Friday, May 17, 1963
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Bland Simpson
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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
6Oiie Hell Of A Yea
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75 Year o Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Donald Walton, Business Manager
Educational Reform Needs
To Have Broader Effect
Graduating in a couple of
weeks? Congratulations. Glad to
be leaving? Do you have that feel
ing of "Gee, finally I'm escaping
from this place?"
Unfortunately, that's the feeling
that runs through the minds of
too many graduating seniors. By
the time most students have been
here four years and are about 22
years old they get the feeling
they've outgrown the place and
are glad to be shedding themselves
of it.
That's too bad because that's
not the way it should be. The
"University should be of such a
nature that as a student progresses
through it, the University, the
educational process, should keep
step with him.
Instead of a student running an
obstacle course in order to get
a degree he should be working
inside an environment which en
courages him to think and ques
tion, inside and outside the
classroom.
What's a student learn after
going through this obstacle? He
knows how to beat the system,
he knows what needs to be done
to get around specific hurdles, and
no doubt will be able to sneak
by all the problems he'll face after
graduation.
But should these graduates be
having to sneak their way around
the problems they'll face in the
future? We don't think so. We think
they should be equipped with the
tools they need to be able to meet
problems h e ad - oni , understand
those problems, and solve them,
rather than just sneak around
them.
What the students need is, to
use a much worn phrase, to learn
how to learn, not learn how to
Speech Ban A Farce
Two years ago Frank Wilkinson
drew a crowd of 2,000 to hear
him talk from a stone wall border
ing Franklin St.
Two days ago he drew only
about 35 persons to hear him talk,
and that number dwindled as his
talk grew longer.
Why the difference? The answer
is in the State Legislature.
The solons of NC's General
Assembly decided five years ago
that UNC students don't have the
maturity to be able to make ra
tional judgements on political
issues and so passed a law which
would keep all potential
subsersives away from the
students.
No person who had ever pleaded
the fifth Amendment in answering
questions about subversive ac
tivities was going to be allowed
to speak on campus, they decid
ed. They were effective in doing
so for five years. No subversives
spoke on campus; they were not
given a chance to spread their
evil thoughts before crowds such
as the 35 that showed up for
Wilkinson.
No, instead the people, such as
Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker,
spoke off campus and drew
thousands to hear the talks of the
Speaker Ban martyrs. Yes, the
State Legislature really ac
complished something by keeping
subversive speakers off the cam
pus. Yes, Wilkinson is really a
dangerous speaker. Anyone who
heard him speak Wednesday would
acknowledge. The portly, gray
haired man spoke on a number
Terry Gingras, Managing taiu
Rebel Good, News Editor
Shari Willis, Features Editor
Dale Gibson, Sports Editor
Joe Sanders, Associate Editors
Dick Levy
Kermit Buckner, Jr., Advertising Manager
dodge problems.
Rather than learning that under
Professor X you can make an "A"
by wearing a coat and tie to class,
students need to have an educa
tional system structured so as to
not encourage such a way of think
ing. Too much emphasis on grades,
a General College that turns-off
curious students, and courses
structured so as to kill any interest
that is generated are among the
things to blame.
The educational process has
been gradually improving over the ,
past few years. The Administration
has instituted a limited pass-fail
system and has made it possible
for students to organize their own
courses; Stuident Government has
started an Experimental College.
All of these are reforms that have
meant a great deal to those persons
who have been effected.
Unfortunately, not enough peo
ple have been touched by these
(changes. Many students, have
already been turned off educa
tionally by the time they are able
to take advantage of pass-fail. Too
few students are aware that they
can form their own courses. Others
don't have the time outside their
regular work to take Experimental
College courses.
This gradual change has to be
continued into next year. Educa
tional Reform needs to broaden
its base so that more students are
affected, so more can take an in
terest in their academic lives here.
The feeling of "Gee, I'm finally
escaping this place" has to be
eliminated. To chip away at the
number of students who feel that
way needs to be the' aim of the
Administration and Student Gov
ernment next year.
of dangerous and inflammatory
issues, like the First and Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution.
Take for instance these quota
tions, obviously quotes providing
good cause for banning the guy
from campus:
"American Democracy is the
best thing that has been devised
yet; but we're not guaranteed that
it'll stay."
Or: "If HUAC has the right
to investigate overt acts of treason,
espionage, or sabotage we'd defend
it."
Or: "At all times we have been
ready to debate the other side."
That's the type person the state
legislature has been trying to keep
off the campus, a guy that can
barely hold an audience of 35 under
normal circumstances.
If there's going to be anything
red around this state we think it
should be the cheeks of some migh
ty jembarrassed state legislators
who have wasted their time and
state money for such a farcial
law.
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It's been a hell of a year. But,
then, aren't they all?
For the nation, it's been, as always,
a year of despair and a year of hope.
More despair, though, than hope.
Despair over a president whose dovish
ways of 1964 fell before his hawkish
ways of late. Hope when a blithe, urbane,
poetic politician shook hands in New
Hampshire and suddenly shook the minds
of the nation.
Despair over a faraway battle on
hill 881 or 882 over mixed-up bodies
and coffins. Hope when Ho said OK,
and Charles de Gaulle rolled out the
red carpet and all the trimmings just
last week.
Despair over our mass culture and
its accompanying urban blight, and over
the wild destruction in the cities during
our annual riot season. Hope, for a
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Letters To The Editor
On: Marchers; Marijuana; McCarthy
Dear Editor: To the Editor:
In a recent article on the DiPhi In refusing a very simple request
spaakHOut about marijuana it iis reported by the sponsors . of the Poor People's
that one speaker (repeatedly emphasized March to use the .'Tin Can" and gym
that "medical evidence shows that mairi- nasium facilities, the Administration has
juama 5s not a hairmful drug". This once again missed an excellent op
is Sufficiently contrary to our own ex- portunity to improve its image among
perience that we felt some comment the Blatik students and townspeople of
was an order. Chapel Hill. There , is no reason why
this request had to be approved by
At the Student Health Service we the Trustees, and it could have been
have seen a significant number of in- implemented without any fanfare or com-;
dividuals who have had serious, often plications ithroughout the state,
disiablrig accentuation of existing pro- There are always '"good reasons why
blems because of rthieir use of marijuana. requests such as this are turned down.
To a lesser extent we have also seen The University cannot afford to assist
individuals who have had serious nolitical movements, and it must not
rajvuiiamiv, pi tJUlpltaUJU J)y
the use of marijuana.
Surveys conducted in areas where
marijuana usage is prevalant and the
few. good experimental studies of the
drug effects which have been done have
'indicated a fair frequency of adverse
reactions, These Studies, however, have
been questioned on the grounds that
a predisposition to difficulty must have
existed in the user for trouble to occur.
However, unless one contends that a
drug must produce difficulty in everyone
to be called anything but harmless, this
, does not serve to exonerate mariiuana.
. We agree that the laws relating to
the use of mariiuana leav a t
deal to be desired. Leea! nmhlAmc
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however, are not the only danger with
'marijuana usage. We have seen with
marijuana all the same kinds of adverse
Psychological reactions that have been
described for LSD. - The potentially
disrupting and disorganizing ef feet of
these two drugs seem very similar. :
The allegation that use of mariiuana
is completely harmless is not supported
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Seiuor Psychiatrist
brief while, when a blue-ribbon com
mission laid bare the problems and of
fered some constructive ideas. Despair
again, though, When no one heard.
For the state, things just seemed
to fall into their "proper"
places including the wishful thinking of
Candidate Hawkins. Naturally," only one
gubernatorial candidate was forced to
talk about issues; the rest just were
able to smile and sit pretty. (Some
prettier than others).
For the campus, it's again sort of
sad. Sure, we won in basketball, but
we lost our souls. We had time for
Larry Miller, but not for Viet Nam.
We opened our eyes when miniskirts
swished by, but we sure as hell kept
them closed elsewhere. No wonder
Negroes think white America is sleeping-
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offend TO people VI WVU VOivmia.
Rut what about our Black citizens? How
long are they, and the more militant
student groups, going on accept decisions
of this sort without openly challenging
the Administration in terms of a con-,
iirontation of the kind we have seen
on numerous more liberally-inclined cam
ouses? If such a confrontation does in
fact occur, this should certainly come
as no surprise.
It is about time the Adnunistration
took a strong and open stand in favor
of improving the condition of its own
nonacademic personnel. I am aware that
many changes are going on behind the
scenes. Efforts are Deing maue, w u.
some success, to hire Negro faculty
and other white-collar personnel. I don t
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believe that all of mese eiion
to be publicized since in many instances
nuiet kind of integration and upgrading
wiks best. But it is (important that
ir
ihe University go on recoru asoei
wholeheartedly behind similar ortsby
others to further
it seems to turn a deaf ear on very
rtderate requests, it only invites more
extreme reactions. I would that
Sint would be so completely obvious
Tat it would not need stating. But
apparently uu.
H. M. Blalock, Jr.
Professor of Sociology
ToJ?e American trend appears
t0 bLe to obviously getting a big charge
Pushing' that device which
0Ut , tofSbtoi of all upsetting
reV&? THE T SPECIAL BLUE RIB-
events. -JS
BONCO
Biue from the draft to
WS dtoobedience and now the Columbia
The obsession with, the "Why's
"Sh these Committees manifest is ex
rfy by the verbose reports which
they issue-
Overall, it was the year of McCartneys
crusade; of Martin Luther King's
martyrdom; of the Johnson and Romney
exits.
It was the year when Duke entered
the real world with a vigil that Carolina
could only watch and wonder about.
Three cheers, Duke. It was also the
year that Columbia fell to the students.
It was the year we all started talking
participatory democracy, and yet most
of us didn't have time to get involved.
It was the year we all demanded
"relevance", and yet most of us re
mained as irrelevant as ever.
It was," like all of them, another
of those years most of us don't know
what to make of until the seedy historian
explains it to us forty years hence.
It was the year we got upset about
poor Bonnie and Clyde, and yet we
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The Blue Ribbon Committee on the
draft offered , the lottery system as a
solution to the draft because this would
eliminate the bickering which some had
in performing a simple duty for the
country. The thousands of words which
this report contains went for naught
with the adoption of the present policy.
The Blue Ribbon Committee on civil
disobedience learned that there certainly
were riots, and that they were caused
by people who were discontent with
their environment. Obviously, anyone
with a TV could eliminate any conjecture
as to the riot's . cause in about two
seconds. Nevertheless, reams of material
were condensed into this soul searching
report which answered "Why."
The present Blue Ribbon Committee
will probably find and expose the reasons
for the Columbia Rebellion after much
deliberation. We offer the quickest way
to finding the cause by directing their
attention to an interview with one of
the instigators of the riot. He explained
all the "Whys'' so that a twelve year
old could understand without a Blue
Ribbon Report.
The amplications of these reports are
threefold. a) The reports, i.e.t Civil
Disobedience and Columbia might be
an effort to find a scape goat such
as communist inspiration behind such
disorder. b) The reports may function
as indices of public opinion on rampant
crises, (c) Finally, they may serve as
a method for avoiding direct con
frontation with the issue.
This final point needs clarification.
Because the "Whys" in most instances
of the reports are obvious without
analysis, any report is merely "lip
service" to the problem. Everyone knows
how to eliminate the present problems
in tiie nation, either by suppression or
by paying out great sums for social
improvement. Either unleash the police,
turn loose the judges from the pangs
of conscience, and quit doing partial
obeisance by producing causational
reports, or pay the price of reform.
The Blue Ribbon Committee should be
sent to the bewary or the barnyard.
Chase Saunders
203 Everett
To the Editor:
In Paris, activist students defiently
a nn tfm nm ?nct c,
hold up the Cross against the stream
of the water cannon. But American
students don't need a cross they are
holding up the name of Eugene .McCarthy
against the stream of American
politics.
This is both bad and good.
It is good that the student has made
his presence felt. In the day ot the
political machines and "smoke filled
room" politics of the old pros, students
have gone to the grassroots of America
were afraid (rightly so) that the
Graduate hit a little too close to hone.
So we just went on believing thai
anybody ("regardless of race, creed,
or national origin") could have two cars
and a color television if only he'd stay
down in that greasepit several more
hours a week. Or if he'd just go get
a job, as if he didn't want one.
It was the year we decided that what
we needed to make life meaningful was
a job as insurance salesman. First raise
after six months; BA majors preferable
but not absolutely required. Yes, it was
one of the many years that Carolina
would turn out a bunch of no-minds.
Oh yes, it was also the year we
rallied round the flag, boys, and cursed
those evil, conspiring leftists who stood
firm in their opposition to the draft.
How dare they insult recruiters froa
our glorious armed forces in Y-Court?
And then, too, it was the year we
went down to our draft boards and
told them six different reasons why
we should be 4-F and twelve good
reasons why they should be drafting
hippies and the like. .
As UNC students, it was the year
that STRAUGH became politico and
upset the whole student body presidential
race. It was the year that Dick Levy
Scared the administration with a pro
posed boycott on Chase Cafeteria. And
it was the year that South Campus
got buses for a while, while we still
fought on against women's rules.
Indeed, these have been, as Dickens
once proclaimed, "the best of times
'and the worst of times." But what
a poor balance.
For, while flighty sorority girls and
cosmopolitan-to-be Carolina gentlemen
all buy their airline tickets, the poor
people march on to Washington. While
all our ltile'"Mr. & Mrs. Robinson's"
prepare to go. off and see "everj-thLng"
in Europe fin two weeks, the American
pour prepare to put itheir plight before
the nation by camping near the Capitol
for Lord krjows how long. The best
of times for some, the worst for most.
So while you're drinking your beer
and making your first million this sum
mer, consider just what this year was
and what it could have been for you
and those around you. Think abot it.
As Kidd Brewer used to say, "You'll
be glad you did."
in drives and have gotten incredible
results. Their fervor has catapulted
Eugene McCarthy into the thick of the
Presidential campaign to speak the needs
of youth and hberalism.
But in their new found power, in
their excited commitment, students are
missing the issue. We are looking for
a President not a symbol.
Engene McCarthy came into pro
minence by standing up alone against
the war. By so doing he captured not
only the minds and hearts of students,
but a large percentage of the New
Hampshire vote as well. With this vic
tory, thousands flocked to his ranks.
But it was the anti-war, anti-Johnsoa,
and student power issues which won
him supporters-i-not the political image
of Eugene McCarthy. Had any other
liberal stood up and done what McCarthy
did, chances are students would be trying
to convince the country that this other
man was best qualified for the Preside
cy.
The McCarthy machine is phenoainaL
but understandable. When a man lie
Bobby Kennedy offers students money
to work for him, he receives only luke
warm support. But if an idealistic symbol
such as "Clean Gene" asks students
to suffer a little and work a lot for
the very things dear to their hearts,
he gets a veritable army. The Peace
Corps works on the same principle by
giving youth a chance to express aad
work on their ideals. The challenge "It
won't be easy" draws many more
students than money which most of then
already have anyway.
This is where the problem l5
Students are rallying to a cause, not
to a man. They are working and voting
for their ideals which reflect froni
McCarthy back into their own eyes.
This is understandable because that is
why any voter chooses one candidate
over another. But in this case it oy
happens to be McCarthy sitting there
on the white horse. It might just as
easily have been someone else.
I do not wish to be overly critical
of McCarthy. He has done an admirable
job as a rallying point and has given
the student a voice we haw lacked
not f vV. f icW-ts
from fonner accomplishes
in f"Vi a rite T" . -4. 1 - . vim."'
out rather from his rid'ng of the issues
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mio me limelight.
Ideal can go a long way toward
improving our society but men not
ideals run the government and turn
ideals into 'reality. Eugene McCarthy,
unfortunately, is not that man.
As a holder of symbolic power he
is unequalled but a President he is
not.
Jay Lackles
221 W. Cameron
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