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Make IFC M When students and administration or fac ulty members sit down to discuss a student problem, a suitable and amiable solution is usually reached. This was proved, once again, last week when members of the Inter-fraternity Coun cil met with members of the University Administration to discuss several points which have bothered fraternity members for years. The fraternities were successful in ac complishing their mission on the first point, which concerned allowing the Greek-letter organizations to have girls in their chapter rooms for chaperoned affairs. There is no reason why this could not have been ac complished years ago except that the IFC has been largely ineffective and that the Administration has been anti-fraternity. No immediate results were made on the other three points on the meeting's agenda, but if the fraternities' governing body will present the facts to the Administration with logical reason for each request-and there are logical reasons-some solution will eventually be reached to at least two of them. This is where IFC fell down at the recent meeting. Although there were logical points in their favor in each of these issues, IFC was not prepared to present them. We are not attempting to criticize IFC, for the present administration under Joe Pearce has been more successful than any in recent Guilty Or I Men have been guilty of making scape goats of their fellow men throughout the ages. Making the Jew his scapegoat seemed to be the favorite pastime of Adolf Hitler, who exterminated more than five million of them in the most inhumane genocidal act this world has ever known. In the newspapers of last weekend, we learned that the Reds also have once again i turned to "scapegoatism" as a means of dis- 1 tracting the public's attention from the evils i of Communism, and the Jew-the perennial European scapegoat-seemed to take the blame. Fourteen defendants, whose "guilt" was predetdrmined, were put on trial in Red i Czechoslovakia for "planning to liquidate the i people's democratic system, to restore capitalism, tear Czechoslovakia from its firm alliance with the Soviet Union and take it into the camp of imperialism." Eleven were sentenced to death, three to life terms in prison. Eleven of the fourteen were of Jewish - From Other Campuses Collegiate NOT THEF PUBLIC'S i Arginine that it BUSINESS . . . loffer minority gro The Interfraternity Council at --such as those foi Augustana college, Ill., refusedanAmrcn d last week to let the student news-blmdtean paper there cover its meetings."acpigshlr "I don't think that proceed- wiePoetn ings of the Council should be gopwihi open to the public, as they dsrmntdaa would be if a reporter wereciy" ahlowed to attend," said a Coun- Adi sqe cil spokesman. "Fraternities are tne h dtr secret organizations-their bus- tdnwhha iness is not the business of the casheose campus."te sdc Commentedl the Augustana Ob- Aeia ru server: "We have no dlesire to spytrledcedi on anyone, only to observe thedeorc. news . . . It is with great dis- h pakta app)ointment that 'we bow to the toes a h wisdom of the Grecian sages." cetacpne SCHOLARSHIP WITH!MmralFn STRINGS . . .liieto"un The Michigan D)aily slammedofmeiaane the University administration Dsrmnto for its policy of restrictingcoedinteni scholarships to members of cer-goshuigst tam rcesndreigios,aed Chg am Member f A~wite roitestants Foude Jnury30.198.wihogru whlioch iozls ediog,"Te Gmco~k i pulihedb"And fort tiue on oliaysan dun eatined the edior endrseent Th riht , eit caurseed hei EDITR.........the. seec Bw MANGIGADIORrALropH FEATUREEDITORparbat COoY EDITORar nes EXCiscrimination CIRCULATION theNUniR ASST.BUSINSSwMNGEFR..A..REATER re Effective years. We do, however, have a few sug gestions so that the governing body of the fraternal orders will be more effective in the future. First, there should be some provision in IFC's constitution requiring that each repre sentative must be either the president or the vice-president of his respective fraternity. At present, some fraternities elect a presi dent, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, his torian and a multitude of unimportant offi cers. Then-not to be guilty of allowing dual-office holding-they usually elect the next best man, who is in reality the seventh or eighth best man, to represent them on IFC. Second, IFC should revoke the law passed last Monday saying that it should meet only twice a month instead of every week. If IFC is to do the job which it should, it can certainly keep busy every week. Third, IFC should be given more power by the individual fraternities and also by the administration so that it can accomplish something. Fourth, IFC should strive to eliminate some of the discriminatory rulings which exist to the disadvantage of fraternities and fraternity members now. We will point out two of these discriminations next week. Only by having an effective Inter-fratern ity Council and the cooperation of the Ad ministration can the fraternities attain their rightful position on the Carolina campus. B.N. lot Guilty? origin and the trial was an obvious attempt to brand the Jews as scapegoats for Czecho slovakia's failure to fulfill Russian orders for industrial and war supplies, according to an Associated Press news story. The employment of another as one's scapegoat has become a natural tendency. We, as students, use it when we explain our nid-semester grades to our parents by giving :he alibi that the professor was too hard or vas unfair. Hitler and Stalin have made the Jew the scapegoat. Although Americans, as a people, mave never been accused of this totalitarian )ractice which we call "scapegoatism," are iot we guilty-to a lesser degree-of making he Negro the scapegoat of the South's ailures or evils? With Religious Emphasis Week beginning n two (lays, let us give thought to the fo! owing question: Whether I be a Catholic, Protestant or Jew, is "scapegoatism" in ac ordance with the beliefs of my religion? -B. N. Clppings is legitimate to 1 The Maroon claimed that up scholarships University housing files were -Negroes, Jews not being checked for discrimina ians-the Daily tion, by order of the student inistrat ion for government. After pressure ships limited to from the newspaper, the student Americans-a government official rescinded certainly not this order, saying, "A fellow nst in this so- can change his mind, can't he?" ,, I CAN HEAR IT NOW ... itionable," con- Ohio State's 1963 yearbook, al wether a "The Makio," will be heard as well hite meberof t each yearbook there will be asidePebent a 15-minute phonograph record the indee bee of some of the sounds most the piri of familiar to Ohio State students igie h o--the chimes, the marching band, ignitersity's con- school songs and excerpts from Unvriysr-speeches by campus .leaders. of the Loving UP You TWO .. . or scholarships Gambling in the Ventura college 'hristian women card playing room is getting out tors." of hand, according to the Ventura has been un- "Pirate Press." rersity of Chica- 'rhe administration has threat p, according to ened to revoke all card playing ~on. privileges if the gambling con tinues. PA YS TO A DVERTSE .. . Ad in the UCLA "Daily Bruin": "Will the blonde young lady who wore sun glasses Thursday morn ing (besides other things) be in the cafeteria between 11 and 12 NA am? AND THE BROOKLYN as the first BRIDGE?... let fteThe girls at Texas State Col the cllege lege for Women are still pulling ",ot* variations on the old gag of selling the Brooklyn bridge to LL NOVIT the uninitiated. A freshman GREGORY there proudly told a friend that PARASHO she had bought a ticket from a mie Herbert senior guaranteeing her a free [acCourtney ride in the administration build Johiny Ray ing elevator. me Presnell IRR ATIONA L RATIO . . a Thompson Men, if you think: the ratio of L. Artemes males to females at Carolina is Alan Baker too steep, try attending David ..Bob Pitts son college. Its enrollment: 825 lobby Smith men, on wma. JOHN DUFFY Right to B Is Genius c There is much talk in this country about saving our American ideals from destruction at the hands of Communists and fellow travellers. There are many who would rise to defend our national sovereignity against the United a Niations, or our alledged Free I Enterprise System against social- r ism. There are equally as many v vho wish to preserve what they r >elieve to be the ideals of our v .orefathers in such organizations a is the D.A.R. or the U.D.C. Free- a iom of the Press and Freedom of Religion do not lack promoters. There is one freedom, however, t which seems to have been sadly neglected. That freedom is free dom of thought-that freedom which was so precious to our ancestors, the right to be different, to be an Emerson or a Thoreau, a Veblen or a Henry George; that freedom which has produced the peculiar products which we like to think of as the expressions of the Genius of America. One outstanding American how ever is unafraid to voice his anxiety for freedom of thought. Hep i, a gret msan with a great mind which easily overshadows the pygmy minds of any would-be critics. It is with pride that I give the rest of this column over to the thought of America's lead ing jurist, Learned Hand. Judge Hand has this to say in the Nov. 22 issue of the Saturday Reviewv of Literature: "God knows there is risk in refusing to act till the facts are all in; but is there not greater risk in abandoning the conditions E Different >f America )f all rational inquiry ? Risk for isk, for myself I had rather take ny chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread ibroad a spirit of general suspicion nd distrust, which accepts rumor Lnd gossip in place of undismayed nd unintimidated inquiry. I be ieve that that community is al eady in process of dissolution vhere each man begins to eye his eighbor as a possible enemy, vhere nonconformity with the ccepted creed, political as well a religious, is a mark of dis ffection; where denunciation, vithout specification or backing, akes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dis ent; where faith in the eventual upremacy of reason has become o timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists o win or lose. Such fears as hose are a solvent that can eat )ut the cement that binds the stones together; they may in the mnd subject us to a despotism as evil as that we dread; and they yan be allayed only insofar as wve refuse to proceed on suspicion, aind trust one another until we have tangible ground for mis giving." "The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free dis cussion. I do not say that these will suffice; who knows but we may be on a slope which leads down to aboriginal savagery. But of this I am sure: if we are to escape, we must not yield a foot upon demanding a fair field, and an honest race, to all ideas . .. umnda kt may give me. a -.-o." GLORIA RODDEY Two Definitions People talk a great deal about the national educational 3ystem. Some say that it is very good and others that it is very bad. Some say that it needs functional and administra, tive improvements. Very few people attempt to ascertain the value of this system in the light of its academic purposes. Education has been compromised upon so' much that it :an now mean anything. Different definitions affect the value )f the system. Until we accept some certain definition of !ducation we have no basis on which to establish either our praises or our criticisms. When people speak of educational ;ystems, they should define their concept of education and then proceed to analyze the system. In actuality, our educa. tional system is very good if efficiency is the standard; if rofundity is the standard, it is very poor. Let's consider this: Education can be vocational training, .arm training, business training. A person can be educated n any field. The strange thing, however, is that people who go to trade schools are not referred to as educated men. rherefore education as a word seems to have some classic lefinition which only slightly depends on practical training. The Secretary of State is usually referred to as an edu. :ated man, he might sometimes be introduced as a man who inderstands the principles of -government. The doctor is :onsidered an educated man when others say of him that he inderstands the principles of science. The artist is respected y intellectuals when he is considered a consummate artist, when he is said to understand the principles of art. Educated people, then, might be those who understand principles ... the theories behind the facts. Some people call this integrated thought. Now since this seems to be a somewhat pertinent defi. nition of education, let us start from this point to criticize ur educational system. If education does really consist in an ntegrated understanding of fact and theory, then our edu :ational system is sad indeed. It has almost completely failed, Perhaps a million students walk forward each year, degree under arm, who know every part of a typewriter, every fact n history, and every note on the scale, but who have no :onceivable idea of what part these things play in a universe generally considered to be harmonious. Mass education is a strange thing, it insists on teaching ;hose who, perhaps, cannot truly learn. The ultimate result >f this is that only those things that can be learned by the nost will be taught. It is in this way that education has been ;plit in half by compromise. The system shows not even the ast drop of mercy by at least exposing us to profound thinking. Our educational system is bad by terms of this definition. By terms of other definitions, it may be very good. If educa ion exists in order to supply sufficient training to work, live, nd vote sanely .. . then it is good. Our system has accomp: ished that. It's really a matter'of learning that will make us either hiopeful or deapairing. TERRELL GLENN Opportunity Gone By From the time of our childhood to the present day, we have been confronted with lectures and homilies about the sin of letting the proverbial door of opportunity close in our face. In time we become immune to such advice and shrug it off as being trite, just another cliche. In our attempt to be sophisticated we lose sight of the truth before us. The daily routine is so imbedded in our nature that we are afraid to reach out for the chance and even to receive the gift. This morning one of the foremost regional poets of our country will be on our campus. For the effort that is needed to walk to Drayton Hall we may be enlightened and enter tamed, but will we? We will complain about the need for a new auditorium here at Carolina. We will bemoan the lack of outstanding names on our faculty, but will we walk to Drayton Hall? For many years the YMCA has sponsored some of the finest religious emphasis weeks on any college campus in America. Today we will say that we mean to go to each convocation and attend at least one discussion group. Next Friday we will find ourselves wondering where the week went and telling ourselves that we really meant to take advantage of it. Before we are aware of the time gone by3 we will find ourselves again anticipating another such week of religious opportunity on our campus. To what degree is this true of our entire outlook on the college career? How much of our life is based on the philoso phy of Scarlet O'Hara in saying, "Oh well, tomorrow is another day." It's too late to do anything about the class work of this semester, but next semester will be a different story. If this is our attitude, then wherein is the value of a mid-semester report that lets us know the work is needed? Too soon we find that the day of reaching out a hand for a diploma has arrived. True, we receive the degree, but for how much worth to ourselves? A minister, addressing a high school gave an illustration of such an attitude by describing life as a walk down a long hall with many doors. For some'of us certain doors open but we continue to walk by, afraid to step out of the hall, for others another door opens, but they continue to walk by, Un willing to expend the effort to investigate what lies beyond. And then, we find ourselves at the end of the hall with only one door left, not the door of our choice, but the door to failure. We must take this way because there is none left, we have passed the others by. Trite, Maybe? But how mc of it is tru.th!