WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1955
THE J5AILY TAR HEEL
PAG1 TWO
A Fee Raise Plug-I
i Came next Tuesday, you will be asked to
express your opinion on the proposed lee
raise amendment. '
Lifting the limit on the amount of money
-which student government ran collect from
you for your benefit is a constitutional mat
ter. The question will rest with you m I ues
day's important referendum.
The proposed amendment to raise the lim
it on student fees is already meeting with op
position in some quarters. Opponents wdl
undoubtedly try to cut the amendment out
as a design to lighten your jnukets of untold
amounts of money. '
f irst off. then, we would like to indicate
the possibilities of the amendment: to show
you. as a matter of fa t, that the bill of un
told value in the benefits that could grow
from it would work no earthquake-like
changes in the student taxation system.
The present limit on student fees per year
is S20. The amendment on which you will be
asked to vote simply proposes to raise that
limitation to S25. The existing limitation has
gathered the dust of five years. Now. as indi
cated by the fiscal difficulties which led re
cently to a major slash in The Daily-Tar
Heel's budget (among others'), student gov
ernment needs more money.
Students who want to maintain vigor in
indent activities and services, students who
believe in the principle ol self-taxation, will
vei"h the need for added funds and vote
v, i.ely.
In succeeding editorials, we will attempt
to persuade you that the dust of five years
weighs heavily on our economic livelihood
and that the new services from a slight boost
in student fees are imperative.
The Raleigh-ic Oracle-I
The furnace is blasting, trala-tra-la. I .a.
And we will, from time to time, clip from
Nell Battle Lewis's News And Observer col
umn some of the choice scorchers. Here, for
your general amusement, comes number one:
Last Sunday I noted in this paper the
news photo of the Russian flag with ham
mer and sickle that had been raised by
what were , called "pranksters" on the
campus of the University of North Caro
lina. Members of the student ROTC
were shown lowering it from the pole
from which the American flag usually
flies. But I can't understand why they
; took the Soviet flag down. Doesn't it be
long there-" 'neath the (Red) oaks of
our old Chapel Hill?"
The Screen Darkens
After Enlightening
A striking example of what the Univers
ity's television station can do and news that
the General Assembly might further chop
WUNC-TY's already-trimmed budget come
to our attention simultaneously.
Monday night's presentation of a round
table review of Walter Lippman's, The Pub
lie Philosophy, by distinguished faculty mem
bers demonstrated just how educational our
educational station caii be.
However, word about a possible cut in the
station's appropriation worries us. If the sta
tion has to return to its original source pri
vate donations this will mean other sectors
of University education that depend on pri
vate grants will lose out. It's easy to see that
contributing to a TV station might have
more glamour to many friends of the Uni
versity than buying lxoks for the library, for
instance. But it's equally clear that the Uni
versity needs both.
; The Daily Tar Heel hopes that VT7XC
TV will not have to turn to private "rants
Jor support. If the General Assembly's scis-sor-handed
operations snip the WUNC-TV
budget, we urge a shorter broadcast"' "day
with the emphasis on low cost program! like
Mondays round table review.
Wot Bmlp Ear Qu
The official student publication of the Publi
cations Board of the University of North Carolina,
where it is published
- " . daily except Monday
O f V r and exar"ination and
Carolina Front
Of Erfucation
a b c d, PMLA
Ickey Toko-Ri
J." A. C. Dunn
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THE DOOR OF the English
Department Reading Room was
standing open as we loitered
aimlessly in the hall of Bingham
the other day, and so, hoping
to fill one of
the numerous
gaps in what,
in our lighter
moments, w e
call our edu-
I c a t i o n, w e
trickled in.
The Reading
Room is very
academic -
looking. There are shiny topped
tables, shiny-bottomed chairs,
and bookshelves filled with aJl
sorts of scholarly impedimenta.
We wandered round in an awed
sort, of way (being careful not
to disturb the papers on the
table probably someone's '
thesis in embryo); there were
shelves marked "General Ref
erence;" there were shelves
laden with countless copies of
PMLA at random, opened it at
random, picked a sentence at
random and readr "The re
nunciation of egocentric isola
tion, of narcissistic forms of
attachment, and of Bohemian
freedom must take place, first
of all, in the domain of personal
relationships." We Put the
PMLA down at random.
The other shelves had in them
17th , century literature, 19th
century literature, Anglo-Saxon
and Medieval letirature, some
rather battered Encyclopedia
(or should it be 'Brittanicae?),
all absolutely crawling with
footnotes and whatnot. As we
were leaving we east an "eye
over the papers we had been so
careful not to disturb. They were
written in pencil on theme pa
per. The title of the top one was
"My Senior Year at High
School."
nM3 1 '
: - I . I k . I 11lUlHl 1 S I !l If '-a I I. .
Passing Remark
Bermuda Ban
Ouf Of Step
With 'Zeitgeist'
Ron Levin
IT HAS been reported to this
columnist that there is a baA on
' Bermuda shorts being enforced in
one of the Women's dorms on -
t h i s campus.
When I heard
.he sad tidings,
went over to
and out for
ftiyself, wheth
er or not the
humor was,
true. It is.
What is all this
business any-
-'-it- 'ffi. -
1
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7SjiUi1 TOST
WE RECEIVED A letter
smelling of the Charles River
from a freshman at Harvard not
too long ago telling of the won
derful opportunities for applied
education offered by that vener
able institution.
Our freshman has a room in
Hanvahd Yahd facing Massa
chusetts Avenue - (if you can),
and right across the street there
is a movie theatre, Late at night,
when the usher is putting up
name of the next attraction on
the marquee, our freshman and
window and correct the man's
his crimson cronies lean out the
spelling, since it evidently needs
correction. A case in point is
the instance cited in the letter,
when the usher put up a sign
saying:
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI
starring
GRACE KELLY
WILLIAM HOLDEN
ICKEY ROONEY
Diapered Dan,
Pea-Brain Threat
Ed Yoder
(Conclusion) . ..
But what will happen to man, proud man, as we
wait and let the Deciding Dans do our thinking, sup
posing, for argument, that we all start pushing but
tons for ready-made thoughts? We wouldn't become,
as someone has predicted, the spindly little creature
with the enormous head; v5 wouldn't degenerate
from the brain down. Instead, the trend of our evolu
tion from the jungle-tree swingers would reverse'
itself. We would become the creatures with big
bodies (arms kept strong with poker playing and
pushing buttons; legs and torsos kept hefty with
pacing up and down before the miles and miles of
reflecting machines and eating copiously at our
plentiful leisure.)
But we would become the race of animals with
the only true pea-heads, of dinosaurian dimensions.
We may doubt that man woudl be able to implement
the momentous wisdom the Deciding Dans could
hand him, what with his own brain shrunk by non
use to the measurements f a slightly-worn agate
shooting toy.
'DOUBLE-THINK' '
Then there would be the additional danger of the
evil-plotters, the Mrs. Smarts and the McCarthys and
the Oateses who would exercise their brains with bad
designs just enough so they would soon outgrow;
their fellows. Then the evildoers might collaborate
with a traitorous scientist to produce an untruth
serum to bias the germanium diode tubes, to in-,
troduce Dobule-think into the electronic brains.
What then? ,
The era of the Deciding Dans could be fraught
Reader's Retort
Editors:
Have question. Please answer. Quite confused.
"Come to Carolina from less enlightened universi
ties to the North. Didn't have student self-government
one reads about here. Didn't have Honor
System one reads about here.
This" is where question comes in. Remarkable
experience last night. Attended off-campus fra
ternity dance. Nice dance. Sober dance. Rather
strange dance. No one left floor during dance.
Amazing! Not even to get breath of fresh air!
Amazing! Did see one fellow head for men's room,
looking guiltily over shoulder., Hmm. Half way
thru dance decided to walk around block and see
what Raleigh looked like. Amazing thing happened.
Large fellow with firm grip halted me four feet
short of elevator. "Sorry Mac, can't leave; the
dance unless you are not coming back"..'.'. . Fellow
wearing ribbon. Thought he might be looking for
cattle judging pavilion. Nope. Dance Committee.
Now in the unenlightened universities from
whence I came, we did not have the wonderful
Honor System, Enforced. Told we were going to
college now. Supposed to act like adults, etc Not
only didn't get to have an Honor System, but didn't
even get the guards to enforce the thing. Sad. But
here question arises.
What is honorable about an enforced honor
system?
Thonas L. Gillette
with all sorts of dangers, and I find myself heavily
on the side of international control of the electronic
brains. Perhaps, as an" anthem for our movement,
we would paraphrase an old hymn:
Gimme them old-time prefrontals,
Gimme them old-time prefrontals.
They were good enough for Einstein
And they're good enough for me!
way i
.First, we are informed that
T-shirts are , not esthetic. Well,
who said they were in the first
place? And who said our manner
of dress had to be esthetic in
the second? Nineteen fifty-five
doesn't seem to be a particu
larly aesthetic year anyway.
Quemoy, Matsus, radioactive
fallout, and other such similar
terms are not especially pleas
ing to the ear. I'
To those, latter Victorian per
sonages who are somewhat dis
gusted with the collegiate at
titude toward dress today, I add
the rather humble apology that
we are only trying to keep in
step with the Zeitgeist. Now,
there's an aesthetic word for
you,
CONGRATULATIONS t o Dr.
Nash of the Religion Department
for attacking the three cut rule
in the recent All-Campus Con
ference and calling it a "stupid
inconsistency".
Perhaps, if more professors
would speak their thoughts in
this manner, there might be re
sults within the dark towers
overshadowing Y-Court. I un
derstand all too well that the
majority of the faculty were
against the cut system, ,and I .
. also realize that every student is
of the same opinion with regard
to this rule. But it seems, the
rule" persists, and nothing is
done "
I had thought education was
the responsibility of those who
understood the problem best,
namely the teachers; but it
seems it has become the busi
ness of a small but efficient
police state residing within the
scholastic community.
My deepest regrets to those
unfortunate students who will
labor under this medieval tor
ture device in the years to come,
and a big bag of onions to those
who were behind it. If the shoe
fits ' ' .4
it
IT SEEMS that in the spring
a young man's fancy likely turns
to thoughts of things other than,
love. The University of Ne
braska experienced a panty raid
that was considerably larger in
dimensions than the usual prison
riot on cell block thirteen.
I am sorry that therer have to
be such demonstrations by - the
students in an effort to assert
themselves, but I am likewise
pained at the rather futile and
archaic attempts of a university
to govern its members.
Y -Court Corner
Rueben Leonard
THOSE CONSTRUCTING Cousins of ours over
at Raleigh really have a hard time. After Caro
lina led the way, as usual, in the quest for girls
undies several boys from "Methodist Flats" hopped
into, their cars, rode over . to the cattle country, and
helped organize a, raid, on Meredith. When this
heterogenesis mixture of bloomer boys reached
Meredith they were met by 100 flat feet in the
form of 50 policemen. Now wasn't that frustrat
ing. We will probably pick up the newspaper sonu
morning and read: State boy meets girl; State hoy
loses girl; State boy builds girl.
WHEN SEVERAL students were arrested by
the local police last week for participating in the
panty raid, many students felt that there were no
grounds for arrest. Three Stanford freshmen
probably felt the same way after one of their extra-curricular
activities.
It seems the three pixilated frosh were climb
ing up. a fire escape in the wee hours of the morn
ing. Much to the amusement of nearby sleepers
they were making noises like a turkey and shout
ing, "I'm, a turkey, you're a turkey," "Everybody's
a turkey!" Unfortunately the campus cop didn't
take kindly to being called a turkey. The three
celebrants were booked for 'Gobbling on the lire
escape at 2 a.m."
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FRED POWLEDGE
Managing Editor
Business Manager
TOM SHORES
Sports Editor
BUZZ MERRTTT
Associate Editor
News Editor
J. A. C. DUNN
Jackie Goodman
Advertising Manager
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Subscription Manager
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L. Dick Sirkin
Jiro Kiley
. Jack Godley
Bill Bob Peel
Night editor for this issue
-Eddie Crutchfield
ONLY THE DAY before yes
terday we were sitting in the
Pine Room inhaling Lenoir Hall '
Bohea by the thounsands of cc,
and we couldn't help looking
over the shoulder of the stu
dent sitting at the next table,
wh0 was writting a sonnet
He sucked his pencil, chased
it with a bite of Hoagy, leaned
back and squinted his eyes tight
shut. We read what he had writ
ten. He had three lines, the
rhyme scheme for which goes Ll'L ABNER
a b b a, a b b a, c d, c d, e e. The
boy was stuck on the second "a".
After a while he gave it up in
disgust andstarted on a Shakes
perean sonnet,, whose rhyme
scheme goes abab, eded, e
f e S S- By the third cigar
ette he had got stuck on the sec
cond "b" and tore up the paper.
He sat for a minute glaring at
the sugar jar, muttered "Oh, the
hell with it," and dashed off in
a matter of seconds a sonnet , of
his own. The rhyme scheme, we
' noticed, was abedefghij
k 1 m n.
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NEXT MONTH a friend of ours is going to mar
ry one of the nurses on the Dix Hill staff. I suppose
that he can truthfully say that he has a gir! at
Dix Hill who is just crazy about him. -
TODAY'S SENIOR Picnic promises to be a real
treat. Food will consist of approximately 1,000
feet of weiners, another 1,000 feet of rolls, and
mountain of slaw and onions, and a vat of soft
drinks. Since it is illegal to buy firewater with
student funds, all intoxicants will have to be on a
BYOL basis. A word of advice, don't get so skunk-drunk-to-the-gills
that you end up in Honor
Council in alphabetical order.
REMEMBER THOSE Senior Week schedules
you received in Sunday's. Daily Tar Heel? Bob
Eberle, a member of the class publicity commit
tee, worked from 12:36 until 5 a.m. inserting the
handbills in the paper.
At 3 o'clock Bob stopped long enough! smoke
a cigarette and throw a disgusting glance at the
press which was turning out papers much faster
than he was inserting: 'Tv certainly learned one
thing tonight," he sputtered, "never try to figRt
the press."
I HATE to stay on the subject of Senior Week,
but I thought the tickets given out for the free
movie at the Car&lina Theater were rather amus
ing. The tickets were for "The Star of Bethlehem''
Planetarium show and were to be used for admit
tance to "Bedeviled." Well, you'll have to admii
that both the planetarium and the movie deals in
"Heavenly Bodies."
Public opinion had it xthat Mr. John Motley
Morehead had annexed the Carolina Theater and
gained a monopoly on stars.
"THREE FOR The Show" certainly convinced
me that it takes more than big name stars'to make
a good flick. As we watched plump Betty Grable
go through her paces we were reminded of the time
we sat in a dingy little club in Greenwich Village
watching an obese stripper digging her grave with
her torso.
. There were too elderly gentlemen sitting at the
table next to us talking quietlv between sips of
their "Nebraska Stumplifters." One of them with
that "Gad, the old battle ax looks better than
that" look on his face leaned over to his compan
ion and said, "Just a fat old madam."
EVER WANT to write a best-seller? Nothing tr
it. All you have to do is to slander enough people
so that they will have to buy a copy of vour book
-in order to read what you said about them. In
the meantime, their friends wll buv a copv for
gossip fodder and, of course, their" enemies" wili
need a copy to helD dtovp thmv r.;fc.
You should make enough money from the sal-.'
of the book to pay off all libel suits. One pre
requisite, go to 1 aw scHnr.l nrv.
by being a lawyer will be your profit on the bo. k.
It appears that the
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.uiuuna me corner. Alert yourself for girls in vel
low raincoats and mavhe vm, u, "u
Iiwith the F.B I rh,n,
Vvnr 1 7 investigation business being ur.
F.B.I, agent for the F.B.I.
WHILE WE are on the e, r t, t .
i.-j - ,. "uJi ui r .ti.u- agent
and investigations, we naturally think of comnu,
wmmuiiisis. Une Of thp Koc olr.ti,
lever written. T thinir t . .
government takes a quarter out of your pocket an.
t .-.. . xxuw inat is a square . deal
Si nave ver heard nf nna t .
1 - j-c;l a us nnr lu
squares that get that sort of deal.