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I PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HtEL TUESDAY, MAY 7, IfS The Cancerous Mid East: Three Jeers For Nasser The importance of Jordanian King Hussein's acceptance of $10 mil lion worth of U.S. "technical assistance" -becomes increasingly evident in light of theTrecent Syrian elections. Open endorsers of Qommunist-tainted Egyptian President G. A. Nas ser defeated atnew anti-Communist coalition in tliree' special : parlia mentary elections. ' , 1 k Thus King Hussein's acceptance of U.S. assistance is a bright spot in the globe's' cancerous Middle East. . Although the vigorous, young king's willingness to accept the. S10 million is, in it self, at least semi - endorsement of the Eisen hower Doctrine approved by Con gress to handle the Middle East crisis. Secretary of States Dulles in typical; bungling style has threatened to throw the U.S. pro gress flat on its democratic facp. Dulles told Bonn colleagues attending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council meeting that Jordan had: "In effect, accepted the Eisen hower Doctrine." Dulles made this brazen state ment even though Hussein must appear non-partisan before his subjects a majority of whom have violently leftist inclinations. Even though Dulles has cast his clumsy shadow on the situation, it is still evident that Nationalistic Nasser is becoming increasingly S isolated in his attempt to convert Arab nationalism into a dictator ship for himself. Only the Cairo-Damascus-'Mos-cow axis now remains a eminent empediment to prevent solution of the Middle East problem. Amman is conspicuously misj ing from axis. And in lieu of Carnal Abdel Nasser for the ini tials "G.A." might be suitably sub stituted "Going (virtually) Alone" Nasser. He has only Syrian sup port in. his megolomaniac attempt to extend his. influence through out the Middle' East. ' When' Premier Nasser's, transi tion government ended in 1956; ad a dual plebisite elected him president by an overwhelming majority of 99.9 per cent of the total votes, a constitution was also approved which calls for a demo cratic form of government. If flag-waving Nasser is pursu ing democratic patterns in his gov ernmental scheme, then the U.S. is obviously a victim of totalita rian tactics. At any rate, the U.S. has secur ed a signally important ally in the malignant Middle East i only through economic aid. And at least one" provision of the Eisenhower Doctrine has scored a victory. Republican leaders may sneer at the administration of Give 'Em Hell Harry S.; but they must agree that "the Republicans have play ed political bunk with the budget" Truman was using his Missouri grown head when he promulgat ed the "Truman Doctrine." The Truman Doctrine after which the Eisenhower Doctrine was obviously patterned provid ed economic aid for Communist threatened Greece and Turkey. Three jeers for Nationalistic Nasser: three cheers for Hustling Hussein of Jordan. Long live the king. A Puffing Smokestack And State Salvation A faint inlf'of black on the Carolina skies! " : "A puffing smokestack: - - " "- ..V " ' Salvation for the dominantly agricultural state.. ' Gov. Hodges is to be lauded for his proposal to lower the corporation tax. fence which the state has constructed. Through lowering the corporative tax 'structure, the Old North State U virtually assured that more in dustry will pick up its machines and move south. Tobacco, for, better or Avorse, is the state's chief staple commodity. The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, " where it is published daily except, Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Entered as second class matter in the post office in chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, S2.50 a semes ter: delivered $6 a year, $3.50 a semes ter. ," a ol a Editor NEIL BASS Managing Editor BOB HIGH Associate Editor NANCY HILL Sports Editor s BILL KING Newj Editor WALT SCHRUNTEK Business Manager JOHN C. WHITAKER Advertising Manager .... FRED KATZIN NEWS STAFF Graham Snyder, Edith MacKinnon, Bob High, Ben Taylor, Patsy Miller, Bill King, Sue Achison, Mary Alys Vorbees. And the economic law of supply and demand has necessitated cut after cut in tobacco acreage allot ment. Thus other sources of income must be exploited. Industry must be the answer. The state is, and has been for some time, miserably low in the state by state listing of per capita income approximately 44th.' Low per capita income leads to subsequently .lowered standard living,: lower social, educational nd mora standards. , ' Thus the state must take off its straw, hat and don goggles and in dustrial caps. -, Perhaps; Gov. Hodges has the answer; ) - The General Assembly should back him to the hilt. Local chirhbers of commerce, no matter how alluring they may make their respective locates sound in chauvinistic propaganda," can't make a dent unless the state tears clownin a 'modified and temporary vtay the tax barriers which trip industry as it attempts to make entrance. , A puffing smokestack and salvation. EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield, Anthony Wolff, Span Shaw. m - EUSfNESS STAFF John Minter, Mari an ilobeck, Jane Patten,. Johnny Whitaker. SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stu Bird, Ed Rowland, Jim Crownover, Ron. Milligan. . " ' .. Subscription Manager Dale Staley Crculation Manager Charlie Holt Staff Photographers Woody Sears, Norman Kantor Bill King. Gracious Living I! Gracious Living in Chapel Hill suffered a set-back recently wh'en Lenoir Hall did away with plastic dishes. ' . r - China, is prettier than plastic, but beauty isn't everything. Since the introduction of china, the pleasant babble of voices has been intermittently -about three times in every twenty minutes by actual count-y-disturbed by the clasl of dishes hitting the inlaid floor. This tends to stop conversation and disturb appetites. It is not conductive to Gracious Living. Librarians Sue Gichner, Marilyn Strum Night News Editor Night Editor Oh, for the days of the splat in stead, of the clash. ! Bob High . ! ' ' Woody Sears Hooray for plastic plates. The Cornell Daily Sun: . , Apathy; Is It Universal And Big Problem? The intellectual apathy that seems to be etherizing the campus . is not a condition peculiar to Cor nell but rather a symptom of a rather ' widespread situation. A report on academic . nidifference at Yale, drawn up by the Aurelian Honor Society, appeared in the April 19 issue of the Yale Daily News. This report included two points particularly pertinent to Cornell's academic problems and which have been the subject of much comment here and else where. One of these problems is fresh man orientation. The Yale report recommended the development of some "definite program to make use of the excessive amount, of free time during Freshman Week. One such program would be a series of lectures in which each department head would speak in an attempt to stimulate student interest inhisdis ETAOEMET interest in his discipline by out lining its aims, methods and value. At this time sample read ing lists and course outlines could be offered to those inter ested." It could, perhaps, be argued that students who have reached college age and have chosen to . continue their studies at the university level should be in tellectually mature enough to make the academic adjustment on their own. The fact is, hew ever, that the American high school system does not provide its students with the intellec tual awareness and maturity that is necessary for serious studying at the university level. American hijh schools provide their students with a more ade quate preparation for football games and cheerleading than for reflective thinking and aca demic discipline. The other academic inadequacy that we have in common with Yale is the prevalence of monu mental lecture courses. The Yale report states, "The administra tion ' should "use all resources available'To "increase the number of undergraduate seminars." So much has been said about the need for the elimination of "feed back" prelim courses and for the encouragement of individual and creative study at Cornell that we need not dwell on this problem here. The important thing is that we do not just sit back and say that academic indifference is symptomatic of something bigger than Cornell and Yale and that we can do nothing to arrest the spread of this intel lectual stagnation. Perhaps it is just another characteristic of our increasingly institutionaliz ed society in which even indi vidualists have to be organized Perhaps big universities and big lecture courses with IBM exams are natural outgrowths cf such a society. . But if there are to be any bastions of resistance they will have to be the colleges "and uni versities of the nation. Yale has issued a report; we have written editorials; the next step is for the administrators to take some action. L'il Abnar "We're Not Going To Keep You Cooped Up In The Hold" A Synoptic View: The Students' Forum: Reader Asserts Club Autonomy; LSU Reveille Hands Out Advice Editor: In your editorial of May 2nd concerning the State Park inci dent you made at least two ra ther unfortunate errors. One:. You stated that because tbe Cosmopolitan Club party included a Negro in' the group, the entire party was turned away from the park. This was not the case. The only person asked to leave was the Negro student. Since the Club felt that this was against j its principles the entire group left. Two: You implied that the YMCA was to be "mildly chas tized' because it was either ig norant of the regulation,? gov erning State Parks, or that it wanted to create a situation concerning segregation which would result in an issue. Actual ly the Cosmopolitan Club is an autonomous organization which is responsible for its actions; It is quite true that they group which planned the picnic was not aware that the park might be segregated. We did not go out to Umstead Park with any idea of creating an issue. At any rate, the YMCA was not ia any way responsible for the actions of the Cosmopolitan Club.. It would be appreciated in the future if, before editorial statements are made, the editor would ascertain, to the best of his ability, all the relevant facts concerning a situation and then utilize them. Sipra Bose Ram Desikan . Ken Yang (The Cosmopolitan Club had its genesis as a subsidiary of the YMCA. V2 share the club's pride in its newly-found auton omy. But we still feel the "Y" has a moral obligation to at least offer advice to the group to prevent repetition of unfor tunate cccurrencss like the Um stead Park incident. We will con curr with Miss Bose that the in- cident resulted due to a lack of knowledge of state law. This in dicates that the "Y" should of fer its advisory capacities. Furthermore, we have fought with the Cosmopolitan Club 1 in its battle for "better understand- ing" among all peoples, regard--less of race, -color .or creed. Thus this caustic attack on The Daily Tar Heel seems a particu larly unpalatable display of chauvinism. Haggling and fool ish pride will not help alleviate an .odious situation. We suggest a union of forces. The Editor) Newlyfelected members of the student government are be coming accustomed to their du ties as representatives of the student body. Now that political philosophies have been boiled and feasted upo.n and glorious victory is rapidly charging into the hard work, we think it time to enum erate what we believe to be the most important duties of the new student government. In the past there has been far too much absenteeism. If mem bers of the council and the sen ate cannot perform th mini' mum requirement of office, they dc not deserve the title of lead er. Speaking in support of some thing they b:lieve right, especi ally when in conflict with ad ministrative views, might be considered extra duties to those they represent, but consistent attendance by proxy only in emergency is imperative. All problems of importance that concern the student body should be discussed in- open session with a view to finding a solution satisfactory to all. Closed session will only aggra vate irascible tempers to the boiling point. Except in rare cases, we have a right to know who is doing most of the talk ing. Probably the biggest task of any government is exercising the proper restraint and maturi ty in the execution of its duties. By, A! Capp J WE MUST AVE ABSOLUTE QOIET.7' I I WILL NOT INSULT OUR GUEST ' WIZ A NOISY GUILLOTINING f.r j J SOME. COARSE LOUT ' 1 K"" AMONG VOU HAS A TOO- If LOUDLV TICKING WATCH.' I I REMOVE ALL rvV Ja-fr IT IS DONiEf ARfv VOU SATISFY? htffaff- STILL I HEAR iSf A -TICK-TOCK".?' SOMEONE IS CONCEALING A WATCH, BUT I WILL r- PIND IT.V 1 Pogo a v Dtg up some ?auui) paper or gome J&y&n.e$e or mem - ana tnen nko twite? ues rsr -Ty J th r -Alt 32 fTrSX., H I Its 2ONNA zzpczr TO KIM tmAT MTS CONMA REPORT ? Bv Walt Kelly ffe5ffTl TV. r !t CDUlOSiLL THAT ZZPCrtJD WA5 I I gn how rr i gme uicmet A I Vd ue. vi i u 1 1 Association Stan Shaw If you are a member of the Class of 1S57, in the next few days you will be approached by a member of your class and asked t join the Uni versity of North Carolina Alumni Association. You may sit and wonder what it will benefit you to pay a dollar so that you may receive 10 issues of Alumni Review, and other information from thev University Alumni Association. You wonder why you should keep in touch with a school after you have already graduated. You will hear many reasons, most of them fairly good as to why you should pay your dollar and keep in touch with your Alma Mater, but some of the best reasons, the ones that really count will have to come from inside yourself. These will be the reasons that make ycu under stand why you joined, although you will probably give your dollar without thinking of them. They are the things that you will begin to think about when sit there in your room and realize thai your graduation is only four weeks away. For in four weeks you will no longer be a "college kid" or a "young adult." You will b? an individual who will have to find his way in the world just as everyone else. The comfortable days of indolence that Thomas Wolfe talked of will be gone and you will be sitting at a desk or planning a mar ria32 and family or finishing your military service. All these things and a lot more are waiting- for the Class of '57, and you are a member of that class. You know by this time that all of those undying friendships that you have formed aren't going to last as you one time thought that they would, and you must hav? realized that the last vestige of your childhood is drawing to a rap'id conclusion. There isn't time and there isn't a place f?r you if you think that the world isn't going to change around you. and more important you. are going to have to change for that world. You are going to have to take r?sponsibilif.y as you have never taken it before for now you are part of that great group known as college graduates. You wonder why this has any bearing on the Alumni Association and you still can't see that the group is going to make any difference in what you do, but think of the fact that you are a Caro lina graduate now, and think of all the implica tions that this has and ou will begin to under stand what the Alumni Association will do for you. You are a member, of a very special breed cf persons, this is not to say that' you are better or worse than others, for this has to be decided on your own personal merit, but still you are a Tar heel. You went to Carolina the year that we didn't lose a basketball game, and one of the greatest players that the game has is your classmate. You sat by your radio and by your television set and suffered with the rest for those last tw nights out in Kansas City and it gave you some thing that very few have had. It gave you a feel ing of belonging that seldom comes to human be ings. You were a'ssnior the year that a new adminis tration was .born at Carolina and as & student your views were heard as to how this administra tion should be picked. You saw Carolina get a new football coach, and in the record of his past you saw a chance for a new era of a winning team to start. You sat in "Y" Court and cuss?d this paper as everyone else has in the past and will do in the future. You read Pogo and Li'l Abner and did the crossword puzzle in that bor ing ten o'clock class. You have shared so mar;; experiences with your classmates that you "will never be able to forget them all or separate your self from ' the school that has done se much to form you and to make you what you are. ' And if after all of this you wonder what you would lose by not joining the Alumni Association then all that we can say is that you have never walked across the campus on a spring night and felt that the world was all about you; you've never been to Kenan Stadium in the fall and seen the blaze of autumn against that bright Carolina blue sky; you were,never a part of that team that went undefeated for you; you never lay out in the sun and got the annual spring tan; you never hissed and booed at the late .show and you never walked past the Old Well and wondered if the campus would change as much in the future as it did while you were ,here. It's corny and it drips with out of date senti mentality, but it meant something to us and w? feel very sorry for those who never knew or were never able to know it. We don't want to lose the good things that we achieved at Carolina and we don't want to forget the wonder that we found here. Do you? We read with interest that Latin-American stu dents studying in Northeastern colleges have formed a "Lat3u-American Students Coiifedera tion.' We sincerely liope that this polyglut organi zation isni subjected to a display cf bigotry' simi lar to the Umstead Park incident which the Uni versity Cosmopolitan Club had to contend with. King Hussein's admirable assertion for Jordanian autonomy has slapped Nationalistic Nasser in the face with a cold fish. Now Nasser and his Syrian cohorts are living in their own private little Communist-tainted towers. Maybe the world situation would continue to improve if Ike made his stay at Augusta a permanent ce. A spot-check among the "irate" local citizens who oppose construction of. additional fraternity courts might reveal some encroachments on Uni versity property ... a chicken house or so??
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