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PACi TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 195 the Idea Of A Student' I he mum popular phrase tossed around at the Nr.: ioual Student Association Concre,s" this MiuiuuT was 'Students in their role as Mudents." just then, what is a student in his role as a student? Or rather, what should he e? A student should be a person with a never jatislied thirst lor knowledge. He should "dig" rwivthing and everybody. He should stihe lor peisoual excellence in his chosen lield. whether it be academic or co-curricu-kr. A Mudent must demand good research fa cilities, ami then use them. He should be a prison who is (litical ol his environment end who questions the ideas and philoso phies whih are ptescnted to him. A student should be one who guards his individuality, knowing this is his dearest possession. He should light i lass distinction and social stra cldicaiion on the campus, being the champion instead ol individual initiative and the right to choose. A student should not be afraid of ideas which aie loieigu to him. He should be a ration. 1 peisou who believes in freedom of expussion. even if this is contrary to his l;ot intetests. He should know that it is not only his right, but his duty to participate in ilassroom discussions. He should literally instruct his instructors. A student should be one who has a goal in life. He should know in which direction he is heading, and then head for the top. A .student should never be satisfied with any thing short of the very best. And lastly, a student should have a con ations awareness of the world situation. He should know that he and his friends are never far from the "front." The opinions of students on world issues are needed. They are to be treasured, not rebuffed. All of these things represent what a stu dent should, and could be. "In they, the future leaders, as they have been called, lies not the hope of America, .but the ptouii.se of its annihilation in an age when annihilation can be accomplished easily. ! 1 "This will lu-ppeu as suiely as you are reading this t'NLl.SS " If anybody sees a student walking around, send him to us. Explanation 1hre have" been seme grumblings around cam pus about theccpius amount of advertising which appears on the pajJi'S. of this paper. Perhaps, then, a small explanation would suffice. We would Lke very much to be able to get along with less advertising revenue. It would be a real pleasure to devote more '.pace to news and less tc advertising. However, the financial facts of life don't per mit the paper to do this. The budget we expect to run on this year wilt consume from $41,00O-$47,OOQ. Of this, a little over $20,000 comes from the stu dents through the channels of the Student LegiJ lature. The remaining sum must ccme frcm adver tising. The three sources for this are local adver tisers, national advertisers, and other advertisers, who contract for sptcial editions. The printing of this paper alone consumes $185.00 per day This is for a four page paper. A six-page issue costs much more than this. An eight page pa per goes for about double a four page paper. The printing isn't the only expense 'however. Telephone, postage, supplies, salaries, wire service, staff truck, etc. etc. etc. The Daily Tar Heel is a big business. It takes money to run such an enterprise. Even the upmost of frugality won't permit a change in our present policy. IDC Dance Tonight the Interdormitory Council's weekend starts. According to reports from Prtsiduit Otto Funderburk, ticket sale are very low. It isn't too late men. Buy em at the door. Just go. It's gonna be a wail of a show. The offuial student publication of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina where it Is published diily except MonJay and examination periods and summer terms En'ered as second clas matter in th prt office in Chanel Hill. N. C. under tb act of March 8. 1P70 Subscription rjtM- $4 on ner e iretpr. 7 00 per year. The Dailv Tar Meel is printed hv the News Inc.. Carrboro, N. C. I Sn of rt Vnivrrjaf J!) Editor DAVIS B. YOUNG Associate Editors FRANK CnOWTHF.R RON SHUMATE Assistant To Editor Managing Editor .. .. CINNY ALDIGE CHUCK ROSS Harper's Bizzare We have just reaj portions of an article by Clifton Fadiman pub lished in The Sat'-rday Review, in which he is quite properly dis turbed by the current inadequa cies of high school education. While we agree , or the most part with Mr. Fadiman's views on education, we rise, indignant at his disparagement of quail shoot ing. Unlike Voltaire, we even challenge his right to make such remarks. Obviously, he has never hunted quail. His essay states: "If he (the high-school graduate) has learned little or no history, geography, science, mathematics, foreign lan guages, or English he will, na turally enough, learn golf, quail shooting . . Quail shooting cannot be cate gorized, and it is incomparable. Bob Ruark. the sensationalist of Seville and sometime poet-laureate of Southeastern North Caro lina, understands quail: Bob Whi'e is a gentleman. And quail hunting is a gentlemen's agree ment betwen bird, dog and hun ter. The quail is born a gentle man, the dog is bred one, and the hunter naturally conforms in the presence of such distinguished company. And every fall these three con vene in the cathedral of the tall pines, bordered by evergreen bays and hung with multi-hued tapes tries of blackjack oak, for another summit meeting on mutual ap preciation and understanding. The hunter may be scratched, wet and tired; the dog may be infested with wood ticks and beggar lice; and the quail may go home in the hunter's pocket but all are the better for having been there that day. They understand. Mr. Fadiman does not. J. Harper "Howdy, Mao-Long Time No See!" Letter Home few i fiNlP y Qr 7t V Neither Black Ncr White; Mostly Shades Of Gray Co-Managing Editor LARRY SMITH Business Manager WALKER BLANTON Advertising Manager JOHN MINTER (This is the conclusion of Masa Nisihara's le'ter to his brother ILrushi, a s'uient at the Uni versity of Osaka. Masa is aa ex charge student at the University of North Carolina. He is under the auspices of the National Stu dent Association's Foreign Stu dent Leadership Project. Editor.) Oh, I should not miss tellirg you of American people's interest in f oo. ball. Last Saturday I saw the game for the list time in my life. The popularity ana excitedness is beyond your imagination. All the seats are quickly occupied with seme cf the rest even sitting in the trees to watch. Big parking places are even prepared special ly for this event. American tradi tion! During the game people never keep seated, standing up and sit tirg down as the ball moves back and forth, up and down. Men, when getting excited, begin to shout, "Go, go! Kill him!" easily losing their emotional stability and forgetting to keep themselves gentle in spite of being with their sweethearts. I don't think Japa nese people use such a horrible expression in the most popular and exciting game - baseball, though they were said to be a war-like race during the last war. Since I don't understand the rules yet, I prefer, rather, watching how excited people behave. I'm sorry, Hiroshi, at the mo ment I cannot give you an Amer ican picture of your major, elec trical engineering, since this insti tution does not offer it. Anyway, I am very, very happy to be here at this university, as one of 7, 959 students, with a nice room mate and good people. You may be surprised to hear that I have more tiny friends. They arer high spirited! squirrels in a tree. I love bearing their sound, as I lie on the grass under the tree, when they crack nuts. American food is pretty good. I hope I shall get ujed to it very soon. I shall close for now. Please tell our parents and our friends over there that Masa has a full and exciting year in front of him in America. I may write, to you again beforelong. I now have an unexpected amount of reading as an assignment, which, is, too, what w do not meet in Janan This vear I cannot appreciate the "tea house of the August Mnon," but instead, a beautiful melody from the bell twer located very close to my dorm. I look forward to hearing from you about Japan soon. Sayonara, Masa Ncrman D. Smith They always laughed (but inwardly and or afterwards, because he was strong enough to pitch a hundredweight of beans over his back by reaching down and gripping the tow sack with his teeth) when lie told of how he talked with Old Man Gribble two weeks after he had died everyone having known that the lecherous penurious old fel low had gone to hell. Sure enough, that is where he went, Benin- said. He was climbing out of a crack in the ground horn which sulphuric flames were issuing that Benny had gotten down off his horse to investigate as he rode home late from a Saturday night square dance to which he always went though he never danc ed, being too clumsy and never learning eith er because none of the girls Avould have been -eti m public with him, but it was said that r" number of them managed to seek him out in private being greatly attracted by his ur sine virility. Old Man Gribble didn't waste any time with greetings, nor did he ask about any of the soings on in the community; this wasn't surprising because the tight-lipped old fel low Avas hardly remembered for garrulity. "He just told me about hell and then said he had to go," reported Benny. "He said they are allowed one visit back. But, God, he looked different, as young as that picture of him they found in his cabin which was taken with his uniform on soon after he got back from Cuba, no longer stooped over or spavined either." Hell is a place of unbelievable , unknow able, unimaginable unhappiness. To be gin with the weather is perpetually sun ny (no nights, no rain), the temperature being in the low jo's, and there is al iv ays a gentle breeze blowing. The flames, by the way, serve only as a sort of air conditioning system on the edges of hell to keep any of the cold, damp, foul air of the earth above from seeping in It is a land of rolling forested hills abound ing in native fruits and vegetables, infinite lv more delicious than any known up here. There are no ugly weeds or briars, needless to say. Animals are plentiful, and they are so tame that one needn't expend any effort to kill enough game for fresh meat every day. Sandy - bottomed, moss - surrounded springs furnish a constant supply of pure cool drinking water. And there are crystal line lakes with wide sloping beaches' for bathing and recreation. No one enters hell with disease or de formity. The devil insists that everyone be purged of these and the marks , of old age as well before sliding down in hell (of course, most afflicted persons go to heaven anyway because they have suffered on earth already and because they usually have de veloped such virtues as generosity and pa tience and hope more fully than those in good health). Most of the men are handsome and skill ful while the women are beautiful and tal ented because, as is suspected, the very for tunate and the very successful people are more apt to lead less virtuous lives and con sequently are sent to hell. Love-making is a common occupation since there is little else to do, and naturally there are no taboos a gainst this sort of thing in the laws of hell. In fact there are no laws against anything because in this domain where' all' the' basic human desires are satiated one can't have any propensity to rob, murder, covet, com mit adultery, or lie because there is no earthly, that is hellish, reason to do any f these things. And by definition the other commandments which apply to relationships with God have no utility in this realm. The rules that one must obey, though, are a hundred times as arduous as those we Had on earth. One is not allowed to exert any effort other than that minimum required to fulfill the needs for food and pleasure. One must never under any conditions be guilty of the crimes of work, or planning, or worry. The terms problem, argument,, dis sention are blasphemous. Far down below Benny said he could hear enchantingly melodious chimes. Old . Man Gribble took one sad look around him know ing that his brief visit was over. Benny said then he saw the most tortured expression fall over his now young countenance that he had ever seen on anyone's face as he cried out, "Oh, God, save me! Save me! Each sec ond is an agony. My life is eternal suffering. Ah, what did I do to deserve thi?And then to Benny, "Tell them, tell them to mend their ways, to repent at any cost, to do anything to avoid this." And he began his descent. Benny's story has been told many times around these parts. As I said, they secretly laugh about it. Why look over yonder: Eli Brown must have moved his charcoal pit. He is stirring it up too much, though. If he doesn't quit raising so much flame thai batch of charcoal will be ruined. You Me Notitiea Bill Corpening This morning I Mant to fbe ser ious with you. I want to tell you a. true thing, something, that hap pened ta me, but which concerns you just-as well. What I wanMo fay is bttter,, and perhapf Totem-, per ate; but I don't thirik' it better left unsaid.' . . .; - ." ..' -;- r The other morning, a few min utes before, niiept'cjbck;,- t f?$l to ' Graham Memorial ta piefc. up roy oPF of this 'tu&spsp&e? .Wber X- live, this newspaper' ts tmi.B-. livered, so it, is adaflyfuncpm I hav fto, do this" ,s'4f that our; the - das... the PljaWtaruJarlpa'g let i pneroyded. ..There ,are. bet ter, than' .twenty ,einty space -.ft that , rni and the time i$. ;l?es rne to enter and leave thtf building. Js . brief that it makes ajaHti possibility f : all the rth sprees being taken, in my ence. I real ise that IWs "practice ot'pm pais. me technically " and iiriaHy? at fault,- but at the same lime, ; it's absurd ta think I deprive any staff member of a parking spaced But Self-defense is not the intent of what I want to tell you. J . On this morning I mention there vyas one of 'our policemen check; ing cars, just .across the 'djrye frqm where I parked. He was half way down a line' of cars, ah it was easy to see that he would be -occupied with that line for. -quite seme . time before he . got' to - the line I . was in much longer than I planned to be there. But my hurried gait must have told him I was only parked for momentary business, for when I returned" a moment "later, .he was inserting a violation . notice under my right windshield wiper and moving hack, across the drive to his original line. . " . ...I'm not easily aroused, but that scene irked me as few oth ers have managd to do. I called out to him and demanded a word. He ignored me. I called again; He showed me his back for an answer. Later that morning I paid my fine. , $ . , ' . Somehow, when" you are badly jarred by a . particular incident, you are suddenly reminded of a whole train of similar . but lesser incidents, which passed' lightly5 in their actual occurernce. I haven't space here to tell you all; the tilings I remembered that morn ing, but I will tell you the most prominent one: li.. happen Wer a . wek. hefore; during the jate; aft ernoon rush ; hour when- .policer man Is at every traffic- lights r d rcting cars. T'he light' had ; jujt turned to . green, - and this'pfce- - man, who was standing -directly at my window, his ?bac ta jtke . crosswalk, made fa point of urg ing me oh; "Move it, . id." t:h said. (All college students , ar$ kids.) I had seen the light change, had heard his whistle Jblbwf and was as anxious as he to he on my way. But I also, had ,f n; what he hadn't: two smaj girls mak ing a late crossing in front of my car. Now, I have sraaU us? for children. I think 'them a nuisance and an extravagance. ' and ;, -I wouldn't complain were f sterile. But at the same . iime; T tdohl relish killing them.!" I prefer let ting them grow to. become bm.e cne you. can enjoy talking . with. So I held fast and,' traded a little more . abuse from the" 'polic&nah. for their lives. ., I don't know why some, of our policemen are th'way they1 are. I know the, staff as . a ' whol has a hard job, even whal its propa-, ganda ; calls a Vthanbless'' iph- know there ares some students here who. make nuisances "otthetn- . selves, who conduct v themselves in ways that might .really t earn thm the unseasonable lv epithet, them the unseasonaUe -epithet, . ' crtaainals.'. ; .; :v ' f , f. m . . - .... ' ' i '"-!. " l L-J ZZ- AylULWfcfAKg ) ( Vis i a NW TERRITORY Wlf HI 1 'MAMf VOUKNOW, ttV j v&UttXHSRACgMEIt1Q6Q TOPOSSA S( YgS 'INfigR'TlP TOUCH ) f AISTTTHB W0RK6O ; X TO 5ATURN, MEKCUSy, ORlO!J f AS&WS?T ) 1 MgAN, . JS-U. , ' "ANUatWWATfiS,Oy.ii l V s m IIS ili ( I I HUMAN tORL r ncTrtracSxA Ll THttSONEGF TmmtAom'- . j " y F ai 4 ''l : U. Heroes Of The ; - ' ddern Mind . . t v Theodore Crane Jr. : . v (PART; i) . Since it is generally believed that Hem ingway's Ixxjks, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun ik& Mlse axi the psychological enti ties oi ai by-gone generation, I think it may be profitable to examine the two main char acters oi; these, books m th specific reference ta,oir: bw'ntirje4 and the historical back ounxi HenringAvay has provided for our present da relations to thought and society. When,; Eye committed ther act of eating thV appjeaari when Fredeyrc Henry jump ed into, die j:i ver an4 deserted, both were oving .tJiaV their, own, personal .being was morf reai iriarl thewoxl , (the god thf jo ciely, ox $i Vejftcrpal reality) whose, rules eySroie;:"'p?naiali.! Fred -, is not entirely to. blaThe fince.Ke ept'sit his. dutr until it bnfiv.cbpieteiy:. .-irBane and meaningless, liut the obhHe -.fact in both, cases was. a serr-wiljed drisoliedienie to. the external real ity,nd the ultimate consequences of their actions. ; . "However, in the case of Eve, it was a com paratively easy choice between external and internal desires, while in Fred's case it is ine plI4UU 111II ilia mauuv.ui.v. .v , is ci'used by society itself, and the unjust meanrngless threat it posed in the war-like struggle of man's relation to man. Society is something which makes itself impossible, and it has violated its own nathre, as a place where human beings can live decently and honestly with one another. The individual who need and craves a society is forced to live in isolation from it, (moral isolation at least),; and perhaps even the symbolical isolation of actual expatriation. But. we must pot think of Hemingway as writing about rrrerely personal experience, since the isola-tion-alienatipn theme, along with the. re-: lited themes at blighted love and loss of faith, is one of the most common images in mnrWrn literature. I will try to ske-tcri brief ly the origin and development ot these themes, since they are important for an un derstanding of the historical background of LIII 111VUV . A 11 Ot. ,.T clir tVot tViA tmil- ble with the modern mind was mat it naa "dropped the object," width is one way of describing the problem of Eve and Fred when j they chose their own subjective will over the1 will of objective reality. This situation be came generalized, social, amd historical, with the beginning of the modern era, which took place about three hundred years ago, when the medieval mind w?as defensively opposed to the new demonstrations o modern thought in, scienctijpojitics and literature. The me dieval ftemrameritVvvaVcha'racterized by the unity of fact, and value, object and subject, and yaUies: seemed objectively real as long ifW'-Psfeal- re?lity. was infuscd vvith' an intrinsic meaning. . '. . . .''..ilbwibVer.irf the - seventeenth century, Des cartes invented the characteristically modern mental experience, when he said as he look ed into himself "cogito ergo sum." Thus, the mind's discovery of itself became some thing cjuite separate, from the external ob'-T jective;wotld: and this mind, with its per sonal set of law and values, became, opposed to matter, which now had a separate, objecs tive factualness. Reality, which before had been both factual and valuable, now became separate entities out of harmony with each other,, and these parts developed hopelessly' intot ignorance of the problem under the int fluence of a mindless bliss, in which aljf thinors- tppm nnssihle. and nothino- i evet really, actual. O distinction which W. Hv Aiidert tries to. restore in his emphasis on the NOw in For the Time Being. In itself, this new self-awareness was a nat ural stage for the development of the indi vidual, and with its fresh realization of freel dom and discovery, a legitimate natural sett ervce was possible after the question of mat?- ter became, freed of the imposed values Of mind and spirit The philosophy of thought became no longer concerned with a unified Z y1 , . concept of the world, and it separated into the sects of irrational faith and pure reason, neither of 'which succeeded. The general state of mindi became simultaneously sentimental and callous, characteristics which has exceed ed self -awareness to the point of self-enclosure.-;' ,- - Obyiousiy, there.is a gTeat difference be tween' awareness and enclosure but in the field oi psychoanalysis they are almost iden tical. Witli. the newly acquired freedom of the f awareness of subject and object as two different things, one free to chose one and itrxiore4 the other which is preciselv Eve's rteedom. jwhich made possible her Fall her choree, ot self over reality, of subiect over object. Freedom increased with self-awareness the- dangerous freedom of subjectivism, which leads toward a fallen state of mind which '.is uninterested in anything beyond it self; the mind that has "dropped the object," the mind that i& the product of modern psy-choanalysis. at bout This? t Th nation is at war. JL Th nation is losing th war, badly. 1 The naticrr must xrt a vastly rtr ffrt.
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