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PAS TWO THE DAILY TAft HEEV FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1957 Honor Council Candidates Should Be Screened Well It is getting to be spring election time, and that means members of next year's honor councils will be running for office. If tradition holds, there will not be a very large field for honor council candidates. We would like to suggest that there be a huge field. There should be a great number of candidates, and the electorate should question those candidates on every possible tenet of honor and justice. There have been a great many cases of stupidity on the honor councils this year. Those, cases should not be repeated next -y ear. Members have disagreed with each other and with the rule book on what constitutes a campus crime, and they have been guilty of oxer looking their own operating rides in bringing students to trial unfair- There is practically no margin for error in the judicial procedure here or anywhere else. Of all the functions of government, the ju diciary should have the least lee way. But this car the honor coun cils have been wrong too many times. The blame, of course, always lies in the people xvho are elected. If their records, their standpoints and their feelings are examined before their election, perhaps less could go wrong with Carolina's honor system. The more candidates, the more questions, the better system. The Project Is Unwise One The Daily Tar Heel feels that the idea of putting football play ers, or any athletes, in special dormitories is a very ''unwise one. We hope that William Aycock, who will be chancellor next year, will remember that present Chan cellor Robert House said the plan is only a "trial project," and that he will not hesitate , to stop the plan if it results in anything but good for the academic side of the University. There are at least two indica tions that the plan has created conc lusion in South Building since Chancellor House first .announced it a couple of months ago. For one thing, it was originally announced that the members of the football team would live "next to each other." They would move in "as vacancies occur," said Chan cellor House. Last week the chancellor said the players won't be segregated into any particular wing of the dormi-. tory, Secondly, the . idea oL - having "counselors," supported by the Athletic Assn., living in the dorm itories . is apparently an acknowl edgement of the fact that the pres ent dormitory system of advisors and dormitory managers is not working. If it were, there would be no need for the Athletic Associa tion's "counselors.','. There is at least one more rea rm why the system is unwise. It means football players are being treated unlike other students. South Building officials answer this argument by saying, "But they aren't getting better treatment. They are getting more discipline than the other studens." And our answer is this: If the University of North Car olina at Chapel Hill can't produce a football team,' either a winning one or a losing one, and at the The Daily Tar Heel The official jtudeni publication of tbe Publications Board oi tbe University of North Carolina, where it is . published daily except Monday and examinatio? and vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second class matter in tht post office in Chapel flill, N. C, unde. the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year! $2.50 a semes ter; delivared. $6 a yeac, $3 50 a eme ter. - - Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CHARLIE Sl-OAN News Editor . NANCY HILL Sports Editor LARRY CHEEK i mm .1. i Business Manager BILL BOB PLEI Advertising Manager . FRED KATZDf EDITOKlAL SlAhr Woody bear-, Frank Crother, David Mundy. NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Pringle Pipkin, Edith MacKinnon, Wally Ku ralt, Mary Alys Vobrhees, Graham Snyder, Neil Ba-s, Peg . Humphrey, . Phyllis Maultsby, Ben Taylor, Walter Schrur.fcek, H-Joost Polak, Patsy Miller. BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore, Johnny Whitaker, Dick Leavitt. SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stewart Bird, Ron Milliagn. Subscription Manager Circulation Manager zj. Assistant Sports Editor . Dale Staley Charlie Holt .Bill King Staff Photographer Librarian ' Norman Kantor Sue Gishner Night News Editor LrJL- Fred Powledge Proof Reader 1 Guy Elhs Night Editor Graham Snyder same time allow its football play ers to live, eat, sleep, studv, dale' and go to the movies with the rest of the student body, then the foot ball feam i .not V!resc ntativc ol the University, and the University should stop saying it is. Having "counselors" in the dormitories for a special group of people, whether they be athletes, or members of the Debate Squad, is very unwise, in our opinion. It is about as unwise as segregating that special group even more from the rest of the student body. Let's Work On Henry For Union If ever the University needed a professional, permanent student union director, the time is now. And right now it looks as if the top -choice for a director; How ard Henry from the University of Wisconin, is planning to turn down Carolina's offer. Henry's name first came up last spring when it was known James Wallace, would resign his director ship. A few members of the Grah am Memorial Board of Directors visited Wisconsin and came back, very happy about Henry. Later, Henry came down here and look ed over the building and program. He appeared pleased. Carolina people appeared pleased with Hen ry. Henry was offered the job, and he turned it down. He listed his objections. For the most part, they were corrected. Another offer was made. Henry filed UNC authori ties a telegram this week, saying hi- didn't think he would come. Vet, Graham Memorial student officials feel there is a chance Henry may change his mind and come to Carolina. It is right now that the Uni versitv students and. South Build ing officials should talk and write to Henry ami talk him into com ing down to manage the student union. It is in rcbdvely sad shape, and onlv a decently-paid, profess ional and permanent director can turn it into a fine student union. Preview On Video: Art, Abbe Anthony Wolff I"or the 13 minutes stauiur "'t 7:;$o p.m., Xavier Cugat and wile vocalist Abbe I.ane will be on Channel 5. It might be interesting to turn off the sound and watch Abbe. If you can forgo this experience, you might be interested in the do ings on Channel 4 at this hour. "How Real Is Real " is the mean ingless title of this show, which purports to be an inquiry jnto some of the mysteries of so-called "modern art." Friday is always a quiet night for television, but tonight is an ex ception. At H:o5on Channel 2 Charlie Chan encounters some no torious smugglers. I ' assume that Cholly comes out on top. C rearive o pi r it in . pportunities And Ch hdllenges V ft lara-wm - Dr. J. C. Sittcrson Dr. J. Carlyle Sitterson is dean of the College of Arts and. Sciences here, and a professor in the History Dept. He deliver ed this speech this week to the Philanthropic Literary Society, one of Carolina's two debating organizations. i am" very happy to have an opportunity ' to be with you, for this Important occasion. It seems to me that you in the Phi Society and in ths Di Senate are an illu stration of liberal education at work. For you take from the classroom, the library and the laboratory the knowledge that you find there, and put it to work, in., the discussion of. and the. solution of, the critical is-ucs of our. time; in so doing, you show what I believe to be the essential practicality of libera! education., - I have, chosen this evening t. talk with you about a mat ter which I beiieve to be of great significance in the re cent, past, the present and- I hope, the future of this univer sitynamely, the creative spirit, in Chape! Hill. If there is one thing mote than another for which this universi ty has become known it is as the hospitable home of the creative spirit that quality of the human mind which leads man to pursue his total perfection. In the quest he meets both evil and good; he is frustrated, but he is also en nobled in the process. 'Over the past two generations, the creative spirit here in Chap el Hill has been productive ol many of the finest examples of contributions of the University to the life of the state and to the welfare of man. Obviously, in the few minutes that we have be fore us, I can mention only a few of them, and those few, all too briefly. ' But let us for a moment think of what happened inlhe work of i .- s i Thomas Wolfe and Paul Green Wolfe, that remarkable figure, restless, inquisitive, always seek ing the meaning of man's life, not only hsre in the state, but in all time, whom some have re garded as one of the greatest talents of . our time; and Paul Green who was one of the-pioneers in portraying and analyz ing the life of the people of our region in dramatic form. I think, too, of that famous &cience and the vast researches which the members of that staff have produced over the past sev eral decades and which has giv . en to social research at the Uni versity of North Carolina a p6si tiori of iminence throughout the nation. And I think, too, of the vision of Louis R. Wilson, in the estab lishment of the extension divis ion and of the University of North Carolina Press as a med- i I . ; . 1 I " 5 , ' - j ' - 1 ' 1 :A ' J - . - . ' i - - ' ' ' ' I - ' - - , - , 5 ' '-- . . . -. . v -. ;- -.s. : - . : - - v. . , - - ' ;V. - ? ;- -:.:": . . ? i." A' ' . - --52- - ' .-.:. i ? '.:"?.:. ! 1" : , !; - - ' '-Uts - t" 1 JMHI ' " "" T"'f' 1 -y-- - -rinriljfJiiHI1"1f1" . : . J 'X.' ART IN CHAPEL HILL ...no lack of creative minds J DEAN SITTERSON "... we liave dreams the Carolina Playmakers, in their emphasis upon the , folk ' drama of the region. under the inspired leadership of the late Prof. Frederick Koch. - Out . of this group, this set of forces and other influences, came such pene trating and .creative writers as L'il Abner YO' BIN AWAY, DAY-DREAMING fo' two v;eeks.7now. YO' GOTTA GRIT YORE TEETH, AN' FACE LIFE XT. zoologist "Tuggie"v Wilson, that stern taskmaster, who has been called one of the grkat teachers of his time, and from! whose class "rooms'"' distinguished 1 scientists have gone on to pursue 'truth irt laboratories in. various parts of the nation; I think, too, of J. G. deRoulhac Hamilton, who had a dream of establishing here at Chapel Hill a great collection of source material from which the real history of the South should someday be written. That dream came to fruition with the establishment of the great Southern Historical Col lection, the largest single col lection of manuscript sources in the history of the South in existence, and , which brings every year to. Chapel Hill the most imminent historians for re search. Again I think of the late Howard W. Odum, who came to Chapel Hill in the early 19208 from his native Georgia with a vision of seeing the so cial Institutions of this region subfect to investigation and an alysis so that the real truth, the unbiased facts, could be gathered as a basis of enlight . ened action by a growing and developing . region. Out of this vision came the In stitute for Research in Social ium for the publication of the findings of research scholars so that the Jruth could become wide ly disseminated and that it could . become the basis of intelligent . public action. Nor should we in Chapel Hill ever forget the great work of Edwin Greenlaw in tak ing the University's Graduate School to a position of leader ship in the region. Again, there is Albert Coates, a man who 'has dedicated much of his life to the establishment of the Institute of Goverment where local officials could be come trained in the affairs of government to the better service of their communities. There are many other examples, too numer ous for us to mention here this evening. But you might well say that all of this is in the past. What of the present? What are the pres ent opportunities for the creative spirit to work here in Chapel Hill: What are the challenges of our time? I hope you will allow me to point out several areas in which think there are real opportunities for the creative mind to work here in our day. We have established over . on the hill a great Health Affairs Division. Of course the physicians and the scientists there will pur sue their work in the laboratory and will discover new things to the greater benefit of man. But that is what scientists will be doing everywhere. It seems to me that they have an opportunity also to develop plans to put medical science to the broadest service of man. Here is" truly an area which offers one of the greatest challenges of our time, for we have yet to devise . a - system whereby the best of medical service can be taken to those who are in -the greatest of need. If I may, too, I should like to suggest for your thought the honor system. We now need to find new ways in which it can grow in effectiveness and to bring to our heterogenous student body , a consciousness ,of its values. This seems to me to offer a chal lenging opportunity for the cre ative spirit to work in the stu dent body. For it was the students, above all, who created the honor sys tem. I would suggest too, that the completion of ihe Ackland Gal letry will present the University with the opportunity to make art a part of our cultural educa tion in the broader education of our a-tudents. Also there is an opportunity to continue our quiet progress in bringing the Negro into .the benefits of university education. Again, we should give a new emphasis to liberal education as the great hope of our time, in a society so preoccupied with the material and the immediate. Finally, it seems to me that one of the greatest challenges of our time, not only here in Chapel Hill, but in all American life, is to place an emphasis upon qual-' ity, upon, the mind, and upon vigorous intellectual pursuits in an age and in a society when man has so little time, and the worship of size and number has become all but universal. But while we point out these and many other challenging op portunities, we must not be unaware of the f act that there are serious obstacles, always ready to crush the creative spirit, to throw obstacles in its way. I cannot here point out all of these, but certainly I would mention the excessive caution and timidity, the su spicion of the new, the differ ent 'and the critical. To me one of the disturbing facts of our day in the Univers ity is our tolerance of the medi ocre our willingness to accept the mediocre rather than to de mand the excellent. Finally r I must remind you of the seriously inadequate finan cial support for the University. The Univesity of Noth Caofina cannot hope to retain on its fac ulty those stimulating and crea tive individuals who are brought together from many places, and who, because of their differences of views' and their stimulating ideas, act" as catalytic agents to criticize, to stimulate, to create and to take the University al ways onward in its service to the community By A' Capp NATCHERLV.? WHO D T? ) ; I r iraifi vt t expect? j , Pocjo By Walt Kelly TH!N3 SINC "Ta" WLJ Muni a mnmy has eeeweo y K IT AV !NT0?05T SOU TO KNOW FZ&TTY Ait; AN TWS KID HZZZ AKD NNb'KB CSS HfHSPf a tf7MPQ2Tf 60CDM0YQYfr" I'LL SiVE SOU A IV Am i vtW CV'M z-srn i ! i i i A, i : VICE PRESIDENT WHYBURN . a Texan in the graduate schools W.M. Whyburn: Graduate Chief Dr. Whyburn was named vice president of the Consolidated University for graduate studies and research by the Board of Trustees this week. Fol lowing is a biographical sketch of the vice presi dent. Tomorrow: The new chancellor at Woman's College. William Marvin Whyburn. Kenan Professor of Mathematics and chairmrn of that department, was elected acting provost of the University of North Carolina by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees a year ago. Hcvwas born in Lewisville, Denton County, Texas, on Nov. 12, 1901. His father, Thomas Whyburn, came to the United States from Tiverton, Devon shire, England, at an early age and lived in Ken tucky several years before settling in Texas. His mother, Eugenia Elizabeth (McLeod) Whyburn. was born in Alabama of ancestral stock which in cluded the Scarbrough family of North Carolina. He was the seventh of nine children. ' His childhood was spent on a farm and his ear! education was in the rural schools of his home community. He entered the North Texas State Col lege at the age of 15, and, after one year of college work, taught two years in the rural schools of Denton County. He transferred to the University of Texas in 1920 and majored in mathematics and chemistry for the degrees: Bachelor of arts (1922), master of arts (1923), doctor of philosophy (1927). Tcxa.s Technological College conferred an honorary de gree of doctor of laws on him in 1948. As an undergraduate at the University of Texas, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, while his graduate honors included designation as University Fellow, Louis Lipschitz Fellow and award of a National Research Fellowship. During the years 1923 to 1927 Dr. Whyburn served in the departments cf mathematics at South Park College (now Lamar State College of Tech nology at Beaumont, Texas, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, and Texas Technological Col 1 lege. The year 1927-28 he spent at Harvard under the provisions of a National Research Fellowship. In 1928 he joined the faculty of the University of California in Los Angeles, and in 1937 became chairman of the Dept. of Mathematics there. In 1944, he became president of Texas Technological College and served in that position until 1948 when he resigned to become head of the Mathe matics Dept. at UNC. During World War II he was chief of the opera tions analysis section for the Third Air Force. At Carolina, Dr. Whyburn has been active teach ing mathematics. Seven doctor's degrees have been granted under his direction since he came here. He has also maintained research contact with the Air Force, the Oak Ridge National Laboratories and the Navy. He was general chairman of the second State of the University Conference in 1954. The year 1954-55 was spent on a research leave, pro vided by the Office of Scientific Research, Air Re search and Demand. He spent the summer of 1955 at universities in Germany, France, Italy, and England. Dr. Wbyburn's principal specialties within the field of mathematics lie in the areas of real varia ble theory and differential equations. In addition to many published articles in these areas, he has co authored several books on mathematics, two of which are "Algebra for College Students" and "Col lege Mathematics with Applications," both with Prof. Paul H. Daus of the University of California in Los Angeles. Some Hair Curler Messrs. Humphrey and Hoover might note that even without a depression the inflationary spiral is quite a hair curler for people scratching their heads over the family budget. The Chicago Tribune
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