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PACE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEIL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1559 Administration Probe? Si. mi- nrusp.jjM is sometimes pick up iuins Midi .i dir. .iim .uul :uiililin on the I'ni ciity r.impiis .mil use it as 1 1 it Ii.utt t mount .i "uiu mis.nlf lor :iilininisii;itit' i.u ktlown. An int.tme tliis wis tlic olitot hi in I Iir U.ilcili Tiiiu-s Moiul.iy iiii-Jit, which pointed oil! ill. the .k I m i 1 1 ist i .i l i( t i should t.tkr aditni 1 1 the (healing that went on chu rn exams. What the ctliioti.dist did not know was that the administration was wot kins with student ollieials to et to the hottom of the matter, and that hoih weie tunning into a miiaII stone wall. It is sti an'e that theie is not a greater reali zation that whether the problem of honor is handled by administrators or students, cheating will still ;o on to one device or ; :iother. I here are usually some people who an not reist temptation. I'eihaps the Uni eisity could take prec autionary measures in insisting that all examinations be centrally printed and be kept in a central nawled lo cation, and yet. the ptoblem of cheating wm!cl not be solud. In other words, in one very real sense neither an honor system nor a proctor system, nor een a ;uard in every building is a work able practical arrangement. Indeed, the only workable practical at lanement is no svstem. 1 y putting individ ual (lass standards oti an absolute basis ac ((ti(!in;f to the individual instructor, those who (heat or who conspire to (heat will not be able to endanger the dilutes of others students, and at the same time he would be ihe.niir himself and himself alone. I he difficulty in cheating lies not with the ssstem of enforcement, but with the sys tem of education. If one can stimulate stu dents to form their own allies aid to com pete not for grades or jobs, but for achieve ment up to the extent of his individual abili ty, theie minht be an opportunity to conect the situ. ion. As it is, the problem will not be lesolved. , ,. ; Secrecy It is always a difficult tiling to draw the line httwecn what is confidential and what i open to the public. In campus judicial cases, this job becomes more difficult. These oil ices are anions the highest elec tive posts ftu the campus, and the campus ck seives a chance to see the functions of the judicial, the cases and fac ts that come up un der the judicial sstem, the fairness of the Mtdicf. ; ad the handling of judicial details and procedures. Indeed, they have a riht to know some of the issues that will confront the Student Legislature in the form of re vision, and some of the conc epts that they will be called upon to dec ide in Sptin elec tions. They obviously should not be nivcn the identity of defendants unless the defendants so wish, in older that these defendants may lie without stigma in a society that is r- mi no osm of the democratic world. Yet, there has been a resistance to ive the facts until now, and this resistance is one example of an overly paternalistic attitude that exists ;inonr many leaders, not only judicial. The public- has a riht to know. 'Hiis much the facts the judicial and oilier olliccrs have an obligation to ive them. Space Holdup One of the basic- holdbacks in our govern ment's changeover from liquid fueled mis siles to solid fueled missiles is the expansive amount of asseous rir in the present Con gress. F. C. Hie official ttti1-ni publication f the Publication Qnard of the University of North Carolina. whre i Is published daily ewert Monday anJ examination period? tnd iiinimrr terms Eiifrerl as second Class piattrf tn thr M;st otflte In Chapel Ilifl. N C, unfter the art of March 8 I7() SuhscrintlPD rai'i: $4 !V) prr e nirctrr. SK M p- ter. f I n In 1 I fl Manadn r(1ilfvm News Edit Out Of Joint March Wind One of the more sparkling lecturers on this campus is, without a doubt, the infinitely urbane Dean Godfrey. An admirer of his has recently pointed out that the Dean is "a rotund palm tree; standing tall in the middle of the Sahara." Just before the end of his last semester Godfrey was on the lecture platform, musing in his droll way about the English Chart ists and the hysteria thet-e radicals of the 19th century caused. But, like Neil Bass vanishing into limbo, the Chartists vanished from the scene. "The hysteria of one generation," said the Dean, "Is the history of the next. Say, that's pretty good. I hope you all got that phrase down in your notes." Tliis little triumph reminded Godfrey of an earlier epigrammatic foray. He favored the class with Godfrey's Historical Law: "Everything comes from Everything." I immediately turned around in my seat and asked one of the graduate students to explicate Godfrey's Law. The graduate student (hereinafter referred to as GS) is presently working on his dissertation: "Trench Mouth in Orange County, 1771-1780." The GS said that Godfrey's Law, though profound, was surpris ingly simple. "In fact," said the GS, 'I've been working along similar lines for quite some time now. "To begin with, you must realize that the repudiation of the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty compounded the dipsasterous 7th Crusade against Berlin in 1945 by Robespierre." 1 looked blank. The GS continued. "It's all tied in with the bank panic of 10ffi. caused by Mongo lian hordes sweeping in to engulf the Bishop of Hippo at Sarajevo. "You see, when the Mongols came there was a crisis of con fidence, and Dred Scott withdrew his account, thus forcing Baron Rothschild and Hideki Tojo into bankruptcy during the embargo of the Middle Period at Berchtesgarden while the Thcrmidorean Reaction raged against the Holy Alliance." I still looked blank and uncomprehending. "I'm rather proud of these intricate formulations," said the GS. "But, of course, I can't claim sole credit. No indeed! Like most of the 'yoots' ( a Max Shulman phrase), I came to UNC hungry for the meaning of history. Diligently, I applied myself. I sat at the feet of great professors, soaking up wisdom. And now, having survived the rigors of Social Science I and Social Science 2 (repeated endlessly under a variety of interesting course descriptions), I am ready at long last to communicate the exctiement, the grandeur, the glamor and the glory of HISTORY to those underprivileged young men and women who hail from Charley Justice's home town, Asheville. The Bishop of Hippo, incidentally, was not engulfed at Asheville. Th Bishop of Hippo was engulfed at Sarajevo. Is that perfectly cl 'ar?" It was all clear, perfectly clear. The GS, having finished his oration, ran away screaming to Lenoir and a tranquilizer with his morning cup of coffee. When Good Dean Godfrey said that "everything comes from everything," he had (as is his wont) ye oulde tongue in ye olde cheek. But he was satirizing a powerful trend among contemporary histori ans a trend that savs there is no meaning in history and even to search for meaning is futile and preposterous. To search for mean ing is to speculate, and to speculate is to be "unscientific." Well, to go with Godfrey's Iaw, we now can add March Wind's Law: "Even the wrong meaning is better than no meaning." I think this is what the GS was driving at. Somebody, somewhere, has to make some kind of sense out of the enormous mountains of data piled up by generations of historical laborers. Even the wrong sense is better than no sense. Better wrong sense, than nonsense. Well, That Takes Care Of That" CURTIS CANS CHARLIE SLOAN STAN FISHER A IOPK1 ann" kryf Asorlat Fdltnr ED ROWLAND Enklnesj Man-irrr At. Adv. Mjnuf.er Chief Photographers Art Editor WALKER RL ANTON .... JOHN MINTKh PETER NESS RILL BRINKIIOUS ANTHONY WOLFF Coed Editor JOAN BROCK Aslant Sport Editor ELLIOTT COOPER Zf Neither Black Mostly Shades New York And The N egro Eprta Editor RUSTY HAMMOND Max Ascoli Ever since the beginning o' Southern evasion cr defiance of th? Supreme Court decisions on the desegregation of the schools, thr.e of us in the North who advocate.! compliance could not help feeling that their civic virtue was neither costly nor risky. Or at least, to avoid hiding behind the editorial "we," I felt keenly and painfully embarrassed by the good fortune of being a New Yorker. One thing, however, must be said immediately: in New York outraged racial feeling is the sad privilege of the Negroes. Impelled by old and legitimate resentments, or by ignorance and misery, or by the ranting of demagogues, the Ne groes can be driven into a united front against the whites. But any thing like the White Citizens' Councils is not even remotely con ceivable here in New York. There are still evil habits and mean practices of discrimination that have been somehow blunted hut not erased by the law. But there Is no deliberate, organized will to keep the Negroes down, or, as it sometimes is said by South erners, in their place. No amount of Negro anger could ever create such a will. Rather, whenever Ne gro anger makes itself felt, L .creates a shock and then a sense among white people that varies from self-consciousness to shame. Again 1 will not say in the "white" community, for there is no such thing. There is no such thing because New York is too big, it has had to assimilate too many different kinds and races of peoples. This assimila tion, which has been mjje largely possible by the fact that people have the right to vote, is usually described by the trite expression "melting pot" a term that may have some meaning only if we remember that there have been huge differentials in the rate at which the melting of the various groups has proceeded. Ours is a society of equals in the sense that the chance of self-improvement is open to all those who can overcome the varying handicaps of the groups to which they belong. The Negroes in New York are de termined to have their handicaps reduced. Yet in the present crisis which is largely centered, as in the case of the Negroes throughout the rest of the country, on equality rf education it must be remem bered that the so-called Negro community is an extraordinarily American community, composed of a very large number of different types and strains. Resentment ever the various handicaps im- Norman B. Smith Adventure seems hard to come by when one lives in an automatic society that wakes up by elecrtic alarm (not too early) in the morning, eats a packaged, vitamin-infused, almast pre-digested breakfast, and begins another day of prescribed work, prescribed talk, yes, it reaches the point of prescribed thought. Adventure doesn't have to mean exploring some far-off land and returning to fill in blank spaces on a man with the knowledge you have acquired. or leading a great military campaign in which thou- professed doctrines differed so greatly that had sands are shot and thousands more sicken or starve il been waking hours and had there been other to death, doesn't have to mean creating a parallel People, surely he former would have thought the to some trite Zane Grey, True Magazine, Tom Swift, latter a borderline atheist and the latter would have or 7orro episode -of false suspense, hero imago called the former an unenlightened, dogmatic, bigot transfer, and poetic justice. ed literalist Adventure is simple to achieve if you turn aside Tne below-freezing Virginia hill country air made Postscript Jonathan Yardley Ernie Kovacs is one of the most delightful peo ple whose face ever crossed Ibe flickering screen. Exuding charm, humor, and warmth, he is the per fect television talent. On Monday night's "Desilu Playhouse'" he was at his. very disarming best in a whimsical offering entitled "Symbol of Authority."' The play dealt with a proof reader in a printing house, the perfect prototype of the Caspar Milque toast Walter Mitty image, who lives his own humdrum little existence and never tells the beau tiful widow with whom he works of his love for her. When he is forced into the hospital by appendi citis he becomes smiitten with doctors, and the kindness which they show him. On one of his holidays, as he wanders aimlessly around the city, he sees a stethoscope in a pawn shop and buys it. On his first day at work he goes to the hospital to visit his friend and ex-wardmate, but finds thr.t because he has not come during visiting hours he will have to get special permission from the desk. As he walks to the desk he unconsciously pulls the stethoscope from hi pocket and is quite sur prised when the nurse, seeing the stethoscope, tells him to "go right on up, doctor." This is the big moment in his life. From then on he enters the hospital every Sat urday, armed with his pawn shop stethoscope, pac ing up and down the halls, cheerily greeting every one who passes him and stopping in on patients to check their charts, give a word of encouragement, do a small favor. Soon he becomes a beloved part of hospital life, despite the fact that no one knows his name. Finally he is apprehended. Two interns riding in an elevator with him ask for his mediation in an argument they are having about a, medical tech nicality. When he is dumbfounded they get suspici ous and call the police. Kovacs realizes he is being chased and tries to elude his pursuers, but to no avail. They catch him and question him about his " motives narcotics? theft? medicines? They can not get an answer and it is only when the girl from the office, played by Jean Hagen, comes to affirm his identity and character that he is set free, but not until the police officer confiscates his precious stethoscope. Broken-hearted, Kovacs starts to leav? the hospital, but is continually stopped by. people thanking him for the small kindnesses he has done them. Jean Hagen, following behind, hears all this anH rpali7P! that hp; is mnrh more the man than the horizon when one can make quiet confidences, he thinks and accepts his offer of marriage. that and the smooth rhythm of his traveling with such simple steadiness over a road that they all The point, of course, is very simple: one needs alone possessed at that hour, passing by blurred, more than a badge of authority to hold the true darkened, unidentifiable objects on the side of position of that authority. The kind-hearted little the highway with such consistency that a calming, man, by giving his heart and time to the forgotten geometric pattern seemed to be formed. Maybe these jeople in the hospital, had done as much for them things allowed the two of them to reach as close a as any real doctor. And he had also proved to rappor in discussing religious philosophy as could himself that he was as much a man as any. other, any two Dominicans, cloistered, life-long inhabitants and that he needed no badge to mark himself from of some isolated monestary. The one, a Baptist the crowd as a person of real worth and value to clergyman, and the other, a Unitarian layman, whose the community. Nor ite... Grey from your planned well-marked path of existence, if you sacrifice a few hours of security, and go-. . . He stood by the side of the road not knowing how nor when, nor even if he would get to Nash ville, six hundred miles away. This show was one of the many delightful con tributions the Desilu Playhouse has made to Mon day night viewing, and Monday night viewing has long needed a shot in the arm. It was also further proof that, although live telecasting has many ad vantages over film, a kinescoped show also ear. convey the charm and warmth of human emotions and actions. his whole (overcoatless) body violently shiver, so he began to walk to keep warm. For ten miles he walked out of the night, through the dawn, and into the daylight. No cars came, but there had been one recently because he saw two does, eves begin- The banker, properly in grey double-breasted ninS lo Sze over tne ngnt of the moon, limbs , 7 suit and vest and cigar-scented heavy, black Odls- stiffening in the chill air, blood congealing on u Tl ! stautement wortn)-The mobile, talked with animation about football as me tomo-com concrete, hair accumulating particles "'s r: . T,F H K V Television in the next few months should be no ruary eleventh and anyone who missed it would be foolish to miss is a second itme. The Green Pas tures, one of the best offerings of recent years, will also be re-broadcast, this on March 23. Keep it in mind. 'The Garry Moore Show," easily one of the two best variety and comedy shows on the air (have you posed on the Negroes may weld portly 'former football stars do who can now not of frost two dogs whose orgy intended pre-dawn sinSle show n las fal1. wU1 be re-broadcast Feb- them together. But in the process run but only watch and help raise funds for new love chase had ended in sudden death. Shocks of the demagogues those professionals stadiums. But it was a mistake for him (the rider) corn stalks grew visible against the hilly horizon as in fomenting passions, tend to ac- to bring up the subject of integration because the 3 faint, unnatural glimmer of the dawn timidly be- quire the upper hand. This inevi- banker had been raised among nigras (the proper San to erase Orion and Cassic-pea's Chair on the tably is registered and resented by aristocratic coastal plains terminology: not Negroes eastern sky. Soon chicken feed sack calico curtains the more enlightened and responsi- that is Yankee, nor niggers that is poor white Parted behind smudgy windows of small farmhous- ble Negroes. With those men. we trash), he had played with them and he knew them es as wives who had gotten up to set fires in wood who happen to be white and who well, well enough to know that they were good stoves heard measured footsteps on the road out- 5een Durward Kirby as Arthur Murry?) has given are their friends must not lose enough in their place but that the bupreme court aiUK- . time to the Kingston Trio, Alfred Drake, and Gor- contact. Indeed, we must not let was being neither legal nor sensible in attempting 'My name is Fred Wood. If you are ever in don and Snieia MacRae all in the last two weeks, our friendship be even slightly to put them in white schools. wlayville again, come to see me. I'll show you my of course, are delightful and, are tops- Steve wcakened-even when they are A burly workman in sour-smelling work clothes farm- and the wife will cook you up some country Allen's February first show might have, been the suspicious of us and doubt our told him that he had been home with his wife every ham with grits and red-eye gravy," said the man funniest he's ever done. Louis Nye, Tom.Poston, good will niSht that week and now that it was Friday night who had no real reason to say this to the stranger and Don Knotts are the three, funniest men in the We who ire white can well af- he was going to "g0 0ut and find SOme strange " 6 0nly a"Th?Urnag0' ' world, or so a lot of people are saying. And "Mav- fZ Z1 Zlu h ,r l botrodders with gutted muffler kept the Then there was Nashville and the end of it - erick wellf SOme of us think that it's the best , 2 K?Trm nJS Ln! intcrir lighs on 311 the while he WaS witk them' I dventure- He felt so at the television show around, and that no one is more S 7?. "eVV?T3 and one of them kept a hand on a jacket pocket time it was adventure, but he waited for months, entertainrr! than James Garner. More realistically, sight of the fact that conflict be- that had a menacing bulge. It seemed to him that, and he thoughts of all those things kept returning, the adaptation of Sheridan's "The Rivals" two 'weeks tween honestly held ideas is noth- lhey were on the defensive because they thought churning, recalling him to that afternoon and night. was very clever and last week,s Duel at Suq. uui me uL ui iiieiKtoinp. ou, tfoat average honesty must be no greater than ailu morning wnen ne escaped (not escaped: evaded) lor instance, we can maintain or their own IIe wisely kept both hands visible and at least I do that while the stand- unmoving. ards of education in the predom- On the dark, curving mountain road the driver's inantly Negro schools, as in all the companion passed out, and he wondered if th cily's public schools, must be ra- driver would as they careened around corners that dically and steadily improved, it jutted over valleys, he deph of which he could is absurd and self-defeating to rely not judge in the darkness. But the driver stayed too heavily on the schools for the awake, telling him how much he and the compan- elimination of the abuses under ion were enjoying their first week home after duty which the Negroes have suffered, in Korea. Some difference here, he said, where he Certainly it is not by courtroom could drink all he could hold: in Korea he would battles, or by keeping children 4V.4 1 J i . nidi pmimeu existence 01 automatic, proper re sponse to rules (formal and understood) that the community imposes on its inmates, and he knows now after four months that it was true adventure. ago down," a little more active than the average Garn er show, was further humorous evidence that Bret Maverick is the most honest coward who ever wore a black suit and a ruffled shirt. A Letter Since this is a new slant for "Postscript," a lot of people haev been ' asking your reviewer what shows he likes best, and which ones will get con sistently good reviews from him. Here, then, is one man's award list, which we shall call "The 1957 Arthur Winners:" away from schools, that education for the Negroes can be improved. This means that the causes of the present unrest must be dealt with decisively by our public of ficials and by all responsible men, Negro or white, in positions of au thority. No Best variety show "The .Steve Allen Show;" Best musical show none eixsts; Best Dramatic Editor: Mr. Wolff deserves great credit for his review of "The Defiant Ones" in the January 7 Tar Heel. It take most of his month's pay, buy up as many of is good to know that the tolerance and humanitari- the other soldier's one-can-per-month beer ration anism revealed in this inspiring film are reflected at five dollars a can as he could and mix it with in the University community. Many of our towns- shave lotion and antiseptic so that for two days people and students were not as fortunate as Mr. Series "Playhouse 90;" Best Action Series . out of every thirty he could forget about the dreary, Wrolff they were unable to see the picture be- "Maverick;" Best Comedy Series "Maverick" (that's cold surroundings and home so far away. cause they are Negroes. The idea that true "brother- right); Best Comedian Red Skelton; Best Humor- A young patrolman stopped' the tired Army hood" can be attained only when people are recog- ist Mort Sahl (and let's have more of; him); sergeant who had left Baltimore early that morning, nized as individuals is a point that Negroes need Best Serious Actor Art Carney; Best Musical stormed him for eaina 65 and escorted then to a to be reminded of no less than whites, and as Mr. Background "Peter f.nnn " vn though tt'c t matter what some liphtless. rnmsharklo rmmtrv store. A beardecL hies- Wolff savs. ". . . this is a mnvio which all American; vprv pnaA arr' Rpst Artrocc !ro n n f.rnvni I A KT . , --a - ' - - j o - v -J . j . . . 015:11, eiexcuea iNegro leaders may ryeyed -justice of the peace came to the door after would do well to see; particularly those Americans Best Sports Series NHL Hockey; Worst Announc say New York is not Little Rock repeated loud knocking, led them over to a clut- who are supposedly in the process of examining er Jimmy Powers; Worst Show "Arthur Mur NeLson Rockefeller and Robert tered, -dirty desk in a corner of the almost stock- their convictions in the hope of building a better ray Party;" Second .Worst Show- "Arthur God Wagner have no more in common jess store, and wrote the receipt for a $12 bond wxrld." frev Time:" Your Reviewer's favnrit wac in cnnH wun urvai autus than with An- which would suffice as fine as well as bond because Mr. Wolff is right, and it is rewarding to know astas Mikoyan. The present crisis neither the justice nor the patrolman knew nor that Hollywood is still capable of producing pictures can be, and I do believe must be. cared when the trial would be as long as they each which evoke such statements. It will be even better an hour watching "Maverick." weathered. Then others will come. But if we are honest with each got their half of it. The Baptist preacher was on his way to a re- other, Negro and white, New York vival. Maybe it was because just the two of them were with no one else there to brand them heretical or to show off their zeal to, because it was in thos hours between the beginning of the new dav on THE REPORTER, the clock and the beginning of the new day on now and in the future can set an example for the whole nation. when all Americans have the opportunity to see these significant social documents of our times. Mary Nies Marion Davis Mary K. Davies Daniel Okun - Joseph Straley ! V There are a lot ci good serious shows on tele vision, and none of these have been taken into con sideration above, because this is the list of a person who watches television for very simple reasons no matter, how bad it can be, there are a lot of good laughs and a lot of very very good dramatic shows. And they are the things this column is con cerned with.
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