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TH3 DAILY TAR:HEEL PAGS TWO Qld$tyle Debate In a polite repartee between their respec tive editorial columns, The Smithfield Her ald and the Greensboro Daily News are de bating an old issue: University Consolida tion. The .Smithfield editors argue that consoli dation. Aveighed in the balance against the confusion of authority it has bred, may be Wanting. Their Greensboro counterparts grant that the Herald raises pertinent ques tions, but affirm their belief in consolidation. Our attitude lies off somewhere in the netherlands 'between the two. All three lJ1tftlj of the University have grown since consolidation in the Thirties. But was con solidation a catalyst to that growth? Given the demand for growth, a University, like a ' living organism, either flourishes or withers. We have grown, surely, but we wonder if, like Topsy, we "just grew" as a matter of natural fact. ' . Toyn bee warns us that the growth and health of civilizations cannot always be measured by outward manifestations. Civili zations, he says, suffer "breakdowns" be cause challenges bring no response- Extend ing Toynbee's analysis to universities, the dangers of judging our own progress by ap pearance aie treacherous. Growth can go on after a breakdown. .. ' f he issue of authority and its efficacy cen ters about the man in the President's chair. 'hile Dr. Frank Graham headed the Uni versity, he tended to be identified with the branch at Chapel Hill and left State and Wo man's College largely to home vule. Under Gordon Gray, the prestige and influence of the Consolidated Office grew, and the old local autonomt diminished. Final ' judgifitnt as to whether that shrink age of local authority was good or bad in the full range of things will have to Avait, Ave think, for time. Consolidation has not yet justified itself as a permanent fixture. Those jnner atoms of study and the porveyance of lux and libertas, their sickness or health, Avill tell the final tale. . ' V New Style Pain O. V- Cook, associate librarian, sa)s "it is gratifying to notice how resources are being used." J 'oca I resources? Old Style Wtobcrt Ruark, A ho is making a 'pile of dough these days from his Something of Value, avJio. writes a nationally - syndicated column, and as ho incidentally Avent to Caro lina, lias decided that today's grads have it fine fin.ckiiY-; - According to columnist Ruark, he had it tounh after graduating from UXC. But, he decides in a recent column, had it been eas ier, "I would have missed one massive amount of fun." We wouldn't begin arguing with Ruark about the comparative economic prosperity of' today-over the depression , years. But Ave wonder if thjs 1935 graduate realizes just What are the problems facing today's new grad. ' T U First, the draft board, hanging about Avail ing, for its chance to get you, but never tell ing you exactly when. -The 1955 grad has to decide between volunteering, waiting awhile, or just sitting back and hoping he 'won't be called. Then there's this bubbling prosperity, a glowing national ledger page in which every element but the farmers is cleaning up. Ob viously.Jf ort segment of the economy is in such dis"tressnAh(le others are booming, some thing is wrong with our-economy. No; Ruark didn't have it so tough as com pared with this generation. Nor is our col lege crew one' that has it soft. We bet Ruark never had to get up after a fraternity .-party on Tricky niglu and go to Saturday classes in his gay days," Carolina Front The Phi Rides Again: Babies Unrestrained ReaaeiS:RftOrta . 1- . i ill s i 1 tOCKQ The official student publication of the Putli cations Board of the University of North Carolina, ; , where it is published U -V daiIy except Monday f vacation periods and A. 't i fs!i "III oulI,;uer terms. Enter- (!t .- ed as second class matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1379. Sub scription rates: mail- li ed, $4 per year, $2.50 j a semester; delivered,. $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR i r r fit f f v-ir , .m r " ;i Iloitors i; Manain Editor Business Manager FRED POWLEDGE B ILU BOB PEEL Associate Editor J. A. C. DUNN News Editor JACKIE GOODMAN NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Charles Dunn, Jarries Nichols, Mike Vester, Bennie Baucom, Bunny Klenke, Ruth Rush, Curtis Gans, Jiriimy Purks, Joan McLean, Nancy Link, Bill Corpening, ir--ginin Hughes, Clarke Jones, Wilson Cooper, Char-' lie Sloan, Jerry Cuthrell, Peg Humphrey, Nancy Rothschild. Night Editor For This Issue J. A. C. Dun a f Dunn ON THE fourth floor of New. East the Phi (Philanthropic So ciety) meets on , Tuesday nights. We trotted phi- lan thro pic . ally up . to tkq H ) meeting room , 4 (the same in ' which the stu- dent Legisla 5 ture holds its . 5 sessions) last Tuesday night prepared for a good eye-squinching slug of rip roaring forensics. Wq were greeted by Pat Mc Bane, the clerk of the Phi, who handed us an information sheet bearing vital and mimeographed points of interest concerning the Phi, and ushered us into the b4dc office. In the back office we spoke briefly (and yery slowly) to Lewis Brumfield; Mr. Brum field took us into the attic and showed us old stacks of the Con gressional Record, unused por traits leaning against the wall, bits of plaster fallen from the ceiling, and a large folder en titled "The Inorganic Nitrogen Situation in 1926." -"This is where we have initia tions," said Mr. Brumfield lan guidly, and levitated himself down the narrow flight of stairs again. We met Lawrence Matthews; who towered over us in a gently welcoming manner; we were in troduced to John Curtis, -the speaker of the Phi, who drew heavily on his pipe and said -he had heard a great deal about our record on the stage, which ac complishment we denied and passed off on the other under graduate James Dunn (who is from Greensboro, if we remem ber correctly). it THE HALL filled with rep resentatives and visitors, the speaker brought the meeting to order, representative Taylor in toned a short prayer, and the bill of the evening was read after the formalities of roll-calling and welcoming had been gone through. " :s: The bill, as most of the assem bly eventually admitted, was ab surd. It resolved, in brief, that the Federal government should adopt some system of selective breeding for United States citi zens in order to reduce the num ber of physically or mentally un desirable types now rampant in the country. Representative Matthews took the rostrum and defended the bill gently and pleasantly, as if he were explaining why cows give milk. He had got only two or three paragraphs into his speech when representative James Du vall rose from his chair and re quested a point of personal priv ilege, to wit that it gave him great mental anguish to hear rep resentative Matthews display his great ignorance of history and Adam Smith, to whom represen tative Duvall believed the rep resentative at the rostrum refer red in connection with an in crease in population. -Mr. Duvall was tojd by the speaker that his point was not legitimate and suggested he sit down, which Mr. Duvall did. MR. MATTHEWS went on; Mr. Duvall rose again and asked who was keeping time; a gentleman in a blue suit volunteered; Mr. Matthews finished and was re placed by Mr. Duvall, who staled that he whole-heartedly and un equivocally believed in a eugenics system but unfortunately bog ged ciown toward the end. Miss McBane questioned Mr. DuVaU's interpretation of the mathemati cally cumulative clause in the proposed bill, was told by the speaker - to rephrase her ques tion and make it non-negative, and . did, thereby completely confusing us; Mr. Duvall finish ed by remarking that the female may launch the ship, but the male lays the keel, whick is in teresting to know; Mr. Brumfield took the rostrum and said he couldn't find grounds to defend such a silly bill as the one iri question, even for the fun of it; Miss McBane spoke and said the bill was apalling ('"hear!, hear!"); Mr. Taylor followed her, argued the social angle in favor of the bill, and refused to yield to questions; Mr. Duvall suddenly proposed debating another bill instead, was voted down; a young visitor from Lenoir next spoke M W U isffat Editors 'tVer-liZe Editors: . Since when did we get editors of Th2 Daily Tar Heel who are made of wax? Yes, that's what I said, wax or, better still, old candles. ; , We might as well have gone to Mme.'- tnsr' saud's waxworks in Paris and got two dummies and set them in the chairs up in the "Towers of Graham Memorial." Sissies, that's what I think yon aie,. Kraar and Yodcr, sissies! The D. T. H. still hai the' weeping towel out against good Americans who would like to see the Commios, the Niggers and those soft-shell crabs who want to ruin "-our great B. A. Schoo.l kicked from Chapel' Hill. Editors, y$u are still coddling the bad people we don't want around here, but you are doing it in a liver-liiicd way that I, and a kt of other people I have talked to about-it, don't like. You are simple little wax work dummies, dead as the oldest stooge professors before your time, and it's a pity. At least I have, heard a lot of people say that although 'they 'never liked what Kuraltssaid they liked the way-he said it, and that he was never as high-coMared and snooty about what he said as you two are. If you want me to get specific, o.k., I will. My biggest gripe so far has been two! editorials. One, with a stupid blurb front Thoreau that ran in today's paper and was" about1 cfothe3.';.;and ; the other that: long spool of nonsense about j ireligiim ; that .. ran -. in Sunday's pa peri Take jK4tf j)?e:cV religions ltwas; the biggest line of j -pseudo -Intellectual,! radical; crap that the DTH has: 'printed! I don't know which one of the "Tower crowd" wrote about religion, but I do know "that it should be reprinted - on toilet paper. That's about? all the T good it Was. "."When you two panty-wearers ran against Dave Mundy (who should be editor now) I thought the wkole business was dirty, and I fenqw a lot of other people that felt the same way. I. feel the student body will probably give you about two or three more weeks to produce a page that is worth our timu to read, otherwise, there will be a klow-Urck raid on the Graham Memorial "Tower Wax-works." Name Withheld By Request Editors: School has now been in session for all. of 14 days and in this time I haven't seen The Daily Tar Heel do a damn thing to justify its existence. What I want around here is a newspaper we can look Sor ' ward to in; the morning; a newqaper that wiH spark the morning coffee, a newspaper that will knock the sand out of our eyes, a newspaper that makes the other college newspapers in Mie state (nay, in the nation!) sit up and take notice; a news paper that is WORTH SOMETHING! I want some controversy; I want some aetion; I want some- people calling other peeple names; . I. watit some interesting news; and I know of a lot of other people who want this tco! : Damn it, get on the ball up there and make this campus hop the way The Daily Tar Heel used to! Albert Carney Editors: It's time for The Daily .Tar Heel editors to stop contemplating their- journalistic navels and start turning their typewriters to the real problems of this campus. , , .'- Despite your ' excellent coverage of campus . events this fall, the DTH editorial page is dead. I " say dead and waiting -to -be juried. FirsC there's jocular J.A.Cj'Dunn, the poor man's E. B. White. Now if I want- to get the New Yorker magazine (and I really don't just now), I can buy : it' Nevertheless, Dunh--using "we" more than Col. ' Lindburg writes just like that slick magazine. -I want more about students, more about the, campus. But what do I get? Just "we" did this, and "we' did that. Then, there's Rueben Leonard, who thinks he has the answer to all campus' problems, the same answer to all problems too sex. Now I don't want to cast aspirations on Mr. Leonard's character, but he writes like a sexually frustrated freshman on a lonely Saturday night. Why doesn't he go out and seduce coeds, instead of serving us so much sex in the morning paper. Frankly, it's too muchrto -' take at breakfast. . ' , - : ; ' - ; The Horse not long before heading to the glue factory, I hope, trots ialong like last year's Kentucky Derby hopeful; that; -just didn't quite make it. But ;.:;h'e.';'trys,'-the;-old! nagf:;:. ;., ' -':; ; , Charles: Dunn,' 1 who should ' have - headed ' over the hill long ago, is just about the least offensive of your columns. He just doen't write often .-: enoughl :i ';.''. :i ; 1 ' ! Las't,i but nbt least,'-are the editorials. And I use the word loosely. (And I don't mean Luce-ly, Messrs. Yoder and Kraar. We all know you spent the summer on Time magazine, but must you write Mike they do, glibly tossing about words we don't know or care about?) The editorials either endorse racial integration (an act long settled by the U. S. Supreme Court) or ramble about the question of liberal arts. Once in a while, you mention student government. But that's once in a while foo often. Editors, get up off your haunches and give us something we can read, something interesting, something like the good old days when Chuck Hauser, Barry Farber, and Rolfe Neill were run ning things. Sarah Benson Editors: Your perceptive editorial, "Religion: Old Time And New, The Csll For Re-examination," one of the finest I have read anywhere recently, is, t feel, typical of the fine work the DTH is doing this j-car. You are rendering a real service to the stu dents on the campus. I have not been on campus for a number of years, but I always enjoy your paper. ' - - The Rev. John C. Woodray - -. ."'V. ' - ' - t - 1 ... , II' . '-r l . - , N - I v v f fj r-'.;'.;'-3: A -A i i t - t ".. 1;-- a! :.' ; (j t,tAA:, : X ! 15 and pointed oiit in a veiy good speech that lunatics were not hereditary and that lower income brackets did not mean concomit ant lower intelligence. ' The debate sputtered on to a finish, and it was finally; decided that the American public could compromise the Phi has effected . go right on having all the babies it wanted thank God. We were in its meetings between a toler-str-Mck by two things during the ant informality and a highly evening: one, the cool, intelligent - ' ' thinking of most of the speakers commable adherence to Rob involved; and two, the arresting erts' Rules of Order. Y-Court Ccrncfi Open' Season Declared 'By (. Ivory Towers - Pttn Leonard IT IS about that time of the year when the "Ivory Tower" rpuimpnt rallies r its forces and declares open season on the I School of Busi- I ' hess Adminis- ?; A tration. These j , intellectual and ' ' pseudo - intel- I J lectual piranha , spend a great deal or tneir time nibbling the meat off the BA school's commercialistic skeleton. IT IS often difficult to deter mine just what th6 chief gripe is against the business school, whether it is the curriculum, the professors, the students or all three. Granted, the curriculum does not lend itself to an inten sive study of history, philosophy, and literature, but it must be re membered that the study of the humanities does not lend itself to a study of business either. Al though this isn't a very good an swer to the contention, it is nev ertheless, as sound as the anti business set's theory. If everyone majored in liberal arts while in school who would there be for the scholars to in fluence after graduation (and there - is a . life after graduation you know)! Some people have business minds, others don't these, people should be in busi nessothers shouldn't. SOME OF the propaganda dis tributed by Ivory Towers, Inc. would have you believe the BA school professors ride home in the evenings on a business cycle and dart into their Dun & Brad street wallpapered abode to list en to the latest stock market re ports. True, some of the BA profs may think Homer is a four-bagger, but not the majority of them by any means. I even had an in structor who once, mentioned he didn't think Chopin and W agner were squares. SO MUCH for the curriculum arid the professors. One often wonders why students major in Business Administration. Is it because they think a major in business is a front row ticket for "Strike It Rich?" Or is it because they can't decide just what to major in their first two years and by some stroke of fate find themselves drifting the way of the majority of Carolina stu dents to the BA School. It is probably a mixture of both. But the poor students who have visions of earning huge piles of money upon graduation are certainly in for a sad awaken ing. The other alternative, that of not knowing what to major in, could be in part a fault of some of the General College instruc tors. There are some instructors who make the General College courses so difficult that a student in his right mind could not pos sibly convince himself that a de gree iji "either English, history, or a foreign language wxmld be practical. I am not implying that courses should be made any easier than they already are, but I do believe some of (he instructors could make the courses a little more interesting. Just because an in structor's' thesis isn't accepted, he shouldn't go back to his fresh man pr sophomore class and give 13 Ts, 7 D's, 2 C's no B's and no A's. Maybe the students didn't lparn anything . in high school, but it is thp job of the instructor to try to teach them something while they are at Carolina. A rollbook full of Fs doesn't seem tp be a very good indication of the instructor's teaching ability. If you don't want everyone to major in business, don't drive them -over the BA School, by giving the impression , that all Liberal Arts courses are as bor ing, as most of the. General Col lege courses, because they aren't. 9VQ Charles Dunn if The "be-yourself, you-may-be-smooih, think" column of last Saturday has beep, t'. of many comments, much conversation even controversery. Quoted in the CwJ-. speech given by a student in summer schi speaking for more respect for girls. The "be-yourself, you-may-be-smooth"' think" idea caused a lot of fun over the' Before the football game, several peop' and said "What ya trying to do ruin mv v Another fellow said that he had been"-" Tar Heels all morning and burning thr-' his girl wouldn't get to see a copy before''' end was over. ' Of course other people took the idea sense. Some wanted dates (imports that i the column, and some even went so far a codv of it to their eirls who am a ,.. a . w - - -w it v c v schools. However it is doubtful, if such an idea' once or twice is going to change the read - way of treating or wanting to be treated bv of the opposite sex. The idea of change -occurred to some readers for the moment. 1 didn't exist before, it probably was forgo:;? their next date had ended. r Prohahlv nnp of the best rp?nlt nt column was the suggestion by a coed that -be done to help students work out such r that might arise on dates, or just in life !, campus. This coed, who had talked the -with several others, believed that someth!:; be set up to help students solve their r .Qho en crcroctnrl a VifinrH mm-p tin nf q A r, - , a fraternity man, a sorority woman and a i wnman in hpln wnrk out ?nliifinn5 tn co.'rl . Her plan was that students with pre!: write in asking for advice. The board v,;. the problem and give their opinions as tov ' it should be solved. These solutions, a:: the problem, should be printed in The .,1. Heel, so that others could benefit from the s or suggestions, and add to them if they.c: It would be sort of a "Dorothy Dix" .v on a college level. ,jr The idea is a good one. It should be c;r if enough students have enough interest i- The "be-yourself, you-may-be-smoothcr:: -think" idea and also the other ideas that the tion "preached" on has taken on new cor: since it was first printed. It seems that near!; one has his or her own ideas on certain y the quotation, and occasionally a group "vL to discuss the matter further. Such a group formed in one of the ir.c.' itories the other night we are informed. versation started (we are told) with event ting in their two cents worth about the "be; 1 YT II !1 1 j A 1. ! iuea. r rom mere 11 weni 10 me pros ana pre-marital sexual relations, and then to ' various boys were looking for in the wive; In this group (with another group it ir: been different) the majority of the boys were pre-marital sex relations; an even greater r expected to marry women who had not h;: relations before' marriage. Pint this was nnlv writH nnt arnv.n of Some groups will differ, but the majority, ir. thought and conversation, will probably a;r The whole quotation was intended to for thought. When it was written for the there was ' no burning candles of an i li would develop into a ravaging barn-lire It was out to set no limits on what could 0: be done on dates; it could or could not ! read to include pre-marital sexual relator.?, ing on the mind of the reader; it menti rc' of legalized prostitution or any other Jcini ' matter; it was simply one individuals A way in which a gentleman, Carolina and c:. should conduct himself on a date. smoother than you think. Respect a girl. ; will respect you." You take it from there you call respect? In what way do you v respected by members of the opposite sex"- virtu-it Vi .-t. ..-.I. H ..rtn chn'1;!! a girl is to hold hands for the first six i". : you decide that relations should be mu:" from the very beginning, you can find n -" the opposite sex that will agree with yoiA have to make your own decision in that n should, it's your own life. Yj To Join Or Nor; Campus Greek letter organization- w' ed their annual high-pressure sales campi '- as rushing. The first round belong- to ' Next week the women will have their tur' ing and being sold on the sorority situ;'. The question to join or not to join i- biggest a student, especially a freshrr.;" face. Sometimes financial conditions leave choice. Occasionally a student aireaw -mind made up. More often, rushing itscK. -round of tea and tinsel, sells the student course of action or the other. The fault usually found with rushing hits the freshman before he has had tin p to his new surroundings. Even worse, it him to choose his fraternity hastily- H? himself to a group without knowing ho-v ;t under everyday Conditions. Some Schools rtntnnnn rii;hin? a j-e""' year. We do not favor delayed rushi; thing, the "advisable time" for rutins ce; the individual too much. No completely date could be set, arbitrarily. We rather like our system of rAA' the burden of decision on the iie recognize the need for a delay; others r'--r" choose in a day the companions of careers. It will be interesting to note the dcci-: year's freshmen, and the maturity of their attitudes. Yes, we like cur ??'r ing. . It hits the freshmen when they sre nerable, but it separates the men ti--1 : The Daily Athenaeum
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