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spoken so passionately
undoubtedly reduced his influence
on the court and may have decreased
the prestige of the court itself with
some Americans. But they have also
carved out for him in the court's
history an unusual niche and made
him a hero of those whose rights he
sought to protect the poor, the
powerless and the heretics"
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William O. Douglas
That is the way the Washington
Post epitomized the career of
Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas, who retired from the high
court Wednesday due to his ill
health.
Douglas was often in the minority
of the court's decision, and he has
become famous for his stirring and'
sharp dissents. But he should be
remembered not merely as a
dissenter but as an active
Following the passage by the
General Assembly of the United
Nations of a resolution equating
Zionism with racism, the world
position of the Jewish community
seems in a worse way than it has
been for years. Oil and Communist
inspired action in the world forum
has attempted to discredit Judaism
and its commitment to a nation
state.
One part of the Jewish
community that has continually
been in an insecure position is the
Jews in Russia. Various internal
policies of the Soviet government
have oppressed and discriminated
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of rights
spokesperson for causes and
individuals overlooked by many in
positions of power in our society.
Indeed, many of Douglas' dissenting
opinions were the basis for later
Supreme Court reversals. Whether
on the majority side or not, Douglas
argued for an interpretation of the
law which protected the rights of all
and which responded to the needs
for social progress.
Douglas will long be remembered
for his defense of freedom of
expression and First Amendment
rights. He has stood firm against
encroachments of freedom of the
press and freedom of speech and
habitually opposed opinions
restricting pornographic material.
We shall miss the presence of
Douglas on the high court. Several
cases, including ones on voting
rights and the appeal of North
Carolinian Jesse Fowler for his
death sentence, have been held over
for reargument so that Douglas (the
swing vote in the court's first ruling
restricting capital punishment)
could participate in the decision.
If President Ford continues the
trend established by Nixon of
appointing conservatives, the
absence of Douglas may be even
more obvious.
In his retirement, Douglas will
probably continue to write about
issues of importance to this nation
from his perspective as a defender of
the common man and the
underprivileged. We hope that his
health improves so that he can enjoy
his days away from the supreme
tribunal as much as he seemed to
enjoy his days in those chambers.
We shall remember him as the
justice who acted as a friend and
defender of "the poor, the powerless
and the heretics."
against the Jewish community in
that nation.
Tomorrow night members of the
North Carolina Hillel Foundation
will demonstrate against the Soviet
discrimination outside Carmichael
Auditorium where Carolina will
take on the Russian basketball team.
The protestors do not mind
international basketball; they
simply wish to remind us of the
plight of Jews in the Soviet Union.
That is the kind of reminder we
must take seriously in these days of
international disrespect for the
rights and religious preferences of
our fellows in this world.
Oiar
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Men are
To the editor:
Thursday Nov. 6 several friends and I
went to the Meg Christian concert sponsored
by AWS. Two of the friends were male, and
when we entered, the person taking tickets
requested that all men sit in the back,
because it was a women's concert and some
of the women would be intimidated by the
presence of men in the audience. Other than
the obvious discrimination involved here,
there are two points I would like to comment
on concerning the attitude of the women at
the door.
First, men should not be denied access to
women's music. Men have dominated the
recording industry as much as all others, and
men's music (in the sense of music written
and sung by men, as well as music by women
artists that involves only men) has
dominated the production of the industry.
What is needed here is not denying men
access to a new and improved form music
by and about women. Women have for years
been expected to tolerate and even identify
with blatently sexist drivel such as that
typifying the Rolling Stones or J. Geils, to
randomly name two. At the same time, these
women obviously don't think men should try
to at least sympathize with women's music, if
it is impossible for them to identify with it.
Also, it strikes me as odd that women
interested in women's music and the
movement in general should feel intimidated
by men, especially those who are supportive
of us.
My basic point is that I really don't think
men are the enemy. The status of women in
the world will not improve until they think
more highly of themselves, but this does not
include thinking negatively of men as an
autonomous group, nor will the status of
women improve if we start treating men as
women have been treated for centuries as
people whose opinions are not tQ he
respected and who don't have much
intelligence. One of the problems with the
women's movement is that women have
started acting like men. To quote Pogo: We
have met the enemy and he(she) is us "
Laura Dickerson
1 1 1 Spencer
Thomas Isenhour
Research improves teaching
Today's article on "publish or
perish" was written by Professor
Thomas L. Isenhour, chairman of
the Department of Chemistry.
Professor Isenhour is the author
... ofabom p&bMcatipns including
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Department has "ah 'outstanding
research program: in the past
decade, members of the faculty
have won 12 national research
awards (8 Sloan, 4 Guggenheim).
Last year the faculty of 33 wrote
164 scientific articles and was
awarded 1.4 million dollars in
federal research funds. Last year,
also, the Chemistry Department
taught over 10,000 student
registrations, awarded 29
graduate degrees and 135
undergraduate degrees the
Department of Chemistry has
been the leading producer of
bachelor's degrees in the nation
for 5 of the last 6 years. In the past
decade, members of the Chemistry
faculty have won two national
teaching awards and 8 University
teaching awards (Tanner,
Standard Oil and Amoco).
"Publish or perish" is one way of
stating that in the modern university
young faculty members who do not
actively contribute to the advancement
of their subjects are not tenured. Publish
or perish is certainly practiced by the
Chemistry Department.
Why? Because the practice of good
research is actually inseparable from the
practice of good teaching insisting on
an active research orientation on the
part of each faculty member is one of the
best ways to achieve a quality teaching
department. In order to be an effective
not the real enemy
Neuter persons
To the editor:
As a recent column in another newpaper
pointed out, the suffix "-man" on words like
"chairman," "alderman," and so on, does not .
come from the same place as the male noun
"man."
The suffix "-man" comes from the same
root as the German word "mensch," which
means "person."
Therefore a "chairman" means exactly the
same as "chairperson" so why change it?
The "-man" on the end of "chairman" is just
as neuter as the "-son" on the end of
"chairperson."
By the way, I noticed in a recent article a
DTH reporter got so carried away with using
"chairperson" that he failed to spell correctly
the name of the chairman of the Romance
Languages department. How about a little
more concentration on accuracy and a little
less emphasis on pointless "reforms" of the
English language?
Bruce Tindall
Y-7 Kingswood Apts.
Greenville class
To the editor:
1 would like to respond to a letter printed
in the Tuesday, November 1 1 issue of the
DTH concerning a student's experience at
East Carolina University on Halloween
night. His logic was astounding: Greenville
police used excessive force to quell a
disturbance, so obviously it follows that
ECU students and N. C. State students must
have "very little class". However, one cannot
judge the character of a large, diversified
university by the actions of a few hundred
students on one given night.
The same would hold true for UNC. I
know of few other North Carolina colleges
that in the last two years have booed noted
speakers off the stage and pelted popular
entertainers with trash when they visited the
Publish or perish?
...or teach?
Last in a five part series
teacher in a dynamic, evolving subject
such as chemistry, it is absolutely
essential to remain current. While the
rare individual may do so without
actively participating in the scholarship
of the subject, the best and easiest way to
remain an informed chemist is to
conduct active research. In addition,
chemistry is not merely a collection of
frequently-changing facts which the
bibliophile teacher-scholar must
constantly catalogue for classroom
presentation; it is a creative process of
exploration and discovery (research!)
this too the teacher must impart to the
student. And this is something he most
certainly cannot do if all he does is
prepare and present lectures.
The purpose of the university is the
collection and dissemination of
information. The collection of
information proceeds by hiring
educated faculty, buying books and
journals, attending meetings and
visiting other institutions and, not the
least of importance, adding to the
campus. Should we therefore assume all
Carolina students are rude by judging this
very limited sampling?
As for ECU's students not liking Carolina,
more correct would be to say that students at
most other North Carolina colleges don't
like Carolina. Unfortunately, a portion of
UNC's students have long reflected an
unwarranted social and intellectual elitism
that has chagrined students at other schools.
The comment on the ECU-UNC football
game points up another fact. It was a big
game for ECU, as much so as UNC's games
with Ohio State or Notre Dame. I'm sure
there would have been some hell raised and
boasting going on in Chapel Hill had UNC
won either of those games.
Finally, if the above mentioned student
has had so much "class" bestowed on him by
simply being enrolled at UNC, what did he
hope to find in Greenville?
Will Perry
189 Nature Trail
Unclassy criticism
To the editor:
In response to Mr. Ellis' blatant attack on
ECU, I think he should show a little class
himself by not generalizing that the ECU
students have no class. I went there and I also
graduated from East Carolina and 1 like to
think that 1 am above what you say is not
classy. Personally, I think those students
were just doing what they felt like doing,
which is have a good time. It sure seems that
people at Carolina are ready to attack ECU
whenever they can, but they sure don't want
to face up to their own weaknesses.
By the way, that victory celebration a
couple of weeks ago was just a reaction to all
the unclassy criticism Carolina people have
given to East Carolina since time
immemorial.
Robert Allen
39A Colonial Apts.
Durham
world's knowledge by carrying out
scholarly research. The dissemination of
information is accomplished both by
classroom teaching and by writing
articles and books which are used in
other schools, government and
industrial laboratories.
As chairman of a modern chemistry
department, well-recognized for both its
research and teaching
accomplishments, I cannot imagine
recommending tenure for a young
professor who is not dedicated to a
career in teaching. Neither can 1 imagine
recommending tenure for a young
scientist who does not show the talent
and inclination to carry out a quality
research program.
When one hears the phrase "publish
or perish" it brings to mind the idea of
some brilliant young teacher who,
because he devoted his total efforts to
serving students, was fired for lack of
published research. While this may
occur occasionally, it is much more the
exception than the rule. The greater
danger is to tenure a group of professors
who do not participate in the
scholarship of their discipline and tend
to teach material which becomes yearly
more out of date. To be sure, an
individual who devotes every moment
out of class to preparing lectures or
talking with students is likely to become
well-organized, a polished lecturer, and
be highly respected by his students, even
to the point of winning teaching awards.
But these students may be cheated by
being taught material that may be 10, 20
or 30 years out of date. H ence, the policy
of "publish or perish" is an important
mechanism for helping to create a
quality faculty capable of quality
teaching.
Richard Whittle
Intellects,
beachies,
organics
I have the distinct feeling that there
are a number of people around here
posing as intellectuals who don't really
know their gluteus maximus from an
excavation.
It's really obvious, if you just look
around. Chapel Hill probably has more
tweed coats, pipes and briefcases per
capita than Lehman Hall at Harvard.
Of course, there are other groups
categories, if you w ill of people in this
town who make their presence felt also.
Most obvious are the "beach boys,"
who can also be recognized by their
mode of dress. If you want the statistics,
just ask local merchants how well
Adidas shoes, T-shirts, bubblegum and
Lite beer are doing this year.
Then there are the "organics" that
echelon in society w ho seek "relevance"
in every thought, word and deed. The
organics are also fairly easy to
recognize. They can usually be found
jaunting down Franklin Street in a pair
of Earth shoes, and they have a repulsive
habit of telling you to "have a nice day."
But I'm most interested in being able
to identify the intellectuals those who
are for real, that is and we all know by
now that you can't judge a turkey by his
dressing.
So, in an effort to find out who the
true intellectuals around here are, and in
the process allow those of you
undergoing your own identity crises to
find out where you fit into the big bingo
game of life, I have devised the following
quiz.
Points for each answer are in
parentheses. Answer each question, find
your total, and see where you fit in the
scoring chart below:
The quiz
1 . On a Friday night, you most like to:
(a) sit quietly by the fire with a glass of
brandy and toy with the inherent
contradictions in the notion of survival
in disembodied existence (5); (b) cruise
for chicks but not at Colonel Sanders'
(0); (c) settle back with a few friends
preferably enough for a makeshift
encounter group and flip through
The Joy of Sexy comparing notes (3).
2. Your favorite magazine is: (a) The
New York Review of Books (5); (b)
Consumer Reports (3); (c) Reader's
Digest (0).
3. After seeing the movie "Jaws" you:
(a) couldn't bring yourself to go to the
beach all summer (0); (b) made a mental
note to write Ralph Nader and ask him
to find out if the director killed any real
sharks (3); (c) wondered who told you
before you went that "Jaws" was
directed by Fellini, remembered it was
your mother, then tried to keep from
flaring the next time you saw her (5).
4. Your favorite recording is: (a)
Bach's B Minor Mass (5); (b) Rod
McKuen Reads His Best (3); (c) The
Temptations: Live (0).
5. If you only had time, you would: (a)
reread the plays of Ibsen (5); (b) reread
The Greening of America (3); (c)
vacuum your car (0).
6. You think the word "diphthong"
means: (a) an unsegmentable, gliding
speech sound varying continuously in
phonetic quality (5); (b) a disease similar
to goiter you think it's caused by
using cyclamates (3); (c) a pair of
Filipino-made sandals (0).
Your score
0-10 Coolbreeze. G o directly to the
photo machine in the pavilion at Myrtle
Beach. Stick one finger in the air,
display your beer can with the other
hand. Take four snapshots.
1 1-20 Touchy-Feely. You may be
young, but it's a cinch you were at
Woodstock. Join a commune, or a food
co-op. Boycott grapes, if you haven't
already started. Relate.
21-30 IQ-plus. There's a lot 1 could
tell you, but little you'd listen to.
Anyway, give up reading Sartre. There's
no point in becoming an existentialist
when you're going to die anyway.
Richard Whittle is a graduate student in
journalism from Greensboro.
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