SUNDAY, MAY 8, m
Otelia Connor
Odds & Ends
TRi' DAILY TAl HtlL
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EDIT(m Jonathan Yardley
ASSOCIATE KDITOU : Anthony ,Wo,ff
ASSISTANT KMTOR - " Ron Shumate
MANAGING F.DITORS Larry Smith. Lend Little
NKWS EDITOI Dcc Danie,s M
BUSINESS MAN A (I Kit Tim B
ADVERTISING MANAGER Barry Zaslav
SPOUTS EDITOR Kcn Fri
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Frank Crowther. Davis Young.
Norman E. Smith. John Justice
MGI1T EDITOR , Tommy White
At Last -A New Quality Point System
I Ik1 lollowiii'4 not in is Inin
isMKil to .ill (icncial (lollci stu
dents dm inn 'l'1' pic-uiNtration
ciiol 1 c-i i i i u i mi; M.i ii. It is with
.o i.il u lc i c im c to (tC'lHT.ll (lol
Ici" studints. .uid sliould be c.nc
IiiIK ic.ul l) .dl enrolled therein:
.Students tnti'tin the TniNftsity
.lttcr June I. i ). will he under
the newly .idopted mialitv jKint
sNstetn. .Students in icidence prior
lo June i. Hjinr, may remain un
der the old ssiem oi elect to mine
under the news sWem. hut out e
h.Aiir eleited to mine under the
new- system they c.innot th.ui;e
h.K k to the old sstem.
To assist them in making a
hoite the lollowin inloi inattiou
is ;ien. The new .system awards,
lor culi semester horn, tjuality
points ol I lor A, ; loi 1. lor C,
i hr 1). and o lor V. The old sys
tem 'awarded, loi culi semester
hou, lor A. 2 loi 1. i lor ('.. o
loi 1). and o lor I .
I'ndei the new system tlie'tlii
hility rules lor lemainin in the
l'niersity haye heen changed Iroin
semester hoius j.issed to (piality
Mint ayeiae attained. Alter une
i. nji'io. under the neyv system the
following quality point averages aie
ii-(iiiied lor all students entering
alter that date anil lor thou now
cm oiled yho elect to come under
the new system:
Quality oint ay era;; e of 1.2") to
!ein 'he nd semester.
Quality point average ol i.,o "J
hein the ."th semester.
Qu.dity x i i 1 1 1 average ol 1. 7-, to
he in 1 1 - 7th semester.
Ouality point ayeiani l i n to
hen'11 'lie tli semestie.
The ay crane is detennined hy
diyidinn the total semester hours
attempted at the rniversity into
the total ntuuher ol quality points
earned on these ionises. It is as
sumed that the total ntunher of
hours attempted nuisf he the min
imum icquiicd cadi semester, or
lie muises and i." .semester hours.
1'ndei the neyv system the u
ipiiienunts lor transfer to an up
ki college aie completion of or
icnistration for a minimum ol lour
semester ol (ieneral Col lent yvork
(including all Kieshman couises)
w ith a quality jmmih average ol i.-,o
y!iih is less than a (L'.o). I'lider
the old system the quality jwint
1 1 quii t incut yvas C (1.0).
I'nder both systems the ay crane
lor graduation lemains the same,
i.e., ; nd ayeia.e i or 1.0 under
the old system and vr.o under the
neyv system.
As 1 en lids the new ami the old
ic-ulatioiis for tountinn quality
JW Milts
ne
the lolloyvinn ohsen ations
made:
.1, A student may frequently
tians'.cr moie easily under the neyv
system as a 1.;, under the new .sys
tem may ! easier to ;et titan the
C aycK-ne "Jer the old:
h) II a student has no Y's it is
just as easy to graduate under the
neyv system as under the old:
4 ) II a student has Y'& on his rec
oid it is hauler to graduate under
the neyv system because while un
der the new system two IVs would
be requited.
.Students in the (.eneial College
in their fourth or lat; er semester
should study their records careful
ly and decide whether they wish
to come under the neyv system. If
they do they should notify their ad
yisers: otherwise, they will remain
under the old system of eligibility
to remain in the I'liivershv ami
lor transfer to an upper college.
Cecil Johtisoii
Dean, the CencHil College
The Father Of 7 he Mew Li University Miscellaneous
Administratiye language is fam
ed lor its inability to get the point
across, and this little missile is no
exception. After four or liye read
ings, we think we get the message,
but phrase tends to run into phrase
and we get a little lost at times as
to yhich of the two systems they
are talking about.
Olheryvise. this is a Very useful
xand rather indicative document.
Change has been needed in the
quality oint system - we can't es
cape that word, either - ; nd it is
good to see that a more equitable
method of grading has been found.
The most important aspect cr
the neyv plan, as we sec it, is that
it yvill r;d the campus r the
eternal Centra) College student
yvho is enrolled in courses num
bered -jo or under at his thirtieth
birthday and has no immed'uv e
prospects of advuntement. By al
lowing a student eligible under the
neyv rules to take upper college
courses in his fifth semester the
administration yvill destroy much
of the apathy that has arisen as a
icsult ol the students' lack of de
sire to be bogged down in survey
courses fioni here to kingdom
come.
The new system should also, by
virtue of the dillereiue in xints
between IVs and Fs, "eliminate the
students yvho are not interested in
yvorking at an eariler date,, thus
gettiun Jine of the academic- dead
wood out of the classroom and on
to the farm or the filling station,
where it belongs in the first place.
As a matter of fairness to stu
dents yvho are willing ivnd anxious
to yvork. the dillereiue stated be
tween these two bottom level
grades is an imjortaiu change. It
stresses the difference between
'passing and failing, and adds in
centiye to the academic- effort.
Our Only complaint against the
system is one winch we have been
laising
first day
4
back and discovered that there yvas
a red mark on the paper signifying
the quality of out achievement:
It is extremely unloitunate that
scholastics in the twentieth cen
tury haye reached the point ?t
which the mark achieved Ik-coiucs
of more durable importance than
the amount learned. No longer are
we searching for knowledge and
self-improvement: we are looking
lor A's and B's and trying to avoid
IVs and Fs. Or we are trying to
coast along and scoop up a 'lew
C's.
There is no room for intellectual
curiosity in this neyv system - nor
yvas there in the old one. Each new
sy stem is merely an el fort to ,nac
categorizing us a little easier.
Well, it would seem best to take
the fairest system , and we recom
mend the neyver of the two.
like rea'ding a Greek tragedy, with this dif
ference: Whereas the Greek tragedy always
ended in defeat of the hero, the survival uf
th University is a triumph of the human spirit.
If the leading role in this drama after the
opening of the University in 1795 yvas Dr.
Joseph Caldwell, the leading role after the
re-opening in 1875 yvas Dr. Kemp Plummer
Battle.
Dr. Battle was supported by the alumni
who never thought of the University as dead
yvhen it yvas closed after the Civil War, but
as sleeping. They had eagerly watched for an
opportunity to open its doors again. But for
the influence of the alumni an Agricultural
and Mechanical College would have taken the
place of the University, and the old University
yvould have died, leaving nothing but a mem
ory of its past achievements.
Governor Syvain had kept the University
open during all the dark days of the war,
but it was left in desperate circumstances.
In 1868 the Republican Government fired the
president and faculty and the trustees and
elected Republicans in their place. Solomon
Pool yvas elected President in January, 1869.
In January, 1870, there yvere reported to be
nine University students, and 15 preparatory,
with one irregular enrolled. As the Legisla
ture made no appropriation for salaries or
for maintenance, the University yvas formal
ly closed in 1871.
President Pool stayed on until he yvas
ejected by the court in 1871. He thereupon
claimed his salary, yvith interest, for the
years he had been inactive, yvhich was paid
by the Legislature.
The only hope of getting the University
opened yvas by Constitutional amendment,
having the people vote to take the election
of the Trustees out of the hands of the Board
of Education who were opposed to the Uni
versity, and giving it to the General Assembly.
This yvas done in 1871.
The problem yvas noyv: first, how to fin
ance the opening of the University: second,
whom to select to head the University who
yvould be capable of overcoming the intense
hatred and distrust of every thing pertaining
while -the bank debt was valid, that neither
the creditor nor the Trustees had the power
won the top grades at every examination in
all studies. The Dialectic Literary Society
Dear Mr. Editor:
to sell such property as constituted the life honored him with every office in the gift of
his fellow-members. "He felt ,with the late
Senator Vance, that most of what he was he
owed to the University of North Caroilna and
to the Dialectic Literary Society."
I do not usually write letters to The Tar Heel.,
but there comes a time in every man's life when
he "gets so angry that he has to say what he thinks.
Last night an un-American flag was raised on the '
campus, and: I feel it is the duty of every Ameri
can to speak out against this. Our great country '
Immediately after he graduated he acted fouSht aainst the Germans in the last war, and
a3 a tutor of Latin for one year. He was then beat them because they were trying to over
chosen tutor of mathematics for four years, throw this free country of ours, e beat hem be
cause they were not democratic. We beat them be--
While he was teaching at the University cause they took a man as their God.
he earned his master's degree and completed , f4 , , .
the law course. He then resigned from the N' some flfteenr Jf after the symbol of.
Univrsity in 1854 and went to Raleigh to their whoe m of life is raised on this great
practice law. In 1875 he was selected by the camPus f m I J
Board of Trustees to lead in reorganizing the people who put this abominable thing up
vices entered the picture. He was appointed the University, and a year later was made its wnere our nag ueiuuu, -
yr 4K Tv,.B.:n, J ; imw iua tJXio,,, .!,,. on the flag. The letters meant 'Christian get out.
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Mr. Battle's family was one of the most these years to where it is noyv, has to put up with
distinguished in the State, noted for its in- this indignity and blasphemy of the American way'
tegrity and strength of character. He inherit- of life.
ed much from his family, but left his own
mark on his times and more specifically on
the University.
of the University, as distinct from the xm
dowment for its support.
Of the 700 or 800 acres adjoining the
campus, the court gave the University as a
homestead all the land, about 600 acres, from
the Durham to the Pittsboro Road, except
the Pincy Prospect rectangle of 60 or 70 acres.
The debt and the mortgage being disposed
of, the over-yvhelming problem of where to
get the money to restore the buildings and
pay the faculty had to be solved. This is where
Dr. Kemp Plummer Battle's invaluable ser-
for restoration of the jnterest on the Federal
Land Grant Fund of $125,000 to the Univer
sity. This interest amounted to $7,500. After
much pleading and persuading, this bill yvas
passed by a vote of 51 to 50. Thus the Uni
versity yvas saved "by one vote.
Dr. Battle yvas also appointed to solicit the
alumni for $20,000 to be used for repairs.
This he did by personal visits and by writing
letters. He obtained this money and plans
yvere made' for the opening of the University
in September, 1875.
At first it yvas thought that the Univer
sity could-get along yvithout a president, and
the Trustees elected Frofessor Phillips pre
siding professor. But his health was bad and
he had to give it up after a year.
In the search for a president some Trus
tees advocated a prominent Confederate gen
eral. But that yvould have been fatal to the
University since the Republicans in the Leg
islature opposed everything connected with
the Confederacy. The problem was to find a
scholar and a diplomat, and one who loved
the University with his whole soul. He also
Dr. George T. Winston, who succeeded Dr.
Battle as president of the University and
kiew him well, paid a well-deserved tribute
to him at the Commencement in 1900. Dr.
Winston said in part:
"Surely no institution ever survived a
more precarious childhood. The wonder is
that it lived at all.
'The problem of the new Uinversity was
solved through the efforts and during the ad
ministration of its first President, Kemp Plum
mer Battle, For twenty years he performed
the duties of a dozen men and received the
salary of one. As President of the University
and executive officer managing the disci
pline and conducting the large correspon
dence yvithout clerk, typewriter or stenograp
her; as Secretary and Treasurer of the Board
of Trustees, negotiating loans on his own
Christianity is a peaceful and loving system, but
at times like this I think it should rise up in arms
and root out these evil influences in our society.
At the bottom of the flag there was a white foot
(yvith something in it) on the back of a Negro baby.
Although I thought this part was kind of funny,
I still think the people who put up the flag meant
someting derogatory by it.
Something should be done about all this. If
the campus is too lazy to act, then I think, the
responsibility ought to be placed on the shoulders
of the church. The time to move is now, for next
time these subversives may not stop with just put
ting up a flag. It is the duty of a dtfmocartic coun
try to keep the radicals in its midst in line, for
our yvholc system is at stake.
We have enough trouble with the Russians and
the peoples in our own country who are trying to
break into our neighborhoods and churches. The
South is the last great outpost of freedom and in
dividual rights and state's rights. We have a great
way of life here. Let's not let it be destroyed by
credit; as Professor of Political Economy and madmen.
had to have the confidence and respect of Constitutional History, as Professor of Law
both political parties, for whatever his quali
fications the candidate must have the back
ing of the Republicans to get elected.
The Democrats had approached Dr. Battle
about accepting the Presidency, but he yvas
not anxious to exchange a successful law
to the University by the Legislature and the practice in Raleigh for the grueling job of
people,
The buildings at the University were in
ruins. The $200,000 that the University re
ceived from the sale of land warrants in
Tennessee had been invested in worthless
state bonds, and the University was $110,000
in debt. The Legislature that had spent money
recklessly on everything else refused to spend
a dollar on the University.
A compromise was reached on the debt
yvith the bank. The bank agreed to accept
$25,000 in gold or $35,000 in paper currency,
plus a mortgage on all the University prop
erty. In 1874, Charles Dewey, assignee in
bankruptcy, brought suit to have the property
of the University sold under the mortgage.
The Circuit Court, in June, 1874, decided that
heading a poverty-stricken and struggling Uni
versity. However, when his lifelong friend.
Col. Rufus Lenoir Fatterscn, a Republican
and a great-grandson of General William
Lenoir of the Revolution, (for whom Lenoir
Dinning Hall is named), who was a trustee
of the University as were his father and great
grandfather, told Dr. Battle that he should
jeeept the Presidency and that he would have
. the backing .. of the Republicans. Dr. Battle
'agreed to accept the office.
The Trustees couldn't have found one who
filled the bill better than Kemp P. Battle. His
grandfather matriculated at the University
(Ed. note: This letter was unsigned, it is not
our policy to print unsigned letters, and we print
t'lis as a warning. No more such letters will be
printed.)
To the Editor:
If I am not mistaken, the current Editor of The
Tar Heel needs to shape up. This was especially
brought home to me in a recent editorial that I
presume was written by him, "The Ones Who
Didn't Sign the Cards." The editorial concerned the
conduct of some Carolina students at a recent movie,
"Tall Siory," starring Anthony Perkins.
Reference is made to this statement which Edi
tor Yardley made: 'Then, suddenly, the theatre
was filled with boos, hisses and similar forms of
verbal disparagement; the students of the Uni-
T Tk T it. t ' 1
it into life and solved the problem of its ex- VC1S11 UI rin arouna.wno were in auenaaD
istence." nad discovered that this team also featured a
. Negro basketball played. It was all fine wib
After 15 year as president, Dr. Battle re- them, apparently, for the team to display the talents
signed his burden in 1891 to accept the of ' the singularly inept Mr. Perkins, but a Negro.
Chair of History, which he held until 1907 regardless of ability, was taboo. . . The intent was
yvnen ne retired onsa carnegie Foundation only too plain. Prejudice, which so many of us
and Dean of the Law School without assis
tance in teaching or otherwise; as speaker and
lecturer at school commencements, public
gatherings and agricultural fairs; as canvasser
for funds, endowment, and students; as assi
duous and patient attendant upon every ses
sion of the State Legislature, as reconciler
of the irreconcilables; as suppressor of fools
within the University and yvithout; calm,
cheerful and hopeful amid difficulties and
disasters; overwhelmed with calumnies, mis
representations, and misunderstandings; noth
ing could have sustained him, during the years
of his presidency, but a heart full of unself
ish devotion to the great interests of this
great University. He shall be known as 'the
Father of the new University, for he called
Jerry Stokes
a : 1 . w
; ;out education since
yvc -;ot a spelling paper
"You know they's a kind of bird that
don't have legs so it can't light on nothing
but has to stay all its life on its wings in the
sky. You can't tell those birds from the
sky and that's yvhy the hawks don't catch
them . . . they live whole lives on the wing
and never light on this earth but one time
yvhen they die."
So says Marlon Brando about himself,
Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward and Mau
reen Stapleton in the. Tennessee Williams film
at the Carolina Theater "The Fugitive
Kind."
This is the latest in William's indictments
against man and it's Williams at his best,
which means it's man at his yvorst.
The story concerns Valentine Xavier, a re
formed "entertainer" from New Orleans
whose car breaks down in Twin Rivers Coun
ty, Miss. Through the aid of the county jail
er's wife (Miss Stapleton) he lands a job (1;
"Tcvvence Mercantile Store" run by Anna
Magnani. Magnani's husband is a hawk who
resides in a sweaty up'stairs nest, dying 0f
in 1798, his father graduated in 1820. He was
a resident of Chapel Hill from his 11th to pension. Durin? the last
his 24th year. He entered the University at he wrote his monumental two-volume history pant."
the age of 13, and graduated in 1849, at 17. of the University, for which historians and Editor Yardley was talking silly in his editorial.
While a student he and two other students the alumni will be forever grateful. The derision was not aimed at the Negro, but at
. . . the "Singuiary inept Mr. Perkins," whose ridiculous
gyrations on the basketball floor were embarrassing
to an audience which was conditioned to witnessing
the superior brand of basketball which is played
around here.
I am not saying the theatre audience that night
was not perhaps filled with persons who owned
Fugitives From Tennessee
cancer. To case those lonely hours in dry
goods, Magnani takes on. Brando as a clerk.
Enter Joanne Woodward in a white sports
car. Alternately snarling, vamping and taunt
ing she also sets her sights on Brando. But
he will have none of it, spurning her yvith
"Fly away, little bird, fly ayvay before you
get broke."
Brando sticks 'with Magnani who tells how
her father once had a wine garden that sold
wine to all the local hawks. One night poppa
made the mistake of selling wine to some Ne
groes and- the hawks swopped down on the
orchard and burned it and poppa to the
ground.
This, asserts bird Magnani, is why she
wants to open a confectionary and keep Bran
do to help her make a success of it while her
husband (a sweating beast, grotesquely play
ed to the hilt by Victor Jory) rots away up
stairs. Brando is yvilling but Twin River county
isn't. It seems that all the local hawks are
hot after Brando's tail feathers. Needless to Preiudiced minds. That may or may not have been
get
say, this sets the county male hawks to
this bird across the river and the state line
Brando agrees to go. but lingers long enough
for Anna to chirp that there will be little
claws soon in their nest.
Although Chapel Hill has been satiated
with Tennessee Williams of late, "The Fu
gitive Kind" suffers very little. This is large
ly due to the tremendous acting skills of
tne case. What I am saying is that the students
yvere not objecting vocally to the presence of the
Negro player in the film. I think, am pretty safe
in saying that people in the South, no matter how
prejudiced they may be. are not particularly dis
turbed by Negro players on athletic teams. This
has been proved to me time and again. NegToes.
generally, are respected in sports, and I think this
is an interesting fact to observe. Yardley was ob
viously ignorant of it.
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the entire cast. Anna Magnani is at her earth . c-.-U1 raie;
best and Marlon Brando plays the sensitive CW D3SketS- HlS Sho0ting eye is off way off
moronic Valentine Xavier with the finesse
that only many years of playing "sensitive
morons can bring.
Joane Wodward is back with us again in
the role of nyphomaniacal Eve Black, one
Sincverely,
Paul Houston
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third of the multi-personalitied schizophreniac in corresponding with a Korean student This morn-
which won Miss Woodward an uscar in 'The mg I received a letter from an organization called
Three Faces of Eve." Throw in Victor Jory KOREA PEN PALS INTERNATIONAL, Post Office
who is superbly evil, a skilled cast of sup- Box 34, Inchon, Korea. The representative Mr.
porting players all under the direction , of Kim, Dong Hyok, writes that the organization would
Sidney Lumet and one finds a powerful movie like very much to find American Pen Pals for its
with a pointed almost stabbing message. members in Korea.
If any student is interested in corresponding
with a Korean, I shall be glad to talk to him about
it, or he can write directly to the address given' in
this letter.
Sincerely yours,
A. C. Howell
Adviser to Foreign Students
h- Jim Harper
In Praise of Noses "
Some sing in praise of arm, of wrist, of hands
Whose whiteness is unequaled by new snow; ;
Some laud the hair, in curls or golden strands,
And swear no finer yvreath lies here below.
Some only live to kiss the laughing lips.
So warm, so red, inviting and some die. l"
Some praise a well turned ankle, or smooth hips '
Which flow into a firm and ample thigh. ;"
Some search for shoulders, sweetly curving dcwii
To meet a breast so soft, of ample scan; f:
Or long to find clear eyes, unknown to frown, -'
Or just regard the bottom, and its span.
Alas! My dear, I rank with none of those:
My whole existence hangs upon your nose.
Harper