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THE DAILY TAR HEETu WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1957 Budgeting: Is Sinking braty they are talking alxmt "Headwater lhe weekly staff 'publication there, defines I etiii) in which one keeps his heatl above yvhere and eventually be just &ets tired and Ja.eous little journal, was speaking akmt tbe Jx Budget , , 5 . , . . , ' . , had to consider the whole picture . nieiiiou oi icv for the libra- T.imarv has been a victim A read water budget in-" for a time. It got its .biggest slap- .n-the-laee last week when the Advisory Budget Commission rec ommended only S2;jo.ooo be ap propriated for two years" worth of library books and journals. The Library had requested .S'jo.ooo. The reaction front one library official was pretty definite. Andrew II. Horn, retiring head librarian, said: "I was really shocked. This puts ns back to the book budget we had in ln.v,-" Of course, it is practically, im possible to get out of .S2r,o.ooo this vear the same tiling we got out of it live vears ago. Mow did the budget get cut so drastically and. apparently, so foolishh? w This state operates financially on a bienninm basis. Funds are ap propriated by the (Jeneral Assem bly, meeting now in Raleigh, on a two-vear schedule. The I'niversitv. along with all other tate institutions and agen cies, tells the State Hoard of High er Kduc .ion how much money it wants tor its various functions, in great detail. "The State Hoard of Higher Kdu- ttK n considers all such requests, adjust figures (usually downward, out ot necessity, since cerybodv re ijuesis more money than there is available, and sends its recom mended budget to the. Ad isorv budget Commission. The Ad isory budget Commiss ion performs much the same task as the higher education board, but on a much larger scale. It must re ceive and approve budget requests from all state agencies. Since practically all state agencies request far more than they could receive without doubling all state taxes, the budget commission must do considerable shaping of the re quests. It must cut where it feels budgets can stand cutting. And. as Ciov. Hodges said this week, ' We The Daily Tar Heel The official .student publication of tbe Publications Board of the University uf North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examinatior and vacation periods and summer term Entered as second class matter in th oost office in Chapel Hill. N C. unde. the Act of March 8. 1870 Subscription ratesc mailed, $4 per year. S2 50 a semes ter; delivered. $6 a year. $3 50 a rmc ter. Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN News Editor NANCY HILL t Business Manager BILL BOB PLEt Sptrta Editor LARRY CHEEK EDITORIAL STAFF Woody e?r Frank Crowther, David Mundy. Cort land Edwards. NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones. Pringle I'ipkin. Edith MacKinnon, Wally Ku ralt. Mary Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Neil Bass, Page Bernstein, Peg Humphrey, Phyllis Maultsby, Ben Taylor. Walter Sehruntek, H-Joost Po lak, Patsy Miller. BUSLNESS STAFF Rosa Moore, Johnny Whitaker, Dick Leavitt. SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stewart Bird, Ron Milliagn. Subscription Manager Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Assistant Sports Editor Dale Stale Fred Katzip Charlie Holt - Bill King Staff Photographer Norman Kantor Librarian - Sue Gishner Night Editor - Graham Snyder Night News Editor - Charlie Sloan Proofreader - Bill Weekes together. But why should the Advisory 1 Widget Commission cut the library books and journals budget so drastically? No one really knows. Xo one has Misweled the cjuestion publicly. but it is very disheartening ,to see that the state or at least one . agencv of the state has more-or-les disowned the I'niverstty's Wil son Library. ' Practically all education comes, cither directly or indirectly, from books. Aristotle and Freud could not be taught or even understood todav without the simple equip ment of the jvi:i;vd page. What would Social Science I be without library books? What won Id theses and teVtn papers, research and rel."atioil reading be without the resources of the Wilson Libra ry? We would be nowhere." F.ven the most excellent of professors cannot get along without those re MHirccs. The Wilson Library will not he able to. buy essential books and journals during the next two fiM-d eirs unless it gets more monev. one wav or another. The Fiit iicls of the Library have '-) about all thev can do. Funds from rent of certain I'niversity owned property goes to the Li brary, but that is not enough. The simple answer is this: The (ieueral Assembly must appropri ate more monev for library books and journals, or the University will suffer. It will suffer from the roots. - -- v -,. We ask the members, of the CVncral-Assembly to introduce legislation amending the 1JXC budget to provide more funds for library books. ' We ask the two representatives from" this a;ea. Fdwin Lanier (di rector of central rec ords, on leave) and John I 'instead, to c onstruct and push such legislation. We feel certain both men are aware of the Library's critical need for more money and more books. If they . aren't, surely Librarian Andrew Horn will -show them. Any fresh man .could give a first-hand report on the Matcity of books, too. .We liaxe been treading the Wat er long enough. We are getting very tired, and are about to sink. Speakers: Untapped Resources Fven though it's ofily before spring elections that this happens, it is good to see the campus po litical paiaies turn out some in teresting p og- "MIS. Two weeks ago it was the Uni versity Partv which invited Direc tor of Student Activities Samuel M i i!l to speak at a meeting of the party. , V ihe Student Party heard Charles Bernard, assistant director of admissions. This if good ' yo criinin''. It is good for the students who rvml sucli meetings, and it is good for those who hear or read reports of the meetings. We hae a large and heretofore untapped source of information right here -on the campus. The University is loaded with men and women who have dedicated their lives to education or to some c6rdl lary.of education. They Will not speak to the students until the. students invite them. Congratulations to both parties for asking Magill and Bernard to speak. We hope there will be more invitations in the future even af ter elections. U Said It: Reader I ears Apart 'Unwarranted And Wanton Attack Editor: I shall make it clear from the beginning of this letter that I do not wish to appear as a "Defend er of the Faith," but I do be lieve it is the duty of anyone who sees unwarranted and wanton material to defend the side that is wronged, and who cannot answer back. Mr. Editor, for weeks now you have been arguing that athletics at Carolina are rotten, but con sistently you have evaded stating why these athletics as so rotten. You have attacked them on the grounds that they are money sports and that this same thing leads to the end-view and cor ruptness. Certainly, anyone can see that the money entering into the cost at games is necessity, or else how could the gym be kept-up. uniform:? bought and many other things. I think your statement that "the athlete is an athlet.o first, a student second" is an un- warranted attack, for these boys keep their grades as respectable as some of these fraternity broth ers, and some even higher than ta'css. This is sfupid, for w see that Co h McGuir released 'recent ly two Of his "star players for these low grades, and we all know iow much this must have hurt. And again I see no cause for the printing of the allusion tbat sportswriters. coaches, etc. have erected a golden haze around athletics. Athletics has always had. a place in the American way of life, and certainly it was n3t built or put there by writ ers, but the reverse of this, the athletics have put the coaches, sportswriters and others in their positions. Again. I see no hero-worshippers on this campus, and I see no professional athletics, unless .you consider the recent '"foot ball" incident that led to the re lease of the player involved, therefore that leacL- to no con clusion that there is corruption in athletics. You have made com ments that our administration is doing nothing about this, and that , they,- are . subject to pressures, but our administration has been quite firm in its policies, and I am further assured that there are ho pressures. Your paper's policies, it is evident, seem to attack the administration con stantly for no ieasons. I suppose that you feel quite safe behind "the freedom of the press' rights, but it seems that you are prostituting a basic free dom, which Is one of the most abysmally contemptible things I can see. So. all your arguments, if we respect them enough to call them such, are against just one in dividual Mr. Tatum. You have no argument, but constantly yell empty words of corruption, vice, etc. You then start upon Mr. ' Tatum himself. It , is obvious that the state ments made do not reflect any one's views but youx own. Mr. Tatum is in no position to answer in defease of himself, so it is someone's duty to do it for him. It is obviously stupid to say that the coaches have "made policies that are not in the best interest of academics," since you can not L'il Abner validate them. I have heard of no liquor-and-women-parties thai; anv coach has ever had, and this seems to be the most unethical thing anyone could say. Vou contrasted Mr. Tatum with Mr. McGuire in such a way that you lead one to believe that Mr. Tatum is a dirty back guard and Mr. McQuire a pussy footer. This is the most un heard of thing I can conceive, for both gentlemen are liked in this community. Mr. Tatum is not pampered, s he has made no Grid-Iron Club, x the athlete has not been taken away from the University, and certainly these athletes are not machines. " Your arguments are baseless, and if they do have a base they ' are on emotion. You seem to dis like athletics so much you stick jour neck out so far as to make a ridiculous farce of yourself. Because of your dislike for Mr. Tatum, which is without doubt unwarranted, you. attack athletics and call them corrupt without cause. It see"ms that once before Mr. Tatum was attacked by this pa per, and it seems that the people who elect, and pay for the same took the action, which wisely de termined the course of a new policy; but it seems that you want to revive ill-will between students and faculty and athletics. You cannot use an organ of the stu dent body, such is The Daily Tar Heel, for a personal argument; this violates the purpopse of the paper, which is to express the news, and not the falsity of an emotional argument. Perhaps your whole argument is based upon "sour-grapes", and that j'ou feel badly because you are no public hero, but this is not to be an accusation on per sonality; but an accusation of your unwarranted, slovenly and wanton attack on an individual through the organ of the student body, based on your own opin ions, with no validity to them. Tm sure that you owe an apology to Mr. Tatum and to athletics; because you have cer tainly lowered the editorial poli cies of your paper by printing base slander, and false, emotion al argument. Julian L. Sessoms 'Here's Another One'We Can Cut No Social Need That I Can See" LOUTS U. Ql A7A f 1 ' i "' " . .11..).' ." SXCxU COOK v its. MS 6 v. 'sMir' cV'l " 1 W v v. -t - i '.: YOU Said It: Set Up Campus Police State? 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 makes the question in a better light. David Mundy, defender of democracy in Goettingen, has certainly gone to extremes in his request for the abolition 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 council (The Daily Tar Heel, Feb. 13) certainly does not add weight to his argument. The disregard of the admin istration 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 government a more honored position and the revolution can only come through the dedication of student officers and the student body to the priri ciples of self-gogvernment, which significantly is one of the im portant freedoms of this uni versity. Name Withheld By Request ft- ft- By A! Capp . f ?3-e,UT-AM PAID KY THE.T FOUR. N ( AH GOTTA GIT ) FO'THIS WEDDIN'i J sl DQL-LAHS ENTITLES ) f A PAPPV FO' J T4'60OM.) ( IN ADVANCE.- xt VO'TOONE MAH CHILE- ) ! n:O.E. PLE.W J V M-WIAH lAST FOUR ) '?? . W E D D I N' TO DAY.?' A NOW-OR TM' J ( ' V'T-V Dl DOLLARS.-" J 2 7- MONEV'S jm cM llT 'irs Pogo By Walt Kelly VvwAT 1XE view ST UCNTZCCrT LIKE J QL UN$P. ISF CCKFiFcNCc 1 AND IT QQT CAV2HT -,-4 HCiV CAN LIKS I 1 W Tl X ) SOT A TOOTH J ACM6 AHO YC'SZt WIB WlH'PC8M,THB eyg LIGHTS ON TH 15 EXCLAIM, 15 THAT? .THS NUSeB 6AVG. you m, PITTSBURGH! m MGfzoffsr you J C2Y WITH PBU&HT AN'"" -1 PT V 7?LT JM PCOM : Taf um Has Got The Bad Break Woody Sears We have indeed reached a sorry state when we can't see beyond the ends of our noses. It's bad when we can't find the garbage for the smell. It's almost comical. So let's get down to the crux of the matter. What is it? Why it's "big time" athletics, of course. And what is "big time" athletics? There are prob ably as many definitions as there are people to giva them. Mr.. Tatum seems to be the symbol of "big time" athletics. Those who are in favor of what ever it is like him, and those who are opposed to the idea don't.. And in the middle, sitting on the fence, are those who don't like the idea but don't dislike Mr. .Tatum. This interpretation makes the whole thing sound rather simple, but it's about the best I can do. I don't want to get into the discussion of money, either over or under the table, and I don't want to discuss the pros and cons of segregated athletic societies. What I would like to mention is this business of fighting over whether or not Mr. Tatum is a good man or a bad man. like in the Saturday afternoon western flicks. And that's all it is when 'ou strip all the fancy terminology off the surface. Terms like "prostitu tion of scholastic standards" and ''succumbing to financial pressure's" are not uncommon to this topic. Questions about where the athletes shall eat and where they shall i-leep become very im portant. And honestly, actually, factually, does it make a great deal of difference? I'm going to perch on the top rail of the fence for a moment to make one statement. As I see it. there is only one question worth considering, and that is the question of academics. And I speak of academics alone, not of academics " vs. athletics, "big time" or otherwise. Can this monster, this ogre, this whatever it is become detrimental to the academic standards of the University of North Caro lina? This is the question, and as I see it, it is the only question which merits more than a passing glance. Now I'm going to hop off the fence, stick my neck cut and let go with strictly personal opin ions. It is my opinion that there is no one man in the whole Greater University who could single handedly corrupt the academic system or standard of any part of the University. It is ridiculous to assume that one man, especially one who is not in the administrative unit, could perform such a monstrous undertaking. That would call for a real superman. And in my opinion, Mr. Tatum is no superman, whatever else, good or bad, he may be. HOW COULD HE DO IT? I'm not sure exactly why he would want to tamper with the academic situation, but for the sake of argument, let's say that Mr. Tatum has this in mind for his "modusoperandi" to bring "big time" athletics to Chapel Hill. Now that we've made that broad assumption, I want someone to tell me how he's going to do it . . . by himself or otherwise. Seems to me (as a not particularly brilliant ob server) that he would need some help, and it looks to me as though the help would have to come from an administrative source. I think that implication should be lucid enough. There's another point I'd like to mention. Mr. Tatum has been roundly criticized for his state ment to the effect that "Winning's not the most important thing, it's the only thing." In my (not necessarily unique) way of thinking, this establishes Mr. Tatum's .character ... as a man. I frankly admire him for saying it. People raise their eyebrows in askance at such a statement . . . because they're not used to hearing people tell the truth. Do you think for a moment that an insurance man gets hLs salesman's endurance from his desire to keep you from leaving a destitute widow in the event of your untimely death? Do you think that the Ford sales man wants to sell you a Ford because he thinks that you'll be safer in a Ford than in a Chevvie. or that he can save you money? If these two questions deserve yes answers, then I've got the wrong slant on life and human nature. So I think that if Mr. Tatum is the "bad" man in this pathetic melodrama, there is a rich banker or a "big time" administrator behind him. But personally, I don't think he's the ,'badfguy" he's been painted to be by some parties.. It has been my observation that few people ever. are. I mentioned in the first paragraph that this was almost comical, and the comical aspect is that there are so many people who are in this thing as I, not knowing Mr. Tatum or a dozen football players. But it rankles my hide to listen to all this drivel. And I hate to see a mar,i crucified by know nothing, see-nothing do-gooders. The way I see it. Mr. Tatum was brought here to do a job. and the people who brought him here messed around with it 'so long that they probably knew what kind of toothpaste he uses. I have heard it said that if he has ever done anything or ever does anything, it would be like calling the gun guilty because some one got shot. Mr. Tatum is. after all. an employee. If you don't like him, get after his bosses, for no one is so big that there isn't someone a little higher up the ladder. I think we're giving this fellow a bad break, and there is little evidence of fair play about. It's time for a change of attitude on the part of a lot of oeople. And if all this ruckus is for the good of ol' UXC. then there should be some unity of purpose. I think it would be of the same stink if Adolf Baba luchi was the coach instead of the controversial Mr Tatum. Frankly, it's time to change mounts. Let's ride someone else for a while. We could devil a whole lot of folks if we got together on it. . ;
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