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®ln> (Earnlttttatt Volume XXXXV University of North Carolina at Greensboro. N. C. —Friday, October 29. 1965 Number 6 ® Alumni Scholars Total 24; Six Represent Each Class Charlotte Professor Lipstiz Proposes U. S. Use More Moderate Policies In Red China Twenty - four students are now participating in the UNC-G Alumni Scholars Program. Until last week, there were only 16 Scholars in the stu-dent body — four representing each academic class, but the Alumni Scholars Committee have selected eight more, in-creasing the number of Alum-ni Scholars to six from each class. The Alumni Annual Giving Program, which designates money for the scholarships, was more successful last year than ever before. Consequent-ly, the Alumni Program was able to designate that $12,000 should be used for the Schol-ars program. Formerly, the program has had only (8,000. The additional (4,000 increased the Alumni Scholars to sue in each class. New Recipients The eight new Scholars who recently received (500 scholar-ships are Diane Robinson, Jean Whitaker, seniors; Mar-tha Carson, Esther Kanipe, juniors; Lois Greenwood, Eve-lyn Meredith, sophomores; Jul-ie Homey, and Judith Huff-stetler, freshmen. Other Alumni Scholars are Mary Ellen Guffey, Barbara Logan, Carolyn Parfitt, Joan Sharp, seniors; Wanda Hollo-way, Janet Hunter, Judy Mc- Donald, Linda Lockhart Smith, juniors; Susan Beck, Jane Fraley, Mariana Nicks, Joalyn Roop, sophomores; Da-nita Brigman, Annette Cox, Carol Joines, an Betty Blue Hoyle, freshmen. Selection Scholars are selected on the basis of the applicants' aca-demic standing, intellectual promise, character, leadership ability, financial need, and demonstrated ambition. Each scholar must be academically rated in the top ten per cent of his respective class. The scholarships are initial-ly awarded for a one year pe-riod. If sufficient funds are available for renewal of the scholarships, the Alumni Scholars Committee will deter-mine, on the basis of the in-dividual Alumni Scholar's per-formance and conduct, wheth-er the Scholarship will be con-tinued. Four of the Alumni Scholars Committee, which selected the new recipients of the award, are UNC-G faculty members: Dr. Amy Charles, English De-partment; Mrs. Claude Irby, Admissions; Miss Be mice Draper and Miss Vera Lar-gent. emeriti - History Depart-ment. m "Disastrous, the worst possi-ble action students could have taken . . ." Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, professor of political science at UNC at Charlotte, condemn-ed the recent demonstrations by students against the Viet-nam policy. Lipsitz continued to say that more positive ac-tion in the form of teach-ins is the only reasonable method of protest. Dr. Lipsitz, proposing a more moderate policy toward Red China rather than the present hard-core militant pos-ture, appeared Sunday night at Elliott Hall in <*n informal talk. W Dr. Lipsitz was one of many speakers throughout the coun-try who voiced a desire for change in U. S. policy toward the Communist nation under the sponsorship of a new com-mittee known as the Ameri-cans for Re-appraisal of Far Eastern Policy (ARFEP). The committee has as its main principle educational discus-sion on the China issue rather than civil disobedience. Moderate Policy Dr. Ljgsitz based his argu-ments iW a more moderate policy on the fact that the U.S. has never tried any other pol-icy except militarjcjmight in dealing with the Cltinese. He said that the U. S. had never tried toXtnd out if there might be poinS' which both govern-ments might resolve through some type of communication on a more reasonable level. The political science profes-sor said that there were two main arguments which pre- Golden Chain Taps Ten New Members Gag Law Contention Persists Tuesday night, October 21, ten new members were tapped into Golden Chain. The new members are: Seniors — Nancye Baker, Lea J-HC der-inotti, Betty Hobgood, Bruce Ann Parcell, Joan Sharp, Pa- ASG National Convention Fails To Discuss Issue (CPS) - Second national convention of the Associated Student Governments of the United States of America (ASG) ended here Oct. 17 af-ter refusing to discuss the is-sue of academic freedom. The gathering, which was billed in the national press as a "moderate" answer to vari-ous student protest move-ments, refused to consider a motion from Rutgers Univer-sity which would have recog-nized "the right of the student academic community to seek, tqgjiscover, to publish, and to express the truth as they see it." It would have further au-thorized ASG officers to apply such principles in all ASG "administrative functions and actions." In a 44 to 8 vote, the body upheld ASG President Thomas Johnson's ruling that consid-eration of the motion would in-volve "partisan political over-tones" and thus violate the or-ganization's constitution. John-son had earlier explained that, under the organization's con-stitution, any policy statement is considered "partisan." The constitution states that "partisan political affairs are not within the scope of ASG concern" and that "only legis-lative action which concerns the administrative functions (of the organization) shall be considered." Opposition Floor opposition to the mo-tion focused on the "political explosiveness" of the academ-ic freedom question at Rut-gers. Rutgers became embroiled in the New Jersey gubernator-ial race after state senator Wayne Dumont, the Republi-can candidate, called for the dismissal of a Rutgers profes-sor who told a teach-in audi-ence in April that he would welcome a Vietcong victory in Vietnam. Democratic Gov. Richard Hughes, Dumont's op-ponent, had supported the Rut-gers position that the instruc-tor, Prof. Eugene Genovese, had a right to speak. Further teachings since, however, have only added fuel to the flames. in what was termed an ef-fort to eliminate the cause of the floor objections, the Rut-gers delegation later intro-duced a revised resolution, which stated that "the mem-bers of the Associated Student Governments being interested In academic freedom, direct that the executive council fol-low, in all of its administrative functions and actions, a policy of academic freedom." I iiconstilulion.,1 "We further direct that the programs committee of the ASG prepare a series of sem-inars and programs on aca-demic freedom to be held at the next national convention in order to further interest in and discussion of this area." The chair again ruled con-sideration unconstitutional. Ap-peal failed, ((-14. Many delegates commented later that while they had no personal objection to academ-ic freedom, they did not con-sider it proper for ASG to take a stand on the issue. A representative from South-western at Memphis, however, predicted that "someday they're going to have to face this ... we can't let politicians decide what we can and can-not consider." The question of admission of two-year junior colleges as full members was raised when a representative of San Jose City College came to the con-ference seeking full member-ship. Members of the execu-tive council agreed that San Jose City would be an asset to the ASG but were reluctant to open the doors completely. One council member caution-ed that "'Eastern junior col-leges" contained a "very vo-cal type of person who may not have the backing of his student body but loves the con-vention floor." Good WU1 Stressing the values in the "current good will" existing in the membership, he added that "the type of personality that we are dealing with in the small New York colleges tegds to be inflammatory." The bill that the executive council reported out to the floor provides that a simple majority of the council may decide for extending full mem-bership with voting rights to a junior college. It passed the general session with little de-bate. The executive counci, which consists of the national officers and the eight regional chair-men, automatically accepts the credentials of any four-year school. In national officer elections, only the presidency was con-tested. In his bid for the presidency, Dan Banmiller of Villanova said "there are more conserv-ative and intelligent ways to handle today's problems" than protest movements. Remark-ing that only about "one-tenth of one per cent" of today's college sudenta are involved in so-called student unrest, Ban-miller said ASG should con-cern itself with "only the prob-lems of school, not those of later life." NSA As examples he listed hon-or codes, meal ticket systems, and course evaluations. "The draft, Vietnam, and federal policy should not be topics for discussion," he said. The National Student Asso-ciation, a rival organization with JOO members, debated both Vietnam and federal aid to higher education at its Aug-ust congress in Madison, Wis-consin. The Association en-dorsed the latter. The Vietnam resolution, which criticized the U. S. for placing "excessive at-tention on the military aspects of the present conflict" and failing to "come to terms with its underlying social, political, and economic aspects," never-theless endorsed "Uajted States presence" in the coun-try. Response to more than 30 seminars offered the 300 dele-gates from 87 schools was generally good. The turnout in-cluded representatives of 56 of ASG's 72 member student gov-ernments. Richard Foster of Mt. St. Paul College, a newly estab-lished Roman Catholic semi-nary in Wisconsin, said that he had received many practical ideas to take back and use in organizing a student govern-ment. Non-Involvement Foster had also been to the NSA congress in August; he remarked that ASG gave him "more of thtopasic informa-tion" he was looking for. A delegate from Bradley re-marked that progress over last year's conference was "tre-mendous." Not all the response was so favorable, however. "ASG's political non - involvement is fine in principle," John Mc- Quitty, chairman of the Michi-gan State University student government said, "but it seems to fall apart in prac-tice." Salt Study Wins Gift For Chem. Prof. Anderson Dr. Henry L Anderson II, assistant professor chemistry, is the recipient of a grant of (21,552 from.the saline water office of the O. S. Department of Interior. Anderson's program will re-search t h e fhermodynamic iiroperties of aqueous salt so-utions. His project is directed toward the Department of In-terior's study of desalinization. To measure the heats of mix-ing salt solutions and to study the nature of ionic interactions in solution, Dr. Anderson will construct a calorimeter capa-ble of measuring temperatures to one millionth of a degree. The proposed calorimeter is a modified version of those cur-rently available and will be built in the Science Building. Dr. Anderson came here this year from the University of Delaware where he earned his doctoral degree and completed a year of post - doctoral study. He has taught at Delaware and at Old Dominion, where be studied as an undergraduate. DR. HENRY L. ANDERSOf He has published in the Journal of Chemistry Educa-tion and has articles currently in press for the Joaraal of Physical Chemistry. tricia Williams; Juniors — Caroline Elliot, Whitty Ran-some and Jeanne Young. Golden Chain was estab-lished in 1948 to recognize stu-dents of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for outstanding effort and ac-complishment and to encour-age these students to continue in service to the diversity. Seven Quamles Consideration for member-ship is not based solely on scholastic achievement. Can-didates are judged in terms of well-rounded, integrated personality including the qdBt-ities of service, leadership, scholarship, tolerance, judg-ment, magnanimity and char-acter which are the seven qualities that embody thP links of the Golden Chain. Nominations are open to the campus at lajge twice during the year in the fall and in the spring. Members chosen liom these nominations are offrHal-ly welcomed into the organi-zation at a formal initiation service held at the Alumni House. Initiation The initiation for the new members was held Wednes-day night, October 27. Present at the ceremony were Alum-nae members Miss Sadye Dunn, and Miss Barbera Par-rish. Also present were honor-ary members; Miss Katherine Taylor. Miss Mereb Mossman, Dr. Rosemary McGee, Miss Lillian Cunningham, Miss Laura Anderton, Mrs. Lucy T. White, Mrs. Howard Holder-ness, Mrs. Josephine Schaef-fer and Miss Marjorie Hood. Also present at the initiation were members initiated last year. They are Mary Ellen Guffy, president, Katy Law, secretary, Martha Jo Smith, vice - president, Shirley Salee-by, Pete Cook, treasurer, Jean Whitaker, social chairman and Louise York Avett. Nominations will again be open this spring for those jun-iors and seniors whom the students feel represent the seven qualities which embody the links of the Golden Chain. State KKK Speaker Judgment Impends State Attorney General Wade Burton said Monday that no decision had been made concerning the possible viola-tion of the Speaker Ban by Klan member Robert Jones, who recently pleaded fifth amendment. He is presently scheduled to address a group of N. C. State freshmen. Jones, who is Grand Dragon of North Carolina Ku Klux Klan, pleaded before a sub-committee of the House Un - American Activities Commit-tee during recent hearings on the Ku Klux Klan. Officials of the University of North Carolina have asked Ally. Gen. Bruton to rule whether or not Jones' appear-ance at N. C. State can be al-lowed under the existing Speaker Ban Law. Enforcement Contacted by phone Monday afternoon Bruton said, "I just received a letter from the uni-versity requesting a ruling; and we are working on it now. 1 have requested information from HUAC in Washington con-cerning who the man is and other background material. We can't decide until the in-formation from Washington has been received and studied." Whoa asked who would en-force Rle Spaker Ban Law if it were decided that Jones could not speak, Bruton an-swered, "The people over at the university." To the ques-tion who will enforce the law if the university officials don't, he answered, "I don't know." Normal Citizen Thigks Reds Bad "The avsjagc man doesn't see anything wrong with keep ing Communist speakers off our college campuses," ac-cording to Lt. Governor Rob-ert Scott. Scott was asked by James Ross, Greensboro Daily News reporter, if he believed a ma-jority of North Carolinians are in favor of keeping the Speak-er Ban. "He (the average man) be-lieves Communists are bad and that's all there is to it as far as he's concerned. And the man in the street doesn't care about academic freedom of In-quiry. He doesn't understand accreditation, either, and doesn't care about it," Scott continued. First-Hand Scott has had an opportunity to see first - hand how Com-munists operate as he served two years in the Army's Count-er Intelligence Corps, in the U. S. in Japan. He stated, "I have never believed the Speak-er Ban was effective. Com-munists don't worry about get-ting a speaker up on the plat-form; when they want to take over a school they enroll some of their own agents and work from the inside." Asked what his present stand on Speaker Ban is, Scott said, "I think the law ought to be amended to give the authori-ty (to decide on the fitness of visiting speakers) back to the trustees." vented any contact between the two forces. One of these arguments, he said, was that the U. S. could not consider letting "a country shoot its way into the V. \ This is con-trary to the whole concept of the United Nations to admit any devout military regime," he said. "That's the traditional argu-ment." he continued, "but if the U. N. had only peaceful nations, it would be a very small organization. I don't be-lieve that ilu' government is dumb enough to believe that argument." "Paper Tiger" A second argument. Dr. I.ip-0 sitz said is that we must prove to ftuna that the U. S. is not a "paper tiger." "If we give in on any of the issues between China and the U. S., we will strengthen the worst, most militant forces of t h e Communist movement," he said. "That's the real ar-gument, the -sophisticated ar-gument." "The principle question with China," he said, "is that we have no idea what negotiations would achieve because we have made no effort. We have assumed a posture of complete hostility." U. N. Day Sunday's program honoring U. N. Day was the first effort of ARFEP, which was initiated during the summer and now wr^V? OR. Lipsrrz has its headquarters at Yale University The committee has formulated four objectives: an immediate cease-fire in Viet-nam; U. S. recognition of Red China; admission af Red China to the U. N.; and tX S.-Chinese cooperation in areas such as nuclear weapons control, trade and communications. A closed circuit telephone hook-up through the commit-tee enabled this campus also to near Norman Thomas, so-cialist leader and Prof. John K. Fairbanks of Harvard speaK on the China question. Shriver Addresses Luncheon In Cone I.ydia Lronhardt, senior In the UNC-G School of Home Economic!, Tuesday was awarded the Henry A, Foscue In-terior Design Scholarship. The SIM award wai presented to Miss Leonhardt prior to a meeting of the board of directors of the Home Economics Foundation. The scholarship was made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Fotcue of High Point. Miss Leonhardt received the award In recognition of her exceptional achievements in interior design, competing with other students. She submitted a portfolio of designs and wrote a paper on the contribution of home economics to interior design. She will receive the bachetor of science degree in home economics nest June. Sargent Shriver, national di-rector of the office of econom-ic opportunities, will be on the UNC-G campus Wednesday, November 3, 1865. He will Library Receives Great Books Walter Clinton Jackson Li-brary has acquired recently a fascinating and invaluable set of books. "The Great Books," published by Encyclopedia Brittamca, contain the works of history's major writers, philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists. They will be placed in the reference room this week. The introductory text con-tains a letter to the reader ex-pressing the publishers' aim in creating "The Great Books." lt states, "The offerings we present to you here are intend-ed to lead you on, to fortify you, to encourage you, to se-duce you into the habit of reading. . ." speak at the luncheon of the N. C. Council of Women's Clubs fall forum. The luncheon will be held from 1-3 o'clock in Cone Ballroom of Elliott Hall. Shriver is especially in-terested in speaking with North Carolinians engaged in com-munity development programs. The morning workshops have been prepared by Dr. Eugenia Hunter of the UNC-G faculty, who was instrumental in initiating the North Carolina Head Start programs which were begun last summer. Mrs. Emily Preyer, who is chairman of the fall forum, will preside at the convention meetings. Coloradians Picket To Break Budget (CPS) - About 400 students last week picketed a Colorado state legislature committee holding hearings on the Uni-versity of Colorado's budget. The demonstration, which protested the high cost of edu-cation, received support of some within the Associated Students of the University of Probable Communist Scourge Result Of Vietnam Protests A new hunt for Communist* may be one result of the week-i id of Oct. 15-16 protests of the widening United States role in the Vietnam war. In Chicago Sunday night, U. S. Attorney General Nicho-las Katzenbach claimed that Communists are active in the marches and demonstrations protesting the war in Vietnam and that the justice depart-ment has begun an investiga-tion. Kil in'ich charged that some Communists were work-ing for the Students for a Democratic Society, a nation-al group that has been a lead-er in the anti-war movement. ! he rttorncy general said he is awaiting results of his depart-ment's investigation to deter-mine the strength of SDS and whether there are any direct ties between the group and the Communist Party. Katzenbach cited federal laws against aiding and abet-ting persons to avoid the draft and described SDS pamphlets that were distributed at sever- ■I 1.11 us that tell how to avoid military service. P. u! Booth, a spokesman for SDS, said Monday that "our program is perfectly legal. We are advocating that people should become conscientious objectors, not draft dodgers " SDS lcallets i>nd literature do not advise people to avoid the procedures of the Selective Service Act, he said, but to file with their draft boards as con-scientious objectors. "Most importantly," Booth said, "we feel that the attor-ney general's drumming up of the Communist issue only serves to obscure the real is-sue which is the war in Viet-nam." He said that SDS would be willing to explain its pro-gram to any interested group, including representatives of the justice department when and if they inquire. In a staff study released last week, the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee also charged that the demonstra-tions have "clearly passed into the hands of Communists and extremist elements." Sen. Thomas J. Dodd ID-Conn), vice - chairman of the subcommittee, said that the weekend demonstrations were especially characteristic of Communist tactics. The subcommittee's study, prepared at Dodd's direction, conceded that "the great ma-jority" of persons who d.lfer with the administration's poli-cy in Vietnam are "loyal • Americans." But the study-suggested that leaders in the anti-war movement have failed to prevent or limit Communist infiltration o( their ranks and have thus left control to peo-ple "who are openly sympa-thetic to the Vietcong and openly hostile to the United States." The weekend demonstrations ranged from a parade of 10,000 down New York's Fifth Avenue to a memorial service for Vietnam war dead at Purdue University. Similar demonstra-tions were held overseas and in Canada. In London, some 20 pickets marched in front of the American Embassy while oth-ers paraded in Trafalgar Square. North Vietnam's official newspaper, Nhan Dan, de-scribed the protests as a "hammer blow at the Johnson clique." Colorado but officers of AS#C were hesitant to endorse it. One ASUC official tried to get the demonstrators to leave be-fore the legislative committee left its meeting for lunch. The demonstrators refused. Cost Down An ASUC met with the legis-lative committee and, among other things, asked them to help keep the cost down for an mil HI .slate student coming to Colorado. While the committee met with university officials, stu-dent leaders addressed the group waiting outside. "We're here today so we'll have the money we need to build more classrooms and hire profes-sors," one said. "Bare Bones" Last year, the University of Colorado requested $13 1 mil-lion of the $22 million budget from the state. President Jo-seph Smiley termed that re-quest the "bare bones" needs. When the leg.slature allocated $12,425,488, a $2 million cut was made in the budget, a pro-posed increase in faculty sal-aries was cut, and new teach-ing positions were dropped. The legislative committee is making a preliminary study of the University's budget before submitting its report to the legislature later this year. c
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Title | The Carolinian [October 29, 1965] |
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Full text | ®ln> (Earnlttttatt Volume XXXXV University of North Carolina at Greensboro. N. C. —Friday, October 29. 1965 Number 6 ® Alumni Scholars Total 24; Six Represent Each Class Charlotte Professor Lipstiz Proposes U. S. Use More Moderate Policies In Red China Twenty - four students are now participating in the UNC-G Alumni Scholars Program. Until last week, there were only 16 Scholars in the stu-dent body — four representing each academic class, but the Alumni Scholars Committee have selected eight more, in-creasing the number of Alum-ni Scholars to six from each class. The Alumni Annual Giving Program, which designates money for the scholarships, was more successful last year than ever before. Consequent-ly, the Alumni Program was able to designate that $12,000 should be used for the Schol-ars program. Formerly, the program has had only (8,000. The additional (4,000 increased the Alumni Scholars to sue in each class. New Recipients The eight new Scholars who recently received (500 scholar-ships are Diane Robinson, Jean Whitaker, seniors; Mar-tha Carson, Esther Kanipe, juniors; Lois Greenwood, Eve-lyn Meredith, sophomores; Jul-ie Homey, and Judith Huff-stetler, freshmen. Other Alumni Scholars are Mary Ellen Guffey, Barbara Logan, Carolyn Parfitt, Joan Sharp, seniors; Wanda Hollo-way, Janet Hunter, Judy Mc- Donald, Linda Lockhart Smith, juniors; Susan Beck, Jane Fraley, Mariana Nicks, Joalyn Roop, sophomores; Da-nita Brigman, Annette Cox, Carol Joines, an Betty Blue Hoyle, freshmen. Selection Scholars are selected on the basis of the applicants' aca-demic standing, intellectual promise, character, leadership ability, financial need, and demonstrated ambition. Each scholar must be academically rated in the top ten per cent of his respective class. The scholarships are initial-ly awarded for a one year pe-riod. If sufficient funds are available for renewal of the scholarships, the Alumni Scholars Committee will deter-mine, on the basis of the in-dividual Alumni Scholar's per-formance and conduct, wheth-er the Scholarship will be con-tinued. Four of the Alumni Scholars Committee, which selected the new recipients of the award, are UNC-G faculty members: Dr. Amy Charles, English De-partment; Mrs. Claude Irby, Admissions; Miss Be mice Draper and Miss Vera Lar-gent. emeriti - History Depart-ment. m "Disastrous, the worst possi-ble action students could have taken . . ." Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, professor of political science at UNC at Charlotte, condemn-ed the recent demonstrations by students against the Viet-nam policy. Lipsitz continued to say that more positive ac-tion in the form of teach-ins is the only reasonable method of protest. Dr. Lipsitz, proposing a more moderate policy toward Red China rather than the present hard-core militant pos-ture, appeared Sunday night at Elliott Hall in <*n informal talk. W Dr. Lipsitz was one of many speakers throughout the coun-try who voiced a desire for change in U. S. policy toward the Communist nation under the sponsorship of a new com-mittee known as the Ameri-cans for Re-appraisal of Far Eastern Policy (ARFEP). The committee has as its main principle educational discus-sion on the China issue rather than civil disobedience. Moderate Policy Dr. Ljgsitz based his argu-ments iW a more moderate policy on the fact that the U.S. has never tried any other pol-icy except militarjcjmight in dealing with the Cltinese. He said that the U. S. had never tried toXtnd out if there might be poinS' which both govern-ments might resolve through some type of communication on a more reasonable level. The political science profes-sor said that there were two main arguments which pre- Golden Chain Taps Ten New Members Gag Law Contention Persists Tuesday night, October 21, ten new members were tapped into Golden Chain. The new members are: Seniors — Nancye Baker, Lea J-HC der-inotti, Betty Hobgood, Bruce Ann Parcell, Joan Sharp, Pa- ASG National Convention Fails To Discuss Issue (CPS) - Second national convention of the Associated Student Governments of the United States of America (ASG) ended here Oct. 17 af-ter refusing to discuss the is-sue of academic freedom. The gathering, which was billed in the national press as a "moderate" answer to vari-ous student protest move-ments, refused to consider a motion from Rutgers Univer-sity which would have recog-nized "the right of the student academic community to seek, tqgjiscover, to publish, and to express the truth as they see it." It would have further au-thorized ASG officers to apply such principles in all ASG "administrative functions and actions." In a 44 to 8 vote, the body upheld ASG President Thomas Johnson's ruling that consid-eration of the motion would in-volve "partisan political over-tones" and thus violate the or-ganization's constitution. John-son had earlier explained that, under the organization's con-stitution, any policy statement is considered "partisan." The constitution states that "partisan political affairs are not within the scope of ASG concern" and that "only legis-lative action which concerns the administrative functions (of the organization) shall be considered." Opposition Floor opposition to the mo-tion focused on the "political explosiveness" of the academ-ic freedom question at Rut-gers. Rutgers became embroiled in the New Jersey gubernator-ial race after state senator Wayne Dumont, the Republi-can candidate, called for the dismissal of a Rutgers profes-sor who told a teach-in audi-ence in April that he would welcome a Vietcong victory in Vietnam. Democratic Gov. Richard Hughes, Dumont's op-ponent, had supported the Rut-gers position that the instruc-tor, Prof. Eugene Genovese, had a right to speak. Further teachings since, however, have only added fuel to the flames. in what was termed an ef-fort to eliminate the cause of the floor objections, the Rut-gers delegation later intro-duced a revised resolution, which stated that "the mem-bers of the Associated Student Governments being interested In academic freedom, direct that the executive council fol-low, in all of its administrative functions and actions, a policy of academic freedom." I iiconstilulion.,1 "We further direct that the programs committee of the ASG prepare a series of sem-inars and programs on aca-demic freedom to be held at the next national convention in order to further interest in and discussion of this area." The chair again ruled con-sideration unconstitutional. Ap-peal failed, ((-14. Many delegates commented later that while they had no personal objection to academ-ic freedom, they did not con-sider it proper for ASG to take a stand on the issue. A representative from South-western at Memphis, however, predicted that "someday they're going to have to face this ... we can't let politicians decide what we can and can-not consider." The question of admission of two-year junior colleges as full members was raised when a representative of San Jose City College came to the con-ference seeking full member-ship. Members of the execu-tive council agreed that San Jose City would be an asset to the ASG but were reluctant to open the doors completely. One council member caution-ed that "'Eastern junior col-leges" contained a "very vo-cal type of person who may not have the backing of his student body but loves the con-vention floor." Good WU1 Stressing the values in the "current good will" existing in the membership, he added that "the type of personality that we are dealing with in the small New York colleges tegds to be inflammatory." The bill that the executive council reported out to the floor provides that a simple majority of the council may decide for extending full mem-bership with voting rights to a junior college. It passed the general session with little de-bate. The executive counci, which consists of the national officers and the eight regional chair-men, automatically accepts the credentials of any four-year school. In national officer elections, only the presidency was con-tested. In his bid for the presidency, Dan Banmiller of Villanova said "there are more conserv-ative and intelligent ways to handle today's problems" than protest movements. Remark-ing that only about "one-tenth of one per cent" of today's college sudenta are involved in so-called student unrest, Ban-miller said ASG should con-cern itself with "only the prob-lems of school, not those of later life." NSA As examples he listed hon-or codes, meal ticket systems, and course evaluations. "The draft, Vietnam, and federal policy should not be topics for discussion," he said. The National Student Asso-ciation, a rival organization with JOO members, debated both Vietnam and federal aid to higher education at its Aug-ust congress in Madison, Wis-consin. The Association en-dorsed the latter. The Vietnam resolution, which criticized the U. S. for placing "excessive at-tention on the military aspects of the present conflict" and failing to "come to terms with its underlying social, political, and economic aspects," never-theless endorsed "Uajted States presence" in the coun-try. Response to more than 30 seminars offered the 300 dele-gates from 87 schools was generally good. The turnout in-cluded representatives of 56 of ASG's 72 member student gov-ernments. Richard Foster of Mt. St. Paul College, a newly estab-lished Roman Catholic semi-nary in Wisconsin, said that he had received many practical ideas to take back and use in organizing a student govern-ment. Non-Involvement Foster had also been to the NSA congress in August; he remarked that ASG gave him "more of thtopasic informa-tion" he was looking for. A delegate from Bradley re-marked that progress over last year's conference was "tre-mendous." Not all the response was so favorable, however. "ASG's political non - involvement is fine in principle," John Mc- Quitty, chairman of the Michi-gan State University student government said, "but it seems to fall apart in prac-tice." Salt Study Wins Gift For Chem. Prof. Anderson Dr. Henry L Anderson II, assistant professor chemistry, is the recipient of a grant of (21,552 from.the saline water office of the O. S. Department of Interior. Anderson's program will re-search t h e fhermodynamic iiroperties of aqueous salt so-utions. His project is directed toward the Department of In-terior's study of desalinization. To measure the heats of mix-ing salt solutions and to study the nature of ionic interactions in solution, Dr. Anderson will construct a calorimeter capa-ble of measuring temperatures to one millionth of a degree. The proposed calorimeter is a modified version of those cur-rently available and will be built in the Science Building. Dr. Anderson came here this year from the University of Delaware where he earned his doctoral degree and completed a year of post - doctoral study. He has taught at Delaware and at Old Dominion, where be studied as an undergraduate. DR. HENRY L. ANDERSOf He has published in the Journal of Chemistry Educa-tion and has articles currently in press for the Joaraal of Physical Chemistry. tricia Williams; Juniors — Caroline Elliot, Whitty Ran-some and Jeanne Young. Golden Chain was estab-lished in 1948 to recognize stu-dents of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for outstanding effort and ac-complishment and to encour-age these students to continue in service to the diversity. Seven Quamles Consideration for member-ship is not based solely on scholastic achievement. Can-didates are judged in terms of well-rounded, integrated personality including the qdBt-ities of service, leadership, scholarship, tolerance, judg-ment, magnanimity and char-acter which are the seven qualities that embody thP links of the Golden Chain. Nominations are open to the campus at lajge twice during the year in the fall and in the spring. Members chosen liom these nominations are offrHal-ly welcomed into the organi-zation at a formal initiation service held at the Alumni House. Initiation The initiation for the new members was held Wednes-day night, October 27. Present at the ceremony were Alum-nae members Miss Sadye Dunn, and Miss Barbera Par-rish. Also present were honor-ary members; Miss Katherine Taylor. Miss Mereb Mossman, Dr. Rosemary McGee, Miss Lillian Cunningham, Miss Laura Anderton, Mrs. Lucy T. White, Mrs. Howard Holder-ness, Mrs. Josephine Schaef-fer and Miss Marjorie Hood. Also present at the initiation were members initiated last year. They are Mary Ellen Guffy, president, Katy Law, secretary, Martha Jo Smith, vice - president, Shirley Salee-by, Pete Cook, treasurer, Jean Whitaker, social chairman and Louise York Avett. Nominations will again be open this spring for those jun-iors and seniors whom the students feel represent the seven qualities which embody the links of the Golden Chain. State KKK Speaker Judgment Impends State Attorney General Wade Burton said Monday that no decision had been made concerning the possible viola-tion of the Speaker Ban by Klan member Robert Jones, who recently pleaded fifth amendment. He is presently scheduled to address a group of N. C. State freshmen. Jones, who is Grand Dragon of North Carolina Ku Klux Klan, pleaded before a sub-committee of the House Un - American Activities Commit-tee during recent hearings on the Ku Klux Klan. Officials of the University of North Carolina have asked Ally. Gen. Bruton to rule whether or not Jones' appear-ance at N. C. State can be al-lowed under the existing Speaker Ban Law. Enforcement Contacted by phone Monday afternoon Bruton said, "I just received a letter from the uni-versity requesting a ruling; and we are working on it now. 1 have requested information from HUAC in Washington con-cerning who the man is and other background material. We can't decide until the in-formation from Washington has been received and studied." Whoa asked who would en-force Rle Spaker Ban Law if it were decided that Jones could not speak, Bruton an-swered, "The people over at the university." To the ques-tion who will enforce the law if the university officials don't, he answered, "I don't know." Normal Citizen Thigks Reds Bad "The avsjagc man doesn't see anything wrong with keep ing Communist speakers off our college campuses," ac-cording to Lt. Governor Rob-ert Scott. Scott was asked by James Ross, Greensboro Daily News reporter, if he believed a ma-jority of North Carolinians are in favor of keeping the Speak-er Ban. "He (the average man) be-lieves Communists are bad and that's all there is to it as far as he's concerned. And the man in the street doesn't care about academic freedom of In-quiry. He doesn't understand accreditation, either, and doesn't care about it," Scott continued. First-Hand Scott has had an opportunity to see first - hand how Com-munists operate as he served two years in the Army's Count-er Intelligence Corps, in the U. S. in Japan. He stated, "I have never believed the Speak-er Ban was effective. Com-munists don't worry about get-ting a speaker up on the plat-form; when they want to take over a school they enroll some of their own agents and work from the inside." Asked what his present stand on Speaker Ban is, Scott said, "I think the law ought to be amended to give the authori-ty (to decide on the fitness of visiting speakers) back to the trustees." vented any contact between the two forces. One of these arguments, he said, was that the U. S. could not consider letting "a country shoot its way into the V. \ This is con-trary to the whole concept of the United Nations to admit any devout military regime," he said. "That's the traditional argu-ment." he continued, "but if the U. N. had only peaceful nations, it would be a very small organization. I don't be-lieve that ilu' government is dumb enough to believe that argument." "Paper Tiger" A second argument. Dr. I.ip-0 sitz said is that we must prove to ftuna that the U. S. is not a "paper tiger." "If we give in on any of the issues between China and the U. S., we will strengthen the worst, most militant forces of t h e Communist movement," he said. "That's the real ar-gument, the -sophisticated ar-gument." "The principle question with China," he said, "is that we have no idea what negotiations would achieve because we have made no effort. We have assumed a posture of complete hostility." U. N. Day Sunday's program honoring U. N. Day was the first effort of ARFEP, which was initiated during the summer and now wr^V? OR. Lipsrrz has its headquarters at Yale University The committee has formulated four objectives: an immediate cease-fire in Viet-nam; U. S. recognition of Red China; admission af Red China to the U. N.; and tX S.-Chinese cooperation in areas such as nuclear weapons control, trade and communications. A closed circuit telephone hook-up through the commit-tee enabled this campus also to near Norman Thomas, so-cialist leader and Prof. John K. Fairbanks of Harvard speaK on the China question. Shriver Addresses Luncheon In Cone I.ydia Lronhardt, senior In the UNC-G School of Home Economic!, Tuesday was awarded the Henry A, Foscue In-terior Design Scholarship. The SIM award wai presented to Miss Leonhardt prior to a meeting of the board of directors of the Home Economics Foundation. The scholarship was made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Fotcue of High Point. Miss Leonhardt received the award In recognition of her exceptional achievements in interior design, competing with other students. She submitted a portfolio of designs and wrote a paper on the contribution of home economics to interior design. She will receive the bachetor of science degree in home economics nest June. Sargent Shriver, national di-rector of the office of econom-ic opportunities, will be on the UNC-G campus Wednesday, November 3, 1865. He will Library Receives Great Books Walter Clinton Jackson Li-brary has acquired recently a fascinating and invaluable set of books. "The Great Books," published by Encyclopedia Brittamca, contain the works of history's major writers, philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists. They will be placed in the reference room this week. The introductory text con-tains a letter to the reader ex-pressing the publishers' aim in creating "The Great Books." lt states, "The offerings we present to you here are intend-ed to lead you on, to fortify you, to encourage you, to se-duce you into the habit of reading. . ." speak at the luncheon of the N. C. Council of Women's Clubs fall forum. The luncheon will be held from 1-3 o'clock in Cone Ballroom of Elliott Hall. Shriver is especially in-terested in speaking with North Carolinians engaged in com-munity development programs. The morning workshops have been prepared by Dr. Eugenia Hunter of the UNC-G faculty, who was instrumental in initiating the North Carolina Head Start programs which were begun last summer. Mrs. Emily Preyer, who is chairman of the fall forum, will preside at the convention meetings. Coloradians Picket To Break Budget (CPS) - About 400 students last week picketed a Colorado state legislature committee holding hearings on the Uni-versity of Colorado's budget. The demonstration, which protested the high cost of edu-cation, received support of some within the Associated Students of the University of Probable Communist Scourge Result Of Vietnam Protests A new hunt for Communist* may be one result of the week-i id of Oct. 15-16 protests of the widening United States role in the Vietnam war. In Chicago Sunday night, U. S. Attorney General Nicho-las Katzenbach claimed that Communists are active in the marches and demonstrations protesting the war in Vietnam and that the justice depart-ment has begun an investiga-tion. Kil in'ich charged that some Communists were work-ing for the Students for a Democratic Society, a nation-al group that has been a lead-er in the anti-war movement. ! he rttorncy general said he is awaiting results of his depart-ment's investigation to deter-mine the strength of SDS and whether there are any direct ties between the group and the Communist Party. Katzenbach cited federal laws against aiding and abet-ting persons to avoid the draft and described SDS pamphlets that were distributed at sever- ■I 1.11 us that tell how to avoid military service. P. u! Booth, a spokesman for SDS, said Monday that "our program is perfectly legal. We are advocating that people should become conscientious objectors, not draft dodgers " SDS lcallets i>nd literature do not advise people to avoid the procedures of the Selective Service Act, he said, but to file with their draft boards as con-scientious objectors. "Most importantly," Booth said, "we feel that the attor-ney general's drumming up of the Communist issue only serves to obscure the real is-sue which is the war in Viet-nam." He said that SDS would be willing to explain its pro-gram to any interested group, including representatives of the justice department when and if they inquire. In a staff study released last week, the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee also charged that the demonstra-tions have "clearly passed into the hands of Communists and extremist elements." Sen. Thomas J. Dodd ID-Conn), vice - chairman of the subcommittee, said that the weekend demonstrations were especially characteristic of Communist tactics. The subcommittee's study, prepared at Dodd's direction, conceded that "the great ma-jority" of persons who d.lfer with the administration's poli-cy in Vietnam are "loyal • Americans." But the study-suggested that leaders in the anti-war movement have failed to prevent or limit Communist infiltration o( their ranks and have thus left control to peo-ple "who are openly sympa-thetic to the Vietcong and openly hostile to the United States." The weekend demonstrations ranged from a parade of 10,000 down New York's Fifth Avenue to a memorial service for Vietnam war dead at Purdue University. Similar demonstra-tions were held overseas and in Canada. In London, some 20 pickets marched in front of the American Embassy while oth-ers paraded in Trafalgar Square. North Vietnam's official newspaper, Nhan Dan, de-scribed the protests as a "hammer blow at the Johnson clique." Colorado but officers of AS#C were hesitant to endorse it. One ASUC official tried to get the demonstrators to leave be-fore the legislative committee left its meeting for lunch. The demonstrators refused. Cost Down An ASUC met with the legis-lative committee and, among other things, asked them to help keep the cost down for an mil HI .slate student coming to Colorado. While the committee met with university officials, stu-dent leaders addressed the group waiting outside. "We're here today so we'll have the money we need to build more classrooms and hire profes-sors," one said. "Bare Bones" Last year, the University of Colorado requested $13 1 mil-lion of the $22 million budget from the state. President Jo-seph Smiley termed that re-quest the "bare bones" needs. When the leg.slature allocated $12,425,488, a $2 million cut was made in the budget, a pro-posed increase in faculty sal-aries was cut, and new teach-ing positions were dropped. The legislative committee is making a preliminary study of the University's budget before submitting its report to the legislature later this year. c |
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