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3 PACE TWO TH6 DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1933 f Unl ess (The foUttuing is reprinted front the freshman i,nie of The hi tig Tar Heel. The editor feels that f ), j.i ivrhaps is the shortest and best com vrit he conUi make on u hat is necessary to res turret the Vriiverrity crnd Ameriean democracy n gcrrral. It is w ritten ior freshmai. but per- la;s its message is mwf far rearhhig.) The .rear tarts and it is a new experience for nunr. nr marry, tilled by their high school presi dent or school superintendents in a somewhat less than eloquent commence went speech as America' future leaders or citlens of tomorrow, the change will he quite drastic. For most the change is pre UicUble. Thrrc will lx ftr.t the interminable orientation with meetings, meetings and more meeting, some of which will be skipped by the new students. They will hour many words about the Carolina tradition ff freedom, about the Honor System, and about stu dent government and activities in general. They will !' told ta a proper balance between scholarship and other intercuts will have to be made. W ith mmh new found wisdom the student will go to hi dormitory and j;et ready for the first day. of Soon the student fnais out that the Honor System doe not wt-rW too well. nd thak the fcojse in many dormitory corridors makes study impossible and life only a little v happy. At about this time they also find that on in five, if that many, professor-, that they have for freshman courses are interesting not even stimulating. So, quite early about one-fourth of them pledge fraternities and more than half of those arc never m" l doin something useful for themselves between that time and graduations. Others will take out their sorrows on the Tempo Room or the Rathskeller late In the eenins. and others still will shortly drop out. Almost all will forget their academic load until before the quiz and then assimilate what is necess ary for quick regurgitation on the next day. They will l" attuned to assimilating fact temporarily with out plarini; the tart into context. They will be at tuned not to think, and even those who came here not looking for a higher paying job as the primary reu!t rf a goal early. college education, will giyp up their irections? New Students: New D . : .. " ,;. k -vA ; f ' ' , - ' -.11 J -v ' . ..'' "'. V '' ":' i " ... . A' r. . v-,v''v-:v.:,-.:- .:'-.s ;y -; . , V. ....... I V .. ' ' ;,j. v : V.--'- " If $ ) , . I . I . T r . . t ; r-r r' 1 : 1-v - Var mtion Gail Godwin s Thoe pe.-Mftcnt enough to continue with intel lectual pursuit will find it difficult to find people to converge with about anything save liquor, sex, and pat experiences. A feeble attempt will be made by same to participate in activities, but lor most this .vi!J mean lines in a yearbook rather than a per sor.al contribution. Ry the end of their sophomore year, those who 'uc not received a high office will retire perma nently to the har stool or the uncomfortable cots that fcracc most dormitories and fraternities. They will content themselves with the activity of a Sat urday niht party or the intellectual pursuit of Mickey Mantle's batting average They will be by the end of eoJTece 7;tf!e changed for the better by th ir four ) ears. They will be reactors rather than thinkers. They will te waiters rather than doers. They will be part of 'eirtr at the expanse of their own individuality liny will be intellecttnlly dead. There v ill be several who will become "teach rrv" but there will be but one or two teachers Thrre will be a few who will become "lawjers." but there may bo onr lawyer. There will be many writ rr and buiiresmon. but few will see their writings in print an I few will rise abov? wanting to make the mo money for thenwlve. There will be snmc scientist's, hut few with the perspective to place the greatly crowing body of knowledge info. There-will r a few "traders" and probably no leader. Many will r.ot f i n is h school. Those th.it do finish will listen to a brilliant com mrncement speech by a famous person and com ment on how brilliant the speech was largely be cause thi-y know that the person must be famous for 'nr reason. Few will question how ani why he ul his fame and almost no one will carry the word? of the speaker into life. Tmbarking on the long voyage of life outside the iury tower. "America's luture leaders" will be the fame generation as the last. They will plunge themselves into Spanish-American Wars, as quickly as they react 'Coca-Cola" to "The Pause That Re fret tu's." They will hear the word communist, social ist, radical, non comformist, and even individualist and react negatively net knowing what they are re acting to. but blindly taking somebody else's word for it. In thoy th future loaders, as they have been called, li not the hope of America bu. the prom ise of its annihilation in an age when annihilation rin be accomplished easily. Thi will happen a surely as you arc reading this. CNLLSS .... t'r.tess they as individuals try to find what they are and preserve the uniquenes of themselves. I'ules they resist the tide that chips at and ebbs awy the curio? it y that should be native to students. l'nies they Income actively critical of their so ciety and work, not just gripe, toward its improve ment. l'nlcss they realize that reality is not a social whirl but rather is a problem worth coming to grip with and working out on a day to day basis. Unless they shake the cliches and customs that society has forced upon them and they have ac cepted as making it the easiest way. Unless they refuse to subvert themselves at all times to the will of the jroup. Unless they think. The waling against the stream is the most dif ficult. It demand. courage and endurance. A sue cesf j1 pa-sage, however, has rewards that far out number ary of those received going another way. The road to a personal sense of well-being lies this way; th rad to a personal HcJl lies in the other direction. ' Ihe alternatives are clear. II is their choice. -They will probably make the wrens one- Radicleer Cort Edwards II Another year has rolled around and we are once again faced with another year of academic strife. 'How many will parry this strife? How many wdl fail? How many will be asked to secede from the University? How many will meet the requirements and pass upward and onward? The answers to these questions are, of course, unknow n. In a year or perhaps even less, the answers " will be recorded in the book. But who cares? The real test cannot be put on paper; yet everyone must take it. There is fo set group of questions to be' answered; yet everyone b ex piui to hv.m. Tuc; e- is to one cor rect set o answers; yet M per cent, a most conservative figure, will fail. There is no one to cor rect the test; yet each tes; is graded. What b this te.-t that is so dif ficult and that so many people fail? The test is in LIVING and fee endioint is in becoming a MAN. We are born as ani.nals. We are animals. Only we have one addi don't )iave. We can think; that is. tional ability 4hat other animals we are born With tne abUuy io think. But how many people do? ilost people live as animals and die the same way. Man is a thinking animal born w t;h an opportunity to become a man. It is time for each of us to look deep within ourselves. We must discover our motives for being here. Are -they merely materialis tic motives? They shouldn't be. We must try to recognize our selves as what we are. We must try to shake off our animal-selves and try to achieve individuality. Can we really be honest with ourselves? It is most difficult and painful to see what we really are. For deep inside us there is no normality. We each have our perversions, our idiocyncracies, and our fetiches. Normality is part of our outside behavior; the part that eiher people see. To be able to introspect is the. first big step in the road to .Mandom." It is not necessarily ' important that we try to change some of the "Bad1 things within' ourselves.' It is, however, very ini-' portant for us to be able to recog nize them first, and then accept them as an important and integral part of our being. The next thing we must do is to set our actions toward. accom plishing that which is man's pur pose. If we caj attain this height then we" can truly say. that we have become a iMAN. How wonderful it would be to die wth the knowledge that during our. life time we were able to overtlirow our animal instincts and leally and truly become a man. - Mart's purpose in life is ret to marry well, or to get a better job, or to die rich, or to die poor, or to die a corporation manager, or to wage wars. (Man's purpose in life b to be able to live with one's fellow man in total peace and harmony. Can there he anything more noble ihan thii? ' v J, is n ust Chatlhn Davis B. Youncj School bells ring and children sing, it's back to UNC again . . . Riding to Raleigh the other night with two student government leaders who had just returned from the National Student Association Congress in Delaware, Ohio. I was impressed by one of the statements w hich I heard. It went as follows: "The University of North Carolina once had the best student government in the United States. Now this student government is more of a fantasy becau.se interest in youthful autonomy has reached a low ebb. This is a sad state of affairs. New stu dents have just finished a week of Orien tation in which they have seen the best side of Carolina life. Student officers, hon or Council leaders, orientation counselors, faculty and administration have all at' tempted to instill in the minds of the new that there is much, to be proud of when you are a student on this campus. Now. the young academicians who have so recently matriculated to alma mater will come face to face with the other sid of the story. They will see boys who do nothing but play seven card stud in a dorm room, fraternity men who have little more' to Jo than to drink a tall Bud. dormitory women who are too busy with petty problems to offer anything to the school, sorority girls who make a farce out of the Campus Code, teachers who care nothing for the individual et cetera. This is the great crisis at Carolina. Over and over again you will find it easier to "follow the crowd." But, the crowd, as you will soon discover, is going nowhere. It is skirting on the brink of disaster, in a personal connotation. It has no purpose. It has no goals. It lacks any direction. Leader ship does not exist in the crowd. Ambitior is a non-entity. Drive is not there. No member of the ciowd can be a leader. No member of the crowd will ever find his name among the ranks of the Golden Fleece. No member of the crowd will ever know respect. Leadership is lacking on this campus. Out of each class will come only four or five students who are willing to sacrifice their personal motives in order that the group as a whole may profit. The work in each organization will be done by one or two dedicated in dividuals. The rest will only participate so that at the end of four years, their senior picture will have under it a few organizations to which they belonged. However, in a true sense, they will not belong. This is our challenge as young Americans. These are the goals to pursue. This is our reason to be living. We must have a purpose. This University will give more to us than we can ever repay. Yet by adding some contribution to our way of life, we tan somewhat re duce our debt. As Student Body President Don Furtado said the other night, "this nation cannot wait much longer for leadership." The road to hell is paved with good intentions. ' v There are still great issues for students ot fight for, things to be done, situations to be corrected and previous mistakes to be rectified. Furtqdo Asks Faculty Help (The following is a letter sent by Student Body President Don Furtado to all faculty members regarding the Uni versity absence regulation.) Last spring, after a great amount of discussion and individ ual contemplation by the mem bers of the Faculty Council, our old and often impractical class attendance regulations were abandoned in favor of a more sat isfactory system which allows the individual instructor to de cide wrhat attendance require ments, if any, he desires to main tain. For both the student and the instructor, this system is a dis tinct improvement over our. forme:. plan, for it allows the instructor to take into considera tion his own personal beliefs on the theory of mandatory class at tendance and the individual stu dent's needs, as well as the na ture of the course being taught. In addition, the new discretion ary system allows the instructor, if he wishes, to elimnate a valua ble period of class tmc at the be ginning of each session often "de voted to roll-calling. Most instructors have realized the intent of our new class at tendance regulations and have ac cordingly set up highly flexible rules which have proven satisfac tory to everyone involved. Much to our regret, however, a few in structors have used their dis cretionary power to institute ex cessively strict regulations of a completely unrealistic and im practical nature, forgetting that the best way to guarantee good class attendance is to make each session meaningful and reward ing. On behalf of the students, it is" -my request that you, as an active member of our educational com munitywill do all that you can to influence your fellows to make One meets all kinds of people in a summer resort. These people all have one thing in common. They are away from home and the inhibitions can be let down. They are away from memma or the little wife or the boss. They ; ; can: : say ; what they please, do ' '!,' ,';; What they please and drink what ita-'iMtttiLiiliLUfii : ' tThe ! tresults are hilaridus ... sometinies sad I . . "and sometimes puzzling.'. :'- Saturday night, there was "the: woman in the beautiful 1 white chif fon Vening' dress. So Very refined: So demure. So reserved. And then she had a highball or two. Splash! The refinement, the demureness, the reservedness was all soaked, as was the chiffon evening dress, in a swirl of chlorinated pool wa ter. Oh, those wicked old high balls. And then there was the nice, intelligent-1 ooking psychiatrist from upstate New "York. He was the center, of attraction. Every body wanted him at their table at dinner so he could discuss neuroses and psychoses and Freud and Jung. He had strings of love ly case histories of abnormal peo ple who did all sorts of symbolic things. lie was a doll. Then, the last night he was with us, he approached me ' after din ner. "Miss, er . . . do you have any toothpicks? "Yes sir." I handed him a pep-jrmint-scented one. sir ' W.'-X" AX i MISS NORMA BASNIGHT View & Preview Anthony Wolff The new students who have had occasion to visit Memorial Hall in one phase or another of their Or ientation are probably ignorant of the transforma tion which has been jeffected .there. Little do they know that the comfortable gold theatre seats on which they sat have but recently replaced the church pews wrhich were for decades a real pain in the rear. Perhaps it is unfair that this year's freshmen should be so comfortably introduced to the Uni versity, while those who went before were fortified by having to sit in acute agony and listen to talks which, by virtue of the old seats, sounded like ser- He hesitated, looked sadly down mons. at the single toothpick and made Not only has the auditorium been transformed, no sign of using it in any form or but the stage has been sanded so that it is almost fashion. He merely looked at it. Finally, he said, "Well, er . . . that is, I was rather hoping I could have more." I offered him the box, out of which he gleefully scooped out ton or more toothpicks with the child ish excitment of a three-year old. '"Good-" he exclaimed to nobody in particular. "Now I can finish my bridge!" And let's not forget the very ed ucated, debonair couple who came for cocktails and for a single r V i m ,as .. ' . V--v-:-...;: tin - - smooth: a little thing, perhaps, but tremendously important to hose who perform on it. We won't know until October, vhen the Playmaker production .f "Oklahoma" opens, just what he new seats will do for the icoustics of the Hall. Unless they ire much better than they were before, the University might just is well have started from scraton and built a new theatre. Right "now, all that can be said is that Memorial Hall is both attractive and comfortable: and as anyone who is not new here meal. Obviously they were in the knows that.g saying a good deal. ' "coumng, stage, although they in the past, cne of the most helpful services on were, both over forty. They were campus tMs yeaf -s thc Gfaham Memorial calen- , also. -obviously trying(t to impress dar? prepared bv the Calendar Committee of GMAB. each other desperately. The man UntU R(nv the calendar appeared only once each se- led off in the first round. mester, but it is now a monthly publication. I ve just returned from N. Y. . . . saw Tarn Wolfe's new Broad way play." "Oh, yes! Goodie!" cried the plump little woman. "'Isn't he the best actor you ever saw? I think he does rings around Jimmy Dean." And then, tliree courses later. The little lady this -time. Isn't the view gorgeous? Isn't it? , I think it's good to remember na ture and forget about success. Why, like Tom Paine said in his book Walden Pond, 'Some men lead lives of quiet desperation.' " . . . yes, I guess they do. Essence "that -Nay.' Don Dotson An item on a sociology final that x ' things" was: Give a working definition of the University of North Caro lina. Obviously there could be many responses to this question. To give one answer that would suffice for all purposes would be impossible and to list the many possibilities would be like try ing to count the briclcs in the University's sidewalks. Part of any such definition, certainly, would be devoted to what the University consists of. It is easy to think of an institu tion as a great colossus great and foreboding, static and hard. For most people this is their con cept of the University. In reality this is not the case. For, unlike the Great Colossus itself, the Uni versity is not just a mass, not just grand old buildings and great trees. This place has not hallowed itself spontaneously and it will not perpetuate itself interminably. What we know of the greatness of the University the people it has touched and th?. . people who have touched, 4t is not our unconditional guarantee will always be We must know in- United States Disease: Intellectual Attrition The Saturday Review Alas! This welcome increase in frequency is not the only change which has come over this indispens able institution. Whereas the front of the publication was heretofore graced with a lovely picture of Grah am Memorial, the current issue bears the smiling photograph of "Miss September Nora Basnight Delta Delta Delta Sorority Senior Sociology Major Greenville, N. C." Nowr the purpose of the Graham Memorial Calen dar is to give notice of the date3 of campus activi ties: perhaps Miss Basnight is the campus activity for the month of September, in which case we de cline to participate because of the heat. If, on the other hand, Miss Basnignt is not' in eluded in the month's activities at least for the student body at large then she might well save her engaging smile for any of the other local beauty con- tests. our new attendance regulations This is not to depreciate Miss Basnight, the Tri- a working system rather than an Delts, the Senior Class, thc Sociology Department, admirable theory. or the undoubtedly fair city of Greenville. We will I apologize for the undesirable gladly attest to the attractiveness of the young lady, medium of a form letter, but I the overall virtue of the sorority, the great worth f am sure you understand that this the department, and the glory of the city. is the only means of expressing But Miss Basnight is sufficiently on view either our hopes on ths problem to each at the Tri-Delt House (210 Pittsboro St.), or at the of yotr. Sociology Building (Alumni Bldg.), or in Green- DON FURTADO, President ville (1404 Myrtle Avenue), and her further display seems uncalled for. It seems a waste of paper and of Miss 'Basnight, who undoubtedly has other vir turcs which would better recommend her. (The calendar is still thc best buy' for nothing around, and it is available at the' GM Information Iesk.) " Student Body The official student publication of the Publication "The man in the street is all too disposed to resentment against .1. i i i, ... ....... . . t i f a i tt;.u':, t v.-v. r...Ai;nn .v,ftt-n i stead that the very efforts, the ne loo-poweriui any, au too prone to tne bitterness lrom national weak- omveianjr ui iunu v-h-jhuu, very ic.eas, the very contributions ess, io nostalgia tor past glory ana nope tor a ctitferent and Detter 15 pumiMiea ujij of individuals over a long , pe- future. But the intellectuals ought to restrain these popular emotions., except Sunday, Mon- riod of time are what have per- ought to show the inescapable reasons for permanent solidarity and day and examination Tnt,,nt,ri ihc TTnivnrsitv and interdependence. Instead of fulfilling the role of guides, they prefer, periods and summer made :.t great. Even at this, it i3 especially in France, to betray their mission, to encourage the ignor- easy ta think that the greatness ant feelings of the masses by adducing hypocritical justifications for is permanent and has been con- tllcm- In fact tneir quarrel with the United States is a. way. of rational-, sistant and again this is untrue. izinS their own uilt- . ' , I "In most countries the intelletcuals are even more anti-American than the man in the street. Some of the outbursts of Sartre at the time March 8, 1870. Sub- o; the Korean war or the Rosenberg case recall those of the Nazis scriptidn rates: $4.50 against the Jews. The United States is represented as the embodiment Per semester, $8.50 of everything most detested." Per year. "The Soviet Union purges and subjugates the intellectuals, but at lest it takes them seriously. It was intellectuals who gave to the Soviet tution has known the ebb and tutino has knowrn the ebb and rise of human endeavor and hu man conflict. It always will. At the present and in the fu ture this very University of which every student and every terms. Entered as second class mat ter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N.C., under --tk? Act of ' hKh first 5 4 fifi'.: ji'mtAff::Tv 1 1 graduate is an connected part will be subject to new efforts. Ideas, and contribu tions new endeavors and new conflicts. As ' advances are built, one m another, so we are not the uxpressionless victims of a set past. We ore the means, the only potential, for expression and perpetuation of this change progress. ' The vital substances of p;ogrrss arp people .and..', the present . individual but reSime lhe grandiose and equivocal doctrine out of which the bureau- Editor crats have developed a state religion. Even today, when discussing class conflicts or the relations of production, they savor' at once the Managing Editors joys of theological argument, the austere satisfactions of scientific CURTIS GANS CHARLIE SLOAN, CLARKE JONES r The analysis of the American reality will never- provide, pleasures as the shadows.. Persecution is more bearable to the intelligentsia than indifference." From "The QpUim cf the Intellectuals," by Raymond 'Aron 'iboubleday). ... ' " "'" . News Editors ANN FRYE, BILL KIN C AID Business Manager WALKER BLANTON Advertising Manager L- FRED KATZIN Asst. Adv. Manager JOHN M INTER Sports Editor RUSTY HAMMOND Associate Editor - ED ROWLAND 1' B if
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