TUESDAY, FEBRUARY B, 19S5
THI DAILY TAR HEEL
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English 51
Is The Spice Of Life
After we suggested, last Aveek, that busi
nc ctnrlnt rwitrht to take more liberal arts
f courses, a business major Ave knoAV dropped
in to explain Avhy they don't.
. "The liberal arts courses fill up so fast,"
he said, "that business students have trouble
getting the ones they want."
Well, Ave thought, this is a sorry state of
affairs. We have checked, and can now testi
ly to the truth of our friend's testimony. Bus
iness majors do have trouble getting the
classes they icant.
Here's a rundoAvn of some of the most pop
ular liberal arts courses applied for by B. A.
.students: English 40, 4144 and 51, Religion
28, History 1G7 and 168 and Classics 92.
These are almost always closed before the
end of registration, and always packed Avith
business students.
What are they? English 40, 41, and 41 are
speech courses. English 51 is a course in bus;
iness forms and letters and professional pap
ers; so highly specialized is it that it cannot
be counted toAvard an English major. Reli
gion 28 . is the course taught by the highly
popular Messrs. Boyd, Gitlin and Nash. His
tory i("7 and 16S are courses in economic
history. Classics 92 is good old archaeology.
We do not dispute the value of these
courses. Only one or tAvo of them are "crips."
Their appeal for business majors lies in the
popularity of their teachers or the proximity
of the subject matter to the business curric
ulum. But this is the point. Business students are
allowed to take only six courses outside the
B. A. school and the Department of Econo
mics; and they are required to take only four.
Thus it is possible for a business major to
graduate from th.e University having tak
en, in his last- tAvo years, 26 business and
economics courses and four others chos
en, say, in public speaking, economic history,
business letter writing and (since everybody
takes it sooner or later) Dr. Harlan's archaeo
logy course.
This is not just an exercise in theory. The
University gives degrees every year to men
Avith that schedule and - worse schedules
Some business majors undoubtedly consider
history and archaeology too far off the beaten
track.
So our ansAver to the BA friend becomes
clear: If you can't get these courses, it's be
cause th eroom is full of othe r B.A. majors.
It seems fair to ask some questions about
all this. Hoav many men has the University
sent into the bfisiness world without the
dimmest acquaintance. Avith political science,
philosophy, English, history, music, 'are and
literature?
How many walking. IBM machines hold
University degrees, umvilling to delve on
their OAvn into the humanities and sciences or
unable to do so by University regulation?
How many waves of vocational ism must
pass over the University before Ave reach a
more perfect balance between training for
business and education for life?
Carolina Front
Story About
Duke Progress
Is Depressing
Louis Kraar
-
THE CINDERELLA story of
a university and its growth is
m being read by
nillions this
veek in a na
i o n a 1 news
nagazine. And
o a student of
he University
jf North Car-
I Jina. it's a rie-
pressing story.
4 The maga
zine story treats the rise of Duke
University "almost overnight by
the great Duke . . . tobacco for
tune." It's depressing because it
chronicles progress in Durham
at a time when progress in Cha
pel Hill is almost nil.
Today in Raleigh a commit
tee of the slate legislature holds
a public hearing on the Uni
versity's appropriation. Some
here on campus have called this
meeting "the slaughter" because
the University's requests for
money aren't going to be met.
And, as I said, it's all very
depressing just at this time to
read of a dynamic university in
Durham that is moving ahead
because it has the needed money.
MEANTIME STATE politicians
talk of raising the part students
pay to go here.
Already the same group has
turned the University down on
all requests for permanent im
provements. Carolina requested funds to
build a new pharmacy building
and remodel Howell Hall for oc
cupancy by the School of Journ
alism. The request was turned
down.
' A request for money to add
to and remodel. Peabody Hall
was also given a thumbs down.
The University asked for a new
dormitory for men, a 400-stu-dent
affair which would include
dining room and kitchen.
The request for a new dorm
was also turned down, while stu
dents in many dorms live three
deep in rooms built to house
two students.
Jazz Goes To College
At first it struck us as a good idea, but
the further it goes, the more doubtful avc
get.
The present-day academic interest in jaz
music, Ave mean. Consider what's happening
to jazz: They're teaching it for credit at two
Midwestern music schools. The stuffy old
Concert Hall Society, which looked down
its nose at anything lighter than Strauss a
couple of years ago has made "An Historic
Announcement To Music Lovers": A jaz
appreciation course Avith all the tiimmings.
And even Eddie Condon, Avho used to
make his music Avith Teschmaker, (MacPart
land and Tough at the Columbia Ballroom
in Chicago (musicTour nights a Aveek; four
fights a night) is now playing in a classroom
at Columbia University.
Mr. Lawrence (Bud) Freemen, an ex-C-melody
saxophone player for the Austin
High School gang and one of the best jaz
musicians left is lecturing an attentive group
of studious individuals Aveekly in Washing-"
ton Square. Mr. Benny Goodman, still the
greatest clarinet man around, is being heard
Avith increasing frequency by the classical
devotees playing concerti with symphony
orchestras.
Jazz cannot help but be altered under
such circumstances. The new direction in
this native form is personified by Dave Bru
beck, a talented pianist given to injecting
a little Rachmaninoff into his jazz. And
what is the name of his most popular al
bum? "Jazz Goes To College," but of course.
Well, we don't know if jazz ought to go
to college. There's, no denying the appeal
of the Brubeck school, but along Avith all
the decency and polish jazz music has ac
quired of late, we think Ave detect a little
sterility, too. Along with all the books and
courses on understanding jazz, there goes
a misunderstanding of something important:
that jazz is meant to be listened to.
Not examined. Just listened to- If you'd
like to test this idea, any Saturday night in
Stuyvesant Casino 'will do. With, say, Joe
SulliAtm, Pee Wee Russell, Cieorge Welti nig,
Miff Mole and Buck Clayton on the stand,
the understanding will come on without
benefit of lecturer or lectern.
'Just A Routine Check-Up'
CO.
A Partisan View
The Big-Time' & The Athlete
Ed Yoder
In these days of semi-professionalism
in college athletics Avhen
alumni demand
that coaches win
all or nearly all
games or go to
the chopping
block, when
coaches who
question the
sanity of the
cult are warned
A
- i
Lani -4 to keep silent
or lose their jobs, and Avhen
major subsidies are going to
players and not scholars, the
most obvious question is this:
What is emphasis on "big-time"
sports doing to education?
NO MONEY was granted to
hire new faculty members or in
crease the pay of existing per
sonnel. Note this, then turn to the
story in Time magazine and read
of Duke's faculty growth. Phras
es like "on almost any academic
or government committee, there
is apt to be at least one faculty
representative from Duke" jump
up from the slick pages to both
er the Carolina student.
Carolina's request for a new
physics building was turned
down. It's no secret that our
Physics Department is not up to
par. Chancellor House told mem
bers of the Advisory Budget
Commission just that early this
fall. They came through with a
small grant for physics equip
ment, but no new building.
Now note the story on Duke:
"Duke physicists operate the
Southeast's first 4,000,000-volt
Van de Graaff nuclear accelera
tor." BEFORE I'M accused of be
ing a Duke partisan, let me say
that I think the University is
not going to the dogs. But unless
we can get the necessary funds
from the state legislature, Cha
pel Hill is not going to move
ahead as it has been doing.
Competition among schools in
this area is keen for the services
of bright, young graduate stu
dents to teach freshmen and
sophomores and work on their
doctorate degrees.
Carolina pays these young
men less than a number of other
universities in this part of the
country. Yet the scholarship that
is carried on by these young
teachers is vital to Carolina, and
the teaching they do makes stu
dents what they are.
As I said, it's depressing to
read the story of Duke's prog
ress at a time like tkis for Carolina.
Rose Is A Rose
Is A Rose Is . . .
The Christian
Science Monitor
Thierry Vaubourgoin is caus
ing quite a stir in Paris. He is
an artist, and has 45 of his
paintings hanging in a gallery
on the fashionable Rue Fau
bourg St. Honore. M. Vaubour
goin has been painting for three
years. The most unusual thing
about him, perhaps, is that he
is exactly ten years old.
Without seeing his work, one
can be sure that it is fresh, gay,
and spontaneous, for, being a
child, he sees as a child. All the
world is new and clothed in
glistening dew. This is one rea
son why much of the painting
and drawing done by our young
sters is such a joy. Whether it
is "the slanty crayoned ' house
with the orange roof and the
purple chimney that comes home
from kindergarten, or one of
those whirly, often-sodden cre
ations to emerge from the de
light of a finger-painting orgy,
we see something in it that is
special, artistic.
What is it? The modern mas
ter Henri Matisse put it one
way: "An artist has to look at
life without prejudices, as he
did when he was a child. If he
loses that faculty, he cannot ex
press himself in an original,
that is, a personal way."
Painters like Matisse spend all
their lives seeking to achieve
and preserve the childlike ap
proach that Thierry Vaubour
goin now has, which may be des
cribed in another way as peel
ing off layers of human exper
ience to get to the idea behind
the rose. Isn't this what Ger
trude Stein was groping toward
when she made that classic
statement, "Rose is a rose is a
rose is a rose?" '
But there are other, perhaps
more important questions.
For example, what are the
movements toward professional
ism in "amateur" sports doing
to individuals who participate in
college sports?
Many college athletes, going
to school on scholarships, find
themselves in a situation that
demands more of them than they
are prepared to give. Beginning
students, in particular, find the
countless (adjustments necessa
ry to being an athlete-student
hard.
Such- was the case of a cer
tain football player, an ex-student
at Carolina, whose identity,
for obvious reasons, must not be
known.
This football player was not
the typical "athlete" portrayed
so adversely and often. He didn't
have five tutors getting his les
sons for him every day. He di
dn't make; exorbitant demands
of his instructors. Academical
ly, he Avas more or less average
student. He was not a replica
of the Bolenciewitz mentioned
in James Thurber's new-famous
essay, "Uni"ersity Days," who
had to hear a "choo-choo-choo"
sound from prompters in the
back of the room to think of
railroads as a utility.
This particular football player
didn't go overboard on his book
work. On the other hand, he
didn't neglect his studies and
recognized that they held an im
Vortant place in his life as a
college athlete.
The trouble with this certain
player was not in himself, but
in his stars that he was , re
quired to meet , more demands
than it was in his power to meet.
He saw, with amazing objectivi
ty for a partisan such as he was,
the strange irony of his place
in the college sphere.
In the afternoons he was re
quired to go out on the training
field and learn to be as aggres
sive as a code of football eth
ics would allow. Then, in the
mornings, perhaps inadequately
prepared, he Avalked into the
different atmosphere of a class-
room where he heard his teach
ers expound on the noble qual
ities that education seeks to in
still in students. He saw clearly
the difficulties (since he was a
first-semester student) involv
ed in keeping pace on the foot
ball field and keepin his schol
arship and, at the same time,
adjusting to and keeping pace
with students with more study
tine. In an English theme, hi
wrote :
"... The hours reuired to
practice football and the trips
that have to be made mean that
these boys (football players) miss
i. lot of their work and don't have
the necessary 'ime to study their
lessons. This puts them behind
during the first semester, and
they are never quite able to
catch up with the others. If they
have had improper preparation
for college work, then this plus
the inadequate time for study
gives the wrong impression of
their mental capacities. They are
considered . . . stupid . . ."
'. This Avas not the only contra
diction he found; later on in the
theme, he continued,
"Their disciplinary training . . .
can swing (the football player)
to one side or the other. Either
he applies to everyday life the
values taught him, or he. twists
them to his own purpose. The
roughness and aggressiveness ne
cessary to football is a habit hw'l
to break after the season is over,
and some are unable to curb it.
While some players settle down
and do the work that is to be done,
others feel intensely the sudden
reversal of schedule. They are
,restless and can't be still. Their
aggressiveness gets them Into
trouble, and their ability to make
quick decisions turns to impul
siveness." These, it must be remembered,
are the words of a partisan, of a
man who loved sports and par
ticularly football. They are can
did words and words filled w;th
irony.
True to what one might imag
ine, this particular player did
improve his work when the sea
son came to an end. The instruc
tor who received the theme I've
quoted from noted that, when the
boy was freed from the rigid de
mands of his outside duties, his
themes became more and mor-j
sensitive in character.
Thereby hangs the final irony
of the tale. Apparently the very
contradictions he had so clearly
forseen caught up with him.
Not many 'days after the theme
went in, the player left school
quietly for a violation of the
Honor Code.
We can never know whether
that violation was deliberate and
needless or whether it was a move
of last minute desperation. Ws
can only Avonder.
Wolf Ladejinsky
EWorld Opinion
Dr. Arnold Nash
(The following letter appeared in the Jan.
23 issue of The New York Times. Dr. Nash is
professor of the history of religion in the Uni
versity. Editor. )
To The Editor Of The New York Times:
In your issue of Jan. 11 you reported Senator
Wiley's expression of anxiety about the fashion
in which the foreign policy of the Eisenhower
administration "has harmed this nation's standing
in the free world." You went on to say that the
"Wisconsin Republican singled out what he. termed
the 'bungling initial decisions in the Ladejinsky
case and certain of the administration's immigra
tion policies as having 'done us little goqd in the
eyes of the free world.' "
The President cannot very well continue to ig
nore his own immediate responsibility occasioned
by the fact that one of his subordinates, Harold
Stassen, has given security clearance to Mr. Lade
jinsky's, while Secretary Benson refuses to disjel
the cloud of suspicion over Mr. Ladejinsky's head.
You ask with point, in your editorial of Jan. 8,
the question, "Can Mr. Ladejinsky expect to have
the full confidence of the Secretary of Agriculture
of the United States?" But does the President in
his press conference of Jan. 19 improve the situa
tion? Last year I returned to America after having
spent nine months lecturing in the universities of
India, Burma, Hong Kong, the Phillipines and Ja
pan, having spent the previous six weeks as an
ordinary tourist in the Near East.
Repeatedly among professors, journalists, law
yers and civil servants one met a very genuine
anxiety about America. It did not usually have its
origin in any serious acceptance of the Moscow
"devil" theory of American policy and program,
for their anxiety lay not so much in what these
people felt about America's wicked heart as de
picted by Moscow propaganda.
Rather, as I had previously found out in several
trips to Western Europe in 1946, 1948, 1951, and
1952. among these people (all of Avhom hold such
key positions in the present propaganda war) was
the notion that America is irresponsible not so
much because of her alleged wickedness of soul but
because of her stupidity of head.
Thus when they fear that America will precipitate
World War III they do so not because America will
deliberately, a la Hitler, plan to do so, but because
in her stupidity she will blunder into it and take
the rest of the free world with her.
It is in the light of these conversations in Europe
and Asia that I venture to raise the question wheth
er on any point has that irresponsibility more ob
viously expressed itself than in the fond notion en
tertained by President Eisenhower to the effect
that an agricultural economist even of the stature
of Mr. Ladejinsky can be expected to be taken
seriously in such a key area as South Vietnam when
Mr. Benson apparently still doubts whether Mr.
Ladejinsky is to be trusted.
.Who among the Vietnamese will be willing un
der these circumstances to take the risk of reveal
ing to Mr. Ladejinsky their real thoughts and feel
ings? The President, over the last few months, has
several times made it clear that he has some aware
ness of ideals and ideas in the present struggle. It
is difficult to think of any better contribution he
could now make (and one which surely lies readily
T'o his hand) than
-I to remove the ab-
; u r d i t y of the
iresent situation
when one of his
Cabinet members
sends to Vietnam
an official who
ioes not have the
confidence of
inother Cabinet
members. .
As Americans we
m )ften ventilate our
foolishness to the
si world, but this epi
sode is one that
almost passes one's
imagination. It cer
tainly is beyond
my comprehension.
PDnc fclACU j. 11 e 1 e is, 01
' ... the incredible confusion' course one consol
ing even if iron
cal thought: in the Kremlin many anxious hours
are being spent in try ing to search out a rational
raison d'etre for the present riddle, for that is what,
granted their presuppositions, it must be to them.
However, it is hardly a sufficient reward if the
prize we must pay to belwilder our enemies is
that we confuse our friends.
More, history often shows that war breaks out
Avhen one side so misunderstands the other that it
makes fatal and irrevocable miscalculations
Nothing can so seriously mislead the Soviet
authorities as can miscalculations about the real
temper of the American mind and spirit. The pres
sent incredible confusion about the trustworthiness
of Wolf Ladejinsky is not typical, I venture to say,
of what American really stands for.
CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN
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$700,000 less than for the previous
year, roughtly two-thirds of
which would hare been used for
Avork at the State level and the
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Eddie Crutchfield
Warren
'54 GOP
Possibility
Doris Fleeson
WASHINGTON The Dem
ocratic majority in Congress is
quietly burying the idea of hav
ing Chief Justice Earl Warren
deliver a special message to a
joint session on the needs of
the Federal judiciary.
This is not personal. It is be
cause Democrats sniff a build
up of the Chief Justice for 195G
in the event that President Eis
enhower decides not to run
again.
Instead, increased pay for (he
judicial branch will be includ
ed in the bill now in the works
to raise governmental salaries.
Speaker Rayburn has' given the
green light to a flat salary of
$25,000 for members of Congress
and Federal judges; he strongly
prefers it to what he regards 1
as deceptive gimmicks like tax
free expense accounts.
Since President Eisenhower
also advocates pay raises I lie;
prospects for action in 1955
which is not an election year
are good.
The idea for the history-making
Warren message came frum
the Department of Justice. Dep
uty Attorney General William '
P. Rogers proposed it last fall
and has been quietly" pressing
for it among his friends in the
press and in Congress.
It never has had a chance of
being considered on its merits
in pite of the Chief Justice's
dignity and discreton. Rogers,
his superior, Attorney General
Herbert Brownell, and his inti
mate friend, Vice President Ri
chard Nixon, are the three men
in the Eisenhowr Administra
tion whom Democrats unani
mously suspect of putting pure
ly political considerations into
all that they do.
Rogers traveled with Nixon in
the '52 campaign and staged the
famous Checkers telecast. Rog
ers sat beside Brownell when he
pulled his subordinate, Vl',1
chief J. Edgar Hoover, into the
Harry Dexter White case "-here
former President Truman was
all but put on trial.
Rogers and Brownell are also
associates of Thomas E. Dewey
whose professional touch lent
the final victorious push to the
Eisenhower campaign. Demo
crats suspect that Dewey, now
a private citizen, may be think
ing of Warren, his running-mate
in 1.948, as an insurance policy
for the moderate-progressive
Republican faction just in
case.
The idea itself of building up
Warren as an ace in the hole for
1956 is logical and meritorious.
Had the present Chief Justice
achieved in New York what he
did as Governor of California he
would have been nominated
President and elected by accla
mation. Instead he had to sit by in
Chicago in 1952 and watch Hi.
Republican liberal forces coa
lesce around a candidate of
whose domestic views they
knew nothing. He permitted
himself to call attention to it
when with friends, but he has
never complained.
The Chief Justice is now at
tempting to remove himself
as far as possible from political
consideration. If the Republi
cans think they need him, how
ever, they will draft him as ail
politicians realize. The prospect
is the more real because tnj
present Rpublican big three in
California the. Vice President,
Senate Minority Leader Know
land and Governor Goodwin
Knight are in a bitter family
fight for control of the state's
delegation to the 1956 Presi
dential nominating convention".
Like Barkis, thece three are ull
willing.
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