f AGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HSCV
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 19S?
Assumptions About Honor:
They're Easy To Make Now
The students who have the most power at this university are, sur
prisingly, not the student legislators.
They are the ineniheis of the three judicial organizations: The Men's
Counc il, the Women's ( 'ount il, and the Student Counc il.
They, ly simply nodding their approval, ran remove students "from
the I'niversity. Their suhordinate branches, stub as the coeds' various
house councils, can impose early
cunew Hours on women students.
They tan plate students on proba
tion. They can even take students
to civil courts, as was witnessed at
Hillsboro a few weeks ago when
Carolina's cheating ring case came
to a hcad.-
The most latent thing about, the
judicial power is "that it is wielded
in secret. I'nless facts and names
escape the council meetings (and,
of course, they do) bv word "of
mouth, the names of offenders are
never known to the rest of die
University's student population.
For this reason, the councils
should be careful 'in what they do
and how they do it.
There's another good reason
why the councils should keep on
tip-toe. Thev stand alwavs in the
shadow of the administration.
If the administration feels there
is too much cheating, stealing or
lying, or notices that too many
people are getting off too easily, it
can instantaneously c lamp dow n.
This was. evidenced a year or so
ag'o when the student courts gave
two men light penalties for a inter-college
crime.
The other college involved got
hot under the lace collar, called
Chapel Hill and demanded stiller
punishments. So the administra
tion ( Dean of Student Affairs Fred
.Weaver, now on leave of absence)
"appealed" the case to a faculty
administration council, Avhich
handed down the stiffer punish
ment. Along with this tight-rope
which the councils have to walk,
there is the huge responsibility of'
informing the student lwdy of
what is going on.
By tradition, the councils are
supposed to release, through this
newspaper, periodic reports of
their acivities how many cases
they've tried, what the outcomes
have been: everything except
names and facts which might tend
to identify offenders.
The councils have trod upon
this tradition in the past year.
They have conducted their affairs
the students' affairs in secret,
not bothering to tell the student
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FRED POWLEDOr
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CHARLIE SLOAN
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Dale Staley
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bod
done.
what thev
have or haven't
Consequently it is very easy to
assume that the councils haven't
done anything. It also is easy to
suppose, what with the increasing
amount of rumor going around,
that members of the councils are
n't too honorable themselves. If
they are, you might ask, why is it
so easy to get the details of almost
any, trial?
W'e hope the above assumptions
are wrong, lint there's reallv no
wav to tell, is there?
Night Editor -
Proof Reader
Night News Editor
Cortland Edwards
. Manley Springs
' . Clarke Jones
Balloon:
Just Don't
Burst It
President Eisenhower's admin
istration wanted to invite a Com
numist. Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia, over for conferences. But
the administration was afraid pub
lic sentiment might be against
such a visit. So the administration
let go a favorite modern political
deice: The trial balloon.
The balloon is used like this:
Someone in Washington "leaks"
information to a favorite news
paperman. The newspaperman's
newspaper, happy with an exclu
sive story, prints it under big
headlines. Other papers probe the
"leak." get more information.
Public opinioji. in the form of
resolutions, petitions, manifestos,
fetters-to-t he-edit or and editorials,
starts pouring in.
The administration, gauging
public reaction, decides whether
to carry out the policy or drop it.
If the balloon proves popular, the
administration takes the credit. If
it bursts, the administration can
deny it ever had any sue h thoughts.
'
This is probably what happen
ed over Marshal Tito. Such a
storm was raised by the public that
Eisenhower and his advisors im
mediately dropped all plows for
bringing the Communist here for
talks.
This is bad. Eor one thing, the
government sidesteps the respon
sibility of stepping forward with
new policies. It makes a bunch of
liars and, almost as bad, a bunch
of den'iers out of the highest ad
ministration officers.
It causes the government, and
the executive branch of the gov
ernment, to shirk one of its major
duties: Leading the people of the
United States into new policies,
new decisions, new progressivism.
Tito's arrival here would not
mean the Ui. Government sanc
tions his way of government. It
would merely mean that President
Eisenhower and his administration
realize and accept the fact that the
United States must do business
with the whole world. ',fflfh,;,J- -
Trial balloon tactics, & this
case at least, have indicated that
the public doesn't feel this way.
Rather, the public feels an Ike
Tito conference stands for en
dorsement of the marshal's way of
life.
Eisenhower and his fellows
should be ashamed of the way
they reacted to the balloon's re
action. If they really wanted to
talk world matters over with Tito,
they should have done so, with
or without the approval of Con
gress &nd the, voters who write let
t erst o-t he-editor.
ItVreally very silly, sitting here
and refusing to recognize some
thing that is very big, merely be
cause we don't agree with it.
PRESENT SYSTEM 'SICK':
VOICE FROM COBB:
viser System
Nee
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Woody Sears
Our present adviser system is
sick and seemingly ineffectual in
many instances. Something should
Vr
be done about it, for at present
it is . unfair both to the instruct
ors who serve as advisers and to
the students.
Granted, there are exceptions
to the rule, which now seems
to be in chaos. Some of us
have had very good luck with
our advisers, but too many peo
ple are not so lucky. However,' it
evamping . Gridder's Dorm
May Be Noisy
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Notre Dame Condemns Baby Doll
Frank Crowther
I hate to rehash old stew, but
my temperature is rising and my
doctor told me to relax.
When the Manchester Guard
ian's film critic came out with
a statement which went under
the assumption that Baby Doll
in the. picture of the same name
had been seduced and that the
entire picture had been built
around the seduction, I was per
turbed, especially since I hold
the Guardian in high esteem
Now I pick up a copy of the
Notre Dame Scholastic, edited by
Charles McKendrick, and read
through an editorial by said edi
tor concerning Baby Doll. Well,
if I ever read a narrow-minded
piece- of writing, that would cer
tainly rank with the' best.
McKendrick said, "The story
revolves around her (Baby Doll)
husband's struggle with a cot
ton ginning syndicate, and the
seduction of Baby Doll by the
manager of the syndicate."
The editor went on to say that
... he had not seen the film;
it had been secreted into South
L'il Abner
Bend with no "advance publicity
so that "pastors did not have op
portunity to warn their congrega
tions;" attendance ' by a Notre
Dame student could give rise to
scandal among the South Bend
residents who might see him
there; aiid Francis Cardinal Spell
man had banned the film under
"pain of mortal sin."
He concluded by urging all
students to ps.s up the show, or,
for those "whose moral fiber is
t.)o weak to resist, please leave
your Notre Dame jacket in the
closet."
On page 16 of the same .pub
lication, under the section label
ed "At The Movies," and at the
very bottom was the following
piece:
AVON (name of theater)
Baby Doll. (C) THIS MEANS
CONDEMNED. Actually this
picture isn't worth seeing any
how, so stay away.
First, let me add that Elia
Kazan, who directed the picture,
said that Baby Doll was not se
duced. Also, I saw the film, en
joyed it thoroughly (mostly the
realistic photography and the
acting of Karl Maiden), and was
not given the impression that
Baby Doll was seduced. It seem
ed more that Baby Doll was sud
denly ready to become a woman,
and had her possession crazed
husband taken away for arson,
and her potential and only po
tential lover leave her with
promises of his return. In other
words, she was left in the lurch
when the picture ended.
This boy McKendrick is cer
tainly one of the brainwashed:
he took the ball from his Cardi
nal in New York and played the
game.
I think he should have left
his pure, untouchable chapel
and gone to see the film . . . but,
he has his right to opinion, and
it is a Catholic school.
But does he have the right
to assert an opinion formed un
d?r a false premise? And who
is S3 thin-skinned to believe that
seeing a motion picture which
has a realistic and slightly exag
gerated script will be a mortal
sin?- How do they know the pic
ture "isn't worth seeing any
how?" '
is never a matter of the adviser's
intentional inefficiency, but al
ways that the adviser had too
much to do and too many people
to advise and keep up with.
Quite often we hear of people
who go into their adviser's of
fice as complete strangers,
though they've been there many
times before. The poor adviser
just can't remember all the peo
ple he has to handle. And if he
can't remember names, it is rea
sonably safe to assume that he
can't remember the individual
problems of each of his- charges.'
And certainly, to advise wisely
and effectively, one must know
the problems which his advisees
. face.
We hear, too, that no one real
ly wants to be an adviser, and
that isn't strange at all. Who
would want to willingly subject
himself to the administrative
purgatory which every i adviser
faces at registration time?
, The saddest tale of woe we
hear comes from people who ex
pect to graduate at "a given date
only to discover at the last min
ute that they can't graduate be
cause they haven't taken a re
quired course which should have
been completed . several years
previously.
Actually, the student caught in
this predicament is not entirely
without blame, but a good advis
er would have discovered that
deficiency long before dreams of
graduation came so near. In view
of the added expenditure which
the student must bear, this al
most constitutes criminal negli
gence. There are always many people
who must suffer the ordeal of
drop-add. There are lines, lines,
and more lines. Quite often one
must stand in. line for several
hours to get his adviser to sign
a slip of paper so that the student
can do exactly what he would
have done anyway, and then he
must stand in line for several
hours more. The lines in Hanes
are possibly a necessary evil,
but lines fifty and sixty feet long
to see one or two advisers are
shining examples of administra
tive inefficiency.
It is, in the truest sense of
the word, nonsense.
The idea that anyone could get
any degree of real advice and
solid counseling under those
conditions is nonsense.
The idea that one man can, in
th? true sense of the word, coun
sel twenty to fifty men in one
day is nonsense.
And the idea of completely
cluttering the main building, the
the campus nerve-center, with
long, lines of people is nonsense.
The need is evident. We need
more advisers to handle the load.
No one adviser should have
more than twenty men. No one
man should be expected to meet
the demands upon our advisers
under the present system.
With smaller groups of advis
ees, the advisers could get to
know their 'men and their in
dividual problems. They could
afford to spend more time with
each man, and prevent last min
ute messes.
The need is evident, and
everyone is aware of it. How
long will it be before some ac
tion is taken?
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APTER SIX WEERS
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Graham Snyder
Daily Tar Heel reporter Snyder lived in Cobb
dormitory last semester. Below he offers his views
on the decision to room the football squad in that
building.
At the beginning of the next academic year, it
has been announced, the entire football team will
be gradually moved into Cobb Dormitory and will
live in adjoining rooms on one floor.
Change makes news and this announcement
is interesting and noteworthy. And yet there ap
pear slight contradictions and a few shades of puz
zlement in it.
For the announcement states that the reason
for the gradual move is motivated by a seeking for
"rest, peace and quiet hard to get in most dorm
itory setups."
In its strictest sense, "rest, peace and quiet"
are not to be found in any dormitory setup. where
large numbers are involved. Noise is produced by
the proximity and the number of people in a closed
area. Noise is a pain and is erased only by separa
tion of the noise-making elements.
On a college campus ideal separation for peace
and quiet is impossible. Therefore dormitories are
constructed with the idea in mind that if they are
built and placed at an adequate distance from each
other, most of the resulting noise will be fed to
empty air.
But then there is Cobb and a different situation.
Cobb is a large dorm the largest oh campus. Its
four floors, shaped like, a giant "H," house 42;i
students, give or take a few.
Infused with a freedom-loving joy, these stu
dents are vigorous, strong-voiced; they are prone,
at times, to give prodigious vent to their youthful
joys.
Their interests are diverse: they range, among
other things, from the playing of hi-fi phonographs
to the exploding of firecrackers in bathrooms to
the mutual enjoyment of a reasonant conversation
which bounds and rebounds between the inside
wails of that giant H.
Life around Cobb is touched with poetic mo
ments. One can hear unless one tries to shut it
out woozy minstrels baying at the moon as they
cling to the dorm streetlight on Saturday nights.
For a few students the tedium of continuous
hours of study can impair a hearty moral and
mood. Tension of such a malady is relieved by the
bright rattle-roll of drink bottles skittering down
the receptive marble floors which Iir the dorm.
The brief interims of quiet silence ueiween the
periods of continual noise their brevity etches
them are markedly heard in the lightning pause,
after the din is rudely interrupted by a soit-mellow.
but firm demand for quiet.
Now here a plaguing question arises. These mem
bers of the football squad: will they find quietetude
housed in this massive dorm, or will they irritated
and perplexed by 400-odd other voices turn and
only increase the volume of noise?
I think that the latter result will be the case.
Cobb is represented by a few football players
who live in it. What total effect these few have
on the dorm as a whole would be hard to describe.
True enough, Cobb is in a good location, ad
vantageous to the football team: the dorm is be
tween the Monogram Club and the Woollen Gym
nasium. But if it is this singular peace and ideal location
that is sought as a final objective, a more perman
ent solution to the problem could be found by rip
ping down one section of the adjoing tennis courts
and building a small, private dormitory for the
football team.
This latter possibility suggests a statement. The
move of the football team will, in all probability,
be favorable to that body. Collection in a group
and constant living together will not produce dis
agreeable commotion among them, but lor the stu
dents living in the same dorm with them, it will
probably be, at times, pure anathema.
It would seem, therefore, that Cobb dorm is not
a facility which can be exploited to the full benetit
of the football squad. A smaller dorm in the same
general area would provide a more feasible answer
to the problem of providing peace and quiet.
In the case of Cobb, the combination of a foot
ball team and a much larger student element can
only aggravate the clamor and the sound already
existing.
OTHER NEWSPAPERS SAY:
History
Inevitable lip
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
What is a tip? When Sam Johnson frequented
a coffee house in Fleet Street two centuries ago it
was "To Insure Promptitude," and these words were
printed round a bowl on the table, their initials
eventually coming together in a word to designate
the gratuities left there.
To the Journeymen Barbers International Union
of America in 1896 a tip was "humiliating and de
grading." To a New York State Industrial Commiss
ioner in the present decade it was "unworthy ot
labor in the twentieth century." To the Netherlands
Federation of Hotel. Restaurant and Cafe Organi
zations a tip (ooi should be a service charge
(bedieningsgeld) and it was so ordained six years
ago.
Now to the Union Helvetia of Switzerland, an
organization of hotel employes following the Dutch
example, a tip is 15 per cent added to the bill if
the guest enjoys the hospitality one or two nights,
12 per cent if he enjoys the large, economy-size
thrte-nights-and-upward stay.
And so what began as a gift to iasure prompti
tude becomes a service charge to insure payment.
Aha there, Sam Johnson, old lexicographer!
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