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fHE DAILY TAR HEEL r-- ' f FRIDAY, MAY 15. 1959 r3 IAC1 TWO Fraternities art- Iul! cognizant of the problems which (.'r.linj mkijI fraternities are facing today. We are a u : t f l.th the pod ami bad points of the fra U rral ssti m as it exists. We are more than familiar w.th the working of individual fraternities, their iird and thir assets. We know these things be we are n the inide. And because we have tb;; adaiitu-. we feel that we are more justified m making comment on fraternities and the Inter fta:rnit louncil in general than would people ho did not share our first hand knowledge. Yet, ;.mij! with our remasks on fraternities both now and in the future, will k criticism as well as laudatory leuurk. r r perhaps, sum" of the glarin? weak i.. --. .m l failures ,f fraternities have been a lack f genuine leadership among the Greek-letter men. 11, 1- i one area that will jjreatly improve during the coming ear. as the IKC seems to have an out itiiilmg F.ruit:e Committee. There ha been a prevailing attitude among fra ternity men that 'heir sstem and way of life is un-tt-iulijl'le b tlxw who occupy the lofty towers in N.uth r.uil.l:ng The IFC has contented itself with nieiKtr attempts to maintain the status quo. And this has hurt because it has forced the Faculty Council to lake steps of its own which are very di.v tjvjrful to a Ijrge majority of the fraternity men. but. in in.ui uus they have asked for it. We real ize that it is erv hard to supply any type of cen trahed leadership to 24 separate fraternities. Ye', we hope ami fully expect that Ashe Kxuni. the new 11 V prew. cm do mi it he tries. We stand behind Kxum and Student liody Tresident Charlie Gray who have s.i 1.1 they hope fraternity men will accept the iulm! from the faculty Council concerning actives with Ca craves, uith as little fuss as possible. Concerning this new rule which will require iO.' t f a fraternity's actives to have a C-average in the tall semester of next year, 7()' in the spring and lir i from that time on we have several comments. We do not feel that this is a particularly good rule. We do however, feel it necessary. It is unfortunate that the IH couldn't have taken such action itself, for. it might probably have gotten away with much lr s stringent stipulations. We offer the hope that the Faculty Council will revise the penalties to be imposed against fraternities without the required Lumber of C members. As it currently stands, the lirst ofleiise w.ll result in a reprimand, and the second in loss of a semester's rushing privileges. In between that should be inserted a semester's social probation f r the second violation, rather than the .,s of rushing. In other scholastic items pertaining to fraterni ties, we highly compliment the IFC for passing, on their own initiative, a regulation that a pledge must make his grades" within two semesters in order to affiliate with a house. This is a sensible decision md should eliminate "perennial bull pledges." We hope that Kxum and his fellow worker will rto away with the lethargic attitude which has long Wen, in the IFC. We hope that each fraternity man will realize that self -complacency is not Indicative of the type of leadership that fraternities should exert on this campus. We hope that the average Greek will get with his IFC representatives and demand action We hope that fraternities have been shaken enough by these recent actions to finally acknowledge the fact that they are far from un touchable. And. we hope that readers of this, edi torial will know that they have read the words of a fraternity man. one who is concerned with the future of his house and of all others. Fraternities must not be afraid to make altera tions and changes. This is the way to go forward, the way that they must now go. If fraternities are to survive, if they are to remain an integral part of the Carolina tradition, they must justify their existence and make a vital contribution to the wel fare of the academic community as well as to pro vide a social outlet. Terry Sanford Now that the people of North Carolina are beginning to wonder who will be North Carolina's next governor I guess that it is time that they are informed who that man will be. The next Governor of North Carolina will be Terry Sanford. dimply because he is the moM qualified, the best known, and the best liked man in North Carolina today. Sanford accepted one of the most important tasks in Norlh Carolina, in lfl."4. when he agreed tc pilot and manage the Senator ial campaign of the late U. S. Senator W. Kerr Scott. Sanford is responsible for expos ing the "rotten and dirty" ma terial that was used against Scott in the last minutes of the cam paign in a desperate effort to de feat him. but history did not re peat itself 1950 Smear campaign against Dr. Frank P. Graham) and Kerr Scott was elected. Since then Sanlord has been mentioned as a possible candidate, first in and now in 19'0. He is going to run and he is going to be elected, and here's betting that Sanford will be one of the best Governors the Old North State has ever sired. Sanford is a distinguished law yer and former state senator, and I believe that his work to wards his election as governor will be one of the cleanest cam paiga? that North Carolina has ever seen. It will not be one of lies and mud slinging, because Terry Sanford does not have to resort to these tactics, but it will be a positive, clean campaign. All you politicians with ambi tions to be governor in Hkiu, had best save your money and join in electing North Carolina's next Governor Terry Sanford. DBS "We Want To Protect You Against The Possibility That Criminals Might Hide In Here" Swipe 'iNy fjXci'jr gsStZ2-rsrr 'sij. SiJr r! 7"",' 4 " tLr ;"CS y By Rusty Hammond An old adage in the theatre says a bad dress rehearsal means a good play. If that's the case, then "Inherit the Wind" should have been tremendous. Reason? Right , in the middle of the -dress rehear , sal, two guys on a motorcycle went roaring across the center of the stage. And that, . my friend, just ain't in the script! Seems to. me like all the Wom en's Residence Council is, is a training camp for the DAR. Good to see that the medieval honor council has finally been brought out of the dark ages; but the light seems to be hurting their eyes. Maybe some of that "kan garoo court" atmosphere will be done away with now. Open letter to Chuck Erickson UNC Athletic Director) and Ed die Cameron (Duke Athletic Di rector): We hope you are proud of yourselves for moving the Duke-Carolina football game back to Thanksgiving so the students can't attend. We hope you are proud of destroying the rivalry in one of this country's most tradi tional games. Most of all, we hope you really enjoy that extra money - WE HOPE YOU CHOKE ON II!!! That editorial writer is not DEAD but he should be, you sim ple Yankee grad-student jerk. Apologies to everyone who reads this that there is no poem in cluded. I guess we're in the min ority on this edit page. U. of View And Preview Wolff Michi igan By KENNETH McELDOWNEY Anthony Wolff J. M. SYNGE: 1871 -1909. By David H. Greene end Edward M. Stephens. 321 pp. Illustrated. New York: The Macmiilan Company. $6.95. ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN -SEPS A series of eight proposal; uii acuueuuc ireeuom were ois- cussed at a recent meeting of the Not until fully fifty years after his death do we Student Government Council at at last get a detailed biography of John Millington the University of Michigan. Synge. His brother, Edward, refused to allow access One proposal recommended stu- to Synge's papers for twenty years. Then, when Ed dent organizatioas not be required ward died another relation took them over, and to submit membership lists to the finally produced a biography of unpublishable Office of Student Affairs. Council ,enSth. This relation was Edward M. Stephens, co member Al Haber who drafted author of this book, who died before he had a chance the proposals, said public distrust t0 work on the collaboration. His tremendous manu- i .11 . l r- . . i ... . . , scripi ana an me synge maienais were nnany maa? available to D. H. Greene on the condition that he credit Stephens with co-authorship. of certain political ideologies might discourage a student from joining a political club if he knew his name would be associated with it. The official atudeal publication il the Publication l..ard of the University of North Carolina, ihera It If Synge's family has complicated life of his biographers for the past fifty years, they also made Haber also offered a proposal things pretty uncomfortable for the playwright him asking the University of Michi- self. Unwittingly, through their pretentiousness and gan to take any actions neces- posst-ssiveness, their Hell-fire Protestantism intensi sary to remove a censure placed fied by persecution, and the hard, unrelenting dis on it by the American Association cipline that went with it, Synge's family particular of University Professors. The cen- ly his mother, who raised him fed his art and sug sure was for failure to observe gested its course. In this respect, Synge's career was general principles of academic similar to O'Neill's: not only was each work pro fieedom and tenure. duced a victory over a shattered psyche, but the In order to help preserve the wors themselves are in one sense a repeated answer right of the .student another pro- to the family which frustrated him in his youth. Thus, posal was made to guarantee a for instance, his plays are written in Gaelic, which student facing discipline the right his mother and her cla5S violently opposed as "vul- la published daily ureit Monday and elimination perlodi ind auiumer terme. Entert-d second clat matter In the post office In Chapel Hill. N. C. under the art of March 8 1870 Subscription rates: $450 per ie iarter. t30 pi vtar The Daily Tar Heel li printed by the Newi Inc., CarTborc, N. C Editor Associate Editor Managing Editors C ; t ,V4' ff l' ' "'' to both public hearings and ap peal of any decision. The motion also stated that a student should bi able to speak in his own be half and to hear all evidence en tered in his case. III 1V 1Nu-i 4 J jf DAVIS B. YOUNG FRANK CROWTHER . CHUCK ROSS RON SHUMATE BuvneM Manager WALKER BLANTON Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN News Editor Z ANTFrYE Peview EJitor , ANTHONY WOLFF ..st. News Kditor . V ports Editor Feature Editor ist. Adv. Manager L:rrulati jn Manager . 6obcriptioi Manager ! hilograpbfrs .. . ... ED RLNER ELLIOTT COOPER MARY ALICE ROWLETTE LEE ARBOGAS! BOB WALKER AVERY THOMAS - BILL BRINKHOUS PETER NESS GARY GREER gar, and to which Synge himself felt drawn for perhaps that very reason. Likewise, his mother's religious convictions included a complete lack of sympathy for the Irish peasant, whom she regarded as living proof of God's punishment of Original Sin. Synge's love for the Aran Islands, and his sympa- The problem of university com- his cuJtur gtem originalI from the cold cmo. munication with a student's pa- tionless hardness of his home rents, without his knowledge, was the subject of another proposal. This biography, although it is the first, is obvious It recommended that no contact thorough. Not only the bare facts of Synge's per be made with parents without the sonal life, but also the revolutionary political and student's consent or al: least T " knowledge, (Cases involving mun icipal officials might be excep tions.) Haber also proposed that any information given to an Uni versity of Michigan official . in confidence not be revealed to any other official or person. As a reaction to the policy that in some of the ROTC programs a student who drops out of the pro gram also is suspended from the University of Michigan, it was suggested such students be given the right to petition to re-enter the Institution. A questioning of the University of Michigan's present policy on controversial speakers on campus was the basis of another proposal. Haber's list of proposals con cluded with the suggestion the student government publish a booklet setting forth for all Uni versity of Michigan students the principles and particulars of aca demic freedom. He considered this the most important of oil his proposals, Haber said. literary life of Ireland in his time, are clearly and fully depicted. In the future, all that can be desired for anything but the most scholarly purposes is a biography which tells something more of the "why" than the "what," and which includes more criticism of the plays. The present volume had to come first, though, and it is welcome. THE CRITICAL WRITINGS OF JAMES JOYCE. Edit ed by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. 288 pp. New York: The Viking Press. $5. Literary criticism runs through Joyce's writings: sometimes explicit, as in the aesthetic presented in Portrait of the Artist, and the theory of Shakespeare in Ulysses; sometimes implicit, as in the parodies which appear in both Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. On these few brilliant occurances alone rests Joyce's reputation as a critic for he wrote practically no literary criticism as such. In fact, he disliked it disliked, particularly, the image of himself as "Mann of letters" and he even satisfied requests that he write introductions for books by personal friends with notes praising their personal qualities. What, then, of the collection at hand? Certainly it is of primary interest to the Joyce scholar, and not the general reader. While there are occasional items of general interest, and a few things for the literary scavenger, most of the material is valuable only as it gives some clues to its author's develop ment. For most such purposes, Portrait of the Artist is much superior. Much of the book is taken up with brief reviews which he did for newspapers while he was still in his early twenties. For the most part, they show onlv a considerable talent for the English language, but little gift for criticism. In two long pieces on Ibsen, something of the later Joyce can be seen, but not much. And so it goes, throughout the book: very occasional gems cropping up among the fifty-seven pieces. The editors could have done the general reader a service by culling the critical fragments from the novels. As they did not do so, the best of Joyce's criticism remains uncollected, and it is back to the novels we must go in search of it. Please don't shout, you might wake up th Advisory Budget Commission. What do you mean, you can't write home? It's cheaper than mailing a letter pretty soon. Add Cliches: Once there was an effort that wasn't "undying." Letter Editor: i In the letter "Mother Superior" in Sunday's Daily Tar Heel, the young lady author (I presume it was a girl although she did not have courage to allow her name to be published) showed a colossal lack of good tste and good man ners. If she does not wish to abide by the University regula tions, she is not compelled to stay here. In fact, the University would probably be better off with out her and it would leave room for some other girl who would be happy here. With the attitude that the author of the letter in question has, I doubt that an "education at my State Univer sity" would do her much good. Also, I think you, Mr. Editor, showed verv poor judgment in printing such an uncouth letter. ; Mrs. A. A. Harrer - Information Desk ; : - South Bldg. (I should be glad for you to use my name.) We are glad to use it, the Editor.) . .uirfteHibrary Loan Center Editor: The Interlibrary Loan Center, the subject of to day's article, is conspicious as one of the few depart ments of the library where decent service is still available. Alas! the people on the outside are the beneficiaries in this area and the students and facul ty of the University must continue to suffer under the weight of a library policy and organization which is not only not helpful, but in reality detri mental to scholarship. What is the justification for the present refer ence system? Has any person ever attempted to do reference work in the library without cursing? Theo retically there are two separate reference services Humanities and Social Sciences. The Humanities di vision functions very well considering the fact that the Social Sciences (and BA) division has approp riated a large number of its essential reference works. The Social Sciences reference staff is non existant there is not a properly qualified reference librarian in it. Technical qualifications are not every thing and might be compensated for if the staff were willing to help the student which is not th case. Can any student get a social science reference question answered at night? No! There is no refer ence staff at night. As a result all the students g j to the Humanities room for help which they get if the Social Science room does not contain the book; which are needed to answer a query. It does seem that if the people in Social Science won't, or can do their jobs they would at least allow someone m the library to do them. But no, the student is not to be helped administrative organization stands in the way. The split reference "service" is a most unfortun ate policy of the library but there are other polirie? which cause a person to wonder if the basic ob jective of the library administration is to preserve, or to destroy, its value as a library. This is recog nized as a serious charge but examine the evidence: (1) The library does not keep the major newspapers of the world, except for a very few, for more than six months there is no German newspaper on file in the library. The library does not subscribe to any newspaper for one-third of the nations of the world There is no Pakistani newspaper in the library. Historians of the future will have a difficult time writing history without newspapers; (2) The library as a federal depository library is committed to pre serve the documents of the federal government, yet at this moment, according to partially substantiated rumor, plans are underway to discard a considerable portion of these documents. Is there any person at the library qualified to select the documents that should be retained? WTiat person has the foresigh? to know what documents will be of value? When the library of Harvard University is carefully filing away obscure pamphlets on segregation can the University of North Carolina destroy official docti ments of the United States government? When doi -i ments have to be justified on the basis of present usage the attitude of the person asking for such justification is easily suspected of being ignorant in the whole area. If librarians have no foresight nothing is to prevent them from using the lesson of the past; (3) It seems only reasonable that before any plan of retnention of vital materials can be de termined that a definite policy of acquisitions must be decided upon. We have noted the retention ot newspapers but in the area of documents a worse situation exists. The library has no discernabl plan of acquisitions, except one. The library will sub scribe to series of documents that require little work in processing. The library has not, for nearly a year, systematically surveyed the documents issued by the international organizations in order to secure the many valuable ones that we have not subscribed to already. The justification for this policy s twofold: efficiency and lack of interest in documents. a D X J CD I LiiajaAsuDpgMLY HE I I ( 'HE TURNED HiS V''" FELT THE PRESENCE V HEAD SUMY. J I OF SOMEONE j ?LUWLT" ff THE RQOy l AND THERE, EHIND HIM. WAS A VAMPfRE BAT." n, Ufa , z c -4 1 UEyb ca HOW ON YOU 81: VOU'fl fe A YOU'Vf AUNVAY5 A X WWA.T 61.52 IS TK8 NOT NgeSSSW A BUTTIRFLV" O B6U!6V67 I WAS IN . YOU COUIP 9: A MOTH LIKE M6' T'lV- ACCCOON AN'THg POOP !3?!(3HTg2'ATH!NS Gf ill i i ... VI LI I A I 11 1 r a m i ii ii A5 A f UU-KiOZlO TtK POG'S 0SST FiBn?, I, A WIS, I CUIM5 AU- PISA, THAT- I 30T P0C:5 15 IDP-imO A QOOv JVUNP TO YOU ANrCWBW A FeW HOU6S IN YO'MAINSAIU YOU AS2S55 WITH US gU35 THSU.POGS IS UfiLV, STUPID, PUNC65,NiTWiTTi;?. AVCOWARPIVA IUNKHAP$ AN' iW OUUJ. A yOTWAlNSAlU 1 1 WHO tm H6A89 j f( 13 O o o The lack of an acquisitions policy is also felt in the purchase of out of print books. The order de partment goes through such a long, detailed pro cedure to see if we already have a book, or if it can be secured at a lower price, that it is sold before the library sends off an order. The library then argues that orders should not be placed from cata logues. Is there any logic behind the present Reserve system? Do not the students of the Humanities and of the Social Sciences have something in com mon? Is it really necessary to separate Social Scienc? course numbered above. 100 with those below 100? Pity the poor student who is so unlucky as to have five courses spread over the many areas. Is ic any surprise to see the students sitting on the library steps resting when you realize that he will have to walk one and one-half miles in order to get the boaks for tomorrow's assignment? There is a little note in the stacks saying that the Southern Historical Collection handles micro film. This looks simple to someone sitting in an office who happens to have the magical key that opens the door between the SHC and the microfilm, but it is not the least simple to the poor tired stu dent who can't go through that door but must walk up five flights of stairs and then down three more to get to the people who are to service him. Th? same problem exists with the Undergraduate Libra ry and the most popular magazines. Will someone please open the doors in the stacks or put the books back in the stacks. It is understood that the present library organi zation is a prelude to a future reorganized, expand ed library. Is this any excuse for the present lack of organization, conflicting assignment, failure to prt vide decent service, and the general lack of fore sight? If the library can not manage its present facilities and duties how can it even thin's of the future? R. B. Hrmn 1