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It t i .- THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO Legislature Should Pass A Newspaper Profit Measure Tonight a hill will Ik: present cil t I lie student leislatuie re iiestiii that prolits accrued hy The Daily Tar Heel should be re tained hy the publication instead ol handed cv to the student treas ury. We Iiok- that when a vote is taken on the bill a week from now, it will have gained enough sup pmt to assuic its passage. ("uuently. whenever The Daily Tar Heel needs a speci.il approp tiation it must go lirst to the I'uh liiatious Ho.ml with a lequcst, and thciue to the legislature to seek the needed funds. It doesn't x(Ui often for the simple reason that we seldom spend money which is not apptopriatcd in our annual budgets. However, it is a timely, red-tape-lilled process to undertake everv time the Tar Heel needs a special appropriation. And it is onccivablc that a much - needed item, appioud by the Publica tions Hoard, could be rejected bv the legSslatuie to the (detriment ol the Daily Tar Heel. .. These facts, however, aie far oei shadowed bv the incentive liglit of the paper to letu for its own purposes any prolits whic li. it acciues thiough the difficult and oltcn thankless woik of those who see to its publication. I'ndet the present ariangement. those who bring income into the Daily Tar Heel through the sale of advertisements and subscrip tions become viituat employes of the student treasury department whenever prolits appear lor the newspaper. For funds which they piovidc over and above the Daily Tar Heel's operational cxpetiscs are turned oer to student coffers. For instance, our expense ap propriation this year was 5pf,ooo. jo, paid for by student lees, ad vertisement and subscriptions. If we were to take in Sfio.ooo, which isn't likely, the Si.j.ooo realied over and above expenses would not be retained by the Daily Far Heel. Obviously, suc h an arrangement olfers little incentive to those who would improve the newspaper off pi of its which It might accrue. If the Daily Far Heel could keep the profits it makes, we would not need to ask the legisla ture for a new truck we would buy it with our own resources. Nor would we seek a special appropria tion for photographic equipment, for we could buy it ourselves. In the Publications Hoard stu dent government has a watchdog over anv' expenditures of The Daily Far' Heel. That board would remain the watchdog over addi tional liuuls if we could retain profits realized through greater ef fort in advertisement and .sub scription -sales. Consequently. the legislature should look favorably upon the bill presented tonight with an eye to permitting the Daily Far Heel to improve itself by funds which rightlv belong to it. The .Polls Committee: Keeping Up With Times Well, theirs nothing like keep ing up with the times. Fake, tor instance, the levcal ing ieMit ol the CMAtt VolV Committee conducted to see "how MmWm- v .imU cnni vo ei st;f issues and piohlcms." ... . Only tiling' wrong with the ic ealing study, conducted last fall, is that it was just released lot publ ication Tuesday. Re.iIIv. boys. Of what signilic aiue ate votit campus-wide jmiIIs expected to ic present a (ioss-iew o student opinion il you lelease them time months after the 'con liowisial issues and problems' on whi( h thev lepoitr Well. niavbe out attitude is wtong. l et's take a campus-wide poll, iletetmine how many aie in laoi ol releasing poll lesults soon aftei their collection, and then pu sent a repoi t ol this smvtv to students this summer. I'eih.ips we could include in the same poll data telling how mans students attended the Dukc-Caio-lin lootball game, what percentage ol the student IkhIv spent Thanks giving at home, and who thinks Robeit Kennedy should speak heie in the fall. i7. These and mam other mrtin ent studies would be ol vital ni teiest to the- student body. I.nough lor the futuie. Follow ing is a little data about the past which was included in the xlls committee repoi t teleased heir I Hesd.u . t. Some 7 ',. per cent of the The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of th' Publication Board of the Universitj of North Carolina, where U Is published daily except Sunday, Monday and exam ination and vacation period and sum' tner terms. Entered as second class mat ter In the post office in Chapel ilill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1870 Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year. $3 50 a semester. student IhkIv wanted Adlai Steven son to appear on campus for a public address. (That was in Oct ober, you lemeniber. ol io;,7 last yeav'.v j. 'Peanuts.' the Daily Far Heel (omit strip, won v support ot .Sfi.o per cent of the student body. (For those of you who can't remem ber, 'Peanuts Was added to the paper in early December, i i -,7. ) Hack, in io",7. when the poll was taken. jT.i' per cent of the stu dent ImmIv were sinokeis. and mote bought Kents than an other brand. (With the new Winston lighter give-away plan, no telling how the -vote may have changed.) j. Fhe consensus back in io"7. bv li-.'.S pei cent, lavoied a seventh soioiitv on campus. ( Fhe Kappa Kappa Camillas alre.ulv are liimlv established on the campus and have even held their lirst rush panics!' Fhe upon Tuesday c allied with it a rerpiest that persons with ques tions they would like to include in the polls should come bv the CFP. office-and the Polls Com mittee will take caie of it loi you. We would make this comment, howcvei: be sine to elate your question, 'cause somebody's likely to foiget what you'ie talking about by the time the report is made. SINCE SPUTNIK Editor DOUG EISELE Associate Editor FRANK CROWTHER Managing Editor ALYS VOORIfEES News Editor PAUL RULE Asst. News Editor ANN FRYE Coed Editor JOAN BROCK Feature Editor MARY M. MASON Sports Editor BILL KINO City Editor BOX KINCAID Night Editor GRAHAM SNYDLB No Hiding Place When the Russians tired Sputnik. I into space they also launched the world on a binge of wordniks. In 110 timcnik at all. we had a Muttnik or, as some declared, a Dognik. There was considerable spec ulation that a Mannik would soon be crieling the earth.' It, was almost foreordained that the Navy's Vanguatcl, which ex ploded lour feet off the giound, would .be Dudnik. ' Then came the Arinv with its Jupitcr-C, sending the "Fxplorer" into an orbit around the world. 'Fhe craenik continued. One Latin newspaper termed our satel lite an "Uncle Samnik." Sarcastica lly, an Fast German paper dubbed it "Fatcnik." (Better latenik than nevei nik?) What we'ie getting at is that all these pliraseniks eventually will make us sic knik. Put we don't intend to fall prey to this liuquistic trap. As soon as the weather warms, wer're going to get away from it all. Probably pack a nice lunch and drive out to the lake for a pic nik. Bristol Herald Cornier J.YS.JAZZ WBSBlHSflBHBHSBBMBaaBBlMSlHBH The Swinging Shepherd And Buddy Morrow There's a .song called '"Swing ins Shepherd Blues" vyhich is pretty doggone good and, surpris ingly enough, is getting quite a few plays on the radio and selling quite a few copies. Surprising be cause it has seemed that the American public is in the habit of disregarding good music and buying the junk. The fact that this song is selling so well should be extremely encouraging to all who like jazz and tasty music, because its one step away from jazz and definitely tasty. The body of the song is a lilting flute solo, backed mainly by bass and drums, which reminds me a little of a Buddy Collette solo on the Chico Hamilton Quintets "The Morning After." The faceless mob of rock and roll loving Americans which is buying this record wouldnt' like to know it, but this stuff is jazz. One more step in the right direction, and in June the hit pa , rade is going to see Max Roach, and Dave Brubeck, and Shelly Manne. and the Duke or the Count, and suddenly the musical face of America will have changed. I hate to think that "Rock and Roll" might be dying; after all think of all the great contributions it's made to that entity which is American culture. Oh, there's Elvis Presley, and sideburns, and "Raun chy, and all those wonderful phrases, like "all shook up," or "one eyed cat peepin in a sea food store" or "see you later alii gator." Yes indeed, as this great medium slowly fades into the sun set, and the great black chasm which is to be its coffin opens, and we stand sorrowing at the edge, let he who is the spokes man look heavenword. remorseful ly brush a sorrowful tear from his misty eye, and declare for the heavens and the world to hear -"We come to bury rock and roll. NOT to praise it!" Graham Memorial's Mardi Gras Committee has signed the Buddy .Morrow orchestra to appear at the Mardi Gras dance and concert this weekend. This is one of the finest dance bands in the country, and a band that Carolina students would love. Morrow's recordings of "Night Train" and "Got You On My Mind" have sold very well, and his "One Mint Julep" is loved by almost every Southerner 1 know. Yet I have been told that there is a good deal of doubt as to the success of the occasion. This is due to three factors, all of which are inexcusable. The first is poor scheduling of the dance -two weeks after Germans is an inopportune time. This is minor as compared 1o the two others - general student lack of enthusiasm for anything that the people in the Student Union try to do for them, and a snotty at titude on the part of the fraterni ties which says that there is but one dance and that is Germans and that all others are but golden images unworthy of attention. "Not Yet" - -r-b-i ' 'J-Tj VIEW FROM THE HILL Social Regulations Should Go This observer committed an egregious error yesterday, when in this column appeared the clause "However, some of them have the misfortune of pledging fraternities . . ." What this should have been is that some persons on the campus have the misfortune of being hazed in pledging, which as was argued in yesterday's column is contrary to the idea of social equalityon thet UNC campus. The emergency committee on fraternities will no doubt hear talk, subsequent to the Lambda Chi Alpha affair, that -social rules should be strengthened. There is at least as good an argument that social regulations should be eliminated entirely. That the university is trying to cultivate a standard of morality in this microcosm is understand able. That the university wants to protect itself from criticism from the outside is natural. However, the university should not be responsible for the private lives of its students. In doing so it is invading into the privacy of the individual that should be zeal ously guarded. Further, it is taking an added responsibility over and above that of the civil courts, a responsibility with which the uni versity should not be charged. Although the university is cur rently looked at by the press of the state, as being responsible for the lives of the students within it, this concept is a false concept, as no group should be responsible for any other group whose mem bership has attanicd the age of responsbility to the civil laws. Students who at the end of their high school career have to face the test of civil law, it is rather silly to see that the more intel ligent people in the community must be subjected to juvenile laws. College students are not in a soc ial incubator, although they may be in an intellectual one. The university currently tries to curb violators of social laws, and . hence, when violations occur, the university is blamed. As long as it assumes the responsibility it should be blamed. The point being argued here is that the uni versity should not take the respon sibility. These rules do very little good, and invite violation. Moreover .they infringe on in dividual rights in simply telling a person when and where to drink or when and where to come in at night. There can be some argu ment against having drinking or other excesses on university pro perty, but to forbid it at private establishments, such as fraterni ties is in violation of the rights of private property. Further, to make a coed come in at 1 a.m. on a weekend night or 11 p.m. on a weekday does nothing good. It is designed to protect the reputation of the Caro lina coed, but the Carolina coed, has the ability to do what the uni versity is trying to protect the coed e from doing at any time of the day. Girls at the age of twenty should not be treated as children. If they were not in the university, they would be subject to the laws of the land, not the rules of the smal ler group. At some point in an individual's life, he must accept the responsi bility that society places on him. The university should not impede this process. It has been oft said in this column that one should not legis late morality, because morality is an individual matter. Social rules represent the uni versity's view of minimum morali ty. They are not effective enough to prevent the violation, and they are too effective in that they take away the individual's freedom of choice within' civil law. They should be eliminated. EVERY" NOUJ And then i1 V HAVE A GOOD DAY CO 3 z IIS DC I U-'CCiN I HU2C iUXjZ AND7HENS' U.WSRE I HAVE ALL MY TROUBLE .' 1 1 vnn I 1 nu vfs i'm kcst At ii!Avc I r j l9A l(xDEPgESSED,YOUKNOUi..yl 1 1 1 a 171 il. Lzrirvnii it i 11 u ' i r ( ES-M ISDAID. I CJJT, FRANKLY, AH-GuLP.7-DiDN,:T ( AH MUST OF DONE Vi TMIS"LL -. j , PZ TOO-SAME AS VO's f EXPECK A FINE.UPSTAND1N' CHAP J I SUMPTH IN' ROTTEN J KJLL.VO' k I I I IS(CARVGRUNT- J I LIKE ME. WOULD WIND UP IN TH' AH DIDNkT NOTICE J MDKUM-VO' Jr!J?0'f TCn- V SAME PLACE AS A RAT UKEtOU.'.' J ( WHILE AH WAS IS ALIVE J Jfe- IflSS jmM N CO J) n C fi. U O O O GU P 2 l COMTEK MyVV tN UW TMrti iV I OitiD'JHCB A ?OOZ ATNCIYHM. A NNOCpNT Fi,A S at - aril. m VI ft I 5UT MAVgg -ro KNOW HIA te-roLOlg UIA M6 AVAVag INT&ffg$TjNS, QtJXY. A WIT, A BOH VIVANT, A 0RILHANT A 6(?gAT tJUPSgCPYAOCIflWET. CRITIC CP LiTEATUC, OU& Of -Vr& pgVV WHO HO A Fisig y(Vrf Im I I cy V seer? a JQ " THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1958 m 1 ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, TOO Fraternity Man Makes Case For Early Rush By PRINGLE PIPKIN I should like to discuss the case against delayed rush from the viewpoint of the .fraternities, for I believe through their relationship to rushing they deserve some Consideration. The first question is just how delayed would rush be? The earliest time which would' have any ad vantage over the present system would be right after the first semester. ; : r Except lor the beginning of the year this is the time when the academic load is the lightest, and so the mshees and fraternity men could devote their efforts to rush without serious academic hardship. Any other time during the year there would be hour quizzes which would conflict with the rush program, unless the University would be so con siderate as to suspend ;r quizzes for a week. I assume that rush would be conducted on a basis similar to the way it is now run and would take about a week to complete. It is possible, if informal rush is conducted throug hout the year, that the rushing period could be short ened or even eliminated. However informal rushl would present more problems than it would solve in my opinion. In the first place the larger houses with more money at their disposal would have an unfair advantage over the smaller houses in conducting the rush pro gram. Secondly, rush is a tiring process and it would be difficult to keep the house interested in rush throughout the long rush period. ' A long informal rush period would also be re latively unorganized and and expensive. The frater nity would have to spend at least one half of the year working at rush. Therefore, it seems to me that a rush period organized on the present lines with a "silence" period and conducted just after the first semester vvoid be the fairest and most practical way to con duct, a delayed rushing program. Assuming that rush would be run under these conditions, I see another problem. As the fraternity houses are now instituted they have some relatively fixed overheads with regards to the dining room and to the sleeping quarters of the house. In order to operate on a reasonably stable finan cial condition the fraternity must have a relatively fixed number of members so the costs of the over head can be met. Included within this fixed overhead are all the expenses of owning a house taxes, insurance, heat, repair, etc. and cost of employing help to work in the kitchen. As the membership of a fraternity becomes smaller the porportion of overhead that each mem ber must pay becomes larger or else the fraternity simply loses money. As the fraternity becomes more expensive be cause of the drop in membership, some members have to go inactive because of financial strain and so the expense is increased per capita. In light of these facts let us examine delayed rush. A fraternity now has 50 members and in the spring 15 graduate. Under the present system of early rush this fraternity would get around 20 pledges in the fall and so have around 50 members during the rest of the year. If delayed rush is instituted and this fraternity can not get any pledges until after the first semes ter, will not those 35 men have a difficult time sup porting a fraternity normally supported by 50 men? The matter boils down to the simple fact that regardless of how the fraternity plans its pledging there can never be a relatively fixed number of members in a fraternity throughout the year. The cycle will be continuous at the beginning of the year the fraternity would not have enough mem bers, then after the 'first semester the facilities of the fraternity would be overcrowded. (By facilities I mean the dining room; most frater nities do not expect to have room to sleep all of their members in the house.) Only the cleverest house managers would be able to keep the cost of membership at the present level while at the same time keeping the house out of debt. The question of delayed rushing is a multisided problem; I personally believe the present system contains the least of the possible evil. S LETTERS TO EDITOR Are We Doubletalking? To the editor: It is indeed regrettable that the argument about Perez Jimenez fitness to rule Venezuelans has drifted toward unwarranted attacks upon my people. As a foreigner who is enjoying the hospitality of this country I cannot answer every and all the questions that have been raised by my opponents. The host's forgetfulness of his duties does not allow the guest to forget his. However, it is necess ary to point out, that to all foreign students and specially to those who are citizens of underdevelop ed countries, it must be deeply dissapointing to notice that in the middle of the cold war between "Democracy" and "Totalitarianism," the onlycom ments in you paper raised by the over throwing of a dictator in the Western hemisphere aer in favor of the dictatorial ruler and against our people's rights to fight for its freedom. , So far I had thought every American would heart ly hail the restoration of freedom in any country. I will go back to my country with a different but maybe a more realistic idea about the nature of the struggle we are fighting today. I began to think that you may need as much help as we do to make the dream cf a "free world" come true even in your own country. So let me suggest that you send the letters that have been written in favor of the dictator and against my people to the Central Uni versiy of Venezuela so that the students in my country may read them and let you know what their reaction is. I am sure that the Venezuelan stu dents will welcome your intiative and will be able to contribute to a better understanding between our countries. Respectfully yours, Martin Perez Jr. if
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