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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAfl HEEL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1956 Tilted Noses And Other Unrelated Things "The Board is greatly coin et na! about housing of married stu dents and has come to the conclusion that the State cannot rulvisedly undertake to provide housing for married students except those in professional schools and those doing graduate wotk, atid exen in such cases only to a limited extent. Justification for J his distinction is found in the fact that ....it is essential to the good rejutatio)i and educational rank of our l niversity system that strong fnograms of professional and adx'anced graduate education be maintained." Rc ommendations ol the Board of Higher Education for the bien nitini in;7,9"0- SKYSCRAPER CAMPUS The connection between housing married students enrolled in pro fessional and graduate schools and the programs carried out by those schools escapes us. After all, students are students, whether they be married or unmar ried, undergraduates planning or not planning on entering profess ional or , graduate schools, or stu dents already in these outstanding divisions of the University. And without students of any or all of the alove categories the Universi ty would be at a loss, if not for students, at least for the outstand ing individuals who fit in one of the missing categories. But the Board would rather pre serve the high academic standing of the graduate and professional school than see the 20 per 'cent of the student body which is married properly housed, providing of course there is some connection between the two. For the graduate and profess ional schools to lose the high stand ing they hold among the nation's institutions would be a tragedy, but the loss which is already oc curring is also unfortunate. That, is the loss of outstanding individuals who never come to the Universi ty because they can't find a place for their family at prices they, as students, can afford. The connection of housing - for maried students with the standing of the graduate and professional schools of the University seems more like a case of academic snob berv than sound reasoning. An Old Standby Returns An old stand-bv is back on campus. Nothing exists as openly, or is condemned as often as stu dent apathv. Every vear student leaders. University officials and casual bystatiflei s carefully point out that participation just doesn't seem to be as wide as in years past. There are nujmMous reason; for student h, but from time to time one reason stands out above the rest. For curent outstanding back ground behind , this fall's "So WTiatism" it w ill be necessary to go back, ala Bridey Murphy, to the time before the mental rebirth that supposedly occurs after entering college. Back to high school then, to sec where the weeds of apathy are sown. The University is a liberal place, free liberal, not leftist liberal, but often students arrive with sour tastes in their mouths from having youthful ardor squelched by high school teachers. With the alarming rise in juven ile delinquency in places where it has never been noted before, high school administrators and educa tors have a right to be leery of bursts of independence on the part of pre-college students. So new students arrive on camp us and as a general rule split into two groups. There are those who have not tasted Carolina's kind of The Daily Tar Heel t 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 in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei the Act oi March 8,' 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semes ter; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editor . FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor ... CHARLIE JOHNSON News Editor RAY LINKER freedom and lose control of them selves; and there are those who have observed, or even felt the thrill of doing what they please, and find themselves an important part of extra-curriculars. ..There are also small groups of individual cases who. for various reasons, nev er h ue cared about much of any thing. A challenge stands before the upperclassmen, then, a challenge to drop their air of boredom and show that freedom at Carolina is more than consuming as much al cohol as possible, and forsaking studies for any diversion that pre sents itself. Qrientation Important For Grads Too Although the University takes great pride in its graduate school, the individuals enrolled in it have been left on the outside of campus life. ' iMost 'graduate students are older and more mature than the normal undergraduate, facts which, with the higher education which be longs to the grad, tend to separate them from the undergraduates. It all boils down to the fact that the graduate students, outside of studying, are left out of campus activities. At orientation time new students and freshmen were led around the campus, and told exactly who to see for everything from books to advice for the lovelorn. Not so for the graduate students. There was supposed to be an orientation pro grain, but when registration time came around" many grad students didn't kjiow where to go. Some of them still don't know the build ings as well as freshmen who went through a more complete training period. At present a group is being or ganized to rectify all this. If it suc ceeds the graduate students will probably become a more integral part of Carolina instead of the left Moscow University Starting Place Chuck Hauser Author Hauser is a former acting editor and managing edi tor of The Daily Tar Heel. He gathered the following impres sions of the University of Mos cow during a trip to Russia this past summer while on leave of absence from The Chapel Hill Weekly. He has recently joined the staff of The Charlotte Ob server. I knew the University of Mos-ron- was s;oing to be different from the Uni versity of North Carolina, but I'm afraid I was still a bit startled by what I found. In the first place, instead of having a sprawling hori. zontal camp;, this academic world is built on a vertical plane. The main University building, a huge monster of a Hauser structure, has a . . in the Kremlin central tow er which soars 33 stories into the Russian sky. The tower is surrounded by four wings, two of which rise 18 stories and two of which reach only nine. Classrooms, laborator ies, libraries, dormitory facilities, and the other requirements of a student body of 22.000 are al most entirely housed in the one building. This is the new campus of Mos cow University, opened only three years ago in the rolling area known as Lenin Hills on the southeast edge of the capital city. The old campus, in down town Moscow, is of a more famil iar style, and is still being used. 1 - V (US I s, 1 I if - r r- ,. i 1 A p i j ! ; I I t 4 i ? v".'v i I ;. ! - - - , - J. 1 Ivy League, Moscow Style A male student with shaved scalp (not required) and a Russian coed check out books at the Univer sity of Moscow's geology department library. ' The new campus is unquestion ably magnificent, but at the same time it has a sterile look. The area around the main structure, dotted with a handful of addi tional buildings (including an in door track and a basketball-stadium), is almost devoid of trees of any size. A formal garden is laid out at 'the rear of the cen tral building. At the front door you run into the University's own version of the Iron Curtain in the form of a stony-faced young woman- wear ing a blue uniform and a per petual frown. No visitors are al lowed to enter without special permits. When you try to take her pic ture, she shakes her fist once and then retreats behind a door if v If 4 f Iron Curtain Campus V This uniformed young lady is a door guard at the front entrance of the University of Moscow. With her aid, the University maintains its own Iron Curtain, and visitors may be admitted only with, special passes. : out of the reach of the camera's long lens. ' A large wooden platform drap ed with red crepe paper has been erected on the front steps of the building. Workmen are busily setting up microphones and test ing television equipment. Sum mer vacation is about to begin, and a big sendoff is planned for thousands ef students who have "volunteered" to help farmers in the fields during the warm months. Your interpreter obtains the necessary passes, and the young woman in the blue uniform re luctantly permits you to pass through her door. Inside, you find polished mar ble and a tomb-like atmosphere. An enormous battery of elevators waits to take students to classes in their vertical campus. In the great hallway, a large book stall displays scientific publications and general magazines. The University has no central library. Each department and school, scattered up and down the 33 floors of the building, has its own stacks and reading room. In the geology department library on the 29th floor a man with a shaved head and a plainly dress ed young woman wait patiently for textbooks. Living quarters for students, in one of the wings, are comfort ably furnished and well lighted. No three-men-to-a-room routine here. Each student has individ ual quarters, equipped with bed, desk, dresser, bookcase, reading lamps, a chair and a state-provided radio with which he tunes in (you guessed it) Radio Moscow. Each undergraduate is provid ed a room containing eight square meters. For each two rooms, there is a shared bath. Russian youngsters earn their places and free tuition and ex penses at the University through competitive examinations. They attend classes in 48 "professions" under 12 major departments and schools. In the student cafeteria, at ground level below the main floor, food is appetizing and amazingly cheap. A ham sand wich sells for one ruble( less than 1Q 'cents in true value); a bowl of salad costs one ruble; and a glass of milk goes for only 50 kopeks (one-half a ruble). At a table in the cafeteria sits a young girl in a white mock and a white kerchief, adding up her counter's receipts on a black beaded abacus, the standard "add ing machine" of the Soviet Union. There is noise here in the dining hall, and youthful sound, and the friendly clatter of dishes and silverware. The huge central auditorium of the University is dominated by a sweeping mosaic dealing with world peace (practically every Am J- f One Man Rooms author's interpreter tries bed mural and mosaic in the country hammers peace slogans at you) and Soviet history. Marble columns, fluorescent tube chandeliers and rich drap eries add an air of magnificence to the immense chamber. Flanking the stage are en graved marble plaques bearing quotations from Lenin and Sta lin. Over the words are bas-reliefs of the two Russian dicta tors, poised high over the au dience like all-seeing Big Broth ers, even in death. Pogo By Walt Kelly VOL! TKAT M2. 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It 'was just an other coffee break. 1 At ten o'clock he got up from his table and went to the cashier's sfand by the magazine rack in the north end of Lenoir. He made another pur chase and paid his tab with a dollar bill from his wallet and eight cents out of his pants' pocket. Then he walked the fifty yards or so back to the Law School. Two and a half hours later he ma de a dis covery. His wallet was missing. So he went to look for it. He didn't find it. I just finished talking to him, and lie still hasn't found it. He's just about given up on it. Can't say as I blame him, since it's been a week, now. What was in the wallet? Just a driver's license, some notes arfd the usual odds and ends that a man carries around in his billfald. And two hundred dollars. The fifty yards between Lenoir and Manning is all open ground sidewalk, mostly. In two and a half hours a couple of hundred students shuffled their way to class along that sidewalk. , The man, asked at the cashier's stand in Lenoir. Nobody had seen it. He posted a notice in the Law School. Nobody had seen it. He ran an ad in the Tar Heel. Nobody had seen it. But somebody saw it. Somebody HAD to, be cause it's not, there anymore not in Lenoir, not in the Law School, and not on the sidewalk. I think it's in somebody's pocket. This is not an isolated incident. It is an extreme, but the same thing happens every day on this campus, to a lesser degree. Textbooks disappear. Raincoats are "lost". And billfolds somehow rarely ever get back to their owners, once gone. It seems to me that I remember reading some thing, a long time ago when I was a freshman, that started out, "I am on my honor, as a gentle man " I thought everybody had to sign that thing be fore they could get into school. It must be that some people figure that because they were given no choice about signing it, they're not really morally obligated to abide by it. But they did have a choice. Nobody made them come to Carolina. So they did n't have to sign it, did they? But they did. And I'm betting that one e them is losing sleep nights, trying to figure out how he's going to spend that two hundred bucks. I hope he has a real big time. REACTION PIECE AAore Opinions On Sunny Jim Dave Mundy The time has come for Tatums' turn. For those who are interested, I am organizing the first chap ter of a string of "Tatum's Scalp" (or T. S. for short) clubs in honor of Sunny Old Big Jim Tatum. It is hoped that the clubs will stretch from Manleo to Murphy, or at least from Raleigh Road to Frank lin Street. Our program is very simple: it calls for the im mediate retirement, resignation, transfer, dismissal (all with reluctance, of course) or promotion of one Tatum as Head Football Coach, Dean of the Faculty, and acting president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As long as something is done. This is not to declare that we advocate the complete severance of his relations with the Uni versity. If sufficient additional funds can be ob tained we plan to raze the library and endow in its stead the Snavely-Barclay-Tatum Institute for post graduate advanced research in football techniques. But is will be no ivory "football" tower. To keep the members of the institute down-to-earth, they will be required to hold seminars for football' players on such subjects as hew to pronounce "aca demic curriculum." If these don't pan out, we are almost certain of persuading the trustees to give Tatum a special Kenan professorship is football research. They know as well as you do that this university will never get its name in a single national newspaper until it has a better football business. Admittedly, we shouldn't be judging boss Ta tum so early in the season. Decision cmdd be post poned until, after the Oklahoma game, but why wait? As a special adjunct to the Snavely-Barclay-Tatum Institute there should be a "Department of Cheerleading", inasmuch as this also seems to be one of the professions most valued by college students. It is difficult to decide whether it should be named after Reichskanzler Hitler or Cheerlead er By num. The simplest way to decide " ould be to call Adolf back from the dead and pit them against one another in a straight, contest, with impartial people like me for judges. (Even though I have a strong prejudice in favor of Adolf, secretly.) Adolf (Hitler, not Bynum) would probably do all right down in Kenan Stadium, although it com pares with neither of the stadia in Berlin or Nurn berg. I can hear it now: "Geben sie mir bitte ein' C .... Geben sie mir bitte ein' A . . .Geben sie mir bitte ein' R . . , Bet Bynum couldn't rcll and R like Adolf. And he has no moustache. But the cheerleader (Bynum, not Adolf) might even up the score with his arm-waving and high pitched screams. Thanks to his calisthenics he might even 'do pretty good "at goose-stepping. (Wonder if Adolf took calisthenics every morning?) This is just a suggestion, but what about 'Pel vis' Presley as the first Professor of Cheerleading; and Mob Action? At least he should be invited over to try out for the job. Now isn't that fair enough?
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