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THE DAILY-TAK HEEL
TUESDAY; JANUARY 8, 1952
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by Harry Snook ft,fjr.:
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Our congratulations to Lenoir Hall and the Pine Room for
a reversal of policy bringing back real coffee to the java
hungry students who still believe in -the old-fashioned five
cent brew made from coffee beans.
Our apologies to the Monogram Club, maligned by our
earlier editorial on the same subject. We caught them on the
wrong day. Manager Frank West had the frozen horcor served
for only one day last quarter.
Only holdout is L. B. Rogerson of the Carolina Inn. Both
the cafeteria and the dining room at the inn are still using the
frozen ersatz.
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Whatever Carolina's motive in adding Miami to next
years' football schedule, the action looks more like a Miami
Money Move than anything else. Miami is well-known as a
Mbig-money" team. '
"Let's de-emphasize football in college," has been the cry.
but Southern Conference presidents met on September 28
and banned bowl games in an effort to give tangible support
to the de-emphasis campaign. They also dropped Maryland
from Carolina's 1952 docket because the team engaged in a
bowl tilt without the permission of the Conference. The
Miami connotations are contradictory to the cause.
, In addition to placing them on the agenda, they wO re
ceive the honor of being our last game of the season, the game
which for years was reserved for Virginia -and this year, our
chief adversary, Duke. Psychologically, this game stimulates
greater interest among the fans than any other. It is the
climax to the. build-up, and should be saved for a "tradition
team". Miami will be anti-climatic. A great deal of that good
old, diminishing, finale spirit will be lost.
The game will be played at night in Miami's Orange Bowl. ,
Night games have not been a practice of the University for
fcnany years. Are we now selling our policies?
The picture is this: The purchasers of tickets to the Caro-lfcia-Miami
game on November 29, 1952, will all be stock
holders in an expanding business.
We are only furthering the sacrifice of inter-collegiate
sports competition spirit.
What price money?
The Scalpel Visage
Much has been said regarding that unique art form known
as Chapel Hill Architecture. ,
In the files of North Carolina newspapers may be found
editorial and news copy praising "the new, enormous, and
beautiful Hill Hall library," "spacious . . . Alumni Building,"
and the "modern school of business administration." There ,
may also be found curses, howls and general damnations of
individual buildings, of whole schools of architectural thought,
and of the variation on this campus.
We're back in the news. The Raleigh News and Observer
recently carried an editorial refuting Lewis Mumford's un
favorable appraisal of the new Medical School and hospital,
being completed on Chapel Hill's medical hill.
A letter to the editor of the venerated and venerable North
Carolina newspaper quickly supported the University author
ities on their choice of style for the buildings.
The argument, as it finally shaped up in John Skinner's
letter, is about the plumbing. We are hopeful that Mr. Skin
ner is correct in stating, "The people of North Carolina can
rest assured that the new Medical School at Chapel Hill, when
completed,' will be a great institution, possessing a carefully
studied and beautifully integrated planefficient, economi
cal and practical. The entire project reflects progressive
thinking in medical education." .".''-.
Whether or not the new medical school is well designed
for the teaching of medicine is an important question, and can
probably be best answered by the medical. authorities.
Whether or not the buildings are beautiful is a column of
another color. South Building's back porch has proved that
practically any facade can be tacked onto practically any
well-proportioned and architecturally sound building.
So far as we.can tell from preliminary drawings and from
the buildings as they seem to be shaping up, the group of
buildings will be more than adequate background for the
teaching of medicine. The most modern equipment; the ablest
Integration and allotment of floor space will provide that
background.
Nevertheless, we cannot help agreeing that the steel and
the' copper and the x-rays and the plumbing may be enclosed
by a mistaken architectural form.
Let the medical authorities laud our medical school. Lewis
XDssnford says it ain't pretty. As j for The 'Daily Tar Heel,
"nore anxious and eager to see the final results, because we've
T7 wCr xicen a seven-story "modern" Georgian building before.!
It should be interesting.
What are your potentialities?
Your limitations? -,
Every person is concerned
with these questions. They have
great significance to what can
be ' done in a life's work. In
answering such questions, an in
dividual decides upon his goal
and the Jbest means" of achiev
ing it. ... v
You, like all of us, tend --. to
exploit those fields in vifiich you
have ability and to avoid pro
fitless endeavor in areas where
the needed ability is lacking.
It's especially important to
evaluate our own abilities.
Carolina students enjoy a
splendid advantage in the facili
ties of the University Testing
Service in the Peabody build
ing. The very finest objective
and subjective tests are avail
able without charge to students.
Now and this is the time to
make the- point the various
tests arid their interpretations
will give no final answers to
questions of your abilities and
desires, as the Testing Service
is quick to explain. However,
your tests results, competently
interpreted, provide you with
immensely useful tools in gain
ing perspective pn yourself. You
will learn, if nothing else, your
comparative standing with other
students in the various areas
covered, by the tests.
So one of the greatest benefits
to be obtained is the aid to self
understanding and evaluation.
Most students using the Testing
Service facilities are after either
educational guidance (sopho
mores take note!) or vocational
guidance. The range of tests in
clude those of native intelligence
(including the highly reliable
and amazingly validated Wechs
ler), manual abilities, achieve
ment in each of several fields,
and the personality and interest
inclinations.
Incidentally, the University
Testing Service has an invoil-
able rule to abide by your de
cision if you want your test
results kept confidential. Gene
rally, unless an individual shows
superior ability in no field
whatsoever, it is to the students'
advantage to allow' the test re
sults be made .;' available to
academic advisers, or prospective
employers, and other such, just
ifiably interested parties.
It's too good a bet to miss !
.You can learn much from these
tests that years of stumbling
around in the dark wouldn't
disclose to you. And the tests
would cost you right much, on
the "outside" after you are no
longer a student here.
A certain - amount of time is
required for the tests, of course.
But the Testing Service allows
youto take yours just as fast
or as . slow as you choose. You
complete your battery of tests
in your own ; sweet time, then
arrange an appointment to dis
cuss the results with a skilled
interpreter. , :
What is itthat you dont know
about yourself that might make
a big difference to you?
From The Daily Tar Heel
office you can look out across the
portion of the campus known as
Davy Poplar and see the -history-inundated
beneath the green tree
studded rectangle over which
decades of students have walked.
Spirits of great men and some
who were not so great walk
among the shadows of the aging
poplars. When the quiet evening
sun filters through the crooked
limbs great and small are alike
and are equal once again. A
small part of the names that-once
were fresh on the University
records are remembered today
and the vastness of mediocrity
forms an endless pattern of
statistics. Most of the names have
been forgotten.
We turn our eyes from that
historical cemetary and become
less reminiscent. Looking through
several old copies of The Daily
Tar Heel we can find names that
were once fast with us, but which
are also becoming less vivid with
the passage of time. We see a
youthful Bing Crosby in a ciga
rette advertisement. We find - ar
ticles that were once extremely
valuable as news stories. Now we
chuckle inwardly at their in
significance. There are painful
notices of war and of friends and
relatives who were suddenly
severed from families. And there
are the usual notices of the dra
matic . groups producing a last
year's Broadway hit.
We come across tenacious
critics of campus politics and
some who have broadened them
selves by moving into national
affairs and their faults. Leaders
were on the front page and two
years later their names were
mentioned in idle conversation.
"Oh yes, remember him."
' Meanwhile students were still
warning me dtick. lanes to classes
and laughter still rose from the
old dormitories and talk, lots of
talk passed between . strangers.
It was the same old school and
the people were all the same.
Names varied arid a Tom Smith
who once was the proud owner of
red hair is now a blond. Time
didn't change the picture very
much. '
We pride ourselves on our pro
gress, but our ancestors pro
gressed too. The University holds
many students and many memo
ries. It is a great center of learn
ing, but the greatest lesson we
learn is that of equality which
comes from looking back occasion
ally and getting a true perspec
tive of just where we stand in
this rushing world of ours.
History will be made up of our
lives and in years', to come we
shall walk among the poplars.
Our importance is temporary.
Tar On My Heels
by Dill C. B rown
It has been some time since
the University of North Caro
lina was hit with a cheating
.scandal, but with the nonchalant
attitude the University seems to
be considering cheating, it may
not.be too long before one simi
lar to that at Washington Uni
versity is repeated here.
Whether or not it does, we
should gain something from the
recent Washington U. example.
It is good to see that there is
some question as to whether or
not Washington University had
created a situation in which stu
dents would not want or have to
cheat.
Does such a situation exist on
this campus? I think so. What
the University of North Carolina
or any other college could do to
5 alleviate the situation is not so
easy a question to answer, how
ever. Especially is this so with
the government breathing draft
notice down our neck if we do
not stay in the upper half of our
class.
Perhaps it is that the Univer
sity allows acts so close to
cheating that there is an abund
ance of itafter all if one stu
dent obtains old quizzes and the
instructor gives the same ones
each quarter, how can we frown
on another who glances on
others' papers? It is human na
ture not to want ories class
mates to get away with, "legiti
mate cheating" if all don't have
the same opportunities.
I am not trying to lamblast
the frats here. Many f rats do not
have quizzes on file, and I can't
blame those that do. I point this
out because, of late, the fratern
ities have been hit so' unmerci
fully on this page lately.
As far as creating a situation
so that students would not have
to cheat or so that it is easy for
the students to cheat, I ask the
University officials where the
quizzes are printed and how
16ng it has been since the lock
was changed. I ask this because
I have heard a hint of students
entering the mimeograph room
in Caldwell and "borrowing"
quizzes and especially exams.
But thjs and other Universi
ties and colleges will probably
continue along the same vain in
stead of learning from the case
of Washington University. Then
some day Carolina can have an
other big. cheating scandal com
parable to that of Washington
u. ana West Point. Then we can
throw out some students as an
example" to others, therebv
ruining many lives. .
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