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It's Spirit, Not Salary,
That Hastens His Leaving
A great professor is about to leave the University. And he is not
leaving because of monev.
He is considering leaving for a multitude of other reasons. Of them,
money is just one.
At the other college which has asked him to teach, he is being offered
several financial improvements. But, really, it isn't money which will
take him from the University if he
decides to go. It is, more than that, . A new faculty spirit will make
a feeling of the lack of morale here him stay. A spirit not unlike that
among faculty members, students of the Frank Graham era will
make him stay. Continued support
from the thinking portion of the
student body will make him stay.
Cooperation and support from
the administration will make him'
fhis is needed very much.
and administrators.
People talk about academic free
dom here, and they, exercise it, to
some extent, but they stop at that
extent. It is fashionable to talk
about and exercise academic free
dom here, but it is not fashionable
to go too far.
Largely lor this reason, the fac
ultv here has lost ;its morale. It
teaches, : nd it teaches well, and it
also exercises as much academic
freedom as it can. But at the same
time it keeps an eye open for of
fers from freer colleges and uni
versities. , .
But about t ii is man. He is the
last man you would suspect of
leaving the University ,of North
Carolina, f lis roots are here, his
love is here, his students are here.
His students love him and re
spect him as they love and respect
no other faculty member. He has
to turn away, sadly, hundreds of
students each semester from his
classes.
And right now he is considering
leaving the University for ajuother
one, one where the spirit and aca
demic freedom and challenge and
administrative respect are 'much
more in abundance.
If this man leaves the Univer
sity of Xorth Carolina,' it will hurt
North Carolina. It will mean one
more free mind has been lost in
this state, in this state which does
not have a surplus of free minds
and which ne'eds free minds even
more than it needs tobacco.
Chat can make him stav?
It is not money. Kven though
the new offer is large financially,
it is not monev that will take this
niari away. It is the spirit of tin's
place.
The Daily Tar Heel
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fs'nrth Carolina, where il is published
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stav.
For administrators are altogether
too wont to run this place as a
financial organism, constructed of
art museums and educational tele
vision stations and seats in Kenan
Stadium, rather than as the educa
tional institution it should be.
Truthful 'understanding of the
faculty's problems, :i:id an attempt
to help solve them, is needed oil
the part of President Friday, Chan
cellor House and all the other ad
ministrators in South liuilding.
Far more time should be spent
fighting for appropriations in
Raleigh. For, as one professor said
yesterday:
"We don't need buildings here.
We don't even need library books.
A university could exit with jusf
a professor, and a student."
We doubt, however, that such a
feeling will come from South
Building, which is presently carry
ing on a large-scale political en
deavor. Where, then, will the feel
ing come from?
The feeling, right now at least,
must come horn the faculty itself.
The faculty must convince it
self that maybe sometime the Uni
versity of North Carolina will re
gain, its old spirit. That maybe
academic freedom will come back
again, in whole, to Chapel Hill.
4 Perhajs this would mean that
the faculty would have to lie to it
self. We hope not.
Somehow, that feeling must
come back to the University. And
if men like the'great man continue
to leave here, chances of such a re
turn get slimmer and slimmer.
For that reason the great man
must stay. He must stay and fight
lor that freedom.'
II he leaves, and if others like
him leave, this place will cease its
search for truth. It will concen
trate 'on licking the lxots of politi
cians, on educational television
that is not really educational, on
research into the habits of fish, on
being a place where sundials and
pseudo-museums are erected.
Chapel Hill will forgci about its
duty. to cause people to think in
dependently, to cause them to dis
agree .intellectually, to read, to
ask, to question, to teach.( All that
will be gone, because the people
who keep that alive will be gone.
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We must not let it happen. The
faculty, Carolina's wonderful fac
ultv, must keep the duty alive.
We are now in the most exten
sive crisis of this University's his
tory, and it is not a salary crisis.
It is a crisis of minds, of actions,
of authority, of offers horn other
colleges and universities.
And this great man, who today
is wavering between staying and
leaving, sits at the peak of the
crisis. He is more a sym lo.l of the
crisis than he ever uspected..
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He must not go. The faculty
can keep him. .And in the process,
it can keep a' much dearer, much
more important thing, than this
single very great man.
The faculty can keep freedom
here. This week may make the difference.
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CAROLEIDOSCOPE:
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Frank Crowther
As I came from class last Fri
day, just before three o'clock,
the South Building bell began its
ominous toll in rememberance of
Dr. Emory, who had passed away
suddenly the previous Tuesday,
and who was being buried that
afternoon.
I stopped at the door of Old
West before entering and watch
ed the few" scattered students am
bling through Y-Court in the driz
zling rain and crosjlng in front
of the Old Well some of them
stopping to looks up at the
solemn, green-capped tower.
The feeling that the bells were
"ringing more for us than for Dr.
Emory was very apparent and
the soft, still tones were momen
tarily very significant.
Most of us are too busy and
prepossessed to concern our
selves with the omnipresence
cf death; we seem to be aware
that it is around and that peo
ple . die, but its inevitability ,
and catholic relevance are
often brushed aside una t tenta
tively. Conversely, we must admit that
others are constantly cognizant
of its omnipotence and unavoid
able reality; but, death is hardly
a conversational topic or the sub
ject of continued contemplation.
Why, I don't know, for it is
the impassable boundary of our
human existence, the guillotine
which will eventually sever all
of us from what we know as life.
We may sometimes find our
selves thinking that, admitedly,
our lives will come to an end. We
may regard our bodies and think,
"I know that this body will lose
its spark of life and be buried,
but . . . what's going to happen
to ME? What then? Juo-t what
can we know about death and its
supremacy?" We seemed to be
faced with a reality which can be
circumvented only in the minds
of fools. v
As I stood on the steps, a stu
dent walked by, hesitated, and
then asked apologetically "What.s
the bell ringing for?"
"Probably more for us than
for Dr. Emory," I replied, rather
vaguely. I didn't really think
about what I had said until set
tled in my room a few minutes
later
John Donne wrote of this feel
ing in "A Valediction Forbidding
Mourning" around which "papa"'
Hemingway based his- book, "For
Whom The Bell Tolls":
Any man's death diminishes
' me, because I am involved in
Mankind; And therefore never
send to know for whom the
bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
The bell was tolling for the
loss of a man from our university
community, but it was tolling
even more for us. .
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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR;
Youth And The Thought-1 wisters
Thought control. The .mass
mind. Psychological warfare.
Brainwashing.
These words all express the
deep concern of our day with the ;
idea that a regime in absolute
control of mass media and edu
cational facilities can mold men's
minds to specification. A wel-
come answer to that concern has
been emerging in many quiet
footnotes to the clangor of world
events.
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Nearly every . day there leaks
from the Soviet Union some wrord
of student skepticism about the
infallibility .of communism. From
Poland comes news that youthful
intellectuals have demanded the
return of Polish territory seized
by the U.S.S.R. In Hungary youths
trained by the Communists have
been in the vanguard of revolt
against totalitarianism.
Authoritarians of the. political
far right are finding their efforts .
at indoctrinating the younger
generation equally futile. In
Spain, students have taken part
in many outbursts against Falang
ist authority. Barcelona Univer
sity students are currently lead
ing a transportation boycott in
protest against government price
decrees.
And in some nations of the
Middle Ea.vt, Asia, Africa, and
South America where despotic
authority is wielded youths who
have in most, cases known no
other form of government have
stepped forward to deny the po
litical indoctrination
into them.
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All these cases refute the argu
ment that modern thought con
trol methods have some how got
ten dominion over man.
The need for alertness against
their devious subtleties and blud
geoning certainties remain j. But
as such resistance to thought con
trol continues to emerge, the feat
that truth can ever be blanketed
by any form of big lie recedes
even further into absurdity
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OTHER NEWSPAPERS SAY;
Ignored: Housing
AAarriod Sty clen iS
The Dunn Dispatch
Oi all the changes in higher education in the
last 20 years, no problem has received less attention
in North parolina than housing for married students.
Until the end of World War n, married students
consisted mainly of graduate students.. Even this
group was small: Fellowships usually were all a
student had for money. The graduate who dared the
responsibility of marriage usually allowed his wife
to work while he earned his advanced degree.
This exception becm more common whn
World War ! veterans flocked to colleges.
Today, married students are important segments
among student bodies" in North Carolina colleges.
Governmental asirstance is waning, scholarships,
parental aid and the willingness of young men and
women to work together is giving youngsters tha
means for education and marriage.
At State. College, for instance, one-fourth of
the student body is married students. And half of
these are making the grade with no GI Bill assis
tance Educational leaders expect the trend to con
tinue, and grow stronger. This is- particularly tru3
among graduate students who realize a need for ad
vanced studies to qualify them for the expandinj
technical world.
The administration of the Consolidated Univer
sity of North Carolina already have expressed their
concern for the married student facilities at both
State College and Carolina. They 'have warned that
the wooden, fire-trap barracks left over from army
camps and military construction areas of World War
II are falling apart
At Carolina, the administration heeded
warning by the State Insurance Department and
announced that its two-story barrack apartment
would be closed at the end of the current (emit
ter. State College has similar, but less formal plans
for its barracks.
What then? Where will married students live?
Consolidated University officials have found the
answer in permanent housing projects. They pro
pose that the projects be built with self-liquidating
loans from federal agerfcies.
Wake Forest already has taken advantage of
' the Federal money. Other colleges that have utilized
the money successfully are: Purdue University, Uni
versity of Kentucky, Indiana University, Michigan
State and the University of Michigan.
Two years ago, the General Assembly turned
down a State College request for authority to
borrow the funds.
Now, State College will be joined by Carolina
in asking the General Assembly to give them per
mission to borrow funds to build married student
housing. The loans -would be paid off from minimum
rents charged students.
Legislators may turn down the request again.
If they dc, they had better pass a law barring Dan
Cupid, from activity among college youth.
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Editor:
May I quote from the Cavalier Daily (University
of Virginia) of February 22: "The promotion of
William B. Aycock, visiting professor of law here,
to the post of Chancellor of the University of North
Carolina has just been announced ve are pleased
about the appointment but are inclined to wonder
whether a transfer from here to Chapel Hill can
be considered a promotion."
The question is, do we let this piece of bad edi
torial taste go unnoticed because we are too ma
ture to trifle with such an editor, or do we become
righteously indignant and answer the ragamuffin
with even sharper words?
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