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Ch?u7A ntut n. c. Fat?dCr,Iina Piedmont - High. 70 to 76. Thursday pTrfly cloud and warm. P 7 275H Judicial Committee The Judicial Committee will met at 5:3d today in Roland Parker I. 76 Years of Editorial Treednm. Volume 75, Number 135 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, LIARCH 27t 1953 Founded February 23, 1S23 TTv .Found. Tl OT 41. LPeiEoiisiaca Courtroom Discusses Case mm (D)F I rZ-y - Cfv Vj 't,Tr t f -4s-.'i' r l::t ' w.-,-, s . .sm,. .jjjm ir--v -m -it -l.i luinujj i J lint Trifim. I ... miW V""" Vr; JxJS if ,. 1 .v X----trfrtl - - f ; ; . ; k '.4;'.rt.f.jf.v,' :-' - - ' f .."Li " 1 - n" ' -.. . ": I -v j . . . 1 r . v y : - . . -r -r.. J " - .- . ... ..- - - f -r mr , inniiiT r By BILL AMLONG of The Daily Tar Heel Staff Fourteen of 15 anti-war demonstrators were convicted in Chapel Hill Recorders Court Tuesday of illegally sit- ting-in last Monday during a Dow Chemical Co. recruiter's visit to campus. Judge L. J. Pnipps withheld final, judgement on the 14 for six months, providing they all paid their fines immediately and refrain from any more illegal sit-ins during that time. Twelve of the 14 persons were fined $25. Fines were $50, however, for both George Vlasits, a former sociology graduate student, and Miss Lynn Wells, both of whom are field workers for the Southern Student Organizing Commit tee. . - Judge Phipps declined later to say why their fines were higher. "I don't think that's my place," he said. ; Charges against one of the demonstrators, William A. Posfl, were dropped following a; motion to do so by the group's attorney, Barry Winston, who argued that th Chapel Hill Solictor James C. Haper had failed to either identify Postl as having sat-in, or to establish that he had broken any law. - Posti's case was the first of the 15 to be called. Winston then asked the judge Next came George Vlasits, for a 15 minute recess, which who has been actively organi- was granted. Boycott Planned As Viet Protest sun Chapel HOI'S finally blossomed ont. Wow! And it's once again time for guys to sit under trees and watch girls walk by. Much more entertaining than classes. Bat then so is most anything having to do with SPRING. Lew Will Run For Studen t Body, Preside:mt -1 By FRANK BALLARD of The Daily Tar Heel Staff Dick Levy announced Tues day that he is an independent candidate for the president of the student body. Although his name will ap pear on the ballot for Editor of the Daily Tar Heel, a posi tion he previously sought this spring, Levy said he is con centrating on the presidential campaign. "I'm not withdrawing from that race, but I am a candidate for president of the student body and want people to vote for me in that election," he commented. Levy, the most presidential candidate is former chairman of the University Party, but is cam paigning "strictly as an in dependent." , A petition which was circulated urging .Levy to run has collected several hundred signatures, he said, well over the 250 required for can didacy. "My support comes from quite a lot of SP people, in dependents and UP people," Lecturers Plan New Program A series of informal discussions with visiting lec turers will be inaugurated here on April 6, according to Stu dent Body President Robert M. Travis. The discussions are designed to allow students to engage in a "give and take discussion with the distinruished lecturers who visit campus," Travis said. He envisions a type of discussion vin which "If you don't like something he (the visiting lecturing) says, you can come "right back at him." . u The first participant in the series will be Dr. Jacob Bronowski, a Senior Fellow of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a humanist. Travis said a group of 15 students will be asked to participate in the discussion with Dr. Bronowski who will be lecturing on the meaning of man. The discussions will last about two hours with each visiting lecturer, according to Travis, and will "take the form of informal gatherings, usually in the evenings at private homes. These gatherings would the students a cnance Levy remarked. He is the second independent to enter the presidential race. Bruce Strauch has been a can didate for several weeks in the upcoming April 9 elec tion. In a written statement JLevy called student government "a Sandbox for future politicos" and wants an end to "aH the messing around and phony promises." He seeks "action," that the present government is "out and feels student of touch to our ana unresponsive wishes." Singling out two of his recent presidential opponents, he the stated mat jea iietz -nas snown tumseii to be snallow and phony, interested only in his own future." "That who has done so little with so much opportunity can run as our Saviour is beyond me." Dietz is running on the Stu dent Party slate and Levy was also criticial of nis opponent in the University Party. , "Ken Day has failed to ex cite tiie students," the an nouncement said. Levy's announcement did not comment on Strauch's can didacy. Levy has been active in cam pus politics. Currently he is a legislator of James Residence College Legislature and he is the past Academic Lieutenant Governor of Mor rison Residence College. He was also the Chairman of Mor rison's Ways and Means Committee. By RICK GRAY of The Daily Tar Heel Staff College students across the nation are planning to boycott all classes on April 26 in pro test of the Vietnam War. The Carolina boycott will begin organization tonight at 7:30 in Gerrard, according to Charles Jeffress who is work ing with Sam Austell, Corky Eaton and George Vlasits on tiie boycott. , The day-long protest will in clude a teach-in on the war and a speak-out at noon in Polk Piance. The same format will be followed on campuses across the nation. According to Jeffress tiie movement was first conceived by the nationwide organization of Students for a Democratic Society who conceived ten days protest from April 20-30 tiie fall. The LiberattoniNew Service and the Student Mobilization Committee. The Mobilization Committee sug gested the April 26 date, and organizations across the nation grasped the idea and began to plan the protests. SDS, according to Jeffress, is still planning some of the actions that they orginally planned. The meeting tonight in Ger rard will be mainly" a planning session for the organization here. The group of ap proximately 100 people have already been contacted in con nection with the protests, and the organizers expect more to be at tonight's meeting. The meeting tonight will be to organize the people who want to participate. A group wfll be appointed to supervise the teach-in, and a list will be taken of those who wish tq participate in the teach-in as teachers. The emphasis tonight will, however, be on publicity. Jef fress hopes that people can be organized to speak to dorm meetings and design posters for the communication of ideas to the students. The group will be asking that tiie student body not at tend classes on April 26 and : thai ' they participate cinrhe teach-in and speak-out. I ' If students choose not to boycott classes, Jeffress said, "we will request that class period be devoted to discussion of the war." The organizers hope that the boycott wfll show the "powers that be" that students do not agree with the war and will convince them that the war should be ended. ing against the war and the draft both here and at Duke University since refusing in duction into the Army in February. Campus Police Capt. Bynum S. Rigsbee identified Vlasits as one of those he arrested. Joe M. Galloway, director of the University Placement Service, testified he witnessed the demonstration, but was unable to identify Vlasits. Neither Rigsbee, Galloway . nor University Investigator Victor Johnson had been able to identify Postl. The defense attorney made a similar motion that the charges against Vlasits be dropped, since no one had testified that Vlasits had either been told to leave Gardner Hall, where the sit-in took place, and had refused to leave, or that he had prevented anyone from entering or leav ing the room in which the interviews were being held. Trie courtroom tuled again at 11:55. The clerk read off the names of the 13 remaining .defendants. Winston pleaded "not guilty" for all of them. The judge ruled they were guilty. Winston then called as a character witness Dr. Charles Bauerman, chairman of the sociology department, who testified on behalf of Gary Waller, Jerry Carr, John Wheller and Bernard Giltman all sociology graduate students. "I think they can best be characterized as individuals wlio are concerned with the problems in our society," he said. They all have a certain amount of courage. "From what I know of them, I'd say they were liberals rather man radicals." Solicitor Harper asked Dr. Bauerman whether or not it was out of contest for a liberal to be "infringing upon the Judge Phipps, however, nil- rights of a major corporation in this country?" Dr. Bauerman declined to answer, saying he couldn't make such a judgement. ed that in considering the evidence "in the light most favorable to the state," that Vlasits had been participating in the sit-in. "The court in this case enters a Verdict of guilty, "he said. Phipps then sat back in his chair, twiddled his thumbs and stared intently at the ceiling, then at the crowd for a few moments. He then announced he would withhold sentencing. Winston then called upon three, other sociology pro fessors as character witnesses for the four, but did not have them testify. Then he came, to the letters of good character for the remaining . defen dants. "I have enough letters to keep the court reading for at least an hour," he said. "They all say the same thing, basically, and that is that all of these people are of good character." "Just read the names of the people who submitted the letters," the judge answered. "I've read many, letters of that type and they all give the defendants' good character or they would not come into the court room." . Following his presentation of the letters, Winston addressed the court on what the pro testors had been trying to do. "The thing that I hope the court will understand is that they did -what they did in a. spirit of fairness, of humili ty. . .to protest an 'evil, and I think they would agree with my use of mat word. . . "What they are saying un questionably is that this na tion's position in Vietnam is a bad . thing. . .and. . .And they are not alone." Winston detailed the horrors of napalm, a jellied incendiary manufactured by Dow Chemical and used by U.S. forces in Vietnam. He then compared the anti Dow sit-in with the Boston Tea Party during pre American Revolutionary days. "I'm not equating the two," he said, ". . .but there is at least a moral comparison - to be made." Solicitor Harper then began his closing argument, saying that protest was getting out of hand these days. "Over the last 20 years," (Continued on Pate 8) - Am U- War Moms Sei Committee Approves Freshman 7Th rroa ram Y-Officer Elections By TODD COHEN of The Daily Tar Heel Staff A proposal for an ex perimental freshmen orien tation program in James was gram, to . bring more personalization to orientation, Schwartz explained. Now under consideration by the Orientations Commission is . By PAMELA HAWKINS - of The. Daily Tor; Heel. Staff., The Durham-Chapel Hill Re sistance is "planning a series of local anti-war activity in sym pathy with the Third National Stop The Draft Day scheduled for April 3. An anti-war rally in Y Court on April 3 coupled with a serv ice in Duke University Chapel for people siipporting'the Re sistance are being planned simultaneously. The two groups are supposed to merge in Dur ham following the two activi ties and march from Duke to the local Draft Board No. 32 where people will turn in their draft cards. Prior to the National Resist ance Day. a Students For A Democratic Society (SDS) sponsored meeting will serve as a forum for three local draft resistors Thursday night. The resistors will speak about the moral and political aspects of draft resistance and explain what has happened so far with the resistance accord ing to George Vlasits, a former UNC graduate sociology in structor, and one of the three resistors slated - to - talk. He said they would also discuss what was planned for Aprils. The meeting will "be at 8 p.m in "Room 8 of Gardner Hall. Corky Eaton, a UNC under graduate, and Mike Snedberg, a resistance worker, will also speak. Eaton, Snedberg and Vlasits have all turned in their draft cards. . ..''. The Resistance, with head quarters in New York City, planned the April 3 nationally co-ordinated "turn in your card day" because it was the day after the .Wisconsin . primary. They considered Wisconsin's" to be the first significant primary mterms of a major indication of future national policy. Vlas its said.. ',' Resistance headquarters .have' estimated that' thousands will turn in their draft cards April 3. More than 200 per . sons returned their draft cards on Oct 21 and Dec 4, the two previous- nationally organized days. .v Vlasits saidf that the local Resistance group had discuss ed the idea with -20 people;in this area. .-v- The hard core of the loal Resistance group is made up of Vlasits. Eaton, Snedberg, Tom Garrison, a UNC under graduate, and Hutch Traver, a Duke undergraduate. approved in principle Friday a complete re-evaluation of the W ill Be Held Today give (Continued on Pafe 6) Elections for YWCA officers will be held in.Y Court today between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Candy Brown, a junior from High Point, is running unop posed for president. Miss Brown feels the main problems of the Y are communication and finances. She has served as YWCA Vice President and Chairman of Freshman Camp. She is a member of Valkyries and Kappa Epsilon pharmacy sorority. Betty Turner, a sophomore from Jackson, and Susan Peck, a freshman from Charlotte, are running for vice presi dent. Miss Turner said she favors "increased publicity of the Y's activities." She has served as Chairman of Freshman Camp and has worked with the International Bazaar, GM publicity and the Wesley Foun dation. Susan Peck would like to "organize contributions so the Y won't be in a bind financial ly." The main concern of the Y she indicated is "long range financial stability." Miss Peck has served as a delegate to the Southern Regional YWCA Conference and as secretary of Winston Dorm. She has worked with the Crossroads Cafe, the International Bazaar Inven tory, and the Wesley Foun dation. Carol Copple; junior from Nashville, Tennessee, and Bet ty Ellen Thompason, a are as to the Chairman Emphasis an Oreit- sophomore from Graham running for secretary. Miss Copple has served Y Representative Chaplain's Council, of the Religious Committee and as nation Counselor. She has also worked on the International Bazaar Com mittee, the Murdoch Com mittee, and the Academic Af fairs Committee. Miss Thompson is Co chairman of the Y Coffee House and has worked with the Scholarship Information Center, the International Ba zaar, and the Methodist Undergraduate Fellowship. Judith Rand, . a junior from Orlando, Florida, and Janice Raymond, a junior from White Plains, New York, are running for treasurer. Miss Rand has worked with' the Summer Opportunities Committee, the International Bazaar, the UN Seminar in New York, the Residence College Commission, the International Scholastic Com mittee, and is Treasurer of the Wesley Foundation. Miss Raymond was president of her high school Hi-Y; and has been a delegate to the national and state conventions. She is treasurer of WAA, a past treasurer of ADPi sorori ty, and has been an Orientation Counselor. Voters are asked to bring their membership cards when they vote. Only paid Y members are eligible to vote.. by the Chancellor's Committee on Residence Colleges. The program, which will take effect tins fall, will in clude all James entering freshmen and will exclude them from some of the regular orientation program, according to Jay Schwart, 1968 Orien tation Chairman. New freshmen will be re quired to attend regular orien tational functions which deal with registration. However, in honor system orientation. The findings f the committee have not yet been released. The experimental program is the result of a study begun last October under the auspieces of an ad hoc com mittee set up by Student Body President Bob Travis. That committee consists - of both students and administrators. Schwartz believes that the new program will "add greatly to the orientation program and For C7 .lie; meetings concerning a general ultimately will be employed introduction to the canrous and 0X1 campus-wide basis. its institutions, the newcomers will meet with experts in each particular orientation, rather than with an assigned orien tation counselor versed on all aspects of the program. Schwartz said the reason for this is he wants more of an in-depth, personalized program rather than a mass effort to introduce students to the school." He feels the program used in previous years "only scratched the surface" in this respect. The new program, to be handled jointly by the Orien tation Commission and James Residence College, is a pilot program which will hopefully teach some things which can be used in improving the overall orientation program, Schwartz said. Specific changes to be in stituted in the overall fall pro gram are: Two convocations by the Chancellor rather than one Four to six talks by the Dean of Men, rather than one ISix convocations by Student Government, rather than one The reason for these changes is, as in the freshman pro- The Oreintation Committee also chose recently 540 orien tation counselors for 1968 from 700 applicants. ' Letters in forming the successful ap plicants are now in the mail. Y Conducts Interviews Interviews will be held today in room 109 of the Y building from 10-12 and 1-3:30 for three national and four international summer work projects. The interviews wfll be conducted by Miss Dorothy King, Program Assistant for the Na tional Student YWCA. The three national projects include the New York City Project, the Washington Citizenship Seminar, and the Berkeley Seniinar.- Interna tional projects include pro grams, in India, Britain, the U.S.S.R., and Mexico. All ex cept for the Indian Project are onen to both men ana By MARY BURCH of The Daily Tar Heel Staff The search for the ugliest man on campus is on again! Alpha Phi Omega and the Campus Chest are sponsoring the Ugly Man On Campus (UMOC) contest which will last from April 4-10. The contest wfll have two divisions the residence col lege division and the fraternity division. There wfll be an ugly man winner from each division. Competition in the residence colleges wfll begin this week. A brother from APO will meet with each residence college president to. ask one student from each floor in each dorm to be a contestant. Anyone who wants to be a contestant should tell his dorm presi dent. The contestants will then dress up to look their ugliest and solicit donations from the residents on their floors. Each resident is asked to give a minimum of $.50 to support his floor contestant. The con tested who collects the most .money wfll represent his residence college. Competition in the fraternity division wfll begin April 4. Each house wfll sponsor a con testant. The winner of the fraternity division wfll be chosen by the amount of money behind his support. Photographs for the residence college winners wfll bp taken Saturday. March 30 tributing the highest relative percentage of donations. All proceeds from with UMOC drive wfll be given to six charities: O'Berry Center, Goldsboro; North Carolina Heart Association, Murdoch School, Butner; UNC-YMCA, Project Hope and UNC Foreign Students Emergency Fund. ; women who have completed between 8-9:30 a.m. and 12-1:30 at least two years of college. p.m. in the APO chapter room Most involve some paying job in the basement of Smith, and will take place from mid- A grand trophy wfll be June to mid-August. awarded to the college con- 4 f ''I i 4- Ugly!