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THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1954
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NEWS STAFF Charles Kuralt, Dick Creed, Joyce
Adams, Fred Powledge, Tom Lambeth, Jerry
Reece, Ann Poley, Babbie Dilorio, J. D. Wright,
Jess Nettles, Leslie Scott, Jid Thompson, Richard
rrhiele, Chal Schley, Mike Simpson, Tom Clark.
Night Editor for this issue: Rolfe Neill
Stocks Unsteady
The Price War is on. And the University
is in it.
It says so right here on the back cover
of this magazine we've been reading. Not
literally, you understand, but the implica
tions are there.
"How to be civilized," it advertises, "on
only $8.50 a year." How? Why by subscrib
ing to Harper's and New Republic at this
soooo civilized special combination offer.
What with the University charging us
$240 a year, this cut-rate pair of free enter
prisers may upset the market.
How? Here's How
A graduate student's letter in the Sunday
Daily Tar Heel, referring to next week's
Conference of the State of the University,
suggests some changes in our approach to
instruction and research.
Others including ourselves have begged
for moves such as tlte letter writer suggests:
"A more integrated and a more humane
approach to the humanities . . . Breaking
down the artificial boundaries between the
different humanities . . . to encourage a
graduate student's taking courses outside his
department without sacrificing a degree."
In addition: "That, as another step in
humanizing our humanities, the emphasis
be placed on interpretation of works, de
velopment of ideas and theories-" That we
drop the "ponderous and deadening para
phernalia" of some of our scholarship.
A Fragment Is A Fragment Is A . . .
Our thinking needs revising in areas
other than those affecting the graduate stu
dent. The topic of which Dr. Everett Hall
is chairman takes this into account for it
seeks to find out "How the University Can
More Fully Meet Its Obligations ... to Stu
dents Above the Sophomore Year."
Dr. Hall has invited other student com
ment so we add our own.
We realize the essential value of fact.
But we believe that it must instrument
idea. Let us be less preoccupied with prepar
ing to make a living and be more concerned
with learning how to live. At the University
we have strayed perilously from this per
spective, we have fragmented until now even
the fragments are beginning to fragment.
How can the University be of more bene
fit to those above the sophomore year? Offer
a degree in liberal arts, thus allowing inter
ested students to get a wider range of hu
manities. Seminar courses should be taught
which instead of analyzing the history of
a period integrate the art, literature, music
and history of the period.
Cast Out The Mote ...
Can even the 30-year men here recall a
course being dropped from the curriculum?
We doubt it. We need to overhaul our cata
logue and reduce our tremendous number
of courses. Departmental duplication of a
course already being taught should be
stopped. The University should encourage
students to originate courses Similarly, it
should ask students to evaluate courses. Each
professor should undertake to relate his field
to the rest of the fields of the University. Each
professor should stop bitching about what
the high schools failed to do and concentrate
on correcting a University failure: To pro
vide teachers and citizens whom the high
schools won't complain about.
Any other suggestions for Dr. Hall?
Tar Heel
At Large
Chuck Hauser-
THE RULING of the Univer
sity that all veterans must take,
a year of physical education is
foolish for two reasons: (1) Al
most every vet has had at least
two years of body-building cal
isthenics integrated into an or
ganized sports program (and the
University requires non-veterans
to . take only two years of PT);
(2) The PT program conducted
at Woollen Gym is largely a'
waste of time, with a few excep
tions, such as swimming.
It would be fine if courses in
badminton and boxing were
open to those students interested
in learning the sports, but they
should not be compulsory. If the
object of Carolina's PT program
is.to build bodies, WG could take
a few lessons from the Army
on how to do it.
CLOTHING STORE in Durham
reflects declining morals of the
modern age; A window display.,
of maternity dresses in one of
the better women's shops uti
lizes mannequins wearing noth
ing on the 'third finger left hand.
CHANCELLOR HOUSE likes
the coffee at the Book Ex. He
told his press conference Monday
that he drinks at least a cup a
day there to prove that. And
the Chancellor doesn't under
stand people who don't like the
new instant-coffee preparations.
He calls instant - coffee "one of
the greatest inventions of the
modern age ranking with the
atomic bomb and wonder drugs."
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
students are going to school
these days in a plush atmosphere.
Any students not taking BA
courses would get a kick out of
looking around the three new
buildings when they have a free
hour between classes some day.
The green "blackboards,", the
semicircular arrangement of the
desks in the larger lecture rooms,
and the lighting and furnishing
of the buildings are a testimonial
to intelligent planning of a
structure dedicated to education.
THE PUBLICATIONS Board in
the past has been accused of
many things and called a variety
of names, but not until now has
anyone hurled the charge ."in
competent" at it, and had the
facts to back up such a charge.
In a letter to the editor on this
page, Gordon Forester tells how
the Board has ruined the reputa
tion it once had for intelligent
handling of the large amount of
cash it annually spends.
The unfortunate situation For
ester reveals should have been
corrected last year, when the
strange activities of the Board
first appeared. It seems that if
the Legislature's Voting repre
sentative on the Board liad done
his job in the past, the facts
could have been brought to light
and the mess straightened out
before now. It is the duty of that
member to keep the Legislature
informed of the Board's activi
ties, and to cast light on any
questionable activities of the
publications financial directors.
THE PRESIDENT of Turkey
doesn't eat just anything. And to
make sure that the proper foods
are awaiting him when he visits
Chapel Hill a week, from tomor
row, a special representative was
sent here two weeks ago to set up
a menu and bring a particular
brand of Turkish coffee along
for the distinguished foreign vis
itor. The preparations are not just
a matter of taste. There are
certain things such as pork which
Moslems are forbidden to eat by
their religion. And certain, other
dishes are prohibited on special
days.
DOOK UNIVERSITY social
columnist Sammy Stephens apol
ogizes for apologizing every week
in the Dook Chronicle for the
scarcity of social items. "Is this
'Country Club of the South' los
ing its reputation?" asks Sam,
"or is it that we are just unin
formed?" Don't feel bad, Sammy
boy, you're welcome to come ov
er to Chapel Hill any time things
get too dull for you on Methodist
Flats.
YOU Said It
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Washington Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson
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WASHINGTON Buried in
the dull and prosaic files of the
Federal Communications Com
mission is an interesting story
of how wires can be pulled in
Washington, in this case by
-powerful GOP publishers. If the
FCC record had been made two
days before, it's possible that
Senator McCarthy's man on the
FCC, Robert E. Lee, might not
have been confirmed.
For the record illustrates ex
actly what Senater Monroney of
Oklahoma
talked si b o u t
when he led the
fight against
Lee's confirma
tion. In this case,
the Washington
lobbyist for the
Cowles broth
ers, publishers
of Look maga
Moines Register
and Tribune and the Minneap
olis Star-Journal, tried to buy
off a rival applicant for a TV
station. Simultaneously he was
warned that he didn't have a'
chance because of Eisenhower's ;
friendship for the Cowles broth-
ers.
"The Cowles have done a lot:
for Ike," James Milloy, vice pres
ident of the Cowles publications,
was quoted as saying, according
to the official FCC record. "The
Cowles are in Ike's book. John
has just been called to the White
House and is going back to Min
neapolis to try to persuade Dr.
Charlie Mayo to run against
Humphrey.
'Things have changed at the
Commission (The FCC) recently,"
boasted the Cowles vice presi
dent. "A new commissioner, Mr.
Lee, is now on the Commission.
Larry Fly (former FCC chair
man, now attorney for the rival
PEARSON
zine, the Des
Des Moines applicant), has an
ideology that is no longer appli
cable. Fly thinks things are the
same now as they were a few
years ago, but things . have
changed. (The old philosophy
doesn't hold.
"You know that Mike Cowles is
about to leave on a Point 4 trip
for Ike in the Middle East. All
this stuff about Ike being pure
is all right, but you know that
when you are in the Army, you
learn politics," continued the
testimony given in the FCC rec
ord. "You don't get to go from a
lieutenant to a colonel and then
to President without knowing
about politics. Ike won't let the
Cowles get hurt. He won't let
them lose out on TV in Des
Moines. I know how the wheels
turn in Washington, and you
don't have one chance in 10."
The man to whom lobbyist Jim
Milloy gave this warning was
Kingsiey H. Murphy Jr., 23-year-old
head of the Murphy Broad
casting Company in Des Moines.
Murphy's father had once owned
the Minneapolis Tribune but was
forced to sell out to the Cowles
brothers, who now have a mon
opoly of all newspapers in Min
neapolis and also in Des Moines.
In addition, the Cowles brothers
own a television station in Sioux
City, Iowa, KUTV, and two radio
stations, WNAX in Yanktown,
S. D., and KRNT, the CBS station
in Des Moines.
At one time Gardner Cowles
Sr., founder of the newspaper
empire, advised his sons against
owning radio stations. He felt
that to monopolize all mediums
of news in a city was unhealthy
and created ill will. However,
the two boys, departing from
that policy, are now applying for
TV channel 8 in Des Moines,
with young Murphy, whose fam
ily they bought out in Minneap
olis, also applying for the same
channel.- "
Milloy, the Cowles vice pres
ident who admonished Murphy
that he didn't have a chance, is
the same operator who arranged
with the Eisenhower Administra
tion to appoint Fleur Cowles,
wife of Mike Cowles, editor of
Look, as special ambassador to
Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
Shortly thereafter, a feature
story, building up Vice President
Nixon, appeared in Look.
During the FCC hearings for
channel 8 in Des Moines, young
Murphy obviously made the bet
ter showing. In the middle of the
hearings, he got a phone mes
sage from Milloy at his hotel ask
ing to see him, and later Milloy
took him aside for a long talk in
which he offered Murphy around
$150,000 if he would withdraw
his application, leaving the f;eld
clear to Cowles.
Milloy went on to talk about a
merger, in which the Murphy
interests would own about 12 per
cent or even 15 per cent of the
TV station. Young Murphy re
plied that if there was going to
be a merger, the Cowles broth
ers would have to take the 15
per cent.
Milloy didn't like this at all.
"The Cowles," he said, "have
too much at stake to take a min
ority interest, though a manage
ment contract might be worked
out."
Finally, when the Cowles lob
byist was able to get nowhere,
he threw out his veTled threat
that the Federal Communications
Commission had changed, was
now subject to pressure, and that
Ike, who understood politics,
would never let the Cowles
brothers "lose out on television
in Des Moines."
On The Carolina Front
Louis Kraar
The big battles around campus aren't on the
basketball court, or even in the classroom. No, it's
those skirmishes between the coeds and males that
go on all over, all the time.
Take the two girls I joined in the Campus Cafe
the other night. Over some coffee, they gave me
some blow-by-blow accounts of those bouts which
started with Adam and Eve. ,
"The trouble with boys around here is they just
have to show you how manly they are," complain
ed one of the coeds. She sipped , her ten-cent cup
of brew and continued.
"Naturally, girls like nice masculine, virile men.
But why do they have to go around impressing
everyone with their he-manliness.
"They just expect us to be little sweet, inno
cent things who need their protection," she said.
It was the other girl's turn, and she took it.
"And what about thinking? ,
"Is a girl just supposed to be some kind of
China doll. If you ever try to talk to these boys,
they think you're 'going college - intellectual on
them. ,They just want to dancq and party," the
second coed said. 1 '
The first girl, a dark-haired miss who seemed
quite torn out about this battle of sexes, took the
floor again. I had a refill of coffee (another dime,
but it was worth it) and sat back to listen.
"You just can't be friends with them. Either
they want to push you around like big he-men, or
they want you to be dumb and sweet. And if
you're sweet and all, right away they want to get
serious.
"You can't be friends with them only. It's ter
rible," she whined.
"Terrible," her companion agreed.
It seems to me they're victims of circumstances.
Sure, it's, pretty bad, maybe "terrible." But what
else can you expect when the Mrs. degree is the
big thing with most gals.
And the guys, what're they looking for? The
guys want some , sweet thing to inflate their egos
by depending on them, marry them, keep their
homes and mother their kids. -
It's a system. And the people make the system.
Maybe if more coeds didn't like it, these guys
would look for more than just glib dancing part
ners with nice shapes to raise their families.
It's been this way for a long time, since Adam
and Eve to be exact And chances are it won't
change.
Editor: . ,
I have been anticipating an editorial criticizing
the Student Legislature for our action last Thurs
day night when we refused 'to appropriate $55 to
pay for the Publication Board's Yack picture. This
morning I was relieved to find no less than two such
in defense of the Legislature, but rather as a per
editorials. I would like to appropriate this sum, not
sonal satisfaction, to. myself.
First of all it has been the established precedent
for all student government organizations desiring
pictures in the Yack to apply to the Budget Com
mittee for funds. These requests are grouped to
gether in a student government organizational pic
ture fund and approved by the Legislature. The
Publication Board did not see fit to go through these
channels, and, consequently, some Legislators felt
that a bad precedent would be set if any organiza
tion, after having failed to apply to the Budget Com,
mittee, could come to the Legislature with the as
surance that their request would be granted. In
cidentally, the Student Legislature's request for a
picture was approved by the Budget Committee in
this accepted manner.
The Tar Heel's editorial stated that the P B had
fallen from the good graces of the Legislature. Thia
is veery true, but not without reason. There are
many reasons, in fact, some of which are as fol
lows: (1) This organization, although it handles more
of the student's money than any other on campus,
with the exception of the Legislature, has met only
four times since school started.
(2) One incident which particularly grates on my
mind, was last year when the chairman broke a
tie vote in favor of appointing himself financial
co-ordinator with a $600 salary. Later the Board
voted to with-hold this salary, which had been ap
propriated by the Legislature, and use it to help
pay for The AP wire service. They seemed to take
the position that two wrongs make a right.
(3) Another example of the PB's irresponsible
action was when they voted to reimburse a member
for a $115 party which he had given.
(4) (The last straw was when the board signed a
contract with the Yack for a full page. When the
page was already in the format, they applied to the
Legislature for funds to cover this unauthorized ex
penditure. These are just a few of the reasons why the Pub
lications Board has fallen from the good graces of
the Legislature. Although there are many uncor
rected evils in the P B, it is not as powerful as it
once was. Though a proper svstem of checks and
balance I believe the Legislature is now in a posi
tion to keep the Publications Board in its proper
place.
What's sauce for the goose is certainly sauce for
the gander. But I for one feel that we have been
goosed enough by an incompetent organization such
.as the Publications Board. If the Legislature is the
goose which holds the purse strings, then I believe
it's time the goose took a gander at the Publications
Board.
Gordon Forester
Our Fees: How Much To Where?
Editor:
The article in the Saturday Tar Heel, "Our Stu
dent Union", answered a number of questions which
have been in my mind for several months. At the
same time I have been pleased to see Graham Me
morial partly renovated and I look forward to the
completion of the renovation of the entire building.
I agree with Mr. Kuralt that the student union
has been placed in an out-of-way location for the
majority of the students. A much better- location
for a future student union would be on the baseball
field behind Lenior Hall. Naturally the old stadium
should be removed, and a new baseball field should
be provied on the intramural field or the football
practice field. The question of location of a new stu
dent building was answered satisfactorily in a thesis
on campus planning, done in the Department of City
& Regional Planning.
In that portion of the article entitled "We Com
pare Very Poorly," I feel that the comparison takes
the wrong road to the solution of the problem. I
sympathize with the students at the University of
Oregan who pay a fee of $30; let's not allow that to
happen here. Why not let the government (state
legislature) assume its proper function doing for
the individual what he cannot do for himself. And
if the University is an arm of the government why
does it not assume the fixed operating cost ($10,000)
of the student union?
As for expanding the present program, I might
offer one suggestion: Why not utilize some of the
campus talent? Surely there are many talented stu
dents on this campus who could provide night club
type entertainment in the Rendezous Room, as sug
gested by Mr. Wallace. However, there is other
campus talent. Perhaps some of our outstanding pro
fessors could be encouraged to start a "Great Issues"
series of lectures.
My last point is a sore one. Each semester I find
an item on our student bill entilled "fees." For this
spring semester it is $42.50, yet I have never seen
an itemized breakdown of this figure. If only $1.50 is
earmarked as the student union fee, what is the rest
of it for?
Though your editorials have been excellent, a
review of student fees might be further meat for
editorial comment. I'm looking forward to your
editorial comments on "Our Student Union."
Frank Skrivanek
(We, too, hurt with the Oregonians and their $30
assessment. We do think, however, that our present
$3 fee could stand a raise perhaps doubling it.
Campus talent utilization is planned, Director Wal
lace says. "Great Issues" have been tried with
doughnuts and coffee as added inducements but
there was a greater issue: getting some one to aU
tend.
(Breaking down the undergraduate fee of $4435:
$7.50 is the block fee which is appropriated by the
Student Legislature for publications, Graham Me
morial etc.; matriculation fee of $36.75 is in that
$44.25 total and it divides thusly: $7, registration;
$2.25, library; $7.50, Infirmary; $15, Woollen Gym,
and $5, Athletic Association. Graduate students pay
a slightly less block fee than undergraduates.-'
Editor.)