THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, JANUARY '.9, 1937
P AGE TWO
Between Exams It's Time
To Build An Ivory Tower
Most students have a day-or-so break, somewhere between exami
nations next week. It'll be too cold to spend very much time outside,
and the effect of the movies will wear off after five or six show. So we
hae a suestion for those who have time to waste before the spring se
mester. ,
Contemplation is one of the most, bea'utiful forms of living.' When
exercised with moderation, it can turn in tremendous rewards for people
even students. . a 1
i hose Who
YOU Said It:
NORTH CAROLINA 1970
As history Prof. J. C. Sitterson
emphasied Friday to his students,
the Ivory Tower isn't bad at all.
mlt may be the hope for the future.
Sitting in. an Ivory Tower does
not necessarily mean you hr.ve to
wear tweeds and subsist on wine
and garlic bread and read no
books published after 1700. Some
people do that.- and enjoy it very
much, but their product is often
tiny and hard for the normal per
son to understand.
The Ivorv Tower, as we see" it,
is a place where students can with
draw themselves for self-contemplation.
"There, removed from the
ordinarv stream of things, thev
can ponder what makes this uni
verse tick, what makes people fight
and cheat and steal, why do people
do these things. And. with constant
searching after the word "Why?"
something great may come about:
Tor once we understand why
people do what they do. we will
be coming close to an answer for
war. an answer for cheating and
stealing.
But this is something that can be
got onlv through self-contemplation.
It cannot be learned from
lxoks or from professors or from
keeping your own checking ac
count. It must come from an Ivory
Tower.
Perhaps it is too much to ask of
a student body hopped up on No
Do pills. Milltowns. and gallons
of col lee. Tut somewhcYc. some
lime, during the examination jer
iod. the lime; and materials exist
with which the' students can build
Iv orv Towers.; '
v unout mem, we cannot
very far. .:
get
Stay Here:
Thanlc You
While we are justifiably worry
ing about the exodus of fatuity
members from the University to
lares where money is more plenti
ful, let us not forget another group
of people which deserves just as
much thought.
We refer to the fat uity members
of the University who, even though
offered tempting bait by other
schools, refuse to leave Chapel
dill.
These people do what they do
for a variety of reasons. Usually,
however, the reasons boil down to
the fact that here they have a chal
lenge. Here is the tenter of think
ing for the whole state, and for
much of the South. Here these
fatuity members have tlecided to
stay, to help educate the embryo
minds of this state and the rest of
the South.
Mere congratulations are pitiful
when compared with the tremen
dous jobs of faith and sweat these
people have done. Higher salaries
would help a great deal, but even
those would be material rewards.
North Carolina is the most pro
gressive in the Southern tier of
states. And these fatuity members
are staying here to see that this
state someday pulls itself complete
ly out of the rut that late, politics
and the Civil War have left us in.
To them, the University should
give a great lU'al of thanks.
Let's Wait For Next Fire!
Housing Office, J. ;. Wtirlsworfi hojed litis would bring on
flans for construction of jn'rnuinent houses in the dex'eloftnent area.
From a news story about Thursday's Victory Village fire.
Wads worth's hope is a fine one.
Maybe it will be realized. But
meanwhile the University of North
Carolina, along with the state
Ceneral Assembly, should be mor
tally ashamed of the fire Thursday
in Victory 'Village.
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ter.
Editor FRED POWLEDGE
Managing Editor
CHARLIE SLOAN
News Editor NANCY HILL
Business Manager ,BJLL BOB PLEL
Sports Editor
LARRY CHEEK
Subscription Manager
Advertising Manager
Dale Staley
Fred Katzin
Circulation Manager Charlie Hoi!
VEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Ray Link
er, Joan Moore. Pringle Pipkin, Anna,
Drake, Edith MacKinnon, Wally Kuralt,
Mary Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder,
- .Billy Barnes, Neil Bass, Gary Nichols,
Page Bernstein. Pee Humphrey, Phyllit
Maultsby. Ben Taylor
BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore, Johnny
Whitaker, Dick Leavitt, Dick Sirkin.
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.
Through some sort of luck, no
children, students or students'
wives were injured or killed in the
fire.
Hut it was the same story last
'year. Through some more luck,
plus last work on the part of a few
people, no one was killed or in
jured when fire ate into the Vic- -lory
Village Day Clare Center last
spring. The University had its
warning then, and yet it did noth
ing to change the pitiful living
conditions in Victory Village.
The reason, as usual, was money.
"The Legislature won't allow us
any money for married students'
housing," said University officials.
Of course. University officials
didn't add that they had done '
practically nothing to talk the state
Legislature into appropriating
money for married students' hous- 1
ing.
So, meanwhile, Victory Village
ran along, with its dilapidated
buildings constructed many years
ago as temporary housing units,
with its wooden walls you could see
through, with its outmoded heating
systems.
It was pure luck that Victory
Village didn't burn down, with
loss of lives, before 'this. It was
pure luck, aided by Chapel Hill's
efficient fire department, that this
week's fire didn't burn down
homes and people.
So, going along with Housing
Director Wadsworth's .reasoning,
maybe the lire will help prove
the point that we need new and
better housing facilities for the
University's married population
(it is 20 percent of the whole -en-,
rollmcnt).
Staff Photographer .
Librarian
Norman Kantor
Sue Gishner
Night News Editor
Night Editor
Proof Reader
Why not wait until we' have an-
other fire? Maybe somebody will
Wally Kuralt get killed, and then we'd have an
air-tight ease. .The Ceneral Assem
bly could hardly refuse.
. Cortland Edwards
Manley Springs
In
D
erense
Of
Camous
a
Athletics
Editor:
First of all, may I ask, why do
you not transfer to a school
where athletics are frowned
upon, say - Washington and Lee,
and then your purely educational
mind would be at ease.
Why not drop by the Placement
service and see which graduate
a business prefers; one with a
straight "A", average and noth
ing else, or one with a "C" aver
age and a lot of extracurricular
activities. You may be surprised!
I presume that you have
enough intelligence to know that
athletics are one of the best ways
in which to learn to work with
people that mankind has de
vised of as yet.
Since you are against giving
needy students aid, why do you
not start a petition 'discriminating
against the non-athletic students
on the campus who work to pay
their way through school? Have
you ever thought that an athlete
eould be as much in need of as
sistance as these non-athletes? -
If you will check the enroll
ment record of the schools that
have de-emphasized one good for
another, namely sports for edu
cations You will find that' the
enrollment has dropped. A well
rounded student, not a book
worm, wants to go to a school
where he will be able to get a
weir rounded education, not one
in just one field.
Speaking of gate receipts,
where does the money that is
spent on the intramural depart
ment come from and " for that
matter, a lot of the other depart
ments in school are able to pro-
Vide better facilities because of
this so called "Rotten Mess."
Have you ever added up the
expenses of the minor sports at
Carolina and wondered where
this money came from to support
them? Obviously not, if you had,
you would know that this so call
ed "Rotten Mess" actually pro
vides opportunities for hundreds
of student's to participate in sports
that would not be able' to if the
Board of Trustees or the state
allotted the money.
So Sir! Please come down from
your Jower of learning and join
us normal people. We can not all
be geniuses like yourself.
Carl Andrew Spicer
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CLINTON TENN. PART 3:
John Kasper And His -Followers
... to be sure, Kasper was an
outsider, and so were the other
speakers, and the mob, well, there
were license plates from Ala
bama, Georgia, Mississippi, Vir- '
ginia, and North Carolina, and
other parts of Tennessee. But you
can't get around the fact that
there were people from Clinton
behind Kasper, and there still
are.
As the lines have solidified in t
the town, it becomes increasingly
evident that this is net just a
split of segregationists and inte
grationistsj.that to a large degree
it is a class split between Kas-
per's followers and the ret of
the white people in Clinton, in
particular the city officials and
11 1 1
This concludes the article by
newspaperman Halberstam on
Clinton, Term., and segrega
tionalist John Kasper. The arti
cle appeared in The Reporter
Magazine.
the more prosperous businessmen
of Clinton.
While the Negro issue touched
off the demonstrations and the
Negro remains a symbol to Ras
per's group, the hatred of Negro
es is only a superficial symptom
of the deeper resentment.
"We're aggregated, the white
community is segregated," one of
the city officials told me. "We're
broken off into different groups
that eye ,eaeh other with distrust
and suspicion and are fighting
each other."
Numerically the Kasper group
ranges from about 250 to 350, but
it is determined and vocal, turn
ing out for every occasion, such
as Kasper's trial for sedition in
November.
L'il Abner
it
Some Striking
Similarities
In Reviews'
Editor:
FUNNY COINCIDENCE
DEPARTMENT
He really gets going in the
swing, where the camera closes
in on her face while his hands
are plainly busy elsewhere
("Oooo," she gasps, "Ah feel so
weak")
Time Magazine reviewing
"Baby Doll," December
24, 1956
He really gets going in the
swing, where the camera closes
in on her face while his hands
are plainly busy elsewhere
(''Odoo," she gasps, "Ah feel so
weak").
- Cortland Edwards, review
ing "Baby Doll" in- The
Daily Tar Heel,, Janu
ary. 11, 1957
Time, Magazine, of course, con
tains thought, all predigested
for you Even pictures ....
From an editorial in The
Daily Tar Heel, same
issue
, Tammy Morrison
University of Michigan
Reader Offers
Advice How
To Interview
Editor:
Tuesday, my sore throat and
I were sitting in the student in
firmary waiting to see the doc
tor, and I was deeply engrossed
in a review of "Baby Doll" in
Time Magazine.
Suddenly, the corridor was
shaken by a noise which sounded
'.'"lute a ''Canada-wind coming south
' on high heels. A .girl, descended
on me, and asked me a question
which I did not understand (mind
you, my thoughts were still dwell
ing on what Time said about
what Baby Doll said when she
was lying in her baby-crib).
When I shook my head blankly,
the girl and her Jwo companions
stormed three other students,
and started hailing forth ques
tions. It seemed they were in
volved in an interview project.
One question I overheard sound
ed like, "What is your opinion of
psychoanalysis?" From another
direction, I heard an "inter
viewee" answerr "Well, I guess
I'd go to the AA."
Now I don't know what class
these girls were representing, 'but
. I'd like to give them a tip on
. interviewing techniques.
Gals next time you wish to
conduct a survey, don't sweep
down on your victims like a hoard
of locusts lighting on a wheat
field. Take a quieter approach.
Buzz around a while like a mos
quitoand give your host a
chance to get slightly prepared
for your bite.
t
Cherry Parker
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The State s
Is The University
Dr. Gordon W. Blackwell
This is the final portion of Dr. Biackwell's
speech.
(5) In -order to accomplish these and similar
objectives, we must raise the general income level
of the people of the state, so that the basic in
stitutional services can be more adequately sup
ported. (6) Increases in income will call for consider
able reorganization in agriculture, involving larger
size farms, increasing ratio of capital to labor, and
changes in marketing arrangements, among other
things.
(7) But most important in raising income will
be the future industrial development of the state on
a selective, decentralize basis. A considerable in
crease in wages is essential. Without this, we shall
remain a colonial area, as it were, producing raw
materials and processing these materials in only
the first stages, requiring only unskilled or semi
skilled labor.
It is not sufficient for North Carolina to in
dustrialize at wage levels only slightly above ag
ricultural income levels. The proposals for changes
in the state's tax structure made recently by the
Tax Study Commission, warrant very careful
- consideration.
Tax revision may encourage needed industrial
ization, while at the same time cutting down on
revenues desperately needed to support services .
at more adequate levels. Somewhere a balance must
be realistically struck between these seemingly op
posing policy issues.
Furthermore, the Governor's Research Triangle
Committee, focusing on the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel
Hill area, has important implications for in
dustrialization throughout the state.
(8) Rounding out our goals for 1970, we should
plan for the ordered, controlled growth of the 100
towns and cities of the state so that they will offer
suitable environments for more than one-half of
the state's population. Without rational planning
and control, the rapid urbanization which surely
lies ahead will mean that larger proportions of our
people will be forced to live in undesirable com
munity situations. Adult education programs should
gear in closely with both city planning and rural
community development.
ROLE OF THE CONSOLIDATED UNIVERSITY
And, finally may I return to my earlier sug
gestion that, along with our sister colleges and uni
versities throughout the state, the Consolidated
University of North Carolina has a key role to play
in the unfolding development and goal achieve
ment of North Carolina. For more than 160 years
the University at Chapel Hill has been a significant
force in the state. More recently it has been joined
, in enlarged responsibilities by North Carolina State
College and the Woman's College.
Perhaps it is not too far-fetched to compare the
Consolidated University to the heart in a human
being. The University pumps life blood into all
parts "of the state and into all segments of its social
and economic structure.
This life blood consists, first, of the trained peo
ple. There are approximately 11,000 young men
and women enrolled in the undergraduate schools,
most of whom return to North Carolina communi
ties, many to assume positions of local, state, and
national leadership in the future. There are also
about 2.500 men and women each year who are
working toward graduate or advanced professional
degrees in these three institutions, most of whom
again will return to North Carolina positions in
teaching, in research, and in other professions.
The life blood of the state consists, secondly,
of the findings of the research which goes on in
the halls of the Consolidated University, in its li
braries, in its laboratories.
Tnese additions to- knowledge enrich the way of
i;ro A,r t nonlP through the transmission of
cherished values in the humanities and the cultural
arts; improve the health and extend the longevity
of the people; advance the technology and scientihe
know-how in the state's agriculture, industry and
business; and bring increased understanding of the
problems of human behavior and social relations
all the way from that most intimate group, the
family, to the international scene, and all kinds of
human relations in between.
Finally, this life blood for the state becomes
evident in the extension of -University services into
every nook and corner of the state through agri
cultural extension; general extension programs; cor
respondence courses; in-service training programs
for public officials and leaders in business and -dustry;
the circulation of educational films and
books; and in countless other ways.
In this essentially adult education role, radio
and more recently television are being used with
, increasing effectiveness. Perhaps there is need for
closer working relationships in this endeavor be
tween the University and local adult education pro
grams. The goals for 1970 will not be achieved easily,
but they are npt beyond our grasp. North Carolinians
x have ever been challenged by the difficult and the
Imaginative, as witness our pioneering in state sup
port for a people's symphony orchestra and an art
museum for the living enrichment of all the peo
ple. Local adult education groups can do much to
enlighten citizens concerning the problems and
the issues .and to chart the way ahead for local
communities and-for the state.