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r - . f ... WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1957 f AGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Someone In South Building Is Letting Mule Run Wild One of the tilings that makes Chapel Hill so quaint was exhibited i he other day 1 the I'niversity's maintenance men. They were surprised, the story read, to find that the three tri angles and a "Duke," inscribed on the front ol the Wilson Library, were there. ' ' The extracurricular painting was done last November! The main tenance men, who had removed , , . .- , , , ii. mi hum 1,11 ait w (iMiiii omc t year, whether they need it or not). When the I'niversity finally makes announcements, they often conflict with themselves or other announcements. II tli is Avere a liue machine, wc Avould understand Ahy the Uni versity can overlook vandals paint marks on the front of the Library, Avhy transcripts are fouled, up and Avhy information is hopelessly garbled. Hut this is not a huge machine. It is a university of around 7, 000 students. That isn't big at all. It is cer tainly small enough so that South nuilding can be run efficiently, lint it isn't run that way. South Building is run like an enormous mule. Someone gives it a push, and everybody is innnense Iv pleased if it goes the right way. If it doesn't, then that's too bad. We need some good mule-skinners. REACTION PIECE: similar markings from (irivliam Memorial and the Planetarium, didn't notice the markings. No body told them until a reporter. Avondered out loud Avhy they were n't removed. While, as Ave said in the first paragraph, this is- another symbol of tjie quaintness of Chapel Hill, it also shows how sloppilv the Uni versitv is operated. M Iutercampus mail is the laugh ing stock of the I'niversity offices (sometimes it takes two days to cross the campus). Students avIio transfer here from other schools find out what. Pentagon-type red tape really is. They are treated badly, their transcripts are messed up, their advisers tell them one thing and their deans tell them another. It takes a decade for anything to get done (for instance, win (Ioavs on the second floor of Cra- 1 There Was A Little Hazing It should be got on the record that Carolina didn't get through the winter Avithout a little frater nity haing. Haing is outlawed here, as it is at most universities and colleges now days. Haing is practiced here, as it is at most universities and colleges nowadays. -lie fore Christmas Chapel Hill policemen on the 1 1 p.m. to 7 a.m. (hift started noticing groups of students, male, t old and hungry, wandering around the Avooded areas of the ilkige. The students, who were pledges" at some of the University's fraternities. Ave re look ing for notes under certain rocks. The certain rocks Ave re placed quite far from each other. fust to make sure, the initia tors had instructed the students not to come back to the fraternity house before a certain hour, usu ally 5 a.m. .t A gentleman from the area, dri ving along Farrington Rd. one night, reported a gang of hooded monsters near the road. The hood ed monsters were actually juniors and seniors. Some gentlemen were observed roaming through the Chapel Hill Cemetery, tarrying lanterns, ear ly one December morning. They weren't ghosts, because one of them had a textbook under his arm. Regardless of Avhat the Univer sity's rules are, fraternity haing is a stupid pastime. It is a slap at the dignity of .the individual, a practice we should be learning to a'oid Avhile in college. It also reflects a someAvhat poor light on the initiators. It shows them to be children, eager to blindfold and torture people a little bit younger physically than themseh es. Christian Science Monitor: The Daily Tar Heel Some fQs The official itudent publication of tbe Publications Board of the University ol North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and ezaminatiot and vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semes ter; delivered. $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Like It, However Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN News Editor NANCY HILL Business Manager BIT J. BOB PUEL Sports Editor LARRY CHEEK EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Seari. Frank Crowther, Barry Winston, David Mundy, George Pfingst, Ingrid Clay, Cortland Edwards, Paul McCauley, Bobbi Smith. v SEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Ray Link er, Joan Moore. Pringle Pipkin, Anna Drake, Edith MacKinnon, Waily Kuralt, Mary AJys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Billy Barnes, Neil Bass, Gary Nichols, Page Bernstein, Peg. Humphrey, Phyllis Maultsby Ben Taylor BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore, Johnny Whitaker, Dick Leavitt, Dick Sirkin. SrORTS STAFF: Bill King, Jim Purks, Jimmy Harper, Dave Wible, Charley Howson. Staff Photographer Norman Kantor Librarian Sue Gishner Subscription Manager Advertising Manager -Circulation Manager . . Dale Staley . Fred Katzii Charlie Holt Night Editor . Proof Reader Night News Editor" Graham Snyder Guy Ellis Charlie Sloan A majority of freshmen at Hof stra College (on Long Island, New York) have voted to bring back some of the gentler aspects of the oft-criticized practice of college hazing. This may not amount to much more than wearing green skullcaps or "beanies," but it il lustrates a difficulty of some re form movements. Elimination of crude and some times even dangerous horseplay from initiations in college socie ties is certainly an advance, es pecially where constructive activi ties have taken its place. But the change runs into a human ten dency observed in other fields. m "vy When some industrlalisU were trying to relieve the monotony of routine production-line jobs, one personnel man found many work ers did not want to be rotated from jobs in which the routine had become easy. For generations society tried to get away from child marriages; then youngsters start ed a vogue of "going steady" in early teens. Schools itjsing the honor system in examinations found some students would rather be policed by instructors than tell on cheating associates. The human species likes a bit of protection from the more obvious abuses in its experience. Hut it doesn't Tike to suspect that it's missing something along the way. We Go Now. David Mundy Once upon a time there was a whole passel of mice, nice, edu cated intellectual-type mice. Not only that, but these mice were studying and teaching at a uni versity. Some of them, the big ones wjio were doing the teach ing, were even quite famous among the mice of other institu tions. Now it just happened that the mice and their university were menaced by a horrible old cat, name of "Big-Time Athletics." Some of these mice sort of realized that something or. the other should be done about this cat, before they were gobbled up and the institution ruined. One or two of them came up with the idea of 'putting a bell on the cat, so they could at least tell what it was doing. But who will put the bell on the cat? . Thus ended the parable, and thus arises one of the greatest problems facing the University of North Carolina. The purposes' of a university are education and research, education of students for more responsible life in their society, and research into the secrets of nature and of that society.. Other organizations are design ed to function in bringing about satisfaction of man's other needs and interests. Under entertain ment there are, for example, pro fessional ball clubs, TV, drive-in movies etc. But just who, or what, is this "Big-Time Athlet ics?" In its broadest sens, it is the view that an educational institution, namely a university, should hire a semi-professional group ef people to present en tertainment in the form of ath letic contests. In practice it is the building up of a tremendous "machine" within the university, a machine devoted to big-time athletics," and in no way related to either edu cation or research. This "ma chine" is to have its way on all matters in which it comes into conflict with the faculty or ad ministration. At UNC this "cat" is still a "kitten", albeit already feroci ous. The question "Who will put the bell on the cat?" is' liable to meet little response, professorial chatter and Daily Tar Heel editorials excepted. The students will do very lit tle lo put the bell on the cat" and to preserve the academic standing of their university.. Their horizons are pretty we!! limited by the three "S's": SEG, SPORTS, SLEEP and occasional discussions about "God." They will be satisfied only with ob taining their degrees, joining the alumni ranks, .and making more money. The administration will, like wise, do nothing to harm the in terests of big-time athletics. Re call the Moreland case: The A- L'il Abner The Bell And The Cat: Who II Do The Catching? NCAA and the ACC say that State College is guilty of illegal recruiting procedures. When the NCAA slapped on its suspension, no one in the. administration, from President Friday on down to the EVP janitor (or vice ver sa), knew anything about the; matter. Then it was blamed on "former, members" of the athletic staff. When two present staff mem bers were named, the administra tion proclaimed its innocence, and promised to protect them. So this pretty well leaves the matter of the. "cat" up to the faculty. First step should be the identification of those individuals who are the leaders of the big time athletics machine. Tatum, w ho did so much in ruining Mary land, is one obvious leader. Di rector of Athletics Erickson, who indulged in the most asinine remarks ever to be issued from any administration official in criticism of other student activi ties, is another one. (McGuire I'll omit. After all, his "boys" have to eat in Lenoir Hall with the rest of the campus proletariat.) Sabotaging and opposing these individuals should be but part of the faculty "save-the-Univers-ity" movement. They had better begin putting on more weight and muscle, because it will be "a hard'cat to fight." .'The Trouble With You, Charlie, Is You, Say What You Think' That fill ' .a. w .i ltiy VJ jiO - - v-u - - Stm4 Vk - I YOU Said It: UNC Losing Face And Faculty Editor: I know very little about the mechanics of big time athletics, but your editorials on the sub ject seem to be very timely. I believe that I enjoy a good football or basketball game as much as the next person and I'm inclined to agree with Coach McGuire that his team is, in his words, "a bunch of clean-cut boys." f When one reads the rest of the newspaper, however, it is not difficult to feel that some thing is amiss in our higher educational systems. There are examples' all over the nation as you say in your editorials, but it brings it close to home to think of Carolina. I am not a native of this state, but I have always had the im pression that UNC was the best university in the South and re spected for its academic standing all over the nation. I wonder, now that I am a student here, how long this will last. We read of appropriations be ing slashed, of a capable and ef ficient librarian leaving after on ly a short term, and now it seems we are losing a man who is one of tbe leading sociologists in the nation, Dr. Rueben Hill. Men like these are what has given Carolina its reputation. How long can the University maintain its reputation without them? I certainly cannot blame them for -leaving when they can go to a place where the state seems to appreciate their talents more. . It must be rather discouraging for a conscientious professor to know that, all things taken into account, the football coach is worth more financially than he is. Ed Viser By A! Capp r ' rAIfTC )J T GIVES ME TH' REASON V C AH jcp , 7 I MAH CHILE DESARVES 5X AH DO, A CHANCE T' V, IS SIMPLY S rftiN nuTANl'' " 1 SOME THIN' l-ESS LIKE A ' DOESYCKNCW WJDDEK-- VISIT WIFHIWI. I THET HE NEEDS J ( HIM W ONE.' HAWGTHAN VO' IS, MlSTAH WHY HONEST ABE j BUT AH IS j (AN's'Gf- J ' AMA'M)i V fiMr rr J , , ' MUSHROOM. MAM CHILE LIKES YOjEDWARP MIGHTY VO'?) AROUND TH' I VJ""" J 1 DESARVES TH' VERY y R. MUSHROOM?- GRATEFUL. ) r-y2$r& K HOUSE A BAlf ll EE.STf.r j -r Pogo By Walt Kelly 'L0N6 YOU INSISTS 6e0UN'H06&! A-MiPtsCNA-res fo no Leee n SIX WCEKS Wg pt5TTc egT ----- - - t rM ' M .. T.t x you ecnxA Apmr at AIN'T NO QNCH TO Pfe HUT IN WITM A SASy GOVM'HO& FOE WUAT'6 f: RHOMBENCEPHALON MAKES Mg 0UT I J. alu euMpy- S EEP X'p of MAp&ep ) y&v eeeu you Lmouth of Any ) j fj' j ?, inn w r-i tLim) Chapel Hill & Integration Interracial Fellowship Last fall the Town of Chapel Hill . surprised " many North Ceroiinia.ns by being one of the very few areas to vote against the Pearsall Plan, the state's answer to the Supreme Court's racial de segregation decision concerning public sxhools. Here is a statement from Interracial Mews, a monthly bulletin of the Chapel Hill interracial ' Fellowship for the Schools. Rev. David Yates and Sam Soyd are co-chairmen of the fellowship, and Betty Monroe is editor of the bulletin. Since the school amendment vote of Sept. 8." 1956, this' organization (the Interracial Fellowship) has given careful consideration to what should be iiic tuuisc ui di. iiuii in v,iieijJCl lull in view VI me 57 percent vote against the amendment to make legal the Pearsall Committee proposals, and in ' light of conditions and sentiments here as we in terpret them. We are concerned about the unsettled public issue which leaves citizens and officials confused, . divided and mostly silent on this question, as well as the needs and rights of those who may seek.,, school reassignment. Open discussion and clear decision are needed. Our reexamination of the whole situation growing from the Supreme Court decision outlaw ing racial segregation, as conditioned in our com munity by the local Pearsall vote and the low legal fact of the local option provisions on this issue, leads us to the following assumptions: 1. This community would not vote to close its schools. J" 2. The' Supreme Court will not change its de- '; cision. 3. There is compelling evidence of the likeli-"' hood of more, rather than less, court pressure to-.-ward school desegregation. 4. There may be legal and legitimate requests from local Negroes, though likely few at the out set, for school reassignment, beginning with the next school year. 5. Chapel Hill people want to avoid school con fusion, disturbance of community peace and dis ruption of schooling which can be avoided with.. foresight and planning; they would prefer to act from deliberation, planning and local decision rath er than under pressure of court order. 6. That better schools can be realized only by planning based on present knowledge and realistic ', expectations; such planning is difficult as long as local policy on desegregation is, unsettled. ', 7. Few communities of this size have so many ' local citizens professionally qualified for leadership . in public education. ' , We ask the school board to request its advisory ." committee to chart a course of action for Chapel Hill that can serve as our own response to the local . option gvien us by the now legal Pearsall Plan. The course to be followed should be based on answers to the following questions: 1. Following established principles of school ad- ministration, considering local conditions and dis- . regarding race as a consideration, what kind of positive and clearly stated school assignment and attendance area plan is desirable? 2. In view of the above, is a reevaluation of proposed locations of schools for expansion and replacement necessary? This sjjould include an esti- ; mation of total community school population growth, in number and location, for the next decade ! or two. 3. Following the above, how can more efficient . use of capital and current expenditures be effected? 4. What early adjustments in classroom and teacher assignment will be necessary following a. clearly stated school board policy of non-segrega-; tion in pupil assignment? 5. Beyond the physical and fiscal problems., what kinds of preparation for school integration; should be undertaken in Chapel Hill by school au thorities so that the transition shall be orderly and; result in better community relations? How can Chapel Hill organizations such as P.T.A., teacher associations, civic and church organizations and university facilities help in this regard? 6. 'How can the many professional resources among our citizens be utilized in the necessary stu dy and planning for the changes facing us? 7. How can we profit from the experiences of similar communities that have faced these prob lems already? This might involve actual vistls to such places. We have noted that in the areas where deseg regation has been successful, courageous profes sional school leaders, backed by a firm and in formed school board, have led the way. Peaceful and constructive change can follow only from in formed planning and firm leadership. The planning for and administration of a crucial public facility such as the public schools should be genuinely interracial in character. The advisory committee has been well chosen and should be utilized not only to look toward the long range development of education in Chapel Hill but to help the School Board with our im mediate problems in regard to desegregation. YOU Said It: Plants Need Sweeter Food Editor: Whereas I'm a farm boy and have been around the barnyard in my time, when I came to the Uni versity I thought perhaps I had left my farm ele ments behind. Imagine my chagrin, then, when I discovered the compost under my dormitory shrubbery. Now, I don't mind the University's preening a bit matter of fact. I'm in favor of it. But, please, let's use a deoderized fertilizer. I keep thinking my feet need washing. Name Withheld By Request
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