PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
CSUrJOAY, MARCH 2, 1958
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The Discriminatory Clauses
Should Not Be Removed
.V-iiii our student Kish.t ui v is
about to trespass on piixate gro
unds, tliis time in a "Hasie Polity
Ihi I. ii. il ion" ol tlie I'nited States
.Nation il Students Association.
Intiodiued toi .ution in (lie leg
ist. nine I luusd.iv iiilit. it would,
il passed, mandate the sti akin" Irom
n.iteinitv ihaiteisat I'M', clauses
ulii'li lestiiit hoiu memberslii j)
t eit.iin peisoiis on b.isis ol r.u e or
( teed.
W'e doubt, seiiously. tliat the
student h '4isl.1t in e c omposed in
the in.ijoriix ol hatetnitx and sor
oiit niembeis will endorse the
dctlaiatioii in its entirety, ptimati
l because ol" the "disc 1 iminatoi "
l.uise pio isiuii.
In elicit, the dec I. nation asserts
that no student 01 t;auiai ion at the
I'nixcisilx will be allowed to li.ixe
in its (onstituiion disc rimiuatorv
( laiises as to taie or religion in-
hiding, ol ionise. Iiateinitv c hat
tels uhiih icsiiict tiuuibetship to
pei sons ol .1 certain race- or c reed.
There is in the declaration, how
ex er. an "e cpt" c lause whic h does
not inclu.ie in (he non-discrimination
ptoposal religious organiza
tions "ix lu te the axowccl put pose ol
the or4.iniat ion is to brin.4 to
gether members ol one spoilic re
ligious puiM)se."
These, then can discriminate as
concerns theii membership. An ex
ample would be- the ec lusion Irom
the baptist Student Tnion those
ulh) (1 Hot jjlolc-ss the- I.IJ)tisl
laiih.
hi tiiat li'ht. we ate unable to
lil inuMi between a religious r
aiiiai it hi and a m ial one. lor
the simple reason that social organi
zations, too, follow a certain creed
in accepting or denying members
ship. In the case of fraternities that
criteria happens to be racial status.
W'e feel there is nothing wrong
with this prac tice. And we are over
whelmingly conlident that regard
less ol bias clauses or the absence of
them there will necr be a "mix
tin e ol the races" within fraterni
ties existing on the I'.NC. campus.
II. in lad, a fraternity here wish
ed to accept a person whom its
charter now restricts from member
ship, it would tale only the unani
mous consent of active members to
admit the inriix idual. Indeed, that
holds true now in the acceptance of
any person to any fraternity on
the campus.
W ith the existence of these me
chanics, it becomes not onlv un
necessary but as well an encroach
ment on the activities of a prixate
oiganization to demand the re
moval Irom its charter clauses
which restric t membership to per
sons of a pat tic ular rac e or c reed.
W'e hold that it is not the do
main of student government to
mandate to a prixate oiganization
a Maternity or a sorority xvhat
shall or shall not be included in
its charter. This is a matter which
is the sole concern of the organiza
tion in cjuestion.
For that reason alone the, legisla
tuie should reject the "basic Policy
Declaration" in its enrirety. if
necessary to retain the distinction
which rightly belongs to the (lieek
societies on campus.
Better Nothing Than Wrong
(cr at Woman's College Cor
delii ( ...Iphin. c ilitoi ol the uceklx
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iani)iiN newspaper I lie v.aiolin
i.iii. U ruiicntlx under lire b a
host ol sMeaming students lor
I lu
ll it
WOllll
(laroli
oilman s news coer:ie
is as poor as thev contend
I take their Dictions tiuu- to
1 - -
conn Unite to its eliciency through
toining our stall and serin., to it
what she desiiibes as ' aii imimi- that news ol imi.oitancc -ecs into
oleic 'ei.j,c ol news and a lack
ol 1 null o el M.ll iwics."
I. i eel wiih mh li allegations
is had enough, hut ii bee omes even
a moie harassing problem when all
the complaints ate- the produc t ol a
student bodv composed, lor all pur
oses. c-xclusixelx of a lemale ag
gi egat i n.
We wouldn't tiade places with
xou. (ioideli.:. but e would sug
gest scxcial lat tois to point out to
011r app.nentlx disappointed stu
dent teadeis.
I iisi, 1 hose- who aie complaining
the loudest should tcalizc the n.i
tuie ol xoui publication. You pet
Iojui a majoi task with stall ineiii
bets who lor the most p.. it .nc not
onlx iiu xpei iem 1 (I. but who. in ad
dition, aie not paid for the job
llicx lelidel.
I'cihaps those diss.uislied with
t
I lie paper.
Sctond. sour readers should
me to iiiuUi stand tlt.u it is lv
no means the job of a nexvspaper
editor on a college campus or else
where to "inxent" a eontroxersv
simplx for the" sake of eontroxersv.
II xou do that, then xou are lading
in Xou 1 job.
It is not that there's anxthing
w iong xvith c oiuroxc isx. Indeed,
il is good. Lack of it sometimes is
sign ol a poor editor, but xvhen
thcic is nothing of a controversial
n.ituie on which to comment, the
editor should not be chastised
and it is whe n theie is nothing eon
tioxcisial that the cdiloi's job be
comes the most dillicult.
Cordelia, theie exists the unfor
tunate tiadition within out college
soc ietic-s that the good c am pus nexv
spaper is the i.idieal newspaper
opposed to a eoiiseixarixe organ
xvhich stands up to be counted
when circumstances demand it. II
xou're not aggravating some of the
people all the time, then you're
failing in xour task.
I his almost unixersal concep
tion is wrong. It is wiong because
it assumes radicalism is good jour
nalism; it is xxrong because our
campus newspapers become organs
ol '.'o-year-olcl thought instead of an
outlet lor mat ui e reasoning and
criticism within limit.
Fditoiial opinion is xvortliless
without reportorial presentations
to serxe as its basis. I'nless "facts"
are in evidence to support allega
tions, unless your reporters dis
c lose fallacies and uncover bad
practice then the editor stands
helpless in the performance of his
oil ice.
Cordelia, listen to your critic
ism, but never suec umb to it if it
Asst. Sports Editor DAVE WHJLE ,tl"i,ts ; radical newspaper whose
editoral columns are ill-conceived
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DOUG EISELE
Associate Editor FRANK CROWTHER
Mjnaffing Editor ALYS VOORIIEES
News Editor
PAUL RULE
Asst. News Editor
ANN FRYE
Coed Editor
JOAN BROCK
Feature Editor MARY M. MASON
sporta Editor
BILL KING
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business Manager JOHN WIUTAKER
Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN
Subscription Mgr. AVERY THOMAS
Ubrnrian
G LEND A FOWLER
F.I) IT STAFF Whit Whitfield. Curbs
Cans. Jonathan Yardley, Barry Win
ston, Gail Godwin.
NKVS STAFF' Davis Young, Pringle
Pipkin, Sarah Adams. Dave Jones.
Pirkcr Maddrey, Charlie Sloan, Ed
Rowland. Eddie Goodman, Westbrook
Fowler. Stan Black, Virginia Sand
rhU'e. Ruth Whitley. Ben Taylor.
Nig.'at Editor
PEE LEY BARROW
and di sal fee t an innoc ent party all
for the sake of producing a eon
troxersv. And Woman's College students,
il the only time you take an interest
in your nexvspaper is xvhen the
editor seems t be failing in her
job, then ou are even more guilty
of apathy toward expression than
all " The Carolinian" stall combin
ed. It is, alter all. not a publication
of those whose names appear on its
masthead. It is your paper, and it
will succeed in proportion to the
contribution; which xou make to
it.
THE NEW REPUBLIC
Fox Guards
The Chicken
Just a year ago (Feb. 21, 1957)
we xvrote an emotional piece about
xvhat Eisenhower was doing to
America's fourth branch of gov
ernment, the regulatory commis
sions. "Carefully, steadily and me
thodically," we said, "they are be
ing stacked against the consumer
interest and for business." The evi
dence is cumulative and we can't
repeat it here. A congressional
arch-foe of public housing was
made administrator of public hous
ing, two Congressmen who fought
Reciprocal Trade agreements were
put respectively on the tariff com
mission and the foreign trade
agency, gas utility lawyer Kuy
kendall became chairman of the
Federal Power Commission, and
so on. The FTC and the TV A were
packed. "The steady process of
purging liberals and the consumer
minded has never stopped," we
wrote and added, it is "here here
that the foxes are being let in to
Kuard the chickens."
Well, the man running this
grand campaign almost certainly
is Sherman Adams. It is doubtful
if Eisenhower even understands it.
Certainly the public doesn't. When
you replace one liberal by an ex
lobbyist on a regulatory commis
sion it doesn't make news. But the
Washington atmosphere has chang
ed. Here is how it works. Perhaps
you remember how in the Adminis
tration's unsuccessful $100 million
Dixon-Yates . give-away a Now
York investment banker named
Wenell was discovered to be work
ing both for the Administration
and for the power lobby. The
House was just about to vote $G 3
millions for the initial Dixion-Yatos
powerline. But the Security & Ex
change Commission was schedul
ed to hold hearings June 13. 19.V5
which would disclose Wenzell's
dual role. The Kefauver committee
later discovered what happened.
Chairman Sinclair Armstrong sud
denly postponed the hearing and
the House approved the money,
June 16.
Viulor threat r contempt cita
tion and after two prior refusals
to testify Chairman Armstrong
reluctantly revealed on oath that
Sherman Adams secretly called
him up June 11. 1955. and asked
him to postpone the hearing. This
wa.s a direct and hidden interven
tion by one contestant before a
quasi-judicial Federal agency, and
the postponement was given wih
out the other contestants being in
formed. Armstrong later explained
to Kefauver the government had
a "very, very gieat interest" in
Dixon-Yates!
Definitely
"Definitions of the Times:
Economic adjustment when
people you do not know lose
their jobs; recession when a
friend or relative loses his job;
depression when you lose your
job." by Yardley, The Balti
more Sun
I Don't Want Anything More About That;
I virtue houseA Jlj . . -:y
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LETTERS TO EDITOR
Ad vice For Mr. Wolff, The Voters
Dear Mr. Wolff:
I am just recovering from an
attack of nausea induced by your
boorish criticism of the T. S. Eliot
play, "The Cocktail Party" even
more boorish and unfair than your
criticism of C h r i s t i a n Moe's
"Stranger in tlie Land" was. Ami.
in passing, may 1 say I find this
to be the general opinion.
You say that most of the mean
ing of "The Cocktail Party" even
when done 'by ' highly Rifted and
trained people remains available
only to the close, gifted and erudite
reader."
1 do not claim to be close, gifted
and erudite. But I lay claim to a
medium off perspicacity, a quality
you seem to lack 1 was a "close"
student of drama both as a mem
ber of The Shakespeare Society at
Wellesley College and in courses
there land later including a
course in Greek drama. During
my residence in Cleveland from
1912 to 1924 I was a nieml?r of
The Cleveland Playhouse and was
in many plays. I have coached
plays in settlement houses nd it
is perhaps needless to say that an
octogenarian with a lifetime in
terest in drama on stage and off
has witnessed hundreds of trage
dies both professional and ama
, tcur.
I lav no claim to the judgment
of a Brooks Atkinson and I have
no wish to be in age supremacist.
But I just can't resist giving you
a little advice. Tony. Cut your eye
teeth, get wisdom, and. above aL',
get empathy yourself before ac
cusing the cast of the recent pro
duction of " The Cocktail Party"
of an absence of this invaluable
quality. That cast certainly got
Eliot's message across the foot
lights to me and I believe to the
majority of the audience. In fact,
1 think that performance ranks at
the top of the amateur perform
ances I have- seen.
And. Tony, just another word.
Wait until you have cut those eye
teeth and deflated your ego before
you sound off like Jove on Olym
pus. Mary Barnett Gilson
To the Editor:
Why is it that those leaders of
the campus who are closest to the
Honor System here at Carolina,
that is. the chairmen of the Men's
and Women's Honor Councils, are
opposed to the amendment to the
Constitution providing for one court
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of men and women? These people
and their Councils have strong rea
sons, reason not based on personal
gain nor on the female or male
side of the question. Their opposi
tion to the revision is backed by
experience experience with handl
ing many cases of violations to
tlie Honor System. Should not the
opinion of- those best acquainted
With this Honor System of ours
xvith their experience in hearing
and judging cases be considered
with added weight?
I am not telling you to vote
against the measure, no one can
do that; the decision is yours, but
before you make that decision be
sure, beyond a shadow of doubt,
that you know all the facts and
reasons both for and against these
amendments. To do this ask the
Honor Council chairmen and their
councils why they are voting no,
ask them hoxy their experience in
the Men's and Women's Councils
has brought them to this decision.
Also ask the proponents of the
icvisions why they are supporting
it what are their reasons, are
they sound?
Investigate both sides carefully,
then think and decide for yourself
and VOTE.
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IN THE DORM
Memories Of "the Good
Life7 -And Friendship
By P. W. CARLTON
When one thinks of college, the association that
is most deeply embedded in the consciousness is
that of dormitory life, for the dorm is a symbol of
home away from home, the hub of all activity and
the base of all operations. There are many varied
opihions concerning the pains and pleasures of this
way of life. Many of us have only the fondest of
memories.
Who can contest the fact that friends made in
the dormitory are the orneriest, raunchiest bunch
of reprobates ever to be collected under one roof?
They call you names, serenade you with filthy
songs, assault your sensibilities with the foulest
profanity, steal the DTH from before your door
in the mornings and cheat you at odd-manning for
pepsi-colas. This in addition to ma-king insulting
remarks about your girl friend's photograph. Oh yes,
they wait until you're talking to your sweetheart on
the phone and then crowd into the phone booth
with you, draped in bath towels and insisting that
it's a shower stall. (The more polite ones just hang
in the door, drinking in your every word and mak
ing appropriate remarks at. strategic times.) ,
Picture yourself arriving at the dorm after a
profitable day in lab studying Unintegrated gamo
sepalous protodermas and valvieulate Rhopalia.
(About which you have learned absolutely nothing.)
You painfully ascend the four flights of stairs tc
your little haven under the eaves. As you approach
the fourth floor landing, the hum of voices becomes
a roar and you are able to hear the hyena-like
laughs of the jokesters down the hall. You step into
the JiaH just in time to receive a skidding coke bot
tle across the ankle bone, then hop across to your
room, where your faithful roomie, "Rowdy" Ron
Fridderstrat is playing an asinine recording of some
Frenchman babbling such fascinating information
as: "It will neige aujourdhui, la luna ist bleu, etc.
"Roomie grins at you continues studying, evidently
deeply absorbed. On closer examination you dis
cover that he is faithfully digesting the latest issue
,of "PLAYBOY" while also digesting the last of the
cookies you bought yesterday. Swallowing your
wrath, you smile weakly at him and declinehis of
fer to hand wrestle for beers. Stripping off your
sweaty clothes you stagger to the little room at the
end of the hall, known as "Flora Flush's" room.
Since no one answers your knock (Flora's never
Home) you enter the "head", as it. is sometimes call
ed, and climb wearily into a shower. The warm wa
ter suddenly turns scalding (peeling off a layer of
your epidermis) as an unseen buddy in one of the
cubicles flushes. "Watch the shower", he grunts,
after your screams die away. You can't shave, since
some bulb snatcher has cleaned out the lamps again,
so you return to the room, just as the "boiler man's
special" starts up next door. They call that room
the "Joyner Health Club", and with some validity.
The inmates there are health addicts. One juggles
two old fly wheels on an iron bar and the other one
groans through innumerable exercises. All this is
not conducive to good sleeping.
Fridderstrat has changed from French to modern
jazz, so you crawl into bed and bury your head
under the pillow, which is useless, since Roomie has
placed one of the six speakers for his Hi-fi directly
under your bed (it's an 18" job, the kind that makes
your bed jump in time to the bass). Accustoming
yourself to the rhythm of Gene Krupa and his sooth3
ing lullabies, you are drifting off to the arms of
Morpheus xvhen the buzzer over your door rins.
Roomie opens it and shrieks to the fellow who rang
it. The phone call is for you, and an urgent one at
that. What is it? Death in the family? The draft
board? You leap from bed, run down the hall past
the suddenly solicitous crowd that has collected
around the booth. They're really good fellows, wor
rying about you like this. You slam open the door,
place the receiver firmly against your ear and
whisper a breathless hello. The buzz of the dial
tone reaches your bewildered perception, and some
thing warm is trickling down your ear. You give a
startled shout, but your voice is drowned bv the
roar of mirth in the hall. The dawn of bitter suspic
ion breaks in your mind. SHAVING CREAM!
BEFORE WRITING COLUMN
Think First, Coed Says
Mr. Gurtis Cans:
After reading your column in the Februarv 2
Daily Tar Heel I have a feeling of utter disgust!
I have read some of your previous articles and have
always thought you had very good insight to the
problems you have presented. However, this artiHe
shows one nothing!
Did you xvrite about something of which xou
were really informed? Or did you write using your
emotions as your source? You must remember that
fraternities are voluntary groups. No one forces a
boy to join such an organization it's all a mat
ter of free will.
As to this soalled hazing you're one of the
few persons at Carolina whom I've ever heard com
plain about it. Have you ever heard fraternity bovs
complain? No harm is done from which the free
thinkmg individuals can't extricate themselves if
they see fit. In pledging a fraternity, these bovs
know what they're getting into and probably look
forward to it. All tasks are assigned and carried
out in a good-natured way. In later years, these as
signments are looked back to as some of the best
times in young men's lives. Besides, anytime one
of the doomed" feel that they have taken all thev
can, they can always depledge the "despicable
group."
I do agree with you, however, that serious haz
ing, if there is any of that sort at Carolina, should
be abolished.
Being that I am a girl you might say, "What
Zf VryU t0 criticize?" However, what con
cerns the University concerns every siudent, male
or female, Greek or independent
I say to ydu, Mr. Cans, Investigate, interview,
but mainly think before you write!
. Nm Withtld By Rtqu.st