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Wednesday, January 6, 1965 Volume 72, Number 69 i Bohemians Encouraged G6. to(iiii1ts'":Mimslt Take .Risks 72 Years cf Cdlta.1! Frtc2o 1 i ll(sge Offices oo the second floor of Grahaza Memorial. Telephone mmfcer; Editorial, sports, new t3S-ID12. Business, cir culation, adTertislng 933-1163. Address: Box 1CS0, Chapel COS, N, C Second class postage arj at the Post Office ta Chapel Hill, N. C., Subscription rates: $4-50 per semester; $3.oe per year. . Published daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications Board tf the University of North Carolina. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Ine SOI West Franklin Street Chapel Hill, & C n - . J i : ,1 Wm It Be Worth The Price Tag? There was encouraging news yester day from the Committee on Campus Radio, which announced that it would set about drafting a concrete proposal to submit to Chancellor Paul Sharp for approval. A camp'us station transmitting on AM would be a welcome addition here, especially if it were programmed imaginatively for student listeners. ' So far, little has been said about the cost of such a project, though it's a good bet that Student Legislature will be quite concerned with the finances if they receive a bill from the radio committee asking for action. Although no figures have been released, reports from Stu dent Government indicate that the necessary appropriation could be large enough to require an increase in student fees to finance the year-to-year opera tion of an AM station. If this is the case, a campus-wide referendum will be re quired to institute the necessary hike in fees. We have supported the Committee on Campus Eadio from its beginning last spring, and will continue to do so. Nevertheless, the money involved is yours, so we will also support every ef fort to insure that an AM station will be worth the added funds which may be required. .1 Our own view is that, if possible, a test period for the station should be fi nanced from Student Government's gen eral surplus, during which time the sta tion would have an opportunity to prove itself. Barring this, we will attempt to re port carefully the facts concerning any referendum which proves necessary, basing our editorial stand on potential value of the station as proposed. Mean while, look and listen carefully to the arguments, keeping in mind that a good station will be worth a reasonable amount of money. The Pros Act like Amateurs Professional football, which lately has been enjoying its finest moments in the eyes of the American public, has re cently taken a long, long stride in the opposite direction. Both leagues have been chasing pros pects for the coming season, and the re sult hasi been that numerous stars were declared ineligible for bowl games. Several players signed "letters of in tent" with professional teams at the con clusion of the regular season, and one actually inked a pro contract in August. So the fans, who paid upwards of $7 to watch their favorite bowl games, were deprived of the whole show. This was especially true of the Gator Bowl, where four Oklahoma players, all po tential pro stars, watched the games from the stands rather than the back field. Now, it can be said that these players are grown men, and therefore should know the score. They should know that if they put their name to a contract, then they are professionals. In one case, the boy who signed last August, this is partially true. The player, a Georgia lineman, signed with -an American Football League club, but since had tried to break the contract. The club would not let him reverse his field, and when it was learned he was a professional the tTniversity of Georgia was wide-open to all sorts of criticism and undoubtedly lost a great deal . of prestige .. The other case, involving four Okla homans, was quite different; The four did hot sign contracts per se, but rather a letter indicating to the club they would eventually enter the fold. The clubs in question told the players it would not "affect their amateur status, and lawyers for the club echoed this. - Of course, they were wrong. In fact, they were lying, and they certainly knew this was the case. - If this is the kind of chicanery we can expect from the professional leagues, then we can wonder just what else they will try in the future. The league headquarters have taken no action toward the offending clubs, and they seem Very reluctant to talk with the NCAA about their transgres sions. If the present situation continues, then it may well spread to other sports, and chaos would reign. The professional football leagues should show their maturity and act like the professionals they claim to be. A Strengthening Of The Party System From the Raleigh Times A stronger Democratic Party should f esult from the decision - of House Democrats in Washington to take senior ity rights from two members who cam paigned last fall for Senator Goldwater, the Republican nominee for President. It should be noted that the Democra tic caucus didn't expel the two bolting members from the Democratic Party. "They simply punished them for having abandoned the party at a time it needed - Fred Seely, Hugh Steven Co-Editors Mike Yopp - , Managing Editor Associate Editor Business Manager Ast. Bus. Mgr, Photo Editor Pete Wales Jack Harrington 1 Betsy Gray Advertising Manager Asst. Ad. Mgr. Sports Editor Jock Lauterer - Woody Sobol Jim Peddicord Larry Tarleton Ernie McCrary Alan Banov Asst. Managing Editor New Editor . ; Copy Editor Mary Ellison Strother Night Editor - Fred Thomas Sports Reporters Pete Gammons Pete Cross, Tom Haney, Al Kaplan Art Editor V ' Chip Barnard Intramural Reporter - Bill Lee help, and for having supported the Re publican nominee while still clinging to membership in the Democratic Party. To have strong party government, there must be strong party discipline. And, strong party government is a necessity in America, where the very bigness of the country makes party gov ernment the only realistic kind we can have. The political turmoil in which France has found herself so often in re cent years is an example of a country where there isn't strong party govern ment. ' . The fact that these two House mem bers, one from South Carolina and one from Mississippi, have lost their valu able Democratic seniority rights in com mittee assignments, is real punishment for them. Under the seniority system, members climb up through the ranks of committee membership until they final ly reach the desired goal, that of the chairmanship. They achieve that goal by virtue of membership in the majority party, plus seniority piled up through the years. Such punishment of bolting Demo crats is long overdue. It should have been begun years ago, and it should have been applied in the case of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, the Harlem Democrat who supported President Eisenhower in 1956. Democrats who want to support Re publicans should change parties. Dr. David Boroff, associate pirdfesmor "of English 'at N'eto York University, is w tUstin guished intepreter of . the JJ. S. college scene. Following are excerpts from fits article, "Stat. youth. (It is a mistake to think lots of out-of-state students and general store in which books only of faculty serving as mod- as many foreign students as the were tucked away behind Ber- els for youth; sometimes it is International traffic will bear, muda shorts and long woolen the other way around.) The In some state universities, for- stockings. And there wasn't a healthiest campus situation is eign sttrdents tend to be con- single magazine above the level not one in which fraternities do centrated in the graduate of Life and Time, And let me isl: hut rather One in which krbrmls where thtv tin the least make a plea right now for the us Seeking In Academe which tteov are Vii?ormislv challenged ffrmd to hp icnttpffe cnmmumtv. enormous educative value ol originatty appeared in the Dec. oy a sturdy and vital independ- And even when foreign students" magazines.. We miss an tin- in, nfojf, issue vj xnv ouiurauy nt group, as a oesiegea min- exist in large nuniDers on a equaiea opportunity wnea wu Review. orfty fraternities can be a campus,-they tend to be ignor- fail to involve our students in One must first recognize that wholesome force oh campus; in ed or shunted into their own magazine reading at 'college. It oMtefTt- 3? nnt a finishing srHnnl hill command of the campus segregated preserves. Envelop- is a national scandal that with thafira fraternities are: dangerous and ed by of ficial good will, they millions of college graduates matters than Siiatfen intn uftimately stultifying. become invisble men befriend- the general magazines of the 4prnfrMe7laS ; mnst un There is another hegemony ed only by the bohemians, who, consciously intellectual class Strand too ttat therein l that coDeges ton the move should in reading out to foreign stu- Partisan Review, The American aerbidiiu, iou, i wuucie wu ue w frt hra!r tm-Jthe tvrarmv of rfmfc nW JntwiQilV thir ram Scholar. Commentarv and Com- no real intellectual me witnout n." . c.i rrs.Tr:rr' n.JLir " "V, .r.,;- a n- me young, auyuuc wuu laugui. auenauon irom me mainstream mouwcai, naiwu aiw when the G.I. Bill was at flood of campus life. New Republic, the university tide knows how thoroughly it I wonder if I might draw from quarterlies have a pitifully spoiled him for the callow and my own techniques in apprais- small circulation. ii . ClZll T 1 T ' . ..ul a - 'm. u" rr: .- The browsing room in the Ii- er students that even in this tional excellence, A few of brave new world of continuing these things may seem absurd-, education they must run a fear- iy homely, mere domestic bric- some gauntlet of probing ques- a4rac of the college communi- tions, raised eyebrows, and dis- ty, but they are far more im- risks, that at the heart of in tellectual and artistic inquiry is subversive dynamite. (What other than a great howling ne gation do modern writers like Genet and lonesco affirm?) ; When I visit a college one of the first groups I ferret out is the bohemians not only be cause as marginal people they - can provide insights into the; Creet skepticism. The extension portant than one might think. majority community but ' also because they are a kind of antiestablishment establishment, dissidents in residence. Asrsuch they fulfil a valuable education al functionso valuable, in'fact, that their recruitment should be part of the' admissions program of every r institution. If they don't come, go out and find them. (I submit for your' con sideration that the civil rights division mentality dies hard. ":. The lower middle-class syn drome manifests itself, then, in a predilection for the well- groomed, the well-tried, and the . safe. Despite all the recent fer- I have- witnessed a direct cor relation between the intellec tual vitality of a school and the bravura of its bulletin boards. Harvard, Swarthmore, St. John's in Maryland, and Ben- vor about salvaging the cultur- nington provided some of the ally deprived, working-class stu- most entertaining and reveal dents tend to make teachers ine of bulletin board graffiti. and administrators uneasy. The (Bulletin boards, after all, are brary is another sensitive area. Here again the self-image of the institution is reflected. In a newly converted state university in the Southwest, I visited a brow sing room that didn't venture beyond The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson that some good soul had donated, and back issues of Good House keeping. How seriously can one take, this institution's protesta tions of academic virtue? No dean worth his stipend can afford to be indifferent to student hangouts especially latter often deny the working- the latrine scribblings of the those that dispense coffee for 1 J 1 m. . .1 J -1 9 X V - A i. 2-1 .il. -mm .3 fC 4-1 4- I a--.,T -k mmS...rm 4- n 11. literaie.;- ai iuc.ouici cuu w class student his identity and buried student apathy, was pow ered largely by bohemians:) The educational value of bohe mians is a notion that most ad missions officers will assent to in theory and violate in prac movement which successfully t tQ recast him in' the image the spectrum, at a school griev- niirion cmnonr q ttq t nr woe -rnwr . of the middle class. At a col- ously .afflicted , witn, lower lege, which will remain name- middle-crass anxiety, all bullet less, the dean of student activi- in board notices have to be ties zealously tried to. turn all . cleared with a prissy .off ice of of the young women into Vas- student activities determined to mi- tt?lc! ViriicrVi "fVioif iTr?l?To ". flio harharinns What tice. In . their blatant contempt ; ground wa5 urban not suburban, does one do-schedule a course for conventional values bohe- i0 Moce t Min0fin hnri wrifiTTcr Hard- mians can be threatening. , When social activMes ' were ly. The sense of play, the so- As a corollary, I deplore the scheduled," the dean exhibited " cial passions, "the sheer Tdio- stranglehold that Greek - letter ; an unseemly eagerness for them syncratic energy that turn , up societies have in some institu- to order tea, not coffee, to be- on a bulletin board are an ex- tions. There is often a natural token their upward mobility, pression of a school's ethos, alliance between college admin- ! Alas. it was all in vain. The The bookstore is another cul- istrators and ' fraternity men; girls, inured by long evenings tural index. -1 have observed The more modest the class orig-over coffee in local luncheon- some terrifying displays of phil- ettes, we're immune to the istinism and intellectual torpor dean's blandishments. - Any college in earnest about upgrading itself . should have in of the administrator the more he may secretly yearn for the negligent ease and middle-class security of gilded fraternity in some bookstores. At a small college I had occasion to visit, the bookstore was a kind of Honey, I Can't Tt?ell You EnouglrHow Much I've Enjoyed Tliis Sweater You Kjiilletl For Me." f ' 1 N ' f tilt t If . Jv - ' - : f! "!'!'' if''' ' ?C - V" ' " ' - ' if fi2- ' ' - r h: ' - v f". - , . - r hh ,. -'. ": -I .. . I ; --( ' - ;-'ff -f' , . J v. ."i i r - i v ? r I , x ; v x, t ; that is where the serious talk takes place. My bias, is, ob viously, toward urbane, light handed administration, but here a little social engineering is in order. The vital schools have meeting places where students and faculty can repair for coffee and conversation. One Shrewdly administered college in the South combines its snack bar with Its paperback book store a conspicuously happy marriage! The most justly celebrated hangout in academia is the University of Wisconsin's Rathskeller ("The Rat"), where beer has corrupted no one, and where poltical debates flourish at any hour, class lines criss cross (freshman girls meet real gradaute students), and profes sors sit in earnest conference with students over cups cf cof fee. Another index of cultural health is the student newspap er. Here again the itch for re spectability among administra tors can prove the undoing of an independent student press. I "am amazed and appalled at the curious myopia among some college administrators as if some schoolboy japery in print pressed by the fact that Notre arena for the whimsical and sportive. Administrators afflict ed with status problems ore proae to overreact to such tom foolery, but it obviously has its place. To be sure, cne can't "crra nize" an effervescent bulk tin board, a spirited hangout, cr an irreverent student newspa per. One cn only create a climate which enables these to flourish. What can the consci entious administrator do to cre ate this climate? First, he must be vigilant about too much Big Brotheri.-m. I recognize that I am prep ; ing that he liquidate himself at least in part but his prim ary loyalty is to his institution, not to his profession. Gcorra Stern, a University cf Syracuse psychologist, has discovered that the schools where the in tellectual life is valued most are also the least bureaucrctiz ed. Administrators these days are something of an easy tar get, and I shall foreswear my own guild loyalty as a professor by not joining in the lynch in bee. But it seems to me that a kind of academic Goidwater ism is in order here: when ?n doubt curb the centralized ad ministrative power. If students are to be intellectually autono mous, they must witness auto nomy at work. On the other hand, the alert administrator will make exer tions wrhere they really matter. A current vogue which strikes me as being exceedingly worth while is that of bringing speak ers to campus. This is one of those fringe activities which rarely show up in graduate rec ord scores and almost never win an unrestricted Ford Foun dation grant. But it provides an opportunity for the chance en counter with a seminal mind, which, after all, is what edu cation is all about. Northwest ern University, whose students chronically bemoan their middle-class blandness, runs an an nual intellectual pow-wow which combines efficiency and 'zest. With logistical virtuosity, they fly leading intellectuals into Evanston from all over the country, put them on stage, and make them define themselves for a few hours. The atmos phere for the three-day fracas is not unlike a football weekend with tickets at a premium, post mortem parties, and endless talk, talk, talk. For the school on its way up, there must be genuine support for faculty holding unfashion able views. I have been im- had serious consequences. The "best schools are those in which the student press is untrammel ed, where, in fact, interference is simply unthinkable, the ulti mate impiety. At Harvard, Wis consin, Michigan, Swarthmore, the student newspaper is not only an organ of information but a soapbox, a circus, an Dame was quick to hiro Sam uel Schapiro, a victim of an academic purge in another M id western institution. Catholic colleges, now vigorously on the upgrade, have learned their les son. Dr. Schaplro's politics are less the concern of Notre Da me than the kind of ferment he can provide on campus. Down On A Furn With Otey Conno Dear Sir: men, as it is. Just watch the Ruth St. Denis was reported "Jet age" on TV and you will recently as saying she was know what I mean. The gradu- grateful that she was born on a farm. I have never known whether I was grateful that I was born on a farm. We had no play mates except our own brothers and sisters. We went to school to a governess until we were around 14 to 16 years old, there fore we never had the oppor tunity to learn much about teamwork. However, we did en ate school set-up, to my mind. is all wrong. The work is piled up on the students so fast that they don't have time to assimi late the material that they cram. There is no time to ac quire wisdom. Neil Rosser, associate profes sor cf educational psychology at UNC, deplores the fact that, be ginning with kindergarten, on through college,0 "teachers have . I a ii i e ' iciuiui a lot me nouse was tended to equate quantity with always full of guests mostly quality." He says that while the grown-ups, except m summer colleges continue tn un-rrndp . " . . . o Upbraids Tiie Beau Administration Is Higli-Handed Editors, The Tar Heel: On Dee. 5, 1 received a let ter from 4he Dean's office, in forming me that since the au tomobae that -I operate is not registered with the university my university registration had been cancelled. Imagaine my surprise I do iot have an "automobile! For jess than three weeks in Octo er I had a car for which I secured a temporary registra tion. I presume that this error oc curred from the fact that I got parking ticket while 1 had iriy car. It seems that South Building went through the tick ets, checking to see if they cor responded with the car registra tion list. Naturally, I fell short of the requirement. I -question the legality of my removal from the university. In 1962 in the case of Dixon ' vs. Alabama State Board of Educa tion, the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, passed . down the decision that a tax- supported college could not dis miss a student without a hear ing. Surely the university should correct its policies so that they conform to the Constitution of the United States as interpret ed by the courts. Further, let me -pose these questions: having been dismiss ed on Satturday and reinstated on Monday, was there any ne cessity" for me to obey univer sity rules on Saturday and Sun day: And was there any need or me to return to my dormi tory on these evenings? Mary Amall Broach Mclver Dorm when our cousins came to visit us. I always felt that I missed something. Maybe it accounted for me being so ornery and al ways "cracking people over the head with my umbrella," about their manners. But Miss St. Denis says, "Bal ance was maintained on the farm because the mind was fill ed with loneliness. There is a creative value in loneliness. Don't be afraid of it. If yon learn to handle it, you won't become a sheep." Of the six children, I always seemed the slowest to learn, was often called that little dreamy Otey. I guess it was this loneliness that gave me time to ponder. I was never satisfied just to learn facts. I was always pon d e r i n g the imponderables. "What did they mean, What was it all about, This troubled dream?" All my life I have had time to ponder. . Therefore, I cannot go along with the latest pro posal that schools should be op erated all day long, all year long, with shortened vacations. ' I feel that we are putting too much pressure on our young people, especially our young their admission standards, they liunlc cut about the same per centage of students as they d'd before the up - grading era. Wouldn't it make more sense to work with what they have, after having admitted the top 10 per cent than to put the jr. through some artificial pressure machine. I am all for stressing the im portant things in education, and doing well what you do, but I agree with Mr. Rosser when he writes that "School should be a happy place, where there u time for both work and plaj, and away from school, boys and girls need time to get away from books to roam the fields and woods, to think on their own without adult Inter ference, to enjoy the thrill that only childhood and you:h can know. For what will It gain them if they absorb all know ledge, and all wisdom, and lose their spirit in the process? To see the obvious results of this pressure on our .youi:::: folks, we need only to visit the psychiatric wards of our hos pitals, says Mr. Rosser. The Greeks had a phrase for it "Nothing too much!" Otelia Conner
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