TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1952
THE DAILY TAR HEEL.
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by Bill C. Brown
Tar On
My Heels '
"And .who did you say your grandmother was?'
on-partisan
Politics
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The General Assembly of the state of North Carolina is
30 years late on the - constitutionally required re-districting
of congressional districts. This is a cause of much complaint
on the part of Republicans, certain disgruntled "out" demo
crats, anH young idealists. .
The student legislature of the University of North Caro
lina is six years (the life of the constitutional student govern
ment) late on the obviously necessary and desirable re
districting of campus legislative districts. We haven't heard
anyone complaining except" members of the newly "in" Stu
dent Party.
So it should not be too much to expect that the present
legislature (whose margin of independents, and double en
dorsees gives the Student Party a workable majority) will
hustle to act on the measure introduced Thursday, night by
David Kerley.
The bill is thus far being met with enthusiasm by members
of both parties. The long-time University Party members
see the. validity of the moves proposed last week in the re
districting bill, as do the idealists of the Student Party.
Should debate on the bill descend to the level of petty party
politics, the campus will suffer from the anulling amending
tactics which will inevitably result.
Behind the scenes complaints of older leaders of the Stu
dent Party that the bill will destroy the SP's most helpful
king-maker the fraternity split as a result of the districts
as un-gerrymandered by Mr. Kerley are therefore beside the
point.
The move has obvious advantages and disadvantages for
both parties. It is most-obvious that the advantages to the
campus are important and long-overdue.
Furthermore, the winning party in any campaign is ob
ligated to its campaign promises, and the Student Party prom
ised. - - -
Letters To The Editor
f Madam Editor:
In reference to- Hollo Taylor's
articlto on Lenoir Hall in the
Daily Tar Heel of January 20; If
Mr. Taylor or anyone else has
any good ideas on how to im
prove the service, variety of
food, etc., at Lenoir Hall, I am
quite sure that the management
will give the ideas careful con
sideration. Instead of using the above
method of helping, to improve
the "poor" service, Mr. Taylor
uses exaggerated illustrations
, (taking three minutes to move
from the tray to the silverware
counter) to prove his contention
of poor service.
We like to be informed when
we read the editorial, page. If we
want j okes, we can read "Lil
Abner" twhichv often contains
me thought than the editor
ials). In short, if Mr. Taylor or any
other writer has anything con
crete to say, let it be said. If not,
skip it. An eight page paper isn't
that important.
Bruce Marger
Sorry, we have to run eight
pages occasionally to take care
of the concrete suggestions of
our correspondents. -Editors.
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"That curve the love of some
instructors. !
Why is it that some instructors
are determined that a certain
percentage of the class has to
make "A", a certain percentage
has-to make "B", C' TT, and
worse, that a percentage has to
make "F". That is the life of a
student graded on the curve.
What one actually knows
about the course has little to do
with "the grade be makes.
Usually, to make matters 100
worse, the instructors tells his
class, "You aren't expected , to
get - all the questions correct.
I I took the test myself, I don't
know whether I could answer
all correctly or not."
With this problem facing you,
plus the added -confusion of am
bitious statements- and the law
of averages, you limply take up
your pencil, and half-heartedly
start on the quiz. You read
statement after statement. Is this
test covering the material you
studied? Sometimes I wonder. I
have seen tests where they
might as well have given the
test on geography when the
course is botany.
So after trying to decipher
fifty-cent words, figure out what
ambiguous statements were in
tended to mean, and weeding
out the trick questions, you, just
before screaming to the top of
your voice sign the pledge, and
hand the paper -in with your
last struggling breath.
The next day you trudge to
class, having no conception of
whether you passed or flunked
it all depends on that law of
averages and the curve. You
enter the room and your heart
drops. lie has graded the quiz
and is passing them out.
The smile - spreads across his '
face as he hands out the papers.
Gleating. Enjoyment, supreme.
Happy day. " V
You look around you and see
such numbers as 115, 99 42, 61,
and 8$. Then you see your own
grade. Perplexed. Wondering.
Hoping.
Seventy-six.
You- look down the grading
of your paper. Then ones you
thought you might possibly have
"gotten correct are wrong. Vice
versa. Just plain vice. The ones
you got right, you wonder why
they are right. The ones you got
wrong, you wonder why they are
wrong. Hit and miss. Guess
work. Law of averages, y-
Seventy-six
With a smile that resembles
death " he explains the f Curve,;?
"There i were the . . grades; $ over
; 1004 They get A" Heart failure;
Skin 'creep. Sweat.
Seventy-six,
What this country needs is
more . philosophers. Or, at the
sry gaast, more people who
thkik about the meaning of life,
.afid alL
Now take the old days (when
ever they were.) Everybody
went around thinking about
truth, andbeauty, and why we
are the way we are. Hardly a
child prodigy was then alive
who hadn't written a pamphlet
or two about what he thought
about things. Nowadays the
bright young minds in search
of intellectual' exercise, dash, off
treaties concerning the possibili
ties of exploring, via spaceship,
the more distant parts of our
expanding universe.
Or, they work out formulas
for new and more efficient ways
of utilizing the power of the
atom.-I can't think of a single
student philosopher on this -campus
worthy of the name, my
self excepted, of course.
Every once in a while I toy
with the idea of accepting the
philosophy of some particularly
bitter thinker of the past
Schopenhauer, for example.
Schopenhauer hated women, and
pose, other sensitive parts. My
mother never Once threw . me
downstairs, which is just one f
the reasons I am so fond of the
old girl. '
The campus js not entirely
devoid of young philosophers,
come to think ol it. There is one
bouncing around by the name of
Brooks, or Snooks or something
or other Anyhow, I hear he is
not averse to making his
opinions known to all and sun
dry, and some of them, I under
stand, are not too dull, though
retaining a strong strain of pre
cocious adolescence.
Speaking of adolescent phil
osophers reminds me of a rather
select little circle I belonged to
while in first year Junior High.
Now there was an advanced
group. We called ourselves The
Society of Freethinkers, and be
lieve me that was an under
statement if there ever was one.
We met on Tuesday evenings
and discussed such, things as:
The Basic Reasons Underlying
the Degeneration of the Greek
Culture, 300-100 B. C. Or, some
thing such as: The Similarities,
If Any Between The Ethic of
wouldn't have anything to do Rousseau and those of Spinoza,
with the best looking girl in
Munich, or wherever he lived,
if you paid him.
Every once in a while, usually
after I have attempted, in vain,
to line up a date for Saturday
night, I am inclined to think
there is some truth in what the
man said. It never lasts very
long, though.. Something will
turn up (last time her name
was Ginger), we'll go out and
gaze at each other for a while,
over a puddle of beer; first
thing you know the hormones
are jumping around like crazy
and Schopenhauer is olut the
window!
Of course there is a good
reason why Schopenhauer hated
women. At the age - of twelve
years, or thereabouts, his mother
threw him- down a flight of
stairs, thus doing permanent
damage to his ego and, I sun-
Particularly In Regard To Their
Concepts Of the Relationship Of
Religion To Art, and vice-versa.
x Stuff like that.
Our Society had devoted con
siderable thought to modern
philosophers as well as ancient
and one of us, Jimmy Edmunds
by name, even lead a little group
that went overboard for Exis
tentialism. He was thirteen years
old at the time! Funny part
about it is, the last time I saw
Jimmy he was traveling for
Heinz canned goods and making
, quite a name for himself, having
exceeded his sales quotas for
several months running and that
sort of thing and was being re
ferred to as "a man with a great
future in Beans.'
Which proves that as the twig
is bent, you just never know how
the tree will 'incline anyway.
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