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SATURDAY MARCH 9, 1?5? PACE TWO THS DAILY T Aft Hi If Situation At Lenoir Hall Must Be Solved Elsewhere Now it appears that student workers at Lenoir Hall aren't going to get what they want and deserve. Director George Prillaman of the dining hall told his workers this week they could have two free cups of coffee in the Pine Room, under the cafeteria. If he meant this as a compromise to the workers, it is a highly humorous as well as an utterly incredible compromise. And, right now, it appears the free coffee was offered as a compromise. What the workers want, and what they deserve, is the right to get paid for their work. Now they get Si .Qo''WortIi of Lenoir Hall food per. day . of work. The . food must be consumed during the day by the workers; otherwise, it must remain uneaten .and the worker doesn't get his Si. 90 worth. Prillaman's get-together with, the workers, this week, was a good thing. e en though .it came a lit-' tie late. But in certain of his state ments the director showed he would icsist any movement to pay the workers what they deserve. He said he was not conducive to '"changes in the policy of student aid." He said if he were faced with the choice of paying cash to the workers or dismissing them from their jobs, he would fire them. He ruled out the use of meal books, which would allow students t to spend part of their pay one day,.; -none the next, and maybe a great - ' deal the next day. ' He intimated that opposition to;: the present system ;of payment is ; ' politically motivated. . So, Prillaman cannot be dealt with any longer. Someone else must consider the case. We suggest that the student workers take their case to the Stu dent Legislature-and then to South building. The legislature can perform an extensive investigation of the case from a relatively unprejudiced point of view (even in an election month. Director Prillaman). South Building's office of stu dent affairs can hear all sides of the question and come up with some' sort -of answer, maybe one that will be acceptable to both sides. If both these resources fail, we suggest the student workers of Le noir Hall decide to find work else where, and to allow Director Prillaman to try "regular labor" for a while. Tear Gas Is Fine For Riots . ! i - 1 s - - : t 'XI fcl ' State College students have rioted again the papers say, and ;Raleigh police have found an excellent way to deal with them: . They use tear gas and state prison trucks. The gas is used to slow the gentlemen down, the trucks, to haul them away to jail. Mayhap the same techniques would be of use here. They fit in nicely with some UXC students' conceptions of a rally handker chief masks and foul language. We pass along the idea, Chief Sloan. March: Month Full Of H ope masra- CJiildren who lly kites in cold, winch month of March An -advertisement in a line lor t:okl pills, ?or raincoats, or something like that, says "March is a miserable month." We disagree. March is an indis pensable month. When else is there the depress ion of gray morning after gray morning, of constantly soaked shoes and hair,-matched with the infinite, Mini-touching glorv of promise? the are the same children who take olf their shoes long before the proper time, against the wishes and de mands of their parents, and exper ience an exquisite, sensuous feel-, ing, and their parents envy them for it. It is in March that the cherry trees along McCorkle Place begin to blossom, r"'.ul they cover the walkways with petals, making a The Daily Tar Heel The official itudeni purilttatnin of tbe Publications doard of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examinatioi and vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second class matter in the Dost office in Chapel Hill, N.--C, undei the Act oi March , 1370. Subscription rates: mailed. $4 per year. $2 50 a semen ter; delivered. $6 a year, $3.50 a teme ter Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN News Editor NANCY HILL Sports Editor LARRY CHEEK Business Manager BILL BOB PLEL Advertising Manager FRED KATZEVT EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Sean, Joey Payne, Stan Shaw. NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Pringle Pipkin, Edith MacKinnon. Wally tfu ralt, Mary Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Neil Bass, Bob High, Ben Taylor, Walter Schruntek, IWoost Po lak, Patsy Miller, Bill King. BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore. Johnny Whitaker. Dick Leavitt. SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stewart Bird, Ron Milligan. Subscription Manager Circulation Manager Assistant Sports Editor . Dale Stale? Charlie Holt Bill King Staff Photographers Woody Sears, Norman Kantor Librarians Sue Gichner, Marilyn Strum Proofreader Night Editor Night News Editor Bill Weekes Manley Springs coed on the way to class just as lovely as any queen on the way to her coronation. In March the deep passions and deep feelings of the soul arise, be er, ase people even students know the oldest and yet the freshest truth of-the world: Spring is com ing, slowly, up from the Everglades and the cotton belt. It is rising from the depths of the cold soil, turning that soil a semi-rich red and a prec ious black. For every moment of cold, terribly-wet rain, March brings ic moments of warmth, of sunlight, of hope. Tor every wet foot and sniffle, it brings a new leaf, a fresh blossom, a new feeling of faith. No. March is not miserable. It may appear so, to the man who is tryinsi" to sell cold pill or rain coats, buffo the human being whose life is tied to the seasons a!id whost heart beats from the soil, March is a' passionate, fresh month of hope. TV Preview: Como And Education Anthony Wolff Perry Como returns 'to his usual spot on Channel 5 at 8 o' clock tonight witli a fairly im pressive array of talent. Most not able of the guests Is Ethel Mer man, current star of Broadway's "Happy Hunting." The Mills Brothers and Comedian Jack Car son round out the bill. Opposite on Channel 2, as usual, is Jackie Cileason, Who is finding it impossible to match Como's rating. This is not very surprising. If you get dissatisfied with either of these shows, or both, you can get educated (horrors!) on Channel 4 at 8 p.m. The debut of the America Looks Abroad series presents a discussion of "Africa: Colonialism," emphasizing tonight the land, its history and its people. At 9 tonight, JSid Caesar is on Channel 5 with the usual and very talented Carl Reiner, Howard Mor ris, et al. Immediately following, on tlu same channel, Lonesome George Gobel entertains Jack Carson (twice in one night for Jiim) and THE SLEEPING GIANT: guanreny Marceliine Krafchick acks Loca M Miss Krafchick, editor of the Carolina Quarterly, below re plies to a celumrr by Jackie Cooper that appeared in last Thursday's Daily Tar Heel. Mr. Cooper, on Thursday's edi torial page, has stated very apt ly what the situation of The Car olina Quarterly is' in regard to student writing. The magazine is indeed a sleeping giant compar ed to what it might be. Out of 152 fiction mauscripts received in oiu-; office this year, only 9 Carolina students have been represented. In poetry the proportion of local contributors . is even smaller. If we are to maintain a high standard of quality we must se lect the best we can from what we have. It has been our policy to allow a margin of priority for Carolina contributors. But where are they? You would not, of course, want us to publish every Carolina work merely because it is from our own campuj? this is no cred- Vr Sun Time flarks New Reason The New York Times Some have speculated that mi- . grant birds and spring flowers time their vernal activity by the moving angle of the sunlight This is easy to believe in March, when even humans are virtually forced to leave their calendar watching long enough to look at the sun. It streams almost directly in the east windows now in the morning, and at evening it is full in the windows to the west. It scarcely seems to be the same sun that inscribed a small arc in th? southern sky in January. Duration of daylight, is in volved, of course; sunrise and ... sunset are now almost 'eleven : and a half hours apart. But . that is considerably less than the 'Whole story. The sun strikes the earth at new angle, and that makes all thf difference. There is now more warmth in an hour of sunlight than before. It penetrates the soil instead of glancing off; and, whether .we... are conscious of it or not, it penetrates a little deeper into human beings, too. One of these days, and not too' many weeks, hence, it will penetrate deeply enough to generate a case of spring fever. But it's the look as well as the feel of sunlight now. And that may be one of the factors in bird migration. The light is different, morning and even ing. The shadows fall a new way. The whole aspect of the world is changed, and not even a new snowdrift or a new coat ing of ice on the brooks' and rivers can much alter that. The sun itself has moved into March and toward April, and the sun will not go back to its old slant until another summer has passed. One doesn't have to look at a calendar to know that. One merely has to live with the sea sons for a few years, as the birds do. The birds know it in the marrow of their bones. L'tl Abner it to the work. If it is published after succeeding in competition, you can be sure that your story has heen , selected on its worth. The Quarterly has been caught in a trap of prestige. That is, its reputation has risen $0 high among literary maga zines that many writers around the country, knowing we can not afford payment, still wish to appear in our pages. Writ er's Digest last year rated us among the top literary publi cations, along with Harper's, Chicago Review and Saturday Review. Quality is our foremost aim in representing Carolina to the na- anuscripts tion, just as with all other org anizations and teams. Although it is perhaps of interest and con cern to fewer people, our UNC magazine ranks almost as high in its realm as our basketball team does in its realm. The heavy correspondence car- -ried on from The Quarterly of fice is on a 48-state and inter national scale though no inten tion or fault of the current staff, but as a result of the status the magazine has attained. We'd like to publish an all Carolina magazine. In order to discourage outside entrees in the current fiction contest (which has always been open to everyone but the staff) we have not announced the con test off campus, except in the magazine itself. Well, Carolina writers," we're rooting for you. A note especially to Mr. Coop er: we appreciate your leads on talented people around campus and plan to use your suggestions. In fairness to Mr. Hunt, his ar ticle was, as the title page states, "adapted," and not "reduplicat ed." Your kind of interest in "the potential ability to cause a renaissance of creative work in the seven classical arts on the campus" is what our staff is looking for. Why don't you join US? . . 'Tried To Eat His $1.90 Food Allowance AH In One Meal' .'W':TeK4;:.-.,:WFi::v1-v.. V "t! f:--"i-:; 1 1 4 n i 1 - f-1 ir t5t TO LENOIR HALL'S WORKERS: Resolving Misunderstandings George W. Prillaman, director Of Lenoir Hall, made the fol lowing speech to the cafeteria's student workers last Wednes-. day evening. Follow students and employees, I have requested that you meet with' me tonight so that we may resolve any misunderstanding that might exist in regard to stu dent employment at Lenoir. Recently -"several deceptive edi torials have appeared in The Daily Tar Heel, and in order to clarify the present policy of Le noir Hall's management and per haps to stop further decimation of Lenoir as a fine student din ing hall and a place where Uni- verity faculty, staff ad students enjoy a fellowship that no other campus facility offers, an open discussion is perhaps the best solution to what may otherwise cause ill feelings. I wish to state very emphat ically that I do not condone the practice of writing editorials and withholding names. If you have a question in mind in re gard to any phase of a business by which you are employed, seek the answer to that ques tion from your supervisors. If satisfaction is not found there, the manager's office is always open for consultations. Don't resort to petty editorials which . tend to cause an air of antagonism in your working en vironment. (For) example, sup pose I was not satisfied or con tented with my salary, and I wrote several editorials decimat ing my superiors. What do you think the results would be? Fellas, in the Book of Genesis it relates how Eve took the ad vice, of the serpent and ate fruit from the Forbidden and the re sult was condemnation of Adam and Eve. . The moral is, of course, don't be guided by the desires of antag onists to upset what you come to Chapel Hill for, and that is a college education. By Al Capp 1 WELL, IF THE FORCE HASN'T GIVEN VOL) A RAISE, MOW ! AP.EL VCU GOING TO GET . J; THE. EXTRA MONEV TO ' TAKEMEnilT'? ft r i n mt wit .. m roqO tVE TAKEN AN EVENING J JOB AT THE QUACK EN BUSH COLLEGE OF BRAJN SURGERV. A DOLLAR AN EVENING.'' MV HEAD IS RlGHT.r-C-'V -- '7- rA dk tv- wr THAT 'Af TZD UZ A SURGERY.'f-J I OH, FEARLESS, DEAR j I I NOW THAT OU ARE! LZ' I I rl THAT 'M TO &JZ A r-J i USING VOUR I VtAC77S HKfW uaV ;"' i By Walt Kelly BiJT IP Wg SfAJ?TD 1 CANAL. HeZ& TO CSPlkCS. A LOT CP MONgy. anp that & MS IN you vtc ycu V'greEQ A9 rr GOT f Clarke Jones singer Erin O'Brien. . ... ... , . -- - -EiS-V TMATS A MILLION P& GTAtiZA, f YOU'P HAVB 7KV MlifOKr .lit i ikJ vAz-M fl O fMj iJAVfc if you Wsrore two vpee$. IK OTHgK weu. 6BS-NOW ALL ATA MltLIONPgg fACHrJL -rne canal tN-AJx,., Editorials W f bmtr f-r m a v f Bob High George W. Prillaman opened hi? called meeting with the student workers of Lenoir Hall with ths speech which is printed in its entirety on thl; page. Prillaman said the editorials in The Daily Tar Heel were deceptive and petty. There has never been a editorial which was petty and very; few which were deceptive. This one is no exception. If Prillaman thinks, the Utters In Th Daily. Tar Heel wer. the! opinions of this paper, he is wrong. There was but one article written by per sons associated with this paper in reference to the Lenoir Hall situation. The strongest language used was that the workers in Lenoir have had a meager existence for many years. This is net de ceptive, or petty. The other writings which appeared in The Daily Tar Heel were written by students of the University and they are not in affiliation with this paper. Maybe they used strong language and made state ments which were not true, -but they were written with the understanding that the petition, which was drawn up by the student workers at Lenoir, had reached Prillaman. Prillaman stated that he never received this petition and would not have known what was going on had it not been for the articles in The Daily Tar Heel. The petition in question is the same one print ed by this paper on March 2. It says: "RESOLVED: That the unused portion not to exceed 90 cents dail of the wages of $1.90 in food, earned bj a self-help student for each day's work at Lenoir Dining Hall be paid to the student worker in, cash at. time periods of twice monthly." The person responsible for th failure of the petition to reach Prillaman has cone a great in justice to the workers et Leiiior Hall. The work ers were under the assumption that their superior had the statement which concerned them directly. They were very suprised to jfiind out that Prilla man knew nothing of their tfants or demands. Prillaman stated, "I see in The Daily Tar Heel that. I am driving the students and making slaves out of them. I see no slaves." I see no slaves either, but I s-ee boys with no choice but to accept the rules laid down by the Lenoir management. Prillaman says he wants the workers to have, a well-balanced diet, and thus the proposal that the students have the right to use their meager allowance in the Pine Room was denied. ' Since the workers have been refused cash pay ment of the balance of the allotted $1.90 per day in food, they will now attempt to have the balance carried over to another period so they can make use of their full earnings. What is the sense in a person stuffing himself with food to meet the quota which has been set? The answer is simple, none. Prillaman said, "I think some of. you have gone underground by writing editorials to The Daily Tar Heel in trying to. force something on us that we can't afford." I realize that Prillaman knew nothing of the petition but the letters were written with the as sumption that he knew. If writing of a situation on the editorial page of a newspaper L? being sly, then What is publicity? ' Furthermore, the director said that the Student Legislature and The Daily Tar Heel were" trying to cram this down Lenoir's throat. An example was how the Northern senators are trying to cram the Civil Rights bill down the Southern's throats.. "I was never approached by a student repre sentative about the petition but found out what I know from The Daily Tar Heel' stated Prilla man. Now I say, where would the controversy be now, if he had not discovered the situation in this newspaper and called the meeting of the workers. In continuing his blast at The Daily Tar Heel, Prillaman stated, "I have never known but one or two Daily Tar Heel editors that have complimented Lenoir Hall." This editorial is not meant to be a defense of this paper but a summation of the issue at stake. Prillaman pointed out many things that he was doing for the benefit of the workers. He stated that the South Room L? kept open for lunch and dinner to give work tq the students. Also the statement was made that he could save money by hiring regu lar workers which would cut down on the expenses of feeding the student workers. One student asked Prillaman, "Then this is a lost cause, and we understand that you will not change the policy no matter what we say." Prilla man nodded and retorted, "Yes, you can say that.' In making this point, the director stated that Lenoir could save approximately $155 a day by no having student workers. He continued, "Rules and regulations were made to abide by and we are not trying to push you around. I am not conducive to any changes in the student aid policy." During the question and answer period, which went on for almost two dreary hours, a student v said the profit made by Lenoir Hall last year of something near $550 would buy 110 cases of beer and the arguments about coffee in the Pine Room and being able to receive only 20 cents worth of ice cream at a time were petty. He went on to say that he thought that a small minority of the workers were responsible for the whole situation. On being asked where the money for the pur chase of the new chinaware was coming from if the cost ws to be near $2333 and the profit made last year was $550, Prillaman said that that was the profit for last year. Some questions which should be answered arc: How much would it add up to per day to hire an accountant to take care of the system of cash pay ments? Would not the accountant need to be hired with regular workers and would not the boys be willing to take a cut in pay in order to receive wages? An accountant would take up only an hour a day to figure the payroll and during the rest of the day could be working elsewhere. Another observation made of the issue was: If he fPrillaman) were not making money by giving meals instead of cash, he would not continue ts do so. This I agree with wholeheartly.- Here's hoping that I'm not cut up in slices ami sold as a Student SpeciaL
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