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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Wednesday, October 12, 1CC0
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any Happy Returns With Admonitions
The University of North Carolina
today celebrates, with all due pomp
and circumstance, its one hundred
and sixty-seventh birthday. The Louis
Round Wilson Library gets its mil
lionth book, amidst appropriate fes
tivities, and from Harvard comes
President Nathan Pusey to celebrate
with us in academic felicity.
The University has survived a great
deal during these last one hundred
and sixty-seven years. Starting with
the smallest of land grants and finan
cial aid, the University had grown to
some size and reputation when the
Civil War forced it into obsolescence.
Chapel Hill came back, however,
and grew to be one of the great uni
versities in the nation. Known
throughout the world for its liberal
ism and tolerance, it burned an ad
mirable path for the entire state and
South to follow.
Today the University stands as the
leader of Southern, intellectuality.
Books issued from its press are read
throughout the nation; its students
rise to positions of eminence both
within and without the state; its name
rings clear and true toall Iwho are
concerned with the arts, knowledge
and the human mind.
The University of North Carolina
has, indeed, come a long, long way.
And it has a long, long way to go.
Many of the most admirable traits
to which Chapel Hillians point with
& pride are balanced by defects which
many would rather ignore. What has
been accomplished tangibly has not
been equalled in attitude.
In many ways this University still
clings to ancient concepts of living
and education which will not work in
the unfortunately high-powered so
ciety of the mid-twentieth century.
We are often a hopelessly provincial
group.
We are often, too, hopelessly twen
tieth century in our materialism, a
materialism at times so crass as to be
alarming. Buildings are still the most
discussed aspects of the University;
teachers and students seem often to
be forgotten in the rush toward new
edifices of monolithic proportions.
Intellectuality, as has been sug
gested by many teachers and students
lately, is a fast-dying aspect of the
Chapel Hill legend. It is being re
placed by specialization and by en
tirely too much concentration upon
the mere obtaining of degrees. The
student who loves to read and think
is often placed below the student who
merely loves to study.
We take time today to concentrate
upon our library and the books with
in its somber walls. Let us, in the fu
ture, take time to meditate not mere
ly upon books but upon what is with
in them, and their importance to this
community of minds.
A Friend From A House Of Intellect
We welcome to this campus Nathan
Pusey, a man whose reputation indi
cates that he is truly deserving of a
wholehearted welcome.
He is a man who comes from a
center of learning perhaps unparal
leled anywhere in the world; Har
vard University's greatness has long
been the measuring rod for all other
universities.
From Harvard have come books
and ideas that have changed the
minds of men; from Harvard have
come men who have changed the face
of the. world.
To duplicate a list of illustrious
Harvard graduates would require an
entire newspaper, and a special edi
tion at that. Their names need not be
mentioned, however, because their
reputation is so great. Many of them
have led America.
Harvard is by no means perfect. It
concentrates so heavily on the ex
ceptionally gifted student that little
balance is achieved. It tends to be an
isolated island of genius, an ivory
tower sheltered from the stormy
blasts of commercialism and the
common world.
To Harvard, however, come the
men and women whose desire it is to
think and study, people whose minds
can never be overburdened, people
who are seeking a community where
their interests will be respected.
They find this community in Har
vard. Well paid Harvard is an in
credibly rich university and satis
fied with the students whom they
meet in the morning hours of mad
ness known as classes, these teachers
and scholars enhance, each in his own
way, the reputation of Harvard Uni
versity. r,
We do not intend to give the im
pression that we consider Harvard a
sort of Valhalla; under no circum
stances does it approach this lofty
ideal. There is too much "book
learnin' " going on at Harvard, and
not enough "wholesome relaxation."
There is too much reputation, and
many students suffer from reputation
reliance
We do, however, think that Chapel
Hill would do well to look at the
examples set by Harvard, and profit
thereof.
It is true that Harvard has a great
deal of money, and that the Univer
sity of North Carolina does not; it is
also true that Harvard pays its teach
ers much more highly than does
U.N.C., and that their pay constitutes
a higher percent of the total amount
spent annually than here.
The most famous part of Harvard
University is its library; the most
famous part of the University of
North Carolina is its basketball team.
Not that there is anything wrong with
the University's basketball team (we
support it with great enthusiasm) ; it's
just that things seem a little out of
proportion.
Harvard has advantages that Chapel
Hill could never hope to attain: good
bookstores, a large city with count
less cultural opportunities, a tremen
dous amount of money. Harvard takes
these advantages seriously; do we do
the same for ours? , '
We hope that students will attend
this morning's speech and listen care
fully to this vital young educator who
has done so much to bring Harvard
up to date.
We also hope that all present will
wonder what we might do, that he
has done, to bring Chapel Hill up to
date.
To be considered "The Harvard Of
The South" would be quite an honor,
icome to think of it.
M.S.B.
New Books
We received six good-looking
new paperback books at the
DTII office last week. Labeled
"Modern Library Paperbacks,"
they are actually "Vintage"
books, published before by
Knopf publishers, but now by
a division of Random House,
who recently took over Knopf.
A name immediately com
manding our attention was Vla
dimir Babokov author of con
troversial Lolita. Vintage had
published his translation of The
Song of Igor Campaign, a Rus
sian epic of the 12th Century.
With this book, readers will
have the opportunity of knowing
Nabokov as a master of lan
guage and translation. The book
was translated from the old
Russian and is accompanied by
Nabokov's notes to illuminate
the history of the work and its
structure.
Students interested in the po
litical sphere will like The
United States in World Affairs
by Richard P. Stebbins. This
book is a colorful recorded ac
count of American happenings
during 1959. The "American
Historical Review" character
ized this volume as "indis
pensable to students of recent
American policy."
Like modern literature? Then
of these six you'll be most
interested in Man In Modem
Fiction by Edmund Fuller. Vin
tage has aptly labeled it "Some
Minority Opinions on Contempo
rary American Writing" for Mr.
Fuller believes that the image
of man which dominates the
literature of today is drastically
out of harmony with the true
nature of man. He includes dis
sections of Norman Mailer,
Tennessee Williams, Jack Ke
rouac, Herman Wouk and John
Steinbeck to name a few.
TJie Complete Plays of John
M. Synge has also been pub
lished as a Modern Library
Paperback. The six plays are
"The Playboy of the Western
World," "Riders to the Sea," "In
the Shadow of the Glen," "The
Well of the Saints," "The Tink
er's Wedding," and "Deirdre of
the Sorrows" most of which
are considered to be major
dramatic . achievements of the
twentieth century. All of. these
plays were produced at the Ab
b e y Theatre, which Synge
founded with Lady Gregory and
W. B. Yeats.
Want some Utopian plans for
building your own city? Every
thing but blueprints can be
found in the unique Communi
tas, a book about the "ways of
livelihood and means of life," by
Paul and Percival Goodman.
Percival Goodman is an Asso
ciate Professor of Architecture
at Columbia University; Paul ,
Goodman is a novelist, poet,
critic and poet. Students inter
ested in architecture, sociology
and related fields will enjoy this
book. Written in a refreshingly
wise and humorous style, it con
cerns itself with the mistakes
of earlier community plans and
deals with plans for new ones.
Robert Lowell is a poet who
brought much praise with the
appearance of his early .vol
umes Land of Unlikeliness and
Lord Weary's Castle. Stephen
Spencer has written that "Rob
ert Lowell is an outstanding pio
neer extending the frontiers of
language making notable con
quests of material which often
seems too eccentric for poetry
and consolidating it in very
strong and compact form." This
the reader will find in his latest
book, published now by Vin
tage; it is called Life Studies and
will be appreciated by the ad
venturous reader.
"Let's Pick A Date After Which Neither One Of Us Letters To' The Editor
Will Discuss Religion"
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'Brother Bobby
There was a story circulating around
Washington before the Democratic conven
tion that a friend of Bob Kennedy called him
one day on the phone and said, "Bobby, we
are going to sue a labor racketeer for slander.
He referred to you as "that mean, ruthless,
little S.O.B.' " When Kennedy asked on what
ground the libel suit was to be based, the
friend answered, "Why, Bobby, everybody
knows that you aren't so little!" Needless to
say, the story was not spread by Kennedy's
friends.1 , '
Time magazine's cover boy this week is a
truly remarkable politician. No one is luke
warm on Bobby: either they are intensely
for him, or just as dead set against him. To
know the reason for this extreme emotion
surrounding the younger brother of the Ken
nedy Clan, it is necessary to know some
thing of Bob himself. Bobby lacks the per
sonal warmth of Brother Jack, and it is said;
that this hardness, or lack of tact, is respon
sible for gaining the many enemies that choke
at the mention of his name. But this same
character trait is the basis for Bobby's dedi
cation to the cause: his brother's election.
Time notes, in its article on the younger Ken
nedy, that during a pep talk to a group of
Democratic organizers, he said: "Gentlemen,
I don't give a damn if the state and county
organizations survive after November, and I
don't give a damn whether you survive. I
want to elect John E. Kennedy."
At the same time that staunch enemies
curse his doggedness, they cannot question his
impeccable honesty. As chief counsel for the
now famous Labor Rackets Committee, Ken
nedy worked for two years to uncover graft
and corruption in many of the labor unions,
most notably the Teamsters Union. In doing
so, he drove both himself and his staff merci
lessly, and shocked the American public with
the exposure of big-time labor chieftains and
their exploitation of union members. During
the course of the investigation, Bobby crossed
paths marry times with Teamster Boss Jimmy
Hoffa. Bobby himself admits that investigat
ing the Teamsters was like "playing Notre
Dame every day."
Nor was Kennedy's crusade against the
gangland influence on labor unions merely an
example of personal bravery, for he exposed
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anonymous letters. Guilty labor leaders tried
first to "buy him off" as had been done, un
fortunately, with previous Government in
vestigators. Not with money, of course, be
cause Millionaire Kennedy was untouchable
from that angle. But Jimmy Hoffa warned that
he could throw his huge Teamsters' Union
either for or against Jack in the presidential
sweepstakes. Bobby continued to dog Hoffa,
and in return, the Teamster boss spoke in
labor-conscious Wisconsin during the pri
maries. As it turned out, Hoffa's support of
a Kennedy opponent proved to be the kiss of
death.
And why did Bob Kennedy undergo all of
the personal torture for the dollar a year
that he was paid by the government? Was it
for that touch of glory, for the headlines?
Again, to understand the answer, we must
delve into the philosophy of the Kennedy
family. Multi-millionaire father Joe Kennedy
gave each of his sons a million dollar trust
fund when they had grown to maturity. But
in return, he expected his sons to do some
thing constructive with their lives, since they
were removed from the necessity of earning
a living. And Bobby Kennedy has certainly
fulfilled his part of the bargain.
But again, we are faced with the question
of what is this Bobby Kennedy really like?
Can a person be unquestionably honest, and
yet ruthless? The answer is yes.
For Bobby is the heart and the brain of
Operation Kennedy. He probably knows more
important state politicians than any campaign
manager in the presidential primaries. He
knows the situation in every state; he knows
where Jack must pick up votes to win in
November; and he knows the game of poli
tics is a rough game. His solution: be tougher.
He drives himself without stopping and he
won't stop until his brother is in the White
House.
Yes, Bobby plays the game hard, and he
keeps the pressure on Democratic bigwigs in
the November vote. Sometimes he has to
coerce, sometimes he has to promise, and
sometimes he has to encourage. And in doing
all of these things, he makes people mad. But
he wins.
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To the Editor:
I feel compelled to clarify the contro
versy that started two weeks ago with
the column on "Coed Hypocrisy."
Since that column appeared two an
swers have -been printed in the DTII
concerning the original opinions put
forth. Both answers have failed to see
the crux of the controversy are the ma
jority of coeds on this campus hypo
crites? The first answer, written by a male
student, was thoroughly amusing, though
its taste at some points was questionable.
He supported the idea that most coeds
are hypocrites, but gave a different rea
son for it: campus males are so scarce
that a girl must be "smooth" to get any
where. (The question of ichere she is
going has yet to be determined.) The
idea of male scarcity is the opposite of
the original reason given for coed hy
pocrisy: four males to every coed. The
reason for its existence is secondary, but
it does exist.
The second answer, "Snow White," is
remarkable. Remarkable for its lack of
logic. The fallaciousness of the article,
written by a coed, can be proved by
asking a few cogent questions: What is
Snow White (she is equated with Caro
lina coeds) doing at the little thatched
cottage of the seven dwarfs in the first
place. Is it to obtain an A.B. or M.R.S.?
It must be qualified that not all coeds
are hypocrites, just most of them. In
saying this we can't overlook the males
who spout forth the endless "sweet little
nothings."
The alternative way of behaving with
sincerity has been by-passed by males
"on the make" and coeds looking for an
M.R.S. Do the ends justify the means?
Many people can't be outspoken, be
cause they haven't the spine to speak
and act in a truthful manner. The truth
is often brutal, but nevertheless it is
truth and should be respected as such.
These spineless people like to justify
hypocrisy by saying that we must be
polite, and it wouldn't do to be uncouth
and crass. But there is a middle road
that can be followed where hypocrisy is
not prevalent nor is impoliteness. This
is the road mature people try to follow.
Maybe it is too much to ask of this
campus.
The second answer completely over
looked what was being said in the ori
ginal article, and uses an invalid meta
phor: UNC coeds are Snow White. Any
similarity between Snow White and a
Carolina coed is purely a delusion.
To the coed who wrote the article I
suggest that she enroll immediately in
the reading comprehension course in
Peabody.Hall. The original article abso
lutely did not condemn all coeds on
campus. Statements were qualified to
the utmost degree. And most certainly
all women in general were not con
demned, nor was any mention or in
nuendo made about their virtue. This
brings to light another question: why
can't some coeds read?
The first two articles were in the main
correct. Hypocrisy is prevalent, that is
just a plain fact. The truth hurts. If it
is possible to rise above personal bias,
then accept it.
Vladmir Nosinbor
To the Editor:
Having observed the chaotic business
of this Fall's fraternity induction per
iod, taking note of the difficulty these
noble organizations have with instal
ling in their prospective pledges sound
and logical reasons for accepting the
various invitations to the splendid func
tions of this affair, I should like to pro
pose what I humbly believe to be an
adequate solution, wholly congruous
with - the irreproachable traditions and
practices of this most exalted univer
sity. Since the initial roots of the affore
mentioned difficulty are grounded in the
fact that said inductees are ill furnished
with' a concrete basis for their action,
such an alleviation as I would hope to
submit must involve a tenable and ir
revocable reason, as it were, of some
absolute and legislative nature for the
action. It being the case and common
knowledge to all that such conceptual
deficiencies and general indiscretions in
regard to the irresolution and incom
petence of younger students are of rare
occurrence in the administrative and
academic structure of this university, as
may be witnessed in the maxims for
class attendance, which are so effica
ciously and sagaciously fixed, or in the
cleverly inflexible program of the Gen
eral College, I would have my simple
proposal reflect the same wisdom and
course of action that engenders such
functional equilibrium and bliss in our
intellectual community.
Let us, then, render it compulsory that
every incoming male student be initiated
automatically into one of our number
of fraternities, the criteria for the place
ment of each remaining the same as
under the present system, and this duty
being left to a committee composed of
the Dean of the General College, the
Dean of Students,, and the Diretcor of
Admissions, the latter being most capable
and worthy of the task knowing in ad
vance all that there is to know about
these students. My suggestion, which I
see as the most direct solution to this
distressing enigma, would also eliminate
the disorder and confusion symptomatic
of the present method of fraternal en
listment; and in addition remove from
each student the ineffable responsibility
of making so'imporfant a decision.
Phil Smegnur
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