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77 Year t Editorial
Poppycock
The State Senate Wednesday
tabled the already amended bill to
give students representation on the
boards of trustees of state-supported
colleges and university in North
Carolina.
Two of the amendments to the
bill would have taken away the
voting power of the student trustees
and required students to show up
for trustee meetings with a clean
shave and a "normal business man's
haircut."
The original bill, sponsored by
Sen. Ralph -Scott, D-Alamance,
provided that student body
presidents from the campuses of the
University of North Carolina and all
other state-supported senior colleges
and universities be ex-officio
members of the boards.
The original idea for student
trustees, as presented by Senator
Scott, demonstrated Mr. Scott's
understanding of the present student
problems and his willingness to try
to ninate some of those problems.
complaint common to all
stunt unrest in this country today
is the virtual void of a student voice
in the decision-makings processes of
the universities. Students feel in the
face of sometimes blind, deaf, but
powerful university administrations
and faculties.
Mr. Scott radiated awareness of
the problem with his amendment.
Unfortunately his colleagues lack the
perception necessary to serve as
effective, relevent, constructive
public servants.
Sen. Frank Penn, R-Rockingham,
introduced the amendment to strip
the student trustees of their voting
power. Sen. Edward Griffin,
D-Franklin, introduced the
amendment demanding clean shaven
student trustees.
Mr. Penn is apparently unaware
of the storm brewing in this
country. He is apparently unaware
that students will not continue to be
treated like animals on a leash for
much longer. It is fortunate for this
state that students here have not
resorted to the violence students
have employed elsewhere. It could
be said to be unfortunate that this is
no guarantee of a peaceful outlook
here.
Mr. Griffin is a disoriented public
servant indeed if he believes one's
appearance imputes anything to
one's character or intellect.
What is perhaps encouraging is
that the Senate, after passing both
amendments, tabled the bill. We
only hope that decision was made
because the senators suddenly
realized what reactionary rot the
prostituted bill constituted.
It would be refreshing to see a
State Senate which devoted its time
to working for constructive change,
as opposed to the poppycock being
served up now.
'Stand, Fight'
The U.S. Navy's Board of
Inquiry to investigate the loss of
the U.S.S. Pueblo finally reached
its decision earlier this week. They
recommended that Cmdr. Bucher
and several of his crew be court
martialed.
The Navy brass's decision is
consistent with the best in their
maritime tradition: "Don't Give
Up the Ship," and "Stand and
Fight," and other beautifully
ringing, eye watering patriotic
platitudes.
Legalistically, the Navy officials
may be justified in recommending
a court martial. But in terms of
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what is just and what is right,
Navy Secretary John Chafee.
followed the only possible course
of action. He prohibited the
courtmartial from proceeding.
Sure, the Pueblo crew didn't
"stand and fight," and they lost
their ship to the Koreans. But are
they really to blame?
Cmdr. Bucher and his crew did
not go into the spy mission on
their own wishes. They did not
make the decision to go in a craft
which was under-armed and
ill-adapted for destruction in case
of capture.
Of course they didn't stand and
fight either. But they would have
all been killed if they had. And of
course Cmdr. Bucher didn't have
to sign the false confessions. But if
he hadn't, the North Koreans
would have assassinated his men
one by one before his very eyes
with bullets through their heads.
So for following orders, saving
his crew, and bending under vile,
inhuman threats, Cmdr. Bucher,
according to the admirals, should
be court martialed. And especially
for violating the tradition of
"Stand and Fight."
No doubt that tradition is very
dear to the hearts of the Navy
Brass who sit at their plush
mahogony desks and send men
into battle. Those Admirals love
the tradition and practice it every
day.
They stand on their plush
executive ' carpets and fight for
more appropriations so they can
send more men such as Cmdr.
Bucher into battle -ill-equipped,
against their own choice, and with
peril to their lives.
Then, ,if the men don't live up
to the platitudes, the Admirals can
court martial them.
It might be a good thing for
everyone of us to consider what
we might have done in Cmdr.
Bucher's position. Would we have
defended the Navy's "honor" or
saved the lives of the crew?
We rather imagine most rational
people would have done the latter.
In recommending court martial
for the Pueblo skipper, the Navy is
prosecuting the better judgement
of each of us.
We are lucky to have
civil-minded civil officials such as
Secretary Chafee who put
compassion and common sense
over hopelessly outmoded heroics.
The Winner!
SAIGON UPI - According to
official figures, the United States
now has lost 34,651 men killed
and 222,300 wounded in Vietnam
since Jan. 1, 1961. A total of
1,308 U.S. servicemen are listed as
missing or captured.
Rut we're winning.
Credo
Is anyone becoming bored with
all this rot about death? If
someone ' missed our introductory
editorial on the subject, we restate
one of our basic premises: We're
all going to die.
Everyone who reads this daily
reminder will perhaps appreciate
that fact a little more. Maybe their
lives will be the better for it.
THEnMTAR HEEL
By MIKE COZZA
The celebration
which followed
Howard Lee's
victory in Chapel
Hill mayoral race
was a significant
conclusion to the
campaign.
The celebration
began at Lee
h e a d q uarters
Tuesdav evening as
Lee
began to pull
Roland Giduz.
ahead of his opponent,
By 9:30 p.m., after it was apparent Lee
was the winner, the happy crowd of
supporters moved into the nearby St.
Joseph's AME Church on Rosemary
Street.
More than 400 supporters, many of
them college age, crowded church's
sanctuary and overflowed onto the lawn
outside. The crowd seemed almost
evenly divided between blacks and
whites.
They had come to hear Lee's victory
statement.
Before the Mayor-elect entered, a
man with a radio to his ear announced
that Giduz had just conceeded the
election. Cheers and applause filled the
room, and someone led the crowd in
singing "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic" and "We shall overcome."
The Church
By DICK LEVY
Part One: Foreign Policy
Black and white; red, white, blue.
Either way okay grimly stationed on the
tube above two numbers passing weekly
past our conscious.
156 dead
1600 wounded .
Yep. It's been a good week. No
doubt about it. We're killing 'em. The
song says 256 Viet Cong captured.
Killed 212 northerners in one. battle.
How many people do they have
anyway?
156 dead. 1600 wounded. Can I
remember that for a week till they give
us the new figures? Never was much at
math or remembering things. Read
about one dead boy they're all
boys last week. Nice boy. High school
grad. Sang in the church choir. Guess
the family didn't mind cause he was
going to a better world or some such
groovy place.
138 dead. Or is it 176. Or maybe
212. Can't remember. But it was a good
week. Westmoreland says the Cong
almost won in 1966 Pacification
program was a total flop. Can't hit a
slant-eye with a mop. Heh! Hamlet
protection likewise. Lot of VD I guess.
Heh! I feel the itch now. Yeh!
I heard the troops are killing their
own lieutenants. Mostly on search and
destroy missions. Afraid to go in the
Conrad jungle when they can't see the
little critters lurking. (Not much more
Trying To
Dear Students and Others,
Before I leave this wonderful
institution of higher learning, I wish to
bequeath-to- the- remaining masses two
incidents mainly the ones that inspired
me to write this letter. The stories I am
about to relate demonstrate so vividly
one element of the University's
permeating bureaucracy in which there
is a great discrepancy between what is
supposed to be and what actually is the
University Mental Health Service. . I
would write a letter stating more
explicitly my opinion of the whole thing
to Mr. Sitterson if I had any confidence
that, in filtering through the
bureaucracy, the letter would ever reach
his eyes.
On Tuesday, April 29, for a
combination of reasons, I conconcluded
that I was in need of psychiatric help.
In more than a slight state of confusion
and despondence, I was taken to the
Mental Health Service by my regular
doctor, who informed the secretary that
he thought I was in need of aid. I was
first asked by the secretary if this was
an emergency. I replied that I wasn't
sure. Because I still had rational powers,
I was handed a personal information
questionnaire and an M.M.P.I-the
psychological test that students take
during orientation. After spending
approximately two hours answering
about four hundred ,,true-false"
questions on a computer-graded answer
sheet and filling out my questionnaire I
returned to find out what else I had to
do. I was informed by the secretary that
unless this was an emergency, I could
not be seen until the following Monday.
Still hoping for some guidance I
arranged to come Monday. '
My visit on Monday proved even
more rewarding. I was first asked by the
psychiatrist why I was there. Because I
was still somewhat confused, I replied
that I wasn't sure. Through a series of
questions and answers, I related to the
doctor the events leading to my decision
to seek help. The doctor, while planting
some occasional constructive suggestions
in my mind, concluded that I might be
in need of therapy. He then told me
that there would be some openings in
July; I would have to wait until then
unless I sought private aid. I was also
told that if I should have any problems
that there was always someone there to
help me with them. As a consequence of
myrt enlightening interview, I left his
H New Day Dawning
The latter song went through verses
of "We shall live in peace," and "Black
and White together." It was inspirational
to hear the integrated congregation sing
with pride and conviction. Their work in
the election had proven they were
committed to the words in the song.
Working together in harmony and
respect, and under the leadership of a
dedicated candidate, they overcame
tremendous odds to elect the son of a '
black share cropper as Mayor of Chapel
Hill.
. Lee entered the sanctuary to a
standing ovation and prolonged
applause. Several people in the crowd
raised their hands in the "V for
Victory" symbol that has become more
than a sign of winning; it now stands for
change, peace, justice the ultimate
victory."
"I knew you could do it," Lee told
his supporters. "Back in Devember,
when we began to talk of running, there'
were those who said the time wasn't
right, that this wasn't the place for it,
that we couldn't win.
"I said if it was ever going to happen
it would happen in Chapel Hill, and it
would happen now."
Lee said it was a long way from his
share cropping family in Georgia to the
office of Mayor in Chapel Hill.
"But there's a new day dawning," he
In Modern America:
heroic than those cowardly beardy
sandle dirties on tha campuses). Course I
heard of one guy who died in a bar
when he fell off a stool and hit his
head.
I really wish they wouldn't put news
about the war in the newspapers. I mean
the stats are always the same. It's
enough to make you believe in cyclical
time. Harking back to the archetype.
George Washington fighting off hordes
of Chinese. Why isn't that in the history
books? Might pacify the war critics.
156 bastard children
1600 syphillitcs Yeh! And glass in
your cotton candy. Saigon is a summer
festival.
General Ky is pretty slick looking.
Beautiful wife. Good looking black jump
suit.
Can you actually imagine the cops
coming and grabbing a red-blooded
clean-shaven American boy who was
reading Reader's Digest and drinking a
pepsi off his porch in one of the better
sections of town and taking him to
Leavenworth and throwing him in with
all those homosexuals with big fists if he
doesn't like the scene.
I saw Hurder the other day and I said
you know Wayne you could be
remembered as one of ones who got
them to end the war and he said I want
to be remembered as one of the ones
who didn't go to jail and he laughed.
One of America's most dangerous
heretics laughing.
Of course George Vlasits is still
walking around. Manages not to obstruct
See A Shrink Can Drive You Crazy
office more confused than when I went
in.
Today I was told of an incident even
more puzzling. A hysterical girl was
brought to the Mental Health Service by
some friends. Because the girl was
having a little difficulty talking, the
nurse asked the other girls whether this
was an emergency ...
I have since resolved my crisis, but
what of the others? In what mental
state does a student have to be before
he can receive help? Does he have to
slash his wrists or hang himself to prove
his point? Must he wade through forms
and tests before he can have an
audience? Must he wait until he can be
To the editor:
You find it "discouraging" that the
members of the Merzbacher Committee
are not willing to throw away the
concept of "the educated man" like an
old hat. Would it surprise you to learn
how discouraging your attitude is to at
least one reader?
I am not going to take it upon
myself to defend every course required
in the "general college" system of this
or any other school There are always
courses which can be improved. For
example, I have often wondered whether
a couple of semesters spent studying
scientific principles and methodology
would not have made me more
"educated" than peering at the entrails
of a crayfish. Perhaps courses in foreign
cultures and their literature in
translation would have been better than
several years of studying to acquire a
mediocre competence in the languages
themselves.
But shortcomings of this kind are
reflections on the way such courses are
set up, not on the concept of liberal
education itself. We are, alter all,
participants in what claims to be a
university, however much it may look
like a huge vocational school at times.
By becoming members of a university
community, we take upon ourselves the
responsibility of being more than job
hunters or industrial cogs. It is our
responsibility to study the great minds
and common cultural heritage of
mankind and gain what insight and
perspective we can for our own times
and our own duties. When we have
fulfilled this responsibility, we have
said. "We've had a lot to do with that
new day, and now we're going to see
some changes around here."
Lee affirmed his pledge to open the
doors of City Hall to any Chapel Hill
citizen black or white, rich or poor,
illiterate or educated. He said he wanted
all citizens to be able to come in and
make a contribution to a better city,
"and to know the contribution is not
only accepted; it is appreciated."
When Lee is formally inaugurated
next week, he will be according to the
popular phrase "the South's first black
mayor elected in a predominantly white
community."
It will not be an easy assignment.
Already the Mayor-elect has received
uncomplimentary, threatening telephone
calls to his home in the past few days.
No doubt this kind of bigotry and
misguided civic-mindedness will show
itself from time to time no matter what
Lee does in office.
But there is the hope that Lee's
administration can do much to
discourage such intolerance. The spirit
of the Mayor-elect and of the kind of
people who worked for his victory is the
hope of the future not only in the
South, but across our country.
As Howard Lee said Tuesday night,
"There's a new day dawning, and we're
going to see some changes around here."
And Outside?
traffic. And Howard Fuller isn't in jaiL
5,000,000 Jews were killed during
the Nazi holocaust. I can understand
why a lot of people can't believe that
Sort of like thinking about spending $71
billion on defense. But anyway we've
lost 30,000 in Viet Nam. 156 last week
but t'.iat was a good week youTl have to
admit.
At any rate that amounts to a lot of
scientists and professors and politicians
and criminals and politicians and
workers and alcoholics and car-owners.
Wish I could tell you how many but the
figures aren't available. But I do know
that 300,000 are wou:;ded and a lot
of those are maimed and even Bob Hope
can't help them though he makes them
laugh and the ministers say God will
help them so the papers can report them
lying there with no arms and one eye
gone but their disposition is cheerful
and they feel lucky to be Americans.
Unbelievable, as George III used to say.
Well, that means that if there are 3.7
Americans per family that more than a
million people are walking around with
a son or a brother or a husband or a
father dead or maimed. That's a lot of
voters, sportsfans.
And evidently a lot of Christians
because - they're the only ones who
couldn't stand that without even crying.
And that includes those Asians who
supposedly don't care about this world
anyway. I saw them in a film and take
my word for it they wail when they
pick up the dead charred body of a
napalmed child.
scheduled? I was laboring under the
delusion that the Montal Health Service
was established to prevent mental
degeneration, not facilitate it. I am sure
that the two above stories are not
unique. Obviously there is something
lacking.
In closing I want to wish all of you
the best of luck in the preservation of
your sanity during these hectic closing
weeks of the semester. A cool head to
all of you
Mike Carveth
119 Pine Street,
Carrboro
Producing 'The Educated
earned the right to go our own ways
with our individual interests. To delete
this liberal arts phase of education is to
produce atomized individuals, cut off
from the cultural heritage which
produced them and the cultural
continuum in which they should
participate.
We are told by a student
representative to the Merzbacher
Committee that education should make
the student open-minded and flexible
and that the way to accomplish this is
to let the student study only what
interests him. Does one become
open-minded and flexible by doing only
what he wants to do and thinking about
only what he wants to think about? Does
one achieve this exalted state by
studying only what happens to be
appealing at the ripe and infinitely wise
age of 17 or 18? I have always thought,
in my ignorance, that one should
educate his interests by being
systematically exposed to the major
fields of human thought, even if some
of them do not happen to interest him
in advance. In this way, he not only
finds new interests he might never have
encountered otherwise, but sees
connections between disciplines which'
would never have occurred to him. He
becomes more fully human. This, we are
now told, is both out-dated and a
violation of student rights.
Such talk may appeal to those who
think of academic rights without
academic responsibilities, those who
think education consists only of pleasing
oneself, or those who are primarily
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Course Requirements
To the editor:
According to an announcement on
the front page of today's Daily Tar Heel
(May 6th), the Academic Development
Committee will circulate a petition to
abolish all course requirements. In the
event that such a free track is opened
up for those students who wish to
follow it, there is an interesting question
as to what kind of degree they should
receive. At present, graduates receive a
diploma in recognition of their
satisfactory completion of some
faculty-approved program of study.
Under the proposed system, the program
of study would evidently be put
together by each individual student to
meet his own tastes., To presume that
this would lead to a diploma bearing the
University's seal of approval would
imply that this institution should give
each student an educational blank check
which he could then fill out in any way
he liked. If the faculty is expected to
approve a program of study, then the
faculty must have some rights in
specifying the contents of what it is
approving. If certification by the faculty
is not demanded, then perhaps each
student in such a free track could, at
such time as he considered appropriate,
write out and sign some such statement
as the following:
I, (name of student), have now
completed, to my satisfaction, a
program of study which I designed to
meet my own needs, and, by virtue,
of the authority vested in me, do
hereby declare myself to be a college
graduate."
W. Robert Mann,
Professor of
Mathematics.
Abolish WRC?
To the editor:
Hurrah for John Kelly! Now Student
Legislature should cut W.R.C.'s budget
down even further. The W.R.C. is an
ineffectual organization. It may have
some good intentions, but they are
always thwarted by well-meaning
protective girls on the council or by an
over-protective administration who
considers itself to be our parents and
sometimes does a "better" job of it than
our own real parents. Student
Legislature should now vote to abolish
the W.R.C. before it does more harm
than good and while they are at it, why
don't they abolish all social rules
altogether? YES even for freshmen!
Cotting White
206 McCauley St.
Man"
interested in being in fashion. It does
not impress those of us who see in a
really effective and imaginative liberal
arts program one of the most potent
methods of helping students to find and
realize their fullest potential. Surely
such a program is "relevant," if cur
humanity is the criterion of relevance.
Sincerely,
Marvin Lynn Witherspoon
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