THE DAIUY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1954 f AGE TWO Carolina's Next Chancellor: There Is One Man Who Fits It is rare that The Daily Tar Heel can say it speaks lor the ma jority of the student body. In fact, most of the time the editorial views of this newspaper are contrary to those of the students. lint we feel that The Daily Tar Heel and the members of the stu- suhiett are in agreement this momiivr The one subject is the next chancellor of this University. In our opinion, the chancellor ol the University of North Caro lina should have as li is main job the guidance of the University to ward better ant) more education. I his is a rather broad thin.; to say. and it can be subdivided into many more categories, but we leel it is the prime responsibility of the chancellor. pressure, no matter from where, thx cjjmes to him while he sits in South luildiin. He must say what he believes, write what he believe do what lie believes: when" lie (eaes tloinj- this, he should be re moved. This is idealistic, we will admit: but the ood colleges and universities, we have noticed, have idealistic chancellors rnd presidents. His other jobs make, most men shrink away. He must hold together various seg ments of the University which are traditionally at each other's throats. He must make sure thai the lac u It is well taken care of. He must ivp:esent the University to the rest ol the st.-te, the nation, the world. He is the man who w ill be call id out of bed in the middle of the niih and asked, for comment on something that happened minutes before. He must 1e able to iivc lair and honest answers. The chancellor of this univtrs itv must be a fair man, fair to the students, the faculty, the admin istr. -ion. the other two members of the Consolidated I'niversitv, the taxpawrs of the state and. above all. I 'ir to his educator s conscience. He must not sell his i sul or au put of .the University beiaiisr an alumnus who . ;Mves UNO. -riot o! monev wants some tlii done. He- mu-t be a disliked, some times', li'vd 'man; as. all ' men ..in public office must be. Rut he must be constructed so lhat lie can take unfair critic htti in his stride, so lie can y;ke ,if without cUs--ending to the." tv ievel of hjs critics. He must "keep athlejics in its I ii;,tr h ilance with the rest of the University, just as he jmist balance arts and sciences. ---business admin istration, medicine and all . the other divisions and schools and colleges that make up this beauti ful University. He must keep the balance faiily. without favor to or fear of any one rotip. He must not be afraid of any There is something else that are enough to ; -e. as students, feel is vital to a oood chancellor of this university. Pei haps the people- searching lor the man have tended to overlook this, because the people who are looking are no longer students: The chancellor, in 'The Daily Par Heel's estimation, mst have a powerful urging within him to teach. To teach younir people not just biologv or history or sociology ;r philosophv. but to teach them how to think. The man in the chancellor's of fice w..., has this urging is bound t form policies, appoint officials and conduct his office in a way that reflects that urging. That, more than amthing else, is what this university needs right now. r We are informally familiar with the names of the faculty people being consideied for the chancell orship,', On, .the list, there is one man. we feel. who satisfies above list of qualifications. Pot eat. no 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 and vacation periods and summer terms tlntered as second class matter in the Dost office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei :he Act oi March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, S2.50 a semes ter; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semes ter. Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor :. CHARLIE SLOAJM . .. News Editor "... NANCY HILL Business Manager BILL BOB PLEL Sports Editor LARRY CHEEK NEWS STAFF Clarke Tones, Nancy Hill, Joan Moore, Pringie Pipkin, Anne. Drake, Edith MacKinnon, Wally Kuralt, Mary Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Billy Barnes, Neil Bass, Gary Nichols, Page Bernstein, Peg Humphrey, Phyllis Maullsby. ; Subscription Manager Dale Staley Advertising Manager ; Fred Katzin Circulation Manager .. . .. Charlie Holt BUSLNESS STAFF Rosa Moore, Johnn7 Whitaker, Dick Leavitt, Peter AJper. SPORTS STAFF: Bill King, Jim Purks, Jimmy Harper, Dave Wible, Charley Howson. EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Sears, Frank Crowther, Barry Winston, David Mundy, George Pfingst, Ingrid Clay, Cortland Edwards, Paul McCauley, Bobbi Smith. Staff Photographer Staff Artist Librarian Norman Kantor .... Charlie Daniel Sue Gishner Proof Reader Night Editor . ... Wally Kuralt .'Charlie Sloan He is William 1 1. , , , I 1 t ' Doctor! Bill Poteat, as many of his students kiiow him, is an ex cellent scholar. He is vitally in terested in students and their self- government and their right to say what they want to say lie is as representative of the . I'niversitv of North Carolina' as any of her former famous presi dents and chancellors. He is a rep resentative of North Carolina, but he also sees past the Virginia and South Carolina borders. He is interested in keeping the good traditions of this universi ty alive and thriving, because he knows the value of good traditions. He is interested in seeing that the I'uiversity stays in proper balance, that nothing here comes out on top except thinking. The students, faculty, admini stration and taxpayers could trust the I'niversitv in the hands of Dr. Poteat. They could know that, no ma'ttc what attacked the LTnivers ity, if the attack were unjustified Dr. Poteat would put it down. Above all, William Poteat is passionately interested in getting his students to think. You can tell that in 'his classes in the Dept. of Philosophy. You can tell it when you sit with him on a University board, and when vou drink coffee with him in Le noir Hall. You can tell it when you walk with him nvross McCorkle Place to the other side of Franklin St. to get an ice cream cone and talk about life and education and religion and anything else in the world or outside it. Iiecause Dr. William II. Po teat is all these things and many more, The Daily Tar Heel feels he would make the best possible, chancellor for this university. We think the majority of the students who c are feel the same way. . It is awful hard to find any thing wrong with Doctor Bill Po teat. If he were named chancellor, we could say the same for the Uni-vcishv. Frank's Cpnf used. It Appears , Frank Crowther I think that I'll start a new philosophy called "the Philo sophy of Confusion." All sophomores are automat ically eligible. Therefore, I'm al , ready a member. But" if I remain confused when I attain the status of junior. wiH I still be eligible or will a confused junior have to apply. . . or is minov confusion an entrance ticket? I'm confused! My confusion is confusing, for, being rational, I am as to f whether I am confused that I am confused . . .and this is threefold confusion which would add to the confusion . . . confusing, isn't it? . But if confusion, epistemologi cally, means disorder and chaos, how can we ever have any order L our confusion? And confus?d people in confusion are some of the worst people I have ever en countered . . . indeed, it's con fusing. If we confound our confusion, we end up perplexed which is another word for confused. It was rajher amusing to see the results a few days back of the Olympic fencing matches: Hungary,, 9; Russia, 7. Whjj& in Budapest the Russ ian i," fortified with tanks, ma chine guns and divisions of men, are mowing down hundreds of unarmed Hungarians mourning women etai the Hungarian and Russian athletes are eating and sleeping and playing together in Iclborne. You can imagine what is going on in their respective minds. Ironic that without their tanks and with only swords between men. the Russians didn't fare as well . ; . . small justice! I suppose that Alice Edwards Jjnes, the first woman to re ceive a degree from tb Uni versity of North Carolina, be lieves that Chapel Hill is an t extremely likeable place. While snapping photos be hind GimgYioul Castle the other day, I happened to meet our first feminine graduate. After tactfully spending a few min utes trying to get her to pose for me, she relented rather he sitantly. She said she came to Chapel Hill in 1898 and has remained hers permanently. I don't think that I -would be putting myself out on a limb by assuming that she mast have an affectation for v "the Hill." HAPPY BIRTHDAY Winston Churchill has just, turned 82. It's a little hard to believe he can be that old, for the words he shouted to the world and . snarled at Hitler not too long ago were the words of a man with a heart full of both youth and courage. If a man is no older than his heart, he is much young er than 82, and always will be. At any rate, it's a pleasure to say happy birthday to one of the great men of our time. Raleigh Nercs & Observer GOETTINGEN LETTER Tar Heels Life In German University: Tradition, Free Cuts And Much Studying The new students became officially welcomed and matriculated in Goettingen University recently, while you were home for the Thanksgiving holidays. The matriculation celebration is a big day in the University calendar. There are no lectures. The new students don their special-occasion-black suits and gather in the Aula of the University. In letics stand in line and receive their matriculation I. D. cards from the dean of their faculty and a handshake. What I am trying to point out is the tra dition that exists even in so new a German Uni versity (founded 1736) as Goettingen. As I said, matriculation is a celebration day, and the students adjourn to one of the many local 'We'd Love To Have You Drop In Some Other Time' A . A 1 ,TJTm,,r "7 - - ifTJL (fAf "gg$0j( iii ' mi. AtSsa"1"--' ' fcfT vi iiiyi. M'CKIll-oCJC marches the Faculty Senate in all its academic robery. Alter everyone is seated in a hushed silence, the rector (the university president), the dekan (the Dean) of the medical faculty and the University Symphony Orchestra give the new students words and notes of welcome. The program lists the rector as "his excellence the rector."""' CONRAD ADENAUER-TYPE CLOTHING The students' outfit, worn only for very momen tous events, consists of a black wool, double-breasted-suit, with white shirt and silverish silk- tie as epitomized by the dress you see Conrad Adenauer in. " Confronting you in the Aula are portraits of George II of Hanover, founder of the University, Bismarck, famous Goettingen alumnus; and other famous graduates or patrons of the University. Among the Faculty Senate, as they march in, arc five Nobel Prize winners. After this part of the ceremony, the new stu-. dents in each faculty Philosophy, Theology, Sci ence, Law, Medicine, Forestry, Agriculture, and Ath- Gasthofs (taverns) to drink a stein or two to on another's future scholastic achievement. For the last three weeks the students have at tended many lectures, trying to find a professor or a subject or a time suited their tastes. In my case, it was only in finding a professor and his subject that I could understand in German. Some students take 30 hours a week, some 10. Some students go to every lecture, some once a week. It a student does not attend lectures no one knows it or thinks bad of it. It is a perfectly normal practice. I Most of a German student's education comes from w hat he seeks for himself and from research, in his field, not from what the professor says in class. The professor only suggests , books to read, never assigns; usually the suggested list is much larger than one could read even if he were taking only that lecture. 1 The only work that is required comes in a seminar, in which the classes are smaller than the lectures, there is class participation, and per- Pogo By Walt Kelly r'V? ?A 2 GO! 15 THINKING :?ALtTA; TIMS 60IN3 ONTO Y0U2 COM60HVP, MARTHA, AN T2U A250LTT TwSMCTEOJ?. 4.'i S'Atf.t.sV 'C. sago mm 1 i2-e PllUXZO INTO MY WITNE05 -Mr WOKP, 19 f r 100 H22gt OuP TfcAT MBTBOR WAS A H0T' AH0- 11 I r t u -n 0i 1 TOO C13WT OU AAA a A a Hg voice ip i AHBAP, x tu oe a L'il Abner By Al Capp 61 FOLKS K DOGFATCH- AW' ALL AH GOT IS 30 BULLETS. CAirjfTQWlET NEM DOWt4 IN MAH USUAL WAV ff s- r v fcAOCKn1 61 FOLKS IN DOG PATCH - I (rftl I AN' ALL AM GOT IS 30 I 11. rWv-B I II i d I T"V Irfnl '7- )COMMfc-fJCES All dogpatchers spravs tar fields w1f turnip Termite exterminator. C'T'-'scA; arrkf 'fdf ) We'll pance to the dvim' screams of THE. FRU5TKATEP, (-THIS. JDEAJT) -VCXAS MC HAS UESTAS GLHETAS FOLKS Y MCH 3 AT SHOT TO r n jfSZ rzyz .trji. h. U. ,J T FTT t-I -V LP V I ff-9 haps a paper. Otherwise, the professors have no knowledge of a student's work until the first and final exams after four or five years. . . Before this final which is a comprehensive oral and written exam on all of a student's University work there are no tests or exams whatsoever. When a German student enters the University, he begins his field immediately, whether it be law, medicine, dentistry, theology, philology or history. WOULD BE THOUGHT ABNORMAL From what I have seen the typical German student by American standards would be thought b normal. Without tests or exams to prod, him on, it is commonplace for a typical student to put in 12 hemrs of study a day. He would read not only the required book or two for a Carolina course, but the suggested books and the background books to the course's subject .s well. I would imagine that no two German students education is same, because the process of education is not that of uniform, mass production, but one in which the acquisition is left to the student's initia tive and self-seeking. I might draw a comparison to the educational process found on the graduate level in America. Talking of traditions and lectures: when the professor enters the room for his lecture, the students beat their right fists on the desks in a welcome or respect. The same is repeated when he leaves the lecture, with the students remaining seated until he is out of the room. Or, if there is nothing to knock on, they enact the first line of that old high school football yell "stomping oh the grandstand: beating on a tin can; who can, we can, etc." It was a little disconcerting the first time I heard, this ovation of admiration. It reminded me more of a peanut gallery or basketball gymnasium, than an ivied hall of learning. Then there is the way I live. In the student house in which I live, live also 40 girls. Most live only two flights of steps up, with a few intersper sed here and there on the men's floors. There are 79. other males. Now you might think that eating and sleeping so with girls would lead to a wicked, immoral, Bo hemian life; but it isn't so, Ladies and Gentlemen. It seems that the men and women have not been conditioned to concentrate so much on one another. Most of the students are less interested in dating and moie, in studying. The rules over socializing are: 1. That men can be in women's rooms until 10 p.m. and vice versa until 11 p.m. 2. That one can drink in the presence of men and women (the student house even sells wineand champagne for .the student's convenience), even to the point of drunkedness as long as he makes no disturbing noises. 3. That most important of all it should be extremely quiet at all times as most of the students' purpose is study, not frolic. Nansenhaus is an international student house. A foreigner and a Grrman room together. I atn now a foreigner, and American with whom the . Europeans associate a wierd pronunciation, chewing gum, money, a sprawling sitting position, fear of Communism and fear of bacterias. The Englanders jokingly say of the Americans: "Over-fed, over-paid, over-sexed, and over here." But all in all, getting back to where I live, I might say Nansenhaus is quite cosmopolitan. WRITTEN IN 1852: The University: A Habit Of Mind John Henry Newman The Idea of a University It is a great point then to enlarge the range of studies which a University professes, even for the sake of the students; and, though they cannot pur sue every subject which is open to them, they will be the gainers by living among those and under those who represent the whole circle. This I conceive to be the advantage of a seat of universal learning, considered as a place of edu cation. An assemblage of learned men, zealous for their own sciences, and rivals of each other, are brought, by familiar intercourse and for the sake of intellec tual peace, to adjust together the claims and rela tions of their respective subjects of investigation. They team to respect, to consult, to aid each other. Thus is created a pure and clear atmosphere of thought, which the student also breathes, though in his own case he only pursues a few sciences out of the multitude. He profits by an intellectual tradition, which is independent of particular teachers, Which guides him in his choice of subjects, and duly in terprets for him those wMch he chooses. He apprehends the great outlines of knowledge, the principles on which it rests, the scale of its parts, its lights and its shades, its great points and its little, as he otherwise cannot apprehend them. Hcnee it is that his education is called "liberal." A habit of mind is formed which lasts through life, of which the attributes are freedom, sui tableness, calmness, moderation and wisdom; or what in a former discourse I have ventured to call a philosophical habit. This, then, I would assign as the special fruit of the education furnished at a university, as contract ed with other places of teaching or modes of teach ing. This is the main purpose of a university in its students. 'X'