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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR Wat IB&ttp at lleel 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. Bob Slough Carolvn Reiehard Ass't. Sub. Mgr BiH Venabie, Tom witty Office Mgr. Buazy Shttll Assoc. Ed Nina Gray, Jane Carter NEWS STAFF John Jamison, Louis Kraar, Richard Creed, Ken San ford, Ellen Woods, J. D. Wright, Sally Schindel, Jess Nettles, Tom Neal Jr. SPORTS STAFF Vardy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Meivin Lang, Everett Parker, John Hussey, Sherwood Smith, Al Long, Dick Crouch, Benny Stewart, Wilbur Jones. EDITORIAL STAFF A. Z. F. Wood Jr., John Gibson, Dorman Cor dell, Dan Duke, Ron Levin, Norman Jarrard. Night editor for this issue: Dorman Cordell Peace, It's Wonderful Woollen Gym fees costing $ioa year should be established on a voluntary basis. Undergraduates in their junior and senior years, gradu ates in law and other schools, even regular students who don't take physical ed classes should not have to. pay for a service which they don't want and don't receive. Woollen Gym services are unique. A clean athletic outfit is always provided.. Equipment, facilities, coaching advice, and other values couldn't be better. But the fact remains that more than a nominal amount of students just find it physically impossible to utilize the gym. If it were a tiny minority, say even two hundred students, there would be no real problem. 'But the fee covers people, to the number of several hundreds who don't have the time to use the gym. There are also those who flatly don't want to use the facilities; a larger group of students who would like to use the gym, don't, have the time. If the Woollen gym program were wrecked because of a voluntary operation, the campus would miss it. But a formal request to the General Assembly on the part of the administra tion should be made. If the state is sincere about wanting to provide fairly inexpensive education for its citizenry, then it has an obligation to pay this $io fee. The other Student Party proposal that of making mem bership in the Athletic Association voluntary is not sound, we believe. More students, a large and clear majority, attend, some athletic contest during the year. The $3.30 is a tiny sum compared to actual gains derived through membership in the Association. There may be a certain number of students who never go to football games, who would like to abolish athletics. But they amount to perhaps dozens rather than hundreds. The Numbers Tomorrow should be a day of great fun-making, general happiness, and congenial introduction for the three student bodies of the Consolidated University are having a get-together in the new student union at Greensboro. The occasion is Consolidated University Day. But some of the folks from State and W.C. will be angered because they will say there is no such thing as a Consolidated University on the student level. And they will quote Carolina's student president Ham Horton to prove their point. How can we have a three-branch student council without Carolina in it? Horton says one of his main reasons for pulling out is to emphasize his point that there are irreconcilable differences among the three schools. He is saying that the kind of con solidation now in existence on the student level just won't work. The Daily Tar Heel believes that Horton and the rest of the quitters of Carolina's delegation have acted in extreme haste and in bad faith. They have admittedly not tried to bring about the kind of reform that they want through reg ularprocedure. Why quit when you don't know whether you've really been defeated or not? Letter writer Tenney in another column suggests that Horton along with the presidential appointees to the council be impeached since the council has been dissolved according to Horton. There is some merit in this suggestion. The cir cumstances may be difficult; there may not be much chance of getting the council to act our way, but to forego a primary responsibility and duty, to slam the door walk out and slam the door, is unbecoming of a student official. This preface to CU Day on the part of the Carolina dele gation has made the celebration of the annual affair slightly farcical. Nevertheless, The Daily Tar Heel urges students to visit Woman's College tomorrow to get to know our academic brothers and sisters. The morning show the Consolidated Student Council or rather the Unconsolidated Council session, though billed as just a routine' meeting may prove to be a somewhat stellar attraction with one or two remaining delegates and some un official observers appointed by Horton from Chapel Hill attending. . Consolidated University Day, despite the petty bickering, walkouts, and maneuvering by our student representatives, does offer a real opportunity for us to have a good time, to acquaint ourselves with fellow students at Woman's College and State. W.C. is yours for the day; you might as well en joy it. . Semester News From W.C. Sally Beaver, author of the column, "Welcome Semester ; ites," appearing on yesterday's editorial page, is the editor of the Carolinian, Woman's College weekly newspaper. The Daily Tar Heel is grateful for her contribution which gave us an idea of what to expect in the fall, semester-wise. HEEL FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1953 WALT DEAR ROUTE NKELL . JIM SCHENCK BIFF ROBERTS Soc. Ed. Circ. Mgr. Asst. Spts. Ed. Adv. Mgr. Exch. Ed. Deenie Schoeppe Donald Hogg Tom Peaeack Bob Wolfe Alice Chapman -A. Z. F. Wood, Jr. Facts It has been said (by many peo ple, I don't know who originally) that the American people have more knowledge of facts than any other people and know less what to do with them. To put it into the language of the psychologists, we are living solely for the objective without a thought for the subjective. The study of human beings as individuals and even as eth nic groups rides Jim Crow to the study of nuclear physics (almost entirely for destructive purposes), jet-power (almost entirely for de structive purposes), high-powered automobiles (almost entirely for " destructive purposes), and tele vision sets (purposes only partly destructive; results entirely so). We are living a hundred million miles an hour trying to keep up . with the Russians, the Joneses, the rotation of the earth, and with Time which will run . out anyway no matter how fast we go. It's been a long time since the American people have sat still long enough to take inventory; perhaps the last time was between the Civil War and the rise of the Rockefellers, Carnegies and Morgans. And ever since then it's- been grab or be grabbed, get or be got, and run or be trampled. So to who or what do we turn to help slow down the pace before the American people annihilate . themselves and the rest of the world along with them? The scientists (the group which very definitely runs this country and probably the world) are too busy inventing things to bother with the inventors and whom ever the inventions affect. Clergymen (the group which likes to think it runs the country) are too busy asserting what they believe to be true instead of seek ing for the truths they don't know. And they are also too busy squabbling among themselves ov er irrelevant details and the my riad interpretations of what great men have said or are supposed to have said. Politicians . . . well, you know about them ... It looks to me as if the job of channeling the American people's tremendous energy into a more introspective vein, of bringing things back to a more proper proportion lies with the educa tors, first-grade teachers as well as college professors, particular ly with the philosophers, histor ians, and the so-called teachers of the Humanities. (Psychologists ought to come in here too, but the trouble is that the prevalent attitude of people is that anyone who wants to see a psychologist ought to have his head examined.) It seems to me that an awful lot of changes are going to have to be made somewhere or, I should say, everywhere. For what do you learn in grade school and high school? ' You learn that in 1492 Columbus sail ed the ocean blue. You learned that the Declaration of Independ ence was signed in 1776. You learn that George Washington was the Father of our country and he never told a lie (which is a lie). You learn that Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick and furthermore you're required to read it and I defy any high school kid to be able to understand Moby Dick. You learn that H-2-0 is water and that the. proper name for salt is sodium chloride. You learn that Caracas is the capital of Venezuela and that the circumference of the earth is about 25,000 miles. You learn that Beethoven wrote symphonies, was deaf, and his pictures have sour expressions. You learn nev er to split infinitives, dangle par ticiples, or. use slang expressions. You learn that America is God's land and atheists go to Hell with out even stopping in Purgatory. When you get to college you have been crammed with facts, some true, some half-true, some absolutely false, and most mean ingless. So what do you do in college? You take high school courses for at least two years, taking notes and absorbing facts from teachers who do research mainly and teach on the side. You take quizzes and answer "Here" to the roll-call. You study things with no thought to their significance, certainly with no thought of how they affect life today. And so, quite naturally, you have no interest in your work, and your pent-up energy must find expression somewhere else. That somewhere else is often beer, etc., at first, and later you can be sure it's not in the "Hu manities." Even late in life you are apt to shrink from literature and art and history, for you con- "Go Away, Boy Express Editor: If the C.U.S.C. is dissolved or allowed to dissolve, than all those in the student administration who are in positions of respon sibility, should be impeached. The C.U.S.C. is or was a torch of hope for the true student con solidation of spheres of mutual interest on the three campuses. It has taken years of kindling by many students to arouse the flame for this torch of total rep resentation. If it is allowed to burn out those you elected are just as guilty of treason as would be President Eisenhower if he withdrew our representative from the United Nations. Elected leaders of the student body have a sacred trust to pro tect and improve the institutions which we and our student an cestors have erected, developed and cherished throughout the years that Carolina has been the Citadel- of student democracyT When the rope in the Old Well ' broke, they didn't destroy the roof and the pillors, they simply installed new plumbing. Possibly the estate of C.U.S.C. needs a few new bricks, but let's not tear down the building for the want of a few bricks. If this structure is destroyed or allow ed to fall through apathy; a struc ture whose every brick repre sents eons of student labor and dreams; then our leaders have betrayed the sacred trust bestow ed by the electorate and should have their cloak of office ripped away from them, just as they are willing to destroy C.U.S.C. Mr. Hoyle was the State rep resentative in 48 and I was priv ileged to be one of the Carolina representatives. I would like to concur with his statements in The Tar Heel of April 7th, 1953 as we were in concurrence on practically all issues in 1948. There was no friction between tinue to associate them with the dullest of dull courses you had in college. You become a business man or a scientist or a lawyer and nuts to the Humanities. That's what the colleges are turning out, not bad in them, selves, but bad in that they are often nothing else, have no other interests except maybe in tele vision or football games. I iVi-' Y . i RIGHT.? J r1? OH.NTHETCASE.AH'D I SEE!. I BK3 WHEeT VOU CA lF T TAK E. THE J ---. , .Vrx J9 SLOBBOV.A. SUPPOSE , "Jy7 ""Tmii 11 1 iT'f 1 FfST POC f COMB On, MB FaeeYf t an'uncub ealpwin C You Bother Me' Yourself the three campuses and we marched toward mutual goals linked arm in arm. Ed Tenney Jr. Editor's Note: Ed Tenney was a charter CUSC member when it was organized in 1949. He was a member of the Student Legisla ture and served in the presi dent's cabinet. Just returned from Korea, Ed is majoring in educa tion here. Editor: It was most interesting to read Mr. Jack StilwelFs statement re garding smoke-filled rooms (re Hopefuls Give Ideas As Cam paigning Boils, The Daily Tar Heel, April 7, 1953). Last Thursday I dropped by the Student Government office (that is, President Horton's pri vate office) to see Mr. Horton on a non-political matter. Having seen someone in the office, and finding the door locked, I knock ed. Mr. Stilwell opened the door, and in the clouds of smoke is suing therefrom, I discerned what appeared to be a clique of politicians. Since the University Party does not (according to Mr. Stilwell) decide its platform in smoke-filled rooms, I wonder ed what this particular occasion was for. Perhaps they were on the phone ascertanrng student opinion. Upon inquiring about Mr. Hor ton's whereabouts, I was told by Mr. Stilwell that he (Horton) was downstairs getting a haircut, and the door was abruptly closed in my face. Respectfully, Don Angell P.S. The Graham Memorial Barbershop was closed. UP Pledges- (Continued from page 1) cent. "The platform on which the University Party was elected has .been completed on all but two points, and work is still being done on these." The fraternity letter concluded, "Please let this letter serve as a reminder to you to keep student government on a high and workable basis. You can do this by voting for your University Party." 1 A MEAt f?EDPOLL. AN' 15 TOUE HE CLAIM R'.eDS i LIFPiniVmp:? TWS BOPPEp &OTH NMS...H60m lOflT.' TAKE THE . 1 " . 1 in w m m m 1 1 1 1 v x Louis Party Line On Bob Bob Gorham, who is the Uni versity Party presidential candi date, who wants a sensible ap proach to student government, and who is running for his first major political office, told us about his ideas on government yesterday. "Politics, certainly have their place in student government, but we've got to first be sensible and practical," Gorham said. The tall, soft-spoken candidate from Rocky Mount explained that he got his platform up by "going around and seeing what the stu dents want." Gorham, who says being Orien tation chairman was the "biggest thrill of my life," says he's for closer relationship between the Interdormitory and Interfratern ity Councils. "We've got to have more dances on an all student level. That's the only way we can pull Carolina together and get back the old spirit," he reminded us. We asked the former legislator, Phi Assembly member and Delta Kappa Epsilon member what he thought about the Book Exchange. "I think the matter can be looked into. There's no reason why stu dents have to pay $4.54 for a social science syllabus, for in stance, and then not be able to get anything back on it." "I'm not going to be antagonis tic though," Gorham said firm Florence Student Production A weird monstrosity called "the little wonder," the agonizing last recollections of a condemned killer, and the skillful maneuver ing of several army lieutenants to avoid the wrath of their su perior officers provided the focal points in the three one-act plays presented by the Carolina Piay makers last night. These widely varying student productions of new plays were written, directed, acted and man aged by students under the gen eral supervision of Foster Fitz Simons. "Hi, Sir," a comedy of army life, was written by James Leon ard and directed by Cyril S. Lang. Hal England, Donald Treat, and James Fouts starred in this brief, lively play. The actors made up' for the lack of subtlety in their roles with exuberance and vigor. Highlight- of this army episode was James Fouts' attempt to con ceal a liquor bottle from his general. William Barnes and George Belk rounded out the cast of this fast-moving play. The splendid acting of Tommy Rezzuto in "The Mute," the sec ond play, was the main reason for the success of this unusual drama which was directed by Anne Edwards. Rezzuto portrayed the difficult part of the mute murderer with a sensitivity which is rarely both seen and felt by an audience. Second only to Rez zuto's acting was the emotion and understanding written into the script by playwright Cyril Lang. Neta Whitty was especially ef fective as the trouble-making hussy who drove the mute to murder. The many-sided setting designed by Charles Billings was IT GO UPTrt MCWlJAMOCJjiim EZOM PAHA MA ...uitlI marmis y oiwjtt. Npw HAMRSHiEE FOLKS rsrx"' an the KENrucxy COLQSKBIA EVECHANCE HE &XT. .. . w mil 1 1 a 1 s sx Kraar Gorham ly. "We can go about the thing in a rational way." As we ran down the list of political issues, Gorham said he was for revision of the Consoli dated University Student Council, fewer restrictions on student nur ses, securing janitor service for making up beds in dorms, con tinuation of Tarnation and any. thing else that would consider "Carolina first, then politics." "You know, I haven't known exactly how to run this thing. I've listened to a lot of political advice and discarded most of it. So I'm going around to the stu dents and seeing what they want." The Bob Gorham we talked to wasn't the same, uncertain one that told us before the nomina tions last month that he wasn't sure what he's going to do. But he still was the same good nat ured guy who used to answer loaded questions saying, "Gosh, I don't known any political an swers." A lot wiser about campaigning and quite determined, Gorham , talks of the campaign with pride. "This certainly has been a con structive campaign. And that's the secret to the whole thing. We've got to do some sound thinking and be interested in Carolina and not personal politi cal gain." Thai's Bob Gorham's idea of student government. Students will tell theirs Wednesday when the voting takes place. Williams s most impressive. Don Carmichael, William Trotman, John Miller, Dave Ashburn, Philip Kennedy, James Leonard, Carl Williams, Dan Reid, and Donald Treat com pleted the cast. The sustained emotion and sympathy with which the play was written and acted more than made up for its oc casional lack of clarity. A delightfully farcial episode about a housewife, a salesman, and a new "do-all" invention pro vided the plot of the last play, "The Little Wonder," written by Donald Deagon and directed by Mary Virginia Morgan. All the players starred in this charming bit of satire on modern life. Mary Helen Crain was amusing as the" gullible housewife. Keen Oliver as a flighty neighbor and Edgar Daniels as the bluff, big-talking salesman received most of the laughs. John Stockard, John Tay lor, James Gillikin, Carl Williams, and Charles Billings were equal ly good in the remaining roles. John Stockard designed an at tractive, colorful setting. Simple stage actions were effectively us ed to add humor. Nina Gray, Jim Wallace Engagement Announced Tar Heel assistant editor Nina Gray is now engaged to Jim Wal lace, part-time instructor in social science. Nina is a graduate student in English from Robersonville. Jim is also working for his master's and Ph.D. in History. He is from Jamesville. Jim is a former reporter, feature writer, editorialist, and circulation manager of The Tar Heel. i NATCH ERtt. I AH ALLUS OBEVS ALU LAWS- IRREGARD WULL.THS WAV tAZ. MOL PUT ID Trie 1 wip ptliict) 7ZfXPf?A? I TO AliseATG .. . ? . X I f n fc. 1 1 0JVZ- Dt5
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