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- - . - Page Two &fte Eatlp Car eel TTia nfflcinl TiAwsriaTT of the PnWI. cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whprp it. is nrint.Ad dailv excetit TCTon- days, and the Thanksgiving, Christ- I O ! TT 1 : J T71 J J mas, anu opruig xiuiiuays. juiiueircu as second class matter at the post efiice of Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Chas. G. Rose, Jr. . Editor Geo. W. Wilson, Jr....Mgr. Editor R. D. McMillan...............Bus. Mgr. Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoe maker, chairman; E. C. Daniel, Jr., John Alexander, Edith Harbour, Mayne Albright, B. B. Perry, A. T. Dill, J. M. Joy, F. A. Northrup, Peggy Ann Harris, Robert Berry man, Vergil J. Lee, V. C. Royster. CITY EDITORS Bob Woerner, Bill Davis, L. L. Hutchison, W. R. Eddie man, J. D. Winslow. DESK MEN Nelson Robbins, Donoh Hanks. , FEATURE BOARD Joseph Sugar man, chairman; Carl Thompson, Milton Stoll, Irving' D. Suss. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Claiborn Carr, Bill Anderson, J. H. Morris, Lawrence Thompson, Morrie Long, Crampton Trainer, Lane Fulenwider, Jimmy McGurk. - REPORTERS James B., Craighill, Raymond Barron, Walter Hargett, James W. Keel, Nelson Lansdale, Robert C. Pasre. Georee Rhoades. Phillip Hammer, Eleanor Bizzell, "ElizshpfTi .TnTir.Kr.T. Tiava Mnsipr. Raleigh Allsbrook, J. C. Murphy, Jack Lowe. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPT. Tom Worth, Manager. OFFICE STAFF F. P. Gray, Jr., Ass't Bus. Mgr., John Barrow, Ass't Bus. Mgr., W. B. Robeson. ADVERTISING STAFF Howard Manning, Advt Mgr., W. C. Jones, Adv't Mgr., J. W. Callahan, James Mehaffy, Butler French, Esley An derson, Buddy Upchurch, J. Ralto Farlow, Joe Mason. COLLECTION STAFF Randolph Reynolds, Collection Mgr., Joe C. r Webb, Agnew Bahnson, L. E. Brooks, Armistead Maupin, Robert P. Phifer, J. T. Barnard. Friday, January 13, 1933 CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE L. L. HUTCHISON Ready to Aid the Cause of the State Those persons who, posing as friends of the University have recently been decrying the budg et reductions which this institu tion has had to undergo, are not only profaning the name of the University they are supposedly supporting, but they are also showing an unappreciative atti tude towards the present finan cial crisis this state is being forced to face. The University of 'North Carolina is a child of the Legisla ture. It is thg-Tmost important child of the entire family, of state supported institutions, edu cational or otherwise. It re ceives its life sustenance to a large measure from this parent body. Yetf at the same time, it appreciates the struggle the whole family is having to fight. It realizes that the Legislature has practically exhausted all of its visible means of support. And as a consequence the Uni versity is only too glad to share the financial responsibility which has' been imposed on the family. To take any other viewpoint would be characteristic only of a selfish, spoiled child. The . contention, however, is being made that the University has had larger budget reductions than the majority of the mem bers of the American Association of Universities. But the time has now come when this state's family of state institutions can no longer be compared to the Joneses on the basis of. finances. This family has a problem of its own which must be faced sane ly. And the University, as what might be considered the eldest child of the family, must be sat isfied to shoulder a larger re sponsibility than the other mem bers of the family. By continually condemning the Legislature for its having cut the budget, the University is forgetting the fact that it must help to bear the troubles- which are at this time weighing down on the state. It may be a hard lot for the University to bear at this time, but in all fairness to its parent, the Legislature, and to the other members of the state s family, this institution must and will accept its lot in silence. As a big brother is always willing to do what he can for the weaker members of his family, so the University is willing to do extra duty, if the Legislature so decides, in order that the other institutions might survive. It may mean a stunting in the Uni versity's growth by several years. But when the whole family is having to undergo the same retardation in their de velopment, the burden becomes mutual. The majority of the members of the Legislature were once stu dents in one or the other of the state educational institutions. Now that they are serving in the capacity of parent, they still remember the viewpoints they themselves held regarding the Legislature in their day when it tried to cut budgets. When thev have to cut the University's bud get now, they do so in no sense of discrimination, but rather with the interest of the entire family at heart. And it is in Ui,:a -u,., M11" "gUt mat the Universitv willingly accepts what actions the Legislature might take with regard to the budgets. Sportsmanship In Finance In an effort to pare the tion's athletic budget to bone, universities in every na the sec- tion of the country are announc ing this week the suspension of various minor sports in an ef fort to meet expenses in the ma jor elements of their programs: Cornell and Dartmouth, in the East, are the first to fall in line. Northwestern, Wisconsin, Indi ana, and Purdue, in the Middle West announce similar curtail ments. .Oregon and Oregon State m the Northwest and Stanford and California in the Far West are added to fhe roll. Georgia Tech is the South's conrtibution to the ranks of the entrenchers. In a like manner Iowa announces that all sports which are not self supporting will be dropped from her schedule. This amounts to the. same declaration, since few, if any, minor sports can be termed as self-supporting. Happily, this institution was one of the first to return a nega tive answer to the query of financial retrenchment. No sports will be dropped, each divi sion of the athletic program will be followed as explicitly as pos sible; nothing will be given up, though cuts and equipment re ductions will be effected when necessary. It seems a credit to the ath letic association and the various components of the University administration which have con tributed to the operation of ath letic ventures here that finances are so expertly handled as to in sure the retention of the vital portions of our athletic program. golf, tennis, wrestling, boxing, baseball, track, cross-country, and others sports have been con signed to the knife elsewhere. University athletic officials thus signify that the worth of minor sports has not been undervalued. Minor sports receive the atten tion of a vast portion of the stu dent body but not sufficiently equipped to partake in the ma jor sports. Carolina" has thus attained an enviable reputation m many minor sports depart ments. It would have been a disas trous step to dispense with the minor sports program. Fortun ately football and basketball re ceive no undue amount of over emphasis. No vast sums are spent on pointless ballyho; no million dollar contracts are en tered for games three thousand miles away from home; no fabu lous ' sums .are spent for fancy equipment. Apparently we are cognizant of such a thing as sportsmanship in athletic finance. D.C.S. THE DAILY Native Beauty and The Apathetic South "I like the peole of the South and the West their friendliness and hospitality. But there is more appreciation of art in the East than in any other section of the country," said the man ager of the Shan-Kar troupe of dancers, after their performance here Wednesday night. Evidently the manager real ized that the reception given his perf ormers by the' audience was apathetic. At the conclusion of the program, there was no ex tended applause like that which had been given to Shan-Kar in New York or in Paris. Before the final curtain struck the stage floor, most of the audience was On its feet. Tierfntiptrvrilv- an- -7 X -ww-.. VS- plauding. There was no spon taneous burst of enthusiastic hand-clapping. A capacity audience came to Memorial hall, probably attract ed by the extraordinary nature of the program, strange names. foreign faces and exotic dances : the fascination of the Orient. During the performance, the stu dents reacted feebly to the less sensational numbers on the pro gram. They were amused when Shan-Kar threw his neck out of joint and when 12-year-old Rob indra cavorted in a monkey dis guise. They; were fascinated by the dancer's interpretation of a snake charmer and by his ap parently dangerous display of sword play, when it looked as if Shan-Kar might at any moment behead his partner before their very eyes. And they openly guf fawed at Debendra's wild inter pretation of the Hunter's Dance, and especially at the tuneless blare of a Hindu horn that look ed like a cross between a yellow squash, a Dutch pipe and an in verted saxophone. For a while the audience lis tened attentively to the Hindu music so strange to Western ears, endeavoring to understand its peculiar tonal and rhythmic al qualities. They were aston ished at the chief -drummer's fa cility with his minature kettle drums. But, except for a few who were absorbed in the vary ing beat of the odd Oriental rhy thm, most of the listeners lost interest early in the evening. For most, the program was too long. As for, the true significance of the performance of fihan-Tf n-r and his Hindus, it is doubtful if any in the audience saw it, al though many appreciated its na tive beauty. If there is a lack of art appreciation in the South, it is not to be so much deplored in this case, for Drama-Critic Martin of the erudite New York Times insists that we of the Western world can not expect to understand Hindu music and dancing. Perhaps, if the Chapel Hill audience enjoyed its look at bright costumes, fantastic dance forms, and weird musical instru ments, that is all that could be expected, with no reflection eith er on the intelligence of the audi ence or on the performance of the dancers. Most University students have at least found out that there is no connection what soever between the music and dances of Harlem and those of Bombay. E.C.D. "Co-eds at the University of Idaho, at Moscow, have been re-. hearsing Christmas carols on the college campus. Nights1 of carol ing are designated-and citizens as well as students come to hear the singing" from a cut line in the Raleigh Times, Wednesday, January 11. Only 339 shopping davs 'till Christmas ! Someone sitting on our left at the Shan-Kar recital remarked that the first musical number went over his head. He thono-M the musicians were tuning up. TAR HEEL SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND Editor The Daily Tar Heel : -I must take exception to a statement in Wednesday morn ing's Daily Tar .Heel relative to salary reductions at the Uni versity. The headline, "Salary Cut Here Not Larger Than At Other Places." and the entire final paragraph presents a pic ture which is. not only unfair but quite untrue. At the recent national conven tion of the American Associa tion of University Professors, the Committee on the Economic Condition of the Profession pre sented the results of a nation wide study on the question of salary reductions, from which I quote certain figures showing the real condition. Information in the files of the committee cov ering 108 major institutions in the United States indicates that up to the close of the academic year 1931-1932 : 81 institutions made no cuts 7 institutions cut 5 15 institutions cut 6 to 10 1 institution cut 11 to 15 . 4 institutions cut over 15 Returns on file in the Wash ington offices of the association for the current academic year in dicate that eVen at present con ditions are not nearly so severe in the majority of prominent universities as they are at the University of North Carolina. Of the reporting institutions, among which are many members of the Association of American Universities, to which the Uni versity of North Carolina be longs : 19 have received no cuts ' 4 have been cut 5 20 have been cut 6 to 10 7 have been cut 11 to 15 4 have been cut 15 to 20 1 graduated cut 17 to 30 1 graduated cut 15 to 25 It is clear, then, from these figures that The Daily Tar Heel is not in possession of the facts when it states that "Salary reductions of thirty to forty per cent have been made in leading colleges." Quite the contrary, many "leading" colleges such as Harvard, Yale, California, and Golumbia have made no cuts at all. The reports from which these figures are taken are on file in the office of the secretary of the local chapter of the American Association of Univer sity Professors, where they may be verified. A. C. Howell. Editor The Daily Tar Heel : I cannot allow to pass unchal lenged the last paragraph of a news article in Wednesday's JJAily tar Heel to the effect that, "The University salarv cuts have not been respectively v ot a greater amount than most reductions effected in colleges and universities throughout the United States." Suppose this be settled on the basis of the data in Bulletin No. 28 of the U. S.. Office of Educa tion, "The Outlook in Higher Education for 1932-33," a circu lar that describes conditons as they were in September, 1932. Let us first examine publicly con trolled colleges and universities. Here, of 57 reporting, 14 have made no cuts at all, (6 such are southern institutions) ; 8 have reduced salaries only 1-5 per cent; 24 have kept it down to 6-10 per cent (less by the way than that effectedy tmr one legislative fiat) ; 6 have lowered salaries 11-15 per cent; and only 5 have reduced over 15 per cent. Now since, considering our leg islative cut as well as our bud get board "short-changing," our present salary confiscation amounts to 25 per Cent, in this group the University of North Carolina is actually more drastic than any other school in the re port except The Citadel, (Thank God for South Carolina, as us ual !) , which has applied a cut of 17-32 per cent; the other four of the drastic group have cuts of 17-18, 10-20, 23-25, and 10-25 per cent, respectively, the sever ity of the reduction being some what lessened by the graduated scale. Of 26 state universities re porting, 11 have made no cuts at all (6 of these being southern universities) ; 2 have reduced only 5 per cent; 7 have reduced 6-10 per cent; 4 have reduced 11-15 per cent; and only 2 have matched us with 25 per cent or better. Here we are in company with New Mexico, the top range of which only is equal to ours, since her reductions are gradu ated at 10-25 per cent, and with Mississippi, which flatly confis cates 25 per cent. We do not even compare fav orably with the group of pri vately controlled institutions, the bulk of them little obscure fresh water colleges, the very names of which have seldom seen the light. Their management, how ever, must have been possessed of some financial clairvoyance, since of 50 reporting, 17 have made no cuts at all; 5 have re duced 1-5 per cent; 13 have gone down 6-10 ; per cent; 8' have re duced 11-15 per cent; and 8 over 15 per cent. Here, for instance. the University of North Caro lina is more severe than Phillips University (Oklahoma) with 16- 19 per cent; Trinity (Texas) with 17-20 per cent; and the Col lege of Idaho with 15-17 per cent. Birmingham Southern is, on the average, better off with 17- 30 per cent: Doane (Nebras ka) worse with 30 per cent and Eureka (Illinois) better off than we with 0-25 per cent. It is evident, therefore, that far from the "Salary Cut Here Not Larger Than At Other Places," as the Daily Tar Heel headline put it, the . State of North Carolina ranks with the highest half dozen in her inabil ity, or refusal, to make good her contractual obligations. E.E. Ericson. With Contemporaries Radicalism in The Colleges The pre-election collegiate straw vote which shnwpd strong sentiment in favor of Mr. Hoover is conclusive evidence of collegiate insulation from social and political realities. The no tion that any respectable num ber of American students are really solely interested in intel lectual pursuits is too ridiculous to deserve further mention. In deed, the strong vote for Mr. Hoover is an indication that our colleges are -controlled by the rulers of the status quo and are shot through with the propagan da of the present order. To be sure, a small, militant group in many colleges has been awakened by present conditions, but the majority still lake no critical interest in the American scene, but stodgily accept the present order as divinely in spired and everlasting. If we do not believe that this is true, we must not commit the fallacy of substituting one set of beliefs for another and establishing a new propaganda even if we think it a better one for the old. But we mus,t see to it that the old loses its static nature 'and that the new is given a chance at ar ticulation. The forces makine- for international peace and in dustrial decency must be force fully presented in the colleges and niore important, even, in the secondary schools of the coun try. The policy of repression of un popular views which American college administrators have been i Friday, January 13, 1933 guilty of does not give much hope that our school system wiu ever achieve such equity. What saves the hope from being en tirely Utopian is, the beginning of strong student dissatisfaction and protest, although such stir rings at present are mostly con fined to metropolitan colleges. What is needed as much as stu dent protest is teacher's solidar ity. The formation of a power ful teacher's union to guarantee academic tolerance and to insist on the presentation of unpopu lar views seems an absolute ne cessity, as long as our colleges remain in Bourbon hands and as long as our college administra tors do their best to "prolong the infancy" of the students under their charge and prevent them from seeing things whole. With out such an organization v it is difficult to see how education can play any part in remolding and humanizing the social environ- ment. The New Viewpoint. OUTSTANDING RADIO BROADCASTS Friday, January 13, 1932 2:00 p. m. American School of the Air WABC (CBS). 8:30 p. m. March of Time WABC (CBS). 10:00 p. m. Technocracy Forum WJZ (NBC). 10:00 p. m. Chevrolet pro gram with Al Jolson WEAF (NBC). 11:00 p. m. Anson Weeks, Orchestra WEAF (NBC). 11:30 p. m. Abe Lyman. Or chestra WABC (CBS) . 12:45 a. m. Hal Kemp, Or chestra WABC (CBS). We trust the newly chosen rep resentatives of the people will remember that they were sent to Congress to cut down, not cut up. Boston Herald. SCRIPTO PENCILS 10c - 15c Stationery Notebooks Ledbetter-Pickard Make Arrangements About Winter Quarter Fees Today And Avoid the $5 Extra Fee for Delay University Business Office A .SEMINAR IN LIBERAL RELIGION at the Carolina Inn Monday to Friday January 16 to 20 At 8 p. m. Discussions will be based on the following lectures by Prof. Clarence R. Skinner Dean-elect of the Tufts College School of Religion Mon., Jan. 16 "Liberal Reli gion Faces a New World." Tues., Jan. 17 "Superstition, Belief and Faith." Wed., Jan. 18 "Science, Ethics, Philosophy and Religion." Thurs., Jan. 19 "What Liberal Religion Can Do for Men and Women." Fri., Jan. 20 "The Three Great est News of the Modern World." Admission Free You are cordially invited to attend mese lectures, regardless of what your religious beliefs are, or whether you have any at all. You will not be ex pected t.r nnrHcmfltp i-n ha -fJicMicsiOIl. " you do not wish to.
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