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v f f PAGE TWO FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1952 nm DAILY TAR HEEI t i i t i t- 13 f 1 f M 4 i! ,enoir. 9 Classic subjects for letter-to-the-editor writers are: vigo rous criticisms of columnists, the administration, specific courses, student government, The Daily Tar Heel, athletics, and Lenoir Hall. - v We conce.de' the. at least occasional errors and rightful public, wrath accruing to all the above ... with the single exception of Lenoir Hall. The big barn where several thou sandi mealsra day, are prepared :and served has been accused of harboring mice in : the : potato bins, insects in the salad, dishwater in the soup, and graft in the accounting depart mentor"somewhere As a matter q fact, we-observed a large cloud of termites hbvering- over the brick walk in front of Lenoir yesterday But mice grafters, or other parasites, if they do exist in Lenoir must vbe feeding on bricks, for picliings are slim in deedy after r eight or ten thousand meals are served at the prices set byvthe management . Hearty vfell'. prepared, and well balanced meals are hot the only features of fered by Lenoir Hall. Ibices, for one thing, are lower than anywhere in town as far as we know, than, any where in the-country. The, coffee urn (with real coffee now) serves several hmdred mid-morning escapees from the V Court, and the downstairs Pine Room takes care of snack-keekers far into the night. A little-flaunted feature are the upstairs private dining rooms which anyone, may use, simply for the trouble of carrying a tray upstairs. For those who tire of the auditorium atmosphere of the main cafeteria, there is the little cafeteria, serving: the same food. On occasion (sueh as during summer school) the little caf eteria has dealt exclusively in sandwiches, salads and milk, for those who want lighter fare Lenoir has demonstrated its willingness to serve the Uni versity community in whatever ways will please that com munity. The recent balloting of patrons as to their opinion of a monthly plan of family style meals was inspired by the suggestion last Spring of a presidential candidate that such a. plan might be feasible. The winner of that campaign took up the idea with the management, and action was the immediate result. Historical note: Swain Hall (now the home of UNC's communications center) was the University dining hall before Lenoir was built. Swain served family style meals, and all students who ate there were assigned to tables, ate at scheduled hours, had no choice as. to what was served, and called the place Swine Hall. The new Lenoir Hall was hailed, as a liberation. Which is just what it is today from high prices. by Barry Farber Not Guilty 1 received a. letter today from a, nice lady in Philadelphia urg ing me to circulate a petition demanding that Congress cut cC all -aid to Marshal Tito be cause. Tito has communist lean ings, l.e's a wicked person, and patriotic, Americans have, no business sending money to wicked people with" communist leaning?." Personally, I consider Ameri can. Slid ' to Tito the veatest investrr.ent this country , has rr.aJe sie a Jast-taltog Dutch xmn vvcarl.cd Manhaiian Islarrd from the Indians for two. dozen bucks bpil a'- load;- n wampum. T':lo is defeiitely a communist 'lie -claiw.s to 1m? slightly to the cti of Marx and ngels) hut so w5.at? In 11)40 he ruptured relations with Stalin and today . his oxcart ui my stands poised; alous thc,",,boet. borders of Hungary,' 'vnY.ma and Bul '.gr.ria' xvMyVstat "e'ase?- to sling dynamitcy daggers, qpxk dead rats fv.zUv&v Ihe minute Stalin orders. Us satellites to become shooltr.ff zw"$- Unfo. tuaatcJy, we're in no position, to punish wicked allies. Tx;ts Joce .facts. UncTe Sam is haipy . to ive guns tt anybody who 'wilt ;shcbt Russians.. The Yugoslavs are happy lo shoot Russian swith anybody's guns. Before the Bed Armies con hope to complete a forward pass into western Europe they first h ve t o buck through Tito's left tackle ' to1 'the Adriatic, pi risk lcvin a tender fank unpro tected. With pvepo?- equipment Tito -..vill Rht & m sid ; UBt.U, the is drop of eyU.blopd, seizes, f rem his w icke b,Qd; Also, Tito offers; us a dandy opportunity to play interna tional political baseball, a game in which "America consistantly pops out to the infield., Imagine for a moment that you're Kle ment Gottwald of Czechoslova kia, Hakosi of Hungary, or even Mao Tse Tung of China. Your morning mail from Moscow - brought nothing but propaganda posters.. Meanwhile Marshal Tito, formerly a charter mem ber of the Kremlin's Cockroach Clique, is busy opening- red, white, and blue gift packages of butter and bayonets, salami and shrapnel jelly beans and jet fighters. - You see the dogmatic dead lock in Korea where the Chinese communists "Gallant Red Trum pets of a New Era," have been forced to compromise with civi lization in a pup tent, near Pan munjom. ' Maybe you begin to ask your self, "Was Tito ai rat ; leaving . a sinking ship, or, a ship leaving a. sinking rat?' Without" stretch ing the imagination too far, you may even try- to break : ,with Moscow yourself ; and hop! into bd with the West: j- : V : : i ' f r :; -' : Pipe ; dreams? Not entirely. The Czechs are! already-havering. Romania is! restless! .The ' Poles have hated the Russians since before the invention of s$gfra and the Albanians are slowry dying on the vine. Every ounce of aid to Tito drives, a Jew more rusty rivets; into, the Iron, Curtain) which imght re-wlt- in ; a f ew - mere unhappy stellite . states.: becoming? chip? q& Xlifi, old Moscow hlocvv by Bill C. Brown Tar On AAy Heels Fulton Levis, Jr. What Others Are Saying I haye, just J?assed .what, is, without a doubt, the most bor- -jng, tedious, unorganized, ua ethical uninspiring, Jpontradic tory course at the Greater Vm versitSr of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina I cannot for the life 1 me t figure out such a course as Psy- chology 25-reportedly known at 4The vCrip., In a grand flurry of: instruct tors v lab; instructors graders, machines, and the , Lord only knows what else, Psychology built on the curve, proceeds along, boring the life out v'of , some two-hundred students per quarter. And I still dont know what the course is. I told, this to one of the lab instructors whoY promptly asked, "How many courses have you taken in Psy chology?" - -- - "Psychology 25. And that's enough for me." "Well," he said in a small voice,, "If you take several ad vanced courses iiv it, by the time you're a senior, you'll, be gin to conceive what it is." If I have to wait that long, by the time I've found out, I will'have lost interest. In class, looking around the room, I found out of some ninety students, only about five were even 'paying attention to what the instructor said. The rest of the class was engulfed in a maze of Daily Tar Heels, cross word puzzelst sleep and you , name-it. . . How can a teacher look at a class like that and possibly think Le is teaching a beneficial course? "(I noticed on the first typing of this column, I made a typographical error and typed "curse" for "course". Perhaps it wasn't too much of an error at that.) . And what have I learned in Psychology 25? Absolutely noth ing. The entire course is made up of contradictions. No one agrees with anyone else. The instructors disagree among themselves. The lab Instructors, disagree among themselves. They all disagree with one another, and the whole course disagreed with me. Not only is the course com plicated, one never knows where his grade is First each test is. curved Then, after passing all your work, it is still possible "to fail the course, because the total number of points made on the tests and exam are added up and another curve is made out, "I surrender, dear." Then comes, my pet peeve. The department is either so naive or lazy, or they just don't care, that they refuse to make out new tests each quarter. In stead quarter after quarter, they give the same tests and exams. So all you really need for Psy chology 25 is a good quiz, file., If you've got that, don't even buy a book. (Author's note: This column was. written after this column ist had been begged, prodded, and threatened by his ieHow phychopaths.) buy ;.; FASTER ' : ' SEALS A Senate investigating com mittee is looking into commu nist activity on university cam puses, .including- infiltration f Red propaganda hv college news . 'papers and 'textbooks " The" Communists- make a - special appeal to an organization 'called Students for Democratic Action. - The propaganda is haying an effect. At the University of North Carolina the student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, in a front page editorial, which was des cribed as expressing the publi cation's: official policy, a purile appeal was made, to students to start battling for their, freedoms. Since most of the students , appeared to be unaware they " had lost any, the response was less gratifying to. the author, a campus hot shot who is leader of the Students for Democratic Action. He says thought and discus sion have been stifled on the , campus and bemoans the fact the Communist-inspired Stock holm Peace Petition got a rough going over in North Carolina, just as did Communist John Gates, who wanted to speak to the students in a campus audi torium, but wasn't allowed. From where I sit, the Senate investigators could do worse than begin oh the University of North Carolina campus. USA Confidential There has grown up in the land a superpriveleged class the teacher. As a consequence of belligerent radicalism over twenty years, we are innoculated with a completely false doc trine the teacher knows best and we must not interfere. This craftily created "right" flies a flag bearing neither stars nor stripesbut blazoned on its synthetic cloth is the slogan: "Academic Freedom." --', .-..' It means that any and every semi-idiot, semi-man, semi woman and all others who fear the battle of life and take refuge in. the - somnolent security of instructing the young may pro pound whatever ideas, ologies, and isms he or she chooses, and such pronuncamentos may not . be disputed. Most people -who decide' to train for teaching are already frustrated failures, afraid to face a constructive world; and whdn they are given immunity against public policy which would hold them to account in any other field, like all midgets with a bludgeon, they go haywire. They are social misfits to begin with, in a capitalist system, so they use their protected "freedom to attack a way of life in. which they are handicapped for open competition. This was foreseen by the mon gers of discontent who realized what teachers could do for their cause if they were insulated sq no metal of criticism could; touch them. And with that wa& born the inspired dogma of academic freedom. (The. authors list practically every large University in the country, most of the state school systems, and ivy league cam puses, as harboring "communists, homosexuals, and non-virgin clubsv" Included in the blanket indictment 'are the following:) Despite frantic denials, the University of Virginia is deep pink:. Among left-wingers on its faculty are Alfred Fembach, Charles Mecaud, and former State Department employe JohnOGrange. They. are ' only. : surface dressing, hiding a gen uine Communist cell 'among other professors: and students. Some instructors "are the s com missars. The only tradition these radicals did not want to shatter was; to gutter "MargueritteV the campus, cat house which was established by Thornas, Jeffer son for the gentry to relieve . themselves." The neighboring University f North Carolina harbors the same types. The welcome, mat was out for them during the presidency; of Dr. Frank Grahamx -later appointed to a U. S Senate ya eancy. When he ran for the full term he was licked: but Truman rewards his socialists.' so Gra ham won a UN appointment, as mediator in India. He Was" a miserable - flop. The collective intelligence of the Senate is not high, but many who saw Graham in - action, during his brief moment of glory wondered how he could tell time to get to the sessions. While he was at Chapel Hill, the Commies liter ally stole the campus what was left after the crooks got theirs. Homos were a big thing theres too, during his reign. This was considered "self-expression." USA confidential, Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Crown Pub lishers, Inc, N. Y. C, 1952. ' "Educators have built up a self-perpetuating priestly class. -They choose their own succes sors. They seek to extend their influence over everything af fecting schools and colleges, not only curricular, but problems in politics and economics. Such organizations as the National Education Association and var ious teachers unions especially in New York City are left-wing. They use public schools for par tisan propaganda, to poison the minds of children with social welfare gospel, backed', by shaded mendacities and subver- - sive jokers in textbooks slipped past lackadaisical parents and 'conditioned' schoolboard mem bers. This is the first that tax payers in Newark, Buffalo, De troit, and Cleveland will have heard that many marms are passing out Red plugs to their schools. So successfully have the tea chers taken over the minds of the students that organizations like the United State National Students Association represent ing '600,000 students in 185 col leges are roaring radicals. The Americans for Democratic Ac tion have student chapters on most campuses. Many schools, spearhead its drive for socialism. The ADA recently declared for repeal of the. Smith Act' Jwhich7 makes attempts to overthrow the government a crime. The chief tenet of the neW educa tional order is that the state owns the childs mind. Teachers represent the state, v ! . THE DAILY TAR HEEL y The official student newspaper f the Publications of the University f North Carolina, at Chapel Hill here 11 is published, daily . at the Colonial Press, Inc., excep Monday examination and vacation periods and during the oili cvial summer terms. Entered as secoad class matter ' at the ; Post Office of Chapel Hill, N, C. under the aet et M?rch ' 3. 18 J). Subscription, rates: nMiled $4.00 per year, $1.50. per quarter; delivered $6.00 per year and $2.23 pear quarter, I I i -4 ! I j ii il il : 1 ( i f ! i l hi t 5
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