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atlp tfe In its seventieth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the University administration or the stu dent body. All editorials appearing in the DAILY TAR HEEL are the indivdual opinions of the Editors, unless otherwise credited; they do not necessarily represent the opinion of the staff. The edi tors are responsible for all material printed in the DAILY TAR HEEL. January 11, 19G3 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXX, No. 77 Sports-Writer Rumor: Preposterous" We have noted with dismay, in deed almost with shock, the man ner in which various sports writers around the State have handled with what might be termed their "responsibilities" in connection with the public's interest in the propos ed consolidation and name changes for the University's three branches. We are thinking specif icall', at this time, of a column which recent ly appeared in the sports section of the d'reenslmro Daily News. It was written by their Sports Editor, and it was published Tuesday, January 8. That's when and where but "why?"' wo will never know. :f; s's :c The article, the editor, was con cerned about a "rumor which is making the rounds in connection with this new movement to con solidate even more the three bran ches of the Consolidated Univers ity." The column began with a quota tion from president Friday: "If we are to be one university. . . ." And it went on to relate the essence of that quotation to a ridiculous rum or "that all intercollegiate athletics will be concentrated at one branch, and that this will be at Chapel Hill." After leading off with the words of president Friday, the Daily News Sports Editor asked that the reader "Remember them as I take the liberty to report a rumor. . . ." We would like to point out that it was, indeed, quite a bit of liber ty. The handling of such "rumors" must always be a very tricky busi ness. Most often they are founded on misinformation and thev lead only to further misinformation; they rarely, if ever have basis in fact. And, furthermore, we would like to submit the notion that one does not merely "report" a rumor. It would seem that you either start, perpetrate, or dismiss rumor . . you do not "report" it. By the very act of putting their warped and misinformed notions into print, you give them, almost automatically, a degree of credence which they did not formerly possess. What in the world would prompt one of the State's most noted and respected sports editors to, even left-handedly, give public credence to rumors that can do nothing but confuse issues and, indeed, his own readers ? As the saying goes; "It's beyond us." Especially when we note that the editor states in the column that: "Athletic facilities might figure in to the details when the planning gets down to the work table, but they are much less imporlant, at the moment, than adherence to the basic principle of higher education in North Carolina." (bold face add ed). If the columnist-editor recogniz es that fact, and if he believes that it is true, what in the world prompt ed the "report" of an absurd rum or? It was rumor that would have been best handled when summed up and dismissed, as it was by pres ident Friday, as being "Preposter ous." (CW) Cleaii-Sliaven Pirates? Manteo, N. C. has carried Patri otic Americanism to a pretty silly extreme. The promotors of the Lost Colony and all the other rigamo role which occurs there every year, have banned "ragged type beards" on all the town's "pirates." The reason for the ban? The beards remind people of Fidel Cas tro. Therefore: no beards. In place of beards the pirates are asked to wear mustaches or sideburns. We remind Manteo that Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler had mus taches and Elvis Presley wore side burns. And, anyway, if Manteo wants its pirates to be realistic, why not let them wear Castro-type beards? Who has been a better pirate lately than Fidel? (JC) The Daring Young Man . . . The DTH received a clipping yes terday of a wire story on the Pres ident's battle to keep House Rules mit 3mln Star $ittl JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Editors Art Pearce News Editor Wayne King Harry Lloyd Managing Editors Harry DeLang Night Editor Ed Dapree Sports Editor Curry Klrkpatrick Asst. Spts. Ed. Jim Wallace Photography Editor Mike Robinson Gary Blanchard Contributing Editors DAVE MORGAN Business Manager Gary Dal ton Advertising Mgr. John Evana Circulation Mgr. Dave Wysong Subscription Mgr. Tn Daily Tab Em la pabltehad dally xoopt Monday, examination periods and vacations. It la entered as second class matter in the post office In Chapel Bill. N. C, pursuant with the act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rataai M M per semester. S8 per year. . Th Daily Tax Em Is a subscriber to lha United Press International and utilizes the services of the News Bu- reau of tne University of North Caro lina. Published by the Publications Board ft the University of North Carolina. Chapel Bill, N. C. Committee membership at 15. The story reported a speech criticizing "liberal groups for giving the Am erican public a false picture of the House Rules Committee." With the clipping was a short note, "Dear Mr. J. C. : Do you dare to print the whole truth?" There was no signature. To reiterate an oft-made point: the Tar Heel will print any letter of student opinion on any subject at any time IF the letter-writer "dares" to identify himself. Unfortunately, experience proves, as Harry Golden put it, that the "world's biggest nonconformist is the person who writes a letter to the editor and signs it." (JC) Slick We noted with interest that the latest issue of William F. Buck- ley's NATIONAL REVIEW was published on expensive slick naD- er, as contrasted to the earlier newsprint paper. ... So that's where our $450 is going . . . (JC) Hi Press M """' ' " . ''""j jsm j zy - ore 'Affecting. Than Golding Universities 'Swollen EOOK REVIEW "Why late at night Will had heard how often? train whistles jetting steam along the rim of sleep, for lorn, alone and far, no matter how near they came. Sometimes he woke to find tears on his cheek, asked why, lay back, listened and thought, Yes, they make me cry, going east, going west, the trains so far gone in country deeps they drown in tides of sleep that escape the towns." This paragraph strikes me as one of the noblest prose passages ever written in English. Read aloud, it throbs with a beautiful lyric cadence, as does many another text in Ray Bradbury's recent novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes. This is the story of two boys and an old man, but more than that ft's the story cf one boy, WTill Halloway, one week short of his fourteenth birthday. It's the story of Will's first brush with maturity, right on the verge of ado lescence; the end of the days when he could swear by "Mother's honor," of the days when his top concern was his best pal, Jim Nightshade, two minutes older, a boy who smiled less and talked less as the years in creased. "There was a history of mutual celebration between them. Each year Will lit the candles on a single cake at one minute to midnight. Jim, at one minute after, with the last day of the month begun, blew them out." And the month was October; the last day, Halloween. No coincidence. This is a story of the particular sort of friendship known only to young boys, a kind of devotion that older people don't understand, except Ray Bradbury, who knows every thing. It's a sinister tale, charged with menace, but the high points A c2 are not the moments of terror but the ones that explore Will's mind, the mind of a youngster with on? cherished friend, and one human concern besides himself. One, that is, if we omit Halloway Sr., who serves an important role in the plot but provides a distressing amount of schmaltz. It's a shame that Bradbury didn't use someone else (a cousin or brother, perhaps) in place of Will's father, but the story has a powerful impact in spite of all that Mr. Halloway can do. No contemporary author under stands boys and their emotions so profoundly as Bradbury. Illinois, the ideal state of the Union for an up bringing, is his most frequent set ting. And his characters, often enough, are under fourteen, and as such are more moving and affect inr, to my taste, than those of William Golding in The Lord of the Flies. Bradbury's masterpiece, a short story titled "Hail and Farewell." describes, in magnificent language, the experiences of a twelve-year-old boy who could never grow older, but moved perpetually from one town to another, living with a new family every few years as an adopt ed child until people found out. A psychologist might rend this as an author's wish fulfillment, but I see it merely as an apex in fantasy and a brilliant achievement in lyric prose. Bradbury in his new novel is often at his best, and Bradbury's best writing is a mystical experience. It's rather like listening to Joan Baez, though of course it's a great deal deeper. And it makes the read er do a certain amount of thinking, which most Americans have for gotten how to do. Wade Well man UNC "Vigorous And Challenging Education" By RUSSELL KIRK More than 40 per cent of Ameri can high school graduates seek some sort of "higher" education after leaving high school though much of this is simply advanced vocational training, and at least half the young people who enter colleges as fresh men never obtain degrees. Yet what ever the quality of the higher learn ing in America, more of our rising generation enter college than anyone, anywhere in the world, would have thought possible before the Second World War. Doubtless one reason why so many students push on to college is the lamentably low level of performance of the average American high school: in order to learn anything intellec tual or useful, one needs nowadays more than a high school diploma, which used to mean something but today is no . more than a certificate of minimium sociability. So the aver age college, catering to untrained minds, is not superior to the respect able high school of a generation or two ago. LOST SCALE This "rising tide of enrollments" presents grave problems to our better universities and colleges, particularly state supported insitu tions. For one thing, the humane scale is lost when a campus ex pands to accommodate five or ten or twenty or even thirty thousand undergraduates. Genuine higher ed ucation always has been a matter of personal relationship and com pact academic community: Professor Mark Hopkins on one end of a log, and a student on the other end. The University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, experiences these characteristic difficulties. Always one of the half-dozen better state universities, and manifesting a peculiar character almost unmatched among state institutions, Chapel Hill (for the name of the little town is virtually synonymous with the Uni versity) has been a vigorous and charming center of real study. Walking today on its old campus, with its early buildings of a faded yellow brick, any visitor must be impressed with the strength and beauty of the University something that ought not to be allowed to perish. Yet how long can this old char acter endure? Last June, Chapel Hill awarded 2,150 degrees nearly Letter: Buckley Called Illogical To the Editors, An open letter to William F. Buck ley, Jr.: I must admit that I once had a great deal of respect for you, not because of your views but because of your reputation as an "Articulate spokesman of the Right Wing." How ever, this image has been shattered completely, I'm afraid. Your article in Playboy, your ac tions on this campus, and your sub sequent letter to your "Admirers" have disgusted this liberal and dis appointed at least one conservative (see DTH letters, same day as Mr. Bobrowske and Mr. Hicks'). You are supposedly a spokesman for the Right Wing, and, in occupying this position I would imagine it would be. your duty to convince people that the Right is right (correct, that is), and why its ideas should be heeded. You failed to do this or really even Jules Feiffer to attempt to do so, sir. If you don't know what "a deductively and em pirically true argument" is, then I can understand. I know what it is, sir, and for your information the answer is in the Good Book, the dictionary. "Deduction," sir, is "reasoning from given premises to their necessary conclusions;" "Empirical" is "pertaining to, or founded upon experiment or exper iance;" and "True" is "conform able to fact, correct; not erroneous, inaccurate or the like." I think that all of these describe Mr. Mailer's argument for his side, and my rea soning process has been moulded to accept the logical process, not the emotional attack. I do hope that they disseminate this sort of educ ation at that august institution in New Haven. They do at our lowly state institution here. The course is Philosophy 21, and we would wel- tmmmmiBt ahp. eeff? i mem m r& Alt OUR mn mv). cm t$e ftJUH it pyou CW1 come you as a fellow student. As to your statement about Mr. Tynan's cowardice, I would say that "cowardice" as defined by the military and the Right Wing is somewhat different from "coward ice" as defined by normal society. To desert on the battlefield in war time is rather different than to op pose Barry Goldwater for President (or Fuhrer). Although I didn't attend the Di-Phi debate on your censure and conse quently do not know exactly what they considered vulgar about your lecture; Mr. Bobrowske noticed something that he never said much about. That itch that you scratched was not oblivious to all, and per haps it wasn't language only that shocked the Di-Phi. As far as I am concerned, Mr. Buckley, I think that name-calling is lower than you think liberalism is, TflAT MS?- m m. HW 6DFFG0T MX69 10 M whits wv& rm W Wf 0? til THflfc rTOPS? and your reference to "Judas Iscar iot", "Old Lace" society, etc., in your letter does nothing to logically convince one that you shouid be paid. It does, however, dent your literary style, in my opinion. But, alas, Hilter did great things by evok ing emotions, you know. I personally hope that Mr. Mayer (Judas Iscariot, in case you didn't originally catch his name) sends your ridiculous (for the amount that we benefitted) fee to you so that we will be rid of your haunting image. I do think, though, Mr. Buckley, that you did more to promote the cause of Liberalism (liberalism-socialism? communism?) on this campus than anyone from the Left Wing could have done. If you want to come back and attempt to restore your image, then I would welcome you with open arms, not an open wallet. Neal A. Jackson as many as were granted, altogether, in the first century of the Univer sity's history. And the present en rollment, it appears, may be doubled by 1975 or so. "It is not good to be educated in a crowd," wrote Lord Percy of Newcastle, who knew much about the educational conundrums of our century. NEW APPROACH North Carolina is endeavoring to lessen this pressing ditticulty hy establishing a "Consolidated Univer sity"Chapel Hill, the State College at Raleigh, and other state institu tionswhich will allocate functions to the different branches of the state's system of higher education, and divide the total student popula tion among, several campuses. Calif ornia already had embarked upon such a hierarchical system. But I hope that every state may keep at least one university that offers something for imagination and intellect, and retains something of the old character of university life. A mass-university is no univer sity at all. James Meredith Thanks SG To the Editors, (Copy of a letter sent to Mike Lawler, vice-president of the stu dent body.) Dear Mr. Lawler: Please extend my thanks to your Student Government for their good wishes. The kind thoughts expressed by them and many others during this period will always be remembered. James II. Meredith i mr CF IT N ihat ml mi vs? the tecctiP ix eomi mz. w&rtw copy mre& w Kims c? cock torn w eer mrevf wezuz w xm iuwt- ripply tot i mm $0)ffi SMS. w a m- wi v - - - - ITS cute W5 yy m c$r k& ill MAK& m) SO POTiVg" -mmi ' ft Ca) TH!0K tP R4f Cf I mm a W) 6or ro pmew that ' wvge out 0W
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