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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEED SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1953 Another Look From The News & Observer Big-Time Football '" ? y 'rV : " K reviewer Ted Rosenthal was By an Interesting coincidence, The Daily Tig in saying the first act of Tar Heel, student newspaper at Chapel Hill, "On Borrowed Time" lacked vig- and Carl Snavely, former University football or and dragged on the play, his roach, chose successive davs this week to con- opening-night criticism must have , - demn the big-time, big money aspects of foot ball at the University. Snavely, who was, in effect, fired at Chap el Hill when his team was not doing much worse than the current one, did not attack big-time football at Chapel Hill directly. His remarks in an interview in St- Louis, where he is now coach at Washington University, were expressions of his satisfaction to get out of "big-time" football and into coaching at a university which has de-emphasized athletics However, his criticism of the football situa tion at Chapel Hill was evident. "The emphasis on winning was too great at North Carolina," he said. At Washington University he does not have to face "the des perate, absolutely unyielding demands for victory." At North Carolina a coach, he said, had to face a "money schedule." "Football must show a profit at the big school and so you have to arrange a schedule that will bring in money. But you have to win and play in teresting: football to make that kind of a schedule." Snavely went on: "There's another dif ference, too. We can't demand the same kind of rigid practice schedules out here. The play ers even miss practice a few times because their school work is too exacting . . Some boys don't even make the trips because of school work. But Avhat the heck, they don't get anything for playing here." Some of those who thought that the Uni versity might do better in the big time if they got rid of Snavely may even in this disastrous season think the ex-coach is . talking about sour grapes. There is, however, no connec tion with his interview and the Tar Heel's platform: We are against the student and alumni philoso phy which says, "Let's have a winning team at all costs. If these boys can't do it, let's buy better ones." We are fighting the idea that big-time sports be long in our University. We seek to debunk the ar guments which say big-time sports bring more good than. bad. We are striving to convince the Univer sity it should not add athletes to its payroll. We are trying to return our University to the main function for which it was created : learning. The Daily Tar Heel stands for the primary role of the University as an educational institution. The necessary . . . athletic program should be includ ed, but it would be in a niche and not on a pedestal. To effectuate such a program; the Tar Heel proposed: 1. Abolish University grants-in-aid to ath letes as such. 2. Abolish the Educational Foundation. 3. Grade average of C should be requir ed of athletes- 4. Cut out or reduce price of admission of games. 5. University should resume direct con trol of athletics. Certainly those are interesting proposals coming from such a responsible source. Un doubtedly there are some who feel that re gardless of the money put' up by alumni through the Educational Foundation and al so by the University itself, the University this year, on the basis of scores and, showing, has unintentionly already gotten out of anything that could be accurately described as "big time" football. Even with low scores, how ever, the problems which former Coach Snavely and the Tar Heel stress remain in the athletic situation it Chapel Hill and some other North Carolina institutions of higher learning. Coach Snavely's expressions of relief at getting out of hell-for-leather . and cash-for-players football may reflect some personal feeling. The Tar Heel's campaign to put the first emphasis on education in all things, in cluding football, at Chapel Hill, however, de serves the attention of all those who believe it is more important to educate men than to win any or all games, fill stadiums, or pile up athletic cash. -; ; 'No Kidding!' given the cast one tremendous goose. For we saw the show Fri day (it closes tonight) and are still grinning. It was a delightful performance with, the first act as sparkling as the last. It must be admitted we went with a prejudice produced by Rosenthal's and similar comments by other first nighters. But maybe we relaxed and slipped into the , spirit of the thing when the always-courteous usher seated us and said, "I hope you enjoy the play." We did. And the full-house crowd was enthusiastic, too, from light dimming to curtain call. "On Borrowed Time" is play wright Paul Osborn's reminder not to take oneself or the world too seriously. It spoofs doctors (the AMA would cry "foul."), society, death, religion and any thing else which comes in range of its witty lines. We found it quite even-flowing except once when Death, in the person of Mr. Brink, philosophized from an apple tree. Darling of the show was Pud,, done by six-year-old Michael Casey whose daddy is in the UNC phys ed department As was pointed out in the earlier review, Pud's role was long. He did it, however, without a bumble. His inflection was captivating and he played his part as naturally and as vivaciously as had he been in his own Victory Village liv ing room. Just as good was Christian Moe as Gramps. He never strayed from his character part Mrs. Les Casey, who in real life is young Michael's mother, played oppo site Gramps. We found her at ease in her part. William White was the lawyer, Pilbeam. White made quite a hit in "Mister Roberts" and again in "On Borrowed Time" he proved his ability, this time in a different type of role. Jane Barringer as Demetria Riffle has been criticized for being too stereotyped in a stereo typed role. Miss Barringer struck us as doing a nice job in this characterization. Perhaps some have never encountered the par ticular type of aunt played by her. We have. Rick Faw played Mr. Brink, i.e., Death. If his early acting is any indication of what death is like, one easily sees why many hate to go. He did get better as the evening progressed, however. "On Borrowed Time" seems a wonderful show for the Play makers to take on their annual tour of the state and southeast ern circuits, much, more than last year's pansied production of "Tne Inspector General." There have been many of the Playmakers' offerings in the past which got good or even excellent notices when we considered them below par. Now a reviewer fin ally gets around to panning the group and his criticism seems good for one night only. This is a tribute to the reviewer, and the company, perhaps, since the re viewer seems to have stimulated the reviewed, i Frankly, we had a fine time on borrowed time. RN. .fi0r'7 .'. . Y v Llf& 'ksy MMTiy - V J-1 fal C'VV If YOU Said It i9tr is wasv-vIsttm parr , Washington Merry-Gc-Round Drew Pearson II WASHINGTON Secretary of State Dulles is not happy, to put it mildly, over Vice President Nixon's impromptu diplomacy on his Far Eastern tour. He feels that Nixon has reached for too many headlines, may have put personal publicity ahead of Amer ican foreign policy. After Dulles announced that the United States may someday recognize Red China, for exam ple, Nixon assured Chiang Kai Shek in Formosa that the Secre tary of State really didn't mean what he said. Naturally, Dulles was furious. Again, in In-do-China, Nixon called upon the French to press the war against the communist guerrillas to to tal victory. The French pro tested after- PEARSON ward that the United States didn't fight the Korean War to total victory, and that the French might settle for an honorable truce in Indo-China, too. Again, in Seoul, Nixon pledged U. S. support to Syngman Rhee in his struggle f or . a United Korea. Rhee promptly interpreted this as meaning that the United States would help him fight his way back to the Yalu, in case the political' talks break down. Yet this isn't American policy at all. All this is why Nixon is now reading from prepared manu scripts manuscripts which are scrutinized by U. S. diplomats in advance. to train French pilots has kept most of its planes busy catering to vacationing Congressmen. Since Congress adjourned three months ago, 246 members of Congress, believe it or not, have shown up at the Air Force mis sion in Paris demanding free transportation. Most of them have been ac companied by their wives or sec retaries. Some have been ac companied by both their wives and secretaries plus even their secretaries' wives. When President Eisenhower, who is on a diet, had breakfast the other morning with hefty GOP Congressman Clarence Brown of Ohio, also on a diet, the conversation naturally got around to their respective weights. "I'm doing all right on the scales," said Brown. "I'm down to 206 pounds. Believe it or not, that's almost exactly what I weighed when I played my last game of football back in 1916. It was a semi-pro game. Before that I had been a regular on the Washington and Lee University .team." "Well, oddly enough, the same is true in my case," grinned the President "I weigh 174 stripped, which is exactly what I weighed when I played my last game of football for Army. I gained abolft 10 pounds during the summer but have since taken them off by dieting." The two dieting ex-footballers both ate a light breakfast half a grapefruit, one soft-boiled egg, toast, marmalade and black cof fee. But they seemed to enjoy it. Harold was called on the carpet by his boss, Secretary of Defense Wilson, to explain his unauthor ized statement about sending A-bombs to Spain. Talbott swore it was all the fault of the Span ish translators, and that what he had said was: The United States would support Spain with A bombs. The way the translators unscrambled it, Talbott claimed, the word "support" came out as "supply," so he was quoted as saying the United States would supply Spain with A-bombs. Wilson, however, still wasn't appeased. He pointed out that Talbott had kept on sticking his foot in his mouth even after he left Spain, and had made a re mark about cutting down " the size of our forces in Europe though President Eisenhower had announced no such idea was con templated. Furthermore, Talbott made a statement about going full-speed ahead on bases that the U. S. intends to take its time building. And he promised Tur key F-86 jet interceptors, when she is really going to get F-84 jets for ground support. As a result of all this, Talbott was warned to watch his words in the future or be fired. So many Congressmen have been demanding free airplane rides around Eurbpe that the Air Force mission which is supposed Secretary of the Air Force Talbott is still . in the Pentagon doghouse. After his return from Europe, U. N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge lost a private argument with Secretary Dulles last week over whether the United States should condemn Israel for its armed attack against Jordan. Lodge wanted to rebuke Israel in very mild language, indicated to friends that he feared a tough resolution would lose Jewish votes for Republicans in the next election. But Secretary Dulles flatly re fused. He instructed Lodge to draw up a strong denunciation of Israel. Wit attp t3ar3l The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday, examination and vaca tion periods and dur . ing the - official Sum mer terms. Entered as second class matter at the , . post - office in Chapel Hill, N. O, un der the. Act of March 3, 18 7 9. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, - $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. f Chapel I , J openwt it U Edito7ZZZZZ ROLFE NEILL Managing Editor . LOUIS KRAAR Business Manager 1( JIM SCHENCK Sports Editor TOM PEACOCK News Ed. Associate Ed .. 7 -Eydei Night Editor for this 'issues Rolf eleill eiSUT'O. M AT Y0ZO?kbl TO NOW WAT WEfeE f&APy . BOOM&AH.AW I AGZEE TO COACH I T0 6TAXTACr&.Ye WANT 0M?w&It Ouk TfeAM" WITH UP P0f? THE TEAM, I WWAT A GOOP I )7AT THE HELM, poo pGX-,7iSAAr OUT A vrwKT jOU PtK&l I 1 W m n t r .1 pOH'reee so scop , ANVMoee , Boqeoo..i think I MAT MAVfc THROWN THE SO POUNP eAC INSTEAD OF THE SMALL BEAN BAG. ArtrctossiYL piAt& rs'- r -era 1 1 L ffcPPY.V-AH TRAPPED SHO' MEAHUSBNff-MOWf NUFF WILL VO' GIT ME -VHICH FART 'FILTHY PHIL? AS A s O HIM YVEPPIN PRESENT? J( DOESVO- WANT? "11 ??-SB.'-MAM ONLW REASON FO GITTIN' MARRIED HAS BIM BAR BY- CUED. V- , &UT. HOKJEW- AH THOUGHT VO' WANTED THET PIG TO EATr KOT-jOB.'-AH Y NO'LL BE MAM PET WANTED HIM AW 'COMPANION ; TT FO'A PET-AN ' v MARRTY US UFJ A COMPANION!' ) MARFWN'X yy- While, ov the field of battle-. f-'AHU. B.USTMAH HEART A-RUMHN'. BEFORE AH LETS THET U'L MOWSTEFt, MARJLW, T 1CM fitAff SWEET Scholarships For All Editor: "They are getting paid for it." That ugliest of remarks (that you hear in Kenan Stadium ONLY when we are losing) should be used impartially. For instance: let's say it in Latin class when a scholarship "A" student gives a recitation. Let's tell the physics professor that the boy he sets store by as a brilliant student is here on a dirty old scholastic scholarship. Let's razz the cum laude students at commence ment, if they were here with "aid." And shame, shame forever on a Rhodes scholar or a Fulbright student. Let's turn our backs on all G.I. students, the dirty things, using "our" money to get an . education. Look in the mirror, all of you users of "He's getting -paid for it." Isn't somebody paying your own way? The percentage of boys who go througfi college on their own, without one bit of aid, is so low, it is a mere shadow on the campus. What are these mighty sums the boys are paid? Brother, you should get your brains and body knocked around for the amount . MOST, and I mean most, of the boys are getting. If all the critics of our "aid-ed" athletes would rush to Woollen Gym and say: "Here am I, take me, a BIG and clean American boy. I will train as you say. I will practice in rain and cold and heat and snow. I will study in my spare time to maintain my scholastic average, thereby giving up all social life. I will do it for God, for country, and for Carolina." That way, dear critics, we won't need any grants-in-aid, but neither will we have much of a team, because coaching is a profession and coaches want the best material possible. If you want a college without good, tough, com petitive teams, there's always St. Johns in Annap olis, Maryland, established for the likes of you. .Small, debative, and STUDIOUS. You have to pay though, so be sure to notify whoever is "aiding"' you here, before you make the transfer. It will cost them more up there. Dottie O'S., Mare A Tenacious Struggle Editor: Your crusade for abolishing big-time athletics deserves merit, if only for your tenacity of strug gle. It is not my right to question your motives in this campaign, but let's look at your methods, i.e., your argument, for a minute. In the Tuesday editorial page, you outlined five points on how. to get out of the big-time. To my mind comes a question do we want to get out of the "big-time?" 1. "It should be made clear, however, that the undergraduate who applies for aid will not be re fused because, he incidentally happens to be an athlete."" Here you're unconsciously driving sub sidization underground again like the sokalled scholastic scholarships at Princeton. 2. "Abolish the Educational Foundation." With out some kind of check on alumni grante and giv ings, sponsored and controlled by the University, the dam will spill over and we will find ourselves back again in the wholesale bartering of the '30's and middle '40's. 3. "Grade average of C should be required of athletes." Not only will this method induce undue pressure for grades (an uneducational theory) but isn't an overall C average required of all students for graduation and wouldn't this embrace our ath letes? Or are they allowed to graduate without it? 4. "Cut but or reduce price of admission to games." It would be fine if appropriated funds could take over and finance our entire school physical plant to "big-time" football and we kiss away one of the finest intramural .programs in the country, the but so far this hasn't happened. We kiss goodbye W. A. A., over half of our other varsity sports programs, and in conclusion, an area where 90 percent of the student body engages in something during the school year. 5. "University should assume direct control of athletics." Mr. Editor, for just such a question, I'll ask you one. Would you personally find out exactly what the Athletic Association is and please publish its membership breakdown and duties on your editorial page? Bernie Shields (Regarding No. S: Yes, athletes are required to have a C average for graduation. However, to com pete on the field they only need have a half C aver age. Thus our athletes can play on an average which wouldn't make them eligible for graduation. All other students in extra-curriculars . must have an average of C to participate in campus activities. (Regarding No. 5: Director of Athletics C. P. Erickson says the president and vice-president of the Athletic Association are elected by the student body; A. W. Hobbs is faculty chairman of the group; its members include the entire student body; its duties are those of policy making for all athletics other than murals. Ed.) ' Others Said In the queer mess of human destiny the de termining factor is Luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capaci ties. Among them Luck decides who shall accomp lish the great work, who shall be crowned wUh laurel, and who shall fall back into obscurity and silence. William E. Woodward. Christmas itself may be called into question If carried so far it creates indigestion. Ralph Bergengren. - A - little accuracy sometimes saves tons of ex planation. Hector Hugo Ifunro. : ' k
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