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PAGg TV0 Textbooks: The Times GoefHngan Theme: Human Freedom The University has a trying curriculum need the need -Tor' a '-comprehensive course in cm rent national and international prob lems. , Caroline students themselves have demon strated the need for a current affairs course with both their apallini; .'ignorance of the world about them. and the intense interest in the broad field. Under the direciion of Gordon Cleveland of the Political Science Department, Politi cal Science f the Processes and Problems nf (Government lias developed into a1 first- rate course in national and world al lairs. Studetu interest has expanded the sections 'taught to the present number of six. T!ii -Miu-f in current affairs is for the pie-inecl student, the business major, and the others who want, to know why and how the nation solves its problems. And the response of so many students to Political Science J2 clenrly shows that the University needs to provide further instruction of this sort. State College, often dubbed "Cow College" by wise-cracking critics, has taken a firm and liberal step in this direction wtih its course in contemporary civilization, required of all engineers. This course, as one professor put it. "his the Sunday New York Times as its te book and human freedom for its theme." Patterned after the Great Issues course ft Dartmouth, State College's current affairs course utilizes outside speakers, newspapers, rent problems. Chapel- Hill has all. these elements vital outside speakers, an excellent periodical room : ii - -.r.i . : i ..i: '. in me ltnrary . wun usecni eriicai inppnigs files, and students who have demonstrated an interest in the course. This is the place at which students should confront the issues of our times. The issues are complicated and the responsibilities great. If students are going to be prepared to meet them, the University will have to take the broad step and add a current affairs course. The 100 Proof Squirt The latest Yale Dailv News throws out a sprawling page-7 ad for Spanish lieverage Bags that '"squirt with a squeeze." "The wineskins arc really great!" says the advertising Yale Co-Op, which imported the beverrve bags f'" Spain hand-made and in limited miiii'-er. Our first, thought was or those, wasted souls of Hemingway's The Sttn Also Ries, Ja' e Parnes, Lady Brett Ashley, and Robert Colin: all standing in the streets of B:r "me dizzily spraying their dusty throats with Bisque' Wine. But-" the Yale-Co-Op suggests a new twist: "Fill them with what you want and bring them to the game. And we hrxl another thought: TIow students have been showered with empty-beer cans, fluttering toilet-paper rolls, crushed Dixie Cups, and sailing stunt cards all dangerous, and all while the foot ball games were in high swing. If the projectile-flinging -must stay on, a few quick runs to Xew Haven's Yale Co-Op could be 'channeled into a more constructive vein. Instead of a- dull, plunk on the noggin from a toilet paper roll, you might even be squirted with loo-proof bottled in bond I. W. Harper Kentucky bourbon. (ii4ie pmlj ar ?eel : The official strident publication of the Publi ations -Board .of f he University of North Carolina. jZ 'Y""Sf-. ':V where it is published ff f V X" '. 9 nM . - l v - ft J cAcepi Monciay "' " l and PTSminatinn mnA -"""xviun ai.u ) vacation periods and 1 summer terms. Enter- ; I ed as second class ! matter in the post of- ij fice in Chapel Hill, N. if C, under the Act of " f March 8, 1879. Sub- ' scription ratts: mail- 1 i: t ! I Editors Managing Editor News Editor .... , "d, $4 per year, $2.50 1 - semester; delivered, -t f S6 a year, $3.50 a ae- rn ester. LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER FRED POWLEDGE JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager - BELL E03 PEEL Associate Editor J. A. C DUNN Sports Editor WAYNE BISHOP Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Coed Editor Circulation Manager :' Subscription Manager Staff Artist .;.. Dick Sirkin Carol) n Nelson Peg Humphrey Jim Kiley Jim Chamblee Charlie Daniel EDITOR IAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivau; Charles Dunn, Bill Racsdalo. OFFICE TELEPHONES News, editorial, subscrip tion: 9-3361: News, business: 9-3371. Night phone: 8-444 or 8-445. BUSINESS STAFF Fred Katzin, Stan Bershaw, Rosa Mcorc: Charlotte Lilly, Ted Wainer, Daryl Chasen, Johnny Witaker. Ni&ht Editor For This Issue David Mundy (David Mundy, UNC exchange student in Germany, is dispatch ing frequent reports of his tiii pressions. Here is the first of three jttst received. Editors) GOETTINGEN, Germany at the age of six, little Germans climb out of their baby carria ges, strap their briefcases on their backs so' that they won't drag the ground, and toddle off to school. I'm not sure what the little ones talk about, but there is no cessation in their flow of speech until they get so old that they can only listen to two-hour speeches. On any given day of the year more words are emitted in, Germany than in the. whole of the U.S.A. In a general way, the German educational system works like this: 'Carry Me" Rack Td Old Virginny' (J SJJi: V.. a- ii" t .. t..-..i V ' M Vi ;-'"'V l&A2t 1 a,niini "jr F.)r the ,first years everyone goes to the "grundschule." At the age of ten about 20 percent enter the "Middle" or "Upper" schools, the gymnasium. Some end their schooling at 14 and take technical training apprenticeship in a trade. Others leave at 16 and take training in slightly more technical subjects. Those of the 20 percent who enter and survive the gymnasium usually enter a University or technical "Hoch schule" at 19 or 20. Thus the decision made when the child is 10 determines what the remainder of his life will be. Social class, intelligence, indus try and personal charactcrstics largely compose the basis for the decision. The matters of finan ces and social class workers sons just don't go to universities are especially important in West Germany. Finances and so cial class don't matter in Com munist German', but political li abilit' does. r:-.-"-. v-i -i v - ..-. 1 1. w II" 4 " 1 " V AT t'iffifHSia-iiWiaif Readeirs fin n n Clearing Up Misunderstanding: Steele Dorm Is Not Mclver Editors: I have been ' requested lb". write you. , with ; the hope ithat the publication of this letter, will clear up a misunderstanding' involving : the' boys' in 'South Steele;; the girls onj 3rd 'fdbi jMcTVi'f,' 'ancl ) Uie: cjle-. phones 'located jtheijeliv j j f j ; j ? ' The'telephone numbtvtfmSmlhsrSt!elt W'89143. Don't mark as uneducated those who leave school at 14 or 16. Take the actual case of Werner L., from a little village near Bremerhaven. At 17, three years out of school, he would probably place in the upper 10 percent on UNC placement tests and get a semester's worth of credits by examination. His English is bet ter than my German, his French almost as good. He speaks Hochdeutsch, Plat tdeutsch and a dialect of the North Sea coast. He knows as much math as at least one UNC student who managed to pass (barelv) an -intensive course in calculus. He knows more chemis try than most non-science major-' ing U. S. college graduates.. His knowledge of European history is stupendous. The credit is more that of the school svstem than Werner's. Except thnt he pre fers Toscanini to Louis Arm strong, he is typical of those who drop out at 14 or 16. - J. A. C. DUNN Would he like, to go to a uni versity? "For what?" he asks in perfect innocence. 'The students they've got plenty up there," he says as he 'taps his head, "but they won't even talk to a work ing boy." They do have plenty in those heads. ThOvSe who go to an Alts pruch gymnasium begin with La tin at 10, English at 12, ancl Greek at 13. What they learn pbout Fnslish Mould make some U. S. English majors blush with shame. Those who attend a "'Newsnrach gytinasium" may omit Greek and take a choice between English and French. The extra time goes for natural sci ences. The big moment comes at about 19, when the gymnasium student faces his "Abitur," an examination roughly comparable to a U. S. Ph.D. examination. The telephone number for '3rd Floor "Mclvcrjs 8 9134. It seems-the. student directory listed identical te lephone numbers for South Steele and 3rd Floor Mc lver, that number being 8-9143. Now that was a pre tty grave error right there, but then all the politicians' came around putting ;up posters with telephone numbers listed for all the dorms, and they did the same dern thing. This seems to indicate that they (the politicians) indeed fit. into', that eategory ascribed to them bv e.e. eummings. . . . The residents of South Steele aren't trying to be come isolationists like that fellow Dave Thoreau, (he wrote a book called Walled In.) but these extra phone calls lead to confusion. People call all the time, asking for Sally, Ruth, Jeanne, and I don't know who all else. . .(Somebody even asked for Magnolia Blossom.) I answered the other day when some sweet little coed called. . . "Is this third floor Mclver?" she growled sweetly. Well, me being the honest fellow that I am, I told her that it surely was. ' . "Then what are you doing uo there?" she growl ed, (a little more, sweetlv this time.) . Well, I told her that I had been on third floor for two days, and. . .but before I could finish, I heard her scream, drop the phone, and run down a stairway. (I don't yet know if she ran to the police or to third floor Mclver.) See what I mean? Nothing but confusion. ... I called the telephone company before I wrote th's letter. I know Mr. Bell (Alexander Graham) could straighten this thins? out. But the ladv down there told m" that Mr: Bell was dead, and then she just laughed and laughed. Well, I told her how sorry I was about his dying and evervthing, and then I told hfr it wasn't, very nice of her to be laughing like that, not with her boss dead and all. . . Anyway. I figured that perhaps you would publish this letter, so ns to let. people know the truth about the telephone' number of South Steele and 3rd Floor Mclver. In closing I want to thank you; and so without further to do, I will Thank you. ..Bob Elterbe President, Steele Dorm. Gerns Has Correction For Elections Board's Figures Editors: To Bill McLean, chairman of the Elections Board Tabulation of election results: . Assuming the elections board's tabulations of election results in yesterday's Daily Tar Heel to be correct, numerically speaking, a number of mis calculations, all involving honor council seatt,, should Tbe called attention to: ' ' The phasic requirement for attainment of offices or participation in . a run-off is the "majority of votes cast." The following recital will show that the Elections. Board was perhaps unfamiliar with this basic parliamentary rule, or ,was careless in arriving at the proper results. (1) Junior seat, Men's Council. Total votes cast here were 2.881, which means that those who gained a majority thereof (1,441) in descending numerical order are entitled to participate in the run-off for both vacancies. Jim Exum (914), Dave Connor (521), and Marion Griffin (417) fulfill this require ment. These three should participate in the runoff. Jim Exum's total of votes received did not auto matically entitle him to a seat on the council as stated in yesterday's paper. - - (2) The same case , obtains with regard to the freshman seat. The total of votes cast wrre 1,534 (Majority 768),; Therefore,! Jim Long (431),' Nicky.' Hester (332) and I'Jeit Hare; (325) are entitled to participate in'the runoff It was stated that only Hester and Long were so qualified. This is incorrect sinjre their combined, votes totaled 763, five less than therequired majority 1 p .!' - ' : C3 The tabulation: of the race for-the WomairV Council seats "showed a total of 1812 votes cast. It follows that -the girls .whose combined votes equal led a majority of 907 are entitled to participate in the run-off.. The following qualify: Jackie Aldridge (238), Martha Barber (187), Nancy McFadden (184),' Pat' McQueen (178), and Martha Richardson (168). The, total vote cast for these five girls amounted to 955 votes. For reasons stated above, Jackie Aldridge was not elected yesterday, but the number of voles received by her entitle her to continue further. It was equally incorrectly stated that Nancy Ford and Jo Ruffin were in the run-off. Unfortunately, they can not.be in the contest for the four vacant seats. It is the duty of the Elections Board members to acquaint themselves with these basic requirements and to enforce them rigorously. Whatever caused the incorrect tabulation it stands as a warning to all of us to do our share in student government with constant diligence at all times. Peter H. Gerns 40 Years Contemplation Brings New Grid Rules Editors: : New rules for the great game of football, sub mitted after 40 years of deep contemplation: (1) Pas a rule that all coaches of both teams must sit in the press box with a keg of beer and no telephone. (Allow the team captain one course credit for the resulting leadership training). (2.) No team shall put more than 22 players in uniform. It violates a man's constitutional rights to put him on the bench all dressed up and no place to go sitting there unused, in hopeful frustration for two long hours. He's got a right to go home and get drunk. So the boys that play would get tired? Heavens forfend, but what is stamina for? (When playing Pittsburgh, allow 33 players). (3.) Quit all those time-outs during a quarter. Why pull the curtain every time the show gets exciting? On a hot day stop ono minute for a drink . of water. So they would fake injuries? What! is sportsman ship dead? Put a neutral doctor out there as the fifth official. He will either gently put the boy on his feet, or send him to the hospital, or cite him to appear before his- school's honor council. If pilty, he must leave the team and take a course in dramatics. (Hew would a boxer look if he called for time, after a sock in the jaw?) (4.) Let all the customers see the ball at the start of every play. Snap it back at least six feet. And paint it red. Stop letting the quarterback embrace the center. That is, nuts to the T forma tion. Make it illegal. (If you want to see magicians do sleight-of-hand tricks, go home to your TV set.) (5.) No silly point after touchdown, of course. If the score is tied, after an over-time period, allow one point to the team with the prettiest uniforms. (6.) No half-time shows, please. Let everyone get un and stretch and yak with his friends, and have 100 pretty girls serve coffee and douetinuts, with the compliments of the host team. This will ' in creased the gate receipts. (Free beer ' under the stands.) - . S j . William A. Oistn Just Plain Prejudice Dave Pardington (We icelcome to these pages to day the first of a regular series of columns by Dave Pardington, junior frenn Winston-Salem. Editors) o There is a nasty bit of pro paganda around Chapel Hill that has been put to a particularly infectious bit of merry-go-round music. It is of course the song, Love and Marriage. I find my self whistling it incessantly, and when I hear it played, I invari bly come on like seven-pipe cal liope with a bohm dat da da, bohm dat da da. Then one night, after a weigh ty, Pine Room seminar on love and marriage with a group of friends, one of whom is haunted, taunted, disjointed, in a word, about-to-be-married, I heard the lyrics for the first time. I im mediately visualized the alleg ory and saw a poor, old hoss, once proud, frisky, etc., schlepping a heavy cart, with blinders yet! I suddenly reopened the sem inar with, "I tell you that mar riage is the distruction of love!" Those who opposed, I met with a clever anthology of aphorisms and saws, slightly remodeled. Shaw on marriage vows: "If the man is happy, why lock him up? If he is not, why pretend that he is?" Dr. Fredrick Creighton Well man: "A man gets dewy-eyed, and wants to get in bed with a woman, and if he is a gentle man he marries her. If he finds that he can love her, he is very lucky." "You buttered your bread, and now you're gonna have to lie in it." And we went on and on for two coffee pots and three ashtrays. But Shaw was married, Dr. Wellman three or four times, and I well, I guess if a fish is hungry enough he don't care what hook he hangs on, but I can't help feeling mine'll be dif ferent. Vacant Chairs . " AtxRihgside WrTHIN a few hours Sunday night, two distinguished U. S. writers suffered heart attacks and died. They were Robert Sher wood, the Pulitzer prizewinning playwright, and Bernard Devoto? the Pultizer prizewinning his torian, critic, novelist and scho lar. In a flash, the American scene was stripped of two of its stur diest timbers. Both men left their marks . on the times Sherwood with plays like Waterloo Bridge, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight, Tovarich, There Shall Be No Night and The Great Abe Lincoln In Illinois: De Voto for books like Mark Tv:ain's America, The Year Of Decision and Across The Wide Missouri and hLs department, The Easy Chair, in Harper's maga zine. Both, too, wrote of man's per petual struggle against the hots of darkness his efforts to trans cend the past, his individual frus tration in times of crisis. In vary ing ways, both taught that man can indeed transcend his past. But in a sense they felt that man always lives , within history too in that he is enmeshed in a given historical situation which he must transcend. Sherwood and De Voto contri buted good writing and good sen se to the nation's library store house. Their fine, steady pens are needed iodav. They will be mis sed. The Charlotte Neics. 3 T THE FORD CHANGEOVER (Christian Science Monitor) Something no less revolutionary than the switch from Model T to Model A is happening at the Ford Motor Company. Overturning the rule of family control which has governed this vast enterprise! since it was founded in 1003, nearly 7,000,000 shares of voting stock are to be sold to the pub lic. The family will retain 40 per cent of the voting rights. The decision has been largely influenced by the desire of the Ford Foundation (which holds 83 per cent ot company stock but has no connection with its opera tion) to diversify its capital hold ings. But it appears to run count er to the early view of Henry Ford, who felt stockholders "ought to be only those who are active in the business and who will regard the company as an in strument of service rather than as a machine for making money." tati U Hi M m t " i i a j Roger Will cCs (Tlie ilorsc .see.s- ?),,,.,, somethings, mimntizhig (,;iit , . circa 500- B.C.) THE HOUSE was in lf)0m 2ll when I ranged down the corr-' what ailed him? "If I look as poorly as I j, . . with un-Horsely solemnity, "I ., , fleeing from here as from a D en l I watched him eating some zled over the way his i'irt-ba curled back from his troth at Pj this an odd reception to accord key? "Turkey, my hoof," The ILr f is crow. C-ro-w. And I don't mt Jal But it is 100-proof." Ah! Eating crow, hey? Actaa'U admitting to error? Tsk, tk, U he elucidate? "Thank you for the offer," he off the stuff. However, to npU.r this undele.ctable bird which crr.i; myself out on a limb in a too I made to what I considered u:.;.,:r fine broths of boys in a recent T. The Daily Tar Heel." And? The Horse hud found a cr "In my zeal to defend the bk'; plained, "I was guilty of the saw e I had credited, or debited, said IV.:. dreamed up a crevice an.cnt the era failed being the epitome of sapisr, A sapeint crevice? What was t!:;: "Oh. all ri"ht. a wise crack, if i uncultured," The Horse shrieked. " S is a sort of Bottled in Bond mar.n r Richmond P. Bond, that is. v ! our fair campus boar a stamp of r. not to be bcleagurcd even in the ! League. And ordinarily, Ror;er, I XJl'lrilgut;ii'U in lilt.' iv j JJir ui.il i circulation this week to explain rr.yc i i i i i ... wnicn i nave renuereci grans i'-r " , ison mois wnic.i require expi-ni;,: , . Well, that paragraph hadjfi'M be sure! But what of The lj?iet our Football setup? "There has been a lot of ji A' arounti on, vvnai js wnm. .Football The Players; or, The C atter last sarciy s come-ai ye wn.i i; ing Irish, and with a thoughtful I dule, I, The Horse, wish to state . : : 1 1. i iuAMI. : . nI,tini i r ; . " and nothing wrong with the coach;:.: Barclay. And if we-uns are not c gentleman in question to ami n ana equally long comraci as u.i- rently terminating." Oh? Then, we did all right, aftt-r i . : . ... ..., f r S1A UWU WllllUil UUl !"' - "In my opinion, which is w:' feathers on this here now crow I ni ; rr.. !.. . i i. r. i . faced with a rougher schedule. A:m suiitu cum, we imu n'i i" - really could relax, could enjoy a cuperate; and secondly, it d' r 1 any good to get shellacked vvt just simply isn't human nature ' contest after contest when your" end." Well . . Virginia was said tn h- weeic; ana iney naan i uo.-u- n . . .. : i I'v I know it," The Jlor.se sam -' .class of conference Virginia culturally speaking fighting it "; around the bottom of the heap. He-, now, a moment, a rn'! Atlantic Coast Conference n" ! class? "Everybody," The Horse re; h.' in alphabetical order, Clemen; ' North Carolina State; South Car Forest. Yup, Horsic is all for o"r r set-up; and Horsic is for statu-.i-relatives and employees when t. -. t : .1. c. or, at any rate, not eating na member everything averav The Dooks have whupped us f-u' we will in turn, some sweet day. or ten years a-running. It o. shall happen again. But time, let of proper proportion and of dee. go nibbling on the flanks of re playing boy just because they aw ning chips. Many are called i"1 but. few are chosen winners. - but one of the next two; anil : then both. But win, lo.se, or tie, -the team, and behind the toad- winners; but let s be gentlemen The Horse looked at me curie- him over a bit and reached !r " Well; I could uie a saiiipl U u
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