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II t? I mizi in DITORIALS: TTTEATHER: il Snow Ji-f Cloudy; continued cold Fit SZaf L -77 0Z.lr COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTHEAST- Z 525 VOLUME XLVIII Business: 9887 Circulation: 9886 CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1940 Editoriil: 43S6 News: 4351 1 Mfbt: 690 NUMBER 76 &um EstolbHslhies Voitm TTft c t r i it i r s 11 mats V u f f Student Committee Appointed To Conduct Study Of Coed Visits To Fraternity Houses Group Will Offer Recommendations To Administration The University administration an nounced last night that a committee representing the student council, the interfraternity council, the women's association, and including other stu dent leaders will make a study of prob lems with reference to the entertain ment of women students in fraternity houses. This action was taken after the fraternity group last fall had made an unsuccessful appeal to bear the full responsibility of dating coeds in the Greek houses. Much confusion has reigned this year concerning the entertaining of women students in fraternity houses, since special permission had to be ob tained before coeds could visit the fraternities. It is expected that the newly appointed committee will make recommendations to the administra tion for solving the problem. Members of the committee are: Studie Ficklen, president of the interfraternity coun cil; Jim Davis, president of the stu dent body; Melville Corbett, president of the women's association; Louise Jordan, Tommy Royster, Mary Wood Window, Chris- Siewers, Frances Dyckman, Gene Rankin, Watts Carr, Dot Coble, and Fred Weaver. PRESENT AGREEMENT For the nast five years the fra ternity presidents have signed agree ments with the administration for en tertaining women students within cer tain hours without formal chaperon age. Principal items in the agreement were: (1) that there would be "no drinking or serving of intoxicating drinks; (2) that the atmosphere would be that of any well-regulated home; and (3) that the agreement had been discussed and subscribed to in good faith bv all members 'of the fra- ternity." Fraternitv representatives have agreed generally that the entertain ment nroerram had not worked suc cessfully. It was felt that the procedure of obtaining privileges had become routine and its Drovisions were not adhered to by a large portion of the, fraternity men. Havine resolved not to sign an agreement to maintain con ditions which they considered out moded and impossible to achieve, the interfraternity council was then faced with two alternatives: (1) either to forego the privilege of entertaining women students in the houses entire ly! or (2) to eliminate all formal agreer ments and to lodge complete re sponsibility for the entertainment (Continued on page 2, column 4) Inaugural Address By Ellis Tonight Begins Phi Year The Philanthropic assembly begins the new year tonight with the inaugu ration of new officers and the inaugu ral address of Phil Ellis, speaker. The meeting starts promptly at 7:15 in thet Phi hall, fourth floor New East. Ellis will announce the Phi's policy for the coming quarter in his address on "Freedom of Speech." Other of ficers who will be inducted at tonight's meeting are Hassell Thigpen, speaker pro tempore; Jean Littell, reading clerk; Jimmy Pittman, sergeant-at-arms; and the ways and means com mittee, composed of Thigpen, chair man, Shirley Hobbs, Lewis Waller, and Bill Singletary. Ellis said yesterday that the assem bly was busy making plans for their winter quarter membership campaign, which will get underway tonight. The following question will be dis cussed and voted on at the meeting: "Resolved, That a committee to in vestigate un-American activities should be established on the campus of the University." Retiring officers of the Phi are Joe Dawson, speaker; Bob Sloan, speaker Pro tempore; Marian Igo, reading clerk; and Leo Karpoles, sergeant-at-arms. Forum Postponed DeWitt Barnett, director of Gra ham Memorial film projects, said yesterday that the film forum sched uled for this evening at 7:30 would be postponed until February- 1. HUNTER ISSUES POSTAL BALLOTS TO PASS BUDGET President Requests Seniors To Return Cards Immediately Nearly 600 members of the class of 1940 will receive the postcard ballots sent out by President Benny Hunter's third attempt to secure a quorum to pass the class budget. Hunter requested yesterday that all seniors mark and return the bal lots immediately, pointing out tha they won't even have -to leave their mailbox, since the cards are addressed and stamped so that they may be quickly marked and dropped back into the box. The double cards have on one side a copy of the budget and a voting blank on the other. Twice the officers of the class have offered musical entertainment in order to draw out enough seniors to furnish an affirmative quorum of the class Both times they fell short leaving ap proximately $5,060 lying idle in South building to the credit of the class. Meanwhile Editor Jack L.yncn oi the Yackety Yack has been mildly suggesting that it is about time the senior pictures in the yearbook were paid for if they want them included Also plans for senior week are at standstill pending action on the budg et. The juniors, who passed their budget aren't sure what to do about planning for the annual junior-senior dance wondering if there are going to lw nv funds forthcoming from the seniors. YM-YWCA HOLDS SUPPER MEETING 25 Attend First In Forum Series Members of the junior-senior cabi nets of both the YWCA and YMCA met together for the first of their sup- Der forums last night at 6 o'clock in the Presbyterian church social room In the program which followed Bill McKie led a discussion on the trend of modern society. Approximately 25 students were oresent. Several were turned away because of lack of sufficient room and food. To remedy this, plans are being made to accommodate a greater num ber next Monday. f.TTi'c talk was the first on the eeneral subject, "Christian Personal ity in Modern Society," which is the topic for this quarter's discussions. John Bonner, YMCA president, an nounced that outside speakers have already been secured for most of the coming programs. In his discussion McKie drew main ly from the doctrines of Nicholas Ber daev, modern Russian philosopher, and T. S. Eliot, author. His main point was that the main difficulty at pres ent is that people of the world have no clear objective, and that unless they attach some meaning to life, modern society will not survive. t Scientific Society Will Meet Tonight , The Elisha Mitchell scientific so ciety meets tonight at 7:30 in 206 Phillips hall. Speakers: Dr. Ray mond Adams, "Transcendental Science."; Dr. Wm. L. Fleming, "Pres ervation of Spirochaetes and Filter able Viruses by a Freezing Method." In Person JACKIE COOGAN j Enthusiastic Reports I Received Concerning Drama Scheduled Here Reports from Richmond say that the coming stage show, "What A Life" starring Jackie Coogan, is a "howling success and the lines of youthful be wilderment are priceless." Coogan and a cast of several minor movies stars will appear here Friday night in Me morial hall sponsored by the Play makers. The play centers around Henry Al drich, a 16-year-old high school boy played by Jackie Coogan, whose goal in life is to take Barbara Pearson, his sweetheart to a school dance. To win this prize the adolescent fumblings of Henry involve him in palpable lies, cheating in examinations, stammering pretenses, wrretched evasions, suspen sions, expulsions, and all varieties of predicaments. When he is not toss ing the whole high school into con fusion with his calamities, he is driv ing the teachers crazy by drawing caricatures of them, and driving his parents wild by failing to live up to the Ph. D. that his father received at Princeton. The entire action of the play tran spires in the principal's office in Cen tral high school. The playwright, Clifford Goldsmith, gathered his in formation for the play from his own experience in more than 200 high schools of the country. Somebody has remarked that no com edy is more successful than that which provides characterization into whichvj members of the audience may project themselves. This may explain why Hanry Aldrich has become one of the most lovable characters of the stage. Leap Year Is Males Can Expect Anything Varied Opinions In Interviews On Subject Given By Students By VIVIAN GILLESPIE The old order changeth . . it's leap year, ami at last tne gins come into their own. Of course the boys are still in a dazed condition and the girls haven't really started yet; but these are the opinions of the student body on the leap year situation. "I'm afraid it leaves me cold," said Marjorie Johnston, which definitely settles that. Morris Rosenberg simply said, "Don't ask me I don't have any- hing to worry about.". Bickett Idol typifies the more indifferent group, declaring "It doesn't make much dif- erence to me." "IH have to start carrying a cane," said Ed Rankin, who is nothing if not confident. Alex Bonner took a draw on his cigarette, leered, and said, "I'm waiting for a girl to take me to Mid- Winters and Finals and all the big dances of the year." ENCYCLOPEDIA SUGGESTED "I don't know how leap year affects me; because i don t Know anytning about it. Get the facts from any en cyclopedia," said Jean Littell, slid ing neatly out from under. "I've lived through four and a half of them, and they haven't affected me yet. Damn! "cursed Leonard Lobred. Boxer Andy Gennett is monastery- hunting. He declared that "leap year (Continued on page 2, column U) "Comprehensives Date I Changed To Tenth It was announced by the adminis tration yesterday that the date of the comprehensive examinations has been changed to February 10, a week earlier than previously sched uled. The date was changed because Mid-Winter German dances are to be held on the 17, which was the date formerly set for the compre hensives. MERDORM DANCE CONFLICTS WITH COMPREHENSIVES Big-Name Band To Be Presented February 10 More conflict between dances and comprehensive examinations was brought out yesterday as Stancill Stroud, chairman of the interdormi- tory dance committee, . and Paul Thompson, president of the Grail, an nounced the date for the interdormi tory dances as February 9 and 10 simultaneously with an announcement from the administration changing the date of comprehensives to the tenth in order to avoid clashing with the mid-winters. Three dances will make up the set. Friday night's dance will be held from 9:30 to 1 o'clock with a small band, probably from the campus, playing. Saturday afternoon from 4:30 to 6:30 the interdormitory tea dance will be held with the same band which plays for the Grail dance Saturday night. These" tiyo will be closed to all except dormitory men. BIG NAME BAND Open to the whole campus but in honor of dormitory men, the Grail dance Saturday night is assured of a big-name band, Thompson said, but the name cannot be announced yet. This will be a one dollar script dance like all others sponsored by the Grail this year. The dormitory men's bids will admit them to both of the other two. All three will be informal and will be held in the Tin Can. iwo major atnietic events are scheduled for the same weekend. The Carolina boxing team will meet Mary land's pugilists Friday afternoon. Saturday both varsity and freshman basketball games with Duke will be played. After long and continuous howling from the campus about the conflict ( Continued on page 2, column 5) Here, So UNC Three New Members Appointed To Coed Athletic Council Three new members were appointed to the Woman's Athletic association council for the winter quarter at a meeting held yesterday in Graham Memorial. Miss Marjorie Johnston will manage badminton, Miss Mar garet Rose Knight, fencing, and Miss Virginia Cates, swimming. Other members of the council are being retained from last quarter. They include: Misses Terrill Everett, president; Mary Lewis, secretary; Ann Moore, treasurer; Emogene Mc- Gibony, manager of horseback rid ing; Anne Williams, basketball; Ladye Carpenter, bowling; Peggy Holmes, golf; and Janet Messenger, dancing. Following the brief business meet ing the council discussed plans for woman's athletic activity for the winter quarter. The coeds will meet with several women's teams from northern and southern schools, the first match coming between New York university and Carolina fencers in' February. The swimming team plans to enter the National Tele graphic swimming meet, and several inter-dormitory basketball games will be arranged as well as games with other colleges. Regularly scheduled classes in women's sports are held daily. Explains Procedure 't X i - ! - - is f L?Z JIM DAVIS DAVIS EXPLAINS PROPER ACTION IN HONOR CASES Instructor Should Not Try To Settle Incident Himself As a result of numerous requests in the past week, Jimmy Davis last night gave out the following state ment, concerning the proper action of a faculty member in the. case of a vio lation of the honor code in one of his classes: "For the handling of cases arising from cheating in the class rooms, we have two agencies, the student council and the faculty executive committee. The former handles all cases of an ex ternal nature that is of obvious cheat ing during the taking of quizzes and examinations. The faculty executive committee handles cases of an inter nal nature, those arising from the con tent of papers and prescribed work in which there is reason to believe that students have been cheating. The latter is done because faculty members, be ing more familiar with the contents of the course, are more likely to recognize cheating within the papers themselves than are students. "The proper procedure for an in (Continued on page 2, column 3) REGISTRATION CLOSES TODAY 3,525 Students Already Enrolled Registration for the 1940 winter quarter will close today at 5 o'clock with 3,525 students already enrolled. I. C. Griffin, director of the Cen tral Records office, announced yester day that all students who have not registered and all who have further changes to be made in their schedules are advised to attend to these matters today as registration for the quarter will end this afternoon. The number of students who have already registered is exclusive of law students. They will not register until sometime in February. Playmakers To Show 'Birth Of A Nation' "The Birth of a Nation," one of the greatest of all American films, will be shown before the Playmakers Film club Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the Playmakers theater. Only members will be admitted to the showing However, the member ship roll is still open, and anyone who wishes to join may. secure a season ticket for $1 from Fred Walsh, at the Playmakers theater, from 316 South building or from the Bull's Head book shop. A season ticket will admit the holder to all showings dur ing the quarter. Of the nine more pictures to be shown before the club the following rbave been definitely booked: "The Birth of a Nation," "The Puritan," "Cavalcade," "I'm a Fugitive from a Chaingang," "Emile Und Die Detek tive," "Sunrise," and '"Anna Christie." Two more films of equal merit will be selected. RESOLUTION AIMED AT SPEEDING UP ELECTION PROCESS Four Different Balloting: Places WiU Be Set Up By GENE WILLIAMS The student legislature last night rapidly and overwhelmingly passed a resolution establishing voting pre cincts for use in general campus elec tions. The plan was passed with a vote of 30 to 5 at the legislature's regular meeting in Gerrard hall. The purpose of the resolution was stated in the preamble to the effect that it was to the interest of the or ganization to. help facilitate and speed up election machinery and also to safe guard elections from irregularities made possible by increased enrollment and political competition. The legislature, in passing the plan, first stated that the council shall, as in the past, be in charge of the elec tion "and their own machinery and general administrative supervision shall control elections" subject to the provisions of the bill passed by the body. PRECINCTS The first precinct shall be in the lob by of dormitory H. Residents of dor mitories H and K, Graham, Everett, Lewis, Aycock, Manly, Mangum, Grimes, and Ruffin shall vote here. The second precinct shall be in the lobby of Woman's number 1 dormitory, and residents of Spencer and dormi tories 1, 2, and 3 will vote here. All town and sorority members will vote in the third precinct which is Graham Memorial. - . -The last precinct will be the YMCA where residents of Steele, Old East, Old West, Battle-Vance-Pettigrew and all fraternity members will vote. Resi dents of Carr, Smith and dormitory L will also vote at this fourth precinct unless the student council makes pro visions for them to vote in their re spective dormitories. All students not falling in the cate gory of these four precincts -will be considered as town students and will register in Graham Memorial. A clerk will be present in the Graham Memorial precinct with an up-to-date list of reg istered students which will include all students registered at the time of the election and whose names do not ap pear in the current issue of the stu dent directory. Any student who does not present a confirmation of regis tration by the administration at the polls will not be allowed to register if his or her name does not appear in the student or up-to-date directory. CHALLENGERS The bill also provides that students must vote in the precinct designated by their address as published in the di rectories. Representatives of each po litical party will be expected to be present at each precinct to insure fair- ( Continued on page 2, column 6) ' Senate To Discuss Reorganization At Session Tonight Plans for the coming year will be the main topic for discussion at the meeting of the Di senate tonight, it was announced yesterday by John Busby," president of the senate. Busby said that the whole organ ization's set-up may be changed as a result of tonight's meeting, as a move ment is on foot to effect such a pro cedure. A bill is slated to be taken up con cerning plans for the Di-Phi dance. The program for the meeting in cludes a presidential address by Busby, who will later name committees for the new year. Names of ' proposed N members also will be presented to the group. Illustrator To Talk At Bull's Head Tea William Meade Prince, well-known illustrator, will discuss "Illustrating for Magazines" at the first Bull's Head tea of the quarter, tomorrow afternoon at 4:15 in the staff room of the library. Prince is a resident of Chapel Hill, and much of his work has been exhibited at Person hall. i 1 )
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