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THE DAILYTAR HEEL PAGE TWO A New Sour Note: Ah Island Fortress Student Tickets Woollen Gymnasium, to most UNO stu dents, stands an island unto itself on campus. To lower classmen and many coeds, it re mains a Raleigh Road fortress of physical education. To freshmen, it's the bleak cen ter where well-meaning men 'teach a nearly Avorthless course called, hygiene- And to fra ternity row and the guys in Lower Quad, 'Woollen (iym is the place that takes your cash for a date ticket, lots of it, too. However,' all this pocket book-paining news is old hat. And Vernon V. Crook's re cent remarks on the subject offer little hope for change. . Crook, business manager or Woollen Gymti, in a flurry of words expressing the University's big-time football setup's Obliga tion to students, has sounded a new athletic note. Only it's off-key. After visits and diplomatic prods, from both student President Don Fowler and an Interfraternky Council official, cheaper date tickets will be granted for one game. Business Experiment By Pros 'Viewing the whole affair as a business ex periment in the field of big-business athlet ics at Carolina, Crook declared that he is eager to see "if there will be an increase in demand for these (date) tickets." (Not a word about service to students or anything as idealistic. Just talk of demand and sel'ing tickets.) According to . Crook, the University's big time athletic folks feel they "do owe ob ligation to the student," but not their dates. This student obligation, says the business manager, accounts for reduced rates for stu dents. Thus, quiet; 'though it was, sounded the new (and still . sour) note from the Raleigh Road fortress. Woollen -Gym's big-time athletic promo tersfor the first time we can recall have granted the studem "an obligation." The Daily Tar Heel remained Crook & Company of ticket salesmen that they owe considerably more than "an obligation'.' to students of the University. Students, whether they attend or Hot, buy tickets to all football games when they pay their fees. Should Hong To Students Student -a tMics, like any other student activity, should belong to the students. They have fallen into- the hands of professionals, grow" -ups who have taken the college boy's g. nie and made it pay in cash and prestige. These pros continue to neglect students in their plans. The scheduling of big games over the Thanksgiving holidays clearly de monstrates this. But now we have the big-time athletic men conceding "an obligation." This is progress. They owe much more. And perhaps when students become angry enough, they will demand their full due complete control of Carolina athletics- 'Niaybe Next Game I Can Afford A Date Ticket For , You', Conversation Piece i - i tern M V - r - v y x a ' S X r i Y'V ."hm "w n. J- h: - ':r j MATTER OF FACT Oiummsts Look Ahead WhtM - The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, - where it is published X 'daily except Monday . , cArtxiiJxiaiion ana , ..... v fv"uj I t summer terms. Enter ed as second elass matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Sub scription rates: mail ed, $4 per year, $2.50 i semester: delivered. jJfS6 a year, $3.50 a se- mester. liiHtors ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR i I t t.'fK-i ilit 4 M - - - - - .SI I ' 1 ' . 1 1 i - 'r 1 1 -I i ; H i' i S in t:..::vy: n Managing Editor. - FRED POWXEDGE News Editor JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor J. A. C. DUNN Joseph & Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON According to those who should know, the policy to date has been to underline the dark side of the President's tragic illness, in order to avoid arousing false hopes. The area of damage to the heart was somewhat smaller than is usual, for example, but this has not yet been revealed. Again, the period of intense depression after a thrombosis characteristically lasts considerably longer than was the case with the President, who recovered his good spirits on the second day. But this has not been emphasized. Bad hick must always be allowed for, of course, yet the fact that the President's heart attack was at least marginally less serious than is generally supposed is none the less an important fact. It ex plains the comparative confidence with whih the leaders of the junta now running the Administra tion are looking to the future. The great question, of course, is just when Presi dent Eisenhower will again be able to function as President. The accepted answer came in stages. Until Vhe end of the two-week period in which complications are always to be feared, he will really not function at all in the vital sense of examining and deciding great issues of policy. Until the end of October he will hardly function, seeing a mini mum of visitors and signing only those papers which it is essential for him to sign. By the end of October, however, it is expected that he will be able to move without risk to his farm in Gettysburg. There, according to official forecast, he will spend, another convalescent month. At Gettysburg, in the words of a high source, "He ought to be able to work about as long every day as he was working during his Denver holiday, before his attack came." That means that with due precautions to avoid getting over-tired, he will be able to devote a couple of hours daily to public business. ' Finally, the presently accepted forecast calls for the President's return to Washington about Dec. 1. But for a good many months after his return to Washington, the President will have to continue on a "limited schedule." This means that he will be held down to perhaps two hours work in the ;mbrnirtg -arid two more in the afternoon' if he is feeling well. Such are the limits, as it were, bf the grave prob lem created by. the Constitutional rule that the Executive branch of the American government contains no executive body except the actual, physical body of the President of the United States. EDITORIAL STAFF Rueben Leonard, Bill O'Sulli van. . . Mixed 'inks . On this point,, there, has been much confusion. The Cabinet, or the National Security Council, or both, have geen widely represented as able to carry on the government indefinitely in the absence of the President. But in fact, the National Security Council is only an advisory body. The Cabinet is the same. Neither has a particle of Executive au thority, which belongs to the President alone. No one is more conscious of this than the mem bers of the junta that has been formed to- act ias a sort of committee of government in the President's absence. Vice-President Nixon, the junta's effective 'chairman, and its two Cabinet-member leaders. Sec retary of the Treasury Humphrey and Secretary of State Dulles, showed their awareness of, the true situation when they pleaded with Gov. Sherman Adams to join the President in Denver without fur ther delay. - Gov. Adais would have preferred . ;toJ5,tay in Washington working, day by day with :;:'his junta colleagues. But Nixon, Humphrey and -Dulles cor rectly insisted that none of their actions .had au thority except from the President, Therefore, they said there must be someone at the President's bed side who would be able, as it were, to serve as a transmission line of Presidential authority. In short, Nixon and his colleagues have made the very best they could of very bad business. Already, however, at least one grave issue has had to be com promised in order to spare the President. If he had been well, he would have had to de cide the question of priorities, as between main taining the national defense and balancing this year's budget. Secretary of Defense Wilson was about to fly to Denver to present the case for his de partment when the President was stricken. But now Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey has con tented himself with less than half the defense cuts he was originally demanding. - : . But problems of this order cannot go on being -solved forever by the simple-system of splitting the difference between opposing viewpoints. Only the President' can decide the far graver conflict between known defense heeds and pressing fiscal interests in the next year's budget and that decision will have to be taken in November, at Gettysburg. There will be many other problems, too, in this top-level category. It will ge hard for the Adminis tration junta to draw the line wisely between'spar ing the President and shoving under the rug Ques tions that he ought to answer. For all these reasons, it is a matter for general . thanksgiving that he should be able to start taking the really big deci sions before too many weeks have passed. ack & White Staff Cartoonist .Charlie Daniel NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Charles Dunn, James Nichols, Mike Vester, Bennie Baucom, Bunny Klenke, Ruth Rush, Curtis Gans, Etha nTolman, Joan McLean, Nancy Link, Bill Corpening, Vir ginia Hughes, Clarke Jones, Wilson Cooper, Char lie Sloan, Jerry Cuthrell, Peg Humphrey, Nancy Rothschild, Baxbara Newcomb, Betty Bauman. 'Uisat Editor For This Issue Curtis Gans At the Cafe Francais, at the south end of Rockefeller Cen ter's 'sunken cement gardens, a formidable -old lady seated her self and a girl of about eight tin der an umbrella and .requested the waiter, in a Midwestern ac cent, to bring her a dish of vanil la ice cream.' "The child," the lady added, "will have a black-and-white soda." "I am sorry, Madam," the wait er said. "This is impossible. For you, yes; for the little one, no' "What kind of rigmarole is this?" the lady said. The waiter shook his head ad amantly. "I suppose you're French," the lady observed. "Oui, Madame," said the wait er. "You people are always confus ed," said the lady. "Under the circumstances, I'll take. the black-and-white, and my granddaughter will have the ice cream." The waiter smiled amiably, and presently reappeared with a dish of ice or earn, a bottle of soda, Oh'Rushihg, Fraternities 8t A Rushee rim Or a .Bill Ragsdale "Ted, come over here a minute; there's a rushee I want you to meet.' This is Sammy' Funk from Jonesboro meet Ted Smythe. 'Scuse me I've got to run see about some more punch." "Glad to know you, Sammy." "Well, I'm certainly glad to know you, Ted. I could tell you were a member of the fraternity by that different kind of name card there. I guess all the fra ternity members wear them so that us fellows that are rushing can tell who you are. I mean, be ing members of the fraternity and all." "Yes, they do." "That's what I thought. I've been trying to get around and. meet everybody and talk and all. If you don't talk to anyone, guys think you don't have anything on the ball. After all, that's the spirit of fraternities, fellows talking together. Meeting on a common ground, you might say." "Yes." "You bet. Well, this certainly is a .nice house. Yes sir, a real v fine house. I guess you have some real great parties here. I mean everybody drinking and laughing: and everything." "We have a fine time here.", "Sure you do. It's a' grand place. I bet you all have a real fine time.' "Can I get 'you some more punch, Frank?" "Why thanks, Ted that's swell of you. I've already had three, though. I don't want to seem like a hog and spoil my chances, you know." "It's perfectly all right." "Good. There's a chance you might have heard' of me before, Ted. Just a couple weeks ago I had a letter in The Daily Tar Heel. About the smell in the gym?" - "No, I didn't." "Well, I was against it. The smell, I mean. A lot of myi friends spoke t0 me about the letter afterwards. There was quite a lot of controversy. I thought maybe you ' read it, and remembered my name and knew who I was previously before you met me, as it were." "No." "Oh. Well, like I always say it may be a small world but it sure is a big university. Yes sir, yau sure can't know everybody there is to know. "No." "No, you certainly can't. Not on your life. Of course I know a lot of guys. You'd be surprised at how many fellows know my first name. I go walking into the Y lobby and its 'Hiya, Sammy,' here and 'Hey, Sammy, how are you boy' there. It's surprising, short a time as I've been here. Know what I mean?" "I think so." "Yes. Of course I'm not too much of a big Wheel,, but I like to pass that old ball around with, the guys." "Mmmmm." V "You bet." 'Wellr if you'll excuse me, I've got to go meet some more of the rushses." - "Oh sure, Ted, 'sure. "Say, the next night is invitational, isn't it?" "Yes, it is." . t "I thought so. Well, I'll see you around, Ted." "So long, Dick." $ tie taorse. Roger Will Coo ("The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some things, minimizing others . . . "Hipporotis, cir ca 500 B. C.) THE HORSE was reading when I saw him in the lee of and on the lea of Peabody Hall. "WacLaaaaaaaaaadminit" he cautioned, holding up an admonitory hoof. "I got anudder fi' hunnerd woids ter read, see?" Five hundred words - I meant, words in a minute? Impossible! And so was The Horse's Brook lnyese speech impossible. "De Bums won de Woild's Serious, yeah?" The Horse' rebutted. "So it's fashionable ter be a Bum. In fact, if one is to judge by the standards of Cafe Society, Washington Administration and Hollywood trends, bums are in the majority generally and be coming more popular yearly." Could 'be. "'But this five hundred words "A minute?" The Horse interrupted me. "My dear Cretin Roger, it is easy to read that many words a minute, and with increased comprehension over a, slower rate; if you know how to do it. There are certain basic rules of reading-habit which may be learned by any. student; and which can be learn ed under voluntary but competent guidance on the campus; and which must be learned by a student desirous of keeping abreast his classes with ever more onerous reading assignments, as is the aca demic fashion 'in this day and lime and place." But, students were already carrying full loads! How could they take on another voluntary class with full loads, already? "If you mean the sort of loads I judge you do," The Horse barked dogmatically, a neat trick for an equine, "or even the loads one, or a dozen try to but do not carry, courses in reading facility are of tremendous importance." . Why weren't such courses taught, then? "They were," The Horse averred, "at the college level and in secondary schools, until fairly recently. They were dropped in favor of more showy and fa shionable courses. Now, they dropped even the teaching of it for teachers. At least one-half of most any textbook, save perhaps a Math text, is padding, fat, stuffing, waste. Ifs, ands, buts, maybes, on-the-other-hands. Size tends to justify textbook prices. The trick is to be able to wade through a large text, picking out the passages of importance and ignoring the stuffing; and at the same time to com prehend what you are reading. It has been estab lished that analytical, or low-gear, reading thwarts comprehension. Fast reading enhances it." Did the general public read in low gear? "At the rate of a seventh-grader" in elementary school," The Horse whinnied horsematically. "They look at words instead of absorbing ideas. You. will, "also; unless you learn the knack of fast-gear read ing. Until recently, until funds were curtailed in favor of more fashionable doings, The University Testing Service had a Reading Lab set-up which was used by smart cookies bent on cooking more efficiently in the classroom work, and with a tre mendous savings in homework time outside-reading, and the like." Oh? And it was all gone, now, the Lab? "The Testing Service still has some texts on the skill," The Horse said. "And it could be they can lend them out and perhaps even render other aid . . . when and if they have the time ... to anybody interested in doubling his capacity for study and at the same time halving his, or her, worktime." Well, I was interested! But . . . not altogether convinced I needed it, or that it would work. "Try me Friday," The Horse murmured, his eyes swivelling slowly to comprehend the gyroscopic im port of two coo-eds reading as they panthered past. "I am now engaged in low-gear, or analytical, read ing ..." Gosh, if I could double my reading and halve my time! Golly, if we all could! See ya Friday! Yours Truly and a shot glass filled with whis key. "Voila! he said. , The lady glanced at him with a a look bf cold hatred. "I meant a black-and-white ice cream 'soda," she said. "Do you think I would order an intoxicant for a child?" "That," said the waiter, "I do not believe, Madame, bur putting ice cream in this Black and White is, I assure you, not a very good idea." - ' ' At this point, the lady sput tered, .off with the small fry.- The New Yorker N. C. ROAD BUILDING PRATED North Carolina's use of the "stage construction" technique in its accelerated highway moderni zation program is Saluted in tlie theme article in the'autiimn is sue of the "Quarterly," official publication of The Asphalt In stitute. The "Quarterly," in a technical appraisal of the Tar Heel high way program, pointed out that, by employing the stage : con struction method, "more miles of highway are opened to traffic from available funds that would be possible if all three phases ot 'construction were completed un der one contract." "Letter-writing: that most delightful way wasting time." John Morley. "The letters a man receives often tell us more about him than those he writes." Edivard Sack-ville-West. "The only kind of letters most women love to receive are those, Which should never have been written in the first place." Anon. "One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answers." By rdn. " "I have received no mofe than one or two let ters in my life that were worth the postage." Tho tedu. . ,.' "A woman seldom writes her mind but in the postscript." Richard Steele. "I have made this a rather long letter because I haven't had the time to make it short" Blaise Pascal. "The law gives a man the right to open his wife's letters, but not the nerve." Anon. "Correspondences are like small-clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them .up." Sydney Smith. "You say there is nothing to write about. Then write to me that there is nothing to write about." Pliny the Younger, "When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams." Anton Chekhov. "A letter is an unannounced visit, and the post man is thus the agent of impolite surprises." Nietzsche. "Lives of great men all remind us As we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn." Anon. "The ideal love affair is one conducted by post." George Bernard Shaw. Compiled by Paul Steiner for The N. Y. Times. Carolina Frcnu WflQ Will For Prm:' i his Sprir - CAMPUS P0LJ-. again over the h'-' v---. same tonight. AUh ions are to be hM future, the enrrt-: both parties is w, candidates for p: spring. This is r lem at all something for the fill the time beiv. rof fen tinnhvl . i i - - iu:.;: cal "smoky back rov THE STUDENT p. the pace in the .-: and the Univirs; v have to counter v..:: it has to make the r. near close, it is Ej didate. Bob is -u. iii uiiLl ill d tion to spread h.. over an even lar:. the student ;;;:..... IFC's Andy Derk is not in a frater: liershak Scholar;,-, not allowed to join ; nities. Regardless o: the kind of lmiv th:: by both fraternity ternity men and her. 1 . a r ciown quue a iew v fraternity courts. 1A1 1 lli.ll HVJiJUi. . Y i 1 1 I 1 II ) 1 ! '. men in thp IT y,h Young a run for Hodges may not : when nomination i arounu unless ue i dently. Too many c: urirtc ctill ri"": ' ' (II J JV... - ' ' fironDins oil oi ty in the UP to sup;: aent uon row in lact enrina "hfH I ning against Lutr.er Opinion has it supported Fouler .1 1 X . f (I, I T ..,( wora lnaepeiHiciu campaign on m;.s u picked up quite a Fowler's "Reid-run" Despite the fact ii'nll rM-lon t n of student gcver !,,. tint"". the Consolidated iionor cuuiii.il trie snrini eif. - he runs) will be ' time be running fi- North Carolina. It touchy situation, i of wins people will i if his father's pop- deciding factor. to Luther Jr. I must be, rnut fo'- JIM MARTIN i ,: f;' man 10 run concerned. !!' -" spring s canip..-- popularity, drive. -three good atribut" dential aspirant. Whether Jim u Young is a topic : the Dreseni i--- that he could, but the effervescent Fe spreads easily sr.- rectly politically over enough of tr-c 1 suit in a major:'. election day. IF ELECTIONS be held tomon spring, the rt:;-" something like leader in votes l joritv. Hod.-e third. Martin enough votes run-off betwi'-:-Hodges with Hodges in the l" W
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