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Tuesday, February 14; 1967 Page 2 Faculty, Students 'So you're from Peoria . Say, do you know . . .? Mm m atlg Star t$ Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. All un signed editorials are written by the editor. Letters and columns reflect only the personal views of their contributors. SCOTT GOODFELLOW. EDITOR It Was A Political- Gesture Student politics were not at their best Sundav night. At that time Student Partv poli ticians, ordinarilv among the most distinguished, engaged themselves with an undistinguished slap at the opposite party. Venerable Stu dent Government expert Arthur Hayes introduced a bill before the party calling for a denial of vot ing privileges to anyone in the Student Party who is also a Univer sity Party official. Amazing! The Student Party has made wide notice of the fact that every member has his own vote in con ventions. This is in opposition to the University Party's system of delegate voting. Because of its system, the Student Party has long been known for block - voting, whereby fraternities, sororities and other large groups could make a dramatic impression on the vote counts. The reason that these groups flood conventions is simply so that they can help to nominate one of their own members, or someone with whom they are sympathetic. That is, they want to have a hand in controlling the nomination of candidates. And now the Student Party, un der somewhat dubious electoral means, has banned the voting privileges for University Party of ficers. Why do the UP officers want to join the SP? Easy. They want to have a hand in controlling the outcome of the nominations. And this is the same reason which most of the members of the SP allow the so called block voting. The liberal, independent prin ciples of the Student Party are known to most everyone. It does not seem right that the party should begin searching out groups with apparently different princi ples and denying them voting priv ileges. Certainly there are many in the Student Party who will vote in convention on Monday whose principles are entirely different from those which the Student Par ty professes. The move was nothing more than a partisan gesture with no place in the Student Party's fine record of achievements. -S rr7" turn? fe'Vf f ; -ire? -r0 jTJ&.vifca I..V ". iT 2. ffy.rrJAr. I ' " . Mill ' ' I Education Needs Tax Relief In The Mail On February 6, Senator Abra ham Ribicoff (D-Conn) introduced a bill into Congress designed to give tax relief to parents and stu dents who pay the costs of college education. The bill has been introduced reg ularly in a number of Congresses, but has not passed. This it is co-sponsored by 46 Senators, so it j already has widespread support?" r Furthermore, this year's bill has an amendment which would in clude coverage for students in ac credited post-secondary business, trade, technical and other voca tional schools. The proposal privides an in come tax credit of up to $325 on the first $1,500 of tuition, fees, books, and supplies. This credit would go to anyone who pays these expenses for a student at an insti tute of higher learning. We strongly support this bill. In principles, the bill represents a feeling that college education is one of the most important aspects of our lives. It calls for a decision on whether we should, treat edu cation costs as we do the interest on a home mortgage, or flood damage, or health expenses. General Hershey Blocks Change Selective Service Director Gen eral Louis Hershey is a hard egg to crack. In his news conference in Dur ham yesterday afternoon, Hershey was questioned about the proposed drafting methods. "How about a lottery? " "It won't work." Why? "They had a lottery back in 1940 and it didn't work. Also, everyone proposes a lottery, but no one ever says how it would wprk." Then the General outlined all his questions concerning lotteries. Every one of them, however, seemed to be a question which could be figured out with a min imum of difficulty by someone who was interested in correcting the present system. But Hershey was not interested in making any changes. In fact he is one of the few people in the country who is utterly uninterest ed in draft law revision. Surely there are good points to be said for the present law, but we find few of the draft-age indi viduals in the country saying them. And yet nearly all of these individuals support our country's rights of conscription. The proposal, Senator Ribicoff points out, would allow that over two-thirds of the benefits go to families earning less than $10,000 a year. It is important to point out that as a tax credit, each family would receive the same education in taxes, dollar for dollar. If the amount of taxable income w ere reduced, a person with a higher income would stand to save more. But such is not the case. What is most important about the tax relief bill is not its me chanics. It is that .it effectively would reduce the financial burden placed upon the average f atftQy when they attempt to send their children to college. A man with three or four children can reason ably expect expenses of $30,000 to $40,000 to put those children through college. And . families in the $3,000 to $10,000 bracket rep resent 62 of all families in Amer ica. . Without a doubt, education is the factor which will, in the long run, allow our country to main tain world leadership. Govern ment recognition of this highly expensive family endeavor would be most helpful. Psych Exams Cause... 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Goodfellow, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Bill Amlong, Managing Editor . John Askew .:. Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris Associate Ed. Don Campbell .... ... News Editor Kerry Sipe . Feature Ed. Sandy Treadwell Sports Editor Ernest Robl Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer Photo Editor David Garvin ..Night Editor Mike McGowah .... Photographer STAFF WRITERS Lytt Stamps, Ernest Robl, Steve Knowlton, Carol Wonsavage, Di ane Ellis, Karen Freeman, Hun ter George, Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis , Sanders, Penny Raynor. CARTOONISTS Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly 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. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel HEi, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.53 per semes ter; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 531 W. Franklin St., Chapel H21, N. C. To the Editor: The substance of the letter which I submitted to the DTH concerning the situation in the Psychology Department has been grossly distorted by the subsequent letters submit ted by Richard Worster, Ed ward Greenberg and Brian Buxton. I did not assert that students enrolled in Psychology 25 are coerced in the sense that they have no choice in deciding , whether to participate in ex periments or to fill out per sonal questionnaires. But ra ther, they are coerced, as a manner of speaking, in the sense that free choice is im possible as long as depriva tions or rewards are involv ed in their choice. While one does not lose points in the sense of having them sub tracted for not participating in experiments and filling out questionnaires (for a student whose grade is not commen surately raised as are the grades of the majority of stu dents who participate) the practical effect is the same. And though students who wish to get extra credit do not have to make appointments for the experiments at times ; which are inconvenient to them, it is my understanding that if none of the scheduled times are convenient for a student, that is, if they con flict with regularly scheduled , classes or weekend activities, he does not have the same op portunity to participate that other students have. Finally, Mr. Worster and : Mr.' Buxton avoided comment-" ing on my contention that grades should not be used to bribe students into revealing personal information about themselves. And the many "personal" things which Mr.; Greenberg sees on campus are usually things which students reveal of their own volition. A White House panel charg ed with investigating invasions of privacy has said that "the right to privacy is the right of the individual to decide for himself how much he will share with others his thoughts, his feelings, and the facts of his personal life." The present activities of the Psychology Department vio late the spirit, if not the letter, of federal legislation which prohibits compromising indi viduals privacy as a condi tion for universities receiving federal grants. Eric Claj Editor, Daily Tar Heel: According to the recent sta tistics I have encountered, to say that education in North Carolina is below par is quite an inordinate overstatement to say the least. I don't think anyone would deny the fact that educational standards and institutions in our state could use a good "shot in the arm". This involves, of course, the advancement of teacher's salaries and bene fits which would quite obvi ously increase the incentive to teach, and thus replenish the now deficient profession at least in number. In this light, I was altogether pleased with Gov. Moore's proposals in his state of the state address last Thursday. But what about the funds necessary to carry out such an ambitious program? Where in the state's budget can Gov. Moore or the legislature com fortably allow enough money to escape for such a -purpose? Any appreciable success in attaining this goal would eith er mean ignoring other also vital projects or an increase in Federal aid, or both de spite the suspiciously over stated credit balance in t h e General Fund and other state agencies. From my point of iew the answer to our problem rests not in the amount of money appropriat ed, but rather in the allocation of this money. One who travels to any ex tent over North Carolina can not help but notice the luxu rious, "ultra - modern", ar chitecture of so many of our public school buildings. The last thing a visitor would con verge of is this critical prob lem that we are now faced with. It's very clear that a good deal of money is spent to erect such elegant buildings. In fact, too much. A good example of this is in my own homeotwn. The state is adding three rooms to our high school at the almost unbelievable cost of $18,000 apiece! That means .a sum to tal of $54,000 for the three room addition. "Of course," they say, "it's a beautiful , piece of architecture air conditioning, gas heat, and almost entirely composed of glass. Plus, the most up-to-date materials were involv ed in it's construction". al so, the most expensive. What I would like to know is why the emphasis, along with a huge sum of money, -is placed on the appearance and comfort instead of the number and utility of our pub lic schools. It's not that I'm opposed to beautiful schools or the students' repose which supposedly accompanies them, but the state seems obsess ed with the desire for exter nal beauty at the expense of internal quality. I'm well aware of the crowd ed conditions which have haunted our school system for many years; and I agree that more and bigger schools should be built. This is t h e very essence of my case. How ever, it is quite obvious that no extensive effort has been spent "cutting corners" as to the unit costs of our schools. With a concentrated effort, we might build more, simpler schools and at the same time obtain more, better qualified techers. I won't go so far as to to say that school buildings should be conventionalized, but I do say that the useless extravagance' going into these buildings are not only drain ing the state's educational funds, but also, and most im portantly, depriving our state and it's citizens of real beau ty that beauty which comes with utlizinb and observing the personified attributes de rived from a good state edu cational system. Clande Pickett, Jr. 301 Mangum Departmental-Paramoia (Editor's note: la light of the controversy at UNC or, at least, in our letters column it appears fascinating that the Daily Iowan found a similar problem en their campus.) Last year a big stink was raised over the department of psychology's practice of us ing its elementary course stu dents as subjects for the de partment's experiments. Par ticipation in a certain num ber of experiments was re quired, and failure to partici pate would affect a student's grade. People didn't like the idea of having their grades influ enced by work that had vir tually nothing to do with the coursea rather unacademic practice. The department de fended itself by saying that the experiments were a learn ing experience, and thus a le gitimate part of the grade. The matter got a lot of pub licity and the department ap parently was a bit paranoid about it all. So for last the department tired to avoid more problems fairly successfully by alter ing the requirement. Now stu dents have the option of writ ing a term paper or going to the experiments. Which means students have a choice be tween an academic grade or a non-academic grade. At many schools guinea pigs are paid rather than drafted, but since here the de partment, apparently can't af ford to hire its labor, and since elementary psychology cours es are required for many ma jors, the department finds the drafting method quite con venient. But the students don't. And the fact remains that even with the "option" the practice is an unacademic one.' It seems strange that a depart ment that can afford to build a new building can't afford to hire its labor like other de partments do. What's more, it could set a dangerous precedent. Con struction workers on the new psychology building might de mand academic credit for their work. Need Fair Shake By THOMAS CABARGA The titilating case of the nude coed of Fla. U. has again pointed up the fact that the present organiza tion of our universities is both undemocratic and un realistic. If Miss Brewer, a ripe 18, were anything, hut a coed, she would have been free to display her con siderable talents in any way she saw fit, including waiting on tables while stripped to the waist, and most people would have felt that she was within her legal rights in doing so. To say that a full grown woman loses her consti tutional rights just because she is attending a univer sity is to make a very "academic' distinction between individuals. To argue that Miss Brewer is a child sim ply because she is going to school is to ignore all .the very obvious evidence to the contrary. The universities have been trampling on individu al rights (dorm rules, the Paull case) for many years now simply because the students have no real power in running the school. Student riots (panty raids aside) indicate that the same lack of representation which spurred Negroes into demonstrations in the past is now goading stu dents into making themselves heard in the only, way they can by shouting and disorder. Although, thoughtful people fear and dislike demonstrations be cause they are a sign that orderly government has broken down, student riots will inevitably continue to grow as fast as the muli-versities do unless stu dents are given some real power so that they can seek redress' of grievances within the power structure of the university community itself . Everyone is agreed that Berkeley-type riots should be avoided, but the way to do this is not by imposing tighter restrictions on students, or by giving them token concessions which will just postpone the time when the real problem must be tackled, that of set ting up a realistic distribution of power in the univer sity system. Obviously, there are three main groups to be rep represented students, faculty, and administration. This triad is in many ways similar to the three branches of our federal government, legislative Ju dicial, and executive, respectively. The analogy is not entirely sound, but I only want to suggest that a system of checks and balances must be set up so that no one group is allowed to trample the rights of the other two as the university administration is how doinw to the students and faculty. Conservatives everywhere, but expecially in the administration, will oppose the reforms I am sug gesting. The problem is, however, that higher "? education seems to be growing into very big busi ness, and some realistic means must be provided so that all those concerned in the enterprise will be protected and represented. Academic Life Isn't Snowball - By BOB SP ANN "Look at those rotten kids laughing, joking, care free, having a ball on our taxes!" The following quotation was the caption for a car toon, "The Cynic's Corner," appearing in a recent edition of the Raleigh Times. It was said by an elder ly woman as she and her compaion watched students on their way to class. On the surface, her statement is a truism. Stu dents appear to have a ball in college. Pick up any newspaper and you can read about wild fraternity parties, promiscuity and drugs on campus, and on and on. Attend any football game and you can watch any army of coolers and glowing faces invading the stadium. Ask any adult and he'll tell you how care free college life is. But this is only half the coin or better yet only the milling on the edges of the coin. Attending college (is, in actuality, just plain hard work. The average student spends fifty hours or more a week , in class and studying. If a student is carry ing 17 credit hours he is probably in class at least 21 hours a week. On top of that he is expected to spend two hours on outside work for each hour he iz in class. This 60 hours or so a week is quite a lot when you consider that the average man works only 40 hours a week. And at least five of those hours are spent on coffee breaks or just plain goofing off . . : In addition, a large percentage of students work while in school. Almost all students working during the summer vacation. If all this were not enough for 'Joe College there are also numerous extra curricular activities. Stu dents participate in intermural and varsity sports, publications, student government, numerous clubs or their own particular hobbies. Numerous other strains are also placed on the. college student. One of them is rules. When a student applies for admission to a college, he is told that he must be of superior nature and pos sess great intellectual qualities in order to be ad mitted. Once he reaches college is is told that he has great potential and a superior mind. : However outside the classroom or orientation speech he finds a different picture painted. The stu dent is not expected to be capable of deciding when and where he will drink. He is unable to decide where he will live. He does not know when to make noise and when to " be quiet. All this and more the ad ministration decides for him. Yes Victoria, those kids might be in school bn your taxes, but theyr'e not carefree.
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