PACE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
TUESDAY; -APRIL: 53, 1?57
H artiest Co m men cl a Yi on
For Scholastic Prowess
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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. "
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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 -(:
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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
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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.
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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. ' '
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. 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
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MAY 6
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ONIX 6 MO RE:'.. DAYS
THE HILLTOP:
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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.
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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
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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.