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Mary Hill Gaston, Kappa Alpha
Markie Parsons, Pi Kappa Alpha
Mochie Morton, Delta Kappa Epsilon
iNancy HennickelL CICA ...........:
"Miss X,". Law School ....
Liou null, Alderman .
Twig Branch, Sigma Nu
Winlde White, Delta Delta Delta-Alpha Tau Omega
Linda Williams, Phi Gamma Delta . :
Lib Mace, Sigma Alpha Epsilon
lomniy ltiomas, Phi Kappa Sigma-Carr
Natalie Harrison, Chi Psi .
Patty Harry, Alpha Delta Pi .... ..
Betty Lou Cypert, Kappa Sigma-Pi
Anne Geoghegan, Zeta Psi
Terry King, A. T. and Q. Club
Bernice Haithcock, Town Girls .......
Phyllis Ganey, Phi Delta Theta ...J.;... 2,087
Bunny Flowers, Sigma Chi ... Z 1,967
Gennie Freeman, Spencer ......... .. ... i,825
Jeff Foster, Chi Omega . ....1,812
Shirley HartzelL Tar Heel ; ...................... IIZI" 979
Beezie Russell, Yackety Yack-Carolina Mag :.. ...:... .. 798
Pee Dee Herndon, Phi Kappa Sigma J............... 353
Barbara Pennington, Theta Psi Epsilon ... ..:... 138
Mary Jane Lloyd, Phi Kappa Sigma . ! . 112
TOTAL SALES SO FAR :.... .;. $23,747.40
Golden Fleece
To Tap Sunday
Event Is 42nd
In History
The Order of the Golden Fleece, the
highest organization at Carolina, yrtll
tap its forty-second generation of out
standing ! men xm. campus 'torftorroW
night at eight o'clock in Memorial
hall. The public is cordially invited
to attend.
The Fleece takes into membership
those men who have shown themselves
to be of high character, loyal to the
University, and possessed of such per
sonal qualities which make them
worthy of the description "Outstand
ing and Representative University
men"; those men who have attained
distinction in scholarship, athletics,
literary production, music and other
fields of student activity, or have dis
tinguished themselves among their fel
low students by a combination of quali
ties that give them unquestioned lead
ership and prominence on the campus.
The Golden Fleece was first con- j
ceived in 1902 by a group of outstand
ing students who felt that there was a
definite need on this campus for an
organization which would "set the
tone" for the other students in regard
to any question which affected the en
tire student body.
1 The officers of the Golden Fleece are
secret, only the Jason of the previous
order being revealed at the. Formal
Tapping.
Attention Student Body
. There will be an important meeting
of the Publications Union comprising
all fee paying students in the Uni
versity Monday February 19 in Ger
rard hail at 12:30.
All students are asked to attend the
session because of the business at hand.
A proposal for amendment to the PU
board constitution will be voiced at the
University To
By Nancye Helm
At a ceremony beginning in Memo
rial hall at 11:15 Monday morning the
modem University of North Carolina
will pay tribute to its. first student,
Hinton James, who on February 12,
1795 walked 200 miles from his home
town, Wilmington, to Chapel Hill to
attend the University. For two weeks
Hinton James constituted the entire
student body. .
The opening of the University on
January 15, 1795 gave no prophecy of
the swarms of students who crowd
the present-day registration lines ui
Woollen gym. The only feature that
the opening 150 years ago had in
common with modern ones was a cold
drizzling rain.- Governor Richard
Dobbs Speight braved the severe
weather and 28 miles of muddy rough
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Victory Race
Nears Climax
Gaston Leads;
Parsons Second
With only one week left to go in
the current War Coordination Board
sponsored bond drive to raise $25,000,
count at tHe , middle oi this , week- re
vealed sales of $23,747.40. Predictions
indicate that this goal will be greatly
over-subsCribed by the close of the
drive, Wednesday, February 14.
; Mary Hill Gaston, sponsored by
Kappa Alpha, still leads in the race
for the title "Miss Victory," picking
up 10,000 votes this week to make a
total of 38,589. Second place is held
by Markie Parsons, Pi Kappa Alpha's
entry, and third by Mochie Morton,
sponsored by Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Tickets are on sale in the Y for
the mammoth Victory Dance to be
staged Saturday night, Febrdary 17,
from 8:30 until 12 o'clock in Woollen
gymnasium. Admission price is $1.00
in war stamps, stag or drag. Music
will be by Freddie Johnson and his
orchestra, and Harvey White will be
master of ceremonies. All 26 coeds in
the contest will be in the figure and.
announcement of the winner and
runners-up will not be made until the
figure is formed.
White will conduct a raffle of mer
chandise contributed by Chapel Hill
merchants, the articles to be sold to
the highest bond bidder.
Grant Sorrell Takes
Post As GM Assistant
Grant Sorrell, sophomore from Ma
con was appointed by the Board of Di
rectors of Graham Memorial to take
the position of financial director which
will be vacated by Turk Newsome at
the end of the term.
Sorrell will take over his position
immediately and will start making
plans for GM entertainment next quarter.
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Honor First Student With Ceremony Monday
road from Raleigh to Chapel Hill to
be present, as did several Congress
men then attending the General As
sembly in Raleigh. The visitors in
spected the only half -finished two
story building which we now know
as Old East. Beyond the Davie Poplar
was a pile of "yellowish red clay, dug
out for the foundation of the Chapel,"
Which is now Person hall. The un
painted wooden hous'e of the presid
ing president stood back of an "ave
nue" filled with stumps. This was the
setting for the opening, and not one
student was present. It was nearly a
month later that Hinton James . ar
rived. Dr. Kemp P. Battle, in his history
of the University, writes, "The Fac
ulty records show that James per
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Entertainment Series Plans
Ballad Program Thursday
By Marianne Brown
Rollicking, fun-filled entertainment pervades , the program of American
Ballad Singers, a musical event which will be staged next Thursday night
in Memorial Hall under the sponsorship of the Student Entertainment Series.
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Band Program
Set Tomorrow
Slocum Directs
First Concert
Tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock
the University's 61-piece concert band
under the direction of Earl Slocum,
will present its first concert of the
season in Hill Music hall auditorium.
The general public is invited and
no admission will be charged.
The program is planned so as to
blend several of the better-known
semi-classical numbers with a collec
tion of patriotic and religious com
positions. A special feature will be
the playing of "The United Nations
Overture," a composition presented as
a tribute "to our fighting allies" of
World War II. Also featured on the
program will be a saxophone solo by
Clifford Shank of Durham, and a
baton-twirling exhibition by drum
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formed his duties faithfully and with
ability." Hinton James' name appeared
several times on a roll of honor by
which students were rewarded for
writing original compositions. James
must have enjoyed his college experi
ences, for one topic on which he wrote
was "The Pleasures of College Life."
If it had been saved, a comparison of
James' composition and a modern Tar
Heel column such as "It Could Be
Worse" would be interesting!
Hinton James was one of the
fathers of the Dialectic Society, from
which our Di Senate gained its name.
For some years the president of the
Dialectic Society was required to
preside with his hat on, often a bor
rowed high-crowned beaver.
On July 4, 1798, James marched
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The concert is virtually a condensed
folk history of America from the time
of the Pilgrim fathers right up to to
day. Springing fresh from the heart of
the country, these songs most of
them never before sung from a concert
platform are a new and thrilling ex
perience to most listeners. s There are
stirring ballads .of the American
Revolution the pioneers, and the
building of the west. There are songs
of lumberjacks, river boatmen, miners
and cowboys, Smoky mountaineers
southern cottonpickers.
The American Ballad Singers, have
covered thousands of miles warming
audiences with programs of music as
American as "punkin" pie and cran
berry sauce. They have sung of Paul
Bunyon's exploits in one of his own
legendary stamping grounds, wooded
North Michigan. In the apple coun
try of Ohia and Indiana they have sung
of Johnny Appleseed. This time their
program is geared to provide sincere
entertainment and excitement for
The audience here will probably not
only be enjoying the show but also
participating in the program before
the night is over, according to Dr. J
P. Harland, who is in charge of the
SEC.
Each member of the American bal
lad singers is an outstanding soloist
in his or her own right. They have
been heard in practically every state
in the Union, and have covered some
20,000 miles on concert tours in the
past three years. The six soloists with
distinguished careers in concert, ra
dio, opera and musical comedy are
Hilda Morse and Helen York, so
pranos; Helen Stanton, contralto;
Lester German, tenor; Jack de Mer
chant, baritone, and Earle Waldo,
bass.
This group is attempting to bring to
America some of its own music. We
constantly hear European folk themes
arranged by both American and Euro
pean composers, but the balladiers are
out to show that just as much can be
made of our own native American
music
at the head of the procession of grad
uates at the first Commencement dur
ing which diplomas were granted.
After leaving the University, he be
came a civil engineer and assisted in
improving the navigation of North
Carolina rivers, -and later served
three terms in the state legislature.
The Hinton James Day celebration
Monday represents 150 years of prog
ress. Over that period, from the
humble beginning of a student body of
one to the latest student to register,
44,802 matriculates have come to
Chapel Hill. This does not include
normal summer sessions, short
Courses, extension and correspondence
instruction, or the immense wartime
enrollment. In other words, Hinton
James started something.
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Author Fails To Give
Answers To Questions
Wallace, Hunt Ask For Definite Reasons
By Jimmy Wallace
After a scant 15 minutes of discussion following a public hearing, the
House Judiciary Committee II of the State General Assembly made a recom
mendation on Thursday morning that the Caveness bill be passed, thus tak
ing a step which could easily result in the writing of a disastrous "Finis"
to the long-fought battle for consolidation of the University.
In a packed committee room of the
Budget Bill
For Council
Is Passed
Original Form
Gets Approval
After two fiery discussions on the
bill to appropriate funds for the op
eration of Student Council and Stu
dent Legislature for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1945, the bill was
passed in its original form during the
.Legislature meeting inursaay eve
ning.
Bob Lipton, chairman of the finance
committee, after investigating indi
vidual allocations of funds, proposed
three amendments to reduce the bud
get. The Legislature members after
considering the amendments passed
the bill in its original draft.
As It Stands u
The budget as it now stands provides
for the following expenditures: Stu
dent Council : Auditing and bookkeep
ing, $10; supplies, $15; postage, tele
phone, and telegraph, $60; printing
and mimeographing, $95; Yackety
Yack space: Student Council, $60;
Student Legislature, $60; Campus
Cabinet, $30; Student Audit board,
$30; Entertainment, $73; Miscellane
ous, $50; and Depreciation of office
equipment, $16.34; Total-r$499.34.
Student Legislature: supplies, $5;
postage, $1; printing and mimeograph
ing, $90; and miscellaneous, $10; To
tal $106. Total Student Government
expense is $605.34.
An amendment to the Student Gov
ernment Constitution, aimed at fur
ther democratizing Student Legisla
ture proceedings, was presented by
A. B. Smith, chairman of the Rules
committee. The amendment provides
that Legislature members may intro
duce bills from the floor. As the Con
stitution now stands only committees
may present bills, an arrangement
more or less "muzzles" individual
members if the committee refuses to
present a bill.
A bill to appropriate funds for the
operation of the February, 1945, grad
uating class was adopted. This bill
was passed with relative ease over the
objections of two legislators. A sus
pension of the rules which state that
bill must be voted on one week after
their introduction on the Legislature
floor Was necessary to get the legis
lation passed Thursday night.
Speaker Hunt appointed Rene Ber
nard as chairman of the archives com
mittee following the resignation of
Bob Lipton.
Student Council Report
Two cases were tried Tuesday night by the Student Council. A synopsis
of the cases follows:
First Case A V-12 had been suspected of leaving his classrooms during
quizzes, studying nis notes, ana returning 10 uiu&n we 4'"ca.
seen by two other V-12 students outside the classroom during a quiz last
week. He was seen looking at some notes. He was told to turn nis paper
in ,rA tnV. an V on the ouiz. He had already finished the last questions on
the quiz before he had left the classroom, although there were several ques
tions unanswered.
Verdict Due to insufficient evidence since no one could verify that the
whiVh thf accused was studvine were not notes for another course on
which he was being quizzed the next
not guilty. The Council reprimanded
all acts of suspicion in the future.
Second Case A civilian confessed to
ing exam.
Verdict The Council voted the student guilty of cheating. The student
was put on campus probation, forced to flunk the Accounting course, and
cnsnpndpH from school for four months one trimester. The Council felt
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that, since the student had confessed
accused, he should not be suspended
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Justice building, the bill was read by
its author, representative Cavcnesa
from Guilford county, receiving unani
mous approval from a 15-man delega
tion of State College Alumni and many
of the committee members present.
Only major opposition to the bill came
from Josephus Daniels, editor of the
Raleigh News and Observer and two
or three Carolina students who "went
over to see what was going on." Fol
lowing the hearing, the committee
went into an executive session and an
nounced its decision within 15 minutes.
Provision
The bill provides that there be cre
ated an office of Chancellor of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and the
offices of President for each of the
three units. "The Chancellor shall be
the executive head of the University
of North Carolina, and the presidents
shall be the administrative heads
of their respective branches of the
University of North Carolina, and
shall perform such duties as may be
imposed upon them by the Board of
Trustees and shall be subject to re
moval by the Board for misbehavior,
inability, "or neglect of duty."
One important further provision of
the bill states that "within ninety days
after the ratification of this act, a
trustees meeting shall be called for
the purpose of filling the offices of
Chancellor and Presidents of the sev
eral branches of the Uiversity of
North Carolina." f
At the beginning of the meeting,
Tom Pearsall, representative from
Nash county, moved that discussion of
the bill be postponed until after the
Board of Trustees meeting on Febru
ary 19. Caveness objected, and the
discussion began. Caveness assured
everyone preent that the effect of the
bill would be merely to change the
titles of the men now in office and
would have no relation to the func
tions of each.
Trustees Viewpoint
Daniels, representing the executive
committee of the Trustees, said that
the committee had already drawn up
plans for changing the titles of the
Deans of Administration to Vice Presi
dents and that the proposals would be
presented at the next trustees meet
ing. In support of this procedure,
Daniels read a lengthy telegram from
former governor O. Max Gardner.
David Clark, prominent figure in state
legislative matters, declared that the
Trustees would probably not act upon
the executive committee's proposal;
that enough time had been wasted ; and
that the Trustees did not have the au
thority to change the titles of the
Deans of Administration to Vice Pres
idents. That more is in the bill than is evi
dent at first glance was virtually made
See AUTHOR, page U.
period the Council found the student
the student and advised mm to avoia
having cheated on a recent Account
his guilt without ever having been
indefinitely.