University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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action, it is — again — because either the University of North Carolina has not offered us the prize worth com- peting for, or because we would rather concede the prize (whatever that prize may be, whether scholastic marks or campus fame, as mere self- satisfaction) to others who find the competition stimulating and who ad- judged the search worthwhile for its own sake. What is to be done if the Univer- sity has failed us, or if we have not met its just demands? First of all, how can the University of North Carolina — so long-renowned for its liberal traditions, its academic Page 17

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uncommitted and inactive • — no mat- ter what our attitude or actions, we formulated a statement reflecting the University ' s influence on us. If we dribbled balls or beat our palms red in praise of those who dribbled balls better than ourselves, it was because we found nothing better with which to occupy ourselves than the expert manipulation of leathery spheroids. And if — this is the least obvious but the most important — we retired within ourselves and concerned our- selves with neither books nor fra- ternities, nor politics nor sports, neither YMCA nor Playmakers — if we lived in a stagnant sphere of non- H V 7- ' H Hf i 1 ■ 01 ; | l ■ ■r 1- L - ' H . ' ' ' ' B fenJ | B§ Page 16

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freedom, its stimulating environment that lias influenced, molded and per- haps inspired such diverse personali- ties as Frank P. Graham and Junius Scales, Thomas Wolfe and Terry Sanford, Luther Hodges and Robert Welch — how can this wonderfully- varied environment have failed us the students? In several ways. The simple fact that Craige Dormitory lies fifteen minutes from the Old Well is a tacit admission that the size of the University is rapidly overtak- ing its quality. Lying like a sand- dripped castle all over the town, with the new dormitories as far away from the center of campus life (whatever that may be), Carolina approaches complete objectivity and dehumani- zation of the individual student. I can only speak for myself, but as a freshman whose first lodging was the inelegant basement of Cobb, and whose second abode was the new- smelling suites of Avery, I can say that I felt about at home in Chapel Hill as a backwoods farmer would feel at a Kennedy bossa-nova fete. Page 18