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tv PACE TWO TH1 DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1953 The Need I lie ..ocd !r .1 new student union was ncv r I t i ft illiMiaud c 1 1 .i i i thniii' liiis oi irri tation period. I n uilit (ii.ih.iin Munoiial was Hooded with people- looking lot healthy uacition. I ii ni.lit iiionI ucic unable to oltain such for lack ol l.icililicv every nilii. also, there wctc iimeuMi.; hrshiuen on the stteets who had p.n taken ol too much ot the malt hiew sold in Chajul Hill .ind who weie making tliermclv c eueially ohuuxiom to the pass-eiN-lv . I lice piople will not tome hack to (iia h.on Mimoiial during the year, for tliey lei t iiiix t i u d. I hey will I ind pursuits else whcic. Mans will tutu to the unwholt some heloit tin v n tuin eer to the wholesome, lor ihr opjMH t unit it ior the wholesome are little. iiMiin, ihe iciulcvou.s room, or am other at ti- No amount ol adeitisin; lor the pK)l vit nill tlo an ood. lor these ate already 1J. I vciv Near theie i a nicit deal ol outcry liom the slate alxmt wild Irateruity parties, ahout pant i.tiils. ahout drinkiirj;. and about other activities that would tend to seed a had liht on the I'niveisits. and every year the leislatuie appiopriates money to many causes without l ememhet in;4; the need tor a health outlet lor the excess energies ol the students. Helot e these leUlatoi s howl about the sjudent tonihut. ahout Iraternities, ahout doimitoiies. and ahout carousing, they had better take action to provide an opportunity tor healths ie teation. . new student union is a necessit. but wlien will the powers that be realic this tact. Orientation 4 Tiictt is both a plus and a minus side to this eat s oiientation pel iod, ' I Jit- plus side was supplied by t hail man llriiii.it; (.odniu whose leadership was in eit'e:ne c c in where. Not onlv was his hard woik olnious. but his ability to spur otheis on to siuh hatd woik was ctpialh observable. Katie Slewait did a capable job of handl ing tiie Women's Oiientation. Don Furtado mule a line speech, and the new oiientation pn2ianis lor j;r.iduate students and lorei.nn students within the same budget added some thill ueessar to the orientation program. However, wh it (iodwin was working with was an an haw sstem. He was working with a seven da oiientation peiiod that was cer tain totlxisr cwn the most eaer fieshman to disn.utioii wirJf (he upeated reiteration of stmleiit p it i rp.il Ton. student ac tivities, stu-. dent oxeinment. student honor system, stu dent campus code, student studs, student life, student sck i al activities, and all tfie other tilings that a student is told timing the seven d is oi ientation period. I lie oi ient.'tion period must' be shot tened. It must be- Idled less, not mote activities. It should be a svimpsis of student lite without the l.iul ue that at t om panics the present svs te:n. It is not necessats to include piic on ai -ioiis phases ot student lite, but rather it should be aimed at get titr.; students inter ested in asking about the various phases of tampus lile. An answer to a question many times will siillice or be siiKiior to a Ions le lure. The put post- ol oiientation should be to cicate inteiest and thought. It should not deaden the thinking pi fx ess and impede pan tic ipation. It is hoped that a shotter. and more con cise piogr.m tan be found for next year's in ientation m that next scar's chairman can do as tapahle a job as Herman Godwin did with a better program to work with. tit: i3mlp tjnr Qecl The official student publication of the Publication Hoard of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily X 7, , except Sunday. Mon day and examination periods and summer t'-rms. Knlered as .second clus mat ter in the post office in Chapel 11:11. N C . ' under the Act of March 8. 1070. Sub scription rates: $4.50 per semester. $830 per j ear. Ixhtor Mjnain Editors . News Editors I'.usinoi Manasr Advrrtising Manager Asst. Adv. Manager Sports Editor , . Associate Editor . t i : M , 1 fU-4 ". It 'ft ' 1 'i it r it-. 1 1 1 'iHiiiiih wm Out Of Joint March Wind Accor'ding to the calendar we are now in that difficult and awk ward time of year when the baseball and football seasons overlap. But I hope no one will accuse me of excessive sentimentality when I mention a third season that is on right now The Crying Season.' This is the way it works. You sit in Graham Memorial watching the news on television. A reporter, is talking with some clean and decent colored kids. These kids tell the reporter (and you) that' by Cod. they, want .an education and they're going to get it. Then the kids say o long to. the reporter and begin the long walk into a formerly white school. The TV camera follows and you see the kids get struck with rocks, you hear the vicious name-calling from grown men and women who are crazed with hate, and a younger white hoodlum breaks through the police lines to spit upon the face of a colored girl. The colored kids walk through this verbal and physical barrage with absolute - equanimity. How in God's name do they do it? Where on earth they get this' kind of courage,-this massive dignity, this unbelievable poise? You watch all this on TV and you feel so helpless, so sick,' so guilty : . . so proud. And you cry. With variations of one sort or another, the above scene has been played out in dozens of American localities each September since 1935. It has been well said that the continuing dispute over segrega tion is "our, Algeria," that is. this dispute drains, the national sub stance and reputation in the same way that the continuing war in Algeria drains Franch substance and reputation.' - ' ' The analogy with Algeria is a good one in another respect too. If there is a solution to the Algerian problem it lies in a fundamental reconstruction of FTcnch society. This of course is exactly what De Gaulle is now attempting. And there are American observers who say that our segregation question wrll-finally 'yield only! to a re constructed American society. ' ' Ik is clearly in the national interest that segregtaion and discrim ination be eliminated. We cannot hope to maintain our position in a largely colored world, carrying this sort of childish barbarism around our neck like a noose. And yet the national interest can be so easily frustrated by bush league demogogues, of whom Faubus is only the latest and most conspicuous" example. If the national will can be blocked by a Faubus,' you can bet-every dollar your Father's got that the glory of America will soon be extinguished, preserved only in textbooks alongside of pictures of the Parthenon and the Acropolis. And yet what confuses tr.e equation is the weakling President, that "captive hero," Dwight I). Eisenhower. Suppose the White House were occupied by a ruthless politician of the Truman-Nixon stripe. What then would be Faubus's fate? xniiijv wc oiiuiuu au xiiey vaicn up: curtis cans - . charmeTloax. clarke jones ANN FRYE, HITXKiNCAlf WALKER I1LANTON FRED KATZIN ..... joTcTminter "ruS'TiaIiond " fITrovvland Subcription Manager . '"irculation Manager ... Arts Editor AVERY THOMAS ROB WALKER ANTHONY WOLFF Cord Editor ... JOAN BROCK The Cost Of Education: J. R. Cominsky We are approaching a showdown in the situation There are several military installations in Arkansas. It is easy to imagine a Truman or a Nixon closing these installations as "an econ omy measure." While Arkansas does not have much industry, what industry it does have leans heavily on government orders. Again, it is easy to imagine a Truman or a Nixon "passing the word" to Pent agon procurement oficers that henceforth Arkansas industry will be denied its slice from Uncle Sam's delicious pie. And then there are the various Federal-State matching fund programs, covering every thing from highways to unemployment compensation to school lunches. Do you think a Truman Or a Nixon would be tough enough to arbitrarily lock up Arkansas's share of these federal moneys? I think they could, and would, be just that tough Faubus delights in of the American private college and university litigation. Lei mm ungate lor ro years to get lira million dollars in Endowments in most cases wdl not be enough, federal funds. Support from foundations and corporations will not Supreme Court decisions arc not self-enforcing. Massive defiance be enough. Federal aid will not be enough if, in- of the Court can be conquered only by making it more painful not deed, there Will be any Federal aid at all. Present to obey than to obey. And as we have just demonstrated, the federal tuitlon fees wilt not be enough. . , . . . Thus, at precisely the time when more students government cand crush any of the "sovereign states' simply by cut- i j - u a tu . , . demand higher education than ever before, the pri- ting off the federal moneys. The government of the state of Arkan- vate colleges and ' universities are confronted with sas has about as much "sovereignity"' as the Inter-Dormitory Coun- the gravest problems in their history, cil. And there are politicians in the North of both parties who arc One obvious line of attack lor the non-tax-sup-positively itching to show the South just where the power lies. ported school would be to raise tuition costs. Yet - it is equally obvious that high tuition costs should Southerners forget that the region's unparalleled rise to a rough not h,ve the effect of reducing college enrollment sort of economic equality has been based largely on huge federal pro- and depriving large numbers of qualified students grams like the TVA and the presence oi countless federal military in- of a higher education. In any event, the chairman stallations. What Santa Claus has given, Santa Claus can take away of iht President's Committee on Education Beyond But this in turn is a painful way to end "The Crying Season." IIigh Scho01' Devereux c- Josephs, has advocated . . , , - , that the student pay a greater share of the cost of his education. The basic question, therefore, is how to increase tuition without decreasing the educational potential. A new approach is necessary. Such an approach ac cepts the need for higher tuition fees to meet the cost, of education, but it seeks to do this on a long- term basis, with the undergraduate himself partici- that form which stated most clear- Pating in the plan. . ly all ideas and emotions which alr way of background for this suggestion, let us The Need For Payment On Jazz Virgil Early In the August issue of Hi-Fi magazine, there are articles by Dimitri MiLropoulos, a conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, and Henry Pleasants jazz critic. Mitropoulos stated that in his opinion jazz was nice and compatible and he enjoyed it. Henry ' Pleasants asserted that Jazz is THE word and. went into detail about the mysterious "beat" of Jazz as contrasted with that of classical. The editor's comments Query for Hippsters ask .the pro vocative question: With Jazz en slavement to the beat, where can it go from here? what is- 'its. fu ture ai an art lorm. 1 In our opinion, jazz is not TIIE music of today nor of the future. It is an important (music ; of to day, but not the only. Rock 'n roll is THE music if popularity is the criterion. And if expression is the criterion .... tlren it depends on what one wishes to express, what needs to be expix;s.sed and how, musically, is tlie best form of ex pression. We believe that if there were a "TIIE music" it would be To The Frosh P. W. Carlton A few days ago the great exodus occurred all over the country as .thousands cf young men and women arose and left their homes to descend like a heavy cloud upon America's universities. For a large number, this was the "fledgling's flight," the first time away from home. To these freshmen wc shall devote our attention. Undoubtedly, the American lad preparing to at tend college for the first time is one of the most pathetic, maligned creatures on the face of the earth. He is harassed by his mother, coerced by his father, heckled by his grandparents 2nd generally terrorized by relatives in general. Now this is no intentional attack on the boy's well-being; rather it is the unfortunate circumstance derived from a well meaning group of reminiscant mortals, hell-bent on indoctrinating the lad with respect to the college way of life. Let us dwell briefly on the tactics em ployed by the chief perpertrators of this crime, Mom and Dad. Mom's attack is the most insidious, since she doesn't confront you with her advice but sneaks it at you under various advantageous circumstances. First, since junior is completely incompetent in such matters, she insists on preparing his wardrobe personally 'and then proceeds to stock up on all sorts of items vitally needed by young college men in their first year. To wit: 5 sets of long underwear, 14 hand towels, silk bathrobe, long-handled back scratcher, pink organdy curtains for the room and a wealth of other necessities. (The fate of these valu able articles is often obscure: the long underwear are disseminated variously as flag pole displays, cos tumes, etc.; the hand towels are used to polish jun ior's Thunderbird and the bathrobe hangs in lonely grandeur while he parades through the hall wearing ahower clogs and a bar of soap.) Mom also "harasses the troops" by giving little re minders pertaining to living habits and behavior. These wouldn'ts be so bad if they weren't constantly repeated and interjected into the conversation at odd points.) "Don't forget to wash your feet, don't play poker on Sunday, don't sass your professors, leave the girls alone, etc." Dad is the real tyrant of the buach. He is the unmitigated authority on all subjects pertaining to college life and will speak on all topics, adding ex periences of his own to elucidate the points in ques tion. His morality lectures are unsurpassed for their appropriateness. He lectures with great zeal on the technique of avoiding the pitfalls of college days. (He fell in all the pits himself, so he's an authority.) For instance: "Now son, I want you to be thrifty and save your money. Don't throw it away frivolously." (Dad was known as "old Crazymoney" back in the old days. He holds the distinction of having accrued $50 in li brary fines.) "Son, I don't want you drinking and carousnig. You must study and stay away from those fraterni- ties." (Dad was a member of Tappa Keg frat and a major stockholder in the ABC store). "Be circumspect in your driving and always obey the speed laws." (Dad wrecked his Stutz bearcat in a road race from Chapel Hill to Durham. At an- if corporate giving were the principal source of other time he three Parked cars while traveling funds. Too many private factors, such as a drop in 60 MPH in a 35 MPH zone.) earnings or changing stockholder attitudes or the "Always respect ladies and never break UNC competitive situation of particular corporations, regulations." (Dad was known to the, girls as 'the could indirectly affect public needs. octopus" and was noted for keeping them out all An important step has been the establishment right.) of the National Merit Scholarship Corooration, So oes the lecture. The sad part of it is that which has offered to devote $8 million to matching, no matter how much Dad lectures, junior will go dollar for dollar, gifts by business firms for college riSht ahead making the same mistakes Dad made, scholarships and supplemental gifts to the institu- refusing to profit by his experience and counsel, tions where the scholarships are used. This is an in- what a mad world 15 thls' that 5'0Un2 men and w dependent agency, financed initially by gifts of $20 raen are to independent for too stubborn) to accept . million from the Ford Foundation and $500,000 from counsel of any sort, no matter how wise. Sure, Dad the Carnegie Corporation , Sot "kkered up" every weekend and played the Scholarships, however,' are only a partial answer. fo1- but his grades certainly showed it, and He's I return, therefore, to the place of the undergrad- regretted his foolishness ever since. He wants des uate himself in matters of keeping our private col- Perately to help his son to do a creditable job, and leges solvent and in finding a way to equate tuition in his Operation he becomes downright obnoxious and actual instruction costs without depriving gifted sometimes. So junior shrugs it off thinking, "Boy. students of the opportunity for higher education. is m? old man a smare," cha-cha's out to his T-bird For some years I have been advocating that at and roars away t( schooL Mom's tearful goodbyes least ten rnedium-sized colleges in the United States forgotten, he hastens to spend his time in riotous should get together in order to devise a "study now, llvln- thus sellin those four Precious years of edu pay later" plan. The entire plan would be based on ca.tlon for a roann ood time the fact that the tuition could be increased to what- If he's rtunate hell -realize what's happening ever extent necessary to meet the costs of the in- by le time he's a sophomore and straighten up in struction. Those students who were not on scholar ,time to be a gentleman and a scholar. U not, who ship and whose parents were unable to meet the ' . , fitin foo .tiv-bn tv,n nntinn nf navin Thls P"ure. though possibly exaggerated in de- -!'V till V' UUV I ' . . Xv need to be expressed now and review some facts.' For some years higher education for their education over a long period of years be- tail (he may not have a car at all) is a living reali- which reached almost evervone. has teen made available at bargain prices. -The stu- yond their graduation. Existing scholarships and .VTl 1 I"."" uV ..!T; " There is no such one form and dent could buy for a $1,000 annual tuition fee a there never will be. Each music course of instruction that necessitated an outlay of form has its own worth and forth- at least lwice tnat sum. Result: an annual deficit ermore, each must be evaluated that had to be made up in various waj's. Chief within the limitations of its' wortli:' source" of meeting the deficit was income from en One" cannot justify jazz by com- dwnients. Contributions from business and, more paring rt to the classics but by recently, from the larger foundations were other it nwti ,mrtt major def icit-reducing factors. gin until several years alter graduation, riity dol lars a month may make a dent in a man's income, but people cheerfully make dents at least as large in their income for automobiles, television sets, refrig erators, trips around the world, etc., etc. A college education is at. least as important. Moreover, a col lege education' actually provides the increased in come that more than pays for itself. Within five years after, college the average graduate is making almost 40 per . cent more money than the average non-graduate. : ' Bear in mind, too, that the plan, if it is accepted in its esentials, involves tax deductibility for tuition opus Jazz, should Along with this, tuition feeschave been substant- installment payments. iUUii vi uic oiuutiiia iiivuivcu in me yiau, ui. major deficit-reducing factors. Endowments, however, are carrying less and less of tfc.e load. They no longer can guarantee the sol- VpnPf of fHo r1fl Virwla onrl thov arp nnt anna in vvize. The festivals are flourishing, . , , , A . ' . , , . . be jlentiful enough to create the necessary new l-ecord sales are high and the new T , . , -t- , , , . ones. In 1940 income for colleges and universities stero tapes should create new in- , ' . . . . , . . . from endowments was 26 per cent of total income; ;i,lM;uu." , 7 b' 1950 i was 14 Per cent, and it is still dropping. The future of jazz looks bright both artistically and popularity- loan arrangements would be unchanged. In addition, " tl "'" uusuuwiru this arrangement envisions a plea to the Federal man tls almost a capable of successfully meeting and state governments to make postgraduation-pay- ietI as 1S4 a sardine of eatng a whale at a "" ments deductible from income taxes. blte; From thesf statements it would then seem ad Will a youngster handicap himself seriously by van.ageous to temper our ribald activities with a assuming the large burden of debt involved in pay- f nerous hel intellectual endeavor. Let's ing ultimately for his college education? $ave. fun in .f ;ege; a 1 m4ean- h let s J aca" We think not. Installment payments need not be- feimc pursuits first and "party-party" second in our wiuusms. in iius manner win we oe aoie io turn out the wildest crowd of Phi Betes in the country and uphold the standards of the Carolina gentleman simultaneously. ings. Jazz is being employed more as a background for movies, TV shows and even commercials. Jazz As a result,, there has been a tremendous step-, up in fund-raising activity among the graduates of all private colleges and universities. Alumni groups and modern choreography are very are renorted to havp ivpn lheir institutions well succesful together. (Robert Prince' over $106 million in 1956, compared to about $73 score for tne new jazz Daiiet. Mew million, in 1955 York Export be a tremendous smash in New iany increased to a point where many middle-in- York this fall. com ; parents with two or more children of college And artistically where does jazz a?e no longer can finance their continued educa; go from here? Well as far as we're concerned, man, it's GONE!!! Chief I hotographer BUDDY SPOON LETTERS The Daily Tar Heel invites let ters from readers both in the realm of praise and in tlie realm of criticism. The only stipulation placed on letters is that they must be signed by the author. The editor will print all letters unless tliere are so many on one printed.. tion This increase is more than offset by the in crease in operating costs and the need to build up a reserve for maintenance and expansion. ! Among many proposals for making up the dif- issue so that only a proportionate erence is that the business community give 1 per number pro and con may be cen.( of business nrofits before taxes for higher edu cation. Kasea on io4 profit iigures, tnis would pro vide $350 million for our independent, privately en dowed colleges ' and universities, allowing them to increase salaries by $200 million and to provide for " ' " modernization and maintenance of their plants with All editorials in the left hand the remaining $150 million, editorial, column are-written by l0Wever, a significant note cf warning appears the editor unless initialed other- in lhe report of the President's committee, which u.lse:. . !. say : "Educational budgets would-be very unstable EDJTORIALS course, would not have to carry the full burden of their tuition costs their parents were unable to meet or was unobtainable by other means. Under present methods of financing, a relatively small percentage of graduates of colleges and uni versities contribute to their support after gradua tion in tlie endless cycle of fund raising among the alumni. Under the deferred payment plan, graduates would .receive each year a bill representing a clear and specific financial obligation. It would not be necesary for them to finance costly promotion and sales campaigns to collect such funds. Since colleges and universities all over America are confronted with many more prospective students than they possibly can accommodate, this would seem the time to plan for such a change in this vital area. ... J. R Cominsky. " - - . V I 1 1 - t The Library: Will the resources be used? ! v
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