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'1 i FRIDAY, FrEFUAPY II, 19'5 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO Heaf h ti man : ing i . ol Com i tur Prwl Lcti If I if ; finds If tha specij 1.955 J find o If tha ing f tioc .. Tht is hot Intim ? boo law..? reve Love. beaut Peter quota of th Sonm Adolf lor ai beth4 love.- This Bent( tion r derfu Th Word beaul that Tortl as pa can- I The Fruit Carolina Front, Of Liberal Learning Cuff Not m It ha hem our contention, in a discus sion of the Business School curriculum that the quality of one's citizenship far transcends in importance the manner in which he seeks to earn his daily bread. We believe the B.A. School's requirement 'that its students take no more than six liberal arts courses during their last two years of school to be leaning too far the other Way. President Henry W. Wriston of Brown University, in a repent speech at Philadel phia, said it well: Effective democracy requires a citizenry who will promote our distinctive way of life. Every competent American should have not only training in skills and a growing mastery over nature; in addition he ought to cultivate even more intensively the disciplines of the human ities and the social studies. Vocational overconcentration cuts down the s awareness of other values. The wider one makes his area of informed interest, the more-, competent he is to meet any problem with courage and clarity of mind. If we are to have peace for example, it will "come from the ap plication of knowledge, not alone the special ist's knowledge,, but that humane, that wise, that temperate outlook which is the fruit of liberal learning. ... Those who regard such things as frills, as merely decorations, as something with which to while away an hour are impoverishing them selves. Students have no more right to squan der their intellectual inheritance than to throw money into the streets. We do not, of course, accuse the Business School's faculty and administration of re- garding liberal education as a frill. It is true that the school is among the most liberal arts-minded of the nation's business schools, some of which introduce students to busi ness courses immediately upon entrance as freshmen. And many business professors are themselves concerned with the extreme spe cialization of juniors and seniors in Caro lina's Business School. But that being true does not erase the oth er truth: that no business student in the Uni versity is exposed as a student to the heights of liberal education that alone can produce Jie fully cultivated and responsible citizen. On Spaghetti, Campaigning Louis Kraar mm limn win nmnuuiiMaiiupnii mi um u .n ngiji . i imW No F rat Is An lsland-ll ,HEAJtING THAT campus poli 'ticians gather at such august af fairs as spa ghetti suppers, I found myself pfeying a buck to a smilling Tri - Delt last Sunday night and strolling through the crowded green living room. My notes for the affair seem to run like this: "Greeted few Delta Delta Del ta's who smiled and said they were glad we had come. Imagined they vlere since it meant another dollar. "People, boys in coats and ties and girls in sweaters and other things, sitting, standing, leaning all over everything. Big fire, in fireplace, but no one noticed it. "Passed Ed McCurry on way to get food. Asked him if pros pective candidates come to such events. He murmured something about not knowing, then spent ten minutes pointing to his khaki pants. Said he was .only one in the whole plush place with khaki pants. "Noticed McCurry's tie. was one of few in the place with pat tern, instead of stripes though. Didn't say anything because he insisted that he wasn't running for anything and was hungry. "Ate two plates of spaghetti and drank coffee. Both good, but hard to balance on knee while sitting in living room. "Said good-bye to "pleasant Tri-Delt at door counting mon ey. On way down street remem bered seeing patterned tie like McCurry's in Milton's window. Stopped and studied window on way to Dairy Bar." v Carolina fraternities and sororities, long looked upon askance by many for their lack of interest in the campus community and the world outsfde the ''house," are mending some bridges. Item: Last night's Louis Armstrong con cert; the sponsoring ATO's could have made a killing for their own pockets from the full house. But all the proceeds went to the polio drive. . Item: The recent Delta Delta Delta spag hetti supper, an annual affair to raise money for University scholarships. Item: The upcoming Panhellenic work shop, whose keynote speaker has taken as a topic: "Your Responsibility to Your Campus Chapter and National." This movement toward group action prob ably had its beginnings . several years ago when campus fraternities transformed their "Hell Week" to "Greek Week"-a mass op eration "Help" on community projects. Campus fraternities and sororities are in for commendation. Their potentiality for good knows no bounds and we hope they'll show even more willingness to accept their fledgling role of altruists to the campus. The official student publication of the Publt ' cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Sunday, Monday ' and examina tion 2nd vacation per- iods and summer terms. Entered .s second class matter at the post office in Chapel HilL N. C, un der the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. THE EDITORSHIP of the Yackety-Yack has become an increasingly technical job. Thinkers in the field have argued for years that the edi tor of the annual shouldn't be elected. Latest, and perhaps the best, plan for picking a Yackety Yack editor that I've heard about came up the other day. Bob Colbert and present co editor Cornell Wright suggested a selection board to pick editor of the annual. The board would be composed of the current Yacc editor, two of the elected Pub lication Board members, and the chairman of the two campus political parties. This plan seems to merit some discussion and thought, which is why it is presented here. I i i- - v 'r "" -'' efmpeTlftU'J ; Site of ttw wvrrrwetT whuli iirit--' in Jdmtay -? Mil Editor CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business Manager TOM SHORES Sports Editor B ERNIE WEISS News Editor 1 . Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Jackie Goodman Dick Sirkin Jim Kiley . John Godley Bill Bob Peel Subscription Manager : Assistant Business Manager Society Editor .1. , Eleanor Saunders Assistant Sports Editor Bob DMlard Photographer Boydon Henley NEWS STAFF j. Neil Bass, Ruth Dalton, Ed Myers, Woody Sears, Peggy Ballard, Sue Quinn EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan. Tom Spain, David Mundy, Paul Chase SPORTS STAFF . , Ray Linker, Al Korshun. Bob Colbert Night editor for this issue - -Eddie Crutchfield JOEL Fleishman, who left political glory for the thrill of the stage, tried out for and won a part in the Playmakers upcom ing "Show Boat" production. Fleishman, who has held every political party office in the SP at one time or another, is in the chorus. THE MED student friend at my table announced that he was "on call" that afternoon. And a coed at the table quip ped: "Oh, a call-boy." KEMP'S RECORD Shop vib rated to the progressive Strains of Shearing, Kenton, and Bru beck the other afternoon as stu dents crowded in to listen to jazz A distinguished - looking gen tleman with a beard and cane walked in, looking about at the students listening to music. A salesman approached him, the expectant hope of selling an ex pensive classical album showing in his eyes. "Can I help you " the salesman asked as salesmen always do. "Yes, do you have a record called . uh, I think it's called 'Shake, Rattle, and Roll?"' The salesman promptly filled the request, and the distinguish ed old gentleman strolled from the shop. 'fver Uifen To The Radio, Comrade?' Reaction Piece Mundy T Tha Defense Of B. A. School David Mundy Honors For Creative Writers By Sue Quinn By next September, if all goes well, Carolina students who are pretty good at creative writing may have a chance to get more hours credit for the writing they do during the school year, have their work criticized by a board of professors, and graduate with honors in the field. This is all part of a program being formulated by a "Creative Writing Steering Committee," which was appointed last fall by Chancellor Robert B. House. The committee, composed of faculty representatives from the Eng lish, Dramatic Arts and Radio, Television and Motion Pictures departments, has been meeting since December, and expects 'to complete its work by the end of the month. The plan will then have to be approved by the three depart ments, the Division of the Hu manities and the Board of the College of Arts and Sciences be fore it can go into effect. Dr, Clifford P. Lyons of the English department, chairman of the committee, seems to think its chances are good. The idea be hind the program is to give help and encouragement to unde--graduate students who are in terested in creative writing, nd who can show some proof of abil ity along this line. Seniors and possibly juniors Quote, Unquote State's Wrong & Washington Every time we hear somebody say: y "There's too much Federal gov ernment . . . We favor state's right . . . Why don't we get Washing ton out of our affairs and end big government .." . . . We want to ask a question. The question is: "Will you help foot the bill ray more local taxes in order to cut federal taxes?" Let's face it. The Federal government all too often takes over "states rights" because of "state's wrong," as Adlai Stevenson said. What he meant is that where a job needs to be done and if the people of the state refuse to do it .sooner or later the government moves into the picture and puts its fing er in the dyke. That's something to remember. Mexico (Missouri; Evening Ledger. who are judged eligible by the board administering the program would then enter an honors . course, in which they would take creative writing courses under at least two different professors. These classes, and the special honors course which would be taken in the student's senior year, could be counted as allied cours es, but would not take the place of required major subjects. 'Quarterly' Comment Instead of taking the1 written and oral exam-nations required for honors in other fields, par ticipants in this program would meet regularly with the board to discuss their work, and would submit a writing project.. If members of the Carolira Quarterly staff are at all typical of the creative writers on campus, the plan should be successful a mong students. As Jim Dunn, ed itor of the magazine, puts it find of the biggest problems is find ing time to do any writing while you're in school. This way, stu dents could v get credit for the' time they put" in. As usual, there are some ques tions that immediately come to mind. For instance, would stu dents in the pre gram be likely to register for too many writing courses (there are six, at the present time), and exclude other courses which they ought to have to give them a broad background? Dr. Lyons believes this can be avoided by limiting the number of such courses the student cn get credit for in any one semes ter. Do Sales Count? Another problem involves tne standards by which work should be judged. Should a student have to sell his stuff before he can receive honors? There seems to be two schools of thought. One is that the public's taste is no valid criterion, and some of the greatest writers weren't even read until after they died. The other theory is that, no matter how well you write, your material isn't going to do anyone YOU Said It Editor: In regard to the announcement of Paul T. Chase's forthcoming blast, I beg leave to 'quote you the last four lines of T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men". This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. R.B. lowers 6 v-T 1 nnrtrtffflri' i - ,,.B DR. CLIFFORD P. LYONS . . . chairman of Creating Writ' ing Steering Committee any good until it's bought and printed, and posthumous fame ' isn't common enough to count on. ' There are good arguments for both points of view. Maybe any student participating in the pro gram could write with the un derstanding that he must try to sell work, but the committee could still have the final say-so in conferring the honors, even if all the aspiring writer got for his masterpiece was a pile of rejection slips. Certainly whether or not a student can sell his ma terial shouldn't have anything to do with his getting hours credit for the courses. More Creation Finally the question of whether or not such a program is really needed arises. Some students feel that a person can get as many writing courses as he wants any-' way, that the criticism of a hoard wouldn't be any more help ful than the comments of the class and one or two professor that are available in a course such as English 54; that the per son who earns honors doesii't really have much anyway, except something new to brag about. But faculty conferences in the three departments concerned (where the whole idea was born) have suggested that a faculty committee can give the students more thorough and more con structive criticism than can a classroom full of students. So, barring snags along the route, there will soon be a stim ulus to students to do more thn their normal quota of creative writing. It should bring results in the form of better student writing and more of it. I am gradually developing 'ah allergy to criticism of the School of Businieps Administration. It isn't that I have any high re gard for the school or any great interest in it: Its mere physical proximity to the chemistry "de partment" even gives 'me a pain when I think of it. The "anti liberal education" charge is non sensical and rapidly becoming even more trite. Those of the -faculty who most frequently levy the charge are, interestingly enough, in the "humanities" and social sciences, or more specifically, in the his tory and English departments. (Most of the students who take courses in those departments are there for a very simple rea son: they are required to take English and history courses. On ly two economics and B.A. courses, Ec. 31, 32, are required of any considerable number of under graduates.) Were the B.A school to trim its staff a bit, and surrender one of its buildings to an above department, they could fairly effectively bring a halt to such criticisms. The students from whom the criticisms come present an even more interesting casie. Almost to a soul they are majors in one of the humanities, English and history. Desirous of being some sort of educational arbiters, they vow that the B.A. majors are being harmed by being al lowed so few free electives. ((They do have to satisfy all the G.C. requirements.) These poor little B.A. majors, they say, should have a well rounded education. They should take a large number of courses in the humanities, in the English and history departments. But how many B.A. courses do the liberal arts majors t3ke? Very few if any. You will find even fewer of these B.A-critic majors taking courses in the sciences, once they fulfill their requirements for laboratory courses. They grimace at the thought, say, of a calcu lus course. Their intellectual capabilities ended with college algebra. Their interests lie in literature or history, just as the B.A majors' interests lie in the field of business Administra tion. According to the theory, every graduate should, have a well rounded education. The usual critics protest that the B.A. majors are getting no such ed ucation; but their criterion of such an education is taking courses in their . own depart ments, English and history. Such a criterion is not only invalid; when pressed it is dishonest. As "Farmer Bob" Marlon puts it, "I'm real ma-ad." It is of course desirous that that everyone receive a fairly well-rounded education. There should be a large number of humanities, yes, and perhaps even some B.A. courses, in ev ery one's schedule. And these semi-pro liberal arts critics of the B.A. school should be given some courses to "round out" their liberal edu cation, a full dosage of math, chemistry, and physics. Profes sional crip-hunters that they are, they wouldn't be around next fall. Most of them would n't even last a semester. The same goes to those critics of what they term the "creeping anti-intellectual trend." Never before in history have the mem bers of the academic world, the intellectuals, been better treated by the society that supports them. Not since the days of Greece have they been allowed to play such a role in politics and gov ernment. Yet from a multitude of sources there comes a continuous stream of dire worrries about the anti intellectual trend. If you bother to identify the sources, you will find that they are the proponents of the all-powerful state. Under the label of "liberalism" they propose more government in business, and in private will even advocate nationalization of such industries as .. public utilities. The anti-intellectuals, of course, are those who oppose the self labeled liberals on any issue. Eye Of The Horse Roger Will Coo The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying So,:,e things minimizing others. -Wpporotis circa r,)0 V. C. THE HORSE seemed to have something wioiu' with one of his legs, when 1 saw him outside Thy Piaymakefs' Scene Shoppe, otherwise (.aldwell-. "It's WUMP, not me." The Horse replied with insouciant disregard of good English. "Wump h ailing." I deplored his lack of good English, I .said. "I have ever deplored it, also," The Horse shni-!-ged, "but whatcha gonna do when Ihey ami .. good English?" Whyi this was terrible. What sort of view v.:i, this. Not that I had meant the English people... "Well, I do mean them." The Horse said. hi; port foretege continuing to twitch spasmodically. "And it is an Erse view of the English. Wasn't it Toor Fitz-RIchard who said, 'Shure an' the aula good Englishman is a dead Englishman'? Or was that AfcRichard No...'t was ORichard, Oi mo. ml me histhory, th' same which I l'arned at the ki.. e o me great-great-grandmither." Well, The Horse hadn't learned much. "Aye, it is thrue," The Horse continued in his best Seventeenth of Ireland broguing. "But bad cess to yez if ye blame great-great-grahdmither McChree, she who had but wan knee bein' she lost the other foightin' th' Black an' Tans. Slantha ivullegc!" The English might hear what his views were! "Bedad, an' inny Redcoat is welcome to me Erse view on request," The Horst stated firmly. "I'll meet wid dem, come one, come all, innyplace, mark an exciption: Boyne's Waters. Poor O'Richard said, Kape your mouth wet an" your feet dry.' SJauth,i vmllagel" Well, I thought The Horse had something. I knew his mouth would never be damped around water, at all, and doubtless he had scores of forebears yet bleaching their bones under Boyne's Waters! "Leave us change the subject," The Horse lost interest and brogue with an alacrity which would have amazed Shakespearian professors. "Mr. Wump may have a mild fever. He has been working too hard." Well, where was Wump, The Horse's specialist on the low-level view of things? And what hail Wump to do with The Horse's twitching left fore leg? "He's under it," The Horse stated, lifting the twitching hoof to reveal his Amphibian colleague all but squashed flat. "See? Looks bad, huh?" And why not, with The Horse standing on him! "I'm taking his pulse," The Horse stated loft ily. "Mr. Wump, being a cold-blooded creature, very sensibly restricts his heart-beats to a minimal amount calculated to sustain life, otherwise he would freeze to death. Catch? The faster his heart beats, the more cold blood he pumps through his body, and the colder he gets. Right now, his pulse rate is six!" What was normal, for Wump. "I don't know, because he is not a normal Frog," The Horse shrugged. "Not at all normal." Well then, why take his pulse at all? Besides, was standing on him s.o.p. in Frog Therapy? "It is one of the unnecessary services I ren der, being a modern Horse and wishing to keep abreast of Cultoor and Civilization," The Horse said. "And if standing on a Frog is not standard operational procedure, it should be: just where or how would you take a Frog's pulse? He has no wrist." How about a leg, then, "And bruise it, and lessen his market -value as Frog's Legs!" The Horse snapped. "Little won der you are small potatoes in the money-marts, Roger me bhoy: you just haven't acquired the civilized and cultoored knack of using our friends to the utmost." Ohhh! Well, how did The Horse plan to use Mr. Neckley, the Giraffe, when he no Ion ger was use ful, fhen he no longer could wag his tale of IIU:h Level Views? "I am somewhat of a fringe-case in the Neck ing world," The Horse understated magnificently, "but as some philosopher said shure an' was it Poor AcRichard now? 'You're necer to old hi yearn.' Had I been blessed with eve n a modicum of self-interest, I would have done away with . Wump and Neckley long ago, when 1 wa , m my youth. Man, oh, man!" How was this? "Well, can you imagine, if I had possessed my self of my camelopard friend's necking poSNlhlli -ties, and Wump's springy legs to get me around and about? I'd make Rubirosa look like FauntU n,v at an Epworth League ice-crearn saturnalia" Yes; but "Aw, you and your Yes-buts!" The Horse ! -ed. "Can't a guy dream? Must you alwas.s U- . sobmatic?" Sobmatic? Didn't he mean, dogmatic? "Being s.o.b.-matic, since you have i things spelled out for you," The Horse cin:; p ! (I hate him when he chitters-), "is being d.-jintatu-in Spades. Really can you imagine me with Netk ley's neck and Wump's legs? Can you?" imoi witnout recourse to Old Stepfather, (-r something equally deadly, I couldn't! Further, ja ! how Don Juanish would he be, with Wump's c.:J blood and with Neck ley's rubber lips? Ul!i! "True, true." The Horse mused, his ei-ht-iu', of eyes clicking thoughtfully. "What would i - Pie say of me as I passed? I mean, what wuuiJ they say that would make me think thev Mis speaking of me, of the reul me?" u VuU ' they'd Perhaps perhaps comment .mi that horse's tail that was going by? And what Horsie doing outside Caldwell-X? "Oh, I'm showing the lads and lasses t set up the scenery for Show Boat, our forthconui Musical to be held in March in Memorial H.,11 honor of St. Patrick Himself," The Horse ,L iT,TVre the first eeiate group t, ! ' allowed to stage the famous Broadway and Holly wood smash-hit. and tr make certain it is sen-..-tionai r have been requested to supervise the im portant part of scene-building I " tJUmP!';uSaid Mr' Wurp,as The Horse tered into the Scene Shop. The Amphibian's low-level view of thin.s ws unimpaired, for all of The Horse. . ' -