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Page 2 Saturday, February 13, 1965 1 1 BTM Editorial Page Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors. Wfe 7? Swing In The Sunshine Reports originating in Raleigh this week indicate that State Rep. Claude Hamrick of Forsyth Co. may have found the answer to the long-standing contro versy over daylight saving time for North Carolina. Fuzzy-Wuzzy Dr. James Taylor of the Infirmary yesterday confirmed what we suspected all along that we were diseased. The good doctor told us we were the victim of the shingles yes, the shingles. We always thought this particular dis ease was reserved for 90-year-old biddies who sit about their drawing room with cats, etc. Bunt, unfortunately, such is not the case. And now we learn get this that'' the shingles are incurable. Incurable! The blasted sores, however, should go away within three weeks, according to the good doctor. Until then, quoth he, don't shave, it might irritate the whole mess. So we will turn into a beatnik for the next week or so. Perhaps, if things go well enough and our beard flowers, we will add a green book bag and sandals to our repertoire and join the folks at you-know-where. But, if not, we'll just have to be satis fied with sitting around with the cats. (FLS) (Uin? lath (Far 2fl ::-: i -:::: m i I 1 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publi cation of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens, co-editors; Mike" Yopp, Ernie McCraryf'jrrfanaging editors; Pete Wales, associate editor;' Larry Tarle ton, sports editor i Fred Thomas, night editor?; Mary Ellison Str other, wire edi tor; John Greenbacker, Kerry Sipe, Alan Banov, staff writers; Pete Gammons, asst. sports editor, Perry McCarty, Pete Cross, Bill Lee, Tom Haney, sports writers; Jock Lauterer, photographer, Chip Barnard, cartoonist ; Jack Harrington, bus. mgr.; Betsy Gray, asst. bus. mgr.; Woody Sobel, ad. mgr.; Jim Peddicord, asst. ad. mgr.; Tom Clark,' subscription mgr.; John Evans, circulation mgr.; Dick Baddour, Stuart Ficklen, Jim Potter, salesmen Second Class postage paid at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C Subscription rates: $4.5d per semester; $8 per year. Printed by the Chapel Ilili Publishing Co., Inc. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republic a ttion of all local news printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. -I Hamrick, who plans to introduce legislation for daylight time next week, is well aware that such measures have never gotten very far in the past. Hence he intends to ask for the change, only between May 30th and the Sunday pre ceding Labor Day, rather than the April October dates proposed in the past. The advantages of daylight time dur ing this period are many. Any golfer worth his salt knows that an extra hour of daylight equals approximately nine more holes at the end of the working day, for instance, and the tourist indus try (North Carolina's third largest) would receive a shot in the arm as well. Additionally, working hours in North Carolina and the states to the North wouldt coincide during the summer, thus clearing up much confusion in that area. And airline schedules, which currently require mathematical computation dur ing these months, would' be meaningful again. In short, North Carolina would at least conform to its neighbors (includ ing Virginia). Such conformity, we feel," is practical and realistic, and thus we hope Rep. Hamrick's bill will be successful. Be sides, life is already too short to get in enough golf ... Our Weekly Awards MAN OF THE WEEK: Whoever beat Wake Forest, 107-91. LIZARD OF THE WEEK: Again the weatherman, for managing to bring just about every kind of weather to Chapel Hill within the course of the week. MARRIAGE OF THE WEEK: Ringo Starr, drummer for the Beatles, and Maureen Cox, his. sweetheart of some three ears. Ringo has more hair than his bride. ; ' FIGHT OF THE WEEK: A scheduled bout between Willie Richardson and Roger Rischer never got off the ground in California Thursday. When the fight" ers entered the ring, Rischer called his opponent a "punk," at which point Rich ardson kicked him in the groin and de livered a few rabbit-punches. The two continued fighting in the aisles as police hauled both to the dressing room. THANK - H E A V E N - IT'S - OVER DEPT.: Rush. THANK - HEAVEN - IT - ISN'T - OVER - DEPT.: The basketball season and the ACC tournament. Alan Freed: The Passing Of An Age Opportunism And Grantsmanship increasing Tike States Off Teaching The Christian Science MONITOR The college teacher shortage will never be solved without an intensive and thorough-going . effort to reestablish the status of teaching. In many small liberal arts colleges no such restoration is necessary because the status of teaching has not deteriorated, but in universities the problem is acute, particularly at the un dergraduate level. As a rule the. university administration is so busy struggling to maintain the strength of its huge graduate and professional schools - that it neglects the undergraduate. And so does the faculty. Harold Orland writes (in "Science"): A Brookings Insitutlon survey of over 3,000 faculty members showed that in colleges as well as universities, small and large, in the humanities and social sci ences as well as the natural sciences, faculty members at every rank, regardless of how little time they devoted to un dergraduate tacehing, wished to reduce that time still , further, increase the time devoted to graduate instruction and espec ially to research. Some graduate school profes sors believe that the teaching of undergraduates is such a dif ferent venture from .graduate and professional education that it should be handled in a sep arate institution. But historical ly almost every effort to sep arate the two in this country has come to naught; most uni versity people today believe that a single faculty should teach both, undergraduates and gradu ates. It would be folly to suppose that the status of college teach ing can be restored without the active collaboration of the fed eral government. In some mea sure, at least, the problem stems from the enormous im pact of federal grants . on the academic world. Responsible university leaders agree that that impact has been on t h e whole highly beneficial. In the matter under discussion, howev er, there can be no doubt that federal grants have helped to create the problem we must now solve. And we shall not solve it until we bring about some changes in governmental attitude and practice.' Put ting the matter broadly, the fed eral government must under stand how essential it is to maintain the vitality of our col leges and universities as teach ing institutions. It must see that without that vitality, these institutions will untimately be of little help to it in achieving its research and government goals. If federal agencies ever see that point clearly, they will find ways to be helpfuL Congress is reluctant to approve funds that go directly into teachers salar ies, but there are plenty of oth er steps that can be taken. Cer- "All Right, You've Got Your 'Home Game'." WWUUIJL ii T i, ' ' ii J jii .in ii in' I """jIilT " I I' I I l 1 71 ttiii i rii'ir .linjii nwi m WH.M' u mmh n iiiiiinniir ijijii niiiiini iiii 1 1 ri ll in i r f?La2sr -' - 4 -X-": '"''V- - Av - V - - i tainly the common practice in federal fellowships of forbidding the grantee to teach must be re-examined; it is quite possi ble to devise programs of fed eral grants for graduate stud ents that combine research and teaching. But more important than any possible action by the federal government is action by the un iversities themselves. One as pect of the problem as it ex ists today is a crisis in values. The seemingly limitless supply of research funds, consulting opportunities, easy pormotions, and dazzling offers has been around for some time now. There is a whole generation of able young faculty members who never knew a time when affluence did not prevail. Thus it is hardly surprising that a few of them exhibit an oppor tunism that startles their eld ers. Some of these heavily-bid-for young people appear to have no sense of institutional loyalty whatever and simply follow the offers where they lead. They regard the agencies that pro vide research grants as their real sources of nourishment. Whether they correspond with the National Science Foundation from Stanford, Michigan, or M.LT. really doesn't matter very much. In their view stu dents are just impediments in the headlong search for more and better grants, fatter fees, higher salaries, higher rank. Needless to say, such faculty . members do not provide the healthiest models for graduate students thinking of teaching as a career. Only a small percentage of the academic world is guilty of such opportunism. The large' majority who do not share this approach to life should consider the possibility of formulating ethical standards to. curb the crassest opportunism in grants manship, job hopping, and wheeling-dealing. There are other things that faculty leaders, departmental chairmen, and university $d ministrators could do to restore the status of undergraduate tea ching. They could accord both economic and status benefits to those who do unusually effec tive work with undergraduates. At U.C.L.A. the administration holds certain reserve funds to be distributed to those depart- ments that demonstrate that some importance has been giv en to undergraduate teaching. At M.I.T. recently the Visit ing Committee for Sponsored Research urged the university to be highly selective of new research projects in the future to ensure that the further growth of campus research ma kes not only its well-recognized contributions to graduate edu cation, but also strengthens un dergraduate instruct ioa, pro .viding the undergraduate with opportunities for participation which enrich his total educa tional experience. Leading universities might agree among themselves ts ex ercise restraint in offering re duced teaching loads as an in ducement to move. They might even agree that no new nun teaching faculty would be hircj. (Some universities have alrea dy adopted the latter principie.) One university president fcss said flatly, "No one should be added to the faculty who is ivd willing to communicate v.iih freshmen," but this goes furtb er than most faculties would ac cept. Another step any university can take is to make fuller ue of its graduate students as tea chers. Writing of Harvard's ivw five-year Ph.D. program La his tory, which includes two years of teaching experience, FrankUa Ford, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, says: We simply cannot do marry of the things we want to do for students in the college unlesa we find ways to make more use of the best graduate degme candidates. But he hastens to add that the teaching is beneficial to the graduate students as well as to the College. We (at Harvard) are saying that, insofar as funds and class room opportunities permit, tea ching experience ought to be ci part of training for the Ph.D. and that it ought to be under taken by graduate students not as a chore imposed by financial need but as an invaluable part of their own education. One practical measure open to any university is to set.higj er stipends for teaching as&Is tantships than research fellow ships. The reverse is usurJIy true today, and the ablest stu dents make a beeline for the fellowships. In short, faculty and admin istration leaders should behave as though undergraduate teach ing is important. They will be surprised how quickly young members and government of ficials will get the message. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Study Finds Virginity Wide-Spread Campus Promiscuity Lacking Why Fight When You 're Way Ahead We submit the following; article as the best piece of writing we have seen this yean It was authored by Jeff Greenfield, former editor of the Daily Cardinal at the University of Wisconsin and currently a staff writer for the collegiate Press Service, of which the DTH is a member. By JEFF GREENFIELD Collegiate Press Service Alan Freed died a couple of weeks ago, his insides poisoning him to death as the govern ment and the courts were taking away his money and his freedom. And all of us who first entered adolescence when Freed was conquer ing New York like a blitzkreig felt a little what it is going to be like when we're old. Freed was the prophet of the young a dec ade ago, the first vivid memory of a hung-up generation's great escape. He came to New York from Cleveland a dozen years ago with an armful of records that had never been heard outside the black ghettoes of: our cities, where the stale-smoke-and-whiskey sound of blues and the raucous rhythms of bop and jazz fused into a sound which caught the ear and hearts of a generation hung-up on its own alienation not dope but emptiness; not starvation but purpose less satiation; not the despair of guts without food and bodies without warmth but the vague, stabbing sense of a world without point. Freed grabbed them; he brought the shouts of Little Richard to the upstairs bedrooms of Scarsdale and Great Neck he took the ironic tales, of woe of Chuck Berry into the dens of Sunnyside: and Long Island. He gave the Young White Teen the same joyful meaningless throb of Rhythm and Blues that the black man had going for him 30 years ago. And it worked. He made the youth of an awesome metro polis a community. He would read the letters and telegrams "for Bobbie and Joe, to Sun and Don, to the gang at New Utrecht High," and you felt a tiny sense of unity that had been been there before. Our parents hated him; therefore he was good. One of Us, They could not understand the music; therefore it was ours. They spurned our clothes and likes and folk heroes. Therefore they were pure. And then Freed took the Gospel and prose lytized, and New York fell again. First the Sears, and King Curtis blowing their guts out red and blue high school jackets and jeans, slouching, leering, greasy-hair cut D. A. style and cigarettes dangling from their lips at a carefully practiced casual angle. The girls in the tight, tight pants and the sweaters, giggling and blushing, crushing their gum between their teeth and shivering in the cold as the doors opened. And then the show, a glittering band lit with garish spots and Sam the Man Taylor, Big Al Sears,, and King Curtis clowing their guts out on tenor sax. And the groups, the frightened kids in blazing red slacks and satin white jack ets, singing into the two mikes with timid dance steps and the crowd cheering, screaming. Then Freed took Manhattan. Washington's birthday, 1956 and they broke the plate glass doors and shook the balcony and danced in the aisles like they hadn't done since Goodman. It was the triumph of the young, a sanctuary at New York's Paramount Theater, a shrine of the sounds and of the people that we knew and they didn't. Freed is dead now, having been conquered by the Others. The government got him on back taxes and the courts for payola and his insides turned sour, and poisoned him and he died. His day was 10 years ago; a time wTe remem ber clearly, vividly, so recently. And the younger ones never heard of the Penguins or the Five Satins, the Clovers, the Cleftones, the Willows, the G-Clefts, the Cadillacs, the El Doradoes, the Moonglows, the Heartbeats, Shirley and Lee, Mickey and Sylvia. And this, one knows, is a small part of what it will; be like when we remember what none of them do, and when our heroes have all died, and when our thoughts are all memories, and no longer dreams. PALO ALTO, CALIF. (CPS) Contrary to popular opinion, sexual permissiveness has not swept the American college campus, a Stanford University researcher contends. - Mervin B. Freedman, assist ant dean of undergraduate edu cation and a research associate at the Institute for the Study of Human Problems, bases his conclusion on a detailed study of an Eastern women's college in which 49 students were in terviewed for four years and several thousand students were tested, and on an historical sur vey of research on the sexual behavior of women undergra duates. Survey Findings Among his findings: Three-fourths or more of America's unmarried college women are virgins. Premarital intercourse among college women is usual husbands. Promiscuity is probably con fined to a very small percent age of college women prob ably a lower proportion than high school girls. While attitudes toward sex are often liberalized in college, "the Puritan ; heritage has by no means passed from the Am erican scene," Freedman said. Little Increase "It is probably that the in cidence of nonvirginity among college women has increased. . . little since the 1930's," he add ed. "The great change in sex ual behavior and mores since 1900 has been in freedom of at titude and in petting. . . It may be, however, that the incidence of premarital intercourse has risen slowly since 1930, particu larly among engaged couples. "It may well be that Ameri can college students have evolv ed patterns of sexual behavior that will remain stable for some time to come," he said. "The intercourse among engaged cou ples, and early marriage." Freedman said that "few col lege students can propound with any conviction ethical argu ments for sexual abstinence or are loathe to condemn the be havior of others. This does not mean, however, that the feeling that underlay these convictions have disappeared," he said. "Puritan sentiments, inhib ition of appetites and instincts, are a strong feature of Ameri can middle class life," Freed man said. "They have been and Rather Strike Than Be Hit By OTELIA CONNOR I don't know who is the more ornery, Otelia, who grew up in the backwoods of the South, or Prof. Ken Byerly, who grew up in the wild and wooly west. When I was young, we often drove up the road, five miles, to our cousin's home. They were younger than we were. Once, one of them told his sis ter that if she did a certain thing he would hit her. I said to him "You wouldn't hit a woman, would you?" To which he replied, "I just as soon hit a woman as anybody else." Today I met Prof. Byerly on the campus. I asked him if he bought the vitamins and iron that I told him to take. (He had had the Flu and needed to build up his strength). He answered, "No." I told him if he didn't buy it immediately and take it as pre scribed, I was going to pop his head! That brought him up short. "I always said I wouldn't hit a woman unless she hit me first," he said. I was kinder relieved that I didn't have my umbrella with me and therefore couldn't put bis code of chivalry to the test. I have a feeling you better be ninning scared when you pop his head! are still being passed from gen eration to generation. Conse quently, most college women behave conventionally, even though they may not adher to any specific moral code." Among the 49 women stud ents studied in depth, five lim ited their experience to kissing, 33 engaged in petting, and 11 experienced intercourse. Only three of the latter group were "uninhibited" in their sexual be havior, engaging in intercourse when they were not deeply in volved emotionally with men. When asked how they felt about their sex life, 80 per cent of the 49 said they were con tent with the status quo. While there was some tenden cy for those who had restrict ed their activity to kissing or light petting to be dissatisfied, they Were unanimous in assert ing they could not or would not seek out sexual encounters as such, Freedman said. "Sexual gratification . . . could emerge only in the context of a rela tionship cf some seriousness with a man. - Attitude of Enjoyment "Among the students who had engaged in intercourse, the pre dominant attitude was one of en joyment and satisfaction," he said. "This was particularly true of those young women whose sexual partners were men with whom they shared a close emotional relationship." As an abstract value, virgin ity has little meaning to these women students, Freedman said. But the great majority of student draw the line at pre marital intercourse for person al or interpersonal reason. These include fear of pregnan cy, feelings of guilt, emotional upset or loss of self-respect, "and lack of certainty about the permanence of relationships." 'Underlying many of these explanations seems to be an un expressed sense of caution or inhibition," he said. "The ex planations often seemed to be but vague surface manif esta lying and complex sentiments that were dimly comprehended." By ART BUCHWALD As you probably remember, the country of South Nonomura has been fighting the Commun ist guerrillas for years. Thanks to American advisors, South Nonomura now has one of the best equipped armies in the world, and when it comes to hardware the South Nonomuran soldier lacks nothing. Newsreels of the crack South Nonomuran army show them flying off into the jungle in American helicop ters, armed to the teeth. Yen get a feeling of pride that a group of peasants like the South Nonomurans can be whipped in to a first-class fighting outfit. Unfortunately, despite all the aid, the South Nonomurans have not been doing very well against the North Nonomuran guerril las who are armed with nothing more than fishing rods and and World War II rifles. Why, everyone asks, can't the South Nonomuran army contain the guerrillas? One of our correspondents just came back after an inter view with a crack South Non omural officer and showed us his notes. The interview shed some light on the problem. CORRESPONDENT: Captain, how is the war going? CAPTAIN: War going great. Tell Americans we like K-rations very much, but Q-ra-tions lousy. We need more cig arettes and beer. Morale very low without beer. CORRESPONDENT: Why has not your army been able to con tain the guerrillas? CAPTAIN: Our army trained by Americans to fight enemy in open. Lousy Communists hide in jungle.. i CORRESPONDENT: Why do not you go into the jungle and get them? CAPTAIN: You crazy or something? You can get bitten by snakes in the jungle. Besid es, your uniform gets dirty. We have to keep uniforms nice and clean for coup d'etat. CORRESPONDENT: -That's true. CAPTAIN: And don't forget, you have to walk in jangle. Since Americans came, my men won't go anywhere unless it's by truck or helicopter. Walking is for lousy Communists. CORRESPONDENT: There have been many, instances where you have had the Com munists surrounded and they've disappeared. How do you ex plain this? CAPTAIN: Very simple. As soon as we hear about Iousm Communist attack, we send crack soldiers there to fight them. But crack soldiers must be supported by many men. We must have hot food, showers, of ficers' club, non-commissioned officers' club, PX, chaplain, mo vies, and comfortable living quarters. By the time my creek outfit is ready to fight, lousy Communists have escaped into jungle. CORRESPONDENT: Would not it be better if you fought the war without all these things? things? CAPTAIN: WE crack outfit. Thanks to American training and know-how we not going to fight dirty war like dirty Com munists. CORRESPONDENT: But ym are not getting anywhere. CAPTAIN: That's what you think. In another year I make colonel. Then I overthrow the government You see me then, I give "you good interview. CORRESPONDENT: But, Captain, isn't there some wav of turning the tide against the guerrillas? CAPTAIN It's too late. Mv crack troops have taste of Am erican way cf life. We are so busy keeping them supplied, we don't have much time to fight lousy Communists. All they talk about these days is GI Bill of Rights. CORRESPONDENT: Is there anything you need that would help speed up the war? CAPTAIN: Yes, send us more Japs. CORRESPONDENT: Japs? CAPTAIN: You know, Jap transistor radios.
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