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M - , f t Pac Two THE DAILY TAB HEEL , i q - VMTfiidliV, ! February 15, 1031 In its sixty-eighth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions T I from either the jadmtrAstration or the student body. -n ; ., ,-, ,i - n. n I The -Daily -Tar. Heel is the official student publication of the Publica- Hons Board, of Jhe University of prfb C Chairman. All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expres- sions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily represent tative of feeling on the staff, and all reprints, or quotations must specify thin. , f February 15, 1961 Volume LXIX, Number 98 The Commissioner Makes A Decision And Manages To Avoid The Problem ' The game of cat and mouse that has .been taking place in tie At lantic Coast Conference reached its peak yesterday when Commis sioner James Weaver announced the suspension, for the rest of the year, of JDuke's sophomore star Art Herman, and Carolina's brilliant backcourt players Don Walsh and Larry Brown. f This action is a little akin to the kind of reasoning that leads people to mumble, after a convicted mur derer has been strapped in the electric chair, that murders will no longer be committed. Does Mr. Weaver really believe that he, through invoking the conference rule book, has put an end to fist fights on the basketball court? If he does, he has put quite a pie in the sky, and wishing will not bring it down. We do not believe that punish ing any of these players was neces sary. They are, in a sense, unwit ting victims of a circumstance be yond their", control an intercolle giate rivalry that long ago left the area of gentility and entered fa naticism. The problem, of course, is stu dent and audience participation in on-court affairs this, needless to say, Mr. Weaver did absolutely nothing about. His myopic inabil ity, to see beyond the latest fight has hurt the conference, because what we are looking for is not temporary action on temporary problems but permanent action on permanent problems. The problem at hand is that of the conduct of crowds at A.C.C. events, yet noth ing has been done about it. The Atlantic Coast Conference must have leadership that is pro gressive and fearless; the problems of big-time athletics are too com plex and disturbing to be handled in petty ways. It is to be hoped that this sorry decision will be the last in a string of inept, insufficient ac tions originating in Greensboro. The 80 Rule -Is This Justice? Now that the grades have all been turned in and the fall semes ter is safely tucked away into the past, the time has come for com piling fraternity averages and find ing out how many of the U.N.C. houses have failed to make the eighty per cent "C" or above neces sary to keep from going on proba tion. If what we have heard is any in dication, a great many fraternities will fail to achieve this rather stringent requirement. And, the odds are, they will be unable to meet the quota this spring, thus losing their rushing privileges for next fall. So next fall they cannot rush. Again, they fail to meet the re quirement, and so on until they have been unable to acquire any new members and the chapters are forced , to close. Academic justice will then have been meted out, and the fraternities will have suffered at its hands. This is all fine, except that it is an indication of the effect that one of the most hypocritical rules in the University is going to have in the future. Nothing but damage will arise from the rule, because it is totally incapable of meeting with all aspects of a very complex prob lem. Yes, it is true that fraternities are not making any effort to meet their academic responsibilities. Yet, it is true that by no means should fraternities be satisfied with equal- 1 m n JONATHAN YARDLEY Editor Wayne King, Mast Stewart Bakes Associate Editors Margaret Ann Rhymes Managing Editor Edward Nzax. Riner Assistant To The Editor Henby Mayer, Jim Clotfelter News Editors Lloyd Little Executive News Editor Susan Lewis Feature Editor Frank Slusser Sports Editor Harry W. Lloyd Asst. Sports Editor John Justice, Davis Young Contributing Editors Ttm. Burnett - Business Manager Richard Whneb .Advertising Manager John Jester. Circulation Manager Charles VnEDBn.Subscription Manager The Daily Tab Heel Is published dally except Monday, examination' periods and vacations. It is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant with the act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4 per semester, $7 per year. The Daily Tar Heel is a subscriber to the United Press International ' and utilizes the cervices of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro Una. . . .... . . Published by the Colonial Press, "Chapel Hill, N. C." - ling the all-men's average. Yes, it is true that an academic crackdown is due. But what about encouraging the misguided gentlemen on the faculty committee concerned with frater nities to wake up to one of the Chapel Hill facts of life: the Uni versity, with its cramped eating and sleeping space, cannot afford to lose a single house if it expects to have a bed in town for every stu dent. Yes, if fraternities are going to be punished in this manner, many of them are going to be forced to disband their chapters. But the University will not let this happen, because it needs the space they provide to house and feed its stu dents. Consequently, the faculty com mittee "will find itself in a trap of its own making, and its tumble will he completely deserved. It will have fallen into this trap for a very clear reason: the members of this committee think that discipline is to be imposed from the outside rather than the inside, and they do not have the insight to realize that the role of the faculty member with his students is not to con demn but to encourage. Obviously, few of them are taking Dr. Henry Clark's words about fraternity ad visors to heart. The time has come, if it did not come a long, long time ago, for faculty, administration and fra ternity members to realize that a complex problem of individual dis cipline is at hand, not a problem that can be handled by sideswipes from a group of men that does not seem to have any genuine concern for either the boys in fraternities or for the University itself. 1 An important member of the ad ministration told us recently that the University is heading in the di rection of "academic craziness," and there is much to be said for this observation. The faculty is betraying itself, in openly con fessing that it holds to the ethos of the "C." It might do well to de cide whether this is what is most important. And in the meantime, the Inter fraternity Council, the most spine less organization in the student body, might well kick back its heels and protest this hypocritical injus tice in strong uncompromising terms. "Anyhow There's A Definite Disarmament Gap" II M jr.; I 8 U Carolina Student Writes About -Moo' Complaint To The Editor: This Sunday I was disturbed to read an article on the editorial page of the Tar Heel by a State student entitled "State Student Criticizes UNC "Moos". In it the student criticized the Carolina custom of "Mooing" State Col lege as a cheer at athletic con tests. I will not sumarize the article; I will leave that to the reader. However I say that the State student was wrong, that he has missed the point of the cheer and along with it the whole value of education. Education is too great a thing to departmentalize and arbitrari ly say that one branch of it is any more valuable than another. We are all in this world and we all contribtue to it in one way or another. We, as students, are dedicated to the man, to pro gress. - Whether that progress be material or non-material it is a contribution of equal import. These material and non-material functions are complementary and one cannot progress effectively without the other. We need not only our engineers and agricul turists but we need also our statesmen and our scientists.- Progress is the genius of many things; automation is an advance, but it is not progress until the social adjustment necessary is ef fected. This is not only the work of the engineer but it requires the work of the statesman as well. Without this adjustment, Letters to The Editor Reflections On Sascapoivs, DTH Liberalism, Honor System Sascapows Sing Condemned To The Editor: Friday morning's article by Laurie Holdes is ostensibly an approach to the problem of race relations a grave problem call ing for thoughtful - attention. Whatever the faults of the ar ticle may be, there is certainly nothing thoughtful about it, and the point bogs down in a mael strom of pseudo-verses that make Edgar Guest look like Byron or Shelley. The only merit that can be detected in the entire piece is its brevity. Mr. Holder's lyrical feats reach their zenith in the couplet: "I'm a bigot born, I'm a bigot bred, and when I die I'm a bigot dead." Here is a frenzy of wit which no one, I hope, can duplicate. But, in the midst of all these fancy shrieks, there is one point that, calls for an answer. That is the , rhyme in which she credits the Ku Klux Klan with the mur der of Emmett Louis Till, the celebrated Negro martyr who tried to force himself on a white man's wife in her grocery store. His advances to the white wom an were interrupted by his friends, who pulled him away when he grabbed the lady's arm and yelled, "Baby, how about a date? Don't be scared of me, I've had white women before." The murder which sensible people can only deplore was committed by the victim's husband and a family friend. Neither was a member or supporter of the Ku Klux Klan. Wade Wellman DTH Foggy In Liberalism? To The Editor: It would appear from your Feb ruary 8 editorial on campus con servatism that a little gleam of the obvious is at last beginning to pierce the Liberal fog which generally pervades the ivory towers of the DTH and the other campus cabals of Liberal zeal. Your editorial is the typical reaction of the doctrinaire Liberal to any serious opposition: the in voking of empty cliches (future, forward movement), bugaboos ( McCarthy ism ) , and personal at tacks (individual aggrandize ment, smugness, ethos of the dol lar bill), in place of any attempt to come to intelligent grips with ideas. Your astonishment is not un expected and your apprehensions well-founded. The strangle-hold of the intolerant Liberal ortho doxy over American campuses is being pried a little loose. There are rising students with the intellectual vigor to push aside some of the meaningless shibboleths, to defy the hypocri tical scholastic doctrinaires who scream academic freedom and squelch out relentlessly all class room opposition, to take a ra tional perspective of the course of events unhampered by the exigencies of the prevailing credo of inflexible and missionary as sumptions. You do well to arm yourselves with all the venom of the usual Liberal inability to deal with op position and non-conformity ra tionally. Yours may be the be ginning of the end of the here tofore powerful voice tof intol erant zeal. It may be that soon from the apathy of the campus there will rise a little of the serious poli tical consciousness which has until recently been unevident be cause all the outlets for it have been tightly clutched in the hands of strident pseudo-intellectuals whose fuzzy (if zealous) mentali ties have not yet been penetrated by the fundamental lessons that there may possibly be two rea sonably good sides to any ques tion and those who disagree with them are not necessarily merely sick. Those of us who want to see the guide of reason rather than doctrine hope this will be so. The political thinking of American students can not much longer be dominated by vicious zealots who believe they are tolerant, limited thinkers who think they are in novators, conformists who think they are original, and an irra tional mentality that sees some virtue in preferring Castro to Batista or Nasser to Franco and that actually believes it is pio neering new frontiers when the only real answers it has to any problem is the thread-bare ap proach of: spend more money, create more bureaucrats, and give more power to the state. America needs youth with an intelligent perspective on reali ties in the light of their heritage, not an increasingly unquestion ing devotion to a particular set of seemingly expedient ap proaches. Clyde Wilson can to fight this and all other forms of wild radicalism that may appear on the campus of my home state's leading university. The innocent minds of our state's and nation's youth must be protected from the forces of evil. More seriously, congratulations . and thank you for the excellent articles and editorials of January 7 and 8 on the attempt to end racial discrimination at the Caro lina Theatre. My above-mentioned friend sent me copies of those two issues. I wish you all t success in this and all similar en deavors that you may undertake. David Kronenfeld Our Innocent Minds Cope With Radicalism To The Editor: The mother of a schoolmate of my high school days was recently asked if her son was still at tending UNCShe said that he was. "That's too bad, they'll either make a Communist or an atheist, one, out of him," was the response of her questioner. "They" are. I think that this is a disgraceful state of affairs. I felt that you should know of it; I feel that you should do all that you Hangover From Honor System Controversy To The Editor: I could not undertake to de fend our Honor System. Without question, there have been grave miscarriages of justice as a re sult of the faults of this system. You suggested in your editorials that the trouble with the system is the immaturity of the students charged with upholding this sys tem. This is indeed a grave charge, and one that cannot be discounted. It might be enlightening to take a hypothetical time trip and observe the operation of the re vised Honor System suggested in your editorial of January 13. (Scene: apartment of a law student, Harry Mason. Mason and Charles Darrow are sitting in front of a card table spread with law books, papers, and beer cans. Harry is the student attorney for Billy Budd, a student accused of infraction of the Honor Code; Darrow is a member of the At torney General's staff.) Darrow: New let me get this straight, Mason. You want me to waive my rights to win this case, and let you take it by default? Mason: I realize that I won the last case, but old Tortwhistle told me that he didn't think much of the way I presented my case, and you know as well as I do that I'm flunking his course now. If you start throwing that oratorical talent of yours around, you know he'll never notice how good a brief I present, much less my technique for cross-examining witnesses. Darrow: But I had counted on the publicity from this win to help me when I run for attorney general next month. Mason: Look, your next case is that one where the culprit is defending himself, and that means more publicity. Suppose I get Holmes, the student judge, and Marshall, he's faculty because he is a third year law student, to hold out for your side. They're fraternity brothers of mine, and they'll do it. Then the editor of the Tar Heel is my fraternity brother too. I'll get him to write an editorial about your magnifi cent handling of the case. Look, I have to win this one! Darrow: Throw in a front-page picture, and it's a deal. Mason: Done! Say, will you help me on the grammar for my brief? You knok how Tortwhistle gets about lawyers who can't write correct English. Darrow: Sure, old man, but don't expect me to write it for you. You know these cases are supposed to give us good prac tice in our chosen profession, and besides, you're charging your client to do a little work. Mason: Have another beer. I see your point, Mr. Editor. If we try hard enough, we can be as matured in our handling of these cases as our State courts are now. Our courts may be al most as good as a justice of the peace court. David Withersppon The Daily Tar Heel solicits and is happy to .print any let ter to the editor written by a member of the . University community, as long as it is within the accepted bounds of good taste. NO LETTERS WILL BE PRINTED IF THEY ARE OVER 300 WORDS LONG OR IF THEY ARE NOT TYPEWRITTEN O R DOUBLE SPACED. We make this requirement purely for the sake of space and lime. automation could 'Only crcat con fusion, maladjustment and many labor problems. Now as to the relative excel lence of the two institution?, there is really no real basis of comparison. State College has nationally known and respected agricultural, engineering and de sign schools. Carolina has nation ally known and respected chem istry, German, Political Science, English, Law, Business Adminis tration, and Journalism depart ments and schools. Both institu tions of learning have high na tional standing among Colleges and Universities. There is no rea son to envy or disrespect each other nor is there any way to compare an institution where learning is based on material pur suits to one whose pursuits are basically non-material. As to the actual cheer itself it is a manifestation of rivalry based on respect. If we did not respect each other, chances are that we would not be stimulated to say, yell or cheer much of anything. But as we do, Caro lina fans yell "Moo" at the top ,of their lungs and State fires back "Beat Whiskey Hill" and other variations at their rival. During my freshman year I was at State. I well remember sitting in the State Band section of the stands at the State-Carolina game in the Fall of 1953 and yelling these very chants when State beat Carolina 21-14. So after all let us not kid our selves. These things are tokens of respect and rivalry that we bother to yell at all proves this. They are not to be viewed in the emotional light of anything de rogatory. After all what do you call your best friend? "Jolly good fellow?" Hell no! Chances are you call him a variety of oaths not very applicable to mix ed company. The same principle applies here, but it is more relegated to a youthful spirit of competitive rivalry than to mere friendship. To take them otherwise or worse to take offense to them is to interpret them wrongly. Take them in the spirit they are given and we will do likewise. To take them otherwise is only to fool yourself. Sieve Lindell REFLECTIONS "Name withheld by request" is one of the most obnoxious phrases seen regularly in The Daily Tar Heel. It implies everything that is bad and nothing that is good. If the editor of the newspaper and the members of its staff regularly put their opinions be fore the public with names bold ly attached, why cannot the same be true of the paper's reader ship? Why must a man with an opinion feel it necessary to hide behind the ignominious cloak of anonymity? This does not make sense. Has America been so affected by the purges of McCarthy and the neo McCarthyites that her citizens will not speak out? If she has, then the world surely will look to Russia for leadership. Chapel Hill Ai jf j ter JJ y With Davis B. Young We're in a quandry. Frosh Paul Ryan of the Bay State com plains about the name of our column. Says he, "You have to change it. You can't go on call ing it 'Chapel Hill After Dark.' It's not like Stork Club Chapter at 2 a. m. This isn't Hew York cafe society. Everybody knows .Chapel Hill after dark is asleep." Mr. Ryan may have a point. From Kemp comes this letter: "Appreciate the plug in the TAR HEEL. You have given me an idea though, so irom now on I'm going to call my sales PAR TIES how's that?" Everybody knows your sales have always been PARTIES, Kemp. Local social leader Joseph De utsch of the 308 Club, and invit ed guests (82) witnessed the sol emn christening of Mr. Deutsch's half-collie, half-German shepard, eleven week old puppy Lym ington II Deutsch on Saturday night at club headquarters. The service was conducted by Archie Hardy of Mangum Arms, complete with clerical collar. As the official requested that the child be handed over to him, Lymington II Deutsch growled most ferociously at Hardy. Both ered not, he proceeded to initi ate his young charge into of ficial 303 membership. At the conclusion of the cere--meny, Lymington II Deutsch .ttuietly retired to a corner where .she fell asleep on last Friday's issue of The Daily Tar Heel. And who's the Student Party going to run?
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