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' . . . r t , t - " r, f l - - 1 - THE .MAILT. . T All HEEL . ..,. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 195S The Decay ; w University official comments that Carolina wfci currently resting on its laurels, and the truth of the statement i: not to be doubted. The University in past years was the center of southern culture, the outstanding university in the south, and one of the most outstanding in the na t..n. It had a standard of ircedom that was unequaled except in the Ivy League schools, and standards for achievement that were as high as any in the nation. At one time., the University possessed a faculty tiat was respected throughout the nation, and bright students from all over the. United States were de sirous of coming to the University of North Caro lina.' On the campus, students were alive with thought. D.MUvsions ranged from philosophy, politics, and economics to religion, physics, and chemistry. Per haps student government was noi a fully developed, but there was an atmosphere of freedom. 1 he University abounded with small organiza tion where lively discussions were held, and in 3rncr.1l the tenor ot the campus accentuated the ma1emic. It was a community devoted to the pur suit of truth and to the attainment of knowledge fe'urely a certain amount of hell was raised, and surety there were non-icademic pursuits, but the perple on the campus never foryot that they were here fcr an education. This was one of the best colleges in the United States. Symbclic of its present decay, the University Library is currently sliding dov, r. the ramp to ob scurity in a belter skelter pace that would rival the football team in the ear'yf fifties. In admissions it can be found that the Univer sity is getting om?what less than its share of the Jhricht students in the state, to sav nothing rf the ln.ition. Indeed, in most cases the University is get !:ps! srmethinT like the third tier of students in the state, nink'n maintenance of higher standards Lll but impossible. IThe faculty of the University is in such abysmal shape that students can point to only one under graduate department as being in any senc of the Iword on a high level Indeed the only quality the ll'nivf rritv d:es possess rn any Urge scale is in its special'fd schools This clcarlv dos not do the function rf the highest tatc university justice. . The atmosphere on the campu is stagnant Peo )p!e live from party to party, and struggle net for academ:c achievement and prowess but for social acceptance. The level cf conversation at a Univer sity is frightening. It seems that the present Uni- versity generation is honestly afraid to have an idea, i Freedom on this campus is a'so a thing of the J past. The atno?phere of respect for individual ideas has been dis.ortcd. Divergence is discouraged, and divergent groups arc non-existent. The atmosphere of trust for the individual stu dent I been replaced by some of the most ma trrnali.tic attitudes. In the name of protecting the good name of the University from scandal and eutrae. massive bars to individual freedom have lecn established for women, undergraduates, and sme graduates as i a written rule would in anv sen e help the student to develop his own moral standards. Respect for the individual seems, in larce measure, to be a Ihine of the past, and while tie "responsible" individuals are erecting their regulations in order to preserve the name of the University, the University as an academic institu tion, with respect fcr individual freedom is going down the drain. Too long now it ha been '.hat the men with ideas have had no say in the policies of the Univer sity. Too long is the time that the University has been run as a business by business people rather t'an as a place of learning by academic people. Too long has the University tried to coast along on its tradition and live in the land of yesteryear. The time is the present, and the situation is criti cal The University as an academic institution can not long survive in this period of growth without en lightened leadership. The University now stands only for a somewhat more liberal print of view to the question of race than other universities in the south. It stands for very little else. The University is currently subject to many po litical pressures, none of them good. The one politi cal pressure that is necessary but not present is the pressure trj develop, to ressurrect standards, to develop individuals, and to maintain a high stand ard rf education. It is possible thft without this the University has no chance to progress, but it can try to do things on the home front. The good name of the University fo North Caro lina is gone. The future can only tell whether it3 vacation will be an extended one. . 3Tijc aity Ear ?eel The official studesi publication of the Publication Hoard of the University of North Carolina, where i Is published daily except Monday and cxa-nination periods md summer term. Entered as second class matter In the psi office in Chapel Hill. N. C. under the act of March 8 1870 Subscription rules: $4 50 per se n-.cster, $3.50 per tear. Entor I I V .' i i 1 1 .. CURTIS CANS Managing Ed it on ... CHARLIE SLOAN, STAN FISH Lit Business Manager WALKER BIANTON Cord Kditor JOAN BROCK Advertising Manager Asst. Adv. Manager FRED KATZLN JOHN M INTER News Editor ANN FRYE Subscription Manager ... AVEHY THOMAS . s . fviuui lyiuvv Joe John r .; i ' . I ; ! (' :ut-::; ::;.! :', pr:r jr iii-iij - C-r-f"! i, j fTm n I Even the most casual observer of world events must consider certain events of recent days quite consequential. It is most obvious that the Kremlin is once again ap plying "cold" war pressure con sistently on various fronts: di plomatic, economic, and political. This offensive is not one of minor proportions, and it would be seri ously erroneous to regard it as such. The most prominent event, and naturally the one receiving the greatest attention, is the furor over a divided Berlin and a di vided Germany. Russia, iu an un deniably masterful stroke, has pro claimed its disavowal of the four power occupation of the former German capital by announcing withdrawal of its troops and con sequent transfer of official func tions to the Communist govern ment of East Germany. In addition to the quite apparent propoganda benefits, this action is designed to force the United States, Britain, and France to ne gotiate with an East German gov ernment which they have not up to now recognized. Herein lies the catch. Recognition of East Ger many would all but destroy any prospect of an united Germany. This is a serious prospect to con sider. Also in evidence is the ommin ous specter of another Berlin blockade and subsequent agitations to pressurize the West to relin quish its positions there. Berlin lies 100 miles within East German territory and presumably may be cut off from access at will. West ern governments have given indi cations that they will fight if ef forts are made to force them to withdraw. All things considered, that would be our only possible choice. On the economic front. Russia is promotiing a most ambitious pro gram, both in national develop ment and in foreign aid. Commun ism has not seen such overwhelm ing planning since its inception. Khrushev is admittedly attempting to cut into the Western lead in production, and he has predicted surpassing it by 1970. This is no idle boast. His primary ambition is the usurpation of the world mar kets now dealing with the West, and, following from this, he is ar dently desirous of convincing wav ering nations that the Communist method is the surest path to suc cessful industrialization. In international dealings, Rus sia has announced a 100-million-dollar assistance program to Ar gentina on more liberal terms than the West would meet. Argen tina is in our own hemisphere. Other Latin American countries are being wooed with similar pro posals. The agreement to con struct Egypt's Aswan Dam com prises another segment of this vast project. Diplomatically speaking, the Communists are employing every propoganda trick in their well stocked bag to undermine any un animity of opinion on workable disarmament. Both at Geneva and in the United Nations, they are sabotaging the weakest of hopes for bans on nuclear testing, pre vention of surprise attack and even for the united control of out er space for peaceful purposes. At the same time, massive edu cation in Russia is proceeding at an ever-growing rate. Here in the United States, schools have not on ly slipped back into their old pro gram of apathy, many have been closed because of petty bickerings. Thus, while political and person al problems are in evidence at home, it would be quite disastrous to neglect the major problem which confronts us at this time one which will not alleviate itself, but purports to increase even more in succeeding years. The threat most definitely exists; it will not disappear; it must be dealt with soon. Assistant News Editor ED RINER Niiht Editor .. NANCY COMBES MUST BUILD 'EM UP Perfection ci darn-heightening techniques must be a major new objective of dam designers and builders. Existing dams occupy many of the better sites; it is of ten more economical to increase their storage capacity and power head by heightening instead of building a new dam. On the other hand, when new ones are built, the ultimate demand from them may be years away; it will then frequently be more economical to build them in stages. Engineer ing News-Record. "Maybe We Ouglita Close Them Too' Sidney Dakar Letters . Editor: lAvi m;rvi was.ir -i x i -f,. T cpo hv rpfont artii les in Thf Dailv Tar ITppL RecenUy 1 heard two gentlemen c rfry dement ia preparing tQ do lamenting the loss of theur abty baUle QVer issue of an A B c store coming tQ to indulge in a certain pleasurable 0range County. Persons who support this "dry" pastime which nature has reserved would hardly chaage their minds from any for younger men. However, they thing j might have to say because the force that were bitter for different reasons. compcls them to ally themselves with prohibitionist The. first gentleman wanted very elements nes too deeply in social and personal, mo much: to do; this thing, but was tiv6s Therefore, I direct my comments to those who physically unable; the s e cond naVe not yet taken a stand, and to those who might gentleman, although still physical- otherwise take no stand, ly able, .no longer had" the desire. The first man wished for the abil ity; the second wished for the, le sire. The first deserves our sym- : Let me first, not that there sre many to whom f address myself. The Rev. R. M. Hauss, of the "tlry" group, is quoted in The Daily Tar Heel as pathy; the second was fortunate sayjng that about hall' of Chapel Hill's ministers without- realizing it. . ; ' covi De C0Unted on to take no stand on the issue". Often we hear people say that I assume that these fence-sitting ministers feel their it has been so long since they have congregations equally divided on the issuer or that had this or that pleasure that they they don't wish to publicly announce themselves can no longer remember what it on such a traditionaly touchy issue. Ii the-policies was like. These . people are for- of these ministers speak for their congregations, tunate without, realizing jt: Sup- then there are many people in this area who have pose, these past joys which! they yet to commit themselves, are trying to recall were stil very vivid in their minds. Suppose that In private conversations, I have come to find they dreamed of -these past joys the fear that an A.B.C. store would threaten Chapel f and woke in the middle . of the Hill's reputation as a quiet, respectable, college night to find it only a. dream and town. First of all, this asumes that the A.B.C. store then they were unable to go back would be definitely situated here in Chapel Hill, to sleep because they remembered But allowing that it would, this arguument goes on too vividly these .joys or. maybe by pointing out the then easy access that fraterni some person whom they missed, ties and other campus social groups would have to Then they would have reason to liquor. Persons subscribing to this fear envision lament their fate. . . wild . drinking in the streets, raucus parties, and a Maybe we should count our whole host of common evils associated with exces blessings when we are able to sive drawing. The second point of this argument, mories can bring us anguish as well as joy. pnhappy events are sometimes very quickly forgotten, but the happy ones usually linger on for a time. This gives us pleas ure in our daydreams. These lin gering memories may , also bring us anguish when we have to face the reality that we may never aoain havo thoeo irws W mav al. i iU'. u his belief. However, I also urge him to pause and so realize thai we may -never be , , . 6 ... . " promote excessive drinking and its correlated evils. I suggest that a person who is bound to drink will do so to any extent he wishes whether the source of alcohol is near or far. Even under present condi tions, I can't even recall a lack of liquor in Chapel Hill. There are those who view the body as sacred, a temple of God, not to be desecrated by drink. If a man believes this, I urge him to be firm in able to forget them, no matter only then do we have a valid rea son to say that fate has been un kind to us. ; - .' . Election Results In Persp ective Max Ascoli It always happens, and this time more spectacularly than ever: the sovereign citizen is stunned when the voice of the sovereign people is heard. The outcome of the re cent elections is very much as pre dicted. Yet the rites of the demo cratic process make all of us bow our heads in wonderment when the popular will asserts itself. This is the way democracy works. Ours is very old and ingrained. We hardly know the hold its rites and ceremonial have on us. Perhaps it is in conformity with this ritual that a number of us as sume an attitude of bored detach ment while the campaign is on but, like everyone else, are stirred when that supreme enigmatic en tity, in whose power we partake, answers the questions put to it. The answer, invariably, is a rid dle. The task of suggesting various solutions to the riddle normally keeps a large number of people busy until the next elections. This time, the effort had better be re doubled, for there is anger in the popular will. A number of leaders have been repudiated, and though the reasons may be in part local or accidental, the nation-wide trend is antagonistic to the Re publican Party, Two years of Con gressional primacy are thus as sured, but no amount of Congres sional initiative can relieve a lameduck administration from its ultimate Constitutional responsi bilities. This condition of things does not make for forceful policies either at home or abroad at a time when the very survival of the Al liance and of the nation is threat ened by an exuberantly forceful enemy. - The much' used and abused remedy for national emergencies bipartisanship has already, be come a habit, and whatever -novelty in bipartisanship can, bV" ex pected during the coming; icssioj of Congress is likely to . derive from the exasperation with the Executive that prevails among a large number ' of Republicans as well as Democrats. In both parties the liberal wings have been considerably reinforced, and the burden of responsibility that has fallen on leaders in and out of Congress has been increased well beyond the obligation of the offices they hold. The Executive default' has brought to the fore a number of tentative leaders and tentative Ideas, all compelled to develop their potentialities in a very short time dnd against great odds. ;' .'' :;t. .- This is why there is such a stir ring quality In the results oHthe last elections. The various pros pectors for the Presidency will face extremely rigorous tests. Their actions or pronouncements will be projected against the back ground of a presidency that pan not quite be considered as fully exercised. No sane person ' can contemplate .with any degree of equanimity the possibility that the nert elections may be won by a mac inclined to make a nominal or intermittent use of his leader ship. , ; In fact, all men who have now be come holders of a sizable amount of power will have their mettle tested with unusual severity. This applies to those among the Demo cratic Congressional leaders, who, even if devoid of Presidential as pirations, must manage to keep their party united and at the same time free fi-om rebellion or black mail by the extreme Southerners. This applies also to the heads of organized labor, whose rejoicing at the defeat of right-to-work leg islation in many states should be tempered by the hardened anti-, labor attitude in large sections of management an attitude not like ly to be mellowed by the recent political victories of labor. During the coming years, it will be singularly inadvisable for any body whose authority has been di rectly or indirectly enhanced by the popular vote to take his posi tion or his luck for granted. Per haps the. time has come when po litical credit is getting tighter and will be granted only upon presen tation of tangible securities. Per haps the Americaa people have learned their lesson: indecisive ness , and vagueness of purpose are not requirements for the high est offices. Liberalism, to which such a dis concertingly large number of peo ple claim allegiance, will also have to face exacting tasks in the com ing years. To mention only one: the fight against inflation de mands institutional reforms de signed to bring together the pow- to realize that the body is desecrated only by the how hard we may try. Then and .. . . ... . , ' , . himself, drank wine waich must be assumed to have had an alcoholic content. We could follow this line of reasoning to absurdity. If the body is not to be desecrated, then we should not permit restaurants for one can certainly harm himself by overindulging in food. When asked why they opposed an A.B.C store I found people replying that it would be for the common good. Along with this idea went the re moval of temptation. "We don't want the young of our community to have temptation so close at hand. ers of government of business of those who want badJ h agriculture, and of labor if ways us are to be found to steady the value can stlli et lt Thls 1S the of reasoning along of the dollar. It cannot be steadied this line. Those who subscribe to this philosophy without sustained, concerted ef would deny everyone easy access to liquor7 forget forts, and such efforts demand ting that all inhabitants don't share their idea of planning, not superstitious reli- temptation. I submit that any man old enough to ance on chance. It is the task of purchase liquor has the right t0 do so without liberals to see to it that planning hinderance. He is able to make up his own mind is devised and executed by de- on the question of liquor as a vice, fining the specific responsibilities of independent a n d. correlated I have taken but three views of the people who sources of authority. In the same oppose an A.B.C. store in Orange County. There way, it is up to liberals to find are more, but I feel these to be prominent.' I sug the solution to the problem raised gest that the above arguments for keeping Chapel by Edward R. Murrow in our last Hill "dry" are not conclusive. They are camouflage issue, for there are- no -reasons for. a basic failure that the proponents of prohibi why the continuous profit of net- t'0" don't wish to admit. This failure is a lack of self control, and the desire for the group to main tain that control. I feel it the province of each man to exercise his own discretion. It is true that some times he doesn't, but he artificial controls sug gested in this current issue won't either, and they vrill infringe on the rights of the man who docs control himself. I feel Will Rogers could have spok en of Chapel Hill when he said that America would vote dry as long as it could stagger to the polls. Alan K. Whitelcather A House Divided Gary R. Greer Here's" to the world of "ought to be", to the land of milk and honey, where swords, transformed to pruning hooks, ihall thirst for lack of blood. .A toast to the ages, past and gone, frcm whom man gleans his greatness.' Hurrah' for ! "the ; hope men set their hearts upon", and cheers for the last hurrah. Let's raise the glass (which shall never pass) in honor of the battle won and drink to Ourselves, the victors true, since our thirst is not quite quenched. And we wil continue our mcrry-malang through winter's cold and summer's heat; but, lest they inflict our ivory tower and should make its blood run cold, we'll shut up ihe doors and isolate them while "the band plays .on," ' : ., . So the three little pigs continued their "cakewalk down the aisle of time" with thus and so strictly' adheiVd to-and daintily did their dance. Even though the ' wpveS ' would huff .an puff to "blow their house down", and even whenhi blitzkrieg" (a sort of sophisticated huffing and pulling) struck 4 against the "tower of the west", it stood firm. works, of advertising agencies, and of big business - should re quire the debasement of public taste or of public intelligence. On the whole, the jolt produced by these most predicted and pre dictable of elections has been thoroughly enjoyable. Our demo cracy function!. There is a stupen dous amount of work for liberals to do. The years ahead will be ex ceedingly arduous. But they can also be fun.' i : -: - . THE REPORTER GEMS OF THOUGHT ". MAN OF INTEGRITY . A me?;- of integrity will never listen to any plea against conscience.- Henry Home . : To give' real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that in sincerity and integ rity. Donald A. Adams Every man is valued in this vxirld .as he shows, by his con duct he wishes to be valued. Jean de la Bruyere . The man of integrity is one who makes it his constaTtt role to follow tte road of duty, ac cording as Truth and the voice of his conscience point it out to him. Mary Baker Eddy . Editor: I would like to compliment you for the editorial of Thursday, November 20, 958, titled "Independ ents". It was a very reasonable editorial and shows good thinking on the part of the editor.. The independents on this campus were victorious in all the campus elections, with the exception of one candidate for the Women's Honor Council and she is going to be in a run-off election. This shows that the campus is tired of being told to vote the party line and that the independent candidates will score heavily in the Spring election. The biggest surprise on the campus was the election of the independent candidate to the Men's Honor Council. Dewey Sheffield, a transfer stu dent, received 712 votes and'showed a great poten tial as a vote getter. Now it happened one day that one of the little pigs stood too near the open fire and the snroke thereof virtually! engulfed the poor animal so that his skin in jts tmtirety. wis colored black and when the. others saw him they laughed and jeered, chasing him from the North to the South of the, tower and back again, out. the door and down the long road. '. , . . ...... ; - .f, .. - - . " . So it wan that the chilling wind from the noith came to infect that mighty towerj to crush its nigh walls, to end the merry cakewalk. The victories of Jim Scott, Ed Levy, and David Evans showed that there is a strong sentiment on If any man seeks for greatness, the part o the voters for those people who will let hini forget greatness and ask get out and work for the job and work even harder jor trumi ama neiwiu.jina ooui Horace Minn . The basis of all integrity and cJiaracter is ohdtever jaith we have in our own integrity. - Roy L. Smith when they are elected. , Keep up the good editorials cat the independents, they really deserve them. Roy B. Goodman
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