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THE DAILY TAB HEEL
Sunday, September 29, 1963
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.Srott Goodfellow
Kennedy
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76 Years o Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
'Law And Order' Means
'Keep Niggers Down
"Law and Order" has become
the catch-phrase of all the
candidates this year as each one
tries to prove that he is the only
candidate that really can bring
about such a condition if elected(.
Meanwhile, out on the fringes,
the blacks and liberals are arguing
that "Law and Order" is just
another term for "keeping the
niggers in their place" and ignoring
the conditions of blacks in
America.
Humphrey, Nixon, Wallace and
the thousands of others hoping to
be swept into offices on the
coattails of "law and Order" reply
that this isn't so, that they are
interested in the black man's
problems, but that they don't think
any improvements can be made
until there is law and order.
Well, the law and order
advocates came through with a fine
showing Thursday night in
Congress. They very effectively
managed to show what they are
after-and what they are after
struck us as being, not law and
order, but "keeping the nigger in
his place."
The law and order advocates,
most of whom favor loose controls
on police so they can enforce the
law with no trouble, most of whom
favor shooting looters on sight, and
u n i shing criminals strictly,'
combined Thursday night to make
a joke out of the Supreme Court
school integration decision, which
is supposedly the law of the land.
These solons wrote into the
federal education appropriations
bill a provision depriving the
government of the right to use the
school aid funds as a club to force
school districts to desegregate.
These legislators, who
commonly complain about
policemen being handcuffed by
recent Surpeme Court decisions,
deprived the federal government of
the only effective weapon they
Sitterson Shows Awareness
Of What Students Demand
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson,
speaking before the Faculty
Council Friday, made a far better
showing than he did last week in his
speech for orientation.
In his speech before freshmen
Sitterson seemed more interested in
warning the students not to riot
and in assuring the students that
they were powerful than in showing
that he understood what students
are after.
Friday he improved vastly, as he
told faculty members that students
aren't just after power, as some
administrators contend, but that
they are just interested in
improving the University and the
education they receive.
Most importantly, Sitterson gave
evidence that he recognizes one of
the main problems of higher
education in America when he told
:the faculty that teaching is being
(Slighted in favor of community
; involvement and research.
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Rebel Good, News Editor
Joe Sanders, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr, Advertising Manager
have for enforcing the Supreme
Court decision of 1954.
The provision states that the
government cannot withhold
federal school funds from districts
which use "freedom of choice"
school plans or which refuse to bus
students.
This means, for the South, that
county school districts can use the
"freedom of choice" school plan,
which federal courts have forbade
them from using, without having to
worry about any punishment.
Not only are the Congressmen
ignoring the law in doing this, they
are creating a situation in which the
lawlessness of Klan-types will have
a resurgence.
The freedom of choice plan, in
which parents can send their
children to whatever school they
wanted, never worked, and
therefore was forbidden by the
courts. The plan failed because
black parents who decide to send
their children to the white schools
found their lives and property
threatened by the Klan. It was not
unusual, (and still is not usual) in
North Carolina, and acjoss the
South, for the Klan to poison the
water wells, fire shots into homes,
and otherwise intimidate those
persons who sent their cljildren to
white schools. .r : . :
Forced integra'tiofliTflleaves the
Klanmen with no alternative but to
accept the integration. It does them
no good to intimidate the parents.
It leaves them with nothing to do in
their spare time. The Congress
action now will provide them, once
again, with a target for their
terroristic attacks.
America's "law and order"
advocates, given the chance, have
now shown how they define the
term "law and order" and it isn't
the way Webster defines it. It reads
more like "keep the nigger in his
place."
This has been one of the main
criticisms of American colleges and
universities made by students.
Many students see the emphasis
put on research and community
involvement as part of a societal
deemphasis of learning in favor of a
narrow-visioned burrowing for facts
that characterizes research.
Students see the federal
government giving huge grants to
the top scientists so they can
develop weapons of destruction
instead of having them teach
students, and they dislike this very
much. They don't see the
University as a center for
development of means to destroy
people but as a where people are
improved through thinking and
learning.
Sitterson told the faculty that
"if neglect of undergraduate
teaching be true of us on this
campus in any of our departments,
let us resolve to bring it to an end."
The Chancellor showed a greatly
improved awareness of some of the
academic aspects of student unrest
on this campus in his speech.
Hopefully, the faculty wilr realize
the validity of his remarks and will
recognize the need to emphasize
teaching rather than conducting
research.
In recognizing the need for a
change in the emphasis of the
university, however, they must also
realize the need to work with
students in bringing about change,
since the students are the ones to
be effected.
Cut Em The After-Burner
It's getting downright exciting around
here.
First, a group is formed to keep
HoraceWilliams Airport from stepping
boldly into the Sopwith Camel age.
Apparently the University is considering
paving one of the runways which now is
little more than leveled ground. But the
group, with its theme, "Keep Chapel Hil
out of the Jet Age," is objecting to this
plane, errr, plan.
And second, we find the Television
Age has come to Chapel Hill with cameras
poking out from behind Psych 21 books
(on the Span 52 shelf) in the Book Ex,
and with hundreds of Econ 31 students
boob-tubing their lectures in Swain HaH.
Electronic Eyeballing
The humorous move of the Intimate
Bookshop, allowing shoppers to watch
the manager in his office over television
("I've got an unusual face.")," was in
response to the Book Ex innovations,
there, it takes little imagination to see
Tom Shetley in a back room, with a wal
of television monitors spread out before
him.
A line of students forms on Screen
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Editor:
Like everyone else I have now paid my
dues to the UNC parking club and, like
everyone else, spend my dairy drive to the
campus wondering if, through some
miracle, I'll find a legal place to park my
car.
I have two questions. Where is all the
parking fee money going? Is anything
specific happening now to increase
parking facilities for this year?
Sincerely,
Roger Hannay
Law Firm
Admissions
Editor:
Scott Goodfellow's article on the
names of some of UNC's buildings
brought to mind the comment of a friend
of mine, a fellow Yankee newly arrived
on campus: t4There's Old East and New
East, Old West and New West " he said,
"but there's no New South and no
North at all ... " Battle-Vance-Pettigrew
has always been my favorite; I could never
decide if it sounded like a law firm or
, someone swearing under his breath.
Linda Rodd
Psychology Department
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Pops Up
Editor.
That WRAL-TV in Raleigh is a chief
factor in the care and feeding of
redneckery in central North Carolina is
well known. Recently, however, things
have been developing into a sickening
impasse.
I am not referring to the wholesale
seeping of editorial bigotry into their
news reporting; this has happened all
over, for example in the New York
Times.
Some weeks ago a late movie titled
"White Nights" was shown. My
uneasiness at the title evaporated, for the
3-A. With sinister assuredness, Shetley
hits a switch and a row of Comparative
literature shelves slides across the floor,
blocking the line. Checkmate.
And meanwhile in Swain HaH, a new
type of classroom discussion is going
on the professor does all of it. Twice a
week, Econ 31 students sit passively for a
50-minute hour (another new
innovation), listening to Professor Arthur
Benavie lecture.
Now, Benavie is good, but a student
who suddenly finds he violently disagrees
with something said can do little more
than shoot paperclips and maybe scribble
down a note in his TV Guide.
Marshall McLuhan would burn his
stock in RCA at this. The message of this
medium clearly could be written down
and passed out, saving considerable time
(which, after-all is what it's doing for the
Econ 31 teaching staff).
Holding Patterns Coming?
And out at Chapel Hill's own
Horace-Williams Airport, the folks are
. stewing over whether to take that big step
toward the Jet Age.
The proposed runway would not be
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movie was a passable affair with
"Mar-chella Mastry oney", as the
announcer said.
Thursday night , the movie was
"Tomango," a disgusting wallowing in
celluloid. Its subject was the events on a
slave ship; WRAL must have searched the
world over for it. It was like "Mutiny on
the Bounty," except that the captain was
Hubert Humphrey's version of an
overreacting Pig, and Fletcher Christian
was an angry black militant. What did he
have to be militant about?
The idea that the whitewashed
savagery from that station is vibrating in
the air all around is emetic.
Surely that station has committed
enough abuses that someone would have
sued them by now on a score of valid
counts. But even though their license was
last renewed by the FCC by only a vote
of, 3-2, that hatred continues to radiate
from America's last stronghold (what
presumption! millions of others) of the
Confederacy.
Another thing: while the Di Phi
monotones abstractions and the DTH
whines about the Book Ex, the university
continues its despicable policies of racist
(pardonnez the jargon, but, well . . . )
exploitation ('Sblood! Shades of
Communist teeterin's!!!).
Recently the university needed three
maids. When a woman I know went down
to apply, there were already sixty
applications for the positions, obtained
by 'solicitation and advertising. And the
university was still advertising and asking
for more applications. I worked around
Chapel Hill and Carrboro this summer
taking what work was available and
guess who I worked with? The black
people whom the white power structure
bounce around like tennis balls, keeping
them moving, and just far enough down
so as not balls, keeping them moving, and
just far enough down so as not to get
their hopes up and take some reglar job
or something. This summer a guy came
down from "upstate", where he was
making three times what the university
had paid him, for a visit. Nobody went
back with him; here there was always a
job to be found, and it was home. So
they bounce around from the university
to other bosses and back, fifty dollars to
take home here, buck and a half there.
Sooner or later the whole story will be
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promptly mobbed by Eastern's 727 fleet,
but the worries are that someday it
might. And with the lightning speed that
Raleigh-Durham supporters are using to
get their needed improvements (fast as a
bloated sea urchin), Horace-Williams
might beat 'em out.
Admittedly the visions are
intimidating. Planes might be delayed in
Atlanta because of no room in the
holding pattern over University Lake
(University Pond). And the sounds might
crack the vases of the flower venders on
Franklin Street.
Imagine a Boeing 747, with 400
persons aboard (the out-of-state freshman
class), comes rumbling in (after holding
over Chattanooga so the movie could
finish). As the plane passed over the
Geology building, the seismograph in the
basement would hit 9 on the Richter
Scale. Classes would stop all over campus
and a portion of Benavie's Econ lecture
would be lost forever.
It's truly a horrifying thought. Perhaps
our town isn't really ready for such things
as the Television Age and the Jet Age.
Time will tell.
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better investigated, and our protest-prone
radicals, couple thousand of them, might
sit in Polk Place until their asses sprout.
They'll obtain promises from Ole Lyle,
and then they'll be able to smile at black
folks again.
The blacks, if by freak some promises
make it through a hastily assembled
bureaucracy for militant inaction, will be
able to buy a little more booze or have
more shoes to go around. That's what
comes of student , power, when the
7
Moram Or Gold?-
A Name
(Editor's Note: Thursday's DTH
contained a large headline which read,
"Writers-In-Residence, Moran: First Of
Four" with accompanying picture.)
BY INSIGHT
The Daily Tar Heel learned today that
the identity of the identity of the English
Department's Writer-in-Residence remains
clouded in doubt. Since Wednesday's
sensational disclosure that the putative
Herbert Gold may, in fact, be Herbert
Morgan and a minister of the cloth to
boot the Tar Heel INSIGHT team has
turned up startling new facts.
According to Christopher Brookhouse
Armitage, Press Officer of the English
Department and himself a distinguished
short story writer, Gold came to Chapel
Hill at the invitation of a young Associate
Professor Max Steele. Armitage lives in
Nova Scotia.
Making a witticism, the Press Officer
noted, "He came as an alloy, and only a
Moran could mix things up."
INSIGHT learned, however, from a
source in Lenoir HaH that Gold may be in
fact the notorious Boston strangler Peg
Woffinton. An elderly table-hopper toid
our reporter, "Don't let Gold fool you.
He's a master of this identity game."
As if in confirmation, the elderly
Steele's office issued a news release sayinf
that Gold (soi disant) would give a talk
caUed "The True Lie."
Death Hit
Very Hard
By JED DIETZ
On June 4, I was in Bristol England
studying modem drama with a group
from the University. That day we
travelled to Oxford to see a student
production, and when we arrived the
news about the shooting was just as
sketchy as it had been in Bristol: Robert
Kennedy had been shot after claiming
victory in California and South Dakota,
but no report had been given as to the
seriousness of the wound. I tried to keep
track of things I heard and saw during the
succeeding twenty-four hours, and I
thought they might be useful now.
The picture that one saw everywhere
was that horrible one with the blank eyes.
A woman in the food market tried to
understand what he must be thinking.
"You know, he is a rather brash young
fellow, but he would make a civilised
President." An old man who overheard us
said he was from Ireland and started to
cry. The newspaper headline read: "No
Brain Damage."
"Americans are brutes. A man says
what he feels, he starts to challenge the
existing power, and he is shot. It happens
all the time in America." I was in a small
pub near TTrinity College. "How can
America tell any other country that she is
the model of how things ought to be?"
The first statement was made by a
student, the second by a don of Trinity
College. "America just cannot bear too
much leadership; I just hope he lives so
that you will have to make a choice. I do
not believe you want to." The
conversation ended after I agreed to come
to the don's apartment in the college the
next morning for tea.
It was a beautiful day, and I had gotten
up early to attend church in the Christ
Church College Chapel. As I walked to
Trinity College I stopped at a shoe store
to pick up some boots. Sensing that I was
an American, the shoemaker came out
from his work shop to tell me that
Kennedy had, died a few hours earlier.
"Why do you Americans have guns?" I
explained that many people like to hunt,
and they were kept for sport. His
response was unspoken, but very clear;
"some sport," his face said. "You have
never been very subtle about your
violence." With increasing defensiveness I
said that guns were part of the American
frontier, before and after the Revolution.,.
"Yes," he said, "as American as cherry
pie." :
I stepped back into the beautiful day,
feeling happy that the sun was still out. A
boy was selling newspapers, and the
farmers were busy setting up the market
place. The headline read: "God! Not
Again!"
students aren't helpless any more.
But don't worry folks, we won't be
having any of that. Them racicals will be
working on women's rules, something
that can be changed. Also we won't have
no fee-raisin' with women's rules.
Wow.
Sincerely
Marc Haynes
No. 4 The Glen
Chapel Hifl
Hang - Up
An informant in Murphy Hall, with
dose connections to the office of
Intramural Athletics, told INSIGHT that
the whole Gold identity imbroglio came
from an effort inside the department to
nave Ron Moran appointed
Writer-in-Residence. Moran is reported to
be disgruntled over not having his own
mug in the Lenoir coffee line, an honor
that comes only after ten years of service
or sixteen cups.
INSIGHT, after several false starts,
contacted the elusive Gold. Having
canniry vacated the plush suite put at his
disposal in Gerard Hall, Gold is now living
in the Carolina Coffee Shop.
"I am Herbert Gold," he told
INSIGHT. "Not to be confused with
William Golding, who. wrote "The Pirates
6f Penzance.' I live on Broadway in San
Francisco. I like it here. I am going to
leave."
Gold had made his first slip.
INSIGHT'S team of experts can report
authoritatively that Broadway is, in fact,
in New York and not in San Francisco.
Chancellor Sitterson's office had no
comment.
The middle-aged Steele, a former
barrister, said that Gold is being paid
$75,000 and free postcards of the Old
Well.
A march protesting Moran's
appointment will leave from Y Court at
midnight on Sunday.