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;: Wednesday, March 22, 1957 Pae 2- - THE DAILY TAR HEEL Josh Carlisle 'And when did you boys first notice that you couldn't stop simling.' atlg (Par l?! ,ioiitheFii Devils Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. All un signed editorials are written by the editor. . I-ttrv : and columns reflect only the personal views of their contributors . SCOTT GOODFELLOW. EDITOR . One-University Concept Should Be Maintained I'. W.' Out of the flap over ECC and its university-status bid this year finally emerged what will easily become the biggest academic ques tion of this legislative session should the one-university concept be sustained? ECC's President Leo Jenkins in sists that separate university sta tus is all the ECC wants, but after the release of the famed report, it looks like action on that question will be little. Although called other wise, the bill to make ECC a part of the Consolidated University is actually a compromise and likely will receive more support this ses sion than the separate university request. The big question will be the one-university concept. We feel strongly that in the present stage in the development of the state, it is by far best to up hold the one-university concept. It has long been obvious to us that the life of higher education in North Carolina is a major back bone of the state. Nearly every newspaper we pick up has several stories from university campuses, because that is where ideas and projects are generated. To split the university concept now is bound to cause a slip in stature, if not without of the state, then within. Furthermore, the switch to uni versity status for any rising college would be made easier by the fine administrative structure whichhas developed for the ConsolidatedoJni versity under President William Friday. Having the immediate as sociation with the other parts of the university system would make the stature switch much easier. And although a college such as ECC could be made a university tomorrow, it would not be quite as easy to make everyone think that way. North Carolina is well known for its fine institutions of higher learning. A division of their unity, would almost certainly be ill thought at the present time. Per haps someday in the future when North Carolina is a well-developed commercial state and doesn't re volve so heavily around its univer sities, such a move would be bene ficial. But not now. Umstead Act Discriminates Against All Of Chapel Hill We were given a list the other .jXay. which,. cited, the names of well over 100 stores and shops where students at UCLA could "go to fe ceive 10 per cent discounts on their purchases. A UCLA student could show his student body card and receive dis ; counts in clothes stores, auto re 1" pair garages, . camera shops, and j :nany others. The whole idea was -ood and showed a bright compe :' litive spirit among the stores which i decided to participate. But we were saddened when . we realized that in our own uni versity community there are a large number of stores which frankly exploit students and take advantage of their unique position! Clothing stores most frequently take the rap here, since clothes prices in Durham are distinctly : lower. . ; What it all boils down to is that ; most stores take advantage of the relatively small circle of avail v ability which students have for buying merchandise, and hide, un ; der the protective auspices of the : infamous Umstead Act. The Umstead Act expressly f or chids any State operation to sell ' l' services or merchandise in compe . tition with private interprise. Edu cational materials and other - items costing less than a quarter are excluded. V Needless to say, the Act has not . J been particularly helpful in driving i down community prices for the j benefit of the students. The Book . j Ex is in a constant row with town stores over whether it can sell items like UNC sweat shirts. Leg ally, it obviously cannot, but good grief! James Brown . Show Very Fine Believe it or not, few fraternity projects are as worthy as the James Brown show Thursday night in Durham, sponsored by the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. The show is for college students and offers them an opportunity for a lively time and a hoped for spirit of goodwill. The proceeds are all going to campus charities. In every way, it is an excellent project. , ' The other branches of the Uni versity are in a different situation, ; since the citig.ini which Jhey'aref located force competition by them selves. But in small Chapel Hill, there is no need for one store to try to undersell another when they can all benefit from higher prices. In one way of looking at it, Chapel Hill is discriminated against by the Umstead Act, since the Book Ex could easily cause price lowering if allowed to sell regular merchandise. The UCLA discount system will never work here. It will never be needed. And as long as the Act is on the books, Chapel Hill stores will have a relatively free hand in setting prices. But changing laws in favor of , the State and against private en terprise is very difficult. Maybe someday. . Sty iatiij ar 431 74 Years of Editorial Freedom Scott Goodfellow, Editor Tom Clark, Business Manager Sandy Tread well, Manag. Ed. John Askew .. Ad. Mgr. Peter Harris . .. Associate Ed. Don Campbell .. . . News Editor Donna Reif snider .... Feature Ed. Jeff MacNelly Sports Editor Owen Davis .. .. Asst. Spts. Ed. Jock Lauterer . .. . Photo Editor David Garvin ... ... Night Editor Mike McGowan .... Photographer Wayne Hurder .1 ... Copy Editor Ernest, Robl, Steve Knowlton, Carol Wonsavage, Diane Ellis, Karen Freeman, Hunter George, Drummond Bell, Owen Davis, Joey Leigh, Dennis Sanders, Joe Saunders, Penny Raynor, Jim Fields, Donna Reif snider Joe Coltrane, Julie Parke? . CARTOONISTS Bruce Strauch, Jeff MacNelly. The Daily Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, ex amination periods and vacations. Second class-postage paid at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semes ter; $3 per ; year. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 501 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, N. C. " pprrv p U f&ifZ Y rSx S& t " A Yy A i W-v 4 m MwjmMs 4 J - g. fag . James Hudson, Jr. Is Memaeity Alive? Thomas Gradgrind, sir is the epitome of the early bourgeois man in England, according to Charles Dickens in Hard : Times. I am inclined to agree : with Dickens in his portrayal of the bourgeois man. Thomas Gradgrind "per-, fectly ., devoid of sentiment," , "dictatorial," full of "hard , f acts."--' ...-j'JFacts. "..alone C : are?f: wanted in life. Plant nothing !, else, and root out everything else. You can only form the, minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will" ever be of any service to them, "quoth the Gradfrind, nevermore. "In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!" Does it sound familiar, reader? Does it have a twentieth century American ring to it? "Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the prin ciple that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir per emptorily Thomas Thomas Gradgrind. With a rule and a pair of scales, and the mul tiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and : measure any parcel of hu man nature, and tell you ex actly what, it comes to. It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic. You might hope to get some other nonsensical belief into ; the head of George Gradgrind, or Augustus Gradgrind,, " or John Gradgrind, or Joseph ; Gradgrind (all supposititious, non-existent persons), but into the head of Thomas Gradgrind no, sir!" The Thomas Gradgrinds have won their battle for pro minence in the Western world, particularly in this country. The whole country is based on Gradgrindism. The brourgeois ethic is in full sway. Everything can be explained scientifically. Everything can be calculated. Tears are mea sured in liters. Inner. . man is partitioned into neat little seg ments - by Freud. The . Grad-) grinds have everything figur ed out. And they tell , every one that they have it figured out. (Indeed, they tell it so loud that one might suspect that they are not sure that they have it all figured out, though their insecure modesty is not our main considera tion hare. Nevertheless, it is indicative of something, though I am not sure what, that Mr. Gradgrind's best friend, Mr. Bounderby, is af-4 fectionatly termed the Bui- iy of humility by Dickens.) Gradgrind teaching his chil dren "He seemed a gal vanizing apparatus, too, char ged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away." How many of . us have felt our imagingations stifled as we were growing up, smothered under a blanket of facts and techniques? It is not by chance that the schoolmas ter of Gradgrind's school is named Mr. M'Choakumchild. Imagination and sentiment have been brushed off as irre levant. When confronted with imagination or sentiment, the Gradgrinds answer, "We don't want to know anything about that, here. You musn't tell us about that, here." Well why not, Gradgrind?' Imagination cud sentiment are as real as your facts. You are the un real one, Gradgrind. A girl in the Gadgrind school .who gave consistently wrong answers was given a percen tage problem. "And I find (Mr. M'Choakumchild said) that in a given time a hun dred thousand persons went to sea on long voyages, and . only , five hundred . of them were drowned or burnt to : death. What is; : the , percen-: age?" The girl answered, "No thing. . . . to the relations and friends of the people who were killed." She was a great failure in the Gradgrind school. The bourgeois ethic is de-. humanizmg the world. Feel ings are replaced by calcula tions. We absolutely revel in the shining glory of a skyscrap er, but we see no glory in sincere gestures of humanity. We scorn the crying man, we 'mock the compassionate face. Yet the compassionate face is the one worthy of respect, es pecially when compared to the hard hollowness of the bour geois face. Just a short while ago, a former schoolmaster of mine expressed it in more modern terms in a speech he gave: "Too often the world is too much with us. What world? It might glitter like gold, but. does that prove its ultimate value? How much do we work at breaking the attitude bar rier? How often do we allow dollars and goods to serve in 4lien of warmth, guidance, and sense given as carefully as, within our own limitations, they can be?" There is a need to reverse the effects of the bourgeois ethic, and our best hopes lie in compassion. As my schoolmaster said, "Com passion: we need more of it, much more, and we need to show it and teach it." Lurk'; Bemeafli Us The strangest thing happened to me the other day. As I was meandering across campus in my usual sinister manner a satchel of dexedrine, marijuana, and animal crackers tucked under my Ban sprayed armpit the doors of Soutn wing suaaeniy burst open. Da da. There on the steps stood the Felicitous Fearsome Foursome, clad in the white robes of the se cret terror organization, H.E.L.M.S., a society dedi cated to the healthful extermination of liberal male students. Like a vanquished chamberlain who had not yet begun to fight, I wilted to the clay. Quickly realizing, however, the imminence of my untimely demise, I strapped on my tasseled Herme Hoppers ($59.95 at Juliano's), and took off for the library men's room. But, there was toilet paper to the left of me, toilet paper to the right of me, Cushman Rocket-sled S.S. in front, and the Felicitous Fearsome Foursome close behind. Chief Malamont, leader of the Cushman Rock et - sled S.S. , bore down upon me with a bible belt in one hand, and a ticket-tagger in the other. I knew there could be no escape. No, there was a chance! I veered off to. the right, praying to the great pump kin in the sky for deliverance. But, everyone was far more right than I. I could hear the master-mind of the Felicitous Fearsome Foursome, Sitherdaughter, shouting how glad he was to be a part of all this. Ye denizens of the deep! I'd been had. Thwonk! When I awoke, I found myself imprisoned in the torture chamber of Centralis Recordis. Cunning de vices of persuasion were everywhere. Univacs, I.B.M.s, secretaries. I struggled in vain against the tapes that bound me. Then, the Felicitous Fearsome Foursome advanc ed toward my prostrate form. Sitherdaughter began to lead the ancient chant of the Druid Baptist clique, as Kat Karmikel and I. Showedher joined in harmony. U. Catchey just smiled, since he wished to defer being drafted in on it himself." Boy, how I wished it were Friday. "Kill the pig! Drink his blood! Kill the pig! Drink his blood! they sang. The Felicitous Fearsome Fouresome continued to fly about and lord it over me until, all of, a sudden, Cookieman appeared out of the blue. It has long been rumored this hero4 was still alive in Argentina at the ; house oil Adolf i Shickelgruber, 4 collecting athletic sup porters along with Chaz Ericksteinsky, but now there he was in front of my fogged eyes. Cookieman (alias Longius Maximus) strode purposefully over to the Fe licitous Fearsome Foursome, who cowered against the wall in a state of complete procrastination. I was saved. I was freed. Cookieman had done it again. Not so'! Rallying to the cause, the Felicitous Fearsome Foursome belabored Cookieman about the brow, causing the sap to flow profusely. He expired without so much as a murmur. And so now, as I pen this note in hopes of having it smuggled out to the desk of crusading "Daily Tar toe" editor, Scottie Goodchap, there seems little chance I can make it out of this underground cell in Centralis Recordis. At least, not until I learn just how far right the Felicitous Fearsome Foursome can get. And that may take a long time. And then again, it may not. The strangest things can happen around here. American Militarisi Forceful Protests Harm Peace Advocates Cause From the Daily Iowan) Demonstrators have to walk the razor's edge between re sponsibility and irresponsibil ity. Students at. Jowa, for the most part, have made their demonstrations in a responsi ble manner with the excep tion of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). When Iowa stu dents recently demonstrated against Dow Chemical Corp. for producing napalm the pic keting was done in an orderly and responsible manner. x - Not so at the University of Wisconsin. There students bar ricaded the Wisconsin chancel lor in his office for three hours. The incident occurred when Dow came to the Wiscon sin campus for job interviews. Demonstrators at Wisconsin jammed the hallways just as some Iowa students did with the CIA. The motivation to protest the interview was basically the same for both Wisconsin and Iowa students the interview ers represented immoral agen cies. i The administration at Wis ' consin took more stringent ac tion against the demonstrators. ;ln fact Chancellor Robben W. v Fleming said he was willing to go through another Berkeley to show the protestors that what they were doing was wrong. He was referring to the 'Berkeley campus at the Uni versity of California where student demonstrations led to violence. The administration at Wisconsin flatly says, "We are not going to back down on this one.' , Wisconsin administration is right. Advocates of student po wer have a legitimate right to show their support or disap proval of policy in a man ner thai is responsible and le gal. Using force to impose will on others by protesters is just as illegal, immoral and irre sponsible as it is for any ag ency to impose its will on oth ers. If the demonstrators are mature and open - minded as they say they are, then they should realize that "might makes right" and "two wrongs make a right" do not fall into the classification of logic or fairness. Demonstrators, even when , they do use responsible and legal avenues of protest, are subject to criticism. When they go beyond responsibil ity and legality they are only hurting their cause more. Nic Goeres THE NEW HAMPSHIRE Yesterday being Wednesday, we wore our genuine patented World War I Flying Ace Cap and Goggles to class. The re actions of our fellow students ranged from jealousy and en vy from the boys, to sighs and squeals of admiration from the girls, 'several of whom we were forced to trample as we strode determinedly into His tory. We had done what we had set out to do, -however, we had proven that World War I is this year's fad, the hula -hoop of 1967. Sad to relate, our little re search project was marred by one. rather unfortunate inci dent: we were summoned to appear before a legislative committee to defend ourselves against a charge of mocking America's Great Military Tra dition. America's military tradition, by the way, was not originated by George Washington and the Minutemen of the American Revolution, although, astound ingly enoush. manv nnu okm ueueve myth. this romantic America's military tradition was actually established dur ing the War of the Clinging Vines, a short but bitter strug gle for the Island of Bimini fn 1747. This engagement was won, of course, by the Arabs, who, under the leadership of a direct ancestor of 'the pre sent leader of the United Arab Republic, released a swarm of tsetse flies in the American sector. The Arabs were later driven out by the British, who, im pressed by the ferocity of their outnumbered foe, named a nearby island after the Arab leader, who had perished tra gically while trying to cross a lake on camelback. Today, as everyone knows, Nasser in the Bahamas has been transform ed from a teeming island to a teeming.) . But we digress. A young man, hatless in the icy chill, strode up to us as we were researching, looked disgusted ly at our helmet and goggles, and whipped out the aforemen tioned summons. "My name is Murphy Fitz gerald McPeters, and I demand to know what you think you are doing," he demanded. We told him in no uncertain terms what we thought we were doing. "Let me say thi about that," he grouched, selfconsciously brushing a huge lock of hair from his eyes. "You are try ing to win converts for your cause by identifying yourself with America's Great Military Tradition, and I intend to ex pose you before the Legislature and the God-Fearing citizens of this state." "But I don't have a cause," we objected. "I am merely conducting a systematic socio logical survey." "Aha!" said McPeters. "So cialism, eh?" We finally convinced him that we meant no harm, and he went on his way. Last we heard, he plans to drop the charges against us because he is afraid of damaging UNITS image.
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