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l : I WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, io.-j PAGE TWO. THE DAILY TAR HEET v V si 3. 2, U gc te te to nt Bl an to Fc th: sit tot The official student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is published by the Publications Board daily during the regular sessions of the University at Colonial Press. Inc.. except Sat., Bun Monday, examinations and vacation periods and during the official summer terms when published semi-weekly. Entered as second cljss matter at the Post Office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3. 1379. Subscription price: S8 per year, $3 per quarter. Member of the Associated Press, which is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of this newspaper. Editor Managing Editor Associate Editor Executive News, Editor ... Sports Editor Easiness Manager Andy Taylor, News Editor Bill Peacock. Associate Spts. Ed. Nficv Burpess. Sociein Editor Chase Ambler, Ass. Sub. Manager 4 News staff: Walt Dear, Harvie Ritch, Fletcher Hollingsworth, Joan Palmer, Pat Morse, Peggy Keith, Peggy Anderson. Sports staff: Bill Peacock. Biff Roberts. Art Greenbaum, Ken Barton, Leo Northart. Ed Starnes. Bill Hughes, Jack Claiborne. Angelo Vepdicanno. Society staff: Franny Sweat, Lu Overton, Lou Daniel, Tink Gobbel, Helen Boone. Business staff: Marie Costello, Marie Withers, Hubert Breeze, Bruce Marger. Bill, Faulkner, Joyce Evans, Beverly Serr, Jim Schenck, Jane Mayrt, Jane Goodman, Betty Lou Jones, Stanley Sturm, Wally Horton. For This Issue Night Editor. Rolfe Neill , - t Vote Today! Vote today, dammit, or you will deserve what you get. On Bull And Elections When the political winds began to blow, The Daily Tar Heel promised to "make known those things and candi dates which it considers best for the welfare of the student body." That is what it will now attempt to do. First, it will back only two candidates in this column. They are Larry Botto, seeking to return to the Student Council where he served as a distinguished and useful chairman this year, and Bunny Davis, unopposed for the vice-presidency of the student body. Both are men whose services and good thinking are needed by student government. They are head and shoulders above any other candidate for any other office, and it is our extreme regret that Botto is not running for the presidency of the student body. Secondly, it will point out that, of the present candidates for president, only one is not a product of necessity or of purely political shenanigans. As everyone knows, Ben James is the most experienced of the candidates, Henry Bowers is the most politically moral, and Dick Penegar is the most inexperienced. But there is a decision for every voter to de cide for himself, not one for The Daily Tar Heel. Only one thing to say about the race for the editorship of this paper. If the candidates andor their backers behave after they are elected as they have been behaving during the campaign, then The Daily Tar Heel and, more important, the student body, will have been dealt a cruel blow. Theirs has been a record of petty bickering, false promising, and outright untruth. It has seemed to become a political fashion to 'curse and revile The Daily Tar Heel during campaigns. That was the main feature of the election last spring. It has been the principle tactic of some of the present editorial candidates. Most of the screaming comes from candidates who claim the paper plays favorites in its news columns. And during the past couple of years, that criticism has been aimed at Chuck Hauser, who seems to be the favorite scapegoat of certain groups. The editor of this paper claims here and now that this season's news coverage of politicians has been, if anything too fair. Of all the "campaign statements" brought up by candidates, not one has merited the space it got. Most of it is pure bull, and the candidates, and their backers know it to be. Now as for the candidates for editor of this paper. Firstly, Don Maynard is the most experienced man in the race and he is running on the record of that experience. Walt Dear, as has been truthfully said, is not experienced enough to take over such a job and those who back him know that to be the truth. They know that he is a last-ditch candidate selected after the writer of this editorial was declared in eligible. Frank Allston is, next to Maynard, the most ex perienced, but could easily be swayed by certain elements that are not for the best interests of the paper. Glenn Harden is perhaps the most intelligent of the candidates. As for the campaigns of the editorial candidates, they have indicated outright stupidity and they have expected the student body to accept that stupidity. They have made claims the fulfillment of which is out of their hands. THey have bickered and scapegoatecr without a truthful leg to stand on. In other words, they have shown a shocking lack of that small amount of maturity which is necessary in the person whose writings are very nearly taken as the word of the students of the University. Theirs is to be a job that requires keen understanding and a modicum of level-headed, fair thinking. They and their backers have shown no such maturity. One othe.r aspect of this campaign deserves the attention of the student body. That is the fact that the University Party has finally put its predominately pro-fraternity feeling in its platform. And although the statement itself is badly worded, it is at least there. The Daily Tar Heel is sorry in one way that the UP did put such a thing in its platform. It means that the party rejects all but fraternity support, and the com bined vote of the fraternity men is not enough to win a campus-wide election against a militant political organization. That means that the Student Party, as long as it is filled with willing worker's, will be able to win campus-wide elec tions. And the Student Party this year has shown a lack of concern for anything but winning the election. It has nom inated inept candidates for top jobs and blandly campaigned for them. Some of its members have used untruth, and un ethical political tactics. Such is not good when it is done by those whose party seems to have won a majority of the campus-wide vote by default. These are things that the campus should consider when it gees to the polls today. The Daily Tar Heel hopes that today will be a turning point in UNC student government, a day on which the student body finally exerts its' voting power for the right. It is high time. ROY PARKER. JR. CHUCK HAUSER DON MAYNARD ROLFE NEIL.L ZANE ROBBINS ED WILLIAMS Neil Cadleu, Ad. Mgr. Oliver Watkins. Office Mgr. Shasta Bryant. Circ. Mgr. Tom McCall. Subs. Mgr. on the Carolina " FRONT by Chuck Hauser A number of people not con nected with the University ask ed me over the weekend what the student reaction was to the policy set by the Board of Trus tees to admit qualified Negro students to graduate and profes-. sional schools of the University where equal facilities are not provided for them elsewhere in the state. I was happy to report to them that there was, in general, no student reaction at all. The stu dent body read the stories about the Trustee action,' put the paper down, and forgot the whole busi ness. Although most students don't realize it, the one Negro whose suit forced the Board to set its policy last Wednesday will never come to the University. He is at present enrolled in, third-year med school at an in stitution in Tennessee, and since the UNC four-year medical school will not begin operations until the all of 1953, he will have his M.D. and be practicing by the time the facilities will be available here to enroll him. But this Negro, a fellow named Thomas, was the one who filed the first suit for admission to the Medical School. Tomorrow President Gordon Gray must file an answer to that suit with the Federal District Court. In his answer he will state that the policy of the University of North Carolina is to admit quali fied Negroes if no equal facili ties for study in their field is provided elsewhere in and by North Carolina. He wrill state that if Thomas is competitively qualified, he will be admitted to the UNC -Medical School. And Gray's answer will be sincere. When an application is received by a Negro, he will be given the same entrance tests and be judged by the same standards as white applicants. There will be no subterfuge used to exclude any Negroes who are qualified to be enrolled and who score high enough competitively to rate a place in the school which they want to enter. Gray told the Board last Wed nesday that he could not go be fore the courts and answer "I don't know" when he was ask ed what the University policy was in regard to the admission or exclusion of Negroes because of their race. Gray told the Board that he deserved an an swer, and that he would report to the courts whatever policy the Trustees might lay down. Gray got his answer.. He will refer that answer to the judici ary,, tomorrow, if the Thomas suit to enter the Medical School has not been withdrawn by that time. . s As far as the Law School is concerned, the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals that the University must open the doors to its legal education for the Negro race has been set aside for the moment, as far as its execution is concerned, pending the outcome of an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. That appeal may take some time, and it will probably be many months before the ques tion is taken under considera tion by the highest court in the land. Thus, it logically follows that it will be quite some time before a Negro enters the Law School. When the first Negro student ever to enroll at the University of North Carolina starts classes, whether next fall or a year from naxt fall, there will be no fan fare. The newspapers' of the state may not get wind of it for several days, and by that time the news will be stale enough to rate little consideration. .And the. University will go right along as it has for the past 156 vears. On Campus From the Albion Pleiad, Al bion College, Michigan: "The results of the voting con ducted in chapel this week con cerning the Student Council constitution amendment indicate either an unfortunate lack of interest among student voters or a fallacy in the method of bal loting. - V" "Only 823 votes were cast by a total of 1128 students . . ." Ed note: And that's just a lousy 73 per cent. From The Editor's Abandon SEC Editor: - - .' May I suggest that the SEC be abandoned and the scheduled performances called off for this year until our student body can behave in a manner befitting ladies and gentlemen. The loss of prestige that the University suffered at the per formance of Oscar Levant is ir reparable. I know that the small minority of evidently ill bred and uncouth students here is small. But does the world know it? We were honored that Mr. Levant consented to play at all after the uncalled for remarks and hissing. . Perhaps a compulsory course in "audience manners" should be taught. It is needed. Perhaps if coats and ties were required and the no smoking rule rigidly enforced the atmosphere would be more conducive to good manners. Something must be done before the same disgrace is repeated again. Tom McMillan, Jr. 'Black Sheep7 Editor: Every family, every group has them. Carolina is by no means an exception. They show their traits in public, where they should have enough self respect to cover them. - Consider, for instance, Oscar Levant's per ' formance last Tuesday night. Everyone is anticipating a great performance, and indeed it was a great one. But one or two of our "Black Sheep" Carolina gentlemen turned Mr. Levant against the whole audience by letting a cat on stage. Then, when Mr. Levant became an gered, a voice came from the audience, "Why don't you come down off your high horse?" Why doesn't the guy who said that realize that whatever horse Not Guilty Dear Women of America, , I love you. Just the same I xthink you ought to be spanked and sent to bed without supper because you're the most conceit ed, pampered, spoiled, yet beau tiful women in the world. Mother Nature and the 19th Amendment have given you so much power you've managed to secure a strangle-hold on the American male. Science has giv en you oily grease for dry hair, dry grease for oily hair, and hourglass gowns for beerglass figures. The billion-dollar cos metic industry keeps you con stantly bathed in a radiant au rora of incandescent glamour. Armed with everything from falsies to chlorophyll you braz enly trap young men into a life of martial blitz with odds at three to one the ship of matri mony will run aground on the sands of Reno. Why? You're the best fed, the best clothe, the wealthiest, and the luckiest On Greek Week by Dale Morrison, Kyle Barnes; and Bob Raskin Three years ago the first Greek Week was planned and carried out for the fraternities on this campus. The only activity of note was an interfraternity banquet attended by some interested, fra ternities. The second Greek Week was characterized by greater participation on the part of fraternities and the addition of ex change dinners ..'and a field day. This year a community work, project was added to the activities and greater participation was obtained. All but one fraternity participated in so far as was pos sible in all of the activities. The one exception did take part in some' of the phases of Greek Week. - The purposes of Greek Week are to supplement individual fra ternity's pre-initiation activities, to unite the fraternities at the time of these activities, and to batter interfraternity relations. Greek Week has -acquired constructive aspects as exemplified by .'the. work done in Battle Park. The result of Greek Weeks has been a change in emphasis in fraternities' pre-initiation activities. Such activities have changed so that there has been a lessening of any undue physical strain on pledges and a reduction of -activities that might prove undignified or detrimental to either pledges or the public. The acceptance and .future 'progress of Greek Week seems assured since next year will be the first year in-which all fra ternity members', including seniors, will have undergone Greek Week activities. Fraternities, the administration, and the public can look forward to a bright future as regards fraternities pre initiation activities on this campus. Mr. Levant is riding on, he crem ated it through years of hard ) work and should have the privi lege of riding it? .Doubtless it will be a long time before Os car Levant appears under the sponsorship of the SEC again. Why must it always be the few who create a bad name for the many? The antagonizer, in my opinion, deserves a good swift kick in the seat of his pants for doing such a thing. Herb Pender graft Beats Grahamism Editor: I would like to synthesize part of the logic of the article by Ed McLeod (April 5) and to comment on it. 1. The staff or the YMCA was opposed to the sponsorship of Billy Graham. 2. I (McLeod) went along with the nonsponsorship but now see the light. 3. The staff of the. YMCA is not Chritsian but is humanistic. The emphasis of the staff of the YMCA is not "conversion" in the usual sense. Many people believe that a professional Christian should be an "in spired" person overflowing the grace of God on everyone and convincing them that they should spend more of their time worshiping Jesus Christ. Overawing and exorting a person to accept the "right" creeds can avail a person little if the person cannot apply the creeds to his life. The approach of helping students to think through the deeper problems of life, of thinking of all problems in relation to one's central be liefs, and of applying one's Christianity in concrete situa tions is the approach of the staff of the YMCA. It is democratic and effetcive. - It beats Billy Grahamism any clay. Allan Milledge '-Vice-President of the YMCA women on earth but you're no match for your European sisters when it comes to the ancient art of making a home more than just a refueling depot. You may think you've got it pretty rough getting up at the crack of noon and sweating over a hot bridge table all day. Let me introduce you to Ingrid, a typical Norweigian coed, blond hair, blue eyes, and so tall she's snowcapped. Rouge and lipstick aren't exactly included in the Marshall Plan and the only ny lon she's ever seen was in the ripcords of war-surplus para chutes. Ingrid works 14 hours a day and for vacations she stacks sandbags along the Russian bor der. Never let anybody tell you our boys go for Scandinavian women because they're "easy pickups." Before you American girls had broken your first fin gernails, Ingrid had killed three over - anxious German officers with the business end of a Nor- Mailbox Discovers Meaning Editor: ' For three years I've had a pungent desire to write, a letter saying just what a grand place Carolina is, but the urgency has never', been as ..strong as right now.. It's just battering against my. ribs in an attempt to get put and yet words seem terribly weak. Never before in my life have I had the opportunity to meet so many stimulating people who' sometimes challenged me where I thought I was foolproof and praised me where I though I was weak. Never before have I grown so in such a short time, have I realized the little grasp I have on understanding and the vast amount that lies beyond the pre cipice of knowledge. Never before have I had the opportunity to read a daily newspaper managed by stu dents; to engage in a true-to-life student government; to hear speakers like Robert . Frost, plays like "Don Juan In Hell," go to clubs like the Carolina Political Union I could go on and on , but everyone knows what I mean. And yes, it's that word "mean," what does it all mean? that has been the area of chain reactions development for me. For at the Y Conference at Mon treat, I discovered a greater meaning than ever before to tie all these grand experiences together. I discovered a God who de mands my all all the exper iences I've had. All that i can understand from them. That synthesizing relationship has made me glader than ever that I have a chance to be a better Carolina student. Bob Thomason by Barry Farber wegian pitchfork. Ingrid's lack of poise and "so cial graces" would cause her to be frowned upon in sorority circles. Yet she had a knack of looking me squarely in the eye whenever I spoke and she gave me her undivided attention as if she actually understood what I was saying. When I finally broke down and bought her a dried herring head to chew on, her eyes sparkled like the mid night sun and she couldn't have been any happier had I given her a diamond necklace the size of a ham hock. Her warm smile radiates a spirit which hypocrisy and the dollar bill have all but swept from our North Ar.-ierican Continent. When Ingrid gets married she'll make a bleak, windswept fjord seem like the Garden of Eden. So, girls, that's why the frau leins and mademoiselles are giv ing you so much competition. They give while you take, they laugh while you blush, and they cooperate while you compete. I state this strictly as an impartial observer because I've never ex actly "made out" on either con tinent. I guess the c-uii.tanding difference between me and Gregory Peck is that Peck hr.s a short nose and long wavy ha'r while I have ?hort hair and along wavy nose. You might say I've got a winning smile but a los ing face and, to be perfectly frank, the average female finds mc about as charming-as a gila monster. I don't have an infer iority complex. I'm just inferior. You may think Farber'-s . just bitter toward American women 'hacause he's romantically frus trated. You're absolutely right. You boys with steady girl friend. will doubtlessly join them in denouncing 'this -sneak ..attack upon our nation's beloved .femininity. That'. whv the bat tle between the sexes will never bo won. There's too much fra ternization with the enemy. So I'll close with a word of advice to all unattached young men. Boys, make love to evry woman you meet, I don't care if she's American, Dutch. Indo nesian, or Manganese. Remem ber that! Make love to every woman you meet. If you get a return of only five percent on your outlay it's a good invest ment. ....... , . Presidential Memo by John Sanders Gordon Gray has proven that he has the three most esst ingredients of real leadership courage, conviction, and hone,;-,-. No one who sat through the turbulent meeting of the P.oard ,,: Trustees last week can doubt that fact. The question before the Board was the admission of Negroes v, graduate and professional schools where none are provided them )V the state, a policy which had been recommended by the Executive Committee of the Board. When Gray rose in support of the resolu tion, debate had raged for nearly an hour. Tempers were high. Impelled by unreasoning fear and hatred, two or three mr-n,b r of the Board had virtually accused Gray of pressing the issue at behest of sinister outside influences. John Clark made virulent attacks on the non-segregation policy of the Army, instituted under Gray as Secretary. lie raised the bogey of Northern interference by accusing David K. Niles, former White House assistant, of directiriT a staff of 85 lawyers in a concentrated onslaught on the segregation barriers of Southern universities. Clark even charged that there was a diabolical design to railroad the Negro admissions prope.,1 through the Executive Committee and the Board. Gray's face was literally purple with anger when he began 1,, speak. Though his delivery was as always calm and deliberate. ! , could not entirely suppress the indignation and outrage whic h he justly felt. His words were forceful and their aim was true. Pci..:: : with vigor the implications made by Clark and others, Gray showed himself to be the pawn of no man or group, but rather his owe; master, and answerable only tojiis conscience. The alternatives before the body Gray stated with logic and clarity. His support of the Executive Committee's proposal he as serted without equivocation and without compromise. While he accepted full responsibility for all things properly within his prov ince, the President demanded that the trustees take action on this issue, as it clearly could only be decided by the Board. A dec-ii..n was made imperative, he pointed out, by the fact that the Univer sity attorneys must by today answer in federal District Court the charge of exclusion of Negroes from the Medical School on ginui .ls of racial discrimination. "I will not go before a federal court and say, 1 don't know what University policy is on admitting Negroes,' " he stated bluntly, "nor will I be held in contempt of court for not answering." Going further,. Gray warned that if the resolution were passed, the Administration would carry it out in absolute good faith. Neither he nor-any other official of the University would "cover up" ior the Board, he asserted.- The chief support for Gray and the resolution came from Major L. P. McLendon, Greensboro attorney, who delivered a half-hour speech of great' power and eloquence. After almost three hours of vigorous debate, the issue was resolved by a 61-13 vote for the admission. Until the actual roll call was underway and the trend apparent, the measure appeared quite likely to fail. The outcome -was largely a tribute to Gray. He could have sat on the sidelines and left the fight to others. But he did not do so. and it was primarily because he took an affirmative stand, even at the cost of popularity in some quarters, that the result was as it was. It is a good thing that this test came for Mr. Gray at this early stage in his career here. No question can now be left in the minds of the students, the faculty, the trustees, or the people of North Carolina that he is a man of conviction and an executive of courage. He has amply proved himself in that regard. The effect of Gray's stand will reach far beyond the issue decided on last Wednesday. We now have unmistakable evidence that there is a-strong hand on the tiller of the University, holding determinedly to a fixed course of progress. I trust that he will never lack lor the full support of which he has shown himself to be worthy. Mailbox Annex Reply To Editor: I wish to reply to a letter by Mr. Pace, printed in The Daily Tar Heel under the title, "On a Petition." In his letter Mr. Pace states the following: "If everyone would just sign a petition for peace, then all the problems of the world would disappear. At least, that's what Bill Robertson tells us." A diligent search by the most careful reader will fail to un cover the fact that Bill Robert son told anybody any such tiding. On the contrary, my letter im plied that problems will regain after hundreds of millions of people have signed the petition for a FIVE POWER PACT OF PEACE. What I did indicate was that such a concrete expression ACROSS 1. Also 4. Type of lettuce 7. The theatrical profession 12. 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There is a difference between us as to how this goodness and intelli gence can be fully realized. However, I am confident that this difference does not preclude the possibility of our participat ing together in the urgently necessary struggle to achieve lasting peace throughout the' world. Bill Robertson Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle Affirmative Hiph cari DOWN Corrupt Volunteer 5. 1. 2. 3. About .4. Garment 5. Attack 6. CJuldes the helm 7. Little: Scotch 8. liurtii.inize 9. Mi. ke rrienflj 10. Uri pecterj pi-- e .f kooJ fort une 11. Btf,.,e 13. AnaWi: prefix III. Orfcan of fiixht 21. Artificially sprouted 24. 2i. 30. 3 ' ?,v. Wooden pine Port ion Thing Knotna? Kind of" fuel Koil Short pithy savins Staler H-.rder Iotl - look 1 ng A n no v City in ermont fundamental Went up famous purler Crusted riiilitl Small pei; used in po'.t Olden times: poet ic Oil: ssurtix N'otc of the 4 1. i I. 4C. '4S. i'J. 51. 56. 5S. 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