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Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Tuesdav, February 21;" 1857 Genetics of pet animals? . . . Fine. Tom Clark 4l Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. All un signed editorials are written by the editor. Letters and colamns reflect only the personal views of their contributors. SCOTT GOODFELLOW, EDITOR The Candidates Hate It Too Conventions are nice. They are nice because they pull great numbers of people to gether. They are nice because they initiate the crystallization of many ideas which will prove help ful to students at Carolina years later. And they are nice because they are fun for everyone concern ed. Last night there were two con ventions. Each was a great gather ing of campus "politicans." Far too often people degrade the so called ppoliticos, saying that their work is small-time. But those that answer by quoting the annual Stu dent Government budget of 290,000 are not really putting down the crtiicism, for anyone can play around with $250,000 with the same ease that he dispenses with $10. The answer is that student poli tics are politics. And politics is what government of any sort is all about. And government of any sort reacts with the feelings of those it governs. These student politicans are working toward goals which are very real to them. Without excep tion they are seeking offices to which they plan to devote many hours, even days, to fulfilling. Anyone who thinks that a resi dence college governor runs for his office with the unexpressed in tent of lounging in glory is mis taken. Tomorrow the official cam paign period begins. Pretty soon candidates will begin circulating through dormitories and fraterni ties trying to visit each of you per sonllay. Of course they don't really want to have to go through t he trouble of visiting all 3,600 rooms on campus in order to win. But the Carolina campus is big, and the only way to win is to work very, very hard. You can help in this contest by trying to learn as much about the electoral races which are import ant to you -as you can. Read the DTH when it gives candidate qual ifications and platforms. And always remember one thing. These candidates have to got an awful lot of work just to win the opportunity to do an aw ful lot more. , Rush Review Looks Good The conclusion of spring rush is always a time for inspection. Few Deople complain about the actual five-dav rush period itself, since it allows plenty of time for both rushees and brothers to re cuperate from the fast, hectic hours of rush. The first two days usually seem far too much of a rat ijace to the -rushees; since many have to visit large numbers of Houses. But the rule is necessary for the assurance that every pledge Has the opportunity to see every house in which he is interested. The time which comes most un- , der critical fire is the strict-silence pe iod. There have been numer on proposals for change in t h e past, but nearly all have some im portant failing. Attempts at limit ing strict silence to school hours actually only defeat its purpose. . Eliminating strict silence alto ther would pose a tremendouse hardship upon both the rushees and the brothers, who would end up rushing for an entire semes ter. . Perhaps the method used this year is the best, although it invit- Coordination Vital The- current dispute over the future role of North Carolina's four-year in stitutions of higher education generates about as much heat as light. It might be appropriate, under the circumstances, to recall a portion of the Report of the Committee on Govern ment and Education headed by Milton S. Eisenhower. The report was issued in 1S33 and has just been re-issued at the request of the American Council on Education and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. ' This study called eight years ago for the coordination of the programs of col leges and universities within . the vari ous states. The emphasis was on vohin-" tary and cooperative means, though . some states had already set up boards Y for the purpose of coordination of aca demic and fiscal efforts. The section that has special perti nence for North Carolina at the" m -ment reads as follows: "Under fee pressures of limited state resources and risSzg enrcHments, it is inpersiive that state institutions avoid cssecessary. drpllcation of programs. Cccjpelltica for growth in numbers of stzlezis, prestige, cr size cf apprcprla tlsrs -e!3 never be allowed to lead I) Ct . ectillisLment cf facilities not tzcZzl cr already available in ample tzzzzl'-'z elsewhere." There is much more under that sec tion that would be useful in considera tion of North Carolina's immediate prob lem. But perhaps no sentence in it is more important that its conclusion: "Uzlsr no circumstance should edu-czt;:--I brtlttlcrs permit tie quality ci tizl? prcrams to be dimislshed; ia Cstd c' cf the aims cf cocrdisatien iLzz.ll -be ta mairtala and elevate stan-C-tZi cf quality." ed infraction. ; The strict silence rule was kept, but the rule was not so loudly broadcast as it has been in the past. In other words, strict silence was not hanging heavily over everyone's heads. The result was a sort of freed restraint, where- fraternity: mem bers. .were,", not. particularly -afraid t of being seen witiT- prospective rushees (asx was the case last year) , but they were afraid of - making any grandstand play in their behalf. But although there is much praise to be given, there are still suggestions to be made. M a n y still complain that delayed rush has not served its purpose, that is, many freshmen still do not know more about fraternities in February than they did in Sep tember. Perhaps it would be help ful to allow regular rush rules to exist for several weekends during the " fall. If this were successful, perhaps the program could be ex tended. At any rate, the success pf the spring rush this year is an ex- ce"llent basis for further experimentation. Stye latig ar tjl 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Gcodfellow, Editor Torn Clark, Business Man&ser Sandy Tread well, Manag. Ed. John Askew .. Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris ...... Don Campbell .; Kerry Sipe ...... Jeff MacNelly ... Associate Ed. . News Editor . Feature Ed. Sports Editor Ernest Robl Asst. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer ........ Photo Editor David Garvin .. ... . Night Editor Mike McGowan .... Photographer Wayne Hurder ... ... Copy Editor . STAFF WEITERS Lytt Stamps, Ernest. Robl, Steve Knowlton, Carol Wonsavage, Karen Freeman, Hunter George, Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis San-, ders, Penny Raynor, Jim Fields. CARTOONISTS Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly. - " - The Daily Tar Keel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex amination periods and vacations. Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $3 . per year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, N. C. KerrySipe bxroense w An Education Devalues College Diploma Ten years ago you could not pick up a newspaper or a magazine or turn on your tele vision set without being sub jected to a shock-oriented ad vertising campaign bemoan ing the tragedy of our nation's "closing college doors." The advertisements warned that unless something .was done immediately, millions of America's young people would be denied the benefits of a college education because of poor facilities, a lack of quali fied teachers, and a dozen oth er reasons. . Well, somebody , must have done something, because those ten years have passed and our colleges and universities have somehow managed to ac commodate nearly every qual ified student with a desire for higher education. Those ten years have been pretty profitable for the aca demic world. A recent erport of the Southern Regional Edu cation Board (SREB) leads us to. think that that profit has been at the expense of the student. Over a decade, the cost of nearly everything food, cloth ing, rent has risen tremen dously. That is to be expect ed. But the costs involved in getting a college education, we find, have risen far faster than the cost of living in oth er walks of life. The SREB reports that tne costs of most American col leges are up from 5 to 7 per cent across the board from last year. Nearly three of ev ery four institutions raised student charges last fall. Of those that did not, most had upped their rates the year be fore. ; '"-1- i ' - -;--2- Hurt most by these rising costs are out-of-state students who pay a much higher tui tion than in-state students re ceiving the same benefits. But all students have suffered. . The SREB predicts that a widespread leveling off of tuition, room and board rates doesn't appear likely, in t h e foreseeable future. . The trouble, say the experts, isin a lack of monetary sup port from state legislatures fortate - supported schools. Although state support is on the increase, legislative ap propriations are just not keep ing pace with higher costs. The student is going to bene fit from the education, say the legislators, so let him pay for it himself. This philosophy would be legitimate if we were dealing with automobiles or dishwash ers, but where college educa tions are concerned, there are other considerations. The rising costs may be "clos ing the college doors" on our most talented, capable stud ents those who could put the education to its best use in society and leaving those doors .open only to those stu t dents with the ready caslh , Our programs of grants and scholarships are a great help, but they alone are not enough to take care of the .problem. Colleges must be encour aged to .keep costs to a mini mum, even at the expense of sacrificing unnecessary em bellishments in the construc tion of buildings-and in im proving student living condi tions. Legislators must be en couraged to appropriate the money necessary to keep the costs of college within the reach of the poorest eligible student. Neither the colleges nor the nation as a whole can bene fit if a college diploma be comes merely a piece of pap er which anyone can buy for the right price. (Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the Daily II lini.) By PHIL PALUDAN Ezra Pound says that the x artist is the antenna of the race. He is someone who sen ses the currents of the age and reacts and tries to give meaning to what others may only indistinctly feeL I think also that the artist might pro vide, due to .his sensitivity, some answers to the problems of their time. " I do not mean that if they should present a work of ob vious social criticism we ought to feel that they have encom passed in that work of art the full spirit of our time. Great art is usually above social cri ticism. But I am pretty well convinced that it is still about society and useful to it. In its reflection of the cur rent of an age, art suggests way of looking and in doing that stimulates attitudes and thought. Perhaps an example or two will be clearer. The art of the English painter Joseph Turner becomes more and more non objective, as his age becomes becomes more romantic. The novels of Henry James, though not about Progress ivism per se are about the things that Progressivism was about: the ideas with conflicting reality. Art is useful as mirror of a society perhaps prism would be more accurate. Since I believe what I just wrote, I was more than a lit tle glad to find an artist who appears to be speaking about something that bothers me a great deal: the lack of spon taneous, insightful enthusi asm in most modern students, the cool sophistication and ap parent worldly wisdom of most of them. I think that John Cage is his charmingly disorienting book "Silence" is describing the reaction of ar tists to this very attitude. He is proposing a point of view that is vital to our time. "We are in the glory of not knowing where we're going," he says. Now that is scary, of course, but it is also glor ious. It poses the problem and suggests an attitude use ful for its solution. You see we have a problem for which the only solution is ignorance. We have an order, for which there is no solution but chaos. We need to be come disoriented, to become reoriented. I do not think, con trary to most observers, that there is too much chaos now. I do not think that the mil lions of images that we re ceive from everywhere in the world confuse us very much. I think they do not confuse' us enough, We retain too much of our old framework into which we pigeonhole new images. We take new information, stick it into old preconceptions and we make it into the familiar objects that we have all seen before. They are not really fa miliar but needing to do so we make them seem to. Our problem is that there are too many things with which we are half familiar. We have nodding acquaintan ces with all the events of the world. We think we know them when in reality we have only nodding, acquaintance. None of them seem to move most of us very much. t . But in order to gam a real understanding, in order to The Ti Her Mash' Cash come alive again shouldn't we run away from knowing things in this way? Wouldn't it be wonderful to discover some thing unrecognizable again. It would certainly be aesthetical ly wonderful but might it not also be very useful to find out that we don't know what we think we know? . We do try to do this. We try to make our world new. We try to disorient ourselves. Booze, LSD, homosexuality. These are all ways of un knowing the known. Modern artists try very hard too. "I am trying to become unfamiliar with what I'm do ing," Rauschenberg says. "I am trying to check my hab its of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater fresh ness." Artists and others attend happenings hoping to encoun ter the unexpected. (I think that to very small children each day is a happening, an. always successful one. It would be nice to; discover a bird again for the first time; to be delightfully startl ed again.) But what would it take to startle you? You who have seen the world again and again on television and in the movies and in the magazines of our time? You who have a place for everything, an order which lets, you deal with the world? That is why we must be-, come unfamiliar with what we are doing, to become alive again to each thing to have each thing be new so that we really look once more with new enthusiasm and with new eyes on the old problems we have yet to solve. Loses My laundry hates me. Every order of dirty clothes I give them costs them money. The reason is simple. It takes them an hour to go through my pants pockets and take out all the old: Hershey bar wrappers, crumpled cigarette packs, long; forgotten letters, and bits of string. The lady at the. shop, who is really a very nice lady, nearly hit the ceiling the other day when she found a half-eaten pimento cheese sandwich in my left coat pocket. . Now I don't want you to misunderstand. I have no great penchant for collecting all grades of worthless ' trash. I do feel very uncomfortable every time I go to. make a purchase and I have to make the saleslady -, wait while I wade through a handful of garbage look ing for that last thin dime. But what else is a guy supposed to do? Students live notoriously hectic lives. There are . many meals that consist of a sandwich and a coke grabbed at a court between classes. Many snacks for the last big lift before that accounting quiz come out, , of vending machines. Frequently the only time you .. have to eat those snacks is on the sidewalks of cam pus while you're hurrying to that eight o'clock for which you didn't get up quite early enough. So what are you supposed to do with the trash? I , guess I've heard just one too many "every litter bit- hurts" jungles to be able to blithely throw it on the ;; ground. So into my pocket it goes. The University of North Carolina campus occupies thousands of acres of land. There are over seven miles j of walkways. And yet to my knowledge, there are only A' three outdoor trashcans on this campus, located in the: . square in front of the Y building, and in front of Lef noir Hall. The fact that students gladly use these con-... tainers for their trash is evident since they are over- ' flowing all the time. I don't mean to sound as though I think the Uni versity should invest money in trash cans for my own person convenience. There are two much more per suasive reasons. First of all, we are fortunate to have one of the most beautiful campuses in the country. Thousands of vis itors come to Chapel Hill each year to look at the old. buildings, the beautiful green malls, to absorb the at-' mosphere of our tree strewn grounds. We are fortu- 1 hate. Luck, and no doubt centuries of hard planning,, have given us a campus of true beauty. Now this prices is less and irreplaceable treasure is being buried under v a pile of trash. What we are allowing to happen to this campus is near tragedy. The second reason hits mein a sore place; my al- j ready bulging pants pockets. The Buildings and v Grounds department has on its payrolls several full . time men whose primary job is to walk around cam- pus and pick up trash. Every bag they bring m un doubtedly costs North Carolina taxpayers ten dollars or more. This is money that the University is being;; deprived of for use on many other more worth-, while purposes. vMy simple question is this: Why can't the money ; that's being use to pay these men be used to buy addi-, tional trash cans? While this is undoubtedly not the full answer to the problem, it would certainly be the , first big step toward eliminating the mess on our campus. And besides that, niy laundry lady is about to kill me. Walkway Needed To Gombat Gars By MIRIAM HENKEL Now that the automobile traffic at the McCauley Columbia, Street intersection has been made less haz ardous by re-timing the lights, a few words need to be said about the pedestrian situation at the same- spot. Although the percentage of student population around that point is not tremendous, a dorm and several fraternity and sorority houses are there. Stu- dents cross the two streets at all hours of the day going to and from classes. Columbia Street, which becomes Pittsboro Road, ; - IS heaVllv trflVlAfl nil flav ' oenam'nll.. Iwrn ' to 9 am., at lunchtime and from 4:30 to 6 p.m. These hours coincide with bus v pedestrian hours. What we want to know is this: can a crosswalk be placed in the section of Columbia Street directlv in front of the student entrance to Whitehead Dorm? Scores of chances are taken every dav by stu-: dents dodging in and out of traffic, carelessly risk- ing all sorts of things including their lives. A cross- ' walk there would not by its mere presence reduce WA Ml .tMlilMV J , sible accidents. But it would add a sense of legality : to the precarious business of crossing a street. : Students are notorious short-cut takers. This won't change. Why, not use the situation tn thpir advnn-' tage? After all, the pedestrian supposedly has the ' right of way.
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