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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1957
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Better Schools Ca mpaigner
Has Just A One-Sided View
The Daily Tar Heel is sorry to see that Gov. F lodges has named
Holt McPherson, a High Point newspaper editor,, to the chairmanship
ot' a North Carolina Citizens' Committee for Better Schools.
Mc Pherson. Tar Heels will "'remember, headed a similar committee,
also appointed by the governor, which advocated the eventual destruc
tion "ot the state's school system.
It was McPherson who headed a committee favoring passage of the
"Pearsall Plan, which provides for
private schools in case of racial,
educational 'integration.
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It appears unlikely that the Cit
izens.' Committee for Better Schools
could make much progress when
it is guided by a man who guided
the Pearsall Plan.
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The Pearsall Plan, yet to reach
its final test in court, is a t reach-
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education system this
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o vears . or
state has
of this newspaper and. very few
editors of other papers, opposed
the Pearsall Plan for obvious rea
sons. But McPherson, himself a news
paperman, led a campaign to make
the plan an act. He succeeded.
Now the governor of this state -has
named McPherson to another
lost because of his "deep interest
in public education, and in the
welfare of our children."
McPherson's interest in educa
tion is undeniable. But we and
many other North Carolinians dis
agree totally with his fdeas about
welfare of children.
For Campus
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Congrats!
' editor Mcpherson
. . . the irroug job . .
luiilt up.. It ;4ies politicians .and
labble-rousers a chance to shut
down Our public schools in the face
of "'intoleYable" situations, name
Jv. attemjits at Xcjto entrance.
Sceral proniinent .North :Cai
liniaus who doiv't want integration
opposed the Pearall . Plan. They
feared thelplan because, :t)tey s;ud,
it would plac e the ; state's , school
sstem in Jeopardy.
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Those wlu) believe no harm will
come fro 111 ra'cial'iiteuratioiV fin
iie schools. including the. editors
The Consolidated University's
educational television s t a t i o n",
VVCT has grown .up a great
deal in two vears. '
When it started, it threatened
to flood the air with attempts to
college-type Jackie Gleasonvision.
Hut after it suffered a severe bud
ret cut and askance looks from
some imjortan people in the state,
11 started oeing wnat it was
namer F.ducational television.
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SOMEBODY'S MISINFORMED:
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Some Erroneous Rumors Righted
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atulations and
two
candles to the folks in Swain' Hall
who. are turning out a "digest
big
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ible,'
colorful, educational product: .fQf ;
the future: More houfs,inioreT inHi
terest, more education.
; A sports, editor )t a
new
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weeks. ' Many " student
Blasts From Wrong Corner
.,v, . "r' .. Ui 'mv'B-s r, These, qolumns; touched 'off a
sDaDer Saturday devoted in ri se'eret reader-Interest -m.The Daily ' Hjj ti : . j . ( 4 . 1 i , ,i -i
' . . . ,.t. . w. . ,. .. .... cooti-Qversy, wnicn iasieut im
1 . :iuii a: column sironaiv aeruvinK ; rar mp :LS"at an tsji-i mf low . '.
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'"rumors Football Coach JimlTat- ". amoilgv students becaos?" of .its
.. .. ill 1 " 1 ' 1 tt:ii 1 's i a a . J; mi - I.'
i-!um n"livave "'" I . 'siasleiui. eaoriai pwicy 'M V pWing 'their views' on the sub-
Jack' Horner, sports editoj-i 6f "Sources cfdSe tb 1he; student . ject, so;meUms;in complete- dis-
....Thf Durham Morning Herald, publication sav dne oTtWeMpapers ' agreement "with the 6riginal art-
iou euiiurs uas
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wrote
regardless" of '"what
boasted that " icles.
A Durham sportswf iter has fired
from his corner a few rounds of
ammunition at The Daily Tar
Heel. To keep the record straight,
we'll remind those who read these
editorials about the newspaper's
jiolicv.
The sportswr'iter is named Jack
Homer. From his corner of the
Durham Morning Herald he has
written several things .about this
newspaper which are highly imagi
native, lint one thing he mention"
ed deserves 'comment. "
"lt general knowledge,' writes
Horner, The Daily Tar Heel
The Daily Tar Heel
The official jtudent publicatioir'of tbe
Publications Board of the University of
North Carolina, where it Is published
daily except Monday and examinatiot
nrf vacation periods and summer terms
fcntered as second class matter in thi
post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei
h- Act oi March 8. 1870. Subscription
rates: mailed, $4 per year,; $2.50 a semes
tn", deuveivii. $6 a year, S350 a lemer
ter.
fcMitor
FRED POWXEDGE
Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN
News Editor
NANCY HILL
Business Manager
BILL BOB PLEL
Sports Editor
'LAItRY CHEEK
Subscription Manager
Dale Staley
Fred Katzin
Advertising ManSger :
Circulation Manager : Charlie Holt
NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Ray Link
er, Joan Moore. Pringle Pipkin.'Anne
Drake, Edith MacKinnon, Wally. Kuralt,
Mary Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder,
Billy Barnes, Neil, Bass, Gary Nichols,
Page Bernstein", Peg Humphrey, Phyllit
Maultsbyt' Ben Taylor '
BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore Johnny
Whitakcr, Dick Leavitt, Dick Sirkin.
SPORTS STAFF: Bill King, Jim Purks,
I Jimmy Harper, Dave wioie, cnaney
Howson. ' '
Night Editor
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Night News Editor
Cortland Edwards
' Manley Springs
Fred Powledge
DOES NOT (capitals his) speak
for the student body in its editorr
ial blasts at (head football Coach
Jim) Tat inn."
Horner appears to be uncover
ing one of The Daily Tar Heel's
darkest secrets. In truth, however,
it is a fact that is broadcast by this
newspaper quite often. We'll
broadcast it again.
It would be foolish to claim
(and Horner claims this quite of
ten) to represent the opinion of
any sizeable group of people. It
would be strictly Idiotic to claim
to represent the opinions of al
most 7,000. students students are
much to individualistic, too wide
spread in their heritages and their
beliefs to all think the same thing.
For that reason, The Daily Tar
Heel has for a long time insisted
that its editorials (the things in
this column) do not can' not re
flect the feelings ot the whole stu
dent body. They reflect the opions
only of the editor of this newspa
per, a student elected in spring
elections.
Because the editor is never as
sure as Horner obviously is that
he is dead right on all issues, the
rest of this page and the rest of
this newspaper is thrown complete
ly open to any and all students
who wish to present their opin
ions. Those opinions must meet
only three requirements:
1. They must be signed and
written legibly.
2. They must not be libelous.
3. They must not be lewd, ob
scene, or in bad taste.
They can be in the orm of let
ters, columns, poetry or artwork.
They do not have to agree w itlr
anyone the editor or anyone else
on the face of this earth.
This, we believe, Brother Horn
er should learn before Jie starts
any more crusades. Most things
even more circulation in Chapel
Hill for the Morning Herald are
worth a little investigation.
time 'soon v. .
Horner writes' Tatum Will not
only; stay at Carolina but will
"stick around until his mission
(to build a winning team here)
has been accomplished before
he.'ll give another thought to ac
cepting another coaching posi
tion." He says "To pick up and move
now, he would be a quitter, Ta
tum is no quitter. He'll get the
job done."
Horner's denial in itself is per
fectly alL right with us. He's got
a right to his opinion. But the
concern of this article lies in
four paragraphs of his column
in which he has printed some
questionable statements about
The Daily Tar Heel.
Speaking of some "anti-Tatum
factions still on the campus," he
says "It's general knowledge The
Daily Tar Heel DOES NOT ('c)
L'il Abner
Vsrl"" noi'ar '"'tnA fVi o r0f TTi 11
;!?'How stupid' cart youth be?"
We take issUe with these state
ments. . . , . . ,.
In the first place, The Daily
Tar Heel's editorial policy cer
tainly does not mirror student
opinion. Nor should it. The
space in the left two columns of
the editorial page in each paper
is for the editor's opinion, not
the opinion of the student body.
'source of the statement,;'. .. one .
of the;; paper's top editors has
boasted that he'll make it so
' hot for Tatum that he (Tatum)
f;will wish he had never seen
Chapel Hill."
No editor here has nor will
make such a boast without hav
ing sound reason to.
But if Tatum deserves it, we'd
like to see things made hot for
' Students wishing 'to express .Tatum. After all, what is the true
opinions have practically the 'function of a university? Is it to
rest of the paper in which to do educate people or is it. to pro
so. Especially do they have the ' vide big-time athletics, all-win-opportunity
on editorial page , Viing teams.' etc? We much pre-'
columns .other than those , re- fer the former question. '
served for the editor. ; ., How stupid can youth be?
About .reader interest. We That's a good question. It might
think he's wrong. Just from pur,, be answered before too long if
own obs?rvations, reader inter- . ..Tatum stays here and his brand
est seems to be generally toward, of . athletics pulls down the aca
the other end. One student here, demic standards as it did at
for instance, wrote a series of , Maryland.
YOU Said It:
Newspaper's Coverage
Criticized By Reader
Editor: ; "tZSrUqTHj
For some months now I have been an avid reader of The Daily Tar Heel. My
morning cup of coffee at Lenoir has become a hapjjy ritual, enchanced greatly by the
news of University life at Chapel Hill.
Unfortunately my only other experience with college newspaper has been with
the Harvard Crimson," a stuffy newspaper that limits itself to international and na
tional news, discussion of college policy, art and literary criticism and the like. They
don't even have a "Campus Scene" column and they refuse to reprint articles from
other (Boston) newspapers.
You can.. I suppose, understand why it is that
I enjoy reading The 'Tar Heel. Although you never
pretend to have any serious opinions or write any
original copy, your newspaper accurately reflects
thp temDer and interests of the student body. If your
Editor: . , . paper seems childish, it is because the students are
Would the students be so kind usually pretty childish. If you concern yourselves
a 1 . . 1 a P it i T TXT" 14- f
Can A Woman
Be President?
to- answer these following ques
tions for me?
Would you be in favor of a
woman' running for President or
Vice President of the United
States in 1960?
with the social and athletic functions at UNC, it is
because these are the overwhelming interests of the
students for whom you write.
be President some day, where
does that leave ' our American
girls, Must they be deprived of
that dream?
speak ; for" - the': student hody iin columns recently expressing! fiis :
its editorial blasts 'atv Tatum 1,f views' ore religion:
'As a. matter of fact J it s no. ' : 1
; 5 y ou read or hear to, the contrary he'll make It so hot for Tatuia, . e third pa ragraph. , .
: -Sunny Jim' won't move - again Jtny ' ; ; that" ; he- iTtituni) will wish .he trt; th
It is possible, of course, that there are some
students at UNC whose interests and tastes are
fcica p.1 i yjj .
not represented in The Daily Tar Heel, but alter
of two women for President and all, a college newspaper is not an organ to corn
Vice President" in 1960, what municate the views of a minority of the student
two women in the United States body. In fact The Tar Heel undoubtedly gives a
would you pick and why? consistent and adequate coverage of thfe college af
Do you think that we have fairs of interest to the vast majority of students and
any women brave and smart this is all a college newspaper can be expected to
enough to be President or Vice do.
President of the U.S.? Any at Qr ifnot an equally important function
he University of North Caro- f f a newgpaper (any Newspaper) to bring to light
. . . ..and discuss issues relavant to its readers? If so,
The governor of our state made TT . . nrmina its
. . . . .., then the 'Tar Heel is surely not periorming us
a statement recently that it's the . lllxr
dream of every American boy to 1U,1U""' a" " -i----
In its attempt to be informative. The, Tar Heel
has become more a bulletin board than a news
paper. In fact The Daily Tar Heel would more
s A r nnllir nut tr I
ujcaini logically ana iar more et-onusiucany
Please help me find the answ- orcfWhiiP nnroose if it were placed each day (ex-
ers to these questions. I will ap- cept 3,fonday of course) on the bulletin board in V
preciate it very much and can court
,be reached at this address. Thank
,i ' The 'Tar Heel, thus far. has never taken a con
sistent and effective stand on any issue, it nas, u
is true, mentioned that there are issues and even
named the men who are dealing with them (usually
Bob Young and Sonny Evans and their committees),
but this nothing but description, no analysis.
If you are stuck for issues, can I mention a
few: the parking problem, many obvious viola
tions of the academic and personal privileges that
students in other colleges enjoy, the apparent dif
ficulties with the "Honor System," high 'prices of
,...-t. , n .Monitor v" ! - ' all luxury-goods in Chapel Hill.. deferential treat-'
. :"t'":. I., , j" ment of athletes, the relative .lack, of cultural stim
'JT'lVti il Tf ulation (Fats Domino and Montovani don't quite
. uAicbrnrf nd Jkeep One s self-,mMsure..up) you .could mention integration in.
respect nowadays, the 1 Abomuj- " , , '. . , . tj,. Ptp '
' -vi 'df j'U''thie'sool'system,.theilacH of .study, space, exc.
- able" Snowman provides a needed
""out'' tor zotldgists- with- a bVrit t M All colleges have problems and UNC is far from
The elusive man-animal bf, the l0 bring these issues to light, analyze' them, and
' Himalaya's has'l turned .up; again nff er useful opinions about them,
"'despite the determined 'attempts.1 ' . ' ? f?,n 1
' of several recent scientific "ex-" ' In the future I will be hesitant about allowing
peditions to push him' into the my share of The 'Tar Heel's budget to be taken
realm of mythology. An Ameri- from the matriculation fee. It seems a waste, of
can-Australian group of explor- money. Although it would ruin my breakfast, 1
ers and researchists has an- would be willing to x race over to Y court every
nounced that it will start tramp- morning to read "Campus Scene." At present the
ing around the rafters of the roof most constructive thing The Daily Tar Heel could
of the world next spring in the do is to disband.
Frank Pesek
2041 Yonka St.
Detroit 34 Mich.
A New Kind
Of Unicorn
The Christian Science
hope of sighting the Yeti, as the
Sherpa guides call him.
Several Sherpas claim to have
seen the Yeti at the abominably
close range of from 10 to 25
yards. But none of the impressive
expeditions that have set forth
to find him has met him or had a
chance so far to photograph him.
So. bear or man or iape
whatever he is the Yeti remains
Sheldon F. Gardner
More Comment
On Clothing
Perhaps VOU will see some worth in thi writ-
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a mysterious figure with just F y a wno iJeienas dressing
enough evidence of reality to 1 ,"
make him a legitimate target
for grown men bent on scientific
research.
By Al Capp
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A SHE KEELI21ES MARRVIN'
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By Walt Kelly
I certainly admire your defensive spunk. It's
a trait some of your feminine friends would do
well to cultivate.
You did make a few statements in your bit of
journalism which, I admit, had a lot of the truth
in them. I wonder if you noticed a paragraph
under "Youth Deserves a Chance" which is per
tinate to our situation?
"Tight levis, long hair and the other para
phanalia reformers concentrate on are only
extentions of the independent personlities of
the individual, and really don't make a kid a
criminal."
Although I am a member of the brogan set,
I do manage to get my hair cropped closely
about every two weeks. However if you'll sup
ply your name and phone number, I may be
persuaded t listen to a personal lecture on the
advantages of the shave-a-day habit. Surely I
will not have to go to Duke for such informa
tion. ,
Jack S-rt
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Editor:
Dear Cort,
I'm much in favor of movie reviews in The
Daily Tar Heel, but in the future would you
please plagiarize from another magazine. I
subscribe to Time.
Thanks a bunch,
A Fan
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