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y-H.C. Library aerials Dept. VMCri Chuirmen Applications for V.MCA Com mittee chairmanships mav he Picked up in Y Office all" this . Interviews will held next week. Star The 'MRC meets tonight in New East at 7. All members bring pencil and paper. Coat and tie are required. Volume 74. Number 140 I Tod avs I Symposium :: Afternoon: Mvth and Pol- :: itics . . . Morris K. Udall. The problems of an active : x politician dealing with his j constituency's political : : myths. " x Evening: Myth and the v Mythical American Al Capp. A cartoonist's :: candid examination of the ? & myths of the American : citizen and society at ::: X large. Honor Society Selects 87 UNC Students Phi Beta Kappa has notified Bl Carolina students that they have been selected as eligible for membership in the honor ary society, but nine students have still not responded to the notification letter. The requirements for mem bership in the society are a 3.3 minimum average for sen iors and a 3.6 minimum av erage lor juniors. In order to be classified as a junior, a stu dent must have completed 75 semester hours. He must have comuleted 105 semester hours to be classified as a senior. Anyone who transfers to Carolina is eligible for Phi Beta Kappa only after completing 45 semester hours here with a minimum grade average of 3.5. Dr. E. L. Mackie said that any student who feels he has met the requirements for the society and not received notice of his invitation to join should contact him. He will be in his office in 378 Phillips to morrow and Fridav mornings from 10-12. : The initiation into, the society will be held sometime around the middle of MayJ SG Interviews Interviews are being held this week for Student Govern ment committee chairmanships in- next year. ! The five committees with the Department cr. Internal Af lairs are Campus Affairs Com mittee. Residence College Com mission. Orientatioji Commis sion. Orientation Reform Com mission and Student Co-op Com nvssion. ! The co-op commission will continue its investigation of the book exchange operations and turthering its proposals for a student - faculty - administra tion review board for the ex change. Within the Department of Educational and Cultural Af fairs ?re the Academic Affairs Committee. Honors Committee, Fine Arts Festival Committee, Carolina Forum, International Students Board, Toronto Ex change Commission and the National Merit Scholarship Committee. The Honors Committee will continue to evaluate the hon ui programs at UNC; the In ternational Students Board will toiablish an international stu dents house; and tne National .Merit Scholarship Committee entertains National Merit semi fu:?lists for a three-day pro gram. ! The Department of External Afiairs contains the State Af fairs Committee, Discounting Commission. NSA C a m p u s Committee. Consolidated Uni versity Student Council Campus Committee. V1GAH (Volunteers m Giving a Hand) and Student Credit Commission. The Discounting Commission works for better prices from merchants for stuqent organi zations and individuals; the State Affairs Committee will continue its speaker programs m improving relations of the I niversitv in the .state; and VIGAII works on -community improvement proj:?ctj,. espe cially tutoring. The committees within the Department of Administrative Affairs ;re the Student Audit Board. Budget Conimittee and Communications Commission. The audit board supervises the Student Activities Fund Of fice and the Communications Commission will keep Student Government informed about the feelings of the University com munity by conducting opinion polls. Students interested in these chairmanships should contact Bjb Travis. Student Govern ment Administrative Assistant. A A UP Suit Drive Tops Expectation By BILL AMLONG DTI I Staff Writer A fund drive for the Speak er Ban suit is exceeding ex pectations, the local head of the American Association of University Professors said Tuesday. Dr. Joseph W. Straley de clined, however, to place a dollar-value on the drive's suc cess. "I think that people will put an interpretation on a n v amount that we quote," Stra" ley said. "I can only tell you that the drive is going a little bit bet ter than we first expected and there"s no question whatso ever as to whether this will be properiy funded this court ac tion," he said. Referring to a "friend of the court" brief which the local AAUP was reported as having filed March 31, Straley said the brief has not yet been filed but is ready and will be presented to the AAUP executive com mittee Thursday. Meanwhile, in Greesnboro, a three-judge panel has been Brown Bags OK' Charlotte Judge CHARLOTTE (AP) -Judge H. L. Riddle Jr., yesterday granted an injunction restrain ing police in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County from en forcing the latest stricter in terpretation of North Carolina liquor laws. That interpretation, issued March 31 by Asst. State Atty. Gen. James F. Bullock, said liquor could be consumed leg ally only in one's home. It said, in effect, that long standing practices of taking liq uor bottles to restaurants and keeping them in bottle or lock er clubs were illegal. A group of Charlotte nightclub and restaurant owners sought the injunction. Judge Riddle heard arguments in Mecklen burg Superior Court Monday. The injunction is effective un til further notice by the court. James Kiser, Charlotte city ! attorney, and Tom Rutherford, ! county attorney, said they j would appeal to the State Su preme Court. They said, however, the casr probably would not be heard by the high court until Sep tember when Mecklenburg cases are scheduled to be heard next. Stars & HI rrri ,DTJ9 BSt'l r" - h-Y 4X 1 , 5.v.J IN VIRGINIA, the seat of all that is dear to the Kappa Alpha Order, the state is making the KA's strike their colors. Robert E. Lee. who signed the KA charter at Washington & Lee. would be hurt. At Carolina, though, the Stars-n-Bars continues to fly even if it does seem to be drooping a little. DTH Photo Bv Jock Lauterer named to hear the suit, filed March 31 by 14 student lead ers at Carolina. The order naming the pan el was signed Monday by Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., of Greenville, S. C, the chief judge of the U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The panel consists of Hayns worth; Judge Edwin M. Stan ley, of Greensboro, chief judge of the Middle North Carolina District; and Judge Algernon L. Butler, of Clinton, judge of the Eastern North Carolina District. No date has been set yet for the hearing. The suit charges that the Speaker Ban Law is unconsti tional and seeks an injunc tion against the enforcement of either the law or the rules the trustees adopted from it. Named as defendants in the suit are Acting Chancellor J. Carry le Sitterson, Consolidated University President William C. Friday and the Board of Trus tees. The defendants have until May 15 to file an answer. Ray Brady, chairman of the North Carolina Alcoholic Bev erage Control Board, confirm ed last Saturday that his office was in the process of warning restaurant and club owners over the state that brown bag ging was illegal. Mecklenburg ABC officials had said, however, they would not enforce the law until March 31, 1967, by which time the new legislature would have met. Judge Riddle, of Morganton, granted an order April 7 tem porarily restraining Mecklen burg police from enforcing the law until Monday's hearing in Charlotte. That order was granted at the request of Michael Plum ides, who represented the Charlotte restaurant and club owners. At Monday's hearing, Plum ides told Judge Riddle: 'The governor refuses to move. The Legislature is not in session. What are my cli ents going to do? Get on their knees and beg?" He said if the law were en forced according to Bullock's opinion, there would be "mass confusion, mass arrests and a mass number of trials." Bars Under Fire CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. Delta Upsilon Pledges Take Greek Award Bv STEVE BENNETT "DTH Staff Writer Delta Upsilon social frater nity dominated the Greek Week awards given Mondav night by the IPC taking the first place trophies for the best pledge class, the best Campus Car nival booth and the best field day. Phi Delta Theta pledges plac ed second in the best pledge class competition and B e t a Theta Pi pledges came in third. Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledges received the trophy for the second place in the Campus Carnival while Phi Delta Theta pledges received the third place trophy. Campus Police Chief Arthur Beaumont spoke at the presen tation of the awards which was held in Gerrard Hall Monday night. He spoke on the subject of pledges carrying on the tra dition of the fraternities and strengthening them in the years to come. Scholarship counted ten per cent, field day counted 30 per cent, Carnival rank counted 30 per cent, Greek Week work day counted 20 per cent and extra curriculars counted ten per cent. Duke To Hear Yugoslav Talk DURHAM A former mem ber of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia will give his views on the Sino-Soviet conflict Thursday night at Duke Uni versity. Dr. Vladimir Dedijer, who later lost favor with his close friend Marshal Tito and sub sequently was expelled from the party, will appear at 8:15 p.m. in Page Audtorium. His appearance is spnosored by the Educational Affairs Committee of the Student Un ion at Duke. Dr. Dedijer is a recognized authority on the history of Communism and was one of the revolutionaries who set up the Communist regime in Yu goslavia. He was Tito's offi cial biographer, editor of the party newspaper and was a member of the Yugoslav dele gation to the United Nations. In 1955, Dedijer split with Tito when he defended the rights of Yugoslavs to criticize their government. He was ex pelled from the party. "Absolutely no display of the Confederate flag in pub lic," said a directive sent to Virginia chapters of Kappa Alpha Order, Sunday. A spokesman for the Virgin ia chapters said the directive was received from national headquarters of the fraternal order. In addition to banning the flag, the statement for bade the wearing of confeder ate uniforms in public. The purpose of the turna bout in policy was reportedly so that Kappa Alpha could maintain "it's proper position in today's society." The Greensboro Daily News reported yesterday that "it was believed the directive was sent to all of the fraternity's 82 chapters in the nation." But at the KA house at North Carolina yesterday the flag still flew. President Fred Genung said that he had received no word from anyone about the ban. He commented that he plan ned to take no action until he heard something definite. One KA member agreed that they had heard nothing about the ban. and speculated that the directive applied only to one or two chapters who may have had trouble over the dis plav. He said that the Chapel Hill chapter had received mild complaints on occasion be cause the flag is flown from a second story window facing West Cameron. He added that "about a month ago" the order had re ceived word from national headquarters that uniforms should not be played up at the order's "Old South Ball " I OUTDATED MYTHS Princeton Philosophy Professor Walter Kaufmann told a Carolina Symposium audience that religious beliefs are myths which our society has outgrown. The scene was Memorial Hall. DTH Photo By Jerry Lambert. Van Loon, Travis To Assist Powell By ALAN BANOV DTH Staff Writer Student Body President Bob Powell announced his appoint ments yesterday of Eric Van Loon as presidential assistant and Bob Travis as presidential assistant for administrative af fairs. Van Loon, a junior from Nashville, Ten.., is an honor student who has been on the debating team for three years, National Student Association coordinator on campus this year, a resident adviser in Morrison, chairman of the Carolina Political Union. He is also treasurer of the Carolina Svmposium, a mem ber of Student Legislature, an NSA delegate and a member of Order of the Grail. Travis, treasurer of Kappu Alpha, is a sophomore from Lyons, Ga. He has served on the Student Government Dis counting Commission for two years and was chairman this year. He has served as youth aide to Ga. Governor Carl Sanders and helped to found the Georg ia Youth Council, a group of 500 young people interested in working for the state govern ment. Travis was president of his high school student body of over 1000 students and lieutenant-governor of the Georgia Youth Assembly. He has been busv this week ! in reorganizing the Student Government Executive Offices, ! "to stop waste, to provide ! more efficient offices for Stu- 6,400 Cars Registered Since the beginning of the school year when over 4.200 student's cars were registered to park on campus, more than 2.200 other cars have been reg istered by students bringing the total to over 6.400 student's cars registered to park on campus. About 525,000 has been tak en in this year by the Univer sity as money charged for the campus parking stickers. This amount has accumulated from the $5 fees charged for all stu dent parking except the $2.50 fees charged for the "T" stick er parking. The money collected from these fees and through penal ties imposed upon persons whose motor vehicles are tow ed is deposited in a special University fund. It is used to defray trie administrative ex penses from the control and supervision of traffic on the campus and for the construc tion of parking facilities. This year two of the major lay-outs of the money have been to secure and install park ing area signs and to construct scooter parking areas behind the library and around the res !dence hails on South Campus. The greatest increase in cars registered here during the year has been from the "C" Forking areas where over 1000 additional cars have been giv eR stickers. 196G P I dent Government and to elimi nate the confusion seen there in the past," Travis says. "The "inner office," the room next to president Pow ell's, will contain the two pres idential assistants, Student Body vice-president Bill Pur dy and the Student Govern ment executive secretary. The "outer office," one door down, will house Student Body Treasurer Don McPhaul, and Student Body Secretary Judy Fletcher, who will act as re ceptionist and greet people. Travis will handle all of Pow ell's appointments and corres pondence and will distribute the secretarial work load. Only one appointment will be in the inner office at one time, he said yesterday. He asserted that the execu tive offices were greatly im proved under president Dick son, but that desk space is in sufficient and funds are insuf ficient for office machinery. "The parties should have their own offices," Travis de clared, "and Student Govern ment Executive Offices are not intended to be a meeting place for student politicians to dis cuss their own selfish interests but rather the welfare of the student bodv as a whole. "But the "doors of Student Government are always open to those who have a sincere interest in seeing the president and allowing Student Govern ment to serve them." Glee Club To Sing A joint concert between the UNC Glee Club and the Glee Club of Greensboro College will be held Fridav night at 8 in Hill Hall. The concert will be directed by Dr. Joel Carter from UNC and by E. L. Williams of Greensboro College. The girls will have a group of their own songs; the boys will do works by Tallif. Schubert, Gersch win. Beethoven and Verdi. The combined glee clubs will perform Vivaldi's Gloria. Job Interviews The Placement Service, 204 Gardner Hall, has announced thru Benton & Bowles. Inc.; "vnunicable Disease Cen ter; Tennessee Valley Author ity: Riesel Textile Corp.; Western Piedmont Community Collese: and Harvard Medical j School will be recruiting on i campus todav. s I Pollitt At Conference I i UNC Law Professor Dan Pollitt is one of the speakers at p conference at North Car olina College in Durham this weekend on "Students and La bor." The conference, sponsored by the Southern Student Or anizins Committee, will ac ausint students with the labor movement, esneciallv in the 5m"h. Some 15 to 20 UNC stu rVr.ts. mostly members of NAACP or.f SDS. are expected Philosopher Calls Religious Beliefs Outgrown Myths Bv ANDY MYERS DTH Staff Writer In an apparent direct refu tation of Dean Alan Richard son's Monday talk, philoso pher Walter Kaufmann yes-! terday cited at least three ma-: jor ''myths" of the Christian' religion which he said our so-; ciety has outgrown. Kaufmann warned that as: myths become universally be lieved their influence on a so ciety increases, but added "our societv has outgrown its! myths." The virgin birth, the resur rection of Christ, and the "idea of hell." have all been used to evoke "fashionable thoughts and values," Kauf-i mann said, and "in different environments the same kind of myths can be used to prop up this or that value." Richardson said Monday! Top Historian Hits Method 01 Colleagues By ERNEST ROBL DTH Asst. News Editor One of the foremost Amer ican historians criticized mem bers of his profession here Monday evening for tending "to mythologize history.' University of Chicago Pro fessor Daniel J. Boorstin, SDeakins before the third ses sion of the Carolina Symposi-; um, said "Americans are the most historically oriented but the least historically minded of all modern people. Boorstin SDoke to an audi ence of approximately 1,600 in Memorial Hall. He cited as one of the top myths in the field of history an assumed correlation be tween what is significant and what survives. He said that; on the contrary, the most of-i ten used artifacts are the least : likey to survive. "What are the conclusions that future historians will draw from auto graveyards which will, by far, be the most prom inent features of the archeolo gical landscape?" he asked his audience. Another of Boorstin's major criticisms was that historians often over emphasize formal j ceremonial events over in- j formal everyday life. "Histor- j ians only talk about what his- torians "have always talked j about." "There is a thinness of Amer- ican history," he said, "even See BOORSTIN On Page 6 to nttend. Other speakers include Nor m?n Hill of the AFL-CIO In dustrial Union Department, Pe ter Brnndon of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Emolovees, My les Horton of the Highlander Center and Marty Moran of the International Ladies Gar ment Workers. The conference, to be held in the Education Building, starts at 6 Friday night and rnds ?t 2 Sunday afternoon. Women's Counselors Interviews, for Freshmen Women's Orientation Counse lors from West Cobb. East Cobb, and Winston will be held on Monday. April 23, from 6-8 p.m. in Woodhouse in GM. and on Thursday. April 28. from 6 8 p.m. in RP 2. This is the last chance for these interviews and all in terested girls are urged to rttend. The freshen r. counselors live in the residence hall with cirls and counsel them all year. It is rewarding work, and girls are asked to please sign uo at the information desk of GM nnd pick up an applica tion blank which should be brought to the interview. Fire At Fraternity A small fire broke out yes terday morning at the Sigrr-i Phi Epsilon house, started by 2 gas water heater. Founded Februarv 23. 1893 that the Christian religion con tains no actual myths, how ever, his definition of myth was much narrower than that of Kaufmann's. Kaufmann, a Princeton pro fessor, was the third speaker for the 14th Carolina Sympos ium. His lecture centered around a definition of myths as stories that offer "images of the human conditnen in deceptively simple but archa ic forms." "If our age has outgrown its myths, let us ask what re placement is possible," he said. "New myths?" he asked. "That is not possible. We have gone too far. We must refine our intellectual constants by asking people if they would believe them." Kaufmann suggested a re liance on philosophy and lit erature "to examine the old ideas of human values as best they can. Let the chips fall where they may, but not nec essarily in defense of old myths." Kaufmann spoke to a full house in Memorial Hall, after an introduction by UNC Clas sics lYoieasor Kenneth Reckford. Saying he was a philosoph er and not a theologian, Kauf mann said "the philosopher is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which is not there. The the ologian would find him." Kaufmann used literary ex amples to illustrate his point that a myth lacks impact when it is not actually be lieved and accepted by so ciety. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex em bodies man's "radical inse curity," his "blindness' to actuality, and that man can be "utterly blind only about the people closest to him, Kaufmann said. The "curse of honesty" shown in Oedipus' pursuit of the truth, the assumption that tragedy is inevitable, and that justice must prevail all might have had greater impact had the story of Oedipus been ful ly accepted as truth, Kauf mann argued. "Because the story has not been believed, it has become 'mere' literature," he said, even though Oedipus Rex is possibly the greatest literary effort of all time. "The same is true of Kaf ka," Kaufmann said. He men tioned The Metamorphosis and The Trial as two of Kaf ka's "literary myths" which lost their impact "simply be cause people don't believe them." He commented that in the realm of philosophy Plato's "Parable of the Caves" would have failed if it were labeled as an invention. Kaufmann said in a sense the parable is truthful, since it portrays an essential fact of human condition. As a result, he said, Plato's parable had a "tremendous impact." In fact, "more people were convinced by Plato's myth than by his arguments," Kaufmann said. Since readers believed that in a sense experience was unreal, they believed that the world of universals is true reality. Kaufmann separated the myths in the Old and New Testaments by noting that "by the time we get to the New Testament the adrenalin gets m the way of our comprehen sion." Because of this, he said, the New Testament was less ef fective because of its emo tionalism. The partial success of the Old Testament myths, such as Jonah in the whale and the creation of man was possible because their morals were more acceptable, he said. 'The myth of Jonah ex presses some values," Kauf mann said. 'The main point is that even people in captiv ity can be forgiven for total repentance." He said the myth in Gene sis of the creation of man was the most effective myth in the Old Testament. This myth tells us that man is found in the image of God, "but the moral became more and more questionable," Kaufmann said. This suggests that our age has somehow outgrown its See KAUFMANN' On Page S
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