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MCE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, ??58 Fraternities M.my p p!r h.ivr ."skrd why is so much written mi fr.itcrrnt u . Why, if ou are opposed to them, do iu lint wnie that they should be abolished and h.te done with it. The answer is simple. 'I tn re is i . r t h i n 4 inherently wrong with fra trrmtie. I-i '.it emit les have the potential of bein one of tlie genuinely creative organs on the campus thereby intellectual developmeii is encouraged an;i i mm.iI outlet i provided. the problem is that on the UNC campus for the mot p. irt fr.itci nities subordinate the first for the rcond Tuis mihl be changed. lnt ad of being the driving intellectual forces on the c. imp. is by virtue of their desire, and ability to pVt';o intelluent people, fraternities are in the main unformist. sedentary, and inert with the ex 1 1 i t ; n f mk i.d activities. In lt .i I f il. fuinding individual excellence, they l.irueh dem.iii.I that the individual be pleasing. In-dead t' driving towards campus improvement, t!n-v drive t" ' arfi frjtt rnity protection and campus ..n 1 ui !d ihii,teret. I j i -1 . I tit providing leadership, they provide 1 1 act i' n II i rot iiciesxjty jhat they do this, but the I'-cM-rd Ntrm with its encumbrances of archiac idea, aid pr.ictices denies the creativity that fra ternities can possess. 'I here i not one person cn tho campus who does not need a tu1 outlet, and no one can really say tli.it i S.iiui.l.v night party even if it is a complete tit ham h is no hf .t'thy to relieve pent up tensions. It i i n vhm people live from Saturday to Satur t'.i fit! the trouble begins. Dy that token nothing i- b.isu.iUy wrong with driking. except excessive di.n .in:, and p.ct of this is bred by some of the lid. . tli.i! fraternities have to live under. To better fraternities several things are neces s.i i y . The f;M and mod controversial' is deferred rii.h, nut a a complete upheaval, but coincident vuth a new !u,!ent union, campus programming, and a e:'r f r Iraternities to financially prepare !nr the switrh'uer. iti order that they may take mil me.i-.mrs ;h .ire necessary to keep the house Irom bankrrptcy. The program is necessary for the rushee in that he can make an adequate appraisal of his academic responsibilities, that he can be settled in the extra curriculars of his choice, that he can be sure of which fraternity anil why fraternity, and so that he will have adjusted to Carolina life. For the fra ternities this would be advatageous in that they would be dealing wit fi a greatly matured product, that they would be able to know the boy and what he could do and be, and that they could bo sure of his resolve. If the IKC wants to assume a role of prominence, it can do so by bringing, this about and implement ing the appropriate procedures so that for six m nths or a year fraternities wojld not be rushing boys every nii:ht. Ideally, a vtar's delay with a stipulation that an individual can only visit a fra ternity once during that time, with a not so-rigid silent period, and with a limitation on fraternity spending would be the best program to have. If the IFC wants to assert itself, this is an area where it can do fraternities and the campus a great deal of good. Tho ire enn also hHp bring about an atmosphere of freedom ami individual respect in fraternities by eliminating forms of compulsion. Compulsory par tics or compulsory study halls-have no real benefit except that they heighten the drive to conformity, by 1) imposing social standards of dress and man ner?, inclining social technique on people who might want otherwise and who would want more freedom to choose their companions of the opposite sex. and 2 by inllicting study habits unnatural to some, making study a drudgery rather than a joy. A forthright stand in each individual house or by the IKC on these matters would alleviate at least some tansion. The ll'C could further take a firm stand on dis-("itn-natory clauses. There is no reason that a rush list should be marked with the letter.!, next to a Jewish boy's name. Who knows, a Jewish fraternity might pledge a non-Jewish boy or vice-versa, and the idea of discrimination might have t chance of breaking down. A simple process of elimination of the letter .1 would help insure that each boy would more l.kcly be judged on hi5 individual merit than on a superficial designation such as re ligion. Further, those fraternities which have dis criminatory clauses in their charters can work to take these out and if necessary, as happened re cently at Amherst disaffiliate from the national of fice, until the national accepts them with this change. This in no way denies any individual the right of choosing his r-wn associates, but at the s;ime time gives all students the opportunity to be judged on their own merits without the criterion? ot rare, creed, and national origin entering in. It is inconsistent with the idea of equal opportunity on the campus, for a large segment of a great cam pus group to erect these petty bars to individual interthange. The IKC and the individual fraternity can do much to better the pledgeship of each individual They first c;n insist on a sane pledgeship a pledgeship in which adjusts the jdedge to the other members of the house without making him accept the values of, the other members of. the house. This pledgeshj'sliould be 'as mild as possible .so that acceptance can come from mutual respect rather than individual subservience. This does not mean that occasional hell should not.be raised, but -that it be the exception rather than the rule. The pledge should be encouraged to seek his own values to differ on major things while conforming on the minor ones, and to do any of these things only as it is true to those principles which he has come to accept as true. The ''big brother" should be a friend, not a mother. The fraternities should encourage scholarship, not with the end in view to have the highest house average on the campus, because a C-plus average with some of the brightest boys on campus is not much of an achievement. They should encourage love of learning and open horizons of knowledge for the individual rather than closing them through superimposed competition. Scholarship, as most things are. is individual, and individual stimulation is the order of the day. See FRATERNITIES on Column 7 Letters Miss Combes: In a letter published on page 2 of the "Doily Tar Heel" on 1 Oct. lfJ.8 you stated yoir opposition to birth control. This is, of course, your privilege. It is not your priv ilege, however, to deny to others who do believe in it such informa tion as may be had concerning birth control a.id contraceptive de vices and lechniques, and the right to practice contraception. This, eve: by the remotest conception. 1 ouly a majority of the voters in the U. S. could h ive any rijiht to deny, and snicc the majority do not oppose birth co.itrol. the N.Y.C. Board of Hospitals took the only honest course open to it. To have clone otherwise vvoild have been the rieht of a minority to rule and against that Western history records a long scries of wars. Secondly, you '"wonder how many New York women will need farther nicdioil aid to relieve them from the nervous tensions suffered by millions of Roman Catholic and other women, who, not being married to millonaires. can afford only so many children, who live in dread of marital re lations lest they produce another child for whom they cannot prop erly care, or those thousands of women for whom just one more pregnancy could be fatal and who may thus be exposing them selves to leaving motherless grow ing families whom ihey love and who need them.? What about their mental state? Are thev first of all intelligent, responsible human beings, with-a duty toward those whom they can safely bear and properly care for, rear and edu cate, or are they merely anthropid cattle, glorified breeding stock for political causes, jutocratic or theocratic? In the m llion years of mankind on this earth, I should hope that we have made at leas a little progress from the purely animal level. In the book of Genesis (Roman Catholic Rible. chapter 1. verse 27. "God created man in his im age. In the image of God he creat ed him. Male and fenalc he creat ed them." Man (including the fe- Teamsler Sidelight: LM$tyi wmnA'' Sir 'F' The IFC could further benefit the campus scho- lastically and judicially by advocating the abolish ment cf quiz files and term paper files, txisting as they are, they are an encouragement to short cuts ;ather than an academic stimulus. A real, academic community cannot be built on short cuts. true. Possibly half of them will have made mistakes: This observation is not intended as support for any plea for de ferred rushing, because the setup now is conducted ; at its logical time in 'the 'year. Neither is it Cocyrisht, 1958, The Pulitzer Publishing Co Si. Louis Post Dispatch Ed Rowland t This column will be old hat in formation to upperclassmen and may seem a little exaggerated to most of the freshmen. But when the activities of rush week are Participation in activities should be encouraged over and each fraternity is cele--not to bring glory to the house or to protect fra brating the addition of their new ternities or for the individual's glory, but rather for pledges, the boys who went the knowledge that may come from that participa through rush will see that this is tion especially in some of the non-elected positions. Finally, the fraternities : can . engage n.. some programming for themselves, 'Discussion- groups, speakers, panels, musicians, andoth'er forms of' In tellectual stimuli can be had,' and a major project of the IFC and of fraternities in general might be to have a program committee to bring the issues of the present day world and the issues that haw been with people from time immemorial to the ffvue nf frntprnitv members. To increase thei- anti-fraternity, because these or- awareness ana stimulate' a curiosity that may : never ganizafcons perform a valuable stimulated unless this 'type of action is taken, service to the campus and the would be' one- of the greatest projects the fraterni students. ' . ties could undertake. They might build,, instead of Rather I favor a modification destroy, constructive leadership on the UNC campus, in rush week, one that might The administration can help also.1 They may keep the feelings of fraternity help by ridding the fraternities of such regulations men and pledges from being as the drinking rule which make hypocrisy an in hurt through hasty decisions. The evitability. This rule alone has done more to under hasfe and rush (literally) that mine the campus judicial system than any-piece of characterizes the week- is per- legislation, and makes something forbidden out of haps the weakest link in the something that might be taken naturally and in chain that is fraternities at Caro- moderation,' thus bringing on a desire for drinking Una. to get drunk rather than drinking or non-drinking Rush should extend over a two- for the sake of personal enjoyment, and for con week period, with parties- being sistency with an individual's own personal scruples, conducted every other night. This Morality cannot be legislated. plan, which the Pan-Hel council Fraternities want to expand, but the administra has adopted to some degree in tion should have an obligation on their, shoulder sororitj rush, would allow time to keep from aiding in their expansion drive, until for study by both the brothers the fraternities do something to better their own and the rushees, and it might conditions, then making for expansion of a valuable keep some freshman from mak- Part of the campus, rather than expansion of a ing a decision that he will regret campus parasite. ? for four years here Fraternities are filled with great opportunities. It is obvious that fraternities They at the present time may be described as po3. can make mistakes in a boy's sessing potential, but very little Jcinetic lt; is hoped character during rush. Later that their potentialities when the boy is balled out of the , A Perfect system needs good men tote be -real-wM h Jo w Atw ly effective. But -an-imperfect system with the best Out Of Joint March Wind The hippiest character-on this campus is an evil little genius who spends his spare time contemplat ing: (1) his navel; (2) Quemoy-Matsu; (3) Jim Tatum. male of the species), created in Last week however, while recuperating from half a the image of God. has. within tre dozen ridiculous viruses, this character got on to a limits of this world, powers of much more therapeutic kick than the three I have thought, reason and creation (in listed above. In the belief that we have all been doing too much thinking about Mr. Dulles and his mad adventures that will probably kill us all, I'd the image of his maker), to enable him to better iiis lot on earth, to set himself above the purely ani mal level with some degree of se curity. Animals have virtually no con trol over breeding t nd procreat ing, as they have no.ie over food supply and as only a few have over shelter. Man, however, has learned to build houses, plant crops, irrigate land, etc., to as sure a more stable existence. Why not also with his progeny? In the past human population was kept down by plague and pestilence, as well as by war. When Genesis 1.28 was spoken, the wcrld was un derpopulated and so continued up to even a few short centuries ago. The command was ,;iven to the Hebrews at a time when they were a small folk having a hard time raising an army to survive against the Canaanites. That day is over. Antibiotics and sanitation have re duced plagues and pestilences to the point of mere nuisances, and population in the past hundred years has swollen enormously, so much so that only 2) percent of today's world population are ade ouately fed, and at best, were the population static, we could scarce, ly more than double '.hat percent age at the present time. Food supply techinqucs have not kept pace with procreative capacity. Do you advocate tiat we, like the rabbits on the little California isle a generation ago senselessly breed ourselves out of existence by completely outrunning the food supply? Or would you have us abandon sanitation and antibio ties, to bring back cholera, Black Plague, smallpox, childbed fever, etc.? Or were it more compatible with our God-given capacity to our reason to control our own destiny, at least in part, and our godly duty to use this capacity to the best of our ability (to do less is to insult our Creator by mis using His gifts) for the purpose of making the world a little more secure for our descendants that we found it, just as oir forebears strove ft) do for us? It pains me, but I r.aust charac terize your attitude concerning birth control, that of the Roman Catholic 'Church, as loresightless, unreasoning, reactionary, unjust, inhuman, irresponsible and irre verent. Alben; G minder ''ifA Kit" 'A t -3 4 K3 kick with you. When I visited my friend a few days ago he greeted me with this shout: "GIDDY UP, GID DY UP, GO WAKE THE CITY UP!" Naturally, I looked bewildered and I stayed that way until my friend played a new LP that he had just purchased-and, in the ver nacular, was flipping ov er. I Hipped too. The album is titled, "Sing a Song of Basic," and is on the ABC-Framount label. It is a collection of extraordinary vocal arrangements, copied note for note, from the old Count Basie standards, and re produced via a multiple recording technique so that three singers sound not like a chorus but like a big band. Even the solos have been duplicated note for note. To give you some idea of the effect, this is a portion of one of the lyrics titled, "Little Pony." REEDS: Hurry up, dig a little pony I know. BRASS: Say that's so. REEDS: I said, hurry up, dig and little pony will blow. BRASS: Ride, ride, ride. REEDS: Giddy up, giddy up. do me the ditty up. Giddy up, giddy up, go wake the city up. BRASS: People pass word, he's the last word. That's the mass word, they don't dig till he's big then they wig. SOLO: Want to say a lot about litle pony. Want to celebrate the night pony booted up thebig beat. I can't stop telling what he was doing to blow as though his heart was in it every minute Singin' with a pretty kind of sound really giving every pound never acting likethe greatest oat around. Everybody dug and he had them really drinking, like they did a lot of swigging from a gallon jug. Little pony went a riding, illustrating what a horn is really for,, had them comin' back for more, when they added up the score, joy galore. SOLO: Anywhere you go, they gotta saddle Little Pony with a solid reputation. People think of Little Pony as a real King, and his playing is a pleasure like to share this new j giving thing. Blowing a horn and riding go t'gether and forever give the kind of thrill a lot of people never wanna end. But dig me telling about it, baby. And I'm merely going through it. He can figure it out and do it. The guiding spirit behind this fantastic produc tion is a jazzman named Dave Lambert who first became a cinder in the public eye in 1944 when he Jid a bop vocal, ''W'hat's This," with the Krupa band. lie next appeared around 1947 when he coached a vocal group for Stan Kenton; this was the group that did "Across the Alley from the Alamo," and other well-remembered hits. In 1950 a Lambert group recorded four interesting sides for Capitol, and one of the girls in this group went to France and later organized the Blue Stars. In other words, Dave Lambert is an extremely im portant, though little known, figure in the world of jazz vocalizing. He has the reputation; this album should bring him the fame. Lambert of course must share the kudos with his talented associates, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross. Hendricks was the cat who burned midnight oil for a year to write the lyrics. Speaking of the lyrics, as I departed my friend was talking on the telephone with one of the cuter members of our faculty (Lorraine by name) to sug gest that she give the following lecture to her freshman English class: "Here's a bit you should know. Yes, you love her so I know I know that you love her so. But what you don't know is this. Your kind of loving is the kind women never miss." He thought the freshmen would be pleasantly sur prised by the great flexibility and vitality of the English language, especially when used by hip peo ple. (Freshmen are notoriously un-hip.) Well, if you twist Kemp's arm hard enough, he'll order a copy for you. "Sing a Song of Basie." We're not kidding DONT PASS THIS ONE BY. More Readers Write EDITOR: I was rather amused by Mr. William Cheney's letter in the Wednesday Daily Tar Heel reveal, ing that he had been "jarred" by Anthony Wolff's reference to B.B. as a kissing existentialist. Surely Mr. Cheney is aware that while existentialism does not mean eccentric haircuts, turtle neck, sweaters, oversized medal lions, loud inferior jazz, and free love, this is what the term has, unfortunately, been perverted to symbolize to many of the intel lectually sloppy among us as niy-s-elf. Although by n0 means a dis ciple of Mr. (Wolff, I thought his analogy was particularly appropri ate if, however, a bit trite. I am impressed by the fact that Mr. Cheney is either a serious, , student of philosophy or is very adept at manipulating a Diction ary of Philosophy. May I suggest that Mr. Cheney come down from his sanctimoni ous, pedantic position and familia rize himself with the contemporary situation, however, distasteful this situation may be to him, before continuing to enlighten us - in matteis philosophical. WILLIAM N. ROGERS EDITOR: On reading Nancy Turner's" let ter criticizing Cort Edward's article advocating polygamy the following question comes to my mind. Why is it that around here the moment anyone even breathes one word about sex everyone feels it is their moral obligation to right eously object? Don't people have enough of a sense of humor to regard Edward's article as a wit ty piece of satire without feel- of men cannot work. The need tor improvement is obviously there. Employees cumstance that often occurs is when a boy's intelligence is over estimated and he fails to make his grades and then drops out of the fraternity if not out of school. Spreading out the, activities of rush week ' probably would pre vent these from happening. , Over a period of 170 years student ; government The Interfraternity Council may has curved out a small area where it is autonomous, oppose this idea and possibly they This area has been fought for over -and over,' again will be' able to give excellent with the administration coming to the rescue on reasons why it won't work. On some occasions.. . . - :- " - : . the other hand, if it is even con- This autonomy is . beings threatened :againf this sidered, a big step forward will time by a ruling of the attorney-general which places be taken. student employees in University employeer status, The IFC is too conservative and and in its effect denies the. hiring and. firings power hestiant at present. It is in the of student paid employees to the students. . ; process of being shaken from its No one in student government question's the uliJ narrow view, but in the meantime mate say-so of the administration or the Board ot the whole system of fraternities Trustees, what students arefi'gjHmi:-a'tfijl'e -present is deteriorating because its rush time to preserve is the measure of autonomy they organization is poor and less ef- now nave- vv- v. fective than it could be. " A ean Fred Weaver will-not aivyaygTa'ce the ; chair of the Dean of Students: office i to see that, stu- Education At University Fred Weaver dent freedom is protected, for:rien-Itk(p'bean? Wea ver are called upon to assume even 'greater roles of responsibility. Hence, to perpetuate student autonomy . there needs to be a certain separation . of student paid employees from University employees, ,f Or ith a man with less sensitivity to student, needs than Fred Weaver, the system could degenerate , into an ad ministrative - control of student finances. The grounds for separation are clear. - Student? pay these people and students levy rthe payment upon themselves. With administratinn WHno a He is a vian who has come to ruling favorable .to the students probably could be love the truth and to live by it, found. (This is the final part of a five part presentation of Dean Fred Weaver's talk to the freshmen at Y camp.) ing ttot their mct'al attitudes and codes are going to be up rooted? -A number of years ago Swift modestly proposed eating the children of Ireland to get rid of excess population. The Irish, as far as I know, didn't run to their cook books to look up re cepics for Human a La King or Homo Sapien stew. Do you sup pose that all male students at UXC will start buying 2 or 3 fraternity pins? Hardly. One trouble with students every where is that they don't know how or what to think. Once in a while there come along students, such a-s Edwards, who do come out with new ideas. One meets, in stead of friends, squawking indivi duals who will not be moved from .their own fixed ideas. I guess this is better than silence. It's time all of us woke up. Namii Withheld by Request he has - learned how to learn and has acquired a real appetite for disciplined inquiry; he is a man whose learning has bound him to the common good and has loosed him from his natural bad habits of pre-judgment. He is a man whose cour age lifts him above conformity to the crowd and compels him to a creative maladjustment in any "normal" society, and whose intelligence is the instru ment of his love. He belongs to a family, a race, a class, a lard, a iqzticm but he loves all these within a higher loyal ty to God and the greatest good. He is a man whose morality springs from a source higher than his super-ego and flows up from a deep love of the right 'beyond mere calculation. This is what our schools are for: to furnish the nation and the nations with men and women of this spirit and this mind. This is what our churches are for: to call men of reason to the life of faith and to "unite the pair so long disjoined, knoicledge and vital piety." The most important question, before you now is whether your school and your church have prepared you for the Time Be ing and the crisis at its further It is hoped that those in the administration, p ticularly the Chancellor will be able to recognize the educational value of student autonomy in that area where students are fit to govern and see that this is perpetuated. The official student publication of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published dailv except Sunday, Mon day and examination periods and summer terms. Entered as second class ' mas ter in the pos't office in Chapel Hill, N.C under the Act' of . March 8, 1870. Sub scription rates: $4.50 per semester, $8.50 per year. I mlM jC 21 Editor CURTIS CANS Managing Editors CHARLIE SLOAN. CLARKE JONES News Editors ANN FRYE, BILL KTNCAID Business Manager WALKER BLANTON Advertising Manager J-RED KATZIN Asst. Adv. Manager end. Now, to summarize, I have made Sports Editor three suggestions: read, think, act. I have said that if you do these things diligently something Subscription Manage will happen to you whereby the JOHN WINTER RUSTY HAMMOND Associate Editor ED ROWLAND AVERY THOMAS weaning of education will reveal Circulation Manager BOB WALKER itself to you and you will know Arts Editor what the purpose of education is. : That is a marvelous thing to have Coed Edior ANTHONY WOLFF JOAN BROCK happen. And I think you have chief Photographer come to a good place to have it happen to you, BUDDY SPOON
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