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t Page 2 THE DATI.V TAR HEEL Friday, March 15, 1963 ttatig 76 Years 0 Editorial Freedom ' Bill Amlong,. Editor Don Walton, Business Manager :::-x:xxxtt NCAA Blackout?-.'.: Too Many Tickets Guess what you might not - University who, in case the see tonight? The first round of the NCAA Regional basketball tournament, that's what. It's this nastly little rule that the National Collegiate Athletic Association has, you see: tournament first rounds usually aren't sell outs, so they f "black-out" a 75-mile radius of the area . sur rounding the game site to help ticket sales. Which means that neither Durham nor Raleigh television stations will be able to carry the game, unless the NCAA heeds their appeals and lifts the ban today. The game will, however, definitely be broadcast on Greensboro's Channel 2, but that almost makes you just want to say "So what?," and turn on the radio rather than take the trouble to coordinate the atmospheric conditions and the direction of the an tennae in hopes you'll be able to pick up Channel 2. But, why in the hell should the 15,000 students of this . . ,. 1 11 111 111111 111 1 in n in 11 - II 1 n nil .V. . - .. . v. . ; I I f :x w , s i-y -rv M bs rjr issrti 8 5 - V. - . t " 5J ' - . , . . - - i : :::: ... V: v 1 x- . - - - - : . ?v. ... . . -it X1 - . Take A Good Look At The Tar Heels Right Now . . . because you might not get the chance tonight After Fuller Quits.. . From The Chapel Hill Weekly A great many people in Chapel Hill- were vastly relieved when .Howard Fuller resigned as a part time lecturer at the University. They didn't care so much why he had decided to resign. His mere presence had caused the Universi ty some strained relations and it was enough that he was leaving, for whatever reason. Now it appears that Howard Fuller not only was ending his association with the University, but was kissing off his struggle to improve the Negro condition by working with the white establish ment. Howard Fuller is now associated with Shaw Utniversity in j Raleigh. His mission at the. mo- ment, we are told, is to make Shaw ; an all-black university, with an all- Negro faculty and all-Negro stu f dent body. One conclusion that can be ? drawn from this, if the report on I Fuller is accurate, is that he is leaning toward the Negro ; separatist movement, if indeed he hasn't already joined it. That would be an extremely ; discouraging development. Regardless of how some are fretted (Par Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor Rebel Good, News Editor Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager NCAA's forgotten, have pro duced the Tar Heels from their midst have to worry, about scrounging around for a way to see the game. Indeed, they shouldn't have to. I d e ally, intercollegiate sports should be played for the benefit of the colleges con cerned, and especially of the students of those colleges. That's the kind of high sounding bull the NCAA's always spouting anyway, in those spot announcements they inject into television broadcasts of NCAA events. But apparently, that's not how it works when it comes to real life. V For it is the NCAA who is making it nary impossible for the students of the University of North Carolina to. watch THEIR basketball team play in the eastern regionals. Why? Because there are so many tickets that haven't been sold yet, that's why. by his style and manner, no one can deny that Howard Fuller tried, at least in the beginning, to present Negro grievances in conventional and generally accepted fashion. He took his case to duly constituted authority, and he tried to channel the Negro protest into the ballot box. As it turned out, it was a mutually unsatisfactory dialogue, but it was nevertheless a dialogue of sorts, and that in itself was something. Now i,t appears there will not even be dialogue as far as Howard Fuller is concerned. Many will welcome a protracted silence on the part of Negro activists such as Fuller. But for those sincerely concerned about the situation a situation that Fuller already sees as a war the silence, the end of communication no matter how desultory and unproductive, can only" be disheartening and . ominous. ; . If one as knowing and articulate as Howard Fuller can no longer see the point even in talking, what hope is there for u n d e r s t a n d i n g , cooperation, and the sort of pro gress that must be achieved to solve our society's most agonizing problem. EM MIKEMcGEE : Someone has finally done' a scientific and comparative, study i of the Carolina: Coed and come up with some unexpected results, which may help to alter the ghastly image the Carolina Gentleman has of that flower of our womanhood. ; Barbara T h o n as, "a - psychology student at UNC Greensboro, started out with the hypothesis ; that . Carolina girls would select a pro spective date on the basis of appearance alone, whereas" the Greensboro girls, would not find -appearance nearly as im portant as the status of his ac tivities. : : " " ' She pasted pictures - on a board with lists of activities under them, of three good looking guys with ' high status activities, three good looking 9 To The Editorf V Maynard Adams' shorter letter: clarifies his argument but does not make it more acceptable. He offers young men choices that are severally indefensible r and thereby endeavors, in a manner not unprecedented in philosophy ( sorry about that, Maynard) to foreclose the con-, elusion of the debate by establishing the terms in which it can be conducted. Choice 1: V .' V he has a prima facie overriding moral obligation to abide by the laws and governmen!tal policies' established by agreed upon decisicn-pro- cedures in the society." This is Eichman's ucicuac, lepuuidicu ujr ou wuu uttvc considered the ques: on deeply. My mval responsibility cannot and must not be shifted to another.. . ' .V- t (A more humanist, less rationlist,, ap proach might have saved a Valid .portion.. Given the general sloth and wickness of men; the preservation of orderly process is a positive good to be weighed in the moral balance. But no one else can make To The Editor. - 1 With all the row over which method of ' solving UNC's parking problem is best, a student named ' Bernard "'Weazel," a graduate in Miscellaneous Studies; ' has come up with a plan which, if adopted will solve UNC's problem to the satisfad tion of all, at little or no cost. Limiting automobile privileges to grad students, faculty and staff violates the constitutional rights of undergrads. A. high-rise facility would be expensive and would sully the quaint beauty of the cam PUS, -' ' - . : - , ' , . ' , J- ine only -universally acceptable plan, would be a subterranean parking lot. " -v.H?i - N .!eap to his feet; The only -universally 5H.UUDS ux mat would cost a hen of a lot of money!" Mr. Weazel - can answer that -accusation in a single two-syllable word gophers..; ;.' - r: Those of ague brain will recognize th4 beauty of Weazel's plan immediately But for those of us not so quick of wit, here briefly, is how the plan would work ' . The university would broadcast a plea to the nation, asking that all -gopher hating suburbanites parcel-post their gophers to Chapel HilL The gophers would then be: token to Raleigh to be trained at State. Everyone knows that State guys know a lot about km. 'Bill D00y. G xto.y j yau rnCo. , ra s-y 9 cucofu.) ffec kxJj ws. et. yaur J; Vbf my bays (ox) Ad Go xxttzxtt: Mike McGeemmm C T guys with low-status activities, three ugly guys with high status activities, and three ug ly guys with low status ac tivities. Then she asked girls in two dorms on campus here and at UNC-G, a total of 100, to say for each picture. whether they would really want-to date him . or not. The Greensboro girls were expected to be less selec tive overall. Not so." The. Carolina girls were no more selective in any category than the Greensboro girls! Gentlemen, take heed! . Read on to find out what the girls really think. There .were no significant differences when girls of the two schools were contrasted; but when all the girls were taken together an interesting pattern emerged. In both schools, looks -took pre cedence over activities, al most every time. High status activities ran a poor second. The most often chosen types were, of course, those with good looks and high status ac tivities, but the second most often chosen were those with good looks and low status ac tivities. The others followed in descending order. So "men, if you look good and aren't in a single club you stand a better chance than all those ugly stu ' dent government types and football players. And you stand about the same chance whether you're in Chapel Hill or Greensboro. What about, you ugly apes with no campus status? Cheer up, some girls on both cam puses selected you too. Anyway, these are ideal choices. If everybody waited" until their ideal . date came along, then nobody would date (Glaoiceg that decision for me.) Choice 2; "H he thinks an error of magnitude has been made, he may be justified or even morally obligated to protest by disobedience and acceptance fo the penalty involved." In our circumstances this is obviously in effective. The authorities want ineffective dissent since (hat enables them to have the cake of power and eat it too; they have : "permitted" Assent and thus demonstrated their democratic con ivctions while paying neither attention nor respect to dissent. If the dissenters .peacefully accept a aiminal "status by COUIg CO jail VStcy nave uusmjy ouuuicu the moral as well as the legal authority of a particular administration.. Choice 3: The dissenters may confront the government by force "only if con vinced that it is systematically unjust and thus a power without moral authori ty.". Thisis not a nice choice; the. in dlvidual(aax now rebel against an ad mmisfcrailon anned with enormous power animals. .The .training would probably consist of teaching the gophers to res pond to commands of "Gee" and "Haw.'V ." ' State would also train UNC students as gopher-handleBS. To attract people to this job, perhaps an Experimental. College course could be designed around it... . The gophers would then dig the subterranean parking facility. Though it seems far-fetched, doesn't it stand to reason that if one gopher can dig a tun oi nnM not a thousand thousand g04ers, in a direct,' concerted effort, dig ! Srking lot? And what a thrilling sight it woddbe! Hordes of the Utile beasties umrkins. sweating to make UNC a better ia for truth, iustice, and the American m m Way! j To offset any expenses accrued by the project, and perhaps to make a nifty lit tle profit, at the end of the project the gophers would be sent back to State for fM;r,;nr ac watchdoes. rney wouia then be sold to eager famUies throughout the state and nation. Mr. .Weazel's" plan is obviously foolproof. It should be implemented right - Get cracking, Administration. , John Martin 213 Ekringhaus 9l- Z 111 anybody. Another interesting result concerned the year in school of -the girls. Contrary to popular opinion, freshmen seem to be less selective in their dates by appearance, and. more in terested in status activities. Senior girls are more con cerned with looks than anything else. I have a good explanation for that: freshmen are "climbers", but seniors have "arrived" and would not be seen with someone less beautiful than themselves. One senior was not so con ceited: "I'd like to take all these guys, but if I did somebody would think something's wTong with me." Barbara said that during all the interviews! the girls were very enthusiitic and took great care iin selecting pic tures. Some spent as long as it. i 6Not Acceptable and clearly prepared to sacrifice any number of persons in defense' of its political opinions. Would an. ad ministration willing to drop bombs and napalm on even friendly civilians balk at shooting rebels? It is thei point that is decisive. Professor Adams is offering the young men a choice between servile obedience, passive acceptance of a criminal status or open rebellion. These are obviously in effective. They also agree. on accepting the moral authority of the present ad ministration which is exactly the point the dissenters want to deny (and, at that, why should they be bullied by the likes of General Hershey?) , The problem is precisely that Pfrosesor Adams' position is impeccably sound in traditional reasoning and has produced morally repellent consequences. These crimes are not committed by wick ed despots of a Nazi state; they are com mitted by very ordinary men who have blundered into high office and have run a government no more than usually corrupt and rather more just than some. It is, in short, the democratic process itself that has produced this horror. Our tragedy is that all we have loved and believed in, all the procedures and institutions that have, in all their imperfections, produced great human good, have culminated in a' monstrous end. Jolmson Edit Negative To The Editor: The editorial which appeared in The Daily Tar Heel on Tuesday, March 12, was disappointing in its negative em phasis. The editorial, listed several reasons, why UNC students, faculty, and staff should vote against LBJ in the mock presidential primaries held on campus. It contributed little to the development of positive citizenship among those who are beginning to assume the responsibility for the sound government of our country in increasingly critical times. An editorial should carry the responsibility of objectively encouraging honest and clear development of sound opinions in the minds of each reader. It would have been more encouraging to see a positive editorial on the subject, possibly one which: 1) Objectively lists the positions of all candidates on key domestic and foreign questions civil rights, riots in the cities, racial realtions, the draft, taxes, foreign travel, the Viet nam war, the national and international economic situation, foreign aid, etc. . . .- .Bad. u fifteen minutes deliberating before making final decisions! I wonder how they ever make instant decisions over the telephone. Well, they probably have their minds made up one way or the other long before you surprise them by calling to ask for a date. One criticism I had was that no interviews were conducted at UNC sorority houses. Barbara assures, me that there were some sorority girls in her sample, but I doubt it was a proportional number. So, my fellow students, the myth of the Carolina Coed is not so rock-ribbed as a lot of us think. In scientific, com parison with students at the almost all-girl UNC Greensboro, the girls here are no more choosy than the women we go so far to see to get away from our own Carolina lady. The Daily Tar Heel is pub lished by the University of North Carolina Student Publi cations Board, daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations. Offices are on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone numbers: editorial, sports, news 933-1011; bus iness, circulation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C, 27514. Second class postage paid at UJ5. Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: $9 per year; $5 per semester. The Daily Tar Heel accepts all letters' for publication provided they are typed, double-spaced and signed. Letters should be no longer than 300 words in length. We reserve the right to edit for libelous statements. Professor Adams' arguments seem to me a sophisticated version of the asser tion that those who dissent from the war are un-American for he offers them a choice only between obedience to or ac ceptance of the discipline of the govern ment or open rebellion. There are a variety of motives among the dissenters but the principle one is a passionate desire to defend what America stands for and to deny that Johnson and Rusk represent it. They do not want to reject or rebel against America but to defend the principles that have motivated our best history. American democracy may, indeed, be the last, best hope of earth and it is love of that hope that motivates 'most of tiie dissenters and the protests against its profanation. The methods of their , protest have been crude and, what is worse, in effective. They have failed to define the issues clearly but since it is our reason ing that has produced these, cold, gray, moralistic stones for their nourishment, I think we are hardly in a position to criticize them. Rather we should try, with them, to find what there is so cor rupt in our national life that this wicked war could happen and see if our of the Buffering we have inflicted on so many people might at least come some new sense of moral purpose. John W.Dixon, Jr. 21S Glenhni Lane questions which are increasingly af fecting the lives and futures of us all. 2) Urges all voters to thoughtfully review the positions of each candidate, and then to decide which candidate he believes will best serve the country. 3) Urges all students to participate fully in the elec tions and to exercise their privileges as citizens, both in the mock elections and the real ones (in a larger sense than we brought out in the editorial.) .' A contribution to the development of positive citizenship among those who are preparing to assume the responsibilities of our society is needed more and more, as our country shows increasing signs of internal crisis." The students of UNC to day will be the spokesmen and leaders of many elements of our society in the near future. Our country critically needs pro gressive citizens of honesty and integrity to fill these roles. Ken Barger 407C Mason Farm ltd. SI
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