THE TAR HEEL
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1943
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ONE MAN'S HONOR . ...
The fifteen sat in the freshly painted room, and against a back
ground of beating rain and wind, they held one of the most im
portant meetings to come out of this war-torn year at Carolina.
The president of the University was in from the nation's capital
for only a few hours. The problem was such that no one man
could ever find a solution. The decision of this fifteen could alter
the entire future of the University. An hour went by. No defi
nite answer came. Before another hour-had come and gone, the
vital, tired man behind the president's , desk had rushed out to
catch his train.
They would meet again, next Saturday morning. Then they
would find the answer.
And outside that freshly painted room, where the majority of
the people upon whom that.answer depended, who would have
to live by the decision made by the fifteen. And some of that ma
jority never realized that the problem existed. Part of those
who did realize the problem did not care what the answer would
be. What difference did it make to them, they thought, whether
the fifteen decided to freeze the honor system at Carolina for the
duration, or let the honor system go on, perhaps modified, perhaps
changed, or perhaps just as it was.
Students who are living at Chapel Hill now have never known
anything but the honor system on the Hill. It has become an in
tegral part of our lives here, something so integrated into our
way of life at Carolina we can not imagine ourselves without it.
But somehow and somewhere along the road of mobilization
for war we have let some of the stronger ties of our "way of life"
slip from our fingers. We have failed to realize how precious our
honor system is, until now when its very foundations are threat
ened. We may have to pay for our carelessness by having our
honor system "stored on ice" for the duration. We may soon find
ourselves under the old proctor system of government, in pay
ment for our failure.
We will know the answer after next Saturday. The fifteen will
weigh our case, and decide.
"EQUAL RIGHTS?"
Included in the reaches of the honor system at Carolina are
the social regulations enforced upon coeds living in the women's
dormitories and the sorority houses.
A coed who breaks any of these social regulations is supposedly
bound by the woman's honor council to a promise of reporting
herself, or being reported by another student. If the coed does
not report herself, the penalty she receives, whether from the
house council or the woman's. honor council, is administered with
the admonition that she has broken the campus honor code, and
punishment is accorded her on those grounds, to a greater de
gree for greater offenses, to a lesser degree for lesser penalties.
And yet, through the pages of the TAR HEEL and the MAG,
through the pleas of student leaders, through the challenges
made by members of the faculty, coeds are being asked to step
in and take hold onto the reins of the work that must be done, to
share equally with the "Carolina gentlemen" in guiding the Uni
versity through its present period of emergency, to come into
their own. No provisions have been made, however, to give them
the same amount of time the men have to do these jobs. Dormi
tory closing hours remain the same.
And yet, any coed who overstays the regular closing hours,
with these few exceptions, has violated the honor system.
Certainly, lying, cheating, and stealing are to be a matter of
personal honor, to be' counted as honor council cases. But social
regulations can hardly be classed in the same category. Since
apparently nothing can, or will, be done for the present about
an equalization of social rules in fact many of the coeds them
selves are shocked at the idea of equalization -violations of social
regulations should be taken from the scope of the honor council ;
they can not be included within the honor code. Penalizations,
punishments should be administered after cases have been tried .
by the house council, without any mention of the honor code,
or an infringement of this code.
Ther is a wide gulf between a student who will not report her
self or another student for lying, cheating or stealing, and the
student who will not report herself for overstaying or overstep
ping social regulations.
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Cherries Rescued
From Glasses
If, by some fluke of chance, you
should happen to be on the receiving
end of one or ' more cocktails at a
Carolina party, you should prepare
yourself beforehand for any con
tingencies that may arise during
the course of consuming said cock
tail (or '-tails') . Of course this ar
ticle will be -worth nothing at all to
the majority of you who, unfortu
nate souls, never get any further
than cider, wine, or beer!
Emily Post, if you've read her
noteworthy work, has given you the
main pointers on party ettikette ...
but what I am about to say is one
of those things that worry people
like "what to do when you pop a
run?" or "how toxkeep the peas on
your knife?" or "how to keep the
coffee spoon out of your eye when
you're drinking without removing
said spoon?" Those problems and
many others never reach the public
answered in full. I intend to make a
start.
After perusing the aforemention
ed work carefully, you will know
better than to turn your glass 'bot
toms up' immediately upon receiving
it from your host; you will know
better than to crunch the ice loudly
if in polite company; you will have
learned many things, but not how to
get the cherry out of the bottom of
the glass. There are several ways
you can accomplish just this. First:
If your host or hostess is a thought
ful soul, there will be either a stem
attached to the cherry, or a string
that hangs over the side of the glass.
Then, it's a comparatively simple
matter to unobtrusively take hold of
either, gently draw the cherry out, ;
and when no one is looking, pop it
into your mouth. But suppose string
or stem breaks . . . or suppose you
weren't supplied with either ...
Then, you must try another tack.
Take your muddler (if they
should be foolish enough to leave
such things lying around for col-
lectors) and gently poke around in "
the ice and orange peel in an attempt
to spear the elusive morsel. You
shall doubtless succeed only in bury
ing the fruit under the ice in a most
inaccessible place. Besides, the
cherry will be just about as easy to
anchor and pierce as a ping-pong
ball would be. (I know, who ever
heard of ping-pong balls in Old
Fashioneds? Brother, you don't
know Chapel Hill!) Don't be down
hearted. Try again.
If you can get in a corner that's
fairly well sheltered, or if you can
hold your napkin in front of the
glass in such a manner that no one
can see what you're doing, try using
your index and fore fingers in an ef
fort to dig the cherry out from un
der the ice. This method is not one
of the best I've found. You'll prob
ably end up with ice, orange, and
cherry in a puddle in your lap. You'll
also find that you'll need your thumb
to assist you, and there's not room
in the glass for that.
Now we get slightly provoked. We
don't care much one way or the other '
what happens to the glass; so let's
get that muddler back and carefully
punch a small hole in the bottom of
the glass, just large enough for the
cherrj ta slip through. Doctors
won't approve of this because of the
possibility of eating fragments of
the glass along with the cherry.
So there you are . . . nothing ac
complished . . . nothing gained. Still
want the cherry? O. K. Take the
glass in your right hand (left, if
you're left-handed) and throw it
forcefully upon the nearest table,
wall or person. You'll find that
you'll have no more worries about
ice or fruit. Crawl under the piano,
pick up your cherry, and enjoy it.
This never fails to work. A. H.
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Art Teacher Approves
Springtime Angels
By Nancy Smith
It is spring; the sun is shining, and birds sing. An art student comes en
thusiastically out of Dr. Sommer's survey course in the history of paint
ing. "Look what I did in class today," he says.
There, on the margin of his more somber notes are two impertinent bare
backsided cherubs, their wings folded resting on their elbows on fleecy
clouds. "I showed 'em to Dr. Som
mer." "What did he say?"
"He just laughed."
It isn't only because he under
stands about springtime cherubs
that Dr. Clemens Sommer, art pro
fessor, is rated at the top of the
popularity list by students who've
been in his classes. The tall, spare,
graying professor of the history of
art from Germany, is also the type
of teacher who will let his classes go
early the morning after vacation be
cause he knows most of the students
have been traveling all night.
A visiting professor when he first
came here, Dr. Sommer rated a per
manent professorship within a year.
Born in Baden, Germany, he took his
degree at the University of Frei
burg. He has traveled over most of
Europe France, England, Belgium,
Holland, Switzerland and Scanda
navia are among the countries he's
visited. And he knows the practical
side of art history, too, for he spent
four years as assistant librarian in
one of the famous libraries in Rome
and was curator of the museum at
Freiburg. He also did research in
medieval art. These scholarships
were wonderful, he explains, be
cause you could study as you pleased,
where you pleased, and you didn't
even have to write a book.
Before coming to America, Dr.
Sommer was a professor at the Uni
versity of Greif swald. Then he spent
a year in Sweden. He has been in
the United States since the spring
of 1938, and is now waiting for his
second citizenship papers.
Dr. Sommer teaches 24 hours of
courses here, including a survey
course in the history of painting;
a graduate seminar, which boasts 6
interested graduate students; a
course in Northern painting (mostly
Flemish) ; and a course in German
conversation for the ASTP's. In
cidentally, Dr. Sommer has failed
only about five students since he
came. Reason: you can't grade art
knowledge. It is not the type of
course in which facts are graded
with an A or an F. If students show
sufficient interest, he says, he feels
they get something out of the course.
One of Dr. Sommer's favorite
courses is his German conversation
class with the ASTP men. He thinks
they are coming along fine. And the
This Week
Curtains
Park your halos and pick up hope.
There's doins on campus these Au
tumn nights that promise much
, these coming weeks. Over on the
second floor at the Graham Mem
there are Sound and Furious howl
ings, shooting of lines, piano laugh
ter and murmerous torch songs.
Jack Ellis and Mary Louise Huse
have taffy-colored a bright musical
menu that will keep the customers
warm for many an eve. " The after
noon we dropped in Joan Kosberg
was giving out with a blonde ver
sion of unhappy love. Fetching she
was, too. It's a king-size show with
a cast of 60. From our point of view
we heartily endorse the show for
this reason: it's about Carolina.
With the BOSS OF BAR Z put
away among the peanut shells the
PL.AYMAKERS are coming up with
the season's second full-length pro
duction with WATCH ON THE
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ASTP's like him too. . . . They talk
about everything from food to poli
tics, and solve cross word puzzles in
that class.
Dr. Sommer has three children.
There is Maria, whom a great many
students already know, because she
is a junior at the University and is
at present majoring in history.
There are his two sons, aged 9 and
14. The older, Sebastian, is now at
school in the North. He made his
campus debut by playing Oberon in
the Playmaker production of "A
Midsummer Night's Dream" last
spring. ,
The Sommers live on Strowd Hill
on the Durham road, and the house
hold includes, two cocker spaniels, a
cat, and chickens. When asked if he
had a victory garden, Dr. Sommer
looked puzzled, then said, "I've al
ways had one, only they didn't call
it that until recently." It is a sort
of custom brought over from Ger
many. Dr. Sommer likes American stu
dents. At first, he knew little Eng
lish, and students used to have a
hard time understanding him. But
they would cooperate with him and
- that made things easier all around.
In comparing German and Ameri
can schools, Dr. Sommer said that
students and teachers were much
closer in Germany because from the
moment students entered a German
University, they began work op a
specialized subject. There was ' no
See SOMMER, page 4
Going Up
RHINE. And here is a curious
thing: almost every other person
carried a text on the play to the try
outs. Held at 4:00 p. m. and 7:30
p. m. on Monday last the turn-out
was encouraging. Boosted by Broad
way, colossaled by Hollywood and
recognized as the most significant
play to come out of the war it prom
ises exciting theatre when it hits the
Playmakers' boards on December 1,
2, 3. The fact that Lillian Hellmah,
who wrote the play, has a movie,
THE NORTH STAR box officing
New York is interesting. Sam Selden
directs the WATCH ON THE
RHINE; Foster Fitz-Simons will
design same.
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Mark up November 20th for the
grand Beauty Ball. On that eve
eight lovelies will be combed from
the campus to represent Carolina's
harvest crop for the coming year.
ItH be interesting to see the
prophecies uttered by the wiseacres
as to their choice eight. Being hu
man we intend to predict our eight
in the next edition of CURTAINS
GOING UP.
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Essential Jobs
Must Be Filled
By Lee Bronson
"Let's get those women out of the
kitchen!" This is the cry that is
heard on all sides from people who
are concerned about the manpower
shortage.
Even though the tradition of our
country is that the men do the fight
ing and the women stay home and
weep, modern warfare demands that
every able-bodied man and woman
help with the tremendous job of pro
duction. In the United States today there
is considerable talk of drafting labor,
giving every man. a - number and
telling him at which plant he has to
work. This may prove necessary, but
before it is done men in Washington
are tapping every other available
source of manpower.
Assuming that women can rivet
as well as men can, that they can
take over many jobs which men now
hold, where are the women to come
from? First, there are some girls
just out of school who are living at
home, perhaps doing a little volun
teer work, but generally making no
real contribution to the war effort.
Secondly, there are a great many
young wives with no families, whose
husbands are in the service and who
sit around playing bridge and gen
erally behaving like parasites. Some
of these stay in their home towns;
some make an attempt to follow their
husbands around the country, in
tensifying housing shortages, crowd
ed railroads and living completely
selfish lives.
Thirdly, and this is sai in soft
tones, there are hundreds of thou
sands of women in colleges and uni
versities. If the manpower shortage
becomes acute, and it is near that
stage now, why should able-bodied
women be allowed to remain in their
ivory towers majoring in English,
sociology, political science and other
subjects which will not increase their
ability to contribute to all-out pro
duction. It is true that we will need a
reservoir of trained persons after
the war. However, it is equally im
portant to meet our production
schedules now so that we can mini
mize the loss of life and so that we
can be assured of victory.
It is incredible that any girl on
this campus or any other could feel
that she has a right to continue her
easy college life, while invasions and
battles are being postponed because
planes and ships arenrt being pro
duced rapidly enough. It is incred
ible that any woman could be aware
of the starvation and suffering in
conquered Europe and feel that her
education should be completed at the
expense of prolonging that suffer
ing. All Wool
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