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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1954 Vise Tightening On Fraternity Row The page one headlines which announce today the first break in the student-Administration negotiations for a new coed visiting agreement may be prophetic. It begins to appear that what the fraterni ties will get wrhen all the talking is done is more restrictions on coeds in the houses, rath er than less, and perhaps even some restric tions on their own drinking habits. An interim agreement had to be-reached, of course, and it will likely be grasped eager ly by the fraternities, who haven't welcomed coeds through the portals since the first week in April. This "temporary" solution to the problem twists the vise tighter than ever on the fraternities, denying them privileges which they had under the old agreement. And it becomes completely clear, that the Administration, despite Dean Weaver's ap parent concern over student rights, has a very firm hold indeed on the vise handle It is no secret that in the conferences the Administration has pointed time and again to the students own statement that they can not go back to the old visiting agreement The Administration has agreed; in fact South Building won't let the fraternities forget that point. We suspect the pressures have been great on Dean Weaver from the University's Trus tees since the outbreak of student agitation for coed drinking in fraternity houses. The only good reason for constant Administra tion reminding that the old agreement is un workable would be, as wre see.it, a South Building scheme to increase restrictions on coed visiting beyond the old "Thou Shalt Not Imbibe Before A Woman Student" lim itation on fraternity men. And as a visiting fireman, an ex-student at the University, points out elsewhere on this page, it may be that this is the price stu dents pay for over-assertion of their, "liberty." What, then, will result when a final settle ment is reached? There is no predicting ex actly. But we suggest that the fraternities get used to the "temporary" agreement. It may be around for a long time to come. A Prize For A Prof A little belatedly, we give applause where it is called for and that is to the latest Pea body Award winner, Gerald Johnson, who was Tor a time Professor of Journalism here.. This award is one of high caliber and recog nizes high caliber in those who win it. Before he entered the television field (in which he got the award) Mr. Johnson made high accomplishments as a nationally-published author, a teacher, and a newspaper man with both state and out-of-state papers- We were somewhat alarmed a few months ago when Mr- Johnson's program was sud denly cut off the air. We thought he might have been cut off by fingers which were get ting burned by his staunch defense of dis sent. Apparently, the alarm was widespread. He soon returned. Though it should be kept in focus with other quarters which deserve credit for Mr. Johnson's award, North Carolina and the University are cast in creditable light. Mr. Johnson, although he has been for some time out of the state, has Carolina coloring with its long standing favor for dissent, tolerance, and understanding in his blood. More than an award to a meritorious jour nalist, Mr. Johnson's Peabody prize is an award to the Carolina attitude. lC$e Baft? ar $eT 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 I- Chapel Hill, N. C, un- der the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription v r rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. fiudenf' Freedom nnEan ? f 'Ghaplhiill' Site jf the University;: ? North afohiit hich first open? its Urs " in iuiuxry 1i5 Editor CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor ROLFE NETLL Associate Editors CHUCK HAUSER, LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Sports Editor JOHN HUSSEY Business Manager AL SHORTT News Editor Society Editor Librarian Asst. Sports Editor Subscription Manager Advertising Manager Asst. Subscription Manager Asst. Business Manager Jerry Reece Eleanor Saunders Connie Marple Dick Barkley Tom Witty Jack Stilwell Eugene Polk Tom Shores NEWS STAFF Fred Powledge, Ken Sanford, Tom Clark, Babbie Dilorio, Richard Thiele, Jennie Lynn,' Dell Hoyle, James Wright, John Jackson, Warren Love, Charles Childs EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, John Beshara, TnVm Tnvlnr SPORTS STAFF Larry Saunders, Ray Linker, Dave Connor, Charlie Blankstein, David Brown. Night editor for this issue: Rolfe Neill (These are excerpts from a speech titled, "What Price Eggheads or Big Wheels and Flying Saucers," which was delivered by Mr. Ivey, associate editor of the Winston Salem Sentinel, to the student government , inaugural banquet Wednesday night in Len oir Hall. Editor.) These are the times when humanism, sci entific thought and practical judgment are drawing closer together. Chapel Hill is coming to be a place where you can human ize the scientist and simonize the humanist. Liberal studies blossom, and then the gen. eral education subjects in other univer sities as well as at Chapel Hill. At Harvard, for instance, there is a general course in es sentials of economics. It is the broad view, highlights of economics, specially designed for those who otherwise are not exposed to concentrated study in economics. Harvard , ,students irreverently-called.it "Ec for the idiot." This relaxed spirit of freedom, this gest ure of informality by modern students to ward the academic side of university life carries over into extra curricula activities. And the relaxed attitude, when it is com bined with a built-in understanding of the purposes of higher learning, is a lubricating influence in promoting education inf'a dem ocratic society. That relaxed attitude, when it can be geared to alertness, is an essential to growth and maturity. It relates to freedom on the campus. It invites the most flexible possible degree of liberty. It is consistent with the mutual responsibilities shared by faculty and students for maintaining here a free and orderly society, collaborating in the ever lasting search for truth. Student self-government at Chapel Hill is an experiment in democracy, a semi-autonomous form of government. It is a democra cy, within an autocracy, or rather a democ racy within an oligarchy. But that oligarchy is answerable to another higher power: the trustees and the Legislature of North Caro lina. And that higher power is responsible to another higher power, the people of North Carolina, a democracy. Student self-government is a wheel within a wheel, within a wheel within a wheel. You are most fortunate in your campus democracy in your freedom of expression. That is the most precious possession in a political democracy, free speech. You are free to say what you wish to say about drinking in fraternity houses, to petition the bigger wheel, or to go over the head of the ' bigger wheel to the wheels beyond. You have the opportunity to talk over the limi tations of democracy. You also have the right to abrogate agree ments and insist that coeds henceforth will be served liquor in the fraternity houses a long with the fraternity men. But the administration also is entitled to your respect when it insists upon its rights . t-OLii l. If f.,v , ,f if 0y ::;:f MR. IVEY ". . .a plug for egg-headism, big-wheelism and responsibility." and responsibility and duty to put the fra ternity houses off limits because of their new policy. When the fraternity men first made their decision to ask for University sanction for coeds to . drink in fraternity houses, and when some of the students declared their freedoms and liberties are at stake, a man who was standing in front of a pool room in Winston-Salem was asked his opinion of it. ell gave the matter careful deliberation for about eight seconds and then said, "I am divided between amazement and admira tion. Amazement that the fraternity men can make the suggestion that their liberties are being siphoned away from them because the University won't okay coed drinking in the fraternity houses, and admiration that they can say these things with a straight face." Since the man is a pool room habitue, per haps .we shouldn't take lis opinion heart to heart too much. But anyone's views are entitled to a hearing. Most of all, it is a heartening and com mendable sign to see on the University of North 'Carolina campus a new and thrilling attitude assumed by the fraternities to pro mote and advance the cherished precepts of democracy. They are at least 836 years ahead of their time. Such concern for the dignity of the individual merits the plaudits of all good men. These men of distinction have taken a courageous1 action and have grabbed the bull by the horns, if I may so refer to Dean Weaver. And they have re-asserted a high ambition: to return to our universities some of the classical culture of the Greeks. To revive some of the glory of Athens. To re establish the Greek influence in , halls- of learning. , . May I at this point put in a plug for egg headism, bigwheelism, democracy, self-restraint, responsibilities and duties. A camp us and a university help to mature the indi vidual or at least the campus is the place, the container, the receptacle, the proving ground, where this maturation process al legedly occurs. Here we have freedom to search, to compare and contrast ideas, to sift and weigh big and little notions, to think our own thoughts, to try to express some original concept, (not somebody else's handmedown thoughts) but our own thoughts. To think freshly, without fear that someone will call us down for expressing some new and personal discovery achieved with our own brainpower. This is a playing field and working labo ratory where we may make intellectual mis takes, without it being held against us later. Or that is the way it should be. Free to be egghead, to engage in intel lectual exercise. To assume leadership in University affairs, to be what is facetiously called a big wheel, but is really an affection ate term for those who accept the challenge of campus leadership. To realize at the same time that temporary big wheelism is ephemeral, flying saucers in outer space that have not yet alighted. Proving ourselves in a windtiinnel of democracy. Area Of Agreement Tarnation "Ted Rosenthal Having agreed, in a moment of weakness to review the current issue of Tarnation, which has just descended upon the otherwise serene academic community, I scrounged a copy from my room mate, sharpened my teeth, and slid behind the typewriter. I was immediately struck by the cover, graced as it is by that fiendish but somehow charming refugee from the DT's, the Slob, leering, as usual at a voluptuous female. Notice, through, the colors in which it was printed black and blue! There's some &wful further significance there; if nothing else, a reference to the condition of the magazine's long suffering staff, or more generally to the fate of the esthete in this cruel and materialistic world. Had Tarnation become esoteric, with symbolism and sudh-like things? Plunging inside, a verse treat ment of a cocktail party brought back the unwanted memories of mornings-after. Perhaps the staff had renounced sin and was subtly propagandizing the campus with reform literature. Heretics in the temple of debauchery. I became more frightened, when on page two, innocently posing as an ad stood the exhorta" tion "Fly United for your honey moon". Not propriety too! Fran tically I plunged on, and then on page six found my fears were groundless Tarnation hadn't been white-washed. Breathing easier, I finished the rest of the issue, and discovered in spots hilarious, as a whole the most consistently funny copy of the year. Reuben Leonard, I'd say, is off to a good start in the Tarnation editor's chair. He should get con gratulations for taking over so capably in the middle of the year. And his staff came through in fine fashion. . Of course some of the ideas were pretty-well worn rehashing of familiar gimmicks "little Willie" for example is a vener able character in American hum or but what do you expect for 35c? There were some very cute car toons personal preference, Jack Weaver's at the bottom of page 10 and all in all a very well rounded and pleasing piece of work. tMsfa mm LIJP YOU Said It Administration, Recreation, Education Editor: Approximately six months ago I wrote a letter to the editor and in that letter I asked the Admin istration to make known the fa cilities for student entertainment on campus. A letter was sent to parents explaining that the se mester system was going into effect and that the students would remain on campus on Saturdays and perhaps on Sundays. (The Administration explained that additional recreational facil ities would be provided for the students since more would remain here over the weekends. In that last letter to the editor I asked Dean Weaver to state just what sort of recreational facilities the Administration had in mind. So far, he has not answered that letter which was published in The Daily Tar Heel, nor have I noticed any additional provisions for our entertainment. Once again I invite the Administraion's reply. Parking space is necessary in Chapel Hill and the construction of a beautified parking area next to the Planetarium is heartening. But there is a question in my mind as to whether or not the new area will provide more space than the former parking lot. It appears to be smaller. It is also a point to be considered as to whether or not the money used for the lot (I understand it ex ceeds $60,000) could not be better spent for educational improve ments at the University. Here are some possible points of departure: the razing of the wooden shacks which are pres ently functional eye-sores; schol arships; a new foreign language laboratory; additional courses to our curriculum. It might be well for the Administration to re member that a university is judged by its educational assets arid contributions, and not by its topographical appearance .... Joe Raff The Eye Of The Horse Roger Will Coe' ; ("The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying soms things, minimizing others. . . Hipporotis, circa' 500 B.C.) THE HORSE was all but invisible behind the shrubbery adjacent to the Y-Court when I espied him. Why was he hiding? Perhaps because it was baseball season, and belting the horse-hide out of the park was popular? - "Pun me no puns," The Horse growled. "No, Roger, I am a Symbol as I stand behind this here now shrubbery. You know what it is, a symbol? It is a deviousness highly valued in Literatoor and in Drammer. It is an obscurity achieved after long years of studying Clarity of Ex pression and Biblical Simplicity of Statement You learn how to be simple and clear, and once you have mastered this, you mask your meanings behind Symbols, or bed them in tangles of Allegories. It takes real edu cation to write obscurely!" Oh, so? And how was a Horse, ensconced in shrubbery, Symbolic? "I'm bushed," The Horse chittered, "from laugh ing so hard at Washington's newest farce, The Mc Carthy Monkey-Schines. But I got to hand it to Ho ly Choe on one thing. And that was. . . .?, I inquired, ignoring his re turn pun. "Holy Choe McCarthy said, 'Someone is going to be guilty of perjury before this inquiry is over. From what I have heard, this is masterly under statement," The Horse observed. "I would be more impressed if he had said someone would not have been guilty of perjury by the time this Wild-Jackass Rodeo got corral ed in the pastures of history. But the spectacle does have its laughable features." Would The Horse elucidate? Could one's risibili ties be humored when the honor and the dignity of the United States Senate were being made things of scorn and derision? "Aw, gnats," The Horse scoffed inelegantly. "The first funny thing is the snafued strategy Holy Choe hit upon to get Stevens: an attempt to prove Ste vens truckled in the handling of Choe's Shoe Schine boy while still maintaining the illusion that Choe and his loud mouthpiece, 'I-Scream' Cohn, had no truck with the truckling." I conceded this was mildly amusing. "The other funny thing, as I see it," The Horse continued, sucking thoughtfully on a hoof, "is that while Holy Choe is quite obviously digging Bob Stevens' grave for him, this self same Cheese State Hitler is preparing a place of interment large e nough to accommodate more than merely Bobbing Rob Stevens' well-chewed spare ribs." The Horse thought McCarthy would lie close to Stevens? "I think he can lie 'way ahead of Stevens," The Horse stated. I meant, lie interred, not lies inferred. "Roger, me lad," The Horse murmured, his eyes crossed and glowing as oddly as if manipulated bj a Playmakers' light-crew, "if I mistake not, and I devoutly hope I do not mistake, the grove that The Mad Monk of Appleton is digging will be large e nough to accommodate the whole durn mal-Admin-isftation." Well, I thought Holp Choe did have heroic help in this digging. ' "You are stealing my lines!" The Horse protest ed, in vain. I thought Our Peerless Leader's determined divot-digging, laid end to end, would accommodate a few Nude Deal corpses. But what of Chillin' Ghollie Wilson? Where was he while Bobbing Rob was get ting his lumps? "Heh-heh," The Horse heh-hehhed, "where but cleaning up his desk and getting ready to take a powder? This departure, when he makes it, will be one time when 'What's good for General Motors is good for the nation.' Yup, God speed you, Charlie, Choe and all!" Rambling Ron Levin We remember Will Rogers for saying, "I never met a man I didn't like." If he were here today I wonder what he'd .say about McCarthy. Why must one wear a button stating whom he likes and dislikes? Does he think it will strengthen his convictions? Nay. . . he'll need more than a button. I see that the new Quarterly Editor, Jim Dunn, wants more humor in the magazine. I never knew it had any in the first place. Wake Forest is moving to Winston-Salem. Let's move UNC to Myrtle Beach! Look at the gas it would save. And we'd all have something to do on the weekends. I went to the UNC-State ball game Tuesday, and I could have sworn I distinctly heard the faint tink le of a cow bell coming from the State dugout They were warming her up in the bull pen, but things got too hot. They're coming out with a new type of white buck shortly. It comes to you pure white, but you get a small bottle of dirt with every pair so you can dirty the shoe to fit your taste. I'd tfather go barefoot. Thought for today: Why do flies try so hard to get in a house and then once in, fly right to the window and try to get out? To be eligible for this contest tear off the top of your nearest neighbor hood grocer, and send it in saying in twenty-five words tr less why you like Mexican Talking Beans . . .or else.
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