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Thursday, March 16. iq Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Teddy O'Toole y CIA 9M I Opinions, of The Daily Tar Heel arc expressed in its editorials. All un signed editorials ar written by the editor. Letters and cotamns reflect only the personal Views of their contributors. SCOTT GOODFELLOW, EDITOR Tragedies Like This One arely Hit So Closeby R Seldom do any of us have the opportunity to be close enough to a tragedy to feel the need to of fer help. We have that opportunity now. Yesterday morning at ten min utes of nine a fire broke out in a Victory Village dwelling. Thirty minutes later the building was gutted. Along with the structure itself, the fire destroyed all the possessions of Hjalmer Hannes son and his wife. The Hannessons are both from Iceland, ana came to uaroiina last August. Now they have noth ing. . ... It is easy for us to say that the fire has dramatized the need for safer housing in Victory Vil lage. But generalizations do not help the Hannesons. Within an.hour of the fire yes terday morning, the Daily Tar Heel received a number of calls from people offering financial help to the Hannessons. It was grati fying. With this, encouragement, the DTH is asking for contributions, perhaps a dollar, from anyone feeling the impulse. We find it a most worthwhile cause. (A table has been set up in Y Court for this purpose.) ' Campus Code Jurisdiction ihould Be More Limited Perhaps the most unjust of all the loco parentis rules is the jur isdiction of the campus code. Offenses against the "gentle manly conduct" code are present ly being tried in student courts even though the offense occurred many miles from the campus often well out of state. This is not, as it would seem, a matter of sim ply changing the jurisdiction of student courts, but rather it is one of changing an administrative attitude. ' The situation grows more ab surd when one realized that if he is charged with a civil offense at fthe start of the summer breakhi likely will be charged with a cam pus code violation when he returns to UNC in the fall. This "double jeopardy" has been under attack a long time, but attacks upon it merely hit an obvious result of a bad rule. It is the rule which should be changed. . We have long felt that the jur isdiction of the University in con trolling students off-campus is slight. When a student commits an offense outside of Chapel Hill which is defined in civil law books, then that offense should be tried in civil courts, not in stu dent courts. The remarkable part about changing the jurisdiction of t h e campus code is that there would most likely be no reaction in the state if the change were made. Few would object to the Univer sity's leaving civil law to the courts. If the matter is one of remov ing "undesireables" from the stu dent body, then that is a problem which could easily be handled at admission application time. If a student is tried by our civil judi cial system and yet is a good stu dent at school, we can see no da mage to "school reputation result- -ing for it is . a good student nwho" has been taken in by the educa tional system, not a partially pun ished delinquent. We have heard that the admin istration views the campus , code as based upon this "broadness" principle. Such a concept is en tirely misdirected. ' i We cannot see how an educa tidnal institution can vehement ly oppose any political or govern mental influence in its power pete in judicial fields. The cam plete in judicial fields. The cam pus code should 'direct itself to ward the best interests of the Uni versity at present it does not. ; Davie Has A Proble The recent hub-bub over the - status of Davie Residence College betrays a problem which has been : around for a long time, but large ; ly ignored. The problem is that residence colleges depend upon underclass men and non-fraternity members in order to function most effect ively. In the case of Davie Col lege, most of . the residents are '" seniors or fraternity men. The fact that these two groups are relative ly inactive in residence hall life , is certainly not a reflection upon them, but nevertheless it must be taken into account. Residence college life on this campus will look pretty silly if we end up with all residence col leges and five dormitories. For tunately, however, this situation can be changed with relatively lit--' tie effort. If the residence college system is important enough to our admin istration, as they insist it is, then Old East, Old West, and BVP will , receive a good share of active . underclassmen when school be gins next fall. We would strong ly urge this course of action to ; keep Davie -College from "heading for the scrap heap." Any member of the present re sidence colleges will admit that the system is far better than a collection of scattered dormitor ies. The Dean of Men's Office and the Housing Office now have a great opportunity to endorse the residence college system. We hope theywill. Bty lath ar iji 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Good fellow, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Sandy Tread well, Manag. Ed. John Askew . . . Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris . .. . Associate Ed. Don Campbell . . .. . News Editor Donna Reifsnider .... Feature Ed. Jeff MacNelly .. . ... Sports Editor Owen Davis : . Asst. Spts. Ed. Jock Lauterer Photo Editor David Garvin r. .... Night Editor Mike McGowan . .. Photographer Wayne Hurder . .. ... Copy Editor Ernest Robl, Steve Knowlton, Carol Wonsavage, Diane Ellis, Karen Freeman, Hunter George, Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis Sanders, Joe Saunders, Penny Raynor, JimJQelds. Donna Reifsnider Joe Coltrane, Julie Parker' 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 Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $3 per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, N. C. (Tenth in a series document ing the NSA-CIA Relationship) The final chapter in the Phil ip Sherbourne story tells how his plan to break the NSA CIA relationship without a pub lic display failed. It failed be cause of the leak to Mike Wood. With all due respect and ad miration for Sherbourne, I be lieve that it is a good thing that the entire story finally became public knowledge. But my reasons for that belief must follow the completion of the story. Following the 1966 Summer Congress, newly elected Presi dent Gene Groves and newly elected National Arf airs Vice President Ed Schwartz return ed to Washington to begin their jobs. Thanks to Sherbourne, they had a "clean" budget, free of CIA money. They had a green but extremely com petent staff. Beacuse they had learned of the CIA relation ship before running, and be cause they had a "clean" bud get, they could neither be tricked nor pressured into signing " the national security oath when the Agency ap proached them. To them and Sherbourne, it appeared that the fifteen-year love affair had finally hit the rocks for good. Then the officers did some thing they may regret for a long time. But men, even men of the stature of Gene Groves, are fallible. Rick Stearns, the newly elected InternationalAf- fairs Vice-President who had never been told of the CIA re- . lationship, began to plan his international program for the year. Naturally, as every IA VP before him, he made plans to submit requests for money , to the several foundations that Groves knew to be CIA fronts. At first, Groves just attempt- ed to guide Stearns to other, legitimate foundations, much to the amazement of Stearns. Finally, Groves had to tell Stearns the whole story of the CIA relationship. Stearns was floored by what he heard. But after his initial reaction of indignation, he also began to realize that he was a victim in more ways than one. Specifically, he had found that the legitimate foundations, and even the State Depart ment, were simply unwilling to give money for internation al programming. Without mon ey, he and his staff would have to dissolve, not only de stroying a fine international program, but also raising a good deal of suspicion. At that point, Stearns and : Groves made the unwise de cision to draw up a prop for a : very minimal (but better than none) international . pro gram, and to submit that pro posal to the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs, (FYSA) which they knew to be a CIA front. They agreed beforehand between themsel ves that they would accept the money only if there were abso lutely no string attached. Spe- My police record? It's as long as my arm." : Jmf Sii '-' ' 'J ' I &v&1 " 1 -J i mm i , & w i Tn - cifically, Stearns would not be required to sign the National Security oath, NSA would con trol the actions of its over CIA molesting, and no sensi tive information would be pass ed. The Agency agreed, and the proposal was accepted by FYSA. That accounts for the fig ure, quoted by the press sev eral times, that this year only 5 per cent of the budget was CIA money. Under Sher bourne's plan it would have been none. At any rate, until January of this year the NSA national office conducted a very fine national program centered around student stress, student tutorial programs, and educa tional reform, and a rather small but effective internation al program of exchanges, se minars, etc. Then it was found that Mike Wood had given the full story to Ramparts Magazine on the west coast, and I have alrea dy related what happened from that point on. Briefly, Groves and Stearns immedi ately took steps to get Roger Pulvers out of Poland before the story broke, and succeed ed in doing that. The Legal and Finance Committee of the National Supervisory Board went to Washington to investi gate the "rumors" and were told about half the truth by the present officers, who were then being pressured by the Agency and a few other peo-' pie to squelch the rumor at all costs by denying the Ram parts allegations. At one point, the present of ficers met with Sher bourne and Bob Kiley, head of CIA Covert Activities Divi sion Number 5, plus several staff members, to have a gen eral airing of all points of view. Finally, on February 14, 1967, Ramparts indicated its intentions to publish the full story in its March edition with an ad in the New York Times, and the officers decid ed to pre-empt Ramparts by making a full admission of the CIA relationship on the front page of the Times that same day. Also the same day the National Supervisory Board, including Eric Van ' Loon and myself,. went to Washington to conduct a full investigation..". : : During our - six-day investi gation the NSB' found out the things I have related in this series of articles, and a few more things. At the end of our investigations, we, acting as the legally controlling body of NSA between its congresses, issued a full statement. In that statement, we formally sever ed all ties with the CIA, con demned the CIA for its mani pulations of NSA personnel and for its secretive and un derhanded ways, and pledged our support for a continued NSA under the leadership of the present officers. Our vote was unanimous. Yes, our vote was unani mous, but I think each of us thought long and hard about Middle Of Reader Runs Biimpy Road By MIKE COZZA If . the so-called bell-shaped curve of distribution can be applied to the gamut of po litical opinion, it follows that a majority of Americans are middle - of - the - road politi cal moderates. The extrem ists, those who stand to the left or the right, are in the minority. Yet the voices of these mi norities dominate political dis cussion in our nation today. Take, for example, the war in Vietnam. Every Wednesday there is a Vietnam War demonstration in - Chapel Hill. War critics stand in line on one side of -the sidewalk and war sup Dorters on the other. But no Dody ever stands in the mid dle. , Surely, most Americans, . and most UNC students, have a strong desire for peace, but they are not interested in ap peasement through pulling out. This is the moderate and pro bably the majority point of view, but persons supporting it have a harder time than one might think. They catch hell from both sides. In discussing the war with a peace advocate, the moder ate points out that American involvement has good inten tions. The United States is committed to help struggling nations establish stable, dem ocratic governments. He will admit that American have made mistakes in the past, but that foreign policy must operate in the present and plan for the future, not sulk abut mistakes in the past. He admits that we have es calated the war, but so have the communists. War cannot be unilateral, nor can peace. To such an argument, the peace advocate, who may or may not be carrying a sign, might respond to the moder ate, "You're a war monger; the United States is legally and morally wrong to be in Vietnam. If you say anything else, you are just like Gold water." These charges are totally unfounded. Moderates are not war mongers. They realize war mongers. They realize that their charges against the coun try have not always been legal ly and morally correct, but neither have the communists. 'As for the Goldwater charge ; most moderates voted for Johnson in 1964, because they feared the right - wing ap proach to international poli tics. If, however, the same i moderate goes to talk to a war supporter, he catches hell from him, too. He might re mind the war supporter that the goal of American foreign policy is peace, and in order to reach that peace, the Unit ed States may have to make isome concessions to the ene my. The United States has made 'some mistakes and we should ' try to correct them when ever we are able. Our aim is self - determination for the people, and if the people through the -democratic pro cess, determine that they want communism, which they may or may not, we must be willing to accept their deci sion. To this a war supporter might reply, ."You're for giv ing everything to the com munists. Our boys are dying in Vietnam today and you're letting them down. You are a peacenick, or worse, maybe you're a communist." These charges are totally unfounded. The moderate is certainly not for giving every thing to the communists and he is not a peacenick. He is not letting our boys down, he is trying to stop their deaths. Being called a communist is his reward for being objec tive. This whole process of dis cussion tends to be discon certing to the moderate. He has been called a war mon ger and a peacenick, a com munist and a Goldwaterite. And no matter how he ar gues, he is trapped in a web of namecalling. . Because such name-caning is highly repul sive to him, a moderate may just decide to keep quiet. When too many moderate thinkers in America decide to keep still, the United States will become, if it has not al ready, a country split by ex tremists. That, indeed, is a disturb ing situation. totalitarian methods would not be allowed to continue in a society that ostensibly is Perhaps 'one of the saddest things of all for me as I sit at this typewriter now is that the American students and the American public, as evinced by their lack of indignation at what has happened, seem to condone secrecy, dishones ty, and totalitarianism. Is it true, what Edward P. Morgan said: "According to the late George Orwell, the brilliant and iconoclastic Brit ish writer, Big Brother was not supposed to take over un til 1984. But thanks to the as siduous stupidity of the Central Intelligence Agency and the well if covertly budgeted activities of other do-gooder bureaucracies within the VS. government, the realization oi that happy day of total do mination of a citizen's life by higher authority may be hastened by a full ten years, if, indeed, it is not already upon us Sherbourne's plan to break the ties secretly. We understood his positions Sherbourne knew that a public disclosure would mplicate literally thousands of people who had worked for NSA both nationally and abroad, when in fact only fifty to seventynfive people had known about the relationship during the entire fifteen f years of its existence. He felt that psople overseas would die if a public disclosure were made. He knew that he and others might possibly get a twenty year prisonn sentence u a public disclosure was made. We too knew those things. But we also knew that for fifteen years the trust and hon or of United States youth had been violated by the relation ship. And we had seen the de structiveness of secrecy and deception. We had to tell Ame rican students and the Ameri can public the truth the least we could do after fifteen years of dishonesty. We had to attempt to insure that such Faculty Profile Oversized Classes Bad For Students By A. WAYNE HICKMAN "I lead a schizophrenic existance in two depart ments," says Dr. John W. Dixon, Jr., Associate Pro fessor of Art and Religion. v Its a long way from Murphy to Ackland especial ly when several trips are necessary to hold classes and regular office hours in each building. The distance between buildings does not keep Dr. Dixon from feeling that we have a "pleasant cam pus". He has found Chapel Hill a "pleasant place to live" since coming here from Florida Presbyterian College in 1963. He has a strong dislike for having to teach a large class of over 200 students. He said, "I prefer small classes. They are the only effective way to teach. I don't like the students being buckets into which I pour information." He realizes -that . large . classes are necessary for many introductory icourses on a campus this size. In his Art History class he stresses the importance of the work of art over his lecture by saying, "A lecture is the casting of imitation pearls , before real swine." He is the first to say that students are not swine but the quotation emphasizes his point. Dr. Dixon's words are not "imitation pearls" at all. His Art History class attendance is remarkable for a class with no role check and little emphasis on lecture notes. Speaking in a tingling Tidewater accent, he spoke of the "excellence of the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. The people of North Carolina are for tunate to have such a museum. A splendid Museum for the Blind is one of its special features." Dr. Dixon attended Emory and Henry College. He studied in Europe at the University of Bristol, England. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. - His specialty is "The Interrelation of Art and Re ligion," and he teaches some advanced courses in this field as well as courses in Religious Imagination. He served in the Medical Administrative Corps during World War II. , SST Paper Plane Sends Prof Flying By JOHN PARKIN Dartmouth College With a record flying time of 10.2 seconds, Frederick J. Hoo ver, adjunct professor of en gineering, won the duration category of the "First Inter national Paper Airplane Com petition" sponsored by "Scientific-American." Ihe event, inspired by a stu dy of the SST airplane, was staged "for the sheer joy of it" by Gerard Piel, publisher of the magazine. Piel added, "Things like the supersonic transport are just too difficult for people to grasp." As quot ed in the "Times," Piel start ed the contest "to remind peo ple that science is done by people and not machines." "Never since Leonardo da Vinci, the Patron Saint of pa per airplanes," a Scientific American' ad says, "has such a wealth of flight research and experimentation remained un touched by cross-disciplinary study and publication. Paper airplane design has become one of those secret pleasures performed behind closed doors." "We do not mean to ques tion the men at Boeing and Lockheed, or their use of tra ditional forms. But it seems to us unjust that several million paper plan designers around the world are not given their due, a credit which if it had been extended soe years ago would have saved the pros quite some straining at the drawing boards." The winners were picked from 10,941 entires from 226 countries. Impartial launchers flew the plans in the fly-off held at the Hall of Science, a remnant of the World's Fair. According to the "Times," entires included a paper plane made of a dollar bill (quoth the maker, "It goes fast.)", a vehicle composed of two pie plates and an entrant from Au stralia reputed to fly upside down in the Northern Hemi sphere. GO FLY A KITE Professional and nonprofes sional levels of competition were offered in four areas, duration aloft, distance flown, aerobatics, and Origami (Ja panese folding artistry.) "Sci entific American" defined pro fessionals as "people employ ed in the far travel business, people who build non-paper air planes and people who sub scribe to "Scientific Ameri can," because they fly so much anyway." - Piel is undecided if the ma gazine is to sponsor future competitions. "We have to see what the demand is. This one kind of swept us off our feet"
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