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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 19SS PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL me grj; erf i in; t tit! rd a of n.i tii su p! hi ct e v at: e si si I I " "t- 1 ' I Carolina Front V A Sad Story Of Fraternities & Hard Times Louis Kraar MODERN LIBRARY 9 " -I ;i:f " ' .; . : t . :7', - 4 PENGUIN J; -K-? f " j i '., r.u il t . . - IT- . v-Wv-HaiaSt.,: 4,,,.,--, ::rtv-.-:M S .. - .,, .i f' f . j; - -: - , , . . - t 1 I ill I f i-n J THIS IS one for the fraterni ties, a sad story at a time when Carolina Greeks are singing the blues. Although it's lot a tale of fra -iernities here ci' ampus, the sto ry is one which vill grieve them. 3ut it needs to ie told. Last spring, iW an historic Jecision, the U. S. District Court for Northern New York ruled that a Board of Trustees of a state university may constitutionally ban local branches of fraternities from the college campuses under its con trol. New York State University had banned fraternities and sororities:. The Board of Trustees also de clared that no social, organiza tion permitted on any one of the campuses of the State University of New York may in policy or practice "operate under any rule which bars students on account of race, color, religion, national origin or other artificial criteria." it ANCHOR The Paperbacks NEW YORK State University fraternities took their college to court. The Greek letter groups con tended that the Trustees had violated the requirements of due process: That means, they said, that no notification or opportuni ty for a hearing was given the national fraternities or sorori ties before the Trustees acted. The fraternities said that the ban enroached on their freedom of assembly, denied them equal protection under the laws, and adversely affected existing con- Court turned them down the suit was dismissed. and The inexpensive, well-bound and printed tracts. Modern Library books that have mmister-ed Fraternities from the New York for so long to the needs of literate but pen- school pointed out the beneL- ny-shy college students, are now coming a- ciaKaspects of national fraternity vailable in even less expensive paperback and sorority affiliations and the editions. absence of discriminatory clauses It's a new paperback series for .Modern in their constitutions. Library (though titles are old) and the first But in the end the District ten releases are big guns aimed at all the competition in the field. Among the new releases (which stand exactly 714 inches tall and 4 and seven-sixteenths inches wide and cost 95 cents) are Crime , and Punishment, The Divine Comedy, The Republic, Gulli ver's Travels and comparable giants. We stopped by the Intimate Bookshop the other day and listened to Paul Smith tick off the list of paperback publishers with whom the new Modern Library books will have to deal. "The English started it all," lie said. "The Penguin series is the oldest of the paper backs we (any. Simon and Schuster prob ably rates as the father of the American pa perback business. Oh, there are others Rinehart has a series and Doubleday (An chor), Knopf (Vintage), Meridian, Kver- Yiking and Dover. THE FINAL, chapter in this sad saga of sororities and fraternities was written recently when the U. S. Supreme Court refused "to hear an appeal on the case. This reporter believes that in dividuals have a right to select their associates in any organiza tion. On the other hand, I believe that this can be accomplished without having discriminatory clauses in a group's constitution. What this means to book buyers is that almost every great work of literature is avail able in the best translations for less than a dollar. Paperback titles numbering in the hundreds range from Homer to Faulkner and include Dumas and Darwin and Randall Jurrell. I "he . pa pei bac ks seem to make everybody happy. The one dollar Unpopular Essays of deems necessary to its duty of Bertram! Russell have sold a Go conies in a supervision and control of its year and a halt at the Intimate a record not approached, of course, by any hard cover in the house. The rest of the stock likewise goes like hotcakes. The age of the paperbacks is on us full steam; college students never 'had it so It would seem that the frater nities and sororities at New York State University were given a raw deal. Unfortunately, as stu dents under a school's adminis tration, their rights were limited. "A state may adopt such meas ures, including the outlawing of certain social organizations, as il educational institutions . . ." de clared the U. S. District Court. good The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published 3 'Exactly! There's A Plot To Make Us Look Foolish' PBPT. OP Jucri OFFICIALS WMaAcrrorfe MATUSOWS TESTIMONY A: - I I &9fT T WAWTW POST A Hat For The '56 Ring? I ' CiCJ it ' -4 ' I StK of the Cntvr-rvity jf North Ctiro5it wenmi it door daily except Monday, examination and vaca tion periods and sum mer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post ' office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscription I ; rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; j delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. '5 i Sditor CHARLES KURALT Night Editor for this Issue .Eddie Crutchfield NEWS OF THE New York abolition comes to campus now, 1 know, when local chapters a:x oppressed. I said my story wasn't a pleasant one, but that it needed to be told. Last year fraternities here be gan to feel tha vise. First it was the town of Chapel Hill that in sisted upon fire escapes. They were necessary, but at the same time the town never enforced their fire escape ruling against townspeople who house students. Then came spring and the visiting agreement, a set-back for fraternities. Latest hardship has been in the form of garbage houses that each house has had to build. That's why I know news of trie New York court case comes at a bad time. But, after all, it should be told. Ed Yoder Gov. Mennen Williams of Mi chigan who spoke in Memorial Hall Tuesday night, makes no secret of his want for the White House toga. During the ,ft,uestion and r?iP 1 answer period ed his speech, he met the vi tal question full in the face. 'He's on record, he said, as believing that anyone who says he wouldn't like to be President is telling a falsehood. After observing the Governor's demeanor and listening to his ideas, I think he's a man to keep your eye on for the 1956 vice presidential nomination. There would be one hitch in volved: If Adlai Stevenson again gets the Presidential nomination and runs on the same ticket the people will be confronted with the improbable situation of hav ing their votes solicited by two Princeton men. Blast! Paul T. Chase (Beginning a new Daily Tar Heel column. Editor.) This is a voice of dissent, a futile cry of protest; its atti tude will reflect three basic as sumptions: that there are a great many things wrong with the world in general and with this university in particular; that nothing will ever be done about most of them; that some thing must nevertheless be said of all of them. A solitary voice, powerless to effect physical change, can on ly cry out in anger and dismay. This is one such cry. To most it will be of little or no interest, to others it will be a source of anger and embarrassment, to some few it will seem impor tant as their own voice. To You, Administrative Powers, it will be only a slight thorn, notice able perhaps, but easily ignor ed. It will decry ideas and insti tutions that you either hold dear or do not give a damn about. Nor does it hold dear or give a damn about you. The harm you do, the baseness you spread, the intellectual havoc you wreck among receptive minds is de plorable but inevitable. A tired and lonely voice, it will not purport to speak for others. It will emphasizt ideas, opinions, convictions; not facts. It will say many things that have been said before, that will be said again, that will always have to be said again. It may occasionally say something that will be new to someone, or from an approach that had not been considered by someone. It will probably not be read. Mr. Williams is a man of huge stature. He talks, like many mid westerners, with a flat, nasal drawl, with the vowels sharp ened by an Eastern education. When he spoke, the slanting lights trained on the lectern, ac centuated his heavy jaws. The beginning of his speech was enough to make anyone who'd come expecting to hear some thing said get up and leave. He opened with a long string of words like "happy," "hap piness," "inspire," "inspiration," and used most of them in ref erence to the usual North Caro lina figures. The long series of prefatory remarks was somewhat trying, for it had taken the Y. D. C. chain of command about 20 min utes to introduce him. The Governor was introduced by former Nicaraguan Ambas sador Capus Waynick Who was introduced by Larry McEiroy, who was introduced by Bob Windsor. No one introduced Bob Wind sor. But he had the honor of standing at the lectern after the speech with Governor Williams' huge hand lying on his shoulder. Governor Williams was notice ably pleased to get a standing ovation by the Democrats. This may have been the tip that prompted him to be forthright about his Presidential aspira tions. The speech delivery was fair MORAL FIBRE What's happened to Free En terprise and Moral Fibre? Some of the Southern states are going all-out in their "hand outs" along the lines of the Wel fare state, creeping socialism, and all that stuff. The result" will be that we will raise a whole generation of Southern manu facturers without moral fibre. Some of these states are spend ing fortunes to bring in new in dustry; they are handing out free land sites, new roads, sewers, free wiring and no taxes. I cn see these manufacturers shiver ing for the lack of moral fibre every time they go out to make a bank deposit. O where are the men who chopped down the trees and carved a civilization out of a wilderness? O where are the snows of Yesteryear? What hap pen to Free Enterprise? Harry Golden in Carolina Israelite. MISSINGVIRTUE McTavish was violently oppos ed to his daughter marrying her boy friend Hugo. He ranted and raved a long time before break ing down and giving his consent. Doing so he said to her, "Marry him if you will, Lassie, though I fear happiness will be hard to find since he. has not the virtue of thrift. Why just the other day I saw him drive out of a parking space : with 12 minutes left on the meter. to good. (Why don't frequent oratojfrs like Senator Kefauver and Gov. Williams learn to use their hands naturally when they speak?) Governor Williams made a speech whose contents, once dis cerned, were sound and good. He spoke out, which was a good thing, against turtle-shell cam paigning. He didn't like the motto, "Don't let 'em take it away," as it was almost ex- , clusively applied. He wants the Democratic Party to take the ini tiative in political affairs. His position as a pre-election politician marked off certain li mits for him: He tip-toed ove: segregation (he wants to sejs "justice" done) and made some unclear remarks about the De mocratic Convention loyalty oath. But Governor Williams is one of the few who dares to speak candidly against the "creeping socialism charge' against TVA. As Norman Thomas pointed out in his speech here last fall, the tendency is to apologize for TV A and like institutions. Mr. Wil liams didn't apologize. He'd pa raphrase Patrick Henry, he said; "If this (TVA) be social ism, make the most of it." , The Governor was a little - 4"7, ,i 5 GOV. WILLIAMS ... keep an eye on Soapy shocked to be asked about his nickname "Soapy." He became doubly candid in reply to the question. His mother was a member of the Mennen family of shave-cream fame; his fathier 'was a Williams of pickle fame. "But, he continued, "We do some arming." The Governor's final shock of the evening came when he step ped through the door into the Graham Memorial Main Lounge. He looked about for a second before , crossing the carpet. Per haps thinking of the bleak at mosphere of Memorial Hall, he whispered to the attractive Mrs. Williams, "This is nice." Another hat for the 1956 ring It's been tossed in the air and it's headed - that, way. Wold Concert 'Skillful, Exact' John Ludwig Tuesday night, promptly at eight. Miss Bonnie-Jean Wold began the first recital of this semester's Tuesday Night Series, The audience was sparse; , much smaller than a singer of Miss Wold's calibre deserves. The first group of songs Were by Hugo Wolf, and they left this philistine quite cold, as did the following three "Chansons de Bilitis" by Debussy. Miss Wold, however, performed them with no table skill and exactness. She sang the notes as they are no doubt written, and she pronounced the French and German tonguetwisters convincingly. Concerning her interpretation of these songs I have nothing to say; they are all above my head. The last group of the first half of the program was on my level of appreciation, and was quite enjoyable. Miss Wold sang Cio-Cio-San's three aria's from Puccini's "Madame Butter fly." An artist faces two problems when singing opera on the concert stage: the obvious vocal difficulties, and the often overlooked dramatic requirements. Miss Wold is an instructor; she is perhaps too concerned with the technical side of the music she sings so meticulously. Her rendition of the three Puccini arias was so carefully done that some of the pa thos integrally a part of them was lost. YOU A Question From The Y Court Club: Ain't Y'all For Us? Editor: Since you have taken it upon yourself to tell the state of North Carolina by he medium of Tee Video that the Tar Heel is not for the students but for the uni versity, we would like for you to explain in an editorial just how this so-called newspaper (and we use this term loose ly) is subsidized. We have been of the opnion that we have been paying your salary, but sjnee you have said that this "Comedy of Errors" is for George, the administration, and the faculty (another loose term) we wonder if they wouldn't like to help share the expense of this campus- counterpart of the News and Observer otherwise known as "The Ora cle of God" or "Scott's Tissue." While we are on the subject of edi torials, you said in your February 8 col umn that the so-called crip courses are filled with Business Administration ma jors. We wonder how a person can justi fiably classify a course as a crip unless he had taken that course. It seems that you as an industrious history major have found time to sit in on a few of these crip courses (and probably for credit, too). And another thing, the way you cover up your inadequacies with Thomas Wolfe's intellectualism is disgraceful. Oscar Wilde once said, "The difference be tween journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is unread." You can derive from this just how much of your editorial page is read by the students. ( Yes, you are right; The Daily Tar Heel is definitely not for the students. Composed by the "Y" Court "Break fast Club" and edited by Rueben Leonard and Tom Snyder. (To correct some misconceptions in the Breakfast Club's letter: (1) Nobody on the staff has said The Daily Tar Heel is "not for the students." It is, of course. What the editor said on WUNC-TV was that The Daily Tar Heel does not attempt to represent student opinion in its edi torial column quite a diferent thvng. We believe student opiniqn to be so di verse in its nature that it cannot be rep resented by an editor or even a whole staff. The next best thing, toe believe, (and a principle' followed by all self respecting newspapers, is for the editor to represent his oxen opinions and to open his page for disagreement, both in letters and in columns. David Mundy's column is an example of this idea; and tThe Daily Tar Heel prints all kygvied letters. (2) The courses in question were tspecijically referred to cis- courses qj value. The editorial listed seven or eight courses and said "only one or two of them are crips." Anyone who has been four years in the University knotos tfeer are few "crip"' courses, and knows ithich ones those 'Jew are reported to be. Editor.) "V-( " r j 'Well That Settles It. There Was Intelligent Life On Mars!' The Haturday , Review T at down after the intermission to look at my program and was surprised to notice two very modern names com pleting the performance. The, first was the controversial Leonard Bernstein. Miss Wold chose his song-cycle 4I Hate Music!", which I have' heard was written originally for Jennie TourW- K here was any emotion lacking in the previous part of her program, Miss Wold's con vincing manner with these five songs more than made up for it. She seemed to enjoy singing them, and I enjoyed watching her. Miss WroJd concluded with Samuel Barber's long musical poem "Knoxville: Summer of 1915." The text to this very difficult work is taken from a blank verse composition of James Agee. It is forbiddingly complex, being' in the form of a lengthy recitative. Barber wished to create a mood with his music, just as Agee did with words. Both have succeed ed, and the combination is "Knoxville." Had Miss Would simply sung the poem without a mistake I would have been pleased; 6ut she surprised me by not only rendering it "flawlessly, but with the warmth that Barber and Agee intend ed that it should have. The audience, though small, provided three healthy curtain calls. I was sorry that there were no encores scheduled. Said It A Difference With Dr. Eddy: 'I Have Lived There . . (The writer of the following letter is a graduate student in the University. II is home is Taipei, Formosa. Editor.) - , Editor: I was extremely disappointed to re?d Dr. Sherwood Eddy's statement in The Daily Tar Heel today. I trust the intelli gent readers will not be so easily misled. But I would appreciate a chance to ex press my disagreement with him as a Chinese on the following grounds: 1. Dr. Eddy's opinion about Chiang Kai shek is not true. For Ciang, alter the Nationalists moved to Formosa, becomes a quite different person from the one that Dr. Eddy knew years ago. Can a man, once in his lifetime, make a mistake and learn a bitter lesson and become better? Chiang very efficiently reorganized his Armed Forces. They are well-disciplined and ready for combat, as stated in many American reports. The Nationalist gov ernment in Formosa is manned by a new group of honest,, capable and younger men. They are the backbone of the gov ernment. The life of the ordinary people is much better. I have lived there six years. Please compare dispassionately Chiang Kai-shek with all other leaders of the U. S. allies in the Far East. Please read the reports made about Formosa by in dependent U. S. government and civilian leaders. You will find out whether my statement is justified. , I wonder if Dr. Eddy had any first hand facts about the Nationalist gov ernment during the last six years when he made his statement. 2. Dr. Eddy, obviously and very unfor tunately, identified Chiang, an individ ual person, though the present Nation alist leader, with the cause of free China. Chiang repeatedly said that he is not indispensable. Any anticommunist who is able to lead the country is welcome to take over his office. For example, the vice-president Chen Cheng is popuLar with the people of Formosa, and will probably succeed Chiang. The U. S. support of Formosa is not a personal favor but helps friendly or ganized anti-communist forces against the Red agression and therefore helps to preserve world peace and freedom. To be more practical, judging from the Amer ican point of view, the U. S. is defending her military and political interests. In a word, the very survival of the U. S. is at stake. 3. Certainly, Formosa and other ancient it'iands, including Hong Kong, beWg to China. But they are definitely not the China controlled by the government o Russian origin, model and purpose. Chiang- Kai-shek and his followers have every right to resist any proletarian dictatorship. Freedom-loving Chinese, not under the Red control, should have the chance to choose their own govern ment as advocated in any American text books of political science. 4 Dr. Eddy said that the Communist government in China has aided the pea sants and hinted that he liked their meth ods. I doubt If he knows how they have oppressed the people, and how they have afflicted them with unspeakable miser ies. He advocated that Formosa deserves no U S. support. Well, the Communists want the whole world under their con trol, would Dr. Eddy agree with the Communist revolutionary plan and would ReedllkSourrritnCe f S i f i i1 v i s t ! m I
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