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V7CDMC5DAY, CCTC" PACI TWO THS bAILY TAR HSEL A Threat, A Promise '. i .'.it The IFC Aids In ' Informing The Campus Carolina Front 'Nothing Like A Coffee Break At The Y' " TTie Intci fraternity Cmmcil didn't even know it: but when it voted to open its meet ings to The Daily Tar Heel, the IFC rcaC finned the theme of this National News paper Week. , . ( ; "Your Newspaper Fights For Your .Right To Know," declares the theme of this week. Sigafoos Says Schulman Is A Dull Soph ' I.A.C. Dunn ..WE INTERVIEWED Mr. Siga f oosr . Bud Shulman's right hand , mouth, just : this past weeken. when the , American press pats itself on the -: We met him d eff "er" . 1 . . t;i-o rri'c Ho wa sfannin? next X VABl w , , to a row of garbage cans, nery- from foot to foot, pprehensively up and down the alley from behind his turned-up coat collar, and smoking a large pipe. We remarked on the pipe, after having in troduced our self.' Didn't Mr. Sigafoos smoke Philip Morris said? like "On Campus v J)Ack.for informing the public. -The first, part of. tins theme-the part about ously shiftin fighting was quite true in the case of the; - peering, app IFC and this paper. Tor never bctore lias tins student group governing fraternities allowed Jpiress coverage. . , -s . ;i. : 'Last falh Tlie Daily Tar Heel made it clear to the IFC that it felt it had a right to cover all student meetings, with the exception of student courts. But the recalcitrant fraterni ty group tossed a reporter and the editor out f. of its meeting. Tims, all last school year, there was (as always) a virtual news blackout on the or ganization that governs the fraternity ele ment of campus. Whatever IFC news appear ed in this pnper was the result of IFC-prc-pared handouts. In short, it wasn't news just publicity. ' ' - . Hut Monday night, this newspaper dec ided to change this unfair situation, to open these meetings to the campus. It, vas: not. easy to. persuade, the hypersensitive Jraternitv groups , might get fired if the truth were that its meetings were. in tlie dampus interest, revealed." To be frank, it took an open.threat a pro mise to boycott, the IFC fronj th est pages in every form before the fraternity men ,yieldr ed to the paper. : 4 ; . frili:ir . ' We're not beating our editorial' chest be cause this paperrhas obtained its due right the right to cover any representative, non judicial student meeting on this campus. On the other hand, The Daily Tar Heel is proud to be able to render its service to campus to fight for the student body's right to know. And" we herebv serve notice to other rep resentative student groups, such as the Pan Hellenic CouiiciI.-that they, too, have a duty to .aid in informing the campus of which they area part. ' 't- ;i; , t ' "Well, the advertising contract says I'm supposed to," he mutter ed, "but confidentially, I can't stand cigarettes. I just don't like the taste. I like a foul, smelly old pipe much better. It's much more homey. But don't tell anyone. I We said we wouldn't tell a soul and suggested that Mr. Sigafoos join us in a beer or two or three in' the "pat. ' Loyalty: :j7Thaifs r ' ! i . of Ourl)eparfmenf John R- Garnett," a personable representa tive ,f tlie U. S. State Department, answered student questions about the U. S. Foreign Service Corps clearly and frankly esept those on the subject of security checks. After Mr. Garnett had pointed out the pro cess for getting, into government service a stiff intelligence quiz, rigorous physical re quirements, an oral interview, and a security investigation he was asked about the latter. Obviously flustered by the question, Mr. Garnett assured the student interrogator that security clearance was only to make certain that one is not a "communist, a subversive, or otherwise disloyal." The State Department man went on to point out to Carolina students that only a small number of candidates is" turned down for securi tv reasons A . ' - "How do you determine whether la candi date is a fejyal American? What do you mean by . loyal ty?" the student asked ' Mr.arnet t- "I couldn't exactly tell1 you.Trhat is, we really don't handle that directly? byrsekes," answered the State Department man. "Oh, my no," gasped Sigafoos. "I couldn't possibly do "that. "If . Mr. Schulman found out he'd kill me." ' No beer? Not even go in and sit down and watch the milling throng? "Can't possibly. Mustn't be seen. I'm really not meant to be on any campus college at all; I'm supposed to stay away from cal lege towns altogether. You . see, it ' sullies the . originality of Mr. '-. Schulman's . column if . I go to some college and learn about it. It might make me regional, Mr. , Schulman says; and Mr. Schul man believes that I should never' suggest any particular college at 'an ; -. This was a shame, but did we have to stand in Rathskellar alley and palaver over a bunch of garb age cans? Surely there must be some place around town thjat wouldn't sully Mr. Schulman . . . "We'd better stay here," mur mured Sigafoos. I don't want to run the risk of being seen and recognized. You see, Mr. SchuP man's theory is that I am com pletely anonymous, that I give the impression of having been everywhere. This gives the im pression of omnipotence." . WELD THEN, did Mr. Sigafoos operate in his collegiate circles entirely on Mr. Schulman's in structions, without any exper ience at all? "Oh, I stay with him all the time," sighed Sigafoos, drawing ; - . v " - . ; J,. - ''. J - - ' I Is f ' m V j, - : . : . It-It y : - SX i, . , - f ? ' - . h - 1 - l - - j , "T ' - - .. ' j"C " - ' j j, . ' , f - f I !.; .''.:' v'. o-A.' 1 i tnw i iiiwt 1-i tt-iili-T-1 -- in luijin" i ii - - l " n "" i i ir" rr -irm mi uf in V-T -iJ ----- - J.a J.-.m. 1 jbotf : ii J jv Ji.MhlTl4BtI,iiJ vili fcpv-Mvi. V . .... IS A emocfat? Gerald Johnson (Hiktorian -and news analyst, Mr, Johnson is a former Tar Heel newsnan.The Editors.) , ANYONE' CAN be a registered Democrat merely by signing the boolc but to- be a real, not merely a registered one, is Another mat ter. In part it is a question of temperament, in part of educa tion, in part of circumstances, and in part, no doubt, just the grace of God. It is not granted to everyone to be a real Democrat; there are persons some of them quite worthy persons, too who can never be Democrats and ought not to try. Unfortunately, there are areas, especially in the South, in which social or economic con siderations force such people to vote the Democratic ticket. They are unhappy because they don't believe in their' own party; and they do no good to the party,, inevitably casting an aura of fraud about it to the embar rassment of real Democrats. Sometimes Americans, especi ally . young ones,' surveying the confusion of - national politics, reach, the cynical conclusion that we really, have only, one party in WThen something has to be done the people have invariably turn ed to the Democratic Partyi This is no accident, for the Democratic- is by; its nature the party that .1 always - ' does something. Sometimes it. does a fool thing, but it always does s6mething, an in moments of desperation it is better todo anything than to set likela tiihp orf aTo'g'wait-' ing -for destruction to overwhelm 'o US. But when the danger has been averted by the necassary action, and quiet has returned, it fre quently happens that the1 nervous triumph and- the; public 'turns back to w the ; Republican Party. Sometimes there is no 'formal change but the Democratic Party itself becomes essentially Tii?pub- the Republican Party, developing Mr Heel The official student publication of the Publi cations. Board of . the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Enter ed as second class matter in the post of fice in Chapel HU1. N. C, under the Act of March 4 8, 1879. 'Sub scription rates: mail ed, $4 ! per year, $2.50 i semesier; delivered, a jrcax, fj.ou u se mester. 1 ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR f ' - " '1 - 11' :?uu i ''-. Ill I : - ' At i i ? . . i i i ' ' v ? E 5 - 1 iV IV. i ' i f .... . . IMitors slpomily on his pipe. Tt gets so . this country and. that our so-call ed differences are only ; factional suabbles. That is also ihe opinion of our Russian unfriends; I re member, a dinner party at which Ambassador Cumansky pounded the theory into my ears quite vio lently. But the' explanation in both cases; is simply an unrealis tic view of American politics. - THE GIMMEE PARTY As a matter of fact, we have three major parties in this coun try, the Democrats, , the Republi cans and "the Gimmees, and the greatest.of these is the Gimmees. A Gimmee-has no . ticket of his own, but votes either of the others with complete indifference . as long as he gets his handout. Unfortunately, the Gimmee ' is frequently endowed with enor mous cunning, sometimes rising : dull. All he wants to do is sit in night clubs and flirt with the cigarette girls just like any col lege sophomore." This was something we nver had suspected. 'You'd think a man that'd writ ten books and writes all those columns and publishes in Play boy would have some adult characteristics, but he really doesn't. Sometimes I have half a mind to quit' and go to graduate school' "" ' ' What would Mr. Sigafoos study if he went to graduate school? "Philosophy. Fve turned mis anthropist what with all this routine I go through every week in Mr." Schulman's column. Phil osophy is nice and moody. I don't lican, as it did under Pierce and Buchanan. ' For the basic difference be tween the two parties is not a matter of issues but -''of. 'attitudes., principles, if you, wilU Issues take their significance from, cir cumstances and as circumstances change, so . does' the meaning of issues. What was radical jester day is conservative today and will' be reactionary tomorrow. Patrick Henry, defending states' rights, ' was a wild radical in 1789; Cal houn, defending them, in' 1850, was a conservative, and Shivers . of Texas, defending the tide lands oil steal, is a reactionary today. On arty major issue each '" party, has been ?on , all sides at one time or another. GOLD AND BEARS a similar man, carefully keeps him out. If a strong . leader is elected President he will inevita bly lead, which is what the Dem ocratic Party hopes and the Re publican Party fears. Theodore Roosevelt, who was a leader, be came President by the act of an assassm, not by the intent of the Republiah Party. This is logical, because the par ty that is bent on going some where needs a leader, while the party bant on staying put doesn't. Theodore Roosevelt dragged the Republican Party out of character and drove it into nervous pro stration by 1912. Franklin D. Roosevelt restored the Bemocra tic Party to its true character and so invigorated it that it stay ed Nin power for 20 years. From the standpoint of the Re- But this .-.does not necessarily; publican Party Calvin Coolidge any , real inconsistency, was the perSect President. He .Ffarties;. can maintain went nowhere and he did noth- Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE get much of, 'a chance tf be moo- U to : governorships, senatorships News Editor JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager BILL BB PEEL Associate Editor J. A. C. DUNN EDITORLVL STAFF van. Ruebea Leonard, Bill O'Sulli- Staff Cartoonist .-Charlie Dsjiiel NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Charles Dunn, James Nichols, Mike Vester, Bennie Baucom, Bunny Kfenke, Ruth Rush, Curtis Gans, Jimmy Purks, Joan McLean, Nancy Link, Bill Cdrpening, Vir ginia Hughes, Clarke Jones, Wilson Cooper, Char lie Sloan, Jerry Cuthrell, Peg Humphrey, Nancy Rothschild, Barbara NeSvcomb. Night Editor For This . Issue -Rueben Leonard dy these days. I always have to be either crazy or typical or riotously funny for V Mr. Schul man." I read Kierkegaard on the sly." We thanked Mr. Sigafoos, and he moodily replied that he fi gured we might as well be wel come since he couldn't think of anything to do with us. We last saw him slinking sombrely away down the alley, misanthropically drawing his pipe, despondently headed for the bus station, pre sumably to jiend his delinquent way back to the arms of the tyrannical and childish Mr. Schulman. and even Cabinet pots; but what- ? ever his official dignity he is a blackguard who would sell his grandmother's tombstone inord- er to grab an office. Such ver min need not be considered in any serious discussion of the bas ic difference between the Demo cratic and Republican partfes, for '.they hae no principles on which to differ.' Indeed, a principle is to a Gimmee what pan's green is to a potato bug, and, when the parties divide along the line of their basic principles the Gim mees die off in incredible num bers.. ... . V involve for the their fundamental . attitudes while changing' sides on specific issues. The Tundamental attitude' of the Democratic Party in any crisis is that we - have much to gain; that of the' Republican Party that we have muoh to lose. Neither can pierce .the ? future, but Xtie Democrat : is periuaded that there'is a fot of gold just around the next corner, while the Republican expects to iind a bear . Historically, both have been right, for around each sharp turn in ournational his tory we have found a pot of gold, usually guarded by a very'1 bad tempered bear. - - " As a result we find that those Americans who have gathered wisdom as their years increased have modified i their ways of thinking. Fighting one. "bear after another tones down the exube rance of the Democrat; finding one pot of gold after another tones up the pessimism of the Republican: In extreme old age Thomas Jefferson . and John Adams came to think- pretty much alike. Since Washinston there '"have. ing; he simply held on. Appear ances indicate that Dwight D. Eisenhower is going to be the next best. He is gomg nowhere if he can possibly 'avoid it, .but he is not as lucky as Coolidge; events may prod him into making a move and when a move has. to be made a Republican President is a misfortune for the odds are that he will make the wrong move. . : At the'' same time. I do not argue that the Democratic should be the only party. I do. not be-, lieve in a one-party sj'stem, sim ply because I 'do not believe that all men think alike or feel alike. I do nt believe that action is 'al ways wise, and at such times th party of inaction is the safer one. DEMOCRATS HAPPY ' -. , - ' Nevertheless,' I am glad that a benignant destiny has made it possible ror me 'to be' a Demo crat, for I think that the Demo crat is the happier man. Serene in his faith that a pot "of gold is just around the corner, he can contevnplate even . such an appal ling apparition as' McCarthy-with- been only five presidents who were .unquestionably great Jef ferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilsbn and the second Roosevelt. All but Lincoln were registered as well as real Democrats, and it does "not follow that four-fifths of all first-rate statesmen have been Democrats. . The Federalist- -Whig-Republican opposition has included such men as Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, Hamilton Fish and so on down to Elihu Root, Robert M. LaFol lette the elder, and Arthur H. Vandenberg. The explanation is that when the Democratic Party develops a first-rate man it puts him in the White House, or tries to, while Y-Court Corner. Conversation, Now Corpse, Awaits puria! Pnohon Leonard THE ART of conversation is rapidly becoming extinct on cam pus. The abili- fW ty to converse , is an unburied ; c o r pi Is; e and thestu dents . are pallbearers walking non- chalantly on ; , their merry ; way with the corpse on their shoulders. -" ' " " ' it ON ANY given night students will gather around the tables in the Rathskeller; Rendezvous ' Room, or anywhere else there are tables to gather around and talk. What do : they talk about? Pvc cent movies, drinking parties, and cars of coursed Seldom a word about world affairs, music, or literature just the same eld monotonous Smalltalk over and over again. WE LEAVE the little group sitting at the' table and journey over to the fraternity courts or out to Jack's or The Patio. The setting is the same except for the presence" of members of the female species. We take a table next to a couple that appears to have danced themselves into ex haustion. The girl leans over to the boy and says, "Do you like classical music?" The boy perks up considerably at this question and says, "Yes, let's have a drink." The couple take a few drinks and between drinks discuss the difference between 86.8 and 100 proof whiskey. After exhausting both the whiskey and the subject, the boy decides he must appear intellec-'j tual so he asks his coed date if she has read Ralph Royster 1 Doyster. The ' girl at long last sees her chance to impress her date with her literary knowledge,, but, alas, the-cUck on the wall says its time to go so they have one last dance and make their exit. THIS SORT of ratrace can go on for several dates or until our lovely little couple find them selves on a Sunday date when the beer emporiums are closed and the boy has forgotten to make his Saturday ABC appoint ment. They decide that it is time to have their first real conversa tion so they walk over to the arboretum to sit in the moon light and converse. They sit in the moonlight all right. . OF COURSE there are quite a few students who do not fall into either of ' the above cate gories, but even these students aren't able to discuss some of the more commonly called-for sub jects. A person who can't dis tinguish Duke Snider by the fact . that he plays outfield for the Brooklyn Dodgers and wallops his share of home runs is in some respects as unenlightened as a certain jockey who when dining with members of the horsey set and not being able to add anything to the conversation will always pop up with, "Do any of you know the name of the guy who shot McKinley?" -The diners, look up in utter amazement and shake their heads in a sa9 no. The jockey then tells them the man's name was Leon Czolgosz. out despair. He is certain that the creature is only a temporary j nuisance, sure to be put down as Huey Xong was put down before him, and the Ku Klux before .IIiHjyand the Wobblies before the Ku Klux, and the Know-Nothings before, the Wobblies. From time to time we have these fits of backward-looking and the sons of Belial, flown with inso lence and wine, then wander forth, but never for very long. In due time the common sense of the common people reasserts it s"lf. w elect another Dmocratic Prsident and go seeking the next pot of gold. Those who can't believe it are by nature Republ-'cans. It is sad, . and I am sorrv for them, but there isn't a thins in the world that , can be done about it. . n ZM 4 I !! David Orr On 'The Unfought E: Certain latter-day alarmists have , re quirements of loyaity oaths for jrof: academicians in general a sin of i:-.(r. what they call academic freedom. they see not the increase but the succ? ' tion of the loss of something which r '.''lost" or even wrested away, but wh given up with peculiarly short-sighted ( most concerned, the academicians the;: !;A young professor of history at a r. -vcrsity has written a book, Academy f Russell Kirk, Henry Regnery, 1033. ou; problem and commenting on it. Mr. Kirk r" : many unpleasant things to say psrticu; academic paranoid who continually crc -those "administrative technicians" who v to run his university and who ended ir him. GREAT SFORT It is presently great sport, am on;; sctav liberal arts particularly, to speak with -of hired administrators who run colics versities without having the slightest r! is supposed to go on in them or why u sv a sneering moan has been made over :!i scholar to a dcanship, or over the hirr; trained "educator" to administer certa n functions of higher education. This "lost' this trained educator soon begins to u over the moaner who then only moan-. ! continues to do so. Yet did tlie educator f self on the professor, or did the cx-seho!ar -wield some deadly weapon in his rise to -t Of administrative power? Kirk says no, th often academicians with astounding hi k sight have given administrative jobs ir.'o ; of ignorant specialists so that they, the y need not be bothered with them. COLD LOGIC What these men fail to realize is that the sort of logic indicates that the only p ficient administrators of academics can he; cians themselves. The. idea of having sorr than a college professor run the lives of lege professors and of students is so paten that one looks with unbelieving awe at th which allows and even encourages the of college administrations shot through v academicians. Even more absurd, of cm::. domination of college faculties and adn.;:. alike and the formation of college policies oi trustees who Knew cvun icss aiwui wiu; . a college is supposed to do. M.r. Kirk cit s - or alarming proportions jnnicaung now iv are men of learning and of how much irJh: wield in purely academic circles. GROSSER ABSURDITY There is a grosser absurdity yet, whicb domination of the college, its adminM: f riicfooc Ktr f Vi o cf afo niihnr fkrnii"!l ii almost uniformly uninformed of academic p , or through the caprices of an electorate e capable of judgment m this particular a' masters with but few whimpers. Those l nous ones were quickly put down ana ir.e of their number is hardly surprising. It in peated that the rights they once had vr up, were not forcibly wrested from them. Mr. Kirk points out that few of these : lost the unfought battle for academic fr so consciously, and that few did so frcr. through many presently refuse to fight f r c reasons. (H. L. Mencken defines peda,?o;j( hifflr rv nrs rri htr iVin hnnntin" ff.T' their jobs.") Kirk states that a loss of r-' confusion of purpose has been rcspor..-' present grotesque state of affairs. He (' pedagogue very simply as a truth J-o'. : servant of truth. The pedagogue is, convrr a servant of a dean, a president, a board of a legislature (as in the case of state opr. versities) or even of the electorate which salary. CALLING, NOT JOB Once the academician acccpfs the pr;nc those who pay him can determine tliat f sort of value which they wish to receive not a servant of truth but of man; he then to be treated as a hired man, a lackey. 3 and must eschew those ancient rights and P pertaining to those who have dedicated t" a bit beyond man. A teacher in a trade sen teach his trade for money paid him. A t university cannot think of himself as a U anything remotely resembling a trade. -r self as in any way (academically) a-''Vi the man with the paycheck. In short, a to no job but has rather a'calling, and it getting of this fact by the teacher v.h aim iruu nis present position oi suwl Reader's Retort Faith In Human Brain Restored Editors: Your editorial regarding Senator f tored my faith in the capacity cf the hun I listened intently to his "oratorical - wonaerea now manj' ol nis appiauaci his record. Almost without rxrrnfion he J" everything the persons in and out of the L whom I respect have supported. Aren't you guilty of an umler-t..tfI!;i' you speak of his "ambivalence"? Mary i i WH -wif- WW'wir--w, ,-.J .
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