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.
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.'Charlie Sloan
He is William 1 1.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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