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MGft 1 tH OA tut TA HI: Si. SUNDAY, APRIL, 24, 19 "Wait For Your Leaders, Dainiml Letters to the Editor The- official student publication of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is ptilil islittl daily except Mnndax. examination pe riod and Hi miner terms. Entered as second cla-cs matter in (hp post office in Chapel Kill. N C. under the act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rat.e: S4 DO per iemostfr. $7 00 per year. The Daily Tr Heel is printed by the New. Inc.. Carrboro. N.C. FDITOfl . . . . . ... Jonathan Yardley ASSOCIATE EDI! OK . . . Anthony Wolff ASSISTANT KDTTOlt Ron Shumate UVNAOING FDITOP.S . Urrj Smith. Lord Little MrS FMTORS . . iVr Daniels. Henry Mayer bl'SCCKSS MANAGER Tim Burnett ADVERTISING UANAC.IT. Barry Zaslav SPOUTS I'D IT OU . . Ken Friedman CONTnilMTTNG F.PlTOp.S . . . Frank Crowther. Davis Young Norman F.. Smith. John Justice NIGHT EPnxiH Tommy White Various & Sun dry Subjects Humphrey Plays A Losing Hand W V h; c .i 1 w a s c o:wdercl Hubcit 1 1 iiinphi t .i m ui ot sen inte-iiitx. His fights within the crnlincs or tin- t'nit.cl States Sen ate lot the liberal cause have been conducted with fniici ahU I i nitx and aplomb. His List minute lcjection ot the MtM k Democratic ("onxcution's speaking en.r.e.'cment nr. not ral lied through with such liurs.se. I outmatch . Oklahoma's Repicscn t.itixc I dtnundson has Ixen able to till his shots, hut thee shoos ate haul to rill in such an ccm. Ir w.i quite a coup tor the Cou xention to hae Ix-en able to se rine tlte scixiccs ol a bou..lidc candidate tot the Presidency as kcxuotc speaker. This was to hixe been for mam the Jiihiiote of the rntite sessions, lot it is through petsonal cxposute tli.it one can make his best judgement or a jkm- We 'iiatii uadilx lb..: t!ie tixm Wri Virginia piiman is l consi derable iinpoitatue to tiic Min nesou Senator, as a icsult ot the I at t that the national picss h;.., dc (idol to blow these mish-niashx rxems all oui ol piorxution until ihcv assume the statute ol the ac tual Novctnhn vote. Jlumpluey is correct in rcaliiiXA the neccssitx of Ids hvh in West Virginia to "et out and sh.Ac a leu ol thoe lolksy mountain hands. lie is quite inconect. however, in uudeiestimatin the importance ol a major college mock comen tion. Students, by nature of their youth. natuiallx rellect the o-in-ions and prejudices of their elders: at the same time, they have le di ed college ;r.e and t licit parents will listen to what they hixe to say. The conxention would have been oj- considerable use to the candidate for two primary reasons: he could have tested the wind in this part of the countrx. and he could have tiied to make a ood impression on the xouth of North (.aioiina. The wind will not blow too well these days, because peo ple do not like to be turned down .it the last minute and left in a hole. It would haxe been all ri;.;ht it he had turned us down in janu aiy or February. We miht hae bet-u able to find Sxminton. John son. MeMier or some of the other potentials willing to come - Ken neth had alieadv rejected an in it. ion (in plenty of time for us to find another man). This was an inconsiderate and probably unnecessary action. It took some of the glamour fiom our little convention, and it took a lot of hie shine oil Mr. Humphrey. Uncle Syngman's Cabin I hiu;s aie settling bac k to nor mal in South Korea aain. Grand Old Man Synman Rhee, Sj-ycai old (out term potentate of the jko plc, ha.s re-established his fin d and ultimate supremacy. The tebellion has been quashed. A lew das ao umi,(mh South Koieatt students saw tit to protest the re-eleciou of Heir Rhee in the onlx was tlu.t students ever see fit to protest anthin: thex banded together, swarmeil through Seiiul, and made a teat deal of noise. The Rhee government, ac ting as all ;orxl governments do, saw fir to react to this demonstration in the most siolcnt means jnssible. Approximately ir,o pople are now dead because they dared to rise up and protest what they considered injustice. The New Votk Times re potted a pair ol ieealinj inci dents: "Manx Koiean.s knew the- storv of the unfoitunate jeeji drixer lor Chosun IUo. a prominent inde pendent newsjvaper. He was lakirt a f)hotorapher to an assignment. When the ameram. i identified himself .it a roadblock in central Seoul a Mli eman fired at him juu-blank. The bullet passed through the photoyraphei 's coat without harming him and kil'ed the di ixer. "Korc.ns in the stuet wcie talking also ol a i -xar old box who was shot and killed in front of the National Assembly building in blight sunlight this morning;. No one knows whx, since the curfew had been oxer lor lour hours and the aiea was guarded by heaxx t. uks and atnnxl soldiers stationed on the .sidewalk txetx few yards. "One hospital alone lejiorted that twfittx-thiee weir dead on its premises. The total unofficial touut of tataliiies xvas more than eighty, with tuoir than that wound ed or hurt. Authorities ate ;q jueheusixe of the effects if the tit ieury demands a rnasvS funeral fcei x ic e." The battle noes on. This is the same battle louht bv the Jews against Hitler, by the Hunari ins against So iet ojipression, and even bv the Chinese people r.;ainst (Kin-Kai-C'.hek. It is the battle of the underdo,; against the king pin, and it is inxariably a Usin;4 battle. These people are fihtin lor more than their riht to cast a fair ballot: they are fis'htin- lor their freedom. . I bis unwillingness of the Rhee -ox eminent to allow its eople freedom was elocpiently pointed up in a jost-riotin statement from .th? President. After a few words of soulful, heartfelt sorrow, he con cludes bv sax ins l"at tne Korean To the Editor: I would like to comment on Mr. Jack Wagoner's letter concerning President Grisrs's statement in his inaugural about new academic regulations for Carolina's fraternities in which Mr. Grigs expressed the hope that ". . . xvc will obtain a relaxa tion of these rules ..." I can believe one statement that Mr. Wagoner made: 'i don't know." Obviously, he doesn't. Surely it is a privilege to be in a social fraternity, and the fraternity is c.bligated to contribute to the -promotion of an intellectual atmosphere on campus." However, I go along with Mr. Grigg th.it thefe rules should be relaxed or that simi lar high standards should be set for the non-fraternity community. To me it does not follow that in order to stimulate a more far-reaching intellectual community one group in that community should be required to adhere to a more stringent set of academic regulations. To require more of one group than others tends to alienate that segment from the larger community. Il is .my opinhn tiiat such a situaiion. therefore subtracts much more than it adds to the . . p v. motion of an intellectual ,a;mo: pherc,. . ." Bob Foxworth (The following letter was received by a Chapel Hillian whose name has been withheld by request): Cheers, greetings, and salutations. Thank you for your good letter and the important ammunition that you inclosed in the form of the astoundingly courageous "open letter" from the TAR HEEL'S Crow ther to Governor Hodges. I'm proud to .-.till be able to count you among my listeners. All good wishes. Edward P. Morgan American Broadcasting Company Washington, D. C. Editor: I am interested in reporting to the stu dent body the results of a survey I have recently made concerning the new -portmanteau" hats, so popular on campuses around the country this spring. To the best of my knowledge the "portmanteau" hats originated in India around the turn of the century, but statistics show that none were imported into the U. S. at that early date. Only this spring has the new "straight" straw with the "Bambi" feather become popular. On Sunday when my date and I wern strolling along the piazza, we decided to count the number of young men wearing 'portmanteaus." Out of one hundred men we passed, no less than seventeen were wearing the Victorian stepchild. 1 have said all this in order to say the following: I hate portmanteaus! Perhaps I am pre judiced. The brims are too narrow, and my fiance says that no Carolina Gentle man would be caught drunk in one. Port manteaus are for the Easter Bunny! Port manteaus will not attract any of the many campus beauty queens. Beware, fellow Carolina Gentlemen, Beware! Lannee Han Erlitettne Chapel Hill To the Editor: That was a very good decision of the Legislature to let the student body vote on the NSA question. Now we have finally got a chance to rid ourselves of this awk ward relation. Don't worry, these people in Philadelphia are "Communists" anyway. I am sure we can make some other univer sities join us. And then, for the money there is always much better use. Maybe itvcan be given to the Yackely Yack, which already gets $42,000. or the student gov ernment could buy panties for those S1025, so that the panty raids will finally be a success. (Motto: Make campus life more nowadays create a 'considerable factor of power in their nation and in a few years will press the buttons themselves. As a matter of fact, the students are willing o give six or eight times as much as this university was willing to give to make their voice more effective and lounder. They cven decide to aid those unions which are not able to maintain themselves through their own finances, At this point the most ilberal and pro gressive' university of the South decides to leave its national student representation because of 1003. probably with the secret hope that a couple of other institutions might follow. It is thereby jeopardizing its national student, voice. It would be a tragic joke, if under the present constellations in the students world one of the most powerful nations could consequently no more exert its influence which thus was considerable. The student government will organize another referendum. It will cost a couple of hundred collars. The Carolina student will vote for ii, since a North Carolina society-gazette simply does not tell him what i going n in the world today. And if he is reluctant, there will be enough -responsible and farsighted leaders" who will tell him that those S1025 are a men waste. I say. give NSA more money so that it will become move powerful. If you think it cannot help you internally, because you consider your student government so ad vanced that NSA experience is without benefit, then never underestimate its im portance abroad The world has become too ?mall. Volker Berghahn Ik ft ik-4t k w?& h ifeA i$M An Open Letter to Anthony Wolff: I have just finished reading the first of your series of articles attempting to justi fy the loss of the Carolina team on the "College Bowl." Again, you have ingen iously succeeded in obfuscating the real issue by resorting to a stream of polemical cant. You avoid the question of your own guilt by attacking Coach Tatum (the tradi- Dear Sirs: In the last few weeks we have seen an increas ing number of integration pins being worn by many of the students here at Carolina. This has caused me to wonder just why so many southerners are advocating integration, while I am from the north and will not take a stand for this integration. Before I came to the south, I wondered why inte gration had not taken place down here as it had up north. But at that time, I did not know the whole tional whipping boy for the campus in- stor . Integration' is a good thing in the north, tellectual elite), the "fans" (us non-intel- But the situation is entirely different down here, lectuals) and the University News Bureau. In the first place, the ratio of Negroes to whites Your ritualistic condemnation of Tatom is greatly increased in the south. Also, the standard is to be expected, but really now, is win- of living for the Negro in the north is a good bit nin-g as evil as you make it out to be? You higher than it is in the south. I think that every offer as the sole reason for your partici- one realizes that integration will take place in pation: "We enjoy games." Come now, Mr. time, but that is the key word. time. Without a Wolff, assuming that you had won (grant- doubt, a very serious problem will arise if inte ed. this is a radical assumption) you would gration is forced upon the people of the south, have probably been castigating us "fans" The school that I attended began to integrate N? for not showing proper appreciation for gro students into our classes, as opposed to a intellect by greeting you at the airport separate class containing only Negroes, when I as were your "rivals." "Professor" Mc- was in the sixth grade. NM much trouble arose, Guire's boys. but 1 had only 5 Negro students in my class. How You imagine yourself as exposing the many would be in the classes here if integration University News Bureau. A public rela- were to take place at the present time? As for tions outfit? What else? Pete Ivey is doing these sit down strikes and other demonstrations, precisely the job he is paid to do. He was I feel that more sensible individuals, both Negro propagandizing your participation in the and white, have and will continue to avoid them. "College Bowl" in an appropriately digesti- This is an almost senseless ordeal that only makes ble form for mass consumption (the Ameri- for more trouble and tension. In the future, inte can public can only appreciate intellect in gration will have its way and the majority will the form of regurgitated fact.) favor it. This will be necessary if we plan to im- We "fans'" at Carolina cannot be differ- prove, as well as maintain, our democracy. The entiated rom the American public. This only thing that must be realized is that such mat is why we "fans" are so disheartened by ters do take time, and cannot be forced on people. your defeat. We looked up to you, Mr. Wolff, as a member of the intellectual elite. Now that image has been destroyed. Where are we to turn? I think we can reject your glorifica tion of defeat as a poor attempt to ration- people must "display their patriot- pleasant and beautiful. My question: When ism and follow the instructions ol the resKnsible authorities . . . we cm 'go forward toother as a unit ed people faithful to the principles of law. of order and of justice." Nexer is fieedom mentioned. The only freedom implied is thnt of obediance or disobediance. The latter is suicide, and all South Koi ean.s know it. Sxnman Rhee has fashioned lor himself a dictatorship. 1'nder the x-st-Kotem War blessings of the 1 isenhowcr Administration he w s allowed to create a nation bound and shac kled to his iron hand. New his ruleiship is beius contested. It appears that, like all dictators, Sxntn; :i Rhee has Inen turning about uneasily on his seat. He ap p.uently found it necessary to he'p his cause xvith an extra vote or two at the ballot Ik: the people, ap parently, objec t. Ol course no one has proxed th;i. he allowed the Ixixes to be st ufled. but that is immaterial to the cen tral is.sue: the people are dissatis fied. Thev are obviously bciinniiv' to stretch their muscles and to find that chains do not make for easy muscular tnoxenient. As the old saying has it. the na mes are getting restless. Synginan Rhee is in the catbird seat. do you finally recognize that the problems of this university lie elsewhere than in beautifying the campus?) Those who have some concern about what is going on nowadays outside that state of North Carolina and even outside the U. S. must be shocked at so much shortsightedness of the Legislature. At a time when the world is shaken bv a revo- r " lution of so far unknown extent, the stu dents ferywhere abroad stand and fight in the Ilrst row. They have their most ac tive and energ?tic representatives in the national unions, those leaders who alreadv Larry G. Steele The Editor: There was so little challenge which came out of the Carolina Symposium that to continue com ment on its real failures may only be a further bore. The more intimate dialogues the various alize yourself into martyrdom, e.g. "We speakers held in seminars and private conversations went down to defeat in order that the su- were probably more beneficial than the majority perficiality of the "fans" and the News of those dull harangues on the same theme with the Bureau might be exposed." Your candor is same labyrinthine befuddlement about what to do. admirable, but your attempt to absolve The high spots admittedly were there. But there yourself by placing responsibility on the will be real disagreement about the less sparking "fans" and the News Bureau does not sue- performances. Surely someone has to differ in part ceed. You should have known, that the with the Tar Heel columnists, Lewis and Mayer, who "College Bowl" is merely a cleaned up ex- rightly bludgeoned much of the Symposium pro tension of the now defunct quiz programs gram. that fraudulently peddled "intellect" to it may be only a minor cavil to point out that the American public. while John Wild had a good metaphor going, he Like the defenders of Mr. Van Doren, brought confusion but no brilliance to expounding you consider yourself victimized by cir- it in terms of concepts of man. In addition he made cumstances. Yet you are guilty on two no mention of any of the contemporary visions oi counts. First, you willingly submitted to human existence in modern arts which are not a hoax a misrepresentation of intellect, properly classified as "Existential." On Existential Second, and this is unforgivable, you lost ism itself Wild is hardly an auditer, let alone : at your own game. catachumen. , Taylor MacMillan Of his successors on the panel only Desan chose WGHTTA 6Y SAC TMiNSS 05. HIM I y8 SAY ffe O o o Z Ol . . ,m . - - . . was, ,am i a TAIN' IN fw-l I CUT UON J , I V ABOUT W1M AM 7V yi Jf XT m X u to J2 to show that Wild was conceptually wild. Natanson spoke forcefully, if in some respects wrongly, on a significant phenomenologieal or human problem, death. As for Poteat, we heard about as much theological bombast as public decency can stand: there is a wbrd in the dictionary which characterizes such "ministers of the evil passions of others." The mid-phase of the Symposium needs no discus.-i( n from me. But the Tar Heel columnists in their "Symposium Wrap-up" distorted Rexroth's performance with the very stupefaction which he himself has attacked elsewhere in quite useful ancj coherent addresses on contemporary education. Two things were ignored in toto by these writers (and probably by other detractors). If they heard him at all, .they ignored the man himself for the terms of his popularized publicity. Further, if they had listened to Rexioth, they would 'have heard him deny that he was a cloak-and-dagger jazzbo, and affirm, not something about himself, but about the exhausted state of contemporary lit erature. Those who need reminding about the social rebel Rexroth was discussing ("reverence for the pornography of the past" they call it) should con sult the brief note in Approach, Fall, 1958. Seems Camus was talking about the same rebels. There are a small number of persons on this campus who know the bare necessites about Rex roth. Surely there are none among the Tar Heel censors. It would be shocking to admit that Rex roth's reading of his own poetry was the most com petent and engaged performance from any poet who has read here this year. Briefly again, there is not a word about Rex roth in the summary of the Symposium which is true. Further, the columnists made themselves good exemplars of our present instinct for making facts out of rumors and "doctrinal" presuppositions, and for maintaining the lowest possible lexel of sensory and intellective discrimination. Rexroth declared that the sick, sick, sick days are over, while our local journalists are dedicated to the smug condi tions out of which the Beats generated. Why send us off on a jag again? Vindictively, Richard Rickert (Poetry Editor, The Carolina Quarterly) ":j Dear Editor: I wholeheartedly agree with you that the edu cated person should be "aware of his heritage." However, my contention is that this awareness is not enough. One can study philosophy, read great classics, evaluate profound historical events end lessly. This may improve one's mind, further one's intellectual curiosity and make one more fully aware of his heritage. But what good will this knowledge do for him or his fellow man if it can not be applied to the existing environment? My main grievance lies in "your apparent mis conception of the professional education. A pro fessional education strives to make the individual aware of his heritage, but it also gives him an op portunity to apply this awareness to life. Who can be more emotionally prepared to meet the problems of both life and death than the student who studies the theories of philosophy, the classics of literature, and the events of history one day and the next day is given an opportunity to apply this know ledge in dealing with the needs and feelings of suffering people? I personally feel that "both contemporary edu cation and contemporary America" need to find a compromise between the production of "mechaniz ed creatures" and the production of idealized think ers. Granted, this is not an easily solved problem nor one that can be solved overnight. However, whether we like it or not, our world is becoming more specialized. What the advocators of an academic education must fight against is the production of mechanical robots, mechanical in either thoughts or action. They must strive to pro duce individuals who can perform specialized skills with an understanding of the implication which these skills will have on the heritage which they are helping to form in the world today. Jane Huber Sophomore Student Nurse 1 I f
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