PACE TWO
nc . . .
The Big Sleep
Carolina Front
'Maybe They Can't Find Anyone Who Can Be Cleared'
20-Inch Fables
The Fabulous
Sneaky Pete
l.A.C. Dunn
Alter Don' Fowler had smiled his way to
the st udent Ixxly presidency with a middle-
bf-the-Y-Court platform and Tew specific
promises, vet noticed a 'marked likeness to
President Eisenhower.
In these columns, shortly after the campus
election, we mentioned this Fowler-Ike ana
logy, hoping that it would pass with the cam
paign tury. Hut, alas, President Fowler has
followed the Eisenhower crusade down to the.
last gilded generality.
To make matters worst, we have just re
ccivVd lie ws that the! ' si udciu ; t:f iiel' 'execu t ;
lias taken to an inlirinary hed with a case of
sinus. So any moment now, we expect word
from the now quiet presjdental quarters-that
Attorney General Dave Reid or Vice Presi
dent lac k Stevens has taken over temporarily.
But the political hone we have to pick with
President Fowler is not his health (which is
usually excellent), hut the health of his pre
sidency. We sugestcd earlier this week, that Presi
dem Fowler seriously consider some plan of
student limitation of student autos. All pre
sent indications are that the Board of Trus
tees are going to take sharp action on this
if student government doesn't.
Instead, President Fowler and committee
on cars have put forth a plan for collecting
parking fines to build-more student parking
lots a plan which Fowler himself admits is
unlikely to work.
'President Fowler seems to. have no other
definite plan. But he firmly opposes self-regulation
of student cars. ,
When Fowler was asked his reaction to
The Daily Tar Heel's proposal of self-limitation,
thesAtdent President smiled back an
answer revealing another Ike fault not read
ing the nemspaper. Fowler .talked about the
evils. of denying cars to freshmenwhich was
not the subject of the editorial at all.
And a look through last spring's files re
veals still another (and even more, infuriat
ing) Eisenhower trait in President Fowler
switching ground on aij issue, grabbing an
opponent's idea, and taking credit for origi
nating it.
The impractical idea of a student court
which Fowler keeps pushing (and keeps ad
mitting is a bit rmjractical) originated with
Manning Munting, the Student Party candi
date who ran against Fowler last spring. Fow
ler last spring said he disagreed with Munt- of what substance was the i
zing -plan. S'owtlib endorses It. . ; t made on the envelopes which
I,,,- ' .'Duke of Wellington used f
IJIll t l lull , .lllll v 1 1 1 1 1
Tind $ny consistency in Fowler, for last spring
he also :declared !iiat "cars will be taken away
from students if the student body fails to take
an immediate ;md positive stand."
.jiVet Foivlerdails, to. afcc".au. immediate. antL... thirty seconds,-Mr. McFee. Think
positive stand.'' , -. :-;H- carefully." ;
FABIAN THOUGHT caretully.
Of course he knew the answer
without thinking, but he thought
anyway. He looked out at the fid-
, ONCE UPON a time, not too
long ago, a young gentleman, fair
of hair, soft of eye, considerate
of character and sensitive of per
sonality ; by the name of Fabian
McFee' was welcomed as, a con
testant on the famous television
give-away show, "Sixty Four For
ty Or Flunk." 11
Hal Forceps, the master of ce
remonies, speaking on behalf , of
"Deemun," the handy home de-prave-it-yourself
vice kit ("It
brings you living Purgatory-right
in your own home!"), had accept
ed Fabian as an interesting con
testant by virtue of his extraor
dinary knowledge of the Evolu
tion of. Envelopes. Fabian had
glibly and correctly answered all
the questions about envelopes
and. had finally returned to try
for the sixty-four thousand dollar
and forty cent jackpot.
THE AUDIENCE was tense,
The television camera man was
frozen on his little perch. Even
Hal Forceps, veteran of many
such nerve-tingling radio and te
levision occasions, was a bit un
easy. No one had ever won the
packpot before.
"Mr. MoFee," said Hal Forceps
in his best hail-fellow-well-paid
manner, "Sixty Four Forty or
Flunk is proud to have; you. . I
think you know the rules. We
will now proceed to the ques
tion," . ..
The ladies in the audience flut
tered their hands around their
throats and the men rubbed their
jowls with that can-I-getiaway-without-shaving?
gesture to which
most men are condemned. The
question, written on a slip of pa
per, was handed to Hal Forceps
by an armed guard. He read it
aloud:
"Mr. McFee, for sixty four
thousand dollars and forty cents,
gum
the '
en
close his messages to the Prus
sian General Blucher during the
Peninsula war in Europe in the
early 1800's?" Hal Forceps re
peated the question. "You: have,;
" . Wh Are
' ' : -' yVo Here?
. jA I pm- Jbr?K: wr self '
security: ?tv " v yu'"-
ENGLISH CLUB
Amid
he Cries
A
Ray Moose
President FoAvler is lulling us to sleep.
Monotusa!
Our editorial, "Forward, With 'Blinds, To
A House of Horror," in yesterday morning's
DaiJy Tar Heel, has thrown us, unwittingly,
into civil butchery with the English Club.
Before blasting present tendenies in the
dorm building situation, we read one too
many columns by the English Club's Roy
'Moose (namely, the one across the editorial
jiage today). We failed to make clear that we
were hopelessly indebted, as the man said,
tor both idea and phraseology (e.g., our com
parsion of Cobb's halls xto bowling alleys) to
the fine pen of Mr. Moose. We came. to the
office, yesterday, and found a furious note
from the gentleman awaiting us. We cpiote,
in part:
There, is aa old saying ttiat "imitation is thef
' greatest 'form of flattery." However, that editorial
lin Thursday's japer, which was a mincemeat hash
ing of the English Club article for this week, was
'far from flattering to this writer. Surely the ed
itors are not so barren of thoughts that they stoop
to plagiarism in order to compose a timely editor
ial. We pleaded no contention, but with the
reservation that it was .'not done w ith malice
i forethought. We always scoffed at those who
pled "unconscious influence" when accused
of out and out literary theft. But we have
now learned Our lesson. Unconscious influ
ence can happen, even to the bloodshot eye
of The Daily Tar Heel, and we are terribly,,
terribly son -y."
W)t 2Bml Wax ?eei
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- wnere it is published
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LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
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Editors
geting, jowl-rubbing audience,
waiting to see him wake a fabu
lous , fortune -or go down in
shame. The seconds ticked by,
19, 20, and a slight smSe appear
ed on Fabian's face, 23, 24, and
he thought of his wife Chlorine,
and his two oliildren, and his
job as assistant floor manager of
the ten cent store, and his friends
in the barbershop, 26, 27, and
picnics in the summer and old
Mrs. Kuickbicker nest door, and
"Your time is up, Mr. McFee,"
announced Hal Forceps com
mandingly. He, repeated the qu
estion again. An expectant hush
fell.
"There wasn't any gum on
Wellington's envelopes," said Fa
bian. "He used a wax seal."
"You're right! Ab-so-loot-lee
RIGHT!" shouted Hal Forfceps
triumphantly. "We have here a
check for sixty four thousand
dollars and "
"I DON'T want it," said Fabian
quietly. .
Hal Forceps', mouth dropped
audibly open. "I beg your pardon,
Mr. McFee?"
"I don't want it, thank you.
What do I want, all that money
for? It's just a game, after all."
And Fabian walked, out before
anyone could stop h,im, leaving
the audience in a stafce of mur
muring ,wondeo. ;
A,rid Hal Forceps, veteran of
' many nerye-tinglirig -radio arid
television occasions, had a very
difficult time talking his, way
through to the end of the pro
grani. ;
Managing. Editor ..
FRED POWLEDGE
THREE WAYS
County Agent John E. Pilnd
in speaking to the Claytion Ro
tary Club recently related:
"My father told me there are
three sure ways of going broke.
They are: (1) to gamble, (2) to
spend money on women and (3)
to - grow cotton. .
"He said the first way,was the
fastest, the' second way the most
fun and tha third way the most
cedtain." Smithfield Herald. ,
News Editor
JACKIE GOOD! IAN
Business Manager
BILL BOB PEEL
Associate Editor
J. A. C. DUNN
Sports Editor
WAYNE BLSHOP
ftight Editor For This Issus
Curtis Gans
LESSER ;
There were two boll .weevils
who grew up together. One work
ed hard and became a Big Shoot.
The other didn't and reimained
the lesser of the two weevils.
The Lion. 1 .
Amid the cries for greater enrollments, taller
buildings, and better football teams there is signi-"
ficantly absent any faint murmur at all for an at
.mosphere conducive to proper study here at Caro
lina. Bricks, mortar, and ugh-green paint, as many
learned men have noted, do not necessarily produce
an educated man. Yet today it appears that the education-minded
public is interested only in facts and
figures, while the suffocating student cries out with
Milton:
k "See there the olive grove of Academe,
Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird
Thrills her thick-warbl'd notes the summer
long."
'(Paradise Regained, Bfc. iv, 11. 244-4G
For it is true that the student at Carolina no -lenger
has the sylvan scene that is so necessary to
study and contemplation. At one time Carolina did
possess such an "Academe" atmosphere, and at one
time the campus of the University of North Caro- v
lina was rated one of the three most beautiful in .
the nation by Lewis Mumford. Carolina, along with
Georgia and Stanford, were admired for the spac
iousness of .the campus,; the abundance of waoded
areas, and the freedom of student movement. Yes,
at one time the student could lie
"Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time." ,
(As You Like It, II, vii, 11, 1112)
But what is, the situation today? A speedway runs
through the middle of the "Academe"; the trees
are being massacred wholesale without reforests-
tion; a graveyard presents a Charles Adams picture
of delight to a third of our dormitories; the mill
town factory-inspired buildings are iising to blot
out the spaciousness.
' Such conditions can be corrected by a oncern on
the part of the campHS planners for that intangible
quality called Beauty, a quality that Aristotle calls
"the gift of gods"; but it has been demonstrated
time and again that the quality of beauty can be
achieved by nian himself with careful planning by
great minds. Certainly, among the "Academes" Ox- ,
ford, Cambridge, and Harvard have achieved it and "
retained it during this period o4 mass student in
vasion. And Carolina, with itsr ideal location on an ;
isolated hill, has greater possibilities than either of ;
those three. ' - ; " ; '?
However,, I fully realize that one should not have
the right to condemn without ..himself suggesting
positive concrete recommendations to reinforce
those criticisms. Thus, the following are a few cor
rections that can be made without too much effort
or too much, expenditure of money that can restore
to the campus the proper atmosphere for study and
contemplation-: . .
1. Cameron Avenue, the Indianapolis Speedway
of the campus, should be closed between Old East
and Old West dormitories. No parking places would
thus be eliminated, and any inconvenience to the .
speed-demons of the town would be mitigated after
the first week when they learn to turn right at the
Carolina Inn stoplight. The result would be a unified
campus from Franklin Street to the Raleigh Road.
With the ever increasing enrollment ef students
this step becomes more imperative each day. The
most widety used .spot on the campus is the area
around the YMCA, and the congestion in that area
of Cameron is acute Moreover, with the numerous
blind and crippled students the danger at that point t
is even greater. Surely the student at Carolina can ?
expee a free flow of movement through the main '
areas of the campus. Many are the times that I have :
heard the students remark with Matthew. Arnold
"Peace; Peace iis, what I seek, and public calm."
2. Concomitanywithlihe -closing of Cameron 1st
the Necessity for building a tunnel under the Ra-
leigh.Road for the same reasons as stated above, 4
Nurses must cross that road to get to the. campus;
zoology students must cross it to get to Wilson; pu
blic arid students alike must cross it to get to the
football stadium; and with the construction of the
new dormitories below the road the residents thero
must cross it for each daily necessity. ' ,
3. Carry out a program of reforestation on the
campus. McCorkle , Place especially is in a chaotic
state. At one time the whole area was cool and sha
dy., Now hurricaes and disease have left it in a
maimed condition. The trees that are still standing
are patched, pruned, and pared until little . but
trunks remain. We are fortunate to inherit as plea
saqt a place as the campus is due to the foresight
of .thqse men such as President Battle of years past.
To grow an oak such as the one that the band uses
in the summer time for its concerts required a hun
dred years. Yet, what will be the state of the cam
pus fifty years from now if no new trees are planted
at once? Surely students as well as the administra
tion should be concerrteo! over the regression of the
eam-pus to the state of every other little hot treeless
southern factory town. : ; . -Nobis
placearlt ante omnia sylvae.
4. An attempt should be made to acquire more
competent architects for our buildings. The mono
poly of George Watts Carr has resulted in a series
of brick creations that defy all categories of 'arch
itecture. Cobb is a monstrosity that can only be hid
den by ivy and trees. Hanes and Gardner Halls look
like Moorsville Cotton Mills from the back. And the
new Institute of Government Building will kill the
esthetic soul of the most callous person. If we must
have Georgian architecture, which is indeed a beau
tiful design for academic buildings, we should con
tact a firm such as the one in New York that spe
cializes in that design.
5. Tiie graveyard behind Connor, though it gives
a decided Gthic mysteriusness t the campus, is
certainly but of harmony with the effect that is. pro
duced by the Georgian style. Such a Charles Adams
decoration' is certainly more suited to a place, say,
sucn as Duke University, where one might expect
ravens, monks, and walking ghouls. In any case, the
graveyard should have been moved years ago. Since
it hasn't been moved, the administration should im-.
mediately include the, project, n the next budget.
The university is growing rapidly and land is ber
coming a premium in Chapel 'Hill., The longer the",
administration waits, the more expensive the prQ-.'
ject will be. Four beautiful quads of men's .dorms
could be built in the area thus cleared, and the re:
suit would be a peaceful, quiet vista to. anyone en-f.
tering Chapel Hill from the Raleigh road. " ; : '
Q. Efforts should be made to avoid building; great
brick monstrosities such as is proposed for the new
710 loan dorniitbry. True, quadrangles are more
expensive; but. the administration should think of .
the result of its building as reflected in the quality
of the student product that emerges after four years
of residence in those buildings. Our forefathers who
built OU East, Old West, and Steele dormitories
were cognizant of the need for quiet and restful
-surroundings by building dormitories after the con
tinental stair-case system. Huge buildings with long
hallways, are tantamount to coca-cola bowling alleys.
Certainly the upper and lower quadrangle residents
can confirm this item. j s
With the "adoption of these suggestions I feel
,sure that . the students will" be able to exhult with -.Shakespeare
over the results: "Peace, Dear muse of
arts, plenties, and joyful births."
Editors:
These past two hectic weeks
of exams and rushing has, un
expectedly, been a period of mind
opening. Often associated with
fraternity rushing in the minds
6f , jnany f is j jthat the emphasis
of the!; fraternity is social and
not "primarily intellectual. I. do
not, believe this to be neccessari
l'y true. In meeting and speaking
with certain fraternity men, I
have ' found that I am able to
express myself now more easily
than I had previously experienced.
Last night I was speaking to
a number of fraternity men, and
we discussed our instructors and
courses here at the University.
. In discussing our social science
and economic courses the talks
often went off tangently to nu
merous problems of the world
and how we were personally af
fected by them. In these sort
of discussions I, and I am
sure, others , were left mildly
frustrated by this as we could
merely talk and obtain no re
sults. Usually, I am not affected
very much by this frustration as
.there always seems to be some
thing else in my mind shortly,
to make me forget about it.. But
tonight, questions have been
popping into my mind one after
the pther. . ' '
One question in particular
keeps coming back to haunt me.
That is: "Why am I studying
at this, or any, university?" A
slip of paper, in the records of
fice states that I am studying
for an A.B. in economics. True,
that is my goal in a sense as it
is my interest and my hoped for
future vocation; but is this gold
not secondary to a more im
portant one? Are we at this Uni
versity merely studying required
-courses toward the realization of
only a degree in our major? I
believe that there are many who
are' here for that purpose alone.
This is' not the purpose of the
University, but I fear ith , the
trend is going in that direction.
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Roger Will cCa
'.We are required to study cer-:
tain Courses here that .the direc
tors 'believe will gkvc the stu
dent a-broader and more liberal '
education before going into our
major. But, has not the Univer
sity been defeating its own pur
pose? Have not these require
ments limited the studies of the
students? The University's inten
tions are . good. The objectives
are to stimulate interest in many
different fields,' but have the
directors overlooked the point
that forcing these studies upon"
the students has had an opposite
effect in numerous instances.
The trend for many a present
day student is to study for an
exam and a degree. Is this the
student's fault? No. The pres
sure brought upon the student
has resulted in the feeling that
obtaining good, grades is first
and foremost. The active mind
can actually become stagnant un
der this sort of policy. With
this burden that has been placed
upon the intelligent and active
mind we find that expression has
become no mope than repetition,
studies no more thaji out-and-out
competition, and new ideas,
and concepts thwarted and driv
en into other channels. We see
our lives. The lost art of con
versation is but one death of
many , in .this, modern world cf
ours. Is this University going to
sit back and ; channel modern
thought into, the ever increasing
tide of conformity?! Are we to let
cynicism, defeatism ' and escap
ism be the remains of our edu
cation? ' ;
fThe; further we get. from the
idea that a college education is
the preparation for a vocation in
future life, and the closer we get
to the point where objective re
ality and spirituality are so
closely interlocked that they are
indistinguishable,., then the Uni
versity is actually f ullfilling its
objective. To attain this objec
tive let us remove the pressures
of grades, exams, and require
ments. I do not mean that they
should by any means be abolish
ed, but rather that their emphasis
be' diminished and their inter
pretation changed.
... John F. Hilgcrdt
THE HORSE was hoofing proudly
of The Carolina Playmakers' Thea-1"
him.
an explanation. "The Jean Giraudo
fantasy. A knockout of a play, ex.
knockout of a cast, under knockout"
sound effects, with knockout costurr
out directing." 5
I hoped The Horse wouldn't knock
reaching for phrases in praises of -s
Rosenthal, in his review for The Ea
had at once said more, and less, t,''.
"Critics, amateur or profesiona!," i
judged, "feel called upon to jetr
cheer."
'"V
Oh? This was a requirement of the h
"In a way," The Horse shrugged.
should understand, are playwrights a; k
in fact. They cannot think of anythlr:
themselves, and when somebody else r
they must perforce act as if they, ther
not written this play because it was r;
their Art. In short, they didn't think c:
it was not worthy of their thought. E.-;
thrust their uncreative index fingers
or at any rate enthusiastically, into
flaws. Show me a completely kind a
critic, and I'll show you a critic who;?
will soon be cancelled." x
"The stated function of a drama cf
The Horse pontificated, "is to state wir
was orivins at: now or not ne succ-.
driving: and the aualitv and the effe.-
thp dramatic aids, human and 'or me:5-
wav thpv work their trade, it is a ?-;
' - 7 -
they are, trying to. make you believe you
lv like what vou thousht vou liken: or-
liked what you thought you did not."
The Horse thought them expendable'
"Save for theatre goers who wear their
or their dislikes like uniforms,? The H :
:"There are those who put a lot of stcr;
Dress 'You cawn't wear this, old I
A ll A t J H J J .
must weiu uiai, viu uuv -niiu u - i -c .
put a lot, of ; store by Coirect Thou?t,t
think for themselves, or fearful their
not Fashionable, they require others
them."
But, there were certain rules lor 1:
and
The Horse yawned. "Rules are made to
iiy recipe ior a gooa piay 10 nit-, &
it entertain. Okay, so it entertains me,
to me. Now, I quite willingly concede
what the play is about, where it is
1 An rv 1 i int? urn nf nnvc jn(i i 1 . ,
JLJJL1& 41, 1 Ulia, Ull W !!(. UO J J "-o
mucn it costs. Flus, pernaps, me 1
CilCJ ii (Jill U Ui L11L uittvmi j "
. ... . . 'A 1 1 .U
jug auu uic duuuaiiwa jjciiumtu
action, and the hearing of the poetry,
But, some critics were more c.n
phrasings than others, was it not?
"At the expense of a person more i
1 hnir it Ac " TVirt TIapa nrfroon I.lTriM
and Literary Criticism are fleas of a d:
enacted on a stage. The difference is
tells you who, what. when, where and
arust ana converts ms mooa iniu t.,
...u : i. u i j;nA nt-hnrfl
ijcs3 wiiicii vvuuiu nave uict un---
creative artist created. It adds the F;
ine esiaonsnea classes oi anecu
Ann tnp uoro r
.J.M b.., . I W . .
"There are those who can creete.
enumerated. "Then, there are those w 1
A 1 A. " T A lUfifO fj)
aie, Dut. wno can copy. iexi, i"111
1 i w
ran neither create, nor copy. Ana u
Lesser Steerage, Class those wno t -.
not, but who tell what is wrong with 2
, see."
I'd like it better if The Horse co;
; specific?
"With pleasure!" The Horse murmur
balls of eyes clicking on a trio oi c--who
were co-ordinating cutely as lev
"Now, do you want I should discus v
with these, beaucheous babes; or . v'
Class dismissed!
ocial
Spoj
- James Gerity Jr., Notre Dame JJ
nated $5,000 to his alma mater with w
ulate interest in golf and bridge btc
"more social sports" than football-
Now how about donations here ar-u '
non-social sports as reading and wl '
such anti-social sports as mathenuu-1
Greensboro Daily News