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THE TAR HEEL
Thursday, June 30. 1966
A Name For $100,000
The University Athletic Department has a new
baseball field. And the field has two problems no
permanent seats and no name. The Athletic Depart
ment hopes to solve both problems with one hit.
The signals out of Carmichael Auditorium call for
someone (wealthy alumnus) to step into the box and
drop about $100,000 down the line which would bring
home the permanent stands. To enhance the request,
the Athletic Department is going to name the field
after the donor.
Of course the athletic program needs the money
for the stands. And about the only way they can get
it is from alumni contributions.
But to offer to name the field after the donor adds
up to a loud foul. Hopefully there are no graduates
of Carolina vain enough to give the University $100,000
just so his name can be bestowed upon a baseball
field. Hopefully.
It would be more fitting if the field were named for
a man who had given something of himself to make
baseball a success here.
One man stands above all others in our minds.
Walter Rabb Baseball Stadium would be a tribute to
the man who has led Tar Heel baseball teams for
many years, and led them successfully, which is what
is of most importance to alumni.
Blattidae Periplanta
It's always more fun to play tag when the other
guy is smaller.
Like the Worthless Gazette. And if there were
space, , the editors would reprint the little four-page,
mimeographed sheet that sells for a nickel in Harry's.
But there isn't.
The editor seems to have the habit of using lower
case letters when he (or she) can get away with it.
The last fellow that did that was a cockroach.
And at the bottom of each page is the not-so-polite
plea, "We want stalls in the Wilson Library bath
rooms." Hmm. Think a little Mr. Editor and you will
know why the stalls are "sans doors.
Incidentally, it was the better and shorter half of
the co-editors that praised the DTH.
Parenthetically, Mr. Editor, you should look up the
word "imaginary."
Oh,. that's okay, thanks are unnecessary for the
pointer. A man never stood so tall as when he stooped
to help a boy.
It's really a shame. Really, the guy that puts that
paper out probably tells everybody his name is Smith
or something. But his raper wit did pin the Tar Heel
to the non-existent stall, door a couple times.
Hell, he must be a pretty smart cockroach.
Tag.
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73 Years of Editorial Freedom
The job of a newspaper is to print the news and j
raise hell. v . .
CrRTISS MOORE and ED FREAKLEY g
$ Co-Editors
Al Reeves, sports editor, Tom Clark, business manager,
P Kerry Lamm, assistant business manager. -
A Question Of Honor
Editor:
I am writing to make pub
lic what appears to be, at the
very least, a flagrant viola
tion of respect and common
court :sy: one of the more not
able men who was invited to
speak" at this spring's Caro
lina Symposium was interna
tionally known novelist and
short story writer, Nelson Al
gren; it has now been made
evident to Mr. Algren that the
t rms under which he accept
ed that invitation, and to which
he himself adhered, will not be
met by Mr. George Butler,
chairman of the Carolina
Symposium Committee, by the
Committee itself, nor by the
University.
Mr. Algren was promised a
cash honorarium, plus expen
ses while in Chapel Hill, plus
transportation to and from the
Symposium. In return he was
to speak to the topic of "Myth
and Mor?s", and to make him
self reasonably available dur
ing hi? stay in Chapel Hill to
a number of student functions
and classes. Now, to be sure,
Nelson Algren's speech, as
many have complained and as
many have noted with consid
erable relief, directed itself to
the topic in a manner quite un
l'ke Al Capp's speech and
quite unlike John Kenneth Gal
braith's speech: Mr. Algren
is not a cartoonist; nor is he a
politician - pundit - economist
ambassador; he is an artist.
That this fact may have been
overlooked by a largely aca
demic audience is not my con
cern here. That the Carolina
Symposium, in sp?aking for the
University of North Carolina,
chose not to honor the condi
tions stated in its invitation to
Algren is my concern, and 1
believe that it should be the
convern of any person asso
Rumination And Cogitation
Ed Covert is an unusual sen
ior. You see, he has a diplo
ma, but he hasn't graduated.
History major, Ed had plan
ned to graduate after last se
mester and enter grad school
next fall. But about three
months ago he found out he
still needed another course to
get his degree "After I'd al
ready shelled out twenty bucks
for a cap and gown and invi
tations." He was not allowed to par
ticipate in commencement ex
ercises. He enrolled in sum
mer school. His application to
grad school has been held up.
"But last Friday my moth
er, called and she was kinda
upset," Ed said. "She thought
I had made up this business
about having to go to sum
mer school because . . . well. .
my diploma had just arrived
in. the mail at home."
Ed's faculty advisor, who
WEVILS: BY
Hey Nerd ! You Going To
The Big Rally?
ciated with the University' in
anv capacity whatsoever.
A few of the questions that
Mr. Algren has been forced
to ask George Butler need
to be answered by Mr. Butler,
and if not by him. then by
the University officialdom. For
instance: why did the check
sent as payment in full to Mr.
Algren amount to barely three
fourths the stipulated amount?
Or, why did the Symoosium
Committee fuss and fume
about the fact that Mr. Al
gren arrived here from Chi
cago and left here for Seattle,
the scene of his next speak
ing engagement? Or. why.
since Mr. Algren was able to
find accomodations in Chapel
Hill at a place other than the
Carolina Inn (where the ma
jority of the Symposium spea
kers stayed), did the' Sympo
sium Committee believe that it
was no longer responsible for
any considerations of Mr. Al
1 Didn't Know
Ernie McCmry's
might be able to help clear
things up, is in South Ameri
ca, but Dr. Frank Duffey, act
ing dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, says it was all
caused by a secretarial slip
up. .
When it was discovered that
Ed still needed another course
for graduation, his name was
supposed to have been taken
off the diploma list. But it
wasn't.
Has he really graduated
yet?
"Well, I don't know," Duf
fey said. "His transcript reads,
that he has received his de
gree. Legally, I think he. has
a degree, but if we were ever
questioned about his record
we might have to say some
irregularity exists."
"We're very sorry and un
happy about this," said an ad
visor in the College of Arts
and Sciences.
RLW
Nope!
Whv
gren's living expenses while
in Chapel Hill? Or, if com
mon courtesies are to be con
sidered, why did the Sympo
ium committee, while unlike the
twelve , other college groups
for which Mr. Algren spoke
this spring, choose to pay him
bv mail and not until after
he had left Chapel Hill?
These are not accusations;
they are questions which, un
fortunately, should be answer
ed. It is shameful that they
even need to be asked. Mr.
Algren has returned the token
even need to be asked. Mr.
Algren has returned the token
Daymen! offered him by the
Symposium Committee; as of
this date he has not receiv
ed satisfaction from the Com
mittee or from the University.
.1 would hope that such satis
faction is forthcoming.
Kussell K. Banks
4 Howell St.
1 1 Was Loaded
And while Ed is trying, to
decide whether to laugh or cry.
the administration has asked
for the diploma back. "They
say they'll give me a new one
when I finish that course."
As a legal graduate who has
not really graduated.' what
does he plan to do?
"Well, I guess I'll give the
diploma back grudgingly."
An administrator said this
kind of foul-up has occurred
before "a few times."
But that doesn't matter to
Ed, because he has found out
something very valuable from
the experience.
"Yeah. I've been wander
ing around 'here four years, not
knowing what I was doing.
Now I've found out nobody
else knows what they're doing
either."
And that leaves just one
question.
Why did it take four years
for you to find out, Ed?
Not?
I Don't (Jot A
Clean Sheet.