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THE TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1944
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FREEZING STUDENT GOVERNMENT
In one issue of tHe Carolina Mag last winter former Tar Heel
Editor Kat Hill voiced the sentiments xf ' many Carolina stu
dents when' she proposed that student government at Chapel
Hill be put on ice for the duration. Interest in the Legislature
and Student Council was at a low ebb, and there were many on
campus who shared her views.
On November 30 a record number of Tar Heels participated
in one of the closest and most heated campus elections ever held.
In almost every case the majority was slim. In two of the con
tests, run-off s had to be held because neither candidate had at
tained a majority of the votes cast. The crowd in the main
lounge of Graham Memorial was grim. Not until the last re
turns were in after 2 a. m. was anyone really sure of victory,
j The students had risen, had renewed their interest in their
government, and had elected the people whom tjiey felt could
best handle their interests until April. -
Thursday evening the new Student Legislature met for the
first time under its new Speaker. No time was wasted. They
were down to' brass tacks before they started. The Ways and
Means Committee reported out a bill to end the confusion creat
ed by the overlapping authority of various campus bodies. The
bill proposes a nine-man . select committee to investigate and
recommend practices for the simplification, clarification and re
vision of Carolina student government. , If passed it will oil
the already moving machinery of the student government of
i which we so proudly boast.
For a long time the Legislature has been without accurate
archives to go for precedents and past actions. Minutes of
meetings have been lost and destroyed. Bills, acts and resolu
tions have been carelessly left in myriad places. On Thursday
Speaker Doug Hunt appointed Bob Lipton, a law student, to
codify the past actions of the Legislature into a working
archive.
With both the proposal for investigation and the codifica
tion of Carolina's legislative actions we heartily concur. We
ask strongly that those concerned prove that student govern
ment is on its feet again, and raring to go.
To a stray few who still think that student government is so
cold an issue that it
smoke." J. D.
should be
INCOMPETENT COLUMNISTS?
Erroneous and incompetent reporting and observing of the1
columnists are not the responsibility of this newspaper. (See
standing head in upper right corner of this page.) The colum-
ions.
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columns ana ieatures are printed m tne oeiiei tnat iney are
of interest to the majority of readers. If the selection of ma
terial has not been correct your voiced opinions in letters will
be heeded and will be the guide. Any columns or articles may
be submitted for consideration.
Faulty reporting is an unforgivable journalistic faux-pas,
and evidence of malfeasoning and inefficiency. It will not be
tolerated.
A VALUABLE HALF HOUR
Next Tuesday nieht the bill which would chanere girls'
dorms closing hours from 10:30 until 11 will be before the
Coed Senate.
The Tar Heel feels that the passage of the bill is essential
to bring Carolina back to its' pre-war position. The extension
would enable coeds participating in extra-curricular activities
to attend meetings scheduled from 10:30 to 11 for the conven
ience of the Navy men who have compulsory evening study
hours. It would eliminate a great many requests of ' house
mothers for late permissions. For those coeds needing quiet
and reference books for studies tha ll:00 curfew would give a
valuable extra half hour of study in the library.
The opposition to the bill argues that there is not a sufficient
number of coeds who need late permission, and that quiet in
the dorms would not be obtained until late.
Perhaps the opponents of the bill have not been to the li
brary and seen the host of coeds there, and witnessed the mad
dash for dorms before the bell clangs its warning. We have
never lived in a girls' dorm, but it seems that the courtesy of j
respect j.ur uiie xenuw ammais woum oe enougn to eniorce
quiet at all times. Does not courtesy demand it? As for extra
curricular participants there are more coeds taking active part
in campus activities now than there has been in a long while ;
and there is a crying need for their interest and work
This newspaper is one of those activities of which' most of the
work is done during the later hours of the night. At 10:20
our offices are vacated as though the red alert had been sound
ed, and still facing the staff is an abundance of work" "
With the future changes over the campus now 'in view the
passage of this bill is essential. '
SHOVEL ON SOME MORE COAL
If you will read oyer the news in this edition of the Tar Heel
you will readily agree that the campus activities are gathering
steam. - -f ' - "W.. " .
Thursday night the Legislature began breaking out legisla
tive brooms, mops, and cleaning powder to begin work on the
cobwebbed and musty mass of scraps that has been the' stu
dent government. Tuesday night the new Marines on the
campus were given a shot of orientation by the Student Council
under the guidance of Marine Council members, Jack Vernier
and Tom Lane. Some fifty applicants for positions on this
newspaper met Thursday also. ; ' - r;
This is the beginning of a new life at the University. There
is much to do, and a long road to travel. The pressure must be
maintained to keep the ball rolling . . . so, shovel on some more
coal! ' ' : ' ; ' '
frozen, we say "Watch our
J.I Jl.TJlj'jl "
Wijt Wax
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eyery month."
Reading The Exchanges
With Jerry Davidoff
All forms of hazing involving
mental or physical torture, includ
ing paddling, will be banned officially
and absolutely by all colleges and
universities throughout the country,
and offenders, both individuals and
organizations, will be disciplined if
the request of the National Inter
fraternity conference is followed.
A resolution declaring such forms
of hazing a menace to the welfare
of educational institutions and the
various organizations which are a
part of the institutions, as well as
to individual students, was passed
unanimously at the 36th annual
meeting of the National Interfra
ternity conference, held at the Ho
tel Commodore, New York City, on
Nov. 24 and 25. While such forms
of hazing have been condemned in
earlier sessions, this is the first
definite request made for action by
the administrative officers of edu
cational institutions.
LISTEN STUDENTS
m
Once again the people of Greece
have risen to fight for their home
land. Once again the Acropolis
looks down upon the scene of battle.
This time, British fighter planes in
stead of German Stukas are doing
the strafing. The enemy is new to
the Greeks, because the battle of the
people against the Grecian mon
archy has just begun. But the ene
my is now new to other countries.
, The same fine hand, either through
omissions or positive actions is well
known to the people of Spain, Italy,
Palestine, Ethiopia, Belgium and In
dia." "The United States department of
State should not" only declare that
America is keeping "hands off" in
the formation of the governments of
liberated countries, but it "should
issue a stem rebuke to those allies
that persist in casting aside all con
siderations of democratic principles
in order to maintain monarchists
domination of free peoples.
Letters From
Editor of the Tar Heel:
Last Sunday night we presented
a special performance of "The Skin
of Our Teeth" for the Pre-Flight
Cadets. Our one aim in giving this
extra show was to entertain these
boys who get damn little entertain
ment. I think we succeeded. v "
A' few things in lastJ Tuesday's
editorial by Jimmie Wallace need to
be cleared up. 1) The conduct of
the cadets was not deplorable. They
behaved as any all-male audience
would at such a play. 2) They did
Heel
-Editor
..Managing Editor
.Business, Manager
.Circulation Manager
For years the National Inter
fraternity conference and its 60
member fraternities have tried
through educational means to
eliminate all questionable hazing
practices among the 2422 under
graduate chapters of the 200
fraternity campuses in this coun
try. In placing the responsibility
for prohibition and enforcement
upon the local administrative of
ficers, fraternity leaders hope
that the problem will be solved.
The resolution was proposed by
George Starr Lasher, director of the
School of Journalism at Ohio uni
versity, and a former national
president of Theta Chi fraternity.
Recently the University of Wiscon
sin chapter of that fraternity was
disciplined for paddling its pledges
in violation of a local university ban
upon such practices.- Southern Cali
f ornian Daily Trojan.
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By Jimmy Wallace
During the early part of this
week, Major Marshall of the Marine
unit was contacted by the circula
tion manager of the Tar Heel with
reference to the possibility of a
blanket subscription which would
put a Tar Heel in every room occu
pied by V-12, Marines and NROTC
men on the campus.
If the proposal goes through, and
it has been worked on by many peo
ple during the past three months,
the Tar Heel will receive a subscrip
tion boost of maybe 200. The Wel
fare Board will be doing a service
if the proposal is approved. Tar
Heels will continue to be sold in
Swain Hall pending the outcome of
the blanket subscription. If it is im
possible,' due to financial reasons, to
have a blanket subscription, Tar
Heel subscriptions will be solicited
at the pay line next pay-day. Until
that time Tar Heels will continue to
be sold at Swain Hall for five cents
each.' :
TH Readers
not act like a bunch of kids listening
to an opera. They acted as any
normal, healthy bunch of American
boys would act. Audience psychol
ogy is all-important to the actor.
When you have an audience of all
one sex, the reaction tends to vary a
little from the usual. The actor
must realize this and adjust accord
ingly. In the past two years I have
played to, various pre-flight audi
ences on this campus, to several USO
audiences in Durham, and to a hospi
See LETTERS, pags t
CsIlimiiimimG aimdl (Eomm'mmeimtt
All signed articles, editorials, columns and Utters are opinions of Vie
writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Tar Heel.
It Could Be Worse
By Robert Morrison
A Plea for Better Food:
Fact No. 1.
To stand in line twenty minutes
for a meal in Chapel Hill is not un
common. Lines consisting of from
fifty to one hundred persons can be
found at any of the town's cafe
terias at any mealtime on any of the
seven days of the week. Crowded
cafes present a spectacle of stand
ing mobs all trying to grab a seat
as soon as one is vacated. With ev
ery eating establishment having
acute shortage of manpower has
more customers than it can handle,
the element of competition disap
pears. The quality and quantity of
the food is lowered as far as pos
sible; slow' and inefficient service is
given. The acute shortage of man
power has given the restaurants a
good and just excuse for poor
service. It may well be true, how
ever, that the commercial eating
places are doing a good job in view
of the circumstances; but in view
of the needs of the students, the
job is notoriously poor.
Fact No. 2.
At one time, Lenoir Hall ade
quately fed the entire Pre-Flight
school on our campus. Swain Hall
fully met the needs of all other mili-.
tary units. Now the Pre-Flight has
been drastically cut. At least half
of its personnel is gone, as is evi
denced by the several empty dormi
tories. The V-12 unit underwent a
40 reduction at the end of the last
term.
PUTTING FACTS TOGETHER
Swain Hall and Lenoir Hall are
Heretofore nine tenths of the col
umns written by the regular Tar
Heel columnists have been a waste
of needed paper and printers ink.
There is a definite need for full
facts . . . and you can get 'em here
for free.
Try this one: The columnist who
writes "Listen Students" doesn't
know as much as he should know
about "Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence"
on this campus . . . for instance, the
accused is faced by his accuser in
the Student Council trials when the
evidence is the testimony of one
party versus the testimony of an
other party. . . . See the report of
the joint committee composed of stu
dents, faculty, and Naval authori
ties which appeared in an issue of
the Tar Heel this fall ... as for there
being no attorneys for the defense
of the accused; it just so happened
tlat during the last case of the Stu
dent Council tried November 28, the
President of the Student Body turn
ed the gavel and chair over to the
acting Vice-Chairman in order to de
fend the accused. The accused was
exonerated. It is the current prac
tice of the Student Council to have
the accused represented by a de
fense composed of one or more Coun
cil members! Check that!
The future. . . Turn your hats
around and cross your fingers and
watch for the Student Legislature
to dig up the corpse of class organi
zation and pull a Dr. Frankenstein
iscuits and
By Dave
The other day I came across a
letter from overseas. It was writ
ten in Swedish, but underneath in
a rough postscript were these words
in English:
"I am Loved joy af all my Hart.
I have bin drimingf bort joy. I
hoppes dat joy vill bi my vife.
Respectifull, Einar.
"I am sand joy one varm kiss
Not much there, ' true. Simple,
yes, but foreign? No." You can't
read into the, words any more than
what it says. It's not funny ha-ha,
but funny peculiar. Make believe
you know the man.' Let's say he's a
soldier who learned Americanese
by ear, by sentimental hit tunes,
through the movies. Is a man
lonely and therefore sentimental
because he's a thousand miles
across water and must struggle
over a piece of1 paper with a
chewed pencil ? ' Why didn't he
write the postscript in familiar
Swedish? I don't profess to know
the answer but when I know and
We Think That
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not being used to their capacity.
Commercial eating places are woe
fully crowded. Why cannot the con
ditions be remedied? Why cannot
civilians eat in Swain Hall?
ACTION
A bill was introduced on the floor
of the Dialectic Senate to petition
the University to open Swain Hall
to civilians. The bill, which was
passed unanimously, suggested that
if placing civilians and military units
in the same mess would create a
problem, Lenoir Hall could amply
feed all military personnel on the
campus.
The bill was outlined and sent to
various campus officials. Dr. Frank
Graham replied to the petition:
"I appreciate your writing me with
regard to the resolution adopted by
the Di Senate concerning the open
ing of one of the dining halls. I have
referred the letter to the Dean of
Students, the Dean of the War Col
lege, and the Business Manager for
advice. I am sure Dean House and
his associates will give the matter
most careful consideration."
CONCLUSION
The movement is afoot to clean up
another foul condition on the cam
pus. All reform is slow and painful
unless it is backed by an enthusias
tic majority. If you want better
eating conditions in your University,
help keep the matter constantly be
fore the proper authorities and give
them your full support.
As the Marines on the campus can
testify, eating was worse in the
South Pacific; it could be worse here,
too, but it should be better!
act . . . preparations for the surgery
have already begun . . . the opera
tion will be unique; surgeons skill in
the hands of politicians . . . the
brains and the body are there, but
it's the heart that counts. Keep
glancing down at the basement of
G. Memorial . . . the Board of Direc
tors is pondering reopening of the
bowling alley . . . and why not the
pool tables, too? And look for the
Welfare Board of the .Navy unit to
give the blanket subscription for
each room the green light!
A. very "low grade" form of cam
paigning was used by the support
ers of a particular . . . check that
. . . candidate in (he race for edi
tor of the T.H. His supporters,
(not the candidate), claimed that if
a service man were elected the CO.
of the Navy unit or Marine detach
ment would censor every word of
the T.H. . . . Brickbats to you all . . .
read through this paper, and check
the Navy regs !
We think that G.C., who criticized
Tri Delt for favoring one of the
- campus political parties . . . the Uni
versity party . . . should read the
first sentence of the sixth paragraph
which she wrote in her column for
Oct. 21, 1944 T.H. It reads quote
Since when is it unamerican for any
group to campaign legally in its
own interests question mark end of
quote. Is it so terrible that Sigma
Chi and DEE favdr the S.P.? There
is something really pitiful in the
"Solid South"!
Wine
Hanig
love a new land I find an unspoken
respect for it.
Letters from soldiers make you
forget the uniform a little. War
is a violation of feelings. It often
creates bad thinking, but men
grow older for it. It's tough being
a civilian. Yet an overseas letter
bridges something of a gap. One
soldier writes that the slums of
Chinese cities are just a . little
filthier than American cities, yet
the East side would look like a
Garden of Eden to him. Will he
want to do anything about it when
he returns? That's not important
now! Call his job overseas a field
trip of memories. Those that have
come back may feel that they're
shoving off again. Our feelings for
them could fill a book, but a V-mail
letter could be a tie-up in this in
sane mess.
"I have bin driming of bort
joy" when my friends return and
it's' tough being a civilian espe
cially when you think.