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PAGE TWO THE CAMPUS ECHO THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1956 THE CAMPUS ECHO NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE AT DURHAM From Where I Sit by W. Sherman Perry McDfacc P^SSOCfclfGCi GDlteftlote Pr©SS files of the Student Office) was ElUot Palmer. He mits of defects, has the virtue The Campus ECHO, official student publication at North Caro- Government contain more little worked with hia personal advi- of specificity and the still great- ‘^LSTear* sSc“i)t^o^raS®^$“5“?eLc”oolV^ bulging portfolios sors at lengthy and ardorous er virtue of potential develop- Second class mail privileges authorized at Durham, N. C. on the subject of proposed and meetings every week on the ment. rejected constitutions than it matter but at year’s end, the NEW BH^L does on any other subject mat- proposed constitution was filed A bill has originated in the ter. These files tell a story in away...unratified. It is obvious Student Congress that will l\ ^iD " JID Dm* themselves. that the attaining of an accep- cause a lot of controversy UOn I ufi UfiCfilVfiu DV ■ niTldricS to our know-; table and desired constitution among the student body unless IrVII I l^w ■rWVIfVM ■ I IIIIM IWi# ledge Norman ' easy task. I miss my guess The bill con- Calvin Jr. * ’ ' It must hot be construed that cerns itself with two of the pro- Mr. Adlai St6venson and Senator Estes Kefauver, tjie was oresi- present administration is to blems that have caused much two major contenders for the Democratic nomination for the , , ,,, ncC be given all of the credit for lamenting in certain circles, presidency, recently met at the ballot box in the Minnesota . ■ I ' JT' "! giving NCC undergraduates its Line cutters in the dining primary. Although Senator Kefauver came out the victor, ^ ^ constitution. This would be room are becoming more popu- Mr. Stevenson may be just as sure now, as before the pn- +he ^ gross injustice to past adminis- lar than Dennis the Menace “""^I?'sievTn™ has-be^ the preferred candidate all --de" to get^W/' trations who desired a constitu- Scotch and Milk, and Adoles- alonrand hL Sr^ary does not^a^^^^^^ the viewpoint of those a constitution ^ tion no less than the present one -nt ^^^^^0 ogy on who held it before. The conditions under which Senator Presidents pri-"M did. They laid the groundwork ^ut there is somethmg abou Kefauver won the primary are of some note. Minnesota is or to him may PERRY and set the machinery up that habitual line cutters not as ordinarily a Republican state; but this being a nonpartisan have been interested in this ”^ade the attainment possible. v + ^ u t-k t primary, the Republicans expressed their reaction to it by phase of Student Self Direction, The present administration was items ^listed above. Therefore, voting for the Democratic candidate likely to gite Mr. Eisen- but we know that it was Calvin that specialized, more or the Student Congress is pro- hower the least amount of trouble. Another condition which who put the word seriousness alterations, oilmg of posing that individuals caught contributed to Senator Kefauver’s victory is that he is car- into the movement. He did a clogged machinery and paper cutting line the first time have rying on a much more strenuous campaign of “stump” speak- phenomenal amount of work on work. , their meal books revoked for ing and handshaking. what must be considered as one ATTENUATED Caught the second time Primaries, to agree with former President Truman, do of jjjg major projects while he The present constitution is not the student would have his not prove or change anything but rather are ^ sounding jjj office. According to re- the strongest one ever ratified, book revoked for a month, board of public opinion. In the Minnesota primary, it was cords, however, Calvin failed to But an attenuated constitution The other problem that the an artificial opinion that was created by a devious Repu- required signatures on is better than no constitution. concerns itseif with is that blican faction. the drafted constitution that are The NCC undergraduate consti- of individuals who pilfer plates needed to ipake it a valid docu- tutipri is one that can be ^^om the line. Not as popular as T I f ^ (■ lifL 1 ment strenghtened through amend- -^^e cutting, the practice is sti,.l Today s Question: What lo Uo{ ca.vi„, .here we,e r“‘,\ru»us‘"„o?h"" ?he siurrcc„Vs:, 'Tt three other presidents who hill, is proposing that any stu- By ANDRESS TAYLOR worked toward attaining a con- dent caught filching a plate (Guest Editorialist) stitution for their constituents It is Jaelieved that the stu- be required to pay for it...and Probably the most difficult task a democratic govern- ^or posterity. Perhaps the dents of NCC have much to be to be the guest of the Student ment can undertake is that of re-orientating its citizens to President most mt'erested in do- jubilant about in saying that Welfare Committee as soon as the basic principles upon which a free society is based; prin- this (according to personal they, at long last, have a consti- such an afternoon party can be ciples which, in our case, have long since become empty contact and records in the S.G. tution that, even though it ad- (Continued on page 10) platitudes because few have ever taken them seriously. On rjj ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ I " New German War Novel May Surpass All Quiet tftage is set, the all important question of how to proceed . , ^ I rises to challenge all who would try to overcome the inertia By WALTER DAVIS what the hell’s going on around fully conceived, are rather tepid that decades of indifference have instilled in our citizens. Ten years after the end of here.” The Gunner calmly ex- and inconsequential to the story. In the March 5, issue of LIFE magazine, William Faulk- World War I a tremendous novel plained to the officer that he Another factor which may not ner, a native of Mississippi and a winner of the Nobel Prize in came out off Germany, became had been sleep walking. The be in the favor of the novel is literature, said, among a good many other things, that every- an international best-seller, and officer, naturally accepted the that it has no plot to speak one should stop a minute and give the South time to work out was made into an Academy explanation, so sure is he that of. However, the story is inte- her problems. Apparently he thinks that too much has been Award-winning motion picture, no recruit would dare “put one resting and amusing, and the done arleady, and that nothing more should be done for a That novel was “All Quiet on‘the over” on an officer of the Ger- satire is brilliant both of while. The only objection that I can offer to that suggestion Western Front. Now, some ten man Army. which make the novel well is that the South always solves the race problem to the dis- years after the end of World ‘ worth reading. advantage of the Negro. The South has never started, or War II, a novel which bids fair Throughout the novel is the ^ even met half-way, any reform that would benefit the Ne- to equal, if not eclipse, the S®^^tly, though often pointed sa- gro. Whether these past actions are an index to the fu- record of the earlier novel has tire, of German complacency f 1,- ture I will not venture to say, but there seems to be little come out of Germany. This book suggness. The Revolt of \|ljn0n| I ngQPI* room for optimism. The minute Faulkner asks for might, is entitled The Revolt of Gunner Gunner Asch is the story of a WISU|#Vli if granted, be stretched into a decade or more. Asch, people caught in a fever of na- /\aa |\"*| I Many whites would maintain segregation by force if The Revolt of tionalism and self-sufficiency, I Ini III All ||III|HaH necessa^; they have joined together in a vigilante-like or- ^ ^ r.nnnPi- Asch is thought that all must faU vpllllvll vlYIUCU ganization called the Citizen’s Councils. To them there is no before German might. question of what to do; they wish to keep things as they Lavon DeGrady, Mt. Olive, always have been. In Washington they are separated in iiantiy subtle The revolt of Gunner Asch home economics: Frankly, I per- fact if not in name by the Southern congressmen who re- : ItM: satire, tender comes when the gunner’s fer speakers from outside even cently issued a pro-segregation manifesto to the nation. It riotous love Friend, a timid, little pid-sqeak though the student-sponsored is a curious document; I wonder if the congressmen read it : uninhi-- of a soldier named Verbien, has. programs are usually informa- before they signed it. s ■ : bited behavior been driven almost to the point tive and give students opportuni- This ultimatum (it is precisely that) takes Mr. Faulkner’s barrack life, of suicide by the German ty to develop important skills in argument to its illogical conclusion. The two following sen- ■ : ;# its satire, n.C.O.’s. Asch vows that every ®xpre^ing themselves in publjc. tences are illustrative. “It” (the Supreme Court) “is de- daVIS story saju- man who has had a hand in the Ann Corpening, Morganton, stroying the amicable relations between the white and Ne- cily pokes fun “treatment” of his friend will social science- Great' They are gro races that have been created by ninety years of patient at the pettiness of the German suffer, and they do. a step m the direction of true effort by the good people of both races. It has planted Non-Commissioned Officers and Gunner beeins a one man democratic living; futhermore, hatred and suspicion where there has heretofore been the machine-like efficiency they • • , . , , uterallv most of the students enjoy them, friendship and understanding.” Let us examine the facts, exacted of their recruits. In its ? * fu + ^ particularly those relating to “amicable relations.” Since love story the novel contrasts creates navoc on the post, by Napoleon R. Vance, Winston- 1865 over 5,000 Negroes, including 100 women, have been the romance of the reticent and ^ his superior officers Salem, commerce; Such pro lynched. There have been race riots in Wilmington, North sjjy Verbien, with the bold im- standing pronely on grams are no substitute for ex- Carolina; in Atlanta, Georgia; and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to pestuous love of Gunner Asch. regulations. He was perienced speakers who have ex name a few places. In all these outbreaks, Negroes have Gunner Asch is a young cog careful never to go beyond his cellent backgrounds and have suffered heavily in loss of life as well as property. As yet, ^^e Germany pre-World War ^®Sal and literal rights, but in “toed the rubber.” We need con- OO white man has ever received the death sentence for kill- jj jnUjtary wheel but he is an coming to the brink of these tact with such experienced ing a Negro. How anyone can say that “there has hereto- excentionallv craftv one- in ""^^hts, he succeeded in tho- people who can help us m many fore been friendship and understanding” in the South is Qdysseus of Homeric fame roughly harassing every one of ways. confusing to me. could almost be said to be his fis superiors. In the end, each of culey M. Vicks, Jackson, The NAACP proposes that the constitution of fee United ^otype Gunner Asch con- superiors was released of his health education: Fm enthusias- States he upheld in all cases, regardless of race. For taking himself in, what because he was unable to tic about student-sponsored pro- this position it has been loosely called the Negro counterpart ^ ability might maintain discipline among his grams because they are usually of the White Citizen’s Councils. Such characterization is catastrophic situations. In men. The Gunner, incidentally, quite interesting and encourage inaccurate and unfair to the Association. Nowhere can one however his sharp received a promotion. larger numbers of students to find a single instance in which it has, by WOTd or d^^ wit carries’him through. For-in- The Revolt of Gunner Asch attend chapel. ‘foT*c0 in Drotest of governmsnt policy. Its officials iiavG u66n .. • • n •*.4. • /-* beaten and threatlned more than once, but the Association stance there was the occasion ,was original y written in Ger- R„th O. Robinson, Acme has relied solely upon judicial decisions to overcome the which the Gunner had lost man by Ku-st and it was trans- home economics: Good. They iids icx U J J- J clothes but a shirt and lated from the German text by offer an opportunity for stu- Oppo^ ^ before they were had been forced to return to the Emery. It may be due to the dents to get first hand experi- .rranied their rights. Likewise the women of America had military installation virtually translation from one language ence as platform guests; they t truggle ceaselessly for their political rights. Why then naked. When he entered the post to another that the story seems also change the familiar pat- Viniild the Negroes stand and wait? It is now a long time he was stopped by a drunken to be lacking in vigor and style, tern of programs featuring out- ® ictQ officer, who demanded to “know The love stories, though beauti- side speakers, since loi-y- ,
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