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Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Friday, October 28, 1986 OOF! Steve Hoar Ik Our Opinion ... . UNC At Chapel Hill elp The Man Who Took itand Against The Klan H We hear so much from and about the Ku Klux Klan, but it is seldom that we hear of a way in which we University students in the strongest Klan state in the country can actively combat the Klan or help some the KKK is at tempting to hurt. Today we have such an oppor tunity. A grocer in a small eastern North Carolina town is about to be run out of business by the Klan which claims that his wife, an attendance counselor for the pub lic schools in her county, has been attempting to get Negro children to attend white schools. John Schoo, a senior from Maryland, read about the situa tion in a state newspaper yester day and decided something should be done about it. (Story p. I) So he and a few of his friends set about organizing the effort to get student orders for food pack ages from the boycotted store. We think it's quite a practical idea. Everyone on campus eats. Students living in off - campusing Not Just Any Body Old Silent Sam is pretty much taken for granted around here. And the same thing goes for the several other pieces of statuary on the campus. But you can bet your life when the first piece of statuary on the University of Alabama campus is unveiled, it won't go unnoticed. In fact, it's already getting at tention. Take six male figures, nude, each about seven feet tall, of truly remarkable physique and .mein. Acid a few fig leaves, for proprie ty's sake, or something like that; two basins; dribble water liberal ly over the entire structure. i And there's the new fountain tljat will stand in front of the Paul W. Bryant Hall, home of Alaba ma's athletes. Reactions on the UA campus have ranged from deep apprecia tion of the work of art to charges that the statues are "obscene, gro tesque, unredeemed by anything." Rumors at one point circulated Ithat several football players posed for the statues, but these have . been determined to be false. , The house advisor of the ath letic dormitory at UA made the classic comment: "I just want to make it clear that none of our boys posed for those things. They're Ro man. . . or Greek statues. Not any obscene things. They're all cover ed up." : And with the realization that .they are "Roman or Greek" bod ies, they can be accepted as works :of art and stand proudly in public Isn't it interesting that the hu- From Back Issues ?y Tar Heel on this date five, 10. and 15 years ago.) ", . : Oct. 28, 1961 .?riVing rain was not enough to ; stop the fired-up Miami Hurricanes in the Orange Bowl last night as sopho . more quarterback George Mira led them to a 10-0 victory over North Carolina Oct. 28, 1956 L Wake Forest's battered and bruised Demon Deacons came off the rope in the final period hare yesterday to gain a 6-6 tie with North Carolina in a rock em sock 'em Big Four battle played on a soggy field before 27,000 rain soak ed fans. Blasting Bill Barnes, Wake's ace in the hole at fullback, was the game's in dividual hero as he sparked a 96-yard yake drive in the last period t h at ' brought the Deacons a tie with their 3ong time rivals. Oct. 28, 1951 ; A gift of $100,000 from the Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. to the University has been marked as a significant stop in the raising of UNC professors' sal aries, according to University officials. man body, if displayed as a "work of art", especially with a "Roman or Greek" touch, is perfectably ac ceptable, v But we wonder what would hap pen if someone wanted to erect a statue of Ursula Andress wear ing nothing but ai "G-string." 4 - r J The UA newspaper, Crimson -White, printed this picture of a co ed viewing one of the statues being erected on their campus. It ap pears that she is embarrassed. She probably didn't know it was a work of art that's why she was embarrassed. She probably didn't know it was a "Greek. . . . or Homan" statue. She Probably was grossed out. 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Fred Thomas, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Scott Goodfellow, Managing Ed John Greenbacker . .. Assoc Ed Kerry Sipe Feature Editor Bill Amlong ,.. ........ News Editor Ernest Robl .. Asst. News Editor Sandy Treadwell .. Sports Editor Bob 0rr Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer .... ... Photo Editor Chuck Benner ... .... Night Editor Steve Bennett, Lytt Stamps, Lynn Harvel, Judy Sipe, Don Campbell, Cindy Borden i" Staff Writers The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays ex amination periods and vacations.' ' Pos?o?ft,d SS 20 Paid al rOSC UfllCC in Phi.!! nm o l ... "i'.j run, IN ' le" ?o per VO.ir T-;..i..j . Chape. Hill PMiM ?? W. Franklin St., Cfc,, lli'ii. n."c housing can certainly use five dollars worth of staple goods. Stu dents in campus facilities always : like to have cookies, potato sticks, etc. on hand. All you have to do is go by the Wesley Foundation today between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. and leave your name and money. The food pack ages will be available for distribu tion there tomorrow evening. If , . , you can't go by the Wesley Foun- J dation, call 942-2153 and make ar rangements for your money to be, collected. We are pleased and excited about this project. And .we are , grateful to the students who are taking their time to organize it and to make the six - hour round trip to support the stand this mer chant has taken. But we realize this is the kind, of project most everybody gets ex- -cited about talks about how : great it is then never gets ;; around to actually participating ' an. Don't wait for everyone else to place your orders. Place one yourself. Peter Harrin TR "DAILY TAR fletL. ir Feedlom it4 or The Michael Paull case, as embarrassing as it is to the University, actually lays bare the underlying fact which has haunted UNC through years of decision making. When one examines the background which motivated the reaction of, first, the girl who ran home to Mother, then the reaction of Mother, next the reaction which tickled Jesse Helms, and finally, back at UNC the reaction of Chancellor Sitterson, it be comes quite clear; that this University is trying"" to enforce reflations which went out with; the atom bomb. ',; Dean Carmichael calls it "protecting the g i r 1 s from thorns in the path of life." She says, "What good is his tory if we can not learn from it?" Experience, Miss Carmich ael, comes with age, and just as a baby sometimes will not listen to her mother's plea that electric circuits do shock, so must people sometimes feel the shaded thorns themselves. The point is that Queen Vic toria and her age-old super ego still haunt the halls of South Building. It is unfortunate. Jesse Helms knew this when he attacked Paull. He knew the Administration would jump like a scared rabbit; they have been hopping para noids ever since the speaker ban became firmly establish ed. - The Administration claims Sitterson made his decision without Helms' pressure. To prove it, the Chancellor shall return Paull to his teaching duties at least by next se mester. The quilty conscience of South Building was stirred by the "radical" faculty and student body which would not stand for intimidation. It is the same quilt feeling a; little kid experiences when he has gypped a good friend by playing footsie with the principal. The' underlying fact remains that Victorian morality, no n longer; applicable:; to ::tnodern : : society,- scares administrators " every time modern ideas are brought into the open. They did it in Tennessee when Scopes taught the doc trine of evolution, and they did it here when Paull taught that seduction (?) ex isted in the Puritanical 17th century. Life is such that to deny certain basic facts exist is to cheat oneself of a true per spective. A full life is based on a broad set of experiences. It is through experience that a person is able to judge what is right and wrong. To always accept the word of others is to be a vegetable. True, it would be better if babies did not have to learn the hard way that electricity shocks, but life is not all elec tric shocks. There is much beauty in it, and unless you experience a little bit of ugli ness you will have a hard time obtaining a full sense of beauty. I am not referring to plea santness but, rather, beauty a feeling experienced in love of life, nature, and people. Society is much more open today than it was ten, twenty, thirty or a hundred years ago. People have the opportunity to explore life with great fa cility and freedom. Many colleges across the na tion realize that the times are changing; in fact, that they have changed. Kids today want freedom; they need free- dom to explore, and to satisfy their hungry appetites for ex periencing youth. Their eyes are wide-open with a great zest for living and loving what they see. Behind the veil of fear, not innocence, UNC fails to pro vide the complete opportunity for their students to feel life to the fullest degree. Naive freshman soon ve come not - so - naive sopho mores, and they border on being quite aware adults by their junior and senior years. By not providing an open atmosphere for learning, UNC fails to create a realistic en vironment. As was stated in a DTH editorial, UNC provides the means to an education but it is up to the student to do the learning. However, as long as ancient restrictions and fears haunt Carolina, it shall never pro vide this glowing breath of fresh air. Two Experimental Colleges Students New Interest Give By BLAIR EDLOW From The Duke Chronicle Two Universities having in stituted "experimental col leges are the University of California at Santa Cruz and Princeton University. Santa Cruz completed its first year of operation in June. This pilot college last year en rolled 652 students. . At Santa Cruz "small lec ture courses will be avoided as much as possible," but in the early years some are in evitable." The. College's book let Academic- Plan suggests the use of closed circuit tele vision "Seminars will be em ployed to focus groups of 6 to 15 students on inquiry and in vestigation. Tutorials will be restricted to advanced work neld students' specialized ulfTvhm?nKge h3S residcnt Ac uity members from principle lomic disciplines. VcoS he proxmnty ;in(, sh;i,,.d . : vl n ,)fllf;-"V ;md students : '!! should I ll. lh yl,,-,, ;u,( , , ,a" "I''1"' "n. . us,,..,! n s dm-i. TIm- 'ip, -.sis itl ,,. rj "'"I is on indoiM.,.,!,.,,! .sltiily I In students only ;,ke ,m. . c ourses m, ii;ii It. Ueqin. hh iiIs iinM jn tmns of 'full courses are the equivalent.' The ' grades used at present are ? pass . fail, but their continued use is presently be ing debated by the College's Academic Senate. Dean McHenry considered the "first year at Santa Cruz to have been most promising in the development of super ior students who worked on their own for knowledge, not for grades. Dr Scott in her proposal for an experimental college here quoted A Letter to the Undergraduates by Bradford Cleveland in The Berkeley Stu dent Revolt, questioning the system used presently in most universities. "As an under graduate you receive a . four year long series of sharp staccatos : eight semesters, forty courses, fifteen hundred to two thousand impersonal lectures. . .Approaching what is normally associated with learning reading, -. writing, etfams - your situation ho mines absorb. . .you are ex ported to write forty to sev enty fve p.ilH'is. . .re.tdin nivalis j'.ellinK into hundreds of! books in ;i stioi firiiil man nor. If vol i don't eheat you are forced to eifoini without hole to think in depth, a u d eoiis'iienlIy you must hand in papers and exams which are almost as shameful as the oim'S you cheated on. . .You perform but when do y o u think? At Princeton Univer sity about 50 faculty and stu dents are enrolled in an ex perimental college this year, according to the October 8 New York Times. They set up the college in rebellion against "an educa tional system that they feel is 'fixed and rigid'." The col lege is not residential as the one at Santa Cruz and concen trates on innovation in cur riculum. Daniel Altman, the leader of the experiment, told the Times that "mostly, the experimental college is con cerned with change and wak ing up 'our sleepy univer sity'." The college offers six seminar courses so far. Altman wrote in the Col lege's statement of position, "When the process of learn ing becomes fixed and rigid, when I ho loncher becomes the grade - dispensing authority and Ihe student the note-taking subordinate, when a course is. defined by a fixed amount of knowledge transmitted in formal lectures given in fixed hours, when the student be comes a basket which pas sively collects bits of knowl edge from professors who col lectively tie on a pretty rib bon after four uneventful years, education has become no more than an empty ritual in which individuals are pris oners of traditional roles." Is Getting Too Big The University of North Carolina is getting too big; The quality of its academic program and the quality of its student life are both being threatened. The time to put on the brakes is now. This fall UNC has about 13,000 students some thing like thirty times the number it had at the turn of the century, more than twice the number enrolled at the end of World War II. Carolina, once a cozy little campus, is today a "multiversity," a huge diploma factory. Chapel Hill, once a sleepy little town, is today a bustling, burgeon ing small city. Symptoms of this disease called bigness are everywhere. Just try taking your dirty clothes to a laundromat on Franklin Street some weekend after noon, and you'll notice it. Try going through drop-add to change one of your courses. Try getting into the University Booketeria during the first week of the semester. Or try walking in to an eight o'clock class some nippy November morning from Craige, Morrison, or Ehringhaus. The University has had no way to ex pand but southward. So more and more of its male students have had to be housed on the other side of Kenan Stadium, at what is variously called South Campus and the University of North Carolina at Pitts boro. These physical symptoms, annoying though they may be, are not the most unsettling signs of the soar ing size of this place. More significant are the increasing number ofJ graduate students teaching all-important freshman courses and the increasing number of courses taught in vast lecture halls by a single professor and his flock of roll-takers, graders and discussion leaders. More significant, too, is the increasing number of students who can't tell you the names of the fellows: across the hall in their mammoth high-rise dormi- tories of students who hurry home every weekend, I because they've never learned to feel at home here! (Not unrelated, perhaps, is the increasing percentage of students seeking help from University psychia trists.) It seems that too many students spend their four years here without ever feeling part of the University and without ever having a significant intellectual ex perience. If the present rate of growth continues, what will become of Carolina, that priceless gem of a liberal arts university, unique among state-supported schools in the South? Will UNC, twenty or thirty years from now, be another University of California where the i student ; FFxanWn is gicaier man me population of Durham, North Carolina, and where, in some cases, teachers have been replaced by tape-recorded lectures? Bigness, of course, has its merits. ' A large institution can make a proportionately large contribution in research and publication. It can attract important speakers and big-name entertain ers. It can offer a larger library and a broader cur riculum. Some will argue, beyond those things, that a state university like UNC is obligated to open its doors to as-many people as possible. But neither those re wards nor those obligations should precede the Uni versity's first function to be a true "alma mater," a nourishing mother, both academically and in other ways. When that function is endangered by problems of size, then size should be sacrificed. It isn't too late to preserve the academic stand ards which have made Carolina such an outstanding state university or the atmosphere which has endear ed her to so many alumni and so many visitors. Many of the classes here are still small, and most of the professors are still accessible. Chapel Hill is still a friendly place, an enviable setting compared to just about any campus around. And, even if there are 13,000 students, they can still join in a chorus of "Ah! Zigga-Zoomba!" on one of those unforgettable Saturday afternoons in Kenan Sta dium. UNC's student leaders and administrators are far from unaware of the problems posed by the size of the university. The Residence College System is one example of their efforts to combat those problems; the recent student-faculty conference at Reidsville is another. In fact, the University Cabinet-the top of ficials in South Building-is discussing a limit on en rollment right now. We hope such a limit will be set, and soon. Grant ed, that limit will intensify the space problem in state supported schools. But that problem will have to be solved in some other way-by opening new branches of the Consolidated University, perhaps, or by build ing new institutions in other parts of the state The things that have made UNC different and great must not be sacrificed on the altar of expedient i expansion. The University is getting too big. Quote Of The Week m-,v'T!!!S, ''.'f a..standard i terms of which we d -.Hi " h ' f cctlvenei "f aU education-and so . u' Z i t0d3y is entally inef- , m fl 100 oft we are giving our youns oeo ,..o n, f,oworS when we shoull be Lchnfg ftem tt S.mv lu-.r own plants. We are stuffing theirheads h , : CUT8 0' ear'ier innovation raSer ttan a :;, as r . ecl wnen we should be thinking of it as an instrument to be used." mmxing -John W.Gardner Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare t ii
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