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April 7, 1962
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Vol. LXIX, No. 135 ,
The New Colleges
The Greensboro Daily News
pointed out in an editorial recently
that the University should go slow
ly in considering offering affilia
tion to any of the hew community
colleges which are beginning to
spring up in the state.
"Already (the University's) rela
tive standing among other national
institutions ha3 fallen in recent
decades," the editorial states.
"Simply maintaining its present
quality will be difficult enough
without taking on new campus
problems in Charlotte, Wilmington
or Asheville. The umbrella of. uni
versity prestige should hot be ex
tended haphazardly over hew four
year colleges ,even in such economi
cally plush areas as Charlotte."
This seems to be good advice.
The argument against connecting
the Consolidated University with
a state-wide system of four-year
colleges with Chapel Hill as the
nerve center are strong. The prob
lems of administration it seems,
increass geometrically rather than
arithmetically in proportion to
growth rate in any educational
system. The University already has
enough under the present set-up
without taking on part of those
that will be encountered . by. the.
new colleges.
But there are equally good argu
ments for some sort of close coopera
tion with some of them.
Already the University here is
faced with the problem of educat
ing students whose diversity of eco
nomic, educational and social back
grounds is amazingly wide. The mo
tives for seeking a college educa
tion are even more widely varied.
With this sort ef enrollment ,it is
difficult to provide cutricula broad
enough tti provide each student with
what he wants and heeds in the
way of education without becoming
a sort of educational catch-all.
Hopefully, the blossoming of
some of the hew four-year colleges
wiU take some of the burden off
the University paving the way for
it to become more selective.
The time has come, painful though
the necessity is, for the University
to forsake at least part of its egali
tarian outlook toward admissions.
It cannot continue to be all things
to all people .
We do not suggest that the Uni
versity assume the attitude of an
educational aristocrat such as Im
perial Harvard, nor that it be as
selective as one of its educational
neighbors, Davidson not that this
might not be desirable. It is imprac
tical for a state university.
But tightening could be done,
and it could be done through co
operation and possibly loose affil
iation with some of the new
colleges.
Statistics
If every automobile in the na
tion were equipped with safety
belts, highway fatalities would be
cut by one-half.
In recent years, that fact has
been highly advertised; scarcely a
driver exists, we should think,
who has not at one time or an
other heard ik Yet, like the figures
that stare from newspaper columns
each day, ticking off life after life,
estimates of how many lives could
have been saved leave little impact
upon the average driver. Witness
the fact that today ,only 3 per cent
of the automobiles on this nation's
highways are equipped with safety
belts.
The American people, probably
the most statistics-conscious peo
ple in the world, steadfastly refuse
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to respond when they hear traffic
fatality figures. Figures somehow
do not carry the image of dead hu
man beings. They are numbers, not
lives.
This week, five nursing students
from Duke died in an automobile
accident.
Many, when they read the story,
were shocked. Quite probably, gome
students knew one more of the
girls. When the highway hew fa
tality figures appear next week,
it will be increased by five. Few,
if any, here, at Duke, or across
the country will be shocked ; few
will even pause long enough to
realize that there is a connection
between the increase and the deaths
of the five Duke students.
Still fewer will realize that the
statistics on safety belts mean that
two or three possibly all five of
the girls could have been saved.
Here are some oher statistics
remember when you read them that
they were derived from incidents
like one involving the five Duke
students :
One in four vehicles is in a col
lision every year.
Sixty per cent of fatal accidents
occur at speeds under 40 MPH.
Seventy-five per cent of driv
ers killed were less than 25 miles
from home,
Seat belt users are 60 per cent
less likely to have an injury of
any kind.
Fifty per cent are less likely
to be killed .
The above figures have been par
roted over and over again for some
time, almost to the point that they
are cliches. Still, only three per
cent of American motorists bother
ed. tQ.t&W them seriously.
.tay Medicine Need
By DR. RALPH JONES
Chairman, Dept. of Medicine
University of Miami
The bill H.R. 4999 is a bill to in
crease the opportunity for education
in the. health professions. It is now
before the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee of the House
of Representatives.
In the following paragraphs I will
outline the various provisions of this
bill and emphasize its importance
to the people of America.
Construction grants for teaching
facilities would be provided on a
matching plan whereby the Feder
al government would provide up
to 66 23?c of construction costs;
the Institution receiving the grant
would be required to provide at
least 33 l3Cc of the construction
cost. i
The urgent need for the Federal
government to provide funds for
this purpose has been documented
by three extensive independent stu
dies during the past three years,
none of which have been seriously
challenged. Each study has shown
that the number of medical students
in the United States must be in
creased by approximately 50 in
the next eight years in order to
avoid a serious shortage of physici
ans in this country in the 1970's.
Because of the continued growth of
our population and the increasing
demand by all segments of our so
ciety for more service from physici
ans, facilities for an additional 4,000
medical students must be created.
For nearly a decade the present
ratio of the number of physicians
to the total population in this coun
try has been constant, but this has
been achieved only because nearly
one thousand physicians who gradu
ated from medical schools in other
countries have immigrated to this
country each year.
It is clear that we must expand
our existing medical school facili
ties and create 20 to 27 new medi
cal schools in this country. This
must be done promptly because,
from the time a decision is made
to create a new medical school un
til a doctor is graduated requires
approximately eight years.
Three independent national sur
veys during the past three years
have shown that private and local
sources cannot possibly be expected
to provide more than one-third of
the capital funds required to con
struct the facilities which are es
sential to meet this national need
during the next decade. Hence it is
essential for the Federal government
to provide funds to match private
and local funds, if this vital nation
al goal is to be achieved.
The Federal government shares
its responsibility with local govern
ment, industry and the medical pro
fessions in the health of the nation.
It is appropriate for the Federal
government to provide matching
funds, rather than total costs, and
to do so, using a formula based on
measured need and a careful esti
mate of the ability of industry and
other local sources to participate.
The importance of this Bill for
the University of Miami should
be very clear to all who have fol
lowed the evolution of our medi
cal school. After nine years! the
principal teaching facility is still
the covertedT servants' quarters
of the old Miami-Biltmore Hotel,
located seven miles from the Medi
cal Research Building and the
teaching hospital. Passage of this
Bill would mean that the Univer
sity would be eligible for (and
would almost certainly receive)
approximately $6,000,000 this year
to facilitate the construction of the
desperately needed teaching facili
ties on the grounds of the Jackson
Memorial Hospital.
The second provision in the Bill
H.R. 4999 would provide funds for
scholarships for medical students,
payable by the government to each
medical school, at the rate of $1,500
per student for a maximum of one
fourth of the total number of stu
dents in each class in that school,
on the basis of demonstrated need
and competence.
This provision is considered to be
essential for the recruitment of the
requisite number of qualified can
didates to utilize the new and ex
panded teaching facilities and to
meet the predictable (and present)
need of our growing population for
more physicians, while maintaining
our present standards of excellence
of health care in this nation. It is
Bourgeoisie & Proletariat
(Frat Snobs Vs. Dorm Rats)
As usual around election time on
this campus there can be seen a
rift between frat snobs and dorm
rats. Now this rift could be some
thing of tremendous value for UNC
if it were only a big enough rift.
But as it is this antagonism be
tween dorms and fraternities has
only led. to some mild name calling
on both sides, if the rift could only
be made bigger, U.N.C. could have
a real communist revolution on its
hands. This would be exactly the
kind of stimulation this campus
needs to shake it out of its current
state of apathy.
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THE SEEDS for this potential
revolution have already been sown.
We already have the two necessary
images fixed in our minds. On one
hand we have the image o the rich,
over-fed, over-sexed intoxicated . and
decadent frat snob. On the other
hand we have the image of the
poor, scoady, mistreated, but lov
able dorm rat.
Now if the New Left would just
add to this image some of the
philosophy of Marx, Lenin and
Trotsky, this campus would be well
on its way to a revolution. All that
need be pointed out is that the fric
tion that exists between dorm rats
and frat snobs is part of a never
ending class struggle. Frat snobs!
are the bourgeosie. Dorm rats are
the proletariat.
But before a revolution can be
it heeds to have more than just a
philosophy behind it. There must
be a feeling of hate on one side and
a feeling of utter contempt on the
other. There must be some acts of
terrorism on both sides. Here are
a few things fraternities could do
to dorms to produce hate:
INMAN ALLEN, as student body
president and a fraternity man,
should make the following decrees:
(1) All dorm televisions to be re
moved from 'dorms immediate
ly. (2) No dorm rat should be allowed
to speak to a frat snob, unless
the dorm rat is addressed first
by the frat snob. Dorm rats
violating this law would have
their tongues removed.
(3) No dorm rat should ever be al
lowed to date a sorority girl,
or even come close enough to
a sorority girl , to let his shadow
fall on her person. Dorm rats
violating this law would be cas
trated. (4) Dorm rats should pay due re
spect to fraternity court by
falling into a prostrate position
of reverence for five minutes
every time they pass it.
(5) All dorms should come under
the jurisdiction of the I.F.C.
and the dorms should have to
comply to the 100 rule. This
rule would mean that all dorms
which had any dorm rats who
failed to make their "c" aver
age would be confiscated by
the I.F.C. and turned into a
fraternity house. All dorm rats
would naturally be compelled to
leave.
THE RESTRICTIONS would in
all probability disturb the dorm rats.
They would resort to acts of ter
rorism not unlike the O.A.S. Here
are just a few things the dorm rat
could do to retaliate against the
frat snob:
(1) Steal K.A. picture of Robert E.
Lee and replace it with a pic
ture of General Grant. (This is
terrorism at its height).
(2) Dorm rats should go through
rush disguised as Sammy Davis
Jr. in order to embarrass fra
ternities. (3) Dorm rats should go through
rush disguised as Barry Gold
water in order to catch fra
ternities off guard.
(4) Dorm rats should go through
rush disguised as termite in
spectors. Little would the frat
snobs know that these innocent
looking termite inspectors are
actually carrying millions of
termites and roaches in their
termite inspector kits, and as
soon as nobody is looking they
would let these pests go in the
fraternity house just as some
prize rushees are about to
pledge.
(5) Dorm rats should kidnap sweet
heart of Sigma Chi and force
her to marry a dorm rat. (This
is really going too far. This
would be an act of pure and
simple perversion to the frat
snob.)
(6) Dorm rats should uncover evi
dence that Silent Sam was a
dorm rat. (Blasphemy!)
(7) Dorm rats should have nightly
panty raids at the sorority
houses. (Keep in mind that this
would be a clear-cut violation
of the castration law.)
THIS DORiM RAT LIST could go
on and on, and so could the fratern
ity list. But once some of these
acts of terrorism are performed the
revolution would begin, and UNC
would become a better college cam
pus because of it. For it is evident
that only through a communist revo
lution are things made better. The
doctrines of Marx and the examples
of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin have
made this great truth clear to us.
' So dorm rats remember to hate
all frat snobs for the end always
justifies the means. And frat snobs
remember to have utter contempt
for dorm rats. There must not be
cooperation between fraternities and
dorms. There must be mistrust,
suspicion, hate, contempt and vio
lence. Dorm rats throw off your
chains! Frri. snobs defend your
honor and prestige! There must be
a revolution!
Alan Goldsmith
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also essential if we are to preserve
the principle that this democracy
is obligated to provide equal oppor
tunities for education for its citiz
ens. In 1939 the average personal in
debtedness of the graduates of
American medical schools was
$4,258 at the time of graduation.
These, and many other pertiment
facts which have been published
recently in three separate studies
of this problem, leave no doubt of
the urgency and the necessity for
this provision of H.R. 4999 if we
are to preserve one great national
resource the very high quality of
the health care of this nation.
This provision is the only aspect
of H.R. 4999 that has had serious
opposition. The opposition to this
hizp solely on the
provision is me SU1C j
fear that Federal scholarships for
needy medical students might one
day in the 'distant future, result in
socialized medicine. The arguments
advanced to support this fear have
no substance. They ignore the evi
dence for many years of Federal
support of needy students in other
areas of higher education.
The third provision of H.R. 4990,
which has no opposition, is designed
to meet a demonstrated national
need, based on a decade of experi
ence with an ongoing program. If
enacted into law. this provision well
might provide the University of Mi
ami with 50 of the construction
cost of a new Life Sciences Build
ing.
Miami Hurricane
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At Home, Judge Say,
GREENSBORO (UPI) North
Carolina's first woman Supreme
Court Justice believes women make
better jurors than men.
"Women are more realistic than
men," said Judge Susie Sharp, "and
are more apt to render a true ver
dict based on evidence than men."
The 54-year-old judge said she
wouldn't hesitate for a minute to
vote for a woman to hold any pub
lic office from president on down,
but added, "I'm of the opinion that
the average woman's field is in the
home as a wife and mother."
Miss Sharp served for 12 years
as a judge in North Carolina's su
perior court system before being
named to the highest state court
by Gov. Terry Sanford. She likes to
return to her needlepoint her col
lection of high fidelity operatic
records, and her cookbooks, after
a tiring day on the bench or in
chambers.
"I'm one of these one-shot cooks,"
she explained, "I like to make
salads, desserts and casseroles
just the kind of cooking a woman
doesn't have to do."
The Tar Heel state's first woman
Supreme Court judge stands 5 feet
2 inches tall and wears her salt-and-pepper
gray hair in a bob. Her
favorite courtroom attire, under
judicial black robes, is a tailored
suit. Between court sessions she
lives with her 78-year-old mother In
Reidsville, a small manufacturing
town located not far from the Vir
ginia line.
North Carolina's superior court
judges are reassigned to different
districts every six months and dur
ing her career in the lower courts
she served from one end of the
state to the other. Her new post
will require her to sit with tne
court in Raleigh, the state capital.
"Haven't We Got Enough Problems To Be Solved
Right Here On Earth?"
.
Judge Sharp was graduated from
the University of North Carolina
law school in 1929 at the age of 21
and was admitted to the bar in the
same year. She practiced law in
partnership with her father at
Reidsville for the next 20 years and
had an excellent reputation as an
attorney when in 1949, sh ebecame
North Carolina's first woman su
perior court judge.
"I guess I studied law because
my father was a lawyer and I used
to hear intriguing stories of his
court cases at the dinner table," she
said.
"I never expected to be a judge
of the superior court and most cer
tainly I never dreamed about the
supreme court. This is an honor
that comes to few men and fewer
women."
Susie Sharp is a stickler for
courtroom decorum and when sTio
sits on the bench there is a no-nonsense
atmosphere cloaking the ju
dicial proceedings. Explaining her
judicial philosophy, she said: "The
judge is tampering with people's
lives. Solomon was the only one
qualified to do it, and he's gone. The
only consolation you have is that
somebody has got to do it, so you
do the best you can."
Physics
Report
Garfol
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To the Editor:
On behalf of the four hundred phy
sics majors here on drag-racing
scholarships, we the undersigned
would like to express our amaze
ment on your explanation of Dr.
Kirkwood's talk Wednesday night.
We realize that you had a deadline
to meet, but the report was rather
grossly garbled. Dr. Kirkwood's
main point was that the spontaneous
generation of the building blocks
of life was indeed highly probable
in the conditions existing some six
billion years ago. The second law
of thermodynamics, stating that the
most energetic reaction will be the
preferred one, supports this hypo
thesis and not the contrary, as you
stated.
Judging from comments over
heard afterwards, you were not the
only ones to miss the point. We
suspect that this confusion is a
manifestation of an attitude which
Dr. Kirkwood described when he
spoke of those who publicly boast
of their ignorance of science. We
noticed that many in the audience
stopped listening the minute science
was introduced into the talk and
did not even try to understand or
follow the discussion, as they would
have with any other subject.
Since the article was so badly
written andor edited, we will be
happy to write further on the sub
ject or talk to interested persons.
The Physics Student Section
(Signed)
William A. Baity
Edwin J. BIythe Jr.
Wm. R. Dawes Jr.
Robert D. Powell
Rinard Ilarkcrna Jr.
Thomas M. Patterson Jr.
John Sharp
Sylvia Fowler