North Carolina Newspapers

THE DAILY TAR HEEL SUNDAY, APRIL 1 PAGE TWO This 'n That Head And Shoulders Above By Bill Buchan j that will give the students on the jburicd in the legislate e. As April 6 draws nearer, the third floor of Stacy and the stu- apart by useless amrn-i dent. Umm K Fir C win s Spirit Graham Memorial Inadequate After 20 Years of Service By Barron Mills In 1315 the meeting place of aU students was the campus postoffice; in 1320 it was the Old Well and the benches that were placed under the big, spreading oaks nearby; in 1925 the YMCA was the place to find the buddy you were hunting for; and in 1940 you could find him around the Graham Memorial student union. In 1943 there is no one place where all students wander in on some -odd moment of the day to chat with friends or play a couple hands of bridge. Gra ham Memorial from 1931-44 ser ved that purpose until the war swelled the enrollment and nov lts facilities are totally inade quate for more than 2,500 stu dents. This condition of no central meeting place has had a strange effect on the University which is noticed by pre-war students and transfers alike. Students : comment that it has greatly damaged the school spirit and , left the campus a checkerboard of isolated segments. The consensus is that a com-, mon denominator besides foot ball is greatly needed and that common denominator is a new and more adequate student build ing. Just how that student build ing is to be paid for, where it is to be located and what it will include are factors on which there is no such universal agree ment. Observers point out that the present era is identical to that of 1920 when the movement for a student union was first begun. It was following a great war. The student body had reached the un heard of peak of 2,000 students, and was broken up into many segments because of the increase in enrollment and the fact that the veterans were more mature men than the ante-bellum colleg ians. The cry was "unification." Before the roaring twenties there had been no student gov ernment. The first president of 1 iT&j- THE ONCE SPACIOUS Graham Memorial lounge for ihe 2,000 students ai the University is now very inadequate for a student body of 7,000. Receptions and meetings in ihe evenings often monopolize ihe lounge. ' 3e3Daitjj i3ar.-ieel . The. official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina. Chiip?l Hill, where it Is published daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods by the Colonial Fress. Inc During the official summer terms, it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 8, 1879. SubscripUon price: $8.00 per college year, $3.00 per quarter. The opinions expressed by ihe Member of the Associated Collegiate Press Association of the National Collegiate Press Association. BARRON MILLS Editor MANAGING EDITOR: Ed SPORTS NEWS EDITOR: Chuck Hauser SOCIETY EDITOR: Jane Mears NEWS STAFF: Raney Stanford, Donald Weddy Thorp. Emily Baker. Miriam Evans, Doris Weaver, Nancy Black, Whitehall, Helen Highwater. SPORTS STAFF: Morty Schaap. Dick Jenrette. Bill Kellam. Larry Fox. Taylor BUSINESS STAFF: James Crews, Jackie Rogers. Betty Huston, J. C. Brown. Hudson. -Gladys Cottrell. Al Petteway, Kathryn Colwell, W. S. Peebles. Campbell, Ed Campbell, Al Carpenter. FOR THIS ISSUE: NIGHT ine siudenl body was elected m 1920; prior lo this the presi dent oi the senior class had served in thai capacity. The Tar Heel, the Carolina Mag and ihe Yackety Yack were written in the slatf members' rooms. The literary societies were the only organizations besides 113 fra ternities thai had exclusive quarters. "Unification" was the cam paign cry of those who wanted a closer knit campus and it may well be reincarnated as the slo gan of those today who feel that the campus does not have the 'spirit and the unification that is J needed. The student body be came interested in erecting a student building and it pledged money for erecting one but in 1921-22 the recession came and trie pledges were not fulfilled. The shell of the present Gra ham Memorial stood for several years its completion depended on the collection , of the -pledges. Under these circumstances, Ames Brown, . a native of Greenyille, N. C. and -'member of the class of '10, because of his devotion to E. K. Graham, former University president, donated the $80,000 ne- cessary to complete the middle section of Graham Memorial. Graham Memorial as it now stands is only one-third com pleted. The other two sections if completed would bring the value of the present $250,000 structure up lo $430,000. Bui observers point out lhal even if Graham Memorial is com pleted il would be loo small lo house all of the facilities which a siudenl, union on a campus of Ihe size of the Uni r m i . t i r versity of North Carolina should contain. Then too. many are of Ihe opinion lhal ihe skeleton of a building thai stood weathering for several years awaiting more funds for completion received much dam age and as a result the build ing is not siruciuaily firm and solid. pa 4v columnists are iheir own and Daily Tar Heel. Complete Leased Wire , of United Press Joyner. Jr. CIRCULATION MANAGER: Owen Lewis EDITORS: Bob Goldwaier. BiU Carmichael ASST. BUS. MGRS.: Mary W. Sledge, T. E. Holden ASST. CIRC. MGRS.: Randall Hudson, Don Srow MacDonald, Sally Woodhull, John Stump. Herb Nachman, Charlie Gibson, EDITOR: Charlie Gibson ski fi A'S . s A fin V X. ty-SS::? :&' 7 ),jr- GRAHAM MEMORIAL with limes larger lhan it is able lo common denominator besides The mention of unification to a student brings in many side lights and fears. '"We don't want to carry this unification too far. At some of the larger schools unification has been carried to such ' an extreme that the stu dent union has become nothing more than an arcade and is just the roof for the whole college outside the classroom." Bill Shuford, director of Gra ham Memorial, has some very de finite ideas about the purpose of the student union and the ser vices that a new building should maintain and contain. lie believes that the Union should have an office and general manager of student activities who will plan the student concert and lecture series (a substitute for the Stu- ident Entertainment Series), and -ri,v,o0 tho frch- man orientation program. As to the building itself and its facilities, Shuford says that it should be the center of all acti vity for the campus and contain a faculty club, ballroom, theatre, barber shop, beauty shop, grill, bookstore, postoffice, conference rooms with long tables to be used in taking notes, a billiard parlor, the YMCA and a soda shop. These Shuford believes, are the bare necessities for a successful union that will be used by all students. All agree that a student union containing all of the es sentials would cost a cool million and a half. Where this money can be oblained is the number one problem. There would be three alternatives for securing the funds for a build ing. One plan would be the out fight appropriation from the iNorth Carolina General Assem bly. This would be virtually im possible because as J. Maryon laminar with the. overall picture of the University will tell you, "The Legislature is sure to con sider that there are more im portant buildings which have priority over a student building." However, there is some hope that at least part of the funds can be appropriated through the Legis lature, especially since the YMCA is high on the list of new build ings and many feel that the Y are not necessarily those of ihe Represented for national advertising by National Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave., New York. N. Y. HOWARD BAILEY Bus. Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION MGR.: Charles Pattison EDITORIAL ASSTS.: Bob Sain, Bill Buchan Helen Beam, Daniel Wallace, Sam Vaden. Kyle Cox. Bill Gallagher. C. B. Mendenhall, Jne Williams, Randall Grover Henson, Neal Howard, Jr., Lena NIGHT SPORTS: Larry Fox a ',s'as'a?S' Z V r , t4 - its white column carries on the best il can for a siudenl body three accommodate. A new and larger siudenl union would be Ihe football which ihe campus needs. and its allied organizations should be housed in the student union. Some have already begun the search of a benevolent Santa Clause to erect the building. They reason that only last year a planetarium was added to the University by a gift from John Patterson Morehead, and it is en tirely possible that some interest ed alumni or family friend of the University would donate the funds for a student building be cause it is the one building that would be used by everyone as sociated with the University. Others have suggested ihai the most feasible plan would be lo have Ihe new siudenl union a war memorial. Ai uni versities and colleges through out ihe nation siudenl build ings have been erecied ihrough funds raised in ihis manner. Ai ihe present time there is not even a memorial on campus to ihose alumni of ihe University who lost their lives in ihe first world war. There is not a pla que on ihe campus containing the names of Ihose killed in ihe firsi world war. Iowa Slate, Oregon Slate, and Purdue are among the larger colleges which have erecied a student building ihrough funds do nated as a memorial io former siudenis who died in ihe ser vice of iheir couniry. Georgia Tech in about the same predicament as the University short on funds while the need is great has begun raising funds through parking concessions ' at football games, dances and other schemes. George Washington and South Dakota have voted to as sess each student $5 per quarter to raise funds to begin construct ion on a student building. The plan has been condemned by many students at the two schools because they will not gain the full benefit from .their contribu tions since they are paying funds before the building is erected, and many will graduate before the union is in operation. The location of ihe student union is another problem con fronting us. Graham Memorial in its present location is isolat ed from ihe rest of ihe campus and is not being used lo its .fullest extent because it is off ihe beaten path of many stu dents. Gradually but steadily ihe campus has shifted south ward. The position of ihe siu- dent union in al least one building plan is directly behind ihe YMCA building and in Ihe court opposite Saunders and Murphy halls. Many believe this io be ihe ideal location of a union tVat would benefit ihe greaiesi number of students daily. Others would like io see ihe building erecied on Emer son field, which ihey slate must eventually be moved for more valuable buildings. In any event all agree that the student building must be placed on a site near the center of the campus so that it would be avail able to the greatest number of students and on property that would allow ample room for ex pansion for a building that would serve the non-academic needs of 25,000 students which the authori ties say will be the 1995 enroll ment here. Meanwhile, staunch Graham Memorial with its white columns and swinging doors is carrying on under the burden. Many student organizations have only the use of a lounge for one hour per week in which to meet and con duct their business. When they finish their designated time . the H tr. 1',f -; lounge is quickly grabbed by another organization. Student Government and the publications are tolerating cramped quarters and the main lounge is a constant stream of activity. Students will readily admit that for its facili ties and floor space the Graham Memorial staff is doing a good job, but there are many more needs. When talking wilh a member of ihe administration or a legis lator ai ihe Siaie Capilol aboul a new student union a student is nearly always cenfronied with ihe same answer, "It's merely a question of what you siudenls need most. Is it mors room in ihe commerce school, more classrooms, dormiiories or whai is ii? You know we are only able lo gel jusi so much money from ihe Legislature." To this the average student will answer, "Yeah, we know. But just remember that we have got to have a heart to keep pump ing life blood into the campus and that campus heart is a stu- dent union." Knight Clarifies Senate Remarks After last Thursday's mass meeting of the coeds, I felt at long last that they would be al lowed finally to make up their own minds as to the Constitution al amendment affecting the Coed Senate, with no more emotional and foolish talks of. mergers and abolition of the Coed Senate. With the full facts presented by the two leading opinions for and against the bill, the coeds could make an intelligent decision. Then, in the "factual" report of the meeting in yesterday's paper, I find only one extremely minor point that was really an after thought of my argument was given while all of Miss Cashion's spacious points were presented, written and quoted in an emo tional, dramatic style. Therefore, here we go again in answer to Miss Cashion's points in yesterday's paper. (1) The Coed Senate was grant ed autonomous power last year because the legislature did not realize any incurring difficulties, and because the Coeds had al ways been given what they want ed. Since then, it has been found that there are conflicts in vested authority, in the business of drawing up budgets for coed and general student organizations, and in the administration of ex penditures. We do have an amal gamated government according to the Constitution, yet under the present system neither the exe cutive nor the legislative branch of the student government has had the cooperation, nor the right, to ask for cooperation from the Coed Senate. Concerning ex penditures, all allotments made by the Coed Senate with boni fied reasons to Coed organiza tions are obviously not going to be criticized by the legislature. (2) All the rights and advantages that Miss Cashion is so avidly defending are already assured under the Constitution, which I read to the coeds the other day, or else are coed affairs alone, which means that the Legislature has no right to revue them. Finally, let me state that I said the coeds have their "propor tionate" not "sufficient" repres entation in the Legislature. The Coed Senate serves a vital pur pose on campus and I am the last to permit its abolition or merger. Ediih Knighi Chairman of the Legislature Coed Affairs Commiiiee. , Tr 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' . , . - race lor coveted positions in mu . jdent government gets more ani.cnarue u i-nu u imore involved. Fortunately, duo ! representative that they know to the good taste of all candidates running, there has been no ...i.i- - nnii ro a rvio m in; np inL iir iidfii- calling. However, the race is go- ing into the home stretch and ef- j r . 1 ' i ions musi uc i made to neip to help. 1 the student body realize that they ft y ''2 have a momen-l tous task aheadnt" . 4 I choosing the ' x 4 man who is tcrtt ' lead them as! "ff'' their president LJLU. lf,fr.,r.. during the coming year. Thai man must be one ready and willing io shoulder respon sibility. He must be a man capable of thinking for himself and one who is knovn io con sider the best move first over any doubts or restrictions thai he mierht feel He must be a man who is with them and give their opin willing to work and fight for j ions on vital matters. Time and a good, sound redisricting bill ! again, such moves have been Write Away Dedmond Makes A Letters submitted to the Write j Away column must be double-spaceJ, j typewritten, and shall not exceed 300 words. All contributions mu;' contain signature, telephone num ber, and address of the author. (Names will be withheld upon re quest.) Letters which contain ob scene or libelous statements or letters which do not comply wth these stipulations will not be pub lished. Editor: In the past I have hesitated to use the Tar Heel for statements of this kind. In view of Mr. Ilod son's letter of yesterday,' how ever, it seems desirable that I make this one statement. I do so from the standpoint of main taining the good name of Stu dent Government and with the view of clarifying ,for the Stu dent Body those questions which have been raised. My actions on the districting bill were based on my firm be lief ihai an intelligent solution could be reached only by bring ing iogeiher in open committee discussions ihe parties interest ed in ihe proposal. My obser vations and experiences in the legislature had convinced ma ihai only by such action could a workable and acceptable sol ution be reached. I took ihe ini tiative in establishing an ad visory commiiiee for the pur pose. The original bill by Mr. Charlie Long was used as the basis for our considerations. This bill provided five dormi- j iorv districts and nine lown ! districts. As yet I have been unable lo explain ihis obvious disparity in iwo areas having approximately equal popular lion. After three weeks spent in working up population sta tistics, io which I gave ihirty hours of valuable lime, the committee did not reach a unanimous agreement. A parti san battle in the legislature re sulted in which -1 participated along with approximately forty six other legislaiors. My desire for a districting bill is unchanged. I shall expect to be working toward a solution either as President of the Student Body or as a member of the legislature. But I must reaffirm my belief that a solution must be reached in open discussions by represent atives of the interested groups rather than by a partisan fight ; in the legislature. I cannot con scientiously work toward any other solution. I consider a solu tion by any other means an un satisfactory one regardless of the party supporting the measure. My political philosophy is un changed. I have stood and still stand for the belief lhat in Student Government there is no difference between a frater nity and a non-fraternity man. My nomination in no way changed this stand. My candi dacy was fully discussed and agreed upon by ihe Campus Party in open parly meetings. Mr. Hodson, as a member of the party at that time, did not honor it with his presence. Had he done so he niihi have pre- ,j.4 . , v..,t pn,,.rv Ktmft - ut-m. uu ...,.-. j .i hr.tr personally and wno ir.ey sre rcprescnun- meir yua, , c:,r,f Trricl-Tture. dicei;- tu hl ijcu'-ivji.v The nexi presiaeni musi c 1 A a man who will lake a stand on the court situation on campus and fighi to see that ii is reme died. He musl be a man who listens to the dictates of his conscience and io ihe siudenls and not io ihe dictates of a few individuals. One of the most pressing prob iemfe on this campus, today, as mentioned above, is the muddled eloctorial system. The students who do vote in elections' vote for legislators that they do not know, most of whom they never heard of. Numerous times efforts have been made to install a complete redistrirting of Chapel Hill so that people living in each speci fied district could know their legislators, discuss the problems vented the unanimous action of the parly in its decision in the matter and have made his thoughts known. As for the remarks of Miss Tate and Mr. Long, as well as For Helfman Editor: No doubt you have noticed all the posters scattered around the campus announcing Max Ilelf- linan s talk' ai h o cjock ounuay might in IliJl Hall. I would like to add my personal recommenda tion to those posters and urge that as many people as possible attend. I first met Mr. Helfman three years ago when he was Music Director at Brandeis Camp In stitute in the Pocohonos. He is a short rather insignificant look ing man whose wit, personality, knowledge of music, and com plete lack of formality not only tend to make him an ideal lec- jturer but also a unique one. Rita Loeb s There a Nurse in the House? Many additional Negro graduate nurses arc required fo supplement the 9,000 now serving in hospitals and public, health nursing agencies, the American Nurses' Association states, calling attention to the fact that while Negroes com pose ten per cent of the total population, only three per cent of the graduate nurses in the United States are Negro. ' You've heard how desperately short-handed the nursing profession is today. Can you remember back to the depres sion year of 1932, asks the American Nurses' Association, when the newspapers were howling about an "ovcrsupply" of nursing service? Which simply meant that due to wide spread unemployment, most sick people couldn't afford lo employ nurses. Things got so bad that the private duly nurses of Wisconsin not anly slashed their fees in an at tempt to encourage employment, but offered to pitch in and help the families of patients "get meals ready, make the beds, help with children, do light housework" and make themselves generally useful. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1 German gun la World War I 1 False 11 Noah's landing spot 12 Opera by Verdi 13 Exists 14 Part of "to be" 15 One of a pair 18 Bone 19 Son of Jacob 21 Wanders 23 Ambulanca 30 God of !ov 32 Places 34 Hebrew letter 36 Drunkards 38 Prefix: before 39 To call like dov 41 Prim (Scot.l 43 Freeze 45 Lump of earth 43 Old Testament abbr.i 49 Church calendar 60 In direction oX 51 Cooled lava. 52 Guide line 54 Creeps about furtively 66 To take out 57 Church congregation doctors ; 25 Sheltered slda i Jt feea pod 27 Clears, as profit 29 ciergyman'i ' L H I5 b I 1 7 Id b ho" 9 to it 2X 32 33 ' ' & a 'and arnuimi. I ho most ico Inidnnt was in the last irn-' t ; j the assembly last quart., - ' 1 . .. A 1 , 1 lv 1 I . .. A c I forced the supporters lo o . it temporarily. Now, you and I have do chance io elect a man to ofhrn who will put his whole-hMi im support behind a fair and just redisricting bill. A bill that will insure fair represent i;on for ALL students. Now. A, have ihe opportunity to elect a man lo office who is thor oughly experienced, in student government a man who is not afraid to stand on his own two feet and fight for whnt he thinks and knows is right. While all other canHi;iir be able, sincere and t" t ' capable, there is one man . , stands head and shoulder;: ;,i the rest with his wide i-k, ence in Carolina politics ;ml Carolina student government ! is the man best qualified to !, our next president. Thai man is Charlie Long. Statement those of Mr. Hod.n, it ! 1 lieved that the campus-t.. j recognised their i n t n t . No far ther comment on them :;rrm necessary. Jess Dedmond Fantastic Nightmare Editor: "Tuesday night I found myself witnessing a scene which imk'i have come from a fantastic niglM mare. One of the earliest riht , which was assured to us by Hi' founders of our political demo cracy the right to hold assembly peaceably was flarranlly tram pled in the dust. I was attract"! to the supposedly scheduled and UMT meeting first in older i observe as a psychologist in a real-life laboratory in mob be havior. There I found an example of the typical irrational mass mama which can at times infect aiH inflame a crowd of otherwi.e humane and controlled individ uals. . . ." Winifred MclHnrn ANSWER TO PREVIOCS PL'ZZLC AiISJTaI p t.P A ri e t iK'Al.ElS t A CEDARE .Vfl-. MPT c'Vit NTfJ hA'M " h R - e a. s:NnTTvEiT' 2j DOWN X To take ater from boat 3 Irish 3 Sun god 4 Coaches 5 Poor actor (eoU.) 8 Toward 7 Cm 8 Greeting 9 Worshiped 10 G rouped 15 Sea bird 1 Gro smal'er 17 Parts of feet 20 Evil 21 Pronoun 21 Syrian god 24 Cavalryman 28 More sever 31 Old violin 33 Bllnd 34 Agreement 35 Baby's shne 37 Storaee plact for grain 40 Korard 42 Manuscript tabbr.l 44 Departed 46 Shade tree 47 Short-distanr track event 50 Literary collection Prefix: net I 54 .Spanir-li (wLbr.), '