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-The UNC Faculty Council’s Statement—
had he never come to the cam
pus. Indeed, free discussion on
the campus, the general tenor of
which is always overwhelmingly
anti-communist, actually points
out to students more constructive
methods of giving meaning to
their genuine idealism, which the
State and nation badly need to
encourage and preserve. We fear
that the new statute is a step
toward destruction of freedom
in the name of its preservation.
We believe that a university
campus is a place where any
idea should be. open to free dis
cussion—whether it be promise
of a communist utopia, a Bir
chite charge of treason in high
places, or the thesis of a gover
nor that salvation lies only in
defiance of the federal courts.
Youthful faith in American insti
tutions can be engendered and
preserved far more effectively
by meeting our challengers open
ly than by attempting to put leg
islative stoppers in youthful ears.
Political tampering with the
educational process can, over a
relatively brief period, drastical
ly lower the quality of the higher
education affected. Legislative
censorship, once begun, carries
an invidious threat of future
proscriptions, and inevitably stirs
fears in the minds of both faculty
and students that expression of
unpopular sentiments may pro
duce reprisals against them.
Further, to secure and retain
faculty members of high quality
we must compete in a nation
wide market. It is an inescapable
fact that any legislative curtail
ment of free expression on a cam
pus is a black mark against the
institution in the eyes of the
overwhelming majority of the
best university teachers in Am
erica—teachers who are, never
theless, anti-communist by strong
intellectual conviction. We recog
nize and deeply appreciate the
great efforts made by the 1963
General Assembly to provide ade
quate support for the University
and for higher education m gen
eral; but, despite the improve
ment effected, we still have
grave difficulties in competing
for faculty membefs. This ad
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ditional handicap could be dis
astrous.
There are many learned socie
t’» j of national and international
character. A number of these
have met in Chapel Hill, in the
ordinary course of events many
more would desire to do so, and
some at this moment have Chap
el Hill under consideration. The
programs of these meetings are
not arranged and their speakers
are not selected by the host
school. No learned society of
standing would seriously consider
allowing the host institution to
interrogate and possibly black
ball its duly selected speakers.
They will not meet in Chapel Hill
if the University lays down any
such condition. And many of
the finest teachers will not join
or long remain members of a
faculty at an institution which
these learned societies will not
consider as a place to meet. This
tends further to lower the pres
tige of an institution known to
be under this kind of legislative
restriction.
At this heavy cost to the in
stitutions and to the general qua
lity of higher education in this
State, what positive purpose can
be accomplished by the statute?
The student who is not permit
ted to hear a speech on his cam
pus may still read quota
tions from the speaker in the
newspaper, may see and hear
him on a national news telecast,
and may read any books or arti
cles he has written. The student
may take advantage of an op
portunity to visit a private in
stitution and hear the speaker.
A student may also, of course,
hear the speaker at any off cam
pus spot in the same community
where the school is located. The
prohibition itself will incite curio
sity and give the person banned
a larger student audience than
he would otherwise have had.
If an author is dangerous as a
speaker, he is more dangerous
as an author, for his printed
words are permanently avail
able. Is there not danger that
the General Assembly, once em
barked on this course, will ban
books from libraries and other
wise undertake to police the ideas
to which a student may be ex
posed? Indeed, a ban whih oper
ates only against speakers on
the campus is so clearly inade
quate as a device for insulating
the student mind (assumed by
the banners to be naively sus
ceptible) that, rationally, it must
be either abandoned or extended.
The above discussion is nec
essarily predicated on some im
plicit assumptions as to what the
General Assembly intended the
1963 statute to mean. However,
in fact many questions inhere in
its interpretation. What signifi
cance is to be attributed to the
fact that, whereas the title of
the statute refers to “visiting
speakers,’’ the text of the statute
refers more broadly to "any
person’’? The statute prohibits
use of “facilities” for speaking
purposes. This University owns
not only auditoriums, but also
classrooms, dormitories, a cam
pus, a hotel, a telephone system,
and a television station (carrying,
among other things, national
news programs). Are all of these
embraced? The statute bans
those known to advocate “over
throw of the Constitution.” Is
this equivalent to “overthrow of
the government”? Is advocacy
of radical change by constitu
tional amendment included?
(There is no mention in the sta
tute of “force, violence or other
unlawful mean s.”) Examples
could easily be multiplied. This
vagueness is one reason for ques
tioning the constitutionality of the
statute; but, more important for
present purposes, such vagueness
makes enforcement of the statute
a more difficult business, fraught
with possible legal pitfalls.
We deeply regret the manner
in which this statute was rushed
through both Houses of the Gen
eral Assembly in its dying hours
—without prior notice, without
any opportunity for a hearing,
without mature consideration,
without even a normal opportu
nity for debate. Significantly, the
bill as introduced was derived
from a bill introduced in the
Ohio Legislature; but there an
opportunity was given for a hear
ing and the statute finally en
acted did not involve legislative
regulation of campus speakers.
In summary, by this statute the
General Assembly, while attempt
ing to protect our liberties, has
unwisely interfered with educa
tional policies, curtailed legiti
mate freedom on our campuses,
and created serious barriers to
the maintenance of higher edu
cational institutions of a quality
which, in the light of the As
sembly’s more constructive ef
forts to improve higher educa
tion, the State has a right to
expect.
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You can't graw oranges in
Orange County but two Orange
County farmers are growing
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oranges in color.
Alonzo Parker of Mebane, and
Finley Parker, Jr., of Cedar
Grove, have demonstrated that
high quality sweet potatoes can
be produced in Orange County.
Each year the Parkers produce
potatoes that will compete with
any sweet potatoes grown in
North Carolina.
The soft Helena silt soil in
Northern Orange County is high
ly suitable for producing a
smooth skin potato. This year
the Parkers planted about 12
acres of Centennial. Nugget and
Goldrush sweet potatoes. These
potatoes are relatively new var
ieties and have high acceptabi
lity in the market trade. They
are copper-skinned and have
deep orange colored flesh.
The Parkers are extremely
careful in folkwing recommend
ed sweet potato production prac
tices by the Agricultural Exten
sion Service.
As a tribute to their success,
4-H members placed 2nd and
4th place in the Junior Sweet
Potato Show at the State Fair in
Raleigh.
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—President Friday’s Statement—
(Continued from Page 1-B)
of the bill would admit of some
hearing or possible reconsidera
tion, an undertaking rendered all
but hopeless by the fact that the
bill lacked only the formality of
ratification; that is, the signature
of the presiding officer, before it
became law.
When the Senate convened the
next morning a number of Sena
tors introduced a motion favoring
recall of the bill from the Enroll
ing Office hoping thereby to ob
tain more considered discussion.
But the effort failed. A bill of far
reaching significance for higher
education and the future of the
State, which leas than twenty-four
hours earlier was unknown to
any college of university president
in the State and unknown to all
but a few members of the General
Assembly, was now the law of
North Carolina.
From the hour of its enactment,
my immediate attention and that
of the Chancellors and my other
associates in the administration
was directed toward securing
compliance with the law. This
task was not simple because there
had been no prior discussion as
to the real intention of the auth
ors, and the statute itself was
quite vague as to the persons
forbidden and the conditions in
which speaking would he prohibit
ed. Nevertheless, since the statute
placed the responsibility for en
forcement upon the Board of Trus
tees, we went before the Execu
tive Committee of the Board at a
meeting on July 8 where, at my
request, Chancellor William Ay
cock, who is trained in the law,
presented to the Executive Com
mittee a legal analysis of this
bill and a recommended policy of
compliance ....
There was immediate concern
ever the impact of*-this ‘legislation
on the University and its stand
ing in the world community of
learning. Since the law affected
all state-supported institutions of
higher learning, presidents of
some of our private institutions,
and leading citizens joined in ex
pressing opposition to the statute.
This morning it is particularly
important that you know of the
specific actions taken by the re
sponsible agencies of faculty gov
ernment on each of the campuses,
and that you be informed of the
consequences of this legislation
which the University had already
experienced. I have asked each
Chancellor to describe these de
velopments to you ....
We have presented these ex
amples because we believe that
the illustrate convincingly the
seriousness of the problem that
this lajv creates for the Univer
sity. These have arisen in the
short time since the law was pass
ed. Already the exclusion, by law,
of vital sources of knowledge from
our University has begun. Yet,
we have by no means felt the full
impact of embarrassment and de
triment that will ensue if some
thing is not done, because our
students and our faculties and the
world of scholars whose respect
is quite essential to our success
have watched and withheld judg
ment until the Board of Trustees
had the chance to act.
Harmful as the law is to our
actual functioning as a univer
sity, and to our standing among
institutions of higher learning,
there is yet another difficulty
more vague and possibly even
more damaging in its ultimate ef
fect. The adoption of a law that
purports to remedy a supposed
Communist influence upon our
campuses has implanted in the
minds of some citizens of our
State the disturbing notion that
such an influence actually exists
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Eastern Air Lines will add new
non-stop evening service from
Chicago to Raleigh-Durham on
October 27 when winter schedules
become effective.
Flight 123, a Super Electra pro
viding both first-class and tour
ist accommodations, will depart
Chicago at 7:45 p.m. CST, arriv
ing Raleigh-Durham at 10:47 p.m.
EST. The new schedule is the
fastest service ever provided be
tween Chicago and Raleigh-Dur
ham.
Eastern's flight 126 will depart
Raleigh-Durham at 10:10 am.
EST, flying non-stop to Chicago,
arriving at 11:30 a.m. CST.
Flight 561 will depart Raleigh-
Durham at 8:55 am,,' arriving
Charlotte at 9:32 am, and At
lanta at 10:55 a.m.
Flight 580 will depart Raleigh-
Durham at 9:30 a.m. for Wash
ington. Philadelphia, New York,
and Providence.
Flight 528 will depart Atlanta
at 8 a.m., will arrive here at 9:16
a.m. and will depart at 9:35 a.m.
for Richmond, Philadelphia, and
Boston.
Eastern’s non - stop evening
service to Atlanta will be changed
to a 5:40 departure, arriving At
lanta 7:04 p.m., continuing to
Birmingham and Montgomery.
Flight 342 will now depart Ra
leigh-Durham at 340 p.m., arriv
ing Washington (National Air
port) at 4:32 p.m., continuing to
Hartford.
and is deliberately defended.
It is well known that there is
a North Carolina law against sub
versive activities. The statute,
passed in 1941, makes it unlaw
ful for any public building in the
State or any building owned by
any institution receiving funds
Irom the State to be used by any
person for the purpose of advocat
ing, advising, or teaching a doc
trine that the government of the
United States, the State of North
Carolina, or any political subdivi
sion thereof should be overthrown
by force, violence, or any other
unlawful means. I trust that it is
unnecessary for me to repeat
that the Universuy has faithful
ly respected this law. The Univer
sity, as its president is sworn to
do by his oath of office, abides
by all the laws of this State and
it has faithfully respected this
law of 1941 which is a reason
able safeguard against subver
sion of the government.
I spoke of the president’s oath
of office. Not only the president
but also every member of the
faculty and every person who is
regularly employed by the Uni
versity and who is a citizen of
the United States is required, as a
condition of appointment, to swear
(or affirm* that he will support
the Constitution of the United
States and further swear (or af
firm) that he will bear true al-
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legiance to the State, and sup
port, maintain, and defend its
Constitution.
The University of North Caro
lina was established by the State
nearly two centuries ago to pre
pare its youth for the responsibili
ties of citizenship and in insure
fop them a richer and more re
warding life. The University is
proud and respectful of its herit
age.
Our University with other uni
versities the world over has an
honored tradition of freedom of
thought and expression that has
endured for centuries. We are
answerable to this essential stand
ard of intellectual freedom.
Therefore, we who are entrust
ed with the administration of The
University will not knowingly em
ploy as a teacher or as a research
investigator any person who, be
cause of membership in the Com
munist Party or who because of
other commitment of mind, is not
free to serve the university stand
ard of unbiased search for truth.
In safeguarding intellectual free
dom from destructive influences,
either from within or from with
out, the University is naturally
vigilant. It spares no means of
ordinary prudence or administra
tive arrangement to insure that
it shall not be undermined. There
is not to my knowledge—a knowl
edge reasonably informed accord
ing to deliberate, appropriate, re
sponsible process of administra
tion—there is not to my knowledge
any member of the Communist
Party on the faculty of either cam
puses of the University of North
Carolina. If there by anyone here
or elsewhere possessing contrary
facts, I invite him to make them
known.
To be sure there ore individuals
’among the fpculty and student
tody who hold and express un
popular or unorthodox views. They
enjoy the same constitutional pro
tections, including the right of
due process, and the same guar
antee of freedoms ns all other citi
zens.
Mr. Chairman and ladies end
gentlemen, we have no doubt that
the authors of this legislation
were motivated by considerations
of duty, loyalty, and concern for
the security of our Stete mid na
tion. We do not doubt their abid
ing devotion to the cause of edu
cation, our colleges and univer- "
sities. Such motives and such de
votion we applaud. But we believe
that no single consideration is
fundamentally more important to
the security of our nation in
deed to the survival of free so
iety than the preservation of
free universities. We believe that
nothing is more fundamentally
necessary to toe continued prog
ress of our State than toe vitality
and soundness of its educational
institutions.
We are fully aware that a stete
university is a creature of toe
state, that it receives its money
from the public treasury, that its
existence depends upon political
considerations. We are aware al-
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Wednesday, October 30, 1963
so, however, that a peculiar vir
tue of the American system is
that its state universities can be
free and, indeed, that they can
not render to the State the bene
fits for which they were created
in the first place unless they are
free to conduct fair and open dis
cussion of all ideas.
As those who have been called
for a time to be toe guardians and
trustees of an institution of such
noble past and high purpose, we
are bumbled by the dimension of
our responsibility- We stand in
toe train of a beneficent herit
age and at a crisis ia toe under
girding tradition. Knee IWB when
toe destiny of toe nascent Univer
sity was entrusted by the General
Assembly to toe bands of forty
leading citizens of toe State with
the injunction to fit the rising gen
eration for “an honorable dis
charge of the social duties of life-”
successive generations have gone
to toe University to fit themselves
for lives of individual fulfillment
and social usefulness. The fruit
of toe conception and the continu
ed willingness of toe General As
sembly to secure toe trustees in
their trust is a commonwealth
that has been singularly blessed
with enlightened servants of toe
public good, mid a people's univer
sity, that, despite vicissitudes of
fate and fortune, has stood and
yet stands egong toe most respect
ed in the land. Such is the charac
ter of what our forebears and pre
decessors did. You—we—are called
to do it now,
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