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FACE TWO
THE OAILY TAR HSEL
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 19S7
An Evaluation Of 1957-58
And Governmental Strides
As campus governmental and
tociul cog come to a subdued halt
and academics examination week
settle more dominantly into the
linulight. there is afforded an ex
cellent opKrtunity for evaluation
iD the past academic year.
Student government made tre
mendous strides under the apt lea
deiship of President lob Young.
Its prestige grew both in the eyes
ol die administration and the stu
dents. President Young began on the
right It Kt with installation of civ
il seiiie type examinations which -guitleil
his selction of appointees.
Other examples of initiative were
hi unprecedented assertion for
higher faculty salaries in an ad
dress before the Student Legisla
ture ami reision and clarification
of the student Constitution tinder
the direction of Attorney General
Sam Wells.
The most signal act of Young's
administration was his recommen
dationthrough the Traffic Advis
ors Commission for limitation of
student tars and initiation fees on
student cars.
The major shortcoming of the
Young administration lies in the
fact that no further action was tak
en to remedy the congested pai k
ing situation, lint Rome wasn't
built in a day. Young has laid the
groundwork. It is now up to his
sublessor Sonny I vans to construct
upon it.
Herein lies what we feel is the
most signilicant obligation Presi
dent Ivans has to the student
1hI during the coming ior7""
academic year.
It was understood that limita
tion f automobiles for freshmen
and sophomores without a "(V
average was to be only a tempora
ls lestiittiou. It wai also stipulat
ed that automobile registration
Sees were to be used to construct
additional parking lots.
Thus President Evans should
begin his administration by re
doubling efforts to apply registra
tion fees toward construction of
additional parking facilities. Such
facilities would, upturn, result in
the lilting of automobile posses
sion. Another important problem
upon which Evans should consoli
date his e forts is the student union
it nation.
The present structure is gross
ly inadequate. The lack of a per
manent director is a serious im
pediment to progress. Such an un
settled situation destroys unity of
action and makes for general dis
continuity. Evans should, as he has promised
to do, recommend administrative
changes which would elevate the
union director to a position com
parable to the director. of student
activities, housing and admissions
heads to transpire this summer.
The president should also be
gin immediate work on prepara
tion of a student union prospectus
which he also promised, during
the campaign, to prepare during
his administration.
Student government has been
successful during the current aca
demic year. The prestige afford
ed student autonomy has been en
hanced. The handwriting is on the wall
for student self-government if
gutless actions such as the failure
of the Student Legislature to speak
out on the Umstead Park exclu
sion incident characterize the
Evans administration.
We optimistically hope for a
19.V-58 student administration
which will not only equal Presi
dent Young's successful adminis
tration, but will surpass it.
The potential is available if it
is only presented and cultivated.
A Magazine Is Born...
nd Humors Revived
i
The Dailv Tar Heel salutes the
birth of a new campus publica
tion. In these times of hustling, bust
ling impersoualitv. t lie greatest
guard against neuroses and gener
al frustration is a simple laugh
at yourself or with others. It is an
e er-to-be-sought panacea.
Thus it is especially fitting that
a campus humor magazine a
successor to the now defunct Tar
nation be born to provoke and
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
tnd 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, $2.50 a semes
ter: delivered S6 a year, $3.50 a semester.
FDITOR
Peanuts
MANAGING EDITOR Schroder
ASSOC. EDITOR Fuss Budget
SPORTS EDITOR
Flippy
NEWS EDITOR
Charlie Brown
ItUSINESS MANAGER Beethoven
ADVERTISING MGR.
Linus
NEWS STAFF Edith Snyder, Graham
Taylor, Ben MacKinnon, Pasty
Springs, Manley Atchison, Sue
Miller.
EDITORIAL STAFF John Foster
Brink. Stan Musial, George W.
"Tony" Wolff.
BUSINESS STAFF Mohn Jinter, Har
ian Mobeck, Pane Jatten, Shucky
Buford.
.SPORTS STAFF Dan Daniel, Roscoe
McGowan. Red Barber, Mel Allen,
Vin Scully.
SUBSCRIPTION MGR. . Louella Parsons
CI RCULATION MGR HarlieColt
PHOTOGRAPHERS KingiLsh, I. C.
Moore, Clark Kent, Captain Marvel.
LIBRARIANS Hedda Hopper, Kim
Novak.
Night News Editor
Bob Drunk
Night Editor
Bed Springs
nuture this all-jxiwerful laugh.
In patterning his magazine. Ed
itor Bill Michael has mentioned
comparable publications which
"have become synonymous with
real rib-tickling, good taste and
humor indicative, if not the cause
of, the est for living . . . which
exists on these campuses."
Michael apparently is approach
ing his editorship with a realiza
tion that campus humor magazines
must le raucous enough to pro
voke interest, yet at the same time
tempered by the prescriptions of
propriety and just plain good
taste.
With this realization, Michael
should have little trouble with the
University administration.
Regarding his relationship with
the administration, Editor Michael
has said, in effect, he intended to
pull no punches as far as satiriza
tion is concerned. Since satiriza
tion of college and university ad
ministration has been a big theme
among humor magazines, Michael
was wise to note that anything or
anybody that existed upon such
"wheezy" ground that it could not
stand a little fun-poking needed
investigation anyway.
The new editor is right again.
And we feel that Michael has stat
ed a universal truth.
Congratulations to the new edi
tor and - his business manager,
Manlev Springs. And general con
gratulations to all responsible for
the magazine's formation .Tom
Long for his idea and the Student
Legislature for its sponsoring ap
propriation. May the publication be long-lived.
Letter Policy
We regret that a number of let
ters to t).e editor were excluded
from print due to space and time
limitations. Such letters will be
returned to the writers. We urge
that "students express their views
in such letters as frequently as
possible. All letters, signed and in
good taste, have been and shall
always be printed.
Wise And Otherwise:
Sure-Fire Way
To Beat Exam
Week Problems
Whit Whitf ie!d
In the event that there is any
one interested in studying for
j exams during the next few days,
here is a simple formula consist
ing of ten rules: ,
(1) get a book in hand any
book will do. you'll see why, it
doesn't make any difference
later, the importance of this rule
should not be underestimated, a
book is the paramount objective
in learning, (at UNC at least.)
(2) find a comfortable place in
which to study -T
one that is com-"
paratively quiet,
such as' the li-(
brary, bus sta-'
t i o n, tempo
room or the
goody sh o pv'
whichever you
prefer.
(3) turn on a radio or television
' set if there is one available, by
learning to overcome the handi
cap provided by the noise, your
powers of concentration will im
prove immeasurably, if there is
no radio or tv to be had, then
sing loud, this accomplices the
same purpose, but requires con
siderable effort on the part of
the individual) which you could
do better without
(4) sit for long periods of time,
except for 'coffee breaks, flicks,
et cetera, this makes a tremend
ous impression on tho.ve who hap
pen to see you.
(5) stay up as late as possible,
preferably all night, this is by far
one of the most important rules
to remember, for one reason it
makes for bloodshot eyes, after
a quiz you always should speak
to the instructor and the road
maps are indicative of a good
night's study, another reason for
this rule is that it makes for
good gripe material, or at least
conversation, for instance, after
you flunk the quiz you can tell
about how you stayed up all night
studying, don't do, this too often,
however, because you only show
your lack of intelligence.
(5Va) if you can't stay up of
your own accord, then take sev
eral dexedrine tablets, and have
someone tie you to the chair, this
is more impressive it is pathe
tic, all your friends will sympa
thize, some may even cry.
() feel as sorry for yourself
as possible, and cuss the profes
sor as often as you like, he proba
bly doen't like you anyhow, it's
probably because he is bald and
you have beautiful curly hair,
yeah, that's it. he's just jealous
of your hair, and he ain't no yul
brynner. that's for sure cussing
won't improve your studying any
but it will increase the flow of
adrenalin which will help keep
you awake.
(7) always take your notes to
clas with you the mora the mer
rier, this shows the professor and
your clasmates that you are mod
est enough to admit that you
don't know it all, and at the same
time shows that you are a good
hard-working student.
L'il Abner
Emptying The Mai I bag:
The Hilltoo:
etorf S Retorts, Etc.
Dear Editor
In. Friday morning's Daily Tar -Heel
Editor Bass has written an
editorial about some misconcep
tions, most of which apparently
exist in hos own mind. In this
editorial - he, quotes a speech
which was made Tuesday night to
the orientation 'counselors , and
then makes this comment: 'Chair
man Ragsdale should not have
created th impression before the
orientation counselors that the
students were sufficiently aware
of the Honor System."
It seems that this impression
which the editor has gotten would
be quite hard to come by con
sidering the, fact that he was not
even , present when the speech
was made. No such impression
was given, I am sure, to the stu
dents present at the meeting. I
did in no sense, imply that Car
olina students could not improve
the Honor System. Nor did I say .
that the System was functioning
ideally or that it could not be
improved. If these things are
said about it, they are said by
the editor, and not in any sense
by me.
. No statement was made about -the
present perfection of the
Honor System, for it is not per
fect. I did say, however, and if
the editor had been there or read
a copy of the speech he would
not have misconstrued my state
ments to-the efect that the Hon
or System was in better shape
now than it had been in a long
time; and that those of us who
care a great deal about it; and
I am sure the Editor is one,
though it unwise to run it into
the ground. It is possible to do
this with anything, and the Hon
or System is no exception. Hon
or is not something with which
you hit people over the head.
It is not something to be jam
med down anybody's throat. Hon
or has to be taught, and taught
gently. Man must be led to a con
ception .of honor if he is to grasp
it at ali. The Honor System does
not work ideally. The Editor is
the only one I know who thinks'
I said it did. . .
We are trping jto help the Hon;
or System. We do not poke fun
at it or at the efforts and judge
ment of those who are concerned
with it. We do not run headlines
e
about it like the one run on Fri
day which read: Please Return
My Radio, or The Honor System's
Great.
The Honor System IS great. As
the Editor said, it is the back
bone of student government. It
is a great deal greater than some
things t; which man often pays
attention.
The editor used the word "com
placency" twice in his editorial.
If there is. complacency here
about the Honor System, doubt
less some of it arises from the
misconceptions which are spread
about ' it. No complacency exists
within the minds of efforts of
any of us who decided not to
have an Honor System Empha
sis Week. Nor have we adopted
the "leave well enough alone"
policy. We are trying to guard
against the possibility of the stu
dents tiring of the word "honor."
It is the job of the Editor to
criticize, and if he did not exer
cise his duty in this position
which he holds, we would all
feel that he was not doing what ,
he should do. But we do object '
to criticism which is groundless.
Each of us is a stock holder in
The Daily Tar Heel because each
of us buys a copy. We have the
undeniable right to ask for the
truth and likewise the unques
tioned right to object when the
editorial page reflects unground
ed opinion.
I repeat again: ' The Honor
System is in good shape. It has
come a long way, and it has a
long way to go. It is not perfect.
Someday I hope it will be. We
did not want to take the chance
of harming it by runitlng it into
the ground. Those who are mis
informed about it, as the thief if
that red radio obviously is, don't
read. They don't hear, and they
don't care. When they are gone,
we shall have a better Honor
System. These people are the
kind who don't come to any
speeches anyway, they don't read
the Daily Tar Heel, and they
probably wouldn't have partici
pated in the Honor System Em
phasis Week anyway.
George R. Ragsdale, Chairman
Men's Honor Council
. (It is' obvious that we could
not have commented had we not
had access to the crux of Rags
dale's speech. We are convinced
however, that The Daily Tar Heel
and Chairman Ragsdale are work
ing terard the same goal
strengthening the Honor System.
We wish him every sucess and
pledge him our wholehearted
support.
The Editor) .
The Story Of A
Neglected Man:
Freedom Fighte
Nancy Hil!
The Hungarian revolution is a
dead letter for the most part in
the American "'mind and the
American press. It. becomes in
creasingly hard to find ways and
means to bring Freedom Fighters
to the United States, ironically
because some have violated their
refugee status to provide invalu
ble propaganda material to the
West in its fight against Communism.
Such a person
is a North Ko
rean, odd as it
may seem. We
heard this story
from Barry Far
cer, a Daily Tar
xleel editor of
some years back
who recently re-
turned to . the
irom Austria and
Retort To Covell:
Sex, Gangster TV
Dear Editor:
In answer to Mr. Covell's col
umn in Saturday's Daily Tar Heel
sir, I don't quite understand
you.
You say that Americans ignore
God unless to satisfy their whims.
I presume it follows that you
believe that God created us. If
you believe that, then he must
have created our "passions and
sentiments, our basic needs and
whims." If He created them, why
must' we suppress and refuse to
satisfy them?
I think that most of the people
who watch those sexy movies and
gangster TV shows do not run
right out and imitate them. I
doubt that even the imperial Ro
mans would have done so.
Most of your letter is confus
ing and does not follow its own
arguments. But I would like to
know why are these whims and
passions to be overcome?
Katherint Severance
the Hungarian border.
At the time of the revolt last
October, there were, according
to Barry, some 400 North Ko
rean Communist youths study
ing in Hungary. They were the
pick of the crop died in the
wool Communists. The one in
this story had fought for the
Reds in Korea when he was 16.
On the night of Oct. 24, when
Hungarian students were meet
ing in Budapest to plan the
demonstration, at first orderly,
which was to take place the
next day, another meeting was
in progress.
At thij meeting were the North
Korean students. They had a
choice to make: they could tell
the authorities of the plans Which
theyf knew were being made,
they could do nothing; or they
could join the Hungarian students
in revolt.. To a man they decided
to take up arms with the Hun
garians. The Koreans fought valiantly.
And when tallies were eventual
ly made across the border in
Austria, it was found that four of
the reported 400 had escaped to
safety after the fighting. They
had e-vaped separately each
thought he wasthe only one liv
ing. The one with whom Barry talk
ed was anxious to tell his story
to the free world.
This Korean could conceiva
bly have been admitted to the
United States as a refugee.
(Embassy officials in Vienna
said there was no Korean quota
under which he could enter.)
But he violated his refugee
status by making tape record
ings of his story for Radio Free
Europe and the Voice of Ameri
ca. There remain only two possi
bilities for his entrance into this
country: for aspecial bill to be
passed by Congress, or for an
American university to request
that he be admitted to the United
States as a' student there.
He is now in a refugee camp
near Vienna. He is- in particular
danger from the Communist sec
ret police. He is part of a sordid
story of which much has been
told, but of which the part he
could tell would be particularly
dangerous to Communism.
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Censorship An
Civil Liberty
George W. Wolff
America balances precariously on the brink of
war. Huge allocations for defense, countless hours
et re.-jarch into the art and the machinery of war,
and irretrievable years from the lives of her young
men all are dedicated to the protection of freedom
from aggression. At the same time, Americans raise
only a murmer. of protest against the loss of thfir
eential freedom right here at . home.
.. This essential freedom is
really a .complex of rights,
liberties, and responsibilities,
without which the whole iUl
of, American freedoms is
meaningless and inoperative.
The complex includes free
dom of speech, press, inquiry
md expression: all of these
freedoms, or rights, era p
"ified or implied in the Bill
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.-ji-w. - ..if i"3' 'Q nicy re a pari
of the foundation of this "nation. They are seriously
limited hi America today.
The violation of the right to free speech is per
haps the least .obviouj of all the infringements on
American rights. There is as yet little open action
on the part of any group to forcefully silerce an
other. But the pressure to quiet speech which i.-i
not in keeping with current mass sentiment is
present nonetheless'.
The effect of this presure is evident, for instance,
in the attempt by the CBS Network to inhibit new
broadcaster Eric Severied's outspoken commentary
on current events. The pressure is focused closer
to home in the violent objection to freedom on the
editorial page of this newspaper; this objection has
resulted in- recall elections and the move toward a
"newspaper which will give the students what they
want" a euphemism for no newspaper at all.
Treedom of the press the right of a newspaper
to seek out the facts and present them honestly
for public scrutiny is aL?o seriously challenged.
Recently, the government has announced its as
sumed right to censor the news in a far les subtle
fashion. Secretary of State Dulles, involved in the
senseless btu-iness of preventing the entry of Ameri
can newsmen into Communist China, has found it
expedient to redefine the right to freedom of the
press. According to the Dulles interpretation, the
Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press
applies only to the publication of the news, and
not to the gathering of it. This 'w nothing less thin
an attempt to establish the government's right to
censor the msfs media. Similar censorship has
been going on in other areas for many years, but
this is its first recent appearance in regard to the
pre;3. ?
Censorship is present on the state level also, and
the best example of this is the recent bill granting
North Carolina county judge the power to remove
from sale any publications which he deems un'U
for public consumption. The legislation is aimed at
curbing the sex and scandal magazines which have
flooded the newsstands in recent years, but the bill
neither states nor implies that the censorship power
vested in the judges is limited to these publications.
It is doubtful if the magazines in question eve
corrupted any mind, and so this legislation is in
one sense a plain example . of the American prac
tice of legislating against the symptom rather than
the cause of malignancy. But even if these sup
posedly noxious magazines were poisoning the
minds of Americans, there would still be no justice
in censorship; under the American ideal of free
dom and democracy, we are saddled with the good
and the bad, and the two go together in every area
of democracy. The only way to eliminate the bad
in our society is to educate the population to the
good. Thb does not mean to indoctrinate them with
chauvinistic phrases and lies, but rather to firmly
equip them with the ideals and responsibilities of
democracy.
This obviously involves an educational institu
tion far superior to the existing system. But it in
volves much more than that, for no education is
worthwhile .without the corollary freedom of ex
perience and inquiry through which an education
and freedom can be validated.
Censorship, however, impinges severely on educa
tion also. In every area of thought and inquiry
Americans are often insulated from thqse intellec
tual experiences which make democracy meaning
ful. In South Carolina, a five thousand dollar fine
haa been legislated as a punishment for any theater
owner who shows the coming Harry Belafonte film,
"Island In The Sun". The reason: the movie treats
a problem in. race relations, and involves a close
relationship between a part-Negro man and a white
woman. . . ,
Such censorship restricts both the citizens' riht
to free inquiry, and also the artists' right to ques
tion the order of tn'ngs and to comment on it. The
government and pressure groups engage in book
burning; several groups, including the Catholic
" Church, arbitrarily condemn movies and books, all
in an attempt to restrict the intellect.
Underneath all of this overt censorship is another
presure even more detrimental to the natlcn, for it
effects mainly the "thinkers" those who re best
equipped and motivated use. freedom to the na
tion's advantage. .This pressure demands thai an
individual suppress the principles and Ideals which
are meaningful to him, that, he sacrifice them on
the altar of conformity to the intangible but power
ful public morality.
Thus, Arthur Miller, one of America's few nota
ble playwrights, must face contemot of Congress
charges for refusing to- identify friends and ae
quaintences suspected of being Communists. The
entertainment "industry is plagued by a blacklist
which keeps many people out of work and denies
credit to many others. (The author of the cripts
for "A Place In The Sun", "Five ringers, and
"Friendly Persuasion'.' is a blacklistee; since his
listing, he has won one Oscar, been nominated for
another, and been cheated out of a third by means
of an Academy of Motion Pictures bylaw, passed
e -pecially to avoid any further embarrassment from -this
talented pariah.)
America looks ecross the seas, anxious to further
freedom in foreign lands; and in her own back ya d,
freedom falters.
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