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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Friday, October 25; 1963
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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Vayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
Library Treats
Unjustly In
The UNC library has committed
a gross injustice against 26 of its
employes, an injustice they should
not allow to continue.
Because of overhiring on the
part of the library this year, it has
decided to cut back on the number
of hours its student employes can
work.
What does that mean for the
students? It means that the
students, many of whom have
determined their budgets on the
basis of the number of hours the
library had earlier told them told
could work are in a financial bind, a
serious one.
The order from the library
officials is particularly damaging to
those students who are on a
work-study program; they get one
dollar for every hour they work.
Thus, when their time is cut,
instead of losing a $1.60 an hour,
they are losing the $2.60 an hour
they had counted on making.
So what's the reaction of the
Library officials who are making
the students pay because they
miscalculated? They seem to think
the students can get jobs elsewhere
to make up for the cut in time.
That's an absurdity, as many of
Politicization Of Masses
By Radica Is AF u tile Effort
From the Harvard Crimson
RADICALS view American
society as being dominated by a
relatively small group of people an
elite, more or less tightly
co-ordinated, that benefits
considerably from the present
system. Under this upper crust lies
a vast semi-oppressed white
lumpenproletariat and a clearly
oppressed black proletariat.
Such an analysis of the situation
leads a radical to the conclusion
that his tactics should be to
politicize the masses so they
recognize that their class-interest is
being thwarted by a tiny minority.
So the Progressive Labor type
cuts his hair, puts on a T-shirt, and
goes to work in a facotory so he
can talk to the workers and educate
them about their true plight. The
fallacy of such an approach lies in
the assumption that the process of
converting someone else to one's
own beliefs is a purely intellectual
one. It is wrong to suppose that all
one has to do is to present the
worker with facts and figures and
expect him to be "educated" into
understanding that his real enemy is
the capitalist establishment. It is a
myth that a lifetime of cultural and
social indoctrination can be
nullified by any cool and rational
expose.
The amazing ease with which
George Wallace has managed to
divert the attentions of the
working-class from real inequities
to imagined and irrelevant ones
demonstrates the power of values
that have been long instilled. When
the working class man frets about
his "high" taxes, he does not pause
to worry about the loopholes by
which the rich escape paying
anything like a fair share because he
is preoccupied instead with the
thought that his money is being
given out in some fraction to
welfare recipients. He is more
suspectible to the latter viewpoint
because all his life he has been
taught to believe that a man should
work for himself to amass as much
wealth as he can in ceaseless
competition with everybody else.
The radicals have correctly
identified their constiueny-the
Dale Gibson, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Joe Sasiders, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr, Advertising Manager
dents
Cutback
the students who had their time cut
back found out last Monday. Many
of the 26 went by the Student Aid
office to find out what job
opportunities -were available. The
answer: none.
What now? As one student
lamented, "I cannot take out a
loan; I am already up to my ears in
debts. It's going to be a struggle to
make it through the year."
The library might have hired less
people at the start of the year and
then hired some more during the
year . if it found some of the workers
quit. But no, they couldn't do that;
they had to take chances with the
finances of those students who.
depend on working a certain
amount every week in order to get
through school.
Rather than punish these 26
students for their own
shortsightedness the library should
accept the punishment involved in
messing up their budget in order to
keep their promise- to these
students that they can work a
certain number of hours per week.
The- library should immediately
start letting these 26 persons work
the number of hours it said they
could work when it hired them.
people who are attracted today to
Wallace-but they have no way of
reaching these- people. This
disjunction has crippled the
American social movement.
Moreover, even if the Left
miraculously managed to stimulate
the working class to full
class-consciousness and succeeded,
in pulling off a social revolution to
supplant the old elites with a
workers socialist state, there is no
assurance that a solution would
have been affected.
From our meager knowledge of
socialist states in practice (quite
apart from what Marxist theory
predicts) and the dismal history of
the Soviet Union in particular, it is
likely that another stultifying
bureaucracy and an intolerant,
repressive system would emerge in
this country. The problem of
alienation from a society that is
based on the dehumanizing
principle of competition between
humans will not automatically
disappear in a state which places
the worker's interests before those
of other classes. In the Soviet
Union in fact other classes have
sprung up and this development is
inevitable as long as there has been
no fundamental change in the
prevailing value-system. The task
before us is not to create a new
kind of state but a new kind of
person.
AND THE only place to start is
with yourself. The principles of the
good society aimed at creating what
Fidel Castro calls the "communist
consciousness" have already been
glimpsed by many people. This has
oeen the gr.eat spiritual
contribution of the hippies to the
American political thrust of today.
Unselfishness, generosity, no
hangups about one's personal
possessions-this is the faith on
which the. improvement of future
human societies depends. Along
with these go the quintessentially
hippie virtues of individual
self-creativity and confident
'self-expression, a reverence for
beauty, a gentleness and openness
in one's dealings with others, an
unwillingness to submit to riaid
schedules.
Stu
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Conservative Trend 9 Is
We've heard a lot of talk lately about
the conservative trend in American
politics. And that's all it is-talk. -
The people who are promoting this
so-called "swing to the right" have some
clever arguments to prove its existence.
But they will not stand up to cool,
judicious" scrutiny.
In describing their trend, the
conservatives will tell you that it began
just before the 1966 election, when
Americans first became disenchanted
with the Great Society. They will tell you
how Americans realized the futility -of
If given a free choice, 57
per cent of American votes
would prefer someone other
than the three major candi
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Republican conservatives.
But they will be wrong. The leading
Republicans elected in 1966 were New
York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New
York City Mayor John Lindsay,' Oregon
Senator Mark Hatfield, , Illinois Senator
Charles Percy, Massachusetts Senator
Edward Brooke, and Michigan Governor
George Romney. If you told a
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Editor:
Re. Roger Thompson's letter printed
on Wednesday, October 23 concerning,
"since when did students start 'getting
paid for 'doing their own thing'?"
The question of who is to be paid in '
Student Government is one which
certainly, demands more time and
attention than Mr. Thompson has given it
in his letter. Is he saying that because a
student agrees to take on the
responsibility for a project that he should
not be financially compensated for his
time and effort? If so, then the
$22,540.00 which Student Government
will pay to compensate over forty
students this year (source: 1968-69
Student Government budget is also
lining the pockets," as Mr. Thompson
puts it, of some "do your own thing"
people. Perhaps he is saying that people
who are working in Student Government
on a salaried or a commissioned basis are
not "do your own thing" people. He
might ask the President of the Student
Body or the Editor of the Daily Tar Heel
if they are doing their own thing. Clearly,
the question is much more complex than
Mr. Thompson gives it credit to be.
Concerning the issues of financial
compensation for the "three students"
working on the Course Evaluation
Booklet which precipitated the Oct. 23
letter. Mr. Thompson again has missed
the point. In mentioning "three students"
I presume that he is referring to the
Editor the Computer Analyst, and that
SrL0f he book's budSe set aside for
otoii paiaries. If Mr. Thompson is
Hireling with those people who think
aLuuwiis snouid be paid for a good day's
work why did he forget to mention the
tact that financial compensation is also
planned for at least four members of the
booklets business staff? The services
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alanyst, the editorial staff, and the
business staff are equally important to
the creation of a final product. Why
should one group be paid and the other
for "frLe"f PeCted t0 Wrk l0ng and hard
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Student Legislature would be wise if it
drew up a set of clear guidelines that
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conservative that these men were
conservative, he'd laugh in your face. Yet
he expects you to believe they are the
shock troops of the rightward swing.
Probably the best argument a
conservative can make today centers
around the presidential campaign. He can
assert that Nixon and Wallace, who are
conservatives, are running strongly while
Humphrey, who has always been a liberal,
is far behind. And he can probably
produce the latest poll to prove his point.
There is one poll, however, that he
might have a hard time explaining. A
recent Lou Harris survey the only poll of
its type that we've seen reveals that, if
given a free choice, 57 per cent of
American voters would prefer someone
other than the three major candidates.
Of course there is room for error in
any survey. But 57 per cent is a
conclusive figure, especially when you
remember the conservatives have two
good candidates (by their own definition)
while the liberals have only Hubert
Humphrey. A
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A conservative, of course, will argue
that this poll really doesn't mean very
much. After all, the major campaign issue
is law and order, and anyone for law and
order must be a conservative, right?
Wrong. Nobody condones wanton
violence, least of all a liberal. No one has
fought as hard for civil rights and
economic progress as the liberal, and no
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(would) outline how and when students
merit payment for Student Government
work." But it seems incredible to me that
he also suggests that Legislature should
reverse all previous precedent (i.e., editors
of all student publications receive a salary
now, and always have) and refuse
payment to people who commit their
time and energy to a good cause merely
because they are students.
True, Student Government cannot
afford to pay everyone a salary or a
commission, but it would be a good idea
for us to examine the problem in a
systematic, rational manner.
Self-righteous indignation in the form of
"I don't get paid, so why should you get
paid?" is senseless and serves no one's
cause, let alone that of a fair, "credible"
student government.
Sincerely
Doug Morgan
Chairman,
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UNC Band Praised
After Drenching
Editor: "
In a time when it seems as if
everybody is trying to downgrade
everybody else, we would like to take one
of the few opportunities which arise to
heap praise on one of UNC's most
neglected organizations the Marching
Tar Heel Band.
The band went out in the torrential
downpours Saturday at Kenan Stadium
to put on a show that the University can
easily be proud of, especially since it's
hard for the University to find something
like that these days." Major Yesulaitis and
the band sat in the rain longer than most
of the fans, splashed through a 13-minute
halftime performance with near.
perfection, and provided most of the
inspiration and spirit when the wet stuff
shorted out the cheerleaders electric
megaphones. How many other University
bands would have attempted such loyal
deeds''
Yes, the band put on a great show, and
one would more hate to see all the
accomplishments go down a violent,
reaction-producing drain. And many of
the strongest law and order people are
northern blue collar, union workers who
are liberals on economic matters.
While emphasizing law and order,
there is the risk of overlooking the issues
that usually play an important role in
presidential elections. Bringing in that
sense of history conservatives always
claim to remember 1964.
In that campaign Barry Goldwater, a
true conservative by anyone's yardstick,
'Conservatives icon'f give
up. They'll continue to ped
dle their snake-oil arguments
to whoever will listen.9
had strong reservations about Social
Security, Medicare, TVA, nuclear test
bans, and even graduated income tax. If
there were a conservative trend today,
certainly there would be much talk about
abolishing these liberal items.
But there is not.
Even Richard Nixon, whose forces
killed the non-proliferation treaty in the
Senate, won't admit he's opposed to it
for fear of the political consequences.
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what do they get in return? Nothing.
They put long hard hours of practice into
each week's show and the University gives
them nothing. Besides that, the Marching
Tar Heels have to pay a fee at the
beginning of the season just to allow
them to do this.
Once upon a time, the band received
free date tickets at all home games and to
all away games like last season for
instance. It started out that way this year,
but then the price went to $3.00, and
now it has moved to $6.00 just as
everybody else. Date tickets are all the
band had. Now they're gone.
Our hats are off to a DAMNED GOOD
BAND. What would this stingy University
do without the Marching Tar Heels?
Sincerely
Alan Dry
Dennis Benfield
Chris Cobbs
Garth Bissette
Richard Furr
Glenn Jarrett
Garry White
Bill Bovender
Don Davis
Bob Poole
Jimmy Price
Henry Schmulling
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increased Social Security benefits. And
Wallace almost physically pulled Curtis
LeMay from a microphone the other day
when the general began to talk about
nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
Fight Communism
Speaking of Vietnam and about
foreign policy in general the conservative
line is, and traditionally has been, that we
must fight communism whenever and
wherever it threatens anyone. Almost
without exception American
conservatives have supported VS.
involvement in Vietnam and have
castigated dissenters for "giving aid and
comfort to the enemy."
If there is any lesson about the war
that we have learned in the past
year from primaries or polls it is that
most Americans reject the conservative
position. They are dovish, they don't seek
a military victory, and they especially
don't want to get stuck in another
Vietnam in the future.
So there you have it. The "rising tide
of conservatism" holds little water. But
the conservatives probably won't give up.
They'll continue to peddle their snake-oil
arguments to whoever will listen.
But don't be suckered in. Remember
how in touch with the mood of America
the conservatives hve usually been.
They fought Social Security ever inch
of the way. They opposed Medicare and
test bans and non-proliferation. They
supported a militant foreign policy. They
said we'd win in Vietnam if only we'd
send more troops and bomb the north.
They predicted the great "silent
America" would elect Goldwater. And
they said McCarthy didn't have a chance
in New Hampshire or Oregon or
anywhere.
Now the conservatives say the country
has suddenly turned to the right
They are as right on this as they have
been on everything else.
Vocabulary
Makes
"I don't care if it's wet and squishy 'long
as I've got my Maharishi Glued on to the
dashboard of my car."
In 1948 the conversation was cars.
It was new chrome jobs and piston
rings, special camshafts and tachometers
on the walnut-panelled dashboard. It was
channeling, chopping, lowering, raking; it
was bore and stroke, transmission ratio
and special fuel. It was street slicks and
quick stops, away at the light and
who's-chicken-off-the-clif, and most of all
it was a man someone knew who could
fix something.
In 1958 the conversation was Hi-Fi.
It was woofer and tweeter and input.
It was components and hook-ups, amps
and ohms. It was special assemblies and a
hand-rubbed Philippine mahogany
cabinet. It was a Garrard turntable and a
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pair of Altac speakers in just the right
corners of the room. It was a Fisher
amplifier, acoustical panelling, diamond
needles, and most of all it was a man
someone knew who had the parts to fix
anything.
In 1968 the conversation is all Karma.
It's who's got it smoother, who's got
the purer sound of bliss. It's who's soul is
best tuned up, and whose mind is in
harmony. It's heaven-on-earth in low gear
and a resonance in the heart. It's shifting
into a higher plane and play-it-again Sam
with the dulcimer. It's beads, Khurtas,
and Indian accessories suitable for
the cosmic trip, it's a room full of incense
for just the right sound for your inner
peace. And most of all, it's a man
someone knows who can choose a mantra
to fix any soul.
If the cars paralleled the new
technology of speed, airplanes and
rockets thrusting miles into oblivion; and
if Hi-Fi was the reflection of the
micro-technology of TV tubes, radar sets,
and all the mysterious electronic devices
of James Bond and Cape Kennedy; then
the Guru-wave we are in now must reflect
something.
Despair, perhaps; withdrawal from the
race of engines and turntables, from the
sonic boom and the strontium bomb. It's
into the tomb womb of "it's not
happening to us" on the skin side outside,
or if it is, it doesn't count because where
if s at, is in.
So there is mystery in the day to day
combat with Now; but there are also
parallels that are striking, for the chatter
is reminiscent and the sound is the same.
It's a smoother running engine, turntable,
or soul. And we all have our favorite
brand name.
Hare Krishna, KrishnamurtL Meher
Baba, Maharishi, Parmahansa Yoganada,
Satchitananada it's just a list of current
available parts. And someone is sure to
know a man who can get it for
you whole souk