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September 2G, 1061
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Vol. LXIX, No. 7
Loaded Dice
An important bill now pending in
student legislature provides for the
establishment of a Constitutional
Council which will hear questions
on the constitutionality "of any
legislative or executive action ..."
The need for such a council is ap
parent. Although the student-faculty
review board can and does hear
questions of constitutionality
at present, there is no council now
in operation which exists solely for
that purpose. Without such a coun
cil, The Student Constitution is
sometimes conveniently ignored
as it was last year when two stu
dents were tried1 and suspended by
the Law School Court for a viola
tion of the Campus Code, a case ob
viously out of its jurisdiction.
The establishment of the new
council would help to forestall reoc
currences of such unconstitutional
trials.
However, much of the good that
can be done by the proposed new
council is negated by the provisions
for its composition. The proposed
bill provides that the council be
made up of seven members: Three
from the Carolina Vsmen's Coun
cil, and four from the Men's Honor
Council.
The chairman of the Men's Honor
Council would also be chairman of
the Constitutional .Council.
What this means is that the new
Council would be merely a cat's paw
for the Men's Honor Council. With
four of the seven members coming
from its ranks, the Men's Honor
Council would dominate every decis
ion made by the new body.
The obvious solution to this un
healthy situation would be a modi
fication of the proposed composition.
Raising the proposed number of
councilmen to ten would allow for
the inclusion of the Attorney Gener
al, the President of the Student
Body and the parliamentarian of
student legislature.
Such a membership would elimi
nate the possibility of having the
power of constitutional interpreta
tion vested in the hands of a single
body.
Patterson Award?
A news story in the Duke Chron
icle, student newspaper at Duke, re
cently announced that the Men's
Student Government Association
Senate on that campus has voted
not to allow a chapter of the
NAACP on that campus.
We are still a little confused as to
the ins and outs of the legislative
system at Duke that spawned the
decision, but it looks from here as if
some pretty nebulous grounds were
employed in the action.
Under a shroud of technicalities
stretched to the breaking point, the
Duke senate appears to have em
ployed more emotion than legality
in the decision.
At the risk of being accused of not
minding our own business, we would
ask if the decision reached is not
reminiscent of decisions reached by
state legislatures in the deep South.
Good work, Duke senators. You
might get Alabama's Patterson A-ward.
Closed Stacks
v The officials of Louis Round Wil
son, library have finally resolved the
question of closed stacks. They clos
ed them.
The new system employed is
probably the best one that can be
employed here, complete with
checking points and all the other
paraphernalia of a "tight watch"
setup.
But before anyone sets up a cry
of "Gestapo," remember that the li
brary officials did their best. T7Te
stacks were opened as an experi
ment, a testing program. The stu
dents failed miserably by violating
every written and unwritten law
governing the care and use of li
brary facilities.
And now students are faced with
the long and difficult task of re
building a lost trust. It is not an
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Editor
Maboaret Ann Rhymes
Associate Editor
Jim Cloctelths
Assistant to the Editor
Bnx Hobbs
Managing Editors
Lloyd Little
Executive News Editor
Steve Vaughn .IVctcs Editor
Nancy Barb, Linda Cbavotta
Feature Editors
Sports Editor
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impossible task.
The ten floors of library shelves
are now off-limits to anyone who
does not possess a stack permit.
Fortunately, the stack permit is not
difficult to obtain, in most: cases
amounting only to a rfequest to a
jprofessor, giving substantial rea
sons for being allowed to browse and
choose among the one million volum
es. We hope that more students will
avail themselves of this privilege
than in the past, under the same
system. Books were not written to
be guarded and hoarded on musty
shelves.
With a minimal show of student
responsibility, the stacks could con
ceivably be reopened, but not be
fore library officials are thorough
ly convinced that it can be done
without a repeat performance of
last year's stupidity and irresponsibility.
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Better Use Of Lenoir
Hall Needed-Reader
AFTER THE CHANGES in the
athletic program following the Moe
case last semester, many people
thought that athletic control of the
University had ended. But taking a
meal in the South Room of Ienoir
Hall will cause the same old doubts
to crop up again.
A big partition has recently been
erected which divides the room in
half. Behind the caged-in portion
our athletes are served their meals.
They don't even have to go through
the line; they are served by the
bus boys.
A check of the seating situation
shortly after noon on Friday reveal
ed a number of empty spaces that
could have been used to release the
extremly crowded conditions in the
rest of Lenoir Hall.
I do not wish to argue whether or
not the athletes should be segregat
ed at meal time from the other
students, am willing to leave that
question for others to debate. I do
think that we are making poor use
of badly needed space.
There is no good reason why the
athletes could not use their reserved
space during narrowly designated
times. The space could be used by
the rest of the student body at any
other time.
John Randall
Otelia Thinks Letter
Insult To Atheletes
THE LETTER "Sacrifice for
Squad" in Wednesday's Tar Heel was
an insult not only to the Foot Ball
and Basket Ball teams, but was in
sulting to the whole University Com
munity. . I am surprised that the Tar
Heel published it.
In percentage of games won and
lost last year, both athletic teams
had a very creditable record.
As for the charge of bribery, only
one player accepted a bribe. It is
grossly unfair to damn an entire
team for the sins of one player.
This blast at both teams was high
ly uncalled for just at the begin
ning of the season, when each team,
under new head coaches, works and
hopes for a successful year.
It is earnestly to be hoped that
the players will not let this display
of rudeness dampen their spirits. We
appreciate the athlete's efforts to re
flect credit on the University in the
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world of sports and entertainment.
We are left wondering what contri
bution Junius Goodman is making
to the University. Is winning all the
football and basketball games his
only criterion of values?
Otelia Conner
Sept. 21, 1961
Editor's Ignorance
Shocks Ted Harriss
After reading your editorial on
deferred rush, I was shocked by
your ignorance on the subject.
Here at Chapel Hill we need some
sort of deferred rush, and the I.F.C.
realizes this fact.
Last spring it was decided to
set-up a committee to investigate
all possible ways to make deferred
rush work at Carolina. This com
mittee is to contact many of the
universities operating under deferred
rush in order to find out the ad
vantages and disadvantages of the
system.
I am sure that the I.F.C. will be
gin deferred rush at Carolina as
soon as it is sure that a plan can be
uaade that will be beneficial not only
to the fraternities but to the stu
dents who will be coming through
rush.
. YOUR PREMATURE suggestion
of voluntary deferred rush will do
nothing but complicate and con
fuse the issue at this time.
I think we all realize that this
is a problem. However, this prob
lem cannot be solved by jumping
blindly into a hasty solution.
Therefore, I feel that anyone who
does not fully know and understand
this problem as faced by the I.F.C.
today, should refrain from such
uninformed comments as printed in
your editorial today.
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Ted Harriss
"You're Going To Have To Be A Big Man Now
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CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
He9 A Strange Breed Of Cat
By WINFRED GODWIN
Director, Southern Region
Education Board
Hidden behind the impossible dis
order in that front office, there
might lurk a creative employe.
Or it may be that the student
in the back of the classroom, who
barely passed for the second year
SALINGER:
in a row; is not dumb but creative
and frustrated.
Creative people seem to have a
preference for complexity and dis
order . . . sometimes they work best
out of simple chaos, the University
of California's Institute of Persanali
ty Assessment and Research has
A Fetish Of Privacy
Author J. D. Salinger, who creat
ed the lovable Holden Caulfield and
made his reputation with Catcher In
The Rye, is rippling the stagnant
waters with a new book.
But Salinger has the literary buffs
stymied.
It is a standing proposition these
days that any writer of stories or
victim of tragedies immediately be
comes the possession of the public.
His private life ends abruptly and
he becomes an object of prurience,
like a nude statue in a public square.
Salinger, unlike most authors, defies
this rule. He makes a fetish of pri
vacy. HIS LITERARY public, particular,
ly the editors of Time Magazine,
find his heresy insupportable and
have plastered their latest issue with
his portrait and a long article on
his work. Unable to interview Sal
inger, the dauntless Timen scoured
up every item of gossip and record
about him, photographed. his bouse,'
and -even urrearthea the ' storynftaV
prying neighbors, unable to bridle
their curiosity, once trespassed on
him while lie was absent to peek
in the windows.
Time managed to dig up his "I.Q."
(104) from an old Manhattan public
school. About the only item missing
is his brand of toothpaste a mysteri
ous oversight, in that the neighbor
hood drugist might have been bribed
to tell. ,
SALENGER IS NOT alone. Wil
liam Faulknerr, similarly allergic to
publicity, - has even had to take out
his shotgun to keep the publicists
away. '
It may be crankish of the Saling
ers and Faulkners to desire privacy
in the age of publicity, but it is their
right, as much jas it. is the right
of dogcatchers ancf bootleggers. May
be writers, all else failing, ghould be
exempted from the homicide laws.
That might deter their prying pub-.
., lies a bit. . . . .. .
rrrtiiti"ry? rHp News
found. For six years the Institute
has been conducting a study of crea
tivity financed by a grant from the
Carnegie Corporation. Its results
should be of vital interest to our
schools and colleges which need to
give greater attention to finding and
encouraging creative individuals.
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These ceative individuals are an
unusual breed of cats. They aren't
necessarily the most intelligent, the
most capable or the most competent.
But they are all fairly intelligent, a
Carnegie Corporation report says,
and early in their lives they show
evidence of a special talent or tal
ents drawing, mathematics or writ
ing. Most of them score high on in
terest tests which point to careers,
author-journalists, research scien
tists. '
There is evidence, the Carnegie
study found, that creative people
are not very interested in small
detail, in the practical and the con
crete. They seem more concerned
with meanings, implications and
symbolic equivalents of things and
ideas.
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Often the creative person is not
a very satisfactory student in school.
He isn't particularly fond of group
work, he wants to follow his own
interests and he wants to be free
to set goals for himself which may
differ from those of his classmates.
The colleges and universities of
the region have a major responsibili
ty to identify and nurture creative
students. If originality is not reward
ed and encouraged during those
years, it may, be lost to fields of
endeavor' which need it badly.
So far a lot of emphasis has been
placed on intellectual capability of
students, but little attention has been
given to other aspects of a person
ality which point to creativity.
The increasing numbers of stu
dents who will enter our colleges in
the next 10 years will give added
impetus to concentration on the
"sound" student who may or may
not be original. This mistake will be
further compounded unless business,
industry and the work-a-day world
do something to make the creative
person feel more at hqme in his
world.
Some work practices are devastat
ing to the creative person, the Car
negie study reports. The idea of a
time-clock, for example, is stifling
to the creative employe. At times
he may appear to be doing nothing
at all, while at other times he will
work for 24 hours without a break
and be extremely irritated at some
one who interrupts him for anything
during that time.
In today's world, the creative per
son whether in school, or in society
is prey to a sharp conflict of
values. On one hand he must ad
just to the integration of the indivi
dual into the group and its activities
and on the other he must break away
from the herd enough to nurture
creative talent and individuality.
Southern colleges and universities
can help settle this conflict when
they recognize creativity and award
it its true value. At that point, we
will have a double winner the so
ciety which benefits from creativity
and the individual free to contribute
through his creativity.
New S Indent Blals
Fraternities' Silence
AS A RECENT entrant into this
university I have ccme to appreci
ate and enjoy many of the aspects
of "The Carolina Way of Life." hut
one aspect I neither appreciate or
enjoy is the period of fraternity
silence, when a potential rushee h
allowed no discourse with fraternity
men.
I don't understand the reason for
this silence period. It seems to me,
that since I wish to join a fraternity.
I should be able to find out as much
about them as possible. I think the
best way to accomplish this is to
visit the fraternities, talk to the
members, and see how they live anil
work.
I HAVE BEEN told that I am not
allowed to visit and inspect the frat
ernities because I might be "brain
washed" into joining by the mem
bers. I know, if I were a fraternity
member, I would not want a boy
in my house who was there just be
cause he had been talked into it.
and had not made up his mind after
careful consideration of everything.
If you look at this from the point
of view of the potential fraternity
member what kind of man can be
persuaded into joining a fraternity
without a complete investigation?
This is not the type of Iwy who
should join a fraternity.
I maintain that any man mature
enough to come to Carolina should
be able to cope with the responsibili
ty of making up his own mind on
the question of which fraternity to
join.
Joel Fishman
Non Greek Editor,
Arc Yon Still Bitter?
To The Editor:
I have read with great interest the
two articles which have appeared
recently in your "student publica
tion" concerning the fraternities at
Carolina. It is always amazing to
me how this decadent system con
sistently contributes to the campus
leadership in Student Government,
Athletics, and Class Officers.
Perhaps you have forgotten that
each year all fraternities participate
in "Help Week," something that the
dormitories have yet to accomplish.
There is no "community mind" in
a fraternity; each member is an in
dividualist and does not follow blind
ly the thoughts and actions of other
members of his fraternity.
I believe that if you really search
your conscience, the real reason thJ
you have taken this consistent stanjl
against the fraternity system is thai
when you came to Carolina you did
not join a fraternity and now you
are bitter.
Mr. King, you have "made your
bed of pain and you must lie in it."
You have no right to take a publica
tion that is supposed to be for al!
students and to crucify a system that
is supported by a large number of
Carolina students. While you are free
to determine your own editorial poli
cies, please do some research on
the issues before you quote a na
tional magazine which was writing
on a national plain (sic) and did
not take into consideration our lo
cal conditions. ,
Mr. King, we have a fine frater
nity system at Carolina that wig
outlive both you and your cohort?
that are trying to tear down a sic)
inherent part of Carolina life. A sys
tem that has a grade average coiv
sistently higher than the all mens
(sic) average and one that has con
tributed more to making Caroling
a great University than any other or
ganization. George A. Evanf
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