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IS. , te ll mS ime To Shake OH The Cobweb TAR HEEL AT LARGE: ecessary 1 " wssi a 3 Just before -the thud of finals hit campus last week. The .Daily JTar Heel published a thoroughly searching feature on the lack . of campus housing for married stu dents. - - - Reporter Charlie Sloan laid bare a series of hard facts that seem to indicate one trend the Universi ty is doing little to provide addi tional housing for married stu dents, even though their number grows yearly. Admittedly, the problem 'is com plicated and expensive, and Ave place no blame on any single ad ministrator. However, in tiie face of a doubled enrollment in just ten years, a good fourth of. which will be married, the lack of effec tive action is appalling. Vigorous building activity on the nearby State College and Wake Forest campuses stands in marked contrast to the Chapel-Hill situa tion. ... Victory Village, -'a so-called tem porary project for married stu dents, houses iy families. Another 300 want to get in right now.. And this is the only housing Carolina offers these students, many of whom are doing graduate work and ha've-families. The town peo ple, being as aquisitive as those in any other booming community to day, have made no effort to pro vide loxc-cost housing for married students. All this adds up to a serious sit uation, one in which many talent ed students either leave Chapel ilill for want of quarters, or live expensively or uncomfortably. Dean of Student Affairs Fred Weaver has reminded Financial Officer Billv Carmichael about the problem "from time to time." But Carmichael whose job in cludes gathering money for need ed projects says glibly: "The main thing we've got to do is find some money." Fund-raising efforts here ha've recently succeeded in establishing a television station", remodeling the . Old Well, and subsidizing athletes. While it is plainly the State's job job to provide student housing, in emergency situations the adminis tration should turn to private sour ces. And few would question the seriousness of this problem. The General Assembly, meeting in an-atmosphere thick with racial controversy and economic: prob lems, was asked to-Ick'-H money to the University, for new married student housiug.vThis would mean the rents students paid would have to be high enough to .repay the loan. The average student would. Jind such rents oppressively high. The 'administration here knows that the student body will double in ten years; they know well over i!o percent of the students will be married. ..Thus, the choices of action are abundantly clear: . The General Assembly should be niade more aware of this need. If necessary, private grants should be sought. Should jelfrliquidating housing be the only workable answer, then the loan should be over a long enough period to make student rents rea sonable. The Daily Tar Heel, with these possible solutions, wishes to under score the need. And we urge the administration, particularly fund raiser .Carmichael, to shake off the cobwebs and act. The Vatican And Protestantism The Vatican's Sunday magazine, Ossen'atore Delhi Domeiiica, has made some interesting remarks about American protestantism. In a recent article, the magazine says American protest ants derive most of their pjetv 1 1 uni the "anftise ment" which they seek in church. It continues: . . . Protestantism is more and more losing its religious character . . . The average Protestants are people who look on Sunday for a little amusement or prayer, who be lieve both in God and the useful ness of doctrinal and ritual ' ques tions, who choose their churches on the basis of the personality of the pastor, the politeness of the usher, and ease of parking the car . . On , Sunday, about midday, you see the people go out, bowed to by the pas tor, who in. various guises or dis guises stands at the door to smile at his faithful ... The wife of the officiatop, standing in the back- ground, performs the honors of the house, or, -as she says, the honors of God To Protestants, (fsse-ivat ore's re marks will have obvious signifi cance, coming, as, they do, from a Church whic h, in . the final sum mation, does not believe iu reli gious, diversity especially the type of religious diversity so supremely manifested in traditional Ameri can Protestantism. The Vatican holds to the view that, in general, there is .'only one True Church, or dained before the dawn of Protes tantism. The -Vatican certainly is entitled to its opinion on the ques tion of religious diversity. -Protestants resject it as an opposing view, so long as the. Vatican respects their view that religious diversity is an essential and unalienable liberty of the human being. , Ossewaf ore's remarks do have an amusing side: That is, their general truth. 'But the charge that "Protestantism is more and more The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Entered as second class matter in the post office iCJiapei Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a se mester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editors ...LOUIS Kit A A It, ED YOPER Managing Editor.. FRED POWLEDGE News Editor CHARLIE JOHNSON Business Maaager - .. BILL BOB PEEL Night Editor" Vester losing its religious character." which might have at times been a legitimate charge, is becoming steadfastly less legitimate. Ameri can Protestantism has always wil lingly accepted the dilution which can come to a church when it puts individual and individual t hut c h autonomy ahead of central author ity which claims absolute and in fallible status. In other words, Am erican Protestants know by inheri tance and observation that the in dividual soul their major concern will benefit 'more over the long haul by liberty and diversity as opposed to authority and centrali zation. From the beginning of recorded .Western' history, religion, like ma-' ny other iistitutions, has changed in pendulum-like pattern. The ear., fy Christian Church, before Clou stantine gave it legal recognition because he had a helpful vision be fore a battle, was an underground movement. At the dawn of the Reformation, Christianity was mo nopolistic. After the Reformation, there is a question among theolo gians whether what Protestants had was actually something new or something as old as St. Augustine's thought. There is a question whe ther the Reformation was a thrust at . something untried, or something .tried 'before and gradually aban doned. Thus The. pendulum' holds, and while the Catholic: Church has re-' mained more or less unchanged, the Protestants, with the suprema cy of religious diversity, must. wil lingly accept change whether or not v that change might make Pro testantism "amusement" in tjie eyes of the Vatican. Amidst all .its cursory and par tially true comments on Ameri can Protestantism, the Vatican, ma gazine really asks one question: "Will Protestant union be possi ble?" Osservatore doesn't think so: "The majority do not hope for it nor want it. nor believe it realic able." While union may, if it comes, lend militance to the Pro testant movement and we would .-approve of that we hope Protes tants will, recognize loth good and bad features, of the ecuirietici.il movement. On the good siderthc elimination of doctrinal differenc es that are purely petty;, and the jain of momentum On th 1,1 side: A retreat from relifrinc ,1;- versity . the religious diversity supported by the First Amend ment .to, the Constitution and a diversity absolutely essential to an open society. n r Cj mt 2 i'v3S mhnsmmi- ms' -m k i e i if . r i Dili lie 1 1 1 -j ope i 1 V MVS ii By Chuck Hauser I like the Big Time. I like Big Time football, Big Time basketball, Big Time ping pong, 'and Big Time mumblety peg. , . I believe that as long as the University is engaged in inter cullgiate athletics, it should field the best teams possible. It should hire the best eoaches available and it. should win as many games as it can. If it can play a football bowl game every year and make the Top Ten in the national bas ketball ratings eyery season, I'm all for it. WINNING I believe, along with Coach Jim Tatum, that winning is everything. He did not say as some people have interpreted him as saying that winning, at any price, is everything. He knows ..that a University's first mission is 'academic. Jim Tatum is a Big Time coach, and I am all for him. Big Time football pays for the University's extensive intramural programT Big Time football re ceipts permit the University to engage in varsity sports which - bring in no receipts specer, and cross country, and fencing. RECEIPTS Lacrosse, for instance, was dropped as an official sport a few years ago. Why? Because University football receipts were down and there wasn't enough money to pay for that particular minor sport. Big Time football provides varsity and intramural sports op portunities for hundreds of stu dents who would not otherwise get the chance to participate. At the University of Maryland, academic standards skidded downward at the same time that Jim Tatum was raising athletic standards. This was not Mr. Ta t urn's fault; it was the fault of a weak university president Curly Byrd who was so wrap ped up in his desire for sports recognition for his school that he forgot the primary purpose of a university. NO WEAKNESS We are fortunate at Carolina in that we do not have a weak, president. Chancellor House, Act ing President-Elect Friday and our other University officials are not only strong leaders, but they have an intelligent sense of pro portion concerning academics and athletics. Wre need not fear that the academic mission of the .University will be trampled un derfoot in ariy race for athletic j - If em recognition. - I have said that I believe in the Big Time. This includes Big Time newspapering. The' Daily Tar Heel nas long been recogniz 1 td as a Big Time student newspa per. The quality of its editorial leadership and the freedom of expression which its editors have traditionally exercised have put it far forward in the ninks of college publications. I have often disagreed with stands taken by past editors of The Daily Tar Heel. But at no time have I been in such violent disagreement as J am now with Yoder and Kraar oyer their opinions on Big Time athletics. FOR EDITORS Yet, when I go to the polls next week to cast my ballot in the recall election, I will vote to retain Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar in office. I will do this because, although I 'disagree with what they have written, I know, that, they have been guilty of nothing more than stating their honest convictions. If they did other wise, they would be' compromis ing their own integrity and that of this newspaper, which Has al ways proudly stood for editorial MOTS freedom. - Anyone who disagrees with an. editorial in The Daily Tar Heel has access to the letters-to-the-editor column t6 state his dis agreement. If a person- can write interestingly enough, he may be allowed to write a 'regular col umn for the newspaper, and use that column to disagree with the stands taken by the editor. DISAGREED As a daily columnist for this newspaper prior to my Army service and again in the spring of 1954 when I returned to the University, I often disagreed in print with stands taken by the editor. My column was never ' censored or barred from the pa per because of any disagree ments I had with my boss. If the readers of Tne Daily Tar Heel believe, as I do, in the Big Time, they will cast a solid - vote to retain the present editors of The Daily Tar Heel next Tues day. Because to throw those edi tors out of office simply because they have expressed views which are unpopuUr on the campus would be a thundering retrogres sion to the small time, and I 'don't like small time anything. t ! ; , I j M Sieverisph Form ops In California Jaunf By Doris Fleescn OAKLAND, Cal. Adlai. Stev enson got off to a good start in northem California, that pleas ant region its people7 call super ior California in saucy deroga tion of the moe relaxed south. The candidate is inAip" form and the sun is shining. His local managers know where he best steaks are and; in other respects, are well financed. Thflt crowds cheer and the papers are full of it. . ." -v . rf-.M ,. These are ingredients well cal culated to mitigate the fatigue attached to primary campaigning, commonly called the riiasfied po tato and green pea circuit. The description is often accurate for days on end. CONTRASTS The 1956 Stevenson offers some sharp contrasts, all for the better, to 1952 and some like-, nesses, one bad, to the 1952 vers ion. He speaks as well as ever, his speeches small and great singing with lines he can live with. "You cannot conduct foreign policy from a newsstand ... I do not say I am qualified to be President. Anyone who says he is qualified lacks he first quali fication: humility. But I am avail able." Such remarks at an Oakland box supper led to Californians being assured by the San Fran cisco Chronicle that Stevenson was still "interesting, witty and intellectual." RESEMBLANCE The one resemblance to the 1952 candidate that drives the reporters and h's own press sec retary, to ulcers is that he still polishes these gems by hand up tp the moment of delivery. With a three-hour time lag on the West Coast added to other pub lishing problems, reporters find it sometime impossible to get it all to their papers so that others can enjoy it. too. Stevenson's stubborn answer is that his first obligation is to give his best to the audience which has come to hear him. He is sorry about . the difficulties, he says rather stiffly. If the AnWican people are not int the moodi to listen so much ; the worse for him, of course. But that is his own mood. . 'Seems They Finally Found A Place For Me To Live' -'-V -To . " las. ;; . By Joseph & Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON In the Eisenhower-Eden "joint declaration" there is a single reference to the "hun dred million people in what were once ten independ ent patio'hs" w'ho are "compelled .to work for the glorification of the Soviet Communist State." But the reference is purely formal. No one thinks any more that any serious attempt will be made to loosen the Soviet grip on the satellite states. Even io, it may be worth describing a rpcent talk with Dr. Arnhost lleidrich; former Secretary Gen eral of the Czech foreign Office. One. of these re porters first interviewed Dr. Heidrich in the-gilded Czernin Palace, in the spring of 1948, a few weeks after the. Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. The interview was a memorable one.' Dr. Heidrich was quite astonishingly frank, warn ing the reporter that the Soviet appetite would by no means be satisfied with Czechoslovakia. Then, tQ wards the end, he turned the interview around. W"ould there soon be war between the Soviet Union and the United States? The reporter replied that he thought not a long period , of armed tension seemed more likely. Then,' said Dr. Heidrich, "there is nothing left. I must escape. Escape he did. lie now lives, with his wife (who escaped aL'O) in a small house in the Washington suburbs, where he leads the strange dusty life of a political refugee. Perhaps one or twice a year, Dr. Heidrich and the reporter who interviewed him in the Czernin Palace meet again, to chat about the world. It is always a rewarding experience, since Dr. Heidrich has a remarkable,, insight into the world situation. 'But it is aLo, somehow, rather sad. Dr. Heidrich, a chunky, stout man with an odd resemblance to the late W. C. Fields, tends to judge the present by the past. He often reverts to the time he went to Moscow with the Czech delega tion which was brusquely warned, by Stalin against joining the Marshall Plan. As secretary of the dele gation, Dr. Heidrich took notes of the conversation in the Kremlin. He recalls how, in a moment of ex pansiveness after delivering his ultimatum, Stalin told the cowed Czechs a good deal about his plans for the wrorld. "Our first task," Stalin said to the Czechs, "is to tear down the power positions of the United States both in Europe and Asia: Once this is done, England and France will be too weak to resist the pressure." ' - Dr. Heidrich is convinced that the Soviets have never wavered an inch from their purpose of domi nating all, Europe and Asia, however much their methods may have changed. He sees lai-t summer's summitt conference at Geneva as just another means to the same end. i "Geneva a catastrophe, a disaster," he says, with a sharp, chopping gesture of both arms. "Every year they gain something, buot now is much worse. Before you had something. They feared your bombs. But now nothing;"They know since Geneva you will not use your bombs. They have nothfng to fear." He pauses a moment, placing his fingers together in a judicial gesture. "Always before, I am wondering, how can the West win this cold war? So many advantages on Soviet side. Flexible. They decide they act. No public opinion. If the people must sacrifice, the people sacrifice. But at least they were afraid of you, and now no longer. Now I do hot see at all how the cold war can" be won." ' ! How about the "liberation" policy, for winning the cold war, about which so much was heard in 1952? Dr. Heidrich smiles thinly, and picks his words carefully. "Mr, Dulles has' said that the time will come when Soviets realize control of satellites is more anxious than- advantageous. I am very pes simistic. Skeptical." But, he adds quickly, the Pres ident's Christmas message to the satellite people waj- good. "People who live under such conditions are always happy to have occasion to hope." Yet surely, by now, the more intelligent Czechs must realize that Czechoslovakia will not be freed? Dr. Heidrich's short arms fall heavily into his lap, andf or the first time his round oddly merry face looks drained and old. He shrugs again, "To live it is neceary to hope," he says. Then he gets heav ily to his feet, says farewell with elaborate court esy, and starts off on the long walk to the small house where his wife bakes delicious little cakes, and where hope lives stubbornly and illogically on. R .' s .. . ' I M . ' 1 eader s W. m vorv Alumnus Dost Praises DTH Editorial Pago Editors: K AV. ' I don't care what they (the stockholders) say, I think you're putting out a good paper and a thought provoking editorial page. Those who ""oppose you may think they want a namby-pamby editorial page which mirrors only undisturbing opinions, but I wonder if they have considered how dull that would be. Ah me, it must be wonderful to be a student at Carolina now! ' Incidentally, away from the subject of Big Jim I thought your comments on the Alumni Review wefe exceptionally good. Sid Cost - WJntteivSaltm Class if '44 L G0ETi7v. servin3 Ct Proved r-v"' thl-s. but 1 '. have been ;. a turn at i(i fid yj'' ly interest I "send" n-0 "," be r-ar the . Poleon ffl. rt aPPy-mi!e,t rope. Then I t;t: Germany." j I establishme;;? to synthetic : conversaiiapc" the metr i. ;-: fertilizer. I r streets and Derinf(nri..M . "student life; done: events cocktail par:.,; hour confer!:, inns u'tw.-h ... i-i.aj ft I have a;;e: talks, corrrr:": nlanninn Va 'Ju,. ences and liv have heard c: reams of e: to another, others got he;-- All that I k is that Ger: ferent from t Here thev L: original u ; ligntenmg. bL: dent anathv. r- except that & '. finesse dtvel:: as UNC. Tht- aorm or ui Ill till 3lUul.J . irf me sii me. mans are dic ed or more ?. months I tkiri say . that the i despfte a hip no more dents. Sub!!::- lies iwi '"J Hamburg" frr trie situaiU'i:-- My venture academic field - Millie vitr- rates hish in? cause until re. headquarters in Cermar.y l: lent for r.e -: people, ch:c.;f number of V fled those U living here. -Once CaJ'.t: thorough!)' a almost any A In almost 22 s theobsy or f ; the study Ameiican n0 reflect: 0f German 7 dents: for t': have sfric:-: ties for devt interesting pendent s' rrPM" is 0fl3: tern. Here is v" North Car! about the tion: -InterP':----'. South as a its opp-,; riMon; but : chance ol courts Daily Se y 1 "For other inirnosit-i,n futility, but ' conscious pie of t!' S" -Thoe NV full.v lv3 terPiti0" r : amounts , derept've;". in
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