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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR. HEEL Wbz IBmlp Wat mzd The official student publication of the Publications Board ef the University of North Carolina, Chapel HiU, 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 ia 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 The Right To Dissent .Editor's Note: Following are excerpts of the $2,500 wi n ning essay by Stanley A. Wolpert of the College of the City Qf New York, The contest was conducted by the National Council of Jewish Women. To the teacher, to the scholar on the high road of reason leading to truth, academic freedom is society's green light. It signifies, "You go, you who have been tested and tried by your teachers and colleagues, you who have learned through arduous study and long years of disciplined labor how to use honestly and objectively the tools of scholarship, the books, the logic, the facts of history and thte natural world, you who have mastered the art and science of education, investigation and clear thinking, you go on unafraid, go as Prometheus Went steal more of the fire from Olymous." And if at the end of his road the scholar arrives at conclusions in conflict with popular opinion, or not in keeping with the current phase of an evolving national policy, or inimical to powerful group's in society, academic freedom means that no govern ment or newspaper or individual will be permitted to force a retraction of those conclusions, to ban or burn them, to punish in vengeance their champion. It means that in the world of ideas, the stock of weapons is strictly limited to better ideas. But in time of tense conflict, or violently competing ideas, of fear, insecurity and confusion, many people contend that the staunchest advocates of intellectual freedom are corrupt ers, subverters of all social values, and must therefore be silenced. In Greece there was a Socrates, in Germany, a Martin Luther, in Italy Galileo Galilei. Stubborn men these, curious men, peculiar and disturbing men who dared challenge the very gods and the rules ot the earth, tor the sake ot conscience, in the service of truth. Unless the teacher is free to question and dissent, the student's mind will emerge from school, not strong with wis dom, but at best heavy with information. The teacher who tailois his opinions to the cut of popular pressure will hardly encourage bold inquiry in his classroom. Men who will one day govern themselves must first learn to think for themselves. There is no greater challenge to test the mettle of democ racy's defenders than the current threat to academic freedom. Since the "cold war" has become warmer in Korea, havoc crying patriots and understandably wrorried democrats have successfully managed to trim the wings of . . . (academic) . . . freedom . . . A far greater danger than any statutory restric tion threatens the life of academic freedom the subtle and silent fear, self-censorship. No university is an island divorced from the passions of the community out of which it has sprung. When the social atmosphere is charged with suspicion and clamors or conformity, when in the market place the greys of opinion are increasingly forced into areas of black or white, when the mere suspension of judgment on subjects of vital controversy is labelled "abetting the enemy" . . .in structors become more cautious, students cynical and apathetic about the very issue that will most strongly affect their fu ture lives and the lives of their children. Freedom will not be saved by men who have so little faith in her strength that with every sign of totalitarian attack they flee from her finest outposts and race into the arms of tyranny and suppression. Those who would shield our youth from the dangers of incitement forget Oliver Wendell Holmes' statement that "every idea is an incitement." Those who insist their only interest is national security forget iMill's warning that "A State which dwarfs her men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished." Daily the meaning of academic freedom is defined by the student who insists upon his right to be guided, not led or driven in the direction of truth and understanding; by the teacher who resists all doctrinaire shackles, faithfully follow ing the light of reason and conscience; by the administrator who values free inquiry above the largess of monetary endowments. 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Unable to hear 34. Conflict 35. Appearing as if eaten It! C A I M SIuaTpTs PIAIL iai(GIE!S i?clAS"1T RjGlE A R OWE Js R 3-3 Yesterday's Answer 36. A billow 40. Mend a hole 43. Droop in the middle 45. Fish 47. Belonging- to me ' 12. 777 13 14 ZZZ!llZZZll 2fo 27 777 26 29 30 iiiqzizzz 34 3S 3fo 7 37 zzzizznizz 42. 43 777 44 45" iZZZllZZZZI APRIL 3, 1953 Harvey Bradshaw The Grail When the veterans of World War I returned to the Carolina campus in 1920, the problem of disunity between fraternity and non-fraternity men on the cam pus was a- serious one. To help solve this and other problems, a group of 13 young men founded the Order of the Grail and set about their task- of making our campus a better place to live and work. They chose the Chalice or Cup which legend says Christ drank from at the Last Supper as the mystic symbol for the knightly way of life whleh they Would seek. The miraculous power of this Grail was well-known" in the middle ages and King Arthur's knights made long pilgrimages in search of it. The present Grail Room in Graham Memorial was given to the Order in the early 1930's on the condition that they furnish it and allow other campus organiza tions to use it a condition will ingly met as a service to the Uni versity. Since then in this room the generations of Grail members have met around' the round table there. Here the symbolic cup is kept and the wall decora tions carry out the Arthurian theme. Placques on the walls list the members' name since the founding of the group. Each year since 1920 the Or der has selected 13 sophomores and juniors to take up the quest over 400 students in all. The honor of being asked to join has come to be the highest which can be bestowed upon a sophmore. The fraternity-non-fraternity pro blem was met by selecting seven from one group and six from the other each year, and alternating the majority. The initiation is a highly secret ritual. This year there are seven non-fraternity initiates. Besides their foremost project, the Grail has become known for its inexpensive, informal dances, its scholarships (six per year of $150 each), its recognition of worthy, unpublicized services to the campus, and its primary pur pose of service to the campus as a whole and its continual efforts toward harmony. A. Z. F. Wood, Jr. The New Edition As I signed the pledge on my ethnology exam, I barely refrained from disturbing the other stu dents with a great "Huzzah" of elation. For, among other things, it meant" that I could sell my ethnology book and purchase Hemingway's Green Hills of Afri ca, which I had seen in a beauti ful new reprint while browsing in the Intimate Bookshop. Down to the Intimate I skipped, whistling merry little tunes, and being very thankful that I had bought the ethnology book new and it was a six-dollar book. As I walked into the shop, I didn't hesitate, but walked straight to the back counter and plunked down my -toughly-bound, well kept, unwritten-in medium of exchange. The lady at the coun ter looked at the book, then in her card file, and announced that she could give me ninety cents for it. My blithe smile changed to dis belief and then to dismay. "Ninety cents! But that was a six-dollar book and I've taken good care of it." And I thumbed through the book to show the nice lady that there wasn't a blem ish on it. "I'm sorry," she said (and I think she was), "But we're not sure whether they'll use this book any more or not. You see, the Book Exchange won't tell us down here whether a book is go ing to be used any more or not. If we buy the book, and next quarter, they use another book or another edition of the same book, we'll be stuck. - Have you ever tried to sell an ethnology book?" I hadn't tried to sell an ethnol ogy book until now. I saw what she meant though. "How can you buy and sell textbooks at all if you don't know what books are going to be used?" I asked. "The students tell us. And we do get stuck many times." I mumbled something about the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914 and then said "Look, I'll be back in a minute. I'm going to the Book Ex and see what the scoop is." "If they're not going to use the book," she said, "I'll still give you ninety cents for it." John Gibson It Was So-o Big Concerning the sizes of fish, especially the ones that getaway, and the number of women who have fallen victim to a fatal charm, one cannot usually take at face value the statements of an American. But in most other matters, Americans are usually honest. Indeed, with many of the "typical middle class" Amer icans, honesty reaches the pro portion of what the sociologist calls a eult. "An honest man is ' the noblest work of God. "Hon- esty is the best policy." Etc, Etc. I 121s is all .very line, yet one wise author Has pointed out "the only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity." Such a dis advantage has reached serious proportions in the present world situation. Americans believe most of the things that are told them, especially from "experts," a title which is most willingly given to any daper stranger. And, as most other people, they es pecially believe the things they want to believe. Even in this latter sphere, however, they out do most of the rest of the world. I would like to talk about three situations in which such pure credulity is actually or potential ly very dangerous. First is our treatment of "ex Communists," those former en emies who have seen the light of day and have decided to turn over a new leaf. There is probab ly no better way to get an au dience in Washington than by claiming to t)e an ex-Communist. There is certainly no beter way to get your ideas totally accepted. While there are many persons who have given up Communism, and this is hopeful, there are many others who have not, yet would claim to have done so if it were to their advantage. I do not particularly go for some of the actions of Senator McCarthy, yet suppose tomorrow a "self confessed" communist were to ad mit that five years ago he and Joe plotted the overthrow of the government. Whatever else he is, I am rather sure that Joe is not a Communist, yet who would be lieve him? There is no better way to put the finger on an important and loyal American (or an un important and disloyal one) than As I walked out, I glanced covetously at the shelf where Green Hills of Africa was, and if there had been a picture of some thing alive on the cover, it would surely have leered at me. The book looked as far away as Af rica itself. At the Book Ex, I was told that my little six-dollar gem was worth less than the paper it was printed on so far as the Book Ex was concerned. My book, they said, was out of date. It was only the twenty-third edition and next quarter they would use the twenty-fourth edition. I asked what the difference was between the editions, and I was shown that on page 549 of the new edi tion, on the first line, the word "or" had been changed to "and". (Later, on a hunch, I secured a copy of the twenty-second edition and noted that the word on the first line of 549 was "and". I never did find the twenty-first edition, but I have been told that the word in that book on page 549 was "or".) iiT.lSEll cANiToo?KoMofihimMpio ) ( you may etep uews ?ff fHHlfl kep egEiN&r? op- 'THE TEEVy STATION SPro UIKB THS JOB? I HAV AN THE B0l7O!ZlkVtji&" CjT ' iiOU gTTB R GST NWGLA5.) NgP& A NW MANAGES; i V&EKENPS UNEf?piN EY KXCmkCTBtX ieW JC A'A?r5 A 1 jS-7 rTTT I CANNEP THE OTHK. I W mttlM ANP I UK THE CUT CP OUKj YOI'P WfciTg ?H TYy Mhs7A ( 992 EVC 5U.N ' - ' - - il "SyfSMI I SVV ZJ-y'i INOTr-ooroo J ah'mgudx)' -'.- - " "7 . A &i&y. y OAi lMWN-DO rNSANlTAPCyV SAID THAT. AH IS Ny Ky (JHE-OOB?) NORMAL. & NORMAL. AMERICAN! tATIsWA - f J- OTifiS'j i L N- - HAMMERICAN) GlRU.'r ALICE IS TH' ISS V inifiimWl hli&fWi MJfen to' have him branded by an ex Communist. The very nature of the argument makes it almost impossible for the accused to defend himself. This, I feel, is a real danger in the present crisis. Secondly, there is an almost total acceptance on the part of the American people of state ments by their leaders, especiallly the military ones. We would like M m- A M mm ; NYLON CORD SUITS $32.50 WE HAVE SEVERAL COLORS . . . Come By While Sizes Are Complete N. COLUMBIA ST. WE ADVERTISED! WE SHOUTED! WITH NO RESULTS THE " NOW We're giving re cords away with 30 Discount on ail 33 - 45 -78's. SALE ENDS THIS WEEKEND! Open Fridays 7-9 p.m. u u to believe that for the most part our military always gives us the straight scoop, but often in our history this has not been the case. This point was brought home by Vermont Senator Flanders, who questioned the air force about the firing on an American plane off Siberia. The Senator said that by distorting the facts, the military was guilty of waging psychological warfare against the American people by creating a fear that was not justified. It is interesting that since that charge was made, an adequate answer from the Air Force has not been forthcoming. I do not suggest that . r ..fNg. ... . .... x..,.....A. i 1 1 1 Vwe. Keep your engine clear of sludge and gum by changing oil every thousand miles at our sta PO E MOTOR CO. 112 VV. Franklin PH. 6531 DESOTO DALE FAIRL "Where It's Fun To Shop" we should dismiss all the reports: of our military leaders, but a certain amount of skepticism would be healthy, if for no other reasons than to dilute the "nat ural enthusiasm" with which cer tain military figures report their successes and actions. Finally, there is the problem of the Berlin refugees. Every day thousands of persons stream over into west Berlin from the Russian sector. We call them "re fugees" who have fled the terror behind the iron curtain. No doubt most of the persons can be so classified. Yet what a fine way (See SO-O BIG, page 4) tion where friendly service and quality supplies mean real satisfaction. Drive up today! PLYMOUTH L, ESS Glen. Lennox (j
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