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asiies atlp t&ar Heel ame s ". . . In Order To Form A More Perfect Union . . rats- Sororities SI W 11 w s sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the administration or the student body. The Daily Tar Heex 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. March 29, 1962 Tel. 942-235G Vol. LXIX, No. 127 1 11 jcvwrwvwx.-AW What's The Issue? The day after the election re turns are final, the smoke usually clears, campaigns are rehased, mis takes pointed up and the course to a win "next year" clearly marked. This year, the returns are final, but, if anything, the situation is cloudier than before. Two run-off elections are scheduled for two ma jor offices. A write-in candidate for editor of the Daily Tar Heel took more votes than the candidates on the ballot, then discovered that he would not be allowed to enroll as a special student if he took office. The vice-presidential candidates are to face each other again because an Independent candidate threw the election into a run-off. All in all, the election is one for campus political pundits to ponder for some time. The race for the editorship still has everyone guessing. Write-in candidate Mike Mathers, who man aged to capture the imagination of the campus so completely that he swept into first position by a whop ping margin, was informed yester day that his application for enroll ment as a special student would Be denied. Ironically, this happened yester day afternoon, only a short time before Elections Board Chairman Dave Buxton informed the DTH that Mather's name would be placed on the run-off ballot. Previously, there had ben considerable doubt as to whether Mathers could run as an official candidate in the run-off since he had not fulfilled the quali fications for official candidacy in the regular election on, Tuesday. Mathers, naturally, has withdrawn from the run-off contest, leaving it open to Wrye-Clotfelter and Stepp. The Wrye-Clotfelter combination ran second to Mathers and the team would have faced him in a run-off had Mathers been able to run. Clearly, it was a Mathers election. He ran well consistently over most of the campus, losing badly , only in fraternities and a few dorms. Which of the other two possibili ties will garner most of the Mathers vote in a run-off is a clouded ques tion. The most impressive showing by Mathers wTas in the women's dormitories. Whether these same dormitories will swing to Wrye Clotfelter now is not clear. It ap pears at this point that they will. The vice-presidential race also turned out to be an unusual one. SP candidate Mike Lawler ran well ahead of the rest of the ticket to pull ahead of McDevitt by a sub stantial margin. Independent can didate John Salter, however, took just enough votes to deny Lawler a majority. 9 Coincidentally, the vice-presidential election results was reflected in the' balloting for Student Legisla ture.. Lawler, if the Independent candidate had not thrown the elec tion into a run-off, would have led a predominately SP Legislature. Most of Lawler's support, natur ally, came from non - fraternity areas, with the fraternity vote go ing for the UP candidates almost to a man in straight party line voting. IIIIHMMWWWIIW.WI IHi.nwm,., in i.i. r . Git ;33mte mr $iul EDITORIAL STAFF JSditor Wayne King Mike RoBiNSON...Associate Editor Harry Lloyd, Harve Harris Managing Editors Lloyd Little Executive News Editor Jim Clotfelter, Bill Wuamett News Editors Jim Wallace Photography Editor Chuck Mooney. Feature Editor Ed Dttfree Sports Editor Chrry Ktrkpatrick Asst. Sports Editor Garry Blan chard Contributing Editor BUSINESS STAFF Tim Burnett Business Manager Mike Mathers Advertising Manager Jim Evans. Subscription Manager Jim Eskridge . Circulation Manager Tbm Dazlt Tab Em is published dally It xcept Monday, examination periods . and vacations. If Is entered as second- ft class matter In the post office In Chapel 11 Hill. N. C pursuant with the act of II March 8. 1870. Subscription rates I l0 11 per semester, $3 per year. p Tee Daily Tab Rett, Is a subscriber to m the United Press International . and H Utilizes the services of the News Bu- If reau of the University of North Caro- M Una. Published by the Publications Board ft of the University of Horta Carolina. If Chapel Hill. N. C. J It seems that there is some sort of vile and vitriolic plot on campus commonly called the 80 per cent rule that threatens to "rid the campus of fraternities." It also seems, according to Ken Toppell in Tuesday's DTH, that this rule has placed fraternities in a separate category; fraternity mem bers are now designated differently than other students. That's tough, Mr. Toppell, that's real tough. You see, I always thought frat ernity (and sorority) members were sorta different regardless of this silly new rule. After all, they are a pretty select group, aren't they? The sort of group, that is, that white folks can associate with. A group of the "right" people with no niggers, Jews, un-sharp guys, or poor people. But that's not really the issue you wrote about, Mr. Toppell. You were writing about grades and the 80 per cent rule. You were asking, I be lieve, why fraternity men must have higher grades than the campus av erage, and higher than that required to participate in atheltics in order to enjoy the "privilege of living to gether" in a fraternity. But surely, Mr. Toppell, this select group should be able to maintain a grade average above : that required for "jocks" and "dorm rats.". Per haps if the IFC had realized, this fact they would have made their own rules before the administration forced its regulations upon fraterni ties. . t Wade Wellman But of course you would argue that the fraternity grade average age is above that of the rest of the cam pus, I don't suppose bull pledges and brothers who are "asked" to go inactive would have anything to do with this, would it. And then you ask, Mr. Toppell, if fraternity membership is so bur densome an extracurricular activity that a "stranglehold" must be placed upon fraternities. Just how burdensome is fraternity membership? Aren't there required pledge meetings at which such im portant things must be memorized like the brothers' hometowns, ma jors, songs, girlfriedds' names; names of the national officers of the fraterity, the meaning of the chap ter flower, and the Greek alphebet (an academic activity, no doubt). And aren't there such things as pledge duty nights, required parti cipation in at least two other extra curriculars, pledge projects, and even a little hazing thrown in for good measure. And finally the question, "are frat ernities so hedonistic in nature that they must be curtailed and harras sed?" Yes, they are. And I challenge you Mr. Toppell, to prove otherwise. No, Mr. Toppell, the 80 per cent rule did not create the schism. You and your "sharp guy" predecessors did. The 80 per cent rule, unjust as it is, is simply and acknowledge ment of this schism by the admin istration. Bill Wuamett Concentration Brings In The Higher Grades Th German problem Today 1 vou're a slow reader, there reading to find out something. -a--x- - - It is interesting to note here that Hank Patterson, easily the most able and experienced legislator run ning for office, failed to gain a seat in Legislature, even though he served as speaker of Legislature with an excellent record. Patterson placed fifth out of a possible six choices. All four can didates who won seats were UP endorsed. The sixth man, like Pat terson, was endorsed by the SP. Needless to say, Patterson was running in a predominately-fratern-ity district. For the office of NSA delegate, which is elected campus wide, Patterson placed second only to Bill Harriss, with both men well out in front of the other contenders. The obvious conclusion is that the fraternities refused to vote for the SP candidates, regardless of their qualifications. This kind of voting is present also on the other side of the fence, but is most pro nounced in the fraternity voting. The Student Party candidates cam out of the fraternity districts with pitiful small margins in almost every case. Wheless took only 13 votes in TM III, an exclusively fraternity district, as compared to some 250 for the UP's Allen. So it went, right down the slate. An all-Greek UP slate against an all-dormitory SP slate the fraternities could have voted as easily without seeing the candidates, or hearing one word spoken. Perhaps the dormitory voters should take this into consideration the next time the UP starts a cam paign to make the "UP the party of the issue." Let's face it. This kind of politic al double-talk is ridiculous and un realistic. Fraternities wouldn't elect an SP - endorsed dormitory man if he paid them. If you're a slow reader, there must be a reason. Perhaps you're a deep thinker. More likely, you're a deep sleeper who doesn't really con centrate on what you're reading. You doze between lines when you should be devouring pages. It takes about one-third of your thinking power to read the words of a book or art article. . What do you do with the other two-thirds of that power? Here are some typical answers from the slow readers who were asked: "What do you think about when you read?" I always have music on the FM when I read. I look for mistakes in grammar or spelling. I argue with the author and wish I could tell him what 1 think about his subject. I think about what I might have said, had I been writing the article. If it's a story I sometimes think about something that happened to me. Before long I'm not even read ing. Read With Purpose Now let's consider how you should use your spare thinking power when you read. You should be using that spare power to read with a purpose. Read to find out something. When you pick up a whodunit, you don't often concern yourself with the author's style or necessarily with the number of murders. What you want to know is: "Who was the murderer the butler, the chauffeur, the upstairs maid or the disinherited son-in-law?" You probably read such a story very rapidly, noting the clues as you see them and hoping that you'll find who is the Bad Guy be fore the author tells you. This does not constitute an en dorsement of whodunits. But this is an example of purposeful reading reading to find out something Study-reading demands a plan which will help you read for under standing. Here are the steps of such a plan: 1. Before you start to read, check through the book's table of contents; look at the chapter headings; scan the chapter summaries. You can tell from these some of the things the author will be dismissing. 2. With these ideas in mind, read each chapter rapidly, searching for key expressions and a general un derstanding of what has been said in the chapter. 3. At the conclusion of each sec tion, ask yourself: 'What did the author say? "How does this fit into the general patterns of the book?" 4. Yoil can't answer these ques tions? Then your trouble is in the way you are reading. You are prob ably reading too slowly. Too slowly? That's right. You're reading with such slowness that your mind has a lot of time to wander. Read faster faster. Increase your reading speed until you're reading so fact you're thinking of nothing but what you're reading. Banking Your Knowledge 5. Now re-read. This time look for specific examples. Look for precise meanings. Each example ought to be connected in your mind with some key idea about which you're reading. This will help impress the key id?as in your memory. These key ideas will become stor age bins in your memory for groups of facts and illustrations. In your review, return again and again to these key ideas and their related facts. In so doing, you will be building up a storehouse of infor mation. This storehouse will become your rounded-out understanding of what you have read. No country has ever worked harder to blot out an undesirable record than postwar Germany. In West Germany today you can be arrested and imprisoned for anti-Semitic talk. This law binds under heavy penalties, and whether we approve of it or not, we must admit that it's understandable. After the cataclysm of 1945, the Germans decided that if there was one thing they could do without it was any more war. Rampant mili tarism gave way again understand ablyto rampant pacifism. In 1953, when the West Germans were ord ered to rearm, the entire nation rang with screams of "Ohne mich!" (Without me). In some districts the new soldiers were mobbed, even stoned; the heroes of World War II were savagely execrated. And the service code of the West German army, so I am told, carries a proviso that no soldier has to obey any order that offends his moral judg ment. This whirligig dashing from one extreme to another has led John Dornberg, a German Jewish author, to speak of his homeland as "schizo phrenic Germany." And surely the country has been twisted and warp ed a good deal since 1945. World War II ended with Germany so badly shattered that foreign econo mists talked about a fifty-year per iod of recovery. By 1960 the West German recovery was complete; by now its prosperity is burgeoning so rapidly that it seems to be the primary force in the movement to ward European unity. So impressive a reverse can only be taken as a tribute to German resilience. But the sudden shifts and changes have beea deeply unsettl ing, and today the West Germans feel nervous, irresolute, and pro- foundly uneasy. They dislike the need to rearm,' but plainly they can't avoid it. If recent history is any guide, the pacifistic mood will dissipate and soon, we'll be back to normal with Germany fully armed, theoretically committed to the west, and possibly leaning east. And we shouldn't expect too much from the lackluster Konrad Adenauer, who missed an excellent chance to retire last year. Don't brush off the possibility that Germany may again bargain with Russia. The German people would give almost anything to be reunited which Russia alone can provide. Suffering in the Vopos' territory is acute, and hundreds of East Ger man police have fled the workers paradise v since the concrete wall spiraled up last August. Walter Ul bricht, the malodorous jakal-premier of the East, may be the most hated man in the world today. Yet, for all this, East Germany has better liv ing standards than any other Russian satellite, better, in fact, thin Russia herself. Nothing more vividly de monstrates Khrushchev's grotesque failure to make the Marxist state anything but a drab, unmotivated labor camp. Khrushchev, no doubt, feels bitter about the painfully obvious failure of so-called "socialism" in the Ger man province, and I personally fig ure that the tenacity of Berlin, under the leadership of gutsy (Mayor Willy Brandt, galls him even more. When the wall was erected, some observ ers ruefully predicted that Berlin would wither on the vine and fall prey to Red absorption. It hasn't happened and it isn't about to. Some people, it is true, have deserted Berlin and fled to West Germany, but just as many others have migrat ed to the city to replace them. Krhushchev, shoe in hand, can threaten and bluster and make angry speeches, scatter chaff in the air ways, harass our transports with fighter planes, and maybe even goad us into shooting down some Red air craft. But he can't take Berlin, and well he knows it. Twice this century, we have wit nessed the revolting spectacle of Germans and Americans killing each other in all-out war. Nobody expects a repetition of this, though some people, calling themselves liberals, may think it sounds smart to say, "I'm afraid of a rearmed Germany." Afraid or not, what we have now is a rearmed Germany, one which will soon grow powerful enough to solid ify western Europe around it by peaceful means. In all probability, this new ally will stick with us, and in that event should prove of tre mendous value. Soon we'll know. Wade Wellman U Robinson's Ramblings Eesi Photos of 1961 The expression of a golfer who has just made a hole in one and tries to look like a Congressional Medal of Honor winner. The expression of a wife who has just been told by her husband "What about it?" when she told him that Junior had just said "damn" for the first time. The expression of a man over 50 who has just been included in the classification of "I'm telling you when men get to be the ages of you and me ..." The expression of a man in a hotel room when a house detective breaks down the door, onry to find himself in the wrong room. The expression of the above-mentioned house detective. Sales Pitch Yes, sir. Haircut? Not too short? I've got you . . . New in town aren't you? . You've a fine head of hair, yes sir. Too bad it's so dry. Do you think Jonas can stay in of fice? . . . H'm, you're thinning out a little on the crown of the head. Better watch that . . . What d'ya think the '63 cars will look like? . . . Your hair's falling out quite a bit. Dandruff, too. Tch, tch. Who d'ya think's going to play in the Series this year? . . . There, how's that for a neat haircut? Now how about a nice hot oil shampoo to fix that dryness, check that falling hair and cure that dandruff? Background Music On the Strand in London where newspapermen are wont to congre gate, a canny pubkeeper has intro duced a phonograph record with astonishing success. This record imitates the sounds of typewriters clicking and presses roaring. Everytime one of the writ ing fellers calls up the wife to ex plain that he is detained at the of fice, he puts on the background music, happily pays the pubkeeper sixpence for the service and goes back to higin and tonic. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS 1 1 mi 1 1 . . i f inn MAGNIFICAT X &iLr 1 h'U A - "V M t i m M m n - r mm m K t-. 4 r Ruf fin Dorm Thanks Long To the Editor: On behalf of the residents of Ruffin Dormitory, we wish to express our thanks to Dean Long for pre-empting the plan to change Ruffin into a freshman dormitory and for allow ing us to become the model dorm originally proposed by the Student Legislature. We particularly want to thank Jim Gaulden, John Gould, and the mem bers of the Interdormitory Council all of whom were instrumental in bringing about the change in plans and without whose help our efforts would not have been effective. We believe that the residents of Ruffin can demonstrate the efficacy of a new concept of dormitory life at Carolina. All of our boys are en thusiastic and delighted with our place in making dormitory life more conducive to well-rounded students. , Walter Derrick, , President Mflford Clark, IDC5 Representative
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