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r ''-""X1 ' ""sr i t - ; frrrt a f s If -II. i :-; t:h ; c7 - i TT" Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1964 Volume 73, Number 6 Smiles Wreathe Sty iathj QIar tizl 72 Years of . Editorial Freedom Writhing usnees R fl Hi il J Offices on the second flosr of Grakjusi Memorial. Telephone somber: Editorial, sports, news 933-1812. Business, cir. dilation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel mil, N. C Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill. N. O, pursuant fc Act of March 8, 1379. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $8 per year. PcZ2s&ed aSSj except Mondays, examination periods and vacation, throughout the aca ecU year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by the Chanel HID Publishing Company. Inc. 501 West Franklin Street. Chapel EOS. N. C. Silence, Please A Good Idea i The Interfraternity Council took a wise and calculated step Monday night " when it voted to impose "strict silence" between fraternity members and pros pective rushees during the entire fall semester. The decision should relieve many of the potential headaches which would have been associated with the "modi fied silence" system adopted last spring. I The modified system provided for "conversation" between fraternity men and rushees on weekends, but it had many built-in headaches. The vagueness of the rules invited violations. There was certain to be stiff competition for the attention of rushees, and many fra ternity members felt that they would be forced to devote every weekend min ute to the pursuit of popular freshmen. Accordingly, many freshmen faced their first' semester with the prospect of dozens of fraternity men figurative ly (or perhaps literally) breaking down doors to get to them between, Friday noon and Sunday midnight. All these factors entered into the de- . cision of the IFC. The strain on the houses and on the freshmen simply could not be justified in terms of "ex posure" of potential rushees to the fra ternity system. Thus a heavy burden has been lift ed from the houses and the freshmen. There are no complicated rules to inter pret. There will be no mad scrambles for the freshmen during weekends. And.. the temptations for dirty rush have largely been removed. Certainly the new system will make things easier for both sides. But there may well be a hidden benefit or two in the decision. For Carolina's 23 fraternities must now prove themselves not with week end talk, but with year-long action. They will be forced to prove to fresh men that the fraternity system is valu able and desirable through better intra mural competition, scholarship, social activities, and participation in the life of the University community. We are certain that they are equal to the task. Expense Cutting At Student Expense Cr If the North Carolina Community College Advisory Council has its way, there will be no student publications at the state's new two-year institutions. The ban on student papers and an nuals was one of a series of recommen dations made Monday by the council to serve as guidelines for the community colleges. Most of these recommenda tions appear to be outstanding. This one does not. We concur heartily in the decision to propose a comprehensive physical education program rather than intercol legiate athletic competition. The two year schools will not have the funds nor the student body required to support athletics, and entertainment of the gen eral public is not in keeping with the spirit in which these schools were created. We are also in strong agreement with the proposal that every community college operate under a student gov a ernment system, for there is no better laboratory for experimentation in demo cratic living. In like manner, the deci sion not to have compulsory class at tendance seems fitting for institutions which expect adult behavior from their students. - However, the decision on publica tions gives us pause. The council has said that the move was grounded in fi nancial considerations, and it is laudable that they should keep student pocket books in , mind. But we cannot justify cutting costs in a tiny way at the ex . cuse of student information. . The student press is a vital and worthwhile adjunct of the educational process. Without it, the student govern ments which the council approved may soon find that, so far as the student body is concerned, they are virtually "incommunicado.". Without it, there can be no true forum for the convey ance of student news and opinions. The student press need not take the form of highly complex and expensive operations such as the Daily Tar Heel. The student press does not generally re quire extensive facilities such as wire machines, photographic equipment, or flatbed presses. Rather, the student press requires initiative and planning and a desire to serve the student community. Careful planning can make the costs minimal and the rewards great. But one other thing is also required the cooperation and encouragement of an administration which stands up for student growth and initiative. We sincerely hope that the Advisory Council will reconsider its decision. Otherwise, the students in our Com munity Colleges will be deprived of a useful link in the educational chain. Thanks! : THE DAILY TAR HEEL r Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens Co-Editors Associate Editor Pete Wales jPhoto Editor . Jock Lauterer Sports Editor Larry Tarleton Business Manager Jack Harrington Secretary Mary Ellison Strother 3 Advertising Manager Woodv Sobol Sales Dick Baddour Jim Ogburn Jim Potter We wish to express our appreciation to Joel Bulkley and the staff of the Chapel Hill Weekly for the invaluable assistance they gave us during the pub lication of our orientation issue. Joel was responsible for all layout and stories, and the Weekly staff, who print t the paper, came through when we really needed help. ' Publishing a newspaper everyday is difficult, especially when one's exper ience is limited. It is good to have peo ple like Joel Bulkley and the staff of the Weekly on your side. THE EDITORS. A friend of ours in the administration says she has come up with the solution to the hustle and bustle of orientation: "Just pair up a boy with a girl and send them away for a week that would do it." 1 Zj(&4r ' - y V ' A' ' V. Vs. "x. S". J " - A I : . . . .-.-. .:. - ..-.-.---.-..-... i-- Ml ,vV.v.AVifti W.V...iw , I Hope They Don't Mean Freshman Girls Too ! ! ! ! N. C. Volunteers Students Strike At Poverty By SUZY STERLING (The author, a sophomore art major, was the only UNC coed to serve with the North Carolina Volunteers this summer.) Cars carrying 20 enthusiastic North Carolina Fund volunteers traveled up the dusty Silver Dol lar Road and came to a stop in front of a lot covered with weeds. Their assignment: build a house. . .. Their initial enthusiasm fad ed slightly with the hot sun, the blisters and the callouses. The 16 girls and 4 boys in the group, college students from across the state, spent the first day drilling the well, building an outhouse, clearing the lot and measuring for the foundation. They had done a lot, but there was still a house to be built: and that is exactly what they did. Twenty unskilled carpenters proceeded to construct a house for a family in Merrimon, N. C. The Welfare Department of Carteret County chose the fam ily of six and cooperated whole heartedly throughout the project. Merrimon is a small Negro community on the coast, now supported by pulpwood and wel fare. Girls dressed in jeans, long sleeve shirts, straw hats and sunglasses and did the same work as the boys carrying ce ment blocks and two by fours, hammering, mixing mortar, sawing, caulking and painting. And they got blistered and sun-burned and paint-covered just the same as the boys. Thursday, July 10, the group finished the house. They worked from 6 that morning until they finished at 8 Thursday night. Friday they moved to Laurin burg, their project area for the rest of the summer. The volunteers built the home with a grant from the County Welfare Department, one from the North Carolina Fund and with donations of supplies from local merchants. But building a house was not the only accomplishment of the volunteers. One of the girls saw the need for some type of activities for the children living in the area. Her ideas materialized in an informal day-care center. The children's interest in the arts and reading was reflected by their solid attendance record. When one child was reading aloud, the others would practice writing. Two of the volunteers wanted to provide a baseball field for the boys. One of the elders of the Merrimon community plow ed and leveled the field with his tractor after the children had cut down all the weeds. The two volunteers and one of the super visors - donated funds to buy T shirts for the teams, chicken wire for a backstop and base ball equipment. The T-shirts were dyed either red or blue, and the. two teams which were quickly formed played their first games on the last day of con struction. Merrimon, a community which has not functioned as a commu nity for about 30 years, each in dividual being more concerned for his own daily profit than for the community, had its face lifted. Whether it will be a lasting operation is something we won't know for several years. We do know that the volunteers made an impression, one that has not been forgotten yet. Soapbox By PETE WALES Associate Editor We were strolling out West Cameron Avenue the other day during orientation meditating upon the new students and how much younger they looked than last year. We had just run the gauntlet sidewalk juke boxes, were re covering nicely and had settled down to muse 6n the lovely high hedges that protect the older, more sedate houses of Chapel Hill from the angry student mobs. We were feeling a bit com placent, yes, even a little old, when out of tne bushes burst a covey of young coeds in full throated song welcoming us in to their soror ity's rush. We had heard that there was a new sorority on campus, but had never seen it, and we now realized why. Tney had been masquerading as normal citizens of Chapel Hill behind the foliage. The girls appeared a bit sur prised to see us when we passed the entrance to the walk where we were able to see the nymph like singers as they tumbled out of their house. -But they took it all in stride and cheerfully beckoned us to enter. "Hey, how you," said the first of our hostesses, obviously a leader. "Hey," we said, feeling a bit self-conscious, "how you." "How do you like Carolina?" we were asked. "It's real nice," we said, smil ing pleasantly. "Where'd you transfer from?" "Well, actually, I've been here all along," we were embarrassed to admit. "Oh, isn't that wonderful. Don't you just love it here?" We admitted that we did most of the time. "Where are you from?" we were asked. A perceptible frown rrt over the youcg laoy's face a admitted that we were l, New York. But the eer-pir smile quickly rertertc t i;- "Oh, 1 knew a giri v York. Her name is .: something. She is just the v. . est girl. Do you know a . i named Emily?" "I don't recall the name. , you happen to remember .. ; it is in New York that Km, . from?" "Well I can't remember ; . street. I just know he live- n New York. But that was . . time ago. Maybe she moveJ. "Yes, maybe that's it. j haven't lived there very l n: I don't know that many ;ve , yet." "Come on in and meet some ; the girls," she beamed. We were whisked on in; house past rows of pearly v. : smiles and happy voices u-r.i: last we were left standing ; to face with a very bu-i:. like but still smiling youn- I . y whom we guessed was the chairman. "I'd just like to tell y ;: little about the house here ! a that you've met the girls." !. began. "We're real happy i.l. the wonderful- girls we got lit year and we're expect in? ' i have a real good year. We -real good spirit here nJ re girls work real well together." "What is it that they wrrk at?" we asked. "All kinds of activities and projects and things," she s:'ul. "We have real good spirit. And the house is real nice too. Have you seen the house?" We nodded that we had. "Can I answer any question? for you now that you've met the girls and seen the house and know all about it?" We hesitated, overcome u'. the vast amount of knowkv.e with which we had been credit ed, then said: "Yes. Do you know Emily?" Governor Defines New Conservatism By PAUL J. FANNIN Republican governor of Arizona who is one of Presidential nom inee Barry Goldwater's strongest supporters. Conservatism is today's chal lenge to the status quo. It is a dynamic challenge to the prevail ing policies of liberalism, to the people who advocate and admin ister those policies, and to the theories behind them. In simple terms, conservatism is an adher ence to ideas and policies based on experience rather than theory. Conservatives are constantly searching fcr new ideas, and in fact have probably originated most of the world's best think- Colle get BM Card Game By JEFFREY DICK There was this guy I knew once named George. George was to be my roommate for one year I found this out the day I re turned from summer vacation and saw him sitting across from the door as I entered the room. George was kind of different from most freshmen. He didn't go to orientation, he didn't take honor system quizzes, he didn't even . go to the lecture by the Chancellor welcoming the student body. All he did for two weeks was sit up on his bed fumbling with a fistfull of brightly colored cards, pinic ones, beige ones, blue ones, even white ones. The cards weren't new to me I'd seen them several times. They were all part of a plot by Central Records to give each stu dent writing cramps. These cards are inescapable. They have been here longer than the ivy on Kenan Dorm and the water in the Old Well. "I gotta think a somthin'," George would say hour after hour, day after day. "I gotta think a somthin'." And then came the afternoon before classes started. George was sitting there on his bed, his cards worn and tattered from the constant handling they had re ceived during his daily vigil on the bed. "I got it," he said. He got up and left the room and was gone for about two hours. I was sitting at my desk won dering what South Building had against me for giving me their usual offering, sometimes called a class schedule. It seemed as though the week would be nothing but a day of Saturday classes. It was so bad, I was even thinking of trying to catch mononucleosis from "this chick I knew that had it so I could cool it for the first semes ter in the infirmary. Suddenly George entered the room triumphantly, waving the most nausea tingly colored card I had ever seen. If it were a lip stick shade, they'd call it putrid purple. "I got it right here, I've got it, I've got it," was all he could say. "What is it?" I asked. "I've never seen one like it." "That's great, great, great," he murmured, almost incoherent with glee. "What is it gonna do for you and where did you get it?" I ask ed again. "Well," he said, "it's gonna do everything. I made it myself; looks great don't you think?" It turned out that George had indeed made the ghastly colored thing. He'd done it by taking a red card, placing it on one side of a white piece ci paper, and placing a blue one on the other side. "I soaked all three of them in some coffee from Lenoir HalL" he said. "It worked beautifully." " The process was totally ade quate for explaining the color on the card. It looked like a mix ture of red and blue soaked well in Lenoir Hall coffee. George, I believe, had figured out the theory behind the multi colored cards used by every facet of the University. The cards, in a sense, are a status symbol, with each color having a differ ent amount of status and allow ing certain privileges. "All I had to do," George ex plained exhuberantly, "was to find the ultimate in status cards. If I present a card with a color some vegetable behind a desk has never seen, he's got too much pride to admit it. I can write my own ticket." And so he did. George, apparently, was regis tered for one of the classes I was taking. I didn't see him there too often, just heard his name called as one of the absent few. He'd come into class once in a vvhile, though. . "Where have you been. I was getting ready to drop you from the course," the instructor would say. George wouldn't say a word, just produce his masterpiece. "Purple card," he would say confidently. "Oh," the instructor would say and then go on with the class. The card, apparently, not only excused class cuts, but got staff " parking privileges, a place at the head of the line for date tickets at football games, and private rooms with special meals at the hospital. At registration time, the purple card got George behind the desk to let him r elect his own class , tickets. George even got a free meal at Harry's "with it once a near impossibility, even for a President). I had even seen George get past the housemother and go up stairs at one of the local sorority houses with that little purple card. All good things must come to an end, I suppose. George started branching out to the big time, following his graduation. The graduation, by some unexplained boo boo in Cen tral Records, was accomplished in two years. (I happened to see his record recently. On it was the inscription: "Graduation re quirements waived through purple card.") The last I heard about him was from an old buddy from New Yrork. He told me George was in Grand Central Station trying to hop a free train with his purple card so he could see the World's Fair in Seattle. George, it seems, made some kind of mistake in the train he was supposad to take. He showed the conductor his purple card. It worked and George boarded the train. It was then that my buddy who was with him noticed that every one else in the line seemed to have a purple card. He also no ticed a sign on the side of the train that read: "New York Pris on Department transport for in corrigibles to Sing Sing." George was last seen waving his purple card from the train window. ing. Arisotle was a conservative. Cicero was a conservative. John Locke was a conservative. Im manuel Kant was a conservative. Edmund Burke was a conser vative. The list extends back through the most fertile periods of social, political, and economic expansion ia the world's history the 19th Century industrial rev olution, the 18th Century age of reason, the development of sci ence in the 17th Century, the the tremendous worldwide eco nomic and intellectual renais sance of the 15th and lGth Cen turies, all the way back to Rome in the Second Century B.C. and Athens in the Fifth B.C. Conservatism is sometimes mistakenly considered an archaic form of modern political thought, which is ridiculous. It is not. as its critics imply, a reactionary philosophy with the purpose of restoring an earlier social or po litical order any more than it is an effort to maintain the statu,1 quo. This is the argument used by the principal defenders of the status quo, and in the United States today they are the so-called liberals who have become fair ly well established in public ad ministration, the news media, the arts, the academic profession, the professional labor field, so cial and welfare work, and some segments of American corporate management and finance. Many of these people have something to lose personally if the status quo is changed. Many ethers feel that a way of life which is familiar to them is be ing threatened by any deviation from the doctrinaire liberal views dominating their own professitn al and social environment. It seems to me that liberalism as a form of modern political thought is acting as a deterrent to human progress in precisely those areas where progress is now most needed, and while un fortunately it cannot yet be call ed archaic, the sooner it is dis carded for something more prom ising, the better. Then we can begin to cope with the multitude of problems al ready left in its wake. The role of conservatism today is to ac complish this purpose.
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