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VOL XX, NO. 3
SASSITY "
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roundout of Carolina so
cial activities. Phone Gloria
Phillips, 2-3361, for wed
dings and engagement an
nouncements, parties,
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1952
'EIGHT PAGES TODAY
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A Negro law student became
a member of the campus' old
est extracurricular organization,
the Philanthropic Assembly,
Tuesday night.
For the first time in its 165-year-old
history, the Phi, a de
bating society, installed James
Walker as a provisional summer
member. .
Tha summer session of the
assembly is a special one, but
authorized by the yearly or
ganization and, composed of
year-round members. All new
comers serve a one quarter pro
visional membership.
This . spring, . the Dialectic
Senate (organized in 1725 the
Phi and the Di were united
then), recognized J. Kennth
Lee, another Negro law stu
dent, as "Speaker of the eve
ning' when he gave his views
iree Meos'oss-
t'lere Fo
Three Negro students have been
ar :ted to the University for
tL ammer sessions, according
to the Graduate SchobK office.
The three are Gwendolyn Har
rison, Rosolie Williams, and John
j t1c ins.
Miss Harrison was the first
Negro coed to enter school here
when she attended last summer.
She' plans to continue in the fall
to complete requirements for her
Masters Degree in Romance Lan
guages. ,
Negroes were first admitted
here in April of last year when
T?ArrA n Diefes of Winston-
Salem was enrolled in the School
of Medicine.
Since that time - five other
Negro students have entered the
School of Law, '
Get On The Gab
I f You Pa rles-Vous
The - French House, : opening
for its sixth session this summer
in a transformed A D Pi House
on 407 E. Rosemary Street, Offers
its occupants room, board, and
entertainment every -evening a
la Francais.' " : t . ! ', -This
week's program includes
three major events, Friday night
a documentary film is to be
shown at the House. On Satur
day a picnic is scheduled and the
highlight of Monday , will be
games played in French. -
Everyone interested in speak
ing French or ' in learning to
converse in the I diplomatic lan
guage are invited tQ attend.
r : There are still ' few vacant
places for tha noohj and evening
rassli; at the HouceJ All convir-
catiui' is carried' on" Jin French' at
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School Study
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aw Stiisdent Member
on segregation. "
Members of the Phi have gone
on to become outstanding pub- "
lie servants, on state and na
tional levels. Democratic gu
bernatorial candidate .William
B. TJmstead was a member of
the Phi when an undergrad
uate. Student body president Ham
ilton Horton has served two
times as speaker of the assem
bly and still is an active mem
ber. . . ; : ,;
In other business a . measure
calling for declaration of war
on Russia'and her satellites un
less Russia ceases taking such
actions as the arrest of William
Oatis, Associated Press corre
spondent, was defeated by a 4-3
vote. ; - .
Thomas H. Summner, Jr.,
now residing here but formerly
Trials
CIO
Raid
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Private trials by the Men's
of May have resulted in action against several participants
in the Spring-energized "pantie raid," Chairman Frank Dan
iels announced yesterday. :
Seven students. were charged with violation of the Honor
Code by their participation jui
these disturbances. Three of these
men were found guilty. One man,
found- guilty of using profanity
toward members of the Adminis
tration, was given , 'an; 'indefinite
probation. .The other itwo: ,guilty
parties were reprimanded. One
of these involved a dental student
who was tried ) by ; the Dental
School Council. 1: ; : ,
; Three other men were exoner
ates on charges of participation
in the raid. Another was dismiss
ed for lack of evidence on a
charge of trying to overturn an
automobile. v ' . rT ; -
A decision is still pending on
the i case of a student who tried
to instigate a raid on Woman's
College.
Leniency was observed since
these were the first such raids,
Daniels indicated. r - . .
Chancellor House commented
after the second raid that students
found guilty of instigating such
raids in the future would be sub
ject - to dismissal. M ;
The first mass assault of UNC
students: was oh j Spencer dorjn
where the male students received
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Aloha Gam GaiBndjowsMr
Hee EoHm With Exfra Bed
"First time a girl eyer: gave
me a bed," exclaimed Barry Far
ber Daily Tar Heel Editor", on
learning of his latest acquisition.
Barry inherited the bed, com
plete With springs, from -an Air
pha Gamma Delta' who gradu
sitcd thl5 spring. Unable to pack
it she bequeathed it td Barry ij3
a f arc v ell souvenir of. days at
of Asheville, was appointed
summer speaker, announced
Fred Crawford, speaker-elect,
for fall quarter. Crawford was
unable to serve as speaker this
summer. Other appointments
were Stewart Jones of Wins
ton - Salem, speaker pro-tem,
and Harry Hickey of Charles
ton, S. C, clerk.
DIRECTORIES
Directories, listing the names
addresses and phone numbers
of students, faculty, and ad
ministration are on sale in the
YMCA lobby.
Produced by the Y staff, the
directory lists . the complete
Summer School first session en
rollment. Price for each copy is 10
cents.
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Honor Council near the end
various - forms of co-operation
from the. residents. The second,
and largest, was on the Mclver-Alderman-Kenan
groups A report
ed 2000 Carolina males partici
pated in the "big one." Neither
raids were successful, . .
,The only casualty, other than
tear gas achestj was a med stu
dent who merely looked out his
door to see what . was happen
ing. A co-ed launched bottle put
him in the infirmary for two
days. . , ;
The consensus of opinion is that
a mere handful of students start
ed the raids and then backed off
to watch the fun.
. . - . ... . . .
Bernard Sick
Charles E. Bernard, assistant
director of Admissions, has
been in Duke hospital for three
weeks ; recovering from an at
tack : r of i ; coronary thrombosis.
He- is reported doing well but
must r remain t hi the hospital
i for ; -two U more ! weeks before
returning home. He will prob
ably be back -on the job shortly
afterM? ; -:
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Chapel Hiil. " ; -9. ; : v ' ' : '-,'.. - "
' When queried as to; what he
intends to do with this unusual
gift,' Barry replied: "Keep it in
The Daily - Tar ;Heel , office for
sehtimentall reaions ' or give; it; to
a certain couple jX; kndwj i The
coathariaers lying cn top he do
nated -td tha- girls" at the Alpha
Gam ilouce." - -
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Library "Slacks Are Poorly
VenfilafecJ; Can't .Study;
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Seed Festival
Watermelon - eating 'fans will
have a go at their favorite pas
time come Friday night, June
27th, when the Fourth Annual
Carolina Watermelon Festival
will be held under Davie Poplar.
Over 1,000 students and faculty
members have attended each of
the three preceding festivals.
According to Reg Mallett, Chair
man of the watermelon festival
committee for the summer ac
tivities council, the attendance is
expected to again top the 1,000
mark.
Highlighting the festivities will
be the crowning of the queen of
the watermelon festival.
All dormitories, fraternities,
sororities, and other, groups are
invited to sponsor a 'contestant
for the title. With the host of
natural beauty on our campus,
competition for the title is ex
pected to be keen. Sponsoring
organizations should turn in a
photograph of their contestant
and a. $3 entry fee to the YMCA
office before. the deadline at noon
this Friday, June 20.
Preliminary voting for the
honor will begin Monday and
continue through Thursday in
the Y lobby. A penny a vote
will be charged to help pay for
the watermelonsThe rest of the
funds will come from the Coun
cil through the Y and GM. "
The five candidates receiving
the largest number of votes will
enter the finals on Fridav. June
27. For this final balloting each
student, faculty, and staff mem
bers will have one vote. The Y
lobby polls will be open from
9:00 am to 4 pm.
Announcement of the winner
will be made in a crowning cere
mony after the watermelon feast.
In addition tpthese two activi
ties there will also be a water
melon eating contest on the pro
gram. For those -who pride
themselves on their capacity for
watermelon, the contest will
prove just who can eat the most.
A variety program and a Y Court
square dance will top off the
evening, lasting until coed hours.
Mt Holly Sophomore
Dies In Plane Crash
i MT. HOtDY The funeral of
Billy Joe Abercrombie, soph
omore at the - University of North
Carolina from Mt. Holly was held
here Tuesday 1 afternoon in the
Methodist Church. ': r
! Mr. -Abercrombie, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. M. Abercrombie,
died Monday 'near Anderson, S.
C. when the nlane whi fH "Ho woe
piloting crashed after coming in
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contact with a high tension wire
He was 19 years old.
Mr. Abercrombie was last seen
by third floor Llangum residents
by VBltDcor
ei a peak yesterday when eighty-
f graduate students comnlained
of "intolerable and spasmodic
study conditions in the library
stacks.
But Head Librarian Charles
Rush explained that the library
was not yet in shape to extend
full services to students. "Con
struction isn't over in any sense,
he said.
In a telephone conversation
with The Tar Heel, he said,
"Everyone (graduates and others
using the stacks) agreed to make
allowance for construction work
when they signed up for the car
rells." The graduate students protest
ed against an on-again, off-again,
air conditioner, which is essential
in the windowless stack portion
of the library. There are seven
levels in the stacks, and the high
er you go, the hotter it gets
especially when the ventilating'
unit doesn't work.
The heat really began to bother
the students on Monday morning
after the conditioner went on the
blink, making the temperature
seem "at least ten degrees hotter
than other parts of the building
or on the outside according to
F. L. Newton, one of the signers
of the letter. "There was nothing
to circulate the air," he added.
The conditioner worked perfect
ly ail day Tuesday until 4:30 when
it suddenly stopped. "It was im
possible to work," commented Y
Bernard Fleishmann comparative
literature grad student. When the
conditioner was operating the
first two -days of summer school,
"we felt we should spend the
whole' summer there," he-said.
. Librarian Rush said, that con
tractors had telegramed an air
conditioner expert in New York,
summoning him- here to find out
what the trouble was.. "We of the
library staff know what they're
talking of. We wish they (the
graduates) had come to se us.
he said.
"There's very little the admin
istration can do until the construc
tion job is over,". he said.
Newton declared that "attempts
were made to contact the admin
istration,"; but Rush was unavail
able. Also, in the letter, the stu
dents noted, "It has been eight
weeks now since the full services
of the library with its new fa
cilities were made available . . ,
(See HEAT, Page 4y
Clash By Night v
As lightning flashed, thun
der rolled, and angry waves
dashed themselves against reso
lute rocks in the Village Thea
tre last Monday night; half a
hundred excited patrons jump
ed from their seats to the shrill
cry of "fire," as smoke speedily
began to fill the auditorium. -
Fortunately, someone had the
presence of mind to calm tha
frantic audience before anyone
was trampled, and 1 the fire de
partment reported that a small
.'.trash'-v fire' ia" "thsr - alley-
rcaused' all - th' citcit sids at.-
are mvttrvl.
J cents thcreaftVr.
-, -v -uvaon,--a-nice place" to