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V Of Statement olicy Working during tliose quiet days of final exams, a group of students has moved for a special election to recall The Daily Tar ' Heel's editors. The major complaint of this group is that The Daily Tar Heel has not '"re presented" student opinion. In view of this move, it seems necessary and appropriate to state, once again this pa per's policy. It is not a new policy. Kvery edi tor of this paper and most other papers has taken the same position. Before the present editors were elected, the students were presented these views and clear ly told what the editorial policy would be. We epiote from this statement, which ap peared in the paper last March before the election: x ll'hile the news pages and letters-to-the editors column are designed to re fleet student opinion, ice do not believe that the editorial columns should neces' snrily mirror the prevailing opinions on earn pus. Constant agreemoit is dull. We wilt attempt to pdt out a newspaper which will stimulate opinion, challenge toijusi ' prejudices . . . ; This Inis been and always will be our policy. Tatum's Contract & House's Memory After an editorial prod from the Raleigh Xews and Observer, Chancellor House has handed down an administrative ukase on the (Iiig) Jim Tatum contract. According to t'le official pronouncement, there is "no secre;"-regarding salaries of Uni versity employees and such information is re leased "when direct request is presented." 4 The chancellf r ! .o observed that only one direct ino'irv from the piess was made, that of a 77.. v correspondent. If the chancellor will consult his memory, he may remember a call from The Daily -Tar Heel on the day after Talum was hired. He may remember that a reporter asked for the jerms of the new coach's contract. He just may. JVe remember his answer, for it has been quoted in the paper: "We're ' not ' mentioning anything about that, son." The official student publication of the Publi--ations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published J, daily except Monday r and examination and - 4 vacation periods ind summer terms. Enter ed as second class matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of j March 8. 1879. Sub- Broad vision Sense OlapcTlfill Str of thr Vcirwy t i N'rth (Wotuu tt ti'i n V-rv 4 f scription rates: mail ed, $4 per year. $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a i-mester. di!0rS LUIS KRAAR. ED YODEIt Managing -Editor FRED POWLEDGE News Editor JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager BILL BOB'PEEL Associate Editor Sports Editor ..:. Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Coed Editor ; Circulation Manager Subscription Manager Staff Artist J. A. C. DUNN WAYNE BISHOP Dick Sirkin Carolyn Nelson Peg Humphrey Jim Kiley Jim Chamblee Charlie Daniel BUSINESS STAFF Fred Katzin, Stan Bershaw, Rosa Moore Charlotte Lilly, Ted Wainer, Daryl Chascn. Johnnv Witaker. , OFFICE TELEPHONES News, editorial, subscrip tion: 9-3361. News,- business: 9-3371. Night phone: 8-144 cr 8-445. EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Charles Duna, Bill Ragsdale. NEWS STAFF Mike Vester, Charles Johnson, Neil Bass, Clarke Jones, James Nichols, Peg Humphrey, Charlie Sloan. O - The Fayetteville Observer Last night the University of North Carolina tried an experi ment involving sports, television, radio, psychology and the money of the taxpayers. It televised a basketball game at Chapel Hill between its own teams and that of the University of Maryland, but it did not fur nish a spoken description of the game along with the picturization of same. ; , If you wanted to know what was happening and who was do ing what and how the score stood, you had to tune in a commercial radio station which was broad casting the game. 1 Then with your eye on the screen you saw the game with the compliments of your own money which supports the state-owned television station at Chapel Hill, and with your ear on the radio, you heard what was taking place with the compliments of some sponsor who paid his money to advertise his wares. EMPTYING THE MAILED ers Ken I 10 f I. ( Lots I hem j (At semester's end. we found a mailbox full of readers' letters, ichich we present below. Editors) Editors: , Your recent editorial on Tatum's appointment a-s.head football coach places you once again in the position of insulting a new-comer to Chapel Hill. This also occurred once before last year when the new man came in to head the journalism depart ment. Remember? Your defense' of editorial opinion is very shal low. ' No one maintains that you must conform to predetermined policies. There arc certain require ' ments for responsibility and common courtesy perhaps, it would do you and future editors a ser vice to examine them before you undergo your next mental cathartic. J " ohn W. Austin I'm sorry those boobs on the student Legislature took your money away, though it is not surprising that your editorials are too sophisticated in their style and too mature in their objectives for these rather average young men. I hope you keep your senses of humor and of balance. Your editorials are included in my favorite reading, and I expect tvou give a lot of people a little extra hope for the fut ure of our USA, Charles Newbold NiSht Editor For This bsue -Clarke Jones What it was, was" broadvision, and for our money it is a wierd wedding of socialism to capital ism. The State of North Carolina op erates the educational television station at Chapel Hill. In the op eration the States competes for viewing time on the air with tel evision stations which have been built with private capital and are operated to make a profit. It is true that the television station was a gift to the Universi ty from outstanding and well meaning citibens, seeing in tele vision a media through which cul ture and learning could be dis seminated to the people, who own television sets. . But now suppose another group of well-meaning and affluent ci tizens should decide that what Fayetteville needed was a news paper which would be' devoted entirely to cultural and educa tional news, and which would not accept advertising. So they plunk down the money to build the building and buy the presses and the City of Fayetteville agrees to levy a tax on the people to op erate that cultural and education al newspaper and to distribute it free of charge to everybody who wanted a copy. Perhaps that would not be too much competition for a privately owned newspaper, but then sup pose this cultural and educational newspaper started printing pic tures and stories of sports events taking place in Fayetteville. That would be competition w ith a capital "C," the government in competition with private enter newspaper commenced to squawk prise. Then if the privately - owned the management of the publicly owned culture sheet would come up with a compromise: Tell you what we'll do, we'll print the pictures and you just print the stories, and let the reader get hold of both papers and read the stories and look at the pictures all at the same time." That's the picture we get of "broadvision" and it doesn't make sense. Principal beneficiary of the proceedings seems to be the pow er company that sells twice as much electricity in order to keep the television and the radio going at the same time. An Aside On Words It occurs to us that the old-time country, editor was a better writ er, on the average, than the mo dern one. For one thing, long primer type set Tby hand was not a thing to encourage wordiness, and the old-timer, could get to the point right now. Words were the tools of the early day editor. The mechanics of printing was a tedious but rel atively simple thing, and it took no great amount of equipment or investment for the production of a weekly newspaper. The weekly editor today has to be something of a jack of all trades. He needs to be handy with a camera and in the darkroom; ; to be able to keep books, with all the present-day complexities of deductions, withholdings nd tax complications; to have a work ing knowledge of the linotype. flat casting and eccentricities of an automatic job press. Who's got time for words? Tlcasant Hill (Md.) Times Editors: ' i feel obliged to report to my fellow readers of The Daily Tar Heel tan interesting situation which is either the product of blind stupidity, rancid hum or or outright sabotage to student morale. It is necessary to recognize the fact that this highly sig nificant development does fall under one of the forementioned categories. Contrary to popular opinion, being a student at one of the finest universities in the South does en tail a certain amount of actual study. Surveys in dicate that-in a few isolated cases this study is spread delicately over an entire semester, as a gen tleman might be expected to butter a slice of toast. Many, however, being of a more spasmodic nature, and far more courageous, clinch their entire half baked course of study into their grubby little fresh man fists, smear one great glob of mental grease on sheer crust, swallow in toto, and pray for diges tion without regurgitation! This has been a long accepted procedure, highly respected by those, like myself, who have been utilizing it. 1 The problem is this: someone evidently is out to prove that a camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle. As a resident of the third floor of the Cobb dormitory. I' have fallen victim to at least one phase of this insidious experiment. Having come back to the dorm in a somewhat ambiguous state, I, collapsed onto my cot and slept. The next morning, at the crack of dawn, I pounced from my blankets and quickly stepped down the hall to a room where the university , has provided one of the more necessary services' of a dormitory. Throwing open the door, I gaped in shock, for it was evident that three-quarters of the floor had been torn from its roots and carried away. By the time that, the o'clock bell rang its pathetic call, I, had recovered somewhat, and I brusquely tucked my head under my arm and went to class. But, ho! As I dashed from the door, I encountered a gigantic mountain of rubble. My condition by the "time that I finally reached class, after having untangled a mass of arms, legs, bricks, books and plumbing, was no better than that of the famous Roman soldier who was cast into the dye. Later in the day I carried my scarred and broken body and spirit back to ye olde Cobb and settled down to .Xudy. Amidst the horrible clatter and thud of hammers, picks and shovels, the thundering of heavily laden carts passing by my door and the laughing, screaming, yelling and whistling, study was discouraged. Could there be a bigger fly in the butter? G. A. Georgt Editors: It is always a joy to read an unbiased paper such as ours. I hope that I am not being presumpt uous, for. I do attend school here and have the feel ing that it is my paper, too. Let's take the editorial 'From Universities to Cuckoo-Land' as our "piece of cake." Whoever wrote that belahourous piece of nothing must be a ' highly informed man. He seems to be cognizant of the entire athletic situation not only in Chapel Hill, but in College Park as well. And how nicely he weighs both sides of the situation. Just marvelous! Wrhy don't you kiddies come out of the play pen and take some Listerine for your halitosis of the mind. The mere idea that our university is going to metamorphose into "an athletic Couckoo-Land" by the appearance of one James Tatum on campus is moronism. You boys should try to refrain from necremancy. You will be believing it yourself soon. As your pointed heads see it, our entire academic reputation will be shot 'to hell after we become ' Tatumized. Hog wash!! Will Jim Tatum strangulate the professors in our admirable school 5f romance languages? Will he sneak a bomb in our underfinanced but struggling communication center? Will he order our fine hospital torn down? Will he have his henchmen kidnap Bill Friday, our dynamic new university head? Just what do you think Tatum is, a God? Have someone more informed write future edi torials. Has the writer ever met Jim? Obviously not, drive for perfection. Ask any of his boys what they think of Big Jim and see what they say. He was greatly admired by all. But, such a man will natural ly incur antagonism of a sort in his means to an end;. Some people will denounce him just because he is a good coach. Others will find something to throw he is a Methodist, or a Jew, or overweight, or cross-eyed. They pick 1,heir reasons and spit out their vile as you did. Tarn also sure that Mrs. Tatum, who is so ex ilarated about returning to North Carolina, will be warmed by your friendly editorial. And won't .Chancellor House be glad you agree with his and r the Athletic Council's judgement? Oh Yes! I also, admire the way you surmise that Tatum's pay is "toted with hand 'outs, over the back counter from alumni." Your source of information must be sooooo well informed. Come on boys, high school is out. Why don't you . quit reporting that the bridge is out before it has even, been built? Give our new coach a chance and lets' extend our warm hand and not our fist to him. Frank H. Crowther " . - . : ; Editors: , While listening to Carolina's last few away-games and talking to several students about this matter, it is obvious that there has been a great deal of un sportsmanlike conduct on the part of the spectators. Of course it is not certain as to whether or not these people were students from the opposing schools or anti-Carolina fans. These last few games were played under tense conditionsand if-they had been normal, the outcome of these games might have been differ ent. Playing a game on the opposition's home court is a disadvantage in itself and much more so when the prime objective. of the fans is not to cheer for their effort to disrupt both the officials and the play ers on the visiting teams. Seriously, I believe, that these fans have the interests of their school at heart, but evidently they haven't stopped to consider the overall effect of their misconduct. Such poor sports manship tends to give neutral fans and the public in general a very base opinion of the student body of a school- which condones such practices. Even the best officials are human and may miss one or two " decisions during the course of a game, but all the jeering Lh the world wrould not change their deci sion. Moreover, continued jeering serves only to dis play ignorance of the rules of the game on the part of the fans concerned. John F. Whitt " -. ' - Editors: j - ' ; : I would like to ask you two questions. (1) From various comment in articles and edi- .-. . ... . torials, gather you think the voters made a poor choice in the selection of the president of the stu dent body. Do you think they made a poorer choice of a pre sident than they did of editors of their daily paper? (2) Realizing that a large portion of the income of the Daily Tar Heel comes, from the sale of ads, does the fact that you are opposed to big-time athlet ics have any thing to do with the fact that the sports page is usually from one-half to three-quarters cov ered with ads? Harold M. Taylor . Editors: I've been reading your paper for the past few months with great interest and you are to be com mended for your work. In recent editions of The Daily Tar Heel, it seems that certain asinine members of the Legisla ture are in favor of cutting out your salary alto igether. Boy! Are they a bunch of know-nothings iwheit4t omcsto publications Perhaps the exper- J ience you are getting is very valuable to you, and will be more so in the. future, but I don't imagine you got where you are by cutting your fellow stu dents' throats. . . To me, a fellow editor, I say: The editors of The Daily Tar Heel should be paid at least $600 a year, and thatxwould be too little when you start figuring in worries, gray hairs, and having to compete with people who know how to do nothing for each other. Besides, there's more to running a newspaper than running your mouth. The North State Newspapers jffe with you. Dick Carpenter Editor The Western Carolinian Editors: , . Somewhat belatedly I read your words welcom ing Mr. Jim Tatum to the North Carolina campus. The words greeted him with something far short of affection. You said, and I quote from a source other than the Daily Tar Heel: "Professionalism has now come home to roost. Now that we have this para sitic monster of open professionalism in our midst, let's not hold any delusions. It will take its toll." Those are fine words, Mr. Editor, as far as words go. They are the words of a crusader and crusaders have their place in the field of journal ism when they know of what they write. Let's not 'hold any. delusions", Mr. Editor, you, to repeat an - old baseball phrase, are a lost ball in the high weeds. At the time of your burning and inspired words of righteous indignation, Mr. Editor, you evidently knew little of the game of football as it is in our colleges today. For had you known, your words would never have reached print. You say Mr. Tatum is a "parasitic" sort of a person. I take it you mean he lives off other or ganism, i.e., his football players and their fans. All football coaches are parasitic in that sense of the word, Mr.' Editor, the difference being that Mr. Tatum has been more successful than most others. Dou you seriously think Mr. Tatum is a pro fessional any more than was Mr. Barclay before him? Or Mr. Snavely before that? Or Mr. McGuire, the basketball coach? They are all professionals, Mr. Editor, the same as you will be when you start writing for your daily bread instead of semester hours credit. - North Carolina, as the Daily Tp.i- Heel has brag ged in times past, plays'one of the toughest foot ball schedules in the nation. On 10 consecutive Sat urdays from the last of September to the first of December, the North Carolina football team knocks Jieads with some of the finest football players in the nation. You, Mr. Editor, apparently feel the spiritual gain from the competition is enough. : But, Mr. Editor, there are thousands of Tar Heel fans in the state of North Carolina who don't agree with you. They want more than a little doing and dying for the glory of UNC. They want a winner, a team of which they can be proud. A team the likes of which has not been seen in your beautiful Kenan Stadium in several long and lean years. These fans wanted Mr. Tatum as head football coach at "North Carolina long before you arrived on the scene. Now they have him and the pressure is on Mr. Tatum to produce not only for the people of No;th Carolina, but for the rest of the nation's football fans as well. In order to give the people what they want, Mr. Tatum has to have football players to work with. -Not just ordinary football players, Mr. Editor, but men who have the natural ability, the willingness to learn and a burning desire to excel. Players of this caliber, Mr. Editor, are hard to come by these days. Mr. Tatum will have to beat the bushes to find them and then spend many long hours persuad ing them they should not go U, say, Duke or WTake Forest. - . , - - f In closfngV Mr. Editor, take' the trouble to inves-, tigate the problems o coaching football at?a'"big time" school in these days 'of high-pressure football. Then, after covering thoroughly all phases of this none-too-secure method of making a living, do your name-calling if you still feel justified. Jim Ryan Sports Editor The Oak Ridger Editors: I am an alumna of Carolina (Class of '55) and am now a Red Cross Recreation Worker assigned to the 3310th U. S. AF. Hospital'at Maxwell A. F. B., Ala bama. I have recently started writing a sports col- iimq for our hospital newspaper, "The Green Hor net," and the excellent sports coverage by The Dai ly Tar Heel has helped me immensely in compiling news. The patients in the hospital have responded enthusiastically to this new column and join me in saying "thank you" to the DTH sports staff for help ing us with our new column. Jackie McCarthy Chart ' 4 50 k i tic as tv '"; M'C IT;'.-. Can hard-, ; castle. Perl."' but fo; man in the '; castle with men. " - froKt the:;:' role and ,C idvote she;, his Pipe is P. !"" sevcral rot-ru smokers in hunSer of j 7 fraternity bro:---ne meal a . 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