Tuesday, October 22, 1968
Pape 2
Tom Shore
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
Slowdown In
A Healthy Sign For UNC
The Experimental College this
week begins its fourth semester of
existence at North Carolina.
After three semesters of
increasing participation in the
classes of the Experimental College,
this year enthusiasm has shown
signs of waning as fewer people
offered to teach courses and the
rush to sign up for the courses was
more molasses-like than at any
point in the brief history of the
venture.
Why the slowdown? Is it
bureaucratic bungling in the
organization of the EC or is it
increased apathy on the part of the
students?
THE ANSWER TO those
questions is an unqualified no.
Rather than being a bad sign, the
situation in the Experimental
College shows an increased
healthiness in the University.
The reason for that can be seen
by examining the purpose behind
the establishment of the
Experimental College.
The EC was started in spring of
1967 by some students who were
fed up with a method of teaching
common to most Universities in
which the student is given an
assortment of facts and told to
remember them in some fashion
that will please the instructor when
regurgitated onto a blue book.
These students wanted an
educational process that would
involve them personally, not as
static memory banks, but ..as
persons who would learn from
involvement in learning situations.
They decided that an
unstructured Experimental College,
where there are no teacher-pupil
relationships of the type that spoil
the regular University, and where
there are no grades that emphasize
competition rather than learning.
THE EXPERIMENTAL College
was and is looked on as "a
challenge to the University to look
critically at itself and to meet the
demands made on it by changing
generations of students," according
to a flyer put out by the,
Experimental College.
This last statement helps explain
what has happened to the
Experimental College. The
Experimental College made
educational reform an issue on
campus for the first time. Students
who participate in it or just
watched from the sidelines quickly
realized that they were missing a lot
in their regular classrooms.
As the number of educationally
aware students has increased there
has been an increased interest, not
just in participating in the
Experimental College, but in
changing the University and the
methods of education here.
Thus last spring some students
got together within the
Experimental College to design a
political science course on urban
problems that would embody their
concepts of the best way of
learning and for which they could
get credit. That course was
approved by the political science
department and is being taught this
semester.
EXCITED by that event
students and faculty members have
taken some actions which, while
moving students away from the
Experimental College, do so only in
an attempt to make UNC a better
place for learning.
For Example:
-Dean Raymond Dawson of the
General College has appointed a
committee headed by Eugener
Merzbacher of the Physics
Department to give the General
College a very critical study;
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
Exp. College
ThP nn ltical science
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department has appointed a
committee, students included, to
examine the curriculum in the
department;
-The sociology department,
likewise, has appointed a
committee to critically examine its
curriculum. Students also will
participate.
AMONG the organizations that
are opening new means for
involvement in educational reform
is the Experimental College. It is
setting up several courses aimed at
altering educational life at UNC.
-"Task Force on A University
Urban Studies Program;5' which will
seek to get an Urban Studies
program here because of a feeling
on the part of some students that
"this university ... has not
responded impressively to the
changing urban environment."
-"New College" an attempt to
establish an experimental
residential college area in which
residents will have great freedom
in making social and academic
decisions.
-"How to Start Courses for
Credit in the Multiversity;" a course
on How to Cut through
bureaucratic red tape so you can
start your own courses.
-"Seminar in the Problems of
Higher Education: What does the
University Owe the Student?" A
decision of the role of the
University in our society.
r r-"D epartrnntal,, , Orgaruzing" ;
how students .. can organize for
curriculum changes at the
departmental level.
RATHER than the
response to this
limited
year's
Experimental College being a bad
sign, it is a healthy one; rather than
persons not signing up for the
Experimental College out of
apathy, it is out of an increased
participation in other means of
education reform.
For the Experimental College,
which is fostering the demise of
itself as originally conceived by its
efforts to create new means of
involvement, there is a need for it
to reexamine and renew itself, a
need which the Experimental
College Coordinating Committee
plans to meet this fall.
Educationally, the students and
faculty here are making
encouraging strides towards
improvement of the methods of
education
WITH a continuing willingness
to let all persons participate in
educational reform and with a
continuing effort to subject all
institutions to critical evaluations,
including those such as the
Experimental College, students and
faculty should be able to vastly
improve the quality of education
here, so that students leaving UNC
will know they have the proper
educational tools for coping with
their environment, something that
is denied them to a large extent
now.
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UNC JBrug ' Policy Unenlightened
I attended the anybody-welcome drug
policy meeting recently. It seems that
there are a few matters which need
clearing up.
First, I would like to announce that
there is' a difference between the three
basic drugs (marijuana, heroin, and
L.S.D.) which many people equate.
Marijuana is a narcotic only by law. It is
'Heroin produces a total
high, during which it is im
possible to he anything but
high.9
medically classified as a hallucinogen.
There is no facutal evidence that it is
addictive (as defined by the World Health
Organization), its use produces no
tolerance, and there is no physical
dependence or withdrawal syndrome like
that associated with the opiates (opium,
heroin, morphine, codeine) and their
related synthetics (Methadone,
Meperidene, Dollophine).
It is a mild drug producing "as short
term effects: Relaxation, euphoria,
increased appetite, some , alteration of
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mericans To Lo
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On October 7, 1968, the Columbia
Broadcasting System showed in a recent
poll it conducted that if the election for
the President were held today the results
would probably stack up as follows:
Nixon 360 1
Wallace 66 n
Humphrey 10
electoral votes
The main inference that one might
make from this poll (and six (6) other
6 There will be no Nixons
around then because the Lib
erals will have surely locked
them up in the Tower of Lon
don and given the key to
Moscow . .
similar ones!) is that the American people
are ready for a change. And not just a
change of leadership, but a change of
thought as well. The American people are
not only sick of riots, inflation, the
Vietnam War, and the general loss of
"ethics" in this country, but far above
this-they are sick of the school of
thought which has wrought this
catastrophic condition. The American
people are sick of LIBERALISM.
This inherent reversal in our course
was marked by the elections of
1966 when the uncalled-for Goldwater
phobia began to wear-off. The American
people were finally saying, "Hey, if we
don't stop "pussy-footin' around" over in
Vietnam, inflation and riots all of which
the Democrats seem to keep
contemporary we're going to be in
trouble!" And so the American people
voted in a horde of Republicans a good
many of whom were conservatives.
And so here we stand in 1968. The
people seem to be happy with the results
of the Republicans who came to power in
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time perception, possible impairment of
judgement and coordination" (Joel Fort,
M.D.). Long term effects are: "Usually
none. Possible diversion of energy and
money" (Joel Fort, M.D.). After use,
there is no discomfort, nausea, or
headache like that associated with
alcohol. Most popular myths concerning
marijuana result from an intensive
anti-pot publicity campaign conducted by
the U.S. Government in the Thirties. This
campaign was not based on medical fact,
but on the thoughts of a few puritanical
bureaucrats who found themselves out of
a job with the repeal of Prohibition.
Heroin's Total High
; Heroin is entirely different It
produces a total high, during which it is
impossible to be anything but high. To
the person in an oppressive environment,
it offers complete escape. It is
habit-forming, with withdrawal resulting
in violent malfunction of metabolism,
sickness, and in 33 of cases of complete
abrupt withdrawal death. The addict
craves his drug somewhat like a starving
man craves food. The drug causes
tolerance, which necessitates
ever-increasing doses. The true addict
needs a fix every 6-10 hours, just to stave
off withdrawal and to function as a
normal human being.
Heroin is a dangerous drug and is
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Lib
Into
Circular
1966. And so now they're saying, "Hey,
why don't we go all-the-way on this
"Republican thing" and return to the
good old days when your house was your
own, you fought wars to win them, and
you saved your money becuase you knew
that it wouldn't be inflated the next
week."
And so the American people are
finally pulling-out of this liberal-ridden
apathetic state-fighting not only to stay
alive for today, but for tomorrow as well.
Yes, Richard Nixon will inevitably
become our next President and save the
American flag from being stepped on by
some of the students at Columbia
University, our rather elite, malignant
"pseudo-intellectual" outgrowth, .and the
"yippie-Viet Cong-flag-bearing elements"
of our society, but who will be able to
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Letters To
Editor:
Mr. Spence in his recent letter, had
some interesting things to say concerning
theism versus atheism and their equality
as illogical "dogma". The following are
two of his main points with a brief
analysis of each: ,
(1) "Only personal 'revelation can
prove for an individual the existence or
nonexistence of God." The first part of
this assertion is true: since there is no a
vriori, logical proof of God, one must
base any rational belief on revelation (if
one believes that such revelation is not
simply illusion stemming from a muddled
unconscious). But to say that atheism,
just as religion, must stem from such
revelation is absurd-a contradiction in
terms Atheism is a negation of the
supernatural and therefore cannot rely
upon the supernatural to validate it!
(2) "Agnosticism is the only rational
alternative in the case that neither the
distance nor the nonexistence of God
can be proven." (This is not a direct
quote, but is a clear inference.)
rightly controlled- However, the abuse of
heroin carries the same legal penalties as
the use of marijuana.
L.S.D. is newer than heroin (1898)
and marijuana (used since dawn of time).
It was synthesized in 1932. It is an
extremely potent, mind altering drug. I
return to Dr. Fort for a description of its
effects:
Short term effects-production of
6 (The anti-pot campaign)
teas based on the thoughts of
d jew puritanical bureaucrats
who found themselves out of
a job with the repeal of Pro
hibition,9 visual imagery, increased sensory
awareness, anxiety, nausea, impaired
coordination, sometimes consciousness
expanding. Long term effects-Usually
none. Sometimes precipitates or
intensifies an already existing-psychosis;
more commonly can produce a panic
reaction when person is improperly
perpared.
There are also unverified reports of
eralis
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turn the tide in future decades when our
apathetic injection wears-off and we see
that these cancerous elements in our
society have, in fact, come to power and
it is really later than we thought! There
will be no Nixons around then because
the Liberals will have surely locked them
up in the Tower of London and given
the key to Moscow (along with that
skeleton key to the United States1.).
Yes, Liberalism is dead for today (and
God grant that it will remain that way!),
but its venom remains in all that which
we hold so dear to us searching with
ever-sharpened fangs for a soft spot.
And so we must not only unite under
the flag of our country, but also under
the flag of unity and stability, and we
must engrave as our motto CON
SERVATISM! The Editor
Technically this is true,' and such a pure,
albeit naive, open-mindedness is.
scientifically admirable. But to state
generally that one is agnostic regarding
religion is to hide behind confusion as an
escape from the thought and courage
necessary to hold rational convictions.
For on the very same principles one must
consider oneself agnostic regarding the
gods of Olympus: one cannot prove
logically that these "beings" did not
exist. To carry the plight of the agnostic4
further, using his own principles
consistently, one can define a Giant
Yellow Monkey, invisible and made of
"spiritual matter", that resides in the
"heavens" and controlls the tides and the
fish of the sea in His own omnipotent and
"mystical" way. The existence of such a
monkey cannot be disproven.
Does Mr. Spence feel
such a monkey exists??
that perhaps
Sincerely,
"Robert A. Brandenburg
G-2 Brookside Apts.
chromosomal damage.
L.S.D. Dangerous
It is evident that L.S.D. should be
controlled. Legal penalties are usually less
severe than those for pot. The National
Student Association, after hearing both
sides, resolved the following:
. Local, state, and Federal
governments stop all punitive and
criminal approaches to the use of
Cannabis (Marijuana and hashish), a mind
altering, non-addictive drug;
2. Re-evaluate their laws on
hallucinogenic drugs in light of current
scientific research ...
Here on this campus we have drug
policy. It was imposed on us by the
Administration and is presently without
student ratification. It consists of all drug
users being turned over to civil authorities
and tried by a faculty-administration
court. Don't let the wording fool you.
Use constitutes possession. The
administration is adament in its stand and
has repeatedly stated that it will not
compromise its position. Obviously, this
system constitutes double jeopardy.
Currently under consideration by student
government are two bills dealing with
drugs. One, the "hands off bill proposes
student courts ignore drugs. This
eliminates double jeopardy and
disassociates student government from
the questionable illegality of certain
drugs. It would also be a first step in
breaking away from an authoritarian
administration.
The other bill is much like the
previous policy with student-faculty-administration
courts and a redefination
of the role of the R.A.
It would be in the best interest of
studenvs rights for the "hands off policy
to be passed. Passage of this bill would
clearly raise student government from its
position as heedless, administration
flunky, and point it toward a true
representation of student's interest
Visitation
Not Seen
Accurately
A letter defending "the liberty of
non-visitation" appeared in Thursday's.
Daily Tar Heel, indicating that there is
still some confusion on this issue which
started with a petition two weeks ago.
The author of the letter is horrified at
the thought of boys wandering around in '
girls' dormitories. Apparently she is
unaware that the petition is concerned
with the visitation of women in men's
rooms, not vice versa.
The writer also predicts that visitation
will become a permanent policy at UNC,
whether the students really want it or
not. This fatalistic assumption stems from
basic ignorance.
Dorm's Separate
The petition on co-ed visitation
requests that each dorm be given the right
to determine its own policy on visitation.
This means that the students in each
dorm would have a genuine influence, for
a change, over the regulations that govern
their lives.
If the petition were put into effect, a
girl who opposes the idea of visitation
may possibly reside in a dormitory that
approves of visitation (of women in men's
rooms.) But this policy in no way
interferes with the privacy, or
maidenhood, or whatever the girl wishes
to 'preserve, of that co-ed who prefers
separation.
The letter also assails the idea of
voting for something simply because it is
"liberal." the author of the letter implies
that people who favor the policy of
visitation do so simply because it is
liberal, and UNC should have a liberal
reputation, etc.
It shouldn't need to be said that the
label of an issue is irrelevant if co-ed
visitation were called "conservative,"
then this label wouldn't have any effect
on the issue and people's opinions on
visitation.
It may be true that visitation is not an
ultimate goal of .those students who
sponsor the petition. But the ultimate
goal is not a label, such as liberalism; "
rather it is a principle, that of student-self-determination.
Label Incidental ;
The letter stated that it is immature to:
vote for visitation simply because it is
"liberal." Indeed, the label is merely,
incidental, while the issue itself is
substantial. It is just as immature for the
person who wrote the letter to assume
that labels are the criteria of co-ed
visitation.
Whether the objections to visitation
stated in the letter are justified remains a
subjective matter. But the logic behind
the objections is clearly grounded in
ignorance. -
It should be understood that the co-ed
visitation petition concerns only the
visitation of women in men's rooms, that
each dorm asks for the right to determine
its own policy, and that the ultimate issue ;
being tested is whether students will have'
a voice in their own affairs.