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SUPPORT In its 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 otherwise credited; they are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. May 10, 1962 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLIX, No. 153 Double Ma jors The Administrative Boards of the General College and the College of Arts and Sciences have approved provisions for A.B. degrees with double majors. Many students come to Chapel Hill, struggle through four years of specialized education, and hustle off into the great American money fields, without truly broadening their educational experiences, with out ever attending a lecture that stimulates personal thought. Certainly the necessity of con centration in courses of one's an ticipated Life's work is not to be denied. In a society geared and. reared for competition, one may not spend time idly sampling scholas tic wares. Preparation for the lu crative jobs cannot be "over-adequate" and if this pushes knowledge for knowledge's sake out of the pic ture, well that may just be too bad. But,, if the over-concentration of education in one particular area pushes knowledge for life's sake out of the picture, that is tragic. No one seriously wants to be narrow, and no university seriously wants to foster narrowness. Every opportunity for the expansion of horizons should be made available. A university with the education al possibilities that North Carolina possesses is, in a sense, "hiding its light under a bush," wThen it has restrictions on the academic oppor tunities open to its students. Such was the case with the previous "one major only" program. Students with the time and tal ent to pursue an education in two major areas were limited to no more than four elect ives in any one sub ject outside of their major. This might have been good in that it forced the scattering of choices, but it did not permit, in too many in stances, study beyond the introductory-course level. The program as now arranged will permit the pursuit of an A.B. degree with a double major. In or der to do this, a student will have to satisfactorily complete a minimum of 43 courses, only three more than the required 40 for a single ma jor. The three extra courses will be added to the now permitted four electives in a single subject outside the major. The responsibility, with the con tinuing aid of his advisor, will rest largely on the shoulders of the in dividual student. Certainly, this is as it should be. The gain is his. The potential educational value of double-major programs is yet un measurable, though never deniable. The many students who continually bemoan the narrowness of their backgrounds will now be able to in crease the scope of their approaches to life. Although those spending hour upon hour in the lab courses still may not be able to take advant age of this opportunity, there are many who will, most gratefully. We appreciate the opportunity to double up in those areas which, though not attracting a large num ber of majors now, are valuable sources of "true" education. , Consider a second major in Re ligion, Art, or Philosophy for in stance, (cw) . A Press? In September of 1963 The Chapel Hill Weekly, publishers of the Daily Tar Heel, will go daily, making it more difficult to print the DTH. At present the Tar Heel is unable to report many stories which occur at night ... is often unable to print six pages when there is too much advertising for four pages (as in this issue) because of the demands of the contract with the Weekly But to buy either a flatbed or offset printing setup will be a tre mendous outlay. The press itself is only the basic cost, to be added to that of accessory machines, over head and personnel (What would be done with the printshop work- EDITORIAL STAFF JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Co-Editors Wayne King Managing Editor Bill Wuamett, Dow Sheppard News Editors Ed Dupree Sports Editor Curry Kirkpatrick .. Asst. Spts Ed. Bill Hobos . . . : Night Editor Matt Weisman Feature Editor Harry DeLung, John Medlin Assts. to the Editor Jim Wallace .. Photography Editor Mike Robinson, Garry Blanchard Joe Masi Contributing Editors TIM BURNETT Business Manager Mike Mathers .. Advertising Mgr. Tsi Datlt Tab Em la published dally accept Monday, examination periods and vacations. It Is entered as second class matter In the post office Is Chapel Kill. N. C, pursuant with the act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates i Md per sernester. $3 per year. Ths Dailt Tab Hzzl Is a subscriber to the United Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina. Published by the Publications Board at' the. University of North Carolina, Chapel 'E3J1. N C. - ers.in the summer? . . .). Tonight Student Legislature probably will consider the bill to appropriate $5,000 out of the gen eral surplus to establish a printshop fund. An investigatory commitee al so will be set up. The bill has been amended in committee, to add an article calling for new legislation if any money from the fund is to be used. The Daily Tar Heel could operate more professionally with its own press, which possibly could be used to print .such publications as the Carolina Quarterly, Carolina Hand book, and student government book lets. In several years it might be necessary for the newspaper to have a press. Initial costs will be great if a press is bought. But only through the factual findings of an investi gatory committee can the true situ ation be learned. Tonight's bill is a minimum effort for an imagina tive student government to under take, (jc) Empty Sqdejti The Old Corral No One 5 i Tuesday night's Di-Phi debate on interracial marriage laws attracted 30 people to the Society's hallowed halls in New West. Of these SO people, however, only one sincerely spoke against the anti-miscegenation resolution, and. he wasn't a student. A guest complained of the one sidedness of the debate, with every one opposing the state interracial marriage laws, and no one in de fense. Why was this? Was there no one out of a studentry of more than 0,000 who disagreed with the Di-Phi bill? Absolutely no one? . . . (jc) - - Vt -Mi I SSr . -' Tropic Of Cancer OfH iwe fcEAiirifTM Letters To The Editor JL (Following is a release from Grove Press, publishers of Tropic of Canper:) One hundred ninety eight leading American writers, critics and mem bers of the publishing community jloday strongly condemned police censorship of books in many com munities throughout the country in a statement of support for a deci sion by Chicago Judge Samuel B. Epstein which held Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was not obscene. The signers of the statement in clude such prominent literary fig ures as Saul Bellow, James Bald win, Jacques Barzun, John Dos Passes, Clifton Fadiman, Herbert Golden, Lilliam Ilellman, John Her sey, Aldous Huxley, Alfred Kazin, JVIax Lerner, Carson McCullers, Norman Mailer, (Bernard Malamud, Arthur Miller, Elmer Rice, Philip Roth, Mark Schorer, William Sty ron, Robert Penn Warren, Edmund Wilson, and Philip Wylie. They ap pealed to the public "to defeat any attempt at repression before they are allowed to erode our most preci ous freedoms." Judge Samuel Epstein in a deci sion rendered on February 21, 19G2, held "that TROPIC OF CANCER is not obscene as defined in the law and that interference by the police in its free distribution and sales should be enjoined," saying "Let the parents control the reading mat ter of their children; let not the Government or the courts dictate the reading matter of a free peo ple." Since then, Judge Epstein's decision has been appealed by the On Professor. And. 6Lack Of Taste Charged To Smith To the Editors, Michael Smith's criticism of Prof. Schnorrenburg' s selection as "the best teacher of the month" reveals his own personal lack of taste in matters of academic judgment. One is curious to know just what his gripe really is; certainly the "best teacher" issue is only a vacuous cover-up. His entire argument that Prof. Schnorrenburg fails to com municate personally to his students is a mockery of consistency. Prof. Schnorrenburg is perhaps the most indulgent teacher in time, energy and patience that a university stu dent can hope to find. The intense devotion and personal attention that accompany each of his lectures are rarely paralleled in any university. Art 33, for a case in point, was one of very few university courses where the students were actually as important as the subject matter. I recall the lino of students outside Prof. Schnorrenburg's office, wait ing to discuss their term-paper prob lems with him. Dr. Schnorrenburg carefully went over each paper with each student. His criticism seemed always forceful yet with an underlying genuine concern that challenged a student's individuality. Prof. Schnorrenburg remains a bit of a mystery, though. He hasn't lost the 'hope" that in learning there is to be found a creative ex perience. Justly perhaps is he to be criticized for thinking that each student has the potentiality for recognizing and grasping the "crea tiveness" in himself. Prof Schnorren burg does not only teach, he in spires. However, he expects his students to think, and learning hopefully following this momentous step. Though many do not achieve this goal, I suggest that they search in themsleves for such failure. Numbers do not in themselves mean very much. I feel, neverthe less, that his former students and friends will heartily agree that the selection of Prof. John Schnorren burg as "the best teacher of the month" is certainly an honor and credit to the University of North Carolina. TOM FITZGERALD Pupils Establish Prof-Identity? To the Editors: Concerning 'Mr. Michael Smith's "Real Complaint" and public con fession of "amazement" in your is sue of Saturday, May 7: This allegedly aloof Mr. Schnor renberg is indeed so isolated within the insubstantial mists of his own pedagogic Olympus that in point of fact, if a student takes the initia tive to go see him at his office, he will spend more time with the stu dent than one would think fair to devote to one person of a class of around fifty. Mr. Schnorrenberg is even so aloof that he will force the student to try to justify every fault which he has found, he thinks, in a term paper. But, not only does this shameless academician waste his time talking freely to students he heedlessly squanders great portions of quite a few valuable lecture hours in the course of a semester in asking stu dents to face individually such te diously puerile questions as the pur pose of their being in" the University and of their being in the course If this becomes known outside his de partment, the heretical Mr. Schnor renberg will rightfully fall victim to inquisition under the Charge of In trusion into : Questions Outside the Scope of the Course as Prescribed by the Catalog. Besides all these perversions it is (rumored among Christ School alum ni that once the sun has set he slinks from the fusty confines of the Ackland lecture room to meta morphose into a regular fellow. If this overzealous young professor fails to establish a quasi-mystical "identity with the student," perhaps the student could retaliate by es tablishing an "identity with the pro fessor." SCOTT WARD Clotfelter 'Went Too Far9 Dear Mr. Clotfelter: It is the right and duty of the Editor of the Daily Tar Heel to re port all news that is of interest and importance but I feel that you have personally overstepped your editorial bounds in your attack or should I say light reprimand of the Legisla ture. I think that you were right in your attack of any organization which was as badly organized as the Legislature was last Thursday night. However, I feel that in some of your specific examples stated that you have "gone too far." One point that you make is that a non-member of the legislature asked six questions of the speaker during a short period of time in the Legislature. You sound as if you think that this is wrong. I beg to differ with you. think that it is good that some students on this campus have enough interest in the affairs on this campus to go to the legislature; and when they feel that they have a pertinent question to ask the speaker or a legislator they have the nerve to ask the aforesaid ques tion. The Student Legislature is a campus organization and all stu dents on this campus are welcome to come to any meeting at any time and ask any questions that they wish to ask. When the Speaker of the Legisla ture moved that a certain proposed amendment made "female compan ionship in bad taste," T got the 'im pression by his smile and the laugh ter by all the persons in the room that he had made a joke, but since reading your editorial T find that it was not a joke and that the Legisla tors were tongue-tied and did not know what they were saying. It is good to criticize organizations when they are wrong, and it is right to have your opinion expressed on the editorial page "of the campus paper, but please stick to the facts involved, and please don't "split hairs" in your examples, as you ac cused the legislators of doing last Thursday night. HAYNES C. McFADDEN Suggestions On Orgy-Holding To the Editors, I realize that' Mr. Wuamett is very disturbed by the fact that no one on campus is able to hold a real orgy. But I say that Mr. Wuamett is misinformed. For , seventeen years there has exisited on this campus a group that holds orgies . quite reg ularly. The chairman of this group (and they do have a different title for him) has contacted me and ask ed me to do an article on behalf of the group, since he wishes to re main anonymous. They extend an invitation to you Mr. Wuamett and any one else who would be interest ed in the meetings. They are using the meeting-hall of the old Delphian Literary Socie ty on the third floor of New North. They issue a special appeal to the men students on campus, since they have too many girls at the meet ings. Refreshments will be provided by a Tennessee distiller. It is request ed that since the weather has warm ed up, you should wear something light and readily removable. ROBERT BULLARD Dormitories . . . And The Derby Mr. Freeman Barber, The Sigma Chi Fraternity: In your recent letter to the Daily Tar Heel, you stated that ". . . the Sigma Chi Derby . . . advances sorority-fraternity-dormitory relation." Good God-damned luck on including the dormitories. MICHAEL J. PUTZEL Students Busy On Traditions To the Editors: So what if Silent Sam has never fired! (he can't no bullets) The Old Well still squirts real water, the Arboretum is as green as ever. In short, I see no lack of tradition on this campus. Perhaps "tradition is shot all to Hell." However, accord ing to the DTH, The Carolina Hand books, The Yack, etc. this campus is veritably inundated with dradition. The Di-Phi, Silent Sam, The Old Well, The DTH, and all the legends about men on campus are just ' a few examples of this flood. Indeed, the lack of traditions must stem, then, sir, from: the way that you define tradition. A tradition is not set up merely to be a tradition but is born and nurtured by time itself. Neither an individual nor a student body can prescribe traditions. They must grow by themselves, proving their merit by weathering the only test, time itself. A tradition must be added to over the years by those interested enough to carry it on to the future. Our student autonomy which we revere so highly is a tra dition, nourished by decades of hard work. Our Honor system is a tradition. Building a statue of an ndian and throwing money at that statue constitutes a financial loss, not a tradition. Certainly, many old traditions are not furthered now. However this is not because of apathy' on our part, this is because these traditions are now useless. As the old traditions die, new ones step in to take their place. I firm ly believe that dsep in the heart of every student here, there is a deep respect for traditions. The maintenance of these traditions is not up to Student Government, Dean Long, or the students. It is up to the traditions themselves to be need ed, pertinent, and not useless. That Rameses was "ramnapped" would normally strike fear and rage into the heart of every UNC student. This time, however, most of us were away in our hemes cele brating another tradition, Thanksgiv ing. As to panty raids you are per fectly welcome, Mr. Rosenthal, to do as you please. No problem remains. To be exact, the student body is now, as always, hard at work building traditions for your descendants, by making this a better place to work, study and, yes, even have a little fun. GARY D. GROSBOLL Compose rBack To Russia? Tc the Editors: Ihappened to find this in the Christian Science Monitor last week: "Sol Hurok, the New York im presario, who spent three weeks in Moscow negotiating the United States-Soviet cultural exchange agreement signed recently in Wash ington, has arranged for Igor Stra vinsky to make a tour of his native Russia next September. "Reports from Moscow indicate that Russian music, art and literary circles are highly excited over the news and well they may be, for Igor Stravinsky is regarded by many as the greatest composer alive to day. "Stravinsky left Russia in 1909 and has been back only once, and that briefly, since then. That was in 1914. He has lived in the United States since 1939 and has been a United States citizen since 1945. "The Soviet Ministry of Culture has given Stravinsky carte blanche to arrange a series of concerts as he sees fit. This is interesting in light o! the fact Stravinsky's music was denounced in Stalin's day as "bour geois and corrupt." Since Stalin's death more and more Russian or chestras have been playing Stravin sky's compositions. "Stravinsky's projected tour, di recting orchestras in Russia, is an other demonstration that cultural exchange is a two-way street. Too city of Chicago and an injunction has been granted taking the book off sale pending the appeal. "We believe with Jude Ep-;te'n," the signers of the statement sa "that neither the police nor the courts should be allowed to dictate the reading matter of a free peo ple." Quoting Judge Epstein's ?. cision as saying "the right to fr,o utterances becomes a useless privj. ege when the freedom to real ij restricted or denied," the statement says that Judge Epstein's decii,,n has "reaffirmed the right of a free people to decide for itself what it may or may not read. Eeyond that, it sounds a clear warning to ail of us to guard the principles up which our country was built." "The issue is not whether TROP IC OF CANCER is a masterpiece of American literature; rather, it is whether an author of Henry Mil ler's artistic integrity is entitled to the protections afforded by the Constitution of the United States," the leading writers and publishers said. In recent months the statement charged, police with the encourage ment of "certain minority pressure groups" have 'succeeded in forcing their own narrow-minded literary tastes upon many communities." "This' is an issue of immediate and serious concern to every citi zen who holds dear the traditions of our democracy, and who abhors the intrustion of official censorship into the vital area of artistic anl literary expression. It is an i.-sue to which we are especially sensi tive," the signers said. Org often, we tend to think in terms of what the Russians get out of send ing cultural delegations to this country. We should not forget that the United States profits when its delegatioas go to Russia." KENT PETERSOX Visitor Lost A Wallet Here To the Editors: Last weekend someone en!erel 113 Cobb, the room of Quent l.'p percue and Frank Taylor, and took my wallet. I live in Bethesda, Mary land, and I came to UNC to visit Quent. I desperately need the twenty-five dollars or so I had in the wallet to get home. The wallet aio contained the usual assortment of papers, cards and pictures; all of which are very important to me an 1 I must get them back. I'll pay o re ward of $10 to anyone who returns the wallet intact with money. If I can't get the money back, I'll pay $5 reward for the return of every thing else in the wallet. If I can .set the wallet back, I'll pay the re .van!, no questions asked. Anyone who finds the wallet or knows anything about it, please contact Quert l"; percue, 113 Cobb, phone 9G3-W1" I understand there have been other thefts. As an outsider visiting LC for the first time ,the theft of my wallet does not reflect well on your honor system. One person can ruin it for many. DENNIS JELALI W' Dietitian On Dinner Manners To the Editors: I watched, with a feeling of :we and humility, as one by one the Negro employees sat down at the dining table provided for them, each folding his hands under his chin, while his lips moved in a si'1":! grace before taking a spoonful d food. No one neglected to do this, ar.,1 even the late-comers, sitting !'. '' .n to a table of laughing men and wo men, was oblivious to them a no bowed his head in supplication a "thank you, God, for giving me ti e right to live on this earth which appears to be the supreme ri of those, who, thru some qmhv " ' chemical alchemy, have skins w'ni. i are lighter than mine. Even tho.uh our way is hard, and fraught ui:h obstacles, we respect your j-''!-' ment, dear Lord, and take eon.: -in the fact that in your sight, every one is born free and equal. R;t your noble opinion is not held by many of those, who professing yenr faith, feel the earth and all therein was created for them and then,: alone. Forgive them, Oh Lord, and show them the error of their w.' -so they may no longer stray in - -path of the unrighteous. We thor'": thee for this meal and commit em selves to thy loving service. A' FRANCES B. FLOORI-. Dietician
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