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THE D.
'AR HEEL
Saturday, March 9, 1953
Donald Walton '
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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Bill AMongEditor - " :. .:.
Don Walton, Business Manager
NC's Self-Righteoiisiiess
Won't Fool The Negroes
"I cannot agree with the basic
conclusion of (the President's Na
tional Advisory Commission on
Civil Disorders) report should
anyone seek to apply it to North
Carolina that prejudice and
white racism have caused all these
troubles." Gov. Dan K. Moore in
reaction to a summary of the
report.
. If Governor Moore doesn't think
prejudice and white racism apply
to North Carolina, we wonder just
what he labels the Ku Klux Klan
a c t i v ities in Wadesboro. . . a
Lion's Club's civic actions
maybe?
When, we wonder, when will
this state wake up to the reality
that yes, there is indeed that dirty
word prejudice under the veneer of
North Carolina's racial
"progressiveness? "
As long as North Carolina con
tinues to think of itself in pious
terms with regards to civil rights,
the situation is explosive. The only
way to combat a problem is to first
at least recognize that it exists.
The streets of our "forward
moving" state threaten to become
battle fields this summer, while
citizens sit in their armchairs by
the television and call themselves
progressive.
The state has made un
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Tribute To
'-'There is surely nothing more
depressing than a college student
who is ready and willing to
swallow whole all that has been
handed down to him by his'elders."
Dr. II. Roeslan Abdulgani,
permanent representative to the
UN from-Indonesia in the keynote
address to the Model UN.
. Ambassador Abdulgani's
speech before the 325 delegates to
the Middle South Model United Na
tions has apparently set the pace
for the action of the tenth annual
MSMUN which will continue here
through Sunday.
It can be hoped that the col
ection of students here this
weekend will be able to gain an in
sight into the workings and pro
blems of the UN
Doug Morgan, secretary
general for the MSMUN, has said
that the delegates are well-informed
about their country's background
and policies.
We hope that this is true. Of
104 Receive
Times have changed, and along
with them the way society func
tions especially regarding
Negroes' rightful place in socie-
ty.
Thankfully, the insitutions of
society are changing in the same
manner, as is shown by the
Morehead F o undation's an
nouncement that it has accepted its
first Negro scholar.
Some may complain that the
foundation's decision to award one
'of its 104 prestigous scholarships
for next year to Harold Leroy
Cushenberr Jr. of Henderson, a
standout student at the Taft School
in Watertown, Conn., is too little,
too late. They may call it
tokenism.
The Morehead Foundation's
decision, however, seems far more
than that.
For rather than being mere
token desegregation that is, let
ting .an "acceptable" Negro into a
Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor -Wayne
Hurder, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager
precedented advances in Negro
white relations; the state has work
ed in the areas of Negro housing,
jobs, education and recreation.
But to say that the state, is free
of prejudice and white racism is an
absurd and blind statement.
Admittedly, North Carolina has
not yet reached to explosive stage
of Newark.
Admittedly, the riot in Winston
Salem was relatively easily quelch
ed with armored tanks and na
tional guard.
Admittedly, potentially riotous
Durham remained only restless
during the summer.
Admittedly the rumored riot in
Charlotte never broke out last sum
mer. Admittedly, the state only has a
slightly smudged record of Negro
White relations.
But that is only so far. That was
only last year.
Can the state afford to sit back
and self-righteously pat itself on
the back comfortably assuming
that prejudice and white racism
don't exist here?
The Whites might be able to talk
themselves into believing this
hypocrisy.
But we're afraid the Blacks just
won't be able to go along with
that.
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course, no one could expect the
delegates to inherently know how
their particular country would vote
on a given issue, : but the issues
which are being considered are
crucial ones to our times, and we
are looking to the Model UN for
representative answers with the
expectation that their debate may
shed some flight on possible solu
tions. .
Indeed, the pickets have been
left behind and the basketball
tournaments are of little import as
the delegates attempt to wrestle
"with the problems of:
establishment of. a UN police
force in South Vietnam
setting up South est Africa as
an independent nation '..
the agreement of nuclear powers
to a non-proliferation treaty .
The sincere attempts of these
students to try and comprehend the
tangled world situation is a tribute
to the college generation.
MoreheMs
previous all-white' es
tablishment the awarding of a
Morehead Scholarship to
Cushenberry seems to be a definite
step toward the social integration
of the University community by in
viting a Negro to enter it . on a
prestige level.
Recipients of Morehead
Scholarships have made a rather
deep niche for themselves among
the upper echelons of Carolina's
student body. While they certainly
have no monopoly on leadership,
they however display a dispropor
tionately great deal of it. ,
It should, therefore, be of little
surprise to anyone if Cushenberry
makes a considerable contribution
to this University 'during hisJ stay
here. ;
After all, Morehead Scholars
are .like thaWand, l there'sU no
reason Cusheriberry's color should ;
make him otherwise.
MSMUN
The government of the United States'
has recently pulled off another one of its
masterful reversals of direction in its re
cent decision to curtail draft deferments -for
graduate students and teachers. In a
land where the official government posi
tion in so many areas is so wonderfully
confused, perhaps it is not too surprising- .
We have become all too used to the fact
that the government is trying to find liv .
ing people, in space and living space for f
people. We are well aware of the fact
that we are fighting a gorilla war in
South East Asia and may well be fighting
one in New York City this summer. This
lastest directive ending graduate student
draft deferments puzzles me the most.
We have been told that the surest way
Letters To The Editor
.Jie JPw
To The Editor: :
In reference to the cries 0 f
"hypocrisy" that have" arisen in recent
. days,.,L would like, to. point out that the ?
- University of North Carolina is? a state- !
Supported institution, h4hiruiits t
administration and trustees, as rwell -as f
the legislature and people of the state
could perhaps justly claim tradition is
hypocritical only when it claims that the
students, through the mechanism of stu- ?
dent government, have the authority to
control their own destiny. The students
do not have this authority, nor have they '
ever had it; at best student government ,
has played the role of a suggestion box,
and the university has never been com-
pelled to carry out any suggestion of
which it has not approved. It is only the -outstanding
nature of the recent proposal 1
to liberalize women's rules that makes
this case significant. :
Now two questions come to mind: ?
First, accepting the power structure as it r
is, what can we as students do to achieve
the object that the majority of us desire,
namely, the liberalization of women's I
rules? Second, do the students of even a
state-supported university have the right
to control their own destiny? -
In answer to the first question, I sug-
gest that all interested students let their I
opinions be known at a level of authority
beyond that of t h e administration. 1
Chancellor Sitterson did not come to his j
decision out of personal whim, but out of I
consideration of the desires of the !
trustees. The trustees should know the
wishes of the students, as should the I
legislature and the people of the state, in-'
"eluding our parents. I am personally
writing letters to various newpapers in I
the state. I am not overly confident; yet
as doubtful as these methods might be in
practice, our opinions should be known.
The second question vis of much
greater fundamental importance. Must
the students accept the state's education
on the state's terms? Is this situation
now, or could it become, a threat to the
academic freedom, that has bee n'
treasured for so long? One need only con-f
sider the recent speaker-ban controversy:
to find the answer to the last question.!
This external influence on student arfairs
is bad, bad, bad. j
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to solve our economic and social pro
blems is through education, but now the
government is.telling us, in effect that it
is more important to fight than to be
educated. The government apparently
feels that a society of ignorant amputees
is what is meant by the "Great Society!"
It seems like only a few short years
ago that I was in good old Mount Hebron
Junior High School idling my time away
being, a typical, decadent American
school boy, playing baseball in the af
ternoons and watching the Walt Disney
show at night. -And then came Sputnik.
All of the sudden we were deluged by
teachers, parents, the government, and
friends telling ,us to study, work hard,
and gain knowledge. Only if "our Johnny
In conclusion, I would like to direct a
s suggestion to the Women's Residence
Council. I suggest to this group of women
-to - use -the- authority they - do -have and
change the name of their body to the
Girls' Residence Council. ,
Robert G. Littlejohn 'W
1224 Granville Towers
Another Guru?
To The Editor:
I read in Wednesday's DTH a letter
about Guru Suyajnas, found myself
greatly interested in this man. I want to
learn more about the Guru, and hope for
some assistance from the DTH staff in
my endeavor. Maybe the Guru is a friend
of Meher Baba? Well, J like Baba, and
any friend of his is a friend of mine. But
I bet Mr. Jay Panini (religion major)
knows all about Guru Suyajnas, and can
tell me himself whether he is' a friend of
Meher. .
Still, let me know one thing. Are' you
putting me on? This Guru fellow sounds
like a nut;' We've got to have some way of
telling if he is a phoney or if he is God.
That's where you DTH guys come in. I
want you Co help me organize a panel to
discuss the Guru, and we will solve this
Guru problem. We ought to be able to
come up with something: Then we can
collect our results from panel discussion,
and have Jay Panini send our conclusions
to the Guru. Of course, we will have Jay
proofread our message to the Guru to
make sure-we haven't included in the
message any careless or foolish "human"
errors. I would surely like to start right
away with this panel discussion and all
hke Melvin
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was smarter than their Ivan could we
perserve our country. The Russians
WERE smarter than we and because
they were smarter, we could no longer be
looked upon as the guiding light of the
world. .
'Being basically patriotic, I worked
harder and gained admission into college,
and I saw my friends, especially those
younger than I, learn things in science
and math that would make Horace Mann
proud.
The government started to spend un
precedented amounts on education.
Schools and universities of all types in
creased their size and curriculum.
But now the government is telling us
something different. The way to save our
This
is
Jos College.
a little
worried
future.
Lfti-
From The Old Gold & Black
I Hz.
B Not Have
that,
now!
Let's get the show on the road
Phillip Don Julian
401-A Oak Avenue
Carrboro, N.C.
Being Black
Was Wrong
To The Editor:
On March 1 at four-fifteen, I returned
to my study desk and, as has been my
custom for some time, began plowing
through The Latter Heidegger in
preparation for a class presentation. Soon
I became aware of being the object of
comprehensive scrutiny. Realizing, that
Carolinians have yet to become ac
customed to Blacks as. students, I re
mained calm.
Cautiously, having amassed the re
quired courage to approach me for sure
ly I had some ingenious weapon hidden,
the stocky crew cut came forth and asked
if I'd follow him. Hesitantly, I did. Then
in a manner that would put Joe Friday to
shame, our budding Storm Trooper flash
ed his badge and delivered his
"University Investigator" in a style so
convincing that he's sure to make Cap
tain within the year. Following through
true to form he asked next "Where were
You at Four?"
Had not the . situation appeared so
serious, I might have laughed. But I
didn't and replied in as civil a manner as
A
unkle
ion
:
country is not by studying hard but
rather by fighting hard. Students will be
able to go to undergraduate school, but
what good will it do them if there is no
one to teach them. It is hard to imagine
what Carolina will do without graduate
students. There are appro ximantly 4,000
grad students here and many of them
either teach classes themselves or grade
exams for professors. In fact the English
department has a rule that if an in
structor has over 100 students he must
have a graduate grader.
It seems to me that while this policy is
expeident for the immediate needs of the
country, it can only weaken the country
in the future. With only a limited number
of people in the graduate school, the
country will find the number of highly
trained men and women in ten to fifteen
years very limited.
It is also true that the education
received by the undergraduate students
will be inferior. With fewer graduate
students to teach and aid in teaching,
classrooms will become more crowded
not because of a lack of space but rather
because of a lack of teachers. A second
rate education will be received.
Our children in ten to fifteen years
will also be getting a second rate educa
tion. The shortage of teachers will last
long after graduate deferments are
reinstated.
This is not a column to preach against
the war in Viet nam since I basically sup
port the war effort. But the government
has to decide what importance it wishes
to place on education. If education is
really the future of America and the way
to rid ourselves of our domestic troubles,
then the decision to cancell draft defer
ments for teachers and graduate students
is wrong. It can only deter education in
America.
But maybe the government has decid
ed that an inadequate education might be
best. . . (for if a persion has not
developed bis mind through learning,
then he will not know enough to object to
not being allowed to learn).
I could muster. After reviewing all my
nefarious activities and realizing that the
young man hadn't a leg to stand on, I
consented to accompaning him 1 0
Venable. - ' i
' 4 I asked whaV Heinous crime :had I
committed! "Already having an "intuition.
He replied "They found your fingerprints
on a girl's leg" in a jocular manner,
understand.
We went into Venable and into a Lab
wherein my University Investigator and
the instructor whispered. He mentioned
my going to see Dr. Collier. We never got
there. Soon we were walking back to the
Library. It occurred to me to ask his
name. I did. He wouldn't say.
Realizing that I was being let off the
hook, I asked how he knew I wasn't the
culprit. He said witnesses had cleared
me. I have not the slightest notion where
he saw these people. Then came the
clincher. He asked if I had seen a "six
foot-five culuh'd boy in the Library"
People, besides all else, I am five feet ten
and one-half.
Wallace Ray Peppers
wnat in the world
"University Investigator?"
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