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The Di Senator who added his voice to the
old grumble that The Daily Tar Heel does
not reflect student opinion," like his prede
cessors, doesn't know what he's talking about.
No one knows what "student opinion" is;
and we defy even the students in the Di, who
seem to' have a private wire from Heaven, to
tell -us, what it is on any issue. Listen to a
conversation, in the nurses' dorm, in Stacy or
Mclver, the Beta Theta Pi House, the Goody
Shop, and around the greasy tables of the
Pine Hoom and you might find a majority
opinion, "-which would undoubtedly be mo
mentary. But a .majority opinion or a trendy
in opinion is not "student opinion." "Stu
dent opinion," alone, implies that the mil
lion fragments of thought always coagulate
into a neat, tangible mass. That would be
tragic if it happened; but it never will, short
of force, because there will always be dissent
ers. yhe students who rise in public meetings
and presume to represent . wholesale "stu
dent opinion" belong to a potentially danger
ous element. In the words of a favorite pro
fessor, they have a Jehovah Complex. They
do not tolerate disagreement because they, al
ways feel right, and not just right but abso
lutely rijrht. If they could hrvve their way, we
suspect they would herd the fragments of
thought into a narrow stall, geld them of
meaning, and codify them. Others would
abide by "the mass monolith they created of
divergent opinion or suffer the consequences,
qhenccs. v
The Daily TarHeel and its editors, unlike
the boys' in the Upper Room, do not know
what "student opinion" is. If we knew, it
would make no difference. The editorial col
umn; of this or any other newspaper never
has; made, doesn't now, and never will bar
ring: the interference of the campus absolu- .
tists make an attempt at concensus. The
newspaper will always act in what it feels to
be the interests-of the students and the Uni-
versity. But the editors' interpretation o f
those interests will be theirs and will never,
as long as the. newspaper has integrity and
freedom, derive from anyone's even the Di
alectic Senate's idea of "student opinion."
Just A Matter
Of Coordination
Tlie Universitv, v 'have discovered of late,
15 a many-soluti(4ied place. Even the most
casual reading rf yesterday's campus paper
would hr ve revraled the multitude of ques
tions, f'r which can r;nd answers just by
at'ndi"" right meetings.
Not able to attend the meetings ourselves,
wc sal and enthused vicariously over the writ
ten accounts. And here is what we found:
Mrs. Bessie Buchanan counseled dorm and
sorority housemothers on what to do with co
edsHn "emergency "situations." (Perhaps the
coeds should have attended the meeting, too,
as a preventive measure against possible "em
ergency situations.") 1
University Party politician Charlie Yar
borough told his group of partisans to "ke,ep
any mean things that might be said about the
opposing party" to themselves. ("We shud
der to think of all the frustrated UP mem
bers during the campaign, as they smile about
the campus harboring pent-up "mean things"
about the opposition. They will no doubt be
so neurotic by the campaign's close that it
would have been more healthy for them to
say the "mean things" and get them out of
their systems.)
Then there was the ocidar problem of Bob
Cox, Dr. James E. King, and Lib Moore, who
lirvd to pick the most beautiful of many arm
fuls.. of coeds at the Yack contest last night.
Wc, propose an end to this amazing lack of
campus coordination. Here separate groups
in the same University struggle with individ
ual problems, neglecting to aid each other.
With proper coordination: Mrs. Buchanan
would be telling University Party members
about what to do. with coeds in "emergency
situations" when they are campaigning;
Charlie Yarboiough could orate to beauty
contestants about the evils of saying "mean
things" about their opponents; and Dr. King,
Mr. Cox, and. Miss Moore could pick the
prettiest Jiousemother and campus politician
to rule jointly.
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SHOUTS IN the Kenan Sta
dium stands, after last week's
football game, indicated that
many students and alumni are
somlivhat less than satisfied with
the present football coach.
. The security of a football
coach in a college today is dir
ectly proportional to the num
ber of games his team wins.
0 While this is not an Infallable
formula, UNC's current won-and-lost
record portends gloomy
things for Barclay.
Partisans in th Saturday
spectacles clamor for new coach
es (or scholarships or referees)
everytime they lose a game. Cut
few realize just how a new
football coach is picked at the
University.. .
TO BEGIN with, so the offi
cials will tell you if you have
enough brass to inquire, no one
will ever "fire" coach Barclay.
His contract will merely not be
renewed.
This talk of renewing con
tracts is, to this reporter, so
much - gobbledy-gook. What
chemistry professor has his con
tract renewed on the basis of
successful research experiments,
or what English professor holds
his job on how many A stu
dents he turns out.
At any rate, just for the sake
of furthering this discussion, let
us suppose that the powers-that-be
(or would like to be) decide
to terminate (err, I mean, not
to renew) coach Barclay's con- .
tract. What would happen then?
These powers would make
known their views to the Ath
letic Council and the Faculty
Committee on Athletics. These
two bodies, one of which even
tolerates two students to sit in
its midst, would recommend to
Chancellor House that the con
tract be ended,' (that is, not be
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Sometime in the future when the historians hav'e'
renewed, as they say in the big- had sufficient time to collate the mass .of data
time athletic business). currently being gathered, theyv.will probably .char-:
Then Chancellor House and acterize our present period-with some descriptive
nnlv Chanr-Piim- Ttm,sn wnM phrase or another. To preguess the historians by a-
have the full responsibility of
sysfem varies irom-that of- cpntinental nations in
that it emphasizes social indoctrination good -citizenship,
rather than theoretical knowledge:
V Of alltHe: absolutfes, religion has suffered most
seriously from the influence of pragmatism The
Book-of pb and Abraham's sacrifice of IsaacT are
few decades we vould . like to nominate for the impractical, urexcvani excepior jne exienuiuis.
-The Nrmran Vincent Peale ' positive tmnKing ap-
decding what to do. The Ath- twecUeth century the title. "The Age of Pragma-.
letic Council (the group with two tlsm' - .... ...-.
whole students' on it) and the Very briefly pragmatism denotes the philoso
f acuity committee act only in phic scho1 which derives principles and values
an advisory capacity. from experience and tests them by their practi-
SHOULD THE chancellor de- cal coherent solution of problems. Pragmatism
cide to fire, (err, I mean not Parallels closely the scientific method or corn
renew the coach's contract), he mon sense approach to problems and their solu
would make his suMstions lion- However, it differs from the traditional
known to the Consolidated Uni- sumptions of science in that it accepts no final,
versity President, who in turn
would pass it on to the trust-
universal natural laws; k rejects the necessity of
the conception of an ordered universe. The prag-
ees, who would make the official J I "c"J,4"ia" WJC "7 " "1UCCU
decision ordered, but rather suggest that , man cannot
determine final laws on the basis of his present
This system of administering knowledge. Change, new scientific discoveries may
University athletics is a rele- t any time revolutionize man's theories of know
tively new thing. The Execu- ledge. xhe best man can hope to do is to keep
tive committee, of the Board updating his theories and value's in accordance
of Trustees, o Jan. .1954, put with his discoveries in order to achieve the great
the chancellor ; in full control est possible coherence in his theories, values, and
of administering the athletic set- actions. Thus, pragmatism underlies our present
UP- tendency toward relative : values. - ; ' -;;
- At that time the Executive EVERY AREA
Committee made this statement. in nearly every area of study and action the in
"The University Administra- fluence of pragmatism may be , noted. Particularly
tion belives that the 60-year- in the American culture the theories of such pres
old tradition of seeking excel- iatic philosophers as John Dewey have virtually : No one would, deriy that experience is a valid factor
lence in intercollegiate athletics revolutionized our conceptions of art, 'education, in 'determining tur -values," "solutions' to problems,
without comprpmising Univer- and. even religion. ; r - ' ' our'hiibsophy'' :o'f Iife-'ilowever,,- at ? least' -in our
sity. integrity or ignoring the At "Yale, the social sciences are perhaps most present stage; 'of "development, this challenge a
dictates of honesty or creating directly conditioned by the pragmatic thesis. During . gainst' inadequate i -.values "and Vprinciples " has. over
an unbalance in the use of in- the past fifty years, psychologists have continually ; whelmiiitgly undermined the certainty of any and
siuuuuudi xcauuicts tan uesi ue anereu meir meones irom one extreme to anotner au values, it is little wonder that Riesman describes
kept by administering and to meet the challenge of new, experimental discov
controlling athletics in the same eries from the pure physical determination of the
mariner in which other depart- behaviorists to a degree of self-determination accord
ments are administered and con- ing to moral principles. The psychologists, the socio
trolled." logists, the economists, and the political scientists,
.This bit of prose simply means a11 seek the general principles based on experience
that the chancellor like in re- which will bst enable man to solve his . problems
lations with other departments (reduce conflicting tensions) and reproduce the
proaqh relates religion to 'twhat. works, in practice.'
Religion becomes a set of - ideals to be employed
relative to their; practical success. If religion works
for you, you've got it; the use of Christian princi
pal.es in . business Is good business. '
MoraL' Values, the "integrity of; the individual
as well; tend -to become' relative to practical suc
cess. An: article in Forturievm&gazine - recently' sug
gested that college" graduates are yes' men, they
are unwifling to commit themselves -to intellectual
positions? They '-would rather wait and see .what
events, experience, will give in the way of answers.
If the majority of the people say it is right, then
it must$e- so because they are basing their judg
ments on experience.
END RESULT J fv V'
The end result of pragmatism, then, ; seems to
be that no " one wants to commit himself very
definitely either on matters of factor' of opinion.
As the old New England weather proverb, "if you
don't like it, wait a minute, its sure to change," so
applies the pragmatic principle: Don't-take a stand
on issues, new data may prove you wrong. .
Obviously pragmatism is ' valuable in . that it
criticizes shallow beliefs, forces . the individual to
test his principles and values against experience.
Charlie Henderson made a re
mark last week, in a lecture de
livered to a roomful of Classics
61 students, to the effect that if
the Classics' Department had the
money to'fill holes in the depart
ment's book and periodical col
lection in the library, we would
have one of the top schools for
classical study in the world.
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Classics is a field in which Car
olina holds a comparitive advan
tage over every school in the
South, due largely to the faculty,
which is headed by Doctor B. L.
Ulman, considered by nianv to bo
the world's foremost classical
scholar. It would take relatively
little to make our Classical De
partment equal to. any in the
world. - We -are on the brink of
the best; this is what it would
take to get it:" i
Thirty thousand dollars, with
which the gaps in the periodical
and book, collections in the li
brary could be filled, so that the
men in the Classics here can con
tinue and expand the research
that' brings them, and our school,
to prominence. It is a difficult
job to get hold of specialized Ma
gazines" and pamplets and other
works that were published twen
ty Vears ago; ; to get them one
must buy whole collections, trace
through . . war-muddled circuits,
advertize, corespond and'hae.
It is a difficult business, but the
fact is that it is necessary. With
out the proper material at their
disposal there is very little that
the men in Murphy can do. This
money is not to give us a mater
ial advantage over other schools
""' in this department, but rather to
put us on par with them. Our
great advantage lies with the
men; this columnist wants these
men to have enough to work
with, so that their abilities will
not be wasted. It is research that
makes the scholastic world go
round,, and research that keeps
t h e , Oldest . State University
gleaming in the eye of educators
. all over the country. Dr. Ullman
summed up the situation in a let-'
. ter: ' , -('
, r "The high esteem in which
the Department, is held, the
country over justifies demand
for a comparable library situ
ation. We are regarded as the
top department of Classics in
the South. The demand for our
Ph.D.'s from Vermont to
Washington, from Wisconsin to
Texas, shows that we rank with
the best institutions anywhere, '
but our library facilities, good
as they are, do not match those
of the institutions with which
we are classed. -
our, present, society us the "other 'directed." How
can anyone' take. "aj stand- on the, basis of principles,
when. air;principlcs' are open' to doubt?-; :
- :TKe vmps't 'crushing criticism that lean be leveled
against a thinker today is that" he is "ideaJistie The
implication-of this'-'adjective is" that '. the , individual
criticized' 4s- somhow; out; of. touch- with 'the1 facts,
that his ".position is, therefore; irrelevant" for the
controls and administrates the fPecies. No principles are considered to be absolute, . splutipy--of 'pVactical Vprobienis.';' However,'- this -'con-
Universitv's athletic setuD universal, or necessary; ail are tested according .to
I asked Chancellor House tneir pragmatic use" in resolving-the .problems'; of.
what he thought about the pres- experience. This .decade we may believe i seli
ent athletic siuation on campus, determination, free enterprise,, democratic . gqverri
and he told me that he saw "no me' ?i 1970t , ne experience. mayVhave; taught
particular crisis' at this time in US that there 15 no self-determmation, that planned
th:s field" government is more practical "than free enterprise,
However, the weeks (and foot- lhat communism, is a more effectivo; means of "gov
ball games) to come can bring demo?r few decades Jater addi-
manthings. And this reporter nence may .have caused; the pendulum
u u :, u-t to swin2 the other way.;;,, -;( , V r - : -:
cia uioi uic win uitng pics- THE ARTS'-''
sure on the University FROM
THE OUTSIDE to oust the
present coach. " - "
And then there's that professor
derivation of ideals-xarries with 'it! therdeiiial of
man s' freedom," If; man can only: be . guided by ."the
facts"., how r can ho be other than a physically de
r termined creature; the slave of the facts rather than
their 'master ? ''-. . ' : ; ' ,-v '.
UST IMPOSE IDEALS .
' We Would suggest that although man , must test
His; ideals against the facts, if he is to escape phy-.
sical determination he must also impose his ideals,
values, principles upon- the circumstances. Perhaps
the idealist is fighting a lost cause, - perhaps if is
impossible for him to impose , his i ideals upon the
stubborn, - brute "facts In the areas . of science, we
certainly would not ask him to impose 'irrelevant
ideals. However, in the realm of moral .values, we
; would suggest he does have. the freedom and -oppor
tunity to, impose values uponjhe factual -situation.
Night Editor For This Issue
Curtis Gans
In the arts, we may note the" same pragmatic
themes. "Form follows function" seems to be the
present password in architecture. In literature,-the
new critics' iudse literarv works arrnfriinc tn'W
in the Chemistry Department, or herent metaphysical or metaphorical ideals. If these
maybe it was physics, who has principles fail to applv to 18th and 19th rontnfv
search p:zis7ZTb": Brtafe,f-he5r ry ins back l0.an -peri' -ms hims"if "to
searcn experiment. I also have cai evaluation of certain literary' periods. We may the Preatt - nnihi h
tne tacts on an tngusn prof, wno even see the revival of moral criticism in literature,
turned out only one or two A its evaluation as a moral influence on society. '
stuaems last semester
But
not on
the c
piace in tne university. ideas, theories, are derived. Our whole educational - stand
Even, the pragmatist : suggests ideals, that" man
ances in order to achieve
the greatest ' possible happiness - and the reproduc
tion of species. Thus, we Would support the adalist
who attempts to impose -moral values upon experi-
T . -,1 nl.. i : 1 1. . ? . r
thst in thP riflccrnnm - 4JF " . evei m- ence poiiucs, economics, education. Perhaps we may
ina was m me classroom, creasing emphasis on "learning bv doine " AfYal not urt ui,.' Ae -mx . v
the playing field. And nirnptn,i ci,ic. ..j ......!... - . , ... . .... 1 w '
i j tt l t. - "iuui." 3,"-iu'us) piujcyia ujiu c.vu utui ricu- communist iascist, nut at least ne has grasped jnan's
lassroom is a different type lar activities provide the experience from whirh w nncciKU enr, t tA v,
. - u- j w,JtM V C I V 1J. llUill 11C 1 1 .1 I i-1 iy I' I I H
This situation of "almost" is
not, clearly, the fault of the li
brary, whiih has been very gen
erous to the needs of the Class
ics Department; the fault lies
with the legislature in Raleigh,
which cut twenty-five : thousand
dollars from the library's budget
on the last appropriation. All of
that money wouldn't have gone
to Classical research, but a part
of it would have, and the rest of
it would have gone other places
where it is also acutely needed,
perhaps the English or Philoso
phy departments of the library,
Or maybe to buy more of. 'the re
serve books everyone seems to
need at the same time. ,
North Carolina is a sort of cul
tural desert in which Carolina
and Dukeform oases. -
The two Universities have an
enormous obligation and we can
not sustain our part of it with
measly appropriations. If the
biggest thing in North Carolina
is the people of North Carolina
then they should receive the
best, and the best is the highest
quality of education available for
any North Carolinian who wants
it. Whether we like it cr not our
state is poor, ' s o we have n o
choice; ours must be the best '
University, in every way possible.
Gordon Gray said it this way:
". .. . The question today for
North Carolina is no longer
'Can we afford to have this
kind of university?'' The' ques
tion is indeed, .'Can we afford
wot to have such an ' institu
tion." '
FRIDAY, Kcvrv.
Tho Roundabout Pc--..
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IT SEEMS the Dialectic Sens,,
spirited debate last Tuesday
The Daily Tar Heel should !.;' '
subscription" basis, and in tho r
out this question unburdened
highly entertaining and. f ,r t", ;
ridiculous fr
f ' tho Tar Ilecl'a; .
f Before I v,:rl
i 0n this nv:::, ' .
. : to be quite ( .
j 2t that recent r
? At the time i'.
-f'-,; ' - -.: '' cell endeavor;--',
; soul with a h .
I know about ;hr.
- debate in the Li
in The'Dailv Ta- '
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NOW TIIEN. First of all, $f.
charged The Daily Tar Heel wi:!i
Jo public opinion." This is an in' -What,
may I ask Mr. Whitehead, h,
public opinion?" Kowtow slavishly t
Use- it, perhaps, to brighten the r
newspaper about which or against
cerned or directed? I suggest io ;
that the latter is the most sensi'.v.
question, What shall we do v.i h ;
To a newspaper, public opinion
the forin 'of letters to the editor, or1
talks in corners and over cups of c ;
are printed in the Tar Heel in r, ;
ten, and the latter, while not a
print, are, to my knowledge, taken
tion by the editors. The fact ).. t -festations
of public opinion' do not
Tar Heel to its very roots is d;r
quality of the opinion itself, or !o
the opinion docs not represent a r
opinions currently extant and is r
enough to warrant its being u'..
minority.
NEXT INTO the bloody lists va
the news story, Senator Moss, who ;
he didn't think the editors reflect
ions. This is saying much the 5
Whitehead said, and again raip
How does one reflect student op,:
we are on the subject, perhaps it n
entto question whether or not a -meant
to 'reflect" opinion at all. I
newspaper's - job is primarily to r '
it seems to me that a newspaper ;
intended to stimulate opinion any
To reflect opinion suggests to rr.f s
phrasing of other people's though.
is not , a. paraphraser. The editor :
shapes the paper with his own tho-.::
suggests to the people how they n
they agree with the editor; the p" ; 1
selves o'n the basis of their agree
ment with the paper.
I wonder if Mr. Moss doesn't thiri
more sensible a newspaper policy !;
gives him a chance to have his rp
all over the place so that it glares inr
SENATOR SHAW has a go at it tr.
has been misquoted and slandered, r
.shame because his life will unriou!'
affected by such slander. Don't g : '
don't think slander is admirable at a!:
has been slandered and misquo'.i
nice to have some examples cited v '
ter can be corrected and the proper s
Of course it might be pertinent to r
Shaw can't have been slandered by
slander is verbal only. Mr. Shaw a.
The Daily Tar Heel has biased f"
is as two-faced a remark as I've r
time, considering the fact that ?
Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are
result Of his having been slandered a'
Mr. Shaw finally makes a stab at
that gag about the Tar Heel only P-r
that fits. This is original. I have r,
before anyvherc at anytime.
"int. .miJK5 tninK 01 i;i
protectors of justice," says Sen- "
would, I feel sure, be contested by ;:
even if .it weren't, what editor doc-r.
uin amount 01 ganing sni-nn-his
veins?. Ever been an editor,
you have can you honestly say ,r"1, ;
any time leapt on your typvn-'-1
righteously?
And: as.-for this business of the
staff members," I can find ncu..
which to reply, to this staggering J -the
loudest and most uncouth oi S
evidently wants more columnists -
editors,- because the present emu"
brainwashed into line with the f -thinking.
May I suggst to Mr. Fi l J
write a column himself, since he '
with the editors to just about a? rr..
as any right-thinking dissenter co:;
(b) refer to the issues of the Tsr
weeks ago which concerned the---
auestion of freedom of the press.
Heel's being barred from the P--
meetings, and observe that tn?
self was WTitinrr at the time took
ously to task for what I considercc.
ly incorrect interpretation of the r
of the press?
EXCEPT FOR another hysteric1
Mr. Shaw about the "second n ;
lutiiiui iai, iuui
in the Tar Heel, constituted 1
rantinss about the campus pres.
' what they think. I wonder it ti.'
follow up their condemnations l!J
live suggestions? .That seems t e'
only thing the whole argument I-1--' "