THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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FACE TWO
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1959
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SP Meeting
At lr.ixt hom tin- eyes ed one ;.; 1 e lie hlc
.nul liotii the actions ol several nieinhcrs. I ho
Student Paity me e t in.; Monday niht was
a e nliiin:4 .ill.iii when it raine to endoise
iiKfil nl e .indiel.ite s loi the oilier ol editor
of I hr D.iiK I n Heel.
One andid.'.e, in a campaign statement
app atiii'4 on pae 1 . e Ii.ip.; e el that he and his
oppmunt were not allowed to present their
view on The Daily Tar Heel. This state
ment U nnttne. At no time was either can
didate piohihited fiotn speakim; in any dis
union. Indeed, either candidate cotild have
piohddv ptesented the hill tel ol their re
sp (tie sHhes .it either the discussion as
to whether to endorse or not or alter the
diM usien in older to press the issue of re-
oiiMdetation. It is no donht that the speech
either e .mdid.itc minht have ;icn at this
time would have fallen on deal ears in a
snnnwli.it hostile i-udicnec. lint the oppor
liniiiv was theie.
I he statement that patlv metnhets had no
lidit to eall "incompetent" is somewhat
valid. One of the piinury teasons that the
putv voieel not to endorse was that the hi
paitiv'i selection hoaid had not met and
that the competence of either candidate had
not been judged.
Ilowcvei. a one proponent ol endorse
ment jMiiimd Mit. the pnhlie has had ade-
pi.nc lime to see these candidates and in
visrraie their capabilities . :id baekronnds.
Ihiis. ii is clear that tin- comments were
well within the tights ol the party, although
b.r those who illicit cveiiiu.illv want to end-use
aiiothei candidate or anv ol these can
didates, the iciniiks. in laiiness. miln
have waitctl until the endorsement meeting.
Ii ii i.i b- jMiintcil out that some of those
who spotisoicd the- motion not to endorse did
so on the dual basis that thev felt the- paity
had no ipialilicd alternative below them and
that ; lot her candidate-. Norman l. Smith,
intended to i ti ii lor editor. This is also a mis
tale. Xoiman Smith, in a signed statement re
leased vesteiclav to I he Daily Tar Heel, said
"I will under no c ire unistaiu es be a candi
date loi the cditotship of The Daily I at
I Ic e 1 this spi in.;."
1 hose who would not believe his vetbal
staumcui should be .idvised bv this declara
tion. In the meantime, the Student l'.nty has
piovided time lor : candidates to speak
on Nl.mli . Uv tl" tin' iirpaitisan selec
tion tM:ul will have met, and all candidates
who iii.m run will be in the race. That even
ing theie w ill be a minimum of two .speec lies
which, il the Student Paity continues its
past stand.nds of laiiness. will be heard by
all members with opportunity given to all
lo rec c ive an endorsement.
Telephones
'I lie telephone system in Chapel Hill
se c uis to avetae ;t least one foul up a clay
in The Daily Tar Heel oflire which has in
total onl two phones. No doubt the situa
tion is as bad in other aieas.
One es student repotted that it took her
appiovimate Iv te n minutes to net an inform
ation oper.'or. and that a I0114 distance op
c i.itor in Rah was put to extreme trouble
living to teach a patty in the Chapel Hill
e ommiuiitv .
II the state (the I'tiiveisiiy) cannot run
the svstctu lii-lit. then it had better sell it
to jKople who can. State ownership of phones
is epiestionable to bein with, and ownership
that does not pi oxide ; 'lecpiately for the
eeimmunitv is intolerable. The editor would
be willing to bet that if the Tniversity would
sell the telephone svstem, it would realie
enou di mone y to build almost all of a new
student union, something that illicit leiti
iii.itelv be coiisideucl a I'nivetsity enter
pl ise-.
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CURTIS CANS
CHUCK FLINNEB
STAN FISHER
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Business
Jonathan Yardlcy
(Continued fremt Yesterday)
Does the Business major feel he
is thinking "for himself" and be
ins encouraged to le:irn more than
a trade while in college? Many
do not. Many are leaving the de
partment, some because they can
not do the difficult work and it
is difficult), others because they
feel that they and their parents
are being cheated. Four years is
a big cut out of one's life, they
think, and maybe they should be
getting more than a careful sample
of the many ideas and particles
of knowledge being tossed around
outside the School of Business Ad
ministration. The students cannot complain 0!
the departmental leadership - they
may, like students in every school
of every university in the coun
try, complain about individual in
struct, but all seem to realize
that both the Business and Econ
omics Departments are being led
by men of extra-ordinary percep
tion, honesty, and intelligence.
Maurice I.ee in the School of Bus
iness Administration is an open
man who is ready and anxious to
talk about his woik. quick to de
fend and criticise. He knows the
failings of Business School through
out the nation and is outspoken in
his advocacy of change. His re
cent booklet, "Redesigning the
Products of the Business School,"
is testimony to this. Paul Guthrie
in the Deparrmeni of Economics
is equally honest and outspoken
and is nationally known for his
competence. These are good strong
men, yet their aims are being
thwarted by elements within the
very nature ol their field over
which they have no control.
Business Schools belong in Uni
versities but not in Colleges - the
University is supposed to be a
large foundation within which
knowledge at an extensive level
may be procured in many subjects;
the college is in reality a glori
lied high school in which the stu
Oent begins to take definite steps
toward specialization but is still
broadening the foundation of his
education which will further his
aim of becoming a cultured man.
When the Business Schools entered
the universities on the college level
they brought with them people
who were not interest ed in be
coming "cultured" - they brought
potential technicians, men who at
the age of nineteen were ready to
forget all aspects of man's experi
ence except tho.se involved in some
way with the fine art of money
changing. These are young men
who do not care what Shakespeare
wrote, what Jonson thought, why
Napoleon lived, who Plato was.
For they do not recognize the
great contributions these men
made to the developement of world
culture; they are only concerned
with the value of a dollar and the
greater value of a thousand.
What all of this is leading to is
the fact that a business school is
essentially a trade school. Like
mechanics' schools and radio re
pair schools, it deals with a deci
sive facet 01 modern life which
mast be studied in detail and with
out particular attention to other
aspects of contemporary and his
torical culture. How, therefore, can
any school of business adminis
tration resolve itself logically to
the rest of the campus of a uni
versity supposedly devoted to the
meting out of culture? This is dif
ficult, perhaps impossible. And in
stead of attempting to resolve
themselves to the campuses upon
which they are situated, the maj
ority of the nation's university-lo
cated business schools have taken
1, different tack: they become the
dominating element on the cam
pus. It is very difficult for anyone
outside the Business School on the
campus of the University of North
Carolina to feel empathy for eith
er the people or the aims of the
Business School. The attitude they
take is. in part, correct, but is also
provincial and narrow-m i n d e d.
Basically, they feel that the B. A.
School is a conglomeration of Phil
istine, manned bul automatons and
attended by ignorami. Some of the
people in the school itself agree - a
few students have been heard to
describe their fellow Business
majors as "clods." These stand
points, however, are not valid. The
people who run the Business
Schools and its instructors, are high
ly compel ent men. Contrary to
popular opinion, they are not men
who could not make a success in
business. They are interested, in
telligent men. Some of the stu
dents are smart, some intellectual
ly volatile and inquistive. but the
majority, while not "clods," seem
to have one definite failing for a
good student: they are not inter
ested in anything except making
money, and money is their God.
This is the crux of the entire
problem presented by the Business
School on the American campus.
There is a lack of concern for the
arts, the sciences, history, an 1 the
manifold and various achieve
ments of man throughout his'ory.
Because of this attitude, the Busi
ness Schools produce an end re
sult which is rather alarming. The
important thing to realize is that
the School itself is not completely
responsible. To be sure, it has
made definite steps toward furth
er limiting the scope of the stu
dent, by giving him a severe and
heavy schedule in business and
economics, by i.seilating him intel
lectually from the rest of the cam
pus, and by rivstricting his intel
lectual contacts. But the fault real
ly lies with the student. He is a
young man who is going to col
lege to get a college degree but
who does not want a college edu
cation. He realizes the value of
the college degree in contempor
ary society, and is very anxious
to bo nbte to capitalize upon its
worth. Bat the degree he is getting
does not represent college work
and achievement - it is a trade
school degree, a symbol of the
fact that he has learned a great
deal about the world of business
and very little about the rest of
the world.
A very interesting thing of note
:.hout the Business Schools is the
kind of businesman they seem to
be aiming to turn out. The boys
in the Business School at Carolina
are not being trained to be clerks.
Certified Public Accountants, what
one student described as "the in
tellectual janitors of the business
world." The same student said that
he felt that the training he was
receiving was going to give him
nothing more than maybe ten thou
sand a year at the most - not
much for a man of ambition. The
point is, however, that these are
not men of ambition. The most
outstanding .single factor driving
college sophomores to Business de
grees is the most important fac
tor in American life today - the
security drive. These are not boys
who want to make a million, not
products of the Horatio Alger
myth or followers of Andrew Car
negie. These are boys who are
scared stiff of not being able to
And B. A. Schools
"December, January, February, Marcli, April, May
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lind a job when they get out of
college, boys who want to marry
that sweetheart back home or the
cute little coed and have two and
a half children and live in Levit
town with a black cocker spaniel
nipping unpleasantly at the heels
of the postman and sit at home at
night in their undershirts and
watch the fights or Ed Sullivan.
Are they this bad? Not all of them,
to be sure, but enough so that
the School of Business Administra
tion comes to represent not highly
vaunt ed business ethics nor a mul
timillion dollar future, but con
summate mediocrity. These are
the students, and that is the?
school, and this is'hat they will
be. It could very well, be that we
are all waiting for another man
to come and overturn the tables
of the moneychangers!
Big Business
In 1924 the usually laconic Cal
vin Collidge made an extremely
accurate statement about the coun
try of which he was President:
"The business of America is busi
ness." The truth of tnis cannot be
denied, and the changing mean
ing of the statement is as impor
tant as the superficial meaning of
the fact. We have always thought
of America as a Capitalistic state,
and with that expression comes
certain definite implications: to us,
capitalism represents one man
monopolies, large concerns headed
by one despotic old man who gives
generously to worthy causes and
makes great sacrifices to main
tain good will with the rest of the
nation. This is no longer the case;
now America is a Business, of
Corporation, state.
While Capitalism implies to the
average person a large one man
monopoly, Business and Corpora
tion imply organizations working
with large staffs of little men who
form an entity when operating to
gether. "Togetherness" is the key
word of the Business Society, and
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ANNE FRYE
THE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL
it is this kind of business that is
the business of America. Loring
Mandel's Arthur Hennicut was the
Chairman of the Board of a Cor
poration, and all the other char
acters were involved with the cor
poration. These are the new Amer
icans, and they represent the new
America.
The Corporation does .very fun
ny things to men; some of them,
little but willful, rise to the top be
cause they are capable of working
with others; some of them fall
because, although strong, they are
unwilling to sacrifice their indivi
dualism to the group. Everything
is done in groups, and consequent
ly little individual credit is given.
The boss praises not individuals
but committees and branches and
cliques. "Each man for himself'
is passe; "each man for the
group" is predominant. The dis
turbing thing is that no one in the
organization seems to care. Each
member seems willing to be little,
willing to let group desires and
welfare over-ride h i s personal
wishes and preferences. If this
"individual" does not want fame
or wealth or success, what docs he
want? Who is he?
"The Organization Man" wants
only one thing: it is basic, it is
very important, yet it is the yearn
ing of LITTLE men - he wants
security. He wants the afore-mentioned
bourgeouis virtues. The old
virtues held sacred by the Protes
tant Ethic - success, material
wealth, a place in the community
are no longer meaningful to him.
In more ways than one, he is a
scared little man. Afraid of the
omni-present threat of war and in
ternational annihilation, he is con
cerned with only one thing - sur
vival. What he fails to understand
is that survival is easily obtained
in the twentieth century, and that
ii we are going to war we are
going to war and since there is
little he can do about it the best
thing he can do is forget it. He is
fooling himself into thinking that
the Corporation will at once main
tain his individuality and offer
him a refuge.
The one thing that the Corpora
tion will not do for him is help to
maintain his individuality. He
finds, if he is enough of a soul
searcher to realize the fact, that
he is actually heart and soul a
part of the Corporation. He is a
possessed man, a man who has
forced himself to be enslaved be
cause of his personal fears and
doubts. His mind is involved with
is this that
jative contribu-
Iture - the only
thing with which he is concerned
is the business and the money it
brings him. It is the part of life
with which he is not concerned
which must necessarily bother us,
and this is what we must examine.
A few Corporations have made
more than token el forts to be of
use in furthering culture in Amer
ica. Some through advertising,
some through scholarship pro
grams, some through endowments,
some through intelligent sponsor
ship of worthwhile television and
Notes In Review
Arthur Lessing
In the last concert of the Chapel Hill Concert
Series, the English pianist Louis Kentner presented
a recital that contained many flashes of beautiful
piano playing, but little in the way of consistent
and thorough interpretation. Whether these flashes
justified an entire evening of listening is ultimate
ly up to the individuals that attended the concert
for this reviewer they did not.
Mr. Kentner opened his program with two of the
very difficult interpretative works for the piano, Mo
zart's Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475 and Beethoven
E Major Sonata, Opus 109. The first work is curi
ously unMozartian with its loose form, ambiguous
themes, and strangely rambling development, it
is a work that would tax even the greatest of pian
ists because its interpretation does not present it
self clearly from the score. That does not mean that
a proper performance is impossible, but would sug
gest that in any performance of this work both
the intellectual grasp and imagination of the piar.i,t
have to come to grips with the substance and focus
of this work to an unusual extent. Mr. Kentner
played the Fantasia with sensitivity and a piano tone
that was masculine and properly dramatic. His feel
ing for the predominantly melancholy themes in
the work was evident in his touch. But the piece
as it came from his performance seemed to suffer
from unnecessary fragmentation. Mr. Kentner seem
ed unable to fully comprehend the subtle bridge
between the themes, and consequently we were left
behind in one theme as he embarked upon an other
or faced with making an almost bewildering jump
from one mood of a theme to another. What would
seem to be lacking here is a sense of unfolding that,
unfortunately, Mr. Kentner was not able to convey
in his performance.
The Beethoven sonata, too, was given a playing
that was truly beautiful at individual times in tone
and temperament. But those moments were, for this
reviewer, too infrequent to convey, fully the import
of the movements' contents. In this particular piece
of music, fragments were created by the pianist's
inconsistent tempi (most evident in the variation
of speed that was given to each thematic variation
radio programs, some through gen- in 1he ,ast m0vement) and unreliable phrasing
erous philanthropy - many have which, at times, seemed to badly obscure line and
made lasting and valuable contri- rhythmic configuration. The second shortcoming
buttons to American intellectual seemed to result from the first: within the rather
life. But the Corporation cannot disorderly and fast tempi of the Vivace and Pre
and does not represent the in- stissimo movements that Mr. Kentner accepted, it
dividual within itself. He is not a would be difficult for any pianist to bring clarity
"cultured man;" he does not ap- to music that by its very nature is already difficult
predate paintings by Ben Shahn, to comprehend. Nevertheless, an overall and stead:
music by Aaron Copeland, architec- tempo would have at least given the pianist the on
turc by Frank Lloyd Wright, books portunity to develop within these two movements
by William Faulkner, Shakespeare a greater sense of drive along fixed lines that, in
by the Old Vic Company. His re- this performance, was lacking, making Mr. Kentner's
creation consists of motor boats approach seem almost a bit tired. The last move
( there is an important distinction rnent was started with what I thought the proper
to be made between those who phrasing and feeling for the phrase, but again, as
sail on water and those who mo- s00n as the first variation appeared, Mr. Kentner
tor; those who sail represent the radically changed mood, tempo, phrasing, and even
genteel aristocracy who delight in
idling over the seas, while those
who motor are in a great hurry
to get nowhere and get the only
sensation from speed, not from
the close and meaningful contact
with nature) and Friday night
fights, Life Magazine (probably the
articulation, and the continuity of music fso very
necessary within the variation form for Beethoven
in his late works) was lost. The form of this move
ment a theme and variation demands in one
shape or another a consistency that Mr. Kentner
did not provide to his interpretation, and thus,
seriously damaged his performance.
Chopin's Two Ballades (G Minor, Opus 23; A Flat
worst publication in America), Ra- Major, Opus 7) received adequate if not particularly
dio City Music Hall, Bar-B-Q, dazzling performances. I was impressed with Mr.
chef's aprons with patent expres- Ken(ners classicaly subdued approach to the first
sions like "Oh you kid!" and . , ,... . A , .
u; u xT- u l u- Part of the first Ballade, but felt he sacrificed it
Watch My Worchestershire
printed on them, Thunderbirds to "necessary confusion in the second part.
(the nouveau riche equivalent of After intermission, the artist played Schumann's
the Mercedes), and lollin? nn t.hf 1 - . , ,
D - vraueSqUe) upus 10 ana mccaia upus 7. inese
were followed by works of Liszt and Balakirew,
all of them decadent compositions. An enthusiastic
audience was rewarded by several encores.
The Corporation Man is as deep
as a washbasin. He thinks the way However, when all is said and done, one cannot
his peers think, because to do helP but admire Mr. Kentner's persuasive playing
otherwise would invite sure disas- in the few but immensely pleasing passages where
ter and ostracization. In David he did seem lo penetrate into the depths of Mozart
Riesman's trems, he is excesive- . - . T 4U . . ...
" ucLuiuviii. xu iiiusc passages ne snowea Him
self to be an artist; I wish that could be said of
his entire recital.
patio - not the lawn - of that red
brick house in Westchester or
Stamford.
Next year's concert series was announced:
The Eglcvski-Hayden Ballet Group; the Ralph
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Awful Truth
ly "other-directed." Whose fault
is this? His, or the Corporations?
Neither is wholly at fault, but both
are guilty. The guilt of the Cor
poration lies in its lack of willing-
nP.SS in lllow nnv m nn tn ont ny
think as an independent indivi- Iluntr ChraIe; CIara May Turner' Mezzo-Soprano;
dual ... if such an animal exists and the plttsburg Symphony Orchestra under the
any more. The fault of the in- bat0n of William Steinburg, Anton Kuerti will be
dividual lies in his unwillingess to the young piano soloist with the orchestra.
take part in society as a respon- ' ' ;
sible. thinking man - he is so "
wrapped up in his selfish and ele
mental desires to lead what he
pictures as the "good life" that
he does not bother with the mind,
;tnd consequently the soul rots too.
Business is here to stay, and the
businessman right along with it.
But it is not fulfilling its role in
the development of man as a be- . .
ing which creates and thinks. The ly ohJrcho"s to coarse play that you
human mind is used as a rote, 7m! """)' are based on "common df-
subsidiary instrument which is use- but your objections to a play I find
ful only within prescribed limits. are nothing but "prudery."
When the business world realizes
that man is capable of doing great
things by himself and of being
more constructive when allowed to
let his mind do the things it was
supposed to do - think, create, and ,- my f)jflce strictly because I am a "dis
imagine business will be fulfill- ci jdinarian but you run your office strict
ing its obligations to mankind, and ' because you are n "sadist."
will be a great deal more than a
line of tables in an empty room, 0ur competitor's company is slow on de
a neon sign glowing on a wet Hveiies because of a "bottleneck " but our
night, a typewriter clicking away company is slow on deliveries because of "a
into the night - it will be a com- few little snags we're straightening out."
pesite of individuals striving as in
dividuals and as groups to better f, attorney "knows all the ins and outs"
both the Corporation and the ways but my opponent's attorney is a "slippery
of man. character."
Their nr,'ion has a "network of spies" but
our nation takes "security measures."
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