North Carolina Newspapers

Pagre 2f Saturday, September 21, 19153 "fWeVe Decided Against The TesfrBhnreaty; f We Want The Right To Develop 6at Owh Bomb ay i Our W O 8 am 4- X w I i I 51 est i 4 Published dairy except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the . aca demic year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. THE DAILY TAR HEEL is a subscriber to United Press international and utilizes the services of the t'niversity News Bureau. - m 8 Give Well, today's the day the day we start our whining season. Latest word from. Big Jim is that the troops are ready and raring to have at them Caval iers. And we're ready to do likewise, only in a manner that bruises the vocal cords rather than the muscles and liga ments. We Hope you are too. We know a lot of you are going to hang one on. That's inevitable. But please don't get so carried away you The ! We got thinking back the other day on The Good Old Days when bur chief expense was marbles, or aggies, if you prefer. And our chief concern, or bur parents' anyway, was getting the leading edge of the lower half of our shooting finger dean. All spring long it was the most de lightful shade of grime; beautiful. Sort of a junior status symbol. What got us thinking back was when we realized it was already time to start, packing up for school. - 4 Where had the summer gone? Why; in The Good Old bays, summer lasted forever, or almost. An Editorialist I WRAL-TV editorialist Jesse Helms is a strange breed of cat. ; One of his chief objectives in life, we're told, is to have his existence ac knowledged by The Raleigh News & Ob- '. server in ah editorial any editorial, good, bad, or otherwise. ; Yet the closest the N & O edit writers ever come to doing that is to refer to ; "local broadcasters" or by way of some . similarly half -anonymous phrase. Well, we've long been in something of . a similar fix. tJesse consistently distorts, misinterprets, misconstrues and what have you, most everything that he edi- . tbirially mentions. Cfon you the viewer, get ' mad, or indignant, or just nettled. At first, that is. Then, slowly you come to accept the fact that this is the way : things are where Jesse is concerned, and you even begin to look forward to catching his famousnotorious (which- EDITORIAL Gary Blanchard, David Etnridge Co-Editors Managing Editors Associate Editor Copy Editor , .. Photo Editor Sport's Editor ; .. As si. Sports Editor Night Editors Women's Editor . Features Editor ..... .... Science Editor . Reporters: Mickey BlackweU, Administration Peter Wale, Campus Affairs Hugh Stevens, Campus Affairs Bruce Williamson, Desk Dona Fagg, Desk BUSINESS Business Manager Advertising Manager ... Circulation Manager - Sithscripiion Manager . Asst. Advertising Mgr. Asst. Business Mgr. ; Salet 72 Years bf Editorial Freedom Offices ett die second floor f Cra&am Merbortal. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 942-3113. Business, cir-; culallon, advertising 812-2138. Address: Bok 1089, Chapel Hill, N. C. Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post Office in Chanel Hill, N. C, pursuant to Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8 per year. 'em MelL Good Old The best time, of course, was when more than two of us gathered at any given .spot. Game, suggestions immedi ately poured forth. - Hide-and-go-seek? Scrub (a variety of Softball) ? Or, as was the most commonplace, just "A Game of Guns?", with a hot argument over who was to be the good guy and who the bad. Nowadays, of course, that's all be hind us. - We have grown up. Now we play games like, "Pin The Label," ""Look but For The Republi cans," and "Make That Grade." And the summers are an awful lot shorter. ever you prefer) twice-daily political kid dy show, called Viewpoint. You recognize that this is The Out let for the far right. Sort of a clear ing house for reactionary wisdom. So you watch it, just to keep tabs oh how Hie Fringe is seeing things these days. Then comes Step 3. This is when you begin to enjoy Jesse's show. Enjoy it like you enjoy watching a Theatre of The Absurd production. You know it isn't for real, thank God. it can't be, al though admittedly, sometimes you won der. So you watch, and play "Pick The Dis tortion." What this means is you read the worst possible interpretation into an event pi the day, select several heavily loaded words, then use the worst pos sible logic in stringing the whole thing together into some sort of an intellectual abortion. Nine times but of ten you come up with what would pass in a hurry for the gist of Jesse's pronouncement that day. Then, however, comes Step 4. You begin feeling sorry for the poor guy. Honestly and truly sorry. You think of all the good this guy could be doing if he'd stop trying to sell his Birchist philosophy and stick to some honest analysis of the facts. After all, he's obviously a facile writ er; obviously a clever, sometimes orig inal, thinker; but just as obviously wed ded to the rightist line as tightly as Fiiel is to the Communist tune. Then comes step 5. You begin writing editorials for the cahipus newspaper and you realize that this is your chance to rebut some of the half-truths Jesse puts out. But should you? Would writing an editorial, Or two, or three, or to keep up with Jesse one a day, only dignify the man's tn'essig'tss by bothering to take note of him? : Does the bus, you ask, stop to beep at the puppy running along behind it, bark ing as loud as it can? You just don't know. Better think about it a little longer; Wayne King Fred Seely Peter Harkness ........ Harry DeLung Jim Wallace Curry Kirkpatrick John Montague Joel Bulktey Jim, Wallace . ..... Diane HiTe .... Chris Farran Mat Friedman, Arf Pearce . Fred McConnel John Evans .... Brian Simpson Woody Sobol .. Sally Rawlings Frank Potter bicic Baddour Bob Vanderberry Team start hanging one on the guy next to you, either in the stands or down on the field after the game. Handling 2t),'000-plus people is a nightmare by it self, even if everyone behaves stu dent and alumni. It becomes wishful thinking if they don't. So whaddayasayteam, let's give 'em hell. And whaddayasayfans, let's relax and enjoy it. The only casualties should be among the guys wearing shoulder pads and . cleats. Days Dilemma r Two Views On Gag Law Concerning Haldane Affair The Charlotte Observer BIOLOGY: The science of life; the - branch that treats of living organisms. The "gag law"-passed by the General. Assembly last session has placed its first ugly mark on the reputation of the Univer sity of North Carolina. r. ; Because of the "gag 'law' a distinguished . biologist will not come to the Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Greensboro campuses of the Consolidated University to talk about the world of living organ isms. The .General Assembly's aim in passing the "gag law" osten sibly was" to prevent this state's youth from being "taken in" by iDusion-spinning Reds who are supposedly too smart for them. Not trusting the university's ded icatea administrators, the legis lators slapped a new law atop an bid one to weave a thicker mesh of academic barbed wire around the colleges. The : first victims are the stu dents themselves, particularly those biology majors who were to have heard from Dr. John Burton Haldane. Dr. Haldane won't come be cause he got an "inquiry" from the University. The University sent the-"inquiry" because of the "gag law" and a small line in International Who's Who which . says that Dr. Haldane, fuming By; CHRIS FAR RAN When the dust has settled and you look back over your fresh man year in college, you will view those first few months with the same sort of vague disbelief Phileas Fogg must have felt when he returned to London: "I made it . . . alive." Certainly you will wonder how you could have been so very naive when you started school nine months earlier naive finan cially, politically, intellectually, and in many other ways. You'll find you have adjusted to the idea of higher education the way a young bird learns to fly by being pushed out of the nest. The impressions you take home with you after your first year in college will not be the ones you got in the classroom. Of all that you've learned in your first two semesters, very little will show up in conversation for quite a while. Instead, you will have picked up many widely-varied ideas from a g" jat variety of people. Dur ing your four years in high school, your circle of friends varied little, and now suddenly in September you will find your self in a pretty cosmopolitan group of - students from every state in the union, every corner of the globe. . And this is. the greatest value of your freshman year ' in col lege its primary purpose is ori from 1940 to 1949, was on the editorial board o( the "Daily Worker," Communist paper, in Britain. , In the first five of those years the United States and Russia were allies. Relations between us hardened only afterwards. , What Dr. Haldane's political beliefs are now we . haye . no idea. - Whatever they are com munism has no more to do "with biology than Taoism or capital- ' ism have to do with it, and Dr. Haldane is an eminent biologist. . His work has been honored by two of the great universities in the free world ( Oxford and Ed inburgh), and he is a member of the historic Royal Academy ki England. He served on an awards committee which not long ago paid homage to Pope John XXII and the conservative Am erican historian, Samuel Eliot Morrison. When the, "gag law" passed, we predicted that the legisla ture had "damaged North Caro lina Schools chances of even obtaining the services of many distinguished ledturens who would . reject invitations in the knowl edge that they were to be sub jected to the kind of 'loyalty check that could, because of misinformation or innuendo, do them personal harm." This is precisely what happen ed. Scratch one series of lectures oh an important branch of learn- . ing. And put one ugly smear for To Frosh entationyour chance to get on first - name terms with Greek philosophers, bill collectors, bar tenders, British poets, football coaches, math instructors and dormitory janitors. A proper title for a college ca talogue might be "From the Sub lime to the Ridiculous," for that will be the range of your ex periences and acquaintances in college. This vast new freedom, with its many temptations, is a mixed blessing. ' It teaches self-reliance in a hurry, the way a hang-over will teach discretion: enjoy now, pay later. Financially, you will find that yu and your parents work up a , little magic trick: they send you money arid make it disap pear. Depending upon what you want (as opposed to what you really need), you will find that the bulk of your, funds will go for food, clothing, books, food, stamps, telephone calls, food and extra buttons. Your studying will have a dif ferent aim, also in high school you studied to get out; in col lege you study to stay in. . The best and most lasting thing your first year in college can Xiye you is simple exposure. Like the sunburn variety, it may hurt a little at first. But be lieve it or not, after a while -it will begin to look pretty good, and you may even get a few com "pTirrients on it. all to see on the lamp of higher education in North Carolina. The Raleigh News & Observer As a result of the ban on Communist speakers at State supported colleges, -"North' Caro- lina -college students" riave been denied the ' opportunity to hear classroom lectures by one of the world's greatest scientists, Dr. J. B. S. Haldane. But the famous British scientist, how ever unorthodox his political . views may be and despite his Marxist background, has at least done North Carolina the favor of pointing up how dangerous and unnecessary the new Red ban law really is. It is inconceivable that any North Carolina college student would have been contaminated in any. way by hearing a great scientist lecture on biology. And even the most frightened ad vocate of this ban's encroach ment of freedom in North Caro lina should admit that college students could profit a great deal by exposure to the knowl edge of any great scientist in his chosen field. Furthermore, Dr. Haldane was not invited to University cam puses in Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Greensboro by any wild eyed, fringe type of organization that some might find objection able. The invitation was extend ed by the respected Institute of Biological Sciences here at North Carolina State, an organization whose concern is the search for scientific truth, not politics. University officials reported that the Britisher, "as a matter of principle," refused to answer questions about his background which the University had to ask him in carrying out the intent of the speaker ben law. His re fusal to answer the questions was the equivalent, of course, of turning down the institute's invitation. And the losers in this matter are the college stu dents who could benefit by his knowledge and the State of North Carolina, not the scien tist or godless communism. North Carolinians should be disturbed but. not surprised by this development. A man's po litical views in no way diminish his scientific contributions to mankind. If a Communist sci entist discovered a cure for can cer, no one would suggest that Americans continue to die of cancer rather than take advan tage of the remedy. As the case of the British sci entist emphasizes, this speaker ban is unworthy of North Caro lina. iNo university or college can be great unless it is free to pursue knowledge and truth. And the people of North Carcn lina should not tolerate any long er than necessary this, speaker ban which was the handiwork in the last Legislature not of - true patriots- but of these -who fear freedom and democracy. By PETER IIARKNESS This column is for the incom ing students, especially the fresh men. It represents only one point of view, that of this writer, which is hardly typical. . The point involved concerns the attitude of the individual to ward his or her stay at this Uni versity, what you feel are the important and the unimportant, the valuable and the unneces sary. When one takes the step from high school to college, what at titudes should remain behind as memories to be replaced by a new sense and a new attitude? The president of the student body, Mike Lawler, gave an ex cellent speech to the incoming coeds Tuesday night in which he pleaded with them to "Change the image of the Carolina Coed." It was an excellent speech one of the best given by any President. Lawler strayed from the or dinary and gave the students a rest from the "rah . . rah . . rah . . Carolina" talks that they had been hearing all week. The speech was challenging and, hopefully, there are a certain number who listened intently and will do some serious think ing about what he said. The image that the Carolina Coed now projects is unfortunate for the simple reason that, there is an image at all. It denotes a typical coed, and to be typi cal means to conform. Conform ity here, at a university known for her tradition of academic freedom, is a tragedy. AH through the speeches that were given to incoming stu dents, the phrase "the Carolina way of life" kept popping up. The question is, what does it mean? "The Carolina way of life" is an innocuous phrase that might well have a different meaning for everyone. Unfor tunately it does not. To many, this phrase con notes Madras and burgandy, Weejuns and London Fogs. Life here is in a pattern and any divergence from that pattern of life is met with intolerance sometimes a cruel intoler ance. Adherence to the pattern is weak in some circles while strong in others, but the latter, which, is made up of undergrad uates for the most part, is larg Movie Review Fellini Has By LEON CAPETANOS Review: "8V2", Directed by Frederico Fellini. Rialto Thea-. tre. On some chaotic night after solitude has turned to loneli ness we may find ourselves con fessing to a strange face, an un familiar voice. We will tell our secrets and our sins and an nounce our visions and caress our memories as if this barroom listener were our priest end our lover. With dawn, sobriety brings embarrassment as we rember what we said, but somehow we are glad that we said it. This strange embarrassment remem bers dreams that might die in the rigor of the sun and weak ness that would laugh at our ambitions. Still we smile at the thought of that stranger who holds our heart. So all is said even if mumbled. We are clean. This feeling is the beginning of love and this is the feeling that Fellini give us in "S1", his lat est film, now playing at the Rial to in Durham. To see it is to witness the best of cinema. We are illuminated in Fellini's world of evanescent affections where cringing blacks and bleak wtutes conceive shadows that look re markably familiar. Many think the film sheer au tobiography. It is not. It is per sonal and grinning. Some might assert that it is a self portrait. It is a portrait without a face and without a logical focus. The director-hero of the story is planning a new film. While the mechanics and stupidities of production whirl around him, he visits an elegant spa to seek a "cure". There is no inspiration for him. His banal mistress bores him. His fashionable wife irri tates him. His associates naus eate him. All of the people sur rounding him seem to be danc ing to an absurd rhythm, a rhy thm which is diametrically op posed to his own meter. So the director, Guido Ansel mi, attempts to escape the im pending disintegration. He es capes in dream, in memory, in walk and gesture but only for a moment. Fellini handles these escapes beautifully, and some of these scenes constitute the best work he has done. The poetic remem- . brance of childhood is masterful and the comic harem where Guido reigns with lash and love is superb. er and represents the Carolina student. . Mike Lawler hit on o subject which deserves more attention and last year a graduating coe.i named Beth Walker, mcntioi:t by Lawler in his. speech, to! i her classmates what had .been on her mind for two years. As Lawler said, Beth describ ed the "Weejun-shod" end "Madras-brained" coed. She cited aspects of the University and of the coed herself that cau-e i her potential to be tragically undernourished. underchallen .; ed, and over-conformed. Beth was an attractive girl with a sweet smile and u BRAIN. She was very active in Student Government and other programs. At the same time, she did well in her studies and had plenty of time for socLL life. There are so many factions e: people on this campus, so many dhferent groups with differen'. interests, students from the South, the nation and the world. Many dress differently or wear their hair in a different manner than others. There is no ron for intolerance here. Throughout the world stu dents are beginning to take a more active role in the society that surrounds thetn.- The youth of South Viet Nam, in protest ing the rule of the government, have placed the United States in a precarious position. The Negro youth in this coun try, dedicated to a cause, are perpetrating one of the lares: social revolutions in this coun try's history. The youth in Latin America and Europe, the stu dents, take much more interest in their environment than we here. This column, then, is an ap peal to the future Mike Laulers and Beth Walkers. Life at Car olina is not necessarily all bur gandy and Weejuns. If one does not desire to join a fraternity or sorority, or even if he or she cannot join, it isn't really im portant. If one desires to wear or say or do something that does not fit into the pattern, wear it, or say it, or do it. Don't be afraid to be different. The "Carolina way of life" is your way of life. Live it the way that you want to and not the way "they" dictate. A Fine Flick Technically they indicate noth ing visually experimental. Fel lini uses old methods and evi dent manners. Yet in the choice of technique and in the sythesis of sound, light, movement and texture we find what is unique in this film. It is the absurd handled not as Truflaut would see it but as Fellini knows it: A phoenix turns out to be just a pleasant crow. The dance on which the film ends finds Guido back in step. WTien the chaos seemed to be falling directly on his head, re union occurs reunion with the whimsy of life and the fragility of belief. The clown band resur rects the spirit just as Guido is confronted by the dismantling of his illogical edifice, a soar ing structure that rises from the proposed set. The ritual ends in a romantic pageant, en in dividualistic extravaganza. What is more important than life it self? "8V2" is powerfully directed and superbly acted. Marcello Mastroianni deserves special praise for his work as do Anouk Aime and Sandra Milo. Gianni di Venanzo should be mentioned for the poetry of his visual ef fects, but the real master is still Fellini. He has fashioned a baroque masterpiece out of pr sonal mementoes; out of those pieces of life hidden in a child's pocket. The short trip to the Rialto is well worth the time, and the return will afford you a few minutes more to think about the film. It is pleasant to note that even the academic Lethe which surrounds our village cn not erase the emotional gift of "3Vi". The real reason for the film, the actual "why", is to be found underneath the balyhoo unmentioned by Fellini. It is somewhere in ourselves, a se cret. Letters The Daily Tar Heel solicits and is happy to print any letter-to-the-editor written by a mem ber of the University community, so long as it is free of slander ous and libelous remarks. No letters will be edited in any way, unless they are unreason ably long. Letters must be type written and triple-spaced.