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Volume 72, Number 158
Friday, May 8, 1964
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Sophomore Tests And The Human Element
By PETER RANGE
Last in a Series ttf Three)
The rules system for women
at Carolina exists to help the
girls. If, however, we are to
judge by the end product, as
pointed out in this column be
fore, the system has at least one
very harmful effect: it perpetu
ates high school-level maturity
by keeping the girls under a pa
rochial system for four vital
years of their lives, thus making
them dependent on the System
for their decisions rather than on
themselves.
A basic feature of the Univer
sity's attitude towards the wom
en student is the principle of
in loco parentis, of substitute
parents. I find this a funda
mental error in the American
system. The University should
concern itself with the provision
of faculty, books, academic fa
cilities first; only secondly is it
their job to house and feed us;
and only thirdly should they try
to direct the private behavior of
the individual student, if at alL
"As A Matter Of Fact, I Have Several
Ideas On The Subject'
The mechanized, standardized, auto
; mated, IBM age in which we live is of
. ten fascinating, but it is often bewild
. ering as well. Occasionally, in the press
for higher standards, success in the
face of growing competition, or a "bet
ter way" of dealing with our probelms,
we tend to sacrifice the human element
to the cause of the standard or the ma
chine. A case in point is the recent
treatment of several hundred UNC
sophomores.
These numerous sophomores, appar
ently chosen by some "scientific sam
pling method" were informed a week or
so ago that they would be required to
take several tests, over a period of two
evenings (May 5 and 6), in order to set
up norms for College Board Tests that
will be administered to transfer ap
plicants in the future.
Now certainly we cannot quibble with
the administration over the value of
such participation. As the letter to the
sophomores stated, "the number of stu
dents applying to the University after
completing two years of college work
elsewhere has been growing very rapid
ly and will soon be far greater than the
number of such transfers (the Univer
sity) can accept." This situation almost
demands a standard test which can be
administered to transfer applicants in
much the same manner -that College
Board Tests are given to high school ap
plicants. That a group of our own sopho
mores, who presumably have an educa
tional level equivalent to that of the
transfers, should be called in to help
make the tests more effective also
seems to be a most reasonable approach.
Yet there are certain aspects of the sit
uation which indicate that the human
element may have been sorely neglected.
For example, it seems that someone
made a rather poor choice of dates on
which to administer the tests. May 5
and 6 are entirely too close to May 20,
the date on which final exams begin,
for most students. Granted, those stu
dents who took the tests were excused
from quizzes given in their regular
classes on the days immediately follow
ing the tests. But even this is not
enough. Two nights lost are two nights
lost, especially during a week already
filled with term papers, quizzes, lab as
signments, and all the other academic
trials which commonly logjam near the
end of the semester. All this work must
eventually be done, immediate excuses
or no, and two nights without studying
can only be injurious to those who are
conscientiously trying to wrap up their
work in preparation for final exams.
And even if some unexplained phenom
enon made it absolutely necessary for
the tests to be given this week, a week's
notice is hardly sufficient for the pro
per adjustment of one's entire sche
dule to the two nights given over to
the tests.
Finally, we question how valuable the
results will be to the administration,
now that the tests have been admin
istered in such an offhand manner.
Many students openly admit to all who
care to listen that they did not give an
honest effort ("All I wanted to do was
get out of that' hot room as quick as I
could"). In retrospect, it is apparent
that they had no real reason to give
more than a going-through-the-motions
stab at the many questions and hurry
to avail themselves of the smoking
break. The students were told that their
scores would have no effect on their
own records, indicating that the ad
ministration will not use the results to
find out anything important about its
sophomores, either. Besides, many of
students were sufficiently angered by
the mere fact of having to take the
tests at all that they deliberately made
no more than a token effort to turn in
high scores.
The results of all this may well be
(1) a group of highly irate students,
and (2) a set of "norms" for the tests
which might, to the surprise of almost
no one, turn out to be exceedingly un
reliable. It seems obvious that those
who administered the tests could have
avoided both these problems if only
someone, somewhere had taken into ac
count one thing that is more important
than any "norms" the human element.
Lake-Stronger Than You Think?
The resurgence of support for I. Bev
erly Lake in his gubernatorial bid is a
fact, albeit an unfortunate one.
Iake has run a good campaign. He
kept in the background for the first
half, spending his money wisely, meet
ing people and staying out of the fight
between Richardson Preyer and Dan
Moore. Lately he has stepped up the
tempo.
Banners hang across the streets of
small eastern North Carolina towns.
Lake buttons are everywhere, as are
Lake bumper stickers. His campaigning
Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens
Co-Editors
Managing Editor John Montague
Associate Editor Mickey Blackwell
Editorial Page Editor Pete Wales
Copy Editor Nancy McCracken
Sports Editor Larry Tarleton
Photo Editor , Jim Wallace
Editorial Assistant Shirley Travis
Staff Artist Chip Barnard
Reviews '. Kenry Mclnnis
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Art Pearce
Adv. Manager Fred McConnell
Asst. Adv. Manager Woody Sohol
Asst. Bus. Manager Sally Rawlings
Sales Bob Vanderberry
Frank Potter
Dick Baddour
Special Assistant Becky Diggers
has gotten far more intense. In short,
the Lake campaign resembles the pro
fessional jobs being done for Moore and
Preyer.
He is making a pitch for all the votes,
not just the vote of the "red-necks." He
has avoided the integration question ex
cept to denounce the Civil Rights Bill,
and it is no secret that, amazingly
enough, he is strong even in Negro dis
tricts in the eastern part of the state.
For instance, we heard, and later
confirmed, that photographs of Dr.
Lake shaking hands with a Negro were
being circulated about the eastern sec
tion. In 1960, when he was opposed by
Terry Sanford, one of the little "hate
sheets" which some of his supporters
circulated included pictures of Terry
Sanford shaking hands with a Negro."
If Dr. Lake is elected, and the pos
sibility is not as far off as it once seem
ed, North Carolina may well go down
the road of shame, following Mississip
pi, Alabama and Louisiana. Lake is not
a George Wallace or a Ross Barnett, but
his ideas are much in the same pattern
as those of the two Southern governors.
We once were certain that the people
of this state would never send Beverly
Lake to the Governor's Mansion, but
now we are wavering. It is our hope the
voters will consider all parts of the cam
paign and the issues (however nonex
istent they may be) before selecting
their choice for governor.
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Letters To The Editors
Dresden, Statesville Upheld
Bombing Forced
On Allies In War
Editors, The Daily Tar Heel:
Louis Schmier and Wade Well-
man nave been supplying the
readers of the DTH with some
interesting and unique contro
versy (unique as DTH contro
versy goes) over the last sev
eral days. It seems that Mr.
Wellman is rather upset at the
fact that the Allies bombed the
city of Dresden, which he con
tinually maintains was of no
military significance at such a
late date in the war. Before go
ing any further, let me as
sure Mr. Wellman that I am not
taking issue with him on the
strategic importance of Dresden.
As a matter of fact. I could
care less.
What I am taking issue with
is his apparent purpose in con
demning the United States and
Britain for the bombing. Grant
ed that any kind of bombing is
horrible, but to coin an old.
worn-out cliche, "War is Hell!"
Mr. Wellman, this is World War
II we are speaking of. not a
backyard Jubilee drunk. The Al
lies did a lot of things which
were horrible, and very likely
unnecessary, but we were not
having a shadow boxing match
with Cassius You-know-who.
May I take the liberty to re
fer Mr. Wellman to "A Torch
To The Enemy" and "The Night
Hamburg Died" by Martin Cai
lin. If you want to read some
thing as. horrible as humanly
imaginable, read these two
books. I am sure you will enjoy
them Mr. Wellman, because the
good old, pure, never-do-wrong
U.S.A. was responsible for both
actions described.
Air. Wellman, I was under the
impression that we were in
World War II to win, and it
would -have been pretty hard
to do it without bombing. If the
only thing you have to do is sit
around and point your "holier-than-thou"
finger at us for some
thing in a World War that YOU
think was wrong, then go right
ahead.
We bombed Dresden, Toyko,
Hamburg, Berlin and, yes even
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, be
cause we felt it necessary to
end a war that no one wanted in
the first place. But, Mr. Well
man, before doing any more ac
cusing, stop and think on Pearl
Harbor; the rape of Poland;
the needless bombing of Lon
don; the useless murder of pilots
parachuting to safety; the sink
ing of defenseless American ves
sels by the Germans; and the
remains of an Auscwhitz, Dac
hau, or Belsen concentration
camps. Remember all of these
things first, remember who
started the killng, and then try
to figure out who had to stop it
any way possible.
Gary Lowe
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Letter In Error
On Negro's Death
Editors, The Daily Tar Heel:
A letter which was printed in
The Daily Tar Heel last week
under the caption "Negro Mur
dered in Statesville" has prompt
ed me to point out that you were
in error on two counts. First,
the facts were wrong. The letter
and your caption were based on
assumption. Second, a news
paper should not permit individ
uals to comment publicly on a
case pending before a jury.
On April 29, after a three-hour
hearing at which testimony was
offered by the State Bureau cf
Investigation and by local law en
forcement officers, a six-man
coroner's jury, composed entirely
of Negro men, reached a unani
mous verdict of suicide. Their
deliberation lasted six minutes.
I would also like to point out
that besides the deceased, one
other Negro man filed for can
didacy to the Iredell County
Board of Commissioners, and a
Negro woman has filed for elec
tion to the Iredell County Board
of Education. This constitutes
legal and peaceful progress.
The European girl U'm think
ing mz'my of Germany) ha les
freedom in high school than does
the American. Yet when the
reaches the university, where
there are no rules at all regard
ing her personal behavior, she
takes this big step in stride. Ail
the young women I met at the
university there demonstrate
amazing maturity; very few mis
use their broad freedom. I sug
gest that it is this very freedom
which inspires the maturity
among the girls.
From the time they begin
thinking about a university edu
cation onwards, those girls are
prepared by their parents for the
total freedom they receive at the
age of 19. Higher education is
taken rather seriously it is not
anticipated as a four-year play
period as many an American
high school student sees it. Be
cause of the expectation involved,
the European co-ed is able to as
sume and enjoy great freedom
responsibly when she finishes
high school.
But because our girls are pre
pared not for freedom, but for
a broad system of control and
a parent-type relationship with
their schools, they do not pre
pare themselves psychologically
for freedom and responsibility.
Because they are then treated
like high schoolers and imma
ture, naive girls unable to make
a simple decision, that is exactly
how they act when they get here.
If, however, they were treated
as young women ready to receive
responsibility for their own con
duct, I feel sure they would rise
to this challenge. We give our
women far too little credit for
maturation potential. The im
mature, non - intellectual, silly
sweet lass I have criticized here
is, I think, the product of our
out-dated, motherly system more
than the product of her own na
ture. Our women could be as
responsible and grown up as
European if given a chance and
a challenge.
On top cf this, however, the
American male must begin to
put a higher premium on the
well-informed, responsible, inde
pendent young woman. If he
does, she will surely move in that
direction. And the converse of
this applies as well.
Accepting the fact of the in
loco parentis attitude of the Uni
versity, the Administration's re
sponsibility as good parents is
to cultivate the maturation of
the girls here.
I propose a staggered system
of rules: Let most of the fresh-
man rule tand as they are now.
For the sophomores, and then tr.o
juniors, progressively more free
dom shoyld be ghen. Trsr-e
more informed than I in this
area could work out the speci-
such as setting closing tours
t3 ptil
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later, dropping the
ti fnr w.Dnornores ana above-.
etc. The girls, at any rate,
should be forced to make more
of their own decisions each yer.
The seniors, then, should have
total freedom. They should
allowed to live on or of camp:::,
come and go as they see f .
dress as they please, and lea-.o
Chapel Hill at will. In shr-rt.
they should be living under the
very conditions they will be un
der the day after they rra
in order to have at least some
practice in total independence
before severing ties with fcrrr.a!
education.
As it stands, our girls enter
the outside world with absolutely
no experience in the compile
self-government they must eer
cise when they depart frcm
Chapel Hill. Would it not he bet
ter to give them a start in total
freedom in the Chapel Hill com
munity where there is at Iea?t
an atmosphere, an elan, a set of
attitudes to give them guidelines,
rather than let them start off in
some totally unstructured, unin
hibited community on lhe out
side? In denying them this sorely
needed practice, the University
does its women students great
injury. Our system would well
fit a time when no women work
ed, when all become wives an i
homemakers and good Southern
hostesses. But that time ended
about 99 j-ears ago.
I am not pleading for more
two-piece bathing suits, for more
girls to stay out all nijrht. for
girls to go to men's apartments
alone, for trips to country mo
tels, or any such extreme be
havior. If anything. I find many
girls behavior already out of
keeping with the demands of be
ing a good student. Instead I
am pleading for the,, right of the
women to decide for themselves
not to stay out all night, not to
go into that apartment, or not
to get drunk on weekends and
with this the right to grow up.
The Dean of Women and the
University have a great respon
sibility here; thus far they arc
not meeting up to it. With food
feelings on all sides, can they
not address themselves to the
problem in a forward manner
and produce a policy in keeping
with the needs" of the times?
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Atmosphere For Youth
Is Enemy Of Our Society
(Ed. Note:
apologize).
Mrs. Charles Benbow
Statesville, N. C.
You're right. We
(From The
Christian Science Monitor)
It is easy to say all the wrong
things about the drunken bash
at a Long Island debutante party
which has just been excruciat
ingly reviewed at court.
The host wanted to be compen
sated for $6,000 worth of dam
ages to a rented guesthouse. The
Associated Press reported that
he supplied 20 cases of whisky
and gin for a two-day orgy.
What did he expect? The boys
mostly blamed the liquor. Who
but they chose to drink it?
The older generations, those
who are not amused or merely
frustrated, fit this into the gen
eral decline of moral standards.
Many of them try to talk of the
moral code, with the sinking
feeling that the old powerful
words don't reach those who need
to be reached and often go right
past their own children. They
wonder what their own guilt has
to do with this and it weakens
their ability to help.
There was a little more insight
from Eaton Brooks, one of the
boys who were all ultimately
acquitted of any actual crime.
Obviously defensive, he was re
ported by the New York Herald
Tribune as saying:
"I'm not ashamed of anything
I did. ... If you had been there
inskie the house you would have
unr'?rstood the spirit of that par
ty. Consider the fact that we
were drinking for two days and
nights without sleeping and with
out eating and we kept that up
for 36 hours, out in the hot sun
half the time, so when we got
Paperback Covers Are Disillusioning
By ART BUCHWALD
WASHINGTON. There was a
time when the only way you
could get a pornographic book
was to smuggle it in from Paris.
But in recent years the paper
back book industry in the United
States has been outdoing any
thing you could bring in from
Paris. We feel everyone has a
right to make a dollar under
our free enterprise svstem and
if people want to buy porno
graphic literature that is their
business.
What we object to is the rti
lishers making non-pornographic
books pornographic bv putting
half-naked women on the covers
of good books and printing de
scriptions of the contents which
give an entirely different idea
of the plot
If the trend continues, here is
how our paperback publishers
will soon describe some books
familiar to all of us:
"Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs" The story of a ravish
ing blonde virgin who was held
captive by seven deformed men,
all with different lusts.
"Cinderella" A beautiful, pas
sionate woman bares her naked
foot to the man she loves while
her stepmother and stepsisters
plot to cheat her out of the one
memorable night of her life.
"Alice in Wonderland" A
young girl's search for happiness
in a wierd, depraved world of
animal desires. Can she ever
return to a normal, happy life
after falling so far?
"Huckleberry Finn" A wild
youth runs away from bis home
to help a Negro slave escape
from the ravishing Miss Watson.
"Little Women" Four teen
agers, wise beyond their years,
are caught up in tlie throbbing
tumult of the Civil War. Read
what happens to then when a
rich old gentleman and his gree
dy grandson take rooms as
boarders in a house without men.
"Tom Brown's Schooldays"
For the first time we look be
yond the locked doors of an
English boarding school to re
veal the truth about a life that
no one talks about and only a
few will whisper.
"Treasure Island" The crew
of a ship bent on rape and plund
er land on an island inhabited
by sex-crazed cannibals. An in
nocent boy finds the secret of
growing up.
"Little Red Riding Hood" A
girl goes to visit her grandmoth
er only to discover a wolf in her
bed. Read what happens when
the girl refuses to get into bed
with the wolf.
"Tom Sawyer" A gang of sub-teen-age
hoodlums paint the
town white, and commit may
hem and murder to satisfy their
desires.
"Heidi" A young lady caught
up in the wild life of Switzerland
fights for love.
"Babar the Elephant" Life in
the raw.
And so it goes. As for the cov
ers, we'll have to leave that up
to fee publishers. We hate to
think what the paperback artists
win do with "Wind in the Willows."
to the Ladd house we weren't the
same people.
"There's too much drinking go
ing on today," Brooks said. "I
know that. Everybody knows it.
But what are you going to do
about it? Your own New York
State allows people to start
drinking at 18. They would soil
roe drinks when I was 14 be
cause they are all out to make
a buck. Everybody knows the
muiais oi inn: country are going
down the drain."
That same issue of the Herald
Tribune reported from Albany
the final collapse of what might
have been a reform of the liquor
laws. A series of scandals had
been followed by one effort after
another to sidetrack the real is
sue. The liquor lobbies rode
high at Albany. "Reform" final
ly came down to the degree of
competition with which packare
stores were free to pursue their
customers. The decision was for
more.
Returning to Brooks, "A cer
tain atmosphere." he said, "caus
ed it all. The atmosphere pre
vailed." He seemed to be grop
ing for something beyond thi
one small U irritating incident.
We could say many things
about that atmosphere. It is the
enemy. It is the animal nature
that humans inherit from the
Jungle. It brings self-indulgence
and riot but much more seriouf
than these, it is the enemy of the
mind and of character in all our
society, and ultimately of human
eJttelL We- too woud like
to do battle against it, and thun
der forth the moral code because
we believe in it utterly and in
us power to reshape society But
this may be a better time," faced
with boys like Books who w ill de
cide for themselves, for a little
humility.
We wiotild like to ask them in
all candor: What kind of society
and world do thev want? What
fjj?? Pey uilIinS to put
forth to achieve ii? This is not
just a challenge. We are eer
to have them talk. We would
like to listen.
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