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"What Do You Suppose Is Going On Down There?"
Dale Falkner
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Volume LXIX, Number 116
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The Hounds Are Barking Again,
As Spring Turns The Corner
For winter's rains and ruins are over,
. And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
. And time remembered is grief forgotten
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
Swinburne
Atalanta in Calydon
Spring has the delightful habit
of sneaking up and surprising you
without any warning at all.
We stepped out of Howell Hall
at noon yesterday, calmly mind
ing our own business, when for no
particular reason we happened to
look up at the tree tops. Monday
they were bare; their skeletal
branches scraped gratingly against
the sky. Then, suddenly, on Tues
day, they filled the skies with hues
of pink, green and white. The har
binger of spring had arrived.
The hounds of spring, who sleep
indolently during the winter, have
yawned, stretched and wandered
haphazardly into the first rays of
warm sunlight. Three of them were
in our economics class, restlessly
pacing between inflation and defla
tion. The decisive smack of ball
against glove can be heard once
more, as white-suited athletes run
out the - kinks on Emerson " Field.
The stovepipe league disbands arid
heads for Florida, where Ted Wil
liams talks incessantly of a young
man named Carl Yastremski, pro
digy of the future. Cynically, the
grandstand managers nod their
heads. "It happens every spring,"
they chorus.
In the arboretum a first blade of
deep green grass peeks hesitantly
from its blanket of soil, then re
turns embarrassed at what it has
seen. The magic of spring is at
work.
Broomsticks, which spend most
of the year in the closet, find a new
lige as stickball bats. One or two
optimists throw a football back
and forth in McCorkle. Silent Sam
shows the slightest evidence of
perspiration as the lovely lassies
meander past his ever-searching
gaze. Biology becomes everyone's
major.
Kemp tosses away his Russian
beaver hat and dons short sleeved
shirts just in time for the big
spring party (refreshments in the
back for potential customers, they
tell us). The clothing stores quick
ly stop their end-of-winter sales
and pull out all their madras, batik
and seersucker. Iced tea replaces
coffee as the drink most ordered
at the Porthole.
Examinations seem light years
away under the sun at Hogan's
Lake .or in the breeze at the Patio.
A creeping paralysis engulfs every
good Chapel Hillian, causing a mass
migration from the library and
toward showers, sprinklers and
mud puddles. A little of the Snoopy
comes out in every male as he
romps idiotically through the mud
and grass, running up trees and
chasing furry animals.
Spring may have come too early,
of course. Chapel Hill always seems
to work that way. Just as we break
out our Bermudas, put an easy
chair in the backyard and stretch
out with a few quarts of beer . . .
"forty degrees and falling."
But there is always the hope.
The hope that, believe it or not,
"winter's rains and ruins are over."
An Unfair Proposal From Raleigh
We were shocked to discover
that Governor Terry Sanf ord seems
to have decided to allow the to
bacco and soft drink lobbies to de
cide his tax program. The people
of North Carolina will suffer as a
result, even though education may
be the end product.
In placing a tax on food and not
placing one on soft drinks and to
baccothe governor has patently
refused to consider the fact that
the latter are luxuries and the for
mer is, to put it mildly, an abso-
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lute necessity. The people of
North Carolina do "not need tobac
co and soft drinks, but they do
need food.
There is absolutely no justifica
tion for the fact that a powerful
interest group in the General As
sembly and the State Capitol can
deny the people of this state fair
ness in government. Yet, if the As
sembly passes the governor's re
quest, this very thing will happen.
For to force the people of North
Carolina to pay tax on a neecssity
Carolina to pay tax on a necessity
pletely inequitable. .
It is true that tobacco growing
and soft "drink bottling are impor
tant to the economy of this state;
they are not, however, as impor
tant as the people themselves. Mr.
Sanford seems to have neglected
this essential truism.
Good government is government
for the people not government for
powerful economic interest groups.
Mr. Sanford would do well to
learn that before he proposes any
more tax programs.
We are in complete sympathy
with the governor's desire to im
prove North Carolina education;
recent statistics show only too
clearly the need for such imjprove
ment. And we also know that the
people of North Carolina must pay
if they are to have quality educa
tion for a better future. But we do
not feel that the people of North
Carolina should be robbed.
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Picture the scene: students
running about screaming to each
other . . . a blue sheet of cigar
ette smoke clouding the room . .
people whistling, scuffling and
clomping around in all direc
tions.? A fraternity party? A dance?
No, it's the Louis Round Wilson
library.
No party can compare for sheer
chaos with the nightly melee that
takes place in the library..
Due to lack of space, this ar
ticle will treat only the Reserve
Reading Room.
This room seems to be the
center of the socializers of the
library. First of all no one in the
RRR, as it is known to afficiona
dos, remains seated for longer
than ten minutes at a time; they
are in and out, up and down con
stantly. Revolving doors should
be installed for the benefit of
these chronic water - drinkers,
cigarette-smokers and restroom
goers. The doors bang continual
ly, heads bob up to inspect the
new arrival. The heads go down,
the doors bangs again, etc. The
process is repeated, like the mat
ing dance of birds.
Then there is the chronic Table
Hopper of the RRR, who enters
like a lonesome basset hound
and peers intently up and down
the room for familiar faces (pre
ferably of the opposite sex).
When he sights an acquaintance
his worried expression changes to
a look of jovial greeting, as
though the person he sees is THE
Bob Silliman
Dr. Raymond Daivson Poses Some 'Uncomfortable Quickies'
Dr. Raymond Dawson, who
teaches a new course in U.S. de
fense policy and national secur
ity for the Political Science de
partment, has the rather discon
certing habit of posing uncom
fortable questions that we had
never given much thought to, and
then leaving them to the indi
vidual to ponder and perhaps
lose a bit of sleep over.
An example of one of Dr. Daw
son's "Uncomfortable Quickies":
If Western Europe were subjected
to nuclear attack by the USSR,
so that all of the cities were de
molished and Europe's capacity
to retaliate was eliminated, would
the United States retaliate di
rectly to the Soviet Union, with
the knowledge that this would
imply devastation to our own
lands?
Dawson noted that several
Washington experts were pre
sented with this very question,
and the immediate response was
Sinclair Kemper
invariably "Of course we would
retaliate in compliance with our
NATO agreement." However,
when it was stressed that the
United States could expect an
attack in return, and the im
plications of this attack in terms
of American lives, the experts
began to1v waver, and eventually
;: qualified, theiranswer by noting
that . we would retaliate if we
were assured that we would lose
only "25-40" of the popula
tion. The question, of course, ser
iously puts in doubt the basis for
our numerous N A TO and
SEATO-type agreements through
SEATO-type agreements
throughout the world. And there
are those critics who say we have
gone too far in our reaction
against isolationism, and have
over-extended our abilities to
fulfill our agreements.
But to get back to the ques
tion: Would President Kennedy
push the buttdn to launch an at
tack on the USSR if Western
Europe were attacked? The stand
of the administration would
necessarily be yes if only for
diplomatic reasons. But we would
wonder ....
Another "U ncomf ortabl e
Quickie": Is the economy of the
United States so dependent on
armaments spending that it would
be against economic interests to
insure peace? Each year, a full
10 of the Gross National Prod
uct is allocated to more and more
sophisticated weapons systems.
Have we reached the point where
our economy is geared , to a war
economy?
Doubtless, there are men in
Washington representatives of
Boeing Aircraft, and Douglass,
and Republic who rely on gov
ernment contracts for their sub
sistence. No doubt, these men
Men, You Are Being Had Rise TJps Rebel
Caroline Coed, pert, collegiate,
and popular as she may be, soon
learns that besides knowing when
to wear gloves, how much cham
pagne to sip, and what to do in a
conversational lull, she must ex
cel in still another field of social
graces. That field is how to re
fuse dates with sincere, regret
ful and "ask me again sometime"
tones. Because of a five-to-one
ratio of boys to girls at Carolina,
this practice is more than fre
quently used. However, many
times the validity of the excuse
is to be questioned.
Date refusals range from "Oh,
John, I'd love to hear 'Guitar
Pete and his Talented Toes' but
roommate and I have an agree
ment not to date this weekend,"
or "Saturday night at eight
o'clock? Darn it, we have a re
quired chapter (?) meeting
then!" to "Golly, I'm sorry, but
I have already taken four coffee
breaks this afternoon and you
know how studying time goes."
In fact one coed's fictitious steady
from Princeton has supposedly
come to Carolina for the past
three weekends!
. Male students, it is time to rise
in rebellion! This mumbo-jumbo
Campus Chest Carnival Set
Saturday Come One And All
can not continue. The dominating,
superior male must not allow
himself to be suppressed. There
fore, the following are tactics
which, if successfully put to the
test, could possibly stamp out this
art of excuse-making!
1) Be especially nice to coed
in class, but don't ask her for a
date. This could ruin everything.
Lead her on for the kill.
2) Attend fraternity parties
stag. Dates put a damper on so
cializing with the fellows, any
way. By a dating strike, the girls
might learn to appreciate good
male company.
3) By all means, "import" dates
for big dance weekends. This
always goes over well as good
public relations.
By the end of a two-month
period, if there is no marked im
provement in Coed's attitude and
excuses don't diminish, it is sug
gested that a change be made
call Greensboro Gertie.
represent powerful interests in
Congress. The sale of a new
weapon in the missile age implies
a contract for billions of dollars.
In the end, we are presented with
the uncomfortable fact that to
many influential men, war is a
most profitable enterprise.
The third question concerns
our military establishment: In
recent years, Americans have
witnessed a phenomenon referred '
to as "the ascendency of the mili
tary." In other words, the promi
nence of war has projected, our
military leaders in the limelight.
They occupy positions of author
ity and respect that rivals our
political leaders. The question:
faced with a number of diplo
matic defeats abroad where the
U.S. was forced to withdraw,
would a military coup occur, and
the military assume the reins of
power?
Again, this sort of thinking is
alien to American concepts of the
supremacy of the civilian over
the military. But would the newly-important
military establish
ment be willing to go along with
a political decision to withdraw,
or would it exert its own peroga
tive, and overthrow the govern
ment? Again, the question re
mains with the individual.
As was stressed at the outset,
the uncomfortable part of . the
questions is that there is no "pat"
answer. It's open to conjecture.
Like the reader, we don't like to
even conjecture about what the
answer might be.
girl he was looking for.
Immediately he sets about upon
his mission, which shall remain
unnamed here. He crouches above
the girl like a vulture over a
juicy , bit of carion and does his
best to snow her in his most sin
cere and Aren'.t-I-the-sharpest
voice, which is loud enough to
interfere with the studying of
half the room. But it actually
doesn't matter, since the same
scene, with variations, is being
repeated en masse.
Generally the conversation
goes something like the follow
ing: "Hey. How you t'night, Zelda?"
"Fine, how you, Herman?"
"O.K. Listen, do you know
what's gonna be on the quiz to
morrow?" "No I don't. . . . What quiz?"
"Classics." '
"Oh. No, I don't and I'm just
worried sick over it."
"You studied much?"
"Herman! I've been too wor
ried to study."
"Well, I can't even believe the
work I've got."
"What do you have to do?"
"I got TWO quizzes this week.
Can you believe it, Zelda? TWO,
in ONE week."
"Herman, I can't believe it."
(Shaking his head( "Ba-a-a-d
news, honey."
"That's solid bad, Herman."
"Well, Zelda baby, ya wanna
get some coffee?"
"I'd LOVE to, but Mike Midas
has already asked me to."
"All right. See ya. Good luck."
"I'll need it. Same to ya." "
Undismayed, the Table Hop
per makes a raid on the Smoking
Room (which looks like Hell and
sounds like the Battle of the
Bulge), the Humanities Division,
and the BA and SS Room. If suc
cessful, he gives up the evening
as a total loss, picks up his vir
gin books and whistles his way
home after a stimulating, typical
evening at the campus intellec
tual center.
REFLECTIONS
"An alumnus came wandering
into the DTH office the other day
looking for South Building. After
spending four years here, he
couldn't find the administration
building.
I'll bet he wouldn't have too
much trouble finding the Rat.
There's a possum on this cam
pus somewhere. I've seen him
twice now. Maybe someone should
organize a possum hunt. Has any
one here ever shot a possum?
There appear to be a great
many students on campus with
panaceas for the Cuban crisis, the
integration-segregation dilemma,
and President Kennedy's interna
tional worries.
A suggestion: get off the stick,
kids, and take a closer look
around you ... on campus, in
Chapel Hill, in North Carolina . . .
Solve the dilemma of What is
grass, before you tackle What are
clouds? Think a little about Caro
lina's honor system . . . picket
ing, as it applies to Chapel Hill
. . . and the necessity of higher
faculty salaries.
C'mon, off the stick.
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Chapel Hill After Dark j
With Davis B. Young
The Campus Chest Carnival
will be held Saturday, March 11,
at 1:30 on Intramural Field.
The Perm Primer Shows of
Dunn, N. C. are furnishing three
rides for the festivities. The rides
include an octopus, rollo planes
and a gigantic ferris wheel.
All of the fraternities, sorori
ties and dorms are setting up
booths which will line the field on
carnival day. Over sixty booths
are expected with everything
from throwing tennis balls at a
picture of Art Heyman furnished
by Theta Chi, to throwing garters
at girls' legs furnished by the
Alpha Delta Pi Sorority.
Various student participation
booths will also be set up where
students can test their free-throw
skill against such stalwarts as
Doug Moe and York Larese.
The crowning of the campus
king and queen, who will be
chosen by penny vote, will take
place on stage at the carnival.
On Friday, March 10, there will
be a chariot race on campus to
get the carnival festivities under
way. The time and the place of
the race is not being announced
in order to "add to the spirit of
the carnival."
The Daily Tar Heel solicits
and is happy lo 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 iaste. NO LETTERS
WILL BE PRINTED IF THEY
ARE OVER 300 WORDS
LONG OR IF THEY ARE
NOT TYPEWRITTEN O R
DOUBLE SPACED. We make
this requirement purely for
the sake of epace and time.
So where are the candidates,
where are the issues, where are
the platforms, where are the pro
grams, where are the ideas? The
election is one week from Tues
day and the only thing we've
heard any candidate say so far is,
"hi y'all." .
Played golf Saturday afternoon
with Carolina student J. R. Brown
and two DooTdes. They were
quite excited about Duke's second
chance in as many years at the
national championship.
And what's the name of that
other school? It's Wake Forest or
something like that.
Talked with brother Pete Fri
day night, and he's left Wilming
ton for Raeford. He's editor of
the weekly up there now.
Hoke County's having some
sort of a centennial celebration
in May, and he's growing a
beard along with other locals.
Seems it costs $10 for a shaving
permit till after the festivities
two months hence.
FOR SALE: Last chance at the
finest buy in Chapel Hill. Black
4-door 1949 Pontiac straight-8.
Needs work on clutch, universal,
transmission and battery charged.
Clean as a whistle. Two sets of
keys. Will consider all offers over
$12.
Overheard one of my New York
buddies the other day coming on
with this, "and ya, like dey still
got six feet a snow in New Yawk
man. Dis wedder's da greatest
heh?"
And like dey still got six feet
a snow in New Joysee too man.
Dis wedder is da greatest. Like
wow!
Overseen in Lenoir at break
fast -time: Grits buying grits!
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