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TUESDAY, APRIL IS, 19S8 MCI TWO THt OAILY TAR HffL Who Wants New Rules? Alki itcu!j' Daily Tar Heel poll ir serins iutlit .itivi". that those vvlio want the new ItYsliin.in women's i tiles are limited hy and l.i 1 to the niajoiity of the Women's Resident e Count il. the St hool ttf Nursing, anl the Dean of Women'. Variations Gail Godwin The Women's Residence (oun il is sup posed to tepresent its constituents, and yet its (otistituents do not favor the new rules. The St hool of Nursing never has had a t haute to lie under tides less stringent than the proposed coed rules, and so they welcome the t hane. The Dean of Women seems, at the present lime, to forget the threat tradition that the I'lmcrsitv has as a progressive, liberal, and . lesponsihle institution. A brief summary of the facts would show that the coeds who have tome through the academic mill of their freshman year at (laiolina. hae had as iond records as fresh men, as they had as sophomores or juniors. Thev all do not want the new rules. All indications show that a majority of coed who Milleied under more strict rules want no part of the new rules. Moreover, theie has not been a ood reason epressetl lot putting into effect the new mles. As uientiimetl in an earlier editorial. halites niusi be justilietl by a cause, and sinte theie will be no lowering ol entrance and thai aiter reipiii emeiits, theie seems to be absolulcK no cause lo institute these rules. Colleges fiotn all ter the nation enforce niles less stritt than those proposed now, but the Women's Resilience Council cannot seem to take the l.uer iew. What is more some ol the.se rules tnav be cMendcd to sophomores, or so the Dean of Women saitl. She pointed out that it the rules , aie suttesslul. ihey milit be extendetl to sophomoies. .Jihouh there would not be any iletisin at the present time. She added that she peisonallv pielers that heshmen atitl sophomoies be tlist inuishetl from upper clas smen. As one simlent put it. "soon they'll be telling the iils what kind of dress to wear." The lespoiisibility of this t hane rests stjuarelv with the Women's Resident e Coiin til. Il makes eiy liitle tlilleience that the Dean ol Women sucsted the neetl lor some soil ol a i!i. n:4e due to the inllux of fresh men, lot liom thai stait. the council could have pursued a ionise that would have li beialied ilie rules and put Carolina as a lender in the progress towards freeing the in dividual liom the bondage of control and making individual i espoiisibiliiy the bvwortl ot ( '.aioliua. I he Women's Resilience Council can still lettilv iheii eiror. Thev can slill establish themselves is the le.ideis who will keep the libei. il liadition ol the I'nivtTsity intan. Thev can be tour.ieous in the late ol war nings bv those who woutl think a larger in llux ol women tould briii'4 a blight to the 'ood name ol the I'niversitv. They can take the initial ive in lorin a new era of free dom at (laiolina by lilxialiin the existing i ult s. It is up to them. - The official student publication of the Publica tion Board of the I'm A few months ago, I came across a little series of cartoons in one. of the current magazines. This se ries ran a full page and was con cerned with a young lady and her gentleman friend who were sitting at a table probably in a restaurant. On Letters Tb Columnists: There Really Are A Few Whit Whitfield Today's column will be in the form of an open letter to the many thousands of people who write letters to the DTH columnists. The post office de- The first five or six drawings partment is. up in arms about the' extra work they showed the young woman going are having to do, and the columnists can't see their typewriters for the stacks of mail, so please com ply with this request. ; We are having particular trouble because our chair is extremely low, and when our three letters 1 from last semester are through sort of a private hell. First she leaned on one elbow, then she buried her head in her hands, then she gazed unbelievingly at the gentleman friend. Finally she said: "This is too awful. I don't believe it. Tell me once more." The last drawing shows a very embarassed young man looking soulfully and sorrowfully into his beer. "All right, I'll tell you again," he says, "I've never been to Europe." crsity of North Caro lina, where it is pub lLshed daily except Monday and examina tion and vacation pe riods and summer terms. Faltered as sec ond class matter in the pn.st office in Chapel Hill. N. C. under the Act of March 8. 1379. Subscription rates: mailed, S4 per year, $2.50 a semester; de livered, J6' a year, S3. 50 a semester Our poor ignorant ancestors (un less we are of Indian descent) bor. rowed, starved and longed for the wonderful land of milk and honey on the othtr side ofthe Atlantic. They, couldn't wait to get to this country of uncut trees and unli censed breathing. It has taken the enlightened gen eration to realize that the only way to be " broadened"' is to around and head straight across the ocean. And by some an answer, miracle; if we save our pennies and hitchhike a ride on a tugboat or a freighter, if we can just put our foot on the landing at Le Havre, we are a much more in teresting person. Or even if we can just get to Merrie old England for a look around, tlivn we have the right to come back with an authentic Eng lish accent. And you'll have to admit, it certainly does impress the bourgeoisie back home. I have asekd a few people on campus how they feel about the "Europe, or bust" movement. I got some interesting answers. They went from one end of the scale to the other. One continental lad expressed disgu . with the "crude habits and speech of the average American." "Give me Paris any day." he said. "People really know how to live over there." Ho had been on a student tour the summer before. Another genteel soul confessed that his broad "A's" came as a result of listen ing to Winston Churchill records "just til' I can get enough money to go to England and really cul tivate the language." " One senior filt that the ven erated statement ". . . when I was in Europe last fall . . ." was ana logous to driving a beautiful flashy car or having Sartre and Camus hooks displayed on your' book shelves. "It seems to me that people so often want to do things to create a symbol of superiority in the eyes of others," he said. "True, the person might have gone in debt and traveled by bi cycle to get his trip abroad, and the flashy car may not be paid for in the next twenty years, and the books on the shrives have nev er been ojirned by their owner, but it still creates that important impression." f placed on the desk wtih business-like reckless abandon we can hardly see the last row of keys, which accounts in part for our poor spelling,' espec ially in words like zxcvb or nm,.-. To give you an idea of what is sometimes found in the mail, one of those three letters was from a journalism instructor whom we had previously con sidered illiterate. We know he wrote it he has no secretary. A second (or rather THE second) was from-a woman's college in Massachusetts, requesting that we do an article on "The Southerner's view of Orval turn Faubus." We wrote back and asked which northern back state he represented in Congress, but we didn't get The third letter was signed "a Victory Village wife and mother." It seems that she had misin terpreted the column about the sheriff's ban on lewd magazines to mean that we were avid readers of them, and was opposed to their censorship, so she launched into a tirade of degrading adjectives two pages longabout our lewd and lascivious mind. All in all, it was a refreshingly different emotional display and, we enjoyed it. We'd like to hear from her again. One thing that does bother us, however, is the fact that many people tell us how lousy our column really is, but the same people will not take time to write us about it and therby make the c6mment more tangible and cutting. This is a sign of the times. Want to find a way to solve all of your personal problems for 20 cents? There's one man who can do it for you, a George W. Crane, M.D., Ph.D., who is the author of a syndicated column entitled THE WORRY CLINIC. Thousands of people just like you write him and pour their problems in his lap, and he solves them in a few paragraphs. In additions to this he offers each day a booklet on the particu lar problem discussed at a cost of 20 cents (to cover handling of course) for anyone who is exactly ed. This is a non profit sideline. This is exactly what' we need in this country more humanitarians like Dr. Crane. (Frontal lobotomies are not per formed through the US mail.) "You'll Note The Familiar Cave Painting Moli" Nurses Like New Rules Site uf the Uniwrvty - r v ' North aroltih vrhwh firt .4tH'4 in Uw . in ptwuirv What worries me is that, what with all this jet travel and space ship talk, soon just anybody will be able to go to Europe in a mai ler of minutes. Then where are we crude Amer- Editor Managing Editor Business Manager News Editor Ast. News Editor Feature Editor Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Advertising Manager Suh.-.cription Manager Circulation Manager Arts Editor . Coed Editor Librarian CURTIS B. CANS CHARLIE SLOAN PAUL RULE RILL KINCA11) DAVIS "YOUNG IjAVE WIBLE RUSTY HAMMOND FRED KATZIN AVERY THOMAS SYD SHLKORD ANTHONY WOLFF JOAN BROCK GLEN DA FOWLER EDIT STAFF Jonathan YJrdley. Gail Godwin, Pete Young. Glenn a Meginnis, Gary Greer, Ethan Tul-nian. BARRY WINSTON WHIT WHITFIELD ED ROWLAND Editorial Assistants RUSLNF.SS STAKE John Minter, Lewis Rush, Wal ker Blanton. I HOTOGRAPHER.S Norman Kantor, Buddy Spoon, Niht DJiior ZZ - GRAHAM SNYDER To The Editor: The issue that has arisen concerning new rules for the freshmen coeds at Carolina must also be pre sented to the student body from the viewpoint of the girls who have lived under those very rules themselves. The majority of freshmen students here nursing students have come to Carolina under icans who drink beer and orange these regulations and have found them to be adc juice instead of tea and wine, who quate and necessary. To say that there is no realistic need for these rules to be changed is a fallacy on the part of those who have not had contact with this situation previously or who have not been able to foresee, as has Women's Residence Council, this need for new rules arising with an increasing number of freshmen women. In comparison with the four years that these girls will spend here at Carolina, the four months that they would spend in closed study is a short time in which to build a strong foundation of good study habits and firm self-discipline for a college career. However, if a strong foundation can be trip built by even as many as one girl, who otherwise might not find a way to make her college stay suc- cessful, how can we deprive her of this opportuni ty?? Granted there are girls who can and will PREDICTIONS make a good adjustment to college studies without restrictions, but these girls would find no difficulty Every year around this time in following these now rules, baseball season starts, and usual- At no other school will a girl find such unlimited ly editors of newspapers leave opportunities for time consuming activities on the the prediction making to theii campus. Also there is an ever-present opportunity man in the sports department. for socializing here. Even though these factors are x This editor is a baseball fan, of great importance to any girl, they are second so he feels that he can hang him- ary to her real purpose for coming to this Univer self on his own limb. sity. The ability to decide from all the things she So here goes: In the National would like to do, what she has time for, would be League it will be 1. St. Louis, 2. strengthened by a limited amount of time that she Milwaukee, 3. Los Angeles, 4. could spend in these activities.. Philadelphia, 5. Cincinnati, 6. San It has been said that vby having the same rules Francisco, 7. Pittsburgh, 8. Chi- as upper classmen, a girl can become more mature." tago. - Is a girl expected to jump from the teen-age level In the American League, it of high school to the maturity of a college upper looks like: 1. New York, 2. Chi- classman overnight without, any guidance? The cago, 3. Detroit, 4. Boston, 5. actual striving to attain such maturity is one. .of Cleveland, 6. Baltimore, 7. Kan- the major principles in adjusting to the beginning sas City, 0. Washington. phases of college life. During- this period, too, a go to cowboy movivs and have southern, western, or yankee ac- m cents, going to do to be broadened? Can't you just see the first wealthy young space travelers coming back from the moon? They will have acquired the sputtering JOHN WHITAKER accents of the moon men and they will bring back rare treasures of tall weeds and green cheese, j Then everyone will jump on the bandwagon and "just die" until tl.cy get broadened by a through outer space. girl can gain respect and appreciation for upper classmen privileges. Under these rules, freshmen coeds would not feel as if they were being ruled with an iron hand. The rules are theirs to adapt to their own in dividual needs, and they are a source of help and reinforcement rather than complete restriction. With these specific ideas in mind the Women's Residence Council planned these rules accordingly, for the good of the future freshmen women rather than with the idea of keeping them "in the cradle." Dewey Dance, President Nurses Dorm Barbara Miles, Past President Nurses Dorm Catherine Carden Jean Southerland More Hit Coed Rules More former freshman women commented io Daily Tar Heel reporters on the new womens regit lations. Geraldir.e Cook, who went to a school with sim ilarly strict rules and transferred to Caolina as a freshman also opposed the new regulations. She said, "Most of the freshman girls have labs in the afternoon. Library work has to be done at night. If one has to sign out, there will have to fye an elaborate checking system. Nurses however, have their library in their dorm building. On days when a freshman girl has more than one test, what would happen if she doesn't get finished studying and then has to have her lights out. The rules will only lead girls to seek a way cf circumventing them. Moreover if you have little work to do one week, and there are two or more events thdt a girl wants to go to, not necessarily a social event, she must give one of them up. Moreover segregation will De extremely bad. The influence of upper clansmen is very helpful for the freshman girl, besides the added advantage of being able to form friendships with other caeds outside of one's class." Carolyn Hofler said that she doesn't like the new change. "Carolina is a good place for a girl to come and have a mind of her own, in order to decide what is best fr her. The freshman year can be more beneficial if no one tells you what to do. I madef ; my best grades as a freshman. This move would -be. the beginning of the destruction of freedom oi;t1ie Yanipus." Postscript Jonathan Yardley Four years ago the University of North Carolina was in the heart of the Pegged Pants Belt; today it is in the Ivy League. What in the world has happened to make this University, once a proud main tainer of individuality, turn to the most 'repulsive stylistic . mode since the "Mr. B" collar was in vogue? Essentially the "Ivy League" move in men's clothing styles is a terrific one; at last the younger generation has seen the light and come to the realization that a man's form is best displayed with out pleats and padding, and that a shirt which has a button-down collar is not only better looking than one which does not but is also more economical and sensible, since the collar cannot bend or wilt or sneak under the necktie. This is wonderful, but why does the tag "Ivy League" have to go along with this? Are the students of our fair University ashamed that they are not at, Princeton or or Yale or Penn? Do they think that a Van Heusen shirt with the phrase "Genuine Ivy League" . sewn inside the collar will make them acceptable in Northern social circles or more welcome on Madi son Avenue? Do they wish to be come Organization Men in appear ance, eventually in fact? It could be that we are overly pessimistic; mayhe they just want to look better. The . certainly do no two ways about that. But the sad thin: is that they have been duped. The clothes they are spend ing fantastic amounts on are not what the boys at Princeton and Harvard and Yale wear some boys up there undoubtedly do, but the ones who wear the bona fide "Ivy League" clothes do not. A large percentage of the better dressed Ivy Leaguers buy their clothes from two stores - Brooks Brothers and J. Press. These two establishments are the focal point of the current rage. Yet they do not use the same materials, "cuts, or over-all oncept of clothing that the quasi-Ivy Leaguers believe to be the real McCoy. A whirlwind examination of the style should prove the point. The shoes are essentially the same at Brooks and Town and Cam pus. The well-dressed Ivy Leaguer, however, wears long socks, argyle or plain wool, which require gar ters for support. The pants are completely different. Mr. Brooks would never peg down his pants, and the quasi-Ivy Leaguers do. The only difference between these pants and the real pegs is that the latter have pleats. And Ivan Ivy League- would never stick a buckle on the rear of his pants. What in God's name is the button for? To hold excess fat in? To keep the wearer from folding up like a jack-knife? No, it's just the fetish of some designers who de cided that if he put buckles on the back of his pants he could make mints by selling new pants when buckles go out of style: The proper Ivy Leaguer's shirt does not have a pocket. This real ly is sort of pointless, because a pocket is a great place for cigaret tes. But if you want to be genuine ... Brooks and J. Press do not sell tweed jackets with heavily accented vertical stripes. These stripes only tend to falsely por- tray the slimness of the already o v e r-w eight wearer. Ivan Ivy League wears a brownish tweed usually in herringbone or cross check. The ties, are, praise be, the same. It's great that we ignorant Southerners are making at least a token effort at improving our taste, and k is really a very good effort. But there is a rather dis couraging aspect to the situation. Why should we concentrate on copying the styles of another col lege group, a group which itself has v many faults and may not be, in the final estimate, quite what we are? In many ways the Ivy League, is a narrow:minded, provincial, group of colleges. This lies not as much in the colleges themselves ' as in the students. Knowing a good many Ivy Leaguers, we are not at all sure that they are the per fect models. Let's keep on pressing the way we "are, and let's not be ashamed of the occasional poorness of our imi tation. Bui most' important, let's not be imitators.. Let's try to stand on our own two feet not only as a student body of intelli gent, independent people, but in the clothes we wear. Don't forget that, despite what the manufac turers would have us believe, the clothes don't make the man; the man makes the clothes. View, Preview Anthony Wolff PETITES DRAMATIQUES There seems to be -a movement in the modern theatre, toward the revivication of ancient plots, with the resetting of existing dramatci material in modern surroundings, and their expression on the modern idiom. The attempt is an interesting and fruitful one, born of the desire of the modern writ er' to express great themes in an age deprived of greatness by modern ideologies. This "regression" is evident in poetry, as well as in the theatre: Mac Leish's "The Hamlet of A. Macleish," many of T. S. Eliot's poems and plays, including "The WVte Land," and Ezra Pound's "Cantos" all demonstrate this direct descent from and dependence on the art of the past. In the theatre, this influence of the past is al most equally pronounced; old and familiar themes and plots are not only given- a modern setting. ."""iiu.iiw but also a modern point l of view. Archibald Mac- - . - v A ft . . I iimMM'hiu" n it "J. B.", acclaimed by the critics, is the Book of Job in modern terms. In 'The Lark," produced here last semester, certain liberties were taken with the myth of Saint Joan to make it into a commentary cn Judith," this year's first Pet- modern life. Likewise, ites Dramatiques production, was adapted from the Apocryphal Book of Judith. Jean Anouijth's "Antigone," presented last week end by the Petites Dramatiques, is another illustra tion of the modern use of dramatic material which is centuries old, with the basic structure retained almost completely but the setting and the emphasis changed to fit the modern situation. In Anouilh's version, the plot of the Sophoclean original is retained almost completely, but the em phasis has shifted to include Creon's situation and the character of Ismene has been less prominently featured. This is Creon's play, and it is no longer the tragedy of a young girl whose strength of pur pose and devotion to a religious cause leads to her death; to be sure, this element has been re tained, but it has become altered. Antigone's re ligious obligation to give her brother proper burial the main theme in the Sophoclean play has become more of a self-justification for her insis tence on absolute standards, for her rejection of the compromise which is essential to human society. Her determination to make the ultimate commit ment to what she feels is right is the foil to Creon's equally strong dedication to the human compro mise; and Creon's ideology is the touchstone which demonstrates the beauty and purity of Antigone's conviction. Last weekend's Petites Dramatiques production of the Anouilh play was in most respects a good one. Most of the faults were due to the direction or the casting; the acting, on the whole, was the best the Petites Dramatiques have produced this year. The play is talky full of debates and without any action at all to speak of. presents the director with some problems which are less obtrusive in plays with more action, and it takes imagination and stagecraft to overcome them. Working with the inadequate facilities of Gerrard Hall, Director Peter O'Sullivan did surprisingly well, but not en tirely well enough. There wasn't enough action, and what there was often seemed unmotivated. Much of the resulting flatness of the production could have been corrected by directing the actors to overplay slightly, in order to catch the audience with pure force of rhetoric. As it was, Amanda Meiggs, Taylor Williams and Kenneth Callendar were the only actors with any force in their speech at all. William Dixon was a very striking, even an im posing Creon in appearance-bearing, but his under playing robbed the character of force. As a result the play, which hangs on the conflict between Creon and Antigone, approached bathos in the contrast between the two. Dixon's interpretation was ex cellent, but he should have been encouraged to oc casionally lose his tight control and become more passionate. Amanda Meiggs perhaps went a little to far toward the opposite extreme in her portrayal of Antigone: she overplayed too much, particular ly in her climactic scene with Creon. Director O'Sullivan should have worked for more balance. Nevertheless, Miss Meiggs gave a virtuoso per formance, as is her custom. She is so talented that it is no insult to Director O'Sullivan to note that " she was better then her direction; and with better direction than Carolina can offer, she will become a professional. Kenneth Callendar turned the difficult trick of getting more out of his role than was written in: i it. His portrayal of Seargeant Jonas provided conii? relief and sensitively demonstrated the embarrass ment which occurs when a man who is wholly com mitted to the sullied uses of this world is forced to look on beauty bare. The role of the Chorous was convincingly done by Taylor Williams. Whether the chorous is a neces sary accessory to the action or not is debateable, but Mr. Williams made the most of it. The miscasting occurred in the roles of the nurse and Haemon, Antigone's fiance. Lucy Ann Dunlap did as good a job as could have been ex pected, considering the fact that she was plaving a character three times her own age; this is too much to ask of any actress. The result was that her character slipped into charicature, to the seri ous aetnment of the first- scene. Harold Williamson was neither vocally nor phy sically strong enough to make the role of Haenon come to life. He was appealing enough, but not a plausible lover for Antigone. Ismene, Antigone's sister, was played rather weekly by Caroline Marsh; in extenuation of this criticism, it must be noted that Miss Marsh joined the cast at the last moment, and did not have suf ficient opportunity to master her role. Unfortunate ly, it mastered her. The rest of the minor roles were well done, a rare occurance thus far in the brief history of the Petites Dramatiques. All in all this was a good pro duction, deserving more attention from the public than it received. The play isr as provacative as any seen at Carolina recently, and in its best moment? the production did near-justice to a script of con siderable difficulty.
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