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PAGE TWO THE DAILY The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of - North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published daily except Saturday, Monday, examination and vacation periods, and dur ing the official, summer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Sub scription rates mailed $4 per year, $1.50 per quarter; delivered, $6 and $2.25 per quarter. . Editor ' Managing Editor Business Manager Sports Editor News Ed. Sub. Mgr Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Bob Slough Carolyn Reichard . Delaine Bradsher Office Mgr. Buzzy Shull Assoc. Ed Nina Gray, Jane Carter EDITORIAL STAFF A. Z. F. Wood, Dan Duke, Joe Raff. Night Editor for this issue: Dorman It's Time For A Change "It's time for a change!" The Republicans used' it and they had a winner. Why can't Carolina? We do not mean a new administration, but a revised grad ing system, and we need it badly- Unfairness has been monopolizing the University grading system too long and a mild tinge of corruption has done any thing but add luster to the already faded picture. Before the time of Methuselah Carolina has been working from an A to F letter grading system. From the outside it seems like a good setup and could possibly be if it were operat ed properly. But it is not. For example, one which happens more times than other wise. Two students are in the same class. At the beginning of the quarter the professor emphasizes the point that all students should be working not for grades but for an education, for knowledge. , .During the quarter both students work from the prof's viewpoint that they are here at Carolina for a college educa tion, not merely just a string of grades. The pair settle down and the midnight oil flows. Toward the end of the quarter they total their averages and both have equal numerical grades, a solid 89, one point shy of a B. . Here is where the fallacy in the present grading system lies. Both men, call them John and Joe for clarity, balance in class work but it seems that John is much the superior in one extra-curricular activity. The term "apple polishers" is far from Greek to college folks. And so it goes when the professor is determining the final grades. He checks down the list writing the grade that will remain forever on the student's transcript. Thare's Joe's 89. The prof calmly scribbles down a "C." According to the grading system, that is what he averaged and that is what he got. A dozen spaces down the line, the professor crosses John's 89-He chuckles slightly to himself. : "Well," smiles the instructor, "John really only has 89, but that's just one point below a 'B And besides John is a fine boy. Yes sir, a mighty fine boy that John." x You have three chances to guess what John got and the first two do not count. Perhaps that one 'C did not hurt Joe. Perhaps it did. While Joe was making 'CY John was perfecting his extra curricular activity. Three years later, the pair apply for an opening "with a well-known chemical company. The interviewer surmised that both men were equally qualified for the job. But it seemed that John had a slight edge in the line of grades. The position was awarded "Honest John." Had the professor followed the present grading system, Joe would have had an equal footing with John, but he did not. Joe followed the prof's viewpoint of working for knowl edge, not grades. A suggested revision of the backward grading system here at Carolina is to drop every phase of the present letter grading system and substitute a more definite and less impregnable numerical system. In other words, give the student what he earned, not what his personality learned a nice fellow he was, and we should follow the lead of the Republican party to a solid, undisputed victory. Charles Haskett DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Chief cook 5. Chafe 9. Coastline 10. Potter's ! whoet 12 Havmg hornr 13. Fluicis in veins of the gods 14. Donkey 15. Some 16. Molybde num (sym.) 17. Encounter 2. A quad ruped 3. Sea eagle 4. Visionary 5. Hurl 6. Spicy 7. Anglo- Saxon letter 27. 8. One of the 28. Apostles 9. Mortify 11. Appearing as if eaten 15 Emmet 18. Sour 19. Frigid ing 20. Owns 21. Half an em 22. Perform 23. Attitudinize 24. Lever 25. Witty saying 26. Short blast on a horn 28. Fuel 29. Therefore 31. Viper 32. Snake 34. River (Chin.) 35. Spring month 36. Cuckoo 37. Doctrine .39. Article of virtu 41. Rub out 42. Gaseous element 43. Resorts 44. Coffin DOWN 1. Japanese name for Korea TAR HEEL FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1953 mlp Mat Heel WALT DEAR . ROLFE NEILL . JIM SCHENCK BIFF ROBERTS Soc. Ed Circ. Mgr. Asst. Spts. Adv. Mgr. Exch. Ed. . Deenie Schoeppe Donald Hogg Tom Peacock Ned Beeker Ed. Alice Chapman Jr., John Gibson, Dorman Cordell, Cordell 20. Torrid 23. A pillar 24. Small explosion 25. Cushion 26. One of the senses Willows Merry 29. Elder 30. Constel lation 32. Values 33. Immense 35. Flat-topped hill Yesterday' Answer 38. Short sleep 39. Part of a locomotive 40. Swiss canton CM AH Aj A 6 O P f e anTa CIIm uiwTsie T ; !"iT ofNTIOH I l sTh 5 ANTfy ji Mpis ffltrytlEtBtf gfe : 'L i w 17 IS 19 20 2fo 27 28 29 30 37 38 39 40 4! g33T y-1 1 1 w -rm Alice Chapman On Other Campuses From Hawaii, from Mexico City, Europe, Texas, and Yankee-land student newspapers are sent to THE DAILY TAR HEEL. These papers report that begin ning with pink elephants on New Year's eve, 1953 is slowly turn ing red in a number of aspects for a number of schools. Iowa State Daily reports a fi nancial loss for last quarter with , a balance in the red. Troubles are greater elsewhere for at Northwestern headlines this fall proclaimed, "The Daily Is Go ing Broke". A few months later the editor was fired and the ma jority of the staff resigned after a policy disagreement with the publications board. The Daily Cardinal at the Uni versity of Wisconsin was forced . to cut its issues to twice a week while the Daily Nebraskan re duced its publications to four times a week. The University of Colorado took the positive approach by asking for increased student fees or boosted advertising rates. The other source of red diffi culties is turning a number of U.S. students crimson with right eous and unrighteous indignation. Senator Joe McCarthy recently stated that, "We (the Senate com mittee on government operations) are going into the educational sys tem. It seems that parts of the ed ucational system are most unre ceptive to his suggestion that it be investigated." An editorial in the Western-Reserve University paper pleads, "In order to preserve what we have, please . . . please, leave us alone: Let the university function as it should. A light in the dark ness." The University of Michigan list ed on Joe's new probe has pro mised full cooperation to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Daily newspaper is running a series of articles de scribing the activities of the Com munist Party and its front organ izations in Ann Arbor and on the campus. The article describes the activi ties of the Labor Youth League which is the "party" group on campus. It makes public secret directive and report of the LYL which warned the group that "We ourselves have to go through a transformation, ridding ourselves of capitalist ideology and values and remaking ourselves into the kind of people who can carry on Leninist work." At Marshall College in West Virginia several names that ap-. pear on the records of the House investigating committee were schedule on the college-sponsored forum. The American Legion post in Huntington demanded an in vestigation. The College president immediately announced the can cellation of the series. The stu dent' senate and faculty just as promptly passed resolutions to reinstate the series. The forum will be held as scheduled with Max Lerner, Margaret White and Paul Engle still engaged as speak ers. Whether the situation includes imaginary pink elephants or ar ticles of a deeper shade, students have an opinion, a criticism, and sometimes a solution for it. ,a moti tarns) .aut v :: m m 1 1 John Shadrach "John Brown's Body," which played here to great success on Friday and Saturday nights, brought to Chapel Hill a very fine group of actors, including Judith Anderson, Raymond Mas sey, and Tyrone Power. But as a surprise package which disprov es the old adage that the best things come in small packages it also brought into our midst Charles Laughton, the fabulous actor, who adapted and staged the poem anew. Mr. Laughton arrived here spe cifically to rehearse the cast on a few scenes, but graciously con sented to speak to the members of the Dramatic Art department and .friends in the Playmakers Theatre on Saturday afternoon. There followed the greatest tour de force that has been witnessed in Chapel Hill for quite some time. Stating that he would not give a speech, but would answer any and all questions, Mr.. Laughton proceeded to describe the man ner in which his memorable pre sentation of "Don Juan in Hell" came to be produced, and the trials and tribulations concerning the staging of "John Brown's Body." Stage space limitations caused Laughton a lot of trouble. The small area for stage movement made Laughton remember the nights after the early rehearsals when he would wake up in the middle of the night yelling, "They're bumping into each other." Asked if he had chosen the sim plified form of production that he has used for the two plays for economic reasons, he replied with a very emphatic no and then add ed with a painful smile, "These are not cheap people." There were three explanations for the style of presentation that he adopted. They were the follow ing: (1) the script calls for many abrupt changes of mood and set, I KnHeis ftTUJSHr mSN 'S 1 l-ifc WILD hickup the: LEGENDARY OF THE. OLD BEEN HERE.- B1LLT "S RGUREB west.v you have: j -IOO YEARS r X.I 1 OTW. Taylor Meshach (2) everyone has a different idea as to what the settings should be, and (3) the chosen method is more vivid than any other. Laughton also gave some very cogent advice to the novice actors assembled. The most important information was that an actor should not impersonate, but should act as an observer. To il lustrate this point, he sited "Ty" Power's performance of the bat tle scene in "John Brown's Body," in which he himself does not ac tually become involved, but on which he is simply commenting. Upon request from Samuel Sel den, head of the Dramatic Art department, Mr. Laughton did some readings that he has done on tour throughout the country. The first was Thomas Wolfe's fa mous selection on trains, the country they pass through, and the people that are connected with them. Through definite and abrupt changes in rhythm and dynamics, he conveyed with un canny effect the train rushing across the country, stopping for awhile, and then continuing its trip. Different parts of the coun- try were also described in brief, yet vivid sections. Laughton then passed on to . a reading from the Bible describ Shadrach, Mishach, and Abedne go in the fiery furnace. Before do ing this, he commented on the frequent repititions and changes in meter ot the section, stating that he thought that Gertrude Stein' had conceived her idea for her famous "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, etc," from this selection. He then proceeded to demonstrate how a child does the Stein piece, leaping about in great abandon. The description from the Bible was notable, because even though the same long v phrases were repeated many tim es, Laughton never once made them monotonous. This was a per formance that befitted the very great man 'of the theatre that Charles Laughton is. i fUEKffSAP OF S04PQPJ2Z4 HUH' k AH.c-rr'LL be; great tseie. ) THAT OLE GANG O'MINE KM I UKbUN, tillLY THE. KID, george: s. kaufman, an' th WONDER WHUT THE.Y BIN UP TO, LATELV 4 -A. Z- F. Wood, Jr. Making History Unless you have an insatiable curiosity about history, you will probably avoid Saunders Hall like a communist with leprosy. The stereotyped idea of a history pro fessor is that of a dried-up, ab-sented-mindetf, bespectacled old gent who spends his life in musty old manuscripts and doesn't know what it is to watch the sun come up' over the ocean. Unfortunately, in many cases, the idea isn't too farWf. 1 Now, UNC has a good history department one of the best, and many of its historians are as vi vacious and interesting as they are erudite. But, even at UNC, the majority of historians or would-be-historians (instructors) fit into the stereotyped pattern very neatly. Why is this? I believe part of the answer is that historians as a group are the lousiest writers on the face of the earth. They've got good vocabularies. They're not ungrammatical. And their sentences are clear enough. But they're dry, repititious, and trite. Their facts are cold and un adorned. There is no warmth, no freshness. Just dull naked facts. Thus, Richard the Lion-Hearted is a big, mean, courageous man who beats hell out of Moslem people. That's all. He's not a human be ing with emotional problems. No sense of humor. No appeal. Just a name a man with a blank face. One thing we do know about Richard, though. He "sacked and plundered" captured Moslem strongholds. The definition of "sacked" is "plundered"; so Rich ard "plundered and plundered" Moslem strongholds. I guess Rich ard did a lot of plundering. Then, were the Crusaders on the way to the Holy Land? Oh, no! They were enroute to "the Holy Land, and, not only that, they were enroute to the Holy Land nine times in one chapter of some eighteen pages. About two years ago, I wrote a term paper on the Boxer Rebel lion for Social Science Two. The paper was acceptable except for the choice of words. My fat lit tle instructor changed: "figured" to "reasoned"; "fired" to "dis charged"; "fired" to "removed"; "to do business" to "to engage in this traffic"; "idea" to "con ception";"badly whipped" to "won victory after victory"; and "had" to "were forced". In other words, the motto of most historians seems to be: "Always use a large word where a small one will do, n j mis imiQit wm CQ&JGSCJl'VBtf zgTHtz4r eapwmioiir nMi.Hr gap 7ZS7W GlfiSSa PUT ypUJZ MONEY i ACCORDING TO LAW-WEMUST RETURM MDUR DID IDN'T HOFSE AND FEED'OLD GUNS. 4 Dave Herbert Inquiring Reporter "Pardon , me, but what is your opinion about the . . . ?" If you haven't heard these words yet, your reporter has mis sed ypu. But don't go into hiding for this week your Inquiring Re porter will begin to feel out the campus pulse on matters which you readers think will be inter esting and informative as well as humorous. . This week's question: "Who would you like to see as the next football coach?" stirred up an ar gument almost each time it was asked to a group of students, es pecially among the football play ers themselves. While the reaction among the coeds was indifferent, most of the men asked had a definite person in mind and plenty of reasons to back up their candidate. Outgoing coach Carl Snavely still has plenty of admirers and while most realized the futility of casting their vote for him, a few felt that they could not hon estly vote otherwise. Here are the results: Questioned: 252 students from all walks of life. Opinion: Tatum, 36 per cent; University of Maryland. Barclay, 11 per cent; Assistant UNC. Wilkinson, 10 per cent; U. of Oklahoma. Holcombe, 8 per cent; Purdue. Gill, 6 per cent; Assistant, UNC. Vaught, 5 per cent; U. of Mis sissippi. Guepe, 4 per cent; U. of Vir ginia. Brown, 4 per cent; Cleveland Browns. Undecided, 6 per cent. Others receiving votes included: Snavely, Otto Graham, Waters, Bob Waterfield (with Jane Rus sell, of course). A $2.00 merchandise certificate will be given by the Sutton Drug Company for next week's winning question. It must be submitted by Tuesday, January 19, to In quiring Reporter, Box 1080, Cha pel Hill. Be seeing you around! and never use a descriptive word. Be as dry as possible." , Among the few glaring excep tions to this morbid aridity is Will Cuppy, the most delightful historian of this century, and, in cidentally, one of the most accur ate. If history textbooks were written like "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody" you'd have to build five more history buildings at UNC. fit mmwmt 1 - IT HAPPENS. Cl??w?. vm 9 . NIAGARA I 7i3 DO IS ITBjAfS A l t-ri-. f- A rI N'T THAT JtV FINE? BUT, MAH GUNS IS V STILL GOOD.r AN'-NC KEJEJ TH BLOODV UATH AM SWORE. IOO Y'ARS AQO.V irm Ml Hi 7 rr r'CSi 'A Irs ttl': -V It . M Y Ji: II
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