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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HICL FRIDAY, NOVEMSEft 33, IfSt" The Rush Is On, Kiddies: lI A I TTl X ' AN AUTHORITY TALKS ON- n nurry, ana oer i ne Alxmt ",.( Mudeiits, t lie Ccn tral Records office estimates, soon will he rushing to their deans and r'Jviors to si;n up lor the crip courses the University offers for those who would like to have their parchment job-guarantees handed down with a minimum of educa tion. This matter of crip courses be comes increasingly important this time of the year, with .eajjfcr -students' rushing' to prereister early i order to be sure of jjcttinjj their requests. I'nfoi tun;v:eK , this worthy group is laboring under a misapprehen sion. It seems 'class tickets are doled out to seniors, juniors and sophomores, in that order, after preregistration is .111 over. Obviously there aren't enough simple subjects to go around, and fortunately so. Educational force -feedin ; is not a pleasant thing. Iut after Pencil Sharpening io;; is closed, what t enia ins? ri Those students who needed easv quality points are in danger of learning something, and they may not get a good grade in doing it. And this is a tragedy worthy of U'reat s m jx; hy. Sympathy for the loitunates win yot. courses Jike Pencil Sliai)cning io and will leave the University with a line degree just a fine degree. -'Not that we're against the con venient crip, lor it serves as a line balance on a heavy schedule: but. too many students 'are signing up lor courses bec:-use .they have a reputation lor being easy. Thi . practice can very well cut out the individual who. for one reason or the other, sincerely wants that par- . ticular course. Perhaps South Uuilding can work out a way of finding if a stu dent's purpose for wanting a course is interest, need or the'much more frequent lainess. A more con scientious advising program might help. . ' Watch Nineteenth Hole Most people are pretty concern ed over the Middle Kast. While the shooting war has ceased there and the Tinted Naiiuus police team his started to unik. the Suez Canal an a still looms as? the possible start ing point of WoYid War III. Russia, lor e ample, has beei recovered 's die nation which shipj)ed nrllioi's of dollars worth I arms to Syria and F.gypt. At piescnt a p;'tcMvict gioup is be-, lieved in control in Syiia. ( mL1 1 i i k ;(.ciIemen are still worrying MKiuiJtheir ilrait status. And thoughtful people are still wondering when the lighting will really break out. All this time, in Augusta, Ga., where lie is pi t's 'g golj, I'xesiJenL REMEMBER, IKE . Herb loc k. Dwight Kisenhower appears scarce ly perturbed about the Middle Fast. Jim I lagerty, the man who runs messages between the Presi- The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of tbe Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examinatiot v and vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second class matter in tht txjst office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei :he Act oi March 8. 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, S4 per year, $2.50 a semes ter; delivered, $6 a year. $3.50 a semes ter. Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CIIAPiLIE SLOAN News Editor RAY LINKER Business Manager BILL BOB PLEL Sports Editor k LARRY CHEEK EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Sears, Frank Crowther, Barry Winston, David Mundy, George Pfingst, Ingrid Clay, Cortland Edwards, Paul MeCauley, Bobbi Smith. NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Nancy Hill. Joan Moore. Pringle Pipkin. Anne Drake. Edith MacKinnon, Wally Kuralt, Mary AJys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Billy Barnes, Neil Bass, Gary Nichols, Page Bernstein, Peg Humphrey, Phyllis .MauRsby. Night Editor - Graham Snyder dent and the rest of the United States, tossed any worries aside this week and said he felt Mideast" tension "has been greatly eased over the last two or three weeks." I lagerty is right. The lighting has stopped. The tension has been eased, lint the time has not yet tome nor will it ever conic for the President to stop worrying about the situation in favor of golf. President Kisenhower. 1 lagerty and the rest oi the Republican Ad ministration appear to have wor ried very little about both the Middle East and Central F.uroje crises. Both crises caught Washing ton completely off guard. In both instances the United States has hown verv little, if any, actual leadership. -Henry Cabot. Lodge's speeches in the United Isjations, plus a ljttle red-tape-cutting for Hungarian refugees, are about all we can be proud of. Somehow, we think Adlai Stev enson would have done tilings dif ferently. He would have . stepped into the situation and when it was oer, we would have been closer to eace, and America' would have been more respected. Even Harry Truman would have done something. But Eisenhower and llagertv'do nothing. There may be a water trap at the end of the fairways of indifference. The State s Biased For Mr. Johnson On the road between here and Durham, there's a sign that says "Restaurant Area." It looks like all the other roadside signs put up by the State Highway Dept. But, to our Knowledge, it is the first "Restaurant Area" sign in the .state. It points' to Howard Johnson's restaurant, the large, luxurious cat ing place between Chapel Hill and Durham. There is no reason for the State of North Carolina to advertise Howard Johnson's restaurant. The building, set back from the road on a1 knoll does not pose a threat to safe driving. .The sign implies the State of North Carolina would like folks to stop and spend money with Howard Johnson. If the state is going to advertise Johnson's eating place, it also must put up a sign in front of Brady's and the Shamrock restaurant, two eating plares also on the Durhain C'hapel Hill road. ' And no other roadside eating places in the state must be treated unfairly. Similar signs must -go up .all along the stat highways. The state shouldn't be fairer to HoAvard Johnson than it is to any body else. It would be better to take the sign down. Ane Victor S. Bryant Victor S. Bryant is one of j the University's hardest-work-' j ing and most respected trustees. He has served on several com mittees to search for officers of the University, and is gen erally known as the Board of Trustees' best spokesman. A Durham attorney, Bryant deliv ered this speech to the UNC Faculty Club. It will be con tinued in future issues of The Daily Tar Heel. I At the outset I must make it plain that while I am a member : of the Board of Trustees of the ' University of North Carolina. I have no authority t speak either for the board or any group of trustees. What I shall say, there fore, will represent only my in . dividual views. Indeed, there is "not only a possibility but a strong probability that some of my fellow trustees would not con-cur in a part of what I shall sa.y. In contrast with some of the f ancient European universities, which were first started on the initiative of teachers or groups of students, the General Assem bly of North Carolina in 1789, acting under constitutional man date, brought tli? University, of Xorth Carolina into existence, i Chapel Hill was chosen as the i site. The state has since then nurtured and made possible its growth. It has reaped rich re wards from its progress and success, and has suffered keen l ly.from any of its reverses or shortcomings. "Of course, the state can not and does not attempt to operate and manage its university would b? impossible for it to do so. By the nature of things the University must be operated J through some intermediate body hence tha Board of Trustees. By statute this university ; Has 100 regular trustees plus four living ex-offkio members of the board. The Executive Committee-1 consists of 12 Trustees, which ' number alone is more than. the entire membership of, the trus tees" board of s:me universities. To enable the trustees to func tion with assurance and , certain- . ty as to their powers and duties, the General Assembly in 1789 enacted the following law: "The trustees shall have the power of appointing a president of the University of North Caro lina and such professors, tutors and other officers as to them shall appear necessary and prop er, whom they may remove for misbehavior, inability or neglect of duty." Some years later the following became a part of the code by legislative enactment: "The trustees shall have the power to make such rules and regulations for the management of the University as they may deem necessary and expedient, not inconsistent with the cons titution and laws of the state." Thus the state expected th? trustees to manage and super vise the operation of a state uni versity. It is significant that the General Assembly did not cir cumscribe the powers of the Board of Trustees. This fact indicated something not only of the type of perform ance" expected, but it served no tice that the trustees were to be held just as answerable for the operation of the University as a ship's captain for the "operation of h;s vessel regardless of who might have actually made the error in case of mishap. This is a responsibility fixed ' by law. It can neither be avoid ed nor changed by an Individual trustee. . '"' The powers given the trustees are broad. They should be. I do not suggest that it is always ex pedient for the' Trustees to use the full measure of their authori ty. On the contrary, there are many times when it would "be highly inadvisable to do so. I am sure that the best results freq uently can be obtained by dele gating certain powers to, the ad ministration and to the faculty, and once this is done the trus- of the members of the General Assembly with the job which is being done by the faculty, the administration, and I hope with that being done by the trustees. It must be realized at the out set that the trustee of a state university has responsibilities to four distinct entities: The state, the university ad ministration,, the faculty, and the student body. With your permiss ion I should like to set forth my concept of a - trustee's re sponsibilities to each of these groups. .TJie trustees, by statute, have the non-delegable duty of select ing a president of the University upon their own recommendation. By the University Code they elect the provost, the comptrol ler, the business manager, the chancellors and certain other ad ministrative officials upon the recommendation of the president. While the obligation to" select a president is bj law that of the 'Who Else Do We Pick Up In This Car Pool?' - . ' ' ' . ical appraisals by the public, the faculty and tile students, the ad ministrative officers have every right to assume that the trus tees who put them in these posi tions will take their places by their sides, rather than seek the safety of shelter, when the bricks begin to fly. MHE STUDENTS Of course the trustees have ob ligations to the students. One of these is to provide a faculty of the highest calibre. While it may not be the responsibility of the trustees to select the teachers personally, they have a right to know that the students are being taught by dedicated men and wo- men capable of quickening and; inspiring maturing minds and of challenging the best in a stu dent's possibilities, latent though they may be at the time. The trustees should see to it that the students are provided comfortable living quarters, that they can obtain wholesome food, and have access to all of the It JT tees should scrupulously: avoid interfereing with either the ad ministration or the faculty, at least until there has been a fail ure on. their part to function. The same wise reasons which prompted the lawmakers to grant, wide powers to the trustees make it persuasive that the(,trus tees should delegate wide and uncircumscribetl powers to - the administration and faculty in those certain areas in which these groups are best qualified to func tion. FINANCES The state's financial support of the University is measured in terms of the amount of money which the general assemblies have appropriated. On? look at the campuses of the three branch:" es of the University with,." their many buildings, and a realization of the millions spent each year for support and maintenance of this institution as compared with the resources of our state, indi cate to my mind the satisfaction trustees, I wish now t; acknowl edge with deep gratitude the val uable assistance and cooperation rendered the trustees' commit tee to nominate a president by the members of your own facul ty committees. Without this help from the faculty I am certain that the trustees' committee could not have embarked upon this arduaus task with the con fidence and assurance which I hope will be well justified in the result, once our duties shall have been completed. The trustees have given to the president and his administrative assistants broad powers in the discharge of their duties. Few restrictions and limitations have been imposed. In the performance of their duties they have the right to ex pect the loyalty and full support of the trustees for whom they act. Having been sent to positions, the very nature of which freq uently make them objects of crit- physical facilities needed to en able young men and women to reach maturity fully equipped to take their places in the common wealth. The only luxury for which I plead in behalf of any student is the luxury of mental efficiency. Matters pertaining to the stu dent honor system, student auto mobiles, and many problems connected with student extra curricular, activities should be " solved by the students working with the administrative officials and faculty, although the trus tees through their Visiting Com mittees take interest in these, and at times act in matters oi broad policy. While the students, of course, have" a definite place and respon sible functions in the life of any university, in the final anarysis the operation, control and man agement of the Unversity must remain in the hands of the ad ministration, faculty and trustees. Pogo By Walt Kelly PAUL CVf? AAy UUAL L0V'A?L AN" SUNNY NATUScB TrIE 5WAMP 12 LOT IT2 utaijn cmzfcN we-1.5 ! ir .... '.-', . UP 10 KNOW I 1$ UAPlM'cmxeN IN Hf$ AT Trie HELM, 1k!N3 wuuw pick, r. up a uv. m St. WHAT PC M5U C? THAT" 6 AN' VCZQ'Z ksMAiNS WiTM GCCV HA?n.y even cclp, micros A OWL AT - 0. M s V Awi w" lV "JC' ' - Li'l Abner -,J By Al Capp X.N3AVH 'HO-iKVTd-d -in'ifi-ClL DN!1VJS S.3H Logical? Chal Schley People have been publicly denying the existence of God around here, obviously unaware that by so' doing, they are denying not only their own ability to think rationally, they are also denying the possi bility of scientific knowledge. Scientific knowledge, as I understand it, is the product, of applied rational thinking, i.e. logic. Logic depends for its validity on the validity of the cause-and-ef feet relationship, which in Him presupposes that there can be no effect indepen dent, of at least one cause. Consider the universe. Consider it from any, angle at all Wordsworthian, Einsteinian, even per sonaland, irrespective of one's reaction to it, on must concede that it exists. Thus, if the universe exists (as modern science pre-supposes), and if causality is valid (as indeed . it must be in order that man may trust reason), thea it must be concluded that the universe had a cause. OK. What was that cause? . A, word of caution is appropriate to those who would. attempt, to answer the foregoing question by means of reason. Reason is a limited tool, as the following simple test will show: Let the, reader stop reading a minute and try, really trv-to think of anything at all. which is not bordered i)y time but which yet has definite mean ing, both for himself and for others. ABSTRACTS What about beauty, love and similar abstracts? These fail to meet the requirements because their meanings are adjectival in nature; that is, these ab stractions depend for their meaning and for their very formulation oh that which is time-bordered, i.e. on man. Spgaking for myself I have never been ible to conjure up a concept which would meet the speci fications, although I admit that my failure to do so does not brand the task impossible. Thus it is seen, at least from my point of view, that human thought is limited by. time. Time, how ever, is measured in terms of, and is therefore limited, by, the universe. Thus the futility of ap plying human reason to the. question of what caused the universe is apparent. All right, then, how are men supposed to know what caused the universe, much less what tfif characteristics of this force were (or are)? Well, the foregoing are good questions! More properly, they should have been phrased "In what sense can. man know anything about th? power which created the universe?" i Reason, and therefore rationally certain ' knowl-' edge, have been eliminated as possible answers because of their limited nature. Thus I may be ac cused of perching well out on a limb when I say that it seems to me that the causer of the universe, having caused the same to exist, would have caused it to exist independent its causer. That L;, I be lieve that the intelligent being which created a universe which contains intelligence would not havo omitted a means of communication between himself and his creation. To believe otherwise would he to ' accuse the creator of infantile capriciousness. Granted, then, that a means of communication between creator and created exists, has that means been employed? ' I believe that it has. Throughout recorded his tory, men have arisen against all censure and have tried to point out to their fellow men the dazzling futility of homocentric faith. At the same time, those men have tried to indi cate the best path for humanity to follow. I believe that those men were inspired by the creator to speak on his behalf. I believe thaf this process, which I accept as revelation, reached its height in the life and teachings of a Jewish carpenter. I could go on listing my beliefs, but it occurs to me that I am deviating from my intended purpose, which was to offer an answer to those who denied the existence of God (or of Brahm, Allah, Jehovah in general, of that being which -created the uni verse and which, in spite of men, governs it). it & 7r PROSPECT & RETROSPECT: Sweat Shin Curtain's Neil Bass It's time to gripe again. , Why should students have to show identification cards at University athletic functions? Pass books are paid fcr anyway, so why should the Dept. of Athletics be so particular in checking ID's to. insure that non-students don't use them? Furthermore, why is the Dept of Athletics so isolated from student government? Why has a Sweat Shirt Curtain been drapd around actions of the Carolina Athletic Associa tion? These and many other questions will continu-e unanswered until students get more representation in the Dept. of Athletics. HUSH-HUSH ATMOSPHERE This same hush-hush atmosphere surrounds the Infirmary block fee which every student pays and few use. This time it's the Iodine Curtain, bui; that's material for another column. Meanwhile, until student representation is al lowed by athletic folks, all we can say is: "Come down, come down, from vour ivory tow er." Or: From Ericscn, Crook and Cornwall Students blindly catch bell. From McGuire, Itabb and Tatum We accept athletic policy vcrbatum. If we're gonna' pay dough, Let's have some say-so. O.K.? - BV SI- .. fill . . . x
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