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PAGt TWO TWt DAILY fAl IU SATURDAY, MAY 10. 195& A Suggestion When Wind Powell, ch.iirm.m of the Mer di.inu Asmi.. told a Jlui oF students tll.it he nmiUI tr in -it .1 student tcprt tentative mi tin- PI. :niini; Pmi.ikI of the Town of ('Ii.ijkI Mill. In- w.ts pi cvfiiti the first (on uric step lowaul student vcpicscnt.it ion in town o ci miicnt. It was a .tt iuul.it imhI sucstion of Mr. Powell, and should lc acted upon soon. A 40od deal less hi t ion liciuccn town and '4own uiuld lc the tesiilt. A fuithcr leMilt would be that plans sin h . the paikiii'4 meter proposal would not be sprung behind the hack of students- Students make up at least a third of the town. They, hv their ci number, demand icpvesenta t ion. Recession lhcie ohiously is a dearth of ideas 1n i! with economic problems. I he nisis in Detroit shows no in of letting up. and yet. no solution ha. hcen lound. nor h in mivoiu- gotten to lirst hae in ti i n 4 to n .ii h mh!i a solution. I he Deuiociats taking the initiative in an Union ii haw called for one massixe cut in laves, that ioliahl will breed ; few votes, but will piodmc delicit spend in.;;' n a low biidt t without iiuuli hope oi cm in?, the In csMoll . I he Ucpublicaus imt to be caui;l)t accept ing 1 1)( !iiii r.uii proposal have started a inas Me "Inn t .oii.iin. 1l1.it has seen to date inoie wmkeis laid oil the Detroit lines, but pet hap a leu- ie- Iroin the employers that thc epeited to 411 umw.iy. Nciihci ol these proposals has advanced am out of the ua of the New Deal, whidi handled an adveise economic situation wit !i .1 i;ood deal innr skill. The piobiem i that the country needs to spend iihhc towanU education and lorei;n aid. At the same time the country needs to pull up Irom a nosediw which is healthv in leiiiM ol brcedin.; a solid dollar, but distinct l unhealiln in terms ofihe woild market and iutei n il sei in itx Theic needs lor a luti;; to hae some ere atixe. nun political thinking done on the siib jei t of the recession. It also had better tome soon, beloie the national cioiioiny is serio usly 1 1 ippled. Traffic Light There is a problem concerning the "Walk Wait' li;ht in liont ol the Post Office. Appatcntlv the jn-ople who constructed the liht hae lailed to time the speed of an awrat;c walker .u ros l ranklin St. At the picsent time, it would tak a person faster than Daw Sime to iioss the stieet while the "w:dk" li.;ht is still on. Those who 1 outrun these modem inwn lions with the pedestrian in mind, had bet ter keep their mind on the pedestrian when thc time iheii lights. Alumni Review In line with the timrnt series in The Dailv Tar lit el on education, the Alumni kcxicw has come out with a.conijwisite study ol education purjiosc. u-sources, and method in its 1 ut rent issue. It was compiled horn data and contribu . tioits from sihooK throughout the union and is well worth the time spent reading. The official Miilnt lin Board of the Uni erfity of North Caro lina, whore it is pub-li.-shi-c! daily except Monday and examina lion anil vacation pe riods and summer termi. Filtered as sec ond class matter in the p t office in Chapel Hi!!. N ('.. linger fie Act of March 8. 1870 Subscription rate mailed. $4 per year, VJ M a semester; de livered V5 a year. S3 50 I'.dil'ir Managing I'ditor publication of the PublLca- v ."V C. .North CrA : "k a femester. " CURTIS B. CANS CHARLIE SLOAN riii-sines Manager JOHN' WIHTAKER New."rlit7r " - PAUL RULE EILL KLNCAID leu t uie Editor T7Z "7. I"dAVIS YOUNG ATstTTeature Editor " KEN FRJEmiAN Sports Editor I DAVE VVIBLE A s"t. Sports Alitor RUSTyTiAMMOND Advertising Manager FRKU KATZ1N BUSINESS STAKE John Minter, Lewis Hush, Wal ker Dlanton. I ddorial Aiitants BARRY WINSTON WHIT WHITFIELD ED ROWLAND Suhser7pTrriTanager A. VERY THOMAS CircuUtioii Manager rSYDSHUFORD Ni-ht liditor" TZI-- iri-ZT cTiTaH AM" SNYDER i 1 "All I Gol Was One Station In Florida" r Ad Libs IFC Ruling Scored Editor: You mentioned today that you hoped that the fFC would be as zealous in the enforcement of the Whit Whitfield Several days ago, before the monsoon season had set in, we had prohibition of loud Sunday parties as they were in noozinn trt caa ai ii ccti-a ta ' f a th Hans. passing regulations pertaining to such parties. I . 0 - in our policy. - In the event that you are wondering what SSICA Ltd. stands for, it is the Storm 'Stick Insurance Company of America, Limited, a comparatively new company set up for the benefit of Ivy Leaguers who are Interested in the welfare of their umbrellas andor parasols. rv am sure that most of us hope so too but I feel that you, along with those who piissed these reg ulations, have failed to see the derrimental power of such obviously hastily prepared regulations. Such legislation is ominous if we consider that the legis lators acting in this matter are the future "life blood" of America. To get quickly to the point I will say that I object to the prejudice being displayed by the IFC against tlive music." Such legislation against live American artists, or artists in the making, at' the very time that they strive to spesk to. the entire world about OUR art can be nothing less than catastrophic blindness on the part of those who so legislate. It is .common knowledge today Uiat American musicians, especially jazz musicians, are being ac cepted and praised as spokesmen for America throughout the world. There is hardly a good jazz musician in this country who hasn't traveled through foreign lands showing off America's only . a Ml T T Z A. I r A. 4. . T" nMwt Ani t C - - Rips and tears resulting from all causes other than duels pays original an. me unueu aiiica utuucui in auie HnmnaM'nitM in ner cent. Dueling is strictly prohibited under the placets enough dependence in jazz musicians to policy and a breach thereof will result in cancellation of the policy send them out as "good will ambassadors" and plus prosecution in a criminal court by local authorities. Loss of one or both eyes as a result of rapid opening pays the policyholder S10 000. For a partial loss of eyesight a proportionate amount of the former figure will be paid. Partial blindness resulting from drinking while carrying the machine is not covered, except by a special rider that costs $500. We have a very liberal and comprehensive policy that we would like to mention in case there are others who might be interested in one of the same type! A head-on collision, one of the most prevalent accidents to umbrellas, resulting in the total destruction of one or both ma chines pays upwards to double the cost of both, depending upon the circumstances. There is one restriction on this clause how ever. Drunken or reckless walking will re sult in cancellation of the entire policy. S 4 Art inversion of the machine caused by over-zealousness or high winds pays damages. Injury to another person other than the policy holder will result in the payment of all hospitalization and physicians fees. they don't limit the musicians to Monday through Saturday performances. Before anyone suggests that the calibre musicianship med by the State Department is not available, I would like to point out that there are at least four students and two faculty members here at U.N.C. who have partici pated in "good will" fours. I want to make it clear that 1 do not intend to degrade the D?C. I feel (most of the time) that -tt-J -frr 1 . o c c B ducation in Focus it is a capable body. I do, however, feel that they Indiscriminate poking and other such embarrassing occurrences couid have solved the Sunday noise situation with- are not covered by the policy, and the policy holder is urged to out legislating against "live music." "Live music"' maintain his usual high moral standards and refrain from such prac- an(j "noises" are not inseparable. I have witnessed tices. . this on at least one occasion on 'our campus one u u v. 1 11 u ; m Sunday afternoon jazz CONCERT by a group con- Accidental poking on the other hand w 11 result in the provision J Sonny Carr. of counsel by SSICA to handle the court affairs for the client. Jim pat McRoy This m . . Loss of the machine due to theft, fire, or plain stupidity will Lodge several months ago and I seriously doubt result in the replacement by the company of the lost machine. Throw- that they have received a complaint about the ing old umbrellas in an abandoned well in order to get a new ma chine is frowned upon by the company. Several late policy holders have been found at the bottom of these same wells. Everett W. Hall (Th following is th conclusion of a four-part series on the current problem of education, writ ten by faculty members of the University of North Carolina. Dr. Hall is Kenan Professor of Philoso phy and head of the philosophy department. The series was compiled by Ed Rowland, editorial assistant.) I want to set down six theses directed to my colleagues in higher education in America, particu larly in state universities. I shall begin with tht most sweeping and least controversial and procee I in the general direction of the more specific a ad less widely acceptable. I have little space for de veloping or defending these propositions; 1 . f c w hints of how my thinking goes must suffice. I there fore beg indulgence for a certain unavoidable tone of dogmatism. 1. We have a duty to educate both tht more and the less able student. This is to be intercepted as not incompatible with some raising of entrance re quirements and some tightening of rules concern ing continuance in school, but cl cvati n of stand ards by itself is no simp!o solu tion rf our his torically unique pet of problems. We cannot close our Moors to the 5 v ,.. rr average and nct; V too - serious sUi- dent; wc should not shunt t b c highly endowed youth to the pri vate college (which, save in the exceptional case, cannot afford the staff nor the facilities to offer him adequate educational oppor tunities). 2. We should classify students on the basis of their abilities and offer them opportunity and stim ulus commensurate therewith. Some opposition to this rests on the fallacy, you-can't-draw-the-linc. This fallacy has the form, 'since any place you draw the line is arbitrary, it is irrational to make any cut at all.' All one needs to do to see the mis take is to compare directly two instances far re moved in opposite directions from the point oi di vision (say. a genius and a barely admissible col lege student); to claim that these cannot rationally be disjoined simply because other cases fall be tween them is to abandon logic. There is, howeve-, a very real danger in separating students on the basis of their abilities, namely, that we mny mislo eate them, making a mistake about their capacities or their motivations or the handicap or ?.iecial privilege they have had in the accident of family or community environment or earlier schooling. Hence the present proposition shoi,ld be linked w:th tV desideratum of a periodic reassessment of the di vision and a reassignment of students in the light of their achievements. Another error may be desig nated 'false democracy.' It rests on the assumption cither that people are not very different in intelli gence or that if they are it is not proper to recog nize and take advantage of this fact. Ata!nst such attitudes I claim that democracy as a political in stitutiion and a way of life is on the way to extinc tion if it does not successfully discover and rigor ously train its best brains, or, on the otcr hand, if it does not liberalize, in an educational sin:;r, its average citizen, making him aware of the wcrld's artistic, scientific and philosophical riches. 3. We must offer greater inducements than here tofore, in the form of financial help, prestige sym bols, promise of future status, et cetera, to the gift ed student to enter college and to rise to his ap propriate level while there. We have subsidized the athlete; offered social graces to the "well-born" given aid to the strikingly needy; it is time we put more effort, money and thought to alluring the in tellectually capable to college (and particularly to the state university). I assume that we cannot in the immediate future subsidize all who meet our minimum standards' of entrance, that we must make choices. 4. We should distinguish at least three groups of students and set three different educational goals for them. (a) There is the genius or near genius, the young man or woman of exceptional, creative talent, in tellectual or artistic. He should be .marked for a life set apart, with all the "leisure" and the neces sary facilities conducive to the highest contribu tions to theoretical science, philosophical specula tion or artistic creation. We must be willing to tae risks in the direction of overestimating potentiali ties in order to maximize our chances (within the limits of our economic resources and our riulits to the other groups) of discovering and developing tb.' rare type of person. (b) There is the able, conscientious student, good at learning, at following specified or traditional lines of investigation, at accumulating and organiz ing data, transmitting information to others. This group would embrace the future teachers.7 profes sional men, ordinary researchers in science and the humanities. (3) There is what might be called the average young person, who will never form pari of th "intelligentsia" but who should become a good citi zen, living a life not merely well adjusted but r(ch in appreciation and full of wide human understand ing. I assume that individuals below tlm lejiel should not be given a college education of any sorr. ; 5. The kinds of education offered these three groups should differ qualitatively not merely quan titavely (that is, not merely in the rates of learning and the distances of penetration of subject fields). (a) Of the potentill genius we should demand independent thought and rigorous defense of it from the earliest moment; he should be encouraged to rebel but held responsible for it; he should be badgered, pressed, spurred to be creative but always with a grasp of relevant data and previous theory (parallel statements about the training of-the ar tistic genius must be furnished by the reader. (b) The able, conscientious student should b required to master the facts and methods 01 his uwa field of interest, but never to become a narrow spe cialist without perspective on his own professibr. nor common interest in humans of all types and cultures. (c) The average young person who wants a col lege education should, not be offered vocational training combined with the social emoluments of campus life as a substitute; he should be given vitalizing insights into, and samplings of,' the chief trends of his and other cultures; his ideological and artistic and social appreciations should be widened and deepened, by acquaintance with "great books" where these do not demand technical or intellictual competence outstripping his capacity, through $t cnclary sources offering, interesting yet essentially scund popularization of great works beyond his im mediate grasp. He should be provided some over all sense of the main fields of human accomplish ment and their historical roots. In all cases he should be given not so much information supple mental to his own walk of life, but understanding and the ability to see and feel things from the standpoint of others. 4, These differences in goals and Vinds of col lege education imply corresponding differences in methods and instructional personnel. (a) The genius or near genius must be supplied individual, tutorial instruction by the most creative, original minds on our staffs. Even at the under graduate level he should have daily comradesh'p with the men in his field with world' reputations for the originality and importance of the ir ideas. (b) We cannot give the same concentrated atten tion to the high-level, hard-working student. In some fields he perhaps can be adequately served by large lecture classes, hut on the whole, his tram (See EDUCATION, Column 6) Any other accidents resulting from the daily use of an insured machine will be properly investigated by the SSICA, and a prompt settlement is assured the policy holder. One thing to keep in mind is that SSICA, Lid. is as near as your nearest telephone, and in some cases, quite, a bit nearer. . All this protection costs only one dollar per year the cheapest insurance you can buy for your umbrella andor parasol. Your near est SSICA, Ltd. agent? We are. Send your dollars to the Tar Heei office co us. We need the money. Folicies will be mailed out at an undetermined date after appli cations arrive. Letters On IFC, Freedom, & WRC Editor: I always do hate to hear some body stand up and say, "I wish I had said that," but I do wish had said "After a ,long time of abdicating their responsibility . . . the IFC has finally taken a con crete action." I join you in salut ing the IFC for a little positive action at last. I think that while I'm in such a mood of agreement, I shall help you send up a rocket for the WRC. Why not repeat Wednes day's editorial about the IFC and change it only by substituting the initials WRC instead of IFC: "After a long time of abdicating their responsibility or at least misinterpreting it) the WRC has finally taken a concrete (positive) action." Frank C. Elklns P. S. Congratulations and thanks for the fine articles on the pres ent problems and shortcomings of higher education. Editor: The I. F. C. has just passed a bill for which I can see no justi fication or necessity. By outlaw ing live music in fraternity houses on' Sunday the I. F. C. has serv ed ' tq encumber an art form that is jvist beginning to achieve recog nition. Jazz, the art form, holds a very important place in American so ciety and . culture. Although the I. F..C. did not have such an ob jective in mind, by banning all live music they have denied bud ding musicians important oppor tunities to express themselves. I hope that the members of the. I. F. C. will realize that a mistake has been made. John Wilson Editor: A member of the Tar Heel staff talking to me today on the cam pus said rather sarcastically, ,"I can ' step right over that wire fence." Of course he can. I thought it a very childish remark. Yet if I read the Daily Tar Heel correctly the staff lias been in the forefront of those yelling their heads off for less rules and for more freedom for freshmen co-eds entering the University next Fall iu order tht. they might develop self control and learn how to use freedom. The fundamental question, in voled in making co-ed rules is not whether we have compulsory stu dy periods and a lightsout dead line. It is immaterial whether a student sits up and studies all night, or doesn't study at all. Tlie important thing is that she does not disturb other people who want to study, or who may want to go to sleep at -a reasonable hour. Loud voices, boistrous laugh ter, slamming doors, moving fur niture, dropping heavy articles, long telephone calls, after quiet hours, is thoughtless to say the least. Yet the acid test of good breeding is consideration for oth ers. If you think freshmen are the only ones who need to be groom ed in the essentials of good man ners you were never more mis taken. I have lived both on, and off, the campus, and I am struck with how little innate refinement there is in the average graduate student. Universities are not supposed to be finishing schools, but I know of one school that refuses to award a degre to 3 candidate unless the candidate measures up to the over all standards of the college, regardless of whether she has passed her academic courses. Graduates of this school are considered representatives of the college! The school takes pride in the kind of ambassadors it sends out. 'If it looks like I am hipped on the subject of manners, I can on ly say I am, because throughout life the difference between good manners and lack of manners is the difference between succss and failure in our human relations. People with good manners are the people you like to live with, the kind of mate you stick with, until "death do us part." I see so many of both kinds, the thoughtful and the thoughtless, that I am glad to say I never seen a frerdlv bad mannered per son at the University. That would be inconceivable at UNC. Rules can serve as useful guide posts to the ultimate goal which Ls a fierce pride in ones own self respect and an equal respect for the rights of others. Otelia C. Connor "noise" yet. In closing I would like to suggest that there are right and wrong ways to legislate. If the IFC de sires to rid fraternity areas of Sunday noise, it should first find out where the noise comes from. If thp "noises" stem from "live music," then they should outlaw that particular "live music" on Sun days. If I were a legislator and d?sired to rid news stands of pornographic mabazims, I surely would n't start by outlawing all litenxy works. Would you? Bobby Haas View 81 Preview Anthony Wolff It' is indicative of one of thu inanities here abous that the Duke University Student Forum last week sponsored Poet E. E. Cu minings on their campus, while the local Student Forum made plans to present Cartoonist Wralt Kelly here: were it not for the fact that Mr. Kelly was unable to appear and so there was no lecture at all, the University of North Carolina would have had the dubious distinction of playing host to the distinctly lesser poet. There is a related implication in the fact that this University, along with several qther organi zations, sponsored a pre-eminent scientist, Dr. Ed ward Teller, in an address to a group of North Carolina high school students: and yet no attempt was made to permit Carolina students to meet, hear, or question this great man. 'More understandable, perhaps, is the fact that the rarely seen Mr. T. S. Eliot was in the poetic state of Texas recently, and nobody here knew about it in time to bribe him here on his return east. Particularly in the case of Mr. Eliot, and partly in the other cases, there is obviously no one per son or group at fault. This does not alter the fact that the fault is a grevious one, and should be corrected; for it is through contact with men and minds such as these that the University becomes most valuable; this is particularly true since in creased enrollment and lack of funds have serious ly undermined the value of the University's own plant. Messrs. Cummings, Eliot and Teller could have compensated for a lot of in-.ernal stagnation. In almost everyarea but the intellectual, there is no such lick of care and planning. In athletics, every possible measure is taken to insure public enthusiams: there is no reason to assume that the new parking lot was intended primarily for any thing but the football crowds; there is considerable pressure for a new gymnasium, or even a colosiurn, in spite of more pressing and important needs else where; and the local athletic mentors are presented with exhorbitant salaries and an occasional Cadillac to make sure that they will net be enticed away. In dress, great pains are taken to provide tht student with the proper thing: any local merchant is only too happy to perform this function, most often, again, at prices which are as padded as the Ivy League jackets aren't. In view of all this, it becomes essential that the interested students be encouraged by the Uni versity and its various sub-institutions to come into contact with intellects such as those of Dr. Teller Mr. Eliot, and Mr. CHmmings. Thera is some ef fort being made on this campus toward that end, but not enough. Education 1 (Continued Frrm Cohmin 3) ing can be best handled in small sectional courses In any event, he requires instructors themselves thoroughly competent in their fields and imbued with high standards of excellence for their student. (c) The average boy or girl can be economically and effectively taught by the lecture method if our most inspiring and popular lecturers are assigned this job and furnished all the aids and equipment necessary (for example, the best available apparatus for, class demonstration in sicience, together with funds for the invention of more striking devices for this purpose). "If I 1 l j
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