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THE DAILY TAB HEEL
Tuesday, September 24, 1968
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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurdcr, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
Dale Gibson, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Joe Sanders, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr, Advertising Manager
The First Five Days
Ready For A Change:
By now you've been to your
classes. You've sat in them for one
or two hours, heard from the prof
how many cuts you're allowed, and
heard his first lecture.
The first lecture, like the rest to
come, where the prof repeats what
is in the book that you're supposed
to have read and asks you, as if you
were still in high school, to define
such-and-such term, as you sit there
flinching and your mind rejects
everything he says.
Any discussion that is attempted
is usually artificial and dominated
by a few students shallowly trying
to impress the professor. All others,
so totally imbred in them is the
attitude that they are ignorant and
should not argue with the prof, sit
glumly at their desk waiting for the
bell to ring.
By now, also, everyone has had
to write home and ask for more
money since it is costing more
money to buy clothes than they
had originally planned. Ghapel
Hill's style conscious businessmen
have raised the prices of their
clothes which could be bought back
home for a few bucks but which
cost dozens up here. In addition,
the merchants, always glad to do
the students a service, have started
subsidizing the bus system so South
Campus residents won't have any
trouble getting up to Franklin St.
, The apartment builders have
pocketed the money given to them
by students as deposits for rooms
for fall and now, grieving deeply
over the inconvenience they are
causing the students, must tell them
their apartments will not be ready
until October or later. From every
direction the students begin
catching it.
And by now the students have
begun to bitch, as usual. The
merchants and the administrators,
the ones who rob the students and
the ones who decide that this dorm
or that should be an office next
year, are preparing their stock
replies to the objections of the
students.
Inside their minds they are
telling themselves, as they have in
previous years, that they needn't
worry about having to make some
beneficial changes in students lives
or in the services they provide
students.
The students who have been here
over two years, they probably tell
themselves, are too cynical to do
anything. They have become too
turned off by campus life, academic
and social, to think about anything
but bitching and drinking.
As for the ones who have been
here less than two years, they can
be tricked into thinking that
relative to other campuses, UNC is
well off, they say. "We can always
find some place worse than UNC
that we can use as an example to
gull the students into satisfaction
and lethargy," the economic, social,
and academic rulers of students'
lives say.
Lastly, if this fails, they resort to
the problem of relations with the
state. "We admit that demand of
the students is right and necessary
but we just can't do that because
the citizens of the state would rise
up and smite us off the face of the
earth," they explain to the
students.
That's the way it was in 1967,
1966, 1965, 1964, . . . That's the
way it could be this year, but NOT
NECESSARILY.
Students have to forget that little
has been accomplished in the past,
they have to forget that there are
other schools worse off. They have
to realize that even though they are
going to be here only four years,
those four years are very crucial to
their whole lifetime and that they
deserve to have their social and
academic needs met
Having rejected the baloney of
the past and having decided that
their needs .to demand a solution,
they should pressure the University
Administration and their Student
Government to produce more than
glib explanations of why things
can't be done. Students, if they will
stick together and if they . will
accept no false excuses for inaction,
can get something done this year.
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Cansler's Hard Bargain
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"It is common knowledge
that German universities in the
30's stood by merely as
observers when totalitarianism
was emerging in their
land." President Leo Jenkins
of East Carolina University.
"The University cannot
allow itself to become an agent
of social change in the
community"-UNC Dean of
Men James 0. Cansler speaking
to an all-men's convocation of
new students.
Commentary
By Steve N. Enfield
These are the words of two
very different men espousing
two very different
philosophies. Nonetheless,
their speeches illustrate most
emphatically the major debate
going on in higher education
today.
Dr. Jenkins, head of a
university which much less
renown than ours, has recently
been engaged in making
speeches concerning the
current gubernatorial campaign
and was just last week in
Wiston speaking before a
Democratic fundxaising rally.
His efforts is this arena have
led a local paper to condemn
them as "bad academics and
uncalled for politics."
Dean Cansler, a former
Baptist minister, is in roughly
the same administrative
position as Dr. Jenkins, but he
is not actively involved in
politics and, hence, is not
under fire from the local press.
However, he is a very sincere
man, and although his words
were not politically oriented,
they were, I am positive, just as
deeply felt
Umbilical Cord
In the speech of each man
one can see evidences of two
opposing rationales behind
which a university is intended
to operate:
(1) That a university should
be a community bound to a
larger community by an
umbilical cord of involvement
and action,
(2) That a university should
be an island unto itself, a place
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UNC's YM-YWCA, one of
the campus' more productive
organizations, is starting a
membership drive this week to
raise the money it needs to
carry on activities for the next
year.
Committees. The Racial
Dialogue committee has
already started planning for a
symposium on the racial
problem and has lined up big
name speakers such as Julian
Bond and Dick Gregory.
All
money
these
and
activities take
that's what Y
Unitl last year, students
were able to join the Y and
pledge money to it as a part of
registration. Starting last year,
however, the organization has
had to conduct its membership
and fund raising drive separate
from orientation. The result
last year was that the Y made
only $3,000 from membership
when it had figured on getting
$6,000;
This year the Y, which
usually gives the students more
for their money than does the
Student Government which
operates with student fees, has
another impressive schedule of seconds without any lines and
events. any waiting? He is really off if
he thinks this can be done. In
previous years we have had to
Besides the regular tutorial wait in lines which were
program, Murdoch committee, certainly longer than these, but
International Bazaar, and there is no one. save "Hero of
members will be asking for
from you these next few days.
Give to them. You'll be
financing many good activities
and you'll know the money
you give is for some activity,
not for some inactivity like
much of the money you give to
Student Government is used
for.
Letter To The Editor
Editor:
Dick Levy's column "Burn
Down Book Exchange!" in
today's (Sept 21) DTH was
the most outrageous piece of
junk I have ever read in the
paper! Does he expect 16,000
students to be whizzed through
ANY book store in just a few
Scholarship
Center, etc., new
have been added.
These
and
include
Racial
Information the Masses" Levy, who does
programs not expect SOME crowds.
As big as Kenan Stadium is,
why can't 47,000 people get in
and out in just a few minutes?
Peace Corps And like Kenan Stadium, the
Dialogue Book Store is only used several
times a year by everyone at
once.
Sure, they promised more
efficiency with a new book
store and I think they have
achieved it am glad that we
now have such a modern and
ADEQUATE book store. They
cannot be expected to have
400 check-out lines twice a
year. And with that, you
would even have to wait!
Things aren't going to
change they will not build
you a new book store so it
seems that your only
alternative now is to stage a
one-man protest at the door.
(But I wouldn't try it until you
had bought your books!)
Richard Reynolds
Mike Sobol
1026 James
Aside from the cliff-hanger
thrills of waiting for a small
plane to go ramming through
the "Jesse Jones Sausage"
streamer that cruised over
Kenan Stadium Saturday, there
was one totally intriguing
process marking the first week
of school Registration.
The first event happened
when I picked up that long
white card and started filling it
out. "Notice: This section is
for survey purposes only and
will not be used otherwise."
Fascinating, I thought, stifling
a yawn.
But immediately the form
asked me to indicate my race. I
scanned down the columns . . .
"American Indian", no.
"American Negro", no.
"Spanish surname", no. In
fact, I finally resorted to
checking "other" in total
exasperation and scribbling
"Caucasian" after it
Flustered, I began sauntering
around the room, peering over
shoulders to see what other
people were doing. Some were
obviously scanning their family
trees for a trace of Swedish
blood, or perhaps they
remembered a cousin with
distended lips like an adult
Masai
I noticed one girl groan and
write "Normal American" into
the blank area. Several
chuckled sinisterly and wrote
"WASP" (White Anglo-Saxon
Protestant). Some ignored the
problem altogether.
This little hang-up set the
scene for the rest of my
registration. In a dither I
finished the form,
remembering how much
trouble I got into by checking
"Yes" to "Do you plan to
operate a car" and "No" to "Is
it registered" (the car hadn't
arrived yet).
I completely missed the
Selective Service booth and
then went to the beautiful Tin
Can to register my car. Turns
out that the Administration
has finally done something
about "The Great Secret".
I first heard about The Great
Secret in a meeting with
William Long, former Dean of
Men. The Dean lowered his
voice and said in hushed tones,
"Never reveal this, but we
made a purchasing mistake and
traffic stickers are the easiest
thing in the world to remove."
Awestruck, I thought of how
simple it would be to swipe the
Chancellor's B-Sticker then I
could park in the lounge of
Graham Memorial and no one
would ticket me.
At any rate, the new sticker
goes inside the window and
doesn't come off. (I tried
putting it on my bumper no
one told me not to but it read
backwards).
Actually, the whole scene in
the Tin Can was a little
ludicrous. Here were about 15
people, selling stickers at high
prices and knowing that only
about 1 out of 2 buyers would
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where men go to examine in an
objective and detached
manner, what other men have
done.
The implications of this first
philosophy are fairly evident
Dr. Jenkins and others like him
believe they have a
commitment, a responsibility
to comment, to criticize, to
become involved with the
affairs of the world outside the
classroom.
A man like Dr. Jenkins
would have undoubtedly agreed
with the students at Columbia
who had something to say
about that gymnasium that
fronted on Harlem, although
he would not necessarily agree
with how they said it
So deeply does he feel this
commitment that he warns us
of the dangers of disagreeing
with his opinion.
Cansler's Ivory Tower
Dean Cansler, on the other
hand, feels that although we
live in a "world of unrest," the
university, and particularly this
university, should be literally
an institution of higher
learning. It should be a world
above that which is daily
described in the headlines on
a plane where the mind is
exercised; But it is also a
society which doesn't
recognize any other but itself.
Dean Cansler also attacks
the methods by which social
change is effected. He
maintains that in .order for
any tiling to be done, the
university must act as one
body a move which would
cause dissidents to come in line
with the majority and thus
surrender their freedom.
At this same time, however,
he recognizes that there is an
"ideological tug-of-war" going
on on this campus. He gives us
no method of resolving this if,
in fact, he feels it should be
resolved.
Follow Jenkins
Admittedly, it is far easier to
follow a Jenkins than a
Cansler. To act in the world in
which we've been living is
much simpler - than; to
contemplate in a world totally
divorced from everything we've
ever known. To reach out and
find a place to park where they help a starving M or prevent
a third world war is a much
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were supposed to. At 9 in the
morning, Memorial Hospital
looks like LaGuardia Airport at
rush hour. And wait till the
Student Union opens (It has
nine parking spaces).
So I considered registration
a fabulous success. Between
being utterly stymied by a
question on my race and
watching the parking sticker
machinery rust, it couldn't
have been more entertaining.
Perhaps they'll do something
next registration to keep
anyone with a 1912 ID card
from just flashing it and being
handed a validation sticker.
more automatic action than
ignoring responsibility
altogether.
Great ideas, like the men
who preach them, are supposed
to transcend time and place.
But one .cannot help but
conjecture that if Dean
Cansler's comments were made
in 1933 and if UNC were
located in New York City at
Harlem's front door, would
Dean Cansler's comments have
any less believability or any
less attractiveness than they do
in 1968 Chapel Hill which
borders on Carrboro?
.Nixon's Guide To Pussyfooting
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By WILLIAM G. ALLEN
For nearly a decade, Richard
M. Nixon has sought to be the
President of the United States.
Eight years ago, Vice President
Nixon trod that treacherous
in his home
governorship
state for the
of California
against Pat Brown. Here again,
he was favored to win. But
disaster and lightning both
struck in the same place.
Richard M. Nixon lost again by
nath to the White House on a a minute per cent of the vote.
sure mark for victory. Crushed by a humiliating
His story is somewhat like loss, and angry at an
that of the "Hare and The unfavorable press, he made a
Tortoise". Nixon did not very human decision to
actively seek to build national withdraw from politics and
support until the election year return to his law profession in
arrived. He went into the one of the top ten law firms in
election unaware that JFK, the United States,
who had been laving intricate But quitting was neither in
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groundwork throughout the
nation for four years, was to be
his opposition.
He had no conception of the
highly organized and financed
Kennedy blitz that was about
to appear on the American
political scene. Nixon had such
a vantage point that few men
doubted that he would be
elected.
Yet, to his dismay, and the
astonishment of the nation,
JFK sprinted into the winner's
;rrip leavine Nixon iust one
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Richard Nixon. In 1964, he
made speeches for Republican
fund raising dinners acrdss the
nation, and for many
Republican candidates. Of the
ones he backed, a significant
percentage was elected even
though the party split and
crashed with such force that it
was doubtful it would revive
for years.
In 1966, Richard Nixon
revitalized the Republican
Party and led an assault on the
dD short. Nixon was defeated Democratic Congress. He spoke
by onry one-ienui ui uue
percent of the popular vote,
though the electoral vote was
more distinct.
Baubles Calif
Two years later, Nixon ran
on Denaii oi nepuDucan
candidates everywhere he
stopped, singlehandedry pulled
the Republican Party from the
abyss of defeat, and, in less
than two years, organized it for
the battle that is to take place
in November.
Nixon's Horserace
George Romney first sought
the nomination of the "New"
Republican Party. His
campaign fizzled, so Nixon
accepted the lead after
Governor Rockefeller hesitated
to accept the challenge. Nixon
consolidated support for the
nomination at a rapid pace.
When Governor Rockefeller
finally convinced himself that
he could win, he jumped into
the race.
Until then, Nixon had gone
unchallenged. Rockefeller
avoided the primary route by
allowing Nixon to run alone,
thereby taking much
significance from his victories.
Governor Ronald Reagan never
announced his candidacy until
his hand was forced by his own
delegation just prior to the
convention. Reagan tried to
undermine Nixon's support in
the South while Rockefeller
poured millions into a
campaign to label Nixon as
"two-time loser" in the North.
Loser Comes Thru
Richard M. Nixon certainly
won a magnificent victory
when he captured the
Republican nomination for
President this year. He is
probably the first American to
win the nomination of a major
political party lose the
election and come back two
terms later to win the
nomination on the first ballot
again, after defeating his image
as a "loser", and a ten million
dollar campaign launched by
his opponents.
Yet, the most phenomenal
aspeci of his victory was that
he could hot even claim a
home state. His oponents were
governors of the states most
needed to obtain the
nomination. Reagan held
Nixons previous home state of
California, and Rockefeller
held his new home state of
New York, as well as most of
the other large Northern states.
A first ballot victory under
such circumstances is indeed a
political miracle.
Four years ago, former Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
rescued a distraught, divided,
and thoroughly smashed
Republican Party and unified it
into a highly organized and
streamlined political machine
which is favored two to one to
carry him to victory in 1968.
Should he win this final and
most foreboding test of
political endurance, his
election will surely mark
"victory over death', and a
political first in the annals of
American history.