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VOL. LVII NO. 145
Complete VP) Wire Service
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1955
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EDITOR RAGSDALE
. . . humorist laureate
New Editor Bill Ragsdale
Slates Tarnation Meeting
Bill Ragsdale, newly-appointed
editor of Tarnation, campus hu
mor magazine, has scheduled a
staff meeting tomorrow.
The meeting will be held at 2
p.m. in the magazine's basemtnt
office.
( Ragsdale said any interested
students will be welcome.
Environment' .
Cancer Link
Studied Here
Future studies on the relation
of lung cancer to smoking will
probably confirm further the ex
cessive risk among cigarette smok
ers, as compared to cigar and
pipe users, but may also place
more blame on environmental
agents from urbanization and cer
tain occupations.
This prediction on lung cancer
jstudj' was given by William Haens
zel of the National Cancer Insti
tute, speaking here last weekend
before a meeting of statisticians
from the eastern United States and
Canada.
Haenszel and other authorities
spoke at a special cancer-smoking
symposium, co-sponsored by
the UNC School of Public Health,
which served as a joint session of
the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics and the Biometric So
ciety. 'CHAPEL HILL
(Editor's note: Following is
second installment of a speech
by Dr. C Hugh Holman, chair
man of the College of Arts and
Sciences. The speech was de-.
fivered last week to the second
annual All-Campus Conference,
a meeting designed to promote
student-faculty relations and to
study problem areas within the
University. The first section of
Dr. Holman's speech, titled "A
"Community of Purpose' Is Es
sential," appeared in Sunday's
issue. The third and final in
stallment, titled "What the Stu
dent Expects of His University,"
will appear tomorrow.)
By DR. C. HUGH HOLMAN
" . I am not here attempting
to assert that what the University
of its students and what
its students demand of the Uni
versity are the same, or even that
there are no conflicts among their
differing demands.
Again I am reminded of one
of President Dickey's apt remarks,
"The focus of that total experi
ence which we call 'going to col
lege' is the day-to-day relation
ship between the undergraduate
as a person and the college as an
institutional embodiment of other
people's purposes." That sentence
rather wittily puts the problem:
How is the faculty to induce the
individual student into an ac
quaintance with the meaning of
learning when its outlines are but
"dimly seen by him? For, con
versely, if every student brought
to the task of being educated a
mature concept of what educa
tion is then there would be no
need to educate him. (That, in
cidentally, is why the faculty al
most never consults the students
What
Nine Students Go On Trial
For Participating In 'Raid'
Nine UNC students will go on
trial in local Recorder's Court
today for unlawfully and wil
fully disturbing women students.
The students, all men, were
picked up by Chapel Hill police
during a panty raid April 19.
They will go on trial sometime to
day. Recorder's Court opens at
10 a.m. No definite time is set
for the students' trials.
After civil trial, the students
are expected to be tried by Uni
versity honor courts.
They are H. H. Murray, Raleigh;
Edward C. Ross, Augusta, Ga.,
George T. Eanes, Thomasville;
Amendments To SP
By-Laws Are Discussed
By ED MYERS
Proposed amendments to the
Studenf Party By-Law's were dis
cussed last night at the first SP
meeting since the spring elections.
Amid the discussion was heard
utterances of "the next election."
Two major admendments ap
proved in last night's meeting con
cerned party membership and
i qualifications for voting for cam
pus-wide office nominations. The
reason for those particular changes,
according to Don Geiger, chair
man of the party, "is to prevent
future 'packing of the party meet
ings'." If the proposed changes in SP
by-laws again meets approval of
the party next eek they will then
go into effect.
Another change concerned the
Advisory Board, making it "re
sponsible for necessary recommen
dations relating to the long-range
plans of the party, -the overall
strategy of campaigns, the receiv
ing and approving of committee re
ports, and general review of party
activities."
"This," said Geiger, "will allow
us to know exactly who is re
NEEDS A TRADITION OF STUDY'
D
OQS
on what constitutes a desirable
curriculum.)
The University expects a great
variety of things of its students,
but I have selected for special
mention this afternoon five that
seem to me essential to the carrying-out
of the common purpose
which makes a university possible.
They have peculiar relevance, it
seems to me, for I think that they
are expectations which are only
partially being met by our stu
dents now.
They are: (1) The acceptance
by the student of the status of
learner, with a reasonable amount
of that most difficult of virtues,
humility; (2) A recognition that
education concerns itself with a
body of material and is more than
a methodology; (3) A disciplined
behavior appropriate to the: dig
nity and purpose of the Univers
ity and indicative of a true re
spect for it; (4) A willingness to
respect in others and to cultivate
in ourselves a love of learning;
and, finally, a vigorous and defi
ant assertion of youth and enthu
siasm and unreasoning idealism
and hope.
ELABORATION
Let me elaborate on each of
these. .
The University has a group of
programs of study the purpose of
which is to insure that breadth
and some acquaintance with sev
eral areas of learning are gained
by every student. This aim is met
by a pattern of required courses
in the General College and by a
pattern of distribution among the
major subject, related subjects
and other disciplines in the jun
ior and senior year.
I certainly would not be willing
'Wasn't Doing Anything'
"I wasn't doing anything,"
said Grady Weils, one of the
nine students who were picked
up by the police during the
panty raid 'April" 19.
According to Wells, junior
from Charlotte, he and a friend
hadbeen out at the Patio dri
ving range on the night of the
raid until "about quarter until
12." They drove in, said Wells,
arriving on the campus about
Robert D. Lynch,. Raleigh; Donald
Strayhorn, Wilmington Joseph E.
Bartholomew, Raleigh; Grady L.
sponsible if something does not i
get done."
Geiger presided from behind
a desk, on which was placed
the quotation from Psalms,"Be
hold, how good and how pleas
ant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity."
Criticizing the University Party
leaders of the past few years
for their statements of politics be
ing a necessary evil, Geiger said,
"Wherever we have free stu
dent elections there is bound to
be politics, politicians, and poli
ticing; however, it is ridiculous
to state that they must necessarily
be evil. .They - can be clean and
constructive if that is the honest
wish JDf, those engaging in campus
politics. I feel sure that if the
time comes, when either I or any
member of the SP feels our party
to be evil that is the time when
we shall get out of politics in
student government.
Charles Wolfe, one of the older
SP members present at last night's
meeting said, "If we are going
to attempt to run student govern
ment, we should first be able to
run the Student Party."
t0 defend every item in the list
of our requirements, but I would
be willing to defend the idea
which is behind that pattern of
requirements. None of us would
want any student to accept with
out protest or question the pat
tern we impose; yeti I think we
have the right to expect of our
students that they have sufficient
ly broad a sympathy with the
ideals of a distributed liberal ed
ucation to be able to work with
some harmony within the general
pattern of our work.
In my opinion, one of "the, most
disruptive influences at work in
our student intellectual life is a
mass attack, not on specific cours
es or requirements, upon the very
idea 'of liberal education implied
in the purposes of a university.
This attack is launched both by
the D average student who re
sents the foreign language re
quirement and by the Phi Beta
Kappa French major who wants
to take all his work in that sub
ject. In the second place,' the Uni
versity may reasonably expect its
students to recognize that edu
cation concerns itself with bodies
of material as well as methodolo
gies. . We have gone a long way
toward the disregard of the fact
as having value in itself. We are
not too far from that evil day
when we can declare that two
plus two is equal to something
like four or less than five, that a
given force acting on a given mass
will produce verying accelerations,
that Shakespeare lived a long time
ago, in the 15th or 16th or 17th
century or was it the 12th?
We have been led into a most
undelectable mountain by the sir
The
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11:55 p.m.
After they parked the car,
said Wells, "I was crossing the
street from Carr Dormitory to
Old East, and I wasn't doing
anything. A policeman came up
to me from behind and asked
ri if I was a student." Wells
said the officer then asked him
for his identification card and
kept it. When he asked the.
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Wells, Charlotte; William C. La-J
tham, Bethel, and Bob BrameJ
North Wilkesboro. .
Carolina Gentlemen "cooled
out" on grass in front of Libra
ry. Caroline Coed, chasing Caro
lina Gentleman in front of Gra
ham Memorial, finally throwing
him to the ground.
Gray Speaks At 8
At GM Celebration
Gordon Gray, president of the I movie will be shown for students
Consolidated University, will speak j by Graham memorial in Gerrard
to students tonight at 8 o'clock
in the Main Lounge of Graham
Memorial.
Gray's speech is in conjunction
with Graham Memorial's week
long celebration of its 23rd birth
day. His topic will be "The Uni
versity and Its Responsibilities."
Following the talk, there will
be an informal discussion period
with President Gray and a re- j
ception. j
At 9 o'clock tonight a free 1
niversu
y
en voice of the operationalists.
We have been willing to surrender
material, tradition and meaning
to "know-how." And increasingly
the students in the University are
asking for an education that is
instrumental, not valuable in it
self. Now methodology is certain
ly not to be overlooked in edu
cation. PROVINCIAL
You may rightly ask to be
be taught how to think, how to
study, how to read, how to figure,
how to make plausible assump
tions. But if you see education
entirely in these terms, you be
come a provincial of the worst
type that is, a provincial of
your own historical era.
Among the richest of the heri
tages which by being shared
cements such a community a"s this
this are the past experiences
of man with his physical world,
his mental world, his world of
art and the imagination. That
heritage exists, not as something
to be comprehended nebulously
or admired indefinitely, but as an
exact, factual, often difficult
body of information, the preserva
tion, transmission and enrichment
of which is primary to our edu
cational purpose. The University
has the right nay, the duty
to ask that you its students rec
ognize that yotrare here to learn
a fairly specific grouD of facts
and ideas, in order that you may
build upon them rather than have
to re-discover fragments of them
for yourselves by methods taught
in factual vacuums.
I suppose that I'm asserting
again the unpalatable truth that
not all learning is necessarily
joyful and that hard work is a
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Six principals in Sound & Fury's newest production, "Satan's
Saint," are shown above in full dress. The show, produced, acted and
directed by students, will be given Thursday and Friday in Memorial
Hall. Tickets, selling for 50 cents, may be purchased in Town &
campus, Kemp's, Graham Memorial and Y-Court. Show starts at
Hall. The film will be "Harvey,"
starring James Stewart and Peggy
Dow.
Jim Mclntyre, assistant director
of Graham Memorial, announced
yesterday the postponement of the
vrivi uirinaay DianKet pariy scne
duled for last night. Mclntyre
said unfavorable weather caused
the postponement.
The party, featuring dixieland
and jazz by a "red hot" Negro
(See GRAY, page 4.)
primary element in true scholar
ship. '
The University demands a wil
lingness on the part of the stu
dent to respect in others and to
cultivate in himsulf a love of
learning. Chapel Hill is rich with
many traditions: the tradition of
self-government, of student re
sponsibility, of freedom of ex
pression, of democratic equality
and many others. These traditions
are good. I should certainly not
want to change or remove them.
Yet I have been painfully im
pressed for 10 years now with the
fact that if a love of learning is
a tradition here nobody wants to
admit it. Everybody orients the
student to these other traditions.
Papers are written Dn them, and
speeches are made about them.
When is a feeble voice raised to
assert that, along with these good
things, the best thing, the thing
that makes them possible, should
also be admired? Very seldom in
deed, I fear.
THE TORCH
Certainly not every student who
comes to this university is a ser
ious scholar or bears aloft the
torch of learning. Students come
here for many and varied reasons
very few, indeed, determined to
"follow knowledge like a sinking
star." Yet I think the University
has the right to expect that its
students respect a love of learn
ing in others and attempt to cul
tivate it in themselves. The, at
titudes most frequently found here
is as anti-intellectual as an Af
rican jungle or Hemingway's bull
ring. A community of scholars de
serves to have a different atmos
phere. The University demands, too, a
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Sports Editor
Davis (Buzz) Merritt, Hickory,
was appointed Daily Tar Heel
sports editor yesterday. Editors
Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar an
nounced. Merritt, who plans to major
in journalism, replaces Bernie
Weiss, who resigned the post due
to academic difficulties. Merritt
was sports editor of The Hickory
Daily Record for two years.
j Business Fraternity
Visits Western N. C.
Forty-five members of Alpha
Lambda chapter of Delta Sigma Pi,
professional business fraternity,
made a tour of industry in West
ern North Carolina during the past
1 weekend.
disciplined behavior appropriate
to the dignity and purpose of the
University and indicative of a
true respect for it. I have not in
frequently been shocked by the
rudeness of our students. Between
the stiff formality of a senseless
protocol and the offensive laxness
of disrespect, it is sometimes very
hard for the young and inexperi
enced, to' walk with consistent
aplomb, but I doubt that any fac
ulty member has ever objected
very much .to the unconscious
violations of his ideal code that
perpetually occur on a University
campus.
Lam not asking for a special
sacredness for the faculty member
as a person. In fact, I am easily
offended by the sense of "faculty
dignity" which a few of my col
leagues occasionally display. I am
talking about such things as work
ing crossword puzzles in class, eat
ing breakfast during a 9 o'clock
lecture, arriving 10 minutes late
to a class, talking during class
room activities that require atten
tion, assuming the posture of a
dying fawn, greeting the normal
procedure of instruction with an
indifference bordering on con
tempt. All of these are activities
engaged in by young men and wo
men of fine family background,
excellent social training and un
impeachable "manners," who will
greet you on the campus or in
the corridor with grace and dig
nity but somehow feel that the
classroom gives them infinite li
cense. I do not think that this rudeness
is very often the outgrowth of
disrespect for teachers as people,
although it sometimes is; but it is
rather "a manifestation of a lack
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3:30 each night. Shown in "Won't You Do the Charleston With Me?"
are (left to right) Miss Elizabeth Huckabee, Milton Cooke, Miss Susan
Fryer, John DeVogt, Miss Johnnie McClaron and Jim Sims.
Markham photo.
Class-Free Day Today
For Graduating Class
Senior Week shifts into full
speed today with seniors enjoy
ing a class free day, according to
Rueben Leonard, publicity chair
man. No excuses will be needed
he added.
All seniors will attend a mass
meeting at 10 a.ni. in Memorial
Hall, said Leonard, adding that'
at 10:30 the group will split into i
smaller groups and meet with ;
deans of various schools. j
The alumni committee, chaired j
by Bill Calvert, will have a table !
in Y-Court beginning today for I
the remainder of this week to
of respect for the purposes of the
University. ' ,
As you can see, we do grow old
and gray, stiff of joint and un
bending in thought, intolerant and
stiff-necked. And because we do,
the last of the demands which I
have listed is that you, our stu
dents, keep us exercised if not
supple. You bring to this campus
every fail new stores of youth, of
enthusiasm, of idealism, of hope,
even of radicalism and intemper
ate dissent. And the University
needs these things very much, for
without them it grows cynical and
pessimistic.
There was a time when a uni
versity did not need to ask. for
these qualities in its students;
students; they were present in ex
cessive degree. But ours is now a
different world. It is not only the
middle aged and the old who have
grown conservative, but youth has
also grown cautious and calculat
ing. I think the University has the
right to ask you not to be so.
You must be the gad-flies, the
goads, the needles that prod us
out of complacency, and the evan
gels of impossible hope that keep
bright before us the eternal pro
mise of youth. If I seem now to
be arguing agains what I have
said before, it is but another of
those paradoxes by which attempts
to tell the truth tantalizingly veil
themselves. '
What I am really saying is that
I believe that the University
should demand of its students that
they turn a greater portion of
their best thought and .efforts , into
channels of learning, that Chapel
Hill needs a tradition of study
added to the galaxy of its other
noble objectives.
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sell memberships in the Alumni
Asso. Annual memberships cost
$1. Calvert urged everyone to be
come a member of the association
in order to keep up with the hap
penings at Carolina after grad
uation, said Leonard.
PICNIC
Tomorrow a parade will form
in front of Woolkn Gyn at 3
o'clock and travel to Hogan's Lake
for the Senior Class Picnic. Free
food, soft drinks and prizes will
be in order. Music will be furnish
ed by a combo.
SCHEDULE FOR MEETING
WITH DEANS
Arts & Sciences Gerrard Hall
Journalism 305 Bynum
Nursing Nursing School
Business Administration Car
roll Hall Auditorium
Pharmacy 309 Howell Hall
Prizes to be given away are
two steak and tw0 chicken dinners
at the Goody Shop, a shirt or
blouse from. Town & Campus, a
shirt or blouse from Milton's and
a gift certificate from Carolina
Sport Shop. There will be six more
prizes offered, but as yet they
are unannounced, according to
Leonard.
. Thursday's entertainment will
be in the form of "Satan's Saints,"
producted by Sound and Fury.
Seniors may pick up their free
tickets in Y- Court either tomor
row 0r Thursday. "Satan's Saints"
is going to be given on both Thurs
day and Friday nights, but sen
iors will only be admitted free of
charge to the Thursday night per
formance, said Leonard.
"On Friday 'Barefoot Day' will
be observed will all the nature
loving seniors living up to their
northern cousins' belief that south
erners don't wear shoes," said
Leonard.
Senior Week will end Saturday
night with an outdoor dance spon
sored by Graham Memorial in hon
or of the graduating class.
Senior class officers are Char
lie Yarborough, president; George
McKinney, vice-president; Miss
Donna Blair, treasurer; Miss Carol
Butts, secretary, and Miss Barbara
Stone, social chairnan.
Committee chairmen are Herb
Browne, gift; Rueben Leonard,
publicity; Bill Calvert, alumni;
Marty Jordan and Miss Barbara
Stone, social, and Rollie Tillman,
finance.