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Sports Editor .i
Niijht Editor For This ku
A President With
JNT In His Pocket
Tjie Charlotte News rightly insists that
, regardless of future changes in sovereignty
- over .higher education in North Carolina "to
suggest that the presidency of the University
at Chapel Hill would, in any way, he a small
job is ridiculous."
So far, says the News, there has been. both
"sense and nonsense" on the subject of the
presidency, the gist of the nonsense being
that the job will lose'status. We suggest the
opposite: The, maik of the president at Char
pcl Hill will continue to be indelible. It will
gain, if any change conies, not lose. Perhaps
the president at Chapel Hill will not claim
the headlines formerly claimed bv consolidat
e'd presidents. Certainly, he will not have the
onerous responsibility to speak for three in
stitutions in the same breath.
- Hut on the home front, in Chapel Hill, his
autonomy will grow, we think. The power of
the Xew Hoard of. Higher Education ought
to limit itself to matters mechanical' and fi
nancial. To go beyond those areas would be
to usurp its stated purpose, and it should not
attempt to set local policy in Chapel Hill.
That will be the job of the new president,
wboever he turns out to be.
The new president will be a Zeus who has
lost power in-the Netherlands and, coircur
.rently, gained more in his own backyard
Olympus.' The, backyard is important. It is,
as The News puts it, "a cradle of greatness."
; President Nathan Pusey of Harvard lias
said that- we are involved in an "exploding
world of education." Let tlje committee on
the presidency, now screening candidates un
der the lerdership of its chairman, Victor S.
Bryant, bring on the TNT. Chapel Hill will
be untrue to its tradition if'it fails to add vol
ume to new explosions.
Big-Time Athletics:
Conflict in Values
Like "the King of England abdicating his
throne for the woman he loved," as he him
self puts it, Jim Tatum's arrival at the Hill
has been noisy and royal,
f The Daily Tar Heel, an unalterable oppo
nent of big-time athetics and their cancerous
effects on academics, cannot welcome Big Jim
with the warmth some spcVts writers have
generated.
This difference.- of opinion has incited a
rash of name-calling by big-time sports sup
porters that to d e ' "ge from rn indirect :
(iompuiison rf 'Latum to Jesus Christ (Jack
Horner. Durham Herald) to a pointed pre
(Mcrir n that the editors will Avear "lace pan
ties" (Hugo Germino, Durham Sun).
Despite the pointless invective, the issue is
clear:
Those values which make it necessary for
a coach to win games or get out are not heal
thy for education the University's main job.
As evidence, of this value conflict, we point
to:
i. The academic illness from which the
University of Maryland is just now recovering
as Tat urn exits. ("It was an era in which an
inadequate stadium became ultra-adequate,
and an inadequate library became more in
adequate," the Maryland Diamondback ob
served.) 2. The return to amateur sports by the Ivy
League, for many years the Mecca of btg-time
athletics.
v . The philosophy of coaches caught in the
big-time web., Coach latum voiced it well
when he told reporters this week, "Winning
isn't the most important thing; it's the only
tiling."
Our case -rests in the hands of a coach to
whom winning is, in his own words, "the only
thing."
Wc can now onlv look to the brighter dav
oJ the future when the University. administra
tors push aside alumni pressures and set Ca
rolina back to lis main job of education. That
day, we predict; will ionic. -"
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JACKIE GOODMAN
BILL BOB PEEL
- J. A. C. DUNN
WAYNE BISHOP
Fred Powledge
Mew C
Dave Pardington
Just before the Christmas holi
days the Fall issue of the Caro
lina Quarterly gently bumped the
newsstands, and it has not yet
been reviewed. J.A.C. Dunn men
tioned it in his column, but only
in a first-impression-as-former-editor
sort of way. Because of his
former association with the pub
lication, and because of the min
or detail that one of his stories
is published it it, he was not free
to go into it as deeply as he might
have wished. :
Those readers who examined
page two will find my name, ai
beit misspelled, under the head
ing of general staff. So you see
that, although my contribution to
the magazine consisted of my
licking the little address stickers
on the back cover, I am not quite
the man for the job either. How
ever, I. will place my staff mem
bership in jeopardy and squeak
my mind.
IMPROVEMENT
The fall issue of the Carolina
Quarterly is an improvement in
many ways over last year's three
issues. The exterior of the mag
azine, with its new design and
slick paper is more attractive. -There-
are no typographical er
rors, and there is only one flaw
in the make-up. This considera-,
tion for technical excellence, ac
companied by Editor . Bill Scar
borough's efforts to make the
magazine appeal to more than a
special group of people, reveal
quickened interest in the maga
zine on behalf of the publishers.
But let us go inside, the cover
1
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Editors:
In this mornihg'J News and
Observer, I read the editorial
which recently appeared in your
paper. I refer to the one in which
you deal with the athletic si
tuation and the coming of your
new coach to the University.
I am writing this word to ex
press my great appreciation for
your outspoken way of dealing
with the facts of the case. In my
opinion, -you are entirely right.
There is too rnnch professionalism
in tho-athletic program of our
institutions. Ihis is a general si
tuation throughout the country
and has, in my opinion, gone
entirely too far. Such frank dis
cussions as you are giving should
help in calling attention to the
danger in this field. Importing ,
and subsidizing athletes from all
over the country while many of
our young people in the State are
hungering for an education is
not. it seems to me, either good
education policy, nor does it
chime with common sense.
Again expressing my great ap
preciation. ,
The Rev. J. A. Ellis
Raleigh
Editors: ; ,
If the student body can't get
better editors to edit our school
paper than you two are I think
that we had better get our alu
mni to hire us one.
First of all it is only common
courtesy to welcome newcomers
to the campus. After four or five
years of losing teams I think Ta
tum should have the welcome mat
rolled out. He is a coach of
known ability and if he should
1 o
Greensboro Daily News
The migration of the emi
nent Mr. James Tatum from the
environs of College Park to his
own backyard of Chapel Hill
has sportswriters, alumni, edit
ors and educators in a sort of
tizzy. t
None of the furor is more
confusing than the respective
comments of the editor and
sports editor of the Washing
ton PPost and Times-Herald.
Says the Post editor from his
remote ivory tower:
"The job of being a highly
successful football coach in
volves in these dajs a tremen
dous drain upon the nervous re
sources, and, after all, Mr. Ta
tum is already well along in his
40's. At Chapel Hilla rela-.
tively venerable institution, and
thereby in no great need of
publicity the notion of "de
emphasis" seems to have found
some- favor 'with the administra
tion. Anyway, North Carolina
has long ceased to be much of
a factor in collegiate foytball,
and 'nobody, except perhaps a
W
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where the cliche tells us to judge.
The choice of articles reveal good
juagment in that they are lor
those interested not only in liter
ature, but also folk music and the
dance.
' SHAKER SONG
The Shaker Humility Song,
while it offers literary sidelights
such as the similarity of Shaker
style with that of Miss Gertrude
Stein, is most unusual and de
lightful. The text which accom
panies it by D. W. Patterson is
brief and un-padded. Every sen
tence is worthy of the most
apathetical readers fund of gen
eral information.
'POSTURING' 1
T.ie article entitled "Movement
and Tableau in the Dance" by
Diane DiPrima is extremely eso
teric, which means that it will
be adored by pseudo-intellectuals
and ignored by dancers and
choreographers. Miss DiPrima as
serts in the first paragraph that
. there is a need for a system of
analytic criticism of the dance.
In her first attempt at analysis,
which is her definition of the
dance, she proclaims that defin
ing dance is an absurdity. I
agree. Although I did not stop
reading there, as I was prompted
to do, all my consciencious wad
ing was rewarded with the fact
that the young lady knew that
dancing was divided into two
distinctions, movement and pos
turing, which information I got
from the title of her. article.
Throughout the whole article she
seems to be merely flexing her
intellectual muscles. Her com-
Keif on
produce a winner I think he
would be worth $25,000 a year.
We ought to be grateful we have
alumni on the outside to help us
secure such a fine coach.
I also think your criticism of
the business school is unjust. Be
fore being too critical just sit in
on a course in public finance by
Mr: Ashby or Dr. Carter's class ,
of business government. TJiese ;
two are among quite a few cours-; 1
es bearing on problems which w e
will become more and more con
cerned about. 1 Many. - of our po
litical problems which finally
precipitate wars have their be
ginnings in economic problems.
Certainly, one would have to
have some knowledge of econo
mics to get a clearer insight to
history. As for the more tech
nical course, such as accounting,
insurance, business law, etc., they
are certainly practical and can
make or help you save money.
Philosophy or literature cannot
do that. Why not try some BA
courses or are you scared of '
them?
As to your attitude on intro
gration (sic) w'e are a state insti
tution which is in part supported
by revenues collected in tax from
the good people of North Caro
lina. Most of them strongly favor
segregation and to them you're
disgusting. They pay their good
money so the likes of you Mr.
Kraar and Mr. Yoder can come
here and run a newspaper full of
your cheap, poisonous propagan
da, claiming it to be the ideals of
their sons and daughters. To
these good people you and your
pen stink. The desires of these
people should be considered.
M
i SiT
few alumni, seems really dis
tressed' about it. Presumably,
then, the pressures on Mr. Ta
tum will be considerably less
than they have been at Mary
landT in the sense that he prob
ably will not be expected to pro
duce championship teams but
merely somewhat more effect
ual teams than his recent pre
decessors have been able to a
ch.eve." While that ain't the way we
heard it, let us pass on to a
conflicting, and more plausible,
explanation from the Post's
sports editor, Shirley Povich:
i "President Elkins was trem
bling a bit last January when
Maryland almost lost its aca
demic accreditation because of
its overemphasis on football
scholarships and under-empha-sis
on libraries. He promised a
better showing, and then indica
ted that Tatum wouldn't have
so many football scholarships to
play with. "
That last determination ly
President Elkins might have
been the one that sent Tatum
back to his alma mater. Tatum
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
ments reach no conclusions; they
are mostly movement and Ps-
- - ';-
tunng.
LOW-POWERED ANALYSES
Samuel Coval's article on The
Art of Fiction is, as he says, low
powered philosophical analysis
In his dissection of Henry James'
treatise, which deals with criti
cism and ' criteriology, Mr, Coval
implies bad news for those who
"demand rationality of that (cri
teria) which attempts . to judge
the irrational." While I suspect
that most readers would not be
so interested in his investigations
as his implied conclusions, the
subject matter Is of intense im
portance to those who wonder,
"just what is good fiction?" And
speaking of analytical criticism,
I would like to see Mr. Coval
turn his ligfi-powered gun on
Miss Diprima.
Perhaps I should merely sec
ond J.A.C. Dunn's remark that
the poetry seems a little fuzzy,
only I think shaggy would be
more the word. My opinion of
most modern poetry has already
been expresed in The Daily Tar
Heel. Language and rules of syn
tax must be altered to express
some things poetically, or indeed',
to express them at all, but mak
ing these changes does not guar
antee that the result will be poet
ry. It does guarantee that the
result will tend to be, fuzzy and
.indefinite; somewhat like a Ror
schach test in which an ink blot
is shown, and the subject is left
to attach meaning to mere sug
gestions of form. I do not mean
nrinue
In conclusion, if you plan to
go into newspaper work you will
find that you have to please your
subscriber- because it (on the
outside) is unfortunately for you,
business just as football coach-
ing is. If a coach can't please 'his ? wljich le,ads tstudentj not parti
employer by winning he is firedi1 ' cipaUng in istudent government
If r a newspaper editor doesn't to say, "So this; is the kind of
please the owners of the paper
because it offensive tb its Jiru - M
s'cribers he is a!so fired
Fortunately for you? that, you.
have the security of your job,
under, the ivoryUowers ofwlearnv
ing. You may find it warmer on
the outside that is, if you an
tagonize your subscribers later
as you now continuously anta
gonize the student body
Robert M. Smith
P. S. This is', not from a .ir
responsible freshman but" from
a thoroughly disgusted senior.
Editors:
Re: N Tatum.
You are Stupid. Do you hear?
Stupid, Stupids.Stupid. You should
have gone to Davidson.
George Albright
Salisbury, N. C.
Editors:
The Student Party, I am sure,
appreciates your interest in its
activities 4 and philosophies, as
evidenced by your Friday's edi
torial. However, I for one cannot help
but feel that at timei- your re
porters are inclined to project
minor incidents into the fore
ground for the sake of sensation
alism. Such was the case of At
torney General Reid's "hotfoot"
action. . ,
This eve t was such a minor
- 4
on
is football coach enough to know
that when they take away his
scholarships they are taking
away his tools. . . '
What the two institutions are
serving up now isvan education
in the type of high-pressure
football thinking that; caused
many colleges to drop, the game
as a varsity sport and led the
Ivy League schools' tci deflate
it to controllable size . . . One
wonders if there would be such
frenzy over ; a faculty- member
of the same comparitive emi
nence as Tatum."
EIG QUESTION
Tatum's return to Chapel Hill
combines a natural love for the
Chapel Hill environs with a va
riety of other factors, none of
which have much to do with
football de-emphasis. The big
question centers on-whether the
greatly weakened University
administration will stand up to
th inevitable creation of a "big
time" football machine designed
to assuage the appetite of victory-starved
alumni.
GREAT DEAL TO LOSE
North Carolina has a great
Stand
impi
to intimate a lack of integrity on
the part of the poets represented
in the Quarterly; I only mean to
say that some of them have for
gotten their readers, indeed some
seem to scorn their readers.
"Vaudeville Suite" by Conrad.
Aiken, as would be expected, isv
neither involved nor obscure. He
has something to say, he wants to '
communicate it, and he does just
that, and with very much feeling.
As for an editorial policy, which
was asked for in The Daily Tar
Heel by Dunn, it seems fairly ap
parent. I would guess that by
publishing Conrad Aiken and oth
er non-students, editor Scarbor
ough deems it best to publish the
best that is submitted. If it comes
from students, so much the bet
ter; if it comes from outside,
publish it; and if it comes , not
at all, solicit it and pay for it if
necesary.
FOUR GIFTED WRITERS..)
In the fiction department the -editress,-
Blevyn Hathcock, has
chosen the work of four gifted
writers. J.A.C. Dunn, who has
been published in the Post, re
demonstrates his ability t in "A
Telling Tale." Although he relies
rather heavily on coincidence,
and the main character's motiva
tion "for suicide seems to be the
author's desire for a. neat plot,
,he carries;. . jt of " well, and
te result is an entertaining story.
Doi is Belts, who won the 1S53
Putnam Award for her collection
of short stories entitled The Gen
tie Insurrection, is represented by
a short story called "The August
Tree."- Even though the plot is
a'fum p r n
occurence that it went unnoticed
by many Party members in at
tendance, Yet your reporter chose
to - make it a highlight of the
meeting.
It is reporting of this type
pedple wh I fad' us
vh Had'
ns( wo il
- ' Students! wao do take part in
the governmental affairs of the
campus have indicated j 'Several
things;;." desire for participation, .
willingness, observe: potential
leadership ..ability, sacrifice., of,
time and effort, More important-
ly, they have expre-i-sed a per
sonal .opinion . that they have a
necessary attribute" for "such ac
tivity maturity. r - " ',r",'
.It, is iny - feeling that in. gen
eral, our student government
leaders do possess this maturity.
Receiving no monetary compen
sation, these persons nevertheless
spend many hours in hard work
and thought, in formulating our
policies, many of which are most
worthwhile.
Yes, they may make mistakes.
Yes, sometimes they forget who
they are and why they are here.
Yes, at times the frivolity of the
moment takes precedence over
serious business. But this is the
exception rather than the rule.
I am in no way attempting, to
defend Mr. ReidV action or other
similar displays. What I am try
ing to do is to show the relative
unimportance of this event in
contrast with the importance of
Party Chairman Norwood Bryan's
remarks. The latter was the true
highlight of the meeting. -For
it the Chairman received an ova
deal to lose if professionalism
runs rampant and the samp.
kind of
atmosphere prevailing
at College Park takes over , at
Chapel Hill. The stage has been
set for that kind of emphasjs;
Tatum's over-the-board salary
equals, if not surpasses, that of
both the chancellor and presi
dent. Contrary , to the Washing
ton Post's off-the-scene com
ments, university alumni are 'not
interested in de-emphasis; they,
want a winner. - . . . -
A "win at any price," philo
sophy, in football or pinochle,
has no place at Chapel Hill.
INVITING CHAOS
The Virginia proposal to grant
tuition funds from the state and
local governments to 1 children
at'c.intj r'v2te schools is com
plicated and of doubtful consti
tutional status. Even though it
were held to be legal by the
courts, it would, by encourag
ing the abandonment of the pub
lic school system, invite chaos
in education. N. C. Education.
Up
zme
not spectacular, Miss Belts cap
tures the imagination with her
almost unbelievably sensitive
character portrayal.
The two newcomers to the fic
tion pages of the Carolina Quart
erly, Joan Mauney and William
Groninger, are clearly talented.
'Their stories however, are noth
ing to rave about.
REVIEWS
The book reviews are compre
hensive and informative. Each
-reviewer, showing his complete
familiarity with both book and
author, pronounces reliable judg
ment. The reviewer of The Open
Mind by J. Robert Oppenheimer
seems to be commending Oppen
heimer instead of the book, but
then the book commends Oppen
heimer, too.
My chief point of praise, which
I have saved for last, concerns
the Chinese of Soo Su. I am cer
. tainly glad to see that the Quar
terly realizes how much we ap
preciate seeing a few words in
our language in a magazine other
wise so bleak. I am glad too, be
cause, as every Student knows, so
much is Jost in translation. We
who understand Chinese hope
that you will have more in the
next issue. Even if most of your
readers don't understand it, it is
pretty (that Soo Su made beauti
ful characters), and it makes
wonderful space filler.
Spoofing aside, I must say that
all in all The Carolina Quarterly
is an improved magazine, and
the editors and staff are hereby
commended.
tion.
Regarding the editors! com
ments on the questioning of Ad
visory Board member Charlie
Katzenstein by former Floorlead
er McElroy: free debate is al
ways encouraged on the Party
floor. However until' the Party
as a whole choojas to take a
stand as a Party the opinions
of one member should not be re
ceived as the accepted opinions
, til the group.
,.; A further point of clarification:
'Chairman Bryan announced his
appointment of Ir, iteid "as song
leader on the night before the
Farty meeting, (the announce
ment being made to the Advisory
Board). Mr. Reid has one of the
loudest voices in the SP. He is
also an experienced leader of
The song was Lung in an at
tempt to rejuvenate the spirit
which student " government, you
will agree, seems to have lost.
"Better the world with a song,"
says England's poet laureate
Masefield.
Sr. Messrs. Er,'tor,5. lot the T
liticians sing. Pardon the mis
takes of lambs who stray un
less, as Lord Beaverbrook com
mented, they make the same mis
take twice.
And in your reporting of news
and subsequent editorial ana
lysis let the balance of your
judgement scale be relative im
portance, not sensationalism.
Don't let our Tar Heel appear
to radiate a saffron glow. And
tell your reporters what we want
are the facts, sirs.
Pat McBane
Vice-Chairman, Student Party
AUTOMATIC RESCUE
A hunter in the deep pincy
woods stopped at a weathered
house to ask directions. Finding
a woman busily sweeping the
front porch with a rrawling-sized
baby on the floor nearby, he
was amazed to see that the child
was uiing a small raw potato for
teething purposes, and that a
s'.ring was tied at one end to
the baby's great toe.
"Would you mnd telling me
the reason for that string?" ask
ed the hunter.
"Why, it's to save watching,"
replied the woman. "If he gets
choked on the tater he'll kick
and if he kicks he'll jerk the tater
out."
' REVENGE?
The smiling girl sat in the rear
of the church, waiting for her
ex-girlfriend to be married to
her ex-boyfriend.
"She's my worst enemy," the
girl hissed to her companion.
"Why else do you suppose I let
her lake hint awav from me?"
g;SP
umni?
TUAY
Roundabout Papers
MyThree-Anij
Year Long jl,
A FRIEND of mine
mentioned a few days
school at the end of th
told -
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be passing out through th
e so
my neazi and tears all
fortunately, nothing CmU J ?
At.. -
In less than two weeks I v, :
with UNC and jig ': '
bulging with "education." mv '
to the adenoids with a mild dn
, 4 ,,, ,U)W
n edu
posedly. the ability
. ... . . " lu prove
other humans. This mav be Ju
I can tell you all about thp t
r.Jizaoeinan arama, I can
unload ,
fragments of infon
"nation abo:,t h
A 'Farewell To
Ar I thirl- i
sources from which ShakespeaJ
Hamlet, I know with ceriaintv t". .
an unhappy married life, I am-'
toms of Wilde's eroticism in Dc '
ly admit that Clarissa Jcro,,.
(largely because reading the bi
through 786 pages of interm;nah'tl
and, furthermore, I can spell h7J.
ALL VERY well. If I apply for.
paper I shall tell them I am'intir''
with John Milton's domestic aff
ably be given a typewriter and a
on the payroll in return. However,'
ter one fact which has constantly
my attention every since I arrive;
in the summer of 1952 lugging a
ing a map of the campus before
I cannot remember offhand hsw r
have taken since I first enrolled;;
and I am not goins to take the t o.
the total now, but I find it both in!
dening to recall that of all those c':,
stick in my mind only three course-;
ly required me to think: Dr. Lv.ta:
lish 79, Dr. R. B. Sharpe's English 5i
iam Poteat's Philosophy 41. The r;
cation seems to have been chiefly;
concentrating inside my head a .Lc
facts ranging from the difference :
and phloem to the Russian agrin':;
ing the period of War Communi-:.?,
GRANTED (FOR the ber.cf.t :;" :
feeling argumentative this morr.
" consider oneself educated vn'.(- c".
the basic, essential facts. Fact are r
portant. However, I would add totir
for an education that one beab'e;:
pently at a few conclusions by mea ::
with the help of the facts one lu
Three professors under whom I have
required me to think: as far as I car s
were more interested in my an?wcr:
tions correctly, thousrh they nr.y v;"-
if I did a little thinking on the siJe.
It is a curious thins, but uhi'S'
over three and .a half yeaisofaciX
(occasionally, I admit, rather lan,':.;
during which time I have done ali i'
in the company of or under the c
sorts of people, I have not once hear:-"
attempt to explain to anybody
is. Everyone seems to assume that,
to get educated, so let's get at iU
heard an explanation of just what
tried to define it for myself seven
failed.
AN ETYMOLOGICAL definit
am very attracted to came up thco -
in the course of a discussion ofue"
tween American and British (col!ce
educator is one who "draws out
ence between American and Br"'"'
that the British "draw out" the
the Americans go at it just t'c Q--"s
and "pour in" masses
and masH' "
And so now. having
stood f"r
years under a nice warm s'10W"'(..
leave to come out and dry off. 8"u
versity my apologies for bcins
fied customer, though I hardly tn- ;
remarks will shake the admim""'
to their academic roots.
HAVING THUS thoroughly u '
versity and all that it stands 1
make some sort of effort, aloe - j
what must by now be the
that I am an'incorrigiblc malco
simplest way to do this i? t0 s:i
fuiiy
nnt a mnlf-nnfcnf! that I ave
phases of college lite; that I -"r,
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that as a town Chapel Iliil i- ha;
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ments of college whichI nave
think, far enough beyond rcproa.
of reproaching them seem al"-
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haha) done, there only remain? J
big-time luck, the faculty IwpP.
the .student body gaiety lince,1j".
else chin-up, carry-on, an! t01
ye learned, (k'ntlemen.
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