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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1557 Battle Sra Sr- "f, Ther its, In Ralefgh 1 FORMER COED'SAYS! eally No Reason 3 OUT I f ' 'N'eve ReailvM. .OTHER. NEWSPAPERS SAV: bve Budget CiOinmisi'loH. ! ' - Vnd President Friday would be ifr.ee. to .speJid lii.tinie where he should . spejp&'itrfiHli Yf fice, in the classroQnis.an; fitjUhy pffices, hi the Library afrd Cirkbam Me morial. .! :!; m;'.; ; At I i 'M'.UilCv : , Meanwhile, until -the General ' Assembly sees the light and abol- ; ishes the old budget, we wish the University a hard fight and a sweet victory in Raleigh. President Friday's: appearance in Raleigh betore the Legislature's appropriations -committee -.marked the -major point of a Jong, planned battle on the part of the University. ' 7 ' The brttle, -ppmarily, . was to provide higher salaries for faculty members ancTmore irihney for library books and journals. It has been a most important battle, and it has not been without its victims. The University's resigning head librarian, ' for one," broke tne gooay-goociy ' campus silence by tel 1 ing, in explosive ' words, what the proposed Library, cnt means to-. him.,, . ;r We congratulate President Fri day for the intelUgentSirhnner m which he has carried oiir the Uni versity's appeal. He has seen to it that friends of the University :are well prepared, intellectually, to argue for more money, and he has " done a lengthy and firing personal ' job of politicking for more than Si. 5 million hi jexjra appropria tions. . ' '" ' But should a Consolidated Uni versity president be called upon to light in a- le$ilatUve body for money with which lo run his uni versity? Te don't think so. Will iam Friday has no more business in : 1 meeting of the Joint Approp riations Committee of the North Carolina General Assembly than he does in a panty raid. The reason President' Friday has .to spend so muclythrie iji Raleigh is quite clear. It is the obnoxious line-item budget Hie University has to cope with. The line-item budget specifies exactly .how much money the Uni versity receives to use, and it speci fies how to use it. The General Assembly should abolish the line-item type budget; Instead, it should make a blanket appropriation to the ; University and leave it up to President' Friday and his business officers to de termine what goes where. Then the onus of fighting for a budget of certain proportions would lie on the State Board of Higher Education, which submits budgets anyway to the Advisory Nada On Columbia: Expected Says a news storv: "No action has been taken by the fraternities aiecjed jby tlje rccentlyreinforced S. Coin pbja, S,! ttvA-rhpin,1 park" iug banr' ; ;' 1-j r ?Cothiri cctuld be ti iiei4. No ac tion has been taken by the or ganizations inyolved, just as no action was going to be taken. The only "action" involved crome when pledges were sent from the fra ternity houses to spin wheels on their superiors' cars, and thus beat the parking ban. The Town of Chapel Hill act ed quite justifiably when it re instated the ban. It gave the fra ternities a chanc e to come up with answers; the fraternities were sel fish and lav, and thev did not answer. It is a good lesson in being a part of the community. Ppgo Sticks Aren't Stable While Presidential candidate Bill Ba urn's "Student Senate" promise appears to be a good one, it also appears to be the only one he is going to ''make un spring elections. A man cannot be elected to an office here on the strength of one campaign plank. He must deliver many of his opinions to the camp us, and he must at least promise to look into several areas that need repair. Jf Baum, running for the presi dency of the student body on the University JPartv ticket, has The Daily Tar Heel The official ifudeni publication of tbe Putijn atitins Board of the Universitj . of North Carolina hrrt it puhiishefl daily except Monday and cxaminatioi r-d vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second ciass matter in th " 0st office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei the Act oi March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semen Ter: delivered. $6 a jear. $3 50 a seme ter Editor FRED POWLEDGF Manasins Editor -7C CLARKE JONES News Editor ..t. NANCY HILL Sports Editor LARRY CHEEK Business Manager BILL BOB . PL-EL Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN fcDfl UUlAL alAKr V oouy sear. Joey Payne, Stan Shaw. , n .1 , . - .-ii, : . NEWS STAFF Graharh ' Snyder, Edith MacKinnon, Walter Schruntek, Pringle . Pipkin, Bob High, Jim Purks, Ben Tay lor, II. Joost Polak, Patsy Miller," Wal ly 'Kuralt, Bill King, Curtis Crotty. BUSINESS STAFF-John Minter, "Marian Hobeck, Jane Patten, Johnjiy Whitaker. SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stewart Bird, Ron " Milligar.. Former Daily Tar Heel Co Editor Ed Yoder, now a Rhodes Scholar at Jesus College in Ox ford, belcw explains how a southerner can reconcile him self to the differences that set the' South par. ' ' OXFORD. England -4f AbserfCe j makes small loves less and great loves greatcn''-the French, y;on-f ist La Rochelopqauld once" wrote. , My moving frm the; oijtfi tfi foreign 's61i- ns convinced . 'not only thati lia Rochef oupauld ' knewwhereof(he spokei 'i)iiL thai".' the South falls under the second-. heading: The great lotes l wjiici. absence makes jlhe greatejr. We1 southeritersf find ourselves in the, minority among Ameri cans at Oxford. But we find that, our . pageantry has been borne, before .us, and that one thing cannot be denied the South: The . mythologies surrounding it, all the thick catalogs of splendor and hokum, have carried far. It brings a special glint to the .Englishman's eye when you tell him you are from Dixie. You suspect that behind that glint may be the . vision of I a cotton field hoed by darkies 'in chains, a Simon Legree 'cracking his whip and calling up his blood hounds, pernaps .. a . , Faulkner's r v .-as' 1 Penn Warren is at least artic ulata about his leaving. But you sense in his words the relief of a man who is not really relieved. He clearly f2els that he leaves his native region in an hour of peril and need: Thus, the guilt complex. . -I have talked' !a loti about- (jif-; ferehces. vices -and ! Virtues1, 1 stttt; that this concern had important beginnings. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison started in the 18th Century what can be seen today in the political thinking of men like Sens. v' George and Byrd, both of them southerners in - the tradition. : Jefferson believed In strict Construction of the 'Constitu- one of course I wants 'Atoll 'know U tion.1 ;- He .considered that it . where they, come frtimi 'and whyl : would lead to the protection of The first ? teniptatiort iii'tu' attritn ? : i minority; thinking in the f eder ute the South's distinctness 1 t6 I ;al system. Rightly, or wrongly, the Civil War, to -say: ;'Well, 'we, for good i or, for . evil ' for the are - th? ! onlv ' neoole who have ! t South, some remnant of Jef fer- seceded ; and fought the rest of f; ED YODER . . . . ..still m Confederate , : , must be done about' her check ered backwardness. But it is mis taken to look on her slowness to act as a vice 'and nothing else, for in-' the South I think you find an illustration of the old truth that, most vicps are but virtues pushed to an extreme. The problem, then, is not so much: How can the southerner go home again? But:How can the southerner reconcile him- " seff to the differences which SnrDeshr a Tennessee -.Williams Bi Daddv-or evert a ogsliead X he Sou,h aPart and ,earn u; nj fAl to appreciate what is good in thise differences? ' Subscription Manager II Circulation Manager Assistant Sports Editor. . Dale State Charlie Holt Bill King- Woody Sears, Staff Photographers Norman Kantor l- LibrariansSue Gichner. Marilyn Strum Night Editor Manley 'Springs ProofReader Jimmy Creighton iiaaeotJier prt)intsesT Jielias not made tlieni publit. Va His idea of a "Student Senate" is a ood fne on the surface. Int the students know very little about the idea besides its names. : - "Tlie .senate will be completely a policy-making body," says Baum. "It's work will provide the answers, as far as the r-.lministra-lions' stands are concerned, to the problems now facing the campus. Where tlicie is a need for action, the student senate will examine the need.- usin all the evidence and knowledge at haiul, ; id its . decisions'' shall . be .-the pjoals to vard which the, administration will work during its tenure in i I 'ice'."; ' IJauin h;is said his svnate would meet twit e a year, and it would be "composed 'of representatives from ilonnitoi ies, sbnrrit'ies- and"" fra ternities. All this would be line it the University didn't already have a student senate the Student Legis lature. Its members are chosen not onlv from fraternities, sorori ties and dormitories, but from town residents and married stu dents as well.- It's job is to meet once a week to form jk1 icy. There is no need lor a student senate. :. ,-Ir is the executive's duty to act .spo,kesmaitan(V - leader for ' the student body and to carry out legislation passed-by. .-the, Student Legislature. He j is t supposed to form his own policy, either by himseli -r a?ilh the assistance, of a cabinet, In'Ahis ihst iin.c, such ' a senate would leood? b.ut liaum . should not promise --4'ts decisions . shall' be the goals toward vhich the administration will work..." To do that would be to promise either the ineffectual or the im jiossible. Any decisions that would come out of such a mixture of people would either be obvious or so unrealistic as to make them impossible to act on. i And, candidate Uaiim, the, stu dents need some more planks. A one-pihhTc platform " is "a pogd stick. being rolled dowji Ersklne paid- well's Tobacco Road. But in ex ceptional cases, the glint may have behind it a curiosity stem ming from disbelief that any re gion C3n sustain ' both Uncle lit mus and IaK Ridge" to borrow a phrase from the late W. T. Poik. All the same the glint is there. This intense interest, found in foreign parts, has made me do more serious thinking about the South than I've ever done in one short period before, and I can't deny that those thoeghts have been colored by a certain . hue of nostalgia. In detach ment, the insignificant things seem to fade away, the real landmarks to lem larger. Being out of "the South has dif ferent! efiects w different peo ple, though. Atw weeks ago, I received a letter from a friend who h3S left the South if for different reasons, and if to ga a shortjr distance. "If there's any real social prob lem for the educated white frrm the South," my friend wrote, "that is it -how to go home again." The migration totals from the South, particularly among young er college graduates, prove the .wisdom of th;se. words. It is a problem going home; but for mc it is not a problem without an answer. - Tjo many contemporaries, I think, look on the South as re tarded, as lagging behind, her a?grc?siv2 neighbors toi the North and West, without realiz ing that there is an opposite side .to the coin. Certainly, her health is bad, she spends a paltry amount of money per capita on education, she commits more crimes of violence per Square mile than any. othcr region, and it can't be dertisd that something tV L'il Abner ' Southerners may move away. But the odd thing about those who leave is that in : sr many cas:s they look on their decamp ment as a mere geographical change. No matter where he goes, tha southerner never stops thinking of himself a- a south erner. He may even try to keep his drawl, though that is only a superficial mark of being a southerner if still one of un told significance. The departed southerner does maintain h!s identity. But along with it he feels a certain guilt. I call it "guilt'' because he some how feels that he must apologize for having left. Th migratory guilt complex is especially strange in a country where people move around as much as they do in the--U. S. But there seemi to-remain i an invisible magnet of tradition, fond memory, .kinship, t which wen't be denied. The natural question ; is, of course, : why southerners move anyway, if moving makes them uncomfort able. - . And it does make them uncom fortable. Robert Penn Warren, the southern novelist who has lsft to teach at Yale, gives an un mistakable sample of the kguilt complex in his recent book, "Seg regation." Perfn Warren has toured the South, interviewing old and new friends, seeingv.oid environs, ' and trying (and sue-' ceeding) tD put the race, problem on a human basis. As he leaves: ,' V'Out of Menfphis, T lean back in' my seat on the plane,, and watch U13 darkness slide by. V know what the southerner feels going out of the South, the re lief, the expanding ) Sisas . . , .1 feci the surge cf rSfief.But I know what the relief, really is. It is the relief from responsi bility." - ' (' ;'' " - But the Civil War onlycem--ented a feeling of sectional identity which can be traced," not only in the years just be L fore the war, but as far back as the beginnings of the Union. Southerners are notorious talk ers about tradition. But tradition can mean all things to all men. Many southerners, myself in- eluded, differ radically about that tradition from, say, Sen.. -Eastland of Mississippi. Sen. Eastland, to judge by appear ance, believes tho southern tra dition has its stronghold in a powerful and hsisy larynx and the intolerance. 'of the Negro, if so, I think Eastland and others like him miss the irony and great ness of southern tradition. ! Th3t irony is that, in its great est form, southern tradition is to b: found more in the way people act than in what they say. Take ou- bothersome race problem, a field littered with follies for which the Sou'h must now answ er. For all the things its errant statesmen say about the race problem, for all the vainglories of the Citizen's Councils, and not least for all her Pharasaic out side critics say, the South does have much to be proud of in its person-to-person race relations. The way of a bi-racial society has never in history' been easy, and , the South has made as good a job of her own personal feelings be tween white and Negro as any region cursed with racial tens ion ever has. To say this is not to apolo gize for legal discrimination, poll taxes, bombings of Negro churches, and similar acts of barbarism. But it is to say (hat while our red-gallused Talma ges have screamed "Nigger" from the county courthouse ' steps, while our own bigoted declarations have made it hard for us to live civilly together, we have done so if in an inevitably feudal way. Despite cur advertisement that we con- sider the Negro an inferior hu man being, we have belied that advertisement in personal deal ings and have been willing to judge him as an individual and friend. It is a paradox; but it is part of this ironic southern tra dition of saying publicly what we don't really feel. Southern demagogues have , perverted . the South's instruc- ' five concern ' for the states' rights, and bamboozled their constituents in doing it. But the southerner shouldn't forget I'on's '. thought undergrids to- W-Li.w'c f(i(rut of the' Suoreme ".'. Court in the Southv Jefferson . and his fellow southern Repub licans despised the ' fudiciary. For under Chief Justice Mar shall it became the armory of the Federalist Party: The big , . government, weakened states' rights party, the "loose con struction" party, whose politi cal philosophy was hammered out in the anvil of northern in dustrial and merchantile inter ests. The Federalists forgot that the South was an agrarian -. society which depended on the land, and insisted on the tariffs which contributed as much as the South's "peculiar institu tion" of slavery 'to the out break of civil war. The South has .borne many slings and arrows, Y much , "wav- 1 ing of the bloody shirt" for its secession. But it is interesting to note that the first talk of seccion , did not begin in the South. It began in Massachusetts among the Federalists. The Supreme Court decision on segregation has brought renewed rattling of the nullification sabre but that sabre-rattling figures in the old pattern of virtue turned to vice, since the doctrine pf nullifica tion was first used by Jefferson and Madison to fight the Alieji and Sedition Acts, a sort of 18tii Century, early-American McCar thyism, which threatened civil liberties. The Virginia and Ken tucky Resolutions embodying the doctrine of nullification were the result, the first real declaration that the new republic could not survive without the precious right of dissent. All of this gen erated in southern minds. The South's concern for civil liberties has not died. McCar- thy-ism gained no real sway in the South, partly because of the tradtion handed down from men like Jefferson and Madi son, partly because southerners ' are by nature trustful of their neighbors and unwilling to think evil of them without pro per evidence. It is noteworthy that Sen. McCarthy's Waterloo in the Senate was prepared With the persistent aid of south erners, notably Sens. Ervin of North Carolina, Stennis of Mis sissippi, Sparkman of Alamaba, and Fulbright .of Arkansas. I can't resist adding that Sen. George has spoken sensible and v.tal words in the crises of re cent American foreign policy which have been heard and ad mired abroad. (Continued In Tomorrow's Issue) By A! Capp LET'S GET THIS STRAIGHT, $ FOSDICK.7 -YOU SAY YOU'LL ' RESIGN FROM THE FORCE -AND GIVE Ot VOORJ r rtr tie irttj .. o I I i , 'i-XX Ppgo iTtJSS?,,"!! 'mvKEEPJI II I NOWATCHL'-YOU'RE ft FAILS TO REVEAL MY r- OW X.OSE p i- THROUGH ff AMD I Aorf THE PINCHED Si YVORD.7 U 1 THAT TKXJAXZ , J JhkLt vn ir J GJJ WATCH ONI-OR IN- WSS 0 E J f ? PESfoViS TVy Cr PINCHER? (2?&M SOMJEMERE K , "fcWVj A f -. AGOCP COB. J 5y WaltKally i VOU.I5 $7SOMG J COU&B" YOU WINS ON AUU TWffgg NOW, THg POiWT- I (AWS'AllY. yoKV5TV& GT5 TfS WHAT t . l-B5K-Wfc6B AV Kf I g 1 c In . F m I mmt aan. m.m M nm. il W ICJI Cf. 1 iili LCD i Cornell Daily Sun Ideally, fraternity life provides a 'member' with a handy opportunity for social and intellectual ex perimentation. Brought into the fraternity environ- ment, the member may treat it as a microcosmic representation of "the great world," but one where mobility , is greatly accelerated and testing out at , titudes is the order of the day. Thus, fraternities 'are' said to encourage the de velopment of the individual. The compact society of the fraternity membership is perfectly suited for experimentation with roles and attitudes. Through the simple process of day to day living, in a situation of quasi-democratic rules and intensi fied personal relationships, a member should be able to attain a level of maturity often impossible outside the fraternity system. But although the . fraternity sj'stem ideally fos ters individual development and growth, in prac tice it encourages a group conformity. When a student ,,oins a fraternity it is agreed that he will give up a part of his individuality to the fraternity. He must consent to live under cer tain rules, perform certain duties and assume par ticular responsibilities. Eut all this is expected, and, indeed, necessary, if a society is to function ef fectively. What is not necessary is the conformity of at titudes, ideas and ideals which fraternities impose on their members. And what is most dangerous is . the conformity of anti-intellectualism, however, subtle, which is maintained at this University large ly because of the existence of the fraternity system. Fraternities may -encourage academic achieve ment; somt go so far as to . establish study tables, advisor systems and enforce study times for the benefit of . the poor student. But in all cases such rules are essentially designed (1) to raise the house average; and (2) to keep members in school and thus maintain the revenue level. And few houses have programs aimed at creating an intellectual at mosphere for the bright student. In fact, there -exists a lamentable dichotomy between the in tellectual pursuits of the classroom and the social aspects cf the fraternity house. House bull sessions,- although olten fascinating for the participants, center around such topics as women, rushing, adventure and personality analysis. Seldom, we believe, can discussions on philosophy, art or politics be found on anything more than a superficial plane. And while such discussions would not, per se, classify a fraternity as "intellect ual," their absence is perhaps indicative of a gen eral lack of interestin intellectual problems which obtains throughout fraternity life. Substantially, then, a member of a fraternity is more or less forced to forego the intellectual as pects of his college career. While this is not al way discernible, many upperclassmen, e5pecially seniors, look -back upon their college years with considerable regret when they consider the neg lected opportunities for "intellectual growth. The loss of individual identity is also evident in many other ways. Perhaps the freshman rushec has already noticed the similarity in dress, conversa tion topics, attitudes toward campus affairs and re actions to controversial questions which may bo said roughly to typify the "fraternity mind." This kind of conformity is perhaps minor in seriousness, but it is at least worth noting, especially if consid ered along with the picture of the freshman jvsi entering the fraternity often with a set of atti tudes basically, if not superfically. dissimilar to ' those which he will shortly acquire. -As .a fraternity mirrors the -society in which it exists, so it is bound to take on that larger society' characteristics. But this does not mean that fra hernities must include the destructive as well as the constructive elements in the society. As essentially a part of an educational institution, it would iccm that a fraternity has a responsibility to promote not conformity but individuality, not anti-intellectualism but intellectual 'development. This the fra ternities have been both unable and unwilling to accomplish. And this, it would seem, constitutes the mo-t damning charge which can be made against fra ternities. Earlier in the week we mentioned the "good points" of fraternity life the points on whic h fraternities rush the freshmen, and because of which freshmen pledge fraternities. It remains, however, for the rushee to measure the benefits he will receive from fraternity life and they are manj' against the disadvantages. Many freshmen, probably a great majority, have no- concern for the limitation on individual ex pression which fraternities induce. A small number will be troubled by the indifference to intellectur.1 development. But for those happj' or unhappy few, the' time is ripe for careful consideration of the problem: How much of yourself is worth sac rificing to fraternity conformity? We have no set 'answer; and perhaps, the question itself is more important than'the possible answers. But there will be no improvement if it is not asked. v
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