BILL HOBBS
UNCN
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I
Hogwash
There exists here at Chapel Hill and a couple other
places in the state an organism known as the "greater"
university. There are now three branches to this organ
ism ; three corners to a sacred triangle of learning within
which numberless generations of fragile Tar Heel minds
have been nurtured and guided by the traditions of a
great Southern institution.
This capstone of higher education in the state and the
South has not been created overnight. It has required the
concentrated efforts of hundreds of brilliant minds to ac
quire the magnificant libraries and brilliant staffs now at
these three institutions. But even what we have is not
enough it would be foolish, therefore, to attempt to
create a new branch of this university in Charlotte. We
cannot spread our resources that thin. It is better to have
one great institution of three branches than to try to ex
pand at this time.
Hogwash.
The "greater" university is greater only in the sense
that it is larger than it once was. And it's about time
some people realized this instead of reminiscing about the
good old days when "father" Frank Graham was guiding
the destinies of this ivy-covered tower.
The facts in favor of further expansion are rather
hard to dispute.
1. There now exists in the Southern Piedmont of North
Carolina a city of over 200,000 people. Charlotte has no
four-year college.
2. There exists in the state an over-supply of students
desiring a college education. Many of these students have
an under-supply of money.
3. A state university has an obligation to supply its
citizens with an opportunity for higher education. Un
fortunately, this obligation applies to the poor as well as
the rich, and if the people cannot afford to come to Chapel
Hill, the University must go to the people.
4. This obligation has best been met in other states by
the establishment of university branches that get the job
done with a minimum of costly frills.
And quite frankly, we really don't care that it just
wouldn't be done at Harvard or by the Greensboro Daily
News ; a four-year state-supported institution is needed in
Charlotte. Not a junior college, not a teachers college, but
a four-year institution that is also a fourth branch of the
university.
It won't be cheap and it won't happen overnight. Presi
dent Friday has acted wisely in requesting a thorough
survey of all questions involved. We hope these surveys
will be finished before the 1963 Legislature convenes
But whether they are or not, it is time for the jnyth
of old Chapel Hill and the "greater" "university to be
flushed down the old well and forgotten. The "let them
come to Chapel Hill" philosophy i3 just a "little less" than
EWS
Bill Hobbs
CO-EDITOR
Conservatives And CLEF
Last Sunday the New York
Times reported that a group
known as the Civil Liberties Edu
cational Foundation was mapping
plans to improve high school
teaching about the Bill of Rights
and the idea of personal free
doms. Besides the natural interest stu
dents and faculty here should take
in such a project, UNC has a uni
que connection with this project
since Dr. Frank Graham, former
president of the University heads
the group (C.L.E.F.)
Dr. Graham's group is worried.
It has examined a 19G0 study by
Purdue University of the atti
tudes of 10,00 high school students.
This -study shows, among other
things,' that one third of the high
schoolers would abolish the right
to circulate petitions and that
43 .either .favored .curbs .on
public' speech or were undecided
on that issue.
The educators of the C.L.E.F.,
as the Times said, believe that
freedom, to be preserved, must
be understood and this is ap
parently not the case among
many high school students today.
The educators also understand
that besides preserving freedom,
we must extend it to other peo
ples through the cold war, and
that we cannot do this if we do
not know what it is all about our
selves. The problem, then, is obvious:
that American high school stu
dents are not being taught the full
meaning of the word "freedom"
they hear so much about in their
history books; and the implica
Robinson's
The world owes a vote of gra
titude to Roger Price and Leon
ard Stern, who have come out
with a startling theory about
people's names.
These two professors have dis
covered that you become the
kind of person your name sounds
as though you should be. It is
all explained in "What Not to
Name Your Baby," which was
written and published by Price
and Stern.
As the title indicates, the Price
Stern theory is that parents
make their children what they
are when they name them. For
example, "Earl is a small fel
low with no chin and a deep
voice who married a big woman.
(See, they're off to a bad start.
Poli Sci Prof Earl Wallame has a
strong jutting chin, a petite wife
and not a particularly deep
voice.) Mark and Woodrow are
popular teachers at a Midwest
ern college. Harry always knows
where to get more Ice."
On "Arlenes have big eyes
and talk a lot. (Arlene Francis
the perfect example.) Char
lottes like to be a Pal to their
men friends and wear heavy
black-rimmed glasses. Gertrud
es, when young, tend to have too
many teeth and dull hair; but
they improve themselves. By
the time they're 17, they're call-
APOLOGIES
Last week's editorial fn the
News was factually incorrect
when it stated that administra
tion officials had denied the use
of Emerson Field to a town Little
League because it was segregat
ed. The official statement said
instead that use of the field had
been denied because of the con
flict involved over integration of
the league.
The editor regrets this error.
tions of the problem are equally
obvious: that an incomplete un
derstanding of freedom can lead
to an incomplete willingness to
protect and extend it.,
Dr. Graham's group is taking
several steps to correct this sit
uation. Next Friday representa
tive high school teachers and uni
versity professors will meet to
discuss methods of "building the
understanding of the basic free
doms into the high-school curri
culum." The group is also pre
paring civil liberties, bibliograph
ies, questionnaires and pilot pro
jects in the field.
In short, the picture, while not
exactly rosy considering thePur-
due study, is hopeful. But these
hopes may be dashed.
For there are those among us
who equate "civil liberties" with
"liberalism" and "liberalism"
with evil. It has long been a con
tention of conservatives that the
educational system of this coun
try is riddled with liberals bent
upon indoctrinating the youth of
the nation with their political
ideas.
This belief, for instance, is
given lucid expression in a chap
ter of William F. (Fair-haired-boy-conservative)
Buckley's book
Up From Liberalism. It has given
vindictive and not so lucid ex
pression in the McCarthy era
when professors with varying de
grees of liberal ideas were fired
for their ideas.
And the conservatives are not
entirely full of hot air. In Buck
ley's book, for instance, there
Ramblings
ed Trudy or Gert depending on
whether they have become cute
of smart."
Dr. Price shows that when ba
bies are first born .they are all
about the same until given a
name. The Baby acquires its per
sonality and society begins to
treat it as if it had the type of
personality the name implies.
The. child, being sensitive, re
sponds consciously and uncon
sciously, and grows up to fit the
name.
The book is filled with hund
reds of names and the descrip
tions of the people who go with
them. ("Jerome always finishes
what's left on your plate. He acts
like he doesn't want to but is
doing you a favor.")
Price started formulating the
theory when he was going to
grade school. It was right after
a girl named Carlotta, the local
optician's daughter showed a
preference for a tall, curly-haired
athlete name Lance. He ex
plains: "I could not understand why
she preferrd him to me. I made
better grades than he did and
could help her with her geome
try. And her mother liked me
best. I finally decided it was
all because of our names. He
looked and acted like Lance, and
I was pure 1W per cent Roger."
I hope the general outline of
this theory is getting across to
you, particularly to Horace Sut
ton and his wife who live in Vic
tory Village. She recently had
a baby and at this writing, two
weeks later, they are still not
agreed on a name. By consult
ing the Price-Stern book, they
can be practically sure of the
child's future. Fortunately, the
baby is a girl, for a boy might
have been given the father's
name, and according to the
Price-Stern theory, every "Hor
ace says he's going to make a
long story short, but doesn't."
are several entirely valid and ir
refutable examples of liberal "in
doctrination" practices in Ameri
can colleges.
. The point here is not whether
there are too many liberal "in
doctrinators" in' the colleges and
high schools, or, for that matter,
whether there are too few.
The point is that Dr. Graham
is a liberal, and that is entirely
possible, or probable, or even
predetermined, that conservativ
es such as Mr. Buckley are not
going to like the ideas of this
Civil Liberties Educational Foun
dation. It would be entirely in
keeping with their past perform
ances for conservatives to attack
this group on the grounds that it
is just another liberal organiza
tion designed to propogate liberal
ideas among students.
And we will all be the losers if
they do.
We would suggest to the con
servatives some alternatives be
fore they go off screaming. First,
we would ask them not to go into
the matter with their eyes shut
and their mouths open. From the
report we have, the group seems
to be a responsible set of per
sons honestly interested in im
proving education in a vital field.
It is certainly no automatic fact
that all .efforts by liberals in the
field of education are designed
solely to promote their own be
liefs. Second, we wolud remind the
conservatives that they should be
as deeply concerned with civil
liberties as the liberals. They
talk constantly of preserving in
dividual freedom, and here is an
area in which they can perform
a valuable service to preserving
individual freedom. We ask them
to interest themselves in this en
deavor constructively, to join in
this effort to improve the basic
teaching of civil liberties. In do
ing so they would also serve to
give the program a balanced,
responsible outlook if they believe
it does not have one now.
And we feel these points can
apply equally to liberals.
Maybe it seems like a small
matter. After all this is a small
group, and there are others of
its kind. Nevertheless, it is con
cerned with an extremely import
ant issue, and if it can come up
with some effective means cf sol
ving the problem we will gain
greatly. One thing is clear: the
group wDl not arrive at any such
means if it is harried and beset
with the often absurd dialogue
between liberals and conserva
tives which clouds so many edu
cational projects today.
We hope that both the liberal
and conservative men involved in
education will not look at this
project as a means for advancing
their own ideological gain, but as
a means for advancing the know
ledge and understanding of the
American student.
Reflections
Some definitions from the new
southern edition of Webster's.
Chile A youngum.
Ice cool A school where stu
dents go before coming to col
lege. Fussed What comes before
second.
Foe What comes after three.
Riot-You're absolutely riot
about that.
Again The opposite of for.