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U " C LIBuAUT SE3IAH3 DEPT. APEL HILL, r c. 1W" Li L iS 001 it . f ... s i r sa . .ITS) 1 y ... ' . J f s. r If DTH's Linguist, wrestler, Phi Bete, columnist, globe-trotter Barry Farber yesterday decided to try for editor as he declared indepen dently for The Daily Tar Heel. His entry on the last possible daymade it a three-way Greens boro race. Farber, author of the unique column, 'Not Guilty", is opposed by two staffers, Dave Buckner, (SP) and Beverly Baylor (UP). Buckner is managing editor and Baylor associate editor. All are from Greensboro. A journalism major who will graduate In June and go into graduate school, Farber is best known for his Daily Tar Heel column and his continental on again off -again antics. Last fall he bounced off to Yugoslavia and op To Run Independently For Editorship; Makes It Three-Way Greensboro Race OSf this winter to Brazil.' In both places he represented the Na tional Students association m which he is an officer for the current school year. : "How," he was asked, "do you expect to edit a newspaper and do all the other things you're in?" "If elected I shall stick to the job and cease globe trotting," Far ber asserted. "I don't see how I will have time for anything else." All terms of office he holds expire this spring, he said. Farber has been on The Daily Tar" Heel for three years as a columnist. He was first brought to the campus' attention with a zany letter to the editor he wrote. j He also was connected with Tar nation, old campus humor maga zine. The editorial candidate is pres ident of the Monogram Club, secretary of the Old Well, and a varsity wrestler. He is a mem ber of Phi Beta Kappa. Farber is a charter member and vice- president of the Press Club. Farber's name will appear on the April 9 ballot twice, as he also is running doubly endorsed for the presidency of the Caro lina Athletic association. Acquittal Or Cited As 1 no Phi (jams d QQUQCy: VOLUME LX CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1952 NUMBER 131 'Uncertain Birthday7 Post Mortem On Greek t's Here To Stay Week: i Solans Fail -.; To Get Bill Curbing IFC (Last year, a -Daily Tar Heel sur- ' vey- repealed that only 50 percent of the campus 22 fraternities supported" the first annual Greek Week. We feel the importance of Greek Week to the University as well as the fra ternities merits a repeat survey this year. This we have done. The results of -conversations with the-officers of every fraternity on campus are merg- ed into the following story Ed.) By.Rolfe Neill and Wood Smeihursi Greek Week, championed by some and scoffed at by others, passed an uncertain birthday, yesterday. It was two years old'. It was uncertain . because fra ternities said 12 for to 10 against they wanted to see the return of a modified Hell Week. It was un certain because Stunt 'Night and JField Day the two events that included pledges from all the fraternities came off poorly. And it was uncertain for many more things themselves that were un certain. Yet by the same analysis hope could be drawn by studying the results of this year's five-day Greek Week program and cor relating it with a Daily Tar Heel survey Only one fraternity refused to participate altogether. It was one of two holdouts from last year's initial program. The other group swung into line this year, The president of the hold-out group said, "We don't like it be cause it doesn't build unity m our pledge class, what with pledges wandering all over campus. Greek Week might make' them better Carolina students, but it doesn't make them better . . . ." ' ' The thing incurring the' dislike of the majority of fraternities was the-vagueness and disorganization of the i week itself It couldn't be laid to - Chairman Arthur Spaugh.; The fraternities as ; a unit simply didn't . back ; Greek Week enough to' insure success. However this; year; still wa ! great; improvement oyer Iasfc.-i f Many jfdtitheu fraternity pres got relatively poor reception. The Stunt Night had a smatter ing of an audience but showed the hasty concocting of the skits. Only about eight or 10 stunts were presented. Field Day was run Wednesday before about 30 people excluding the participants. But about 30 percent of the . presidents com mented on these two particular aspects and said they would like to see more events of this type. There t was a unanimity , of opinion that the Interf raternity Council went too far last fall in its definition of hazing. (The council abolished hazing and set up stringent rules for the punish ment of offenders). A sone pres ident put it, "The IFC was wrong in abolishing . hazing completely, or at least the so called hazing. There are" many things such as the . scavenger hunts which, were fun to the pledges as well as the actives. I think it (the definition) needs mitigating Those fraternities favoring the return of the old Hell Week in a "modified form," complained that Greek Week: "let the pledges run wild;" "took them from our control;" '"promoted disunity rather than unity." "The purpose of pre-initiation activity is to bind the pledge class together and : make it a working unit; this isn't doing it," declared the president of a large fraternity. "It's hard to keep pledges in line," said another. "Something constructive is m a modified Hell Week," stated the. president of a smaller chapter, A bill to amend the consti tution authored by President Henry Bowers that would take hazing cases out of the hands of the ' Interf raternity court was scheduled but never reached the Legislature last night. At a caucus prior to the meeting, Student . party legisla tors decided not to introduce 7 the bill because it had not been given "sufficient study' (The president can not introduce a bill but may have it done by I a legislator.) ; ? However, a UP legislator claimed after the session it was! done for "political expediency." He said introduction of such a y bill so close to elections (April 9) 'might undo a lot the SP is trying to do." The Legislature passed ; two bills at last night's session. One would , spur the completion of arrangements to set up a Uni versity quiz file. The other provides for a committee to talk to University laundry officials about "unnecessary wear and tear to wash" , sent them. Bill Neely was : approved by the Legislature as member to the Publications board. The Legislature ok'd the appoint ment of Robert Jackson to re place Bill Wolf in the Legisla ture. . " r : ; ; : ; : ; ' " There were 10 UP and 2 SP legislators absent from the ses sion. ; The UP held , a candi dates' meeting last - night at a conflicting time. . Members absent were Buck President Henry Bowers yesterday asked that the right to try hazing cases be removed from the Interiraternity Coun cil court after the court this week acquitted a fraternity of charges.. In freeing Phi Gamma" Delta fraternity of hazing charges, the IFC court, Bowers asserted,, showed its "inadequacy to handle hazing cases." He called for student support of a Con stitutional amendment to remove such cases from the' jurisdic tion of the IFC court and place them before the Men's Honor council. That Phi Gamma Delta "was guilty of crude and vile haz ing is beyond question," Bowers said. "In finding them not guilty the IFC court has done n injustice not only to the fraternity system but to the students and the University. . ." The Phi Gamma Delta incident came after pledges allegedly stole the fraternity's silverware. They were .placed nude in a shower stall and told to "return the silverware or (deleted) upon each other," The Daily Tar Heel was in formed by members of the IFC. The court found the fraternity not guilty under a campus statue which defines hazing as an act involving physical abuse, public display, or scholastic interference.1 According to Bowers, even though the local interpretation might have been inadequateit was the court's duty to try the fraternity under the General Statutes of the State of North Carolina. They define hazing as annoying "any student by playing abusive or ridiculous tricks upon him, to frighten, scold, beat or harass him, or to subject him to personal in dignity." - Bowers gave several additional reasons for removing the hazing jurisdiction from the IFC court. ' "Hazing, and more specifically 'Hell Week', he said, directly affects the whole student body, not only in criticism which it brings to the student body but also in direct disturbance, as well as a lowering of standards." "The IFC court has continually failed to deal with the problem both under general and specific laws, he continued. Bowers pointed out that the court had acquitted seven of the eight' cases tried in the past five years. Only after "great insistance by the Administration," did it" levy a $50 fine for the one conviction. In this case a pledge was seriously injured during ."Hell Week" and almost died. It also involved the Phi Gams. The pledges were fed a concoction of onions and tobacco juice, and were then given exercise. One became very sick, ana spent eigm aays in xne innrmary. ie naa to be led by intravaneous injections for several days as he had fits of vomiting. There had' been a previous death in the pledge's family due to a fraternity gazing, The Daily Tar Heel was told. - - Several other incidents had occurred prior to the IFC action last fall abolishing hazing. In one fraternity the pledges vsre stripped and had eees broken upon tbeir bodies. They .were then forced to lie down in a room of the house and chicken feed was scattered upon them. Next, chickens were put into the room and the door locked. , -: Another fraternity chained all their pledges together in y ,. (See TO LOSE, page 6) "leave it up to the pledges to see Barkley (UP); Paul Barnes (UP); Saralyn Bonowitz ' (UP); Peggy - Brown (SP) ; Bob Gor ham (UP); Eddie Gross (UP); Buddy Herman (SP); Har Hor ton t (UI? Brock : McMullan if thev- want some of the old fun." , -. ; ; ' . - : All in all it appeared Greek Week; whether some like it or not. wa3 here to star; For the IFC, now that the step has been made (UP);. Al Mebane CSP); Stuart if ift lllrelv- to revert to the old! Miller - (UP);; Emmett Nesbit prccticdi; which bfousht iso much Ul'.JdetiU lauded thetunV?Ogbr?nacrifism ;i m. f;.i:. f iWfiHf fCfi (UP); Bob PaoeK (SP) ; Syd Shu- . ford (UP); Peggy Stewart (UP) ; NC azing Statu to The following is quoted from he North Carolina general, sta ues: ' -" "It shall be unlawful for any student in - any college or school in this state to engage in what is known as hazing, or to aid or abet any other student in the commission of this offense. For the purposes of this section hazing is defined as follows: To annoy any student by playing abusive or ridiculpus tricks upon him, to frighten, scold, beat or harass him, or to subject him to personal indignity. Any violation of this section shall constitute a misde meanor. "Upon conviction of the offense of hazing or of aiding or abetting in the commission of this offense, he shall, in addition to, any pun ishment imposed by the court, be expelled from the college or school he is attending. The facul ty or governing board of any col- Serial tn Thf TIati.v Tat, TJVrr """ '"al5c" wim Hie ATLANTA; March 27-Three ! duty of expulsion of students for Georgia; Tech Sigma Chi's who M il tt ' m Wreck House At Go. Tech said they "wanted to have some fun" left their fraternity house looking almost like it had been dynamited," police reported. Arrested at;l;15 a.m. on charges of 'suspicion of malicious mis chief, the, trio was guilty of "the worst case of wanton destruc tion we've ever seen", .. officers said today.; ; r ; Their 'battered walls, splintered chairs, jerked "chandeliers 'from iSeei SIGMA, jKtgs proper cause shall, uoon such conviction at once expell the of fender, and a failure to do so shall be a misdemeanor. "In all trials for the offense of hazing any student or other per son subpoenaed as a witness in behalf of the state shall be re quired to testify if called upon to do so: provided, however, that no student or other person , so testifying shall' be amenaole m subject to indictment on account irf :ifro?a 1 of ; or by reason , of,' mi -testi-
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