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1 i s ; I 1 &f)e Batlp ar In its sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by j restrictions from either the administration or the student body, l : : ' $ The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. II October 15, 1961 Tel. 942-2S5G Vol. LXIX, No. 23 it l is tate-Supported Parents of North Carolina's col lege age students were no doubt alarmed to read in several news papers yesterday that 4,500 qualifi ed students were denied entrance to N. C. institutions of higher learn ing due to lack of dormitory space and inadequate teaching facilities. Two-thirds of the rejections re ported came from private institu tions. The eight state-supported in stitutions in North Carolina reject ed 1,500. Of these, most were out-of-state students. UNC, for instance, accepted every in-state student who passed entrance exams and decided to en ter, with the exception of approxi mately 40 students who applied af ter the deadline. Some 200 "borderline" applicants students who were barely quali fied changed their minds about entering after talking with Uni versity officials. UNC managed to accept all these students not without some strain. Dorms and other facilities are crowded beyond their normal capa city. But this is a situation whi?a will not continae to exist. Next year promises to provide enough dormi tory faciiities to bring the load back to normal. In fact, a higher percentage of students will be able to live in Uni versity housing than in recent years. For the past few years, approxi mately 50 per cent of Carolina stu dents have lived in University hous ing. Sororities and fraternities pro vide housing for 10 per cent. Com muters, day students and off-campus dwellers comprise the remaind er. Next year, the University will provide housing for an estimated 60 per cent of the enrollment. Each year, UNC accepts 15 per cent of her enrollment from out-of-state. The figure will remain the m I I II m i II IS I I II 1 I m t mlg mar itti WAYNE KING Editor Mahgaret Ann Rhymh Associate Editor Lloyd Little Executive News Editor Bnx Hobbs Managing Editor Garry Blanchard Assistant Editor JrM Clotto-teh Assistant to the Editor Stevs Vaughn News Editor Nancy Barb. Linda Cbavotta Feature Editor Harry W. Lloyd Sports Editor David Wysonc... Jim Eskb,dce Ed Duphee Subscription Manager .Circulation Manager Asst. Sports Editor TIM BURNETT Business Manager Rlnai Mathers Advertising Manager The Daily Tar Heel is published dally 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: $4.50 TATsn'subscriber to the United toternati and utilizes the services of th?T--tH reauof the University of North Caro lina. ii. - t.,kijnsHnns Board PuMisneo oy me "h Carolina. of the universal w Chapel mil. in. v.. 1 h i m i'A I i V.'. i f! is I same next year. It is probable that Carolina will not have to reject qualified stu dents in the foreseeable future. If need be, entrance requirements can be stiffened: A change that is a needed one anyway. The number of drop-outs here for purely academic reasons is seven per cent. This means that there is probably room for a- tight-ening-up of entrance requirements. The number of students who drop out for academic reasons is probab ly much higher than seven per cent. Many students leave before their grades fall below the mini mum. Lopping off the bottom 10 per cent of applicants would not be un reasonable. A number of these stu dents are unable to succeed academi cally. The great danger that faces this University is not that it will fail to meet physical standards, but that it will fail to parallel physical growth with academic growth. The administration is not un aware of this. The quality of enter ing freshmen classes has increased slightly for the past few years. The average college board score for this semester showed a gain of 23 points over last year a slight change, but possibly a significant one. At present, the average college board score at this University matches that of the colleges in the rest of the country, a fact that does not sound encouraging until we con sider that many state-supported colleges do not use the college board index as an evaluation. Chancellor Aycock estimates that UNC would be well ahead of the national aver age if all schools used the test. All this is encouraging. At the same time, we wonder if there is not much more cause for concern on the academic level than on the physi cal level. UNC still operates ahead of "the other state universities," we are offering basically sound education. This may be true, but is it enough? Is it enough to be adequate when we could be outstanding, and good when we could be great? With the help of the State Legislature and the people of North Carolina, the University has met the problem of physical drawbacks. We are almost out of the forest on that front. Perhaps now the University can start considering the possibility of competing with some of the giants in education maybe that there is no reason that Carolina should be intimidated by the bugaboo of be lieving that private institutions must necessarily have a great ad vantage over their state-supported counterparts. But she is, and continues to be. For how much longer is any body's guess. CORRECTION The ''Disclaimer Affidavit" column on Thursday morning's edit page was written by Jim Clotfelter, not "Miles Ludwig." Ed. rtTe x on Parking Space ' Vi 4 c I f.i'f;'"sw I-11J ifT if f, .i. -ininii i in m i, ' f Y : j'f':" ' ' ' Sjj v-v ack By JACK GAVER B eniv in NEW YORK (UPI) Comedian Jack Benny returns to start his 12th network TV season on CBS this week after a summer hiatus. DTH Forum He will appear weekly, as usual. ABC will offer a musical special starring Jane Powell. The season's first "Hallmark Hall of Fame" on NBC will be a repeat of last sea son's "Macbeth." NBC also will have the fall's first "Purex Special for Women." 11 h i SUNDAY the NFL Baltimore- Editor: The Daily Tar Heel suggests that the House Committee on Un-American Activities is out to expose inno cent individuals; that the Commit tee, and not those who appeal before it, is un-American; and that the Committee and Democracy cannot exist in the same society. Innocent individuals? Do you re member Arthur A. Adams, J. Peters, Gerhart Eisler, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Harry Dexter White, William W. Remington, Alger Hiss and the Atom Bomb Spy ring at the University of California Ra diation Laboratory? Do you remem ber those "innocent" individuals who were exposed by the Committee? All of them claimed to be inno cent and had a degree of Liberal support for their contentions. In ad dition to their espionage activities, they had another thing in common: all of them hated the House Com mittee on Un-American Activities and worked to abolish it. They were interested in destroying not only the Committee but the Nation and the system of government that sanc tioned and continues to sanction the committee. CAN THE HOUSE Committee on Un-American Activities and Democ racy exist in the same society? I suggest to you that the House Com mittee on Un-American Activities has.in impeding the work of indi viduals such as those mentioned above, assisted us in maintaining our representative government, as well as the freedoms provided by such government. William F. Buckley Jr., the fore most Conservative spokesman, sum med up the Liberal attitude in his book, "Up From Liberalism," when he said: "What can one do to kindle in the Liberal bosom a spirit of antagonism toward the Communists equal in in tensity to that which moved the Lib erals to fight against Senator Mc Carthy? The horror of the philo sophical postulates of Communism has not sufficed, nor the horror of Communism's historical record. "A few years ago a witty ob server indulged in a little wishful thinking. 'If only, he said, 'Mao Tse-tung, back in 1946 or 1947, had criticized Margaret Truman's sing ing! China might have been saved!' We cannot, it seems, count on the NBC airs Chicago game. ABC's "Bus Stop" offers "The Resurrection of Annie Ahearn." A young woman feels a supposedly strange town is familiar; a man is in prison for murder of a child who disappeared 12 years before. Comedian Shelley Berman and Glynis Johns head the cast of "The $200 Parlay" on the CBS "General Electric Theater." An engaged couple is trapped while trying to return money "borrowed" from the office till. Jack Benny's return to the CBS lineup will be with the assistance of Phil Silvers and singer Betty Johnson. NBC's "DuPont Show of the Week" is a drama called "The Battle of the Paper Bullets," deal ing with Nazi concentration camp inmates forced to work as counter feiters. Frank Lovejoy, Cesar Ro mero, Jerry Lester and Russell Collins are some of the players. MONDAY "Modus Man" is the title of the episode on NBC's "87th Precinct." A different criminal's technique is used in each of a series of apparently related burglaries. NBC's "Thriller" has "The Weird Tailor," dealing with a man's use of sorcery to revive his dead son. ABC's "Ben Casey" deals with "The Insolent Heart," in which the doctor's old teacher faces heart sur gery likely to prove fatal. Luther Adler is guest star. TUESDAY The drama on NBC's "The Dick Powell Show" is "John J. Diggs." Powell and Rhonda Fleming head the cast. A drifter's life is changed by an encounter with a fashionable wid ow, and he goes to the aid of a son he never knew at a critical point in the boy's life. Comedian Don Knotts is guest star on Red Skelton's CBS program. He evil in Communism to instill in us the will to fight back. Something else will have to furnish the impulse. Perhaps some day, in his cups, Ni kita Khrushchev, moved to repay a long outstanding diplomatic cour tesy, will sputter out, 'You know, I like old Joe McCarthy, that is. Then will the Liberals mount their chargers, and join the fray, prepared to shed their blood to devastate the newly discovered enemy." Bob Somers plays a western trouble-shooter call ed in to help Sheriff Deadeye catch a desperado. Charlton Heston heads the cast of "The Fugitive Eye, ' ABC's "Alcoa Premier." He plays a one-eyed carnival performer who finds a corpse in an auto and sees men digging a grave nearby. But when he gets back with the police, all evidence has disappeared. WEDNESDAY Jan Sterling is guest star on NBC's "Wagon Train" appearing in "The Selena Hartnell Story" as a bounty hunter seeking the arrest of a paci fist member of the train on a charge of murder. Dan O'Herlihy, Phyllis Thaxter and Leo G. Carroll head the cast of "Bury Me Twice" on the CBS "U.S. Steel Hour." A man is suspected of having killed and buried his wife in the gar den, but investigation turns up no evidence. Subsequent developments involve the husband with his wife's female cousin. THURSDAY "What's Wrong with Men?" is the title of the season's first new "Purex Special for Women" on NBC. James Daly stars in this dramatized docu mentary about the reasons for the deterioration of the masculine image and the increase in "passive males." Fantasy BlacK Mack; hite-Never The Twain To Meet White W A fantasy-black is black and white is white and never the twain shall meet. Qtiere was once a small black girl and a big white girl on a bus leav ing from Washington, D. C. Now this small black girl was with her big black grandmother with whom she was going to stay in Virginia for a year because her mother was sick back in Washington. And the big white girl was a college girl who had lived in Virginia all her life and who was coming from a visit in Bos ton. Ihey sat across from each other and strangely enough started to talk. Now the big white girl had always loved children, black or white, and always enjoyed talking to them. And the little black girl had al ways liked friendly people, as most children do. So neither the big white girl or the little black girl thought that there was anything wrong with sitting by each other while the big white- girl read a story to the little black girl. Nor did the big white girl think that there was anything wrong with treating the lktle black girl to a coke when the bus stopped in Char lottesville at the same counter since there was only one. But the big white girl soon found that there was something drastically wrong for she found people staring and the waitress was rude, not only to the big white girl, but to the little black girl when she asked the wait ress for a glass of water after she had finished her coke. ABC has a musical special entitled "Featuretop." Story is based on a Nathaniel Hawthorn tale. Jane Pow ell, Hugh O'Brien, Hans Conried and Cathleen Nesbitt have the top roles. "The Real McCoys" and "My Three Sons" are preempted. FRIDAY The repeat of the "Hallmark Hall' of Fame" filmed production of "Mac beth," starring Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson, is on NBC. "Robert Taylor's Detectives" and "The Bell Telephone Hour" are preempted. "First Class Mouliak" is the epi sode on "Route 66" for CBS. The long friendship of two men is threat ened by the discovery that their son and daughter have been seeing each other secretly and the girl is missing. SATURDAY The topic on the CBS "Accent" documentary is "The Rebellious Mind Behind the Iron Curtain." An ex amination of veiled political satire in Soviet satillites. Poet John Ciardi becomes permanent host of this pro gram. The ABC college football schedule, on a regional basis for this day, starts with Syracuse-Pehn State. Tennessee-Alabama is telecast for the South and Southern California-California for the West Coast. NOW IT SEEMS that the big white girl should have realized that she was wrong to be seen in public with the little black girl and her hig black grandmother, but because she was young and because she liked children, black or white, the big white girl continued to talk to them all the way to Lynchburg. And since the big black grand mother had several bags, and the big white girl had checked hers, she offered to help the big black woman when they got off the bus at Lynch burg to change for Danville whore they were both going. Once again the big white girl real, ized that she was doing something wrong for she saw the bus driver stare at her and scurry off into the bus station even before he had fin ished helping all the people off the bus. And as they entered the station the big white girl saw the bus driver and the men behind the ticket counter nodding and looking in her direction. So when the little black girl and her grandmother were settled, the big white girl retired to the counter marked WHITE, upon which she no ticed that the big white men behind the ticket counter sijhed with re lief. And this could have been the end of the story had not the big black grandmother discovered that she had left her new white hat on the bus which had already left the station. BUT SHE HAD, and when she asked the ticket-men if they could get it back and have it sent to her, they were not very definite in whether they could or would even try. Now it seems that the big white girl overheard the conversation, and knowing Carl Jessup, the president of the company, asked the ticket men if they couldn't try a little harder to get the hat back, which they did once they knew that the big white girl knew their boss. And again this could have been the end of the story, except for the fact that the next bus driver, it seems, had heard something of the furor that the big white girl had caused and asked her if she were only going" to Danville as her ticket said. When she answered in the affirma tive, the bus driver nodded some what in relief. Still he found it necessary to glance continually in the mirror from the big white girl to the big black grandmother and her little black granddaughter as they continued their journey. And when the little black girl and her big black grandmother got off the bus just outside of Danville where the grandmother lived and the big white girl once again helped them, the big white bus driver stood by with a look of disgust. BUT THE LITTLE black girl didn't understand so she gave the big white girl a big kiss at which the big white bus driver gave a strangled sound of horror. And the big white girl got back on the bus and rode quietly to Danville. it "jftr "fc it i3r Circus Comes To Town Monday (According to reports as of press-time, "Operation Abolition" will be postponed. The film will be shown October 23. Ed.) "Operation Abolition.!' the House Un-American Activities Committee's filmed version of the 1960 San Fran cisco student "riots," will be shown in Memorial Hall Monday at 8:30 p.m. Mike Harrington, one of the Com mittee's most articulate opponents, will be here to present his version of "It Ain't Necessarily So." "I'm for the whole gallery Com munists, Fascists, Nazis, KKKers, Teamsters, Quakers having the same civil rights," said Harrington during an "Operation Abolition" de bate in August. . This will be Carolina's first glance at House Committee "truth," and it's long overdue encounter. For more than a year "Operation Aboli tion" has been touring the country side, winning converts and enemies all the way. But the closest the film ever got to the knobby hill where the former Communist chief for the Carolinas Junius Scales graduated, was the Duke campus in Durham last spring. Some UNC students saw the film in Durham, others have seen it at civic club meetings, church gather ings and open showings by "patriotic" societies. The film was shown at this sum mer's National Student Congress, wtiich was attended by seven UNC delegates. At the Congress Harring ton debated Fulton "Buddy" Lewis HI, who is the narrator for "Opera tion Abolition" and former HUAC staff member. "The House Un-American Activities Committee demands ritual recanta tion" by accused Communists, said Harrington, editor of NEW AMERI CA, the Socialist Party magazine, and a director of the Fund for the Republic. "In Operation Abolition, the Com munist is seen as a superman," said the Socialist leader. "San Francisco students are seen as unable to think for themselves, as being able to be led by a few 'hard core Reds'." Harrington's statement contains the crux of the controversy over "Opera tion Abolition"; .were the hundreds of students in San Francisco "duped" by several "hard-core Communists," such as Archie Brown, Harry Bridges, Merle Brodsky, and Mickey Lima? In the debate following the film Harrington will attempt to convince the audience that there are numer ous major errors in the film and that, consequently, the situation which developed on "Black Friday" in San Francisco was neither CornmunLst caused nor directed. Harrington's opponent (not chosen as of the writing of this column probably "Buddy" Lewis, M. Stanton Evans, or Jessie Helms, all very able conservative speakers) will either gloss over or directly challenge the reputed errors in the film and at tempt to convince his audience that Communists caused the "riot." The film, 45 minutes long, opens upon a shot of a pamphlet, which the narrator (Lewis) tells the audience is only part of the Communist propa ganda and subversion activities which culminated in the "riots." "A few well-trained hard-core Communist agents are able to incite . . ." Thus begins HUAC's effort to smear the student demonstrations in San Francisco, using the familiar tactic that all opposition to HUAC is Communist-inspired pr( directed. Jim Clotfelter J.
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