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Thursday. December 12. 1063
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Up latlg
76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Bill Staton, Business Manager
Black Students' Demands
Deserve Action, Study
"1 w Black Student Movement
has found that UNC is guilty of
denying equal educational
oppo-umitics to minority .group
neinhcrs of the local community,
the state of North Carolina, and the
"jtion-al large. This prestigious
tstitulion of higher learning has
maintained and intends to
, crpetuate educational inequality
!' i ough its selective admissions
procedures.
: "In addition, the University has
fucii totally unconcerned and
unresponsive to the needs of the
Hlack Community and the working
conditions and relations of the
! lack non -academic workers. Not
? ily has the University been
j'uilantly unresponsive, hut also has
taken full advantage of the Black
iion-a ademic workers and has
jliscriminated against Blacks in
hiring and promotions. It has
sought to pay the least allowable
wages and whenever possible, even
'o reduce these minimum wages.
he BSM sees this as the most
iolent form of oppression and
enial of human dignity"
: That', the introduction to the
BSM's list of demands on the
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tThe Word Game
"Demand" is not a very nice
word, especially in our current
world where conflict at national
.and societal levels has bred a
proliferation of "demands" by
opposing nations and organizations
on each other.
! "Demands" have come to the
'Chapel Hill campus now in the
. form of a list of improvements that
: the Black Students feel need to be
'.' made here.
"Demands", however. is a
somewhat inaccurate word for what
the Black Student Movement has
; presented to the chancellor.
"Necessities" is a more accurate
one, for the list of things they want
! are necessities if black people in
America are ever going to be more
than outcasts from our affluent
society. "Demands would seem an
. unnecessary word since many of
the items in their lists are natters
that would be granted without a
demand having to be made if
? administrators would consider them
with fairness and without
considering the political
environment in which the
' university is. Unfortunately this
may not happen.
Administrators may not be
amenable to the list of "demands"
because many of them are highly
critical of their performance and a
couple seek the removal of
administrators Dean t!0- Cathey.
and Carolina Union director
Howard Henry. This would
. probably color their view of the
, rest of the demands.
Likewise, there is the problem of
the state political system. White
North Carolinans have never shown
themselves to be overly friendly to
blacks, especially when they don't
; -'know their place. A state that at
' the turn of the century spent ten'
' limes as much money per white
! student for education than per
' black student, couldn't be expected
to show blacks fair treatment.
And so, what should be
considered to a large degree
"necessities" now take on the aura
of "demands" because of some
unfortunate intervening variables.
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Dale Gibson, Managing Editor
Rebel Good, News Editor
Harvey Elliott, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr., Advertising Manager
University a very stinging
indictment of the Administration,
and, unfortunately, true to a
degree.
The demands that they present
are, too a large extent,
reasonable some are so completely
reasonable that they deserve
immediate action from the
Administration; others deserve
much consideration from the
Administration.
The most reasonable demand
that they make is for
discontinuance of SAT scores as a
criterion for entry of black students
into UNC and reliance on high
school performance and
recommendation because of the
cultural bias inherent in the tests.
Considering the University's past
record of progressivism it is
surprising that the University hasn't
done this already, for both blacks
and poor whites. What they are
requesting is in line with what
many psychologists have said about
the tests and in line with the recent
report on Planning For Higher
Education In North Carolina.
The report recommends "that all
institutions in the state actively
recruit students, black and white,
who have had educational
sdjsadvantages '- but whojappqar. jJ&J
have The ability to do collegework
and that the institutions provide
remedial and compensatory
education and special counseling as
needed."
The other demand that is a clear
necessity is the demand that "the
University begin working
immediately to alleviate the
intolerable working conditions of
the Black non-academic
employees," and immediately make
some constructive changes.
The Black employees, most of
whom make around $3,000 despite
the fact that many have worked
here for several years, often have to
work split shift, are subjected to
being called by their first names
after they have asked not to be, and
run into consistent "bad luck" in
dealing with officials on matters of
pay raises, overtime, etc.
The BSM's demands are fully
justified on this issue.
Likewise, for their demands on
curricula (although their list of core
courses should not necessarily be
the exact pattern.) A program of
study on African and
A fro-American problems is justified
on both academic and utilitarian
grounds. Academic, because what
they suggest is just as worthy of
study as European history or Asian
Culture, etc. Utilitarian, because
the type thing they suggest would
greatly benefit both black and
white society in helping to bring
about a settlement of their conflict
through expanded knowledge of
black culture on the whites part
and through advancement of black
society by black leaders who have
studied such matters.
These three demands are the
most reasonable and deserve
immediate action. The others
deserve immediate investigation and
speedy consideration by the
Administration. Many of them
strike us as justifiable but deserving
of more attention before any
decision can be made.
Members of the Black Student
Movement will meet with
Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson
today to discuss the demands. We
hope that the Chancellor will
recognize the need to accede
immediately to three of the
demands on the basis of their
merits and to immediately consider
the other requests openmindedly.
Sam Portaro
Umaliemableg' Not Mere
Once upon a time some very learned
men wrote the words "life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness" and included
some cloudy gibberish about "unalienable
Rights." The students on the campus of
this university, and others like it. are
being deprived of at least two of these
three "unalienable Rights." Realizing that
there are those who consider themselves
wiser than the young adults who are
rebelling against the infringement of their
rights, we contend that widsdom does not
give license to suppress the rights of
others.. Wisdom is a relevant abstract
based on the criteria of a society, but
"unalienable Rights" are universal and
God-given.
The college population is composed of
persons from eighteen to twenty-two
years of ago (in the case of undergraduate
students). An eighteen-year-old Ls no
longer considered a minor in legal terms.
At the age of twenty-one most societies,
including our own, acknowledge a
person's claim to adulthood. However,
the college campus is another matter.
In this era, after completion of
secondary public schooling, one either
enters a career, the military service, or an
institution of higher learning. Only the
last assumes the role of "in loco
parentis." The former choices offer
release from the home and the
opportunity to govern one's life as one
wishes. Why should those who go on to
pursue more knowledge be forced to
forfeit these rights?
The purpose of any college or
university is to educate. Any other
function performed by the institution is
likely to infringe upon human rights. If
wisdom is the product of experience,
then this university is opposing education
when it forces students to give up
experiences available to those persons of
comparable age outside the academic
community. If the academic community
is truly a community, it should be run
like one by the civil law. The laws which
protect ordinary citizens should be
sufficient for the campus as well as the
city.
It stands to reason that if a
community can be run effectively by its
members, a campus can be run just as
efficiently by the students.
Most states have laws to protect the
individual from the power and
exploitation of monopolies, but this
university, is in many respects, as
menacing a monopoly as any oil or coal
tycoon. No university should have a
More Mail
To the Editor: 1
I remember the UNC basketball teams
several years prior to the '66-67 season.
Those teams had great players, but lacked
the essential player to build a truly great
team around; the good big man.
Inevitably, at our basketball games and
in basketball bull sessions, someone will
make a derogatory remark about Rusty
Clark's play. Admittedly, Clark, as others,
makes mistakes (which are easier to
detect than the errors of a smaller eager).
Why doesn't an error by another player
elicit the same criticism that Clark's does?
It doesn't.
What would the results be if we
replayed the basketball games of the past
several years without Rusty Clark? Think
about it.
Sincerely,
Don Raker
217 Morrison
Writer Cites
To the Editor:
In reply to Mr. William E. King, I am
for the black man and his natural right to
all the privileges and responsibilities of
being a man. But, Mr. William E. King,
. you show your ignorance when you say
"that the Jews have not suffered the
dehumanizing effects of Africans
imported to America." Sincerely,
Pamela Boring
P COUftSE TUB FCltrS
zb a little oifficultto manage
monopoly on public services or in the sale
of goods.
No community will banish an
individual's automobile from the territory
because of three minor parking
infractions, but this university uses the
power to do just that.
The list of injustices is almost
unending, but it is easy to see that one's
pursuit of happiness is hampered by petty
rules added to those of the local, city,
and state governments. But. more
importantly, the presence of an "in loco
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Letters To The Editor
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To the Editor:
The Black Community of this area
asks a Christmas gift of you this year: not
canned goods and old clothes, but your
cooperation in the boycott of certain
Durham businesses. The remaining days
of this year are critical for the success of
the boycott. Your sympathy with the
plight and the aims of black people is
empty if, through ignorance or
indifference, you spend money in one of
these stores.
When you shop in Durham you are
committed to one of two sides on this
issue, like it or not. Know that there is no
middle ground. Know that, regardless of
your motives, money spent in a
boycotted store is a gift to the status quo;
it is an act against the goals of black
people everywhere.
There can be no gray Christmas in
Durham this year.
Jay S. Birnbrauer
Linda J. Rodd
Psychology Dept.
Visiting Hypocritical;
To the Editor:
It seems that the basic argument used
by the administration to legitimatize their
victims on visitation in the dormitories is
that the University owns the building,
therefore the University has the right to
tell occupants what they can do and what
they cannot do. The University manifests
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parentis" institution is an infringement
upon one's liberty and the fulfillment of
his life.
The University may educate with
lectures, but it can never successfully
prepare a person for life outside the
institution unless it allows the student to
experience this life. Some schools have
recognized this, but until the lazy UNC
hen gets off her eggs, she is only going to
suffocate her chicks. Perhaps the only
solution is for the chicks to turn their
beaks up ward and continue to peck.
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this right in the form of Visiting
Agreements. God only knows who agrees
to these things,- but they must be. ..
approved by the Dean of Men and the
Dean of Women.
Now, the University has the
President's Residence and the
Chancellor's Residence listed as Campus
Buildings on maps enclosed with every
copy of the Undergraduate Bulletin, so it
is assumed that these buildings are owned
by the University, too. Are there any
visiting agreements for the Chancellor's
Residence or the President's Residence? I
suspect not. So, I must accuse the
University of neglecting it's duty to the
voters of the state by having no such
agreements.
Also, I would like to point out that
one of the Housemothers was recently
seen admitting a man, obviously not her
husband, to her living quarters. She then
closed the door. For this reason, I can
accuse the University of nothing less than
flagrant hipocracy.
As for ownership of the buildings, it Ls
said that since the University built and
paid for the buildings, the University
owns then. Has the University forgotten
who pays about $150 a year for the cost
and upkeep of each room? What
happened to "The customer is always
right?"
Since the University has chosen to
ignore so many of these conditions, I will
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History Curric
To the Editor:
There will be a meeting at 8 p.m.
tonight in 112 Saunders Hall for the
purpose of forming a permanent
association of students interested in
improving the learning environment and
curriculum for undergraduates in the
history department. One of the main
functions of this organization will be to
elect five students to serve with the
faculty committee on history curriculum
evaluation.
Two proposed improvements in the
undergraduate history program include
opening wider opportunities for
independent study and assigning majors
to advisors in their fields, but
opportunities for change are extensive.
This is your chance to work for more
interaction between student and
professor in the history department.
Through the Undergraduate History
Association, your organization, you will
be able to work to put your ideas for
improvements in the history curriculum
into effect.
We strongly urge you to attend this
meeting.
Sincerely,
Robert Mcstellei
March Comments
To the Editor:
If the group which marched down Easl
Franklin Street this afternoon to promote
"free speech for GI's" could have heard
the general comments made by spectator:
they might not have been so confident.
One can ignore such comments as "Hi
sweetie" and "Want to borrow my soapT
But the allusions to SS troopers an
Facism were too numerous to be so easih
dismissed. I trudged home pondering thi
implications of soldiers in politics.
Sincerely
Harlow M. Morrisoi
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