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S*iss Paper Selected L*uioti to Write
About Education for JoumaJ>ir
i
The mar. wr.orr tr.e Zurich (Sw.tzer
.anc i Gazette se.ected to write it* art
icle. “Prufe*..*iona', Education for Jourr
a..*rr ir America ' wa* a Chapel Hi!!tan
Norvaj Nei Lux n dear f th<
of journal;*:?. .r. the University nere
’r •r j. jiT', .<• Mr Luxor, r* - '. .rv> l
briefly the mstory of instruction m
journalism and ex; re.-.se- again the
opinion that he expressed -r. his pre*.-
oentia. address a* .a.-* year’s rr.eet»r.g of
the A-s'/c.atiOr. of Schools and Depart
ments of Journal.*!?.. namely, that
“education for journalism in this coun
try has grown too rapid;} for it* own
good’’ He writes:
‘ Among the more tnar. one hundred
and fifty schools and departments of
journalism there ar*- many which offer
poorly planned program- taught by
poorly-prepared teachers. Many teacr.-
ers are not interested ir; and do r.o re
search Much of the course work does
not compar*- favorably w.‘h university
*eve; requirements of o -r .*-r teacning
discipl.net. Some school.- perform r/
service for the newspapers of their
region other than the disservice of
• urr.ing out inadequately trained gradu
ates.
“Forty or fifty professional schools
of journalism. He*red at Institutions
with outstanding libraries, with nation
aflv recognized departments .r, the hu
manize- and the social science.-, w.th
r.g.d requirements for the first ’wo
year.-’ work in the hoeral ar..-, with
adequate budgets for ’he journal.-m
units, wjth staff members intere-ted
and actively engaged in reiy-arcn as
well as in teaching and service, will
serve the nation’.- newspaper- and other
media > f ma.-s communication far better
than one hundred fifty to one hundred
seventy-five schools, many of which are
.r.adequatejy taff*-d and supported
Mr Luxor, -ays tha* agr*-*‘rr,er.t w.th
tiirr <r *r. - 05 r ion ha- not been unani
mous “'I o date " he wnt* -, “no .n-titu*
tion ha- decided to end instruction in
journalism. On the coi.’rary, a' lea.-t
one institution ha- announced ’hat it
- opening a V. >rnc Hum ,n journalism*
with a teacher who will a.so hand!* the
.n-’jtjtjon'- public relations.”
Tr,e ia’--t count show- ft.oßß stu
dent- *-r p iled in the 99 schools and de
partments of journalism that answered
a questionnaire ( our.-e- m journalism
have b*-en offered in American universi
tie- and college-, chiefly laiid-grant
college- and state universities, since
]K72, but the first sch'/ol of journalism
with a program leading to a degree was
established at the I niver.-ity of Mis
souri in 1908.
Here are passages from Luxon - art
icle :
‘‘Staff members of the larger news
papers In the United .States possess
varied backgrounds of education and
experience. Some of the best-qualified
reporters and editors are virtually self
educated and have had little, if any,
education on the university level; others
hold degrees from liberal arts colleges
with majors in a wide variety of fields;
still others, and this is particularly true
of the younger staff members, are
graduates of professional schools of
journalism.”
“The most marked trend of the past
twenty-five years in professional educa
tion for journalism in the United States
is that toward graduate study, including
research. Journalism research in the
first twenty-five years hf the twentieth
century had been done chiefly by social
scientists in disciplines other than
journalism, but with the growth of
graduate work and the interrelation of
teaching and research on the profession-
al arid graduate level, teachers f joura
* -rr. and student* working ui»er their
dir’-ction have produced a repectable
body of knowledge and have attributed
ir. ne small degree * the advancement
of learning m the field.” *
“Recently there has beer anoticeap.e
trend t wires tne a; :• .ntme.t : prac
titioners rather than scholar r scien
tists to position* i .rf.uefce and re
sponsibihtv :r. ~cr * of jourr.a.ism.
The ideal backgr: and of a journalism
school acrr.inistra* r -r/ uld nc.ude b'th
media experience and academe achieve
ment The pendu.-m ir. sone instance*
seem tc re f winging r ack to tre early
practice where r.rw *pape: backgr und
constituted tre pred rr.ina'.t character
istics of dear.*, directors, and depart
jnent ctiii.r^TA r. * — i^dj.
Budgeteers -hortchange the ( olleges
Tne following v.-w- or. t.e Governor s
proposed capita, .mprov cnert budget
were published Tuesdav as the ;ead
editorial in the Unarlotte New*:
. Higher educati r. wa- lamentably
-nortc.ranged : y the hard-shelled
capital improvement budge* proposed *'-
the Genera. Assembly last rigrt ' y Gov.
Luther H. Hodge*.
It wa* a disappoint.r.g react/.r tc a
oeveioping cr.a.,eng*
A crisis of ma. r proportion* 1- fac
.r.g state - upported .n*t.’.tior.- of high
er learning in North (Volina. Cm.*-
r-s-rn* are already crowdet. Enro.iment
are zooming. And the w r-t is yet tc
come.
During the 1&47-57 oecade, enrcll
mer.ts m these college- increa.-ed ib
per cent—from. 24.Wj ir. 1D47 tc
in 19ft7. In the ten-year period between
3959 and 1969. enrollments are expect
ed to increa--*- 66 per cent —fr .rr almost
20.000 to a Pout 50.000.
Tnewr aren’t our e*tirr.ate- Tr.ev are
taken from the governor - b.enn.a. rr.e
age denvered to the legislator* Thur*-
day afternoon. Four da;- - later Mr. H*xi
ge- and his I'onom / adv.-er- */y f. tr.e
rather conservative capital :mprove
mer.’* program * f *r * n’.ate Hoard of
Higher Education and made hash of .*..
Proper note wa- taken of the long
range building need-. P>’. the budge*-
makers announced: “We feei ’hat at the
pres* n*. time the state can undertake to
prov.de fer only part of these [.'rej
ects.”
It .« regrettable.
A half dozen years ago the S2O ,mii
iion pro;/j-*-d for state-supported .r.-ti
tut. n.« of higher learning mig.ot have
i<y.s*-d quite respectable After a.. lur
ing the entire 1947-57 decade, the (sen
era. Assembly appropriated only 43 05
rn. ..<■[> for capital improvements in ’.oe
co .* ge-. '1 hat helped get these institu
tion* over one hump. But a bigger or.e
]je- u.-t ahead
( • rtain.y community college- car he
depended u;/.n to take some of tne er.
ro .rnent pressure off the state b.g dor
mitory-type college- The value of c*<m
munr > colleges i.» o-rtainly rec'*gh<zed
in Kaieign. They received a note wort r.y
,-aiute m the governor’s biennial mo
-age las’ week. But the proposed new
budget provides only 1 1 2 million on a
rnatu hing basis for buildings at ( har
lot!.*- A*heville and Wilmington Despite
the prai-e. the proper rob- of 'ornrr, inity
•tao -upported institution* of higher
co;.* g* » in North ( arolina - sy stem of
learning ».a» not been properly appre
<iated. S*/rne reappraising need- t*. be
don*-.
Higher education was not the only
budget casualty. Many important proj
ect.- were axed completely by the bud
get -makers. Unlike education, most can
probably wait. However s4'? million
was D eluded for a new home for the
iegi.-lat jre and $600,000 to help pre
serve the harrier islands on North
Carolina's outer banks. There is a ciear
-1 ut need for a new legislative hall (but
when lawmakers measure the need
against the educational crisis they
might -ee their way clear to put off con
struction for another biennium) and
we certainly agree that every reason
able effort ought to be made to save the
outer banks. Other items will bear close
-< rutiny during the critical weeks and
months ahead. With the legislature
meeting only other year, a mis
take in judgment and in emphasis can
l>e costly.
The Public Is Being Well Informed
About The Re»*earch Triangle
The keen interest that the Research
Triangle has aroused throughout the
State is due not only to the merit of the
project but also to the Intelligent way in
which it has been presented to the pub-
THE CHAPEL HILI WEEKLY
-.- Sights Cf Sounds
■ J. S. NageLschmidt ■-*
Last **-tt 1 ttuched brief-j
or. i Mb*c! dear to :he heart*
of numerous Chape: HiUians—
r.ar'.e-dropp’.r.? 1 sha'.i gc one
«*ep fortber and drop some
-a me* cl my owr.
Gary Cooper for example One
would tr.ir.k that tne tall rough
Pcisec mar. was .*by and quiet
off-*'~eer. When I me*, him. he
<a< al these thugs One's ac
:?&r of V.ckey Rooney is per
rap* tr.at of a brash young mar.
ano likes* attention My fe»
minutes *per' with Andy Hardy
revealed httie irf'erence between
the or-screen Rooney and the
off-screes ore ** for Rosalind
Ruti-el she »a- coo: and dig
ri.ee The or;y ceiwnty I met
w.rose rand enveloped my own.
was Janes Stewart, .be of the
c,-a*..rg ger.A_:y. a sor. of
perpetual Mr Lee* When I
me* him r* ux seemed no dif
ferent from ary of the roie* he
portrayed
1 am r*t at a.! hie the fei
<.w .r Ourram -he waited naif
tre r.rr.; tc see a jet fream of
am bit* -p NfarJyn Monroe's
skurt twerty*.i times an re
rear sals in a New York subway
for scenes for a film But she
sat about a dozer, rows from, me
when I saw 3yx*k Homeward
Angel .2 New York a year age,
Her beauty fu.fu.ed a_ expects
t,<n* and. jvaeed her husband,
p.aywr.gbt Arthur M.2er. was
more handsome than rewspaper
p.cture* show Orly the night be
fore a* the rouse-lights went
oc wr for tne f.rs* act of West
Side Story 1 wa* giver, a start
'wr.es Ava Gardner f*2ed the
empty seat r.ext to m_re Later
1* -er ae crated sre was quite
'.f o ?**:.' Vj rr.y
Now and Then B) Bill Prouty
Last Thursday mgfct 1 -napped '.n
*r.e ’*-,*-..*/n ,*et ar.d settled down .r.
an ea.-y chair.
And wo.id you believe it before 1
got jp out of that chair about two hours.
ia’*-r 1 wa.s ar. e'tjcated osn'.
The station was WUNC-TV, wmrh
come* in grand on my ittle porta.oie
-et, but which I hardly ever tin*- ir. un
less. •r.ere‘* something real special ..ke
the opening of the I>-gi*.ature or ba--
ketba.l.
Actually, to ten the truth, I’d plamed
to view Ozz.e and Harriet and tne re*t
of the Nelsons and 1 thojght J was on
Channel 5. But a- the set warme*) up
I thought 1 saw Dr. H D. Crockford,
surrounded by a ,ot of chemical appara
tus, lecturing on chemistry.
It wa.-, and as he ta.ked and ga.e
demonstration* about element* ar.d the
elementary laws and principles of
chemistry (they weren’t, however, elem
entary to rnelj 1 wa- fascinated. (Jzzie
and Harriet were clean forgotten.
This, was from 7:20 to 8 o’clock, and
at the end of the program J thought
I d turn to Ste\e < anyon on another
channel, but to this da;. 1 don't know
what happened to /’•-.*- ] stayed tun
ed to WUNC and -aw Jim Ke.fl, a tel
ephone executive, and an economist ar,d
an electronic* engineer, both of State
College, talk about the telephone.
Now you might think that a
panel on the subject of the telephone
would not he very interesting. But this
one was. They discussed the Instru
ment's economic possibilities (it plays
such a tremendous part in our economy)
and talked*.-of its future in our lives,
even discussing the now almost, per
fected television telephone. It was an
interesting arid informative half hour
for me, this “Perspective” as it’s called.
By now 1 didn’t even consult rfiy
paper to see what was on in the enter
tainment field (I haven’t been viewing
TV long enough to b* familiar with the
programs), having completely dedicated
myself to education, however elemen
lic.
It was the subject of Watts Hill’s
talk at last week’s meeting of the Fac
ulty Club. 1 was impressed by the dear
ness with which he explained all the
details of this remarkable enterprise
and by his good judgment in illustrat
ing his talk with large-scale maps on
which sections of the Triangle were
marked off in colors.
I am glad that Mr. Hill is enlighten
ing other gatherings in the same way.
This is an important contribution to the
success of the project. —L.G.
! hid just come np" from North
Carolina, Under her white feath
er bead-bugging cap and some
he* recognizable through a *Jx
er. curtain of perfume, was a
string and interesting face
wheh if not beautiful could have
passed for the next thing to it
Louise Lament relates the
most interesting Tallulah Bank
head stories My encounter with
th< fmebrand thespiar. lasted
only a ‘ow minutes, during which
sh* was high, but not mighty,
ark even favored me with one
"dshling I met M.ss Bank
he.d a: about 2 ayerr. in New
Ycrk. and she was fully ciothed
When I met the late Faith Bacon
fai dancer extraordinary, she
wire only a g-string under her
mni coat and she had the ut
most difficulty m keeping her
eta* closed Bunoniess it was
When interviewing Helen
Hayes too many years ago I
vas surprised at her dimunut.v
etess and delighted with her
uc.o'us def.mtioc of acting, m
udin.g her description of the
•*o prmc pa! technique* employ
'd by actors in producing s’age
t.rars
In my salad days long
ore Kraft got a hold of an
lal.an dressing rec.pe I was
remaps •ne only New York C.ty
our.gr.er who sought autographs
-xclusively of Sr.aiiespearean
performer s I was honest per -
aps "x a fau.t .r, obtam/.g s.g
-atures only of those actors
-note performances I had seen
and enjoyed Maurice Evans.
Brian .Ahem, John G.elgud Les
e Howard and a bos*, of lesser
f.aown actors whose perform
ances I still recall w.th delight
I "ran into as they say
Jxdy Garland after she had com
’.ary. Ar.d I wa* not to r*- disappointed.
From 8:20 to 9 o'clock there wa* a
beginners’ lecture on ceramic.- by two
.State College engineer- which wa.- -im
ply fa.-cunatir.g Ne .er did Ureaiize the
extent to wmch ceramic- (in which
industry North Carolina i- a national
leader) ar*- invoiced in our everyday
iix.r.g arid econorr. The series promis
es to be extremely interesting.
During this whole time I hadn’t even
gone to the site fieri to construct one of
those stomach-stretching sandwiches
I usually -lap together during commerci
al* in the regular shows (WUNC-TV
doesn't ha.e any commercials!). But
I did manage to throw together a mor
sel before the r.ext show.
This proved to be Music Appreciation,
a course which is given over the air
for college credit.
And thi- v.a- a particularly interest
ing lecture for me because it took up
eacn instrument in the orchestra and
discussed it and included a passage
from an orchestration which showed
the instrument to its best advantage.
And there I’d had the beginnings of
a g'Hid practical education by viewing
two hours on only one night. All through
. tne school-year WUNC-TV sends out
these educational and informative pro
gram-. For instance, this week’s pro
gram will include, in addition to Thurs
day’s schedule, Music Appreciation
and Elementary Russian on Monday;
Today On the Farm, I’iano by TV, Solid
Geometry and Chemistry, Tuesday;
Science and Nature, Reading, Modem
Teacher Methods, Career Opportuni
ties, Solid Geometry, Music for Young
People, Music Appreciation and Elemen
tary Russian, Wednesday; and Contro
versy, Do You Know?, Sewing and
Notes on Music, Friday.
A man could really learn something
by viewing all or any part of that full
and comprehensive program. And lots
of people are doing just that.
Tuesday’s papers carried the story
that the Advisory Budget Commission
had recommended nearly a quarter of
a million dollars for operating expenses
for WUNC-TV for the next two years.
This is less than asked for, but the Com
mission’s recommended cut was a far
cry from the 50G slashed from the
asked appropriations by the 1957 Gen
eral Assembly. Educational television
has had tough sledding, but it's here
to stay and almost everybody,"includ
ing the Advisory Budget Commission,
realizes i*. The possibilities for educa
tion by television are almost unlimited.
It’s up to North Carolina to support
this great teaching medium.
pleted the "Wizard of Oz." Bear
ing in mind Marie Torre's predi
cament I dare not comment on
Miss Garland s appearance ex
cept to state unequivocally that
her hair, hennaed for her role,
was growing in or out. again
and that she looke-d off screen
exactly the same a* on it I re
member dearly that she w as not
even slightly interested in my
presence
If. while in New York, one is
observant and wJLr.g to go out
of. one's way a block or two.
celebrities may like the p’.ata
pusses' in the Bronx Zoo be
seen going about performing
their daily tasks Some ce’.ebr.-
tie* I have seen darting about
to and fro on New York streets
are Grace Moore. Kitty Car
lisle, Arthur Murray, Ed Begley,
Sylvia Sydney, and Gregory
Peck
But dor. t shortchange the Tar
Heel state as a place in which
one may come upon celebri’.es
It was in the lobby in the Wash
ington Duke Hotel that 1 finally
met ’up with Igor Youskevitch.
the brilliant ballet dancer with
the Ballet Tne a tre I reminded
Mr Y that we had had our U S,
Navy root training together and
tha: 1 had tried vamly to find
him at home in his barracks In
Charlotte recently I was amused
to see a tall, wickedly handsome,
black-clad shoestring-tied gentle
man - -rroundv-C by an entour
age of publicity men Thus gal
lant it turned out was none
ether than "Eat Mas ter* on "
Somehow it seemed a fitting
cl.rr.zx to my years of celebrity
watching Perhaps all that re
mains now is to make the acq
uamtance of Mickey Mouse .n
an old Chape! HJI frat house
1 Like Chapel Hill
By Billy Arthur
So much about young people kissing at East Carolina
College has been in the papers lately that I’m impelled
to get my dime's worth in print. Plus the tax.
Kissing is one of the remnants of canibalism. In the
beginning it was nothing more than the carnivorous
impui>e to bite. Now it’s apparent that the kiss means
that “I love you well enough to eat you.”
In the interim kissing evolved to a mere form of
salutation. There was kissing the feet of idols. Then St.
Paul extended the holy kiss to the forehead, signifying ;
love and brotherhood. It was a harmless thing. But as Jl
times became less rigorous, the distance Ix-tween the
forehead and the lips seemed to shorten, according to
the anthropologists. Other students of mankind took a
practical approach to the subject, and by experience
found a more intelligent reason for kissing. It fascinated
them. It interested them. It continues interesting to me.
The historians, for instance, those who recorded the.
story of Rachel and Jacob and sheep watering, neglected
matters of real importance to the human race by not
recording when the kiss sensibly changed from a per
functory act to something more vital and worthwhile.
To begin with, then, at the beginning. What is a
kiss? Is it a necessity or a luxury? Is it beneficial or
harmful? Why in history has it received so little atten
tion when it deserved so much?
Custom plays a large part in answering these ques
tions. Even the marriage service does not obligate one
to kiss the other, but nobody questions the implied right
to practice it at suitable moments. We may assume, too,
that in a large majority of the cases, the practice has
not been neglected during courtship. But whether in
either case it is to be beneficial or harmful depends on
whether a nice balance is maintained between the spirit
ual gain and the physical injury.
Kissing never received much attention from the
scholars. Maybe thinking and kissing don’t go well to
gether. If true, it wouldn’t take me long to choose
between them. Or, maybe the scholars closed their eye's
to kissing. That’s very essential.
Moralists look upon a kiss as the token of the most
intimate communication of love and, therefore, permit
ted only in the marital state. To the naturalist, it is the
bringing into juxtapsition two contrarily charged poles
by which it, as an electric spark, is elicited. The antiquar
ian finds kissing something handed down from the
Greeks and Romans, the true meaning of which they
don’t explain. Probably it is symbolic of the sun’s rays
hitting the earth.
Most of the theologians regard a kiss as an emble
matic action by which the blending of the heavens to
the earth is symbolized. The doctor looks upon a kiss
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CHAPEL HILL CHAFF
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headquarters in Delhi, he directed the Rockefeller
dation’s anti-hookworm campaigns in the whole <>f India.
His retirement came due in 1942 when the United
States was at war with Germany. Submarines were
roaming the seas in quest of American vessels to des
troy. The big question for Dr. Jacocks was: could he
get home with all the trunks arid boxes of treasure he
had collected stay in Asia? No submarines
appeared in the course of the voyage across the South
Atlantic and he made a safe landing in New York.
The North ( arolina Board of Health drafted him
into service and for a while he had an office in Raleigh.
Now he is living at the Carolina Inn here and many of
the things he brought with him objects of art in
precious and semi-precious stones, glass and ivory and
metal, a wide variety of curios, household and personal
ornaments, rare maps and prints, and fine editions of
books —• are on display in the Library.
The bulletin I had received made it appear that "Al
comar" was a sensational discovery that might lead t K
the easy slaughter df hookworms throughout the world.
J -aid to myself: “I’ll ask Dr. Jacocks what about this.”
1 left the bulletin at the Inn for him. When I called on
him a couple of days later he had read it through.
“I don’t know just what’s in the drug,” he said. “The
drug manufacturers have their secret formulas, for
which, of course, they make big claims. This ‘Alcomar’
may or may not be worth something.”
This non-committal statement did not disappoint me.
I did not really care whether ‘Alcomar’ was any good or
not. But I was grateful to it for providing me an incen
tive for a call on a friend whom I do not see often
enough. Bill Jacocks and I were students here at the
same time about sixty years ago and saw a lot of one
another because we played on the football team together.
It is remarkable, how vigorous and alert he is. You
could never believe he is 81 years old unless there was
documentary evidence of it in the Alumni Directory and
Who’s Who in America. The way he moves about, the
way he talks, his responses in general, almost persuade
you that he could play football today if he were inclined
to. His contemporaries admire him and are jealous of his
youthfulness. ||^
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