. He was imprisoned by the Communists in 1946 and 1948, but escaped both times. J Hardre is a past president ' of the Association. The As sembly of Delegates further honored him in voting to amend the Association's Con stitution so that he might re main on the Executive Coun cil for a two-year term. Prof. David M. Dougherty of the University of Oregon, president of the Association, appointed Hardre chairman of a committee to review func tions and structure of the As sociation and to make recom mendations for changes and formulate plans for the future of the organization. After Geneva he command ed an Airborne brigade in the Vietnamese Army. "At first I thought Ngo Dinh Diem had . a good government, and I supported him." However, he came to see that Diem was not the man for Vietnam. In October of 1960 he organized the striding force for an unsuccessful revolt against Diem. Thi relates that he flew to Cambodia after the ill - fated attempt. . "There I was received well and entertained very lavishly for four or five days." Then the Cambodians began to ask many questions about the Viet namese military, which he refused to answer. "I was not against my peo ple, but only against the dic tator Diem." So he was put in jail for fourteen months, where he was seriously ill and suffered much. A four day hunger strike set him Iree. Almost as soon as Diem was overthrown in 1963, he was back in Vietnam to take com mand of the 1st Infantry Divi sion and later I Corps. When Nguyen Kanh left Saigon in 1964, all the gen erals met and asked Thi to take the post of Prime Minis ter. But he refused. Is a total victory against the Viet Cong possible? "In Viet nam we are fighting a guerril la war. It is not like ordinary combat. If we want to win a guerrilla war we must have the public opinion. "If we don't get public sup port, and win a military vic tory, then it is only tempo rary. "With good cooperation by the Veitnamese Government Continued On Page 6 I to Suttons Drug Store. The peace watch was sponsored by the Chapel Hill Friends and was open to anyone wishing to join in the silent protest to the war. DTH Photo by Jock Lauterer Pep Rally There will be a pep rally at noon on Saturday in front of Carmichael Audi torium before the team leaves for Duke. AH the cheerleaders and the Pep Band will be present. The rally; is sponsored J)y the junior, class. State Offers 25 Student Internships Twenty-five college juniors will be selected for this year's N. C. State Government Sum mer Internship Program. They may attend college ei ther within or outside the state, but must be N. C. resi dents. The 11-week Internship Pro gram is a blend of work and study. After an orientation week, participants will combine a 40-hour week in a state de partment with two evening seminars a week on the N.C. State campus. The seminars are led by state officials, agency heads, and university professors, and deal with the political, social cultural, and economic facets of North Carolina. Interns will be paid $75 a week while gaining three semester hours of credit at N. C. State. The Internship Program is not limited to those students definitely entering the field of public service. It will begin June 6 and continue through August 18. The Institute of Government will again be responsible for the program, as it has been since 1962 at the program's start. The program was begun to encourage an interest in state government in North Carolina college and university stu dents. It retains that objective, while adding the second of helping students lo contribute to the various branches of state government. Application forms for the Summer Internship Program may b2 obtained from college placement offices, depart ments of busines, govern ment, history, or political science in North Carolina col leges or universities, local of fices of the N. C. Employ ment Security Commission, and the N. C. State Personnel Department. In Viet Vigil. By DON CAMPBELL DTH Staff Writer More than 120 University students and Chapel Hill townspeople stood in silent vigil on the sidewalk in front of the Post Office yesterday to protest the war in Vietnam. The vigil started at noon, with the protesters form ing a single file line which gradually lengthened along the outside of the sidewalk towards the center of town. For 60 minutes the protesters stood quietly, while television cameramen had a field day. At 1 O'clock, each protester shook hands with participants on either side and walked away. All those asked said they would be back next Wed nesday and every Wednesday thereafter until the fighting stops. The idea of the peace vigil was first advanced by Dr. Charles Hubbel, a former graduate student here who now - teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara. According to Professor Robert Gwyn,,of the Ra dio, Television and Motion Picture Department, Hubbel wrote the Friends Meeting of Chapel Hill describing the peace vigil, telling t h e m SopJ lomores Will Discuss New Major Carolina's newest undergra duate major field of study, . along with many of the tra . ditional majors, will be dis cussed in the series of maj ors seminars for sophomores "which begin tonight. The newest major is Amer ican Studies. Designed to eli minate departmental barriers, the new study deals with the interrelationships of the liter ature, science, history, sociol ogy, economy and politics of the American culture. American Studies will be discussed tonight with other social sciences political sci ence, economics, sociology psychology, anthropology and geography. Tonight's seminar and those which follow will begin with an introduction to the gener al field, and then the partici pants will divide into groups based on the various subjects to discuss requirements for a major in the field. Dr. Richard Lyon will dis cuss the American Studies major. Other professors who will speak tonight are Dr. Da vid Lapkin, economics; Dr. Frank Cloak, anthropology; Dr. David Basile, geography; Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, political sci ence; Dr. Richard Cramer, so ciology; Dr. Marcus Waller, psychology. UNC Students Given 1.75 Million In Aid Financial aid totalling near ly $1.75 million went to 25 per cent of the UNC student body during the 1965-66 academic year. The aid in the form of scho larships, loans and self - help work was administered by the Student Aid Office. Scholarships totalling near ly $350,000 were given to 1,108 students by the Faculty Com mittee on Scholarships, Awards and Student Aid. Morehead Scholarships are not administered through the office. "Any student who is aca demically prepared and can maintain a good record can come to the University, whe ther he has financial resources or not," said William M. Geer, director of the Student Aid Office. "If one comes here and loses his resources, he can stay as long as he's doing good academic work." There are 2,183 scholarships available at UNC. He cited academic m e ri t and financial need as the two criteria used by the faculty scholarship committee which awards the scholarships. Most scholarships are given to young students who are from families with an average vnai me iuea is ucmg uacu m 67 communities throughout the country. ; ; The Friends Meeting here discussed the idea, endorsed it and directed the Peace and - Social Concerns Committee to organize the vigil. Gwyn said yesterday that al though the Quakers had plan fned the demonstration, many participants were not mem bers of the church. "We welcome anyone who wishes to join in this vigil to express our sorrow and our protest," Gwyn said. Asked if the vigil would last as long as the war, Gwyn said he hoped the war ends today and would like to think that the vigil helped to end it. 'One bystander asked Gwyn what he thought was accom plished by the vigil. "It makes some people feel better," he replied. There was no particular category of people involved in the demonstration. There were professors, undergraduates, graduate students, business- men, and several very elderly people. One woman held a baby in her arms. There were three graduate students from Duke. They said they would be back every week, unless a simliar vigil was started in Durham. Each participant was hand ed a sheet with suggestions on conduct to be observed in the vigil. It began simply: "Until Americans stop killing and be ing killed in Vietnam: A silent vigil every Wednesday noon to express our sorrow and ow protest." income of less than $9,000 per year. Student loan funds were dis tributed this year to 1,165 stu dents for a total of $884,392. Emergency loans of $100 or less each were made to 305 students. To borrow from student aid funds, the borrower must' be a fully-enrolled university stu dent, must have a satisfactory academic average and must show a need to borrow. Non-technical, part - time campus jobs employed 52 students, earning a total of $387,900 in salaries. More than 10 per cent of the 13,250 students hold part time jobs ranging from his tory grader to residence hall adviser, from office employe to dining hall worker. Ail on-campus jobs except hose requiring special train ing or skills are assigned by the Student Aid Committee. Off-campus job arrangements are made directly between the student and employer, but help is available through the Student Aid Office when need ed. More than one-half million dollars was spent this year for special student work. Federal or state assistance is also part of student aid.
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