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FRIDAY APRIL 15, 1955 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO The Tuition Raises: With Sectionalism? The Daily Tar Heel opposes any discrim inatory' tuition raise and thus opposes the bill before the state leislatHre to raise tui tion for out-of-state students. We reconie the factors prompting the legislature to look for new revenue and to look for it toward the ooo-odd out-of-state students enrolled in state universities- and colleges. The legislature s duty conijels it to provide first of all for the education of North Carolinians, and only secondly for instruc tion of those who come from outside state borders. The Constitution makes provisions on the pointexpress provisions which are onlv equitable. In oposing the fee raise, we do not question those provisions. We do question whether a discriminatory tuition raise would over the long haul be beneficial to our state system of higher education. The Joint Appropriations Subcommittee, according to its report, expects to garner S 1 ,'-,(. "7) in tuition money by the move. That may be for next year or the year after. Put we foresee a point of diminishing re turns at which the tuition hikes may become so prohibitive as to keep good students away for ec onomic reasons. The need for an equir table number of out-of-state students should be cler" to all: and if that number gives pro mise of' diminishing because of a tuition raise, the Legislature Avon Id be wise to seek another exit from the problem. A letter Avritten by Fred Springer-Miller, a Vermont native Avho graduated here, got Avidc play in the state papers a few weeks ago. Air. Springer-Miller believes he may liae fleeced the state of North Carolina by coming here to get a top-grade education at low cost, then going elseAvhere to live. Per. haps. But our guess is that many haA'e come, been seduced by the North Carolina virtues, and have taken a helpful place in the state's citizenry. For every Springer-Miller Ave sure ly must have had a complete convert; and North Carolina has at least held its OAn in the tussle. Vice President Carmichael did well ear lier when he reminded legislators of the State College graduate students many of them out-of-statets Aho devised a cure for lilack. Shank and saved the state an untold, amount of tobacco income. Overshadowing the Avhole question is the imminent threat" ' of sectionalism: That North Carolina's three great public schools will draw themselves away and turn their hacks on broader responsibilities. A great University must haye scale: It must not draw unfair line as state or national boundaries; it must draw inrtfinteraction the attitudes, temperament, ideas, and backgrounds of all states and all sections. Both Senator Hum. phrey and Justice Douglas, in recent spee ches, commended the University for ajon tribution that readies above and beyond its benefit to North Carolina. Would a' tuition raise for one segment of the student popu lation choke, that contribution? , Under the present dispensation the out-ol-state student pays considerably more than the North Carolinian for an education here. Let that continue, we say, in all fairness to the tax-payers who enable the University's existence. lint if new; revenue is needed and it is we do not believe the students or the people of the state want it to be discrim inatory. They too. we think." would be wil litig given all aspects of the question to share a proportional increase for all. Carolina Front Wbt 5atlf t&ar )eel The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, Avhere it is published i Site f ihr iWvrt! Vktih fir! daily except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Enter ed as second class matter at the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Aet of March 8, 1879. Sub scription rates: mail ed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editors ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Business Manager TOM SHORES Sports Editor B ERNIE WEISS News Editor Jackie Goodman Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Subscription Manager Assistant Business Man?ger Assistant Sports Editor Photographer Society Editor Dick Sirkin Jim Kiley Jack Godley Bill Bob Peel Ray Linker Boyden Henley Susan Andes NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Ed Myers, Lois Owen, Ebba Freund, Joe Terrell SPORTS STAFF .. Marshall Waldman, Al Korschun, Dave Lieberman, Bob Colbert BUSLNESS STAFF . Joan Metz, Carolyn Nelson, Jack Weisel, Bill Thompson From Coast To Coast: Cows, )Cars Coraddi '111 Just Leave It ftere If You Want To Use It' J. A. C. Dunn IN THE COURSE of working way through a mountainous pile of accumulated exchange news-" papers, we find that just about all colleges all over the country are having their troubles, dis covering wrinkles in their daily life, or being met with bullets that must be bitten. It is interesting to look at the country as a whole through these exchanges and observe that while there seem to be many people in North Carolina, and in Chapel Hill particularly, who think that beyond the state borders there is nothing but trackless waste and Darkest South Carolina, most American Universities are sur prisingingly similar. , FOR EXAMPLE, THE Univers ity of Louisville in Kentucky is, like UNC, having parking prob- lems. We noted that a gentle named (slowly now) Krzyzaniak, a chemistry instructor at South Dakota State, suggested in a let ter to the Cardinal, Louisville U's weekly newspaper, that the park ing problem be solved by one of four methods: (1) tires the same color as the policeman's chalk. (2) Coat tires freely with HC1, which will react with chalk, pro ducing carbon dioxide and water. (3) Purchase tireless cars. (4) Obey current parking regu lations until someone comes up with a new mode of transporta tion. The first three solutions have possible merit, though we don't quite understand no. 2, not being of a scientific bent; but no. 4 is simply Victorian. Wro ever heard of actually parking no more than ten minutes and for business only at that? THE UNIVERSITY OF Auburn is straying away from the beat en path somewhat. They complain of a white cow who peered beign ly out of the chapel belfry one morning and bellowed, thereby waking several students. No one seems to know anything about the cow, but suspicion has come to rest on, of all people, two young professors. THE DAILY TEXAN, a news paper put out by one of those countless Universities of Texas, is evidently having black days. On page six of their March 30 is sue, there is a five and a half by six inch space with a caption underneath saying: "PUTTING THEORIES into practice are a group of architecture students in front of the Biological Green house. They are making line di mensions to allow for better pro protions. The class is Architect ure 2171, a two-hour lab in free hand drawing." This is very odd, because the space above is blank, staring white. Those Tex'ans cer tainly do draw a mean freehand line dimension. AT THE UNIVERSITY of Chi cago a student explained, when arrested by the FBI for draft dodging, that his "philosophical, psychological, sociological, intel lectual and spiritual reasoning" prevented him from complying with an induction order. Now there's education for you. We wonder just what the man's various systems of reasoning are. Perhaps they would work for us. THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN has divided coeds into 10 types (and illustrated too): The wo man's woman, the female book worm, the girl athlete, the female weekender, the nurse, the BWOC, the follower, the "arty" or Bo hemian' type (with a patch over her eye), the music major, and the snotty little undernourished Main Line deb. And a grisly col lection they are too. Thank God nobody goes to school here ex cept boys and ghouls. Niht editor fur this issue -Eddie Crutchfield again. LAST BUT NOT least is Dear Old WC. Over in Greensboro Coraddi has gone back into busi ness with a brand new staff. Wre look forward to their next issue Maybe the fig leaves will fly &if & READER'S RETORT: Library Noisy In Hawaii, Too, Reports UNC Professor Brooks Editors: Written from Honolulu, Hawaii, using home university letterhead as identification, though I'm here as a visiting professor of sociolo gy, spring semester and summer session. Seeming to remember that our own UNC library is not always a haven of peace and quiet, I thought you would be interested in the marked piece of the en closed. Further identification, since UNC has become so big one fre quently hears the remark: "Never heard of him!" even when the "him" had been on the faculty for decades see catalog or ask Jimmy Wallace. Leon M. Brooks ( Dr. Brooks, according to our catalog, is a research professor in the Institute for Research Social Science as well as being a pro fessor of .sociology. His clipping, from the "La Leo O Hawaii." fol. lows. Ed itors. ) The President of the Society for the Preservation of Silence in the Library, in his letter to Ka Leo, has hit the library in a -ulnerable spot. His charge that the library "is the noisiest place on the campus" is in the main true, if we except the ping-pong room of Hemenway Hall and the new library building on the days the jamchammers are working. In fact, our library probably has the distinction of being the noisiest university library in the United States. Now what to do about it? The President of the S.P.S.L. suggests forcible ejection of the offenders as a good way of main taining quietness in the Library. But this would require the li brarians to serve as police force an expedient we want to avoid if possible. The librarians went to college for five years to learn how to help people find and use the complex and marvelous re sources of libraries. If they spent Fowler Says If Listening Is A Stink, He'll Stink Editors: I am writing you in reference to your editorial intitled "The New Stink, Brogan Number 13." Unlike you, Mr. Editors, I intend to be a representative of all the students and not just myself. If it is a "stink" to listen to the student body who elected me and whom I represent, then I guess I'll be a "stink." Anytime anyone would like to chat with me though he wear brogans or cordovan wingtips, I'll be glad to listen to Avhat he has t say. I shall try to be a representative of all the students. Don Fowler A Tribute To Bob Madry Robert Madry was mayor of Chapel Hill during those years, 1942 to 1949, when it was realized that this could no longer be call ed a village but a burgeoning town about to become the center of a spreading communing with many interests. He did his part in helping to guide this growth. As head of the University News Bureau he would have no truck with an suppression or withholding of legitimate news, but gave out the facts whether they were favorable or unfavor able to the institution. This poli cy earned him the confidence of editors and reporters, so that when communications bearing the Madry stamp were received, they were published Avithout question. One consequence was a grow ing interest in Chapel Hill and a livelier appreciation of what the UniA'ersity is contributing to the life of the State. In fact, it can be said that the esteem in which this University community is held throughout the nation is in large part due to the work of Bob Madry as publicist and represen tative citizen. And finally, Bob was a con tributor to that unique substance which has made the community Avhat it is. We who survive him owe it to him to preserA'e it. Chapel Hill News Leader. their time hushing students, their professional competence would be wasted; and many students would soon begin to regard them as dragons and cease to go to them for help and education. The best possible cure for noise in the library is not an admon ishing librarian but the desire of the students themselves, out of consideration for each other, that the library become a place for s.tudy rather than conversation. For the most part, our students are naturally considerate of oth ers. And perhaps all they need is a placard in the reading rooms, saying simply Quiet Please, to re mind them that they are in a li brary and that other people may want to study. We will try that. Carl Stoven Librarian Is General Education Curbed Outside BA? Editors: Words have been tossed back and forth and several sides of the question haA'e been given on the merits of the BA School but there is one aspect of the problems of the student of this University with regard to the BA School which has not been brought to light. There are those of us that have found that some of the other parts of the University do not seem to feel it advisable to allow the stu dents of their respective schools take more than one or two of the most elementary courses in the BA School for credit as electives. Is our world becoming so spe cialized that only the accountant or the industrial relations direc tor or other Business Administra tion specialists will need any knowledge of what the Avhys and wherefores of how our business world is being run? Isn't it ad visable for a school teacher, or a scientist, or a historian or anyone else who doesn't happen to spe cialize in business to know how "big buiness" is run or want all the fine print on the instructions for filing income tax is all about? It seems that general education is being curbed for those outside the BA School also when we aren't allowed to step over the boundaries of one school within this University into- another school in order to broaden our knowledge. i Peggy Ward The Lines Of Other Pages The Thinking Reed "Man is a reed,',' said Pascal, "but he is a thinking reed." That, however, was in the good old days. We are too smart to think now. Our labor-saving de vices leave us no time for it any way. Instead of reading the great books we take a ride, go to a clitb meeting, or bask in the backwash of a soap opera. Does this satisfy us? Ask tne psychiatrists. Or ask Douglas Bush, Harvard professor of Eng lish. He gives his answer in the Key Reporter magazine; the more intelligent and sensitive young people, seek something better: i "They not only live in our unlovely wdrld, they have no personal experience of any other. They are aware of hollowness and confusion all-around them, and, what is still more real, of hol lowness and confusion in them selves. They feel adrift in a cock boat in an uncharted sea, and they want a sense of direction, of order and integration. And in literature they find, as countless people have found before them, that their problems are not new, that earlier generations have been lost also. Most of the young people I see find in literature, literature of the remote past as well as of the present, what they cannot find in textbooks of psy chology and sociology, the vision of human experience achieved by a great spirit and bodied forth by a great artist." And so, imperiled and unsat isfied, we turn to man's ancient source of wisdom - and strength, the great books, the humanities. What are they and what are they good for? Let Neal W. Klausner, professor of philosophy at Grin nell College, answer: "The humanities are not medi cine for a sick race, nor amuse ment for a bored people, no ve hicles to prestige for the intel lectually ambitious, not exercis es designed to mold a character out of the morally shapeless. The humanities are the mirrors of genius in which we may see our selves." The growing popularity of the "great issues" courses in college and the great books courses over the country is evidence that we will not be satisfied with being reed shaken in the wind. Greensboro Daily News. I Proving Anything The office visitor was amazed. "How could you publish that article, defending intellectuals?" he asked. "Don't you know intel lectuals are dangerous?" "Dangerous?" we murmured. "Dangerous," he insisted. "Was n't Alger Hiss an intellectual?" This is the sort of monstrous logic that never ceases to startle us a little when it is applied. It can usually be reduced to sim ple but fallacious syllogisms like this: 1 Intellectuals are in favor of free public schools. 2 The Communist Manifesto demands free public schools. 3 Therefore, intellectuals are Communists. Stuart Chase describes this ver. bal trickery eA'er so neatly in Power of Words. Every person, he pointed out, has almost unli mited characteristics. He may be white or Negro, tall, short, Ca tholic, Baptist, Buddhist, banker, butcher, Socialist, individualist and so on. Every organization may also possess a large number of characteristics. The trick is to locate one characteristic which both parties share and then leap to the conclusion that other cha racteristics, perhaps all, are in terchangeable. x With this system working on all cylinders, you come up with all sorts of interesting conclu sions all as phony as a $3 bill. For instance: 1 The Pope favors child la bor laws. 2 The Politburo favors child labor laws. , 3 Therefore, the Pope is a Communist or, therefore, Stalin was a Catholic. Mr. Chase also suggests this one: 1 My Grocer has cheated me. 2 My grocer is a Yankee. 3 Therefore, all Yankees are cheats. Thus, with this technique, you can "prove" practically anything. It is, of course, the old game of guilt by association physical and verbal. We keep remembering that old quote attributed to the late Judge Wbosley: . "Before judging a man by his associates, remember that Judas Iscariot traveled in the best of company." Charlotte News. Senator Georges Political Story Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON The most fascinating political story in Washington is the enticement of Senator WaUer F. George of Georgia by the E.senhcnu, Administration. It even has a woman s angle an. it includes a local struggle of great import for the fUSUernator ' George is the patriarchal conservative Avho last January, when his party regained contro of Congress, elected to switch from chairman of the Finance Committee to chairman of Fore,g Re ations. Both committees are powerful. But from a practical' point of view, Finance, which deals wUa raxes, will bring to a Senator a sure support and campaign contributions which no amount of states manship can attract. Two things were noted at the time. One was that Senator George was enabled to turn over the Fi nance chairmanship' to a true-blue conservative, Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, who was next in line But had Senator George yielded his senior ity on Foreign Relations, the chairman now would be a New Dealer, Senator Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island. 'MISS LUCY' . The other aspect then suggested to observers dealt with Mrs. George the "Miss Lucy" whose Southern charm and nimble wit have long enchant ed the capital.. It was believed that Miss Lucy felt the Georges were entitled, as Southerners say, to eat their white bread now in the form of an easier and more social life. Senator George who had long served on Foreign Relations smoothly assumed its direction and Avith in weeks became a pillar of strength to the Presi dent in that field. It should be said at once that this involved no change of principle on his part, since basically the Eisenhower foreign policy rests on the premises of the past 20 Democratic years. But while disputes over Europe are fewj it has become clear already that neither party, least of all the President's, is ready to start completely afresh in Asia. The Democratic liberals believe and are saying that the President is being forced by the Republican right into an ever-closer embrace of Chiang Kai-shek which is dangerous to world peace. The Republican right thinks and says he ought to do more for Chiang and the Chinese Na tionalists. Their argument pivots now on whether or not Quemoy and Matsu, islands close to the Red China mainland, ought to be defended with U. S. help. PRESTIGE Senator George put his great prestige into the fight to give the President the right to decide this question, and he prevailed. He is still insisting that the President should decide and can be trusted to do so correctly. To this extent, the Senator has usurped the lead ership powers both of Democrat Lyndon Johnson, and Republican William Knowland. Neitherv"aro happy about it, but the Wb.ite House thinks it is splendid. The President has gone out of his wzf to praise Senator George. From former State Department officials came re minders that the Republican author of bipartisan ship, the late Senator Vandenberg, always protected his party's flanks at all times. The Senator invari ably called for "total debate" and never gave a Democratic White House carte blanche at any time, it was said. Nor, itwas further deposed, did he ad vertise his social connections with the Democrats Presidents and Democrats. EDITORS At this point, Georgia editors began to ask ques tions of their Senator. They were told the Gfeorges thought that in view of the Senator's new position, they ought to do some entertaining. Senator George made headlines and got the Pres ident's thanks when he helped defeat the proposal for a $20 income-tax cut. That does not help him with the up-the-creek vote at home. It was noted by Georgians that among the ladies who came here as Miss Lucy's guests to shake Mrs Eisenhower's hand at the famous tea party last week were wives of several of the state's influential figures, chiefly Eisenhower Democrats. For ex ample, one such guest was Mrs. Robert Woodruff wife of the president of Coca Cola. STRUGGLE In a struggle for conservative support Eisenhow- erff"rkp !enator GeorSe trough his friendship with Woodruff and others with whom he golfed at Augusta Meanwhile, another Georgia politician who used to do pretty well, too, is sitting on the sidelines and saying nothing. He is former Gov ernor Elhs Arnall, a liberal an"all'S fltends believe that if Senator George and former Governor Herman Talmadge get into vear An6 Senato nomination next and with I rr entei" the Primar as th n prize Progressive support capture the Quote, Unquote Poets On Rainy Days Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day. Ch-axlotte Bronte, Life, Stanza I in he moSn L"' soak in ttWu le and warm so that 11 can little wind 1 u re may be Plenty of dew and n" mndew' and that n planMice and U and guano' mav ?ai, ? 3 k thin liid manure rear: The les Lord, this is an huge rtyn Th.s were a weder for to slepen inne Geoff i pt-n 656. UeoJfiey Chaucer, Criseyde, Book III, Line When that April! vtitv, i . The droghte of March ha,x ShUreS Ste -Chaucer The Call t PefCed to the rote" ,J"(! Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 1.
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