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Box 870 Hill, 'I. C. Publication Bczrd The Publications Board wn meet toaight at 7:C3 p.xa. ia Roland Parker IX. it I W Rules Committee The L Rslei Cesssiiile frill meet at 4:C3 pjs. fcy la EP 75 Years 0 Editorial Freedom Volume 75, Number 104 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CABONA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1953 Founded February 23 lfTl n arc 1 Tnnnv 1 4. n 0 n o I.- n I 7- ' j., v ..' 4 - .'77 -r. - ' I :-:7;':; v i ... -77 - . ' ' V 1 ' - , V- ' ".7 . -- iZT J y y - r- --77 : - v ' j Kite Eater SP Member sMb SweMs As ComvemMom Nemrs By STEVE KNOWLTON of The Daily Tar Heel Staff A record number of almost 700 students jammed into Ger rard Sunday night to join the Student Party, thus enabling them to vote in the SP nominating convention Feb. 27. Viet Gong Attack SAIGON Viet Cong forces the U.S. war effort at Tan Son South Vietnamese troops on the jjf ii and neutralize the huge complex. Despite a barrage of more than 115 big rockets on Tan Son Nhut since early Sunday, the Tan Son Nhut Airport remained open for business and the adjoining "Pentagon East" head quarters of Gen. William C. Westmoreland remained operation- At least six and possibly seven 122 mm rockets, each almost five inches in diameter, slammed into Tan Son Nhut and the defense headquarters compound Monday night. At Hue, 400 miles to the north, house-to-house fighting con tinued into the 21st day between U.S. Marines and South Viet namese attackers and North Vietnamese and yiet Cong forces holed up in the walled old city. Tornado Hits Miami, Injures 14 MIAMI A tornado dropped like "the bomb" on this hurrican-seasoned city Monday, uprooting palm trees, blowing cars through the air and injuring 14 persons. State officials said damage might run over $3 million, but none of the injured was seriously hurt. "I've been through every bad hurricane to hit Miami in the last 22 years and none of them even Geo or Donna was as bad as this. I'd take a hurricane any old day," said one sur vivor. x Tornadoes are not uncommon in south Florida. - At least 80 to 100 homes were damaged, many severly, by the predawn tornado which struck without warning in a 25-block area beginning at Northwest 2nd Ave. and 164th St., and running to 10th Ave. and 178th St. UN Admits Korean Air Violation PANMUNJO , Korea The United Nations Command Mon day admitted two allied planes intruded by accident into North Korean air space but rejected as "fairy tales" Communist charges of ground and sea violations. U.S. Rear Adm. John V. Smith, senior U.N. delegate, said the two planes strayed into North Korean air space because of navigational difficulties and expressed regret at the incident. But as fur the other Communist charges, Smith told Maj. Gen. Pak Chung-kpk at the 263rd meeting of the military armistice commission in the truce village of Panmunjom: "The peoples of the world are well aware that it is standard North Korean Communist practice to tell lies in great quantity in a hope that a few of them might be believed. i. Most the time, trees around campus seem gentle and unassuming enough. But, every March, their true selves come out. And, lo and behold, Carolina becomes aware it's got a whole grove of Kite Eating Trees on its hands. This one, for example, just up and gobbled this kite that was straying by just like a frog going after a fly, the way you see them do it in the biology films. t '(. ' The SP membership now totals 916 and will likely not in crease before the convention because SP laws state that no peson may vote in the con vention unless he has attended two meetings. There is but more one regular Sunday night meet before the convention. (Tfr Datlti aar Qrrl World News BRIEFS By United Press International Tan Son Nhut bombarded the nerve center of Nhut Monday night and battled roads around it to try to isolate I ;i r The date of the convention was changed from Feb. 26 to Feb. 27 after debate because the women Trustees of the University will "be visiting the campus the 26th and all women students will have 10:30 p.m. closing hours and members of the WRC and CWC will be hosting the trustees and would have been unable to attend the convention. Both candidates for the par t y presidential nomination were pleased at the attendance of Sunday's meeting, but both were reserved .about the iinal outcome. - SP floorleader in Student Legislature Goerge Krichbuam said he has "a margin, but a very slight one" over Student Body Vice President Jed Dietz for tiie nomination. ; "I'm very optimistic about the final outcome," Krichbaura said. "However I have hot drawn any conclusions for the situation may change during the week and those people sup porting my candidacy will have to come to the SP meeting Conner Resideuls Circulate: Petition By FRANK BALLARD of The Daily Tar Heel Staff A petition seeking paving of a dirt stretch of the road con necting Connor, Winston and Alexander dormitories has col lected approximately 3 80 signature. It will be presented to Walter Hamilton, director .of the University Physical Plant, this morning. - David Wilborn, graduate counselor to Connor, wrote and issued the document Feb. 5. She started the petition after discussing the need for road improvements . with Mrs. Graham Ramsay, house mother for Connor; June Orr, president of the dormitory; and La Voice Hardison, also a graduate counselor at Con nor. The road section, between the University Tennis Courts and the Chapel Hill Cemetary, was described as "a sea of mud" and "like an old cor duroy road," by Mrs. Ramsay. One student broke his car's axle on the bumpy road and others complained of steering and wheel alignment damage, Miss Wilborn reported. The petition sought paving the road and repairing - its shoulders and the parking Me Moody-' To By WAYNE HURDER 10 The Daily Tar Heel Staff North Carolina's five year old speaker ban law was ruled unconstitutional by a three- judge federal court Monday in firepnshnro. The vagueness of the law ; was cited as the cause of the ? decision in the suit filed by 12 UNC students and two Com 7rh High munists speakers who were not ; forcing the speaker ban, was allowed to speak at UNC filed March 31, 1966, after the because of the law. : i- Aclministration for the second The judges ruled that the f time refused to allow , corn law failed to establish "clear, munists Herbert Aptheker and narrow, and - objective stan- leftists Frank Wilkinson to dards" in deciding who would be allowed to speak. Assistant Attorney General Ralph Moody said in Raleigh Monday that a conference would be held to decide whether .. to . appeal the decision. next Sunday and to the con vention the 27th." 7 7 Dietz would not say if he had a majority, but said he was "very pleased by the number of South Campus residents" who came to the meeting. "I believe that South Campus will assert itself in the con vention." . Dietz said the SP membership- role was now "close but encouraging. I am much happier now than I was a week ago at this time." A large majority of the near ly 200 students who joined the SP Feb. 11, are' Krichbaum supporters. Both Krichbaum and Dietz admitted there were a substantial ; and possibly decisive number of un committed votes in the par ty. In last year's SP convention, Dietz beat Krichbaum for the vice-presidential nomination by only 7 votes on the third ballot. On the first two votes there was no consensus . of the counters as to who won. areas which it leads to. It cited "daily complaints" from residents and visitors about the - bad stretch. Miss Wilborn was well pleas ed with the number o f signatures. "It was very good, about three-fourths of the students involved signed." "I sent out about id copies in all and took them door-to-door through Connor. They were posted in the halls at Winston and Alexander." "About 50-60 visitors signed it dates and people that used the road. One visitor's page was mutttated and corfdn't be. Physical Plant Director Hamilton had no comment about the petition yesterday, "I haven't seen it yet. I have The section in question was graded and leveled just' prior to the petition's circulation, a grounds crew spokesman said. The work was , repeated on Feb. 9 he added and "there's a good possibility that it'll be widened and coated with asphalt this summer." Acknowledging this repair, Miss Wilborn remarked, "They have done something, but it still feels like it needs pav ing' - Appeal : i t !Mude Court C o n s o lidated University President William Friday and Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, in a joint statement Monday, said it was their "hope that the opinion released by the three judge federal court.. . brings tins long and costly controver sy to an end." - The 'suit asking the court to enjoin the University from en- speak on campus The plaintiffs in the suit in cluded Paul Dickson, in, President of the student body; Bob Powell, Chariman of the State Affairs Committee then, and later . to be student body , President; Ernie McCraryj I editor of the Daily Tar Heel, and Aptheker, arid Wilkinson. Wilkinson had attempted to : speak on campus on March 2 and " Aptheker on March 9, but both were turned back by the campus police after the Trustees and Administration ruled they couldn't speak. . The decision by the Trustees on Feb. 7, 1968 not to allow . Aptheker - to ; speak; sparked formation of a Committee for" Free Inquirey and, on Feb. 24, a march by over 1,000 persons on Friday's home to protest the speaker ban. The judges, in their decision, credited the legislature with having acted in "utmost good faith and out of genuine con . cern for the welfare of the students enrolled in state-supported institutions." The law had been passed on June 26 the day before the end of the 1963 General Assembly session without the University administration knowing it was being introduced. . - The original law ruled that no state supported university could allow persons to speak on their campus who were communists, who were "known to advocate the overthrow of the Constitution of the U.S. or state of North Carolina, or who had pleaded the fifth amend ment in answering questions concerning communist or subversive activities. The law was softened by a special - legislative session on Nov. - 17, 1965 after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools threaten ed to withdraw accreditation of the affected schools. The amended version re quired the board of trustees of state suppported schools to adopt regulations governing the appearances of certain categories of speakers. The Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, on March 1, 1966, after refus ing to allow Aptheker to speak on Feb. 7, decided to leave it up to the Chapel Hill ad ministration to rul who was to speak. The court ruled the law vague because it didn't specify how to decide who exactly was a communist, or how to judge whether a speaker was known to be advocating overthrow of the constitution. The judges said that 0!, se oftem deS- nrotnMio IT C C.wmo 4". ing with , loyalty oaths, had "lirmly established that a statute 'which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague men 0f common intelligence must necessarily guess at its mean ing and differ as to its ap plication' violates the due pro cess clause of the 14th amend ment because cf its vagueness." "No one has an absolute right to speak on a college or university campus, but once such institutions open its doors to visiting speakers it must do so under principles that are constitutionally valid," the court ruled. intelligence Former Student Body President Paul Dickson With Apthecker ... now 'ecstatic, very happy, very relieved' .Ban !Fe lines Off 6Reliefi By RICK GRAY of The Dally Tar Heel Staff Reaction to the decision of the Federal District Court in Greensboro declaring the long controversial speaker ban law unconstitutional was one of relief for all parties concerned here Monday. Cons o lidated Universiry President William C. Friday and Chancellor J. Carlyle Sit terson hoped that the decision "brings this long and costly controversy to an end." Governor Dan K. Moore's press secretary, Jerry Elliot, said, "Until the Governor, the Attorney General and private counsel employed in the litiga tion have had a chance to study the decision, the Governor will have no com ment. Former Student Body Presi dent, Paul Dickson, III, who was the plantiff in the case was "ecstatic, very happy and very relieved." At his office in Charlotte where he is now employed by a realty company, Dickson ad ded, "I think that North Carolinians can once again hold up their heads with pride. I think that everybody that worked with me the Com mittee for Free Inquiry, American Civil Liberties Union and American Association of University Professors are to be commended for their effort and their help, and I ap preciate it." Former Chancellor William B7 Aycock, who was in office when the orginal ban was pass ed by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1963 was Honor Vote Tabulation On Thursday Results of the Feb. 15 nonor svstem survey will not be tabulated until Thursday night, said Elections Board Chairman Norm Zettel. The ballots have been sorted into districts, but have not been counted due to a lack of help, according to Bill Findlay, Honor System Commission Chairman. The written comments will cause more problems, said Findlay. Those comments oc curring frequently will be used when the present honor system is evaluated. Zettel asked that all students interested in helping count the ballots come to Roland Parker I or n at 7:00 p.m. Thursday. OMILlE RT O ITTs also "very happy." ."I - have thought all . the while," he continued, "the law was too vague. I hope this is the end of it. I don't think we should have rules and regula tions" to guide the University in who should speak. "The freedom of the students has always been handled well here" so there is no need to have the law in the first place. About the passage of the bill, Aycock said, "It was passed SL To (Consider Appropriation Bill Student Legislature, prevented by the by-laws from meeting during rush week, will hold a special session tonight at 7:30 on the fourth floor of IFC Rules Fraternity Not Guilty A fraternity charged with breaking windows in an ad jacent fraternity house was found not guilty by the IFC Court Feb. 8. Two visitors to the house on Dec. 15 were charged with throwing bottles and breaking the windows. It was found that the two visitors had been to other houses that night and were not guests of the fraterni ty charged with the violation. The two were students from Virginia and New York City, and were on their way: to Atlanta where they lived. They did not appear for the trial. Fund Freezin; Chills A number of student crganizatinns are in danger oi having their funds frozen, ac- coming to sn meaning, Chairman of me o i u u e u i Rules Corn- Government mittee. Bob Hunter, Chairman cf the Ways and Means Committee, will introduce a bill in the Stu dent Legislature tonight to freeze appropriations cf all organizations which have not filed semester reports cf ac tivities and expenditures. Starling said that two notices (D) J?9 before anyone here knew about it; I heard that.it had passed over the radio." r Aycock resigned as Chan cellor in July, 1964, and is now a professor in the law school here. Student Body Vice-President Jed Dietz stated, "I think that this (the decision) shows the wisdom of the decision of the students who were involved in this case to take it to the courts instead of the streets." New West. The aciministration-oacked drug policy and election reforms bill will not be con sidered at this session, ac cording to Student Body Vice President Jed Dietz. Dietz said the measures would not be presented because important personnel would not be present The special session will con sider appropriations for the .International Student Center and the National - Student Association area conference. Dietz said reports had been favorable to the measures and he did not expect much op position. Dietz said a budget transfer would also be considered. Some $1400 are to be transfer red from the Colombian Ex cahnge to the Committee for the Experiment in Interna tional Living. "This is because the two Colombian students didn't get here until this semester," said Dietz. "The Colombian Ex- change is supposed to be a full year program. SG Groups JL had been sent to each com mittee requesting reports. Feb. 12 was the original deadline, set, and it was subsequently extended to Feb. 13. Organizations have been re quired to submit these reports in the past, but this is the first ume me ruie nas oeen en forced, said Starling. As of 6:00 pjn. Monday only, in : i.: k. J m j reports. Apathy was the only explanation given by Storih for the absence of reports.