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WEDNESDAY, MAT 15, 1937
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Momism, Segregation And
The Neglected Students
"Ail government, indeed, every human benefit and enjoy
ment, ex'ciy virtue and every human act, is founded on compro
mise and barter." liilmund Burke.
It seems apparent that the Division of Student Affairs is dead-set
upon initiating its pampering "supervised counseling" program in Cobb
Dormitory next semester.
Thus we reiterate:
This monistic coddling and sup-
eiision is not commensurate with
the I'niversitv's liberal tradition
a tradition which puts the stu
dent on his own and makes for in
dependent and self-reliant citizen
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We don't like the trend.
F.en more alarming is the di
ision's statement:
"It is anticipated that regular
Interdormitory Council rules will
apply until Cobb residents deter
mine their own."
The primary function of the
Men s Interdoi mitory Council, as
stipulated in the Student Constitu
tion, is:
" ... to make rules affecting
conduct of men in dormitories."
Student self-government will be
reduced to a state of anarchy if
each iricli idual dormitory is al
lowed to make its own rules, re
U.ud!e.s of central IDC regulations.
Such a disunified organizational
m heme is reminisc ient of the shift
ing and uncertain United States
government under t lie Articles of
Confcdeiation. -
Diiector of Student Activities
Sam Magill has said that the ad
ministration promulgated the plan
cine to chaotic- conditions in Men's
donnitories which were not con
ducive to sturfv. Magill said furth
er that students had been explain
ing their poor-scholastic averages
to parents by saying they just
wouldn't study in noisy dormi
tories. We believe this is. of course, ra
tion diat ion. But if there is gen
ei.il dissatisfaction wfth dormitory
disiipiinary conditions, the Inter
doiminMv Council should be in
bunted; and it should reallign and
strengthen its organization.
I he administration shouldn't
just step in and trend on student
autonoinv. The least it could do is
to allow dormitory residents,
through the IDC, opportunity to
cxpiess their opinion on the Uni
veritv's new supervised counseling
ptopiisal.
The Division of Student Affairs
is also implementing its plan lor
segregated housing in the fall. Con
traiv to all non-discriminatory tra
ditions, the entire football team
will be housed in Cobb Dormitory.
As we have said before, it is in
linitelv beneficial that all students
be allowed freedom of association
whether they be athletes or fresh
men or seniors. Vet the administra
tion persists in establishing this
new preferential and discrimina
torv cjuarteiing system.
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 periods and summer terms.
Entered as second class matter in the
pobt office in Chapel Hill. N. C, under
the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription
rates: mailed. $4 per year, $2.50 a semes
ter: delivered $6 a year. $3.50 a semester.
It has been intinfated that Uni
versity officials don't especially
care for this segregated housing
pattern, but fear that a member
of the University's coach staff will
appeal over their heads to influ
ential alumni if they don't allow
his athletes preferential and segre
gated housing.
We like a willing team as well
as the next guy. Pressure from the
general public demands that col
lege athletics be elevated to a pro
fessional status.
But when a coach begins re
vamping University traditions and
coercing the administration into
establishment of discriminatory
housing, then the tail is assuredly
wagging the dor in our higher
educational organization.
In short, we clout like the ad
ministration's new brand of mom
ism and segregation. But we recog
nize, like Edmund Burke, that
government is founded on com
promise. Thus we will compromise if
dormitory residents favor the Uni
versity's new coddling and discrim
inatory trends.
But dormitory residents should
be allowed to express their senti
ments before such a far-reaching
dual proposal is instituted.
The Daily Tar Heel makes these
suggestions to the "Division of Stu
dent Affairs:
(1) That dormitory residents be
allowed to express their feelings
on the dual "superv ised study" and
segregated housing proposals
through their -vocal vehicle the
Interdormitorv Council.
(2) That especially fine tradi
tions such as non-preferential
housing not be compromised to
please one megalomaniac individ
ual. .
Until students are allowed op
portunity to express their senti
mentson the new absurd propos
als, we suggest that they take ad
vantage of this provision in the
statement released yesterday by the
Division of Student Affairs? .
"No student must live in the
dormitory if he doesn't wish to par
ticipate in the program."
There has been a serious reversal
in University x)licy.
It is especially despicable that
administration officials 'would
even consider implementing such
a far-reaching new sytem without
consulting the student body proper.
Momism and. segregated housing
are far from commensurate with
the liberal traditions for which this
University has ostensibly stood for
so many years.
Ck)bb Dormitory should stand
as vacant and quiet as an empty
mausoleum until the administra
tion takes its new fantastic propos
al to the students.
Editor .7-... NEIL BASS
Manajing Editor BOB HIGH
Associate Editor NANCY HILL
Sports Editor BILL KING
New Editor WALT SC1IRUNTEK
BuMn.'.s Manager JOHN C. Will TAKER
Advertising Manager .... FRED KATZIN
NEWS STAFF Graham Snyder, Edith
MacKinnon, Ben Taylor, Patsy Miller,
Sue Atchison, Manley Springs.
EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield, Anthony
WoLTf, Stan Shaw.
BUSINESS STAFF John Minter, Mari
an Hobeck, Jane Patten, Bucky Shu-ford.
SI'ORTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stu Bird,
Ed Rowland, Jim Crownover, Ron
MilLgaa.
Subscription .Manager Dale Staley
Circulation manager . Charlie Holt
btalf Photographers
Norman Kantor, Bill King
Woody Sears,
Librarians ...Sue Gichner, Marilyn Strum
Night News Editor
Night Editor
. Bob. High
Woody Sears all.
Laurels S-or
Achievement
Are we to be so concerned with
what cynics call the 'Silent Genera
tion?" Five outstanding coeds were
tapped into the highest women's
honorary on campus yesterday,
former student body Preident
Hob Young and Yackety Yack
photographer Truman Moore were
recognized for excellence in stu
dent government anM publications
respectively. Miss Dot Pressly was
awarded the Jane .Craigc Gray
Memorial Award for "ideals ex
emplified." '6Vj -students have been
taken into the Order, of The Old
Well for "service and accomplish
ment" on a point basis. The
School of Pharmacy has made 1 1
awards for academic excellence.
Ninety students have been induct
ed into Phi Beta Kappa. Delta
Kappa Epsilon Fraternity has re
ceived the R. I. House Trophy as
the outstanding fraternity on camp
us. What better tribute to an enter
prising generation of students.
The Daily Tar Heel extends
heartiest congratulations to them.
WISE AND OTHERWISE;
Semesters And
Weekends To
JCeep Us Pure
Whit 'Whitfield
Since the fall of 1953 and the
return of the semester system
the subject has become a peren
nial gripe among students.
Some people are not aware of
the real reasons for the change
According to
o The Daily Tar
: Heel of that
the two
Don't Worry. I Don't Think There's Anything in There
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GUEST EDITORIALS:
. . fall.
f main reasons
for the change
were:
The students
were not de-
v riving the full
benefits of
their education under the old
quarter system, and the facili
ties of the university were not
being used to the best advantage
on the five day system.
Now these are very plausible
reasons for the change.
Because the latter reason is
more nebulous, we shall consid
er it first. The facilities of the
university, broadly interpreted,
include the classroom buildings,
laboratory equipment, and spec
ialized equipment. It would seem
that under the quarter system the
facilities would be used by more
student more' often than under
the semester system even with
Saturdays excluded.
The former reason, however,
has many favorable ramifica
tions which are more easily, un
derstood. What is meant by "full
benefits" would be something
like this:
Under the semester system
a student acts in this capacity
six days per week instead of
five on the quarter system. Sat
urday classes prmvent many
people from leaving campus on
the weekends that otherwise
would. This, in effect, makes
a prison of sorts, especially
for those who live so far away
that a thirty-six hour trip is
not feasible.
At the same time it is a boon
to the campus stores and Lenoir
Hall, not to mention the down
town merchants. Besides the ex
tra day in which restaurants and
cafeterias make money, the
clothing stores get sales that
would otherwise go to hometown
merchants.
That this is more expensive to
the students is not as important
as the advantage in being here
as full-time students, or so it
seems to the trustees. Also, let
us not forget the money spent
by the parents and friends of stu
dents who pad the pockets of
the university and the downtown
merchants.
' Not the least important rea
son for the change was that
parents could be reasonably as
sured that their "children" are
not cavorting around the state
on weekends, but safe in Chapel
Hill away from trouble.
This is very important to us
as students whether we re
alize it or not. It keeps us from
the sins of the world, and
keeps us pure for our parents
when we return home. Now
this is an excellent gesture on
the part of the Trustees. Let
us- live up" tec their expectations.
-TJ JJ
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SALISBURY COLLEGE PIONEER:
The Current College Generation:
Is It Abreast Of World's Tide?
' While Catawba students are
engrossed in SGA elections, May
Day plans, and baseball games,
a committee is meeting in Lon
don to discuss the solution to
problems which ynay well affecx.
the fate of the world. ,
Representatives' from the Unit
ed States, the Soviet Union. Brit
ain, France, and Canada have
joined together to form the
United Nations Disarmament
Subcommittee. Their aim: to re
duce the nuclear arms (both
atomic and hydrogen weapons)
race and ultimately to turn nu
clear science only into peaceful
fields.
' United States representatives
on April 2 brought up the idea
that the use of nuclear materials
for military purposes be halted,
beginning April 1, 1958, and that
this measure be enforced by in
ternational inspection. According
to this suggestion, negotiations
would begin September 1, of this
year in order to reach interna
tional agreement on this plan.
On the same day that this rec
ommendation was presented, 18
of the leading nuclear scientists
of West Germany, including four
Nobel Prize winners issued a
statement deploring the develop
ment of nuclear weapons and ad
vocating an immediate halt to
military use of atomic and hyrdo
gen energy. In the words of
these men, "Today, the popula
tion of the Fedeal Republic
(Germany) could be wiped out
by, spreading radioactivity
through hydrogen bombs. We do
not know any technical means of
safeguarding large masses - of
people against that danger."
To these 18 men, nuclear weap
ons presented a threat to the
welfare of humanity. This idea
was immediately picked up by
the Soviet Union, who cheered
the statement happily, emphasiz
ing the harmful effects of radia
tion and radioactive all-out from
the U. S. tests of Christmas Is
land and from the proposed
British hydrogen weapons test in
July. Conversely, no mention was
made of the' unusually high ra
dioactivity reported in Japanese
rain as result of recent Russian
tests.
Germany, on the other hand,
listened to the words of the
scientists in near horror because'
of the implications that such a
suggestion would have-on the
nation's political life. Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer spoke the
following day, stating that dis
armament is a political matter
and not one to be determined by
scientists, even though skilled
in their own fields. The complete
retreat of Germany from develop
ing atomic weapons would place
the' country as an easy prey in
the path of the Soviet Union. "In
other words," as Chancellor Ade
nauer stated, "that would mean
the dissolution of the whole de
fense wall of the Western world
against Russia."
These problems, reflecting
conflicting ideas and points of
view, cannot be solved easily,
even by national representa
tives appointed by the United
Nations. Men responsible for
reaching such important de
cisions must be completely in
formed on world-wide matters,
must keep their minds open to
opposing points of view, and
must be able to iudge for them
selves the values of the con
flicting ideas.
We, too, must do our part by
being aware of international
problems and their effects od
us and on others. Thousands of
miles may separate us from a
conference table, but they can
not separate us from the con
sequences of the decisions made
around that table.
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THE MICHIGAN DAILY:
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Censorship, particularly of newspapers, books
and motion, pictureiv has become a very controver
sial subject in recent - months.-
A wide variety v of organizations and "decency
committees" has lately arisen to do battle against
whatever they choose to 'define' as "indecent or
"obBcene."
State legislatures and local law enforcement
agencies, often: under pressure from thest; self
appointed: guardians of the public welfare, have
passed - obscenity- laws, banned books and closed
burlesque houses for the public welfare. Many
of these' laws and bans of one sort or another have
been, declared: unconstitutional or unlawful, but
this doesn't seenrto have-dampened the current en
thusiasm for censorship.
Censorship properly directed and adminis
tered, is iwefu! and-often necessary. When, how
ever, a. group-of. self-righteous purists set them
selves up to dictate? public morality, to impose
their own-moral codes, their cwn definitions of
"indacency' their own tastes in literature-and en
tertainment on the- entire populace they violate
the rights- of all- of' us to- choose- for ourselves
what we shall read or see
Censorship- aimed, for example, at protecting
children from exposure to indecency is justifield
children are not capable of properly choosing for
themselves or-distinguishing products of srt' author's
imagination from reality. Too many censorship
groups, however seem to regard the average Ameri
can adult as an intellectual child who also must
be protected from his own indiscretion r ox lack of
discrimination.
Again, cenirorship of publications which thrive
on gossip, tearing 'down . reputations and libeling
individuals cannot be argued against. Such publica
tions themselves infringe n the rights and the pri
vacy of others and deserve to be condemned. Scan
dal 'magazines the ' most notorious of them "Con
fidential" fall into this cacegory.
But when self-appointed "protectors of. the pub
lic morality" take upon themselves authority to
"protect" the public from even such contemporary
greats as Hemingway, Huxley, Steinbeck, Buck',
O'Hara and Orwell, they infringe on the personal
freedom of all of us.
Even such extreme censorship would be ac
ceptable were it limited to merely screening and
recommendation. There is little room for object
ion to someone simply suggesting that a certain
book or movie would bo better not read or seen,
or alerting us to the moral evils in our environ
ment. But " too many of our censors refuse to stop
there. They erdeavor to force us to conform by
forcing out of our reach all they.consder unfit for
our consumption threatening and organizing
boycotts against theatres, publishers and dealers-
all without proper justification.
Censorship in its place is a fine thing; censor
ship, mistaken and misdirected, is as dangerous
as that which it seeks to protect us against.
THE N. C. STATE TECHNICIAN:
The Student Government voted unanimously
against a resolution last week which had previously
been accepted by the Faculty Senate.
The resolution which the legislative body voted
against wras the proposed new cut system. Under
the new cut system, which the Faculty Senate pass
ed about a month ago, a student would be 'required
to get an excuse from a class from the, professor
who.s class he wished to cut. That is, no longer
would there be a central office from which excuses
would be obtained. The cut system would be a di
rect student-professor relationship.
The theory of the new cut system, quite basical
ly, is that the individual professors know best
whether a student can afford to cut a class. Another
factor may have been that State is getting too big
for one person to have to grant excuses for the en
tire student body.
The Student Government has taken a stand
v fust opposite to that of tho Faculty Senate. This,
wo believe, shows tho healthy atmosphere which
prevails here at State. When the students dislike
and disagree with tho Faculty and ca stand" up
as 0 body and say that they disagree, without fear
of reprisal, there exists a situation "pregnant with
possibilities of progress."
As for the action the Student Government took
on the measure, we are in agreement with it. A
student-professor relationship is not the best solu
tion to the problem it is merely one solution.
There are other solution which are worth fur
ther consideration. The student could be -required
to get an excuse from his advisor. This might kill
two birds with one stone the student would have
a chance to see his advisor more than fce now does
and maybe more than about half the students
would know who their advisor is that way . . .
Another solution, which is better yet, is to hive
each school grant excuses. This could be handled
through the dean's office of each school. This would
spread the work of writing excuses which a singl e
person must find extremely boring and laborious
over several people, none of whom would be
over-burdened by the duty.
Certainly the problem needs further study.
The system proposed by the Faculty Senate over
looks one further point. Tho student-prof tssor re
lationship could become all too personal . . . with
tht ftydent en the losing end,