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Page 8, The Carolina Journal, 1969
Whafs In
The News
Alpha Phi Ome^a
Wliat's In the News? Mugli Jolley,
Bookstore manager, has resigned.
Steve Rayborn.
Vice-Chairnian-eIcct of the Union,
has resigned, Arthur Ford and
Senator Michael Yeats spoke here
last week. The School Board bans
INQUISITION on the UNC-C
campus. IIIE KILLING OF
SISTER GEORGE is showing at
the Plaza. The Student Legislature
donates $100 to aid Biafra. The
New Arts F'estival is here. Man is
free. Bud's grandma drinks beer.
There will be another “3”.
Bowlers lose; golfers win. APO
Pledges elect Zorro as their
champion. Read on. if you dare.
The APO recently elected
new officers. They are as
follows:
President: David Taylor
Vice President: Steve
Paterson
Pledgemaster and Second
Vice President: Ed Wayson
Correspondance Secretary:
Philip Hall
Treasurer: Joe McCorkle
Recording Secretary: Doug
Roach
Pledge Class President: John
Crain
Next week the APO is
sponsoring its annual UGLY
MAN ON CAMPUS contest. The
proceeds will go to their
scholarship fund. The voting
desk will be in the Union. The
ballot will be a penny and may
be cast as often as desired.
Yeats Was A True
Irishman Above All
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be aloof when he was, in
actuality, a very shy man. His
poor sight and absent niinded-
ness also contributed to his
attitude. W. B. Yeats was “a
resourceful and sometimes
unscrupulous manipulator in
causes that interested him,”
according to his son.
riic author of such poems as
"Sailing to Byzantium" and “The
Second Coming" experienced a
tempesluous and ungratificd love
for Maud Gonne, a violent
revolutionary who led Yeats into
many trivial and unfruitful
revolutionary activities, including
the famous Jubilee Riots, A
member of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood and Chairman of the
■‘)8 Committee, Yeats wrote many
nationalistic plays for the Abby
Theatre that he organized in
Dublin. As an Irish Senator, Yeats
gave many famous and articulate
speeches, the most well-known of
which was in opposition to the
bill condeming divorce. Michael
Yeats remembers when detectives
had to guard the houses of all
Senators; William gave them
detective stories to read in order
that they might continue in the
tradition of some of their greatest
predecessors.
Yeats' politics were spiced with
a note of ambivilency - he was not
an extremist, but he was a
national;, he wanted home rule,
but he was too peaceful a man to
participate in the Civil War of
1916. He has often been accused
of advocating fascism on account
of his belief in government by the
educated. His views were really
derived from the eighteenth
century political philsophy of
Burke, a devout believer in the
intellectual freedom of man.
The distinguished Senator,
whose white hair and spectacles
cause him to resemble his father
in his late forties, closed by
affirming that “above all, William
Butler Yeats was an Irishman,”
Michael’s bright green tie served as
a reminder that Irishness is
hereditary.
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The Student Government
Award was also voted on. Danny
Phillips, Gus Psomadakis, and
Jerrold Burks were the nominees.
Mr. Burks, however, withdrew his
name. The voting was done by
secret ballot, and the results will
be announced at the Awards
Convocation.
It was also brought up that
there are no pencil sharpeners
available in the Union for
students who study there. Rather
than formally write a letter as was
requested, Mr. Stewart Auten,
chairman, volunteered to go
directly to Dean McKay.
Gordon Lawrence, Freshman
Class V.P., announced that the
Freshman Class is trying to
develop a school flag.
The meeting was adjourned
until Monday, April 14jat 11:30
A.M. It too will be held in the
Parquet Room to facilitate those
students who are not on the
Legislature but who would like to
attend the meeting
Exhibits —
(continued from page 1)
During the entire week, John
Wliite’s photography exhibit and
Walt Storozuk’s “Sfumatezza”
will be open to the students in the
lounge. An architectural exhibit
will be in the back of the Parquet
Room.
Franklin 6-3548
SPORTING GOODS
ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT
the
230 Charlottetown Mall
Charlotte 4, N. C.
One Step Forward,
Two Steps Back
Your Move
In chess, a player’s moves early in the game affect his
later moves in much the way that heredity and environment affect
the life of a man. The opening and early setup point the way for a
certain way to attack the opponant’s pieces. A sequence is started,
but it is not like an avalanche. Some men choose to believe that
their lives are shaped in detail by their inherited characteristics and
environment. An avalanche, once started cannot he reversed. The
course of a man’s life can. The chess player can always change his
mind and make a move that is contradictory to his game plan-he is
free in his moves, a volitional creature. Man is also a
volitional being. His heredity molds physical and mental capacities,
but does not shape the will. His environment limits his field of
choice; it allows certain issues to become subjects for choice, but
does not limit the affirmation or denial. Man is free to choose his
moves in the same way that the chess contestant is free to make
his moves-for better or for worse. The philosophical argument of
freedom vs. determinism is a long standing one, and no attempt to
clear it up now will be successful. Existence is the only
epistomolpgical question that can be addressed with any degree of
certainty; all else is hut quesswork operating within the realm of
certain probahilities. If man is not free, then what is the
alternative? There must be some higher creature that is the moldet
of man’s destiny, a god. That, needless to say, has never been
proven. Man is, and he is free.
Check
Freshmen
Work on
a Flag
Man, as was established last week, defies definition until his
choices have ceased; he always has the capacity for a reversal. Only
death stops him from choosing. Can something that is still in
motion be categorized? No. Still, men attempt to catagorize each
other every day. They pretend that they are chess pieces that are
only allowed to move in set patterns. A rook can move only
horizontally or vertically. A Baptist can’t drink. Bishops move only
diagonally. Platonists can not enjoy tragedies. We speak of each
other as if we were slaves to the roles that we live in society, as if
we were being manipulated by some -omnipotent contestant who
sees to it that we stick to the rules in the eternal tournament. We
call each other “liberal” or “positivist” or “socialist” or “rebel”,
but we don’t consider the consequences of our casual
categorization. We ascribe a general label to a man on the basis of
a few observed behavioral traits, and then we ate surprised when
our victim acts not in accordance' with the label. Isn’t it disgusting
to see a “stupid” person act intelligently? Labels are attempts to
hide man’s individuality, to group him . .Life is much more
comfortable for a man who believes that he is not alone; he thinks
that there are others like him who can aid him when he needs
help. It’s just another part of the padding that surrounds the
anguish of existence. There is no help for a person trying to solve
an identity crisis; no one can assist an individual who is faced with
a dilemma, he must make his decision alone. All advice and
precedent just serves to make a man believe that the weight does
not rest on him, but this is surely a false notion or an example of
bad faith. A man who believes that his choices are being guided by
someone or something other than himself is, like the believer in an
after life, trying to ease the anguish of existence for himself.
Check Mate
There is a close parallel between the life of an individual and
the historical existence of mankind. “Human nature” escapes all
definition until there are no men alive, just as the individual alludes
defintion until his death. The psychological “laws” that we base
judgments on are subject to negation as long as one man breathes.
But, it is said, why, then, do they work? It is a matter of
probability. Still, if we could really form some law of “human
nature” from an extensive role of cases, then the concept would be
too general to be useful in conversation. Men are free and man is
free. What is the most constructive use to which this freedom can
be put? This is the same question that has arisen before. Many
men see the answer in an attempt to bridge the gap that exists
between individuals. Others see the solution in involvement for its
own sake. Still others feel that “self realization”, the best
utilization of talents and the most economical achievement of
satisfaction, is the answer. Later we’ll examine these reasons for
engaging in a game that is lost from the start. “Men die and they
are not happy,” says Albert Camus. If he is right, then the
outcome of the game is always . . . Checkmate. But is he right?