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Wednesday. May 8, 19g
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75 Ycsrs o Ediiorid Freedom
Vayne Hurder, Editor
Donald Yalton, Business Manager
University Should Act
O
n Sanitation
Something stinks in Orange
County.
Hie Orange Couny Board of
Commissioners has taken some
actions regarding sewage disposal
that smell very much o f
after being urged not to by UNC
disregard for public safety.
The Board of Commissioners,
after being urged not to by NC
and state sanitation experts, has
allowed a the Ridgewood Mobile
Home Park to expand their park,
jeopardizing the Chapel Hill and
Carrboro water supply.
The trailer park has been given
the rignt to increase its size from
18 to 60 trailers. With the increase
in the trailer park, which overlooks
the reservoir that Chapel Hill and
Carrboro depend on for water, will
come an increase in septic tanks.
Septic tanks, a state sanitary of
ficial and professor Daniel Okun,
of UNC's sanitary engineering
department warned, have a high
breakdown rate, which could result
in a lot of sewage flowing into
the reservoir, endangering the
water supply.
The county Planning Board at
first heeded the two experts' advice
and turned down the request of
the proprietor. Later, however, the
county commissioners asked the
board to reconsider their
decision.
The second time the board ap
Faculty Council Must
Face Race Problem
The Administration and Faculty
Council are on the verge of
recognizing that blacks in this
country are educationally disad
vantaged and require more than
just equal treatment in order to
make up for ground lost during
the de jure and de facto enslave
ment of them.
A resolution has been in
troduced into the Faculty Council
which will establish a committee
whose responsibility would be to
remove educational disabilities
resulting from a person's race.
According to standard pro
cedure of the council the resolution
will not be considered until the
next meeting of the council in
September. For the meantime
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson will
appoint a committee to study the
matter.
We hope that the appointment
of this committee to study the
resolution is a mere formality and
not an action designed to delay
acceptance of the much needed
committee.
The committee the resolution
would establish would look into five
problem and make recom
mendations. These five problems
concerns:
persons qualified in
tellectually to attend the University
but unqualified academically
because of poor preparation.
establishment of p. grams for
the recruiment of Negro
students.
possible establishment o f
courses on Negro history and
culture.
possibility of faculty
participation in extension educa
tion in secondary schools and in
stitutes of hgher education outside
the Consolidated University.
establishment within the
University of an ombvatdsman on
racial matters to receive allega
tions of prejudicial treatment
Terry Gingras, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Shari Willis, Features Editor
Dale Gibson, Sports Editor
Joa Sanders, Associate Editors
Dick Levy
Kermit Buckner, Jr, Advertising Manager
Stink
proved the expansion after hearing
the evaluation of a local health of
ficial who "happens to own a track
of developable land adjacent to the
land in question," according to
Physics Professor Lawrence
Slifkin.
And for that reason we say the
whole affair stinks.
However, the expansion can still
be stopped.
State law says that a court in
junction can be granted if the
decision of the board can be shown
to be "arbitrary and capricious."
The board's decision to reject
the advice of state and university
experts and accept that of a person
whose impartiality is questionable,
sounds to us like an "arbitrary
and capricious" decision.
Chancellor Sitterson voiced his
opposition to the expansion in a
letter to the board prior to their
decision. We think that he should
continue his opposition. He hasn't
the power to seek a court injunction
against the expansion, that power
rests with the Board of Trustees,
which will hold an executive
meeting next Monday. We think
that for the well-being of the two
towns and the University that he
should ask the Trustees to take
legal action against the trailer
park. The stench arousing from
the 4 county board's . decision war
ranty it. ' . r"
because of race in the University
or directed toward University
personnel from persons outside the
University.
There is little doubt in our
minds that there is need for a
committee to be responsible for
the problems arising within these
areas and to make recom
mendations concerning them.
Firstly, the action of the Student
Legislature in setting up the
Carolina Talent Search is certainly
recognition of the fact that
something needs to be done about
the first two problems.
Secondly, there is a need fdr
inclusion of courses dealing with
Negro-history and culture or more
emphasis on it in present history
courses. The recent decision of the
state of Kentucky to require such
courses in the curriculum of high
schools provides the University
with a precedent for the
University's establishment of
similar courses.
The poor quality of black high
schools and colleges in the state
would also warrant an exploration
of the possibilities of UNC faculty
helping to improve the schools.
Lastly, an ombundsman is need
ed to give Negro employes on cam
pus an open ear. for their
grievances.
We hope that the appointment
of the committee to investigate th&
resolution will just be a routine
matter and that next fall the
resolution can be passed and 'the
committee can be started on its
job.
The faculty and administration
must recognize that more than just
equal treatment of blacks is needed
if the gradually spreading gap
between the Taces is to be halted
and filled. Acceptance of this
resolution, establishment of the
committee, and, later, acceptance
of the recommendations of the
committee are needed.
Dick Levy
.Radical
Will Carolina have the types of con
frontations that began at Howard several
weeks ago and culminated at Columbia?
Yes. Our recent student body elections
virtually guarantee it.
Not that the means will be as radical.
For pragmatic reasons they will be more
conventional. Sin-ins, sleep-outs and
picketing will probably dominate. But
many of the issues will be similar.
The prime factors in the advent of
radicalism at UNC are Wayne Hurder
and Ken Day. What is critical is not
their views, though Hurder at least is
quite liberal, but the fact that they
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Persom&Mzed EdueaUom!
The psychology department here has
taken a step out of the quagmire, the
quagmire indigenous to die outdated,
but prevailing, edluiealtional philosophy.
According to that old myth, the
citizen, the members of society , must
be well educated, he must fit in.
And UNC's- Dean of Men believes
that "-we have institutional values here."
But in recent years there have been
brewing and rupting from the quaigmire
traces of something which rejects the
taadiitaonal approach to education.
Forty years ago a man hamed A. S.
Neil! created the Summerhill School in
England. His philosophy was and still
is that the object of life is to be happy.
Happy means knowing who you are,
what you .want, and doing it.
According to the Neillian philosophy,
freedom breeds happiness, and freedom
is the key word.
Sunmiertj5IIi, for students three to
fifteen years old, required nothing of
the studeds other than that they do
what they wished.)
Education is comprised of many ,
facets, and only one of those is schooling.
Exercising the five senses is the key to
education, 'lor maybe in the experience
of those senses can the individual come
to an appreciation of who he is.
Understanding-the world by which
he is encompassed may be an asset
in appraising the situation and taking
another step into firm grasp on hap
piness. But the academic institution appears
to deprive the student of the chance
to become an individual.
The general college is designed to
make the student wel-rounded. The stu
dent is trained to fit in. We do not
have Camus' Stranger, who plays only
his own game by his own rules; we
have products, we have the ones who
killed the Stranger, the ones who play
by the Universal rules.
Are the killers happy:
The killers did not attend Summerhill,
and tiie forty years of SummerhuTs
history, all but maybe two or three
were happy. And at Summerhill the
ones who turned out happy did so because
they were regarded as individuals whose
object it was to be happy. Those people
were free.
. The students at Summerhill educated
themselves in the world. They were
free to do what they wantd in the
belief that they would be come happy
individuals. And they did.
Dr. David Eckerman, an assistant
professor of psychology and a colleague
FiiMr
represent the weakest dikes against a
flood of student demands should they
decide to defend the status quo.
Student government in the past has
mattered only peripherally. Persaverence
has paid off slowly though steadily.
The result has been widespread
apathy which has allowed the
Administration and student leaders to
form and maintain a cozy Establishment
partnership. The means of change have
become increasingly bureaucratic, the
policies more static. But student leaders
have cautioned against confrontation and
of his, Dr. Vincent LoLordo, have in
stituted a program here which respects
the student as an individual .
Eckerman objects to "undignified"
classes in which ''students are massed
together like cattle and must race
together from the green light, with. the
highest grades going to the fastest stu
dents. To combat this impersonalization, the
two have devised a system to be begun
next fall which will include 200 students
from the pychology 26 class.
The sections will be cut down into
smaller 'personalized" groups. Tests will
be given on a second, third, and fourth
chance basis. And the student will take
tthe texts when he feels he is ready.
And the student may extend the term
of the course into a second semester
if he feels the extra time Is necessary.
OR he may finish the course before
Lpttpm To The Editor
Tar
Editor of the Tar Heel:
Surely one of the more educational,
features of the Tar Heel is its ability
to expand the reader's vocabulary. I
was an ignorant grit when I came to
this fair University, but by dint of
reading my Tar Heel each day and
absorbing all ' those words into my
vocabulary, I have become a wordy,
soporific intellectual. For example, on
page three of Friday's Tar Heel (here
appeared on article entitled "Art Dept.
Gets Visiting Profs." Why, the first
paragraph alone is sufficient to blow
one's mind:
Three distinguished visiting interna
tionally - known .water-colorist, wQ join
the department of art at the University
of North Carolina this summer.
That paragraph intrigued me so much
that I jogged right down to the library
and took out one of the mammoth
dictionaries to look up the words.
It turns out that "ter" is a prefix
generally denoting three of something,
as in "tercentenary," or "teritiary," or
"terrapin." Therefore, the term "te na
tionally - known" must mean "known
in ..three nations." It is regrettable that
the author of the artide did not list
the nations, though perhaps it is assumed
that the nations are the US., France,
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have been strong enough to keep their
reins tightly in grasp.
"Day especially is not that strong.
The very people who put him in office
will lead a movement against him if
necessary. And they have ample
resources to succeed.
Thus, Day is faced with two
possibilities only. He can sanction these
individuals' program by making them
the bulwark of his Administration, in
which case he would push strongly for
change while they mobilized campus opi
nion. Or he could renege on his liberal
the Erst semester is over.
Thi method, developed by Dr. Fred
Keller, currently with the Institute for
Behavior Research at Silver Springs,
Md., is an occurence of great impact
at UNC.
As Dr. Eckerman said, "the
personalized instruction style could be
adapted to every course in the University
it's not limited to psychology."
With the recent publication of the
Duke Report and approval by several
national bodies of the Student BUI of
Rights, and the demonstrations by and
agafry the Columbia studentry, it is
time that prophets of that old myth
take a long look at education.
It is time that UNC the ad
ministration, the faculty and the students
take a long look.
Time has come today.
Guilty Of
and British Honduras.
That brings us to "water-faculty
members," for which the dictionary can
not help. I think it must be geneally.
conceded that a "water-faculty" member
is a faculty member who 1) lives in
the water highly unlikely; 2) teaches
about water as one would say a
"chemistry-faculty" member or "terrapin-faculty"
member, or; 3) a faculty
member whose status with regards
tenure and the faculty council is so
fluid that no one knows whether he's
going to be booted out or made chan
cellor. This last seems the most likely.
That brings us to the last hurdle.
What is an "in - colorist"? This must
just must, mean one of two things,
either 1) these professors paint only
in "in" colors as "Orange and puce
are in this year but heliotrope is out,"
or; 2) they actually color "in" they
are colorers of the insides of things,
like canvases, or walls, or terrapins.
Or. possibly, both these things are meant
by an "in-colorist." To conclude, one
might re-write the paragraph as follows,
to make the meaning crystal-clear:
Three distinguishedbut position-wise
highly volatile professors, known
throughout the VS., France, and British
Honduras as expert colorers of the in-
NC?
platform and force them into opposition,
in which case student government via
be marked as totally establishment aaj
would likely be pushed round, if act
out.
Either way the Administration rul
be corirocted directly next year as it
has not been in the past. The former
alternative is more peaceful and core
desirable, but the choice is Day's alone.
Normally, Day would not have to
worry about radical pressure. But he
is a victim of two circumstances.
First, student government's tow stan
ding in many students' eyes makes it
vulnerable to attack, especially froa
within.
More important by far is that those
pressing for change are no longer a
small q group of ideological leftist
anathema to most students. The rsve-
ment for change will not be pragmatic,
shorn of ideoiogy though not principle'.
The result if a coalition, very powerful
of former Establishment cogs.
These students are TOG and TOC,
many of them fraternity men, roost
known on campus as conservatives. This
irony gives them credibility and a power
base that SDS never had.
They are aided further by their in
terest in the bread-and-butter issues that
so many students care most about
Women's rule, the Book Ex, downtown
prices: these as. well as employees'
salaries. Administration cooperation with
Draft Boards, and the special status of
ROTC here, win be contested.
These people control student govern
ment unless Day decides to purge them,
which is as difficult as the Cultural
Revolution of Mao. They are tired of
the hypocrisy and the slowness of change
here and are cynical about student
government's role.
Dean Cathey said recently that
(Vmlina has guaranteed students most
of the rights the AAUP asserted they
should have. No one really believes that
and hopefully he will not underestimate
the lengths the new student leaders are
prepared to go to obtain them. Total
abolition of the Campus and Honor Codes
are possibilities which the Administration
wants less than anybody.
Dean Cansler is " attempting to
preserve a drug policy that may cause
total non-cooperation by students.
In . the coming days, and especially
next fall, we will find out where the
Administration aod student Esta
blishment really stand regarding student
interests.
Hopefully thy will line up sym
patheically with change. Barring a
sellout by the new leaders this is the
year that student power and the modern
student outlook arrive at Carolina.
The decisions to be made by Ken
Day and many administrators are those
of basic principle.
For them the picnic is over.
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sides cf terrapins, will join the depart
ment of art at UNC this summer, giving
that department the largest kook
membership ratio of any in the Universi-
You publish that, and there will be
no questions.
Yours ever,
Michael Hollis
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