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Editor ...
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Sports Editor
Mews Editor..
..Jody Levey
Society Editor..-.. Deenie Schoeppe
Assoc: Ed............ - Bev Baylor
Associate Editor.. .,i....Sue Burress
Adv. Mgr Wallace Pridgen
News Staff Grady Elmore, Bob Sloifgh, John Jamison, Angeles Russos, Wood
Smethurst. Janie, Bugg, Ruth Hincks, Betty Ann Kirby, Sandy' Smith, Al Perry,
Peggy Jean Goode, Jerry Reece.
Sports Staff
Carrier. -Ed Starnes. Martin Jordan,
The Case .
For A Student Union III
The desirability of having continuity in the life of the Uni
versity community has, to our knowledge, never been serious
ly questioned, the feelings being that a college atmosphere
has something of a positive nature to offer in the proper
development of good citizens.
With the rapid growth of the student body at the Uni
versity, and with the great increase in the mobility "of that
student body due to the widespread use of automobiles, the
continuity of campus life, from Friday afternoon until Mon
day morning, is largely imaginary.
There has been voiced, on the part of a large number of
students, a feeling that there is "nothing to do" in Chapel
Hill on weekends. While we cannot concur with the statement
(since a student should be properly concerned with his studies
on weekends), it is apparent that most of the healthful ac
tivity which hundreds, possibly thousands, of students seek
on these weekend excursions to their home-towns is not
available to them in Chapel Hill.
Facilities in the dormitories for meetings and rooms for
relaxation are the first steps in the development of a compre
hensive program with a view toward integrating student so
cial life into the University community. These recently an
nounced plans are to be heartily applauded. But the great
step, the most significant one, we believe, in producing a con
tinuous positive force in the area of student welfare, is. the
construction of a new Student Union Building.
Already, in response to changed situations such as that
existing on this campus, the Woman's College has constructed
a new building, and the State College Student Union is now
being built.
What would constitute a dynamic Student Union program
at the University of North Carolina?
Perhaps this question can best be answered by listing
what we consider to be the basic functions of an adequate
student union program. ..
To provide:
I. A rich variety of recreational and social activities.
II. A campus center around which student activties can
fOCUS. i M-i.'-.V- ... ;
III. Opportunities to participate in organizational work s
which will be useful in home community leadership.
IV. Student self-discovery through development of skills.
V. An informal "at home" atmosphere, thus assuring more
continuity arid satisfaction in the life of the University com
munity. ..'. . :, '
VI. Full expression ' of the University's traditional hos- :
pitality to its many friends through a building which is digni
fied and beautiful, friendly and functional.
VII. Profitable utilization of the students' leisure time
so' that it will-be unnecessary to leave the campus on week
ends. ' "- ' ; " :"
VIII. An atmosphere conducive to the development of stu
dent responsibility towards the University and the car is
community. ' ,
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If you're tired of the same
old monotnous m football yells,
heed our suggestion to Bo
Thorpe and cohorts for origjna
. hty in Kenan" next year. The
University of Illinois has sug
ested the following:
1. Instead of "Get the ball": Ob
tain the oblate spheroid. 2.
Hather than "Hold the line":
Impede the foe's forward thrust
along the two demensional
entity. 3. For "Go, team, go":
Proceed, oh valiant, proceed hey!
4 Instead of "We want a touch
doT7n": We demand a thrust forv
ward, maintaining as our ob-
BARRY FARBER
...ROUTE NEILL
JIM SCHENCK
..BIFF ROBERTS
Lit. Ed....
......Joe Raff
Natl. Adv. Mgr.
...F. W. White
Sub. XTgr...
Circ. Mgr
Assoc. Sports Ed.
.Carolyn Iteiehard
Donald Hogg
Tom Peacock
Vardy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Buddy
m p us
jective the passage of our adver
sary's goal. 5. And for "Hit 'em
again harder harder": Hence
forth, smite them more fiercely
than you smote them heretofore
From
Boners"
''Bigger .and Better
J VWU1UVU JJf J. 111. AUllUbl
Abington:
An outline of history: . "The
Boer was a pig fight put on
for the pleasure of Louis XIV."
Antiquity and Myth: "Venus
was the goddess of pencils.
Who's Who: "Socrates died
from an overdose of wedlock.
- by, Barry Farber
;" ' - : , ;s-.- ,
Personally
It's amazing how interested in
the war news I became the " day
they classified me 1-A. I bought -maps,
studied famous battles,'
listened to Gabriel Heatter, ar
gued with my political science
teacher, learned to , pronounce
"Panmunjom", and worked out
a quick solution to every prob
lem facing the world today.
From the Library I procured
thick black books by Churchill
and John Gunther and read just
enough to keep myself misin
formed. Now I'm a regular cock
tail commentator. Every day I
, tell the boys exactly ; what's go
ing to happen and the next day
I tell tnem why it didn't.
My new hobby is fascinating,
but there's something bothering
me that maybe you've noticed
. too. For instance, when one side
retreats, why does the enemy
always "reel backward in dis
astrous defeat", while we merely
"tighten our defense perimeter?"
On the attack how do we al
ways manage to smash .tri
umphantly through tenaciously
held Communist strongholds"
while the enemy merely "probes
ahead.' When one side exe
cutes a ,bold strategical man
euver, how is it the Commies
are "helplessly trapped out on a
limb" whereas the Americans
are just taking a "calculated
risk?" Did somebody say we
pulled an "evacuation" at Hung
nam last year? Oh, no! Watch
your language. That was strictly
- a "re-deployment." .
I hope this column comes to
the attention of whoever is in
charge of our propagandaser
vice because I'd like a job re
porting the war news. We could
take a defeat, and sugar and
spice, turn it once over lightly,
and come up with a gripping
account guaranteed to please the
readers. For ebcample, the next
time our boys retreat (you
should pardon the expression)
we could phrase it something
like this: '
"All Communist efforts to halt
our systematic advance to . the
rear have been successfully
smashed." Or better yet, we
couid say our boys aren't ac
tually retreating. -They're just
heading south for the season to
the bathing resort of Pusan.
Let's face it. The communist
hordes in Asia have forced the
armies of the United Nations to
: a sickening stalemate. An eva
cuation by any other name still
means "Come on, Joe, let's get
the hell out of here." The in
telligence of the American peo
ple is somewhat above , that of
the average ox and we iike our
news raw and Untarnished.
While our boys are dying, in a
war they don't want against
people they don't know in places
they can't pronounce, the nation
here at home is plagued with
strikes, draft-dodging, walkouts,
tie-ups, complacency, and con
fusion. The quickest way to "rally
Americans behind the war effort,,
is to scare us with the icy facts. r
Husband and wife tend to quit
fighting each other when they
realize the house is on fire. ' : "l .
Besides, our brothers in Korea':
have managed to fight an
enemy, vastly superior in man
power, -to a successful deadlock
and no sweet-talking commenta
tor has to apologize for them.,
"1 ;. rather have ! "alarmists' like
Winchell slap me squarely be
tween the eyes than be soothed
by a candy-coated Kaltenljbrne.
wiTHeSAAij itary Mind
The following was written by
a high ranking member - of the
armed forces who must remain -'anonymous
Editor.
I There is much being said these
days concerning the military
., mind . and how it completely
differs from the civilian. I am:
sure all the brain experts in the;
world could not tell, by autop- .
sy, the difference between the
brain of a general, a private, or
any given civilian.. The differ- '
ence which makes one prefer to
a military mind must then be
found in the training which a
military person receives and the
problems he is called .upon to
solve in comparison to that
which the civilian mind is re-
quired to solve.
What are the problems that a
person in the military is' re
quired to solve that is not com
. mon to the civilian. Let's look
at this from the standpoint of
the military mind that is fore
most in the news these days.
What problems has this mind
faced in the past fifteen years?
What decisions has it been called
upon to make? The following
might be called a partial list of
the problems and decisions.
(a) Do the men I am ordering
into battle have adequate mate
rials to do the job I order them
to do? (b) Have I procured
sufficient material in peacetime
so that MY COUNTRY can be
defended against any and all
aggressors in case of war? lc)
I am to be separated from my
family for the next year, Have
I made adequate plans and pre
paration so that ; in the year of
separation my family will be
provided with satisfactory liv
ing conditions? (d) Am I fully
prepared to receive and issue
any and all orders in the dis
charge of my "office?
The first question was answer
ed by Jeb Stuart in his maxim
"Get there f ustest with the most
est." The modern military mind
thinks of this in terms of fire
power. The eternal problem of
the military mind is how much
fire power must my me have in
order to subjugate the enemy?
To this question there is no de
; finite answer. The newspapers
are constantly criticizing the
military for waste and ineffi
ciency in procurement. Will the
five hundred mile per hour plane
be sufficient to combat the plane
which will travel eight hundred
miles per hour? Will the des
troyer which could make thirty
knots in the last war combat the
battleship that has been deve
loped by the enemy and will
make thirty five knots? The an-,
swer to these questions are ob
vious even to the non-military
mind. In wartime, the develop
ment of any new weapon which
will win the ( war is sought
feverishly by all and cost is no
object. The waste and inefli
ciency 1 is done completely by
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the military mind. No civilian
mind would accept the - juicy
contracts the military mind
offers because it certainly would
not be a partner, to such waste
and inefficiency. Johnny Meyer,
of wartime tame, never existed
and certainly wasn't a civilian
- mini!,-' at. least.
- The military mind was at fault
for Pearl Harbor because it
didn't have sufficient material
to repel the attack and because
it .wasn't alert on that peaceful
Sunday Morn. After all the
civilian mind said 'There is go
ing to be peace with the Japs,
we will negotiate and arrange
. it." ! .
I am sure all men with the Mil
itary Mind are anxious in time
of peace to receive an assign
ment so that he can be separated
from his family and home. I
wonder what there is that causes
a man to pursue a military car
eer. Riches? The average mili
tary man dies and leaves very
little for his family. Glory? The
average military man receives
little recognition except in time
of war when all civilians are
glad that he exists to withstand
the onslaught of" the enemy un
til the nation can be mobilized.
Patroitism and love of country?
If this is true, the average mili
tary man will not admit it. May
be the man who pursues the
military career is different from
the civilian who does every
thing he can to avoid even two
years of military service. The
military career assures one of
many moves, many inconveni
ences in finding a place to live,
higher rentals, and putting his
. roots down in some place he
can call home and develop last
ing friends.
How mucch anxiety must the
military career man undergo
concerning his wife and family?
What will the wife do if she
gets seriously ill in " a strange
town where she has been left
while the military man is over
seas under orders? The mili
tary mind must,, if his-career is
to progress, put such things ;cut
of his mind to satisfactorily
perform those duties assigned in
the service of his country.'
The military mind, in times
of great stress, must be prepared
to carry out all orders received
immediately and without quejs-,
tion or the defense of his home
land and country could be
seriously endangered. He must
be prepared to order armies of
men into battle with the equip
ment at "hand, knowing -fiiir well '
some of the men will not returrii. '
' f n closing, I should like to
point out that approximately onev;
third of the Minds that . have r
served this country' as Pres
ident have been exposed to those
; things that make UP the so-
.called military mind.