A6i TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1 95
Memq To Ike: The World
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Was Made In Six Days
"Go. sir, gallop, and don't forget the -world ivas made in six
days. Yon can ask tor anything you like, except time." Napoleon
The time for President Eisenhower to assert his leadership in Gtm-
s now.
gross
Already the -question has been raised by' political analyists as' to
whether or not a: second term president may retain control of his party
due to restrictions imposed by the 22nd Amendment.
The combined restriction of the 22nd Amendment and Eisenhower's
failing health, plus the insubordination of a segment of Ike's "modern
Republicans" hits condemned a
large portion of his
ignominious defeat.
program to
I he president's budget has
been under constant fire, not only
by downhome pork-barrelers and
vote-seeker for h;,S; but also by
financial experts who have warned
of a "hair-curling" depression.
Xow ailing Eisenhower's pro-
dent Eisenhower to retain control
of rebellious members of his own
paty and Congress as a whole, it
is due largely to his physical con
dition and his inability to impose
a strong and guiding Imnd from
the Augusta links.
hool
a id
losais on s n
Hawaiian statehood and
items are threatened witfi
and lightening-fast death.
immigration,
other
brutal
The president's resumption of
duties after a thirteen-dav golfing
vacation at Augusta began with a
defense of his foreign aid program
before 150 members of the Nation
al Counc il of the League of Wo
men Voters. ,,;
Physically limited Ike must do
much more if more than a negligi
ble portion of lii's overall program
is to slip through Congress.
We do not, as does the Vale
Daily News, see , "handwriting on
the wall" for the 22nd Amend
ment. We believe that healthy gov
ernment depends largely ujxm
the imposition of tenure of office
restrictions in i. the executive
branch.
If there is a failure bv Presi-
II it is necessary for the presi
dent to resort to mass media for a
"fireside chat" to force outstand
ing segments of his program
through Congress, then this should
be his course.
lint Ailing Ike's second term is
doomed to ignominious failure un
less he asserts himself now.
Unless Eisenhowen does make
immediate assertion, we must con
curr fully with the Democratic Di
gest which pictures the president
as: 4
."Emerging from this first 100
days of the second term (as) an
image of an irritable, aging and
nervous president who doesn't con
centrate on his work . . . who. is
unin formed and isolated bv a 'pal
ace guard' that feeds him only one
page memos . . . (who) has already
lost around the world much ol
the respect which he built up dur
ing World War II."
Library Appropriation:
I he Fight Is Not Over
It is admirable that the Joint
Appropriations "sulKcnnmittee has
voted an S 80. 000 inc rease in Uni
versity library appropriations
the ir7-r9 hiennium.
bly takes final action.
for
Librarian Dr. Andrew
to be complimented for
lint there is no room for com
placency. The appropriation will
not definitely, be in University
coffers until the Ceneral Assem-
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MacKinnon, Boby;,High, Ben Taylor,
Patsy Miller, BiUfKing, Sue Achison,
Mary Alys Vorh'ee's.
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EDIT STAFF Whit' Whitfield, Anthony'
Wolff, Stan Shaw!
BUSINESS STAFF John Minter, Mari
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SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stu Bird,
Ed Rowland, Jim Crownover, Ron
Milligan.
Subscription Manager
Dale Staley
Crculation Manager
Charlie Holt
Staff Fhotographer-j Woody Sears,
Norman Kantor, Bill King. '
LibrariansSue Gichner, Marilyn Strum
Night News Editor
Night Editor
Bob High
Manley Springs
Head
Horn is
his courageous assertion of the li
brary's dire needs and exerq;enc ies.
President William Friday is to be
complimented for his designation
of half his allotted time before
the Joint Appropriations Commit
tee March 20, to explanation of
the library financial problem.
But the liht lor additional and
necessary library appropriations is
not over. Thus the University ad
ministration should continue to
vae the battle; until the General
Assembly's last legislative cog has
turned.
Shame On
Old USC
It is a discouraging note from
our southern sister that a student
has been bed-ridden lor 10 days
as a result of injuries received in
an initiation.
Inhumane haing has supposedly
been stricken from the programs
of our modern colleges and uni
versities. Yet a University of South Caro
lina trackman is being treated by
a urologist for injuries received in
an athletic: association initiation.
An Associated Press release fail
ed to describe the nature of the
trackman's injuries. Hut the fact
that he is being treated by an urol
ogist implies that serious and ir
repable physical damage may have
been done the athlete.
USC Dean of Men James T.
Penney is a bit late with his state
ment: "Hazard of personal injury will
not be tolerated in any phase of
initiation activities."
Another demonstration of the
reactionary and antiquated cus
toms of our southern neighbor.
And to think we combined ef
forts in the early sixties!
VISE AND OTHERWISE
Men: Innately
Superior? No!
Certainly Not
Whit Whitfield
Far be it from me to criticize
women, or to imply in any way
that women .are not equal to
men.
Quite the contrary women
must be equal to, or better
than men. If you don't believe
it, just ask the man who owns
one.
Just because males have play
ed the dominant" role, in west
ern culture since time imme
morial is no indication that they
are innately superior in any
way.
The explanation for the fact
that males have played this
role is probably that the cun
ning famales have been toy
ing with us, biding their time
for several thousand years, un
til such time when they could
best revolt, and best show how
inferior males really are.
One sure indication of fe
minine superiority is their long
er life span and sturdier consti
tion. Male occupations such as
soldiering, engineering, b u sr i
ness managing, prizefighting,
manual laboring, professional
athletics, truck driving, etc., are
no match for the hazards
of sehoolteaching, typewriting
bookkeeping, housekeeping, etc.
(All typical femal vocations)
It seems a wonder how they
can survive males by several
years on the average, with such
dangers involved in these oc
cupations, especially since most
accidents happen in the home.
The fact that Western cul
ture's most (famous 'soldiers,
artists, poets, musicians, scien
tists, politicians, statesmen, athl
etes, and businessmen have been
males isn't -hard to believe es
pecially if one remembers that
Denina each man tnere was a
woman. Then it is easy to see
how much we owe women.
We can call it a man's world
no longer. It seems that there
will be no more Alexanders,
Caesars. Nfapoleons. Washing
tons or Lincolns. The way
things are progressing now, the
females will doubtless have a
weman in the White House and
control both houses of Congress
in a few years.
Why not? Males have con
trolled the govcinment since
its inception, and look what a
mess it's in. Only the females
can pull us through.
In Twentieth Century Ameri
can culture, females have be
gun to assume the positions
that have ben rightly theirs
from the dawn of time
The coup d'etat will come
precisely when women are draft
ed to fight the wars, replacing
the weaker and generally in
ferior men. Several million
males are waiting for the time
when they won't have to worry
about the draft.
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We Don't Want You To Feel Left Out Of This"
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FROM THE DUKE CHRONICLE:
American Youth: Suffering From
Delusions Of Auto-Pomposity?
(The student publication at
our neighboring educational
plant has admirably hit upon
the crux of a problem we shall
call complacency and self-satisfaction.
There is an American Legion
brand of flag-waving Ameri
c.nism prevalent among some
quarters of our American youth.
This type of Americanism
tends to make students become
smug and complacent, tends to'
make them look down their
noses at the "masses" in Asia
and the European "starvees."
We do not oppose patriotism.
We're as p'roud of the Ameri
can fat -wallet, educational sys
tem and standard of living' as
the American Legion and those
complacents.
We're also proud of the
American "liberal mind" and
the theory that all men are cre
ated equal as far as rights are
concerned.
But a liberal mind and liberal
thought does not cast aside-all
cultures dissimilar to our own
as being crude, primitive and
ignorant.
Thus we concurr with the
Chronicle's assertion that our
own complacent propaganda is
"doing us more harm than the
opposition's. The Editor)
It took Mr. Justice Douglas to
point out to us a typically Ameri
can disease that is further ad
vanced on college campuses than
in other segments of our afflict
ed country.
Douglas says that we are brain-
' washing ourselves and that a
great deal of the propaganda to
which we are subjected is of our
' own making. We, not the Russ
ians, have convinced ourselves
thatthe Russians are undei
nourished, mentally stunted and
nationally degenerated. We have
talked ourselves into believing
that we are well-fed, intellectual
ly advanced and divinely demo
cratic. Neither of these extremes is
true. Nor is it true that college
students are a class superior to
all other beings. We, the college
students, have propagandized our-
MAY 6
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selves jnto a state of dormancy.
When we go to Florida for our
vacations, we have special dis
pensations made for us by Jorn
Law; in Durham, the ABC stores
will sell liquor to college students
but not to other minors. Our
manners suffer from this home
grown superiortiy complex. In a
bookstore we are convinced that
we are the only literates and thus
able to bustle others out of our
way; on buses, we are college stu
dents and therefore our loud
songs and chatter are excused. .
In both cases, international and
intermural, we Americans are
deluding ourselves to a danger
ous point. We may be the health
iest people, but this does not in
fer malnutrition everywhere else.
We may have better educational
plants, but this is not an indica
tion of illiteracy outside our con
tinental limits. We may be the
richest financially but this does
not mean that other countries suf
fer a paucity of culture.
The time has come for Ameri
cans, collegiate and otherwise to
grow up. We must recognize the
qualities which sister nations have
that we would do well to borrow.
We can no longer survive by shut
ting our eyes to the virtues of all
countries and classes but our
own. Our own propaganda is do
ing us more harm than any of the
opposition's.
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CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE: ,
Impedimenrs,
Arches, Columns
Anthony Wolff
In his opening address to the incoming fresh
men last semester. Chancellor House made some
heartwarming statements to the effect that this
campus is the most beautiful place on God's earth,
physically as well as intellectually. On bolh counts,
this is a bit of Carolina chauvinism which is palpa
bly untrue.
The University, however, seems to take such
statements quite seriously, particularly in respect
to the campus architecture. WUtness the fact that
the University recently stalled the Episcopal
Church's building program by refusing to permit
the erections of a flat-roofed structure on land ad
joining the campus. Cfhe church had hoped to save
s-everal thousand dollars by foregoing the usual
sloping roof.)
The only possible reason that the University
could have for such a restrictive policy is a feel
ing that there is something admirable about the
architecture on this campus. A very brief look
around will convince even the most patriotic that
such is not the case; in the few instances of good,
albeit crumbling, architecture, the surrounding
ftructures are so outlandish as to make the good
seem as out of place as the rest.
Consider, for instance, the adulterated Greek
temple which is the Playmakers Theatre: it Ls de
cently proportioned, perhaps, and it has the added
virtue of representing a style which dates back to
before 450 BC. The fact that it is a mockery of
the grand and meaningful style which it was bad
ly designed to imitate is not important It may
well be, all things considered, one of the best
piec.es of architecture on this campus.
But its neighbors include such grotesque build
ings as Carr Dorm, Bynum Hall and, a ways
away. The Alumni Building. The theatre's un
adorned rear end looks toward South Building,
which is in itself no beauty.
Memorial Hospital has an even more amusing
example. On the side facing Pittsboro Road is
the complete front of a Greek temple, stuck on
the face of a building of dissimilar style. A waste
of money, this, as well as an eyesore.
But these buildings are in the past, though not
quite so far in the past as they belsng. What about
the present? Architecturally speaking, where do
we go from here? The answer is obvious in the
two most notable building projects under way at
present Both the new art museum and the new
dorms are being built in the style which we like
to call Georgian. The gallery already looks like
a tomb, which function it also serves; the latter
will probably be some slight improvement, but
not much.
One may surmise, then, that. the University has
decided upon Georgian as the style in which to
standardize the University's architecture from now
on. Assuming this to be the case, it is interesting
to consider quite carefully the following statement
by John E. Burchard and Albert Bush-Brown, ex
erpted from an article entitled "Where Does
Architecture Go From Here?" in the May Issue
of Harper's Magazine:
.
. . an America that admires thnge, that
loves to build and rebuild . . . shows little sans
of architecture. Even our universities, where art
might be expected most fully to serve culture,
have steadily deferred to the misjudgements of
trustees, alumni, and patrons who have believed
either that new buildings must conform to an
existing collection of nondescript and undistinq
uished "Old Mains" or that collegiate beauty is to
be found only r Georgian or Gothic. No one to
day can design well in those styles; no one can
build them well; the institution could not afford
to build them if good designs were obtainable.
The result is mediocrity."
Granted, this University would do .well to be
gin now to standardize her architecture; but what
is the sense in building for the past, in a style
popular in the early eightenth century which lost
prevalence in the South one hundred years ago?
To e sure, if we build in a contemporary style,
the day will come when that too will be "outmod
ed." This is not a prospect calculated to inspire
investment in building, but it is an inescapable fact,
no matter what the style.
In reply to this, consider the proposition that
architecture beeomes meaningful as a function tf
time, place, and use: the degree to which a struc
ture reflects the culture which it serves is the de
gree to which it is "good," not only in serving that
culture, but also as a work of art for all time.
Thus the Greek temple, the Roman arch, the
Gothic cathedral are good for all time. By the
same token, the best of modern architecture is
good for us now, and will still be good though in
a different sense when it has been replaced many
times over.
The logical choice for a standardized style would
be something more contemporary than Georgian:
this country has come a long way in One hundred
years, and it would be fitting to represent the
ideological as well as the technological develop
ments of that eventful period in its architecture.
The contemporary architecture is most admira
bly suited to the modern university: in its design
it symbolizes the philosophy and the needs of today.
Georgian architecture, on the other hand, is twice
removed from being meaningful, being borrowed
two hundred years ago from the Greeks, and now
being borrowed again. ,
Let us adopt a style of architecture in keeping
with the best traditions of this country, and at
the same time in keeping with the intellectual
tempo and forward thought which this university
claims as its reason for existence. When the psy
sical plant of this university both symbolizes and
parallels the development of the school, then it
will at the same time be a place to house and in
spire further growth.
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