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PACE TWO mi DAILY TAR HEEL SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 19S9 CTo I Legislature & Laziness! Ihl- Jul the t !.t..r w I i! ! i it i . w ui. t :, I t ; I . : .' ! i Tii.f or : I ! t!i. t;,,l- . ! V I till- I.I.I ...:. the text of a letter received by 'f llib p.iper on Friday afternoon. It l. the Student Party lloorleader Jim w!i w also excutive assistant to the I the !inlt 11! I.uily and a former caiuii- uir pni.l.r.iy of the student body. I.e. I tr 1 1 ! V I" e in a ear that includes por at.e sessions. I hae lost sun" ..id m some of my fellow ligis- i ' , . . : ! .i v it. 'tt tin- student solons Uagrantly i !i .c 1 1 ,m esentation and responsibility v I -i tins, not because I intro- iu e, lt.it only because the bill and diilil lr construed in on way so as ..i? i! v.i ml i odiived for any reason other ; i' '.u Legislature more representative t. . i i..;U'i! lo" i;u more than that each leg .' i j n hm i;iv; unit in his district twic I t!u -r meetings do the following three t e ! i the people of what he is doint ' if. i"Ji inform them of what others are . . . ue them an opportunity to ak questions I k l!ie students, what do you know about uit I ire dm s. do you know your legislator, I. .d i' a'!, d i .ni believe in the Student Legis-i.i- .! efitelive erganization? If so, fine. If ; . i mic thine I oiir opportunity Thursday vl.j i; 1 1 t ki.ow what Legislature does, and I !!n- ! . . 1 ! i a . 1 1 :i lej'jsl.iiors represents you, go in .... ! a I. h.m uliv be voted aaiiut the ..!. I I I . t!,t ir ( I . .d l' P i! J ! l.irn t Uni :. r . f vt.;.!i ! I'.i n. i I . .i . t ., : . ,i . t,..: . I I.. r.i. !.? It o! e i t.. It. J; til l Lindj Biter Troy Bttnton . Jim Blu Den Dotson Frank Eagles Anne Cckeiion Rob Crulb Peyton Hawes Dixie Jackson Dave Jones Sherman Kennedy F red Lavery Jack Lavvinq Bill Mallory Taylor McMillan Bill Miller Joe Oppenbtimer Rick Overttreet Hank Patterion Bill Porter Bob Sevier Pooe Shuford Bob Smith Bsb Thompson Bill Young ! hi re doesn't change the but to a move reconsideration, they have re.uh ' ::n ..rd the boat" I do not care how they th.tfu'e t'ie worifipj the idea Is what counts. I clKiKen.M' j on legislators to amend your wavs and o.i ( i.ii-f.tut nts to rise up and voice your rt l! the I i ohstion and .!!."! i Jim Crownovtr Ye ,T,':ee 1(,(! ; with the sentiments expressed 1 p. p ( ro'vr.ovt r. The paper feels that in defeat i! 4 thiN !,,!!. the Student Legislature has publically l.ei; ed to d---tr('.v the very essence of its foundation. 1 or a r up that is supposed to be representative, it i Jtoui a un representative as any body we know . It i, unt'.rtiiriate that a bill Uke this must be introdiM t'd m the first place. It is even more unfor t. ir.it. th.it the Legislature defeats such a measure. I: a day vvh. n this University is ever increasing in M,e. there n more than ever a necessity for student b et' ;s i "; to meet with their constituents. Does the Student LeuisKi'ure do this? No. For most of them, t! ;r job cea-es when they are elected, except for a few t1 "I members like Hep. Crownover, who fee! a dut I ) d a fust class job.) r t; i 1 Is published daily excrpl Monday and examination periods ind .i'niine termi thtrrid i second das matter In the l..st office io Chapel Hill. N. C. unJer inr art of March 8 H7 SubM-rivrion rtes: $4.50 per nt ?ar The Daily Tar Heel Is printed by the News Inc., Carrboro, N. C. F.dit'.r Associate LMitor Maria;; i ri;; L'ditors . P.us'nes Manager Advertising Manager New s I'.ditur Lev lew Kditor Chape & North Ctro1 vttkith firit in faniuiry oliisa j f ; : 1 ,1 ri in X j More Social Fees Editor: The attiluJe of the woman stu ents who are in favor of the Wom en's Residence Ce.unciP collecting secial lees seems to be that if an activify is considered wortliwhile ly Ihnse who participate in it, it should he made cnmpulsory. This seems logical somehow: Kvery hody likes parties; make sure they go to them. Hveryone likes the housemother, so no one will cbjeet to a small fine to insure t hat she receives a present. (If anyone shruld (.bjiet. a few nights spent tampuseJ will take care of them. If th's is an exaggeration-if on'y a few neurotic trnublesmakers con sider a be lor parties an imposi tion, why is it necessary for the W.U.C. to collect t'.ie tees? A vole no in the referendum is not a vote against having parties in the dorms, against giving the housemother a gift, against send ing flowers to girls who are sick, although this Ls how the bill has been presented to the woman stu dents by the representatives of W.R.C.. A vote no, simply means that there are many other ways to lirunce worthwhile activities, and that dormitory unity of feeling 'mentioned by Cynthia Grant in l.er lelterl is best liulheied by h aving I lie responsibility for their activities lo the girls in the dorms. "But the, dorms don't have the rower to collect the lees." lf I am misquoting Kay Hoortz, I hope that she will correct me. No they don't-that is precisely the point. If the girls in the dorms are so anx U.us for these activities, then they should have the opportunity to con duct them on a voluntary basis. This would not mean having 80 separate collections for activities, 3 doim meetings a week to decide mi activities, or a treasurer who is haggard from the bookkeeping re quited to keep funds in order. I can only attribute lack of imagina tion to tho.se who make thj objection. "You Think There's Still Hope?" tEijc Daily v& Heel Th- offinal studeni publication i" the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina. -her U DAVIS II. YOUNC FR A N K Clio WTI I Kit """""CHUCK ROSS RON SHUMATE WALKER RLANTON FRED KATZIN .1. ANN FRVE ANTHONY WOLFF sst. News Editor ED RINER Sports Editor feature Editor Asst. Adv. Manager Circulation Manager Subvi r.ptiori Manager Tholographers Nikht Editor ELLIOTT COOPER MARY ALICE "hOWLCTTE lee arbogast . bob- Walker avery thomas BlIJ. BRINKHOUS PETER NESS II- ' '-'31 at mlllill , .S XJ i.ii'iui iyi i j s - - " jf c '- Rights & Duties view 8i Preview Anthony Wolff ARISTOPHANES: LADIES' DAY. An English Ver- Our town is not really full cf sion of THESMOPHORIAZUSAE by Dudley Fitts. editors and publishers this week. 134 pp. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. $4. It merely seems that way. The The announcement of Ladies' Day as a title for meeting of the American Newspa- a forthcoming book by Dudley Fitts was somewhat per Publishers Association, with mystifying: the similarity to the title of one of related meetings by press agen- those recipe-crammed magazines distributed at the cies, has brought us only about super-market was unmistakable, twelve hundred guests. But these Happily, it turns out that the only recipe in this twelve hundred represent, in the new book is for humor, for Ladies' Day is the lat A.N.P.A. alone, 846 newspapers est of Mr. Fitts' translations of Aristophanes. Like Lysistrata, Frogs and Birds tne omer piays in the series this one is a delight. with a total circulation of more thun fifty-two million. It '41 To be sure, credit for the play still goes to Aristophanes, with the witty and erudite Mr. Fitts listed as translator. Even wthout direct acquain tance with the source, it seems justifiable to re cognize Mr. Fitts more as a collaborator. Obviously, the ancient Greek language and conventions do not just metamorphose into modern English equivalent-.. Such an updating requires not only a proper re vprpnop for the nrioinal tpmnerprl with clasif! pressure of a foolish law, or by the scholarship; but also a creaive talent comparab!, almost to the originary genius. The extent of Mr. Fitts' service in this depart ment can best be illustrated by a comparison ot some lines from his version of Lysistrata with tlie everybody has become more vir- corresponding lines from the fairly standard version tuous. It is because it wouldn't gp (Before Fitts). pay advertisers to try to dictate The standard translation gives us the following and it wouldn't pay newspapers to at the very opening of the play: Ceasorship has smashed type and stopped presses in every part of the world that is dictatorially ruled chiefly, but not entirely, the Communist world. Even in a demo cracy, however, we have to watch for fear of interference by some dim-witted public official, by the unauthorized activity of private or ganizations. Advertizers in Amer ica today do not dictate to news papers. This is not wholly because j-i. , 7..?tf H'jiJTv Jr' ' I -A A v?- I. ! . i 4 7 v to let them dictate. The main asset ol any newspaper is the confidence of its readers. But American journalism is not as free as it ought to be. The di rectors of The Associated Press yesterday mentioned among the "obstacles to fair and factual news reporting" the restriction of "ac res to public information in the news." For example, this newspa- CALONICE. Good day, Lysistrata; but pray, why this dark, forbidding face, my dear? Believe me, you don't look a bit pretty with those black lowering brows. This is unwieldly prose and no poetry at all. Mr. Fitts renders the same speech: KALONIKE: Goodmorning, Lysistrata. Dariinq. don't frown so! You'll ruin your facet " With this, the stage is set for a different busi ness for plausible women and for comedy. The versions are similar enough in sense to assure the a Witt''tT?4 fori- , ner recently had a trvins exneri enee of sitting for many months mono lingual cripples among us that they approxi- on an item of news, because, un Legislative Roundup Actions With Our Solons happily, there were officials who didn't believe the American peo ple were grown up enough to be told about the brilliant success of an effort to throw a radioactive band in space around the world. mate the original text. They are both "authentic. The difference is that the standard translation is treacherous in its faithfulness to Aristophanes: hu mor and poetry, the non-corporeal essences of the original, are smothered under a literal blanket. Dave Jones Thursday night the Student Legislature aeted on two pieces of legislation written by Jim Crownover (SP). Representative Crownover acted in what he felt was the best interest of StuJt-nt Government and of the Dormitory Women students concerned. The legislature saw it to defeat one of Crown over's hills and to n:is th other. There wa :iliso- for floats, exhibits, parties, flowers ,ute,y nQ pgrty or b,ock votjn,, on t,uhcr of thes(? measures. In so far as the "Bill to make meetings of all legislators with their constituencies compulsory" is concerned, the prevailing side was against the mea sure for more or less the following reasons. It is a bill and not a resolution.. It uses the word "Compulsory" and does not have any enforcement provisions: It has a requirement that legislators fill semester. Use of the lee could be out a form certifying that they have been to all explained at the first dormitory the required meetings etc.; And it does not tak? meeting. Since large parties are fully into account the peculiar problems of the dif- held infrequently, girls could sign ferent districts. up for them and pay the treas- In addition to these arguments, there is one urer. Money for (lowers and pre- which was put forth by one of the bills oponents. sents could be collected by the that something like this should be expressed oraly hall representatives. Surely a girl and taken on as a tradition, and become a common would prefer a smaller bouquet law for the legislature. He felt that if it were writ ten down it would be only so many words As neatly as I can find, the so cial and activities fees are used for the sick, and presents for the housemother and maids (Surplus funds go up in smoke at the end of the year Why not put break fasts and coffee breaks, floats and exhibits under one fee voluntary!, to be collected along with the key depadt at the beginning of each from the girl- around her to one Dormitory." who live closest on from "Smith piece of paper and have no meaning. Undoubtedly there will be a lot of discussion on this bill in the next few days. Legislators will be patted on the back and also condemned for If there are objections to this their stands on this issue. plan, there are modifications which Crownover's intent was to put the legislator in will make it satisfactory: these a Position where he can communicate with his constituants. This is something that has been need misht vary according to the re- as the bigf,est prob!cn1 of student Government to- quirements of each particular ed for a long time. Communication has been cited dormitory. In any event, why not day. try lo devise a suitable plan? This m he technical problems in this bill can be ... . .... licked, and the responsibility of the individual coul J be one area in which the , . , . . . . ... 4 , , ... t legislator to his constituents be brought home forc- W.R.C. might offer constructive fv,Hy enough the measure will sail through the body advice and help to women stu- and win unanamous approval, when it is reconsider- i ed. approach of making a rule to evade a problem, in.stead of trying solve it. to liARY GREEK The important thing is that com pulsory charity is nothing to be prcuj of, and enforced activities are an affront to the girl who feels that hhe is q.iite able to devise her o n amusement. Every stu dent on this campus she ul l be able to choose for himself in such mat ters. The woman students should not be an exception to this. Jeannette Hurnsby Quote He, Woodrow Wilson, could write notes from Sinai or Olympus; he could remain unapproachable in the White House or even in the Ccunc'l of Ten and be safe. But if he once steppei down to the intimate quality oi th. four, the game was evidently up. John Maynard Keynes "A bill to authorize a referendum of women dormitory residents concerning the collection of social and activity fees" was the other Crownover bill. This fee problem has been a serious one for i long time. It came to a head recently when the old method of collection was ruled unconstitutional. A bill to authorize the WRC to collect the fees was introduced in the 26th assembly. It got abso lutely nowhere. It was so unconstitutional that it just lay there and died when the session died. Then the introduction of the bill that passed Thursday night brought new light and controversey. As written and passed a week ago the bill said "The question to be voted on . . . will be whether or not WRC shall be allowed to collect . . . fees, to have the power to determine the amount . . . ect."' Student Body President Gray and other experts pointed out that this was likewise unconstitutional. Fees can be collected by or for a student group only after approval by the University. Thursday night, Crownover called the bill back rto the floor and asked for changes which would pro vide that "The administration be requested by the WRC to authorize the collection of a social and ac tivity fee from all women's dorms." Now there was on the floor a constitutional mea sure designed to tackle the ticklish problem of wo men's fees. Representative Crownover had come i long way in a sticky uphill fight. But he still had a long way to go. There was serious opposition from members who fetl that min arity right were being infringed upon by the setting up of machinery to put the collection of these fees into opeartion. They argued themselves out, then used all of the parliamentary maneuvers they could think of to continue debate and prevent a vote until their point was driven home again and again. Acting Speaker Jim Scott (SP) guided the bill through the maneuver and discussion like a pilot guiding the Queen Mary up the Colorado River. (All this time the oldest SP was very glad that he was not in the Speaker's Chair.) Finally, every motion had been voted on and the vote on the main bill came. The body passed it 29 to 11. An amendment that had been reccomended by the WRC to protect minority right, and to give them a stronger mandate in the event of passage was in troduced by Representative Bob Nobles (SP). This amendment called for a two thirds vote to effect passage of the referendum. Nobles asked for ;.nd got special orders. The amendment passed with out serious opposition. To compound the crime, the blanket is of Vic torian manufacture, and lines that could not have been anything but low burlesque taunts in the orig No thoughtful newspaper man inal become inept nQn sequitors in translation. Thus would argue that owners and edi- this insipid exchange in the Parados: tors of newspapers have a sacred CHOROUS OF OLD MEN. Silence! ere my stick his right to print everything they feel cut short your days like printing. The right in this CHOROUS OF WOMEN. Now, just you dare to touth case in not the newspaper's right stratyllis with the tip of your finger! to print, but the public's right to Mr. Fitts reads the same exchange somewhat know. If any news vehicle distorts, differently, with good results. misrepresents or suppresses, it be- CHORAGOS (m): Look out! I've got a stick! trays its trust. Journalism has to be a business or it could not survive, or would not remain free. It is also a serv ice and an art, and justifies its existence in general and in parti cular cases by remaining so. " i I'.1'" ' j hill hl'i ti.'.j "1 ;! If 'It T ' llh.! if IT WEREN'T RAlNiNS. Uic'D BE OUT THERE placing our first same, AND GETmS SlAU6rlTRD.. (0 Mouf oilt able IPoao never lakes my war'mngs If JTop scientists u drotfes claim, tlnat tne sun will engulf line Prn-th 4r n fWii Million years-- take ur give a muiion. T7 dST " y THE OTHEQ TEAM COOULD BE Wf DON'T Y0l JUST Wi RUNNING ROUGH-SHOD OVER LOVE RAW? J K US...POUNDINS 05 INTO TH mKJh Mi MM GND...HM1IATING OS- : wMM&mWwM ' W&MMkl SiiBI iiwwPil 9m., I J4;1HIW s, 1 I "-yi-Mr . mmm jPY , ,.. I "CUe'll see uiho 1 VVI in - i i ii CHORAGOS (w): You lay a half-inch of your stick on Stratyllis, and you'll never stick again! Not only is the repartee itself funny in the Fitts version; but the tone and structure also permit a comic reading. Lysistrata is used here for purposes of compari son mainly because it happens to be at hand. It is worth noting, however, that Fitts version is on THE NEW ORK TIMES sae a a very reduced price at the local bookstore; April 21, 1959 and that the play is the basis for the forthcoming Sound and Fury production. Oh, Hellas!. Four Freedoms Also, the success of Mr. Fitts' Ladies' Day (Greek title: Thesmophoriazusae; with a circumflex over A good society is able to face the "u" for easy pronunciation) is due to similar vir schemes of world domination and tues. Again, the play has been rendered freely out foreign revolutions alike without of real respect for the original, rather than slavishly fear. translated out of misguided devotion to scholar ship. Since the beginning of our Amer- Ladies Day tQ difficuUies of ican history we have been engaged translation the almost irnp0ssible problem of liter in change, in a perpetual, peace- ary satire The play concerns Euripides' attempt ful revolution, a revolution which to send a representative to the Greek equivalent goes on steadily, quietly, adjust- of women's Honor Council, in order to defend him ing itself to changing conditions seif from censure by the irate gals, without the concentration camp or The plot gave the conservative Aristophanes an the quick-lime in the ditch. The opportunity to parody Euripides' plays as well as world order which we seek is the to burlesque his character. Many of the piays which cooperation of free countries, work- are parodied have been lost, and so Mr. Fitts ha ing together in a friendly civilized to make appropriate substitutions. Lines from society. Shakespeare do the trick in many spots, and mis cellaneous other bits and snatches work well el.se- This nation has placed its destiny where. in the hands, heads and hearts of For the rest, it is all a romp: Euripides makes a its millions of free men and worn- transvestite of his father-in-law and sends him en, and its faith in freedom under n-shaxen, wigged, frocked and gowned, lisp.n . , , , like a fairy, to speak in his behalf at the all-girl the guidance of God. Freedom nn,,nnii tu A j- i r & council. The old man is discovered, of course, and means the supremacy of human only some spectacular foolery gets the two inter rights everywhere. Our support Jopers off intact, with only their dignity any the goes to those who struggle to gain worse fr wear. The three plays of Aristophanes previously ren dered by Mr. Fitts are all concerned to some ex tent with social themes. Lysistrata, for instance, can be read as a pacifist tract if cne is not in the mood for laughts. Birds involves the search for Utopia. Not so Ladies' Day: here AristoDhanes was content Franklin D. Roosevelt to reduce the elegance of Euripides to ludicrous posing and bombast, and to take a few pokes at women on the side. Although the substitutions from Shakespeare and elsewhere cannot restore the literary satire, Mr Fitts has included so much visual humor, coar.se punning and general bawdiness in this version ttut it is a complete delight. those rights and keep them. Our strength is in our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory. v m 2 C o o o New Election The paper would like to emphasize that there is an important revote in Dorm Men's III for two legislative seats this Tuesday. It is necessitated by an unfortunate incident, which occured in the first election. Winning candidate Roy Goodman (SP) was a poll tender in his dormitory during the day. This is a specific violation of the Election Laws, which states that no candidate may held out during an election as a poll tender. It is too bad that Goodman did not realize, an 1 had net beerr informed of this. He acted as a poll tender in good faith. The paper, although not en dorsing any candidate for any office, feels that Goodman has received undue publicity and is th- bu cf nasty whispers. We repeat, he acted in god faith. WMtll" "ti
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