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CHAPEL HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1942
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BULLETIN
Information received at the Daily
Tar Heel offices at 2 o'clock' this morn
ing indicated that the Duquesne foot
ball forces would definitely arrive in
Raleigh early this morning.
Coach Bob Fetzer, director of ath
letics, received positive assurances
from A. P. Ward, district passenger
agent for the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way in Raleigh at 12 o'clock last night
that the Seaboard train bearing the
squad members, coaches, and officials
would be pushed through the flooded
area in Washington and Virginia and
"would arrive in Raleigh sometime
early this morning."
At a late hour last night Seaboard
officials in Raleigh stated that all trains
which had left Washington during the
evening were "tied up in Quantico but
would be pushed through sometime
during the night."
Station officials in Washington's
Union Terminal could give the Daily
Tae Heel no assurance that the Du
quesne squad had left Washington but
reliable sources stated that the team
had probably taken the first train to
leave Washington which was at 7
o'clock.
Richmond and Raleigh informants
could give the Daily Tar Heel no fur
ther information as to the whereabouts
of the Duquesne team but Mayor Bob
Madry stated at 2 o'clock this morn
ing that the "Duquesne party will ar
rive in Raleigh this morning and that
all plans includinglcickofr at 2;3a will
go ahead as usual."
Coach Bob Fetzer left Chapel Hill
at an early hour thi3 morning to meet
the Duquesne party in Raleigh and all
indications were that they would be
back in Chapel Hill by noon.
By Bill Woestendiek
Hampered by the lack of sufficient
work this week, the Tar Heels take
the field this afternoon in Kenan sta
dium against one of the nation's top
grid teams Duquesne's undefeated
and unscored upon eleven in the fea
ture event of the annual Homecoming
Day program. The kick-off is slated
for 2:30.
A large crowd is expected to be on
hand to witness the Tar Heels at
tempt to stop 'the grid magic of the
smoothly-functioning Duquesne ma
chine. Coach Buff Donelli's squad uses
both the Notre Dame and T-formation
to the best advantage and has rolled up
84 points in three games while hold
ing its baffled opponents scoreless.
The Carolina gridders have had very
little time to prepare for the potent
Duquesne attack. The game was
scheduled too late to do any scouting,
and the rain this week has limited the
Tar Heels' practice sessions. Coach
Tatum stated that the team hasn't had
time to accustom itself to Duquesne's
style of play and will be handicapped
See TAR HEELS, Page 3
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How Come Saturday Classes ?
Read the Real
By Helen Eisenkoff
Have a big time last night? Do you
need a toothpick to prop up your eye
lids this morning? Are you fervently
cursing Saturday classes and wonder
ing why, how, when, and where the
things got started?
Well, bud, slip the Tar Heel under
your Ec notes and learn.
Back in 1889 the faculty began to
worry. It was becoming increasingly
difficult, they said, to get "all the
studies into five days without giving
many of the classes four or five hours
work, going without rest from one lec
ture to another." They advised that
classes be held on Saturday.
Strongest opposition came from the
Di and Phi societies which held Satur
day morning meetings. These weekend
conclaves featured declamations and
reading of compositions which mem
rs claimed were of "much educative
VaTre, the faculty admitted but that
practice had grown up when there was
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JOHN TANDY, left, star soph end, has been playing brilliant Tar Heel
football and may get the starting nod at today's left flank position. Joe
Cibulas, right, 225-pound Duquesne behemoth, will hold up right tackle
spot for the Iron Dukes today. -
Students Finally
Four Legislature
After four days of intermittent voting, undergraduates awoke yesterday
to the additional power given them by the student legislature and rushed to
the polls to barely shove the four amendments over the required 50 per cent
ruling.
Voting results were tabulated late last night and are as follows: ;
On the change giving town students two additional representatives in
the legislature, Smith, Whitehead and
Carr dormitories one representative
and the Interfraternity council and
womans council one each, , the Yes
votes totaled 1,632 with 123 opposed.
Second amendment, calling for a
lowering of the number of students
required to vote on a referendum from
50 percent to 25 percent, got 1,491 Yes
votes and 221 against the measure.
A total of 1,446 students voted in
favor of reducing the vote on initiat
ing a bill from 50 to 25 percent. Only
256 voted No.
On the amendment giving the legis
lature power to pass a constitutional
change with a 25 percent favorable vote
as compared to the old 50 percent rul
ing, 1,448 affirmative votes and 238
negative ballots were cast.
The question of abolishing cars was
voted down by a 1,374 to 263 count. Re
stricted action fared a little better with
a 999 negative vote as compared to the
731 students who voted in favor of the
legislature restricting car use.
It is estimated that over 75 percent
of the undergraduate student body
voted on the bills.
Smith thanked the student council
for their help in the election and at the
same time announced a legislature
meeting for 7:45 p. m. in Phi hall
Tuesday.
Boxing Room Open
For Ringmen Today
The boxing room in Woollen gym
will be open from 10 to 12 o'clock this
morning so that intramural boxers can
spar.
Varsity boxers should report 'to the
boxing room Tuesday afternoon to be
seconds for the intramural tourna-
jment.
Inside Story
practically no English department at
the University. The same advantages
could now be gained through regular
instruction.
Besides, they pointed out, juniors
and seniors weren't required to attend
meetings on Saturday and there were
plenty of non-members floating around.
Apparently convinced by their own
logic, the faculty voted that Saturday
classes be held for juniors and seniors,
provided the change should work no
hardship to the societies.
Some of the reasons given in justi
fication of their decision were:
1. By proper arrangement the temp
tation to study on Sunday can be
greatly lessened.
2. General behavior on Saturdays
will be improved.
3. Five-sixths of the students will
have greater opportunity for study
and recreation.
4. By using Saturdays, relief can be
had from afternoon work except in the
laboratory.
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Students Augment
ISavy Programs
Officers of - the Naval Pre-Flight
school took time out yesterday Bf rom
commanding 1,400 cadets to agree to a
student entertainment community
chest plan which would be used to aug
ment their Wednesday night smoker
talent.
Arthur Perskey, student, announced
that the go signal was given to stu
dent body president Bert Bennett yes
terday and plans were begun imme
diately for the new program.
Basic idea of the organization is to
lend student entertainment to the
cadet smokers in an effort to bring the
two groups closer together and also to
lay the groundwork for a possible reci
procation movement on their part.
The first meeting of the joint com
mittee heads will be held Monday with
Lt. Frank Gillespie, head of the Pre
Flight entertainment bureau, present
ing the cadet views. Campus organi
zations behind this movement include
the student council, Graham Memorial,
woman's government, town girls and
various other leaders.
A wealth of entertainment has al
ready been signed up for the first pro
gram which is to be announced later.
Tiny Hutton, Freddy Caligan, Johnny
Satterfield's orchestra, Joe Harper's
band, Stud Gleicher and others have
signified their desire to back up the
program.
The smokers are held in Woollen
gymnasium on alternate Wednesday
nights. Naval standards demand coed
entertainers to be ruled out. Tentative
plans for the group call for one big
show on the order of college night to
be presented to the cadets are once a
quarter.
All students who are interested in
appearing on the programs or work
ing on the administration are asked
to leave their name And ADDRESS
in the Student Union Office as soon as
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Literary Survey
Adds Six Members
Six additional Carolina students
have been added to the directing board
of the Intercollegiate Literary Survey.
. Walter Klein, head of the organiza
tion, reported that new members in
clude Wally. Bass, Evelyn Waldman,
Leah Ritchter, Art Goldberg, Helen
Eisenkoff, and Ed Hecht.
The new survey, sponsored by the
Raturdav Review of Literature, will
take cross-sections of . student and
faculty opinion on literary trends in
more than 50 colleges throughout the
country. Carolina was selected as the
one university to direct the entire survey.
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Time From Flooded North
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Colorful
Homecoming
Plans Ready
Program Includes
Competition, Dance
The combined twelfth man spirit of
the University will be thrown against
draft scares and a war-gloomy cam
pus in an effort to make Homecoming
Day one of the most grandiose and
lavish all-campus celebrations of the
year.
Resplendent in color and tradition,
the annual Carolina celebration will
begin with the UNC-Duquesne foot
ball game in the afternoon and, end
with the Grail dance at 8:30 o'clock
tonight.
Intersp ersed throughout the day will
be judging of the fraternity, dormi
tory and town merchant displays and
a welcoming at the Carolina Inn of
the old grads who have defied trans
portation restrictions to "sit in on
Carolina's victory" this afternoon and
take advantage of the open house Uni
versity hospitality.
Plans are complete for the welcom
ing by the Monogram club, fraterni
ties and other campus organizations of
their own alumni in "one of the most
colorful reunions in history."
A $25 prize will be awarded to the
dormitory having the best display with
runner-up awarded $15. Expense limit
for the decorations must be limited to
$5 with a complete list of expenses
turned over to Denny Hammon, Uni
versity club president, before 11 o'clock
this morning.
The largest pep rally of the year
started the fireworks yesterday with a
giant parade through "town, recruiting
more ralliers at every corner, and end
ing in front of Memorial hall. Led by
the band and Frank Alspaugh's cheer
leaders, the cheering students gave a
forecast of what is to be expected to
day in the north stands of Kenan sta
dium when the Tar Heels take the field.
Graham Memorial lounge, all mu
seums, art galleries and other cam
See HOMECOMING, Page U
Parker Announces
Attendance Rules
For Frosh Chapel
R. B. Parker, Dean of Men, has an
nounced regulations governing attend
ance of freshman chapel.
Each freshman is responsible for all
announcements made at chapel.
Three unexcused absences will be
permitted in a quarter, the fourth such
absence will place a student on attend
ance probation, and a fifth shall sub
ject the student to immediate dismis
sal from the University. The General
College chapel committee shall have
the responsibility for acting on such
cases.
Infirmary or athletic absences will
be excused if the student involved
takes a . written statement from the
central records office to the chapel sec
retary, 310 South, certifying that he
isexcused. General College advisers
also have full authority to excuse their
advisees for reasons they deem ade
quate. All excuses, to be official, must come
through the central, records office,
through the offices of the General Col
lege advisers, or from University
deans. The responsibility for getting
these excuses rests solely upon the stu
dent. No excuses for absences will be ac
cepted, regardless of their source, un
less presented to the chapel secretary
within three days after the absence
occurs, unless the student presents the
secretary with a written statement
from his adviser saying that his tardi
ness resulted from adequate reasons.
Failure to receive a notice of an ab
sence does not excuse it. .
Every student whose seat is unoccu
pied when checked at the beginning of
the assembly or whose seat is unoccu
pied at the end of a chapel assembly
shall be counted absent.
. The chapel secretary has no au
thority to excuse absences, but has au
thority to correct clerical errors. His
office hours are 1:30-3:00, Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Sunday Night Session
Plans Near Completion
Third in the series of newly organ
ized Sunday Night Sessions will openj
Sunday night at 8:30 and continue for
an nour witn uninterrupted singing,
playing, 'and skits provided by local
talent, it was announced yesterday.
The University of North Carolina
band will give its first public concert
of the year in a group of school and
fight songs and popular marches, as
a part of the program.
Hobart McKeever, chairman of the
campus social committee, announced
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that no definite information re
a broadcast of the "session" had been
received from the Mutual broadcast
ing company, but Joe Harper, master
of ceremonies, promised that the show
would be the "snappiest" yet.
Words for the singing will be dis
tributed in mimeographed booklets as
they were last week. Featured on the
program will be a hypnotist, an imi
tation artist, and Earl Easter, former
violinist with Hal Thurston's or
chestra. Big Army Band
Plays Tonight
Grail Dance Combo
Given Top Rating
Private Sammy Cohen, U. S. Army,
will sound forth tonight at the Grail's
homecoming ball in Woollen gym, with
one of the largest and "most outstand
ing musical aggregations to be heard
on the Hill in quite some time."
Cohen's dance band, which numbers
18 pieces, is made up of former big
timers who played with"such top names
as Benny Goodman, Harry James,
Skinny Ennis and Dean Hudson be
fore their enlistment in the Army.
This is the first appearance of the
band on campus, but reports from Fort
Bragg, their home base, are to the
effect that it is one of the Army's out
standing dance bands. Sam Gambill,
exchequer of the Order of the Grail,
urged all students who plan to attend
the dance to get there early and take
full advantage of the three and one
half hours of good dance music.
Gambill also added, "If you haven't
already made plans to come to the
dance, you'd better make them now.
Don't wait until Sumday and then be
sorry that you missed a swell band and
a swell dance." The dance starts at
8:30 and lasts until midnight.
Admission is open to the campus at
$1.10 script as usual, but this time the
Grail is offering more than just a
dance.
More IRC Blanks
Stacked in YMCA
International Relations club officials
announced last night that 'additional
IRC membership application blanks
have been stacked in -the main YMCA
office. ;
Interviews of applicants for mem
bership vacancies will begin in a few
days, it was reported.
Pretty Majorette Robinson
To Take Over Baton Today
By Jarie Cavenaugh
Personable Isabel Robinson takes
over the baton from retiring drum
majorette Boots Thompson at the Du
quesne game this afternoon. Five feet,
ten inches and a quarter of dynamic
capability, Isabel will strut before the
Carolina musicmakers over Kenan field
for the first time.
The pretty majorette started her
career at twirling the baton at the Uni
versity of Tennessee three years ago.
As a member of the Vollettes, the UT
girls' drill team, she was elected drum
majorette and had never held a baton
in her hand. She started learning right
away and has been at it ever since. She
strutted across the field at the Sugar
bowl game in New Orleans in 1941
with her home town band.
Drum majoring is no soft job, even
after learning how, vows her room
mate, as she testifies to blistered hands
and broken nails in Isabel's first few
Faculty
Takes
ion
Railroad Problem
Cited as. Cause
By Bob Levin
At a general faculty meeting yester
day, speedy action resulted in the pass
ing ox a special ruling discontinuing
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Thanksgiving holidays due to a govern
ment-railroad request to aid m alle
viating the acute transportation prob
lem. Announced by Administration Dean
R. B. House, the move is designed to
comply with the proposed plan of clos
ing earlier in the fall and starting
later in the winter quarter. This would
space student traveling between the ex
pected rush of men in the armed ser-
vices.
Asked if any definite announcement
could be made concerning possible
Christmas holiday plans, House an
swered that "other vacation plans will
be announced at a later date."
Students who do not attend classes
during the discontinued four-day holi
day from November 26 to 30 will be
given regular cuts.
Examination dates will be fixed by
later faculty action and announced in
the Daily Tar Heel. It is expected
that the examination period will be
moved up three days, shortening the
fall quarter and lengthening Christ
mas vacation. This was not confirmed
however, and students must wait for
further action by the administration.
Carolina is not the first school to
adopt the plan as the majority of nor-.
them schools have followed this ar
rangement for some time. The Woman's
college in Greensboro and State col
lege have used this policy for some
time and yesterday's action will fur
ther unite the greater University in
its speed-up schedule.
First YW-YMCA
Group Meetings
Slated Monday
The YW-YMCA will hold their first
committees and commission meetings
Monday night at 7 o'clock in the YMCA
building.
The worship and religious emphasis
joint commission will meet in YWCA
office on second floor from 7 to 8 p.m.
At this meeting a discussion of plans
for worship programs for this quarter
and ways of helping local churches
will be taken up. Frances Allison,
Louise Rhodes, Si King and Lee How
ard are joint chairmen of this group.
Jennie' Clark French and Carter
Broad, co-chairmen of the Fellowship
suppers committee, will meet with
their group in the guest room on sec
ond floor in theYMCA building from
7 to 8 p.m. Monday. Purpose of this
committee is to prepare meals and
plan programs for the suppers spon
See YW-YMCA, Page U
weeks of practice here. Her biggest
job will be signaling the band maneu
vers, but she -can throw that baton
higher than a telephone post. Isabel
says she's never had any embarrassing
moments in public performances fond
ly patting the rabbit's foot that makes
all field trips with her. She's a little
scared of tomorrow's unrehearsed per
formance, but hopes shell get along
OK with the Carolina band, which she
thinks is wonderful. "I thought the
Tennessee band was swell, but this one
tops them all," the blue-eyed girl de
clared. Greatest disappointment to Isabel i3
the conversion of the band into a con
cert outfit after football season. She'3
getting a late start with only two more
marches left on the program. She'd
like to march all year. The newcomer
has already taken the lead at two pep
rallies and loves them, but this after
noon at the half period will be her big
moment.
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