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VOLUME LXVIII, NO. 77
Complete UP) Wire Service
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1960
Offices in Graham Memorial
FOUR PAGES THIS ISSUE
Financial Support Granted
1960 Symposium By Solons
By DAVE JONES
A .-parcely attended Student Leg
islature last evening voted to sup
port the 1W0 Symposium and not to
fcupport a freshman legislature.
Alter discussion of these two bills,
the legislative ranks thinned to a
bare two over quorum and took
care of several routine items which
had been introduced on December
loth
Kep. Jim Crownover's bill to
establish a Freshman legislature
died Us second death with a vote
of 6 to 19. Crownover, Robin Britt
and Krp. Jim Scott (ail SI')
poke out for the need for a
forum of freshman expression and
an out let for the energies of new
ly arrived politicians.
The question of money, the legal
ity ol the elections needed to
choose the members, and the pos
sibility that other organizations,
such as student government com
mittees, the YMYWCA, and the
iJl-F'HI, might already flffer these
out Ms and the opportunity for fresh
rni n to also learn parliamentary
proceedure was raised by Heps
Miller, Porter and Nobles.
A bill by Heps Bill Norton SP
and Hank Patterson UP covered
Campus Briefs
Dr. Fountain To Participate
In Regional Washington Meet
Dr. Ben Fountain, director of student teaching at the School of
Education, has been asked to participate as a panel member in the
regional meeting in Washington. D. C. of the National Commission on
Teacher Education and Professional Standards.
The TEPS meeting will be Friday and Saturday in the Mayflower
Hotel. Attending tho meeting with Dr. Fountain will be Mrs. Stacy
Ebert, "assistant professor of education.
The Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standard
is a department of the National Education Association and concerns
itself with the problems of teacher training and the maintaining of
standards in the teaching profession.
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Register Car Now, Says Board
Register your car or take it home, says. John Randall, chairman
of the campus Motor Vehicle Advisory Board.
'it is going to be necessary to tighten enforcement procedures
during the next few days." he said.
An increasing number of unregistered
campus since the holidays.
Faculty Members Named To Posts
Several University faculty members were elceted to various posts
in the Modern language Assn.'s meeting in Chicago last week.
Dr. Norman E. Eliason was named secretary of English Section I
and Dr. R. E. Kaske took over as secretary of the Middle English
Language and Literature discussion group of MIJV for 19(j(). Both are
members of the English Department.
J. C. Lyons of the UNC Department of Romance Languages will
fill a post as chairman of the section on French Renaissance Literature.
Other UNC participants and presiding officers at the Chicago meet
ing were C. Hugh Holman. J. O. Bailey, E. W. Talbert and George W.
Harper of the English Department; S. A. Stoudemire, Sturgis E. Leavitt,
U. T. Holmes Jr., W. L, Wiley, William A. McKnight, N. B. Adams,
Jacques Hardre and Karl L. Selig, all of Romance Languages.
Most Members Of
By RUSTY HAMMOND
and .MARY ALICE ROYVLETTE
(third of a series)
Most of the present members
of the Men's and Women's Honor
Council are against the upcoming
referendum on defendant rights.
Early in the fall semester,
members of the Men's and Wom
en's councils were interviewed in
connection with this series. The
reader is a.sked to remember,
hoever, that many of those in
terviewed are no longer members
of the Council as a result of the
Fall election.
All interviewees were asked the
same questions, with a few varia
tions. Hugh Patterson, Chairman of
the Men's Honor Council, feels
that the present system of allow
ing two-third of the jury to con- .
vict is fair. In almost all of our
Public Courts, it takes a major
ity of the jury to convict. "We
have found it to work effective
ly," Patterson stated. Patterson
said that he is not in favor of
open trials "even if the defendant
wants it" because the defendant"
often doesn't realize the harm
that publicity can do to him and
the needs of the 1mm Symposium.
Symposium Treasurer George Grpy
son was invited to speak by Norton.
Grayson outlined the program, plans
and needs of the. Symposium. He
also cited the benefits that would
come to the University and the
student body.
Of the $1)725.00 budget proposes
by the Symposium, 900 dollars will
be contributed by Student Govern
ment upon the approval of this
bill by president Charlie Gray.
A bill to establish a commission
to codify Student Government Sta
tutes, a resolution that a paved
sidewalk be constructed between
Teague Dorm and Raleigh Road. A
bill to state specific areas of in
terest to the campus affairs board,
and a bill to provide for a more
clear cut separation of powers in
.he three branches of Student Gov
ernment all passed with a minimum
of discussion and without opposition.
A bill to mandate the Traffic
Safety committee conduct an in
vestigation of the trafiic conditions
around Avery Parker and Teague
Dorms passed when its author. Rep.
Bob Nobles SP and Rep Bob Cov
ington SP of DM VI (through a
spokesman) explained the need for
cars have appeared or
his family."
Patterson brought out the
fact that "more often than not"
the accuser in a case is a mem
ber of the faculty. The Honor
System is a two-way thing.
Students are responsible lor
turning in other students, but,
obviously, they have not been
doing it.
When asked about a mixed
honor council, Patterson refused
to comment. When it was sug
gested to PatterBon that some
students think of the Honor Coun
cils as t "Kangaroo Courts" he
asserted that "all the cases have
been fairly tried, a great deal oi
time has been spent, the Honor
Council members have become
emotionally involved in the cases
and nothing ha.s ever been rushed
through yet."
George Grayson was asked
about the present jury system.
Grayson point.d out that quite a
few colleges have no jury sys
tem at all, and that he felt that
UNC has "made great strides in
having a jury at all." "How
ever, he said that this is one area
that "should be studied and im
proved." He said that he does not
some sort of action to eliminate the
serious traffic hazards that exist.
Covington and his traffic commit
tee have long been concerned with
this particular problem said the
spokesman.
A bill to establish a committee
to revise the student constitution
passed when its author, Rep No
bles, explained that he felt that
there was still a need for action
on the part of the legislature even
though there was a committee at
work on the problem. He said the
legislature could use periodic re
ports from the committee, andlhe
president was free to appoint
whomever he wanted to the com
mittee. There was no doubt that
president Gray would merely re
appoint the existing committee.
The next session of the Legislture
will be after the exams.
BULLETIN
In a telegr. n received today
by the Carolina Playmakers,
Arinand Deutsch, producer of
"The World of Carl Sandburg"
states that Cameron Mitchell's
failure to report to rehearsals will
make it necessary to cancel the
appearance of "The World of Carl
Sandburg" in Chapel Hill, Jan
uary VI and 13.
Die public will be advised in to
morrow's Tar II -el if the show
will appear at a later date, and
if not what procedure will be
followed in making refunds to
those who have already purchased
tickets. Barry Sullivan, states Mr.
Deutsch, has been contracted to
take .Mr. Mitchells place but can
not be released from his present
engagement in time to play the
Chapel Hill engagement.
WUNC Launches New Documentary, Program
Strange Legends Of The South' This Week
This week marked the premier
broadcast of WUNC Radio's new
documentary program, "Strange
Legends of the South.'
Written and produced entirely
by the student staff of the WUNC
radio station, '"Strange Legends of
the South" is a series of dramatic
documentaries based on authentic
folklegends of the Southern Un
ited States.
Charles Couch is script editor
lor the series and WUNC station
manager Jack Mayo is producer-
director.
Mayo said Thursday that the
premier broadcast was titled "The
Disappearance of Peter Drom
goole," and deals with the disap
pearance of a UNC undergraduate
in 1830.
The family of this Virginia
freshman joined with local author
ities in attempting to locate young
Dromgoole, whom legend tells met
Mens, Women's Honor Councils Oppose
believe that the jury system has
caused a conviction of innocent
parties because juries have been
lenient.
Grayson put his stamp of
approval on this leniency by
sayng that he would prefer to
let 9!) guilty men go free rather
than convict one innocent man.
However, Grayson also said
that "jurors often appear not
to realize their responsibilities.
"Some are not mature enough
to realize they have to make a
decision" He said that this is
one of the reasons for his be
ing against a unanimous jury
verdict to cinvict. "A unani
mous decision to convict should
be completely contingent on the
caliber of the jurors we could
utilize."
Grayson was asked about pub
lic trials. Grayson said that the
inquisitive nature of Honor Coun
cil is not set up for the public to
hear. "Honor Council trials are
such that the great breadlli and
wiath of the questioning allows
such completeness of investigation
that I don't think it lends itself
to harsh and terrific criticism,"
Grayson added. He also stated
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HUGH HOLMAN
. Writes appraisal
Wolfe Critics
Castigated By
UNC Professor
Critics of Thomas Wolfe's writ
ings were themselves criticized by
Kenan Professor C. Hugh Holman,
chairman of the UNC Department
of English, for appraisals lacking
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in "judicious tolerance, good hum
or, critical acumen, and scholarly
seriousness."
Writing in the University of
Texas "Studies in Literature and
Language" Prof. Holman wrote
"Thomas Wolfe: A Bibliographi
cal Study."
Surveying the mass of bibliog
raphies, editions, manuscripts and
criticisms of the controversial
North Carolina novelist, Holman
concludes that "too much of the
work has been a part of a critical
war.
Holman is an authority on
American Literature.
He stated further: 'The bio
graphical problem is still real and
seemingly insoluble in our time.
his fate on the present site )f
Gimgould Castle.
The radio program dramatizes
the last known night of Dromgoole
and goes on to tell of the legend
ary fate which befell him. Howard
Baucom played the title role.
Mayo said that the second pro
gram in the weekly series, to be
heard Tuesdays 7:45 p.m., would
be titled "The Ghost of Diamond
Shoals" and concerns the schooner
which ran aground at Cape Hat-
English Lecturer To
"I Know What I Want" is the
title of a lecture to be given by
D. F. Pears today in connection
with the joint Philosophical Col
loquiem of UNC and Duke Uni
versity. Pears, a visiting lecturer at Har
vard from Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, England, will speak at 8
that public trials are not in tradi
tion with the Honor Council and
the Honor System. Grayson said
that the majoirty of public trials
. are detrimental to the defendant,
and he is confident that there
won't be many public trials.
" Grayson was asked why only
one defense counsel was allowed
in the room with the defendant.
"This is for convenience's sake,"
he answered, "there is not a
great deal of room in the room
where the trials take place." He
pointed out that the defendant
may talk with his counsel during
the trial and can have other peo
ple outside the room if he wishes
to confer with them. "WTe mak3
every effort to tell the defense
counsel what his rights are," said
Grayson.
When asked if people are
afraid of the Honor System,
Grayson said," Just by the very
nature of the Council (the pow
er it has), it is going to en
gender respect. People will
certainly try to avoid honor
council implication."
Asked about possible changes
needed in the Honor System,
Grayson replied, "There may be
C.
More Study Areas To Be Open
This Year For Exam Periods
Have you thought about where
you will study for exams this year?
More facilities than last year will
be offered to students for this ex
am period, Charlie Graham report
ed yesterday.
Gray announced that the entire
library, including the stacks will
be open until 12 midnight Mon
day through Friday, starting Jan.
11. It will be closed Saturday
evening as usual and will reopen
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Graham Memorial will also offer
study facilities. Beginning on the
day preceeding exams, it will be
open until 3 a.m. All recreation will
be discontinued during this period
and quiet hours will be observed.
Food and drink machines are
available in the basement and
Howard Henry, director of Gra
ham Memorial urges that stu
dents make use of the building
and its facilities. Hot sandwiches,
candy, gum, and hot and cold
drinks are available by machine.
There will also be study rooms
open all night in various class
rooms, Gray reported.
"These classrooms will remain
open as long as they aren't
abused," he said. Gray explained
that students were expected to
clean up all wrappers, used cups,
etc.
The rooms that will be open
teras in 1921.
The schooner was found under
full sale, yet not a man was to be
found on board. The captain and
the crew had disappeared without
trace.
The producer-director points
cut that all of the legends chosen
for study on this program may be
documented to some extent. Rep
resentatives of WUNC have been
sent to several of the locations
Speak Here Today
p.m. in the Morehead Faculty
Lounge.
The speaker is one of the young
er advocates of the philosophical
trend toward linguistic emphasis
which emphasizes the concept of
thinking and seeing the world
through ordinary expression.
structural weaknesses of the
Honor System personnel. I don't
think we get qualified people on
the Council, juries and Attorney
General's staff." Grayson said he
felt that Honor Council is being
kept in a constant "state of flux
by student agitation." "I don't
think this will engender a com
pleteness and security which the
Honor System needs," he added.
Bill Crutchfield, when asked if
he felt it was fair for six people
out of nine to convict someone,
said, ""People on the jury are
quite often immature. There
would be so much dissension if
all nine had to agree that we
would never get anywhere."
On open trials, Crutchfield said
"In fairness to all those involved
in trials they should be closed.
I am still against them."
He feels that the first fault
of the Honor System is that it
is not stressed upon the stu
dents enough during orienta
tion. "I think we are doing the
best we can with what we've
got at the time," said Crutch
field. "Not many of our cases
are appealed, so maybe we're
righl."
When asked why he was on
all night are Gardner 210,
Saunders 216, Alumni 101, Ven
able 221, 225 and 307, Phillips
323 and Caldwell 208.
If students find that there are
not enough facilities available,
Gray suggested that they contact
the student government office and
request more space.
Former German
Scholars Talk
To YW Group
Former Gottingen Scholars Bob
Noble and Frances Reynolds pre
sented a program of talk and
slides to the YWCA Cabinet meet
ing Tuesday.
The program cone L i ned their
travels in Europe while they were
participating in the scholarship
program at the German Univer
sity. Noble urged any interested
person to apply for the scholarship
offered annually to UNC students.
In other cabinet meetings, it was
announced that a . mass meeting
will be early this semester for the
purpose of acquainting all new
coeds and any interested juniors
with the various activities which
the Y sponsors.
mentioned in various legends to i
check out the details. (
Script Editor Couch adds that j
as the program progresses it will
draw upon several Southern states
and will not confine itself to
North Carolina folklore.
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INFIRMaRY
Students in the infirmary Thurs-
day included:
Billie Rimmer, Lila Piclel, Jane
Burt, Katherine Potter, Les Su-
torious, landrum Brown, Russel
Hollers, Jerry Fisher, Thomas
White, Jerry Helms, Charles Ev
ans, David Wible, Judith Rader,
Patricia Whitlock.
Lewis Rush, Jack Boswel, Eddy
Powel, Howard Van, Douglas Kel
ly, Diana Harmon, Frank Zachary,
John Neal, Larry Kramer and Jus
tin McNeil.
Honor Council, Crutchfield said,
"I'm interested in the Honor Sys
tem and seeing that it is upheld,
and I think I can judge anybody
faifly-a.s well as the next man."
George Campbell and Howard
Holderness were interviewed to
gether. The first question asked
them was whether or not they
felt the fact it only takes 23 of
the jury to convict a person is
fair. "Who reaily can say if -u
or a unanimous decision is
fair?" asked Campbell. However,
he went on to say that he feels
the 23 decision is fair. Holder
ness agreed. "In my opinion,
just a simple majority would be
enough," he said.
Campbell said that the open
trial bill last Spring was 'pushed
on us." He said that he was
against open trials at first, '"But
I've changed my mind now."
Holderness said that Honor
Council has found it best "not
to mention names out of
school." He said that if a per
son is wrongly accused, it
seems to him that they want
publicity "just to be in the
center of attention." They bo h
added that it has been tradi
tion to publish names in trials,
President
Optimistic
Of Future
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi
dent Eisenhower Thursday fore
cast unmatched prosperity for the
United States, a debt-cutting sur
plus for its government and if
the Soviet cooperates peace with
justice for all the world.
In a confidently optimistic
state of the union message, Eis
enhower told applauding mem
bers of Congress that income
should exceed outgo in the 1961
fiscal year by $4,200,000,000.
Despite a record peacetime
spending proposal of nearly 80
billion, the amount left over if
Eisenhower is an accurate prophet
would be the highest since the
Truman administration found it
sell' with an excess of almost 8 12
billion in 1948.
Eisenhower, greeting Congress
at the start of a Presidential elec
tion year, recommended that any
such surplus be applied against
the 290-billion dollar national
debt. He used a pet phrase in lieu
of "surplus," saying he preferred
"to think of such an item as a re
duction of our children's inherited
mortgage."
As Republicans cheered and
Democrats reacted with mild ap
proval, Eisenhower said that
once paying eff part of the debt
becomes normal practice, the
government can proceed to re
duce taxes. He did not suggest
when that time would arrive.
But for the country at large,
he declared, "1960 promises to
be the most prosperous year in
our history"
With diplomats from other na-
i tions, including Russia, present for
j the packed joint session of House
land Senate, Eisenhower said re-
; (,en soviet deportment offers hope
3 somewnat less strained ne-
Iriod" in relations between East
and West.
j While pleasant promises require
trie acid test of ' performance. Eis-
enhower said, the United States
' views this apparently favorable op-
i portunity with utmost seriousness,
"We must strive to break the
calamitous cycle of frustrations
and crises, which, if unchecked,
could spiral into nuclear disas
ter," Eisenhower told the na
tion listening and watching via
radio and television. And this,
he added, would represent "the
ultimate insanity."
Slated Referendum
but then said that they felt that
public trials are fine if the boy
wants one.
When akeJ about their feel
ings about delen.se counsels, Hol
dorr.e.'S pointed out that, "Hon
or Council is not a criminal
court. If the trials got any more
technical," he said, "Nobody on
the undergraduate level could
conduct them."
What about student's fear of the
Council as a Kangaroo Court?
"Ignorance of the Honor Council
gives it this reputation," Camp
bell asserted. He said that he
thought it would be a good thing
to publish circumstances and
proceedings to the trials without
names.
Holderness said that, "It would
help tremendously for every boy
to serve on the jury. It's the best
way to learn about the Honor
System and the jury is about the
most important job in the sys
tem." Dewey Sheffield is the only
member of the Men's Honor
Council who is not in a frater
nity. His term expires soon.
Sheffield was the only person
interviewed who was in favor of
a unanmous jury verdict for
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. . . Speaks To Congress
While dedicated to peace, Eis
enhower said, the United States
will not weaken its defenses until
measures ot enforcing disarma
ment are worked out.
He said no ' nation would risk
general war, and terrible retalia
tory losses, by attacking this coun
try "unless we should be so fool
ish as to neglect" forces of de
fense. These have acquired new
strength, he said, as the Atlas In
tercontinental Ballistic missile has
reached the ready stage.
In 14 recent test firings, Eis
enhower reported, the Atlas has
been less than the distance of
a jet runway off bullseye at
ranges of more than 5,000 miles.
Eisenhower also said that in
creasing numbers of nuclear-powered
submarines, "impossible to
destroy by surprise attack." will
r.ter the fleet. Some will be arm
ed with 1.200-mile range Polaris
ballistic missiles.
But he held out hope that :t
will not be necessary to use these
weapons.
Pea-e in the world, Eisenhow
said, will lead mankind into
"a vast new technological age
cne that, desDite its capacity for
human destruction, has an equal
rapacity to make poverty and
human misery obsolete."
The chief executive received
j hearty ovations when he entered
(the House chamber and again
iwhen he left. His voice was hoarse
i vf-dv the end of his speech, which
j lasted 46 minutes and was punc
jtuated by applause 32 times. Most
j ly it was the Republicans who
I clapped particularly at his ref
jerences to black-ink government
i finances.
conviction. He said, "it would
be much fairer because now
we have a 'going along with
the group' policy. This would
eliminate it." Sheffield felt that
the jurifs have been "relative
ly fair."
Sheffield is in favor having
open trials, with the press pres
ent, if needed and requested, but
he is not in favor of completely
cpen trials. "An open trial is an
advantage toward the quality of
justice," he added.
He is also in tavor ofthe jury's
guilt or innocence verdict being
affected by character witneses.
Interviewed some three months
ago, even at that time Sheffield
supported judicial districts. He
called the electing of Student
Council members from classes
"Mickey Mouse." Sheffield ex
pressed a desire for more quali
fied people on the Attorney Gen
eral's staff. He beiieves a pre
requesite for serving on the staff
should be at least two terras of
jury duty.
Sheffield believes that "stu
dents have a lackidasial attitude
toward the Honor System."
(Tomorrow: Women's Honor
Council members are interviewed.)