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1 1 v , - ? ft fAGI TWO TH6 DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER II, 1957 Deans Should Closely Air Plan For Holiday Extension tjhc following editorial was writ foi before a decision by tiie Calen dar Committee to rent me classes January 3 instead of January 2. W'e t-rl it ptritits out tlie very factors on ichul) the committee made its deeis 'mti Tttrvday afternoon. Ed.) WV Ixtju- tli.it Ih.ui ol ilu- I ii i 'isit lull .ipproith opin-iniixli'd-l .1 proposal by i Iu siiuUnt U'is-I.jiuu- ih.it i l.ivo Ik- t.ilkd nlf It is. indeed, a serious plan hv student leaders to eseapc- die threat ol daireioiis liihu.iv driving and i oiii)li at ions ol icIiiiii ii.imI to on a la Ion.; nuikicl ly nuineious I1r4l1u.1v liaedies. And it would le a step loi w.ud. lot student ox ei innent at IW'C il Deans of the I'nixeisity would ( oinpi oiuise with the stu dent hodx in this elloit to eliini n.ite the neeessity ol traxel on New Yr.ir's D.ix. I Ik- jn sal now tests iu the hands .i tmnnitlee ol I'uixeis itx Deans. Its futuie-eithei p.iss .i;r oi i ejet t ion-depends on tin .ise whiih student leaders ean' inalsf lot the piopos.d. 'e heliexe sin h a t ase ean lie made. I iist. six h a situation .is now eists at r.(". seldom ccni at the I 'ni et sitx . Our l uesdax. Ihutsdax .uid Satuidax i lass per iods haxe leu nI.inIiicI lioni the noimal -, per semester to . due to the ( !h. tin elloi Installation and (n.i.m (ills which both oceuired on S.itmdax. I 1 1 u. we see th.it .it le.ist one ol the two excused abolitions ol Yitmdax classes was prompted lv a condition that is inlmjuent .it the I'tiixeisitx tlie installation ol ,i i lew ( Ii.uk elloi . It is .i (i-iemonx h i h . we hope. ill not c u c in .r:ain heie in m.inx xe.iis to come. Vcoiicllx. u-adin d.ix this e.n nill I. ill on S.iturd.iv it the pieseni siIk iIuU- is i ontiiiued. mother un- UsU.ll OICUIUIKC- it I NC. 1 ir uic ot its Uiin lollowed , Sun- lis. we will, in elfect. h.ir . . tii.il leading d.ix atnw.ix. And .uiothei f.utor to consider ahont the pi oposed le ading clax as now scheduled is that. In xittue ol its Idling on Salurdax. we ucnilcl hae hall a leading dax anx- ax . situ e c lasses end at i pan. I hits. st udc nts ac I u allx will ha e an unusual dax and a hall lot pi rpat at ion loi I'm. 1 1 cvmis exen il the clitic nt schedule is ellceted. II tlie the s hedtilr is c handed to allow icadiir dax on Iiidax. au- The Daily Tar Heel The official student p iilica "on of the I'Mhlaation P..i :I of the University of North Carolina, where i' ia published jjily except Sunday, Monday antl exaru I n j 1 1 . , ri ami ucatina ptri(i ami sum nuT terms Knfrrecl as second class mat ter in the post office in C'haprl Hill. N. C. under the Act of March 8. 1870. Subscription r.itcs: mailed. $4 per year. $2 ."0 a semester; delivered. $6 a year, V.i 50 a semester. IMitor M.m.i;in Ivl.tor DOUG EISELE ALYS VOORIIEES News Editor Asst. N't us Editor PAUL RULE ANN FRYE Sport Editor BILL KING Asst. Sports Editor DAVE WIBLE t'.tisinesi Manager JOHN WHITAKER Advertisinji Manager FRED KATZIN lahrarian Feature Editor . GLEN DA FOWLER MARY M7 MASON EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield. Nancy Hill. Gary Nichols. Curtis Gans, Al Walker, Harry Kirschner, Gail God win. NEWS STAFF Davis Young, Ann Frye, Dale Whitfield, Mary Moore Mason, Stanford Fisher, Edith MacKinnon, Prinle Pipkin. Mary Leggett Brown ing. Ruth Whitley, Sarah Adams, Mar ion Hays, Parker Maddry. Business Staff WALKER BLANTON, JOHN M INTER, LEWIS RUSH. nary 17. xve still, will haxe more time lor reading than is the case under normal t in umstaiu es. II student leaders are .sincere in their a!olition proposal, and xve heliexe thv arc. then perhaps ar rangements still could Ik made for an extension of the holidays to January even il reading day can not he held Friday. January i7. . I'or if an extension by one day ol the xac.itioti period could con ceixahly saxe students horn the dangers of holiclax traxel. it xvould he a noble act to ,yixe up the first hall ol Saturday. January iS, as a time for reading and devote it to class peiiods lor Tuesday. Thurs day and Saturday classes. W'e heliexe that students who really want to prepare for their liist exams will lincl time to do so, under the aboxe proposal, during the afternoon and niht of Satur day, lanuarx iS. and throughout the- following dax. Sund.iv. In I act, clue to (he calendar ar ranement this year. students would haxe exen more time for study under that proosal than to obserxe reading clay in another xe.11, which normallx would come sometime dining the weels without the henelit of a free clay Sunday. These, then, are the basic argu ments on which students can rest their case for extension ol the holi day period. W'e hope that the Deans will examine our case closely. HENDERSON & BETTS Praise Deserving For N.C. Authors W'e would like to extend our congratulations to two ol Chapel Mill's dis4'uiuishecl c'uiens who xv i-it" honored during North Caro lina's "Culture Week:" Dr. Aichi bald Henderson and Doris Hetts. I'or Dr. Henderson, it was the thiid time that he has leccixecl the Maxllower Cup horn the North C.iiolina I.ileiaiA and I listen ic al Scnietv since 1011. In that xear (xvhen the awaicl was known as the Patteison Cup) he xvon the prie fot his woik. "(ieor;e I'iiii.ikI Shaw: His l.ile and W'01 ks." A'ain. in in.;-, he was presenteil the cup lor "IVeuiatd Shaw: Play boy and Piophct." This latest pre sentation was made at the soeiclx's -,7th nictin'4 in Raleigh last Iii dax lor his uationailx a claimed book " Ceoi';e lic-ru.u d Sha w : Man ol the- C'c-nturx." Histoiian, hio taphei. ciilie and scientist. Dr. Hcndctson has a-ain been honor, eil as. in Albeit I instein's wends, "an exiraoidinary combination ol ai I ist and sc ieiitist." Mis. Doiis Ptetts receixeel the tilth annual Sir Walter Raleigh awaid loi the best xxotk ol lietion 1 1 iit North Carolina cliiiin 1 .", I he award came in recognition of her Iniok, " 1 all Houses in Win ter.' Although she now resides in SanloKl. Mrs. Ietts tesided in Chapel Hill while her husband was attending the I'NC Law ScIicm1 and xviote most ol the novel at that lime. Pusides beinj one of our most talented c reatixe xvriters, Mrs. Itetts has also lound time to Ik a housewife, a newspaper reM)rter and a mother. The Daily Tar Heel takes real pleasiue in extending its oocl xxishesand felicitations to Dr. Men del son and Mrs. IVetts. celebrated citiens of the highest personal en deaxor and achievement. tV'ire Editor PAUL RULE the Subscription, M2r. AVERY THOMAS SPORTS STAFF: Rusty Hammond, Elli ott Cooper, Mac Mahaffy, Carl Keller, Jim Purks. PHOTOGRAPHERS Norman Kantor, Buddy Spoon. Proof Reader GRAHAM SNYDER Ni-ht Editor PECLEY BARROW lions. Brussels, Money Russia is spending Sim million on pavilion at the Pnusscls World's l air. The lT. S. Congress has shaxed our ap)iopi iations to S 1 x."t jr,,ooo. We imagine that, after the fair, congress ill create an investigat ing committee to find out why we made a moi shoxving at Brussels, and the incurred investigating ex penses will probably be in the nub CAROLINA CARROUSEL: NoGhilcfren, No .Christmas For The World GAIL GODWIN' Some one remarked to nic tlte other dav that if there were no children. Christmas would lose most of its meaning. I think that is about the size of it. When one thinks of the Christ mas season, such things run through iris mind as Dicken s Christmas Carol", Santa Clans, jiifts, stockings, chimneys, and snow. Thee are the very tilings that relight a child most. What child has not brightened a household xvitli his txhuberant, "Tiny Tim" radiance as he proclaims in his cherubic voice, ' God bless us all. eery one." or something having the same effect? What youngster does not start carefully penning letters to San ta" in November or sometimes in July? And could we count the endless questions about the xvhys and where-abouts of this xvonder ful. generous, tat man in red? What young face does not burst into ecstasy as the rattle of tissue paper and the bi viking of ribbons :ets into full swing? As the con tents of the extra long stocking that xvould not even fit father rn.Wiidays reveal themselves ;ei wide eyes? As the Yule log sends warm, crackly tjames up the chim ney which will deposit Santa fn the living room a few hours later? What boy or girl ekx-s not wist tully for the sight of that cold white blanket as Ihe curtain is cautiously pulled hack en Christ mas morning? Perhaps if more of us were children at times, Christmas and a lot of other things about life would be more wouderful. There iire too many Scrooges and jiot enough Tiny Tims. There are too many cynics and not euough ap pivciators. I' Tlias if we remembered that tlw reason Christmas ever got started in the first place was be cause a little boy made his bright eyed entrance in the weuld, we might recapture that zest and zeal we had as children. There were three men who were quite brilliant and scholarly and wise who made their entrance on the strategic scene of the first Christmas those many years ago. Hut they forget their formulas and theories and calculations as they started in childlike awe at the Christmas gift which had just been presented to them and to humanity. Dangerous Gap in Our System km I? :' ' (llerblock Is on Vacation) Copyrlxbt. 1957 Pulitzer PublUhlBf O. St . -t uispaicb Education 11: Question Of Control; The Answer: Socialized Education By Cl'imS GANS Last week the U. S. tried and failed to put a satellite in orbit. The failure was almost total. The Russian delegation to the U. N'. the next day offered the U. S. aid under its program of technical assistance to backward nations. This is diplomacy with tongue in cheek, but it points up a great need in tlie U. S the need for more funds to educate Americans so that they will not be behind, any other. Much has been written in the past weeks about the need for im provement in the field of edu cation. The need is in terms of an upgrading of standards, encourage merit of individual initiative .and money to encourage both teachers and pupils in the form of salar ies and facilities. In a democracy, there is a responsibility on the government's shoulders to provide for equal educational facilities for all chil dren regardless of location on the map. This need is not being met. There is also a responsibility for the government to provide for equally qualified teachers so that students can get equal educational opportunities. This need is also not being met. It is not being met because the wealth of each of the states in the United States is unequal. Hence, a teacher in North Carolina may start a salary of $2,000, while a teacher in California may start with a salary of $o.(K)0. ,The stu dent ecming from North Carolina schools, because he gets a some what inferior brand of education, may not do as well as the student from California, and consequently some of the brain power of the V. S. nees down the drain. Secondly, if the central govern ment gives 'aid to the state that is financially behind, the government is being unfair to the taxpayer from California, who deserves equal aid renumeration for his in vestment. Hence, as long as the school systems are under state control, there will continue to exist an inequality in the taxation by states, in the payment of teac hers, in the educational facilities, and in the value of aid received from tax expenditure. A solution to this dilemma is ap parent, although it indeed should cause some outcry. The solution is to put the entire school system of the U. S. under the control of the central govern ment. Tlie tax money used for states schools should be incorp orated into the U. S. tax structure, and in order that schools may be improved over their present level without saerifking the gains that some states have achieved, there should be increased taxation. For it must be noted, that to have the superiority that America wants. Americans must pay for it, and not sit behind their television sets and peacefully contemplate a tax reduction. To this comes the cry: THAT'S SOCIALISM! So. it is. but it is perhaps the only way that stu dents in all parts of the nation can receive equal educational op portunity .It is perhaps the only way to realize uniform standards of achievement. It is perhaps the only sure way of seeing that enough money is going to all the' schools in the U. S. There is a danger inherent in this. The danger is that the party in power may dictate xvhat is to be taught, in order to insure its being kept in power. There is a way to over come this. This is to put the central control of education in the hands of a bi partisan or non-partisan group of educators. The group should not be chosen politically, but should be chosen from the group of educators themselves. There should not be more repre sentatives from any one party than there is of another party .They would be responsible for allotment of funds, recommendations for taxation, setting up of standards, and the insuring of equal facilities and equal quality of teaching for all. What is proposed is constitution al revision, to take the central control of schools out of the hands of the states and put it in the hands of the central government. To make American democracy a true, efficient democracy, this is necessary. L'lL ABNER by Al Capp LUG Tt 1KSE. DRLSSES OsLR T TH" DOGPATCH-HILTON. AN , MODEL T.M, AN' AH'LL GIVE DAMAGED RIBBOMS, FR&C IX-1 1 I ikA-n -R- rPtlT TH' ROD ' " ' ) .ltl VIA IITTCOVl V CREEP.. - IT S & rnri v Ti I ' MODEL" a V)- - v. Y VHV, VOL)' VE GOT A ( SURROUND THE ) 1 GORGEOUS &UILX ) PLACE -AN& HONEV.'-SAME ( SHOOT TO JTjf Y MEASUREMENTS AS ) HLL ff JK POGO by Walt Kelly I 3Vg$$ PO$0'$ 8'3T I'll &OQ&2 AN' WAVE CWl A 0lTg WITH HtAA t 12-U tt LAf IN A ANVVVAV WHAT WITH CCWSIN'. hi HIM IN APUgU I'PNgVS?, fortune Ll.Ct C UW OClM' ,Ki scir cs skjdi aw" iff Mr f1l VirV ,rP T J I 14 ICOICHnCUlV I iriMKi'riue 'STATE. QF. CARPUS' Evan's Text (Below is tK second and final of a two part series on the text of Student Body, President Sonny Evans' 'State of, the Campus' address to the tegis- ' lature last week. It begins with a , discussion on ' Graham Memorial, the student union.) (2) Howard Henry, of the University of Wis consin, is the top available man in the country whom we have sought for the past three years and con sider to be eminently qualified. Thanks to Chan cellor Aycock's understanding of the status ques tion, which was the big stumbling block removed this summer. Mr. Henry has been hired and will arrive on the campus on July 1, 1958. Unlike many campuses, where Student Government and the Stu dent Union compete against each other, we have the potentiality and the background for the out standing organizational setup in. the country since the Union has always been the programming arm of Student Government and since the two at this campus have grown up together. The .Building Com mittee of the Graham Memorial Board of Directors . '"headed by Joel Fleishman, stands ready to move ahead with the preliminary planning for the new building. (1) Regardless of all that has been said over the past few weeks and last year, Jim Tatum is a dedicated man, who loves this University more than anyone irpagines. If there is any- decay or prefer ential treatment of athletes academically and I dea'-i believe there is, the fault lies with the ad- -ministration who sanctions it rather than with the football coach who might desire it. However, if you believe that a student is a student first and what ever else he is second, then the segregation of foot ball players is wrftn-g. It violates the principles of student freedom of choice which almost every other student on this campus enjoys. Football players must be integrated into" the university community, and they cannot be as long as they live together and eat together not by conscious choice but by requirement. (2) When I mentioned that "almost all" students enjoyed freedom of choice, I was making reference to the problem of "segregated integration" which takes place in Steele Dormitory with the Negro students. To those of you who don't have the back ground, these students now room in Steele. These students are here because of court order, and Stu dnt Government" by' its silence' sanctions this v principle of a second class student citizenry. What will happen if a Negro football player is ever ac cepted at this university? Which segregation will take precedence? Will he go to Cobb or to Steele? I think you can see the ridiculous situation in which w find ourselves. IV. THE HONOR SYSTEM: (1) On Friday, we go before the Faculty Coun cil to present a proposal for placing the granting of excuses for illnesses as a matter of honor between the instructor ancl.tbe student during' the lu tisis. It seems a parwlx to.trxw a student in onljh.a, portion of his campus life, and w are,-hopeful Xor success. This of course would mean that only students who were truly sick would go to the Infirmary for treatment, and that the bur den of granting excuses would be removed from the present areas except in cases of an individual professor requiring it (2) The Attorney General's staff has labored long and hard as has the Honor System Commission to draw up for the Legislature's approval a far reaching and all-encompassing plan for the improve ment of the structure of the Councils in an effort to bring these Councils closer to the students. The Judiciary must fashion itself to meet the rising student population, and all students must be guaranteed the rights which will be assured in this plan. It will be presented to you in the com ing weeks. V. SELECTION OF EDITOR OF DAILY TAR HEEL: The committee set up by the Legislature weeks before the recall ejection is Rard at work to fashion a full report for this body in February. It is my hope that some son of change be made to forever insure to the student body competent and responsi ble editorship of our oustanding daily newspaper. VI. FRATERNITY-SORORITY SYSTEM: The IFC under the leadership of Bill Redding is leading an active year and should be congratu lated. However, problems such as the drinking rule which undermines the entire Honor System and everything for which it stands, the discriminatory clause which is a great issue in colleges today but . has not' even been considered on this campus, the presence of book reports and themes as opposed to quizzes in fraternity files (the sororities burned theirs. years ago), have gone unnoticed by responsi ble students for too long a time. VII. THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM: My thanks go out to Ralph Cummings and the Traffic Advisory Commission who have drawn up a full report to be presented to this body very soon for the administration of the new Bell Tower Park ing Lot. Chancellor ycock has stated that th providing of spaces for student carss not a prob lem which should be Solved by the use of student money and has made 'it possible to reduce the fee on student cars. The decision on what to do with the current accumulated $8,000 (eight thousand dol lars) is under consideration now and will come be fore the Legislature vry soon. There is s0 much to "do and so little time to do it in every area that we can mention. The only way that anything can be accomplished is by close co-' operation among all of us in achieving the goals that we set for ourservts. The Administration is watching closely to determine whether or not all that has been said about the greatness of the Car olina Student Government is true. It is with great courage of conviction that I have spoken to you tonFght on the way the only way in which I think we can justify our existence. Student Government is more than a training, ground for future life when it seeks to instill in its citizenry a social conscience and truly con tribute to the University community.
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