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. . . f , , J V . PAGE TWO THE DAILY. TAR HEEL . i AVuiDAYriARCH 1, 1953 There's A In Evans Lot To Read Little Letter A little letter .srnt to all tie.is umol li.iteniiticN.it I'M, should o a loir;; uav toward m inc ini", the legislature that delaed uishin;; is a hindiaiue. rather than a help, to I he lal (iuek societies. reiined 1 Student Uody Tiesi dei t Sonny l.v.ins. its purpose is to Mini out just what the economic clluts would he it I'M', i' .terui t its operated lour and me-halt months IkIou- lushing o.i a dc I lilted nicinhciship tauscd by tad umion in the spins. We (.in just about loiet.ist. in one word, what those ellects will be: ihatic. Aheady. some local (liapters aie on the eiie of liqui dation primal ily because .their niuiibcrs cannot support the ex pense linked to a fraternity's oper ation. To subtract luither Ironi those nuinbeis by del.ned rush would only imie.isc the financial liabilities. V point these facts out in an clloil to maintain for fiaternities a pr.utuc which in no way con terns the leisl.itm e or should fall tinder itscontiol in any form what ever. Rushing is not now any busi ness of the leislatuie. and it never should be. Yet out student solons some of them not membeis of (iteek. so cieties at I'M' have taken it upon themselves to consider a bill which would alter the entire practice ol earlv iiish now used on campus. II passed, it would delay rush until the spiiii'4 semester. We cannot compiomise this kind ol thinking. It is. lirst. out ol place. Secondlv. it U the product ol a disallcctcd inieiest. And third, the calamitoiiN i fleet which it would wicak would I. n outweiuh even the lather v.iue ood which it is sup poseil to pvoilm e. Fraternities here and every where are private organizations operating under Their own char ters, combined locally into a loose federation which directs affairs al fectin; all of the chapters on the campus. This federation, the I1C should concern itself with f rater-. nitvfc rushing and not the student legislature. rurtheimore. the -;, or so chap ters here are piovidinn a jjieat and needed service for the Tniversity in the provision of slecpius quar ters and dining facilities for their hundiecls of members. This aspect of the societies has been only too clearly emphasied by former Chancellor Robert 1. 1 louse. Legislators, change the rushinj; program: disrupt the current prac tice by delaying rush until spring semester; iijftct the ledgers of fra ternity treasurers with your plans and see what the ellects on the economic aspect of the I'niversity will be. Have we in Chapel Hill suffici ent facilities for room and board to assume the services which frater nities offer for their memlers? Can the I'niversity provide those ser v ices whic h will terminate when our Creek societies are forced into li quidation? Is there really any doubt in your minds what the el lects of delaved rush would be? Wait, legislators. Wait until the letters are returned to President I vans. Then von will see that even the picture we have drawn may be too bright for the future of frater nities as von would alter it. Iwcn then von will be concern ing yourselves with something which in no uav should be vour domain. THE POLLS COMMITTEE REPORT You're Wrong, Mr. Editor i lit. Icrctooie divideci on the issue ol your acceptability as editor of our leknownecl 'Daily Tar Heel." we .tie now in total agieement chu te the cclitoiial which appeared in the I'ebtu. tv issue ol said paper. Having devoted ne.nU one-hall ol oin cdilotiai space in that is sue to an extended ievelatioii of tin niss im ltic ieiK .ol tjie CIAI Polls Committee, vou have, it no thing else, given us the- publicity we haw IoiiikiK been ichised. oii asked ol what signil ic am c was out wiik it we icleased the u stills ihue months alter thev had been tabulated. We ask vou it vou du l tec all the visits, bv members o the Polls C.ouuuittee. in vour li si week as editor. Having pio. p Minded mil questions, admins tiled the poll, icccivcd and tabul a'ed the lesulls. we olleied to tutu nil the lesulls to the '"Daily Tar Heel" asking that thev be piiuted as a seiies. Our iciiest being deni ed bv vour assistant news editor, we piesenttcl our pioblem diiectly to vou and vou leferred us to the news editoi. He. in turn, promised The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication A the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, where if is published daily except Monday and exam ination and vacation period? and sum mer trrms. Entered as second class mat ter in the post office In Chapel Jill, N. C, under the Act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2Cu a semester; delivered. $8 a year. fc$ 50 a semester to piim the inasmuch as l-sll h nitnu ili.iu l the "Peanuts'" issue was coming before the Legislature. u'd. VOU s. On December and we quote, "It is notewoithv to point out heie the role which the (i.MAIJ foils Committee jilavecl in seeming Peanuts lor the "Dailv Tat Heel. It was ihiough that committees' suivcv ol the campus th.it a btoacl sentiment among stu dents lor 'Peanuts' was hi ought to bea; on the- minds of student legis latoi s." 1 vou will look in out liles. and we liust ou do have some, vou will liud a cov of the- Poll tesults which we gave to vou the last week in Novembei. ir7- Vou published those tesults on Febru ary 27. 1 1 with vour own in terpi etatioiis. As uacleis ol the "Dailv Far He c h illi t tec the Y ap.ut I10111 we would like to 01 we think it was a gieat Coin- add that waste ol editorial space to dwell so long on a iclatively unimpoi taut and un t oiistrut tive issue and. most of all, to be so wiong about it all. J.Y.'S JAZZ Notes & Hopes From The 1958 'Jazz Scene' With nothing particular in mind to write about, and a column due for Saturday, I thought I'd jot down a few thoughts that have been recurring in my mouldy mind for the past few weeks. Like, I'm sick of all the other guys who write notes on the scene saying why doesn't Desmond quit Bru beck when all the time Brubcck is getting better and better, thanks to Desmond. Iwonder if any motion picture studio has thought about doing "The Duke Ellington Story"? It would make a great picture, if it could be shot while the Duke is still around. Let's face it. the man is fifty-nine and time may be run ning a little short, to use a poor euphemism. . . Why can't J. J. Johnson form a swinging group that people want to hear? Kai Winding is pulling in the green stuff, but J seems to be just poking along, despite the fact that he is really the better trombonist of the two and should be able, to rack. Gerry Mulligan ought to get some kind of award foe - being the most broad-minded person on the musical scene. Did you know the man paid his own way into the Great Neck festival last summer so he could come on the stand and blow some Dixieland groups. He just loves to play, and we need more like him . . . Gerry's ex-side-man Bob Brookmeyer, the valve trombonist, has been doing quite well for himself lately, to the de- . light of all jazz enthusiasts. His records are mov ing nicely and all seem to be digging" his smooth, swinging, manner of blowing. I hope Garner gets off this orchestral kick that was rather badly shown in "Other Voices'' end goes back to the sounds. His latest. "Soliloquy." may prove the answer to this prayer . . . Nor man Granz and his Verve label are doing great tilings these days. The new Charlie Parker three disk sot and the king-size Newport pack arc going well ami makinu friends with many. Granz. for all his per- t sonal quirks, is doing a lot for jazz, and we should never forget it. I wonder how many students here realize that Bud Shank, the im portant tenor saxophonist of the Pacific Jazz school, is not a West Coaster at all but a native of Dayton. Ohio, and was a student at the I'niversity of North Caro lina from lm through l!Mf. UNC muscians take heart - if Shank can do it, maybe you can too . . . The Jimmy Giuffre Three is one of the most exciting groups in jazz to day. The soft, yet swining sounds they make send all who hear. Listen to things like "The Train and the Hivcr" for more than ample proof. It's men like Guiffre - men with a searching, heartfelt desire to advance jazz -who are making jazz the popular thing it is today. "Save Your Money 111 Take Care Of Everything" Chn 1. l'ol Editor DOUG E1SELE Associate Editor . FRANK CROWTHER M a n a g i ng Editor ALYS VOORIIEES News Editor PAUL RULE Asst. News Editor ANN FT. YE Coed Editor JOAN BROCK Feature Editor MARY M. MASON Sports Editor City Editor .. BILL KING BILL KIN C A ID Business Manager JOHN WHJTAKER Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN Subscription Mgr AVERY THOMAS Librarian CLENDA FOWLER Night Editor - GRAHAM SNYDLB J. ill Cobbs. Comm. John II. Lewis, Jr.. For mer Chin. Tolls Comm. Fiom the editor: II the point you make ahove he ti ut. we would simply make one request: never biin; to us in I ehruaiy a icport ironi vour com mittee which we ran three months he lore. We aie tuiahle to justily publish ing now the same data pi in ted in the Far Heel in the lattei months ol November. i9;,7. Yes. we lecall ur visit here soon alter the election. We like wise recall the emhatassmeiit to you when we liist. it-fused to add 'Peanuts' to the " Far Heel" on the hasis of the poll ou had taken. Our memory, however, does not serve us so well in the matter ol what finally happened to your full lepoit. If, in fact, it came to our new s oi l ic e as w e dim ted in a hlot k and not in a series it was handled Ironi there. You sa we ran the lepoit in Xovcinher. ii',7. We accept that as true, although it had slipped our ineiiioiv. What, then, was the purpose of a'ain leleasim; the same data sexeial months later? -2x1 sMJ)r t : at VIEW FROM THE HILL Fraternities Are Here To Stay Ry CURTIS CANS I On Tuesday night, the Phi will debate a bill concerning the aboli tion of fiaternities on the UNC campus. This bill was spurred by recent articles in several of the state papers censuring the conduct of fraternity members. To abolish fiaternities because at various times fraternity mem bers step over the traees is defin itely unwise. It is true that . not all people can participate in fraternity life, but then again not all people want to. Moreover, not all of those who want to participate in fra ternity life can. but the fraternity is by its very nature a private organization - a better than aver age club - and private organiza tions have a right to be exclusive. Any denial of such a right its to denv private enterprise. Moreover, people tend to make more of errors than they do of thing that are going right. So when they hear of a wild party going on at 3 a.m., they get up in arms. They forget, however, that most fra ternity activity is at a reasonable hour, and that fraternities supply a great social need on this cam pus whose male to female ration is some 7-1. People tend to publicize ; the time that a fraternity man gets arrested for public dm likeness with two of his comrades, and tend to forget that fraternities provide for the most part a chance for long and lasting friendships in a wholesome atmosphere. There has been considerable argument to the effect that fra ternities work a financial hardship on students who want to be mem bers. This argument is specious from two points of view. First, the fraternities, as privati organi zations have a right to! charge more and the exclusive in any way they so desire? including exclud ing all but the upper class. But the most obvious fallacy is that in many fraternities on the UNC campus it costs less to live or as little to live as it does in a dormitory, strange as this fact may seem to fraternity opposition. There has been further opposi tion that fraternities place tlfe emphasis on the social rather than on the academic, which it is eon tended is the student's primary job. This is partly true; however, many fraternities take enough cognizance of the members res posibility as a student to aid him in his academic endeavours. The competition between houses on scholastic grounds, only furthers the academic side of the univer sity. While on this subject, it should be added that fraternity files of back quizzes and examinations should stay where they are. First ly, because students must know the material on the back quizzes in order to pass a quiz. Secondly, because it might take faculty members do something about not repeating the same quiz over and over again. The same goes for term papers, for it is up to the student whether he wants to get the benefit of thes effort a term paper requires. He, if, he uses the work of another, is the even tual loser. . The larger the campus, and UNC is a fairly large university, the more the need for some group to belong to and for more diversified activity planning. Fraternities are currently serving that need. Interfraternity competition is another good famcet .because it is a small step in the planning for a life in what is an intensely com petitive world. Finally, to abolish fraternities is opposed to what is a basic precept for democracy the right of as sembly, for any purpose save the physical destruction of the demo cracy. As far as occasional hell raising goes, it is a good thing that such things happen now and then. It shows there may be a little life in the university community after all. z PrlOOEV! I CAN THINK- .OF NOTHING MORE REPULSIVE VjHAN KINS AN AiNTtATER.' " 3 N O V VI n U JX DC LU z a BSAlMy Am' -SMART? 1 Nggp 'YOU 16 COWi TO fH" 7 IT S3 LIKS'SO: ' Z&A PM&.6U0Qr . AUI?C COM2 IN yUU KNwW WHAT NOW I VAANNA S KNOW WHAT IO CAVU IT; CAN YOU THINK OP AHYfHMG? BUT X PgTTgf? NOT SAY'" o o o CL f 1 f I 'Mil I a, 1 I C Jll y- x ,m- Mil 1 a " - 1 v. . m Mk i mij j mi -7 1 .1 fk. w. r s a Yn a. CL u ON XOCKTAIl PARTY' Wolff's Criticism Hit This letter is in response to Anthony Wolffs criti eisra of Feb. 25. of the Petites Dramatiques produc tion of "Cocktail Party," an aracle which I feel de mands some sort of answer. Mr Wolff begins his article with the words, ' a renegade herd." The Petites Dramatiques are a GAIAB sponsored group and as such are hardly de serving of this label. This charge is not supported or qualified in any way by the article. Such an invective phrase calls for some kind of explanation on the part of its author or a retraction. The nxt paragraph begins by claiming that the . f degree of guilt of the Petites Dramatiques is "all too evident." I have discussed the play with a num ber of people and this "all too evident" guilt does not seem "all too" to any of them. He then proceeds to set up a seemingly logical argument in which he claims that either the play js a play and was done poorly or the play is not a play, "but really a poem. He definitely weights the argument toward the latter and claims that if this is true, then it was a more serious "crime." He verifies the first claim in paragraph six where he states, "The play can, however, be done effective ly . . ." But in paragraph three he says, "As a play Mr. Eliot's poem . . ." Then in paragraph thirteen he says, "The only outstanding thing about this pro duction was the script . . ." The word "script" ap plies to drama, not to poetry. There seems to be a slight confusion here, somewhere. In paragraph three he states that, "Like 'The Wasteland,' it (the play) is not an organic whole ..." In answer to this, may I quote from The Reader's Companion to World Literature, page 145, "The Wasteland,' which marked a veritable revo lution in modern English poetry, . . . particularly in the way in which the mind latches on to seem ingly unrelated observations, an object, a sensation. a series of experiences, and pulls (hem together into a whole." This statement appears in paragraph seven. "Tech nically and intellectually, the Petites Dramatiques were not up to the job." This is an extremely out spoken remark. As to the first charge, the mem bers of this group have (by combining their work into one figure) over 150 credit to their names. As to the second charge, on what grounds and by what right does Mr. Wolff question the intellectual prow ess of any or all of the members of this group, how ever pdbrly he feels their performances were? Com mon decency demands a retraction of this seoir.ii charge. "The Petites Dramatiques, has been on this cam pus for a year now, and it has never kept the prom ise which it made with its first production, 'Cali gula.' " Are not Tennessee Williams, Jean Giraii doux, T. S. Eliot and an Anouilh Adaptation of Soph ocles (the next offering) on a plane with Camus a5 playwrights? The goals of the Petites Dramatiques are fairly clear: to provide the students and public with ic teresting and provocative plays and to provide more opportunities for actors and actresses on this cam pus to display their talents. I can find n? litis with these goals. Perhaps Mr.. Wolff's vqii;:e tastes and high standards of excellence sHii be subjected to the attempts the dramatic element on this campus makes to perfect their art. Their art requires practise. The art of acting requires years of hard work. The. Carolina campus is one of the practise grounds. Broadway is the place where the achieved perfectioned is supposed to be displayed. Seek faultlessness there, not here. Denunciations for not being perfect is for "the New York critic, not for the student critic. He should try to help the performers, as they should try to help the novice critic perfect his art. "There is little virtue in attempting something which one cannot hope to achieve . . ." appears in the next to the Jast paragraph. Turning to Mr. Eliot's thoughts on this in Selected Prose, page 84. "It (the goal in poetic drama) is an unattainable ideal: and that is why it interests me, for it pro vides an incentive towards further experiment and exploration, beyond any goal which there is prospect of attaining." Man has and, I trust, will continue to attempt the "impossible." This spirit in Man is the sole motivator for the progress of Mankind. People will continue to scream from the sidelines of life. "It is impossible." They will continue their derisive laughter at the failures. We must guard ourselves against this great fear of failure, for it is precisely this fear that accounts for the contagion of pallid mediocrity which infects our universities today. Hu man beings must, unfortunately, struggle and stum ble along the road of progress towards excellence. If there are those, and there always are, who stand feet planted, jackass fashion, and refuse to move forward, then they must be left behind. A noble failure has certain merits over success on the mediocre level. (I am calling the play in question a failure). From a noble failure something is learned,, but what is learned from doing that which you are positive you can do perfectlv? Vanity and fear are the forces which steer us into this vein. But vanity and fear do not prompt the artist. The craftsman, perhaps; but not the artist. When Icarus fell into the ocean, the people roared. But the waves of that splash have spread over the sea of human minds and washed up sputniks on the shores of today. 2 - o JQ JOHN SIPP Office Cat with . u ZekG h3d been worki"S industrious, vwtn a stub of a pencil and some paper. Sudden!, he jumped to his feet with a shout wac iUanay aoggoned if Ah ain't learn eci to write. Mandy looked at the crawled pencil lines. Mandy Whut do it say? yetUnCle &ke-CMt tell. Ah ain't learned to read Mol?.Cn teIephone numbering system for Pes of SViln?Ph0De CmPany PUt 3 ter! mpany soon afterward received this let meree 3 SUbSriber in the small townf Com- Gntlmn: Yr abbr of our town of Commerce a torare m yr br new tel drctry is unfr, unclr. un Plsnt, unecsry.-Associated PressThe Durham
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