o
nniv
77d O 777) It
Weather
75 Year Forecast
'All The News
That Fits
We Print'
azy
76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Supplei
(&FSU
11 i iff i i ii 1 1
1
h
3
k
v
Volume 75, Number 107
aaly liar
rai Matters
Top Leadership Is
Tar Heel Tradi tiom
By MARY ELLISON
TURNER
, Special To The Dally Tar Heel
c What does it take to produce
i one of the nation's six leading
college newspapers in terms of
' age, size and editorial
? freedom?. . .
' Good leadership. . .and in 75
power-packed years, the DAI
LY TAR HEEL has certainly
had her share!
Her cast of former editors is
as varied as the issues, in
cluding some of the nation's
tirrtt'll'o frwmjrt. aiiIIiaiw
auu wviiua Kicaic3i ouuiuiBi
statesmen, deans . and ' pro
fessors, metropolitan
journalists, small-town editors
1,. 1-1 1 i I U
ana puousners, ana many
others of outstanding '-caliber
and i ability. J Many" -will pay
tribute on her commemorative
75th Diamond Anniversary
celebration here this
weekend.
Among the more noted
former editors perhaps are the
late N. C. governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus of Raleigh (editor,
1901-02) and Asheville writer,
the late Thomas Wolfe, author
of LOOK HOMEWARD
ANGEL, OF TIME AND THE
RIVER and FROM DEATH
TO MORNING (editor, 1919
20).. Others include Jonathan
Daniels, editor and publisher of
the RALEIGH NEWS AND
OBSERVER; former UNO
president Edward Kidder
Graham; Shelley Rolfe, na
tional writer; former N. C.
governor Terry Sanford of
Fayetteville; and poet, critic,
philosopher Hayden Carruth.
The University's own former
president and former U. N.
mediator Frank Porter
Graham was TAR HEEL
i editor in 1908-09. Of his paper
he has said, "I learned that
students were capable of self
government in a campus
Tar Meei '
BvIIUGH STEVENS
Special io The Dotty Tar Heel
It was during the 1955-56
academic year that The Daily
Tar Heel encountered and en
duredits most dangerous
crisis. The issues, in
retrospect, hardly appear to
have been possessed of "eternal
significance. The principles in
volveda courageous,
unyielding pair of co-editors, a
football coach named 'Jim
Tatum, and an aroused student
body have given way beneath
the crush of time to new
personalities content to wrestle
with new problems. But,
strange as it may appear to
day, it was ' big-time"
athletics which came closer to
destroying The Daily Tar Heel
as a fret;, unfettered
newspaper than any issue
before or since.
To understand the situation,
you must become acquainted
with three people: Ed Yoder,
Louis Kraar, and "Big Jim"
Tatum. The former two shared
the editorial desk of the Tar
Heel during 1955-56; the latter
you know by the reputation he
built for himself as one of
America's . most successful
football coaches before a
lightning fever felled him at an
jV tSt
democracy," emphasizing one
of the University's highest
ideals.
HISTORY
The first TAR HEEL was
published Thursday morning,
Feb. 23, 1893. Charles
Baskerville, who later taught
chemistry in the University,
was its first editor. After two
months, he was succeeded by
Walter (Pete). Murphy of
Salisbury, who had played a
leading role , in the paper's
foundation.
The TAR HEEL was then
described as' "the official
organ of the University
Athletic Association," which
was financially responsible for
30 years., .
Success has not been easy.
Wars have interfered with its
staffing; money problems and
.near bankruptcy have kept a
constant vigil outside its office
doors, but never has the TAR
HEEL been silenced ..
In the old days, as well as at
present, the TAR HEEL was
always carrying a journalistic
torch and exercising 'its
freedom of expression, pro
bably its most prized
possession. A great many of its
goals have been meritorious
and the paper has rarely been
"called down" by officials for
questionable action.
Shortly after its birth in 1893,
the TAR HEEL was called the
". . ,. best, brightest, newsiest
college paper in the union," by
a Harvard journalism pro
fessor. Today the paper, and its
writers are continually winning
awards.
Recently it was one of six
college newspapers in the na
tion to win a Pacemaker
Award for "over -a. 11 ex
cellence," sponsored by the
Americ anNe wspaper
. Publishers Association under
its current editor Bill Amlong
early age, in 1959. '
Ed Yoder is one of that
legion of outstanding
newspapermen which has
traipsed out of the villages of
. North Carolina to wield
substantial powers in the upper
echelons of American
journalism. Even as early as
1955 he was recognized as a
genuine intellectual (a
character trait which "marks
him still as one of the rarest of
birds ever to inhabit the Tar
Heel office). In addition, he
was a liberal, a worshipper of
Thomas Wolfe, a splendid
writer, and a native (im
probably enough) of Mebane,
N.C. Later he would be come a
Rhodes scholar; still later, one
of North Carolina's very finest
editorial writers.
Louis Kraar did not possess
Yoder's academic credentials,
but he was a newspaperman of
the -old schooltenacious,
crusading, and endowed with a
typewriter . from which he
squeezed both genuine humor
and undisguised vitriol,, as the
occasion demanded. 'Like
Yoder, he has never gotten the
printer's ink out of his
t bloodstream; he toils for Time,
Inc. in Thailand today.
As for Jim Tatum well, as I
said, you know about him. He
"was a star athlete at the
University who went on to
.HI eel
Gather
of South Miami, Fla. It holds
the distinction also of being
termed "the best college
newspaper in the
Southeast" a judging of the
Southeastern Co liege
Newspaper Competition.
The paper is published solely
by a student staff under stu
dent supervision and is not
subject to censorship b y
faculty or aaministrative ac
tion. Historic milestones include
the first use of photographs in
1902, the first regular sports
page in 1928, the first "extra"
edition at Franklin Roosevelt's
death, the first use of comics
in 1950, and the transition to a
semi-weekly ('09), a weekly
('ID and finally a daily ('30).
It has been a tabloid several
times.
The first coed joined the
staff in 1901 and another
became the first female editor
during World War II, when a
constant manpower shortage
riddled the staff. The former
Miss Glenn Harden, daughter
of former DTH staff member
John Harden, was the first
peacetime girl editor.
Former Editors Speak
' Just how do some of the
former editors regard and look
back on their once great,
responsibilities of producing a
daily newspaper while
simultaneously maintaining the
university's high academic
standards? i
Former editorial board
member Vermont R o y s t e r
(1935) feels the TAR HEEL
gave him a taste of the "sheer
fun of being a newspaperman."
Pulitzer Prize winner Royster
is now editor of the WALL
STREET JOURNAL and vice
president of Dow Jones and
Co., Inc.
(Continued on Pare 3)
coach the
University
football team
of
to
Maryland's
the national championship. He
was big, as his nickname im
plied; he could swear like a
whole shipload of sailors and
tell bluish-tinted yarns that .
would double you over with
laughter. He was friendly. He
was a winner. He once said,
. "Winning isn't the most im
portant thing it's" the' only
thing." In the fall of 1955, he
was Resident Deity on the
University of Maryland cam
pus. In that small fall, Yoder and
Kraar began showing signs of
hostility toward certain
aspects of the athletic program
at the University. They were
not the first editors to manifest
such an attitude. Rolfe Neill
had crusaded against
"professionalism" in Chapel
Hill athletics during 1953-54,
and Charlie Kuralt had
discussed the ills and inequities
of the subsidization of athletes
during the following year.
Thus, by the time Yoder and
Kraar opened fire, the campus
and the Athletic Department
had come to associate the Tar
Heel with such heretical ideas
as the giving of scholarships
for academic, rather than
athletic, prowess.
The co-editors' first target
was Atlantic Coast Conference
mug isfigk
CHAPEL HELL, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
VCL. I.
T T T . 1 (ttrirrt i la
1 lie . 11 lvrt,.irfr,n)UtiBiio tba Vai-:
i
bntj . Mert at
NABLB BjUUCWItUC.
... ' Waltm Mi-bmt,
A C Em.
- W.P.Wwk.
Pain Bvwkb.
I VuitettUf FU
J. V. B19M,
A. 1L McFAPurB.
Editor in Chief
Cbabu B.uKrnviU.E,
Miehael
Il'hark UankurvilW, Manacn.
lirrrrHf lUut lUU TVdM.
l'errin Ituitbrr. raplata.
' V. R. Kfunn. manaipr.
Managing Editor.
Waltkb JIvm-bv
A. II. Mi Faih.i b. J-1. Vig:x. priidtit.
r.. . . C. It. TurutT. iw'y. and trcaa.
Topniv ''Kflrujr a' iSflt. . Mrrtaat tkrallftliriwidBt.
cnrst'ii niRKiTORY. 11 "r"'"3
Bmptirt Otmrtk.
Rfa. J I. Cakkoii.D 1.
- 1'ivacliiiiK evrry twoday mwn
log and night. Sunday K'hwd at
a. m. Prayer meeting evi-ry
Vednsday night.
Sn. J. E Eogaktie.
Iad.-r.
tur
Ir. Tlnmia
- J. m. t b
. Preaclfinr tierr Snndav. mora- tliir.1 Tuenlav night in rsu h laontk. lM. u, r(mw. The chief and Kvr i4 encourajjemcnt ft
ing and uight: ezcVpt the firt Sun Ijl.rarv i.-n one lumrraili dar. t, ,wM ui will drriiU- a to af tht" ,l U'r of the um-er-
at I0:.-V a. m. Prayer meeting, - , . ... ' ..j' , Inw" nof artHiirawu ,alUm p, Mj
rvery Wednesday nita. , J V Oo vh nre'wnt . w.u artuh-a w,!l -r led t.f a Jffiekt .tmwpriatiojl
Mhtui Chunk.
1- i- u
Sev. X. M. Watson
'ii.iih
Preaehlnz everr Surfd'ar. lunm-. Mvli in
ing and Bight Sunday ti h.iol at day night
WJ w "Prayer nut-ting every Journal
Wednesday night.
UiJnr,a
Ir. Kemp
Epittopal Clurth.
Kkt. Fbedebic Tvwckr.
Sunday rervR-r at 7. 11 -anil 7
oeioea. HkijM:niiT m p.
Friday. SuudS Sobiml 4 p. u
During Lent acrvioea daily at 4 p.
MH'Kt
' liltHtkmi.;r
fi.ii....i -
f MVEBSITY
I'airrwiVy Chnlr.
I'aor. Kaki "
leader.
IJIRECTORY.
P. IfAm.liTOX,
hall new cal
Orgauiatii, J. A
Cba. RoutBsoit
MaxM.L and
The OrJ-f
ISIVERSITY MAUAZIXK.
UX T7KU A YEA B.
KDITQIM.
Ptti. Di.
W. P. Wooteu. Y. P. M. Cnrrie
J- K. Inglo, Jr., J. SI. Cheek,
f'ralemitia.
Sinna
ll.a.JCeta
A. JJ. Koooee, T. J. Wllaoa.
UusiDrat Manager,
IW. Collier (
VKIVERSITY IJIiKAKY
went luiilding.
-BDcctivabaltHevarvSaturdarnisht.
Ia. Ktnur auximim, Librarian..
I M. V. A.
. I.. Wiuox Student Librarian. Ueorce
Open every day esecpt Kundar. treasunr, .cieu uiu o, ...v fiocw .u
from Il:t to 1:30 and from 3 to 5. 1 R. K Zachary, organiiit. 4 ith no little trepidation, nevcr
OpeuStiii!)fruiu3loCp m. Meeta four tim.-a a week in Y.'thcless with a determination, to
'' 1 "llif-taaS makea succe,, which can only
r ,...7i ."'". Vl 'Repleinlicr. " be done tliroujjli the
pra pubhahe,! in I mon snd Kute SfwWW . .,! distance our
laiientVy '- AmrSalUm.
.. . . .....
II A. K.aiilt hater, pretmleut. ' tary ami
Julian IjibIi. In- U U l.iiukif nu.i.ili.
JI. A. IWndil.ttl.-r. Waltw Mur-. The IMhm!m. (Annual) project win ih: imnns
pbry. rUc.ulivr Cmioitt-r. uWialH-l l.y tk jntornltiaa. ciated.
Seventy-five years ago today, me Tar Heel
made its first appearance on campus. Above is
volume one, number one, page one. As the blur- -red
text announces, the paper was published
originally under the auspices of the Athletic
Association. The first editor-in-chief was
it Kirmmir Q Yoder Tme
(Note- the 75-year history of The Daily Tar Heel is a chronicle
of controversy. In virtually every single year of the paper's ex
istence, the editor has managed to incur the wrath of a large seg
ment of the student body. One editor was removed from office in
1957, primarily because the members of a campus honorary were
able to convince the campus of his incompetence. Others have
come under fire because they have been thought to be too liberal,
or too conservative, or too dogmatic, or too weak or to possess
any of a variety of other shortcomings. s
-Whenever an editor comes under fire from his constituents,
the "freedom" of which The Daily-Tar Heel is so proud becomes,
momentarily, in jeopardy. The story which follows is the history
of the Tar Heel's most heated and most celebrated controversy.
The story is long and detailed, and for those who lack the time or
desire to read it, we shall reveal the outcome:' the editors win.
But the story is not important as drama only as history. It is
written in the hope that those who have never been fortunate
enough to be editors, or even staff members, of The Daily Tar
Heel will find in it an explanation of why The Daily Tar Heel is
important not only to those of us who love it, but also to those
who merely read it.)
commissioner Jim Weaver,
who made the mistake (m
their eyes) of saying that "you
have to have a good conference
to compete for the en
tertainment dollar in this day
and time." Yoder and Kxaar
suggested that college sports
should be "for training
students and giving t1
recreation and providing the
campus with a pillar for school
spirit." They accused the ACC
of having thrown the amateur
status of athletes "out the wi
Y
ear
TTnTI
oserve.
i xivEKsmr or south carousa. FKF.SUAEY St.
farther tbe dUbur
TUK TAR IlKKI.
- . vfnnr mmt mwuium
threat! Of tlwirthlwit. 1 ',u""
II !(. tsjmw pmudrvt itj- AtbcleiM Awoctktioit, ooed , JcUInrf onjiOMng the rwita-
J. I. rujth, JJy aud trru. intrw of th Vahrmity st tkia cummiitcv arrived t lb b.
Mm-urn(tttrlr thi Mcmd Hat-ilarga- . . vrrsity t a sircial train Friday
onlay in Sttwobrr and Jnory Iwofd every Tburaday erBiaC.:ntiraiu), Fclrnarv jrdi
jCMht r -Uuty.-l to the irridnl 1 u m luminary vf all i Mwrv iUlllc, chairman fcctrk
Ball Tun.
hrormeNli tk Ualrmlty and Acti. Jamn, l'tm. of tbeftfR
! villip- of naifl Hill. jatc". all1 Mchnw. UiAl (ch airman l
Kpac will b a!gMd for tb',1; 'VI Sutbcn Walker.
1 partainifls to the advanarairut aad . AftT brcaktaslinK- lfc.!!S!f
i ., . .. chapel cxctcwc tr attended,
,r,w h ofLDrr,ly then vLm!, wrrc made lo tbTrcad-
A ln. f ncrouot each wik eflbe ', .A
Hoke, captain
wvum-ow in tk amatnr atke- lectnrc ,., hrc claw r
Irtk- m orid, with ei.ial attwit m anbUM. The nntnerott labor,
to fmr own atlihtic intrraU, and.p, itojtcd . Well as
1
(.mgr.- m rowuau.
At! MX-it-tr wwn. nrraonala aad , ihc -niitio wvrc held and the
iiV't Ri,,'rM",, "'"""e"",. "evi-r ul.ject of intrmt koih to'ntlrutcn who were not alumni
IV..r,KjrlI. Ilotr.nfc.-! Jn-llw.;,u,,,nlUamlrj,iu.IllMlfuH. viI. urtt. iM.k- h.warv member.
Inp-. ill lie t n-atrd each" w-t. , J in after pra en. the 1 oy called
" Thr column will be opra todi-itpeatH ki ieevhc from oar
euin on all awifuiwiau- M.l.j-ta I vts a maj.N-it .f whom fe-
Iluiur. rriiki t
MertintheY. M.f.A.kall tba with an rudeatur ld
- k. MfV ana lreai,
J!.ian- ui.il ut anthw. nciu
". . .
ci'l i
-" "tin" ebwf. arhick
Pirtwm bnll -win Tne . . nee. if den red.
in eaeli mmth. . . Ad-rtin-r will Mote
iwued twuwajrai. u VW- am
-ls. . . '4.V wlmh lh.-y ran r.ach
ISattle. ,ni.l.-i.t ami Kp nt,., mv or
11. m. Uiuuim i. wmary ami -
triurvr. , , t'ltaivl Hill X. I, r
the call i-f the reih'nf -anl and he will cull.
- . . .
,W .Si-.-r.-t " uWriptin win Hollar ami a iw tiuui iuvijiuu W to rapia
v fcVi.t..v i nail i-r wifriiiii. I lit-,
.
- jinn
huildiiii;.
4
SAUTATtiRY.
IHnMir S-trUly. S.vret)
Mti-I evt ry Friday night and
Saturday morning in J)i. Ii:tll n.-
Tlu- urowHij. .k-iuawk of the t..ll.ltiJrti; ia ,jicir tm,h
1 niwrsity have .-hown the need r..uld i..t l.iit fl that it wa a
Mm GkouhU. (Secret) ' a weekly .irr. Tlicl"nivcr-.dut that w.iowxil to future gen-
Junior. .Mty Athletic A-i. iatioii refptrd ?cr.jnWN " Iiich ba been dor
The miciely mrctain Fchmary iiw itself a the ineaii U which I l" th r lhat P?5 a"3..
October. IlamiuetThuraday night j t j, , .'ji ali the uwtic law making
of comiiieneenit iit. lltu a , 1 ' a ,,Uir iH sute. ouht la make
(Secret)
a stated mectin ekcted
Aliiha Kpailon. Kanna AI-: of editors (chief and
I'm! Aliiha San Aineea.
.'u5nV toW&SS?!- With this ".apnUw
-,, ;SigmPhi. Beta Tbata II Itelta nr.t Lmw .f tlic first
W-1 Kappa Kpaihrn, meet in tbelr w- tjieTAR Hek Itnke
F. l Hardiog, preaident, s.- This ucw venture is
,
Sluohena. accretarv and ' 1
xvyirai .rjery. , ami assistance oi our
:;f.S,te1n
and treaurer, ' vite honest rril-f i
1 .
. .
dow," and attacked the
premise that college sports
should empahsize "en
tertainment." Attack Grows
As the year progressed, the
attack grew steadily. The co
editors chastized the Universi
ty for exempting "scholarship
holders" from a boost in out-of-state
tuition, pointing out
that over 90 per cent of non
resident scholarship holders
were athletes.
23, 1968
Old
WW..'
TI! K I.W.ISI.AT1VK COM-
him.
MITTKK VISIT THK
rXIVERMTY.
'MKiMii..MinM. ,4 thv MudttiU' runm. Iir
full ju- '""V inUBMv apa
; Mu l"I'. this the moM na.
r .a ei.-, f.,i i ;miMWt .-. nr ii .w c,i.
ltirj.". - . an.4 plvt- a n tii--
that thia i ,in nlnnr lml lmlliant record
m,.JIl!t vtnc iu nr.wncci an
the Mu- M: h .i-. w..u'.d nuke anv Strtv :n
write the un::Hd t. Ik-the -
-- K ....
dni him a tviitv. a utltv-k-nt apjrolrij-
turn to itit the univetsitv wn a
- 1 r a . -
- tirinir ,.. K""" "'- nen
-.tiif..f the eummtttee cxrocd
llu it di-ep nut 4 ' not avinj;
tl xl 111 a .f .t l.lil'l - -
a buard., ;,;,, ;lt ,ilc nuivcfsitv free to
live subs) North Carolinians at is don at
ly. thelKi""." " tW only way tetU
volume of,;,,,, Trol,ate sufcnt
jUt hwbi keep the unlxwstty- up,
and the technical coarse shall
make itself Mutainiag, aad, too,
we omid not but think what m
sliamc and low it was to North .
Carolina, that it had failed, to
open the doors of the univerty,
in the pa.t to such sterling maa
hood as re presented the kcdatare
necessarily
. iJt
inlul;ence
facultv and
tacuitv ana i on m
aJW "M aid T -"
on the committee. The hodv of
MndenU wrrc well plrxvrd
our frk-nds. if thev are
I tiir sample of oar legislators th;
Uir Vt-tti lnttai fat in .a.
'ear.
- rpre - iwiaU TIh-t know the m-cd .4
tlu I'liiviTsilv.
Cltaiies Baskerville. The paper promised that
"the columns will be open to discussion on all
appropriate subjects with an endeavor to do
full Justice to everyone." So began 75 years
of news, non-news, and raising helL
- When officials of the Athletic
Department showed a reluc
tance to lower the price of date
tickets, the Tar Heel urged
editorially that students be
given complete control of
Carolina athletics. Athletic
Director Chuck Erickson label
ed this proposal "too ridiculous
to comment on."
One of the most searing anti
athletic statements came on
the morning after Carolina had
suffered a humiliating 25-0
football defeat at the hands of
Wake Forest. Yoder and Kraar
wrote:
-"Talk today will center
around who will replace the
present coach (not whether he
should be replaced), and alum
ni will have their heads
together conjuring up new
gridiron talent for next
season. . . .
"Frankly, we'd rather see
alumni put their heads
together- over the amount of
foundation money, or the quali-
ty of teaching, or the state of
dorms at the University.
"But some men can't grow,
up and always must play the
game of college boys, paining
bitterly when they lose a foot
ball game. Perhaps some of
this talk to college students
about growing up, about
maturity, should be ad
ministered in stiff doses to
nn
n
7771 7771 71 T 770M?o CTl TP Y
liiLIUIJl V VUii okuuu. y
The Daily Tar Heel is 75
years old today.
For the next two days,
dozens of the paper's alumni
will converge on Chapel Hill
for a gala celebration of the
occasion. The festivities will
include private parties, a
special television show taped
by WUNC-TV, and a Diamond
Anniversary banquet.
The Daily Tar Heel was
founded February 23, 1833. In
1923-29 it became the first col
legiate daily in the South and
one of the first in the coun
try. Hugh Stevens, a third-year
law student at the University
and co-editor of the paper dur
ing 1961-65, is chairman of the
s e v e n t y-fifth anniversary
celebration.
DTH alumni are expected to
begin arriving in Chapel Hill,
this afternoon. Private parties
are scheduled for the evening,
... affording the old grads an op
portunity to visit with long-lost
managing editors, reporters,
and the like.
On Saturday afternoon,
WUNC-TV will tape an hour
long panel discussion featuring
several prominent alumni, in
cluding public opinion analyst
Louis Harris of New York, and
prize-winning newspaper editor
Sylvan Meyer, from
Gainesville, Ga.
The banquet Saturday even
ing will feature a series of
reminisences by ' former
editors, including University
professor emeritus Phillips
Russell (1904), Greensboro at
torney McNeill Smith (1933),
Chapel Hill Weekly publisher
OrviUe Campbell ( 19 4 2),
journalism professor Walter
Spearman (1929), and others.
"The number of scheduled
events is being kept to a
minimum," Stevens says. "We
want to allow for the max
imum amount of informal
visiting between old friends."
Idea Born
The ideal for the anniversary
observance was born out of a
special research project in
which Stevens was employed
to write a history of The Daily
Tar HeeL
"The more I read, the more
fascinated I became," he says.
. "I continued to run across
names of well-known
footballing elders,"
Gray Speaks
Shortly after this editorial
appeared, the editors' crusade
received support from an
unanticipated source Gordon
Gray, president of the
University. In his annual
report to the Board of Trust
tees admitted that occasionally
the pressure for big-time
sports created a "threat to the
morale and effectiveness of
administrative and faculty ac
tion." President Gray also noted
that the General Assembly was
effectively subsidizing athletics
by not requiring out-of-state
scholarship students to pay the
increased tuition rates.
. Yoder and Kraar saluted the
president's remarks. "Big-time
ahtletics," they said,- "right
now are as professional in
Chapel Hill as the movies,
though not making nearly as
good a showing. They sug
gested that stronjg ad
ministrative action should be
forthcoming.
Soon signs began appearing
on the campus to indicate that
the editors' crusade was
stimulating thought and debate
in regard to the athletic situa
tion. The Phi Society took up
de-emphasis at a regular
meeting, and voted for a turn
away from "professionalism."
Me
Founded Februarv 23, 1893
journalists, politicians,
teachersjust about every
kind of person imaginable."
"As part of my research, I
had occasion to interview some
of the people I had been
reading about. Almost without
exception, they would begin
discussing the paper and end
up talking about all the ex
citing people they had worked
with, and all the exciting
things the paper had become
involved in."
Then, says Stevens, one
former staff member struck a
spark by casually suggesting,
"You know, we ought to get all
those old boys together
sometime. It would be the
greatest alumni gathering the
University has ever seen."
That did it. Stevens took up
th idea of a DTH reunion with
some individual alumni, and
soon plans were in the mak
ing. "It was only an idea for a
long time," Stevens said. "It
took forever to find out just
who might be involved. I went
through every edition of the
paper ever published, and
copied down all the names cn
, the staff lists. Then the UNC
Alumni Association went to
work on it."
The alumni office laboriously
researched the correct names
and addresses of the hundreds
of former staffers. In
November, 1967 a preliminary
mailing was made to solicit
opinion on the idea of an an
niversary. Response Great
"The response was fan
tastic," Stevens says. "A few
people wrote to say that they
were too far away to come
back to Chapel Hill for a reu
nion, or that they weren't in
terested. But most of them
said, 'When is it? I'll be
there"
Nearly three hundred
persons returned special ques
tionnaires to the Alumni
Association describing their
undergraduate activities, their
careers, and their feelings
about the Tar HeeL
"You might be amazed,"
Stevens says, "to learn how
many people sincerely said
that working on the paper was
(Continued on Pare Z)
Letters to the editors
also
began to appear.
Barclay In Trouble
In early December, the con
troversy grew hotter. Rumors
began to fly regarding the im
pending dismissal of head foot
ball coach George Barclay.
Jim Tatum was the predicted
replacement. Kraar and Yoder
sounded off.
"Has anyone indicated
Barclay for rnal performance of
the coach's duties?" they ask
ed. "Of course not. He played a
gargantuan schedule. He tried,
but he lost. And in this open
perversion of the idea of col
lege athletics, he must o."
"The powers that hire and
remove coaches appear ex
empt from the standards under
which most employers judge
their employees. They need not
say that Barclay has been a
bad coach. They can simply
bark that he has lost, and
whine for a successor."
The editors went on to report
the rumors that Tatum would
be hired, saying that if the
rumors were true, ' a
disgraceful fraud has been
worked on the University."
A few days later, when Dr.
Hugh Lefler of the University
history department blasted the
"hypocrisy" of big-time
(CcsUistd cn Pe 4) .
m