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TME DAILY TARHEEL ' 1 ' The Daily Tar Heel is tbe official student publication of tbe Vublica- ! tions Board of tbe University pf l&tk CttoUva, Richard QvezstreeJ, Chairman. 1 : All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are tbe personal expres- sions of tbe editor, unless otherwise credited; t bey are not necessarily represen- I frrr o feeling on tbe staff, and all reprints or quotations must specify thus. : November 11, J 9 60 Volume LXIX, Number JO 1 ' A Great The Board of Higher Education of the State of North Carolina is responsible for making fecoipmen dations to the Advisory, Budget Commission on the budget sub mitted for the 1961-1963 j biennium by" the Consolidated University of Nortl Carolina. : This . austere body .yestprday, after what must have been careful and deliberate . consideratipit, rip ped the suggested . budget of the University to shreds, leaving it a pitiful, mangled reminder of its former self. For the first year of the bien nium the requests were slashed by 67.5 per cent and for the second year, 76.6 per cent. This, we are told, ; will leave us enough money not merely to maintain our present fine standing among American universities but to move forward toward the upper elite where we rightly belong. This recommendation will, in fact, crush any hopes for advance ment that the University has for the next two years. We are, temo rarily, crushed. The hand of igno rance has struck a crippling blow ijito the back of North Carolina education. Fortunately for the 1 University, Governortelect Terry Sanford has a far greater appreciation of the needs and value of the Consolidat ed University than does the so called Board of Higher Education; he told. Daily Tat Meet reporters Tuesday night that he woulcj push for a, bond issue for capital im provements. x There is still hope, then, th.at we might have a few of the buildings that-are necessary for thie perpe tuation and growth of pur Univerr sity. - There is little hope, however, for the most important phase of the requests that was so .thoughtlessly sliced to ribbons: faculty salaries, already low, will now have little chance for raises in the next two years. r In these next two years, how many capable, stimulating men and women will leave this Univer sity for pastures where the green is in greater abundance?. Were we ' in the position pf tfiese underpaid professors and instructors, ' we would take the first good offer that came along. We would take it npt merely be cause the pay would be higher; wp would take it because we could not be happy teaching in, a Univer sity in which the powers who con- t ?tilg peel i JONATHAN irABDLKY . . t . . , - Editor Watwk King, Mary Stewabt Bakeb Associate" Editors Mabgabet Ank "Rhymes . Managing Editor i Edward Nial Rinkr Assistant To The Editor Hznby Mayer, Lloyd . Littlb . news maiiors Scrs Air Lewis.. Frank Slusser. -Feature Editor -Sports Editor Krx FRXCDMAN..iAsst. Svorts Editor v Jomf Jusr-CE, Davis Young i Contributing Editors Tim Burnett " i Business- Manager Richard WzaimAdvertising Manager John Jester-,! -Cireulatiorx Manager ' Charles YfsnxiBBR.Subscription Manager The Daily Tar Heel is published daily xeept Monday, examination periods 4 and vacations. It is entered es second- ? class matter in the post office in Chapel HlUi N. C, pursuant -with the act of - ; March 8. 1370. Subscription rates: $ y . per semester. $7 per year. x . . I Tm Daily Tab Heoc is a subscriber to x the -United Press International ! and utilizes the services -of the 1 News Bu- Teau of the University of North Care- i-i Published by th Colonial Xress, Chapel Hill. N. C. - ---- For Education trolled our salary were totally un concerned about the quality of education in the state. And we can only conclude that the Board of Higher Education is much more concerned with saving a few dollars than building a great many minds; that narrowminded provincialism has prevented this -board from seeing any farther than the next caucus; that the forces of intolerance toward education that we had hoped long ago were dead still thrive in this most "progres sive" of Southern states. Sir Francis Bacon said once that "knowledge is power," but these recent actions by the Board of Higher Education lead us to be lieve that power emanates from sources not necessarily possessed of knowledge: for if knowledge had been operating when the Board sat in judgement, the verdict would have been quite different. And ob viously the board possesses power. We can find no excuse for the blatant indifference displayed by this body toward the state of edu cation in North Carolina. If the fate of education in this state rests upon the decisions of this board then we see little hope for any rapid improvement within the next hundred years. And t is our un fortunate position that the board does, to a great degree, control the financial aspects of University life. The effects of this recommenda tion will be felt in many more areas than the mere confines of Ka leigh, Greensboro and" Chapel Hill. The entire state wpl, sooner or later, know what it is to have in ferior facilities at its own Univer sity. We have no expectation that the University will be able to move forward with this crippling blow aimed at the financial legs it planned to stand on. Money, unfor tunately, is the root of not only all evil but a great deal of good; the Board of Higher Education has made sure that we will not get the money needed to do a little profit able educational good. 1960 has been cited as a year for moving ahead both in the state and the nation; yet here at the Univer sity we are being forced to take a backward course. Movement has been stifled by the forces of reac tion to progress. For all the validity of a sound fiscal policy, there is as much if not considerably more validity in a sound educational system on the college and university level; for some unknown reason the Univer sity of North Carolina is not going to be allowed to make its forward move. . North Carolina and its Univer sity must move forward. We are being prevented from doing this by men wjth no great concern for the University, and this is grossly unfair. We can only recall the words of Grantland Rice, in his poem "Two Sides of War." They may be maudlin, but they are true: All wars are planned by old men In council rooms apart, Who plan for greater arma ment And map the battle chart. C - . I've noticed nearly all the dead Were hardly more than boys. Advertisements read something like-this: Lpllabragida is .the flame, Montahd is the fuse that sets them on fire WHERE THE HOT WIND BLOWS. The story of the most dangerous game six sensualists ever played with life," Paraphrased, they should read like the slogan of the 1930s: "Hello sucker!" Now playing at the Varsity Theater," Where The Hot Wind Blows blows a mighty cold pror duction. Set in a small Italian village the movie's "plot" might be said to be centered around the battle of certain men in the vil lage to gain control of the town after the "boss," the controlling figure in every aspect of liveli hood, dies. Gina Lollqbrigida portrays one the boss's servants who is in search pf a wealthy husband. Costumes have been designed so that she can exhibit much of her already greatly exposed body to the viewers. Yves Montand is one of those trying to gain control of the village. Those of you expect ing to see a "hot" romance be tween him and Miss Lollobrigida will be very much, disappointed. Melina Mercouri perhaps turns in the best performance of the lot as a frustrated young wife seeking amorous satisfaction from a local law student. Overall, nothing much can be said for the Joseph Levine pro duction. It is virtually plotless and, therefore, very confusing. Rip Slusser WASHINGTON WINDOW: f for vi ResNJT fe ' ' rmih Urr b . r-7 1 4 'Writer. Cites Kennedy As Image Of Franklin Roosevelt By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International . WASHINGTON The Demo crats have come up with another break-away runner in the image of their all-time all-American, FDR. Sen. John F. Kennedy ran for president in the Roosevelt tradir tion. Not only did he take the big cities in the big states with their great clusters of electoral votes. Kennedy also blasted smaller communities off heir Republican foundations. Batavia and Rome, N.Y., for example, small cities with Republican traditions like that of an old time Union League club. An aging staff officer of the original New Deal forces summed it up a fortnight before polling day after Kennedy's imperial progress through the city of New York. "That fella," said the old New Dealer, "can't be beat. We've got another Roosevelt. He smiles out of the back of . his 'head. ' We're back in the White House for sure." Republicans will blame their candidate for a massive party de feat. Some GOP strategists were complaining in September and early October hat'Vice President Richard M. Nixon's campaign was too soft. Some of them continued to complain of too little and too late after Nixon went all out in the stretch drive. From the campaign side lines it appeared to this observer that Nixon lost this presidential elec tion in deference to the solid sports maxim Jhat the best de fense is not enough to win the ball game. The offensive team gets the scores. Circumstances and fancy Dem ocratic strategy put Nixon on the defensive in this campaign., There were other factors. In the tidal wave of election news there were bits and pieces suggesting that there was in fact a massive Roman Catholic support of candi date Kennedy in the North and East. Precise analysis of returns from many areas shortly will an swer the question which plagued the campaign: Which candidate did the religious issue help or hurt arid where? The TV confrontations de bates, so-called must be put down now by Nixon and his friends as a ghastly mistake. No. 1 apparently disposed of a big Republican issue:, that Kennedy was a boy sent by the Democrats to do a man's job. ; Nixon was acclaimed by his supporters as a skilled debater, a master of the hard-hitting cam paign. Nixon's 'enemies' called it differently. They said Nixon had an instinct for the jugular. Howevef $hat may be; the deT f ensive fig&ter, mjs .fcackaway. so long as he is on the defensive. And Njxon . backed. Kennedy chose to attack the Eisenhower administration. Nixon chose to defend. Tie blockbuster issu which proved to be indefensible was the issue of prestige. Nixon must have been aware of that when he insisted and sought to prove that United States prestige was never higher, in "the yorld. The vice president was the first and for some time the only top member of th? Eisenhower admipistration Jo warn the nation of the interna tional impact of the first Commu nist Sputnik. The counter-issue Nixon might have developed, but. did not, was that if United States prestige had HENRY MAYER slipped, the slippage was not wholly nor, perhaps, even half the responsibility of the Eisen hower administration. There were many facets to the question of prestige. A slippage in U.S. prestige,' however, seemed to fit the pat tern of world events. And while, the vice president and Henry Ca bot Lodge were making their all out defense, Eisenhower adminis tration underlings leaked to Ken nedy headquarters reports of gov ernment polls which certified that U.S. prestige had, indeed, slipped. These polls and the evidence of the day by day news seemed to support wholly Kennedy's charges and to impeach Nixon's defense. Nixon might have met and mas tered the prestige issue from a different tack. On most other fronts Kennedy outrmaneuvered his Republican opposition with.prQrnises tot out perform the Eisenhower adminis tration over the whole range of government. Nixon sturdily chal lenged that President Eisenhower had done well and that Kennedy could not do better but would do worse. Nixon did not, however, pin the Democrats on the fact tha Kennedy was vague, minus detail, on how he would accom plish his wonders. Nixon and Ike together couldn't make Kennedy answer: HOW! Graham Memorial's La ' Petite UvamfltiQUg really came through this weekend. The hilarious Solid Gold Cadil lac was well done fun a refresh ing change from the depressing profundities of last year's inter pretations of playwrights Camus and Sartre. It was certainly not perfection, but highly entertain ing, fast moving and enthusias tically received by large audi ences on both Saturday and Sun day nights. The response on this campus was so large that the play will be given next Sunday evening at State College in the Student Un ion. We think the reason why Cadil lac was so well received was due to the smooth, fun-loving attitude of the cast. Everyone on stage seemed to be having a good time and the audience did too. The ac tion on stage, the method of mov ing scenery et al put the cast and the audience at ease through out the evening. Even an occa sional muff-up on lines and a whispered cue from the side add ed to the hilarity. Perhaps most deserving of praise for acting was Annabelle Garrido, who in her youth, por trayed a perfect tottering and naive old lady Mrs. Laura Par tridge; Miss Garrido with only ten shares of stock convincingly took over the General Products Cor poration in a lovable and charm ing manner. Conspiring with Miss Garrido was graduate student John Mea dows, who played McKeever president (past, present and fu ture) of the corporation. Not only will he be remembered for oc casional lapses in the memory of his lines, but even more for the dynamic soliloquy "Spartacus and the Gladiators (YEE CALL ME CHIEF!)", complete with gestures; this proved to be one of the funniest parts of the play. We were also impressed with supporting actors Bob Blood worth, Graham Pollack, Cole Waddel and George O. Hanion. These four boys portrayed the four directors of the corporation all antagonists to the Partridge McKeever combination. They Worked together extremely well, and at the same time represented distinct character types. ' An amazing change of character was accomplished by Debbie Ives, a secretary who makes a sort of "My Fair Lady" transformation in order to catch the office mail boy. A small part to be remembered was the twittering humor of Blake Green as fashion news caster. M. S. B. Mareel Marceau Is Described As Reviewer's Dream A performance by MarceJ Mar ceau is a reviewer's dream come true, for it gives him" the oppor tunity to release the superlatives pent up within him and to finally "like something." For almost two hours Tuesday evening the celebrated French man hek his capacity -Memorial Hall audience transfixed as he displayed his extraordinary tal ents. Aided and abetted only by six spotlights and the most perfectly coordinated set of muscles , on either side of the Atlantic, Mar ceau captured in his "language of the heart" the essence of man and his society. Before the program was five minutes old, , the white-faced, wordless wizard had his audience applauding wildly and otherwise vocally expressing its astonish ment. "Walking" arid "Walking Against the Wind" were the open ing sketches, and the illusion of blustery gales buffeting the pe destrian about was incredibly vivid. Marceau uses his entire body (and every ounce of his , spirit, too) in creating his moods and characterizations. . . His walking exercises demonstrated faultless footwork as well as graceful arid fluid movement virtually impos sible to recreate, , even in one's mind. He WAS walking against he. wind; no other possibility exists. The mime's genius lies in this rare ability to make his viewers believe that he is actually per forming with props and assist ants Throughout his performance Marceau exhibited subtleties and asides," which reflected the care arid sensitivity with which each exercise was prepared. These touches pf naturalism added the infcaQgibJe aur pf . .greatness o the already flawless performance. The highlight of the first half of the performance was unques tionably Marceau's depiction of the denizens of a carnival side show. As the weight lifter who was nearly . bowled over by his task, the Master achieved an -effect which flabbergasted his au dience. One could nqt help seer ing the large block slowly force the lifter backwards until his arched back was only inches from the sawdust, nor could one fail to see the fellow sweat and strain and see his body grow tense and rigid as he finally managed to push the weight up again. His characterization of the pa thetic tightrope walker, who pan icked as the time came for his performance high above the floor, was a joy to behold. Marceau's facial expressions sent the au dience into uninhibited hilarity as he expressed the fears of the performer while his body quiv ered and tottered on the wire. "Bip," the Marceau alter-ego, appeared during the second half of the evening, and his adventures at 4 society party and as a lion tamer also ranked as higfy spqts in a performance which actually had no pauses, no lows, no mo ments of boredom. Marceau's stylistic vignette on '?Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death" was a departure from the mime's comic sketches and served to demonstrate the full range and wonder of his art. In the span' of two minutes, the figure crouched in center stage rose from the womb, acheived the stature of adulthood, only to shrivel up once again and pass in to the next world. The dying flick of the mime's hand in final, symbolic salute to the living world was indeed an electrifying moment. Silence reigned in Merriorial Hall; an ar tist of the first magnitude had cast his spell. Graham Memorial sponsored the performance here, and it was undoubtedly the finest attraction ever offered by the GM Series. In two hours, Marceau created life its humor and its pathos, its delights and sorrows. The per formance was fresh and original; it sparkled with creative vigor and bore the unmistakable mark of genius. The thunderous ovation pro ferred by the grateful audience was from the heart and Mar ceau's artistry had originated there too. Could A Fast Vote Count s Sway A National Mlection MARCEL MARCEAU A problem that might be of some significance in elections to come showed up during the bal lot counting Tuesday night. Some states on the West coast still had their polls open while returns had already begun to trickle in from states in the East. While these early returns were so scanty as to be of little in fluence on those still voting, fu ture elections might have a real problem. With mass communication tech niques in operation, it is feasi ble that vote, counts could come in completely enough in , states that close their polls early to show trends to late voting states. While this phenomenon of the modern mass communication erav had' little or no effect in the recent election, future elections which will have the advantage of even faster cpunting and posting could actually cause a sway in the undecided blocs in the West. This situation could be even more dangerous if some Eastern stae were ppnsidered key states which C0U14 turn the tide of the election. For. instance, if pre-election predictions showed a. state such as New York to be the deciding factor in an election, it is con ceivable that enough returns could be in from there, before the pojls. closed on the 7c.:t ccst to carry. iKi Vfate'. . . -;fTJii cpiild- paus; vctrs r de cidghaf there v.'cs nstre trend for" a given candidate and prompt them to jump on thebnd wagon. Wayne King