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oily Kwc pteel J 7s sixty -ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the administration or the student body. 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 otherivise credited; they are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. La Peste Mav 5, 10G2 Tel. 942-235G Vol. XILX, No. 151 SL Confusion While elections are away, the mice do play. And Thursday night the mice in Student Legislature scurried around to an even more confusing and, to a defender of student government, humiliating degree. One of the more experienced legislators railed the meeting "the worse I've seen in two years in Legislature." Several other legisla tors pleaded with Tar Heel report ers not to print what went on 'Ve'll never have any respect again," one said. The session managed to pass one resolution, the request for with drawal of the "80 per cent rule," and approve the appointment of two presidential appointments. The re mainder of the three-and-a-half hour meeting was devoted to in dividuals sharpening up on non existent knowledge of parliamen tary procedure, other individuals making inane objections to mo tions which were, by and large, also inane, and still more individuals giving pep speeches to the legisla tors on what aspects of what ques tion they should consider in voting. The following instances were notable: A legislator said he was reg istering his protest vote against Walter Dellinger for Honor Coun cil chairman for "one reason" "because of his negligence as chair man of the Last Lecture Commit tee." The legislator neglected to say what in the world the lecture com mittee had to do with the Honor Council. At least forty-five minutes was devoted to consideraion of a "message," which had no legisla ive status whatsoever, was neither a bill nor a resolution. During this time the Legislature was a "com mittee of the whole," in which time one non-legislative visitor asked six questions. One legislator challenged the decision of the Speaker twice with in fifteen minutes and was beaten both times overwhelmingly. Twice "division" was called in voice-vote questions which requir ed two-thirds vote against. No where near half of the legislaors voted "against" in each case. One legislator claimed an amendment providing for two more bulletin boards (to be added to a bill for three bulletin boards) would "change the intent of the bill" a statement technically true, but splitting hairs. The bulletin board bill, after forty-five minutes of heated de bate, taking up valuable legisla tive time, was withdrawn. Near the end of the session the legislators got so tongue-tied that the Speaker announced that one, amendment had moved "fe male companionship is in bad taste." Legislators would do well to act more sensibly in the future, with regard to parliamentary procedure, but less concern for the technicali ties of Robert's Rules of Order, (jc) Complaint Yesterday we had a complaint. Ordinarily, a complaint in the DTH office is about as unusual as ignorance in Mississippi, and hard ly worthy of comment. This one, however, struck a chord of sym- pathy in our usually unsympathe tic breast. A student was upset at the array 9 mlry nt Hcel g EDITORIAL STAFF JIM CLOTFELTER ff CHUCK WRYE jl Co-Editors Wayne King Managing Editor ff BUI Wuamett, Dow Sheppard II News Editors Ed Dupree Sports Editor If Curry Kirkpatrick Asst. Spts Ed. 1 Bill Hobbs Night Editor Matt Weisman Feature Editor 1 Harry DeLung, John Medlin Assts. to the Editor Jim Wallace .. Photography Editor I Mik TC.nhin;nn flarrv Rlanfharil Joe Masi Contributing Editors tit mrt?vir"rT Business Manager Mike Mathers . . Advertising Mgr. Tta Daix.t Tax Eesel im published dally Hccept Monday, examination periods and vacations. It Is entered es second- tun. n. c, pursuani wun tn act of m March 8. 1870. Subscription rates i $40 per semester, $3 per year. ? ! Tbx Daily Tab Hm Is a subscriber to j the United Press International and m utilizes the services of the News Bu- f reau of the University of North Caro- ;;; Una. Published by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. M Chapel Bill. N. C. M of Carolina womanhood which has honored our pages of late. "Bath ing beauties," the lad said, "are unnecessary' While we believe Freud, Kinsey and 99.99 per cent of the campus males would disagree with him, our aim is always to please particul arly since the young man's sen sibilities were apparently shocked. To save him future embarrass ment, we commend to him the com plainer's cutout below. The next lime he gets bugged at a picture of a coed in a bathing suit, we hope he makes use of it. (wk) I M M 11 f : r v5 feA' : ; : A' ' i Letter s To The Editor Cemeteries., Teachers, An Unlawful Tov t Curse, Spit To the Editors, It has come to our mind that in general neither the Chapel Hill mer chants nor the University students fully understand the town ordin. ances which govern the relation ships between them. We have investigated to find or dinances which both students and merchants seem to know very little about. Among some of the interest ing ordinances which we studied we found that: The Armistice which ended World War II also made it unlawful to sell books and camera supplies and to rent bicycles. It is unlawful to curse or spit in a public building or assembly in Chapel Hill. You may carry a can of beer into a public place so long as you keep it concealed and do not dis play or consume it there. The only ordinance dealing with segregation in Chapel Hill ap plies only to the cemetery. ROBERT BULLARD Thou Shalt Not Litter To the Editors, During the last few weeks the cult of the sun has returned to the Carolina campus. Not that it had ever really disappeared from the mind and thoughts of its loyal fol lowers, but the outward symbols, the suntan and the sun itself, had grown weak with the passing of fall and the long winter. Now, with the "coming or resurrection" of the god in full force the con gregation, stripped to the skin (al most) prostrates itself before the tanning rays the life giving rays from the source of life. Cast like flotsam on the grassy seas of Car olina's campus, they wait, white an pale, ready fo rthe moment of hatching when the new man will be born again tanned, athletic, and full of life. I believe this pheno menon represents more than just a search for a sun tan. It carries with it ideals that most Americans truly worship the good life, materialism, and full physical and (sometimes) intellectual development. This set of beliefs seems to be much closer to the Greek ideal then to the as cetic and sacrificing Jesus of Christianity. If it is, then the sun should be the symbol in our churches on Sunday, not the cross. Yes, let us worship our true beliefs on the "Day of the Sun" as well as dur ing the week. With this new religion let us not forget an ethical system to go with it. Christian ethics with a little re vising to reflect the search for the complete life would do just fine. I , would like : to suggest one addition of my .own which anyone .who has. walked around the dorms after a daily worship session would aggree with. Cleanliness is next to Sunli ness Therefore Thou Shalt Not Litter. ALAN OLIVER Junior Choice 'Perhaps Amazing' Tc the Editor: I noticed on the front page of Wednesday's Tar Heel (2 May) a story concerning the selection of the Teacher of the Month by the Junior Class. This selection of Pro fessor Schnorrenberg was certainly interesting, perhaps amazing. According to the story Professor Schnorrenberg was "principally reco gnized for his instruction in Art Buckley Answers NC Charge (Note: The interview story with Ralph Bunche, who spoke here earlier this month, was written by Garry iBlanchard, DTH Contributing Editor.) Mr. Ralph Bunche of the United Nations recently gave an interview to a reporter from the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer denouncing in vig orous terms (a) Mr. William Buck ley; (b) the Katanga Report of the American Committee for Aid to Ka tanga Freedom Fighters; and (c) Professor Ernest van den Haag. Mr. Buckley's sins, said Dr. Bunche, are legion and scarlet, but today's of fense was to have written a syndi cated column recommending the Katanga Repart which is "errone ous from beginning to end," the "deliberately distorted" product of Professor van den Haag. Now we have come not to bury Dr. Bunche (though some day we might have to take time to do just that to him and one or two other UN mercenaries), merely to answer his charges. It must be said that Dr. Bunche's convulsive distortions sug gest either a sick mind, or else a cynical propagandists maneuver de signed to discredit a document which sets down the inglorious rec ord of the United Nations Army in Katanga last fall. Dr. Bunche, who was professionally trained as a scholar, says that van den Haag "saw and talked with no one on the UN side" but the report gives the names and summarizes, with great understanding, the arguments of UN officials whom van den Haag met with at length. Dr. Bunche says "there's nothing to establish that the UN had anything to do with the atrocities which Haag's photographs purport to show that UN forces wantonly committed" yet the re port reproduces signed affidavits from on-the-spot observers of UN atricities Dr. Bunche denounces the Katanga fighters as "well-paid professional killers"; and so dis misses the patriotic activities of a population described by the New York Times as "99 per cent pro Tshombe." Dr. Bunche implies that Tshombe was grateful for the UN intervention in the teeth of Tshom be's repeated denunciation of the UN's activities and atrocities, in terms heard 'round the civilized world .... What goes on? It is impossible to believe that Dr. Bunche read the pamphlet he denounced so slander ously. Unless one is prepared to be lieve that 1 Dr. Bunche will willingly lie for his international fatherland. Well, Dr. Bunche is not the prin cipal problem Tiere. The probleirfls' the meek acquiescence with which so much of the press and public have met the sustained efforts of the government and the Liberal Estab lishment to pull down the curtain ov er the events of last year in the Congo. Even so the evidence against the UN continues to accumulate. Lord Colyton gave an extensive speech in the. House of Lords a few weeks ago, reporting on his investigations in Katanga. All his conclusions, and many of the details he gave, cor robrated the report of Professor van den Haag for the Katanga Com mittee. An Austrian socialist paper has . published another report to which the International Red Cross contributed again tending to con firm van den Haag's report. It is the opinion of the editors of NATIONAL REVIEW that the Re port of the Katanga Committee is one of the most revealing documents of our time. Its qualities are a re lentless sobriety (in such vivid con trast to the tendentious bombast of Dr. Bunche); a profound under understanding of the relationship of forces in the Congo; microeosmic revelations about the growth of United Nations power, and its rela tion to the cause of the West; and the great insight it gives into the role of the UN in the Cold War. It is inconceivable that anyone who reads this document will be un moved by it, or be easy prey for the propaganda of UN-firsters. Here is where one finds by all the odds the most reliable account of the great forces in motion within the United Nations. The report is still available from the American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters, a r.on-profit organization. Cost: $1.50; address: 79 Madison Avenue, New York 16. Send copies to your news paper editors, your local legislators 2nd schoolteachers. Send a copy to Dr. t Bunche - (address: United Na tions, New-York.) Above all, read it yourself. NATIONAL REVIEW Two Views On Sigma Chi Derby Mr. Wuamett: There is no doubt in our minds as to the purpose of your article on our Sigma Chi Derby. In your opinion the Derby is a farce, with out meaning or achievement. You delivered your point well while at the same time you created a clever, witty article. No doubt many stu dents who continue the tradition (and will continue it for possibly IS years) of reading The Daily Tar Heel had a good laugh at your comical abilities we did. Perhaps we should once more attempt to explain our rules and conduct, as we have done continu ously since the Derby began. No sorority girl, Stray Greek or nurse is required to participate in the Derby. Drinking and naked persons are not permitted at the Derby because we made an agree ment with the Administration not to allow things of this nature. The events we have are clean events as well as funny ones. We honestly believe that it wuld take a rest less, unstable mind to conjecture any other purposes for their pre sentation. We do try to achieve an afternoon of humor and entertainment. It is cur belief that the Sigma Chi Derby, through its entertainment, advances sorority-fraternity-dormitory rela tion. Perhaps we are mistaken, but if we are, we have not learned about it. You stated that almost any soror ity girl would say that the Derby is a waste of time. We will not d Sun 33, a general survey of his history or painting." Well, I do not know about Art 33, but I have had ex perience with Professor Schnorren berg in Art 31. My criticism is of the position he puts himself in as a teacher, a position which. I shall assume he maintains in his Art 33 class also. Professor Schorrenberg's philoso phy of teaching is in part quoted in the Tar Heel story. He states that a teacher's aim is to make himself unnecessary. And I would suggest that he carried this too far. He has not succeeded in making him self unnecessary but he certainly has succeeded in maintaining an aloofness from his students. As a re sult, the students respect his know ledgeand that is all. Because he has failed lo establish an identity with his students, he has failed to stimulate them. It is no woner that he asks, "I wonder how many students at UNC each day find out something for themselves, ether than for a course." But my real complaint is not so much with Professor Schnorren berg. After all, he does know his subject, and he is better than the average instructor at this great university. But how in God's name was he selected as the best teacher cf the month? Was there no one more qualified? Are there too many months in the year, or is the Jun ior Class making a farce of the vhole thing? MICHAEL SMITH Reflections CHICAGO (UPI) Prize cattle may soon be transported to the slaughterhouse by air freight, the magazine Traffic Management be lieves. The magazine said it has learned several packing companies are investigating the possibility. contradict you because this is on important statement which you would not make unless you were absolutely positive of its truthful ness. Did you have the endurance to remain at the Derby throughout it. entirety, Mr. Wuamett? If so, di, you notice the reactions of the two runners-up who came so close to winning? Ask these girls if the Derby meant anything to them. Also, ask the winners, who worked for weeks in order to get what they achieved. Their jubilance was in dicative of a desire to win. Wre regret that we disanpointed you, Mr. Wuamett. with the con servative nature of our activities. We are not pagans. However. it you ever learn of the establishment of an orgy such as you prerer we would be interested in attending Then we might understand why our Sigma Chi Derby should be re p'aced by one such as you describ ed. FREEMAN BARBER The Sigma Chi Fraternity To the Editor: W7hat was the purpose of your little article, Bill Wuamett, in corn paring the Sigma Chi Derby to a pagan orgy? All it seemed to prove, on close examination, is that you do not think the Derby measures up to old time orgy standards. Of course, it did not, because it can in no reasonable way be compared to such an orgy, either in its pur poses or its activities. Concerning your statement about the limbo, the "little" races and the "mud" pie throwing, we would like to point out that, according to all modern educators, games are the most wholesome way of releas ing energy in a mental as well as a physical sense. That is why a phy sical education program is con sidered such an integral part of the public school program in this coun try. We are sure your statement that any sorority girl will tell you that the Derby is a waste of time is pure opinion and should not have been written as fact. How many sorority girls did you ask? We called several sororities that participated int.the Derby. durinS their lunch hour yesterday, and they all stated that it was not a waste of time, but exciting and fun. That is why they voluntarily participated. To know so much about the Derby, you must have "wasted" an after noon at this "mock orgy" yourself. The afternoon would seem wasted for anyone who could not feel the spirit of competition between the sororities and their enthusiasm over having something different and or ganized to do. The same kind of enthusiasm that goes along with a football game (By the way, how could you think that more drinking went on at the Derby than at any football game?) If you want a true life orgy so badly, why don't you advertise your own "Maid in the Shade Party" for immoral rather than recreational purposes; then see how many coeds want to participate? Every year after the Derby, it seems, there is someone to pro test it, although the school authori ties, themselves, have not seen fit to do away with it. Probably the reason for his protest is within him self, rather than in the Derby. To have such a sour outlook spoils the beauty of spring! As sorority girls, we would like to THANK the Sigma Chis for giv ing us the opportunity to partici pate in something so unique and fun. SUSIE CECIL SALLY CLEMENT LYNDA RICKERT ALICE HOWELL Warren, Black 6 Vote RED' WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., said Wednesday that Chief Justice Earl Warren "decides for the Commu nists" whenever there is a clear, cut Supreme Court decision to be made between them and the se curity of the United States. Eastland, chairman of the Sen ate Judiciary Committee, made the charge during Senate debate on civil rights legislation, the ad ministration's literacy test bill. Eastland read to the Senate what he called a "box-score" of each associate justice's votes in decisions which he said involved communism or subversion. Eastland assigned each justice a pro and con "box score." The scores, he said, measured votes against positions advocated by the Communist party or Communist sympathizers in the case in ques tion. Eastland said that in his box score a "pro" vote meant "pro communist." Easterland's box score read as follows: Justice Hugo L. Black: 102 pro; 0 con. Justice Felix Frankfurter: G9 pro; 34 con. Justice William O. Douglas: 97 pro; 3 con. Justice Tom C. Clark: 21 pro; f.i. con. Chief Justice Earl Warren: 02 pro; 3 con. Justice John M. Harlan: 30 pro; 35 con. Justice William J. Brennan Jr.: 49 pro; 2 con. Justice Diaries Evans Whittaker retired: 12 pro; 30 con.