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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1951 The fl r r Lfltt This week the administration made clear its current policy toward Negro students enrolled here. , ;.., They, are to be segregated from white students in every way trie law allows. The law, unf of tunately, 'compelled the State and University to admit these North Carolinians to their law school. . " ' . The trustees - were more foresighted with the medical school and at least one department of the graduate school, ogreeing;.to admit students who could not obtain approximate training elsewhere.jp ' : - - The University ,; of Arkansas, among other far-Southern Universities has also been more farsighted than our own, in their policy of opening, the doors to Negroes before compelled to do so by law. " ". - --... . .: One way, of another, there are Negro students. Here. Now. They are for the most part unusual people in their ability to adjust to the situation. They have attended Northern Uni versities, , unsegregated by tradition. Or they held officer's ranks in ihe armed forces during the recent war through which they learned the difficulties -of social adjustment in unsegregated groups "' ' They are,-on the whole, better prepared for such an adjust ment: than are most white students now here, and possibly than is the administration. Furthermore, they are anxious to help in that adjustment in every way possible. Yet the school has placed them on s segregated floor, mov ing out protesting students to leave a floor empty, save -for the three Negro students in residence, (this, with men cram med :into basements elsewhere on campus) and has refused them student passbooks.. In, the case at hand, concerning the football tickets of James Walker, the, 'latter point was made clear. Chancellor Robert House said, "There is a distinction between educational serv ices ..crod social recognition." He pointed out that the law com pelled the educational service, but did not compel the -social recognition1. . Walker; on the other hand, said, "They have put up legal barriers between usr (white and Negro students), so that the Negro student, deprived of a student's privileges, would have to remain separate:" Walker then made clear that he himself would have been willing to sit in the Negro section, if the administration feared trouble from white rowdies, or even more willing to remain away from the bigger games, if the administration had permitted him the normal privilege ol an athletic passbook for admittance. The difference, .''with -which " the University is familiar in thcor court battles, is between "you must," and "please do." . The difference is between free cooperation and compulsory diets;. ', .-':- :. .,'':'. ' : " . Wey like our good Chancellor, feeling somewhat "conserva tive", deplore the: compulsory act. We therefore note, with hearty dislike, that, the law may once again step in to compel the University to admit its Negro students to all the privileges of f fee citizens in the University community. Must the higher authority always compel us to do what is reasonable and right? We think not. We hoperthe courts will not aain interfere in the internal workings of the University. We hope the University will attempt a reasonable program of adjustment without undue demands on the lives of all students here. And we hope that students, Negro and white, vvilL approach the matter with intelligence and horse sense in what must necessarily be a slow acceptance of facts. The difference is between liberty and dictatorship. .' .-- : : f . . - :' by 'Barry Farbcr Not Guilty by Dick Murphy N S A - hys Dayld Alexander Reviews ! Letters "Alice In Wonderland" and "Nature's Half-Acre" Disney Productions released thipugh n.K.O. The feature film will be shown along with the third in a series of Disney Real-Life short subjects, both in technicolor. For ell of you who thrilled to Lew ''Carroll's classic, this is in'Tet d a treat, for W alt Disney hj captured the book with all thV ' .chc.rm possible. " Alice", ar-ti-I"cr,'y speaking, marks a new F 'a ri cartoon length films, and V icv: ;h it has many good seq'uen c or; il just doesn't live up to the Pisnny tradition set by "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" i.nd "Cinderella". ' Compared to Cinderella and Snow White, Alice is an awk ward child, remeniscent of the ' eariy' ' Margaret I O'Brien. The color -is somewhat different from the rthomes used in earlier Dis rcy films, "Bambr, '"Make Mine Til:sic' and "Melody Time". - Di.r.ney may stop making car toon length films in the future, ard coiK-cntrale on live-action Expressions on matters of public interest are welcomed jrom our readers. They must be legible, sigiied, and free from libel. The right is re served to edit all such com munications and to condense them when they run beyond 300 words. Editor. Madame Editor: In the Sept. 17th DTH there was quoted James R. Walker, Jr's statement of faith that "be lievers in Christianity" will not support the administration in its issuing to him an undesirable football ticket. The situation no doubt made Bible-readers think of the parable in St. Luke 14-7-31. ' This letter does not at all re flect my attitude toward segre gation, but it expresses a pro found resentment, which I think is shared by many others be sides me, against an inappropri-' ate appeal to "believers in Chris-, tianity." Cama Clarkson. South", "So Dear To My Heart" and "Treasure Island". He is al ready shooting major scenes in England' for the forthcoming ,. ;-t"j" -..T ; 7t - ' ...:.'-,: Earrf Farber Late , last spring our student body president, Henry Bowers, asked me if I would go to Minn eapolis in August to be a dele gate at the annual NSA Congress. For the benefit of those who came in late, NSA stands for "National Students Association" and not "No Sex Appeal." Now, I always thought NSA meetings were typical student get-togethers, packed with cut rate crusaders and popcorn poli ticians, where a guy stands up, makes a speech, says nothing, nobody listens, and when he's through everybody, disagrees. And I've always nursed a bitter grudge against student poli ticians ever since I was soundly defeated in the race for 'Home Room Glee Club representative back in junior high school so when .Bowers' invited me to tag along I licked my journalistic, chops and foamed at the mouth. In my estimation student poli ticians were egotistical lump rumps low enough Ao read by the light of a hotfoot and noth- ing suited me finer than the chance to pitch, a few rusty har poons into their callous car casses. Besides, Minneapolis sounded like a great place to go to enjoy myself, get a lot of sleep, meet a few girls, and maybe dig up some lusty anecdotes ridiculing student politicians. "Sure, Hank. I'll be glad" to go,". I smiled, drooling like a bond holder about to clip an interest coupon.. After all I had nothing to lose but my self respect. The twilight of August, 19 found Henry Bowers, Joyce Evans, Mel Stribling, Dick Mur phy. Lacy Thornberg, and I perched on the banks of the Mississippi holding our first re-' gional caucas. There was Murphy studying documents like Ridge way studies maps of North Korea. The girls were debating the virtues of academic freedom. There was Bowers scribbling re solutions to present to sub-corn-" . mission, there- was Thornberg preparing his international re port, and there was Farber looking so busy doing nothing he seemed almost indispensable. I must , confess I always thought conventions were orgies where delegates sit in their rooms and drink for ten days. I was quietly working my way " through a jug of Minnesota wham wine when, first thing I knew, somebody wanted to start holding meetings. So with an .alcohclic moan and dark circles unci " my disposition I grabbed pencil, paper, and portfolio and slumped into one of the seats reserved for "the gentlemen from North Carolina". That's where the trouble start ed. To me Robert's . Rules of Order were the biggest mystery since radar. I wouldn't know a point ol parliamentary procedure if it crept up behind me and bit me and it seems that everything I said was either irrevelant, in decent, or out of order. I felt like Mortimer Snerd arguing re lativity with Einstein. No matter what the issue was I always managed to make myself mis understood. Congress doesn't know how. lucky it is that I'm not a member because if the outcome of the war depended on my so much as rising to second a motion, Joe Stalin would be watching television . from the east .wing of the ; (Se "NOT GWhTY." Pnae 8) Today begins a series of di verse opinions on the subject of National Students Associa tion by delegates to the Aug ust Congress of that body. The funny one will be 1 recognized as our leading humorist, Barry Farber. The intent, or serious, one is Dick Murphy, long known on this campus as a . character with brains and ability,- now recognized by the world organization, UNESCO, for the same things. Editor. August, 1951 was an important month for. the American student community, for to realize what occurred then, is to realize the difference between the signifi cance of student life 1941 and student life today. In East Berlin there occurred tne Communist World Youth Festival; in Ithica, New York, the W orld Assembly of Youth; in Minneapolis, Min nesota, the Fourth Annual Stu dent Congress of the National Student Congress of the Na tional Students Association. These meetings never . could have been held in 1941, for the problems, thoughts, actions, and motivations which lay behind each of them were far removed from the mind of the world stu dent community in the anti-bel-lum days. The Berlin Festival was a necessity for Soviet For eign Policy; the Cornell Assemr bly a necessity for the problems of relief, rehabilitation, and in ternational misunderstanding of the ante-bellum period; and : the NSA Congress a necessity for the cohesiveness demanded of the American student commun ity in the light of our newly sensed community of common interest. These problems of which I cpeak the post war internation al situation, the domestic situa tion here at home, the new com munity of common student interest- are npt merely academic to the academic . community. They have not only made im perative the meetings enumer ated above, but far more im portantly they have demanded something much greater and far more difficult to achieve. They demand a fundamental change in oujp sense of values, our pat terns of thought, our modes of action and even our "Carolina way of life." . For we have had thrust upon us, probably unwittingly and un willingly, as was thrust upon the U. S. in 1893, new responsi bilities which transcend in im--portance the geographical con fines of the Carolina campus, the Greater University campus es or all the college campuses in America. Our student lives, although never an entity within themselves, have become more of one student life, merely being experienced as part of a greater life in differing locales such as Carolina, Duke, Chicago, Prince ton, Oxford, or Calcutta. And unless we are willing to face this fact, ponder its implications, and govern our actions accord ingly, the meaningfulness of our lives here at Chapel Hill, will be greatly obscured. The -next several articles ap pearing 'under this byline will have as their purpose a partial explanation and clarification of what thisi new role for the Caro lina student is, hoy it came about, and how it is being play ed at this moment. ' I . 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