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WTge two f y FRIDAY, OCTC: THE DAILY TAR HEEL What Style President? Elsewhere on this page, under the head ing ; "University Needs A President," you will- find an irrefutable .editorial from the Raleigh News and Observer. No power of logic in the editorial writer has made his argument that President Gor don Gray ought either to return or resign irdii clad. The cifctimstatices of this hour in the Universitv's historv have cast the die. 'The presidential situation, fortunately, is not. as clearly marked by inaction as it was two, weeks ago. If we are correct in our be-tween-t her lines-reading, the Trustees' an nouncement that they will ."review" the sitv" tlation at theiV November 14 meeting means they will take sortie definite action- If oiif feeling is right, and the choice of a new' president for the Consolidated Univers ity impends, a few words on that choice may be timely. We lesecch the senior class powers-that-be come to college administration, and that this new trend is toward the choice of men in finitely schooled in the science of adminis tration. Pushed to its logical extreme, the new Attitude is that a president must be more public relations officer than anything else. We don't buy that. If and when the Trus tees elect a iie,w president, the faculty of the Consolidated University will have danger ously little voice in his election., He is, tech nically, an officer of the State of North Caro lina. But the Trustees Avill be foolhardy to ig-' nore the ranks of the scholars when they elect a president. Our idea is that any new chief officer for the University ought to come from the classroom. He -should be first and foremost scholar. Considerations of executive. potentiality are important, but clearly sec ondary. The classroom has given the University its greatest presidents. If called upon, it can again. ' It's Never Too Early Why do senior class officers wait until the last minute to choose commencement speak ers? Perhaps because they have none in mind at this early st; e of the academic year and ihhst wait for approaching deadlines to in spire them? Last June's choke of Carl Sandburg add ed lustre to the commencement . program; but; we doubt that he could have been brought to C'Aapel Hill if he did not live at Flat; RockJiiJjc North Carolina mountains, Actioti would i. ve been too snail-like to get hint fron Tn.'nois. We beseech the senior class powers-that-be 1 begin non to issue invitations. In fact, we have a few suggestions. VilIiam Faulkner, . the novelist arid Nobel Prizewinner lias gained noteworthiness as an orator, quite apart from his stature as the SoutHY outstanding man of letters. Why not ask him up from Oxford? Faulkner's "Faith or Fear" speech at Pine Manor Junior al lege three springs ago was one'of the most eloquent we have read; and his Nobel Prize oration is unparalleled. It would not hint if the Administration, where the responsibility for baccalaureate speakers lies, could be thinking about com mencement, too. Wliat about Reinhold Nie bullr? Or Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam? The range of available speakers is vast; and the time is neer too early. Carolina Front At The Varsity: Julie Harris Meefs Camera I.A.C. Dunn English Club Ate Well Meaning Intellectuals Selling U. S. Education Short? Monomania Dept. Remember our little story about Tom Jef ferson's sartorial troubles at the University of Virginia? Chew on this little morsel of corrobora tion; The Cavalier Daily puts it, editorially, under the "Unmitigated Gall Department:'" Isn't" there some kind old dormitory counselor who will tell members of the first-year blue-jean-and-T-shift set that it is not quite smart to ap pear at the 'fraternitv ODen Hons in arAA r,A green Jersey City Bowling Club jacket. Mm S The official student publication of the Publl cations Board of the. University , of North Carolina wnere it i nnki;ni,.j U - - if 11 1 S 1 s 1 - Suitors daily except Monday and examination and 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 xMarch 8, 1879. Sub scription rates: mail- j ed, $4 per year, $2.50 I semester; delivered, ' ; f $6 a year, $3.50 A se mester. ' ED YODER. LOUIS KIlAAR .1 it) U 4 T . - - xManaging Editor . FRED POWLLDGE News Editor JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager - 1 BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor j. A, c DUNN EDITORIAL STAFF Rueben Leonard, Bill OCulli van. Night Editor For This Issue -Rueben Leonard "I AM A Camera," which we previewed last Wednesday at a gloriously indolent special morn ing showing, a is truly inspiring movie. We came floating de Ieriously out if it, generating our own helium, as it were, convin ced the Life is not so bad after all. : r The setting is Berlin, in the early 30's, the environment Bo hemian, the characters standard but irresistable, the story hila rious. Julie Harris, the spark of the whole show, has outdone her self. This is a rather trite thing to say, but we feel it is true all the same. As a scatter-brained, irresponsible, highly feminine night club singer, she impressed us so forcefully that after a while we shopped at her lines (she is easily the female equivalent of Alec Guiness) and merelygasped at her atcing. 1 SHE ALSO impressed Lauren ce Harvey, the writer-hero late of "Romeo" Lame who states in the beginning with remarkably accurate creative introspection that he is a camera with the shutter always open. By the end of the first reel, Mr. Harvey is so hopelessly involved with Miss Harris that we both shuddered and licked our lips at the pros pect of being in a similar situa tion. From the time Miss Harris commits the indiscretion of spending the night in Mr. Har vey's apartment, she leads every one, including the audience, through a rather bruising series of first class "situations." She indulges in a touch of match making, ("You should pounce on her, Fritz!) goes wild and invests the rent money in caviar and champagne ("I thought the caviar came free with the drinks like peanuts"), throws her shoes did hit someone!"), lavishlv Alison Preble It has been suggested that UNC meet the prob-tf lem of what to do about the steadily increasing num- ber of applicants to the University by instituting entrance examinations, designed to select out those students who are college material. The feeling at South Building seems to be that,. although such a policy would be direct reversal of our present prac-' tice of admitting any student with a diploma from a North Carolina hiah school, adoption of this policy is the only conceivable solution to a, critical situation. Already such existing facilities as dormi tories are inadequate; faculty' and staff are over worked and underpaid. In addition, the legislature,' wrestling with defi cits and the problem of North Carolina's economic backwardness, is adopting a narrow, business-oriented attitude toward the state higher educational system. Arguing that North Carolina simply does not have the resources to expand its facilities for higher, education, the legislators are demanding, more technicians and more professional men for North Carolina, or, in other words, a dollar-for-dol-lar return on the state's investment in higher edu- cation. It is not difficult for members of the fac! ulty to reject this reasoning as short-sighted, but it is difficult fo them t'o refute the financial argu ments. UNC SITUATION Despite the peculiar characteristics of the situa tion confronting UNC, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that essentially this problem of whether or not to expand the colleges is a national one. Hardly a week or a month goes by that does not bring an article or a letter to the editor on the subject. Nor is this surprising when we realize that according to predictions which . take into ac count expected population increases and the rising tide of war babies the college population could double or triple in a period of fifteen years. (See Jerry Tallmer's "The Colleges Face a Rising Tide" in the September 10 issue of Saturday Review of Literature.) The colleges have a brief period in. which to plan and prepare and crucial policies are being formulated now. One outspoken group, seeing only, loss in this rapid expansion, calls on educators to revaluate the policy of education for all. In the words of its leader, Professor Douglas Bush of Har-' vard, "the public must be convinced that higher ed ucation, or what passes for higher education, is neither a birthright nor a necessary badge of responsibility, and that useful and happy lives can these students nor the effect which they often have on their happy-go-lucky fellow students. FALLACY OF TESTS It is often claimed that the able student can be singled out by machine-graded apptitude tests. How ever, the' Army's discovery during the Second W'orld War that tiose men who had often takf n tests of this sort in school made consistently higher scores is sufficient in itself to cast serious doubt on the validity of these tests. If the policy of instituting entrance examinations is adopted at UNC, it will mean all too often that the student is being penal ized for what we all recognize to be inadequate pre partion in high school. The only proper solution is to return to -basic principles and to recognize that the colleges of this country, and UNC in particular, must meet the educational needs of our expanding democratic society. ' The most encouraging result of such a determi nation is that, the question having shifted from whether? to how? our minds are ; stimulated into forging creative, daring solutions to many problems which before seemed insurmountable. For instance, nearly every classroom building on campus operates on a five hour schedule. What but habit and com fort is to prevent us from utilizing these classrooms on a ten or a fifteen hour schedule? We academicians must give up our defeatist at titudes. To be sure, the problem of providing a sound education for the average student and the advanced student simulataneously has not been solved, but fiow much will assuming that it -cannot be solved accomplish? We need to explore the possible solutions such as making our honors program more intensive A principled stand against restriction of admissions does not necessarily lead to an endorsement of mediocrity or low academic standards. In fact, it is only consistent to provide students with equality of opportunity and at the same time require them to meet certain academic standards, if they wish to stay in college. v . Them Primitive Days In Chapel Hill be led without a college degree or even without membership in a fraternity." The principal argu ment of this group, namely, that in education as in mass entertainment largeness fosters mediocrity, is an appealing one to intellectuals for many reasons. The most obvious one is, of course, intellectual bear. I feel so Russian tonight."), snobbery, perhaps the most distasteful trait man' I rode over to Chapel Hill the other day with Bill Jr., helping him get his clothes and parapher- gcts herself wound up .with a la scivious mid-western American ("I've serious thoughts of becom ing a femme fatale"), and throughout manages to hold Mr. Harvey at a careful arm's length ("I do think people, are so ridicu lous about love. I mean why can't they take it all asy a part of spring?") She also throws one of the most fabulous parties ever thrown, at which the champagne flows like ginger-ale, the guests collapse by the even dozen, arid Mr. Harvey, kicking and scream ing, is treated for a hangover by a Swedish masseuse who drinks flower water, two steam bath specialists who require two bath rooms,, and a three-foot electric shock treatment dispenser who travels on his hands and knees and sneers at liquor. SHELLEY WINTERS, who of late seems to have been sliding uncontrollably into a series of rather grubby, proletarian roles, also appears in the movie from time to time as well as a welfare minded Gerrnan fraulein steeped to the eyebrows in her old man's cash and a commendable distaste for Nazism. In the end Mr. Harvey .writes his book, which throughout the movie is subjected to the same sort of unsettling treatment the human digestive system receives in the course of a mid-winter Channel , crossing; Miss Harris manages to solve the problem of an insipient illegitimate child and winds up writing a novel, of her own (which is the last thing anyone would expect of her); the love-lorn Fritz manages to solve the problem , of Shelley Winters, who is just a bit too preoccupied with the comfort of the working classes for love to progress; arid the movie-goer leaves the thea tre wondering what hit him. WE HAVE arrived at two pos situation: ' (1) Considering the fact that this town is on a hill, perhaps it might be a good idea to uti lize all the terra firma under us and create a sort of automo tive grotto with several entrances and exits .in which to park sur plus cars. (2) Make all the' cars in the country one half the size they are now. has developed. Another seeems to meet the needs" of our faculty members who are disturbed about the low academic standards of the University. Accept ing a sufficiently rapid expansion of the Universi ty as financial impossibility, " they ike professors throughout the nation se-e this crisis as an oppor tunity for improving the level of higher education by holding colleges at their present size and re stricting "admissions. But the fact remains that such a policy if car ried out would create that ossification into social ' cliques so common in European countries which we have been able to prvent in the United States, " largely by means of our democratic educational system. No one who has taught or studied with boys whose immigrant parents have pinched pennies to send their son to college so that he may pull him self up out of their situation forgets easily the seriousness and the aggressively critical minds of nalia into Mangum dormitory at the University. Re minded me of the day I entered there way back. Remember stopping at Bynum gymnasium . and weighing a neat and skinny 118 pounds. My first year was spent in Mary Ann Smith dorm;, there. were toilets and wash bowls but no showers. When j we took a shower we had to go to the gym; only 'one dorm on the Hill at that time had showers; many didn't even have toilets. I boarded at Swain Hall, $18 a month; that was a rough and tumble place, no telling when a hard roll sailing through the air would conk you on the head and a specially untasty form of beef stew dubbed slum-gullion seemed the only meat item the cooks knew how. to fix. Freshmen had it hard those days: you got dump ed out of your bed every night or so and every now and then had a bucket of water poured on you from an upstairs window. The more vicious hazing had passed away then; by now I reckon freshmen are treated, like people all the time. No hot water then to shave by I remember boys who removed pop off valves on radiators in winter and got their shaving water direct from there. The whole campus was in an area the size of two city blocks, but living quarters and classrooms were ugly, dirty and ill furnished. W.E.H. in The Sanford Herald 'Are You Sure That's Your Shoe, Cindarella?' The Need For A President 1 There should be no need for the executive committee of the trustees of the Consolidated Uni versity to put on the agenda for its November meeting a review of the status of President Gor don Gray who is on leave of ab sence while serving as Assistant Defense Secretary. The status of that situation is that at a time of almost unequalled crisis in ed ucation in North Carolina the State is denied the active and ar ticulate leadership of a president of its greatest educational insti tution. President Gray should re . turn promptly or resign prompt ly. And there should be no delay in accepting the resignation if it is available. x feVfeR MORE IMPORTANT Mr. Gray's position in Wash ington may be a very important one. The position which he has vacated at Chapel Hill was never more important than now. The serious situation with regard to the future of higher education in North Carolina is now being studied by a special new board set up by the General Assembly. The present situation with regard to segregation at Chapel Hill came to a climax with the court ordered entry of Negroes as un dergraduate students in Mr. Gray's absence. But the functions of a University of North Caro lina president have never been limited to the campuses pf col leges. . TRADITIONAL JOB Traditionally the president of the University has been regarded as the chief educational states man of North Carolina. And crea tive statesmanship in education was ner more needed in North Carolina than now. Mr. Gray is an able man. Presi dent Eisenhower's invitation to him to come to Washington was a compliment to his ability as well as a recognition of his political support. But Mr. Gray has recog nized that he could not do his job in Washington and remain on active duty in his job in North Carolina. The reverse is equally true, While he remains in Wash ington and holds the North Caro lina title, too, he denies to any other man the position essential to the University leadership which is required at this time. SHOULD CHOOSE Mr. Gray has been gone since June. The University has had no leader with the full position and prestige of president since that time. Neither Mr. Gray nor the executive committee should re quire more time to "review" such a situation. Gordon Gray should choose between the two titles and two positions which he holds. And either by his return or his replacement North Carolina should have an active head of its greatest educational endeavor when it needs it most. RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER If I me Li i .-. -kv :. ' j ) cpS (rK'fs? . - . yzhm ( . ). . , 1 I v ft 'J ' ' SjrJ I v r 1 v mi. '" VfWAu ...... I n 1 u 1 Roger Will Coo THE HORSE was standing? nP1, . Weil, his eight-Dan ot eyes pcrnaps on spread of greensward and oaks to the r. knew, from experience, that this did n.j' mean The Horse was seeing what w . tu. his muzzle "I am admiring the lovely jta 0f toried campus," The Horse surprise,; at that view, Roger. L.ooK!" Oh, shure. Pretty. Yes. But haj a Horse five years to discover this? "Nope," The Horse noped me. "I not;c I came here, back in September nf '-a t - , - - yj, ; That would be . . . 1850? Nimbly, 1 . The Horse's punitive hooves and card,; nvyself to the north of him, also. "The truth of it is, Roger," The I' soberly, an accomplishment not to i lightly nor believed too rcaciily, "the t is, until recently I have not had the t. about me.". Oh! This would Better, would it? be about Rc "You bet," The Hor.sc said happily, was so busv falling back in mv rl. that I could spare no time at all, at all." And now? Things had changed? "Hordy hor hoc, have things chnr Horse Gleasoned with glistening teeth. a matter of learning that reading is notd. rnnf iniinnc mnvnniont r( ih n ovoc with series of eye movements. It is easy 1 or from word to word, instead of the c planned and more inclusive fixations vh.. pas many words at one fix; or, glance.'' I had to agree. After hearing The I! ally had read one of his lessons last v: inquired about it at the University Te I was able now to read and comprehend dred words a minute! 1 T 11.-1 U.-ii.l i,t r ins usudi i-tdu-iuyiuai iv-'uuiiai. 1 ic;.r but one paragraph at a glance, instead of page in four swift, fixating glances. Tc: velt could and did read about three thou , a minute, with comprehension. The record where around six thousand wnrrk a tr.:-, : Well-had? -was The Horse reading more Virginity & Paint To the Chairman of the News: It is the inevitable result of ex isting factors that Yale men are roughly 80 per cent virgins. It has become .impossible for Yale men to inveigle young females into their rooms. The University is subsidizing chastity by making rooms as ugly as possible. Consi der, gentlemen, the case of the first entry in Davenport's Lower Court. At the start of 1954, it was announced that this entry was to be painted. It was not. It was promised to its members that this entry would, therefore, be the first entry painted in 19o5. It wasn't. Last week it was prom ised that this entry would be painted "on the first rainy day." Yesterday it rained. Perhaps this wasn't the kind of rain the Ser vice Bureau had in mind. What they really meant was that the first day it rained paint' this en try would be painted.' Gentlemen, we are planning to have dates down Dartmouth weekend. Must we merely rein force the statistics or will the Service Bureau come to our aid? J. Michael Lane, 1379 Davenport Willam N. Bourne Jr. 1381 ' Davenport The Yale News "You shock me, Roger," The Horse e "Of course not! But reading faster, I : around me more; start later on catclu, reading anH wt a ffroatnr thrill tlMRnif Ugh! Who could educate The Wor. "Silence!" The Horse snapped, set-r,: crouch like a pointer and exhibiting his r nique as a brace of babes hustled by. "! speed up my reading, Ro.ger, to listen to spare time. I have other interests, to be s. Oh, well. The Testing Service at Tf helped me, I know, and it can help cc Horse? I don't have time to discuss ixr Security And Scion' m An alarming forecast on national secur; years hence has been made by a hi;ri A tion ofSicial who is in excellent posit: " whereof he speaks. Chairman Lewis L S the Atomic Energy Commission warns lagging rate at which scientists are Iciri -in the United States will become a nat: ' ity a generation from now with our freedom imperiled "in an age of ": pendence upon science and technology " Undoubtedly most of the members d ! Industrial Forum, before whom he s? aware of the shortcoming that he strci many scientists, educators, military men -ernment officials have made similar Many of thern estimate that the dar..r than Mr. Strauss believes it to be. (A r'-" should be -ignorant of the sad fact? Russia is producing more scientist t and that our critical shortage of engineer? entists is a grave threat to our natwrJ In addition to being too few, .scient' couraged from entering government work -mosphere of suspicion aroused by i- ' - ' of security investigation. Some idea conveyed to Congress last week v.he.i Phelps of Yale University, a sp -.c-Federation of American Scientists. 1 Civil Service subcommittee that the A tion's security program "to some oxte- ' ior Einsteihs reluctant to join Governm'-' As an example of v.hal a "junior Kr bear in mind there is the outstanding J. Robert Oppenheimcr. He was den j clearance last year on such tenuous r the-scientific community seethed ' And the central figure in the prosecut:1" ' man Lewis L. Strauss, of the A EC 1 It is an open question whether a ; , r would bring in today the Oppenhe;n:-r which was brought in a year ago. '' remembering that our national ue!:' not only an adequate supply of cier.'.-'" intelligent way of maintaining sen,! i'1 ' when they are employed in .n ei -nm-i': ' Post Dispatch.
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