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J f ACE TWO THI DAILY TAR REEL , TUESDAY, MAY 5, 19? No-No-No! 'I he litM item of business whuh must be 'i .iinl iij? t oik ci 111115 'lie voting which will . i n on in uoiiicii's doi initoi ies today i tli. : this i not .1 iclctrndum. It is beinp; j.illrd .1 icfeiendmn bv all concerned, yet the p.issi'e ol .1 rcleiendutn can be accom plished b .1 simple majority of over one half. Net tnd iN "u leicndmn" strangely requires a two think otc lor it to be considered pass ed. Iluu lou". it is plain th.it we arc faced mth .1' special election, not a releienduni. Hut. all ol this is neither here nor there. The issue at hand is whether this special election hould pass or tail. We say that women stu- . dents should deleat it. Am online to Miss Kav Booit. chairman of the Women's Residence Council, the so u.. lee which will be collected from women students il this election passes will be used lor the lollowiir.; 1 items: 1. social events 2. Yack contest 3. flowers for illness 4. cards for illness 5. dormitory parties 6. coffee breaks during exams 7. house mother gifts for Christmas and Mother's Day 8. maid's gifts 9. dorm president's qift at end of year 10. graduate counselor's gift at the end of year 11. Hometominj decorations 12. Beat Dook Parade 13. Valkyries entrance 14. Christmas tree 15. newspaper subscriptions for the dorms. We t 1 that it is quite possible that some, 'il not a l.ue pott ion of the iirls concerned, vs ill dislike pei haps their house-mother, their doini picsident. (oiuiselor or maid. Why should i!u be Inucd to contribute to a gift !oi heir b suppose, as in some actual cases, the m lids base been ictciving nice little ilts liom inili idu als. Wiiv then, must the girl still louhihutc to gilt for ihe maid at the end ol the seal? 1 And what about cauls and flowers for illness- RimIU. this is the sweetest gesture of all. But it is otiK meaningful if it comes liom inictcstcd and concerned individuals. II we weic latent and piostrate in the In Innim. we (citainly couldn't care less if a boinpiet ol flowers atrised from the dorm, signed b the social (haiiniati in the name of all l the gitls in the residence. We would latin t hir one little weed, or pethaps .1 spiig ol i loser coining from a person or peo ple who weie inteiested enough to go out ol their was to c beer us up, than the standatd stiu e liom and in the name of people, most of whom don't ccn know we aie ill. Iheie isn't one single item mentioned in these so. ial fees that couldn't and shouldn't be piil lor "'t ol private solicitation in the donuiioiies. II the doini wants to do some thing, then let it collect among those inter ested. Hut. let's not tack a fee on people who hise no inteiest in any or all of these func tions. And what about sorority girls living in the d 'tins?- Must thev pav both a sorority and dorm social fee. If so, why? It is the same question as athletic pass . bookv No pel son c an or should be compelled to pas lor an activity or to support something in which he or she doesn't believe. : It is somewhat unfoituiiate that the new ' editor seems to base renewed his piedeces sois limning light with the Women's Rcsi drnre Council. Hut, this new WRC and its 1 olliccis will continue to be the target of edi 1 tonal hmage until and unless they begin to base mote of a legate! for our minorities. When thev icalie th.it a freshman coed is the same as a senior coed, and an unmade , lied is not a felony, and card playing on Sun day 011 the sundecks doesn't constitute a sacrilege, then this group will rcalie its per Initial and true func tion. Yet. as long as the WRC continues to base a maternalistic out look, and passes little rules and regulations such. as those just mentioned, we must out of concetti be in opposition. We will have to keep reminding the WRC that this isn't .Salem. Mass., in the iGNo's but rather a great college community which prides itself on in dividual iieedom and initiative. Wolff Letter Anthony Wolf: In th latr- nineties the following 'lines used fo chantrd by college students studying the works CrnrKf F.I i it: '-. "We're onto you Mary, You airy old fairy I'.ut why did you change your name?" With apologies for a feeble parody, "We're onto you Tony, You brilliant young phony, I'.ut why. do j u mis spell names? Since you don't give 1 darn Good spelling to lam To the Had I lace with Anthony Wolf!" Sir Alec Cuinnes A. E. Hovsman Lord Bertrand Russell (Mary Barnett Cilson) To Letter On Referendum Editor: Even though I am not a girl, I think that I can speak on the ref erendum concerning the social fees for women, because I think that the basic question here i-s one of con stitutionality. Even if two-thirds of the girls on campus want the so cial fee to be collected, which I doubt, and even if the administra tion agrees to collect the fee after the girls vote on it, the fee is still unconstitutional. The University has no legal right to collect the fee. The Univeoiy by law cannot collect a SOCIAL fee. At the present time, the Uni versity docs collect an activities fee; strictly speaking, this is il legal too. First and foremast, the University is here to offer to its students an education and not pri marily to teach them how to "be come adjusted to living in a larger society." If a girl wants to learn how to adjust if a girl wants to learn how to socialize, she can join a sorority. We already have Graham Memorial, and if this is not enough, we should try to get a bigger stu dent union, and not try to collect more fees. I see no need for social fee. It may be true that some kind of fee is needed, but a social fee Ls not the answer. If the girls want to semi flowers to the sick, all well . and good. But they could collect a fee of some kind for this purpose ahead of time, and not call it a social fee. There are many girls who live in the dorms who are members of a sorority, who will, if the fee is col lected, have to pay a social fee for both their sorority and their dorm. This seems entirely out of place to me. A girl joins a sorority to have a place where she can go for a par ty. A girl joins a sorority for what the many call "UNITY." A girl joins a sorority just because it is a sorority. So stop kidding your selves, girls you cannot make a sorority out of a dorm, no matter how much social fee you charge. However, all other arguments aside, the fact still remains that the University cannot legally collect social fees. To do so would be a gross misunderstanding by the ad ministration of its purpose for be ing here. Donald Black In Election Vote Yes Editor: As a group interested in the dormitory life of women students, Carolina Women's Council unani mously endorses the passage of the referendum to provide social and activity fees for the residents of the women's dormitories. We feel that these fees have proved beneficial in the past and can continue to do so in the future. It is not impossible to enumerate the advantages a social fee offers to the dormitory resident. One of the main advantages is the elimi nation of frequent solicit ion for activity funds in the dormitories. Ancther is the provision that such a fund offers for cflicient hand ling of social obligations to women residents in the event of illness and similar situations. Third and all im portant is the provision that such a fund offers for social life per se. The importance of recreative out lets for students can not be under estimated. A uniform social and activities fee is an expedient and convenient way to provide for these needs. It is the hope of the Carolina Wo men's Council that each woman resident will consider these phases of the issue in making her ultimate decision. Carolina Women's Council The Supreme Commands , '' x : j-; 7 --Sllli l ft- Mi ;f u.s. 1 u" J "y Growth Size At The University Editor: The question of size at the University has come up ever since the University was founded, with Old East as its sole building. To relieve the crowded situation of as many as six people to a room, Old South was started as a combination dormitory and class room. Because of lack of money, Old South was sixteen years abuilding. The enrollment increased from" less than one hundred in the seventeen hundred and nineties to 450 just before the Civil War. Old West, New West, and New East were built to accommodate the 450 students. ' The cry of "Wolf" was raised each time the en rollment increased to 800, a 1000, 2,000, 3,000. 5,000. 7.000 "The University is getting too large." Where would the former editor of the Tar Heel, and other thousands like him be today, if the en rollment had been frozen at, say 450 in the 1850's. The enrollment at the University is small compared with the enrollment of many other state universities. The purpose of the University of today is to train the youth of North Carolina to do the compli cated work in a complicated society. The old Latin school which trained people only for law, teaching, and the ministry is no longer adequate for this day and time. The youths who wish to take other than the liberal arts courses feel that they have as much right to be trained at the University as the liberal arts candidates. They pay taxes and they want to come to Chapel Hill. There has always been a difference of opinion on the size and complexity of the University. Presi dent Venable made this commentary, back in 1900s, on the small virsus the large college: "The very heart and soul of an educational in stitution lies in its teaching force and I hopefully look forward to the time when in our ideal Univer sity the excellent faculty of the present time shall have grown into a large body of strong, trained men, eminent scholars, skillful investigators, in spiring teachers. To come in contact with such men and to feel their influence will be in itself an edu cation, and in order to preserve this personal touch and to render possible the highest development of the individual the faculty must be a large one constantly added to as the number of students grows, so that while no student may know, possibly, all of the faculty, each student shall know his own teach ers and feel that they know and understand him and are ready to direct and aid in his self-development. There is some talk these days of the greater advantages of the small college. It is easy to see that the question is rather one of small classes and that the small college with its over-worked professors and poor equipment can offer little to compare with the fine equipment, high-priced teachers, and small classes of the greater university. So I have no fear of loss of efficiency and power from the growth at the University that is to be. President Venable thought the University should : direct the intellectual activities of the State and leave other organized activities (trade schools?) to other institutions. He was opposed to the consolidated University. He thought that the article of the first Constitu tion of the State that provided "that all useful . learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or more universities" could be better execut ed under three heads than under one. Much can be done to make the University a home-away-from-home for every student who enrolls here. This is now limited almost exclusively to the fraternity men. The first need is for attractive liv ing rooms in each dormitory where the student may entertain his family and friends. After a long alass, steps are being taken in this1 direction. The second need is for a student union. But the University needs most of all courting parlours, that is, - small reception rooms in each dormitory for dating couples. At present there is absolutely nowhere that young lovers can do their petting and necking except in automobiles or out in public. Young people are going to fall in love, and, willy nilly, are going to pet, public or no pub lic, but since it is rather disgustng for other people to have to watch this public love making, provision should be made where the couples can have some privacy. That means courting parlors, with some older person, or hostess, around, but not too much in evidence. The churches, also, could help with this problem, since they already have the accomoda tions. It is not necessary to have paid hostesses. Vol unteer hostesses could fill a big need here as the USO hostesses did during the war. As for radicals at the University, a few are need ed as a kind of thorn in the sides of the conserva tives, who might be too contented with the status quo. Radicals nearly always over-step the bounds and defeat their own ends. Because of this, there 'is not much 'chance of the radicals taking over at the University. Orelia C. Connor Or!, IF THESE WERE ONLY SOME (DAY TO (UAN WEfc. XT BE1REIBIIARE! 177 N fj Lf BaWN(S)(UEOAY YOU FOR THE RT OP HEK P ?: teoS5S?-a),a I life Strapped! doomed!! W I I V f " ir-MAPV 1 ILJU . VI I - I 1 I egHOLB.pLSXTwgag'sowttaviN'io-) ( widths g-yg, i IT ActuiKfrAPOS IgACHWiSPgTCRIMKgTTOPtAVUKg V OWU. S. &M OA ACT U6 A P0G ACT 1 ""tf AfcP I a pos-wiTWMv Hypnosis svsrgM rr V vi ii uwaposactuicba-- uvi- fzL I z c -4 v O a d The Rights Of Minorities Editor: Thank you, Miss Boortz, for your informative letter, however, I was very aware of the nature of the bill which I spoke against. As I atd in my letter, a limited seg ment of the campus does not have the right to set a mandatory tax on that segment when its members belong to it through no choice of their own-THE FACT THAT THEY ARE WOMEN. Regardless of how the referendum is going to come out or how it is going to be run, the legislature should have killed the bill, not on the ground that there is anything wrong with social activities, BUT ON THE PRIN CIPLE THAT A FINANCIAL IM POSITION OF THIS NATURE IS NOT RIGHT, REGARDLESS OF WHO IMPOSES IT, HOW THEY IMPOSE IT, OR WHEREVER ELSE IT IS DONE. Consider also that some people come to the State's University for the primary purpose of obtaining an education. Obviously the Uni versity does not feel that a manda tory dormitory social program must necessarily be a part of that education. A student has a right, therefore, to .live in the Universi ty's dormitories without being har assed by a mandatory social fee. If some of the students want to join social organizations and social ac tivities, that is fine. If dormitory residents want to organize social activities, that is fine. BUT NOT ONE OR ALL OF YOU HAVE ANY RIGHT TO MAKE ANY INDIVID UAL SUPPORT OR PARTICIPATE IN A SOCIAL PROGRAM. I have heard a lot of talk lately about "double-standards" at Caro lina and about the desire of some of the women to be treated more like adults, or at least a little less like children. I am all for them. Of all the things I am proud of as a student at this University, it is my freedom of which I am most proud. Without this freedom the rest suffers and there is no true test of what s gained. Unfortunate ly the women here do not enjoy this degree of freedom. They are told "you must do this" and "you must do that." True, we are all told to do a number of things, but the tradition of our Nation and of the great universities which have grown and survived with our nation has been to keep the "you must's" at the minimum so that the indi vidual can search freely rather than be guided as one among so many sheep. Plato made the ob servation that, "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." Don't j ou think that one good start would be to let people make their own decisions as often as possible? Don't make the mistake of blam ing the administration and the Dean of Wromen for all of the "double standard." I have never heard of them going to much pain to make all of the women support a social program. I can think of a few other equally petty contriv ances which victimize the women here through the untiring efforts of their own elected leaders. Not only is a vote against the social fee a vote for the rights of the minority. It is a vote against the "double standard" and for a better University. Don Dotson P.S. Since I wrote this letter the legislature has changed the bill to require two-thirds instead of a majority to pass the referendum and to collect the fee in a different manner. This move in no way af fects the reasons why the bill should be defeated. This is like saying that a third more votes can make more right. This is not a referendum on fractions and per centages. Every reason I have pre sented still stands. The bill should be defeated. GEMS OF THOUGHT REWARD The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. George Eliot Goodness never fails to receive its reward, for goodness makes life a blessing. Mary BakerEddy For blessings ever wait on vir tuous deeds; And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. William Congreve ; No man who continues to add something to the material, intel lectual and moral well-being of the place in. which he lives i.? left long without proper reward. Booker T. Washington Message From WRC Chairman To the Women Dormitory Residents: Today is the day that you express your de sire to the Women's Residence Council con cerning social and activity fees. lietoic .,:, mark "Yes" or "No" on your ballot it is the utmost necessity that you understand th exact meaning behind your vote. The bill passed by the Student Legisl un made the following provisions: Article L The Administration be requested by the Women's Residence Council to authorize the collection of A social and. activity, fee .frqm .ajl. dormi tory residents. Article II. This request cat) only be made by the Women's Residence Conn cil upon the passage by :the.majoiity of the voting women dormitory .resident in a referendum on the following ques tion: "I am in agreement with the collec tion of social and activity fees provided they are not in excess of $5 per year." An amendment was added stating that 3 23 majority be required because the W.R.C. felt that the simple majority which belong to a referendum would not be adequate sup port for the request. If the referendum is passed the W.R.C. is obligated to formally request the administM to collect the fee. It would then be collected as a part of the room rent as is the men' fee and would go into one fund in the Stu dent Activities Fund office. The niomv would revert back to the dormitories in di rect proportion to the number of residents. There are several advantages to collection in this manner. First, girls would not be im mediately plagued to pay the fee upon en tering the dorm. Second, instead of e.ic h dorm having an account costing them sepa rately, money will be saved by maintaining a single account. Note that the $5 PFR YEAR. S2.5o PFR SEMESTER amount stated is already Si lov er than previously. Women's Residence Council will seriously consider whether or not this amount can be further lowered. The amount cannot under any circumstances ex ceed the stated amount without another ote of those concerned. We have been concerned with the problem of social ant activity fees for some time and feel that we have finally come up with the solotion. We would not have asked for this referendom if we did not feel that the dorm itories need these fees in order to coordinate dormitory activities. Wc urge you to think of the complications which will arise with out a fee such as frequent requests for c re tributions and the lack of ready-source ol funds for some immediate need. Of course, you must remember that even with a fund it cannot be successful unless you back the projects taken on by your dorm itory and accept vour share of the responsi bility. It is up to each of you to elect a good treasurer to manage your money. It is up to you to elect a good social chairman and it is up to you to speak for the benefit which you desire from this fund. If you dn speak for your wants and act as an integial part of your dormitory community there are maximum benefits to be gained from these fees. WE URGE YOU TO CONSIDER BOTH THE PRO ANT) CON OF THE SUBJECT AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL WE URGE YOU TO VOTE. WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR VOICE AND WE WILL STAND BEHIND YOUR WISHES. Sincerely, Kay Booortz Women's Residence Council ije atip Wax The official student publication ol the Publication Uoard of the University of North Carolina, ihere It is published .daily except Monday and examination periods md summer terms. 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