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THE DAILY TAR HEEL. SUNDAY. MAY 1L 1952
The official student publication of the Publications Board of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published daily, except Mon
lay, examination and vacation periods, and during the official summer terms
Kntered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under
the act of March 3, 1373 Subscription rates: mailed $4 per year. 1.50 pei
quarter; delivered, $8 and $2.25 per quarter.
Editor . ;
Managing Editor ..
Business Manager
Sports Editor
News Editor
Society Editor
Assoc. Ed
Adv. Mgr
..Jody Levey
Deenie Schoeppe
Bev Baylor
.Wallace Pridgen
News Staff Grady Elmore. Bob Slough, John Jamison. Angeles Russos. Wood
Smethurst, Janie Bugg, Ruth Hincks, Wanda Philpott, Sandy Smith, Al Perry,
Peggy Jean Goode, Jerry Reece.
Sports Staff Ed Starnes. Martin Jordan.
Carrier.
Seniors Unite
The Daily Tar Heel reminds all members of the Senior
Class that the Alumni Drive will end May 15. The member
ship fee, which includes a subscription to the Alumni Review,
is one dollar for the first year following graduation and three
dollars per annum thereafter.
The Alumni Association, formed to act as a liaison between
the University and the Alumni body, keeps complete files
on names, addresses, classes, weddings, and honors received
by all graduates of the University. Alumni groups all over
the nation hold regular meetings to enable the Sons of Caro
lina to maintain an active interest in that venerable institu
tion which afforded them "The best years of their lives."
The Senior Alumni Committee, headed by Chairman Al
House, will solicit individually through dormitories, fraterni
ties, sororities, and personal mailings. Seniors can also secure
membership at the booth in Y-court from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
through next Thursday.
We. urge all members of the class of 1952 to throw their
support behind the Alumni Drive. A token investment once
yearly will keep you within the intangible fold of the Uni
versity so that your nostalgic memories of Carolina may be
translated into positive activity in her behalf.
by Barry
PERSONALLY
Dear Women of America,
I love you. Just thcsame I
think you ought to be spanked
and sent to bed without supper
because you're the most pam
perii, spoiled, arrogant and
yet, beautiful women in the
world.
Mother Nature and the Nine
teenth Amendment have given
you so mucrTpower you've man
aged to lock a strangle-hold on
the American male. Science has
given you oily grease for dry
hair, dry grease for oily hair,
and hourglass gowns for beer
glass figures. The billion-dollar
cosmetic industry keeps -you
constantly bathed in a radiant
aurora of incandescent glamour.
Armed with everything from
foundation garments to chloro
phyll you brazenly trap young
men into a life of marital blitz
with odds at four to one the
ship of matrimony will run
aground on the sands cf Reno.
Why? You're the best fed,
best clothed, the wealthiest,
and the luckiest women On
earth but you're no match for
3'0ur European sisters when it
comes to the ancient art of mak
ing a home something more
than just a refueling depot.
You may think you lead a
frightfully rough life getting up
at the crack of noon and sweat
ing, over a hot bridge table all
day. Let me introduce you to
Ingrid, a typical Norwegian co
ed, blond hair, blue eyes, and
so tall she's snowcapped. Rouge
.and lipstick aren't exactly in
cluded in the Marshall Plan
and the only nylon she's ever
seen was in the ripcords of war
surpl o.s parachutes. Ingrid
spends fourteen hours out of
the twenty -f onr improving her
academic status and preparing
for the glorious career of mo
therhood. For vacations she
strings barbed wire along the
Russian border. And never let
BARRY FARBER
ROLFE NEILL
... JIM SCHENCK
BIFF ROBERTS
Lit. Ed
Joe Raff
..F. W. White
Natl. Adv. Mgr
Sub. Mgr
Carolyn Reichard
Circ. Mgr. Donald Hogg
Assoc. Sports Ed.... Tom Peacock
Vardy Buckalew. Paul Chanev, Buddy
.
Farber
anybody tell you our boys go
for Scandinavian women be
cause they're "easy pickups."
Before you- American beauties
had broken your first finger
nails, Ingrid had stabbed three
over-anxious German officers
in the gizzard with the business
end of a Norwegian pitchfork.
. Her lack of poise and "social
graces" would cause Ingrid to
be frowned upon in sorority
circles. Yet she had a knack of
giving me her undivided atten
tion whenever I spoke and when
I finally broke down and bought
her a dried herring head to
chew on, her eyes sparkled like
the midnight sun and she could
not have been any happier had
I given her a diamond neck
lace the size of Grant's Tomb.
Her warm smile radiates a spir
it which hypocrisy and the dol- 1
lar bill have all but swept from
our North American continent.
So, girls, that's why the frau
leins and mademoiselles give
you so much competition. They
give while you take, they laugh
while you blush, and they co
operate while you compete.
I state this strictly as an im
partial observer because I've
never exactly "made out" on
either continent. (I've been told
the outstanding difference be
tween me and. Gregory Peck is
that,; Peck .has a short nose and
long wavy -hair while I have
short hair and a long wavy nose."
j All the fellows with stardusty
girl ; friends; ; and marriage li
cense applications will doubt
lessly join their sweethearts in
denouncing this sneak attack
upon our nation's, beloved f em
I ininity by a crusty. old goat
who's been turned down so
many times he looks like a bed
spread. That's: ;why the battle
between the sexes will never be
won. There's too much fratern
ization with the enemv.
Bob Thomason -
CPU
Rouhdtable
When a farmer plows a field
for corn, we also expect him
to harrow,, plant, cultivate, and
harvest his crop. We'd think he
was a little foolish if he just
decided to quit after he finished
cultivating because he couldn't
decide how to harvest it. Yet
in our public schools we readily
accept responsibility for the
growth of the child's mind and
body, and yet neglect his spirit.
I shouldn't go so far as to say
neglect, since his inherent
faculty for faith is exercised in
accepting the axioms in geo
metry, but this hardly seems
adequate.
Think of the child who, for
instance, hears on Sunday that
Christ is the Savior of Mankind
and then never even hears the
name mentioned during his five
or more hours at school on
weekdays. A great deal of this
lopsided situation is due to the
emotional base of religion. In
other words religion (don't con
fuse this with theology) prima
rily concerns experience which
may or may not be rational, but
which always involves the emo
tions. Arguments stem from dif
fering interpretations of these
experiences.
I believe the school child
should have the opportunity to
know about these experiences
that men such as Buddha, Christ,
Mohammed, and Moses have had
for surely they have had as
profound an influence on human
history as Columbus, Shakes
peare, Caesar and Benjamin
Franklin. I base this conclusion
on the thesis that education
should work with the whole
child, not only with his mind
and body. Whatever your con
cept of education, you are in
vited, to propound it in the
Grail Room tonight at 8 p. m.
when the C. P. U. meets to dis
cuss "Religion in the Public
Schools."
Off-C
ampus
A v publicity campaign by a
woman's undergarment com
pany to select the "Lovable Girl
of the Month" is causing a lot
of comment" at Michigan State
College. It seems that about 80
per cent of the photos submitted
were sent by the coeds them
selves. At the University of Wyom
ing the buildings and grounds
department took on a suppliant
note and asked students to
kindly refrain from sending
sailboats down the irrigation
ditches
A recent survey at St. Louis
University shows that 22 boys
out of 62 do not consider low
necklines a source of tempta
tion. Comments a writer for the ;
University News: "It seems to
me we will always have tempta
tion "and grace; but must we be
plagued with surveys?"
The student lounge at Wes
tern Washington College is
slowly being wrecked. $1400
worth of equipment have either
been stolen or broken. This in
cludes: 64 chairs wrecked, shoe
prints ca the wall, cigarette
burns on- the floor and writing
on the upholstery.
Express Yourself
Editor:
In Friday's paper you related
the incident in which the Ad
ministration "requested" that
an Old West "To Heck With
Saturday Classes" sign be re
moved, due to the presence of
a member of the Truman cabi
net. If the sign had been of ob
jectionable language, if it had
been specifically aimed at the
South Building or Truman Ad
ministrations, there might have
been some legitimate excuse for
the removal action. But, that
was not the case; the sign was
just a simple statement of the
opinion of the men from whose
room the sign was hanging.
Why should South Building
object to an innocent display
of student opinion? Was it an
attempt to conceal or bury the
student side of the pre.sent issue
of Saturday classes? Was it an
attempt to put on a false front
for,. the visiting dignitary?
Regardless of the "excuse"
used by the administration,
such cannot be accepted as a
valid reason for its action. It
was just another step along the
road of encroachment upon stu
dent rights and freedoms which
has been rampant since Dr.
Frank departed from this cam
pus. Dr. Frank left too much of a
legacy to be destroyed overnight,
so the administration has been
careful enough to move rather
slowly, but that it has moved to
ward the molding of a meek,
docile student body is clearly
evident.
With the passage of time few
freedoms will remain for the
students unless the present stu
dent body wakes up and de
mands that the rights and pri
vileges of its members be in
violate. In this struggle for the
re-creation of an alert student
population the- Daily , Tar Heel
will have a chance to display
its true color; let us hope that it
will.
The argument that a nation
with a disinterested populace
stands to lose its freedoms can
be applied, without difficulty,
to this university. The students
do not seem to realize this, yet
if they fail to meet the various
challenges, such as this latest
one, and quietly acquiesce, to
morrow's generation of Caro
linians will know nothing of the
"old" Carolina way of life.
. Arise, students, before the
chains are locked.
Curt Railedge
Editor:
Despite the streaming head
. A GUARDED TRIBUTE? . .
A slightly different slant on
college professors has been of
fered, by the Graphic . George
Pepperdine College, : Calif. It
remarks in an editorial:
"College teachers area pecu
liar people. They are sometimes
like gods, often, like children.
"They impose their unques
tionable knowledge like Caesars,
distribute impossible assign
ments, then pout like infants
. when their bleary-eyed students
produce hastily prepared home
work. . " ' -
, Who except teachers
What Others Say
lines of last November pro
claiming the exoneration of the
Butner Hospital attendant and
male nurse who administered a
sound beating to a 25-year-old
patient, the National Associa
tion for Mental Health seems tc
view the matter differently.
In a letter which I received
this week from the Medical
Director of that organization, he
advised that criminal assault
charges be brought against the
two employees. This means that
the case would be presented to
the Grand Jury.
The Medical Director reviewed
the case., a complete file having
been presented for his perusal.
Without exception, the editors
who commented on the case in
November refused to accept the
explanation of Dr. Murdoch
that I was "out of line" when
I tried to prevent the beating
by holding the arm of the atten
dant who subsequently turned
on me, ignoring the patient.
Despite the fact that the chap
lain of the hospital interviewed
patients who witnessed the
attack and gave a complete con
firmation of my account, despite
the fact that I never had the
opportunity to testify to Dr.
Murdoch in person, despite the
fact that I was never invited to
attend a hearing with all par
ties concerned present, despite
the fact that patients volun
teered the information that the
same attendants had beaten
other patients previously, des
pite all this, the case was dis
missed with the remark that my
services had been unsatisfactory,
although I had just completed
a three month Civil Service
course of instruction for psy
chiatric aids combined with
actual duty in closed wards,
with a clean slate at the end of
the period.
Not only did the attendant
strike the patient in the side of
the head after throwing him to
the floor, but only a few minutes
previously, he shoved the same
patient into the kitchen against
his will, threw a mop in his
hand and stood with his fist
doubled up in his back, daring
him not to mop the floor, all of
which is in violation of funda
mental principles in care of the
mentally sick.
If we can find the personnel
and the money for all the mate
rial needs of highways, schools,
and all the rest, why can't we
devise a system that will insure
our most unfortunate members
of society at least freedom frorrr
violence?
Duncan Ereckm
would despise tardiness and ab
senteeism and be frequently late
or absent themselves? Who else
would complain of students' ir
responsible attitudes toward as.
signments, then neglect to , rer
turn tests promptly? .
"... Teachers seem to be
lieve that students enjoy hand
ing in late work. They often
punish the unfortunate culprit
by gently reminding" him during
class that 'Promptness is the
backbone of democracy. (Some
other maxim could be substi
. tuted here just as effectively).
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