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THURSDAY. MARCH 5!, MSf - rAet rwo Conforming Glass Of '57: Will The World Be Cruel? When the senior class of 19", 7 marches prondlv through Kenan Stadium lor the last time next June, one tact Will he certain: It will compose the First edition of a strange, new generation, called "silent" bv some, "carcfid" by others. No matter what adjective may be applied to the current, generation, we feel it is cert tin that its greatest characteristic is its conformity. When conformity is mentioned, people immediately start thinking about belts-in-Uutk , ; and three-; : ' s ; ! ' buttoned jackets! With; this wc do'. Kven the most conformist among not fully agree. Clothes arts an ex.- ns Conformists will someday reach cellent indicatiin,.olt nwiital i con- ! an! Impasse, .when what others tell diton: and it is easy to identify the' us to think will not help. We will Ivv Lea-'ued student whose vocal)- have one resource left our own GOETTINGEN LETTER: ulaiy is limited to. "Don't sweat -it" and equally stupid terms with the opiuionlcss, close-mouthed. , secur-itv-seeking majority! -Uf- today's undergraduates'. - 'I his student, and the others like him, are responsible for the camp us apathy. They are responsible for quiz files - i the fraternity houses, and they are the reason Lenoir Hall workers chopped their fight lor I; iter pay. They are the reason students can't get up en thusiasm about anything, includ ing the football team, studying, the DlTkathon or four .visiting Is raeli students. . liecause they5 are in the majori ty here, the . t'ni varsity is slowed down. I 'nt i 1 they have gone their wav, xoekinu even more security from the cold, cruel world, we can not reallv progress. - t ?, ;' ,: : , " '. ' : ; ; ,' i l.ut, clothes -or: no! c lothes, prac tically evervone here is a conform ist in the bad sense of the word. Kven those who profess to be non conformists are usually found con forming together in their literary tastes :they sit together on the floor and read T. S. r.Iiot, and they look equally sloppy. F.ven in them there is conformity, and it is no good. What this University needs is a majority of students who are non conlomists in the mind wlio think not what thev are told to .minds, our own feelings., What will we do then? - We go to college to answer that question. , Wh:.t we do under the impasse conditions depends on our capabil ities to .think for ourselves. Surely sitting dead in a classroom, taking notes because it is expedient, going to the movies every afternoon and scarcely enlarging our vocabular ies beyond the - "Don't sweat it" sta;e surely these things do not help us to think for ourselves. We must learn. We must learn, or the world will trulv be cold and cruel. uracious Living: Number 17 The Town of Chapel Hill, which has the intelligence (town government-wise) of a metrojM)litan area, also has the energy of a very small village. We refer to holes that are left in streets long after the paers and levelers are gone. The town always has been sloppy in this respect. It does street work promptlv, hut. leaves ditches and holes to be filled in with the rub- think, or what they feel it' expect-: '! her '.from poor motorists' tires, ient to think, hut' what they feel Ciracious laving in Chapel Hill hwde themsuK e$i' after consider?- ' could stand a. little dirt in those tion and coYVtiMnpfation. holes. What say, Mr. Rose? Food Fight Shouldn't Die A sjokcsinan for Lenoir flail workers has said the majority of the' students tlfere are now "satis fied" witlv.tlieir pay conditions. If the Workers are ' satisfied; we cm hardly see why. All their minor revolution has accomplished has been an offer from the manage ment to throw in an extra two cups of Pine Room coffee per clay. The "old deal Si. no worth of food per clay for two and one-half hours work, with no holdovers and no one to help eat the food still holds. It still looks sillv and The Daily Jar Heel The official itudeni publmtmn of tbt publications Board -of ihe .University vt North Carolina, whore it is published dily except Monday and examination and vacation prrmds and summer term Entered as second class matter in the D-st office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei th" Art oi March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed. $4 per year. $2.50 a sewen ter: delivered. $6 a year. $3 50 a feme ter Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CLARKE JONES Mews Editor NANCY HILL Spirts Editor LABRY CHEEK Business Manager BILL BOB PUE1 Advertising Manager ... FRED KATZIN. EDITORIAL STAtr - ody ean. Joey Payne, Stan Shaw. NEWS STAFF Graham Snyder, Edith MacKinnon, Walter Schruntek, Pringle Pipkin, Bob High, Jim Purks, Ben Tay lor, H. Joost Polak, Patsy Miller,. Wal ly Kuralt, Bill King, Curtis Crotty. BUSINESS STAFF -John Minter, Marian Hobeck, Jane Patten, Johnny Whitaker. SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible. Stewart Bird, Ron MiUigan. Subscription Manager Circulation Manager . Assistant Sports Editor . Dale Staley Charlie Holt ..-L.Bill King Staff Photographers Norman Kantor , Woody Sears, Librarians. Sue Gichner, Marilyn Strum Night Editor Proofreader - Walt Schruntek Bill Weeks inequitahle, as it did several weeks ajjo when the workers' revolution started. . Perhaps the workers are just be in; quiet hecause thev feel it would he hetter to he epiiet. At any rate, the Student Legislature com mittee investigating the situation at Lenoir should he ahle to do something mo. South Iuildinr. which prohahlv won't do 'anything, in keeping with its traditional pol icy. - liy the w;.y. we notice in adver tisements that one can eat three square meals at Lenoir Hall for Si a day. Whv. then, should the work ers be stuffed with Si.no worth of food? Overeating cuts down of ef ficiency, both' at' work and in c lass. Or. maybe the one-buck figure was just for purjjoscs of advertisement. TV Preview: Government Miss Booth Anthony Wolff At (:;o tonight, Channel j con tinues its weekly series on "Ameri can ( io eminent." Tonight's seg ment deals with the Supreme Court and features Justice Harold II. Burton. This should be oi interest to xlitical scientists, segregation ists. :-':iti-segregationists. -southerners. Northerns, Americans, etc. 'Climax", on Channel 2 at H:o p.m., presents a drama about the goings-on in a recording company: I suspect that this is all an excuse for fill Corey to sing v little ditty touch ingly titled "Let It lie Me." Shirley Booth returns to the TV screen tonight in "The Hostess With The Mostes' " on Channel 2 at ():;jo. The allusion is obviously to Pearl Mesta, Washington social whiz and, in her spare time, IT. S. Minister to Luxemburg. The plav niav verv well be pood, and if it isn't, Miss Booth will be. n (jermany: hfudenr rreedom Carolina students John Raper and Dan Southerland arc cur rently on exchange with the University ' of Gcettingen in Germany. Here, Southeriand tells of the scholastic life of German students. GOETTINGEN How would you like to forget about that eight o'clock social science class and sleep through 'till ten? You, 'the English major, would you like to stop sweating that mid-term exam in your Shakes peare course and just take one big test at the end of four ye?rs to get your degree? You, the chem student, conju gating irregular French verbs which don't seem to be import ant for your future job in the lab, but are part of the General College requirements, would you like to throw the French book in the waste basket and spend ail ' of your time working on prob lems and experiments? If your answer is yes, you folks should study at a German University .where you have "Studienfreiheit," freedom of study. At the German University you have unlimited cuts and no' regu lar tests, only an exam at the ei. J of several years and perhaps a test in the middle of your study. There ait? no required courses oMch as we have in the General" College and you have no set study plan. You hear the lec tures you want and study what you want according to your in terest. Under this system, the talented student can go as fast and as fur as he wants. Forjnstance, in Phy Acs, he can do 30 experiments in one semester or one experi ment in two semesters and the prof does not care when he gets the work in. . Under this no-control system, the student can develop self-reliance and resourcefulness. However, the German student type and only in relation to study can one characterize him is much better suited to this freedom, because unlike many of us in the States, his main concern is study. You see this interest in the clas oom. At one popular lecture on the history of the German novel, I have to be there 20 min utes before the lecture begins in order to find a good seat. At the beginning of the semester in this lecture, students sat on the floor, in the aisles, on the window sills, and on the stage with the lec turing professor in order to hear him. At a regular public lecture cn the history of World War II, the fir 10 rows are reserved usual ly two h mrs ahead of time Outside of the lecture hall you see very Tittle burning of the mid night oil. . Why should there be cramming? There are no tests, no pressure. The German student studies consistently and goes as deep as he wants into his sub ject. You find very few goof-offs. To be a student in Germany is much more of a privilege than in the United States. It is much more difficult for a German to get through the "Gymnasium" (10-19 years old) and to pass his "maturity" or final exam than it is for us to get a high school diploma. The BMOC is not to be found at the German university. Firstly, because nobody would know him if he existed. . Most students couldn't tell you who the presi dent of the student body s. And secondly, students don't have time to be BMOC's. They want to work and get finished as soon as possible. " The main concern of the Ger man university is the issuance of knowledge. The American univer- I These individualists miss some thing which we have on the U. S. campus, that is living together. No matter how much you dislike your roommates coming in drunk while you are in the sack at night, you must admit you've learned something more about human na ture having lived with him.. There are very few possibilities for German students to live to gether. In Gottingen, onlly 270 out of 5,500 students live in stu dent homes. Most live in private dent refer to "my university" as we do. There is no such thing as a "Gottingen man" in the same .-ense as a "Carolina" or Harvard man." . Students change universities on the. average of one or two times before taking their final exams Since the universities are generally, of much more equal rank than in the States, a student might choose to study in Frei burg in the winter semester be- . 'When Do We Come Out With A New Model?' jgAH sity is interested in the education of the whole person. We see e-tra-curriculars and social life as essential. Our ideal "product" is a per son of high character, can got along well with others, is well pounded, and ha knowledge which can be applied. If the Ger man university has such an ideal, ' it is an "educated" person, a per son who can "think." This pic ture cioesn't include the "person al"' traits of the student. ' Our colleges tend to produce a Joe College type. We have conformity as a result of mass , education. On the other hand, most German students are individualists. rooms and therefore find it more difficult to make contact with other students. Private student fraternities and political clubs bring students to gether, but the University itself makes no provision for social life. A student would identify him self sooner as a member of a fraternity or the Christian Demo cratic Party than he would as a member of the Gottingen student body. There is absolutely no unity in the student body. Students are far apart as their,. Universi ty buildings and their rooms which are scattered all over the town. You never hear a German stu- cause the skiing is good there or in' Munic because he likes the theatre and opera and the life of the big city. He considers thes-e things as well as the men in his faculty whom he would like to hear. The German student has the chance to work completely iso lated. He can study without get ting to know another student or professor. There is always the danger that he will become nor row minded and specialized as well as individualistic. The responsibility for what he learns is his alone. He is faced with an impersonal university which says, "here is the know-, ledge, it is up to you to get it." k it L'il Abner By A! Capp V tixj&Z'SgrjSj&&l ' tf f? " I I HE'S CONCEALED J I BUT, THAT'S VERV 1 I I WILL GLADLV RESIGN -t'M HOT TAhWC, , 1 ii. , W .'1 A'- V , IT CLEVERLV, N EXPENSIVE' rJ FROM THE FORCE. J ANY HSKf.''- i tiUT. MEL HASN'T GOT J LISTEJU-CAnTT 1 SOMEWHERE' f n 1 AND GIVE UP MY fX THAT TCK,VG S ITOM HIM.7-ANV VOO HEAR IT TICKING? I DEMAND HE. r I CMIEF, IF THE PENSION , ' JStfT UUST SOM TOOL CAN SEE fj I CAN"- j E X-RAYED.' ' Sj -RAY DOESNT . J J THAfG CXAZY JN I -HAT 1 J : DISCLOSE THE 3 ' MY HEAPS') A? -7 feS-X; Vv! 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No, while he is not con nected with a great institute of learning, he is still aware that the productivity of his farm will cease to be if he does- not provide proper w ater and food for his animals. I guess it is because he is humble that this man realizes he must provide so that he may bs pro vided for. He must give the cow fodder so that she will be able to produce wholesome milk. The chick ens cannot lay well without proper feed. And the pigs will never grow fat unless they are well slopped. My farmer is kind and providing for his animals -because he knows that he has to be if they are ever to be of any profit to him. In the same manner businessmen are solicitous of their clientele, and this is so for the same reason. Th'is holds true in the world. Would that it did on the UNC campus! I wonder just how many people would willing ly eat in Lenoir Hall if it were not at the Uni versity? I wonder how many people feel that lie nor's food is either nourishing or fit to be put into the human stomach? 1 am sure that my friend the farmer uses more loving care in fixing his pigs' slops than anyone in Lenoir ever uses in throwing together their ambrosial delights for the scholars of tomorrow. There surely are few places in the free world that can boast so captive a market as can a uni versity cafeteria such as ours. There are few people who like such food as that dished tip by Lenoir, but there are many who have no choice about eat ing it. My farmer would be out of business if he did not' care properly for his' pigs. I wonder 'how' Ions Air. Prillarnan would be in business if he had any competition? I wonder if Mr. Prillarnan himself ever eats at Lenoir? If he does, then surely he could, nof in good faith have said what he did the other day to the students working at Lenoir. As I remember from The Daily Tar Heel article, he said he would not allow them to use their food credit in the Pine Room because he wanted them to get three square meals a day. I truly wonder how he expects them to do that anywhere in Lenoir. Of course the calorie content of the food may be as high as any of that at Maxime's, but at Le noir calories are thrown together into such un wholesome tastes and sad appearances. If Mr. Prill aman thinks that this is not so, if he thinks that Lenoir's food is in the least appetizing, then he is guilty of something or other which is surely gross (bad 'judgement, perhaps). On the other hand, per haps he is simply being human. Why 'should he care whether the food is any good? He has no competition to take his business. The powers that be (i.e., South Building and th trustees) seem content with Lenior's handiwork. (These men, however, all tsesm to eat at either the Monogram Club, the "Carolina, Inn, or t home.) In other words, Mr. Prillarnan is like a student who on the first day of class krrcws that he will be automatically passed. So why should he work in the course? Now don't throw in the argument aboui knowledge for knowledge's sake; that's long been out of vogue here. Lenoir is within the trend of the times why be amy better than you have to be. But then surely there is some Providence that will make things better if they have to be better. Perhaps that Providence is in an irate student body, a student body that is willing to give visible proof that it is not satisfied with the sullen look ing mess that Lenoir put- .forward as its handiwork under the misnomer of food. Students of the University unite! You have noth ing to lose" but that vile stuff at Lenoir which you'd be better off without. Daniel S. Silvia Jr. Sound And Fury Looks Promising i Charles McCorkle Remembering the colorful, tuneful, spectacu lars that were Sound and Fury last year, we stopped by Memorial Hall the other night to see how it's done. We had received inside information that the company, under the intrepid direction of senior Jqhn Ludwig, was hard at work, with performance slated for March 30 and 31. The hall was a seething mass of frantic thespians rushing around aimlessly and shouting contradic tory orders every few seconds. The chorus, a lusty group of some 30 members featuring two girl bar itones, was on the stage stumbling through the ov erture. Miss Blynn Durning, who deserves orchids for her bravery in returning to choreograph the shew for the third consecutive year, was in their midst, repeating few simple steps which nevertheless seemed beyond the grasp of the singers. With a despairing sigh we dropped into a seat. But as we watched, order suddenly grew out of the chaos and we were confronted with a snappy. prof?ssional song and dance which could easily have graced a Broadway stage. We leaned over into the pit and uiscovered Cecil Hartsoe, familiar veteran of Sound and Fury since way back when, pounding away on the piano, pro ducing wonderful melodies out of nowhere. Enough complications follow to conveniently fill two lavish acts of songs and dancing and to utilize the talents of a generous number of talented performers, but eventually the diamond reaches it's final resting place we wouldn't be so crass as to reveal exactly where this is, but you can take our word that it's pretty nauseating just in time for the finale.
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