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THE DAILY TAR HSIL 'SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1959 ACE TWO Virginia & Law U,'r the continiinl bellow nl sonic Vir j'Uii.i lrisl.tton. it .i)ji-.iis (It liniif tli.it in.s mw lc'sisl.tiic c li.is been dcill ;i tlc.it 1 1 blow in the Nil j i -iiit ('(nut of that st.itt. I (ii (.o. 1 imls.iN Almoin!, .trcliiuvt of ol tin- 1 1 i.t sni .ipjit ais irsinnl ti hi iiiin ;ibuiu liiiiiidl iiiu;i.itin. if not o vi joyc-il at 1 1 it jiiosjutt, (iov. Almond stems to Ik iloiir his sluicio nuke 1 1 if new silu.ilioii noik a v c -1 1 as possible. It is somewhat utr Iniimiaie tint he cannot withdraw his pio pos.il lor pii.'.e st hools so that oilier ciri yt ns koiiM br unable to tapitalie on mass teat lion tn st.dl inte'j;! at ion. but at least the open c'cli.uur is no longer there, and the M.iurncni that Almond made immediately bl lowing the limit's det isioti h:-- borne no h nil. It was an txteimely lucky tiling that the stare mint took ;he action rather than the federal tomt. for if a fecleial court had hand ed down the decision it is more than prob able that massie iesist; nce would have had a tebiiih of strength tlespite the adverse de- ision. Indeed, the lonrt's at t'on was one of the lew southern tlisp!as of Responsibility in the handling ol the set elation problem. I he seieatlon problem is basically i southern problem, lor only in the south is it-nation le-.dK onsmic tech It is. : pro blem that itcpiiies lc. lership and not dein a4'4i'. .Mid leadeiship is hard to find, uhile demauo'4neiy is in exerv nook and ci.inm ol the area. As a result, it has been I. t;H noiilieiii pipssnre that has been biininv about integration and eompliante. and rt slowly bat tiers aie be-in-.; broken lown and leitain indiiduals have arisen to c h.iinpioii the i ... is,- of ri ;ht when they would hae been tiainpled not many eais :iut. I he Viiini.i decision brings with it an aiua o hope lor a complicated problem that nill take easr to solve. The hope lies in an ; wakened south, t oioiiant o! its responsi bilities and Hoiking, if only , i iiI 1 y. to the "o.il of a moie perfect democracy in uhich all people whether black, while, red, or ellow hae equality of opportunity. Examination Books To illustrate liilr scholarship in this Uni versity, every examination period , the Uni ersitv. through ihcJJook Exchange, has puJr isied an official examination book which most students use for their term examina tions. So hiqli is the demand for honor and schol arship that ihev include a small portion of the honor t ode, .mil a statement on how to take examinations ;;i to ileal with the pro blems that come up. A pi hue ex; .nple of the type of scholar ship demanded of students is a sentence on the examination book which reads, ' if you base a cpiestion about the exam, CONSIJT the itistt in tor.' AriNone for Spelling!? Student Registration I be disinterest on the part of the people ol the Toiled States in general and students on the CNC campus in particular is a matter ol i (insistent wonder and concern. " It must be wondeiful to be in suc h a state l laptuie l!i ii ihe iiht to vote means very iinle il anything to the individual strident. Hoisewt. ii stems moie liian evident that if this unit h t oik cm is excited by the people cl the I'niicd Stales, wlu-ever remnants ol d. inotrai) that exist today will vanish. In all appioxiiii.itely i -,o students axailed llumveUes ol the opportunity to noisier, and a jre.il nujoiiiy of these weie leistcr ed. Onl a small percentile were tinned down, and of those, only one look the op portunity to appeal. The individual who took the op)iiuuiiy to appeal did not o to his appeal heating, and c onsecjuent ly did hot rt the ojtpoitunity to register. In short, the students have no kitk comin ' from re-r-istiatioti ollii.''s in Chapel Hill, for they did not 1 1 y to leister. and those that did t kmc denied wrie unwilling lo challenge iheir denial. I bus. the only complaint may be a com plaint in ittrospett. It is a complaint about the tieatmcnt of students at the first two weeks of i castration. It is a complaint of why it was necessary in some instances to base a Daily Tar Heel photographer around lo iiisiue student rights. It is a complaint of wh a special issue of the newspaper must be published in order to insure students of their lights. Vet, these complaints are minor, and the leal complaint is an old one student jpjihy. Variation Gall Godwin C '"I Was Just Telling Ike The Other Day, We've Got To Keep Watching That Budget" That oh! axiom that j;;oes: "You can't see the forest for the trees" is very applicable to the situation of a student at this university---or at a:iy other university for that matter. It is too easy to gA lost in' a maze of registration forms, drop add lines, searches for old uize. for the new courses, mercihs; first -hour judgments of thi: semester's professors, an 1 so on. And once lost, the student hnr, a hard time returning lo the firri ground of his convictions. In fact, he has such a hard time that mo t of the time he does not even bother to return. Oh, some rainy day as he shuf fles meaninglessly to some clas-5 or other he may look up from h;s mud-spatered loafers to the dreary sky and ask "What am 1 here for? Why ;m I at the ur versity?" And the answer r-viy be one of many at that part ieu'.-r moment. The answer may be: "To get a diploma and the job that says one must have a diploma.". The answer may be: "To learn more . . . about somethin ; . . . so that I can understand thin;1" better." And on he :;nes throufh the trees whii h seoearate only wide enough to make a path to the various cla .M-oom It is timely. p r!au.'- even co incidental, that an the ve:y day new classes beyan the Sat urday I'eview should come out with Archibald Mad.eish's per ceptive and denuding a; I'd' en titled "What is a True Universi ty?" This article appears on page 11 of the January 31 issue of SK an ! should be read by the deans in their book-lined offices, the ad ministratory in the South Build ing hierarchy, the select few that reside in the brick building across the street from Morehead Planetarium, by the professors, assistant piofessors. instructors, and assistant insirudars AND UY THE STUDKNTS. MacLeish has cut down all the trees and chartered an airplane to fly his reader over the forest. The view is broad, far-reaching, and disturbing. He brings to memory the 1 002 inaugural address of Woodrow Wilson as president of Princeton. The message of the add-ess was that The American Univer.-ity must have a I urpose and that the Purpose should be the train ing of the young f)r American life, for the nation's service. At that time, MacLeish points out such statements took courage. "Today the difficulty would be to hold an audience together to hear them." The reason that Wilson's words have lost value and meaning to Americans, says the author, lies in the change of certain basic con cepts; for instance. "American life" in 1902 meant life in a na tio which was a society of men; today that same life has come to mean the life of a vast social machine which demands of citi zens that they be efficient arts of itself. : "The result is that Mr. Wil son's great educational objective, pieparati'n for th? service of t hr nation, has a different sound in our ears than it had in the ears of his listeners in that happy far-off timt l.ei'ne the first Win hi War. Whe Mr. Wilson used that phrase he was thinking, and hi;-, listeners wi'h him of th ; duty of the colieg-s and univer sities TO TURN Otir PEOPLE LIKE EI.IHU ROOT AND HENRY I.. STIMSON MEN CAPABLE OF TAKINC TIIEIK PLACES IN THAT SOCIETY O-' M rN WHP'M THE NATION THEN WAS. AND SERVING IT BY LEADING IT. "When we rea I the phrase to day we think of r.nmethnig very different: the alleged duty of the colleges and universities to turn out people with certain specializ ed skills in physics, or in chemistry, or in engineering which the nation as Nation finds it needs; not lo lead it but lo work for it." Is it any wonder that today's stu dent has a hard time orientating himself to his place in the uni versity as related to his place in the nation? It is very un pleasant ot think that one is go ing to grow up just to become a art of something instead of a whole being, "the serjarate and equal station to which the laws of. nature and of cature's God are supposed to entitle one. Je5to yq&A iMdrsfftW. 'Vs. O I V 'ifip.'i ' yl '""V 2'. - fchfuoC 4g?' ' Radicleer Cortland Edwards II Milcoy an Paul Niven Twenty-four hours after Mikoyan returned to Moscow, he held the first Moscow news conference he had held in many months. It represented a habit In this age of internationalism, he had picked up somewhere between Cleveland ' i j i and T ni Angeles Mikoyan said many favorable space travel, and moon rockets we ana los Angeies. nxih-ujan , . , things about America and Americans duly print- have witnessed the formation of ed . newspaperSf whose readers found them an amazing amount of organiza- unfamiiiar. His visit to a Washington suburban su tions. ; permarket was chronicled on film for Moscow tele vision and that was unusual; Soviet viewers had But the most amazing organiza- seldam before been allowed even a fleeting glimpse tion of all, was formed right here 0f American abundance. - on this campus last semester. Its ' it remains to be seen how much more of Miko first meeting of the new semester yAn's newly-acquired and occasionally benevolent . . , fl iUa expertise will filter down to the Russian narod. will be announced shortly in the Cll"c . , . f ftmp. q-.,, But' more -important, in the view ol some aia.e Daily Tar Heel. Department people, are the impressions Mikoyan The group, composed of " girls carried back himself, to be shared with his col- ,T n leagues. Some of the Department's specialists on who came over on the Mayflower, UniQn have long urged that the welcome calls itself the "What's A Lady mat be put out for Russia leaders, arguing that the Club" or "I Don't Care If You Are more tnese men know about the US, the better. The Looking for Pine Cones, Just Get Mikoyan visit did much to sustain this view, the Hell Out of the Bushes." Nearly all the editorial pages of newspapers m cities the Soviet Deuty Premier visited touched on This admirable group of stout- the legs savory chapters of his biography, but most hearted females have picked the o them woimi up extending him a more or less "White Rose" as their club flow- cordial invitation to see the local sights. Some er and by an unanimous decision eiements of the Fourth Estate, it is true, did act they have chosen as their song "I as j ne were staging a frontal assault on Fort Knox Don't Want to Set the World On and tne 1960 elections. One syndicated article, for Fire." example, suggested that the Russian cameras cover- Or-anized under the pressure of in his visit to a Hrmarket were really trained Organ zed under tne pressure ot installation. And Time, scoring a very favorable ratio and an un- q the seemed to im. favorable reputation these studious J should have alternated paragraphs girls who have loads of .-personality. Hungarian revolt with details of 'what Mi have banded together m unison as. , f , . . ..o . j sn . . i , , j i Koyan saw iu maty a a Standards Committee and have . . . . decided that the first thing they must do is to define what a LADY is. Life Different At G Bob Nobles (Bob Nobles and Frances Reynolds are tlie two UNC ex cfiange acitolars currently stu dying at Gottingen University.) Student life is a bit different here than back at UNC. Gottingen University, as in most German Universities, has no campus. The buildings are scattered all over the city. There are a few student homes, but most of the students live privately in rented rooms. Frances Reynolds lives in a stu dent home, the Nansen Haus, where she is able to meet stu dents from the world over. Half the students there are foreigners and the other half Germans. I live privately. My room, I believe, is typical of many of the German students' rooms here. It is cheap for Gottingen, $12.50 per month, but it lacks the lux uries of our dorms such as tele phone, running water, bath, and central heat. The electricity and heat is paid for according to use. However, there is a telephone at the Post Office, and hot showers can be had at the gym. In the adjoining room lives my room mate from Hamburg, Kay Lump. The sun gets up around here at 8:30 a.m. and proceeds just as lazily to turn in at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. So if you are going to get it done in the day time, you really have to work fast. Direct sunlight is rarely seen. I have begun to suspect that the state of Lower Saxony has commissioned a cloud to hang ever us for the semester. Honest ly Fpeakin?, there lias been a total of ten days of sunshine since November. The students here eat break fast in their rooms. Mine usually consists of rolls, honey, butler, an orange, and one half liter milk and costs about twenty cents. Af ter breakfast we all scatter to hear the lectures wheih don t start on the hour but at quarter past. This extra fifteen minutes is called "the academic quarter" Grms Of Thouqht ACTION Action wmj not ahony bring happiness; bin tltere is no hap piness without action. Benjamin Disraeli ylction expresses more grati tude .'lan speech. Mary Baker Eddy The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good ac tion for all eternity. John Cas par Lavater The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. William Hazlitt and is given by most professors here. Wrhen the professor enters the room, the students rap their knuckles on the desk or pound their feet on the floor. This is the traditional gesture of respect. The students also hiss when the professor says something which doesn't appeal to them. The lec tures are always begun with "Meine Damen and Herrn." Some lectures start as early as 7 a.m. and some as late as 8 p.m. One of the latter is Profes sor Percy Schramm's lecture on the Second World War- Profes sor Schramm was the official his torian for the Nazi government during the closing years of World War II, and his two hour lecture is undoubtedly one of the most popular in Gottingen. It is the hardest to get a place in be cause it la open to the general ottingen public. Every Thursday night we arrive one hour early to stand in the crowd before the door which is opened at 7:30. When it does open, there is always a united surge to get through and prac tically a free-for-all to get a good seat. Nevertheless, the lecture is always worth the trouble. The Germans are not known for their good cooking, and the student cafeteria or "Mensa" bears this out. However, there is , always enough. Usually there is a soup and a plate with meat, vegetable, and potatoes, always potatoes, stacks of big white po tatoes. I like potatoes. The meal costs twenty-five cents, and milk has been reduced to two and one half cents per half pint. Recently the student government had the quality of food improved, but it still lacks variety. On Degrees Sidney Dakar "We all, on occasion, resort to rationalization to compromise the vast difference between our beliefs and reality. The other day a friend told me that he was not going to even bother to take one of his final exams; he did not have time. I asked him if he did not want to get credit for the course. He said that he really was not too in terested in the credit, that he mainly wanted to learn. This attitude is good, but not very practical. If I was only in terested in learning as such, I would leave school tomorrow and start in earnest to read the many great books that I have been col lecting. School duties do not give me time to read the books of the great masters of politics and literature, the books I enjoy reading most. Mjst of these will have to wait until 1 finish my formal re quirements for a degree. There are others who share this view. I laughingly recall a friend who studied at George Washington. We were in a Washington cock tail lounge one night several years ago celebrating his finishing of "the requirements" for his degree. "By the way, Bill," I asked, "how did you come out on that psychology course that you hated so much?" "Oh, my God!" moaned Bill, "I haven't been to that class in so long that I have forgotten about the final exam!" The exam happened to be given on the last day for exams, the next day.. Bill quickly gulped the rest of his martini, ate the olive and left to study the rest of the night for the exam. He made a D on the course. Today, Bill is the project manager of a multi-million dollar pro ject which is linking all the NATO countries with a complex com munications network. He hires and fires engineers daily. I, like Bill, have a dislike for at least half of my courses and a positive hate for some of them. I have made B's on more than a few courses that I hated and rarely did any serious studying excuse me memorizing, until the night before the final examination. Attending most classes does not increase one's knowledge; it is merely a for mality that' must be observed if one wants to remain a student of the university and do some serious studying on his own time. Yes, the student was right in wanting to learn rather than to merely work for a grade. This attitude, however, will not remain long when this student goes out into the world of reality. Can you imagine the impression that a self-educated person would make upon a busy personnel manager who had granted him an interview? Tn what field is your degree?" "Well, ahhh, you see, I don't actually have a degree, but I have been studying on my own for the last ten years." The personnel manager would smile and tell the naive man that his application would be put on file and that he would be called "If there are, any opening that can be filled with your qualifications." It is too bad that society does not pick people who have the most knowledge for the responsible positions. Many of our most learned people have become so by studying on their own. The sad truth of the matter is that in applying for most jobs a degree is necessary, knowledge is not. . I " But to say that Mikoyan's public-relations op eration did not commend itself to all journalists and did not sweep the country into a mood of ap peasement is not to gainsay the brilliance of its Now that is admirable, isn't it? conception and execution. His original, stated pur Truly admirable! They want to de- Pose in coming here was not spend a pleasant va line what a Lady is! Can you cation, and perhaps talks a little trade with his amagine? I can't define it. Web- old friend Ambassador Menshikov,-the old Bolshe ster can't define it. Not even An- vik- , , , 4 . - 0 thony Wolfe could define it! But as soon as ms visa had en "J? But with moral stamina and all t Embassy in Washington began adding to the kinds of intestinal fortitude these olits of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone .... . t 4U Company. Long-distance calls were directed to a pioneers are guuig uui lmu me world and without any protection from the Indians, they are going number of American businessmen, all of them en dowed with impeccable social and political back grounds, and all of them, as it happened, recent Visitors lu iMUStuw, wiicic biicjf imu i n-u vuiu'u; But they are not going to stop official hospitality. These gentlemen were given to with just a mere definition. Oh no understand that should they now elect to return not these girls. Like I said, they that hospitality, Mr. Mikoyan might be disposed to have lots of personality. They are include their cities In his itinerary, going to draw up a set of rules Thus did he obtain entree to a succession of giving empirical evidence as to opulent brownstone clubs j whose carpets had never whata Lady does' and what a before; known 'Communist j boots. His ( host iii Cleve-; Lady doesn't do. land, Cyrus Eaton, was a controversial figure whose activities might be thought fo have alienated some Now that's logical isn't it? I Ohio Republican; but a local paper, reporting mean if you find out what one .Eaton's, Union J-eigue( Club lunch for Mikoyan, ven- t "does" then you automatically tured to gbess that-never bfef ore 'in -history had 'so' kow what one "doesn't"! Since this formidable task the dub has purposed themselves into doing is so magnanimous, perhaps it would be gentlemanly to offer some suggestions. much of the city's power and wealth been repre sented around a table. To each of these' select groups, Mikoyan's mes sage was the same: the Cold. War ds a bad thing; the United States is responsible, but that is un pleasant so let's not talk about it; businessmen are more sensible than diplomats, so let's get down to If we look the word LADY up in business, a synonym dictionary perhaps we The evidence that a Kremlin leader could be can find out what this thing is. human and even humorous came as a revelation let's see lacuscular, lading, ladle, to some in his audiences. And understandably. Can lady. anyone imagine Molotov hamming it up with Jerry Lewis, or Gromyko deliriously operating the con trols of a retractable hardtop at River Rouge? But .Tpttv Twis will not now turn nut mntmn nlMuroa male! That's interesting, at least dedicated to socialist realism; there hajbeen no wr .,Ww a vidiMe. ouu for Rationalism from the Ford workers: no sifm Ah, here we are! Lady. " Fe male!" Hm-m-m-m. An asterisk fe- what does the asterisk mean. "An that the laughs Mikoyan drew have really shaken asterisk indicates place of treat- the foundations of the Republic. It might be just ment of each group!" as well t0 take the Republic for granted and specu- Gosh, it sounds like a disease. It Iate instead on its impact on Mr. Mikoyan. says that a Lady's a female who's In Maryland, he asked the man who showed asterisk needs to be treated in a him around a modest motel if the establishment group. Oh no! That couldn't be was wned by a company. No, said his guide, I right. Maybe it means to look up own !t : "Female"! A Washington housewife apologized for a-bar ren larder, explaining that she was waiting for bar- "Female (the correlative of gains before stocking up. Mikoyan, at the time, was male) emphasizes the idea of sex; peering into her deep freeze at six steaks and other it applies not only to human be- packages. In two industrial plats, he inquired if the man agements needed more orders. No, he was told, the plants were committed for the next 18 months at full capacity. In Chicago, he visited the home of a $100-a-week bus driver who is a Republican and admires Mr. Dulles. The newsmen who watched these encounters felt ings but also to animals and plants. Its employment as a syn onym for woman was once fre quent among good writers but this is now frowned upon as deroga tory or contemptuous." Now that's interesting! The def inition we have so far is "Lady a female with a sick asterisk who hat Mikoyan would go home still an adversary, emphasizes sex and is contemp tuous." "Sex," Webster says, "is one o! the two divisions of organisms formed on the distinction of male and female; males or females col lectively." Why that's tirrible! but a wiser and more understanding adversary. For the first time in 40 years of Soviet history, one of Russia's top leaders has intimate first-hand ex perience of the US. It will stand him, and perhaps us, in good stead. The New Republic Oop, here's another definition of Lady "Lady, on the other hand, is preferred when gentle breeding and delicacy are definitely implied; as 'Alfonso XI at his death left one legitimate son . . . and five bastards by a lady of Seville, Dona examination periods Tonr ra n,, snd summer terras. Medieval History.)" The official siudem publication of the Publication tloartl of the Uuivrrisil if North Carolina, where il is published daily except Monday -and Entered as second class matter in the Therefore, a lady is a female cst office in Chapel with a si .... oh, this is getting Hill, N. C, under ridiculous. I am confused. I must the act of March 8 admit defeat. I can not help this 1870. Subscription noble group (with a lot of person ality) out. My roommate says, however, to tell them that a Lady is "a girl who makes a man act like she is a woman!" whatever that means. rates: $4.50 per se m ester, $3.50 per vear. k V Editor CURTIS CANS Highi Editor O. A. LOPE2 I i
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