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TUESDAY, OCTOBER T2, 1954 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1954 THE DAILY TAR HEEL University Day t y i . Nirth Vuroluw lCditor Managing Editor Associate Editors rusihess Manager Sports Ldilor News Editor Society Editor Editorial Assistant Assistant Sports Editor Circulation & Subscription Mgr. dvertising Manager . Night Editor for this Issue ... October l stli as you may have forgotten from your grammar school history is the day Columbus discovered America in M2 In 1807, it was the day Robert E. Lee was born. And it was on the 12th day of Oc tober, 179:, that an imposing procession of men with names like Davie, Haywood, Meb ane and Blount "'"walked through a forest , across three cleared acres of land and layed the cornerstone of Old East Dormitory. The sweetgums and dogwoods and maples were just beginning to turn russet and gold. A little cloud of dust stirred under the feet of the men, many of them clad in the strik ing insignia of the Masonic Fraternity. They were the greatest men of the state sena tors, governors and judges. They were about to lay the foundations of the first state uni versity. The orator of the day was a sturdy Scotch Irishman named Samuel E. McCorkle. And this is what he said: "... Knowledge is wealth, it is glory, whether among philosophers, ministers of State or religion, or among the great mass of the people. Savages cannot have great men, though many a Newton has been born and buried among them: Knowledge is lib erty and law; and how this knowledge pro ductive of so many advantages to, mankind can be acquired wit out public places of education, I know not ... "May this hill be for religion as the an cient hill of .ion; and for literature and the Muses, may it surpass the ancient Par nassus!" Most of North Carolina's great men since that October day have been touched by Chapel Hill. Hinton James Avandered in a year and a half later, the first student, the precursor of a hundred thousand seekers after knowledge. This morning we will stand facing South Building and watch the reenactment of the cornerstone laying. The band will be there and the chorus will sing '"Integer Vitae." And we will stand for a moment in si lence, remembering these things: The men of the University, the Davies and Caldwells and Swains and Grahams who gave their lives to Chapel Hill. The tor tuous years when the school was still a boriiing and a critic called the whole idea "a Temple of Folly." And the later years, after the Civil War had seared the state and the -University closed its doors, when a stu dent with baurs packed to leave a, shut-down college wrote in bold letters on ii blackboard, ' "This old University Busted and Wetit; to' Hell To-Day." -rlO V-'ljU-.K'iO!!! We will stand on the broad lawn of the old campus under the ancient oaks and listen to the story of the cornerstone laying, and we will remember the students who have stood there before North Carolina's soldiers and statesmen and lawyers and car penters and teachers, and among them" a President of the United States, more than one demagogue, a few communists, a few governors, countless hundreds of good and noble citizens. The Chancellor will call for a re-dedication this morning, and if there be one in our minds, let it be this: That we will guard Carolina's freedom and its character and see it for what it is a hill of strength and truth for North Car olina and for all the land. That this Uni versity is our own, it is the highest heritage those who have gone before could give us. That there remains no one to take it nearer Parnassus but we, ourselves, and that we will do so. Cfje Bailp Jpttl The official student publication of the Publi :ations 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. C, un der the Act of March S, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per Jrear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, ,$6 a year, $3.50 a semester. CHARLES KURALT FRED POWLEDGE LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER TOM SHORES 1 FRED BABSON Jerry Reece Eleanor Saunders Ruth Dalton Bernie 'Weiss. : Dick O'Neal Dick Sirkin Photographers Cornell Wright, R. B. Henly NEWS STAFF Dick Creed, Richard Thiele, Charles Childs, Babbie Dilorio, Eddie Crutchfield, Lloyd Shaw, Hal Henderson, Pat Lovatt, Ann Her fing, Bobbie Zwahlen, Mitchell Borden, Jackie Coodman. Richard Thiele Carolina Front. A Better Use For Revenue From Tickets ' ' Louis Kraar A SMALL news item in this week V papers informed the world that " the University of Washington is considering a plan for con veyor - belts t o carry students from a park ing lot to the , - caiTpus center. 1 As I read it, , I remembered d 8 what an Egyp tian student had said this sum mer' ' ' - " - "I was surprised to hear that one of your greatest problems here is where students can park their cars. We are concerned about where money is coming from to provide books and tui tion," the Egyptian told a group of American students. Apparently, when a country has bought its books, fed its hungry students, and paid ; its professors (or underpaid them), it's time for production line parking. A CLOSER look into the conveyor-belt parking idea at Wash ington revealed that parking fees would pay the freight rate. Perhaps this is the point on which the Seattle educators will justify their production - line parking setup Here at Carolina the student concern is being allowed to keep cars On campus not having an automatic parking lot with conveyor-belt. And that concern is an" honest one. Chapel , Hill; ; ial-, ways a free placed should allow a student to have a car if he can afford one. ,0 ,f .:VV- : i ! ! ! i i 1 ! " : i 1 i : ! But; ; while plans for jrhass- prb-t iduction parking! are ir itlie i air : tand the ' newspaper?),; ; wh; iflpt something - new ' for ,ti students. here? " 1 -; ' '" : ; " ' -A- EACH MONTH the University police tag from 300 fto 500 ! stu-' dent autos with parking tickets. Currently, the town collects the money from the student car owners. If the University kept the money or even a part of it the two-bucks-a-throw parking tickets would go far toward establishing a scholarship fund. Students have to pay out their two bucks anyway. And it might as well go for educa tion. WHILE STATE politicians seem to be conjuring up a tui tion raise for the University, the N. C. Foundation of Church-Related Colleges has come up with some encouraging statistics about college education in the state. ,i One out of every three white public high school graduates en ters college. This is a 34 per cent figure for North Carolina as compared with a national average of 25 percent. .A higher public regard for college degrees, existing scholar ships, and the GI Bill of Rights have helped interest graduates in going to college. A raise in tuition would be discouraging at this point. ALTHOUGH TODAY'S head lines may not show it, this is a crucial day in the history of democratic countries .... , France's Pierre Mendes France faces a vote of confidence on the EDC agreement arrived at in London recently. Germany, whose power the French still fear, is waiting for France be- fore it ratifies. ' 1 i Thus diplomatic eyes are on France today as Mendes France fights harder than he ever has before to get EDC ratified. The outcome may not change your draft status, but it probably will affect your children's. t i 'The Top Top 1 1 jit 1 H-B0M& i GOP Campaign Strife WASHINGTON President Eisenhower now has the benefit of an especially built electronic device to help him with his golf. . It's the first. one ever used in . th'eLUrufje'd' States and was de veloped by Dr. Lewis Alvarez of the University of California ; pot jtnse&j jinj j an -acsral. jgine; Of i'iiii laHli3iattice(ltJ leisures ?tiV .tlfnirif'' of i-the swing; the xm- .pact; f thel club pn - th golf ball, whher the stroke " is 'off 'center, , ; and how tax the; ball- would have traveled;! :);' V '; - -: : Presumably the gadget will be ; developed for , public use later, but at the moment the Presi dent's instrument is understood to be the only one in existence. The Battle of Denver For about a week prior tothe political strategy meeting last week, the President's ' advisers were pretty well torn apart over what he should do about the alarming reports coming in from the campaign front. The political advisers were determined that the President go out on the Hustings and make a two-week whistle-stop tour through the strategic states. But his personal advisers said no. The latter argued ' first that the President was under no com pulsion . to go out and' rescue the Congressmen who had failed to support his legislative pro gram. They also argued that Ike could not afford to have his prestige lowered by sticking his neck but in certain key states and then having his neck politi cally chopped off, if the GOP candidates in those states lost. The remembered of coure, the attempt of President Roosevelt to invade certain states against key Democratic senators, and al though Ike would be speaking for, not against, Republican Senators, they were afraid out side interference would not be effective just the same. But the political advisers ar gued just as vigorously on the other side. They included such potent figures as GOP Chairman Len Hall; Congressman Dick Simpson of Pennsylvania, Chair man of the Committee to Re elect Republican Congressmen; and Charley Halleck of Indiana, the House majority leader. They pointed out that reports from all over the country were bad so bad that if the Repub lican Party suffered a major de feat the collapse was sure to bring the President v down with the party. It was not only the party's prestige that- was at stake, they said, but Ike's. ( 1 1 a t Berlddle i S t H i ! s H i I If M H ! H !i ! i -I- ;T.ne lelectrohw: i 'lsstrarcienti its One? That's The Dixon-Yates The debate was really hot and furious, and at one time the President was reported lapsing into typically Trumanesque lang uage "Those -wouldn't have been inthis troube," friends quoted him as saying, "If they had upheld me in the Congress." War Of The Starlings With Ike out in Denver, Wash ington officials have been busy with one of the perennial pro blems of the nation's capital. The Democrats never could solve it, and now it looks as if the Republicans can't solve it. But they've tried awfully hard. It's a tougherj- problem than 'balancing the ; budget namely getting rid of the starlings. Those irrepressible birds have the habit of nesting over the, porticoes and doric columns of government buildings, where they keep up an incessant chat ter, littering the streets and passers by -with debris. ... Bu reaucrat after bureaucrat has tried to drive them away, scare them away, entice them away. All have failed. Archivist Wayne Grover, who boasts; one Of the least-sullied buildings in Washington, has been the last valiant soul to cope with the hitherto undefeat ed ' starlings. In an effort to keep his archives building clean he tried focusing floodlights on his columns and porticoes at night. .. J This, however, merely acted as a beacon. The lights attract ed more starlings. Furthermore, the starlings which already lived in and around the archives "building resented the intrusion and put up an awful shrief when the new arrivals came swooping in. In fact, the noise got so bad that archivist Grover next tried to scare them away with a sound truck. Consulting scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Grover was advised .that the distress call of the starling would frighten the other birds ' away.' So he got a recording of ' a starling in extreme pain and anguish and had a sound, truck play it as it circled around." $ie archives building.' This worked fine until the sound truck stop ped circling. Then ' te starlings; came right-back "again. , ' Archivist Grover couldn't af ford to keep the sound truck busy all day and night After all, Ike was trying to cut the budget. So he gave "up. However, Secretary of - the Treasury Humphrey was "more resourceful. His Treasury Build ing is not quite so bright and shiny as Archivist G rover's, but Contract' Drew Pearson even so he had pride in its ex terior, did not like to' see : it sullied by the Starling's poster iors. So he devised the idea of in- stalling loud speakers in the eaves of the Treasury Building to play the distress call at regu lar intervals. ;'':''-., This worked fine. The : star-' lings were scared" away and went down to visit ' Archivist Grover. Apparently they real ized this was a Republican ad ministration and that cut-throat competition between Bureau crats is the accepted creed of the party. However, Secretary Humphrey didn't have peace for long. A flock of pigeons moved in where the starlings moved out. So now Humphrey has to figure out the distress call of the pigeon and change the records on his loud speakers. AAerry-Go-Round ..' The Democrats, who have taken literally to begging in the streets in an effort to raise money for the coming campaign, had a great success in the Capi tal. They collected more than $4,000 in eight hours of pan handling from an estimated 15, 000 contributors. . . .They would like to repeat in other cities, but in some cases are up against city ordinances. Pittsburgh, for instance, . permits street and door-to-door collections only by charitable organizations . . . In Washington, Democratic collec tions were lowest near govern ment buildings. Many govern ment employees, apparently fearing reprisal, whispered: "We'll contribute at home.". . . . GOP National Chairman Leo nard'Hall is giving liberal Re publicans the cold shoulder in the campaign. He has left them off speaking schedules except in their home states . . . The Atom ic Energy Commission will built a giant, 15-billion volt cos motron at Brookhaven, It will speed' up" atomic' research con siderably. Mexico When Mexico seized its large estates ! and 'parceled them out among the peons, the State De partment 'at first objected; and Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State under Coolidge, wrote a series of ' notes that sent U. S. Latin American relations to their lowest' ebb'. To repair the dam age,' Cooliclge sent Dwight Mor row millionaire partner of the J. P. Morgan banking firm, as ambassador to Mexico, and Mor row surprised the world by en dorsing the Mexican land re forms, llorrow's cooperation with Mexico set a new landmark for Mexican -.American friendship. YOU Said It Don't Sterotype Honor Decisions Editor, On September 30, Dave Reid, vice-chairman of the Student Party, introduced a bill concern ing Honor System violators to the Legislature. Since that time the bill has been widely dis cussed and grossly misunder stood. Reid's proposal, on the other hand, has led to confusion about existing policies of the Honor Council. As I understand it', the present Honor Council policy is that if a student is convicted of cheat ing, and he did not report him self he will be suspended from the University for a period of one semester. He can be re admitted only through the chan nels of the Honor Council. How ever, if a student is a victim of extenuating circumstances and if he can show ' that he turned "himself "in 'voluntarily, then he may be put on probation. These actions are purely a matter of Honor Council policy. There is no written regulation that binds the Honor Council to suspend all offenders. However, it should be noted that the Council does not differentiate between Fresh men offenders and upper class mn. That is, a freshman who is being tried for the first time and an upper classman are dealt with in approximately the same manner. Reid's proposal does not bind the Honor Council. The Council is not, under the provisions of the bill, forced to put first of fenders on probation. The bill merely' encourages the Honor Council to be lenient with first offenders. It does, however, leave a provision for the suspen sion of flagrant violators. In other words, the bill, if passed, would merely be a recommen dation to the Honor Council and not a directive. Where does this leave the con victed student? In precisely the same position he occupied before .the debate started out on his ear. ; , . ! - ; . ! j Representatives of the Honor Council have' : said time after time that the purpose of their decisions is not 'punitive but corrective.- Their view is that if a student gets away from the campus and has an opportunity to reflect about his misdeeds he will see the error of his ways. Civil law is found on the theory that fear of punishment acts as a powerful deterrent to crime. On the other hand, the Honor System at Carolina thrives on the assumption that the ma jority of college students are honorable enough not to cheat and that then will report anyone who does. Thus our system en courages honesty while civil law threatens dishonesty. Which environment is more likely to accomplish the job of rehabili tating the wayward student? Probation is a better answer to the problem than suspension. If we assume that the typical first offender is basically honest and that he merely succumbed to the many temptations inher ent in the Honor System, then it would be better if he remained on campus. Here he would not have to face "the problem of pub lic . disgrace. Only the Honor Council and certain University officials would know of his mis take. He would not have to ex plain why he "left school for a semester." The problem of re adjustment under a system that makes it easier to cheat than to be honest is sizeable enough without adding the burden of social disgrace. Reid's bill recommends pro bation for first offenders whose violations were not flagrant, but this is only a recommendation and is finished and Honor Coun cil policies are no longer a mat ter of general interest, the issue is as far from being resolved as ever. The crux of the matter is this. There is no pat definition for the terms "typical first of fenders" and "flagrant viola tion," nor is such a definition possible. Hence the Honor Coun cil must be left free to decide each case solely on its particu lar merits. In return for such freedom the members of our highest judi cial body cannot allow them selves to adopt a "tradition." They cannot allow their deci sions to become stereotyped to the extent that conviction al ways equals suspension. Their policies and decrees mustbe as flexible as the human personali ty. Ken Pruitt Don' Slick D The Ca Ed Yoder Much talk circulates these days about the form plan, or design that gives this campus its physical beauty An undeniable trend has taken shape, hav ing its share of followers, toward making the Chapel Hill background one of staid inflexibility one that BBOfflW ; , rsew Ulu wen wim ils piubii walks, presents a case in point. A great change has come over the well since 86, as is demonstrated by a faded photo in Archibald Henderson's Campus of the First State University. The photo shows a rickity wooden structure over the well and it really was a well then because one of the figures in the picture is just drawing a bucketfull of water. The pagoda-shaped dome of the well is supported by eight flimsy wooden timbers. President Alder man decided one day some twenty or thirty years later that the Well needed treatment. He had woreki's erect "a sort of sixth cousin of a Greek shrine, or the third cousin of the Temple of Vesta, or second cousin of the Temple of Versailles." Now y this country cousin is gone and a slick new version has taken its place. Another example of the slicker trend is the Gra 'ham Memorial parking lot, which has had a ver dant toupee set on its hitherto dishevelled pate. Now it has been collared around with an asphalt runaway for the myriads of Chapel Hill autos. Last of all, the toupee is to be crowned with a silent and majestic sundial. A strong band, in which I include myself, dis agrees that this new look follows the tradition of natural beauty on this campus. We have tried cal umny. We have called the trend "Dukism." We have said it is pompus. We have said that these "beatuy spots" look out of place. But there exists a more logical argument on our side for the Carolina campus has not always showed signs of degenera tion into foppishness. It didn't, for one thing, look dandyish to Thomas Wolfe in Look Homeward Angel, from the book called "Artemidorus Farewell," one reads of this campus: "There was still a good flavor of the wilderness about the place one felt its remoteness, its isolated charm. It seemed to Eugene (Gant) like a provincial outpost of great Rome: the wilderness crept up to it like a beast ... Its great poverty, its century long struggle in the forest, had given the university a sweetness and a beauty it was later to forfeit." But when he came, "the greenest of all green freshmen," the forfeiture he speaks of had not , been made. The tradition of the campus of this school has consistently been one of relaxation, informality, and of rusticity but this does not mean that it has been one of sloppiness. Its history has included an inherent factor of heterogeneity of building and planning. But it has held onto that Greek virtue of unity within variety. All of its seemingly discordant parts, it has always been agreed by those who have been fascinated by its natural charm, melt together into a pleasing unity in the eye of the beholder. As Dr. Henderson says, "the architectural forms and idioms of the structures upon the Campus . . . reflect the successive phases of its historial de velopment. The features which impress the visitor amidst a welter of untitiviated Colonial, Classic, Revival, Tudor, Georgian, Italian, Romanesque, and eevn a touch of Gothic are not so much the variety and heterogeneity of disparate style, as the har monious elements which pull the whole composi tion together." Unless the advocates of the new trend intend to tear down and start anew and surely that would meet with overwhelming adversity it would be wise if they reconsider their piecemeal effort' to slick down the campus. An old story has it that one of the LaFarge brothers, on a visit here some years ago, -gave out the hill tidings that the stadium is the only beautiful edifice on campus from a classic architectural viewpoint. Yet, almost to a man, visitors have yielded to the enigmatic charm of total effect. When will we take note of the virtue our campus has and grant that it is enough? Rambling Ron Levin Here's a little rundown on the Huxley audience and their makeup. One tenth came to hear what the man had to say. One quarter came to see who else was there. One fifth came with their copies of Brave Neio World to have them autographed. Another fifth came because they had seen both the movies. A final fourth came out of sheer, unadul terated college curiosity. I was there . I didn't see you After the lecture the folks retired to Graham Memorial for punch. Here the confusion started. Two girls in the GM kitchen had been making punch for the students wathing the Tulane football game upstairs, It seems that Huxley and his crew just had to have some punch. The poor students who took in the football flick went dry ... I .got mine anyway After three insufferable weeks of humid, heat laden horror, we were finally blessed with a beau tiful typical fall day with the wind a little nippy roun' the corners. I overheard one guy remark. "Man, I just can't stand this Aartic weather." Wouldn't you know it? Wouldn't you just know it? I heard this one down at the "Rat." Definition df a Duke coed: A body with a bank account. own snpus ! gives danger signals of looking ultimately like a Gay Nineties fop with high collar and hair I slicked down with bear grease. j- This trend would replace the rustic expanses of . sand and oaks with ordered lawns of deep grass and curved walkways. " The lately-constructed "New, lawn and azalia-lined brick-
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