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ti s TUESDAY. JANUARY 29, 1946 Page Two THE TAR n Dubious Battle if - V. i. is f i ' i l r I . . 1 ! ! i i V. ! ( ! I;' I i tEe tar ?M OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Entered as second class matter at the poet effiee at Chapel H, N. C, under the act cf March . 1878. ROBERT MORRISON 1 WESTY FENHAGEN ' BILL HIGHT 1 EDDIE ALLEN JACK LACKEY BILL LAMKIN IRWIN SMALLWOOD CARROLL POPLIN .. BETTIE GAITHER. BILL SELIG .. HARRISON TENNEY EDITORIAL STAFF: Ray Conner, Fred Jacobson Nevi Stall: Sybil Goerch, Augusta Pharr, Betty Green, Elizabeth Pincney, Eleanor Craig:, Jo Pugh Frances Halsey, Janet Johnston, Fay Maples, Eoy Thompson, Mary Hill Gaston, Jocelyn Landvoigrt, Bettie Washburn. Barbara Spain, Gloria Robbins, Jane McCalman, Arnold Dolin, Morty Self, Sam Summerlin, Mel Cohen, Bill Kornegay, Harding Mamies, John May. Eddie Allen, Elaine Patton, Emily ChappeO, Bill Sessions, Richard L. Koral, Lindy Behsman, Elsie McCoshman, Mickie Derieuz, But Coleman, Carl Worsley, Frances Keller, Jean Fisher, Lyndal Cann. Bill Lnmpkin SPORTS STAFF: Howard Merry, Frank Miller, Clark HaUworth, Mel Cohen, Bob Friedlander, Buddy Gottesman and Jo Ferris. BUSINESS STAFF: Ann Thornton, Adelaide McLarty, Ruth Gay, Virginia Wilson, Peggy Cates, Sarah Wood, Virginia Peal, Gene Heafner, Bettie Cheatham, Nancy Westbrook, Jean Youngblood, Clmre Hudson, Alice Flory, Nancy Maupin, Ann Geohegan, Claude Ramsay, Zeb Little, Julia Moody, Lois Clarke. PLANS AND PROBLEMS Carolina has been criticized many times because we do not have an adequate Student Union building, as do other up-to-date colleges and larger universities. We feel a definite need for a center with rooms for committee meetings, a soda foun tain or snack bar, juke box, a place to dance, ping pong tables, bowling alleys, and other added attractions. Not so long ago Graham Memorial had much more to offer us than it does today, but some few students did not cooperate. THey broke in the juke boxes and took the records, pictures and pennants disappeared from the walls of the Baby Lounge, and not only did they insist on turning off the lights but they walked off with light bulbs and lamps. Miss Martha Rice, manager of Graham Memorial, is very enthusiastic about making Graham Memorial one of the finest student union buildings in the South. Plans are already un derway to restore the juke boxes to the Baby Lounge and the Roland Parker Lounge, and to open the doors to the bowling al leys and pool tables in the basement. ' The University soon hopes to finish building the wing on the. building to provide more much-needed space. All of these plans will never materialize if students continue to misuse Graham Memorial. Conduct in the Baby Lounge late ly has almost convinced the board of directors to close the room completely. However, the Student Council and the Women's council are determined that what little recreational facilities we do have will not be sacrificed because of a few selfish and un mannerly students. It is not the policy of the Council to act as monitors, but we do not hesitate to break all precedents when it, is a question of safe-guarding the rights and privileges of the many students who do live up to our Campus Code. From now on' please co-operate with us in keeping the lights on in the Baby Lounge and living up to the principles of the campus code. UNFINISHED BUSINESS The March of Dimes Dance was a success financially and socially, but this event does not mean the termination of the drive for the students. We have just barely reached the half way mark of the one thousand dollar quota. We are calling for more donations, and asking for your complete cooperation. The Tar Heel wishes to thank those who donated their serv ices for the dance. It is'a shame that not everyone could sup port the drive in this manner. Orchids should go to the girls . at Alderman, the Tri-Delt's, Mr. E. Carrington Smith, and the three fraternities that supported the dance one hundred per cent. Whoever the thief was who waltzed off with the money col- , lected at the Porthole the other night we hope you enjoy spend ing it. Anyone who would willingly steal money from a worthy charity is the lowest thing imaginable. CONGRATULATIONS We are glad that the Southern Conference for Human Wel fare, Dr. Clark Forman's well known and respected organiza tion, has opened a branch here at Chapel Hill. We congratulate it by getting off to a good start by electing a fine slate of of ficers including Blount Stewart, vice president of the veteran's organization, Raikes Slinkard and Sara Tillet. The Southern Conference does extremely important, , and worthwhile work, work which should receive the interest, at tention and perhaps labor of all students interested in Dixie's welfare and progress. It has the enviable reputation of being an organization which blends ideas and action, with a "posi tive accentuation" on the latter. Here's wishing them luck, the only other ingredient they need for a success. . GOOD ENTERTAINMENT Sunday night's Fireside Concert at Graham Memorial fea tured Edwin Steed, a truly accomplished artist, who presented a variety of piano selections which held his audience spell-bound. It is indeed a pity that more students did not attend this concert and other? like them. Students would find these concerts a wel come interlude in a busy week-end. Editor Managing Editor . Associate Editor Assistant Editor News Editor Copy Editor ; Sports Editor Sports Editor ..Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Circulation Manager ell For Campus By Jack Dube and Bud Imbrey Diatripe: Romance flourished on the campus this week- The clock in the "Y" Exchange was ten minutes slow, and the ten-minute warning bell now allows a full measure of 'Hey How Youse" for sundry oper ators . . . The frequently embarrass ing and stentorian voice from the "Y" window pushed all the students into the Bldg to escape meeting one another mission accomplished . . . The just-bef ore-the-date-arrives-confabs with Housemothers re minds us of old time Briefing Rooms Coeds, man your dates! . . . The absence of DRAFT beer has been replaced by a DRAUGHT of -same which reminds us that Pokey Alexander and date (name of Nancy Hoffman) angled into Harry's t'other nite. Says Alexander to "Lightnin'," the waiter, "Two brews, please." Not to be outdone, murmurs Nance, . "Bring me the same." ... Eye-tems: What some innocent people have to go through to get a seat at a basketball game which reminds us the Carr Dorm tele fonumber is 300-2 . . . Patty "Hub-ba-Hubba" Harry's sounanfury connection is the reason why so many males have been asking where the tryouts will be held this week . . . Our WCUNC -agent Stan Fox informs that the Rumpus-room of Cotton Dorm at that place has the name of every institution including Alcatraz EXCEPT U.N.C. . . . Can't we impress those imports ? . . . The Hubba-Hubba Hop featured (in ad- -- Tardy Music Makers Glenn Miller Mystery Reviewed .. By Brad McCuen The riddle of what became of Major Glenn Miller still has many puzzled and wondering. The offi cial War Department statement says simply that Miller was lost,; in a plane flight between London and Paris on December 5, 1944. The rumors of what actually hap pened on that flight are many and varied. An officer with the 8th AAF says that the plane got off its course and was shot down by Allied ack-ack in Holland. An enlisted man in the Air Transport Com mand, which ran the flight, says that the plane landed as scheduled at Orly Field in Paris after a routine flight but that Miller was missing from the plane then. A wild story which strains credence is the one which had Glenn doing a special OSS (Cloak and Dagger) mission similar to the ones Hollywood gets off at those Pick shows. At any rate, Miller is no longer with us and this week his old band of the AEF now billed as 'The Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Tex Beneke' started its civilian ca reer at the NY Capitol Theater.' One Greek's Opinion Fraternity Rushing By Charlie Markham There is no period in the exist-; ence of college fraternities when they are more guilty of the charges "snobbish" and "undemocratic" than during Rush Week, which has just been completed at Carolina. As a fraternity member it is not my intention to condemn or defend this phase of fraternity life here; I am merely seeking to point out that the system of rushing at Caro- lina, as I have observed it, tends to aggravate greatly the charge which ,has been repeatedly leveled at fra ternities. While a revision of the system would not perhaps correct the evils which are inherent in se lective admission, it could alleviate some particularly objectionable features of the selective admission principle. I refer first to the speed with which new students are permitted to join fraternities here. They are gobbled up only three weeks after they arrive, before they can exam ine the fraternity system reason ably, and certainly before the fra ternities can discover their worth as fraternity material. Because of the short time the freshmen are here, first impressions are the pri Is Cupid R omance dition to the 24 legs) a concert by Woody Hayes (not to be confused with Woody Herman) but we came there to dance ... In the mad scramble for ring-side seats, we heard a voice in the back shout "Sit down in front." Front-liner Violet Fidel turned on him and purred, "But I don't bend THAT way." ... Anti-Pannill Dept.: We heard this in Spanish Class where our Allen was pursuing his studies. (Pur suing ? ? The studies have lapped him twice.) When we queried him on Spanish Syntax, he replied, "You mean they have to pay for their fun?" well, his hardest problem to deal with 'is an old deck of cards ... - Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings : Reply to question to Joe Ferguson as he raced ' madly to class, "What's the hurry? I just bought this textbook and I want to get to class before the next edi tion conies out!" . . . Americus, Ga.'s pride,. Skyboy Chuck Donnell tells us huskily that since he met his new girl-friend, "I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't drink I'm al ways broke!" . . . Lyn Cann got male undershirt back in her laun dry with initials T. M. This may be kismet ... owner please call. (Paid Ad.) ... In English Lit. Lois Clark was asked the meaning of Essay. Quoth she, "Essay Does that mean Sex-Appeal?" . . . We encountered Elaine Patton at the Hubba-Hub-bub and enquired, by way of saluta- See IN D UBIO US, page 6. $ : , HOT NOTES: Charlie Spivak, our Mid-Winter maestro, copped sec ' ond place in Downbeat's annual pop ularity poll in the 'sweet' band class. Only T. Dorsey was ahead of Char lie . . . . Incidentally, those on the Hill who don't get enough of the Spivak band here this week-end will have a chance to hear the band in Raleigh a week from Wednesday when they play the Auditorium. . . . Louis Jordan and his group are also playing a one-nighter there on Mon day, February 4th. . . . The Sound and Fury song and skit contest is proving to be a lot of fun to some of the campus characters. Dead line on entries is 5 p.m., February 1st, at the "Y" desk. . . . Freddy Johnson and his band are being booked out of Richmond now and after a week of one-night-stands the boys are set for six weeks at Virginia Beach Last week, when Tony Pastor played Durham, Tommy Farr, an old Chapel Hill bandsman now holding down a slide chair with Pastor, dropped in on Freddy Johnson. Freddy was Tom my's bossman when he was here. Pastor 'discovered" Tommy when he played Junior-Seniors here in 'bl. mary determining factor for admis sion; a rushee who is slightly af-. fected personally, or too quiet and reserved, or too noisy on the first impression, will probably be elim inated from consideration, where as he might be of far greater value to the fraternity (and it to him) than a hail-fellow-well-met who goes over immediately. In eliminating a rushee because the first impression he has made is unfavorable, the tension and hub bub of a rush week confined to a one-week period often makes it im perative that the unfortunate indi vidual be told to his face that he is not wanted and all too often with out too much tact. If we have fra ternities, and if they must "elim inate some individualsT must those individuals be subjected to the in dignity of being told point-blank that they are not welcome ? . Both these glaring faults could be removed by establishment of a deferred rushing system at Caro lina. If new students were not per mitted to join fraternities until the end of their first quarter, both fra ternities and rushees would have ample time to look each other over. Under such a system, which would include Sunday open houses - ""Jr CoQS I J; - V 1 O'er miles of , days and weeks, life's story unfolds. To an innocent bystander it seems that: Although the tradition of un paved campus walks has been called a poor substitute for pneumonia by our editor, I wonder how many of us would like to have a stoney cold, cut and dried campus like our Durham problem child, Dook! Put on some boots, and leave the con Crete on the roads. Our new infirmary is doing much better. Word has it that everything from magazines to cigarettes are yours for the asking. A fine sys tem, gentlemen; now we won't have to be trying to find some poor un fortunate tool to run uptown for said articles. With the amount of business that the Book Ex counter does on Sat urdays, there's no reason why it couldn't be closed at 1 p. m. in stead of the senseless 5 o'clock. Give it some thought, regulators, and at the same time give your employees some consideration. The Board of Trustees has real ly gotten on the ball. With their approval to build two new dorms on campus we are given a chance to have rooms in which we can study peaceably. A fervent prayer goes up that when they're complet ed, they won't be filled with new students, leaving those of us here in tlje same frying pan as before, packed! Praises are in order for the newly elected campus Phi Betes. At this point, it looks like this little world of ours is going to need plenty of just such material. Good work, gang. There must be some way to move the stands back from the court during the basketball games played Scoops and Scalps Town's Meanest Man Steals Money Given For Cripples By Eddie (Blackie) Black Forty dollars is missing. Forty dollars that was earmarked for the March of Dimes campaign. Forty dollars that might have helped some stricken person. During the past few ' weeks, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, The Management of the Porthole has raffled off a bottle of wine, with proceeds going to the March of Dimes fund. It was a good scheme. It netted quite a bit of money for the fund, which was short of its goal of $1,000. But . . . the money never reached the hands of those in charge of the drive. Some one appropriated this money for their, presumably, own use. The box which contained the Snobbish several times during the first quar ter, fraternities could discover who they want on a far more reason able and tolerant basis than on the mere snap judgments during a con centrated period such as we have, just finished. Then before the final rush week, they could eliminate those they do not want by failing to send invitatjons. Perhaps this is something of an insult in itself, but it is infinitely better than politely informing a rushee at the house that he might as well not come back. Many fraternities send invita tions to visit only to those on whom they have received a recommenda tion. A revision of this phase would place the entire system on a more democratic and less snobbish basis. Freshmen should be allowed to visit any house of their choice during the first two open houses; then at following rushing periods, they could be asked again only by invi tation. Until fraternities take construc tive measures to disprove the charges against them (to some ex tent at least)) the "opposition will only become more powerful, more justifiable, and more likely to de stroy them. in the Wheel By Allan Pan nil in Woollen. It can't be but so long before one of our star basketeers breaks a few bones when he steps out of bounds ! Midnight musings: Things were really BUSTING - out all over at the Hubba Hubba Hop last Friday night. Whatta performance!! Speaking of hops, anyone miss ing Spivak this week-end is either crazy or stone deaf! It's going to be quite a week-end. Don't miss it! In the Maybe I Can Help de partment, a call for an electrician is sent out. Mr. Mac of the Sport shop uptown, can use anyone that's had experience in the trade. How about some of you hard-pressed vets, that can't make that G. I. check last all month ? ? Who said that the returning vet erans would need a lot of help?? At the Veterans Club you'll find them making and enforcing their own rules, and any violators are duly dealt with. All the result of a confab with Chancellor House, and he was really a square guy about the whole thing. Seems to me that they're doing alright! I wonder if friend Dub Dube's column, "In Dubious Battle," shouldn't be termed, "Out of Dube's Bottle?" Carries that D. T. note you know. Without a doubt: . All who have contributed to the March of Dimes campaign are not to be commended, because such a thing is a privilege rather than an obligation or a duty. To those who have managed to pass up the col lection boxes and baskets and still look at themselves in the mirror, .we offer congratulations for being the prize heels of the year! Enough said"? ? Arid thus the plot of life thick ens, and the wheel rolls on. money was kept in front of the cash register on the bar. A week ago last Monday the first box which contained approximately $20 disap peared. It was replaced by another which subsequently disappeared sometime last week. The loss of these boxes has of course already been reported to Mr. Smith, chairman of the Drire, but nothing has been ascertained as yet to their location. Probably they never will be found. It's a shame. The drive isn't over yet; how ever, it's still in progress. So dur ing the next week, how about gvi ing just a little more to replace that forty dollars? Help make the Chapel Hill March of Dimes a march to success. Remember, you live here too! Veteran Group Gets Results In Washington By Roy Clark The delegation from the UVA that went to Washington this week end to present the petition for more housing met with great success. They were able to visit Rep. Carl Durham and Sen. Josiah Bailey in their efforts to get more and quicker action on the housing prob lem. Ken Willis, who took the peti tion to the capital, said that he had secured the help of several legis lators in seeing President Tru man's housing expediter, Wilson Wyatt, in an effort to get more speed. Although 150 housing units have been alloted to the University, they will not be available immediately because of the shortage of labor. One hundred and fifty units is far from enough to solve the problem, but each little bit helps. And as for the labor to erect them, well, sev See VETERANS, page 6. S. I! V 1.1
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