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f ACE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 21, 195? The Same Old Khrushchev frr lsop. pcrlnp the best cf the syndi-' cited t olummsts. wrote on Saturday morn ing to the elicit th.it tin American people must not he lulled into complacency ?nd the frclui; tint i hin will he okay now that Khtushihev has seen this ountry. Well meaning people the wot hi over ate under the opinion that the visit of Mr. K is indi(.itie ol a nmic amiable internation al situat;on. lire, use Mr. K has agreed to no deadline on the Heilin situation doesn't mean th. all is well. Fighting still rages in the I. lot i in hills, he Chinese Commonists !a( nndv scii(ns border penetrations dur ing the past month in India. Surely these ?rcn't i -4 1 ? s or the brighter tomorrow. I he d.uigMs ol luither spreading of the Red ideolo's must be guarded against by all I'ice thinking people. We should not be nckrd into the Communist trap and lower out guard. The world situation is certainly as ptcraiious as it was ? month ago. A tcm poiaty let-up in Cold War hostilities is no guarantee that the Kremlin has all ol a sud den become inlested with nice people. As ANop pointed out the feeling of gen et, d well being is somewhat similar to prior Woi Id W.n II (onditions in I. upland and Pr it o Minister ('hambeilin. We cannot go on mikin; concessions to the Russians. We must meet the challenge of their docti ine hearlon and convince the people ot the world that (uts is better. Somehow with all of the good will float ins about Ae can't forget Hungary in the fall ol if,7. This is the same Khrushchev. More Bond Issue Iti tea,: ids to the Piond Issue vote which will fake place next Tuesday, we cannot urge the student hodv strongly enough to take an active interest in the possible re ults. I fou do ou do this? 1 Ilu next time you write letters to ambodv in sour hometown during the next week, nigr them to ote for all nine pro posals on the Pond Issue. Ask them to speak to th' ii It it nds too. 2 Wiite a lettrr-to-the-editor to the editor ol vur hometown paper. In this let C J;ll lii'm tint live million three hundred and thiitv thousand dollars will come to this school if the ttond Issue is passed. Tell him that this motiev will go into ten pro tects mm h as new buildings classrooms and libo! atoi ies. Male sure that he knows we need these I n ilitics. You might tell him that we now hae 7.r' students on this campus, and r e expecting more. Impress him with the fact that mhi have to have a minimum of stull and things to cue for a large student population. And finally, make sine that he knows we aun't going to hrc that minimum il the inens - this state don't pass the I'.ond Issue. 1'ige ou hiends in the Chapel Hill area who ate ugisuicd to ote to do just that. This is an election in an off-year. There won't be too many voters at the polls next Tursdav. I herefoic, it won't take too many to win. If c vci there was a case when every sotr was nuial. this is it. Do your part, for if von don't, you will suffer in the most di rect manner. . What About This? 1. Th nation is t war. 2. Th nation It losing th war, badly. 3. Th nation muil vtly orUr rt Read er s "You're Being Provocative, Malicious, Slanderous. And Noj m)t Baity Car Ifyzd The official student publication of the Publication Bo-, d of he University of North Carolina where it is published ch'tly except Mon.lay and examination periods and fummpr terms. Entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N C. undor the ar of March 3. 1870. - Subscription nfe: $400 per se mester. $7.00 per far. Th Daily Tar Heel is printed by the New inc.. Carrboro, N. C, I t, K lKlfHT I (' 't Editor DAVIS B. young Associate Kditor FRANK CROWTIIER Editorial Asst. Mjnajiiritf Kditors . M LOU REDDEN CHUCK ROSS IARRY SMITH Biiflpess Manager . WALKER BLANTON Advertising Manager BARRY ZASLAV A Asst. Advertising Manager RICHARD WEINER New Editors Sports Editor DEE DANIELS EDWARD NEAL R IN EH HI. ELLIOTT COOPER Repository - i Dear Editor, I think it is more than slightly high time that someone cited the dangerous slickness of the steps in Bingham Hall. I go there three times a week and haven't missed seeing someone get racked but twice since school started. The steps are of marble, which Is slick enough in i'self and are also edged in slecl which is very slick, particularly to leather bot tomed shoes, and even more so to any wet shoe. Just today I managed to experi ence the humiliating thrill of tak ing in the steps at about six at the time myself, kicking a boy in the back and punching a girl in the back, with an umbrella I was carrying, in the process. None of us were hurt, although someone could have been, and seriously. Such mishaps are bad enough for buys but are really rough on our Carolina ladles and their, poise. In crowded condi.ions a fall al ways involves several people, en dangering all. The cost of re-dcing all the steps would undoubtedly be pretty high but would surely be worth it to prevent a serious injury or even someone's neck. At he present rate the law of averages is being severly strained and someone is almost bound to be hurt soon if the rate of accidents continues as is. Bob Cheek Chapel Hill Weekly Dear Kirby Jones, Perhaps you should think t.vice before heaping praises on your virtuous North. For your informa tion, newspapers in the South have taken the integrationist's realistic point of vie in recent years. Read several back editions of the Greens boro Daily News if you desire proof. One very seldom even sees the Northern race problems men-' tioned in print, so I can't under stand what you mean by what ' tne North is trying to do." We'll solve our problem, thank you. We will need outside help, it s true, but not your kind of help. Please try to remember that we have realized our problem 'reali zation is half the battle while the North is too busy "correcting the Scuth" to realize its problems. Larry Jordan 310 Graham Editor: The North-South fight presently being waged on the edit page re minus me cf nolhing quite so much as two little boys, each standing in his own backyard, hollering across the fence that "My mommy keeps a cleaner house than your mommy." If it wouldn't be too much of an impudence, I'd like to point out the possibility that there may be some dirt in everybody's base ment; and suggest that the two little boys in point prolific and talented writers though they may be quit yelling at each other as if they're really worried about it as they seem, and go back in the house and help mommy clean up. After they've taken their naps, of course. Barry Winston Editor: Having at last become thorough ly sick with your noxious paper's six times weekly pipsqueak bar rages of integration and assorted other pseudo-intellectual radical isms, I would like to propose two questions: 1) Don't you ever get discourag ed at the utter impotence of your petty little rantings? . anii 2 When are we giving the Tar Heel back to the Tarheels? Clyde Wilson Dear Sir: Sometime between Friday after noon, October 9 and Sunday morn ing, October 11, some individual or individuals took the notion that they had more immediate need of a number of objects in the kitchen of the Hillel Foundation than we did. We are missing one Webcor record changer, two packages of table linen, and two Silex ceffee bottles. Will you please be good enough to allow us the use of this column to request that whoever it was that took these, be good enough to re turn them immediately. Sincerely yours, E. M. Roseniweig 1 $4 Looking Around And Ahead (An adJrs by Chancellor Wil liam B. Avceck f (lie University of North Carolina before a Fa culty Club Luncheon in Chapel Hill on Tuesday. September 29, 1959. Part 1. Eciior) Anyone who und r ak s to I s the goals established U r education h our democratic society will come up with a long list in a short time. Three is, I believe general agree ment that we are in a race be tween education an 1 destruction. Since survival of tur civilization is at stake, millions of thoughtful Amricans would place foremost on their lists the winning cf the race. .Those of us who serve this his toric institution of higher learning have a particular duty: that f leading education in this struggle. Hew can we best meet this chal lenge? First of all. we must ch rt clear course. Because of the tremendous pressures implicit in cur daily tas"ks, it is difficult to focus on the vital and urgent un dertaking; yet, it is imperative that we do it. Any serious consideration of our mission in the foreseeable future must begin with the question of size'. In 1956 mere were 6,1171 re gular students in the University at Chapel Hill. For the following year the increase was only sixty seven. This Fall, the enrollment is 7,959. which is an increase of nearly one thousand in the short span of a biennium. This drama tic growth has occurred notwith standing the raising of entrance requirements, the freezing of en rollments in some of the profes sional progams. and the turning sway of qualified women appli cants because of a shortage of housing facilities. Conceding that there is no virtue in bigness per se, how big is too big? Some peo ple even now assert that the Uni versity is too big. Often these are the same people who insist that their son or daughter or "the son or daughter of a friend be ad mitted. If an optimum size has been established for various typos cf institutions, including our own, I am unaware of it. We must not close our doors at a certain en rollment level on the basis of spe culation and conjecture. What, then, are the criteria for establish ing a number beyond which we should not grow? At least two ? 1 5 ...f - . . 'fa V if-- 1 4 i t t x 1 come to mind. First, are we pro ducing a surplus of graduates in one or more of cur programs? The answer appears to be clearly, ' No." We need not fear that there will be a surplus of young men and young women who have spent it least four years studying a balanced program in the arts and sciences. Fortunaieiy. in recent years the students, in the selec tion of programs of study, have manifested a keen awareness that there is danger in trying (if I may paraphrase Edmund Burke to sharpen the mind by narrowing, it too soon. There is a trend on this campus to elevate all professional education to the graduate level. This indicates a growing apprecia tion on the part of the faculty, .students, and administration for the values inherent in a liberal ed ucation. In fact, some .students are so obsessed with the impor tance of a general education that they insist upon staying in the General College until graduation. Inasmuch as the Genral College is supposed to be the academic home for only the first two years, it is appropriate for the faculty to fore close this avenue to graduation. by requiring a period of study in the College of Arts and Sciences be fore awarding a "degree indicating four years of study in nonprofes sional programs. Turning to our graduate and professional pro grams, are we supplying the need? It is estimated that 25,000 new col leg? teachers will be needed each Cord And Discord Tony Turner Friedrich Nietzsche, the renowned Ger man philosopher, once made the profound And John Doe I think he's 20- conclusion that "God has died-" and that ing to pledge. Loaded? His old tne-fe xvas soon to appear in history an era man's filthy. He's such a swell r , ... ,' ,. of mad, atheistic turmoil, guy I can t believe it. ' "One of the best pledges though is John Die. He's really a swell guy. Athletic too. I just can't be lieve it. Harper's Bizarre In Y-Ccurt the other day (for hot chocolate), we happened to hear a fraternity man discussing the new crop of pledges in his house: "We've got John Doe sewed "up. Do you know him? He's really a swell guy. I just can't believe it He's really a john doe . .' ." We just couldn't .believe it. Last summer we attended the The world is acting as if Nietzsche's apo calyptic statement were inescapable, as if it were necessary that his prophecy would inevitably come true. So everyone is Fondly embracing atheism and its Nietzsche accom paniment, mad turmoil. year for the next ten years. More over, there is an increasing need for scholars trained in research in many fields. A roil call of our pro fessional schools: Law, Medicine. Dentistry, Journalism. Public Health, Library Science, Phar macy, Business Administration, Social Work, Nursing and Educa tion is all that is necessary to re mind us that more graduates are reeded in all of these areas. Thus, we may proceed to another im portant criterion to help -us de termine this question of size. The second test is whether at any given level of enrollment we have the resources not only to maintain but also to improve qual ity. These resources are unlikely to be supplied merely for the ask ing. It is incumbent upon us to for mulate a plan for growth. To make such a plan we must look r round and look ahead. We are Iree to seek out, examine, assem ble and interpret facts. We are free to examine the bases, the foundations, and the assumptions on which present knowledge rests. Further we are free to seek new ideas, new revelations of eternal truths, new values and new artis tic standarcis. Hence, there is noth ing to bar us from analyzing our own programs with the' same critical scrutiny with which we measure a variety of activities be yond the boundaries of the cam pus. It. is essential that we con stantly undergo self-examination c.nd that we reappraise our work in the light of changing circum stances. Choices must be made in relation to our existing activities as well as in those which we shall undertake in the future. It is ap parent that we cannot do all that we are free to undertake. The fact that we are a univer sity demands that w give priority to programs of the highest cali ber in teaching, research, and service. It is at this level that we should aspire to grow. Therefore, we must recapture wherever pos sible, resources which have been committed to programs with less exacting standards. May I illus trate: Formerly the University in the regular school year offered, for understandable reasons, sev eral remedial courses. The teach ing of these course consumed re sources which might otherwise hav6 The aurora of that age could well be upon us now: it is not unreasonable to assume "And you know the one all the that the cra 1s in its embryonic, if not an houses were after Swell Guy? , , c , , even more auanccu, siac 01 uc cjupmeiu. There aTe vestiges of the prophecy occurring ubiquitously: in political scrambles, in world crises, in bier busness. in the des:rada- wedding of a friend. There was a . . r , . . . fitting bachelor party beforehand. tlon of Christianity, m literature, and in And there was a fitting wake, at- the magnanimous blessings of the hydrogen tended by the surviving bachelors, bomb. On campus mad atheism seems to be afterward: the prevailing mood. "Too bad about him.'' "We all have to go sometime." "Bettor him than me." -"Another bachelor bit the dust." The other night we were invited to his hoftse for supper. His wife served up one of the best meals Tve've had in a long time, with seconds all around. And now we suspect that he may have some- ' thing there. But Nietzsche was only philosophizing. We've known for a long time that His word is not predestined truth. Atheism milk is bad for you. "It builds may yet win. but wild havoc is not ineluct- up calcium deposits in your joints. aDv concomitant. A quart a day for twenty years and yo-u'U sound like a bagful of ovstcr clillis 99 Now 'someone is putting the bad 1nTruf th? h.5elf a reIon4 in V.-"" mouth on eggs. They contain cho- Whereas Christianity implies good, it lesterol. We don't know yet what 1S erroneous to think that atheism necessi ties does to you s r anc antithetically implies "tjad." Athe In the next generation we'll see ism simply 'denies the existence of a Supreme kids sneaking out to the "wood- Being. It does not deny the virtues of Christ shed, their pocket? stuffed with ianity or any other religion. One may reject boiled eggs and milk bottles. Christianity, Buddhism, Mohammedanism and all other known religions without be- Vending machines in our dorm ing atheistic in his belief. The only condi- haven't been coming through with tjori fOT being an atheist is to deny God the goods lately. Where you used as bein"- in existence, to .have a sure thing, you now a take a chance on even gettin? your penny back. But we see that .... the "out of order" signs have A,monS colleSe students it is not an un- been taken down-which is a step healthy attitude to have religious doubt, in the right direction. Doubt is the mark of a thinking person. J Harper ut most people who call themselves athe- , ! ists are guilty of one thing: sarcasm directed toward religion. (I am not extricated ray self from this malefaction. In my agnosti. days as a sophomore and junior, I practiced this disparagement in general hilarious been used For university caliber courses. Recently remdial courses were eliminated from the curri culum in the regular school year, and the University has recaptured abandon), some of its resources. Another example is found in the changes made in the library ex tension program. Until the last few years there was a woeful lack of library resources in our local communities. In this setting, It was appropriate for the Univer- Pseudo-atheists take a certain vain plea sure in exercising their faithless wit. They enjoy quoting such phrases as, "In the be ginning, I created heaven and earth!' and telling jokes of nature, "I don't care who He is. if He can turn water into wine, pledge citv T .ihrnrtf f r cnrn1 w tHn Ho. mands of thousands of people nim imo mc "inuV through an extension service. Bat times do change for the better. Many local libraries have been A true believer in any particular religion built and are eager to serve. Thus, Jt firmly convinced that his is the only it was in order for the University right, soul-saving system. Yet, Christians do to limit its extension service to not sperid all their time laughing at Shinto- mose materials nor otnerwise lsts nor do the latter spend all their time available. Until recently, the Uni- l3Alghjnrr at Moslems. So why should atheists spend all their time laughing at Christians. They don't! That is, true atheists do not; only pseudo-atheists do. versity provided space for- the Survey Operations Unit. This business-type operation is now an ap propriate part of the Research Triangle Institute. Its services are still available, .and the University has recovered some much needed space. There are other worthwhile many who profess atheism: activities which might be per formed equally well outside a uni versity setting. We must seek new homes for them. For example, the University provides an exten sive film service to the public schools. If this service could be provided -by another agency, the University "could concentrate on more effective ways to provide for its own needs in this area. The following questions are posed to the Would you feel a' certain dread and per haps even a stark fear at having to visit a pitch-black roomful of cadavers by yourself. with no living soul for miles around? L : KO, IT WAS VQ'J ( VCU ATMS'" ) ( HAf VOUS SO SvvJ?T 50SH.f IWA5APCBAMWHg.?5 ) SOMS0O9V PiTMf H V . . I list MY PKgAM NOBODY SCT ) ) I ?22AMg? I WAS PcSHTiN' 0J?l6HTe" V fQZ M0THIH' AN'. S I PuSwgP Vl? (SOVg9C?yJUS'ASftU. ) AN'MOgg ' l ?IN'T C?0 A J SOVOUMUST f U) s . S fAM'SOME') THIWAT4J f 1 . n) Visi 1 S-'P'i Do you always, perhaps subconsciously,' feel, even at the nadir of your life, that things will get better at some time in the future; and there is always a fragment of hope? Z CL fiM A XT. n ' King was . arant ea nis r'irPM 4 "Everything he touched would turn to old I now, tne next aay... STOP! YOU DON'T MAVB TO ANY FU2TMK! I kTN0(0 just owats 6ow5 a3 mm.. THESE 7WNS AlWArS HAVE A (DAY OFdACKRQWGl. IT O c r- Do you sometimes say to yourself in pri vate "Oh God! Please, Somebody help me!"? - Do you feel an exhilarating gratification ?t any fact, opinion, assertion, or occurrence that seems to justify and confirm your be lief in the non-existence of God? Acre you a witness to the fire that des troyed the Presbyterian Church two vears ago, and did you feel pleased and somewhat satisfied when the steeple fell? It you answered most of these questions in the affirmative, you are not an atheist at all. Your pretended profession is a travesty of sincerity. Your exterior is probably one of laughter and gaiety, masking the confused, depressed, unhappy SOul suffering beneath.
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