8 The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, October 27,
Ghk. Porter
Editor
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A reaffirmed commitment
Chancellor N. Fercbee Taylor's recent report on minority representation
at UNC is both a-welcome expression of conce rn on the part of the
University administration and a real step in the right direction toward
increased numbers of black and female faculty members.
Taylor's report notes that blacks still make up only 2.4 percent of the
total faculty even after a 1 75 percent increase in b lack faculty s ince 1 972. A
24 percent increase in the number of female facultj t members since that year
has raised the female proportion to 18.5 percent of the entire faculty.
As Taylor himself has observed, the situation mseds to be turned around.
The Chancellor has proposed a program to do just that but, according to
Taylor, "deans, directors and chairmen must joun vigorously in the effort
The program calls for a "special focus of attent ion" on the recruitment of
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Chancellor Taylor which outstanding minority
students will be given special attention. He also will initiate a new program
to reach prospective minority students and their parents and to acquaint
them with the educational opportunities at UNC.
While we are far away from honoring bur commitment to equal
opportunity for all. Chancellor Taylor's most recent proposals have
reaffirmed that commitment and can help m ove us toward our goal.
The Daily
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letters to the editor
M elver dorm apologizes, Lewis terrorizes and
To the editor:
To the residents of Manly and Grimes:
We extend our deep felt sympathy to you
but circumstances beyond our control
prevented us from stopping by your dorms
for "support" during the now famous
Carolina Jock Raid of Oct. 18. We started
our friendly adventure in Lower Quad. After
being doused with water and disappointed
with the lack of visible support there, we
decided to investigate the merits of Upper
Quad. We continued our quest for suitable
jocks at Mangum. Many "moons" later, still
empty handed and slightly damp, we decided
Mangum was hopeless. We were ambling
towards Manly when a Resident Housing
employee appeared with several Ruffin
coeds in tow. "Why don't you girls go back to
the triad?" he said. "We don't allow things
like this to go on over here." (He was
perfectly friendly with his request and only
doing his job, we suppose. Though we
suspected someone might complain that our
little escapade created noise, we can't
imagine any male not finding our social call
entertaining!) Then we were escorted out of
the quad, thoroughly disappointed that we
were unable to heed the cries of Grimes and
Manly and to accept their offerings of
support. We did not leave Upper Quad
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black and. women faculty through a
concerted effort by the two
committees currently charged with
black amd female recruitment.
Revision of the manual on black
recruitment, consultation with
minority members of University for
"leads" on prospective candidates
and a new position in the division of
health affairs responsible for
minority recruitment also highlight
the program.
But th e Chancellor's proposals go
beyond Uhe organizational structure
of his administration. For instance,
he has appropriated $50,000 for
recruitment purposes which could
cover increased expenses for travel
necessary to step up recruitment.
And the Chancellor's proposals
go beyo nd the recruitment of faculty
members. To step up minority
enrollment, Taylor has earmarked
$40,000 to provide 16 new
undergraduate scholarships for
Tar Heel
JL V-
because we were being ungracious of your
previous activities with our dorm. We were
practically forced to leave; for this we are
truly sorry. So get those windows up and
jocks out- Mclver shall return!
To all of the Panty Raiders:
Thank you for visiting us on Wednesday
and Thursday nights of last week. Even
though our lingerie drawers may be empty,
our hospitality runneth over. Come again
soon! But please, the next time Mclver
women grace you with their presence in a
Carolina jock raid, we request that you be as
gracious and willing givers as we w;re. We
wish to send special thanks to Carr Dorm
and the Old Well Association. We now have
medium and large jock awards but we are
waiting with immense anticipation t o get our
hands on an Extra-Large! Any vo lunteers?
Signed by 43 residents of Mclver Dorm
To the editor:
In response to the allegations by Mclver
Dorm that North Campus suffers from a
lack of enthusiams for parity raids, and in
view of the recent popularity oV terrorism,
lewis Dorm is proud to announce the
advent of a new avante-gariie parity raid.
Force likely
By FRANK WHITE
The crux of the Middle East problem is the
Palestinian question. Until Israel and the
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
come to a realistic assessment of each other,
instead of molding their views to legitimate
their propaganda, the only hope for a
Middle East peace is by force rather than
negotiation.
The United Slates and Israel continue to
claim that the PLO is a terrorist
organization. This view is wrong. The PLO
is a national liberation movement,
representing the desires of a group of people
of the same nationality who desire a country.
This organization uses terrorism as a
weapon, but this tactic is only a tool and does
not define the PLO. Terrorist strategy is the
only sensible method for the Palestinians to
follow, for it is the weapon of the weak
against the strong. The Israelis have made
use of terror. Menahem Begin, prime
minister of Israel, started his career as a
terrorist fighting the Palestinians and
British. The PLO would be committing
suicide to battle the Israelis in a conventional
war, and one can no more expect the
Palestinians to commit suicide than they can
expect the same from Israel. Until Israel
recogizes the PLO as the most important
representative of the nationalistic feelings of
the Palestinians, Israel will continue to see
the world through its own prejudices and so
ignore reality.
The Palestinians also proclaim an
unrealistic doctrine concerning Israel. The
PLO desire for an Israel including both
Palestinians and Jews would effectively
destroy Israel by changing the character of
the nation. The Jews have been among the
most oppressed and tortured people of
history, and they will not surrender their first
success at national unity since 70 A.D.
Neither the PLO nor Israel admits the
truth about the other, partially because such
a declaration would destroy their own
positions. If the PLO were to concede
Israel's right to exist as a nation, the
Palestinians could not be a national
liberation movement. They would have
stated that the territory they are trying to
liberate does not rightfully belong to them.
Conversely, if Israel said the PLO
represented a people wrongfully displaced
Ideal professor combines
By VIKKl BROUGHTON
To teach or not to teach that is the
question.
Is a university's appropriate function that
of a teaching institution or merely an
academic monastery for research?
While many people have questioned the
value of higher education in the last few
years, still others have questioned the
function of the university in its relation to
society. Essentially, the role of the professor
in the university is at the root of the
controversy. Is the professor primarily a
teacher or a researcher?
Many students find it rather disturbing to
know that some professors regard teaching
as a necessary evil that limits their time to
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On October 25, 1977 approximately 25
members of the Lewis terrorist organization
kidnaped threelusciousAycock residents and
held them for ransom, demanding 10 pairs of
panties and one C-cup bra for their return.
The raiders stormed Aycock at
approximately 6:30 p.m. and in a lightning
assault abducted the hostages. A ransom
note was left at the scene of the raid and the
terrorists stole away to Lewis with their
captives. Aycock survivors attempted to
organize a rescue mission but could not
gather "enough support" from Graham. At
7:30 p.m. after one hour of negotiations, a
meager bundle of dirty, smelly, well-worn
panties were delivered to the terrorist
headquarters and the hostages were released.
We wish to emphasize the extremely poor
quality of the .goods delivered in return for
the hostages. It would seem that Aycock
would care more about their residents. This
also makes it hard for terrorists to make a
decent living.
In light of recent braggadocio by North
Campus men's dorms as to the quality of
their panty raids, we would like to remind
them of the massive l ewis Dorm panty raid
last semester which garnered over 200
panties, nightgowns and other assorted
unmentionables in a mere 3 hours.
solution to Middle East problems
from their land, then Israel would have
declared that she was mistaken in pushing
the Palestinians off their land.
Such a declaration by Israel would be
preposterous, for that would create an
understanding that the Palestinians were
immorally pushed from their homeland by a
people that had every right to do so. This is
not a logical foundation on which to
construct a peace.
A Middle East settlement must be based
on Israel's recognition (privately, if not
publicly) that the Palestinians have a
legitimate point and the PLO's realization
that Israel is not going to disappear. The
.Carter administration has tried to deal with
these problems. The U.S.-Soviet declaration
of Oct. 2 requested recognition of the
"legitimate rights" of the Palestinian people
and was immediately rejected by the Israelis
because they felt it implied recognition of the
PLO. The U.S.-lsrael agreement on Oct. 5 of
conduct research and publish. It can be quite
unnerving to walk into a class the first day
day and have the professor tell you he did not
really want to teach this course in the first
place. He then explains that he is teaching
the class only because he has to, and, besides,
he doesn't much care for undergraduates
anyway. One may admire the professor's
honesty, but it is still not very comforting to
students to find out that they are merely
burdens with which the professor must deal.
Some professors who prefer the role of
researcher to that of teacher propose that
teaching be dispensed with altogether.
Instead of teaching a class, the professor
gives the students the material they are to
know and the student then proceeds to
memorize it to the satisfaction of the
professor. This reduces the role of the
Therefore, we feel confident in claiming to be
the most innovative and successful terrorists
who ever snatched undergarments.
P.S. North Campus females beware:
Signed by 75 residents of Lewis:
To the editors;
The men of eighth floor Morrison would
like to inform all the girls of North Campus
that our floor is open to their raids at any
hour of any day or night. We just hope they
come dressed for the occasion. To the boys
of North Campus, we would like to say "stay
home," because we keep our women
satisfied.
Signed by 34 residents of Morrison
Swift and babies
To the editor:
I find it incredible that you chastise these
scientists who still have enough respect for
life to be able to distinguish between satire
and the inducement of cancer in laboratory
animals for no apparent social purpose. It is
hard enough to justify what laboratory
a formula to renew the Geneva peace
conference included Palestinians, but they
were to have no connection with the PLO,
coming instead as part of the Jordanian
delegation. This was rejected by the Arabs,
for if the Palestinians came as a part of
another nation they would be denying they
were a distinct nationality and worthy of
treatment as such. Carter's initiatives to
revive reality have failed, and the situation in
the Middle East is dim.
Carter and his administration must now
decide on a new approach to the Middle
East. Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security
adviser to President Carter, has written of a
big power guarantee of Israel's borders. This
plan has flaws. Israel would lose control of
its national defense. They have little reason
to trust the Soviets, and America has not
been perfect in supporting all its defense
commitments.
Regardless of whether the U.S. was right
teaching, research roles
student to that of a memory machine. This
regurgitation of knowledge is not really
learning because it does not teach one how to
think.
A distinction between memorization of
knowledge and learning how to use that
knowledge should be made. The former
teaches you what to think, while the latter
teaches you how to think. It should be
obvious that knowing how to think is much
more important than knowing what to think,
because the body of knowledge in every field
is always changing and subject to
interpretation.
It is important that students have someone
to teach (or, more appropriately, guide)
them in interpreting knowledge and
adopting standards of criticism instead of
memorizing material without question or
Morrison advertises
animals must endure in experiments which
have scientific and or social purposes. Satire
does not require research. Jonathan Swift
did not eat babies before he suggested that
course of action as a satirical way to deal
with the population problem.
Joan Gutmann Lenski
52 Hamilton Rd.
Concert lists excellent
To the editor:
Mr. Simmons comments in the Tar Heel
("Rerouting causes rock groups to skip
UNC," ) concerning publicity of the Firefall
concert were very disturbing. As an avid
listener of WXYC, I have found them to be
an excellent source of concert information.
Their list is accurate and up-to-date. They
have had concerts listed that WQDR has not
even heard of. Even though they can not
provide advertising, they can feature groups
and serve the Union activities well. 1 suggest'
that Mr. Simmons contact the program
director at WXYC in the future if he wishes
to reach the students.
Lillian Gilliken
Northampton Plaa Apts.
or wrong in pulling out of Vietnam, the
Israelis are able to perceive that the U.S. will
leave an ally if it is in the interests of
America.
Besides Brzezinski, there is little thought
involving the Middle East from the White
House. Vance admitted his August trip to
the Middle East was a failure. President
Carter has little knowledge of the problem,
as seen by his call for a Palestinian
"homeland," a clumsy misuse of a word that
Carter should have realized holds significant
meaning in the Middle East. The Carter
record in the Middle East is one of failure,
and there is no reason to believe it will
improve. But the failure of Carter is not
surprising; the Middle East is a complex
problem that seems to defy all solutions. It
appears force will reign supreme in this area
for the near future.
Frank White, a senior, is a political science
major from Chapel Hill.
discussion of the validity of that knowledge.
The concept of a "correspondence course"
type of learning also leaves out the human
element of education. As many students will
agree, professors often make the course. A
professor's enthusiasm for his subject matter
and his concern for students often aiicits a
much higher degree of interest and
enthusiasm on the student's part than does
merely reading a book on the subject.
Of course, professors should be expected
to do some research to keep up with the
changes in their respective fields. However, a
"publish or perish" philosophy negates the
importance of a professor's ability to teach.
Granted, dissemination of knowledge is
important. But the question is whether it is
more important for a professor to
communicate information to a small, select
audience by publishing articles in obscure
academic journals or to share his knoweldge
and interest with thousands of students.
Ideally, the professor's role should be a
combination of teacher and researcher.
Good teachers who do not keep up with the
changes in their fields may become
intellectually stagnant and, consequently,
boring. On the other hand, professors who
are primarily researchers and only wish to
communicate their knowledge to other
researchers promote an intellectual
incestuousness that is equally stagnating.
Teaching can be a reciprocal learning
experience for both student and professor if
only some professors will climb down from
their ivory towers and realize that some
students are interested in learning and may
even have something to contribute to the
professor's education as a scholar, however
small this contribution might be. If the
student's only contribution is that of an
occasional challenge to the validity of the
professor's interpretation of material, then it
has served a valuable purpose.
Teaching should be a mutual learning
experience for students as well as professors.
After all, the university is supposed to be an
institution of higher learning.
Vikki Broughton, a junior journalism
major from Raleigh, N.C., is editorial
assistant for the Daily Tar Heel.
Sociology absentees
To the editor:
This letter is directed at the omniscient
who grace Professor Schnabel's Sociology
51 class with their presence each Monday
and Wednesday:
Some students in this sociology class do
not understand the concepts of sociology as
well as you, or we would feel no need to take
the class. If you would like to extend your
disrespect for Professor Schnabel, please
have the decency to flaunt your infinite
wisdom in a private conference with him. We
sincerely hope that Professor Schnabel does
not rate all the students at UNC by the
actions displayed by the few pompous
students in our class, or maybe you would
like to be called teachers. In any event,
Professor Schnabel conducts a firsferate
class and it is a shame some ungrateful
people overshadow his superior teaching
ability.
Alan Maynard
113 Winston
Mary Moore
224 Winston