TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1952
PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Mademoiselle Magazine's February issue carries an article
by Gigi Marion on the Universitpy of North Carolina.
It is gratifying to be featured in a leading woman's maga
ine as tle "thiivl in a series of ' Mademoiselle prof iles on
ulstanding colleges and Universities." And it is extremely
pleasant to be profiled' as Miss Marion has succeeded in
ioing, . v " . f . .
Errors of fact in the article are remarkably few, consider
ing the difficulties of a writer with only a limited time to
earn? the -workings of a campus to which she was brand
lew.- . : '
' Probably the most serious error "made by the writer was
In - the astounding statement, "coffee is for Northerners.."
Granted that Coca-Cola has long been recognized as the na
tional drink of the South, the general trend does not hold
.rue -in this college town. Coffee is an essential in the life of
t student. - .-
The Chi .Omegas looked pretty in the store-boughten
clothes; it was good to see Professors Russell and Harland
ightly displayed as "favorites"; and the Old Well,-dorm
neeting, and campus wheels were necessary to give f urriners
a rounded .view of coed life on this campus.
"The warmth and friendliness of Southern manners key
iotes?the campus atmosphere . . . charm and graciousness a
Southern heritage" favorably summarized us'.
-Mademoiselle has helped immeasurably in the continuing
UNC battle for favorable publicity, and the University is
. grateful. , ' . .
. Fact ond Fantasy
Reviews and Previews
Person Hall is right up with
the rest of the country when
it comes to presenting art to
the public. I was home over the
week end and my suspicions
that Person is keeping nose to
nose with other communities
was strengthened when I learn
ed that my home town . had
adopted a program for renting
objects of art out to the pub
lic. Person Hall is continuing the
plans for lending paintings this
quarter as it did all last quarter,
n addition to the lending pro
gram Person has exhibits.
This month through - the
tventy-fif th, "Fact and Fan
Spring was for sure in Mem
orial hall Sunday night; ;when
t h e Play maker's ; m u s i c a 1 ,
'Spring For Sure," shifted into
hih gear, attaining ample mo
mentum to carry it through a
Ion and .successful tour.
The third night performance
culminated a month of rehearsal
and steady improvement. All in
all, the production ran ilong.
like a brand new Model T.Ford
(slow-starting, but if 1 some
thing's wrong; you-can fix it.)
A large cast, superbly-directed
by "John Parker, trips a light,
fantasy with a big bare toe.
The show, . destined for two
r-eks of applause, from: Wil
. mington to Murfreesboro, was
previewed by out-of-town visi
tors from nearby North Caro
lina towns, 'who went home and
bought tickets for friends and.
nsighbors , to the Main Street
performances. ' ' ;
Everybody ' enjoys this play.
The cast exits 'smiling; the aud-;
i ?nce leaves humming from the
score of Wilton Mason, and re
peating quips from. Catherine
McDonald's! book. Few even
minded -beng benched :,and
pinched; an', Memorial Mausele-
um. ! ' . ' .
This production proves be
yond a doubt t that folksy plays
can be good as long as nobody
takes them seriously. It is un
doubtedly the finest production
of its kind to come out of the
Koch and Selden school of na
tive play writing in a long time.
The production of "Spring
For Sure," two years ago s
hailed as better than (Te
hama," and "ready for .
tasy," an exhibition of thirty
works done by contemporary
American artists will be on dis
play. Person has delved into
the showing of abstract art.
Some may think the abstract
ions to be the setting down of
someone's madder moments,
but I've heard tell that they
have their merits.
This exhibit was shown at
the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in
Tew York. This is just one
of the projects of Person this
year.
If you get a chance drop by
Person and take a gander at
the some of the paintings and
statuettes. Be sure you're sober.
J. R.
Spring Fur Shore
way," and this year's showing
should bring forth the long
awaited acclaim on the South
eastern tour. The option which
has reportedly been se'aled,
signed and paid for , since year
before last ought soon to be
taken up.
' Musical comedy as the most
supple of forms, has a definite
niche in university theater. New
talents find a place. The leads
in this performance, young Vir
ginia Wilson and Laurence
Stith are both trodding the first
place boards for the first time.
In short, nothing like this has
been seen since the well-applauded
demise of Sound and
Fury forced all the hoofers back
into the fold of the Playmakers.
Specifics: Nancy Green, funny
when silent, is even funnier
when she begins to talk, and
delightful when she begins to
sing. Lillian Prince contrasts
brightly with Frances Q'Neal,
and the two together will long
be remembered for their team
work on "Terbaccy's Terbaccy."
Elaine Gibson makes the best of
a difficult role, and Hansford
Rowe makes the most of his
outrageously funny part. Bob
Thomas and Harry Davis can
almost be v smelled across the
footlights, in character' . from
straw hats to the filthy feet
soles. The play is so well cast that
every part deserves a mention.
Sets (Lynn Gault), - light, (Anne
Edwards), make-up and cos
tumes (Anna Graham) though
largely lifted from the produc
tion two years ago are still
fr -- - -cNmons chore-
By Bill C. Brown
Tar On
y Heels
The other day, a honorary
member of the Tar On My Heels
Literary Society started me
thinking by asking me to do
an article" on the courses up
here. According to this student,
'Tt isn't what you know about
- the course, it's the teacher you
- have." '
That line, of course, reminded
me of a recent article about the
curve the scholastic grading
curve. . '
Well, the more I thought what
that reader said, the-jmore it
Pawned on me that in such
" courses as Spanish, French, and
other courses in which a com
mon means of testing is used, it
is important who one has teach
ing him.
Undoubtedly if a man or wo
man has obtained a Master's or
Doctor's degree, he or she prob
ably knows the subject they are
teaching, but there is a differ
ence in knowing the subject and.
knowing how to get it across so
the student will be able to
know it. ' -
Not too long ago my cur
riculm was blessed with one of
the terrors of the University of
North Carolina. All reports
from students who had had this
teacher had been to "drop it if
you get Mr.
Well. I was willing to stay in
his class as long as possible be
fore dropping the course, be
cause the reports are not always
accurate. So I stayed with it for
three days. After a week it is
too late to drop a course, so I
, went about the business of drop
add. : :
I thought since I' had paid
my tuition, certainly I was at
least due the courtesy of a
customer in a store, thought if
1 didn't like an article I had
purchased, the University would
either refund or exchange. But
the administration sees it in a
different light.
They think the student is try
ing to put something over on
' the administration just as the
student thinks the administra
tion is trying to put something
over on him.
In all fairness, I have never
seen ; a poore rsubstitute for a
teacher than this one. In all
fairness, I doubt if there is any
one who knows his subject
better , than this one, but, as I
said earlier, there is a difference
in his knowing it and in his
teaching it.
There is currently being
drawn up, a plan for the stu
' dents to grade the teacher just
as the teacher grades the stu
' dent. I hope sincerely that no
student will take advantage of
this plan if it is put into action
as some teachers take advantage
of their position now. If we all
use the plan honestly and sin
cerely, much of the wrong I
have, outlined can be corrected.
Otherwise, nothing will be
done. .
At any rate, as long as we are
ography is already famous.
' The clever direction of group
scenes lends the confined set
an- air of mountain expansive
ness. This play has everything,
even a moral: the first thousand
bucks is the easiest.
It's fun, for a change, to see
the playtoakers at play.
G. A II. and C-l L
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Letters I o
Madam Editor:
I'm not very easily aroused,
but in the past few weeks I've
noticed a steady stream of Let
ters published in the Daily Tar
Heel griping about nothing
more than typographical errors
or misprints" in the columns of
the paper. As a former editor
of a college newspaper, my
principles will not allow me to
sit back and do nothing when
the honor of the newspaper pro
fesson is in question.
The general student public
seems to be unaware of two
very important facts facts
which I would like to disclose
to them, not as a member of the
Daily Tar Heel staff, but as
no more than a member of the
student body. The first of these
facts should be obvious, but
strangely enough, no one real
izes that the editor, associate
editor, or any other member of
the staff, no matter how many
times she proof-reads the copy,
is not responsible for printing
errors caused by the concern
publishing the paper. Every
man is fallible, so are type-setters
and linotypists, and the
presence of a few misspelled
words or some offset type should -not
be too great a concern for
the readers. If the reader is un
able to understand the context
of an article because a word is
misspelled or a pair of lines are
transposed, he should be better
off back in grammar school
learning how to read compre
hensively. One particular gripe was from
a student who was worried by
the line "a-review is a review
is a reviewer's opinion?' Before
he blew his top over this line
he should have used the ration
alization process which, as a
human being, it is assumed he
has. Either the author of this
, line was using a literary device
and parodying '. the words of
Gertrude Stein, "A rose is a
rose is a rose," or the words
"a review is" just cropped up
once too often in the copy, a
pardonable error. This same
student Closed his letter by stat
ing that he could not be called
on to assist the editor by giving
any reviews himself.
. Which leads me directly into
the second fact which I would
like to unveil: the task of a
college editor is generally a
thankless one. As I mentioned
above, I was an editor of a col
lege paper, and I must honestly
say that the only worthwhile
thing accomplished by me while
I occupied that position of honor
' ; and trust was that I married
the associate editor of that pa
per. I found that soon
after I was elected to the po
sition that although the student
body was very willing, nay de
sirous to read a good campus
paper, no one. I repeat no one,
was willing to do any thing
that might be termed work in
order that this paper might be
improved, or even issued for
that matter. . ' ,
The editor of a school paper
paying a good sized tuition, it
seems to this tired columnists,
wei shouldn't be forced to stay
in fi class in' which the teacher
is so much to our dislike.
It is difficult to judge a teach
er's ability in three or four
class periods, but because of the
drop-add restrictive .period, it
is necessary that we make this
quick judgement. I think, the
students should be fair in their
appraisal, but I think the admin
istration should be fair in re-
Sard; totlia.u4saVs-ieelin,
I he Editor
usually spends nine-tenths of his
or her time in a futile attempt
to recruit personnel to fill all
the vacancies in the minimum
staff of the paper.
If the students would write,
not 'to complain . about , some
' picayunish trifle such S mis
print, but rather to. furnish
good, readable copy to fill in.
the holes in the editor's galley
sheets so that -she -can -put .out
a. paper without having to search:
frantically for copy, the paper
. would then, and, only then, be
come what these unsatisfied
students want it to be.
That's about all I've got to
say, except that in the event the
editor of this paper feels it nec
essary to call on meto furnish
some copy for her columns; she
can feel perfectly free to do so
at any time, and I will do my
best to help her and the rest
of the staff in any way that I
can. ".. . . -. ;r
Irving E. Fogler
Huzza! Huzza? , . . '
Mr. Fogler; could you come up. i
to see us this afternoon? We are.
about to becdme very i s attached.
to you. Editors. . ;
.... i
Madam Editor: :
In the interest of. accurate re
porting and proper . journalism,
I would like to set you (and.,
through your medium the . rest .
of the populace) straight on .
some facts concerning, the
D-U-K-E on the Kenan Green,.
'Twas planted the tenth night .
before the Irish trounced Ithe
Co-ed eleven not - after the
"Bell" incident. And in case you
want to seed my fair Flats,
don't use Rye grass it takes too
long to grow!
Nick
Madam Editor:
I have jusj read with interest
the "Open Letter to Carl Sria
vely" in your issue of Jan. 31.
I quite agree with the writer,
in regard to off-season football
practice. However, inasmuch as
he has expressed himself -quite
vigorously, I wonder whether
he is very courageous in re
questing that his name be" with
held, and whether The Daily
Tar Heel reveals itself as an ex
ponent of fair play and good
sportsmanship in complying'
with his request.
, Cecil Johnson
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correspondents- who wish to ex
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into personal difficulties. The
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the public from fictitious signa- '
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