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THE DAILY TAR HEEL Friday, September 27, 196b r n 76 Years of Editorial Freedom Wayne Hurdcr, Editor Bill Staton, Business Manager Students Must Be Involved In Picking Admissions Head The Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Admissions and Records will meet today to consider alternatives in the Bus Subsidy Commendable The announcement Thursday that the University's Traffic and Safety Commission will put up as much as $1,250 per month for the campus bus system is much welcomed and commendable. The Administration gave the Student Transportaion Committee some money last summer to conduct the initial experiment to see if the bus system would be self-sustaining. At that time it seemed that they were unwilling to do anything more than just experiment, and let the bus system die down if it didn't prove self-sustaining. , Now, however, in offering the $1,250 a month, they seem to be recognizing that a bus system is necessary on campus, regardless of whether it can break even on fares. In addition they are recognizing, just as many other big universities have recognized long ago, that the University has an obligation to provide the students with some form of transportation if it is going to place them far from their classes and not provide parking spaces close to their classes. The Administration's recognition of these facts finally is very fortunate for the students. Hopefully, the buses can become self-sustaining so that no Student Government or Administration funds have to be spent on them, but if that is not to be, it is good to have the Administration sharing in the cost. Old Men And Dirty Pictures From the Greensboro Daily News Arthur Krock, the politically irascible Kentuckian who preceded James Reston and Tar Heel Tom Wicker as chief New York Times correspondent in Washington, has published his memoirs. They are called "Sixty Years on the Firing Line." Among their sage perspective reviewers have noted with distress Mr. Krock' s gloomy conclusion: "I have contracted," he writes, "a visceral fear . . . that the tenure of the United States as first power in the world may be one of the briefest in history." Of course Mr. Krock is a kind of political valetudinarian who feels that the U.S. has been in decline since Woodrow Wilson. But there is probably something in his "visceral fear"-some thing that has little enough to do with malfeasance in high places or decrepitude in low. Technology has accelerated the world's timetable. The spans of top-doggery that 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 selection of a new Director of Admissions. We hope that when they make their recommendations to the Chancellor on the matter that they will advise him that students should be included in the making of a decision on whom is to be the next director of admissions. To fail to do so would be a slap in the face of the students who have expressed great interest in the Admissions Office. This is evident in their willingness to put up money for the Carolina Talent Search and for the National Merit Scholarship Committee, and in the freshman class's working with the office last, year. In addition, failure to have students meaningfully involved in the selection of a new Director, would be to ignore the fact that .they are a vital part of the University Commujiitan;d'Hde"serve , a portion of the controlover who is to be the next director. One of the most educational aspect of student life at UNC is the interaction with various types of people. This is something that might be hard to recognize for someone far removed from his undergraduate years in college. For an undergraduate here it is easy to recognize and an essential part of his college career. For this reason also, students must be a part of the selection process that the Advisory Committee will recommend to the Chancellor. s At today's Committee meeting it is imperative that the members recognize the importance of having students represented (in more than token fashion) on any committee entrusted with selection of a new director of admissions. Rome enjoyed for 600 years and the British for 300 seem likely to shrink on-whoever is top dog. The deferences and illusions that made the Gallic tribes obedient bottom dogs to Rome and their successors obedient to the British Raj are vanishing. At its most ambitious, too, the U.S. has always been a reluctant, "first power," exercising sway by default. It won an empire in 1898 but promptly decided to give it back. It has entered most wars reluctantly. Today it responds with eager self-condemnation to Parson Fulbright's sermons on "the arrogance of power." These qualities of reluctance fill Mr. Krock with "visceral fear," but they probably fill most Americans with relief. "Most Europeans who talk up empire to Americans," wrote a perceptive wag the other day, "are like old men showing dirty pictures to minors." The same to you, Mr. Krock. " Bf... "But u h, c-f are "Vhej A i r ? Dan Moss, Jr. 'Law And Order5 Platforms Severely Devastated In Chicago The events in Chicago should have clearly dealt a blow to some of the mindless pleas for "law and order". The semantics of this phrase have become the crux of the Presidental campaign and peoples opinions seem to have crystalized easily around one side of the issue. Certainly the demonstrators were -often, dirty, foul, provocative, and disruptive. However, this in no way mitigates their Constitutional rights to; dissent. When a government can run roughshod over the preeious civil liberties of minorities in the name of political expediency or police efficiency and stilly enjoy huge support from the majority of "law-abiding" citizens, then one can only question the sincerity of their principles v and the values of their society. To deny the rights of the few, puts the rights of the many also in danger. Lin Davis E ussiams To Mue Czech At first, it had seemed inconceivable that Moscow would risk the wrath of the world and its warming detente with the United . States by intervening in Czechoslovakia with force. But the Russians faced an even greater risk if they permitted the Czechoslovakian experiment to go unchallenged. The reasons for this were clear. The confrontation between Moscow and Prague had implications for the Communist world that went beyond those of the 1956 Hungarian revolt The Hungarian heresy was essentially a rebellion against the excesses of Joseph Stalin, and thus a "crisis in Stalinism." Heresy Goes Deeper The Czechoslovakian heresy goes far deeper. Though they are careful not to spell it out, the reformers in Prague are challenging two of Lenin's most important tenets: (1) that the Communist 'The Czech invasion could set the Cold War clocks hack as much as ten years9 Party should monopolize all political power; and (2) that this power should be exercised with ideological doctrines. Thus, by raising this "crisis in Leninism" the Czech question could change the profile of the entire Communist world and undermine the Kremlin's iron grip on the vast Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, itself. - The boldness with which the Czechs stood in defiance of Moscow surprised the Russians. Soviet leaders had considered Dubcek a bit provincial they mistook his mild manner for weakness and his flexibility for indecision. But it wasn't Dubcek himself that scared them after all, he rarely missed a chance to reassure the Soviets that Czechoslovakia would remain faithful to the Communist . alliance. It wasn't even his institutional changes-in the past six months, the only reforms the Czechs actually put on the books have been a relatively mild law rehabilitating purge victims and a guarantee of freedom of expression. Russians Upset The thing that worried the Russians was the conviction that changes of the sort taking place in Czechoslovakia might not stop at a point called "socialist -i -V- i J . X per, mmK c oj ee' 11 George Wallace's statements on the. issue were in complete conformity with the simplistic, know-nothing approach which has become his style. Richard Nixon has been unwilling to face the issue and refuses any assertions about it, which parallels his historic unwillingness to make commitments on things of supreme national importance. Agnew, the mudslinger on the ticket, stated that the demonstrators were communist inspired and that hippies were kicking policemen with razor blades. There is no evidence to support the first charge and of all the extravagant claims made by the Chicago police, the latter was never among them. One of Buckley's right-wing publications said that hippies planned to dump LSD. into Chicago's resevoirs. However, Chicago has ndTresevoirs, and indeed there are many narrow minds to be expanded there. democracy," but might continue to the point where Prague reformed itself right out of the Communist bloc. These fears left the Communists with several unattractive alternatives. First, they could' keep up the psychological pressures and tighten their economic holds. But this would most probably drive Czechoslovakia into the arms of the West, especially given the close proximity of WTest Germany and its reserve of available capital. Second, they could trust to luck and Dubcek's assurances and let the reformation run its course. Ultimately, this could have resulted in a complete de-Communization of Czechoslovakia. This would have, in turn, cracked the buffer zone that the Russians had carefully constructed around their country following World War II and thus endanger their physical security. Plus, the success of the liberals in Czechoslovakia would inspire dissident elements in Hungary, Poland, East Germany, and maybe the Soviet Union, itself. Third, the Russians could resort to force but only with grave risks. Militarily, the Czecks had a well-equipped, well-trained 180,000-man army (with four armored divisions) which presumably would fight as the Hungarians had done. But, unlike 1956, the Soviets had no large reserve of troops waiting in Czechoslovakia for orders to march on Prague even though they did have sizable units stationed around Czechoslovakia. Still, the bulk of any invasion force presumably would have to come from the USSR a trip that included crossing the formidable Carpathian Mountains. Political Risks Great The political risks for choosing the military alternative were also great (1) It could set the Cold War clocks back as much as ten years. (2) It could seriously hamper the US-USSR detente thus destroying the scheduled talks on a mutual cutback in missile forces. (3) It could force France back into NATO as a full-fledged member and discourage the US from reducing its troop levels in Western Europe. (4) It could destroy the Soviet image of peacemaker, an image painstakingly built up over the past few years. (5) It could wreck unity within the Communist camp and end all hope of putting Peking in its place. Such a move by the Soviet Union also revived the fear that the leading Good Grief- I Ll L P u .7 govt: yg I . - Lt s 4 V, Humphrey Botched It Hubert Humphrey has perhaps the most pitiful stance on the issue; with his debt to Mayor Daley for helping rig the convention on his behalf and yet his knowledge that he can never win without accomodating the alienated McCarthy supporters. In the larger scope of police activities, the persistent charge of police brutality made by Negroes is no longer incredible. The police do not need to be an insidious force in our society. Yet perhaps they have become the "hairy wart" on the face of American society, or perhaps they are only an extension of the inherent values and concepts of an intollerent American society, or perhaps just the unfortunate scape-goats of a society which has refused to come to grips with the roots of poverty and political dissent. Communist power had not essentially changed its brutal methods since 1956. And this, in turn, forced many people to re-examine their assumption that US foreign policy represented the major threat to world peace. For the Soviets did Mr. Johnson the great favor of distracting world opinion from Vietnam. 6 The critical Russian error teas their indecisiveness.9 The critical Russian error was their indecisiveness, an error which raised serious doubts as to what kind of judgment rules in the Kremlia Even if the invasion achieved the goals the Soviets desired, its indecisive, off-again on-again management seemed to reflect differing opinions in the Soviet leadership. And that, in turn, seemed likely to indicate changes in that leadership in the months ahead there is already some speculation that Soviet party chief Brezhnev could be ousted within the year. The Russians are now learning what Coed Protection Run Cool $30,000 Whenever the subject of self-limiting closing hours for women is brought up the administration chooses to hide behind a web of words implying that any security system for the dorms would be too expensive. For once let's allow the morality factor to be set aside and take up the administration on its own grounds, money. W7omen's dorm security could easily be established by placing a night watchman at each of the eleven residences. This watchman could open the dorm door for all women staying out past regular closing hours, a system already in sue for graduate students in Granville East. These watchmen could be employed for six hours a night, one to seven am.m., seven days a week. Figuring the wage of the watchmen at an inflated two dollars per hour, the cost Letters Lipsitz Pens Vhisits Verse The Trial & Sentencing of George Vtesits for Refusing Induction was pretty predictable draft trials are a steady thing you can count on like this long winter bears underground small animals hungry man finding reasons for stalking himself over resistant terrain. Park Probs Continue Editor: Some third and fourth year Medical students live in Odum and Victory Village (T-sticker area) and are only a few minutes walk from the N.C. Memorial Hospital, but the great majority commute. In the past, due to the fact that during our "clinical" years (third and fourth) we are often "on-call" to return to the hospital within minutes at any hour of the day or night, we were issued J-stickers to park in the Bell Tower lot This year, we get only C-stickers, for the Ram's Head lot or the already overcrowded Craig lot Football Saturdays make the "on-call" situation even more impossible . . . the Ram's Head lot is closed to us. Who parks in the Bell Tower lot besides the faculty? Janitors and maintenence men can afford the thirty minute walk. Edward Brenner, Med IV Chapel Hill The Daily Tar Heel is published by the University of North Carolina Student Publication's Board, dairy except Monday, examination periods and vacations. Second class postage paid at U.S. Post Office in Chapel Hill, N.C. Subscription rates: $9 per year, $5 per semester. Leaip JL the Americans learned in Vietnam it is no longer possible to scare little countries into doing your will rather you have to go in and actually do the job yourself. Inevitably just as the failure of US policy in Vietnam has led to a decline of America's leadership in Western Europe, so Russia's blunder over Czechoslovakia will have to be paid for in a similar way in East Europe. Not surprisingly, the crumbling of its authority as a superpower seems to be having something of the same effect upon Russia that it has had upon the US. Like Washington, Moscow appears to be increasingly preoccupied with internal affairs and increasingly unsure of its ability to handle them. Strange as it may seem though, the chances for a US-USSR summit may have actually been improved by recent events. News photos of Brezhnev on one side of Johnson and Kosygin on the other would make both men overnight heroes in Russia Perhaps it has occurred to the Soviets by now that it would be better for them to lead a new trend toward East-West reconciliation than to allow men like Dubcek to do it for them. to the University for the regular school year would be less than $30,000. There are two immediate alternatives with which these funds could be raised. One recalls that the University recently asked the General Assembly for $63 million in appropriations. Why not ask for $38,000 more? Should this tack fail, and it probably would, the administration could increase the fees charged UNC's 15,000 students by two dollars. While some might object to this, it could be looked upon as a two-doHar-a-year term insurance policy protecting the student from closing hours violations. So it seems obvious to me that should women students desire self-limiting hours, two dollars is not a high price to pay, and the administration should not find expense a stumbling block.
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