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1 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY . T9SI THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TV0 New Cut Regulations Place Responsibility On Students 1 lie I'niM isitN Faculty Count il is to ho e Mnineiicil lot its l.ir si'htnl action in abolishing the tut sswin Ftid.iv. At ilu' s.niK-time-. Iiowcwi. warning is in oiclcr lor stmlcnts who mi;!it loict th.it h'.nnin'4 lupins in tin- t l.issiootn. I 'inle t the Con in ils ac lion, c las attend. nice- now is a matter between the student and the instructor. In sonic1 cases sliin:4;tit ucuiicnK-nts will continue to exist: in others. iiiNtiiHlois will In- inoic- Ifii ici 1 1 in i lass atu nd.uic c- ic ulatioiis. The clastic ity ol tlu- new plan, while- tec oniiui; .students as mat-mi- i 1 1 1 i T 1 n.i Is who should not be ((jhciI to leaiu. could result in the r.ux c lous niinalion ol those who I. lil to discipline theuisehes in ( lass uttc ndaiii e l or that reason a new tesponoibilitx has been thrust upon the student. In oidei that students ean realize the education lor which they are piiii4. it becomes paramount that they not exploit the new ssteiu to such an extent that the classroom becomes only a place lor tests and examinations. It must continue to exist as the backbone ol the I'ni MisitN through its piesentation ol nuuii.il necessary to .in' ecluc at ion. At the same time, however, a plea is in order to instructors to put into action the elasticity which the new system presides. Particul arly as concerns the honor student should they apply the new system, expanding leniency as concerns class attendance-. In approaching regulations in structors should take into consider ation the character of a Cniyersijy education, paid clearly lor by stu dents whose privilege it is to capi talize on their investment or to let it escape unused. That privilege demands a system free of stringent regulations. Student Hody President Sonny l.xans stated it clearly and wisely when he said: "Students ought to be treated as mature incliiduals, and not as 'children in whom you ran inject knowledge by simply sitting him in a classfooin by regulations." Too, the University should be treated as a mature institution where education is ultimately test eel in the classroom t lie very place where it begins, jxisses through adolescence and finally matures for the student who is consistently present. Car Ownership Regulations Should Soon Get The 'Axe' A bill picscntcd to the Legisla ting b Ralph Cuinmings (SP) I huisd.i night points out that ibeie is an obligation to icstoie tin- piivilege ol poscssiug an au lumohile t heslunen and sopho i i w i tin wit a ( '.' a ei age1. ' Indeed, then- is. Il not a moral ,in tin u- .il U im seems to exist a li--.il obli iiiou to erase- the out light dis l nnin.utoii against tiist uid sn. wid nc.u students at the V nicsi win", lucause- ol llu-'u m.un .uu il.iw. (.mil"! haw- c.on a I I (v The c in lent ic-gul.it ions base nwneiship ol ehicles at the I'ni etsit on grades and cai. Com bined, these- detet mine w ho can and win i anno! uc state piopei 1 in the same mannei as is enjoed , iluii lellows ol highei maiks and luithet education. Sin h i cgiilat ions, we lee I. ate in n.lation ol state law . I le who pays liis automobile tax and contiibtites to tlu upkeep ol the highway sstetu tlnougli luithei taxes on The Daily Tar Heel The official slujt-nt p-ibncar.un 'A the Publication Boatd of the University ol North Carolina, where U Is published Jaily except Sunday. Monday and exam Nation and vacation period? and sum mer terms. Entered as second class mat ter in the post office in Chapel klill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1870 Subscription rates: mailed. $4 per year. $2 50 a semester; delivered. $6 a year. 50 a semester. gasoline, should not be discrimin ated against in the use of an au tomobile anywheie in North Caro lina. We hae eliminated racial dis crimination. All students at the I'nixeisitv ate virtually eeju.il in the- many phases ol campus lite. Let us now extend this equality by erasing this most base ol the con tinuing disc l iniin.it ions at I NC Godwin's Choice v Is Good For UNC Student Covernment has assured itself a highly successful orientation jMogiam in selecting Heiman Cod win, junior from Dunn, to head the Otientation Committee for h)"," ! Coelwin, a Mote-head Scholar with a fine moid of extiae unirular ).u tie iation in his tlnee eats at the l 'Dive rsity, combines the un bounded cne-igv and line character needed lor the job. We wish him the best ol luck in e at t ying out the jHograiu for the new year. That program w ill surely rfllect the ability ol the man who is to head it. GUEST EDITORIAL Foreign Language LETTER TO EDITOR Old Cut System Said Incentive To UNC Scandal Why in the name of hell doesn't the University of North Carolina prow up? Oh. the great scandal, isn't , it just awful that a vstudent would actually purchase a false excuse and present it to his in structor for his fourth absence to prevent failing the course? How ever, I rather think that the stu dent was simply a 'very, determin ed person elefermined to cut a class that wasn't worth attending. Has it ever occurred to the University that its attendance regulations are simply childish. There comes a time when a person must learn to handle his own af fairs without being told what to do by some big brother over his shoulder. He must learn to think for himself and to take care of himself. By the time a person reaches the college level he should h;ive learned this. If he hasn t it is the colleges job to teach him "to go it alone." The point is that a student shouldn't have to be told to go to classes a certain amount of times or that he cannot have but so many cuts. If he's a bright boy he'll never make that mistake again, but f he's so stupid that he doesn't know any better le him fail .again and again until he drops out of college. There is no sense in wasting time with him. Every student will agree that it is a waste of time to at tenet some classes. The usual explanation for this is that the instructor is a "drone." and though he may be trying to get the material across, he is only succeeding in putting the class to sleep. I'd rather stay in bed and sleep and read the hook when qui time rolls around, because his quiz will cemo straight from the book. The University, with its high schoolish regulations, has brought this so-called fraudulent excuse "scandal" down on their own necks. I'm sine that there would be no more "scandals" of this typ" if th University w o u 1 l cjiange the. attendance regulations so that all students could have unlimited cuts. There would be several advantages in having an unlimited cut system. They are: 1. It would make t lie student think and act on his own initia tive. 2. It would do away with roll calling, thus saving a lot of valu able time. 3. It would prevent future frau dulcnt excuse "scandals."' 4. It would force the instructor to prepare and present better lec tures, that is. il he wants a good class attendance. Something has to be done or we may have- more "scandals." Hea ven forbid! Dave Hratten 117 Alexander Editor's Note: Tlie netr cut system announced by lite Faculty Council Saturday should erase Mr. liratten'a discontent for the cut system described above.) "How Mirny Arc Now Uh Temporarily Inactive In The Uli Economic Readjustment?55 ( Editor LOUG EI SELF. 5f Associate Editor . FRANK CItOWTIIER Managing Ed. tor ALYS VOORHEES Proof Reader TEBLEY BARROW Sight Editor PEBLEY BARROW Librarian GLEXDA FOWLER .subscription Mgr. AVERY THOMAS SPOUTS STAFF: Rusty Hammond, Elli ott Cooper, Mac Mahaffy, Jim Purks, .Jim Harper. EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield, Curtis Cans, Jonathan Yardley, Barry Win stjn, (Jail Godwin. NEWS STAFF Davis Young. Ann Frye. Stanford Fisher, Edith MacKinnon, Pringle Pipkin, Mary Leggctt Brown ing. Ruth Whitley, Sarah Adams. Mar ion Hays, Parker Maddry, Charlie Sloan, Ed Rowland. - i O 1.1 1 I ',(l Wllnr JUAM BKUtn l nim.m.lYf ,hc Uniu-d States- Feature Editor MARY M. MASON F.dmatioii Olliee- is planning to Marion 1. I'olsom, Secretary of He alth. I ciue ation anel Wc llavc, li.is made- public a icpoit lexe-alin . the elistui hin lac t that the I'micel States is prob.ihly weaker in for eign lani;ii.e study than any other k lai'v,e nation. Only some 15 per cent ol 0111 hij;h school and college stu- j dents study any lotein lanuae, J and c! the- twenty-lour major ton ( utics. each spoken by more than (i,iMio,(KMi people, only Spanish and I tench aie studied to any extent in our schools and colleges. I.an Hiiaes such as Chinese, Arabic-, Hindi and Indonesian are rarely taught at all. l'ai tic ulai ly sinili e .int is the lac t thai while approxi- I mate-ly 10.000,000 Russians are busy studying l-.nlish, only some I N.000 Americans are studvin'' Kus- r Business Manager JOHN WHITAKER Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN Sports Editor BILL KING Asst. Sports Editor DAVE WIBLE News Editor PAUL RULE Asst. News Editor ANN FRYE PHOTOGRAPHERS Norman Kantor, Buddy Spoon. Proof Reader V GRAHAM SNYDER . ; Mippoit l'oreijn-lanj;uae institutes lor teachers and provide train ing (enters to teach the lanuaes now seldom taught here- However, unless the American jx'ople gener ally, and our students in particu lar, awaken to the danger inherent in our linguistic ignorance, cl Torts to improve the situation will Tall Tar shot of success. In a world grow ing ever smaller it is dear that inability to communicate With - other people is a major weakness. JjfcJ Mm - fEKS Use Of Alcohol Up To Individual To the Editor: I couldn't help but see that Rev. Robert M. Hardee, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Trout man. N. C. is a little distorted in his thinking. It appears to me that he is misinformed or very narrow minded in regards to liquor or oth er alcoholic beverages. Rev. Hardee states that the North Carolina liquor stores were brought into existence because people became mightily inttM-ested in the revenue tliai it would bring this state. How about the "moon shiners" sir? Is the state of N. C. receiving much revenue from them? It appears to me that if NT. C. were an entirely vet state, then the boot-legger would lose out a lot and also more revenue would be coming into the state which could be used for many pood purposes. I Imagine that much money Is spent in combntmg the illegal whiskey trade. Alcohol produces alcoholics, but aren't there many reasons why a person turns to alcohol as an ex cape from his problems? It ap pears to me that only the weak willed people suffer from the evils of alcohol. A strong person can drink in moderation and never be come the victim of alcoholism. People do drink for a purpose. The weak people drink as a means to excape from reality or their prob lems; the strong people drink to relax some of their tensions "from a hard days' work. It is more for their physical needs rather than for their mental needs. Strong people also drink for social rea sons, and this to me seems okay as long as they do it in modera tion. Being a preacher I am sure that you are aware of the fact that Christ turned the water into wine at the wedding feast. If Christ were a total abstainer from alcohol, would he have changed the water into something else? Perhaps milk or ice cream would have been enjoyed back in those days like they are today. The ma jority of the people who drink alcoholic beverages also drink milk and eat ice cream. And soft drinks are not the enemy of liquor. In fact, soft drinks are its friend they make excellent chas ers. Mr. Hardee, if you would spend as much time telling people about the love of Jesus as you do telling them about the evils of alcohol, you would certainly help those poor unfortunates who are not strong enough to help themselves. Why not accent the positive from now on and eliminate the nega tive? Rev. Hardee, moderation is the answer to healthful living for body mind and soul. You can overdo anything, even reading of your Bible. When a person overdoes anything he becomes a fanatic and no one likes a fanatic. Christ was not a fanatic he was the most normal person that ever liv ed. He is perfection personified. And we all should look into Him, the author and finisher of our faith. I may be my brother's keeper, but I can't be responsible CO Z for his actions of weakness. He alone is responsible for himself. If I worried what "everyone would say about me if I did this or that, then I wouldn't be able to live my own life." Everyone has a free will and they can do what they please. .'o one has a right to put a halter on one's free will. It is the most precious of my freedoms. Our frce will is a gift from God. and it's up to us how we use it. We can use it for good or for evil. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. James J. Metropol Well, I Declare The Air Force has a new gun that can shoot 7,000 bullets per minute. Which is just what most most of . us need when we're out hunting. The folks now in Florida must feel about as numb now after all the cold weather as the Duke folks in Florida felt late on the afternoon of last January 1. Three track stars in Californii have been declared ineligible be cause of scholastic difficulties. Which, somehow, reminds of the old saying about people thinking with their feet. A Cleveland man went around the world on commercial airliner in 89 hours, a record, but admit he didn't see much of where he went. Which means he could have gotten about as much good out of sitting in a closed room at home for 89 hours. The Raleigh Times , N 3 u CO e . n U JQ DC LU z a VBLANKETYW VO'J'RE TWENTY YEARS aW V . . ( AH MEEDS ) AH DO HAVE. rFAM rvYrTianjA 1 W , A JOB, I ONE OPEN - BUT a5a5 ( WHA )( VO'QOITS WHEN VO' V WW VfflaMp 'Z&j )eijf . " K'' 1 ' l a. a. U O O o a. UST THIS AAN TO VZCVt A QUt6TOH WHAT 1$ Obi f-WENP-'POG5 OR filCfP MSZBj ami PC66 15 "But HOanryv 16 pcniO PCG5 OM TH &V0JgC BT. ! vote. 2-10 I PguT THATV peer mmo, frzzpr TWgy AIN'T ALWAVS 5P0AWK:TOgACH OTHp. A Ai,U ZmtA OU TAXTg A fiCS BUttPOS ANO.eST NOT ?SlMf. da: 3 4 A Play: What Really Do Commies Believe? By BARRY WINSTON (As the curtain rises, we see a solitary fin-e seated at a d,.esk. His brow is jumnced in concen tration as he reads a book spread before him. Th only other, furniture in the room consists 0 'another desk and chair, and tuny rather uncom fortable looking bunk-type beds. The walls are , nearly covered tenth pictures, most, of them being landscapes clipped from Playboy and Nuggtt.) i JOT: Hey, AI, listen to this. It's a riot, man! , (At this point, it becomes obvious that there j is another person in the room. Al, Joe's roommate, lifts himself up on one elbow and lies, waiting at tentively, on the bed down-stage right.) AiL: I'm listenin'. 1 JOE: Well, there's this traveling salesman, see? And he's driving down this old country road, and his car breaks down. So he gets out and starts walkin' and pretty soon he comes to this farm house and he decides that he'll see if they'll put him up for the night. So he wjilks up to the front door and knocks, and the farmer answers and the salesman tells him about his car, and asks him can he spend the night there. Well, the farmer scratches his chin for a minute and then says "0.K.,; sonny, I guess we can give you a place to sleep tonight, but You'll have to sleep with (There is a knock at the door, upstage left.) JOE: So come on in. It ain't locked! (The door opens, and a man takes a few tentative steps into the room. His appearance in dicates that he is reasonably well to-do and prob ably about fifty years old.) STRANGER: How do you do. My name is Mich, ael A. Michael. My firm is conducting a survey and I wonder if you would mind answering a few questions? JOE: Sure! Pull up a chair, Mike old boy, and fire away. Me and my roomie hereTl be glad to help you out. MIKE: First of all I'd like to know what you think. AL: Think about what? MIKE: Just what you think, that's all. Not what you think about anything particular. Just what you think about. JOE: Man, what are you talkin' about? What kind a question is that? "What do we think about?'' Wbt do we think about WHAT? MIKE: No, no. I' m afraid you don't understand. I don't want your opinion on any specific topic. Id just like to know what sort of thing you think about when you're just sitting around thinking. Yw do think,' don't you? AL: Sure we think! We think all the time, don't we, Joe? But we think about all sorts of different things. I mean, where do you want us start? There's so many things I don't know where to begin. MIKE: In that case, maybe you'd better restrict it to the things you think about most. Just start any where you please. JOE: Well, let's see . . . .if we're going to he honest about it, I guess one of the first things would be sex. And then there's movies, and basketball, and TV, and dates, and classes. . . . MIKE: (hopefully) Classes? Tell me, what do you think about classes? JOE: I think they're a real drag, man! (laughs uproariously AL: Aw, knock it off, you jerk! The old boy's got a job to do, and he doesn't need any of that jazz. Let me think a minute, Pops . . . .let's see . . . hmmm . . . there's all sorts of things . . .politics . . .and, ummm . . . music . . .and . . .all sorts of things! MIKE: Well, what about the area of politics? What are some of the things that go through your mind when you're thinking about politics? AL: Mmmm . . .weil . . .the usual stuff. You know foreign policy, an' atom bombs, n the Middle East, n' Communism . . .all that sort of stuff. MIKE: Couid you be a little more specific about any of those things? For instance, precisely what do you think about Communism? What do you know about it, and how do you feel about what you know? JOE: Yeah, tell us everything you know. man. and I'll hold my breath. AL: (ignoring his rommate) Communism, huh? Well, let's see . . .It's the kind of government that the Russians have got. . .and they don't believe i:i free enterprise -or private property . . .they think everything should belong to the state, or something like that . . .and that guy what's-his-name Marx. . . he made the whole thing up . . .1 guess he was a pretty smart cat. .MIKE: But do you have any idea how they plan to put their ideas into effect? JOE: What difference does that make, anyhow.' It's just another political party. Besides, ain't you heard? We got co-existence now. No sweat. They'll tend to their knittin', and we'll tend to ours. MIKE: I'm afraid that's not the case. But I have to leave, now. Maybe you'd like to read this, (puts book on desk and exits) JTE: Well! He sure took off all of a sudden. What's that junk he left on your desk? AL: Just some quotations from a few big-wig Commies. Here's one from that guy, "We must . . . be ready for any and every sacrifice, and even if necessary, to practice trickery, to employ cunning, and to resort to illegal methods, to sometimes even overlook or conceal the truth. . Here's another one aim: ". .the time has fully matured when it is absolutely necessary for every Communist Party E. 10 COmbine leal "legal work, legal with illegal organization. . the salesman. . . (Curtain) Night Editor GRAHAM SNYDER The New Yoik 1 lines. litirtifci
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