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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1952 i. V. PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL i ,1 i i THE DA ILY The official newspaper of the Publi cations Eoard of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is published daily at the Colonial Press, Inc., except Monday's, examina tion and vacation periods and during the official summer terms. Entered as I hanks Truly great gifts to the University are those which will improve the quality of education in the state of North Caro lina. : Such a gift is the Morehead Scholarship Fund. John Motley Morehead's endowment is a present to the entire state. The money is being spent to enable our ablest students to continue with an education which might otherwise be curtailed. Through those individulas, the general level of learning in this state is being raised. A long, loud thank-you from a state educationally poor is overdue to Mr. Moorehead. :. ' I by Fred Crawford C. P. U. Roundfable Amid all the conflicting opin ion at UNC today, the one issue upon which all students and fac tions can agree, is the present inadequacies of The Daily Tar Heel. Many students moan over the degeneration o the Tar Heel in the past two years, especially those who would like it to be," an accurate representation of to tal student opinion. Others la ment the spelling and grammar errors, repeated crosswords, and inaccurate reporting. The failures of the Tar Heel will not be alleviated by laying the blame on one individual or even on one group of individuals and ' then retiring into a shell of : smug self-satisfaction. The Daily Tar Heel has many prob lems, but none which are insol vable, and the number of prob lems it has only increases the number of students it needs to help it. . Whatever else may be wrong, The Daily Tar Heel is suffering from an acute case of a wide spread disease lack-a-money-itis. The student body popula tion has dropped some two thou sand or more in the past two years and the Daily Tar Heel revenue has, of course, dropped proportionately, and advertising -revenue, coming from local mer chants, cannot be noticeably in creased until the enrollment in creases. Either revenue must be More Letters Madam Editor: May. I suggest to the editorial department a review of the his tory of American Journalism, especially that area relating to Hearst and the "battle of the Yellows." As an incentive for the necessary research, here is a preview of what you might expect to find, by historian Thomas Bailey: In September 1895, a wealthy young man by the name of Wil liam Randolph Hearst purchased a staid .but fast-failing newspa per, the New York Journal, and straightway entered upon a race for circulation with Joseph Pul itzer's New York World, which hitherto had been regarded as the hight point in sensational ise By, lurid style, reckless lib erties with the truth, imagina tive illustrations, screeching headlines, and other innova tion.?, Hearst was completely successful in his efforts to out Pulitzer Pulitzer." ; . ; r- ' Now, what I . would like to kvnw, who is the Tar Heel try ing to "out-Pulitzer" in its bold campusshalring editorials," it; TAR HE EL second class matter at the Post Office of Chapel Hill, N. C. under the act of March 3, 1379. Subscription rates: mailed $4.00 per year, $1.50 per quarter; delivered $6.00 per year and $2.25 per quarter. orenea increased, through raising the block fee or digging up adver tising from somewhere, filling up back pages entirely, or else we must be content with the present size and concentrate on improving it with the same amountof space. This improvement can be ob tained to some extent by a new editor to 'supply fresh blood and inspiration to lift the level of the staff to avoid mistakes and to provide more interesting stor ies, but one person cannot do this alone, nor can it be done ' over a long period of time. Many qualified staffers are needed who have the will and talent for the job. Can the campus and staff supply such staff spontan eously? The CPU will discuss tonight the possibility of the School of Journalism filling this gap, sup plying experienced talented staffers, offering them credit hours in return for their effort, and providing continuous expert aid and advice. It may be that the present School cannot do this, but an ideal School of Jour nalism certainly should. The dis cussion will also examine the basic assumptions behind the Tar Heel, its problems and dif ficulties, and possible solutions. Editor Glen Harden and Profes sor Phillips Russel of the School of Journalism will be present. revelations employing "reckless liberties with the truth?" The recent squabble concerning "Faculty For Freedom" is not the first in which this student publication has advanced like a crusader only to pull a cower ing retreat under fire from some Administrative source. There is of course some honor in apolo gizing when one is wrong. But the important thing for a news paper to remember is that there is power in being right. May I offer as suggestion number two, therefore, that you hold your scoops and run a little Addison and Steele until-all facts have been checked. We can draw only one of two conclusions from the current ad vance and retreat policy. Either the Tar; Heel gives the facts which it retracts under Admin istration pressure or it does not give the facts to begin with. In either case, if the Daily Tar Heel hopes to retain the confidence and respect of its readers it must refrain from practices of "cllow journalism." Ulxnoni Ires v by Dave Kerfey TKsir Deeds Mr. Roberts' Thursday column illustrates the observation that some of the UP leaders seem incapable of evaluating policies in terms of their value to the campus. They can only interpret them in terms of their respective effect on the UP. - : - By careful gerrymandering the UP has succeeded for years in denying the Town Men an effective voice in the Legisla tive Branch of Student Govern ment. Last fall the Town Men's Association launched a campaign to correct this undemocratic pro cedure, and the Student Party heartily endorsed their efforts, not because of any political ad vantage that might accrue, but because the SP has traditionally stood for equal rights of all stu dents. In pursuance of this pol icy a bill to redistrict the town was introduced in the Student Legislature. It provided a sep arate district for the Town Men Who had been so long disenfran chised. The bitterness with which the UP attacked this bill is a meas ure of their realization of the degree to which they have abus , ed their political power. If the UP had been fair to the Town Men in the past, there would have been nothing for them to fear in separate representation for the Town Men. The fact that the UP leaders have miscon strued the redisricting bill as an effort to make possible the election of SP legislators from town districts is a tacit admis sion that the Town Men have more to gain from an SP .ad ministration than has been pos sible under UP control. It has been comical to hear the UP leaders insist in one breath that they are represent ing the Town Men adequately, and in the next breath argue that permitting the Town Men to vote in a separate , district would result in the election of more SP legislators. The response of the UP lead ers to this redisricting bill was a series of "compromise" pro posals. For the most part each such proposal was couched n terms of "if we make that change the SP will gain a seat or two, so let's offset that by this change so that the UP will gain the same number of seats." The SP has been unwilling to discuss the redistricting prob lem, in terms of this party bal ance of power. The Student Par ty is anxious to have every seg ment of the student population represented in proportion to the number of students involved. The most painful aspect ofhe former districting has been that the Town Men, with twenty-odd per cent of the student popula tion, have "had four per cent of the representation. This situa tion, a product of UP gerryman dering, is disgraceful. The SP . sought to correct it, and the UP itterly opposed their efforts. Mr. Roberts is right when he alleges this vote was along party lines. I regret to say that not a single member of the UP dele gation in ythe Legislature had the courage to stand up against the UP machine 'i .and ;vot0 'io1 give the Town Meii ; 4 effective representation in the Legislature. Letters to Visiting Chapel Hill after an absence of 35 years 1 naturally expected to find many things different, and was not surprised to find few familiar scenes. The three old buildings and the well were barely enough to identify the place at all. Although it was with a feeling of nostalgia that I viewed the expansion and growth of my Alma Mater. I was glad. But it was with a feel ing of sadness that -1 recalled the dreams and ambitions of those men like Doctor Battle, Francis Venable, Patterson, Kid der Graham, Marvin Stacy, and Horace Williams, whose very souls were on fire with lova for the University. I was sad be cause they cannot be here to look upon the reality of their dreams come true. However, this fine sentiment was knocked to smithereens when I walked into that elegant theatre on Franklin Street. Al most 40 years ago, as a fresh man, I walked down the isle in the old Pickwick picture house and underwent the jeers and sneers of the sophomores and dodged their barrage of spit- balls, apple cores and even de cayed vegetables, and I thought it was disgraceful. But the next year it didn't seem so bad after all, just a little momentary di version at the expense of the freshmen. And even yet I can see that as a whole the sopho mores were serious and . stud ious at heart most of them went away greatly benefitted by their stay at Chapel Hill. But the conduct of that por tion of the University student body in the theatre last Satur day night indicates something . deeper and broader than a little frivolity. The screams, screech es, yells and cat-calls from that crowd sounded more like a men- agerie in which all the animals had broken from their . cages and were having a free for all, than it did an audience of sup posedly cultured University stu dents. I particularly went to the theatre to see that great picture the Flying Dutchman. But did I get anything out of that picture? I'll say not. t From beginning to end, the show was interrupted at its most dramatic and absorb ing moments by the yelling, laughing and lewd remarks that would have shamed the tough est blackguard that ever sailed the seven seas. .. I came away from that pic ture show, Madam Editor, feel ing glad that my old teachers and friends of the University mentioned above could not come back to witness such disgraceful conduct on the part of sons and grandsons of the university stu dents they had known. I hear and read much about the short comings of modern colleges and universities . and have accepted opinions of critics with a grain of salt; but if that! thousand hoodlums making up the theatre audience last Saturday night i3 a sample of what our universit ies are turning loose in the world I am glad I shall not be around to look upon what the harvest shall be. Dudley W. Crawford t'. News Editor ( Z Richmond CcurJtj (Xf. CJ the Editor Madam Editor: It is not often that I think so closely with another' person's ideas as appears in a newspaper column, but I find that in the Feb; 10 Daily Tar Heel, is a column which really got close to me. I liked Bill Peacock's column on the quotations from Coach Bob Fetzer in regard to student opinion and feelings on athletics. I agree with him that the stu dents, and for that matter one generation, are gripped by a feeling of complacency. I know that in the last few years, there has been less and less interest shown at Carolina in extra-curricular activities. I know best about The Daily Tar Heel. Take today a half-dozen students probably wrote every bit of the copy that appeared in this paper. They work them selves hard and don't fool your selves, they have tovstudy just as hard as any student does. Well, maybe you will say how - do they find the time. They don't. They just do it. Why? Because somebody has got to do it and also because they enjoy doing it, but that is no reason why they should have to do it all alone. Every minute they spend working at The Daily Tar Heel takes away from the time they have to study, and believe me, their grades usually suffer for it. I'm not defending their actions. They have their rea sons, but what is your reason for not working in student ac tivities? Maybe our generation should be called the "lukewarm" gen eration. We are neither hot nor cold; - we sort of drift along in the middle, hoping that we'll have a wonderful life and that we'll always have enough to live comfortably. Why don't we have more spirit? Why don't we want to knock ourselves out for what we believe? Why haven't we had more interested students par ticipating in the national "Some-body-for-President Clubs?" Why don't we get out and work hard er for a better newspaper, an nual, student " government, ath letics, or any student activities, instead of sitting back and criti cizing how bad that was and how-somebody ought to do this to improve that? Why can't we be a generation that does some thing, one that makes a name for itself, that will be remem bered in history for the strides forward we have taken? Why don't we have more Barry Far- ers? Why? ! I don't know. Maybe some body ho reads this can tell me. , i One other thing. I wonder about things like this but I'm just like everybody else. I'm lazy too! And I probably will never climb Mount Everest or walk across the Sahara Desert or any . other crazy thing like that, but I'll always wonder just what it would be like if I did something that wasn't practical or logical or spend half my, life trying to invent something. which will make this world bet-, v ter to live in. Olive? T. WaiMsas
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