Board Gray E3 9 Direct Mew 'President To Divide Time Tuesday, June. 19, 1951 Race Problem Group Meets Fifth Negro Enters UNC Law School A fifth Negro student, James R. Walker, Jr., of Statesville, has been accepted by the University Law School. Walker was notified of his admission by Acting-Dean Robert H. Wettach last week, registered late by special permission, and is now attending Summer Session law classes. He will commute from Durham. . Upon his graduation from high school in 1940, Walker entered North Carolina College and later in the same year sought admis sion to the University. His appli cation was denied because of his race. Taken into the Army in 1944, he served in both the Eu ropean and Pacific theaters of war until 1947 when he was dis charged with the rank of staff sergeant and re-entered N. C. College. After graduating in 1948, he entered the Durham law school but also applied for ad mission to the University law school. Baiiy Goes To Europe Dr. Herman G. Baity, profes sor of sanitary engineering in the School of Public Health, has gone to Europe to serve as sanitary engineering adviser to the Euro pean regional office of the World Health Organization, with head quarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Recently appointed to the ex pert pannel on environmental sanitation of the organization, Dr. Baity will spend most of his time working in the field, attempting to improve the environmental sanitation services of the minis tries of health of Austria, Yugo slavia, Greece and Italy. He will also assist the universities and technological schools in develop ing educational programs for the training of personnel in this field. He will return to Chapel Hill in September. Kyser Awards James 0. Headlee and Tom my A. Rezzuto, both from Ashe ville and both students here, have been awarded the Kay Kyser Scholarship in Music and "Dramatic1 Artf respectively. Established in 1941 by Kyser, nationally known entertainer and 1927 graduate of the Uni versity, the scholarships pro vide one year's study at the University, including tuition, room and board. Bases of se lection are character, scholas tic rank, qualities of leadership, achievements and promise of future distinction in the select ed field of study. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. Draft Tests Taken By 407 Students Some 407 University students sweated, cursed, and wrote for three hours Saturday morning as they took the Selective Serv ice deferment examination, giv en in nine campus classrooms and administered by the Uni versity Testing Bureau with W. D. Perry as director. Upon the outcome of these tests depends, for most of the students, whether or not they will be allowed to complete their education before being drafted into the armed serv ices. Taking the test last month were 630 students, and many more have applied to take the examination later in the month. Plans Gallery Talk Second in a series of three gal lery talks by Art Department head John Allcott will be given tomorrow night at 7:30 in Person hall. His topic is "Matisse, Dufy, and Rouault." The talks are being given in connection with the exhibit of European art now on display in the Person Hall art gallery. Fea tured are original works by Pi casso, Braque, Gris, Klee, Dufy and 16 other artists from the Duncan Phillips collection. To Hold Inauguration John M. Schnorrenberg, junior from Asheville, will be installed as summer president of the Dia lectic Literary Society at 8 o'clock tonight in the Di Hall on the third floor of New West building. Fol lowing the inauguration the sen ate will hold a debate on the often-suggested ouster of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. All in terested persons are invited to attend. Registration Held Registration is now in progress for the chess and table tennis tournaments to be held in Gra ham Memorial and will be open until 12 p.m. Friday. Anyone who wishes to enter may sign up in the Graham Memorial main office. All students are eligible to play if they have not previous ly won first place in a GM tourn ament of the game for which they register. Playmakers Tryouts Tryouts for the 11 -person cast of the first Playmakers summer roduction, Lawrence Langner's "Pursuit of Happiness," will be held in the Playmakers theater at 4 p.m. today. Recital Canceled The recital by Thomas Nichols, pianist, planned for Hill Hall to night has been canceled. Tryouts Scheduled Tryouts are scheduled for Wed nesday night for all parts in several radio dramas and comedy programs to be produced by the Radio Department in the next three weeks. All interested persons, students, and townspeople, are asked to tryout, 7 p.m. Wednesday night, Studio A, Swain Hall. Campus Briefs Number 3 Negro Grad Provisions To Be Made A Board of Trustees committee will meet here Thursday with a similar committee from North Carolina College (for Negroes) in Durham to plan for "adequate and satisfactory provisions for Negro graduate students" in the State schools. The meeting was announced following a session last week of the Durham schools trustees which rejected a proposal to ex Dand its graduate program, a move which would have reduced the number of Negro applicants to the University. The Board ruled that deficiencies in the school's present undergraduate and graduate programs are too great to warrant an expansion of the graduate work. University of North Carolina trustees in April adopted a policy admitting Qualified Negroes on the graduate level when equal facilities are not maintained by the State in its Negro schools. Since May 22. the University, while admitting Negroes to its law school, has rejected Negro applicants to the graduate school pending development of the pro posed expansion plans at N. C. College. Phi Hoids First Meet Tonight First summer session meeting of the Philanthropic Society As sembly will be held tonight at 8:30 p.m. in the Phi Hall on the fourth floor of New East. Topic for discussion will be a bill to provide for federal control of commericial advertising practices. The meeting will be open to anyone who desires to attend, coeds and freshmen are particu larly invited. Discussion will be conducted in accordance with parliamentary law as practiced gislature and will be open to all in the North Carolina State Le- persons present on an equal basis. Provision has been made for anyone who wishes to enter into provisional membership during the summer. All thoe interested in membership should be present at tonight's meeting. Radio Clinic North Carolina high school stu dents who have an interest in radio will have a chance to work under professional guidance and with professional equipment this summer at the University's first annual high school radio insti tute, July 22-August 4. The two week program is jointly spon sored by the University's Com munication Center and the North Carolina Association of Broad casters. Band io Meet The University band will meet for the summer months at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Hill Hall annex Z. Anyone who can play a musical instru ment and is interested in becom ing a member of the band is urged to attend. Between Washington, uinv- I RALEIGH, June 18 Gordon Gray, president of the Con cnliHfltpH TTnivprsitv. was eranted a nart time leave of absence ! by the Board of Trustees' in a enable him to assume tne airectorsnip oi xne new umieu States Department of Psychological Strategy. Chosen by .President Truman to organize and set in operation the new war department, uray will divide his time between the University and Washington, spending about "two or three days a week" in the Capital City. Grav describes the new office as something which may play a large part in determining wheth er we have World war ill or not. His specific duties will be to "co ordinate all of the Nation's psy chological warfare activities, both military and otherwise." He will hold the new oiiice "only for the duration of the pe riod necessary to set up and or ganize the board." As soon as it begins to function smoothly he will resign, and devote his full energies to the University. "Nothing short of the presi dent's calling me back into the Armv as a captain, which he has the power to do, could force me to leave the University perma nently," Gray told the trustees, thus debunking rumors that he is being groomed to succeed Sec retary of State Dean Acheson. Grav was inaugurated as the second president of the Consoli dated University which includes Management Institutes Offer Aid To Business, Industry To offer highly specialized training to experts is the pur pose of the institutes for business and industry being conducted here again this summer by the School of Business Administration. . These brief, but intensive educational operations are care- fully planned to aid businesses m- their management development oroblems and will be attended by businessmen from all parts of North Carolina, and other states as well. Already concluded this sum mer are clinics in industrial train ing, real estate, and methods of job improvement. Being held this week are the southeastern Cham ber of Commerce training meet ing and a clinic in time study. Other meetings scheduled are the Carolina bankers conference, July 9-13; the management in stitute for young businessmen, July 23-27; an institute in C.P.A. problems, July 23 -August 24; the furniture manufacturers cost ac counting institute, July 30- Au gust 3; the Southern Retail Furni ture Association management in stitute, August' 6-10; the Credit Bureau and Merchants Associa tion management institute, Au gust 20-24; and an institute in property and casualty insurance, August 27-31. The University was a pioneer in the South in this form of adult training and some of its manage ment institutes have been copied by such universities as Yale, Kan sas, Illinois, and Texas. Administered by the Bureau of Business Services and Research of the School of Business Adminis tration with Rex. S. Winslow as director, the summer institutes are part of the business school's program to relate the school to the business life of the State in more useful ways. The Naval Armory and two dormitories have been turned ov er to the institutes and swim ming, golf, and other recreation al facilities made available to the students. The meetings are non-profit public service projects of the University and open to business men who have completed their formal pre-employment educa tion, and have, or expect to have, management jobs in business. special meeting here today, to N. C. State College in Raleigh, Womans' College in Greensboro and the University at Chapel Hill on October 10, 1950, fol lowing an 11 -month search for a successor to Dr. Frank Porter Graham, who resigned to accept an appointment to the U. S. San ate. Under Gray's administration the University ,has embarked upon an ambitious building and expansion plan in all three units. Prior to his coming to the Uni versity, Gray served as Secretary of the Army and played a promi nent role in the successful uni fication of the Armed Services. Reluctant to lose the services of Gray,' President Truman retained him as a Special Assistant to the President upon his resignation from the Army post to become head of the Greater University. Since coming to Chapel Hill, Gray has worked on several important federal projects. He has also been active in state politics and owns controlling in terest in the Winston-Salem Journal Sentinal and radio sta tion WSJS. Moon Trips Number 53 Since her maiden voyage last month, the Morehead Planetar ium's imaginary space ship has made 53 successful round trips to the Moon, Anthony Jenzano, acting director of the Planetar ium, announced yesterday. "Nine thousand visitors have mentally made the journey with not one single casualty," he said. "The huge, air-conditioned ship is designed to carry 490 passen gers on each flight. The 480,000 miles of educational entertain ment is compressed into an ex citing 50-minute program." The current demonstration, "Trip to the Moon," will continue through Monday, June 25. French House Le Maison FrancaU, The French House composed of stu. dents who are studying the French language so intensively that they speak it throughout the day in their home, has proved so successful that it has had to send overflow students to Smith hall and Old West dormitory. A feature of the House is its presentation of a - different pro gram each night designed to accustom its members to living in French in every phase of their lives. This week's program Includes French movies, games in French and an address by a faculty member. At 7:00 p.m. Friday a free showing of a document ary movie on French life will be held in Swain Hall for all interested persons.

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