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2 TOE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday January 11,1963 Don Campbell mm mm .mi 75 Years of Editorial Freedom Bill Arnlong, Editor Ben Walton, Business Manager ! ,v"i'V 1 .7 u -V i ' ; t. - . t - s . , . I . .. - -. . ;V v. ' t. V' Student slips on patch of sidewalk ice ... which nobody has bothered to get rid of w Go-To At Risk Of. Injury When is the Buildings and Grounds Department here going to learn to cope with winter? This question comes to mind as we sit stiff necked and aching in our offices, looking out the window at students up ending themselves with near ly every hazardous step they take on the red brick sidewalks now white ice sidewalks that web across campus. At first we felt a little foolish Tuesday night Wen we slipped and sat down very unceremoniously on the sidewalk outside Peabodv Hall. Then we begin to feel a lit tle sore. And by now we're feeling pretty mad after noticing that nary a particle of rock salt or sand has been spread on any of the sleet-slick sidewalks, although the danger was suf ficiently evidenced by the fact that the Student Infirmary roster Wednesday listed students suffering from a fractured collarbone and a shoulder separation both at tributable to ice falls. A phone check with the j Buildings and Ground Depart- j ; ment revealed that salt had ' been spread on some building j steps, but that none was even scheduled to be put on the V walks. Why? Is it that there's not enough sand or salt in this town, or that the University could not have ordered a large enough supply of it before the sleet came? Don Campbell, Associate Editor Lytt Stamps, Managing Editor Hunter George, News Editor Brant Wansley, Advertising Manager 4 -s v Class ' Is it that it would cost too much money to have laborers spreading the sand and salt over the. sidewalks all night long and on overtime, if necessary? Is it that it would have been too much trouble once workmen chopped up the sidewalk ice with spades to have cleared it off the walks, thereby preventing it from freezing again, this time with jagged edges? Or is it simply that nobody gives a damn? In any case or, in all of them it is about time that somebody high" up in this University (a) begin to give a damn, (b) gets hold of some rock salt or sand, and (c) gets this situation alleviated right now. Until this is done, we can see no reason for anybody oing to classes. After , all, there's not a professor in this University whose words are so precious that they should be sought after at risk of personal injury. And if University officials . claim that not going to class is not compatible with the academic purpose of this in stitution, let them be remind ed that neither is the possibili ty of suffering an injury so great that you can't even get out of bed to take finals. In other words, the time for going to classes will resume at the same instant as does the time that you can get to them without risk. And not until then. . v .j ' ' , f f . ' . . ' f - ' v r - : ' '' ; s. A I . r ' Most people who write opinion pieces feel called upon to let fly some on philosophical discourse when thev get ready to leave a place, about f tv pro blems cf the place they are leavirg. Since lam leavirg this place : next week for the lail time, I feel called upon to da the same thing, but the pro blem is I'm net a philosopher, as anyone who has ever noticed my columns knows. So, instead, Til just ramble on about how I feel about Chapel Hill, and the University. And there must be a distinction made immediately. Chapel Hill is net the University, .and the University is not Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, to me, is one of the big gest myths ever perpetrated by mankind. Somewhere back in the annals cf history, some fellow came up with the slogan, "Chapel Hill The Southern Part of Heaven." I have a strong suspicion that that fellow was in one of three, businesses: real estate, men's clothing or restaurants. He got rich and retired after six months. Now he's living in Honolulu and acting as a consultant to the Chapel Hill Merchant's Association. Chapel Hill is the onCy town I've ever been in where every building that is built must look like it's a hundred years old when it's finished. Even the service sta tions are . built with little cupolas and OLWOuni anoranca accum'Alahs m ika 4orm me r A Need For To the Editor V The legue of Students for Interna tional Cooperation And Development is a consequence of my trip to the Student Forum on International Order and World Peace Which was he.d a fortnight ago at Ariie Conference ' Center, Warrenton, Virginia,; forty-seven mileis from Washington, D.C. And before I go any further, I should first of all extend my tons of thanks and appreciations to Dean Calihy, Mr. William Geer, and Dr. A. C. HoweH, for their unstinted support and encouragement. In addition to that, I wish to thank my International Law pro fessor, Dr. K. Frazer, for his in teHectuaSy exci'ting atoebphere in sense of numeirous advices and guidance. In spite of the fact .that this Organiza tion is stall in an enibxyonic stage at this writing, I would like it to be "at your tapis" pending its hatch. As the title thus implies, this Organizaton is basically concerned with jus postliminii and with the rule of uti possidetis this precious rirtue that man has lamentably (polluted with his ar rogant and gMtoneous ideologies for power and prestige through erroneous in terpretation of science and technology. Preoccupied with this zigzag widsom, man seems to prefer an "animal-mind" to a 'umanrmind'' by the way be wildly wanders on the international scene without a recourse to jus gentium, and jus naturale. Consequently, he is per se enslaved by the concept of 4twe" and "they" in the sense of power pontics; he is obsessed with Machiavellianism in the sense of acquisition cf more power through military power; he is engulfed into pangs of cold war because of his parochialism of the world order through a world law; he is chained into the con cept cf nationalism and bloc polices because of his iunbapitised', sense of segregation and due to his lack of a !on signt in internationalism; and finally he as so saturated with haUutination and paranoia that he now assumes to be le vanquer de vanquer de la terre and yet t the same time, he paradoxically engages himself in intensive utility 0f science and technology- not for his ad vancement but for his self-destruction' Along this road to "unknown worlds" man is lamentably engaged in producing wis''' y o chimneys on top. This gives the town a "colonial im age." At least that's what it's supped ta give the town. . When a nsw building goes up on Franklin strest, the builders use 1S67 vin tage bricks, 1957 vintage cinder blocks, 1867 vintage cement. Then they go out in the country and tear down a 1850 vintage barn, and plaster the beards over the bricks "and blocks and cement. And it all somehow seems a little phony, because you know, deep down in side, that that building wasn't there six months ago, cr if it was, it actually was, an old building, befcre it was renovat ed. - ' "- CHAPEL HILL is one of the few places I've been where ycu can go into one eating place and drink all the coffee you can hold for ten cents, and go down the street and pay 16 cents for the first cup, and 16 cents for the second cup, 16 cents for the third cup, and so forth. That's Chapel Hill. - The Eewage running in the street in the Negro slums is alsopart of Chapel Hill. And the Negro man standing in his doorway shooting the rats that are drag ging may his gabage in his yard that's Chapel Hill, too. And the big homes of Mason Farm Road, and surrounding Eastwood Lake, and covering the hills and dales through - Ad tr 1 International massive atomic and hydrogen weapons for use against h&mseDf contrary to jus gentium and jus naturale. But as to how such a ''animal prac tice" can be prevented from la scene In ternationale is one cf the current crucial questions at issue that the League of Students For 'Intertaiiondl Cooperation And Development (LSICD) will be ac utely determined to tackle as soon as it sees the light. However, this does nbi necessarily en tail converting Hindus to Islam or vice versa; Christians to Buddhism or vice versa; nor does it mean converting Com munists to Capitalism or vice versa. The principal aim behind this League is by and large, to devise a workable formula with which to transmute all these clashing ideologies into one whole into initematiOnalism, brotherhood, and oneneiss for the sake of our succeeding generations. One might ask: "What is this formula?" To this query, I could answer in one word: "International cooperation" it is only, international cooperation which is the building block on which International Order and world Peace can be successfully founded. If wTe had this formula, both cold and fact wars would undoubtedly be as useless to man as missiles 'are to God. Tranquility and bliss cannot be possible in the Middle East and Viet Nam without Moscow Washington cooperation. Should these two liemispheres unconditionally cooperate, these current crises would not even last 12 hours before a settlement was reach ed. This argument can well be ex emplified by the latest Cyprus crisis. Despite the fact that Moscow did not take as much a part as she could have con sidered it a NATO problem this pro blem did not last long before the world community settled it. Tranquility in this area was simply a consequence of cooperation not between the parties con cerned but among the World Community as a whole. To this end, one could, therefore, deduce that tranquility in the Middle East and in Viet Nam would be but a 12 hour task to solve If only the two super powers would cooperate within the concentric circles of jus naturale and jus gentium. It is a paradox in that from time and again, some of us have tended to be IT Place the woods off tha 501 byp3ss that's Cxt3pcl IXLU-. Those big homes, that's where th5 sociologists and tho political scientists and historians live. They're the ones who wrile books and scholarly papers about the plight of the Xegro American, and urban renewal, and the flight of the poor from the South to tho North. And the Negroes on Edwards Lane, and Jelly Lane they're the ones' the prc-Iessors wrlle about. And just .keep writing and writing and writing. . . . AND THEN there's the University. And it deserves same sort of superlative title as much 'as the town cf Chapd Hill doesn't. I don't give a damn what anyone says, this campus is the prettiest in the coun try. The foliage en the campus ac centuates the seasons the most sharply. If a fellow is prone to meditate or con template, he could do no better. than to come to this campus. If he wants. to see brilliant minds at work, gool-off students in action, pseudo beatniks, pretty girls and a smattering of Southern Gentlemen, he should ccme to Carolina. People and events will stick in your . mind when you leave this University. In my mind, the names of Walter Cooperation somewhat skeptical and sophisticated by devaluing cur ancestors' wisdom and in- ' clination to jus inter gentes thereby call ing them uncivilized, and yet most of us together with those wtto in fact claim to be more civilized seem to be living the same type of life by the wy we resort to more, destructive weapons than our ancestors had ever even dreamed of. Like the Visigoths, the Huns, and the Vandals, we are militantly engaged in various weak spots for expansion of our empires through insidious warfares. Preoccupied with these intents, we are at opposite horizons gnashing our teeth against each other with hate and malice wishing to tear one another apart as if we were cannibals. To this end, this burden should not be left to the student of International Affairs alone; but should be a shared task for the betterment of our world community. To bring about this goal, this League . could be composed of both interested pro fessors and students in the same way some other campuses have done. We could start this League as a non-credit seminar where professor and students coiild exchange their views on current ternatianal issues inter alia. For in inslance, we could discuss "War Pre vention," "Worud Order", et cetera. Fro such discussions, we could issue some pamphlets or leaflets as we so desire to the World Community through any form of mass media. In addition to that, we could establish ether auspicious avenues through which cur thoughts and feelings could be heard of and utilized by the World Community. It should be up to the University and College students . to be militant and surgeons in international af fairs in order to cleanse some of these wire-pullers from further deterioration and corruption. Finally they should be "a most indispensible fountain of wisdom from which, these wire-pullers could draw their guidelines. Unless students quit muckraking, those power-hungry politi cians, are likely to subject this planet to massive disaster to a poison of human co-existence. It is ipso facto up to the students' perspective and perspicacity to hatch this idea and produce more ave nues cf international cooperation for world peace. - ' Ago Auma-Osolo Spearman, Ken Byerb, Mark Etherldg and William Geer will slick a long time. As long as they are around, this Universi ty will never get too large, the student will never be just an IEM card. Tne events that ccme to mind are Bob Lewis' scoring 40 points against Florida State. Or Herbert Aptheker is making one cf his cut and dried speeches over Governor Moore's wall, while the state was in hysterics. Or, for irony, watching former Student Be by Paul Dickson film the University Day speech in 1965 for a Charlotte television station, and remembering that he wasn't even allow ed to take part in the 1965 University Day ceremonies when he was Student Body president. - Cr my getting kicked out of a Ku Klux Kian rally near Durham while being call ed a "white nigger" by the 2,500 klansmen. That incident alone was worth more than reading all that's been written about the South. There are other things that bugged me, that must bug other students. Like professors who have to lecture from notes. And professors who send you to the book exchange to buy 'a 71-page paper bs'ck which cost $5.15. And theb cok ex-; change in general. ' ; So I'll retire to New England, and hope that I can visit this campus many; times. And I know just how I'll do it too.; I'll approach the campus from Raleigh' Road, and park my car down by the Forest Theater, and never, never walk too far toward Franklin Street. Letters McCarthy Gets More Advice To the Editor In a recent editorial (Sunday, January 7) the Daily Tar Heel offered some in teresting suggstions about the possible future strategy of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy. I agree with the editors: we need a better alternative than the two major political parties seem inclined to give us. But I have grave reservations about the course of action you suggested for Senator McCarthy. At this point it is -net wise for McCarthy to 4 . . force the Kennedys hand either for him or against him.'' Before the Democratic presidential campaign is "over, Kennedy very well may be forced to express a preference. But at this stage it would be dangerous for McCarthy to exert too much pressue on R. F. K. To do so would be risking ; split among many silent but devoted McCarthy backers in various wings o fthe party. Those rallying around the Senator include members of the pro-Kennedy and anti-Kennedy factions of the Democratic Party. This is true among bis open sup porters; it is true among those who are presently inclined to give Senator McCarthy quieter but potentially very ef fective backing. You also suggested that McCarthy at tack Johnson's Vietnam policy in the manner cf a politican not as a "latter day Greek philosopher''. Your warning that McCarthy avoid the image of the lat ter seems very appropriate. However, may I suggest that Senator McCarthy ap proach Vietnam, as well as ether issues, in the forceful yet straightforward man ner of a statesman? Thus he may perform an iimportari educational fun tion for the American public. And he m'ght also win some primary victories over Lyndon B. Johnson a man in whom such qualities are sadly lack ing. Matilda Kirby Smith Curtis The Daily Tar Heel accepts all letters for publication provided they are typed, double - spaced and signed. Letters should ba no longer than 300 words in . length. We reserve the right to edit for libelous statements. .V.V.V.'.V.VV.V.'.V.V. The Daily Tar Heel h published by the University cf North Carolina Student Publication's Board, daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations. Offices are ca the second floor of Graham .Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial, sports, n e w s 933-1011; business, circa lation, advetising 923-1163. . Address: Box 10S0. Chapel HiU, N.C., Second class postage paid at U.S. Post Office in Chapel Hill, X.C. Subscription rates: $9 per year; $5 per semester.
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