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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
' September 13, 1966
fudents Have 'Long,- Honorable' First Edition
Carolina Housing Situation
Tradition
Of Gripes About Food
By BILL SMITH
UNC News Bureau
UNC Students follow - lone,
honorable tradition whn thev
gripe about the quality o t
food in University cafeterias.
K e m d Plummpr Battle's
"History, of the University of
North Carolina" shows v. that
food hs been one of the maior
causes of student dissatisfac
tion sine0 Hinton James walk
ed from Wilmington to become
the first UNC student in 1795.
Letters of. early students
gave pointed commentary on
me?ls in Commons, the first
dining hall.
"The bread is not near so
good as Phyllis ttheir moth
er's cook) hakes for herself,"
John and Ebenzer Pettigrew
wrote. "It is imDossible to de
scribe the. badness of the tea
and coffee, and the meat gen
erally stinks and has maggots
in it."
Rules governing etiquette at
the table were .stringent i n
the early days. According to
Battle, "The tutor must re
prove one complaining of the
food um'ustifiably in his opin
ion, and order on1 behaving
unseemly from the table. Thi
indignity created wrath . in
the voufh subiected to such
public insult, banished in dis
grace from his food in pre
sence of his fallows.".
Food complaints were fre
quent and vocal enough to at
tract the attention of the Uni
versity's founder. William R.
Davie.
, "Serious, a n d I believe,
well-grounded complaints are
made by the students against
the Steward." he wrote in
1796, "but Messrs. Ker and
Harris (UNC's first executive
and instructor) did not think
it proper to mention them to
the Board (of Trustees) al
though thv gave assurance to
the students that they would
certainly do so."
Davie's letter may have
been prompted bv concern for
his two sons, who were Uni
versity students then.
Conditions in Steward's Hall
(the 19th century dining hall)
were described by Dr. Wil
liam Hoooer, an early profes
sor: "Do you wish to know the
ordinary bill of fare fifty
years ago? As well as I re
collect board per annum was
thirth-five dollars!
"This, as you may suppose,
would not support a very lux-
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urious table, but the first body
of Trustees were men who had
seen the Revolution and they
thought that th?f sum would
furnish as good rations as
those lived on by those who
won ocr liberties.
"Coarse corn bread was the
staple food. At dinner the only
meat was a fat middling of
bacon, surmounting a pile of
colewarts (collards); and the
first thing after grace was
said, (and sometimes before),
was for one man, by a single
horizontal sweep of his knife,
to separate the ribs and lean
from the fat. monopolize all
the first to himself, and leave
the remainder for his fellows.
"At breadfast we had wheat
bread and butter and coffee.
Our supper was coffee and the
corn bread left at dinner,
without butter.
"I remember the shouts of
rejoicing when we had as
sembled at the doo: , and some
one jumping up and looking
in at the window, made pro
clamation 'Wheat bread for
supper, boys!' And that wheat
bread, over which such re
joicings were made, believe
me, gentlemen and ladies, was
manufactured out of wheat we
call seconds, or, as some
term it, grudgeons.
"You will not wonder, if,
after supper, most of the
students welcomed the ap
proach of night, that as beasts
of prey, - they might go
aprowling, and seize upon
everything edible within the
compass- of one or two
miles. . . :, -
"Nothing was secure from
the devouring torrent. Bee
hives though guarded by a
thousand stings all feathered
tenants of the roost water
melon and potato patches,
roasting ears, etc. . .every
thing that could appease hun
ger, was found missing in the
morning."
Conditions had changed con
siderably for the better by the
time the late Louis Graves,
former editor of the Chapel
Hill Weekly, enrolled in 1898.
Very early in the Univer
sity's history students had
turned to boarding houses to
escape the unappetizing diet
offered them in the dining
hall. Graves wrote with ob
vious delight of the fare offer
ed at boarding houses. ;
."The boarding house used
to be a kind of club," he re
ported. "I'm sorry it went out
of existence. There was a
sociability about them that
contributed richly to the
pleasure of living. And what
food!.
"My mother began to take
in boarders after my father
died. She had friends among
the students who had been de
voted to my father and they
had conferences with her
about what she should charge
per month. Should hers be one
of the low-price, or one of the
high-price places?
"They . decided high-price.
So she set the price at $13 . a
month!"
The highest-priced boarding
house, where faculty members
lived, charged $15 a month.
The price included room and
board, labor, laundry, break
age and miscellaneous wear
and tear.
Students ate heartily. "Ev
ery student boarder would eat
eight or ten batter cakes at
breakfast," Graves wrote
"with molasses generally, be
sides sausage or steak. . .
and hominy and hot biscuits.
"Looked back on, it's in
credibleif I hadn't seen it
with my own eyes.
Parking
Continued From Page l
parking spaces because it
makes it difficult for the po
licemen to check the parking
stickers and also because
back-up parking has resclted
in damage to shrubs and
walls."
Students who are eligible
and wish to apply for tem
porary parking stickers must
secure them within 48 hours
after bringing their car to
campus. . Ineligible students
must make prior arrange
ments. Any student who feels he
has received a red parking
ticket or blue parking notice
unjustly or in error must ap
peal within 48 hours upon re
ceipt. The red ticket is taken
to the Chief Safety Officer on
the second floor of the YMCA
building and the blue notice
is taken to the Traffic Coun
selor in 02 South Building.
The red ticket is for a vio
lation such as parking in a
no-parking zone or reserved
area. The blue notice covers
such violations as unregister
ed vehicle, improper display
of permit, and illegible per
mit. The parking fees have re
mained the same with a $5
charge for cars and motor
cycles except - $2.50 for T
stickers (car can not be park
ed on campus.)
The amount of staff parking
stickers has been reduced
from eight to two. F stickers
will cover parking for facul
ty and administrative staff
department heads, and A
stickers will be issued- to, all
other staff members.
All drivers and passengers
of motorcycles this year must
ride astride the vehicle fac
ing in the direction of the for
ward progress of the vehicle.
"This means that women
cannot ride sidesaddle," Ke
ner said. "When a woman
rides sidesaddle, it throws the
bike off balance and increases
the chance of an accident."
Motorcycles and motor
scooters must also be oper
ated in full accordance with
the regulations applying to all
motor vehicles. Each driver
and each passenger is strong
ly urged to wear a safety
hemlet at all times when the
vehicle is moving.
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On Tlmrstlav
The orientation edition of
the Carolina Quarterly Car
olina's literary magazine
will be on sale all over cam
pus Thursday.
The edition, one of the first
to be available at the begin
ning of a fall semester, makes
the Quarterly an actual quart
erly not the three editions
which have appeared in past
years.
Included in this edition are
stories by O. B. Hardison, who
was selected by Time as one
of the top ten professors in
the nation last spring; Leon
Rooke, last year's writer-in-residence;
Max Steele, this
year's writer - in - residence;
and X. J. Kennedy.
In addition, the short story
which won the Thomas Wolfe
Memorial Award last spring
is included.
The edition will be avail
able, from students at numer
ous campus localities, includ
ing Y Court. Cost is 25 cents
down from the former cost
of 75 cents.
Improved From Last Year
Bv T.YNXE HARVEL
DTH Staff Writer
This year's housing situa
tion has improved consider
ably over the crowded con
ditions of last year, or as
Housing Director James
Wadsworth puts it. the pres
ent conditions are "real fine."
No one will be housed in
basement rooms, and there
are only 25 rooms with three
people.
Wadsworth credits Gran
ville Towers with easing
crowded conditions. WTomen
who registered too late for a
University room were sent to
Granville Towers.
The difference in room rent
has been lessened by the Uni
versity's increase of $30 in
the price of its rooms.
"The real problem is with
married students' housing,"
Wadsworth said. "Almost all
available trailers and apart
ments have been filled. There
are still a few vacancies call
ing in. We hope that some of
the new apartments going up
will help this situation."
The shortage . of married
student housing has been
caused mainly by the remov
al of temporary buildings
from Victory Village. '
. On another problem, Wads
worth noted that his office
is again getting a flood of
requests for room changes.
"We don't make any changes
for the first two or three
weeks," he said.
"WTe are trying to strike a
happy medium between ab
solutely no ' room changes
and free moving about."
Wadsworth noted that the
housing situation changes con
tinually from year to year as
new buildings become avail
able and others are turned to
other purposes.
James Residence Hall, now
under construction, is slated
for completion by next Sep
tember. It will be the fourth
high-rise dorm in the Morri-son-Ehringhaus
- Craige sec
tion. At that time, Smith, now a
women's residence hall, will
be converted to an office
building. The women in Smith
A tr C.arr.
Will DC inuvv.
Men from Carr and other
Lower Quad dorms will be
moved to the new James
Dorm. .
The University is now pro
viding 2431 residence hall
rooms for men, and 743 for
women. These rooms have a
total capacity of 6,324 per
sons. "Single rooms are one of the
most frequent requests,"
Wadsworth said. "We have
only 58 single rooms avail
able fore men: naturally we
cannot fill all the requests, so
there are many disappointed
students.
"We do our best to make
everyone happy, but there
just aren't enough accommo
dations to satisfy everyone."
Granville Towers can now
accommodate 500 people. Oth
er students are housing in off
campus apartments, trailers
and private homes.
The Housing Office also as
sists students in - f i n di n g
available off-campus lodgings
and provides , a list of ap
proved residences.
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