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WEDNESDAY, c.'v THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO A Way To End The Marathon ;The marathon l fraternity rush is on. Since clean-cut, renp-tied, freshly-pressed freshmen begin their pilgrimage over to fra ternity row tonight, Ave feel a few timely (and, in many respects, timeless) remarks about this annual ritual are in order. Fraternity rushing.. was appropriately nam ed. It is a swirling, tiring, frantic week of shaking- hands, appearing at one's best, anil making decisions. .Fraternity members deli berate until the early hours. Rushees woYider and wonder if any decision is a correct one. When it's all over, everyone involved goes back to the books. And rushees have picked their fraternities. If a rushee's choice is a happy one, no union of men can be more beneficial or enjoyable than that of a success ful fraternity. If the choice was a mistake (and many are), the freshman is a -miserable man with no place to turn. The Daily Tar Heel favors a plan of de layed pledging. ' The reasons are clear in the very nature of rushing as it is the pressure of the current rush period is too great for many to make a wi,se decision. W'e suggest that fraternities end this mara thon and extend the rushing period to at least a month. Such a plan .would allow, a freshman to deliberate without pressure, to participate in rushing without getting on shaky academic ground. This additional time and removal of pres sure would aid rushees in making wiser, last ing fraternity choices. Let's Close Cameron The Cameron Avenue speedway, which intersects the campus and passes directly in. front of South Iiuilding, was almost the scene of a fatal accident the other night. At three minutes of coed hours, a pretty young thing was pushing her auto down the thoroughfare toward the womens' dorms at one end about as fast as the buggy would move. Another student wandered into the street and only the good graces of Buick brakes from a tragic accicjet.- n and an -awful lot of tire rubber saved both This is prob-'bly not the first time that Cameron' Avenue has come close to being a slaughter-field. Cameron Avenue, between Old East and Old West, ought to have been closed to traf fic long -ago. DoV.s it take a smashup, at the cost of human li.e, to motivate us! There are at least four good reasons wjiy Cameron Avenue should not be a thorough- fare: 1. With the street swept clean of parked ca.s, there is" ah irresistible temptation., to sp "C"', at the hazard of both drivers and peclc-- strians. 2. Extending McCorkle Place from Silent Sam all , the way to South Building's front steps woidd add much to the beauty of the campus. 3. The campus policemen who are paid to patrol Cameron on the hour could be on duty elsewhere. 4. Blocking the Avenue would not mean blocking off the parking lots. Building and Grounds Committee, please act. A Crackhrained Attack The American Legion has stigmatized the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic for its "left wing biases." The Legion's crackbrained attack on the Fund for the Republic smacks of the same stuff of which the Reece Committee's now-discredited attack on the tax-free foundations was made. The Reece Com mittee, even less specific than the pitiful Legion, indicted the foundations for every sin from "moral relativism" and "empiricism" to subverting Ameri can home life. "Paranoia" is what Bernard de Voto called it. 4 In the first instance, the Legion was born in selfishness, to lobby for special favors for World War I veterans. Its self-styled patriots have never seemed to realize that patriots seek no special favor- for services which they owe the country as a matter of course. Turned away fom the special fra vors it sought, the Legion has hung on, a blunt tool of reaction. Most reputable members have since seen that the Legion deals persistently in quackery and worthless censure; they have bowed out, leaving the organization in the clutches of petty martinets, whov set the style for legion national policy. Since World War. II ended, they have easily installed it in the same category with the D.A.R. and the McCarthy subcommittee. The sooner its senseless, paranoic clap-trap" ceases, the clearer the atmosphere will be. The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published ; t? dailv except Monday aiiu cAaininaun ana vacation periods and summer terms. Enter ed as second class 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, $2.50 i semester; delivered, ";$( a year, $3.50 a se w rr ester. ED YODER, LOUIS KSAAB 1 w r i .. 1 JJdii urs n I i ; i ill Carolina Front Department: Of Here We Oor AfreddyYef J.A.C. Dunn A Quiet Development DeSapio Plan Operating Democratic Nomination o Ge Y-Court Corner i V AN ACQUAINTANCE of ours offered us a small white card the other Day which we quote : here: I "By Trustee $ , Regulation, all - students must register their cars with the office of the Dean of Stu dent Affairs, 206 South Building. Since this car does not display an identi fyingsticker, the license num ber is being turned in at the Dean's office. If this car is owned or operated by a student please attend to registration within 2 days from this date." Te date was then stated s and the an nouncement was tersely signed "Police ' Department." " Aside from the fact that we can picture in our minds hun dreds of innocent visitors to the campus scattering in panic over the country, continually haunted by the knowledge that they have been reported to the Dean of Student Affairs at the University of North Carolina for appearing on campus in an unlabelled car, there is one interesting facet to this whole business: the per son whose car was branded with this institutional stigma had al ready registered with the Dean of Student Affairs, 206, South Building, and was displaying an identifying sticker. If anyone, such as the Police Department, has, an explanation for this little sympton if travel control, we would . be interested. UNLESS OUR sources of in formation are shaking on their knowledgable stilts and' produc ing lies, if you go down to the frats today you're in for a hell of a shock, for today is the day the fraternities" start their rush ing. As we sit here with egg on our chin and stroke the five strag gling strands of our mouldering editorial beard, we recall our own rushing days with some thing of a chill up and down the spine. We had a new suit at the time, three invitations to three different frats, an unfortunate lack of savoire faire, and no par ticular wish to join a fraternity. However, our philosophy (or one of them) always having been that no matter how big it is the bullet must be bitten, we don ned the first, put the second in a pocket of the first (along with a map of the campus; another philosophy since seconded by Tom Lehrer: Be Prepared), gird ed around us what little supply of the third we had, so to speak, fought down the natural appear ance of the fourth, and went to the Pika house. ThePikas were very nice to us. They gave us a coolish Coke, and showed us the bar and the necking room, and asked where we came from. We then went to a fraternity over on the corner of Cameron Avenue the call letters of which we have, it seems, permanently forgotten. They showed us the bar and necking" room and a pic ture of a nude behind ,the bar, and gave us. a Coke, and asked where we came from and did we know any girls in Tallahassee? WE NEXT went to the St. A. house; The St. A's were very nice to us. They gave us three Cok'es and asked what we thought of this and had we heard of that' and what were we doing -with' ourself, and showed us the bar and introduced us to the house boy", vVhose name' we think is spelled Eulas and with whom we were fascinated. We went back tHer the" next night, but on the' third night we were scratched on' the north turn by an untimely black-ball. We were also black balled by the Pikas, God rest their fraternal souls, and were "once, next year, informally rush--ed by the ATO's, whom we failed to impress sufficiently to be in vited back again. We have also had some brief dealings with the Theta Chis, Which were very pleasant on the whole, but which convinced us that, individual friendships not withstanding, we were just not built for fraternities. Any moral evident in this his tory is free for the taking. We don't see any moral, but it you do, fine. iU! J jff fUf J By The AIsops WASHINGTON Six months ago, hardly anybody thought that W. Averell. Harriman was a ser ious contender for the Demo cratic Presidential nomination. Now. almost everybody thinks so. Six months from now, if things work , out according to plan,.Har iiiman may well be the man to beat. The plan is that of Carmine DeSapio, shrewd chief of Tam many Hall and Harriman's prin cipal political strategist. DeSap io is, of course, not showing his hand to anyone. But, as he is fond of saying, "You don't have to draw , a diagram," and the essence of his strategy is already clear enough. Like all really expert political strategy, the DeSapio plan has the merit of being simple, and' above- all, relaxed. All recent American political history has established the rule that it is fatal to press, to seem too eager, to seek to transform the exist ing situation rather than to take advantage" of it. DeSapio has learned the rule well. He has carefully avoided any appearanee of beating the bushes for support for Harriman. For one thing, Harriman would not have permitted him to do so. For another, it has not really been necessary. New York is, after all, a city of many attractions, and in the course of time a great many influential Democratic pro fessional politicians show up there. It is entirely natural that the Democratic leader in the city should roll out the carpet for such persons. It is also natural 'that he should introduce at least the more influential of them to the Democratic Governor, for a long private talk. Over the past few months many visiting firemen have come to J-Jew York and been impressed. They have been impressed by the job Harriman is doing as governor, and by Harriman's odd ly impressive personality. They have also been impressed by the position occupied by DeSapio himself. . As one Democrat thoughtfully remarked, "J'Adlai didn't make Jack Arvey Secretary of State," Harriman has riot only made De Sapio (State) Secretary of State. He has left such matters as pa tronage almost entirely in De Sapio's highly professional hands. Things are therefore run the way professional politicians like to see them run. Moreover, Desapio speaks the language; of. the professional, which is not true of anyone in the immediate entourage of Ad lai Stevenson. DeSapio is on very friendly terms with the Demo cratic professionals who win car ry decisive weight' in Chicago next August, - men like Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburgh, the land if, for example, he has taken on Kefauver in a number of primaries-and roundly trounced him there will be no problem. Harriman will support Steven son with everything he. has, and so for that matter, will DeSapio. Then, New York's 96 . delegate votes are likely to go-to bteven- Birfh Of A University:.-. 162. Years Ago D,,nUnn Leonard w - m n f ff 17 f r . t A m ll ti v I 11 lit II w i 1 11 4 Bill Corpenin? vavia Lawrence 01 rxuuie", ua f;rct hal John Bailey of Connecticut; Paul' son in Chicago on the first bai Dever of Massachusetts. For the future, the DeSapio strategy is equally simple and relaxed. Harriman has repeatedly said "I'm for Stevenson," and he means it. Harriman greatly admires Stevenson, and will cer tainly support him if .; Stevenson shows that he is a strong, fight ing candidate with the united support of the party. But there is likely to be a simple test of whether Stevenson is this kind of candidate. If so, Stevenson will be faced with a hideous decision. He must either meet Kefauver in some primaries, or seem to duck a con test with him.'-Harriman, since he has said all long that he is for Stevenson, faces no such de cision. So, as always, the DeSapio strategy will be formed by the unfolding situation. If. by next spring it is clear that Stevenson has lit a fire in But, by .the same .token, if the fire in the land remains un litespecially if Kefauver beats Stevenson in a primary or. so then the time will come to launch the Harriman candidacy. DeSapio can be counted upon to launch it with professional skiU.' As for Kefauver, hardly anyone thinks that he can take first place. But he has. a real following, and, without drawing any diagrams, it is obvious that a Harriman Kefauver ticket might make' a strong combination. Stevenson; it should.be added, is still very much front runner, with his solid popular and organ izational support and his proven ability as speaker and party lead er. Yet the above may suggest why the position of front run ner is s6 often perilous in Amer ican politics. IT WOULD be interesting to note just how many of the stu dents si 1 1 i n g and' standing ? on the grass in front of South - Building today J as . University I Day ceremonies V are being held know exactly j what is.be- i ing celebrated, u Reader's Retort Editors: Shades of brimstone. The fire tongues are leaping across Y Court again this time from Rueben Leonard's corner. ' It seems Mr. Leonard has boiled his column down to vivid self expression andor' blasts at va rious people and organizations. Friday morning what I had been expecting for days happened. The corner-dweller jumped onto the bandwagon and opened up on the University band for vot ing dovvjn the trip to Georgia. One paragraph read, "As for there not being enough time to prepare a , suitable program . . . the usual campus answer t. that is BULL. The, football schedule was drawn up' long before the band went home last spring. Is. that time enough to prepare a program?" , .... ' . : '"'-' t Okay. But if Mr. Leonard had cared to pry himself out of his four-walled corner in 4 Y-Court and do a littleinvestigating and sound reasoning, he'd have re alized the following: (1) In the spring the barid is neither pre pared nor expected to practice marching. It takes all their time to work up concerts. (2) Even if the band could practice marching in the spring, there are nearly 30 freshmen in the band who, try as they might, can't read minds. Of course, they could form a band boosters club and pat their feet while a poorly instrumented 30 .piece band charges out to rep resent a university of 6500. Be fore the first game this year there were five rehearsals. A minimum of two had to be spent on organization and fundamen tals then the grind began. Ronald Oldenburg called the band "blind sheep." Sheep, fol lowers, they may be, but they're by no means blind. The ones who seem sightless in this case are wolves who are preying on that well-sheared flock. But why shouldn't they? It's in style! Eddie Bass Alas Poor Dunn II Editors: - , Memo To J. A'. C. Dunn after reading his Thursday's column: If you don't have anything to say, just don't write at all. Robin Fuller '111 Save You Just Give Me 40 Or 50 Years' i " v. i i y r . ..jug i I - lVW& J v &.U S-y . . & 11-. " . 5 3C I i ' 1 Co r ' in mi iipww w - :V . I i i. ii "-i i it: -T I II." 1 . , .. I Some will probably think we are celebrating the 166th anniversary since the - school was- chartered in 1789. Others- will think we are celebrating the 160th year since the doors were first open ed in 1795. Actually it is neither of these: We will be celebrating . the 162nd birthday of UNC. For. it was on October 12, 1793 that William Richarsori Davie, "father of the University," laid the corn- y erstone. of Old East, the first building. It was only proper that Davie, as Grand Master of Ma sons, laid the first stone since it was he who had sponsored the chartering of the University in the General Assembly of 1789. . THE UNIVERSITY was . given 20,000 acres of land by Benjamin Smith- and with this land, and $2,706.41 in cash (about the same amount of money that many out-of-state students spend at Caro- lina each year) UNC began its career. The legislature did make a loan of $10,000 in 1791 which was later converted into a gift. Carolina seemed headed for its ultimate doom from the very be ginning, but by constant struggle and appeals for donations, the general poverty, opposition to taxation, denominational hostili ty, and sectional controversies between the eastern and western sections of the 'state were defeat ed and the University held its head above water. ALTHOUGH THE Old East cornerstone was laid on October 12, 1793, formal opening exer cises were not held until Janu ary 15,1795. The first student did , not arrive until February 12 and for two weeks he was the student body. By the end of the term 40 more students had -arrived and were attending classes under two -professors. Form , the opening of school until 1804 Carolina did not have a president. The University was under a succession of "presiding professors." It was' clearly evi dent that this system was inade quate and in 1804, Joseph Cald well was elected president. Un der Caldwell the University grow from a small classical school to a very worthy liberal arts college. After 1815, and probably much to the dismay of the professors, natural sciences were placed on equal terms with the humanities. a DAVID L. SWAIN succeded Caldwell in the president's chair and under Swain's administration' the school and state were drawn closer together. More emphasis was placed1 on history, law, rhe toric, . and public speaking sub jects preparing men for public service. General culture was overshadowed by this ideal of public service prior to 1860. The enrollment reached a high of 456 in 1858. , DESPITE THE early hardships of the institution and even the Civil War, the University kept its doors open. In fact, Carolina sup plied the Confederate armies with both students and profes sors, and still managed to remain in' session. The' hand of fate finally caught Carolina and in 1870, in the days of Reconstruction, the University was closed' for five years, reopen ing with the Rev. Charles Phil lips as Chairman of the Faculty. Dr. Phillips served in this capaci ty for the remainder of 1875 and 1876. From, 1876, until the pres ent time the University has had eight presidents (not including acting-president J. Harris Purks) and as one can see'by looking out over the campus Carolina has come a long way and is now, as in 1789, attempting to carry out ". . . the indispensable duty of every Legislature to consult the Happiness of a rising Generation, and endeavor to fit them for an honorable Discharge of the Social Duties of Life, by paying the strictest attention to their Education." (Mr. Corpenin g, of the nevS ; .. to cover the Pan-Hel meeting last -l What with the Daily Tar Heel v . being, bogged down in quicksand, a: ed. its reporters' time, it is indeed a its funeral knell has not already bef, haps it is because the DTH is really r . fligate after all. ' The DTH goes about getting h . ways: either some representative cf comes into the office and requests t: -ment of a forthcoming event be prir.vV. sends reporters busily scurrying brarfches to find the news. The news comes via the latter method. CLOSED DOOR For years these reporters have t these journalistic corridois busily -items up along the way. But at the ; corridors they have inevitably run i door. Last" week, at long last, one of the : finally opened by the Interfraternitv c other was bolted by the Pan Heller.:: Mr. Rueben Leonard, who, after -the gall to declare that the DTH has declare the right to freedom of the r: hastily retreat and hide his face in a Y ; er, made the ridiculous statement th;t in' fraternities have no interest in f mu tt ever occur to Mr. Leonard that jus; person is not in a fraternity, that cLes that he will never join a fraternity, ror: never be interested in finding out ab::; of which he may some day be a par:1 Last week there were quite a few nC interested in the World Series, althc.. them were playing in it. Suppose that E: New York had decided that their encx private' and personal engagement, ar. results should not be revealed to the p.; less to say, the newspapers would pro like manner, the DTH protests against ; Mr. Leonard makes the brilliant sj; the IFC appoint a publicity chairman to tinent news to the DTH. In other w.r erously offers the IFC to make the cho; what is news and what is not. It it not : cal that a newspaper, being more acq.: the matter, should make the choice? WORLD SERIES ILLUSTRATES Let us use the World Series again ! this point. If reporters were denied U cover the games, and instead, a sp k; hired by the Yankees to reveal the re;: Series, undoubtedly his account would prejudiced. On the other hand, an exptr porter's coverage insures an exact, ur.L that the public can read with inter-:-1 "A further advantage to such public:.; says Mr. Leonard, is that it would gi e: er more "time, to cover something e'.e. .Leonard, have reporters at all? Why n t publicity chairman for every institution :: try and allow him to submit selected newspapers? Indeed, why even have ' Why not let the institution mimeograph :' distribute it to whomsoever it pleases? Finally, the presence of one reporter Hel or IFC meeting is hardly an ernbar: vasion of secrecy. On the contrary, these tions should be proud to have covera;e. dicates that they are considered worthy ty. The DTH is not trying to dig in sisting on news coverage. Instead, it -: insure its readers of faithful pressntat cr happenings. Again, may I say, the so.e ; a newspaper is to inform. According to Mr. Leonard, "the ,; around" and around and where it -' ' knows." But," kind sir, we do know vo " It will stop as soon as the DTH is ciur to completely inform its readers no ; no later. jQuote, Unquote:! Terrible Mr Menc! Sp'aalcs What men mistake for beauty in ' usually nothing save a certain hollow revolting flashiness, the superficial sp prancing animal. The most lovely :"'; " sidered in the light of genuine c-th-'- no-more than a study in vulgarity; found, not in the Uffizi gallary or monies of Brahms, but among the pl-n ' clocks and hand-painted oil-painting rate auction-room. Ail women, save 1 telligent, penetrate this imposture ' eyes. They know that the human hotv ' a brief time m childhood, is not a - but a hideous thing. Their own bodie si delight; it is their constant effort to conceal them; they never expse tr,enj . but only as an act of the grossest .cexu' If it were advertised that a troupe ct -virtue were to do a strip-tease act 'P stage, the only women who woukl S ; tainment would be a few delayte! -1 psychopathic old maid or two, and a --, dignant members of the parish La-' ty. 11. L. Mencken, In Defense of v L' "
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