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if Pace two THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 195 Consolidation At the heart of the issue of what is to he-tome- ol the I'nivcisity is another issue that has Urn plaguing people in the M.v.e and Itxalls toi seei;.! years. Despite the ioer-up -i li.v;t of '"local autonomy," this issue was at the lu. ut ol the light hetween the Hoatd of I "iumctn and the Uoaul of Higher I.dmation. I he issue is simply consolidation. I 01 seats this prohlem has been bothering people in the state with some justification, lot it is ; t the heatt of a great deal of con fusion. I he I'liiveisity of Not th . Carolina at ( h a pel Hill cannot plan independently ftom the Consolidated Cniwisity Administration. t the same time it cannot plan independent 1 ol the Imi.ik! of High I duration which has auihmiis oer all the st; :e supported schools. Indeed, the I'niwisitv Administration local l liis little sax oxer its own destiny. At the s.une lime, in a ciy teal sense the Consoli dated I'uixcisity Administration is an an.ii Ir louisiu. It is hascd on a f. 'se concept that tluee iititiitions of grcatlv dilleient pur poses and (unctions cm unite in one overall poli x making hody. It is at one and the same time too inclusive and loo r xclusixe. Consolidation is too inclusive in that it !xs not Icixe loom lor local planum; on the hio I oxeiall stale that is iiccessarx, lor the hisi( undeilxii)'.' decisions ate made hv the Consolidated olficers bv the necessity of pnsiitin; a united budget, and one might .idd a united liont in suppoi tin . the budget. It is aUo too exclusive for it leaxes statewide p! a nn in.' to other oinc es. namely the ti us tees ol the othet institutions and or the Board ol Higher I clue .ition. and in cluing so. the Con sulidated I'uixcisity fails to tealie that with a lapidlx glowing population the future of education will depend vcix giratlv on the othc r jUit.ii ut ions of thr state. Indeed, anv planning that is done ftom here on must of necessity inxolxe the other schools in the slate unless this Cnixersitx wants to be the .sponge for the entire popul.vc. Thus, the Consolidated I'uixcisity struc ture stands at the piesent lime on a untenable middle '.Mound, and the issue at present isn't whether their should be a Consolidated Uni versity or whether their should br a Board ol Higher I duration. This issue is whether theie should be a consolidation of all the in stitutions under one group or whether each should st: r out its own future and take their chances with the Ceneral Assembly. The latter choice is obviously an impossi bility, for if each educational institution con ceived of itself as a liberal arts college of the highest caliber, the contusion that would br precipitated in Raleigh would be equalled only by the confusion regarding the unreali ty of the- pioposed budget for the next hi rnnium. Clear lx there needs to be some planning, not only on the local level, but on the statewide- lexel. so rac h institution of higher learn ing can have a function and from within the broad philosophic basis set up by the state wide consolidated ;ithority, the local :yl ministration can operate and initiate the ncccssaiy policx following up. Obviously, the Cnixetsity at Chapel Hill as the oldest and most respected institution in the state would haxe some- ptioritv in choosing its own des tiny, but the smaller institutions of the state would be ; ble to c ut out their own niche and gain c eitain tespec lability. Moreoxer, the sys tem iniiht make sense which at the present time it doesn't. It is ex ident that a dec ision of this type trgarcling consolidation must come before the I'uixcisity at Chapel Hill can decide whether it wants to be a University devoted to in.i an educ: tion for career training or a community of persons committed to the pu.suit of tiuth. It is also evident that it c annot be both. Is published daily except Monday and tximlrttion perlodi ind tummer terrrn Entered J second class matter In the pest office In Chapel Hill. N. C. under the art of March 8 1870. Subscription rtei: $4.50 per e meiter. $R50 pr ?e The Daily Tar Heel is printed ny me News Inc., Carrboro, N. C (TV -v- J Letter From Olympus At the start of the r I w semester, we fell to our coffee with a breath of nostalgia. Thoughts and reflections passed through us like soup in a sieve and, as the semester ;; the beginning of something new, a potpourri of observations fell into place. January, the start of the new year, is named after Janus, the Roman Keeper of the Heavens. He is a two-faced God, with one lace looking forward and another looking backward. Eut as a representa tion of the comparison between the old and the new, Janus is for ever important. He sees the walls of fraternity houses and dormitories of recent years, decorated with pictures of "Playboy" darlings, and he sees the walls of today, decorated xvith pictures of sports-cars, likewise un abashedly undressed. Whereas back issues of "Playboy" used to be worth their weight in gold, today they have been brushed aside in favor of "Motoring America'' and the "Sportscar Quarterly." If sociologists and psychologists ever had a problem, they have one now: explaining this strange development in the back to the womb movement. He sees our conservative town fathers struggling to maintain the spirit and appearance of colonial architecture in the town, and he sees the warehouse, known affectionately as the Ackland Museum, on Columbia Street. By their dogmatism and narrow-mindedness they have contributed the sacrifice of what could have been a beautiful building to a rigid and unyielding idea. And th-y have distributed colonial parking meters at all the hitching posts. He sees the trend in Student Government proceeding from an attitude of interested participation to one of disinterested drudgery. Student Government has become ineffectual. It has censed to balanc? a conservative administration, it has lost the progressive spirit with which it was founded. There r. only one thing to do. Revolt! Elect an Emperor. Gain control of the Honor Council and Women's Residence Council. Suspend all non believers for crimes against the university. What could be more fitting than for a coed to lead the way over the barricades? Provided, of course, it is before eleven o'clock if on a weekday night. We don't need Student Government. Let's throw away the baby with the bathwater. C.L. The- official student publication of the Publication e'rd of the University of North Carolina, where it Letters Kditor: I have noted with mingled pleasure and dismay Nick Bagda snrian's letter to the Tar Heel complaining that I was withheld from the student body on my re cent visit to Chapel Hill. I am grateful for Mr. Bagda sarian's kind words, but con cerned that he blames the School of Business Administration for keeping me hidden away. The fact is that I arrived cn the campus on Friday evening and had to leave on Saturday after noon. Daring that brief interval we sandwiched in a four-hour .seminar with the Executive Group evihich was what I had been in vited for), a luncheon and a press conference which was not, so far as I know, restricted in any way. That's all the clock would allow. The seminar, built around gen eral discussion, would not, of course, have been possible with n large audience. The fault, if any, is mine, or perhaps that of the disjointed times. It is a tragedy when any man has to cut a visit to Chapel Hill as short as I did. HARRY S. ASHMORE I think it would be more for the benefit of The Daily Tar Heel as well as its readers if you would, for lack of anything better, put an advertisement in the space alloted to such things as "Student Amoral ity on the University Level," by Mr. Cortland Edwards II. Neurotics, old Christian ethic, sex, virgins, non-virgins, semi-virgins, furthermore, InGroup, as sanine, alcohol, prostitutes, scant quotes, sex - symbol, puritanical, love, LOVE, ect., ! ! ! etc. Go home amateur psychologists, experts, talkers, sages, prophets, and wise men. There is neither a r.eed nor a demand for your pro duct. Don Dotson Roundup "How About A Push, Pal?" Vk Af A U The Library Ur tv jH variations Gail Godwin I feel it my bounden duty, to all dogs in this area to inform their owners of a most stimulating arti cle in the Feb. 14, 1959 issue. of the New Yorker. Entitled appro priately ."The American Dog in Crisis." this article discusses the basic insecurity and . tendeliey to-, xvards conformity of the modern , dog. . Modern dogs f ' " "' - 4 are flunking out 5 of obedience schools in fan--i tnstir numhers. - - F Gail Godwin r.ot become more stabilized within the next few months, I have told her that for her own good I must send her to a dog psychoanalyst so that she can be helped to de velop normally into a mature mother of future kennel cham pions of America; If she keeps on " -going ; the ways she is now, who . -" knows? - She may become one of those erratic modern artists. Her first paw-painting showed a re markable talent with colors. But all is not lost if you, dog V w l I the article tells I us, "as a result j of being raised : in an overly per- rtiinrftfrrtfr rfnr f if f tdttor CURTIS CANS ManasiruTEditor CHUCK FLINNER STAN' FISHER News Editor ANN FRYF Assistant Sports Editor ELLIOTT COOPER Advertising Manager FRED KATZLN Circulation Manager BOB WALKER Sports Editor RUSTY HAMMOND Chief PhTtcraphers BILL BRINKHOUS PETER NESS Asvoclate Editor . ED ROWLAND Business Manager WALKER BLANTON .gmTEdiror Z! NANCY COMBES Dave Jones Abraham Lincoln and his devotion were the subject of the de votional given by Representative Jim Crownover. He read passages from the Sandburg book on Lincoln's religion and how it affected his dealings with people as a leader. lie then drew an analogy be tween his situation and ours today. The results must have been ef fective because sober and sincere consideration and discussion was the rule; and not the exception as last week. Committee reports and appropriations came up like so many ducks at a shooting gallery. They were allowed to slide along toward acceptance or passage without any serious pot shots. These are the routine matters which bore so many people who are not directly con cerned with them. It is only occasionally that any government is given an opportunity to decide an issue as sweeping and as vital as the one in Norman Smith's (Ind.) bill call for a "Clear Cut Separation of power in the Legislative, Judicial and Execute e Branches of gov ernment." As introduced by Rep. Smith last week the bill called attention to our federal separation of powers system and pointed up situations existing in our present setup whereby Ralph Cummings could hold, as a member of the Legislature elected from Dorm Men's II, and as Speaker under the constitution, two votes on items that would come up one, two, or even three votes from a tie. Fortunately, Cummings saw fit to remedy this situation himself by resigning as a repre sentative of Dorm Men's II at the beginning of his term as Vice Pres ident and Speaker. In another present situation Representative Charlie Gray of Town's Men's I is also Treasurer of the Student Body. There is no duplication of voting power here, but there is an overload on any student who wants to do a good job in of (ice. Charlie Gray concurrs in this opinion, but it is too late now to do anything about him as an individual and his work load. The rules committee in considering the bill decided to specifical ly exempt any incumbents from its provisions by making it effective April 7th. They also discussed a problem that was bothering them at the time and to which they could see no solution. That is: what about overlapping between legislative and judicial and overlapping between Judicial and Executive? Discussion in caucus, where there are less formal rules and a friendlier rapport, brought out a possible solution, i.e. Why not ex clude those members of councils who have the power to suspend a student and let everyone of lesser ranking councils be eligible. Discussion on the floor brought up a solution to the other prob lem, and an amendment to prevent these same members of the high er councils from holding office as President, Vice President, Treas urer, Attorney General or Secretary. After the acceptance of these changes and the rejection of a proposed amendment which would have excluded everyone who belongs to an organization getting money from the Student Legislature, the bill passed unanimously. By way of interest, a swearing-in ceremony was held for those new legislators who replaced those resigning last week. Not a one from Avery Dorm in the bunch. '3 missive environ ment." The dog owner who reads this article aloud to his dog should comfort Rover by explaining that this situation does not exist in dog world alone. Even modern people are flunking out of college due to an overly permissive high school and gram mar school education which stresses pasting, coloring, and cut ting out; dancing, dramatics, and drivers training. Since the advent of Dog psychia trists and there are such things, I didn't believe it either it has been found that dogs and puppies are going around with all kinds of neuroses and anxieties which they weren't even aware they had before! Modern dogs have also been shirking public office lately. This may be due to the fact that they are fed up with the way their masters are handling things. It is brought to our attention that Pres ident Eisenhower's weimaraner has left no public impression dur ing his master's years in the White House. Compare the White House Weimaraner's obscurity to the il lustrious career . of Roosevelt's Falla, who was with F. D. R. on every plane trip, who was men tioned in F. D. R.'s broadcasts: "My wife Eleanor hates war; my dog Falla hates war; we all hate war ..." I have personally noticed some warning signs of "floating anxiety" in my four months old boxer pup py. She drifts restlessly r from couch to bed to box. Her . ears perk up at the slightest noise running xvater, cha cha music, car horns, and other dogs' noises. She bites herself frequently (subcon scious punishment of the id?) She hiccups, sighs and wrinkles up her forehead. She has started taking aspirin to relieve this tension. She moves her back legs furiously when she sleeps (the wish-fulfillment in dreams?), probably chas ing a rabbit, a squirrel, or a good looking male dog in her nocturnal fancies. If her personality does Gn Education Sidney Dakar Everyday we read in the papers about all of the extra students that our universities are going to handle in the future. It seems that there is not encugh money available to build the needed extra class rooms. This is saliently demonstrated by the funds that will be com ing to this university in the near future. It seems inconceivable that ti yniversity could recommend to the Advisory Budget Commission a book buying budget that would make the University iose ground in the South. According to librarian Jerroid Orne, it would take an annual expenditure of $225, ooo for the University to keep pace with the other libraries in the South. The trouble i that the University Library is already third, and that if the entire University request were granted, the University would slip to fourth behind the University of Florida which has come to the realization that a library is a vital part of the research apparatus of a Universi- If the University is ever to reassert itself in the South, then it is necessary for the li brary to reassert its eminence with respect to the other libraries of the South, to say noth ing of the natipn. However, the library can not do this if the University will not request the necessary money, for in any appropria tion request there is an expectancy of its be ing cut, and if the University request is cut. the University is only losing ground more rapidly. Including both A and B budgets, the Uni versity request for library book approprii tions was less than the amount necessary to keep pace, and the Advisory Budget Com mission to compound the crime cut the entire Ii bduget request and part of the A budgrt request. The net result is that the Univers ity after the next biennium may well rate fifth or lower in amount of volumes in the library. It would behoove those budget framers both in South Building and in the' Consoli dated Offices acrdss Frajnklin St., to start think in terms of how many professors are going to come to an institution whose re search facilities are not the best. It would be wise, also, if they began thinking how many serious graduate students are going to' come to an institution whose library ran king is low. Above all it would be good if those members of the Advisory Budget Commission who were so smug and contented with the pros- owner, cannot afford psychoanaly- pect of a neatly balanced budget would look sis for your favorite mutt. The to t)ie futUre when prospective, industrialists New Yorker article suggests an and other pc.opie wjn be looking to North alternative: Carolina as a future residence, only to find "Confused and uncertain, seek- that thj? edllcationai, faciiities are second rate, ing firm standards in a world of - . collapsing social values, the Amer- The University, not too long, ago, held a ican dog looks for guidance to the position of em'minence in educational circles throughout the world. In reality, it cities not hold that position now and; surely. if budgets Or the really interested owner such as the present one are passed by "the state who may shirk at introducing his legislature, it will not hold a position of Te- pup to the evils of TV may just pUte in the future. The state cannot continue try to set an example himself. resting on its laurels, for the tree is dying. This frequently works and is bene- ' - ficial to both dog and man. Look Who's Scared! Apparently the University Party is worried about impending fraternity legislation, for David Grigg's resolution encouraging the Student Legislature not to enact legislation affecting areas covered by the IFC and IDC as long as those organizations continue to "follow the high purposes for which they were created and best serve the interests of those they represent." is an obvious express ion of such a worry. It is clear that Rep. Grigg's particular con- natural leaders of his race Like Lassie, on TV. We are faced with the same problem that France was faced with years ago. France had a limited amount of money to spend upon edu cation and she wanted to spend it in the most profitable way. The t r i j i , ... . .. i. v. leM.wd ueveiopea as me oniy practical solution. Today the cern s fratern mp; nrP thrrr no 1m,H only thing necessary to qualify for entrance into one of France's 17 howl of objection from Rep. Grigg when a state universities is brains. There is no tuition r n . n r ? fellow University Party Party member mtro- Here in the U. S. we have a mania for college degrees. Everyone duced a bill calling for bicycle racks in the has come to feel that it is his "right" 'to get a degree. Most people dormitories, a bill that would have its proper only want a degree because of the expected money and added social place in the IDC. prestige that it is supposed to bring. However, if the present tren continues, everyone will have a degree and we will be ri;ght back Jt ls further clear that the IDC and IFS where we started from, socially speaking. have not acted with all these high purposes, Most people, as taxpayers, feel that their sons and daughters must 3?.ldjn reCpnt ?the IFCJias .not done, a be admitted, to the state university. They are admitted because of Stltch cePl Prot.ect the fraternities from the obvious political pressures upon state legislators who want to change and arrange the dates, times, and pro stay in office. Many of the students that are admitted to most uni- cedures for various fraternity events. versities that do not have very strict entrance exams are unqualified for college. These students struggle along for one or two years until the inexorable day of failure. It is even more apparent that it is the res ponsibility of the legislature to look out for the welfare of the entire campus, and that when local interests and campus wide interest interfere, the legislature, looking out for the These students who fail have been taking up the precious space that could have been very profitably used by the ones who do not fail. The boy who once mi?ht have hernmp a hannv plprV ic nn o disillusioned man. After all, he has had two years of college! The wnole campus, should take precedence, citizen's money has been wasted. Society has another frustated man. The legisla,ture as the Supreme Legislative The present system of entrance requirements is exactly opposite Authority on the campus has the right to from what they should be. The state universities should have the wid-,, c:Qi i V ' j , , highest standards, not the lowest. We should leave the private schools 'S u ld .f $tUdem endeaVOr to take in people for social and political reasons. The state university and the blU as it stands is clearly in violation should be reserved Cor the most brilliant students in the state, and of the student constitution. It would be wise it should be available free of charge. Then the rich and the poor if Rep. Grigg thought ao-ain before he intro- could compete on equal grounds. , ' . , . duced legislation so obviously representative There are those who say that it is impossible to judge which 0f fraternity interests. Remember, Rep. students are tte most intelligent. They prove this by pointing out n r exceptions. That is just what they are exceptions. In the vast ma- rlS- you represent Dorm (Men's IV. jqrity of cases, the person who makes low on an I.Q. and other tests is not superior in intelligence. Besides, no system is perfect. The great majority of jobs in the U. S. do not require college training. The people who do not have the brains to get into a selec tive college can go to the thousands of trade schools that are avail- The craziest in Women's rules is the one 9ble, or go to (he private universities. forbidding coeds from taking a bath after Some states (e.g. New York) nave very rigid entrance tests for 11:3 Pm- on weekdays and half past closing some of their universities. The tuition is also free for those who have hours on other nights. What happens to that the necessary qualifications. The private universities serve the so- - i , u V i j.0, . , , cial elIte irl who feels dirty at 4 a.m.? Is there nq respite until morn? The citizens of North Carolina will one day have to chose be- u ut t -j , v . . , ' 4. " . . . The Women s Residence Council might tween combining a limited amount of money with the best brains , . . p in the state or to continue with the present institutionalized! raedioc- remember that everybody isn't compelled to rity. To maXe r.o choice is a choice. ' sing in the bathtub and disturb other coeds. Why
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