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atlp Car : eeL CUttortal 3Page PAGE 2 SATURDAY;.MAY 30. 1936 Wfyt Batlp Car Heel The official newspaper of the Publications Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of Search 3, 1879. Sub--gcription price, $3.00 for the college year. Business and editorial offices: 204-206 Graham Memorial Telephones: editorial, 4351; business, 4356; night, 6906 . - Editor Don K. McKee i A. Reed Sarratt, Jr. Managing EditT Butler French. :. Business Manager Editorial Staff Editorial Assistants: Edwin Kahn, Stuart Eabb, Mac Smith. City Editor: Charles Gilmore. News Editors: Don Becker, Bill Jordan, Lytt Gard ner, John Jonas. Deskmen: Herbert Goldberg, Newton Craig. Reporters: Voit Gilmore, Bob Perkins, Will Arey, Jimmy Sivertsen, Herbert Hirschf eld, Gordon ' Burns, Dorothy Snyder, Paul Jernigan, Joe Fletcher,. Allen Merill, Ben F. Dixon, Catherine DeCarlo, Jake Strother, Ruth Crowell, Hazel ' Beacham. Sports: Ira Sarasohn, editor, Ed Hamlin and Ray Howe, night editors, Bill Anderson, Fletcher Ferguson, Len Rubin, Graham Gammon, Harvey Kaplan, Ed Karlin, Bill ?.aney, E. L. Peterson, Ray Simon, Tom Hawth ne, Tom Tufts. News Release: H. T. Terry, Bob Brewer, Randolph Reece, John Eddleman, Herman Ward Reviews: Bill Hudson. , Assistant to the Managing Editor: J. L. Cobbs. Exchanges: George Butler, Norman Rothschild, Ted Britt. Art: John (jhapman, Phil Schinhan. Radio: Ned Kornblite. ' Photography: John Larsen, Alan Calhoun, Jerry Kisner. Business Staff Circulation: Jesse Lewis. Collections: Herbert Osterheld. Local Advertising: Eli Joyner. Office: Roy Crooks, James Wharton. Local Advertising Assistants: Bill McLean, Page Keel, Crist BlackweH, Bob Davis, Marvin Utley, Bill Lamont, C. S. Humphrey. For This Issue . News Editor: Lytt Gardner. Sports: Ray Howe. Engineering Re-opened When the Board of Trustees meets this after noon in Greensboro, the question of consolidation of the engineering schools will be re-opened. Last June the Trustees voted that Chapel Hill's en gineering plant should be transferred to Raleigh. Since the passage of that "New Plan of Consolida tion," protests against merging the two schools have continuously blared forth. The resolutions transmitted by the University faculty to the Board of Trustees are the most re cent of these objections to moving Carolina's en gineering school to Raleigh. The recommenda tion of the faculty is that "there should be one engineering school, with divisions at Raleigh and Chapei Hill, each carrying on its own special type of work with proper allocation of functions." The following arguments point to the folly of moving Carolina's engineering school to State College: 1. To move the engineering school from Chapel Hill, where the Greater University's scientific em phasis is to be centered, deprives the consolidated engineering school of the support of the strongest scientific departments in the state. 2. The engineering school at Chapel Hill, by providing opportunity for the practical applica tion of the sciences, strengthens the College of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools here. To move engineering from Carolina is to weaken the curricula at Chapel Hill. 3. To transform State College's engineering school, where work in the specific industries is now emphasized, into a professional engineering school (as the consolidationists plan) is to make no provision in the Greater University for the stu dent who wants a technical, rather than a pro fessional engineering education. 4. With the limited legislative appropriation for higher education, the large expenditure . that must be made to build up departments allied and contributory to engineering at State College must be at the expense of Carolina and W. C. U. N. C. More logical than transferring Carolina's en gineering school to Raleigh might be the sug- estion implied by the faculty resolution: To em phasize technical engineering instruction at State College and continue professional engineering education at Chapel Hill. On the Air Last night the University Club decided to con duct a student canvass to raise the $80 needed to assure the coast-to-coast Columbia broadcast of Ray Noble from Finals, the canvass to begin immediately after conclusive permission for the presentation comes from New York. Wiring costs for the program alone will amount to nearly $200, but alumni and the Grail have contributed all but $80. The University Club is to be commended for its initiative the rest of us should be willing to co operate and show the world we've got something on the Hill besides a cheating ring. J. M. S. CARP-GRAPHIC S ? by . I -Qy. DO YOU KNOW cUOh, rSr vnno ctatcj 6ABR1EL JOHNfTON YAf ZONQER THAN ANVOHS HflE (1754-62) DIDYOUKHOWthat 3FVRE FOOD SHORTAGE, THE NX. AtfSMBLY FORBID G0Y.0FMC WSS WAS KICKED OUT OF OFFICE IN I683-HIJ TOMBJTOhT WAf NEVER PAID FOR PIDYOUKNOWftiAT flC REFU5EP TO RATIFY THE CONfllTtfTION UNTIE TtfFFlRfTIO AMENDMENT WERE ADDED? Ttfl5 KEPT m EXPORTATION OF CORN WHEAT, QRAlN,F10URTCv - & IMITC WE 5TATE OUT OF WE FIRST ' 1 THE RC. AJEMDJY UJEDTOGIVJE FINITE nomnhM r.rru V HIJTRUCTIONJ.ETGTO THE NATIONAL vwwtnum. uxuiin . . CONGRHJMEN AND JENATORJ I TH EDITORS OF CARO'CRAPHICSINVITB YOU TO SENO IN INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YOOR. COMCJOfHTY Y engineering question The following are the opinions which Professor T. P. NOE, JR., of the University engineering de partment expresses on the ques tion of University Consolidation. The article was written by Bob Perkins, reporter. In 1931 a commission of ex perts was appointed to study the consolidation of North Carolina's three state colleges. W. E. Wickenden, president of Case School of Applied Science, had complete charge of the engineer ing school phase of the question. The other members of the com mission were experts in their respective fields of education. The final recommendation in the report of this commission was very favorable to the school of engineering in the Chapel Hill unit. The conclusion of this report was so unfavorable to Staje Col lege that the report itself was seen by only a few. The analy sis presented by the experts cer tainly merits more attention than has been given it. Since the action of the Board of Trus tees last June, Wickenden has stated that conditions have not materially changed from the time of his report and the en gineering school should remain at Chapel Hill. Allocation of Functions The consolidation plan is based on the old theory of al location of functions. The plan . is to allocate specific functions to each unit of the Greater Univer sity. This principle has been tried by the University of Iowa since 1909 and the University of California since 1919 as their consolidation program. It was found in both instances, after a specific function was allotted to each educational unit, that even tually and inevitably each, unit built up and expanded all relat ed functions, even to the extent of duplicating instruction at the graduate level. This principle of functional allocation has apparently called for the centering of all graduate instruction and the school of ' commerce at Chapel Hill. Al ready in the few months in which this plan has been in ope ration it has "been found im possible to give all graduate work at Chapel Hill, thus neces sitating a distribution of gradu ate instruction between the three institutions, involving much duplication. It is this im practical principle of functional allocation which is given as the alleged reason for transferring our engineering school to Ral eigh. Costs Compared Claims have been made that the relative educational cost of State is less than the cost at the engineering school in Chapel Hill. This claim has been based on the cost per graduate of the engineering schools. Such a re sult appears favorable to State College only because they now graduate a much higher percent age of their total enrollment, a condition that cannot be main tained if all engineering work is located at Raleigh. Relative costs are almost impossible to obtain because the engineering school, budget does not include the cost of instruction given by the service departments. How ever, he engineering school bud get per student enrolled is prac tically the same at the two in stitutions. Should State attempt to build up their engineering" school in accordance with the present con solidation plan it would necessi tate a larger portion of the state appropriation for higher educa tion going to the Raleigh unit. This would necessarily decrease the appropriation available for both the Women's College and Carolina. The faculty members at Chapel Hill are justly worried regarding our ability to continue membership in the Association of American Universities. This association has few members and a necessary high standard for membership. With our re sources dissipated through , the consolidation program, we stand to lose our national reputation gained through years of develop ment. On the other hand State would find it almost impossible to build up within a few years an equal reputation, even with large sums of money available. Educational reputations are earned only through years of painstaking development, there fore it is our duty to maintain and continue to expand our high grade engineering school at Chapel: Hill, with emphasis on graduate work . and research, velop their school with empha and at Raleigh continue to de sis on specific industries. This would go far towards increasing the higher educational facilities of the State of North Carolina. Rocky Mount Club Choosing Dick Hicks its new president and naming a commit tee to represent it during fresh man orientation week next fall, the Rocky Mount club last night closed its year. Other, officers that the club chose were: Page Keel and Ray Poole, vice presidents; and Lee Large, secretary-treasurer. University Majors MUSIC By Dr. Glen Haydon The courses in music are de signed to perform a. three-fold function in the University: (a) to give the student electing mu sic as his chief interest a thor ough training in the practical, theoretical, and historical as pects of the subject as a part of the general liberal arts curricu lum for the A. B. degree; (b) to give the student interested in the scholarly aspects of the sub ject the basic training necessary for successful graduate work; (c) to afford students in other departments the opportunity to take music as an elective for its (Continued on last page) Behind-The Wheels Claude Rankin By Ruth Cbowell "I think lousy. The its out standing thing about it is that it is over with and it came out on time." That was Claude Rankin be ing relieved that the 1936 Yackety Yack, his own brain-child, is finished. And with a final effort for the University, Rankin thought he had done his bit, but he was elected permanent president of the senior class. Work just seems to follow him around. Dur ing his four years here, he has been on the junior and senior executive committees, secretary of the University Club, presi dent of the P. U. Board, and a member of the freshman and sophomore Y. M. C. A. cabinets. Known as one of the most in fluential politicians on the cam-, pus, 'Rankin has had his finger in the pie behind the scenes for a long time, and he can be seen most any night after din ner sitting on the steps of the A. T. O. house cracking jokes. Rankin has a worthy ambi tion to be a philanthropist. Ex plaining, he said, "I'm going ta be a philanthropist, because they are all rich ; and I'm going to live off my relatives until I start philandering." When asked why he was editor of the Yackety Yack, Ran--kin replied "I was not as wise as I am now, and I like Henry Lewis too much to want him to have the job." 1 "Lysistrata" and the Greeks By Dr. W. S. Bernard For one who through forty years has been reading and tea ching the masterpieces of Greek literature, the presentation of "Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" by Our Playmakers aroused an in terest perhaps more intense than that felt by a normal play-goer. Professor Koch suspecting this has asked for my reactions. May I answer first two of the many questions since asked me, about the play? First "Was the audience getting Aristopha nes through Mr. Seldes' Modern Version?" In one sense em phatically no. It is utterly im possible to reproduce in English by literal or free translation of by pharaphrases Aristophanes' plays. Language from every phase of life the fish markets, political debates, law courts, pailestra, brothels, wine shops, unexpected word connotations, ambiguous meanings, burlesque, lampoon, irony, nonsense, absur dity to the N'th degree, pour forth in rhythmical forms which no poet of Greece could excel, in terspersed with stately tragic diction and choral lyrics of sup remest beauty all shot through with a sure grasp of objective and an intellectual philosophy of life. ,,Frere's translations are the nearest approach to this poet we have in English. Just the Spirit What Mr; Seldes has done is to take the motif and plot of the "Lysistrata" and write an Eng lish play in the spirit of Aristo phanes and successfully.. And that is the yes answer to the question. - The second question phrases thus, "How did an Athenian Au dience reach to this bold dis play of sex relationship between husband and. wife"? The ques tion of propriety or impropriety would not have occured to an Athenian audience. Sex Not Taboo For in the first place the Greek drma, both tragedy and comedy, had its origin in a sacred cult, the worship in carnival of the divinity that presided over re productionthe God of fertility, Dionysus, Bacchus. In the spring harvest festivals, the phallus or male generative organs, were borne, on a pole in the phallic dances or processions. Sex was not taboo, but the very source of life, and the Greek looked at life with wide open eyes "saw it sanely and saw it whole." Whenever possible he laughed, but not cynically. Tragedy was too close on comedy. Least of all he was a puritan. Perhaps there is a lesson in the "Lysistrata" for us puritans, certainly a heal thier humanism. If it was of the earth earthy, it was not of the dirt dirty.' Now the Playmaker's produc tion my biggest kick came from the beauty of it. The grouping was splendid. Groups formed, dissolved, flowed into other groups as rhythmically as Dr. Haydon's music. Especially (Continued on last page)
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