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PAGE TWO nee r The Fafnir? Carolina Front THE DAILY-TAR HEEL -Reader's ; Retort- SATURDAY, c In tlie Volsung .-mythology, "the worm Falnir" is so gigantic a serpent that he is like the Empire State Building crumbled on its side; bis venomous tongue is as powerful" as a i Mack truck and his breath like a blast fur nace at .Republic Steel. It must be obvious that he is no worm, but some weird quirk ol Anglo-Saxon semantics, in the sagas where he appears, makes him out as one. Like Fafnir, -the "worm" "of our . o n edu cational community big time athletics may be of greater dimension than we think, or than its defenders profess. , , The national United Chapters-of Phi Beta Kappa have, their; own. reservations about the sit; . and power for - evil of the "worm, big tiie athletics." The latest statement, of unit ed chapters polic y lists four essential- points of athletic probity, under which member chapters within the colleges and universities are urged to re-examine their own ethics: 1. Complete and direct control of athletic poli cies and procedures by joint action of the Ad ministration and of authorized representatives Of the Faculty; 2.1. Adequate irafeguards against recruitment practices that contribute to the professionalizing of intercollegiate athletics; 3. .. Restriction of eligibility for varsity .teams to students making normal progress toward a regular bachelor's degreee. , - . . 4. Assignment of all scholarships, grants-in aid, loans and jobs by a Faculty Committee on Stu dent Aid on the basis of need andor academic distinction or promise, with .no differentiation between athletes and non athletes and with no "gifts" to individual students by persons or groups outside the control of the Faculty Com mittee. This means that financial assistance for athlete, including scholarships, grants in-aid, loans and student jobs, will be in approximately the same ratio- to the number of athletes in the student body as all financial assistance is to the total number of students. How do we stack tip against that list of essential requirement? While it is open to question th"t administrative-faculty control of athletics policy here is either "complete" or "direct," the retention of Coach George Barclay last year when the Alumni Associa tion's indians were howling for his scalp proved that control is still in the right hands. Ifit; had been left, to the indians, the Univers ity would probably have breached its con tract with Barclr . This schooPs 'fr.ost overt violation of the Phi Beta Kappa policy came last spring. The. trustees voted, over President Gordon Gray's objection, to'. exempt so-called "scholarship holders" from ap out-of-state tuition boost. The catch, arid" Violation', was that over 90 pcietrir :t the-out-of-state scholarship holders turm.d out to be athletes. Advocates of the exemption argued at the time that "the Ed ucational Foundation and the Wolf pack Club , ,(f6f alumni athletics support) are having their troubles." The University's report card is part goocl, part; bad. It should be improved; otherwise, even so giant a "worm Fafnir" as big-time athletics may get the lance altogether. It would not be bad riddance. Gathering The Strings In A Handy Bunch ndepenaenY Defends Y-Court Corner. Campus reeus And DTK Are - I.A.C. Dunn IN . GENERAL, these days are toddling alond pretty well, , and so while the air is com paratively mud- free, we. think v -it would be a M MS reek way- in i 1 (M)t 2atlj Wax Heel The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, r X- where il is Published . J - L,: ? daily except Monday 1 cAaminauon and r7. I vacation periods and '! 11 summer terms. Enter- r ! I i , i i 1 1 i i 11 vv.vriii4 tita t I- .3 - , i 7 iMitors matter in the post of fice' in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Art nf If March 8, 1879. Sub- 1 H scription rates: mail . l l ed,S4 per year, $2.50 t-4 j 1 semesterr delivered, U SS a year, $3.50 a se- mester. ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR Managing Editor -I FRED POWLEDGE News Editor JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor J. A. C. DUNN EDITORIAL STAFF Rueben Leonard, Bill O'Sulli-van. Staff Cartoonist Charlie Daniel NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Charles Bunn, James Nichols, Mike ".Vester, Bennie Baucom, Bunny Klenke, Ruth Rush; Curtis Gans, Jimmy Purks, Joan McLean, Nancy Link, Bill Corpening, Vir ginia Hughes, Clarke Jones, Wilson Cooper, Char lie Sloan, Jerry Cuthrell, Peg Humphrey, Nancj Rothschild, Barbara Newcomb. nice idea to gather up the ' strings into a handy little bunch so that when the rocks begin to fly and they are sure to pretty soon, with everything so quite as it is all the' sum ming up of sunny days will be done with. SOME "PEOPLE went . to the Georgia game today, and a lot more went , elsewhere; since we are prewriting this column, you can consider us as having already gone elsewhere. The Rendezvous Room has been doing a thriving business in gatherings lately. We went down last Saturday to cut a tiled floor or two, and the place was jam med. Very jolly and happy, every one bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, having - a - wonderful - time wish - you - were - here. We saw two enterprising young men outside Battle Dorm the other day. We don't know what dorm they came from, but they were sitting on the lawn just op posite the Post Office on, believe it or not, a sofa. Evidently they just decided to go out and make an afternoon of it, and set up camp with sofa, cigarets and magazines to watch the PiXsing Parade. Un the steps of Murphy last Wednesday we -observed a sopho more sitting waiting for the bell to ring and watching the c6eds with avid interest. We watch every coed we can with avid in terest. The sophomore's comment was what really interested us. We Irad sat down behind him to help out with the avid interest depart 'nVent end' were doing fine when a. , particularly chesty type hap pened along. -' . . ! Z "Preposterous!" the sophomore announced aloud. "Biological wonder!" . EVERYTHING IN this column seems to have happened last Wednesday. Another item of in terest occured on that day when we went out to Carolina Motors In Carrboro to get gas. Back in the rear of the shop was Tex .Burleson, chairman of the GM Outings Committee, dressed in greasy overalls and bending over his miniscule Crtsley Hotshot. We asked what was the trouble, wouldn't it go anymore? The rear wheels weere dismounted, the hood was up, and there were odd bits of important Crosley ingre dients strewn about the floor. "Sure, it'll run," said Tex. "I'm just overhauling it for the race in Raleigh Saturday night." Did he mean he was going to race that little thingummy of a car in a sports car race? "Sure. I took fourth last sports race they had over there. I've fixed it so I get twenty more horses out of it now," he beam ed. Great God, we though piously. The Wonders Of Science. EoMtors: I, an independent and believer in demcoracy, protest your crusade to open the Greek Letter World to public scrutiny and I protest the method to which you resort to achieve your end. In your zeal to in sure' freedom for the press and coverage of news events you seem quite ready to tread Updn other "freedom which are equally necessary to a democ racy. I refer to the freedom of association. The Greek Letter organizations and their coun cils, are .'private organizations, - and are concerned primarily with ttheir own internal affairs. What they do is, for the most part, their own private business, and they are entitled to privacy in conducting it. It is true that the University! iias an interest in the affairs of these organizations,' sucn as the dances of tie German Club, but theie are practical limits to the serving of this interest. For example, the University wants me to do passing work, but there is no one standing over me to make me study, or following me home to see that I get enough sleep. If I fail to study and live up to what the University expects of me, then I shall be forced to leave school. Likewise the Greeks. If they fail to meet their obligations to the University they will lose their chatters. But please let us not have police men reporters sitting in on every meeting of the Greek Councils. Neither The Daily Tar Heel hdr the student body has the righf to the information that the Sigma Omega Betas are making, the liquor- run or that the Bi-Gams are going to be hostesses at Fort Bragg for the weekend. These are Greek affairs, and they are entitled to settle them in pri vate as-they deem proper. If they misbehave, then the University can take action agaiftst them, but thev should be free to settle their affiirs in private. As a' student-newspaper (?) , you are certainly entitled to state your opinions on these matters, , Bui VOu have" no right to use your monopolistic position to threaten and intimidate others into surrendering th'elr rights, even if it is National Newspaper Week. Your position on this point is dictatorial, and. I sul mit that a dictator is a menace to any society, even taough he" acts in the name of democracy. , - Your ultimatum to the Greeks is a two-edged sword which, once thrust, is bound to cut one of two. innocent paities. Either the Greeks must yield their rights to privacy or, you have the galLto threaten, you will deny to the whole University that information which the Greeks deem to be of pub lic interest. ,--,'.' "j Your position "is untenable. To achieve your own private ends you would deny to either of two parts of tlie institution which' you exist to serve the measure of your services due them. I suggest that you withdraw your nasal protuberance from that Which does not concern you. . ; Yours f or a screeching change in policy, , Thos. B. Cantieri At If Again ; Pnohrm Leonard - THE INTERFRATERNITY Council has finally allowed The Daily Tar Heel to infiltrate its ritualistic halls ; and bare to the r . public ' the in- ; : tricate workings' of that organi-. T . zation. . This is i . not good. , Stu- j- , . . dents on camp- us twnq are nop 4 : .: w:.-'. - 'I Know That Dorms Are Crowded, But Thts Is Ridiculous' i .j- y.N J ;;:y ..-.. .. , : 1 v 1 .- ; . t..?'.V 1 J '- . . fit w - j: i r Mm i (Hi ;:.-nJ&v ' S ''V , "1 Y -Z. MWBi . : mr : V yTA --CP j, - - -, ' " " A: : -J n Mi hority in Crisis Over Frances's' UN Night Editor For This Issue Curtis Cans THE DAY after our column on the revered Mr. Sigafoos came Out, we wafked into the Chapel Hill Weekly office , bright and early in the morning, journalis tic verve drooling and mixing with the egg on our chin. "Ever heard of a . book called 'What Makes Sammy, Kin?' ask ed Chuck Hauser, with a sort, o just - give - me - a - couple Vs of - more - sentences - andv I'll - have - you - cornered look on his face. We said we had. "'""Who wrote it?" asked Chuck' "Bud Schulberg, of course," we replied. We major in English, and we know about these things. "Ever heard of a book called JBarefoot Boy With Cheek?" con tinued Chuck in the same in quisitive vien. "Sure," we answered confi dently, "Max Schulman wrote it ... Oh God! it's not Bud Schul man at all -r- it's Max Schulman and Bud Schulberg. Fweep!" "It sure is," said Chuck, rolling a gloating R. Doris Fleesbn .WASHINGTON Washington was surprised and shocked by the diplomatice crisis in the United Na tions ; which finds France withdrawing its delega tion in protest against an Assembly vote to debate the Algerian issue. There is good reason to believe that a complacent IL S. delegation to the. UN was afco' disagreeably surprised to find itself in a minority . on; this issue. , , . - . The State . Department, running absolutely true tfti form, . is attempting-to gloss over ; the new. tin plsasantnessi which finds the Soviet Union on -the, winning side again. There, are hearts 'and flowers lot, France; Secretary Dulles assured his press-conference that that "great nation" "would "continue to play its . historic role." Private reminders, are ped dled that the colonial issue is always difficult, you know.'7 ' :' '"'' V; It1 is indeed, which is all the; more reason why Senators interested in U, S. leadership and the good health of the UN are asking why the West, 4etf. by America, Britain and France, lost by one vote on an issue in which, beleagured France was, for once, right. f- , . . ', INTERNAL PROBLEM 'Senators whose liberal principles, cannot be questioned are the first to say that Algeria,: de partment ''of France, is an internal problem falling exclusively ' within France's domestic jurisdiction. They were relieved to note that U. S.' delegate Henry Cabot. Lodge made that point in the Assem by discussion. But as they scanned the roll call by' which the Assembly floute'd such counsel they begaa to won- Withdrdwa der whether the U. S. delegate had really done his homework, Six Latin-American nations voted with the Soviet Union and its satellites, the Arab states and a number of Asian nations including The Phil ippines. Most of the six Latin-American governments have close and; friendly ties with the United States', Nationalist China, Iceland and Paraguay we're among the five nations which abstained from voting. Nobody expects Ambassador Lodge to buttonhole delegate's in the . manner of a national convention floors leader. They are . distressed to find that ,the United ' States apparently has not more influence n the East River with certain natiops when it takes so firm and positive a stand. HIGH STATURE ? . Ambassador Lodge has a high and unique sta ture in the Eisenhower Administration. He was the President's campaign manager at Chicago; when; :he; failed-of . re-election to the. Senate the Presi dent gave him his choice of jobs. The UN Ambass ador does, not have Cabinet status but President Eisenhower, invited Lodge to join the Cabinet sess ions as an eqiwl. . . . . Many listings , of Republican presidential possi bilities have emanated from, the vicinity of the v President, some very directly. All have included Lodge's name. It is clear that he has influence in the Administration above and beyond the ordinary. It is probable therefore that Secretary, Dulles has been keeping hands off, perhaps too much so. If any one thing is clear about the present Secre tary of State it is that he goes to extreme lengths to avoid sharp encounters with other people of "in fluence. Wherever the fault lies in the new crisis there will be questions asked about it when Con gres .returns, to Washington. in fraternities are. no more in terested' in which fraternity is doing' this or that than the fra ternity men " "are"', interested' in" which dorm is holding a picnic out at Hogan's Lake. , True, there are many things that the IFG does that students should know about. Things like awarding the Andy Bershak scho larship to a deserving high school senior, subsidizing foreign stu dents, and giving Christmas par ties for orphans. But to include these altruistic endeavors in The DTH does not necessitate the presence of a reporter at each meeting. . . . - . i -ij. LETS LOOK at , this situation, from 'the fraternity point, of view.' The- Interfraternity Council is actually, a body of representaj tives from each of the 24. camp us social fraternities. The meet ing of these representatives is in effect a fraternity chapter meet ing but. on a much larger scale. The Daily Tar Heel would not attempt to barge in on a chapter meeting, but has the gall to de clare that it will either be ad mitted to the IFC meeting or else bar that organization from its pages. " ', THE OBJECT of fraternalism is f , to promote closer relations among its members1 ' and 1 strive together for " the mutual 'benefit of both its members and the so ciety in which it exists. In order to ; do this there must be an air of secrecy this makes the mem .bers feel that there is a bond be tween them, a bond which no one outside the. organization shares. As the old. saying goes, "A -tree when its root's "are ex posed to the sun withers and perishes." So shall a fraternity when its basis for existence is - exposed to vulgar gaze. " " I AM speaking as a . student who has been a member of the Interfraternity Council for three years and in that three years I remember the council seldom do ing anything thtat merged in clusion in the minutes, much less- The Daily Tar Heel. News coverage at J the IFC meetings would be a waste of some report- er's time.. Why not let the enter prising : young newsman devote his time tp", writing up other campus news and let. the IFC ap point a member as publicity chairman 'and let him- submit- it ; .to the paper. This would; not be . an abuse of freedom, of the press, but rather; a " service in that it., would obviate the use of a news- ' ' paper reporter in order to let him devote his time to something else, , OF COURSE the publicity chairman would withhold all news of bitter disputes occurring in the IFC meeting why should n't he? Wlio wants to know that one fraternity is opposed to hold .ing formal rush in fthe second ..week in October, while another fraternity is opposed to holding it any other time than the sec ond week in October? What stu dents want are results not .the" haggling over the question." The publicity chairman could furnish, these results to the paper. ver NOW, THERE is a dispute be tween the coed equivalent of the Interfraternity Council,' the Pan Hellenic Council, and The Daily Tar Heel. The Pan-Hei girls say that they don't want a reporter at their meeting and the paper says that they have two choices a reporter and coverage or no reporter and no coverage. The wheel goes around and around and where it stops nobody knows. Chcrlos Dunrs The Carolina Gentleman com ; sundry tpyes. One of the latest hr-i-fellow, who likes to make the most ', onds served in Lenoir Hall, and c stretch it into thirds. Of course t;. . tleman doesn't want to appear grs and get his' third cup of tea, and If' send someone that is eating with hs The gentleman being discussed tr; with little or no success to get a certa". up and bring him a cup of tea. Then -gentleman received, via mail, a little . taining two tea bags and a poem en:; -Tan.Rjx ftVA Treatise nn Stimui .-,:,. ..' -I Mra " ui ed "Harmony Dispatch." but was j the coed who didn't want to get the- second or third cup of tea. The puf:; : ; A tea-oag for you . And one for the pot To prove that I'm not The most stubborn of the j,' For I'm not so stubborn As if would appear I give you some tea To prove it Here! You've fussed and I've fat Until I am spent And our topic of gab Has just about went. So I'll give in afed end All this darn -consternation And help you 'o'ercome Your tea-bag frustration. But remember that it's not Completed just so, For you must supply Ye Olde H20. near iroiii tiicn iuiam, guunenas, jum Occasionally someone will complais ters not having any news in them, and L' V. Amah rrU ..rill iimtf A n Y A r c.1. i . . . . ...L . uau cuuuqH vviii nine uiiu aon. juil w ni; going on. . One of the fellows got into this situat; his girl friend lives. She wrote back: "T ceo y7m u"nt tn b-rmij ii.'not It. U the North. Well, the Dodgers are movin: (as you can see the letter was written i ago), three World Wars are going on, T- State building was hit by a flying saucer and New York was invaded bv Itn-- see, absolutely nothing has happened." Reader's Roforf . " Rigd'der Confess: Yesieraay l commuted a crime, ans VP i n rr rrifc rnt in" -irnfnich nnrl rpnpnii e - ' x' " - - - n " - - i that I could hide this fowl deed frcm of my fellow man, but in doing so I v rrom me puuiic a matter oi grave conce. that our local police force is a hot-tt AMERICAN ACTIVITY! A rfroiro irKir(rn xrnn cotf? Vac hilt f:" based on glaring evidence. However, it L; that I can condemn these scoundrels, ! will state the case and allow the words t. yocr minds, simmer in your hearts, ani lently in your hands as you depose theie, qus vilains. ....It was the last of the seventh... kees were putting Mantle in as a pin''" the crowd was getting tense, and as I my battered car my grip tightened on much luck when suSdenly an inspiration. my mina. "vvnere said tne mspirau"". and every good, clean-cut, solid-as-a-ro.; the-wool, anthem-singing, red -blooded -If: 1 -A r J t t'ifi seventh of tr last game of the wond - Pounding the pavement of his regu.ar du. T T 1 1 f U!-il,,' t'. uu. ne wouiu ue ui course, ua-m" of some building ox the like) wherein a TV or a radio. So with this in mind. I the chemistry parking lot, dashed -(where there was a radio) secure in rr.y my car would not suffer the indignity c. xsci me oesi jaia pians oi . u When I left the lab at 5 p.m. and looked" car, my eyes grew misty for tnere on was a iraitors calling card: a mue - I have no malice in my heart tor sues will leave him with these kind wor Chaucer: I wolde I haddd thy coillons in rr.y" In stede of relikes or of seintuar:e Lat cutte hem of, I wol thee helpe r -' Thfv shn! ho chrvnixl in :in ll')!'3 x. V A Dill II V U -- Jei" Oh ilieYovJfi THE BANK. OF CHAPEL WH l: nearly 10 million dollars, but it can t k ' cils sharpened on its writing tables, i go in to make a deposit, I either ;3V" own pencil to write out the deposit my pocketknife and sharpen up om l pencils which are fastened by litt:e f; writing tables. I have probably harr -the Bank of Chapel Hill's pencils tr.J--of Chapel Hill has. I think I will " ' one of these days. Just keep ai c-ve . you use a pencil at the R of CH, notKf end. If it has a fresh, knife-carved P- thank Hauler. Cluiclc Hauser in V-e 1 Weekly.
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