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:1 Heel Iw its sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the administration or the student kody. 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. 5 April 29, 1962 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLIX, No. 146 . Dormitory Votes A University Party candidate in the spring elections said Carolina was a "no-party" campus, rather than predominantly sympathetic to the Student Party or the UP. He is riffht that most students have no loyalty to either party. He is right that a majority of the stu dent body doesn't vote in campus elections. He is right that most stu dents who do vote, wouldn't class themselves as SP or UP like they would as Democrats or Republicans. He is wrong, however, if he thinks the majority of students won't vote for one party most of the time. In recent years Carolina has become more and more a Stu dent Party campus. With the ad dition of Craige and Ehringhaus dormitories, where the SP should be strong, the campus will become more predominantly Student Party territory. University Party leaders realize this. This spring former chairman and now student body treasurer Bill Criswell convinced the party to adopt a new convention setup, where non-Greek members have a much greater potential voice. The UP realizes that unless it shifts its base of support onto broader ground than fraternities and sororities, it will be hard put to win future elections. The SP is holding a meeting Mon day night to select a new party chairman. In this "out" year the party will probably keep in mind its traditional pro - dormitory position and relatively liberal stance which have led it to successes in the past. For instance, one of the chair manship candidates, Mike Putzel, is vice-president of Cobb dormitory. He has a dormitory orientation typ ical of most successful Student Par ty leaders. More and more the dormitory is becoming the campus political battleground. The University Party has pledg ed to establish an all-campus week end, to make several other dorm im provements in the next year. It Jiopes to make permanent inroads into SP dorm votes. The past year's SP adminis tration did only an adequate job in the way of dormitory physical im provements. If the party doesn't take up a rallying cry of "We're for the dorm man," this year it might be in danger of losing part of its base of support to the opposition. (jc) "How Dare You Follow Me Yon Criminal!" Curtis Cans Communicution Vital COMMUNICATION is a word vi tal to any University community. Communication between the stu dent and all aspects of his world is central to the educational process. Student Government also plays an important role in the educational process. On this campus, with only 9,000 students supposedly a select group of reasonably intelligent, in terested persons we have an ideal situation for learning through prac tice the concepts of democratic gov ernment . One of the most important func tions of a democratic government is, to communicate with the people, and this function is especially easy to fill here in such a small, general ly intelligent community. Unfortunately, very few student government officials have taken ad vantage of this situation, and the result has been a student body largely disinterested in student gov ernment. The politicians storm the dorms and fraternities twice a year during the fall and spring elections. EDITORIAL, STAFF 1 I Jim Clotfelter Chuck VVrye J Co-Editors Bill Wuamett, Dow Shepphard News Editors Ed Dupree Sports Editor j Curry Kirkpatrick . . Ass. Sports Ed. Jim Wallace .. Photography Editor Mike Robinson, Garry Blanchard Contributing Editors Tbs Daixt Txn Uxsz. Is pubHn&ca tfnily accept Monday, examination period i mnd vacations. It is entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel BiH, N. C pursuant with the act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates I $40 per semester, $3 per year. Tttx Dazlt Tam lira Is a subscribes' to Ci United Press International snd utilises the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Garo- Published b-r the Publication Board I vt tjara University of Korta Carolina. I Chapel ran. K. c. I Then, when elected, they go off to the. second floor of Graham Mem orial and work without attempting to explain, justify, or even inform the students of their work until the next election. In doing so, student government officials are not only denying the communication function of demo cratic government, but potentially cutting their own political throats. A legislator, for instance, who has faithfully written his constituents a-newsletter throughout the year would have a much better chance of getting re-elected than someone with whom the students were com pletely unfamiliar. Next Thursday the Student Leg islature has an excellent opportuni ty to rectify this situation and en hance the process of communica tion. The matter in question is Representative Rufus Edmisten's bill to appropraite $100 to the legis lature's finance committee to be al lotted to student legislators for "better communication with con stituencies." The bill would provide funds to legislators who wish to write a newsletter or report on the legisla ture's activities to the students of their districts.. The executive branch of student government has already tried to solve this problem. The establish ment of the Communications Com mittee last year was an imporant step, and President Allen has prom ised to continue the process a promise we believe he will keep for both idealistic and political reasons. The legislative branch should now take this step by passing Rep resentative Edmisten's bill post haste However, just passing the bill will not be enough: the legisla tors must then use the funds they have given themselves or the whole effort will be useless. I Every legislator should vote for I this bill next Thursday, and every legislator who votes for it should I use the funds appropriated to pub- lish a newsletter or report regular ly. ' . Bill Hobbs Atomic Testing I ' -J rv1 KA VV 7 v.. wots v 7 I Masses -liy V..-it VX " r ffrtK 7" -m v, yjrvt l ' - - -rr w "jr.' They dropped a bomb on Christ mas Island three days ago. The government, announced that it was the first in a series that will end in a few weeks to be followed surely by a resumption of Soviet testing shortly thereafter. It signalled the failure of the Geneva Conference to arrive at any solution of the problem for the imp teenth time in as many years. But what perhaps is more stagger ing though less noteworthy in the public press is that a handful more of the world's children will be mutated, a few adults will die earl ier deaths, and we are coming much closer to the day when milk decon tamination will be standard operat ing procedure in all countries of the world. And the world continues to build up its awesome arsenal of atomic death, death that in the building of more armaments comes closer and closer until it all could happen by accident, a mistaken blot on the radar screen, or a flase order, or something and then nothing. What Is inconceivable is that they didn't even try. All the unbiased reports from Geneva speak of the failure of either the Soviet Union r the U. S. to even atempt to reach an agreement, to even get started in breaking down the dif ferences in principle on inspection that divides them. The U. S. belatedly put forward a good plan, the neutral nations did likeswise, but both to no avail, and Letters To The Editor Education And Council Discussed Some Profs Don't Care To The Editor, Professors sometimes pretend to disturbed about the students' lack of interest in things of the intellect." It is time that someone got disturb ed about the professors' lack of in terest in . the students. Take the mythical case of Mel vin K. Melvin is a professor in one of the humanities departments of U.N.C., in many ways a typical one. He grew up in the environs of New York Cty and took his degrees at a big Eastern university. When he first came to Carolina 20 years ago Melvin felt somewhat like a missionary. He was going to bring the Word to the benighted South. Over the years this feeing has left hm wthout his really knowing it. It is safe to say that Melvin has never really acquired any compre hension of the Southern community in which he has lived. He has not yet realized that it is a deep polite ness and not understanding or ap preciation that leads the janitor to chuckle at his scholarly jokes every It would be hard to get him to admit it, but Melvin is not really very interested in teaching. He hard ly ever knows more than a few students in any of his classes. And . those undergraduates! M .'lvin is always glad when the class is over and he can dash back to his office, hoping to avoid the: undergraduates and their pesky questions, and find out more about the obscure tcpic that he is going to reveal to the world someday. Those undergraduates! How little they understand. How they profane the sacred with their indifference! (If you ask the undergraduates they will tell you that Melvin's class is an exceedingly dull one. "I thought that subject would be in teresting," many will say.) Melvin has a little trouble with practical things. In fact, his wife has managed the family for years. Yet Melvin can always tell you exactly how to run the Army, Gen eral Motors, or the Department of. Health, Education and Welfare. Melvin has probably never thought about why he became a pro fessor. In fact, "if someone asks him his occupaton he will not say he is a teacher, he will give the name of his discipline. It is hard to tell exactly what pur pose Melvin is serving in life. True, he has published articiles in several scholarly journals and was once ask ed to read a paper at the national convention of his disciplne. Yet Melvin cannot help but har bor a belief that society is cheating him. Every time he gets hs pay check he thinks, how, stupid the State of North Carolina, must be not to realize that his services are worth so much more than. that. . There are a number of intelli gent, vigorous and dedicated men teaching at this university. There are also more than a few Melvins.' Not a lot is likely to be done about student indifference until something is done about the Melvins. CLYDE WILSON McFaddcn On The Ping Pong UNC Drama Congratulated Award For 'Rome': Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad By LOUIS LEGUM "Rome Adeventure" (alias "Son of Summer Place"), now playing at the Varsty Theatre, is a perfectly horrible and simple-minded movie. For those who wish to regress to a sub-infant mentality, this Warner Bros, detergent opera is an ex cellent prescription. If anything, the producers are to be commended for making such an extraordinarily bad picture; one stumbles out of his seat more with a sense of awe than with a bad taste in the mouth. The perpetrating villian behind all this nonsense is one Delmar Daves who deserves to be on the F.B.I. "Ten Most Wanted" list on a charge of blatant fraud. Daves, previously having given aborted births to "Parrish" and "Susan Slade," did the honors on both the screen play and the direction. Ap parently, he has discovered an un beatable formula $$ equals girls and beautiful scenery and beautiful music and beautiful Troy Donahue. Our Boy Troy has appeared in everyone of this Bobbsey Twin series of sexual antics. It's a good thing that he has such lovely eyes and wavy blonde hair ta perma nent, perhaps?) to go along with his trusty red sweater and match ing motor scooter. Othewise, some body might figure out that he doesn't have enough acting ability to successfully peddle a box of Girl Scout cookies. Actually, it's probably not all Troy's fault. Some of his lines may be the funniest in cinematic history. Example in a Technicolor close up backed up by a few strains of violin music, Troy whispers to a star-crossed lover, "Forgive me for being profound at this moment, but once more it's good to be alive." Merely warming up with that clinche, he does even better at the movie's merciful conclusion by tell ing the same girl, "From out of the blue, I flew" (translation: airplanes fly faster than troy can think). The plot isn't worth mentioning, so I won't mention it. Suffice it to say that the picture takes place in Italy, and that romantic Mediter ranean country never had it so good. As a travellogue "Rome Ad venture" is nothing short of breath taking; so if you don't have a couple thousand dollars to invest in a Grand Tour, the movie is a bar gain for $.75. A very pretty and charming young acress. Suzanne Pleshette, is in troduced in "Rome Adventure." She may even be able to act, but you'd never be able to tell it from see ing the film. The rest of the nor mally competent cast are reduced to abject servility in their ludicrous roles. Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi, and Constance Ford run around the screen with anxious, nervous grins, looking for all the world like they can't wait to grab their pay checks and get the hell cut of the studio. To the Editor, At the present lime the good peo ple of New Orleans have plans to send a large number of Negroes, who are displeased with their pres ent coditions in the South, North to escape their "unhappiness" with conditions here in the South. At some time in the near furture cer tain of these Negroes are going to find out that not everyone will be as sympathetic to these visitors as the people of New York City were to the first Negro to arrive. All of them will not receive a hundred dollar a week job from persons who feel sorry for these unfortunate cases. Sooner or later these displeased vill find the grass not so green as they thought, and will want to re turn again to the South that has spurned them. Their tickets will no doubt be payed for by some benefi cent organization on the other side of the Mason-Dixon line. This entire episode is rapidly reaching the stage where it will amount to noth ing more than a game of Human Ping-Pong. I feel that if a person is displeas ed with a place where he lives, and he has not the facilities to trans port himself to a new environment, a more receptive environment then he should not depend upon the charity of his neighbors to facilitate his transportation. And if he does achieve this transportation, he should not express his displeasure with the fact that the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. But may be straying from the facts of the question as they will turn out; however, one organization in the North has al ready volunteered to send back any Negro who is not satisfied with his new environment. Ilaynes C. McFadden To the Editor, Who said the Uniersty wasn't do ing much in the field of drama and playmaking? I just happened by accident to attend two evening ses sions of the Carolina Dramatic Association University of North Car olina Extension division of the Bu reau of Community Drama, the week of April 11-14. The six plays I saw were all good. I was somuch impressed with two plays that I re gret that I didn't take in some oth ers during the four day festival. Trail of Tears, a presentation by the Goldmasquers, Goldsboro Senior High School, had the most effective stage-setting I ever saw. How they succeeded in giving the illusion of depth to the small, narrow stage of the Playmakers Theatre, kept me wondering during the entire perfor mance. The stream between the brown stone cliffs, the water-fall over the dam, and the icy blue water, above and beneath the falls, gave a strong impression of reality. You felt as if you were looking at the real thing. The Indians, who popped up behind a broom-straw near the back of the stsge, kept me wondering how they got there, for I was watching the stage every minute, and I never once saw an Indian take his place behind the broom-straw. I wondered how the rock boulders on the stage came to look so natural. If it is true that "Wisdom begins in wonder," then, judging by the way I wondered, this play was full of wisdom. The Legend of Happy Valley, a ballet, presented by the North Caro lina State Ballet Company, on Satur day night was charming. And Ca' line, written by Bernice Kelly Harris, presented by The Seaboard Community Players, was exceed ing good. We are constantly hearing Cut out the frills from the public school curriculum. What do we mean by frills? Certainly not Physical Edu cation courses. I can't conceive of a school system where children kept their noses to the grind stone all day. All children should be partici pants in games, not just spectators. Something more than a fine mind in a fine body is needed. Spirit, mind, and body in equal balance, otherwise man's scientific inventions may very well be controlled by the ape man. O TELIA CONNOR the situation remains as it d id deadlocked, bombs failing, and an nihilation made all the more pos sible. This is not written from a pacifi st position. There are times when arms are unnecessary, when insanity or hunger for power run rampant and must be curbed by force, be cause there is no other way. Hitler, perhaps Venvoed in South Africa both provide good examples of this. This is also not to say there are not significant differences between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet Union is an example of state capitalism in its most bureaucratic of forms. It con tains within it the denial of the first amendment guarantee that separates a liberal republic from a totalitarian one, and it denies the popular participation so necessary in a democracy. Moreover, it suf fers from internal pressures forced on it by a position of world lead ership that asks that certain suc cesses be regularly accorded the government and the leadership. And thus, there is a real battle going on, but it is unresolvable so long as the present Soviet leadership remains in power, so long as the recently appearing cracks in the Iron Curtain do not become so em barrasing as to a return to the Stalinist precepts, and so long as there seems to be developing a gen uinely liberal community at least in the written arts within the Soviet Union. It would be probably safe to say that Khrushchev does not want war. It is not safe to say that he wants peace, but pressures building from his estern appendage The Peoples Government of Mainland China may bring about a situation that a rap prochement is possible. But it is possible only if neither side wants to claim a victory. If in a true sense competition leading inexorably to conflagration can be toned down to coexistence and the long waiting process that goes with it in which amelioration may be the result, then perhaps, we may have peace. It is not known whether the Ameri can people or the Soviets have the patience for this whether they have the courage to live in a twilight world in which neither national am bition or ideological message stand to be satisfied. There is evidence that Americans at least can't. The resurgence of the militant anachron istic right is but one indication that the American people have grown tired of waiting. It can be hoped that they realize that to get too tired is perhaps to bring about their own demise. Meanwhile, Mao and the Chinese are building, and someday they will have the bomb, and then it may be too late, for theirs is a messianic revolution resigned to proselyte with the sword if the pen and mouth don't suffice. What this means to the West and the Soviets in that the deado- line for man is fast approaching and may soon be passed. What ot means is that national interest must be sacrificed to the good of mankind. and it must come in a hurry. Meanwhile the bombs fall, the stockpile gets larger, babies are mutated and men and women die early. WThat if the baby is yours or the early death is yours? What then? Monster Robot NEW YORK (UPI) General Electric Co. has developed the world's largest robot, an 85-ton giant which walks on tank treads, yet can pick up an egg. Called the "Beetle," the monster was built for the Air Force. FREEDOM BUS To Moreliead City Or Any Other Beach Town Free Transportation plus $5 for Expenses to any Male or Female attending a Southern University who is Dissatisfied with his Condition as a "student" and thinks he or she can do better. (Priority is given to Students who will be Unable to gain Employment at the chosen Beach town.) Interested persons should send their names immedately to the Amalgamated Defenders of Good ness and Right, New Orleans, La. You will be Notified at an early Date by the Transportation Com pany, concerning the time of De parture. Groups which will help you when you arrive in the beach town are: The International Negro, Jewish. Roman Catholic, Communist Con spiracy (INJRCCC), Transfastic Sun Tan Lotion, Inc.; and the Daughters of the Confederacy. 4
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