Wrestling Cancelled
Hong Kong flu, brought to
the United States by
Chou-En-Lai and other
Commie infiltrators in the new
Nixon cabinet, has wiped out
Washington and Lee's wrestling
squad. Thus there will not be a
match tonight. See page 5.
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Memorial iiall tonight and
Saturday night at Memorial
Hall at 8 pan.
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76 Years o Editorial Freedom
Volume 76, Number 70
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DTH Staff Writer
"The responsibilities of business are the same as my own: to
remedy injustice, to find the courage to free oneself from Des and
to love mercy."
These words, spoken by Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, UNC political
"fvc UI Ultfbbor. onenpn a npnatP Honnpulv nitrht Kntnn r.avp in ts Ir shnnt tnmsht ' horo c nr. snniimra that ran
Lipsitz and Mr. E.N. Brandt, director of public relations for Dow reproduce the anguish of unnecessary death. There is no
Chemical Corporation, on "The Business Community and the eloquence that can confront us fully with the realities of war.
ar" This eloquence is denied to us yet it is because of these
The debate, held before a packed-house audience in Gerrard realities and only because of them, that we are here. And
Hall, drew enthusiastic response from a crowd that was split on a whatever I say is an attempt to call us back to them. We must
partisan basis almost evenly between the two sides put forth achieve a perspective on ourselves. We stand in the shadow cast
during the discussion. by the piled-up ashes of the dead of an unjust war."
It was concerned with Dow's involvement in the production of Brandt said in his opening statement, "Dr. Lipsitz accuses us
napalm and other weapons being used in Vietnam and the of being callous. Apparently he is not aware of the wav business assurances of careful use of weapons; and to believe that the
company's right to recruit on the UNC campus. works. Certainly, he is not aware of the wav Dow operates." existence of highry-imperfect democratic processes is in itself
Brandt told the crowd that Dow "thinks this is a lousy war, He explained that he would agree that the company should reason to dismiss all questions of despotism and immorality. In aS
and injust war, but we feel we should supply what our troops stop making napalm for the government when the government these decisions Dow is wrong."
need since this is a national committment." became tyrannical. Brandt countered by saving that since Dow began
In his opening remarks, Lipsitz said, "There is an eloquence That would be "when vou begin to find that all the civil rights manufacturing napalm in 1955. it has conducted ""thorough
denied to us when we talk about ultimate matters, the matters we are being trampled on and civil liberties beins washed awav ." he discussion" on the matter and encountered "many doubts," He
saio.
Lipsitz went on to say that Dow, "like thousands of other
businesses and American people, has deferred to the belief that
our leaders are honest and well-intentioned."
Claiming that Dow has failed "the first test of good citizenship
in a democracy, which is to subject all government claims to
proof," Lipsitz said, "Dow has decided to trust there is a
fundemental decency in American policy; to accept their
rationales for our Vietnam involvement; to swallow military
Wont
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DocHoirai&es
By TOM GOODING
DTH Staff Writer
or
Doctorate degrees
programs leading to them will
not be offered by the two new
branches of the University of
North Carolina according to
Consolidated University
President W7iDiam Friday.
Friday in a speech to a
regional meeting of UNC
trustees and members of the
General Assembly concerning
the proposed new Consolidated
University of North Carolina
branches at Wilmington and
Asheville said, "I want to make
it clear that the action of the
University board of trustees on
Dec. 2nd was based on the
notion that these . two.
institutions would continue in
the foreseeable future as
undergraduate institutions
should they become members
of the university system."
The board of trustees voted
on Dec. 2 to convert
Wilmington College into "The
University of North Carolina at
Wilmington and
Asheville-Biltmore College into
"The University of North
Carolina at Asheville." If the
proposal is passed they would
become the fifth and sixth
campuses of the Consolidated
University.
President Friday said, "We
have proceeded under the law
in this matter. Wilmington and
Asheville-BBtmore petitioned
for membership in 1962. Last
January, a study committee
was appointed and it reported
to the university board of
trustees, which approved the
report."
Before it becomes law the
proposal will first have to pass
the State Board of Higher
Education and the General
Assembly.
However, an opposition
group, led by UNC trustee
Watts Hill Sr. of Durham, tried
unsuccessfully to have the
institutions designated as
"colleges of the University"
and to prohibit them from
offering doctorates.
Watts Hill Sr. is the father
of the Chairman of the State
Board of Higher Education,
Watts Hill, Jr., and it is felt
that he was expressing the views
of his son. A move is also
underway to get state colleges
that are not a part of the
university system to issue
statements concerning the
matter.
Approximately 40 members
of the General Assembly and
UNC trustees attended the
regional meeting, the fourth in
a series of six planned to be
held across North Carolina.
President Friday and the
chancellors of the four
University branches discussed
future plans for their
institutions and outlined their
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DTH Staff Photo By Tom Schnabel
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CONTEMPLATING A.N. Brandt of the Dow Chemical Company ponders an issue raised by UNC
professor Lewis Lipsitz at the debate in Gerrard Hall Wednesday night.
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said that the company's board of directors, after bavins
"consulted many wise persons," reached the decision that they
had to go on making nap aim" not because the government said
to, but because we had reached a free decision that it was the
right thing."
Much of the debate also centered on charges on m discriminate
use of napalm in the war in Vietnam.
"If they (the Dow officials) had looked at this war and at
American foreign policy impartially they could not be so assured
about what they are doing. They would see first that the weapons
they are making are being used as weapons of terrorism on a
massive scale. They would read the reports of doctors and
military analysts about the indiscriminate bombing cf villages.
They would learn about the free fire zones where anything alive is
a target. They would note the enormous number of civilian
casualties 80 of which are estimated to be caused by American
artillery and bombing."
Brandt replied by saying that "in the type of war that is being
waged in Vietnam, napalm is almost indispensable."
"We have looked into charges, "he continued, "that napalm is
being used for genocidal purposes in Vietnam. All evidence
indicates that no such thing is going on .r . American troops are
not barbarians."
He cited a report made by an American doctor named Rush
who toured Vietnam for the New York Times. Rusk claimed that
only two per cent of the 400 American doctors in Vietnam whom
he talked to, reported having treated cases of napalm burns.
Lipsitz countered by saying that napalm is very often fatal and
that most victims probably do not have access to any medical
facilities.
Forty -five minutes were allocated following the opening
statements to questions put forth by the audience.
One student asked Lipsitz how he could advocate an
appearance here by Stokery CarmichaeL who calls for
revolutionary violence, and then deny Dow the right to recruit at
UNC.
Lipsitz, who like Brandt remained calm and unruffled by
audience reaction throughout the debate, coory answered that he
had never said he agreed with Carmichael and that he had never
advocated the hymning of Dow representatives or any other
persons from the UNC campus.
In response to another question, Brandt said that Dow
considers the Vietnam conflict "a lousy, stinking war. The
question is, however, do we go ahead and make the weapons our
troops need. We decided yes."
Dow recruiters have been met with 203 demonstrations since
the company began producing napalm. There have been 15 such
demonstrations this fall out of 143 schools yisited by Dow
recruiters.. -,.-.
The debate was sponsored by the YM-YWCA and resulted
from an incident last spring in which 15 persons, including 10
students and teachers, were arrested while protesting the presence
of Dow recruiters on the campus.
.Denomincedl
By J.D. WILKINSON
DTH Staff Writer
Two members of the Chapel
Hill-based Biafra Children's
Relief Organization attended a
symposium on the Biafran
situation held at Columbia
University in New York, Dec
6-8.
Participating in the First
International Conference on
Biafra were Ndubisi Egemonye,
a Biafran student at UNC, and
Money
By BRYAN CUMMING
DTH Staff Writer
A group of 18 graduate
students who are receiving
financial aid from federal
grants or the GI Bill have
signed a petition pledging "a
portion of that Government
money in support of Draft and
War Resistance organizations."
Federal Grant Recipients
Pledged To Draft
David Yam, one of the
students who conceived the
petition, says that its purpose
is "to make it publicly known"
that students are
government policies and that
federal money is being used to
support this resistance.
Yam, a graduate student in
the Department of Sociology,
wTorked on the petition with
Bill Herron and Eric Blumberg.
All three are members of the
New University Converence, a
group of graduate students and
resisting faculty members.
1 he money to be
contributed by the students
includes approximately $100
pledged to the North Carolina
Draft Resistance Union and a
lesser amount to The
Open House Privileges
Not In
Effect
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By BOBBY NOWELL
DTH Staff Writer
Open House privileges for
tonight have been revoked, it
was announced Thursday, in
order that final details of
implementation be worked
out.
In a letter from the Dean of
Men's office, sent to College
Masters, House and fraternity
and sorority presidents, the
planned first trials of the
experimental visitation policy
tonight were called off so that
committee on visitation
could work out the final points
of the policy today.
However, from every
indication given, other planned
Open Houses scheduled before
Christmas wise given the
.ro-ahead. Many houses,
according to their college
masters, had requested and
passed Open Houses for Friday
through Wednesday of next
week.
The joint committee on
visitation was to meet this
morning at 7 o'clock, with
"matters of interpreting points
of confusion" about visitation
the only announced agenda.
Among these is thought to be
the exact duties of the Host
Committee for each Open
House.
A meeting of the Chairmen
of the various Host
Committees is also scheduled
for this afternoon.
According to Charles
Jeffress, a member of the
visitation committee, there
seems to be some question as
to whether members of the
three-man host committee
selected by each house should
be "on patrol" during visiting
hours or eligible themselves to
entertain guests in their own
rooms during these hours.
Questions have come from
housemothers of women's
residence halls as to what then
duties should be during open
houses.
Another matter which likely
will be considered is the
esistance
Resistance, a national
anti-draft organization.
All of the students who
signed the petition receive
some from of federal aid, from
the following sources: National
Defense Education Act,
'National Science Foundation,
National Institute of Mental
Health, and the GI Bill.
Yam says that all who
signed the petition are aware of
the possibility that their funds
might be discontinued, but
Yam adds, "I don't expect any
repercussions" from the
petition.
If he is not allowed to
contribute his funds to the
draft resistance groups, Yam
syas that he will refuse the
funds altogether.
The petition states the
students' intent to support
draft and war resistance
organizations, explaining, "wre
do so in open condemnation of
our country s
Joel Polin.
Egemonye and Polin talked
Thursday about the conference
and some of the principal
speakers who were present.
Egemonye said that Peter
Enahore, former editor of the
Nigeria Daily Times and the
brother of Nigeria's minister of
information, spoke on "How
Nigeria Says It Happened."
Enahore, wrho was forced to
leave Nigeria because of his
opposition to the nation's war
with rebel province Biafra, said
that Biafran independence is
not the real issue.
Enahoro said that Biafrans
have been persecuted by the
ruling hausas and, for their
future security, must have their
own nation.
The hausas are a Moslem
group and represent a majority
of Nigeria's people. Most of the
Biafrans are Christian Ibos.
Since the country gained
independence, there has been
bitter rivalry between the two
groups. The Ibos, who in the
past controlled much of
Nigeria's business and'
professional activities despite
their smaller numbers, were
slaughtered by the thousands
in violent outbursts which
preceded Biafra' s secession.
Enahoro concluded that
Biafra had, in reality, been
driven out of the nation.
Maxwell Cohen, a New
York attorney who just
returned from a fact-finding
tour in Biafra, told the
conference that genocide was
being waged against the
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Chancellor Carlyle Sitterspn
had no reply to 12 Black
Student Movement BSM)
representatives Thursday
afternoon, telling them that he
would respond in writing to
their demands after he had
considered them.
"I didn't have an
opportunity to see the
demands until today,"
S itterson said in an interview
Thursday.
"I told them that these were
expensive demands and that I
will give them consideration.
"I will not respond at this
time, but will submit a reply in
writing, just as they submitted
their demands in writing."
The BSM presented a list of
23 demands to Claiborne
Jones, assistant to Chancellor
Sitterson on Wednesday. The
BSM included among the
demands the dismissal of
Cornelius Cathey, Dean of
Student Affairs, and Howard
Henry, Director of the Carolina
Union.
y
emands
Henry had no formal reply
to the demand, but said, "It is
unpleasant to have this to
come up, but it doesn't change
my position on anything."
The BSM had demanded
that Henry be fired because,
"he misled the BSM on policies
of the use of University
facilities."
Dean Cathey was in a
meeting and could not be
reached by the DTH for
comment.
the
vicious
people
war
of
against
Vietnam."
"We feel that the injustices
and inequalities within our
own country can neither now,
nor in the future, be resolved
by the pursuance of agresshre
and rapacious external
process of selection of the host policies," the petition states.
committees.
Also there may be some
objections to the number of
consecutive open house dates
for the next week, as
mentioned earlier in this
article. The Open House policy
states there may be more than
10 dates in a month, with no
more than three in any week.
The signatures on the
petition, which were gathered
over the past three weeks,
include Wayne Clark, Timothy
Knowlton, and Martin
Violette, all of whom are
military veterans who spoke at
the rally for GI free speech
sponsored by the United
Anti-War Mobilization Front
Dec 7.
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FINALISTS Finalists in the 1969 Maid of Cotton contest are
UNC coeds Wylene Commander (left) and Lindy Beazely (right).
The girls will compete, along with 18 others, for the title m
Memphis, Tennessee January 2-3. The winner wIH r.s?p a
six-month international fashion good will tour for the Amerksn
Cotton Insdstry.