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V v- n r CHAPEL EXERCISES 10 :30 THIS MORNING MEMORIAL HALL i Report Circulation Complaints j j TAR HEEL OFFICE I 8:30-9:30 A. 11. VOLUME XXXVIII CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929 NUMBER 1 fill ' T1 Fraternities Make Changes No Rushing Allowed , Until Sep tember 27; New Code Limits Season to 19 Days. "Rushing Season," long known as the freshman's para dise, will be delayed this year for nearly two weeks. According to new rules adopted by the Inter fraternity Council and the Fa culty Committee on Fraterni ties, no rushing will be allowed until the 26th of Octoben. Other changes almost as drastic mark the code adopted for 1929 -by the fraternities. The hours of rushing are limited to the aiternoon and early evening. No rushing is allowed before two P. M. and all fushees must be out of fraternity houses by nine P. M. However4, Friday and Saturday evenings -the period is lengthened until midnight. ; Fraternity men are prohibit ed from . accompanying f resh lmefl away f rom Chapel Hill and from entertaining them away from the' University. Conversa tion with the new men is pro ' hibited except during the after noon. A, feature of the new plan is the making of dates through the dean's office for the first two days. " After September 28 the new men are allowed to choose for themselves. TVio frvrrmlfwP rill PS are as fol- lows: y 1. There shall be' no rushing of any kind from the time that Viq -froolimoTi am'vp in Chanel L 11 V klJlllllVll HA W X iBiTUintiWwaeee ; jjrUt day of classes. (This first period of silence includes, then, what is commonly called "Fresh man Week,", in addition to the first week of classes) ... 2. The period of rushing shall extend from the beginning of the second week of classes (i.e.,' Sept. 27, 1929) to midnight, October 15; that is to say, a ; period of nineteen days. - 3. There shall be a second period of silence extending from midnight, Oct6ber 15, to 6 P.M. October 17. 4. Rushing shall be limited to the hours of 2 to 9 P. M., except on Friday and Saturday nights and the last night of the period of rushing (OCt. 15) when the time shall be extended to mid night. 5. On the first day of the Period of Silence, each frater nity shall submit a list of those whom they wish to bid through the secretary of the Inter-Fraternity Council to the Faculty Adviser on Fraternities. . 6. On the second day of the Facultv Adviser on Fraternities will summon every man who re ceives a bid to some convenient place selected by him, at which time each man shall appear aloneJbefore the adviser and any i assistants whom the council may select toid him and state in writing his first, second, and third choice of fraternities he would like to join, or may have reason to expect bids from. The adviser, after consulting the list of bids, shall then direct him to the house of the fraternity of his highest choice among those bidding him, but not informing him of any other bids he ma$ i have received, and putting him on his honor not to disclose to i anyone his choice before arriv- inr at the nroper fraternity ; house and putting on the pledge button. The freshman's choice (Continued on page two) Drastic in Rushing Rules Opening Exercises This Morning Formal exercises opening the University will take place in Memorial Hall this morn ing at ten-thirty o'clock. All eleven o'clock classes will meet at eleven-thirty in or der that the students'may at tend - the ceremonies. . President Chase -will de liver the address. His subject had not been announced last night. The Carolina Tar Heel Orchestra will furnish music for the occasion. ' . " The public is cordially in vited to be present. ' . , NATIVE TAR HEEL TO SUCCEED PROF PARKER DAGGETT G. F. Bason Is New Head of Der partment. of Electrical En- - . . gineering at University. . (By Lucy M. Cobb) -George Francis Bason, who today begins his work as the new head of the Department of Elec trical Engineering in the Uni versity of North Carolina, is a native Tar Heel come home. Professor ' Bason succeeds Prof. Parker H. Daggett, who resigned last spring to accept the deanship of the School of Engineering at Rutgers, the state Tiivcroity- of New "Jersey. The Bason family has long been prominent in Piedmont and Western North Carolina. Pro fessor Bason's people settled in Orange County in 1755. ' Professor Bason is one of three children of the late Cap tain George F. Bason and Mrs. Fannie Badham Bason of Gas tonia and Charlotte ; the other two being William H. Bason of Raleigh, and Mrs. A. C. Burn- ham, wife of the well-known surgeon, Dr. A. C, Burnham of New York. Mrs. Burnham, is well remembered in this state as Miss Johnsie Bason, violinist of New York and Paris, but for merly teacher of violin in Red Springs Seminary, now Flora McDonald College. The , new University profes sor is a graduate of the Char lotte High School, having com pleted his cotjrse there under Professor Alex Graham. He was graduated from State Col lege in Raleigh in the class of 1908. Immediately after gradu ation he accepted a position with the Crocker-Wheeler Com pany of Ampere, N. J., and re mained with this firm for six years, gaining while there diver sified industrial experience He started out with this' firm as ah apprentice and was elevated to the grade of; engineer. - Entering Cornell University in 1914, he won the degree of mechanical engineer and master of science in electrical engi neering. He was elected to the faculty of the Cornell Engi neering School, in 1915 and had been with the school until he re signed tp come .... back v to North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Bason have three daughters, Mary Burn ham, Frances, and Johnsie, the latter being named for her charming aunt. Mrs. Bason is a woman of unusual charm and will be a social asset to the Uni versitv community. Triple Threat Ray I Some coaches are satisfied to have triple-threat backs, but Coach Collins goes them all one better by having 'a triple-threat guard, Ray Farris, captain of the 1929 Tar Heels. Ray hails from Charlotte and was a natural successor to Schwartz and Motehead, both Charlotte boys, as the Heels have been in the habit of select ing stars for captains in recent years. ' . , Playmakers Plan Extensive Northerri Tour this Winter Work on Fall Productions to Be "" gin Next Week ; Trips through Eastern and Western Carolina Also Planned. A two-week Northern tour on which engagements will be play ed in -New York City, Morris town, lainsfield, and Mooes town, in New Jersey, Baltimore, Md., and several other cities in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland will be one of the features of a busy schedule which has been arranged for the Carolina Playmakers for the present schojastic schooi year. Plans for the year, announced by Prof. Hubert C. Heffner, business manager and assis tant director call for the most strenuous schedule yet under taken by the University folk drama, group. Prof. Frederick H. Koch, di rector of the Playmakers, who taught dramatic literature at the University of California during the summer, returned to the Hill the first of September. Work will begin September 25, ' just five days after the opening of classes for the Fall quarter, and from then on the : Playmakers will be busy working on native folk plays, which will again make up the most of the pro gram for the year. In addition to the Northern tour, which will come from November 15 to December 1 and which will include the Thanks giving hdlidays, the Playmakers will make a two-week tour of eastern North Carolina and-the South during the latter part of February, and the same length tour of western North Carolina and Tennessee the last of April. Six major performances are planned for ChapeJ Hill; There will be three folk playbills, two professional plays, one. of which will be the annual Forest Theatre production, and a pro fessional play by some outstand ing little theatre group. On three previous Northern tours the Playmakers have made such a name for themselves that the demand for them has been (Continued on page six) Buccaneer Notice All men wishing to. try -out for the art and editorial staffs of the Bucc'anecr will meet in the Buccaneer office in the basement of the y Alumni Building at 7 :30 o'clock Mon day night, September 23.' All old men are urged to be pres ent at this meeting. : CY EDSON, Editor. Dr. Edward Knight Writes New Volume 'Education in the United States" Written by Education Professor Dr. Edgar W. Knight, pror fessor of education in the Uni versity of North Carolina, has written a new book entitled "Education in . the 'United States" which is winning highly iavorapie comment oy promi nent 'educators in this country and England. Leading colleges and universities have already adopted the book for use. This book is Dr. Knight's third volume on the subject of American educational history, on which he is a recognized author ity. His first' book, "Public School - Education . in North Carolina," published in 1916 while he was on the faculty of Duke University, and , his "Public Education in the South," which appeared in 1922, have re mained the standard books on that" subject. Churches To Feed . Freshmen Tonight The Freshman ' Church . sup pers and receptions will be held this Friday night at 8 o'clock at all the churches of Chapel Hill with the exception of the Epis copal Church which will have a supper for Freshmen at 6:30 All of the Freshmen are urged to attend these receptions in or der to avail themselves of this opportunity of meeting their minister and fellow classmen of their denomination. 136th Session of University Commences Today with Chapel Exercises; All Classes Begin -A Fraternity Notice The Inter-Fraternity Coun cil will hold its first meeting of the year this Friday night at 7:30 at the Coop. It is absolutely necessary that every . fraternity have a representative at this - meet ing with a check to cover, their bond of $100.00 in ac cordance with the Hew rules of rushing. The Council is determined to strictly enforce the new Rushing Rules .and every "member of the council will be on the alert. At present there are several fraternities under suspicion. LOCAL THEATRE INSTALLS MODERN SOTO EQUIPMENT Western Electric System Was 'First " Used Last Monday; Freshman Midnight Show To 4 night. " . "Western Electric sound equip ment j the finest machinery yet made to reproduce talking movies, was installed in the Car olina Theatre last week and made its debut on last Monday with, the snowing of "Charming Sinner s."" Extensive alterations have also been-made-in the dec orating of the theatre to aid in reproduction of sound enter tainments. During the past two weeks the theatre has used many echo absorbing materials to aid in the improvement of its acous tics. The wall panels were in lined with a thick felt sub stance known as ozite, and a covering of this same substance has been placed back of the screen. Duventine, a cloth col ored in blue and gold, decor ates the outer surface 6 the masonite, which also absorbs sound. The whole interior of the theatre was painted with acoustical paint, containing ground asbestos. Many alterations-to the ven tilating system of the house be came necessary on the installa tion of Western Electric equip ment. New fans of a noiseless type now replace the old and more noisy ones. A fan-house had to be constructed at the rear of the stage to -house the new ventilating apparatus. A thick velvet carpet was added in the aisles so that patrons" might move in and out more quietly. A new screen, considerably larg er than the old one, replaces the former silver sheet. ? - Western Electric sound equip ment has been installed in all the leading theatres in the Publix-Saenger and other chains of theatres, and projects Movie tone and Vitaphone sound at tractions. A special midnight perform ance will be held tonight at eleven o'clock for the freshmen, and the' feature picture will be "Fast Life" with Loretto Young and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Wil liam Powell comes here Satur day, in "The Green Murder Case," and "Fast Company" with Evelyn Brent and Jack Oakie is the attraction booked for Monday; The admission- for the talkies is forty cents. Enrollment This Year Expected To Be About Same as Last Year; Over 700 Freshmen Enrolled. - (By jy&.pVillimns) Freshman Week, the period of' orientation for new men at the University, began Monday with about 730 new men enrolled. It ended yesterday with the library tours 'and meetings with the deans of the different schools.. Tnperclassmen registered yes terday and the University gets underway his morning with all classes commencing.. Chapel period will mark . the - formal opening of the 136th session. Registration shows that the enrollment thjs year will be just about the same as during . the" same quarter last year despite the financial depression through out the state. Y. M. C. A. ' statistics reveal the fact that more students are seeking aid this year than ever before. Freshman Week was devoted to familiarizing" the new men withthe University. JJnder the guidance of upperclassmer. and faculty members the freshmen were given physical . examina tions, instructions in the use of the library, English placement tests, student government lec tures, and mental alertness -tests. ; . "7 The records of Dr. Lawson, director of Physical Education, show that " the new men come from various sections of ' the country. Although the greater (Continued on page six) DIRECTOR PUBLIC WELFARE SCHOOL WRITES NEW BOOK Dr. Howard W. Odum Writes "Wings On My Feet," Sequel to "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"; The New Volume Promises to Be Great Success. Dr. Howard. W.. Odum, di rector of the University's school of Public Welfare, has produced another volume which promises to attain even greater success than tiis first great negro epic. The new book is entitled "Wings on My Feet," and is a sequel to "Rainbow Round My Shoulder." "Rainbow Round My Should er" produced a storm of ap plause. The Baltimore Sun re viewed it as a triumph ; H. L. Mencken called it "an epic in the grand .manner, and one. of ' the most eloquent ever, produced in America" ; and . the New York W oiid . characterized is as "the" most remarkable document of negro life." The new work continues the story of "Black Ulysses" taking him to war as a member of the A. E. F. "Rainbow Round My Shoulder" carried him . through his wanderings in forty states. Both are regarded as unusual portraitures done with remark able faithfulness to negro na ture and dialect. Dr. Odum was born in Georgia and reared on a farmland has gained an nnderstanding of ne gro nature rivaled by few writ ers in the country. . He is the author of a number of scholarly works. in sociology and related fields, being one of the out standing sociologists : in this country. V
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