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FRIDAY, MARCH 4,1935 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO 8 Weeks Of Channel 4 The Forum, the Chatauqua, the Lyceum have passed, and their place has been taken bv the coaxial cable. 'it may not have been a good swap, par ticularly in the realm o education. . For ed ucation is not only the transmission of facts but the contact of minds, and you cannot stand up and disagree with a television pic ture tube. ... But, for better or worse, the University is keeping right up with the times; we have an educational television station. It has been on the air for twoMnonths. How well is it succeeding in its sworn task? The conclusion can only be: not very well. What we have been getting on Channel Four are good, educational agriculture shows from State College, reasonably competent programs from WC, an occasional gem from this campus, and the rest-the vast number of programs assorted gibberish. WUNC-TV had certain disadvantages to begin with disadvantages faced by any tele vision station attempting to educate, among them the question, how can you affect a meeting of the minds by mechanical means? It is likely to be anything but easy. Our contention, however, is that WUNC-TV7 has not been making even a good college try. For it the University has any claim to being the proper place for educational television, it is that there are teachers here,, men of world renown who can bring the result of years of scholarship to a large audience. Iut the faculty, our single great asset, is being seen hardly at all on WUNC-TV. Why? Partly because they hold television suspect, undoubtedly. But largely because they are not wanted. Most of the teachers who have been approached feel that they are being asked to skate down WUXC-TV's thin line between high-powered "education" and extremely low-powered amusement. This they refuse to do. The truth, after two months of Univers ity television, seems to be that the station could almost as well be operating in Saxa pahaw or Andrews or Indian Trail for all the education we are getting. There are exceptions. Certain of the sta tion's programs, chiefly those limited in their appeal for small fry, farmers, etc. are high ly interesting and educational. A program which began last night, "Seminar," is the first serious attempt to present lectures on widely different educational subjects by fac ulty members. This, and the laudable tele vising of music, and drama, may constitute a solid first step toward accomplishment of WUNC-TV's mission. That mission, as we understand and be lieve, is not to attempt competition with commercial television by boiling down edu cation professionally, putting zip into it with the help of Hollywood-tainted operators and slipping it to the customers via video. It is, or ought to be, to open up the Uni versity to the people of the state. The Uni versity as it tswithout ruffles, without com mercialization, available for all to attend. Gracious Living-XXIII Terrible tales are told of the campus mail system, that prototype of the snail's pace by which one may (sooner or later) commun icate with someone else on the campus with out going to the post office. The Pony Ex press was a bolt of lightning compared to the campus mail; it always takes a couple of days for a note to travel the length of a foot ball field from Bingham, say, to Gardner. The threat to Gracious (and efficient) Liv ing in Chapel Hill involved here has been clear for some rime. That's why we didn't blink an eye yesterday when we received, through the campus mail, a letter to the edi tor in an ' envelope inscribed, "The iq32 Vactetv Yack." Carolina Front, Brigadoons, A New Era, More Chicks Louis Kraar TED KEMP,' one of the Briga doons backers, called yesterday to explain that the Interdorm itory Council plan for big name b a n d s wouldn't be a drain on dorm finances. Opponents of the plan con tend that each dorm would get stuck for tickets equal to 25 per cent of its mem bers. If the tickets weren't sold, the opponents said, the dorm would have to pay the difference from its social fund. However, according to Kemp, S500 is being set aside by the IDC to meet possible deficits of individual dorms. Thus, if Brig adoons passes', dorms will have the $500 fund to fall back on. STUDENTS WHO opened their laundry this week discovered the passing of an era in the Uni versity. A note in each bundle from the University Laundry declared with appropriate solemnity: "For many years the long, 16 inch fold used for men's shirts has been a trade mark of the University Laundry service. The time has come, however, when this traditional trade mark must be abandoned. Popular demand has forced us to change to the more popular and convenient short, 12-inch fold, which you will find in this bundle . . I found that the new fold fits nicely in a vertical manner in the dresser drawer. And, know ing that since "the time has come" for such a change, I felt better about the whole thing af ter putting away my laundry. -ft- DON KURTZ, a Carolina stu dent, and Dookster Frank Free man are embarking upon a pro motional venture in the reedy and brassy field of jazz music. Starting this Saturday, the two students will sponsor a jazz con cert at the Saddle Club near Durham. Admission for the jam session is $1.25 a couple, and, according to Kurtz, food and re freshments are available. it Efje Bail? tar peri The efficial student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Sunday, h Monday and examina- - tion and vacation per "n iods and summer W second class matter at i at I s n t A B qo k I n an Of Distinction's The Hand Reaction Piece' 1 Herbert P. Woodward should provide good, citizen ship, ' acquaintance with the (The following article is ex- scientific method, and adjusted cerpted from the American As- personality, group consciousness, sociation of University Profes- occupational adjustment, control sors Bulletin. It was originally of accidents, success in marriage, given in speech form' to a meet- social dynamics, etc. and then ing at Rutgers University, where we set up special courses, for Mr. Woodward is dean. Editor.) credit-hour study, to teach each In the American world at the of these specific features. We birth of this century and for leave nothing to chance, save seventy-five years before that, the possibility that the college no one doubted that the proper or university graduate should For she is earthly, of the jnind, products of higher education acquire a little learning and wis- . But Wisdom, heavenly, of the were men and women of learn- dom while he is being groomed as a competent citizen or as a proficient technician. f :.j North f.nraf)i:-'r ' ,VhUf jfirst the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un let the Act of If arch 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. once wrote: Let her know her place, She is the second, not the first. A higher hand must make her mild If all be not in vain, and guide Her ' footsteps, moving side by side " . With Wisdom, like the younger child. Reaction Piece Beginning A Slow Bow Out David Mundy YOU Said In Don't Smother The Sparks Editor: I have only pity for people igically as Mr. his finger on a who think as il- y v ... ' Mu-an. He put iiMllv as Mr. MUton nenry - - Excepting one column in pre paration, this will be the last "Reaction Piece until a new edi tor requests otherwise. ing. The educated person of that period was unmistakable. He had broad knowledge and ac quaintance with learning that in- . delibly distinguished him from the illiterate. " He was well grounded in history and at home in. the great literature of the ages he. owned books nad read them; he could read or converse in languages other than his own even the languages of the past. His conversation automatically included quotations from the great; he would make allusions to poetry, to literature, to . phi losophy, and sometimes he even contributed to these. When he spoke or wrote, there was a fla vor that was lacking in the speech or the Tetters of the uneducated; indeed, the very word "unedu cated" meant the absence of these things as the purpose of education, particularly higher Ixlitor CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor ; FRED FOWLEDGE Associate Editors . LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business Manager TOM SHORES Sports Editor B ERNIE WEISS News Editor Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Subscription Manager , Assistant Business Manager Assistant Sports Editor Jackie Goodman Dick Sirkin Jim Kilcy Jack Godley Bill Bob Peel Ray Linker Night editor for thi3 issue -Eddie CrutchfieU STUDENT PARTY politicians tell me that my dope on their Monday night presidential nom inations is off, but I still think Manning Muntzing will walk out of the meeting with the nomi nation. -Pon Fowler, the jjther candi date, will get the SP bid for vice - presidency. In reporting this, I'm not taking sides in the fray. However, when predicting is being done (and it is), I'm going to call them as I see them. As a freshman, I roomed with Fowler. I've known Muntzing for a long while. Both would make capable presidents, but Munt zing being the better poli tician will probably get the SP nod. THE VARSITY Theater has lowered its candy bar prices to a nickel. LILA PONDER, assistant di rector of student activities, and Betty Ray, assistant director of the YWCA, are the latest recipi ents of chickens. Who sent them? Neither Lila or Betty knows. Howard Scotland, Chi Phi who also received a shipment of chicks didn't claim them, and they were sold by the Post office to the highest bidder, whose name the postmaster won't reveal. Handsome,' Utilitarian & Tasteless To me; the process somehow resembles what is taking place elsewhere in our civilization in the manufacture of bread, for example, where we take flour and so refine it that all of the bran, vitamins, ond vigor have been extracted; but then, very carefully and with chemical pre cision, we reinsert Vitamins A, B, C, and D, riboflavin, and other synthesized ingredients, until we have what the chemist assures us is a standardized nutritious pro duct, suitable for everyine hand some, utilitarian, practical, and tasteless. I think we are in grave danger that our educational mill may education, was plainly to provide undergo the same streamlining learning and the elements of until we are grinding out an ed wisdom. ucation that is also utilitarian, You have to be at least my age highly practical, and likewise and with a long memory to re- lacking in cultural flavor, call very many of these learned, hasten to assure you, in educated people. A few of them speaking to the modern empha today are still teaching or giving sis on the man of competence, counsel, as elder statesmen, to that competence and proficiency younger men and women of our are highly desirable attributes, time; but if you have had ac- and that education is doing ster-" quaintance with some of these, lig service to mankind in pro cherish the recollection, for during competent people. This their like is difficult to locate is an age when proficiency or in the busy technical world of mastery of a subject commands today where the emphasis in ed- high respect and brings great ucation has shifted from learning personal satisfaction and con and wisdom to proficiency and fidence, and if the best jobs go competence, and where we still to those who are most highly soul. In somewhat the same fashion, we have come to direct our edu cation away from one of its origi nal purposes of developing char acter; for among the virtues of the older schooling was the hope that strict study of various disciplines and close association with liberal arts would produce intellectual stamina and moral courage. Less delicately than in Tennyson's poetry, this change in the texture of education is detected in our current speech, where, when we speculate about a person, we are less apt to meditate about his character than to ask someone, "Who is this character?" The change in our modern use of this honored word may not be a sign of the times, but it is at least revealing. The Deep, Deep Freeze Of course, it is not necessary for the humanities and the medi tative disciplines to carry the en tire burden of providing charac- the gentlemen who were candi ter and supporting wisdom and dates. culture, for which the exacter fields of the sciences and tech nology also encompass the same virtues integrity, stability of purpose, personal responsibility fundamental statement ?f Jruth. k trutv fgreat ho id "no university ' . ut" "V '. a mni-t liberal interchange ui have with others who come from f;" grounds and have Varied ideals He wants the The pains of writing some one Yankees and the loreigm-r w - "peaceful hundred and forty 33-space lines ing their opinions about our so-cai of coherent "reactions" are relations between me raw not inconsiderable. That may in deed sound like an alibi for some journalistic failings, which are admitted. I can also admit to receiving some pleasure from the task (otherwise known as "shooting off one's mouth'.'), but vnur hands to the Legib- you nave, se.-ro bullies lature and cried, "Mama, make the bad DuIIic go 'way and let me play in peace. Come come, Mr. McGowan! Don't force the "Yankee fire-bugs" arid foreigners to leave, lest J Smother some of the sparks "that generate greatness" in this University! the , work and enjoyment are rather closely counterbalanced- And while "Reaction Piece" bows out, I would like to offer a few apologies. While reacting, and "reacting" very strongly to the DTH editor ship race of last year, I man aged to get across an insinuation that the I may have used the term "Kuralt forces" used some rather unfair campaign charges, and that the "other side" was entirely above-board. I have since learned of quite scurrilous remarks about Kuralt which were circulated about . - . nrtnnrflinil V f Why are you shrinking irom, au fi - -exchange ideologies, Mr. McGowan? Are you afrajd. that our ideals, founded on prejudice and wcqual ity will crumble under the questioning g-ze of outsiders? You have admitted that our precept, regarding race relations cannot endure the- at oAiLenters, because, like a spoid eh, , A North Carolinian Lynn Zimmerman For The Godless: Africa I also "went overboard" in my criticism of the history and Eng lish departments as centers of criticism of the School of Bus iness Administration. To have that we cherish as the choice impugned their motives in such requisites of character. Someone criticisms, alleging that they has remarked that the love of were doing it out of jealousy of beauty can as well be engendered the new buildings, in retrospect by a suspension bridge as by a causes my conscience some pangs. Gothic cathedral, or integrity be The remainder of my criticisms, as truly found in organic chem- if I say so myself, still stand istry as in ancient history. as valid. But my apologies. What he have to fear is that And in the heat of column- Editor: Enough, enough! Of course, when you first read about the Clark's and the Grimes' frothing at the campus then. My apology is for mouth, you want right away to put mem in meir stigmatizing the present editor places usually verbally (being firm believers m as being somehow guilty of a ail this "Pen is mightier than the sword", business smear, while such an assumption cleverly, precisely, and conclusively. But come cannot be-made about either of now, you must admit we are wasting our time. We are dealing with intellects (let me De Kincu which will not be affected in the slightest by anything we might have to say regardless of how clever or cutting we might be. These have no opinion or respect for our judg ment; remember they are pitying us as much as we are pitying them. Thus, this is just so much beating our heads against a stone wall. It is like the poor man boiling away in the cannibal's caul dron, yelling, "Stop, you can't do this; it isn't Christian!" However, I do have one suggestion. It's pretty radical, I'll admit but nevertheless, a good one. There seems to be enough unexplored territory left in Africa for backward civilizations. Thus, what man today, in this country of -writing I have also gotten around Q vou think our chances are of sending these God- admire learning but rarely seek trained, then it is because we all scientific ma2ic and technologic to making intimations about the less souls over there for a few centuries while it for ourselves. From Learning To Competence As the term "uneducated" has little currency today, its disap pearance must signify, in one way or another, that most of us regard ourselves as "educated" after a fashion. If there is now -a decline in learning and in let ters, then it must follow that to be "educated" today means something very dilferent from what it once meart't. I can emphasize it still dif ferently by saying that, if there are fewer uneducated people to day, there seem also to be fewer men of learning as well. For bet ter or for worse, our sights are now set on men of competence and skill. This shift in our educative at tention from learning to com petence and from wisdom to pro- recognize the immediate and dominant values of the most im portant task to those whose train ing has been the most specialized and intensive, and to such peo ple we entrust our health, our scientific future, and our very lives. advance, will take the products motivations of SP leader and we caimiy solve our problems; and then when of training and skill as a satis factory substitute for the aesthet ic values that have been sacri ficed or sublimated in producing them; and not only will never en ter the Gothic cathedral to ob serve its beauty or to worship, but also will drive across the campus wheel Joel Fleishman. It isn't that I am. now any fond er of the gentleman: such insin uations just have no place In what I would like to consider a fairly objective column. To say what another person's moti vations are is impossible, and I they've managed to pass the head-shrinking stage, we can send a few brave missionaries over who would try to reveal to them a new idea Chris tianity? Robin Fuller its interference with his car ra- jectures which may or may not Editor. dio which is probably playing have been valid ones. "Doggie in the Window." It would probably even be in These are no idle academic a- order to refer to Fleishman as larms or pedantic tears from the one campus politician who "knows ivory tower. There is genuine the score." (This is no pun on Rut thp nnfinn Tinf inlonc!fi and very accurate knowledge of suspension bridge, fretful only of shouldn't have ventured con a narrow field ahd nothing more can constitute a liberally, edu cated man is a grotesque absurd ity. Nearly thirty years ago Nich olas Murray Butler declared: "Specialisation is the narent of information and of a certain rason for concern if a large seg type of skill, but it is the foe ment of our modern civilization iooks to eaucation only lor mech anical marvels of metal or plas tic. I am afraid that already there are too many who cherish as the true ends of education only such material wonders as the televi sion, the deep freeze, streptomy- Dating Column, Anyone? of learning and the mortal ene my of wisdom. Not narrow men, however keen, but broad men sharpened to a point, are the ideal product of a sound system of school and college education." For the term "doctor," Web ster's Collegiate Dictionary gives his present "Showboat" activi ties.) Many of the would-be campus politicians are little creatures of no great intellectual or moral stature. They are just "there", and little more. They may know their way around through the campus organiza tions They get elected, to office, and pursue their undistinguished it r: i .i . ficiency has come about in the as U1U lir!st nonJni me pnrase a leacner; a learned man" and I have two purposes in writing this letter. The first is that I would like to tell you how much I enjoy reading The Daily Tar Heel. I think it's tops as a college newspaper. Too often, only the few who are dissatisfied bother to Express an opinion, but in complimenting you I feel that I'm expressing the sentiment of the overwhelming ma jority of those on campus. The second purpose of this letter is to offer a suggestion for a feature to be included in future editions. When combined with the pressure of stu dies, the problems of social keep the student under a great deal of pressure. I think a column to answer his problems on dating would be very helpful. then adds the significant cap tain Archaic. I suggest to you that we have somehow reversed the order of our higher degree?, for the summit capstone of mod ern education the Doctorate of Philosophy is a degree now awarded not to a candidate of broad and universal learning, but rather to one who has nar rowly demonstrated that he has mastered a segment of some science or art. Dean Harold Stoke of the Graduate School of the Univers- last fifty years indeed, in my own lifetime. Wrhen I was in high school I studied both Latin and Greek, and in the generation before me? a mastery of each of these lang uages was required in order to enter college. Today the college of which I am dean offers no course in either subjejet To replace them, however, we have established many other valuable courses electronics, labor relations, criminology that were not dreamt of as col- The scope of a liberal curricu- U1 " asuuisum nas recently lum has greatly expanded in the f.emared that for our genera last fifty years, matching the wn at easl. the mn of distinc more intricate and scientific Uo" wlU rarely be Plct"red with world of today. But the empha- a book in his .hand' sis has turned from reflective 'Who Is This Character' meditation to intensive specializa- It may be that I am only in tion, and the book-worm if such dulging in a sort of academic there still be no longer nibbles nostalgia. Surely we would not thoughtfully in the classics, but exchange the modern service for chews voraciously at some man- the former livery stable or the ual of technology. modern delivery room for yes Fifty years ago we taught lib- terday's midwife. Doubtless a eral subjects and strict discip- knowledge of electronics is more lines in courses that were ex- pertinent today than acquain pected to provide information, tance with Greek verbs, and per knowledge, training, culture, and haps the man of competence is the elements of wisdom. Out of superior to the man of learning, these basic ingredients it was It was once held that it took presumed that valuable end a wise man to say "I don't know," products would naturally come, but today's quiz program pre and through them the student fers a competent man who knows was expected to move on toward some of the answers for the cin, high-test gasoline, and jet little paths. propulsion, and if they have no Fleishman has been a politician concern for the great scientific of another breed. True, he has Possibly some professor in the sociology or py trulhs upon which these blessings been a member of practically chology department would be willing to handle this. are based, or the intellectual achievements that made thern possible, or the history of the struggle that created a free so ciety apd an economic system wherein they are available to ev eryone, then it is truly later than we think, and our concern about the end of true education becomes the "trumpet of a prophecy." every organization on campus. 11 ni, unmasea advice from a staff member would But unlike the mediocre victims be helpful. I wish that you would print this letter of "extra-curricular fever" he so that other students might express their iecl- has served the organizations as inSs on this subject. more than just another name on J. Rcbrt Davenport their rolls. His is a marvelous organizing ability, and a mind of just as great a depth and perception. My apologies. Disclaimer Editor: Fog Area becoming an educated man or woman. We assumed that such an educated person would na turally have the attributes, un derstanding, and wisdom that answers pay dividends, and. ac knowledgement of ignorance, even if it be relative, cuts you off the program. We expect the man of competence to possess would enable him to occupy a knowledge, but we are indiffer- supenor place in the world. ent perhaps even suspicious of Today we completely reverse him if he possesses wisdom as the process. We decide what are well. I doubt if many think to me attributes that education day of Knowledge as" Tennyson - ' ' - " ' -v a "-E-t-j S ! ,1 i, I - k Regarding the matter of divergence of aesthetics in the selection of the poetry in the last issue of Crlma QuarterI'. I should like to state that The Little Conservative," which in no way, An n.v opinion, merited publication, was not selected by William Rivera Thanks For Leaving The Car Editor: mirror6 who Stle ni' view mucrrfnlUlrti0nS " 3 nC3t job! k vou ,o much, for Jeavmg my poor little old car for my continued use anr pleasure. Yours in the continued success of the Carolina Honor System, F. John Osvan? Turning The Tables On The New Yorker Putting On Wpfeht c,- nuances are vou il your waist line. Whv not some exercise? Sunlamps, snarlr hav -Nw Yorker advertisement Putting on weiqht t? t. ball, steambathTL L L0lir lra,hboU" ' &unmtan-ham on rye treatment. live longer if you watoh join the Health Roof Club and7 , vvjwtio, aeam