PACE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY; -APRIL: 53, 1?57 H artiest Co m men cl a Yi on For Scholastic Prowess ? 7 consider an human soul zvithout education like marble 'in the quarry, which'hows none of its inherent till the skill of the polisher fetches out tht colors? makes the surface shine, and discovers every orna mental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it." : ' Joseph Addison Heartiest editorial congratula tions to Battle-Vance-Pettigrew Dormitory and Mclver Dormitory for their top positions in the men's and women's dormitory scholastic races. " .'. Mclver took.jtop overall honors in the academicxace with an average-of 1.632, ait. "A" or 3.000 be ing t!ie epitome of academic prow ess. f -(: ' ' ,' Battle-VanceTPettigrew had an average of 1.363 for the fall se mester to take lead position among men's dormitories. Spencer was-' second among women's dormitories with a' 1.579 average. Whitehead was a close, second amorig men's dormitories with a 1.354 average. All women's dormitories placed, higher than tlfef-top men's dormi tory which certainly appears to in dicate that , tljiiversity coeds are applying themselves more vigor ously to the scholastic grind than men studentsTT Carr Dormitory, low among the women's dorms, -.had a 1.458 aver age as compared to men's leader " Battle - Vance' v-Pet tlgrew with a 1 are to be highly commended for their demonstrated academic ex cellence, t As was the case with University fraternities and sororities, The Daily Tar Heel repeats this advice to those low men on the scholastic totem ole. ' Do not feel maliciously envious, but do use these academic suc cess stories as incentive towrard forwarding your respective aver ages. It should be universally agreed that the main purpose of this Uni versity is its academic program. It is to. be subordinated to nothing else, neither athletics nor social life nor Lenoir Hall Again we offer laurels to Mc lver and Battle-Vance-Pettisrrew Dormitories for achievement. their academic Again we feel obligated to ver bally chastize, those dormitories which placed av low as .980, .986 and .989. average. We At any ra teethe winning dorms the l(K)k for improvement a. present semester. in International Smear On Tfie States Face If liberty and'tquality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in ilemfxracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share to the utmost." Aristotle. ' ' It is indeed .Unfortunate that an international delegation must be submitted to'anu; embarrassed by southern fncial prejudice. Such was tit encase as the University Cosmopolitan 'Club attempted to , picnic at the U instead State Park . ()yer ..'.the' weekend." ' ' " 38 University students, all but 15 of whom were from locales out of the continental United States, attempted to picnic at the Urn stead Park Sunday; and were re fused entrance by an attendant who (informed the -international delegation -of the state law denv ing Negroes equal usage o state park facilities. Certainly this was an unjust and unfair and unpleasant incident. Certainly this was presenting an odious and intolerant and con piciously prejudicial side of the University, state and nation to a delegation representing many ma jor nations of the world. No section likes to be coerced, and no section should have im mediate and far-reaching integra tion thrust down its throat. But to students from countries threatened by Communist infil tration and indoctrination, this is assuredly an odious impression of the America we all love an im pression which they, as future leaders of their countries, will car ry foremost in their minds as they return from their American edu cational tour. ' ' The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the .Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, Where it is published daily except Monday and examination and vacation periodV and summer terms. Entered as seeondxlass matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, S2.50 a semes ter: delivered SS -a .year, $3.50 a semes-tcr- . .1 Editor NEIL BASS Managing Editor CLARKE JONES Associate Editor NANCY HILL Spurts Editor BILL KING Ncwj Editor : :d WALT SCHRUNTEK Business Manager ' JOHN C. WHITAKER Advertising Manager .... FRED KATZIN NEWS STAFF Craham Snyder, Edith MacKinnon, Pringle Pipkin, Bob High, Ben Taylor, H. Joost Polak, Patsy Miller, Wally Kutalt, Bill King- Cur tis Crotty, Sue Atchison. EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield,, Anthony Wolff, Stan Shaw, Woody Sears. BUSINESS STAFF-Jobn.MinteT,, Marian-'" ."lobeck, Jane Patten) Johnny Whitaker. SPOUTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stu Bird, Ed Rowland, Jim Crownover, .Ron -Milligan. ' t Subscription Manager Dale Staley . It is an ugly smear on the face of the state. It is an ugly impression of Americanism. It is an ugly smear imprved 'on the faces of an international delegation. If is an ugly smear. Creulation Manager Charlie Holt Staff Photographers Woody Sears, Norman Kantor, Bill King. Librarians Sue Gichner, Marilyn Strum Night News Editora. Night Editor Bob High Woody Sears 1-4 ,,-.; MAY 6 Is Coming Soon - ONIX 6 MO RE:'.. DAYS THE HILLTOP: -a----------nM-B--M-. 1 Committees: Pro And Con On Functions Nancy Hill Deliniating Student Govern ment committees is -a job for the Job-like.; - Cataloging the committees set up since the re formation of, student govern ment in the late '40's as to origin and jurisdiction would probably be worthwhile, but it is too big an undertaking for one column. However, several of the many committees currently operating under Sonny Evans 'have, turn ed out or promise to turn out valuable results. " The student committee on class cuts, for ex ample, worked with the admin istration in bringing about the miling now in operation. And it was the student committee's recommendations, accepted by f the administration, that rormed the basis for he new system. A basic problem in drawing up the system, ineidently, was to- find away to keep students from cut-' ting before and after holidays .The eventual aim of the student committee is complete freedom from cut rulings. One of the larger standing groups is the Constitutional Re visional Commission. Establish ed five years ago, the commis sion this year revised the struc ture of he student government constitution. In doing so it ac complished what previous com mittees, hampered by attempts to revamp the principles of stu dent government as well as the document iself , were unable to do. Two years ago the commis sion concentrated on judicial organization alone, redefining the jurisdiction of Honor and ; Student Councils and establish ing a court of appeals. The ap- - pellate court includes the chair- men of the Honor Council, Stu- cient Council, Women's Honor ' Council and three faculty mem bers. s Two groups were not enough to handle the traffic arid park ing problems on the Hill. Set up recently by Sonny Evans was the Campus Traffic Board, to aid the Student Affairs Office in processing trafic. violations. Already functioning were the University Traffic Committee and the Traffic Advisory Com- -mission. The University Com mittee has two student mem bers and is working with the Universiy, particularly with he v engineering department, to find ways of alleviating parking con gestion. One of the most interesting reports to come from a student government committee is in the working now. The Campus Stores Committee, with four student and four faculty mem bers, will release a detailed re port on profits and expendETA from the Book Exchange, Circus Room, Scuttlebutt, Y Court con cession and campus vending ma chines next fall. There's no doubt of the value of some Student Government committees others have yet to prove their worth. L'il Abmer . Maybe I'd Better Show You WNerevThe Fire Is. nW 1 1 -At'iri it n r jar. ; .." 1 71 PCU- FREEDOM OF THOUGH THE STUDENTS' FOmaa. Student Dislikes Psychology Editor: There were two patches of light emerging starkly from tbe darkness of the room,., one on the blind, one on the ceiling. I' was staring at the c-ne orvsthe blind, waiting; for -the noise to stop. It would not stop, but grew louder it was a plane, a plane with a crazy noise like a cymbal. It was coming over, and it was not safe to sit up you fool but flatten yourself. Be stilt and wait, i . -This . occurred at "34i wr the morning of Aprifa.1 Exier in the semester a similar., event -occurred 'the awakening;- the strange, . inexplicable noised something not of this work!, at all. not pertaining to human'.' be ings but fright?ningly inhum an, and swelling louder " and louder past the point of endur ance. That time it was a "gong, beating a weird long-short-short rhythm. That time I prepared myself, for either an atomic at tack, a Martian invasion, or Judgment Day. Also, it happen ed that the foster sister of 'my roommate, a Korean girl s who suffered the terrors of -thevwar, was staying with us that night attending a conference of for-' 4. eign students. To her, the noise of the ' gong was the noise of . , bombers; and she suffered mo-. ments of fear which I am sure she will remember long after the favorable impressions of, the . conference have worn off. Both the . noises, both the ex periences of fear, both of-, my personal mental preparations for death were occasioned by one organization the Valkyries in pursuit of one end thein- -duction of new members. And because my only , two xperi- . ences with the Valkyries have . been shocking and painful ones, i I know nothing better to call the highest honorary organization, fcr wemen at the University ' .oli North Carolina than a terrorist organization. According to, the Daily, Tar Heel, "the purpose of the Val kyries is to unite in a commoo... ha& d tbQ wxvrwg it v licw J-a-v e shown by -their lives such a de votion to the ideals, of charac- , ter, attitude, service, sound judgment, "leadership, and scho--! : larhip that thej' may inspire, this devotion in others and that they may strive together toward; these ideals." And the women- ' individually,- at least the ones 1 I knew, fulfill this d-efinitioa admirably. I have also heard that some of this year's initiates were extremely frightened by the initiation ceremonies. Be cause of this and because of the , fact that these women are recog nized for their sound judgment and service, it' seems impossi ble to me that they can carry out this ceremony with good conscience. r I . was told that they wear masks covering everything but their eyes (there is an anti- mask- la wa in North Carolina under which one University stu- dent was prosecuted this year although his mask was much" less frightening I am sure than those of the Valkyrie). I was told that last year one girl had , .hysterics as. a result of their middle-of-the-night, weird in vasion of the dormitory. I was tcld of a girl's being forcably pushed into her Toora by one of ; these- masked and hooded creatures upon ber merely step ping cut into the hall to dis cover -the . cause of the horrid noise. I was told that once the Valkyries, with gong, even in--vaded the infirmary for a tap ping. I have just heard of an inductee's waking..' up to find herself in a hclL of f ire (do the -Valkyries carry torches?) and silent creatures, of roommates wanting nothing but to get the creatures out of the room, of the group's traveling to Raleigh, with gong, to tap (and to ter rorize some neighborhood?). I do not mtan to imply a dis like of mystery in general. To me, mysteries, colorful cere monies, symbols are the things which make life meaningful. My objection here is to the time and place of the initiation; and. I strongly noted that the initiation of the Golden Fleece ; was an nounced in advance to be just that and was held in a public place in the daytime with those attending being emotionally pre- ' pared for monsters roaming the aisles. ; ' None - of these things are fair to the fine women honored by the Valkyrie nor to the idea of a women's honorary organiza tion. I can only hope that the next tapping will be a more ap propriate mirror of the Valky ries ideals. ' Alma Graham By A! Capp OCNfT WORRV, DAD SINCE ? T WAS MV CHOICE OF . I VEAPONS, I CHOSE US-A. J WITH 1 p IS QUICK f-JiafVrf? V- I FRENCHMAN.?' jsy.' i5v. - v' .' n . l r - i-, THAT is I stfc W- Pogo By Walt Kelly V I CWT eit HOW- ' rziWc A PUITESPLV rCCJM A h Pouter. crau?j about htte V-- - Tnert ttiecfkrfy and f - If issehvisj Our' Democracv Anthony VoIJf For- three centuries or so, Harvard University has been a center of liberal, foward thought in "this country. Particularly in recent times, when free dom of speech and thought, have been so inhibited in academic circles, Harvard has icon notable in protecting these basic rights of Americans.; It is surprising, therefore, to read . a-letter fron the Harvard "Veritas" " Committee, a group of alumni which has delegated itself the responsi bility of exposing the Communist ancl subversive infiltration which it believes has taken, place there. Its particular concern is the appointment of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer to deliver the 1957. William James lectures on philosophy at Harvard.- - In 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission, after carefully reviewing the case, finally denied Dr. Oppenheimer access to the . classified data with which he had been working. Dr. Oppenheimer was considered a "security risk": his previous history as a fellow traveler, his apparent lies on occasions which called for nothing short of the truth, and his close association with known Party members destroyed his value to the government. By the same token, however, his value as a speaker to Americans - is quite enhanced. Dr. Op penheimer is no eccentric scientist; rather, he s a very intelligent scientist (Director and Professor of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton) and a man who thinks seriously, con structively, and well ab6ut the problems, of Ameri ca today. Whether or not he has come up with the answers, and if so, whether or not they are the "right" answers, is unimportant: Dr. Oppenheimer must of necessity have seriously questioned . his activities and beliefs; he must have found some justification for them, so clearly at odds were they with prescribed conduct fcr high government employees. Especially when he was subjected to the pressures of an official investigation and pub lic scrutiny of his private affairs, he must have made quite sure that he was doing what he felt was right. It now becomes the duty of every American in telligent and patriotic enough to care to listen to Dr. Oppenheimer, to test the Doctor's philosophy against his own: whichever philosophy prevails, it will be all the more mature and valid for the test. x When this country reaches the point where men like Oppenheimer are refused the right to spesk, even to bslieve, as they choose, then America i nothing more than a mockery of its own Constitu ion. It seems that we are not so far from that point as would best become us. This is the day in America when "Loyally Oaths" are in vogue: Books are removed "from the shelves of our libraries overseas, often simply" because of th political leanings of their authors rather than their content. One of the world's foremost pcets has been imprisoned in an insane asylum for eleven years for pro-Mussolini comments he made X)ver the Italian radio during the last war. When the Libiry of Congress awarded this poet, E2ra Pcund, a prize for his poetry, the whole series of awards was permanently canceled by the govern ment. These are only isolated incidents, . but they are manifestations of a growing trend in this country, a trend which gave Senator McCarthy his day .and which now rears its ugly head at Harvard. That trend is becoming increasingly evident everywhere in American life. On the campus, we call it apathy: it might also go under the. name of -complacency, conservatism, misdirected chauvanism. What it amounts to is an alarming unwilling ness ir America to listen to criticism; even. more serious, an inability to engage in healthy self criticism. Instead, we prefer to overlook the faults in our country 'which are painfully obvious to our allies and enemies overseas and to certain think ing individuals here. We shout loud and long about a democracy which we frightfully and flagrantly abuse, and proclaim he value of freedoms which we do not use and which we often deny. In short, we are fast on the way to becoming a smug nation, rich in money and meaningless phrases, but desperate ly poor in the intellectual freedom and plenty which is our heritage. We must believe, if we believe in America, that ideologies which are at odd3 with basic American ideals will never find sympathy with the American people; we must hope that such ideologies will never be forced upon us, and that our brand of democracy . will never hecome so weak that it may be supplanted by some other way of life. One way to prevent this from happening, to strengthen cv.t democracy, is to: insist that every man" be en couraged to speak: his mind; "that every man be given the right to believe in the, right as he sees it; and that every man be asured of ths right to be wrong. - . '. " It is time, indeed it is past, time, fcr America to re-examine, her ideals, to fix her eye again on those goals "for which Americans once fought so earnestly, gloriously won, and seem about re linquish so easily. If is time we stopped guarding ocr democracy so vigorously that fe lose sight cf democracy it self, excluding democratic rights as being threats to the freedom of which they are an integral part. It is time we realized that in this country a man has as much right to believe in Communism as he does to be a Democrat or a Republican. We must bear in mind that it is not implicit in Com munism as a philosophy to impose itself by force, and that a -man may desire it for America out of love for her, just as the drafters of the Declara- tion and the Constitution believed in the republic. . It is time we came again to value our radicals, knowing hat change is . necessar3r" to survival and that no conservative ever changed anything great ly. This country hasv always depended upon a bal ance between the conservative and progressive ex tremes' for the dynamic! constant change which makes it a great and foward-moving republic. When the radicals are silenced, America will cease to make history," for history will pass her by.

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