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. w- Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL ( M I In its sixty-eigbtb year of editorial freedom, vnbampered by restrictions fj row either the administration or the student body. 11 The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Vublica- I Hons Board of the University of North Carolina. Richard Overstreet, Chairman. A editorials appearing in The Daily "Tar. Heel are the personal expres- 0 editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily represen- If If tative.of feeling on. the staff, and all reprint or -quotations must specify thv. II February 11, 1961 m Volume LXIX, Number 95 The Mess Ih The Library Stacks: A Good. Reason For Deprivation A couple of years ago Dr. Jer rold Orne decided to make an ex periment. He opened the stacks of Louis Round Wilson Library, for merly available only . to graduate students and undergraduates with special permission, to the entire student body. -' . Not long after this had been done, it became obvious that stu dents -were Violating - this privi lege; therefore, the stacks were closed to all except those holding permit cards after six o'clock in . the afternoon. It has now become more or less undeniably apparent that Dr. Orne's "noble experiment" is a failure. And it certainly "is not a failure because of his efforts; he has made every concession, offered every second chance in the hopes of keeping the stacks open to all students as much as possible. The student library committee has tried to keep the student body in line and the violations to a minimum, but all has been in vain. The student body has refused, with every means available to it, to co operate. It now appears that, un less a sudden reversal is made, the stacks will and must be closed. Why does this seem necessary? Th.e reasons are simple, and are singularly distressing. Students using the stacks show absolutely no concern for others. They talk incessantly, with boy- girl affairs being conducted behind the security of bookstacks. They take books from the shelves and then carelessly return them to the wrong place. They use the eleva tors as ferris wheels, riding glee fully up and down with no thought for. persons who may be waiting for that sort of inter-level trans portation. Students seem to think nothing of marking up books, tearing ar ticles out of newspapers or defac ing anything they can get their hands on. They walk through the corridors of the stacks as though they could not keep their shoes on Unless they scrape along the floor. When they speak, they shout. These instances, of course, are not true of all students. There are many who respect the rights of others and use the library as it was meant to be used: as a place for quiet, scholarly study, research and reading. But, if the past is to be taken as a guide, there are too few of these. At nineteen or twenty years of age a person should have enough maturity and common sense to realize that the world does not be gin and end with him; he should know enough to treat his fellow citizens with respect. Yet it seems that because some students here are not this mature, all may lose library privileges. We might ask the offenders if this is fair. On Some Recent Sports Columns During the past week Jack Hor ner, Durham Herald sports colum nist has leveled a series of blasts against this University and its head basketball coach that is perhaps unparalleled in . the history of North Carolina sports writing. -The force with which he has delivered his blows .and the vitriolic quality of his accusations have , left the campus arid much of the state stunned. We feel compelled to speak out In protest against not only the words and ideas themselves but also the concept of journalism that provoked them. Yet the charges are delivered in such a low, intem perate manner that we hesitate to stoop to the level from which they were written and conceived. There is little that need be said in defense of Frank McGuire and his basketball teams past, present and future. One of the verities of Chapel Hill is the honesty and courtliness of this coach who has JONATHAN YARDLEY ' Editor , , . ,; ' Wayne King, Mahy Stewart Baker Associate Editors Margaret Ann Rhymes Managing Editor, Edward Neat. Rineh ' Assistant To. The Editor Henry Mayer, Jim Clotfelteb - - - News Editors Lloyd Little Executive News Editor. Susan Lewxs-L. Frank Slussxr, JFeature Editor Sports Editor P P f H Haehy W. Lloyd Asst. Sports Editor John Justice, Davis Young - I Contributing Editors Trwt Burnett Business, Manager Richarp Weiner .Advertising Manager John TisTESLZCirculaiion Manager Charles yvEBBmSu$scriptipn Manager The Daily Tas Heel is published daily except Monday, examination periods and vacations- It is. entered as second" class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant , with the act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates : $4 per semester,. $7 per year, , . , The Daily Tab Heel is a subscriber to the . United - Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. , : ,- : ' , ' Published by the Colonial Press. Chapel Hill, N. C. --' --; j . 1 distinguished himself not only as a practitioner of the art of basketball but also as an individual. He has instilled in the boys. who have come to play basketball at Chapel Hill not only a desire to win and the ability to do so but also standards of conduct which, if last Saturday's affair at Duke is any example, are not always met by the students of either this Uni versity or Duke. Countless maga zine and newspaper articles have told the story of the reserved, sensible off-and-on court conduct of McGuire-coached players. But. this is not what we are wor ried about. We know that the good names of Frank McGuire and the University of North Carolina are too big to be struck down by any sportswriter, much less one who writes as Mr. Horner does. We are concerned about the state of Ameri can journalism, and wonder ser iously if this type of reporting and commentary is becoming typical. Few of the charges made against McGuire, particularly that of a "conspiracy" against Art Heyman that was made in Thursday's Herald, are substantiated by unde niable, absolute fact. Innuendo and rumor have infiltrated Mr. Hor ner's column. Is' this writer so desperate for story subjects that he will pull them out of the thin air? He must be, or he would not have comment ed as he has. Does American jour nalism today rely on thin air for its facts?. We do not think so, yet cannot refrain from wondering when we read such matter. We completely respect Mr. Hor ner's, right to express his opinions, whether they castigate U.N.C., Duke or Michigan State. We do not, however, tolerate his conduct ing a campaign against a man and an institution against whom he has no base. "We Don't Have The Winters We Used To I Remember When There Was Only A Few Inclies Of Snow" n W Reader Disagrees With Editors Movie Review Jim Clotfelter To the Ediior: Your recent demonstration of inability to review a motion pic ture was indeed shocking. I have admired your work on the cam pus newspaper in the past but your review of "Hiroshima . . . Mon Amour" was about the most shallow review in existence. I am indeed sorry to see that such a great motion picture received so bad a reception in an academic community. As I left the theater after seeing this movie I vw.it nessed various reactions to 1 the work from "This is undoubtedly cne of the finest movies of our times" to "What a waste. I've seen better road-runner car toons." The overall effect of your review coincides with the latter statement while my own opinion is that it was a work of art. Its purpose and scope was so much greater than the usual' motion picture produced in Hollywood for the obvious commercial rea sons. The first three paragraphs of your review were acceptable. You stopped naming the vir tues too soon and did not include all virtues of the film by any means. It seemed as if you thought you had covered the vir tues and then decided that it The Moderate View On Southern Integration Problem "Negro students cannot pos sibly keep up with white students in an integrated school. This is partly due to a poor environ ment and partly to a basically lesser intellect than the white." This is the average Southerner he who believes that segrega tion is right, but differentiated from the extreme segregationist (whose views were given in yes terday's DTII) by a less zealous dedication to separation of the races. Most Southern public officials , and a majority of the Southern people fall into this category. They will defend segregation to the limit of the law, but usually no farther. This Southerner speaks in a slow, crackling voice: "The Southern white and Ne gro live in two completely dif ferent worlds. There can be no reconciliation of these worlds in the near future. The Negro has a completely different culture: he came from Africa and would still be a savage if the white man had not elevated him. . . . There has never been a Negro-built civili zation." "Separate but equal" or "free dom of association" is the posi tion of this Southerner in refer ence to educational facilities. He does not necessarily espouse the cause of "segregated public schools, or closed public schools," as does the more extreme segre gationist. He blames the integration dilemma on "outsiders, the NAACP, and the Supreme Court. . . . People come from the North and try to stir up the Southern Negro to agitate for what they falsely call his . 'rights. "These - outsiders think they own the country and can tell everybody how to run their pri vate lives. "They have no interest in the Southern way of life or in its in stitutions. They don't really care Tom Camp Jack Horner: He s Pushing Us Into A. Corner This writer had chosen to re main in the background while speculation about the Duke-Carolina fracas was in high gear, choosing to wait for a ruling from Commissioner Weaver. But certain events and certain Bruised, Beaten Irish Playwright Celebrates 38th DUBLIN (UPI) A bruised and battered Brendan Behan celebrat ed his 38th birthday Thursday in the dock of a Dublin police court. Like many a man before him, the hard-living Irish playwright had fallen off the wagon but in typical Behan style, and harder than most. Rumpled and looking badly in need of a warm bath, with dark glasses covering cut and purpled eyes, Behan roared defiance and curses at newsmen and police alike as he heard himself charg ed with disorderly conduct and causing malicious damage. "A crowd of ugly vultures who make their living from other people's misfortunes," he stormed at reporters who tried to talk to him. "Take it away "I'll sign noth ing you write out for me," he told police trying to get his name on a statement. He went into the dock after eight hours in a police station, apparently sobered but not calm ed down. Just two days ago Behan told UPI in an interview that he was off drinking for good and would stick to soda water which he sipped during the interview. Behan's wife Beatrice, who dur ing that same interview had ex pressed hope that Brendan would be "different now," was rueful Thursday. . speculations have demanded that a stand be taken. We had hoped that no wholesale accusations be made until the finger of guilt could be placed on the right par ty. But that was wishful thinking. Not only have certain writers chosen to keep the fuse burning, they have pointed the finger, in a slanderous and malicious manner, at the University. At least one writer (Jack Horn er, Durham Morning Herald) has placed UNC basketball players in the heavyweight division of riot inciters. Mr. Horner insinuated that North Carolina players have been in so many fights since Coach McGuire took the reins, that it would seem that McGuire teaches boxing lessons along with basketball techniques. After studying the past bouts of UNC players, it comes to light that in every instance but one the opposing team was blamed with starting the fisticuffs, and again in every instance but one the event took place on the op posing team's court. As far as the Duke game is concerned, there has not been a ruling, and consequently no accusations are valid. In the same column, Mr. Horn er accused Coach McGuire of in citing a riot by leaving the bench during the Duke game. We must remember here that if a coach feels his team has been "fouled" by the timer, the scorekeeper, or other off-court officials, he has the privilege of demanding an explanation, and Coach McGuire is far from the only coach who exercises this right. What was Coach Vic Bubas doing at the scorer's table in Raleigh Tuesday night? He felt that his team had been wronged and his actions there are justified. As ridiculous as it is, the accusation has been made that Coach McGuire's trek to the scorer's table at Duke in cited the riot. Last year when Carolina stu dents grew loud and foulmouth at Chapel Hill, Coach McGuire walked to the scorer's table and asked that the paper - throwing and obscene yelling be stopped. One year, one game, or a differ ent opponent has not changed his feelings about bad sportsman ship. Mr. Horner took the view that the players themselves are the heart and soul of the happenings, the only guilty parties in the mass mid-court misfortunes. This view leaves the idiotic fan, who rushes out to take pokes at the enemy, sitting again in the stands under his halo. Without doubt the players, in the heat of hand to hand combat, get disgusted, frustrated, and short - tempered. That is to be expected, not only in basketball but in any sport where physical contact is un avoidable. Most players lose their sense of reasoning at times, but in a few seconds they regain it. That is unless some idiot rushes out to take a swing at the play er's chin. Then there is no course to take but to fight back. The sad condition of Duke-Carolina competition can be solved with a little work and a whole lot of participation. In this light, Mr. Horner has done both institu tions an injustice by creating fur ther strained feelings between the players, the coaches, and the student bodies. The correct course, it seems, would be to for get the brawl until something definite has been ascertained from the referees and Commissioner Weaver. And an apology would do more good than all the bick ering any writer, coach, player, or student has time to give. Already the rivalry between Duke and UNC is out of propor tion. If Mr. Horner wants to as sist, let him attempt to curb the rivalry and loosen the strain. If he wants to harm and hinder let him continue his accusations. The more he accuses, the short er grows the fuse. for the colored people of the South, but merely want to use them to propagandize their un American racial theories. "These outsiders advocate ra cial admixture and intermarriage by encouraging bi-racial social and educational activities. "Integrationists want to put the Negro child and the white child together in the same classroom in. . opposition to all. Southern precedent. "Once intermarriage is an ac complished fact, the good quali ties of both races will disappear. They will be replaced by the mediocrities inherent in the mu lattoes produced by parents of different races. "When the Negro begins going to the same school social func tions as the white child, the in evitable result will be dating be tween blacks and whites and then marriage. "All this trouble-making by the integrationists plays right into the hands of the Communists it causes disunity among the people." "This Southerner supports politicians of the mettle of Er nest Vandiver of Georgia and Lindsay Almond of Virginia. These are the men he looks to for protection from the "tyranny of the Supreme Court." "There are inherent differ ences between the Negro and the white man which can never be eradicated." (Tomorrow: the Southern in tegrationist's views.) would look better if you included some critical remarks. The re maining four paragraphs seemed to just fill up space. Included were pretty critical remarks and ambiguous statements. The direction and dialogue cer tainly do pass the point of com monly accepted motion picture style as the unique montage.-; capture the compelling theme and consequently the audience. Un conventional though the shots may be, they are as fresh and captivating as modern art. Al though you do 'not seem to real ize it, it is not necessary that dia logue be realistic. The dialogue was itself poetry and was taste fully interspersed with the pic tures. I do not claim to be a scholar but I did not find the many flash backs confusing or irritating at all. Clarity was part of the great success of the work. The dia logue was not at all nonsensical, as poetry is not prose. Your statement that there was no drama to the story was ridicu lous. What more compelling forces could you work with than love and death! Is there a greater theme than love with the real ization of the evils of war? You failed to mention such great virtues as the unique and unobtrusive use of music and sound effects. I don't think you realize the many elements of a movie. The love scenes were not at all "lascivious" and were legitimate as they showed that love can sur vive even in the face of death. You failed to see that this movie was filled with symbolism. Indeed your final statement that the horrors of war were overdone was disgusting. Ob viously you are too young or im mature to realize the invalidity of such a statement. I need not innumerate with a "War Is Hell" sermon. I have two suggestions for you as a critical writer: either stop writing or take a course in re viewing and appreciation of mo tion pictures. Larry A. Barnes The Daily Tar Heel solicits and is happy to print any let ter to the editor written by a member of the University community, as long as it is within the accepted bounds of good iasle. NO LETTERS WILL BE PRINTED IF THEY ARE OVER 300 WORDG LONG OR IF THEY ARE NOT TYPEWRITTEN O R DOUBLE SPACED. We make this requirement purely for the sake of space and time. .V.W.V.V.'.V.VW.'AV m Chapel Hill After Dark With Davis B. Young Now that the editor of this pa per has seen fit to castigate Caro lina cheerleader Al Roper and Tim McCoy for their part in swearing out an assault warrant against Duke basketballer Art Heyman, some comments are in order Initially, it would be highly unethical to do as Yardley has done comment editorially upon the case at hand before it has been heard in a court of law. But, we can discuss the role of Hey man in relation to the paying public. Art Heyman is not just any Duke student. He is more than this. He is a public figure, and as a famous and extremely tal ented athlete is expected to con duct himself in a like manner. Regardless of provocation, any slip of character by Art Heyirian is picked up by hungry journal ists, and always reflects discredit on Duke. Even if he is not at fault, the damage is done when his name is flashed across the headlines. Since the beginning of time, the pressure on public figures has sometimes been unbearable. For example, John Foster Dulles was subjected to horribly cruel press treatment during his fatal cancer illness. Once, as he climbed off of an airplane in Washington on his way to Walter Reed Hospital from which he would never again emerge, the dying man was be sieged by reporters pawing him and asking, "how do you feel, Mr. Secretary?" Being fully aware of his role as a public figure, he courageously said, "I was just telling Mrs. Dulles I wish we could go back and enjoy more of that Florida sun." In two weeks he was dead. The price Art Heyman must pay as a great athlete is to be constantly mauled and taunted. And the price Art Heyman must further pay is to ignor the maul ing and the taunts. He must have such control over his emotions that he won't explode. U0uf " t jM nli ii. 4th ii A i fc A- A A A A
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