Page Four
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, March 25, 1956
Paqe Four THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, March 25, 1956
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ly ROY AKERS menial, marginal jobs. The Negro Imity, is still as remote to Rich- now bolt a defensive wall of hos- The old Southland of mint Julips
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer, as he ahys id remains a pawn, mond as San Francico. tility around their campus grounds. and magnolia blossoms has long
who has grown up in South, but this time in a new and more ABOVE and beyond the line of Autherine Lucy has assumed the since disappeared, finding its clos-
bases these observations on a re- difficult role. The South, caught reasoning there is the iamedi- status of General Grant and the est reality today in the fiction of
cent visit to Richmond, Virginia) in its own dilemma. is raging mad ate, overt action. The small, white prospective Negro student is told, Faulkner, Welty and Capote. But
-not at the Negro-but at the newsboy doesn't look up as he yells, "The Northern colleges would just the social mores have carried over
THE South of today and tonight "damnYankee" government that is "Read all about the Lucy case " love to have you. Go North, young into a newly industrialized clime
is a land of silent tensions. trying to control it, into the ears of a passing Negro lady, go North!" The clinging vines dotting with sprawling chemical
Wherever one walks there is the Whatever may or may not be l'dy who doesn't look down. And of Ivy have become fragile bars of plants and textile mills. The neigh-
said for an enforced abolishment the black and white boys who were stainless steel. borly intimacy of a rural society is
mask of fear and distruist. AndI
of segregation these thin"s do once fishing partners have for- The liberal voices of professors disappearing, and the black and
the Negroes and whites who yes- remain' There are the memories gotten, somehow, either to speak, and preachers in Richmond, At- the white men are becoming
terday were at least talking and handed down by word of mouth or to smile. lanta and Chapel Hill are gradu- strangers.
laughin with each other now pass from the Civil war. Memories of In the libraries of the homes of ally being stilled. He who speaks Is anti-segregation enforced by
by with their faces expressionless burned plantations. raped women New Orleans and Mobile freshly-- 'for the Negro now is speaking the courts really the answer? No
and their tongues still. and the sudden, horrible decadence clened rifles lean poised in the against the South. And he who one, including the Southerner,
The law-makers of Washington of a way of life'. The Southerners corners of polished walnut rooms. ss'aks atainst the South is quite really knows. But here and there
think they have an answer, and are a talking people and their Men are speaking 'sain in soft I likely to find a wooden cross burn- one finds a glimpse of what might
the editorial pages of the Northern words only make the legends grow voices of a once-lost cause. And ing on his lawn. The Ku Klux Klan tend to create a mutuality among
newspapers are brimming over bi",er. There are, as we said, the the listener is not left doubtinr is again donning its anonymous peoples. There was, for instance,
With solutions. But lsoking upon spoken memories. that these men would fight and and cowardly robes. the Richmond barber who said to
the pained, black and white faces There is, as well, a hostility to- die-not for or a" ainst the Negro- us, "I wouldn't trust any Negro
of Dixie the observer realizes that ward Northern capital that has bat for the freedom of their own THIS, then is Southland, U.S.A. in the world except Harvey."
the answer to uman problems exploited, and continues to exploit, personal beliefs and way of life, post Anti-Segregation. A South "Who is Harvey?" We asked.
must come as much from the heart the manpower and natural re- no matter how right or wrong not as it should be, but as it most "Harvey," the barber replied
as the mind. sources of the Southland. And to those beliefs and that way of life certainly is. The law has been with a smile, "is my friend."
The basic problem is still there; the average Southerner, the fed- might be. passed and tested in the courts, And friendship, one of the more
still, as much as it ever was, more eral government is still personified The universities and colleges and the editorial writers have of- elusive facets of human relation-
economic than racial. The same by the "Revooner" chasing the thust were becoming receptive to fered their many varied solutions. ships is still to be earned by the
poor Negroes and the same poor illicit moonshiners throuhs the msixed classe, in mind at least, have Still the problem remains. white and black men of Dixie.
whites are competing for the same hills. Washington, for all its prox-
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PAPER AIRPLANES & PANDEMONIUM
By EARL BRABB impatiently waits for the last class ANOTHER popular diversion is
'OR'S NOTE: Earl Brabb, to leave. This means that the occasioned by someone entering
outh graduate who re- door to the lecture hall is fre- the room with a hat on. There are
his master's degree from quently opened and slammed shut sentinels poised for such occasions
gan, is spending a year of and a few paper airplanes flown
in Pan. -stensibly learn- through the crack in the interval, an dtheir screams of "Chapeau.
'ology, but actually learn- A herald is usually slipped into the Chapeau!" alert the rest of i, ?
uch more about the Paris class to give the alarm the minute class. The screaming is accom-
it, as this article testi- the professor fiishea the lost panietd by a stamping of feet and,
phrase, in the student restaurants, by the
Once the alarm is given, pande-
EGE education In France monium breaks loose. All of the banging of knives on the tin trays.
marked by characteristics students try to get through the The noise continues of course until
the Michigan student, ac- door at once. The alarm has also the offender removes his or her
ed to mass education but been the signal for the late com- hat.
clined to comfort, may find ers to form a flying wedge and try For some reason or other the
hat startling. and crash through the mob. Fr seeaso ther e
rules for entrance are r"ig Africans seem to bitterly resent
It isn't enough to be in taking off their hats and will resist
SONCEthrough the door the stu- until it is obvious that the noise
per 10 percent of your high "dents leap madly across the will never stop unless they comply.
class, a distinction which of- tiers of benches and triumphantly I once saw an African walk out of
fRices under the American plant a coat, two or three brief- a restaurant with his hat still on
but the student is often cases, or even their body across as his hear rather than obey the
ted from reaching college many places as they can secure. wishes of the crowd and remove it.
eries of tests. Those that Prior possession is considered in- seachy all the courses are mime-
ints vocational schools or violate, and even the tip of a pen- ographed by a student co-opera-
cork. cil in an outstretched hand will tire, Since the courses do not
you make it, however, edu- hold a place, change substantially from year to
is virtually free of charge. One of the most amazing para- year, a student can buy the notes
ition at the Sorboanne was doxes of French society is that the of the course for around 75 cents
allars, and food and lade- battle for seats is led by the and merely make additions or cor-
re heavily subsidized by the "weaker" sex, who make up about rectians. The notes are particularly
ment. But in return for 60 percent of the class. The French valuable for the drawings, but the
imsidertion, the amount of male waits i nthe cafe discussing organization is helpful also. Text-
equired is tremendous, even politics and philosophy until his books are very expensive and are
elementary level. A com- girl friend has won the battle for rarely prescribed.
ight on Paris streets is the him and secured him a place. At
or eight-year-old lugging the last minute before the class he LAST, but not least, is the ques-
a briefcase full of books for strides majestically in and sits tion of the love affairs of
at home, down. French students. Although I am
HID hamdicaps are almost certainly no expert on this matter,
AN UNPLEASANT aftermath of a few observations are amusing. I
oal lack of student-professor the grand battle for seats con- have seen a boy and girl exchange
unship until the graduate cerns the problem of ventilation. kisses and caresses in the middle
and poor facilities which There isn't any. The heat of battle of a classroom occupied by 200
ly influence the character of naturally produces a large amount students. What is even more re-
udent. of body odor, and since only 16 markable is that no one of the
general the French school per cent of Paris families have a 200 students made any remarks.
1gs are very old, the equip-bathtub or shower, this effect is This situation is als true on
is either ouitrted or lack- not only lingering but accumula- the 'streets, in the subway and
id there is little library pace tive. I have never taken a ther- in the restaurants, and is probably
ehnical school s ith e O-ymometer to class, but I will bet one of the reasons why Paris is
. n athat even in January the tempera- called the city of love,
quipprd, phaps a point ture is more than 90 degrees. I have had many discussion with
Iilosophic comment. The Once inside and seated, there is the French students on this mat-
h Institute of Petroleum near a half-hour of boredom waiting ter and they tell me that the usual
for example, has a futuris- until the professor arrives. The reason they embrace in public is
ade of glass and stone, ex- half-hour of waiting is passed in that there is nowhere else to go.
equipment for study and different ways, nearly all involv- They certainly can't neck at home,
ch and fine library space. ing the throwing of an object. an old American custom. The
is the outline of the sys- The most common object is the morals of the French and in par-
But the specific case is some- paper airplane, usually made from ticular the French girls have been
amazing from an American's some leaflet passed out before directed and protected by the
of view. I will describe the class (the French are even more Church for centuries, and even
y lecture hall at the Sor- leaflet conscious than the Ameri- today the French girls have very
of the University of Paris. cans. The Communists and the little freedom - contrary to the
Church seem to print the most). opinion of most Americans.
HALL seats about 200 and Once the leafdets have been ex- Another factor to consider is the
in the form of an amphi- hausted, however, the quest turns fact that Paris receives students
e. Since only one-half of to other objects. Orange peels, from all countries of the world, in
ats give a good view of the waste paper, erasers, chalk, and particular Germany and Scandan-
soard, and since there are apple cores are flung from one end avia. These students bring with
00 students*in each geology, of the hall to the other. The eras- them a different set of values
is always a rush for seats. ers are usually well dipped in chalk which are often confused by the
mob forms about 45 min- before throwing to achieve that "tourists" as being French. Thus
efore the class begins and "powdered look." speaketh the French students.