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THE DAILY TAR HEEL,
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Letters lo i he Editor
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Jean Schoeppe. Jerry Reese, Betty Ann Kirby, Barty Dunlop, Tom McDonald,
Jim Oglesby. -
C
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, The University Party has elected a president, for the first
time since 1945. The UP sweep into the presidency carried
all major offices, and a majority of the legislature in with it.
Ham Horton will have asympathetic Secretary-Treasurer
in Ed Gross; He will have a sympathetic legislature, with a
healthy balance of power lying with his own party.
. And the president of that legislature will be sympathetic
to him, whether UP candidate McLeod or UP renegade Frank
el is elected. The judiciary, which occasionally renders irn
portant constitutional decisions will be heavily UP, as will
class officers. The Independent editor of The Daily Tar Heel
was elected by UP votes.:
In fact, for the first time in many, many years, all campus
functions will be unified as to party. Internal fights should
be at a minimum, and cannot be on party lines.
The cards are stacked for the new president, and his new
government. The way is clear for them to make tremendous
progress, as it has been forrno other government under the
constitution"
The. best of luck, the utmost of cooperation, and . our sin
cere best wishes to the new regime. May the. coming year
witness the advent of the age of reason for our 7-year-old
baby, constitutional government. "
by Eli mar Moser
Cosmopolitan Club
Not only as a German exchange
student and a member of the
Cosmopolitan Club, but also as
a citizen . of the free ' world I
was immensely interested in the
way the Di-Senate on April 3,
discussed a 'bill to destroy the
menace of Germany to the world."
The announcement in the Daily
Tar Heel of April 8 which said,'
"Germany as a nation should
cease to exist," increased .my cur-.. .
iosity. ;- -' " ''
When I read "that Germany
should be divided into five sec
tions and : that . each of the .five
be given ip France, Holland, Bel
gium and Denmark and that these
divisions be permanent integral
parts of the countries to which
they are annexed," I was inclined
to regard the attempt of the Di
Senate as a mere joke. . "
I decided to attend the meeting.
I concluded : in the course of the
xtremely interesting, debate that
some senators really supported
the bill ' with their full hearts.
Lack of knowledge of the sub
ject under,: discussion as well as
prejudice, and the use of broad
generalizations played a certain
part in strengthening their argu
ments which seemed to be based
on strong personal convictions
The first portion of the meeting
was devoted to the pledging of
a new member. In pledging this
new senator, promising - words:
. . . "to cultivate friendship with
each other" reached my ears. A
little later Article I, sectionl of
the bill providing that "Germany
as a nation should cease - to exist,'
darkened the permissive atmos
phere. I do not think that the
wise senators who favored this
rather violent demand with strong
words are aware of the implica
tions, of this proposal.
It means the abolition of a poli-
tic&l conception of 70 million
people $io after; cjdriries of dis
unity, finally grew together as; an
organic whole by a commonly
mon culture and. heritage. The
same factors are responsible for
the unification of the United
States. These wise senators want
to create a political vacuum in the
middle of Europe forgetting the
sphinx' of the East which they
obviously regard as the lesser
menace.
The debate seems even more ri
diculous at a time when the con
tractural agreement between the
Western Powers and, the Bonn
Government turning over poli
tical sovereignty to West Ger
many and putting her man power
and industrial resources at ' the
disposal of the West for Euro
pean Defense is almost ready to
be signed. The proposed, bill
speaks' of Germany's menace to
the world. Can a Germany ;which
will remain occupied for many
years really be a menace? Does
not the already ratified Schuman:
Plan tieing up West Germany's
industry with that of five other
West European countries make a
cessation not only unthinkable
but impossible?
Do not the experienced senators
overlook the fact that the Euro
pean Army would make West
Germany an inseparable part , of
Europe from a military point of
view as well? . If those five or
six senators who voted for the
bill had studied Germany's situa
tion more thoroughly, they would
have recognized that the Ade
nauer Gevernment is willing to
pay the highest price' for the crea
tion of a United Europe.
' Perhaps the- senators are not
aware of the cost of this deci
sion to the German people: .in
preferring the full cooperation
with the Western . powers, the
separation of 20 million Germans
an East Germany and the estab
lishment of a boundary line sepa
rating f relatives ' arid friends as
well as beloved historical1 places
becomes final. '
Since I am not a historian and
if T rto not think T am .rmali-
Madam Editor:
In our opinions there is a ser
ious mistake being created by
the imposition of a "failure-to-vote"
penalty upon the members
of several fraternities. Such res
olutions certainly lower the rep
utations of the fraternities as
well as of our school. We would
like for the fraternities involved
to review their decisions, see
the wrong in them, and then re
move the imposed penalties,
thereby creating a better feeling
among certain groups of our stu
dent body.
Respectfully yours,
Robert Thomas
C. J. Hyait, Jr.
Don Angell
Madam Editor,
I read in Sunday's (6th) issue
of the DTH that the fraternities
were approving fines for mem
bers failing to vote in Wednes
day's election. Coming from the.
so-called "democratic" organiza
tions (a term used by a frat man
high in campus politics) this . is
quite a shock. The use of coercion
in the performance bf the demo
cratic prerogrative destroys the
very base of the principles es-'
tablished in 1776. It smacks of
Nazism, Fascism, and, to be up-to-date,
Communism'. , Last fall I
argued long and loud for the
restoration of democracy on the
campus but the fraternities are
still trying to set up a new way
of life at Carolina, the way of
the iron fist.
I don't know Mr. Boardman,
but he must have conferred with
either Bill Robertson or Hans.
Friedstadt as to the modus op
erandi of elections. No person
should be 'threatened with pen
alty for not voting, whether it
be in , Russia or at UNC, 'and
any man who surrenders to this
threat is no man and shoulcj be
deprived of his right to vote.
-Robin Gilmore
U. S. Coast Guard
Receiving Station
Cape May, N. J.
(Past President of TMA)
P. S. I bet they vote a straight
ticket.
JVo takers. Editor.
Madam Editor:
.-In about two weeks the library
will dedicate its new addition,
including its expanded facilities
and improved equipment; how
ever, it is regretable - that the
planners responsible for the new
structure failed to install mate
rials and equipment that can
survive the passage to and fro
of all types of students. For
example, in the new Current Af
fairs Reading Room, designed to
place periodical literature of the
day in the hands of readers amidst
surroundings of comfort and at
tractiveness, the library has pro
vided common maple furniture
held, together with ordinary . glue
and wood screws. How can such
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r6l 1 1 1 1119 ""ill
furniture withstand the .weight
of a student who choses to study
a magazine while lying on top
of the table? Practical planning
would have included, stainless
steel tables with angle-iron . legs,
welded at the joints, and sunk
sturdily into a concrete floor. This
may seem a bit grim; yet t a stu
dent was observed in the afore
mentioned position, with a maga
zine, a few nights ago. For the
sake of variety and convenience,
several tables in the room have
only two legs these with wide
feet to prevent the table from
turning over but the safety
factor was overlooked.' There is
nothing on the edges to support
a healthy student.
Again take the matter of wall
finish. Common wall paint was
selected to redecorate the walls.
The idealistic architects selected
textures and colors v which they
believed would make the building
more pleasing to the" eye, cleaner,
and more modern. Only a f ew
days after the most popular room
in the - building was - repainted
(he men's-er-lounge, the follow
ing enUghtening message was
found inscribed in heavy pencil:
"TRUDY." And on a coulmrt in
the middle of the room where
all may admire.
I am certainly notaloe with
my criticisms. Anyone may read
ily see that many students doubt
the quality of the new4able tops.
Just look for the places where
they have tested the finish by
gouging with pencil points. "Why
couldn't they have finished the
walls with a coating that allows
easy erasing? As it is, some of
the paint will come off when the
janitors get around to scrubbing
the walls each month. Table tops
should be absolutely impervious
to knives, pencils, ink, shoes, or
teeth. It is true that the library
should.be given some credit for
trying to get away from drab
brown oak tables, but the new
tops, designed to uive a -little life
to the appearance of things,
simply won't hold up unde the
restless doodling of scholars. Let's
face it?
There are times when the lib
rary directors lean toward1 toler
ance and understanding. They
claim that students "vwall-be stu
dents, and that some, ar just
bound to be a bit careless psy
chology and all that. Some people
just don't like books,, and? they
resent having to read them. Some
have lots of money and; don't give
a hoot about the fact that the state
has to use tax money, to build and
maintain university property. So,
they knocked out a quick- job et
planning and building the much,
needed library addition. It tools
them only a few years, and; after
all, the chief aim was to render
services. :.r- ;
What a waste. It would have
been wiser and more practical
to wait another fifteen years, lei
the books accumulate at random,
and drag enough money out of the
legislature to put up o truly
indestructable library perhaps a
sort of cave with flouxescent
lights. ! - ; ;
- J. G. Scoil
fied to speak about the somewhat
curious geographical solution
proposed, I have confined myself
to the above comments.
When the Senators went to vote,
the bill was passed. The common
sense and the realistic way of
thinking which we in Germany
crejdit Americans with, was in
dicated by the voting of the
of the Di Senate members. Of
course, the discussion was purely
rm tJFradfmifl cr,r. But pwn tnte
can create serious misconceptions
among the Western Nations. I
do not believe that v my young
friends . in Germany would be
encouraged in their sincere and
earnest efforts to adopt demo
cratic ideas, if they should hear
the radical demands f some of
the shortsighted senators.
I also do not believe - that this
extremist minority '-gives a good
csamplo to foreign students on
fhfi r-rmrw. TJfoTC 1h?i .T7?r- former.
men propose that ariother nation
cease to exist, they should attend
the Cosmopolitan Club in order
to gather some first hand in
formation on the real situation
of the country involved. For the
Cosmopolitan Club believesi not
in division and partition, bul in
unity' and friendship-. :It 1 seems
to me that it is the ' latter whic"h"
will contribute to world peace
and stability rather than the
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