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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEV SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1957 V1 Modern College Athletics: A Request For Chancellor Not the players, nor. the coaches, nor the taxpayers are to blame for what The Daily Tar Heel feels is the rottenness of present-day college athletics. At most places it is the administration of the colleges and universi ties. For (he administrations are the bodies which can make athletic jx)lit y and c: ;i enforce it. They are the bodies which send representatives to national conventions, to conferences, to associations. At Carolina, our athletic jioluy appears to be far above the nation al level.. For this we are proud. We are pioud of the men who made it th: : way primarily, Chancellor Robert House ami former Presi dents Frank (iraham ami Cordon Cray. We rue also proud of the men who keep it that way primarily, Athletics Director C. P. F.rickson and Coaches Jim Tatum, Frank McCuire and others. What we ask is that the Cnivers itv administration raise its stand- , aids even higher than they are now. We feel the I'niversity should make academic requirements even higher for prospect ie athletes and those already enrolled. The grants-in-aid program should be eeu more selective. The administration is the only body which can do this. The rnivcrsity. headed by its chancellor, can effect a gradual revolution in the running of col Jegiate sports The revolution should empha size putting sjxnts more into the hands of the students, insuring that athletes' also be, real students, and taking the money pressure off the big sports. The University and its chancel lor ran do this, 'and at the same time it tan retain all the respect and dignity the University has commanded since it began. People will h:ve faith in the I'niversity. v 'Chancellor HouNe said, in an At I'Mitic Coast Conference meeting in December: We are getting into trouble and we stink. Not one of us has a reason to look down his nose at another one." He was speaking about "the recruiting racket all over the United States." Chancellor House was correct. It just is not right for a university to start recruiting athletes years before thev even finish high school. A university, and this Universi ty, takes part in the recruiting program, in the grants-in-aid pro gram and iti all the other programs simply lecause it is in competition with all the other universities and colleges in the nation everybody else does it. ASMFORO CHANCELLOR ROBERT HOUSE ...he is the one man gract- its skirts are reasonably clean so far, can be the leader in a ual . revolution. Chancellor Robert House will retire this June after serving the I'niversity more than a quarter of a century as an administrator. The Daily Tar Heel asked the chancellor to leave his office With a- bang. We ask him to turn his energies toward a revolution in college athletics. If he leads the-c rusade in the next few months, maybe other chancellors, other presidents, will notice what the University is do ing and will follow suit. We are sure cither institutions will respect the chancellor and the I'niversity for doing it. Jt would le a wonderful gift for Chancellor House to leave behind. It would be a blessing for the future. lUit the University of North Car olina, because of the respect peo ple have for it. because it has rea sonably strong,leaders and because The Daily Tar Heel The official itudent publication of tbe Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second class matter in the oost office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semes ter; delivered. $6 a year. $3.50 a semer ter. Petition: Everyone Sign Names It is good to see people are con sidering a petition for married students, housing; here. Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN News Editor NANCY HILL Business Manager BILL BOB PLTX Sprt Editor LARRY CHEEK EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Seax. Frank Crowther, David Mundy, Cort land Edwards. NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones. Pringle Pipkin, Edith MacKinnon, Wally Ku ralt. Maty Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder,. Neil Bass, Page Bernstein, Peg Humphrey, Phyllis Maultsby, Ben Taylor, Walter Schruntek, H-Joost Po lak, Patsy Miller. BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore, Johnny WhitaJcer, Dick Leavitt. SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible. Stewart Bird, Ron Milliagn. Subscription Manager Advertising Manager . Circulation Manager . Dale Staley Fred Katzin . Charlie Holt Assistant Sports Editor., . Bill King Staff Photographer Librarian Norman Kantor ,-Sue Gishner Night Editor ... Walt Schruntek ' Night News Editor Charlie Sloan Proof Reader Ben Taylor The petition came alter the University announced it will' push' for sell-liquidating housing units for married students. If legislation hits the state Cen era I .Assemblv this session asking for permission, to erect suc h hous ing, one of the University's major obstacles to progress will be on its way to removal. ror of married students' housing lu.s been a continual sore spot at this university. Without some sort of help from the state, it will continue even longer that way. According to the information re leased so far, all we, are asking the General Assembly is this: We want permission to borrow money (probably from the federal government) to build the houses. The loan would be paid off through increased rents, tuition or in some other way. We do not know this detail now. j4j In this way, married students housing would be a burden on no one. It would be beneficial for everyone. We wish the petitioners much success in their campaign. It would be extra-nice if 'single students who realize the plight of their married classmates sign the petitions as well, along with pro fessors, administrators and towns people. The General Assembly should be informed that the prob lem of married students and their housing is everyone's problem, not just that of a special interest group. .YOU SAID IT: Unhappy Editor: I am proud to be a sophomore at the University of North Caro lina: proud to be a part of this University; proud of the ten or twelve guys who make up the Nation's best basketball team; and proud of nearly every ac tivity of the school life here, t Yet it seems abominable to me that in the midst, of all should be an editorial page of uch' poor taste, of such bias opinion, of such misinterpreted and unin formed information I am. of , course, referring to the, notor ious second page of The Daily Tar Heel which has to date an unblemished record for sorry editorials. , All of last year and until now this year, . I reluctantly refrain 3 ! from entering into What seemed a futile battle of opinionated let ters "to the editor." About two weeks ago I knew I had reached A Revolution In Campus Honor Council? Editor: It is unfortunate that the ques tion as to whether or not the honor system should remain has come up at all. although the strengthening effect on the sys tem that may result puts the question in a better light. David Mundy, defender of de mocracy in Goettingen has cer tainly gone to xtremes; in his re quest for the abolishment of the system. His requests that all rules be enforced suggest that he would approve the setting up of a kind of campus police state to replace the Honor Council. His ignorance andor ignoring of the stated function of the co uncil by Jim Tatum, (Daily Tar Heel, Feb. 13) certainly does, not add weight to his argument. The disregard of the adminis tration for certain Honor Coun cil decisions in the past does not speak well for the faith of that body in student government. It is time for a revolution which will give,, student govern ment a more honored position and the revolution can only come through the dedication of stu dent officers and the student body to the principles of self government, which significantly ,is one of the important free doms of this University. Name Withheld By Request UNC Campus Seeks New Collosus Editor: The eager young "femme fa tale", who has written of her de sire for us chaotic UNC males to organize must be very anxious for the success of the next pan ty pillage. What we troopers need, as she has so well stated, is a Napoleon Lower-Quad. Rise leader, the campus awaits you Corsican Col losus. Sdldiers of Carolina, mar- ch, you have nothing to lose but your past regrets! Ecrasez les femmes! 1 Julian L. Sessoms L'il Abner But Proud Soph Comments my rope's end when I read the ws story concerning "unm tural acts;" fortunately, though, I " waited long enough to read Thursday's article on Jim Tatum: it was even worse. I like to think that I am able to look at both sides of an ar gument, to reason logically about a dispute, but I can see no ex planation whatever for the for mer being printed. (Are). . .you a psychiatrist? A physician? Or even has the slightest bit of medical. 'know ledge? I am neither a psychiatrist nor a physician, yet I know that homosexuality is a mental dis order, and can often be attribu ted to' physical defects. You have printed the names 'Don of two homolexuals on the cam pus. Aside from perhaps ruin ing their livc. you have cut open murderously personal veins. May I suggest that next week you make mention of thoe students who have only one arm, those who take a course in Ascetics? After all, they are all "differ ent." ' To turn to Mr. Tatum is a dif ficult task, for this controversy is perhaps above all "our heads. I would raise only one point here. It appears your major gri evance lies in "fact" that our academic standards are being lowered by the innovation (in re cent years, that is) of big time football. I doubt that any of us know 't Say I'm Not A Good Watchman- I Watched The Whole Thing' if this is actually the case or not, but from all I have been able to gather it is definitely not. If . . . .you have ever, talked to Mr. Tatum, you would know that it is his sincere desire and sought after determination to improve academic achievement among his athletes as well , as to build a football team of which we can all be proud (hence, a dormi tory for his players). I am not happy to have writ ten this. It is an unfortunate si tuation for a newspaper to have to resort to worthless, trivial and trashy matters to insure its circulation or to stimulate its readers into providing space for its second page. Robert ' Hastings Perry (k. r j - it iv ' - ' iiii trr v .v , S REACTION PIECE: On Chapel Hill's Reputation David Mundy Wttat happened to Chapel Hill's reputation as the "liberal capital of the South?" For years it was even supposed to be a center of socialists, communists, and wild-eyed radicals who were going to force racial integration on the South. Whatever leadership Chapel pel. Hill might have shown in desegregation has failed to ma terialize. All over the South, from big cities to back wood towns like Clinton, Tennessee, desegregation in schools and the use of public transportation and recreational facilities has been accomplished. Why has desegregation taken place in these socially "back ward" areas, .with violent results, rather than in a place like Cha pel Hill where a large segment cf the "socially enlightened" po pulation is in favor of integra tion? '"Lack of leadership" is the only possible answer. With that answer Chapel Hill has lost its right to proclaim itself a "cen ter of liberal .thought" or any thing else of the sort. If Dr. George has become a leader of the Patriots of North Carolina Inc., why haven't some of the more liberal faculty members provided some leader ship toward racial integration. It can't be the climate, or the altitude in the schools which their children attend? Possible answers would be lack of inter est, opposition to integration, or cowardice. None of them reflect favorably on Chapel Hill. By A' Capp ACCORD! N' TOTH' CODE Cf TH' 1 HILLS, WlDDfvRS GOT TO PICK , UP TH' CHECK FO' THAR WEDDlf r GOTTA PAV MARFCVIN' SAM IN ADVANCE, AN' BRING HIM V BACK. MEANWHILE., VO' KIN r GIT ACQUAINTED WIF VORE V PUTUREU'LSCW.? J f DONT dodder ME, Ji i KID.r.r- I'M GONNA TAKE A V 'KH I ) A SNOOZE. THIS IS MV J ff IW 6 h y WEDDIN' DAVr c I Jh-ri . ' r i ...,.,: .;.. ::: .: :':: -1 :j .1 S V I I j Pogo By Walt Kelly what vg ccm OVg? WW F.TTg UP WITH A GBT OftCKOPPZRZ, S Tf ivrsrvi r-rr VH - I AN'CCPT FOOPS'" UCH& AN' 7&P& (5QT C'i tummy i to E5 nne piacz- COB OF PW APOUNP, viLpciH' Twcg maze. IGOWH' PB8TY AN'SOlM' TWf ET TrVEBT-'WHAT HAPPBN TO Si : Ll 2k TWBBX T AglSUMSNT PONT J TM CHAP J MOLA85. GO TWEET THAT'6 TELEVISION ROUNDUP Critic s Task is Difficult Wolff This is the first in a series of columns that will -appear once a week in The Daily Tar Heel. Co lumnist Wolff wilfalso prepare outlines of future TV fare. The critic practices a pariah trade, without any clearly defined status to some he is a parasite, to others a misanthrope. In view of this I feel obligated, to both myself and the reader, to essay some defini tion of this critic's function, some valid delimiting of what I shall henceforth consider my particular province.' Such an attempt is often considered to be "bad form" putting one's self on the defensive rather prematurely. This is probably due to the fact thai the -critic';; position is usually so undefined, indeed so indefinable, that it behooves him to retain u vague status and so escape criticism himself. The-, convention to refrain from such a declaration of function is one that I do not respect. Let me list some of the things which I shall con sider "off bounds" and some of the areas ir.to which I i.-hall seldom if ever trespass; by this negative approach I may come close to characterizing that which I consider my job. First, though I shall often attempt to lead the ' horse to water, I shall never try to make him drink. The weekend editions of this paper will carry my guess as to the best of the following week's shows. I shall be as discriminating as-I can and slill try - to mention from ten to twenty hours worth each week. On the other hand, I shall do my best not to limit my selections to my own preferences, but rather to cover all areas of programming. Nor shall I ever tag any honest effort with -an" unqualified "good" or "bad". And I consider valid my own value judgements, I also respect the right of anyone to his own opinion. I shall refrain from making statements concern ing the "function" of television. I 'believe that tele vision, like any mass media, has the sole function of satisfying the viewing needs of its audience. I thoroughly concur with the opinion that the 'viewing preferences of the American audience are not as sophisticated as they might be, but televi sion itself can change them to a very limited ex tent only. Each show, by virture of Its own assertions, it? choice of subject, and its personnel, chooses for it self a standard, and it is against this standard that it must be judged. The only thing that -could be called the function of the medium as a whole is its responsibility to satisfy the needs of as many of the viewers as possible, and when it fails in this respect it should and will be criticized. From time to time more "do's" and "Donfs" will probably occur to me and I shall mention them as they do. For now, this is what I consider ran function to be. - - tfntil next week, then. . . CHARGES & COUNTERCHARGES: . Shaw 'Charges' South Building Shaw It seems to be the custom these days for var ious members of the administration and the student body to make charges, counter-charges- and clari fications about who has or hasn't intiative, foresight. . integrity and intelligence. We sit around and impune each others motives with the greatest of delight while an event of such importance to University is coming about that we ara for the first time, really frightened. We have found out that the legislature has generously granted the University $100,000. less than was requested for the Wilson Library. It seems that neither the administration nor the stu dent body has taken any great note cf this fact, although Mr. Horn, the present, but not future. University Librarian has stated that a move such as the present one would seriously hinder, if not destroy the future of our library. The University of North Carolina has long en joyed a position of leaderohip among Southern in stitutions of higher education, but it is quite clear that this position of being "the mind of the South is gone forever. We are faced with an administration which lacks the guts to handle even its own petty and internal squabbles (as in the Moreland Case), and a student body which has become enamoured of bureaucrtev Sputh Building has become a refu3e for per sons who are either unable or unwilling to face the outside world and Graham Memorial is the official residence for the Chapel Hill Chapter of the Junior Bureaucrats Club. The fault lies with both groups for their lack of initiative, although the students appear to be less at fault than the administration (for they get paid for what they don't do.) It is nevertheless for-both groups to drop their ridiculous and petty competitio for the local head lines and start s-omething. A movement has been initiated to circulate a petition to implore the General Assembly to fulfill its obligations. It is hoped that every student, fa culty and administration member who has the rp portunity to sign will, but in the meantime we must realize exactly how much good petitions do n petition to keep the Quarter System less than a warm reception a few k... it is reasonable to expect that thi . , . . - wio uuc wiii "pi m betttm!n;: bUt hod .t belied of the Z T , maSS f letters to members of the North Carolina General Assembly might aNo be of benefit. It always helps to hit a pjli icfon irjviTt rnd that is to himtci": election. S elp in the nxt ""J ,han f 'he$ th ting that needs to be done is for a courageous and fitting nolTyn f 9 Ver f Ra,el "d not take no tor an answer. ot a nil no r.
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