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mm The grass cannot grow If across it you go. Graduation's the thing ... But why leave in the spring? Serving Civilian and Military Students at UNO VOLUME liisw Business and Circulation: 8641 CHAPEL HILL, N. C SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1944 Editorial: F-3141, News: F-314S, F-3147 NUMBER SW 22 peak At War Gradu; 31 raifiiam asm Su J f V . (: - ) iimiMiiiiwuim .immmmm. infitfri SALEK Drama Group Convenes Here Next Weekend A number of well known speakers, including Miss Hattie S. Parrott, asso ciate director of the division of in structional service of the State De partment of Public Instruction appear on the program of the 21st annual Drama Festival and State Tournament to be sponsored by the Carolina Dra matic Association at the University Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 23, 24, 25. Miss Parrott will speak Saturday morning on "Dramatic Art and Speech in the 12-Year Program for , Public Schools," Joe Salek, executive secre tary of the CDA, said in announcing the program. The remainder of the Saturday morn ing program vv include special con tests in makeup and costumes and other branches of theatre arts. A feature of the Festival which will get under way Thursday afternoon in the Flaymakers Theatre, will be the presentation of three prize-winning plays written by service men in North Carolina m the recent contest con ducted by the CDA. The plays and their authors are: "Harp Upon the Willows," by Sgt. Harvey L. Hannah, Camp Butner; "Heaven Is What You Make It," by Cpl. Hyman Levy, Camp Sutton, and "Prologue" by Cpl. Robert E. Beck, Fort Fisher. High school production contests are See DRAMA, page U Girls Take Gents To Leap Year Fete The Carolina gentleman will get his long-awaited chance to keep the Caro lina coed waiting next Friday, March 24. when Graham Memorial gives its quadrennial Leap Year Dance. From 8 o'clock until midnight the coeds can stand in the stagline, check over the male dates and dance with whom they please. Unwritten law for the dance will be that coeds ask the boys for dates, call for them at their dormitories and es cort them to the main lounge of Gra ham Memorial. No men without dates will be allowed on the dance floor. A committee of six girls will handle the details of the dance: Marianne Dixon, Alderman; Beverly Ann Money, Mclver; Virginia Klages, Kenan; Nancy Jane King, Spencer; Mary Louise Huse, sororities, and Margaret Morton. Archer House. This commit tee will meet Monday afternoon at o'clock in the director's office of Gra ham Memorial to plan the dance. Since the Graham Memorial budget prohibits having refreshments at pub lic dances coeds are asked to remember their pocketbooks, in case their dates feel undernourished. Girls who are interested in coming tn th Annoe as staers should contact the girl in charge of their residence or Mrs. Vandever in Graham Memorial. Free Movies The last in the film series sponsored by the Carolina Playmakers and the Bureau of Visual Instruction will take place next Sunday, March 19, at the Playmakers Theatre at 3 :00 P. M. The program includes: "Construction ot Light Airplane," "Hill Towns oi flncmolo-J' M0Y1Cn MoOdS." "Re- port From Russia." Committee Legator Accept Report Of Probinsrs After more than five weeks of prob ing and consultation the investigating committee of the Student, legislature, at that body's last meeting, released its report and recommendations concern ing the actions of the Spencer house council and the Tar Heel in the honor council case suspending two coeds.. From the testimony given by the entire Spencer House Council the fol- owing facts appeared: On previous occasions the two girls in question had been suspected of drink ing and having liquor in their room. On this particular occasion the sus picion that there was liquor in the room was so strong that the President of the Spencer House Council felt it her duty to investigate. The next day with the sanction of the President of the Women's Honor Council she felt justified in entering the room for the search. 1- Room Search By her testimony, about noon while the occupants of the room were out, the door to the room being unlocked she entered and saw a suitcase under the bed. Thinking this to be the most logical place to conceal liquor she shook the suitcase. Convinced by the sound that there was liquor inside she looked around for the keys. She found them on a table between the two beds. Upon opening the suitcase she found a bottle of rum and a bottle of whis key, both of which were partly empty. The House President, not desiring to be the only witness, took the bottle of whiskey; and showed it to another ' member of the House Council. The bot tle was then replaced in the suitcase, which was relocked and the keys were returned to the place where they had been found. Girls Approached The girls were then informed that they were known to have broken a house regulation. The case came be fore the 'House Council for violating the house rule prohibiting the presence and possession of liquor in the dormi tory. During the hearing, the accused on their honor to tell the truth denied having liquor in their dormitory room, but admitted having rum. Then upon being confronted with the testimony of the House President both girls ad mitted having whiskey in their room. On the basis of the false testimony of the two girls, the case was referred to the Women's Honor Council. The girls had pled guilty to lying while on their honor before the Spen cer House Council, and they were sus pended from the University for a speci fied length of time. Facts Ascertained The President and Secretary of the Women's Honor Council were called be fore this committee and the following See LEGISLATURE, page U DeFontes Couple Will Visit Here Senhor Lourival de Fontes, Brazil ian delegate to the International La bor Office in Montreal, Canada, and a close friend of President Getulio Vargas of Brazil, accompanied by his attractive wife, a well known Brazil ian poetess, will arrive in Chapel Hill Wednesday, March 22, for a four-day visit at the University. Their visit is being arranged by Nel son Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter national Affairs, and is being spon sored here by the Southern Council on International Relations. Making Tour Senhor and Senhora Fontes are mak ing a tour of Inter-American centers throughout the country, including Bos ton, Buffalo, N. Y., Chicago, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Memphis and Chapel Hill. Purpose of their tour is to give Sen hor and Senhora Fontes "a clear pic ture of what people in the United States are doing in various sections to foster inter-American understand ing, and to enable them, also, to inter pret the cultural and economic situa tion in Brazil to the United States, par ticularly as it is related to the war effort." ' Ends Inyestis-atioii ' . 'Keep-Off- The- Grass 9 Drive Launches Spring Quarter No Cooperation No New Grass Year after year after year after year, UNC has tried patiently to raise a decent crop of grass on its campus. Just as consistently, its students have refused to cooperate, except during high-pressure campaigns. In the past, the University's main tenance department has meticulously sowed grass in bare spots on the cam pus, then watched heartless shortcut ters trample the seedlings into the ground as soon as they came up. No New Grass Having finally lost its patience, the University has announced that no grass will be planted this Spring un til students voluntarily agree to stop walking on the lawns. Putting up "Walk on the walk" signs, erecting fences, making' pleas for the beauty of the campus of the nation's oldest state university, plead ing with indolent students to go a few steps farther and save the lawns all these, measures are worth nothing un less every student here civilian or military will- say to himself : "I am proud of Carolina. This is my school. "I want its campus to look good, just as I want to look good myself. "I will do my part to make it look good and keep it looking good. I am willing to go a little out of my way fcnr the betterment of my school. "Yes, I will stay off the lawns." Toms Will Direct Brief Selection From Bizet Opera John Toms, associate professor of music here at the University, will di rect an opera demonstration of the let ter scene from Bizet's "Carmen" to be given Friday morning, March 24, at the twenty-first annual North Caro lina Drama Festival. Although he has not sung "Car men," he is well-versed in opera. He left the University in 1940 on a leave of absence to sing with the Philadel phia Opera Company. "Cox and Box" While in Philadelphia, he sang Gil bert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe"; Bur nard and Sullivan's "Cox and Box" with the Savoy opera company, prob ably the best known amateur opera See TOMS, page U Curvacipus Miss Ruth Franck Deemed Definite 'City Slicker' By Anne Straub Bishopric "I'm definitely a city slicker," smiled Ruth Franck, curvacious teacher of modern dancing here. A New Yorker born and bred, Ruth accepted the position of instruct ing Carolina coeds in the skilled art of the modern dance last fall. Although she has only been in Chapel Hill since the opening of the fall quarter this year, she has already revitalized ac tivities down around Woollen Gym nasium. . If you see a small girl with golden brown hair and an impish snlile streak past you on the campus, you're prob ably seeing Ruth in person. Every Carolina gentleman who glimpses her, presumes she is a new and delightful brand of Carolina coed. Vivacious and energetic, Ruth is always on the go. Every hour of her days is crammed with either teaching, composing or planning new programs for the wo men's department of physical educa tion. Phys Ed Fun Her quick wit and sparkling sense of humor make her classes fun, instead of pare physical exertion. In fact, Ruth is one of the main reasons those coeds who were lucky enough to sign up for her courses, no longer dread the long walk down to the gym. Strangely Red Cross Sum Falls Short As Drive Ends 1 By W. H. Hipps, Jrl Although the University Red Cross Campaign officially closed yesterday, incomplete reports indicate a $300 un-der-subscription of the $1,000 goal set for the campus, according to J. L. God frey, head of the drive. Godfrey stated that although com plete tabulations are due from the Pan Hellenic Council, town students, and fraternities, estimates indicate that the student fund will reach a bare $700. Town Drive Successful He said that the committee of the town as a whole was well-satisfied with the results of the town drive which will likely amass a sum of $15,000, a probable $1,250 over-subscription of the town goal of $13,750. Although for mally organized solicitations ceased yesterday, Godfrey said, the drive will continue "quietly throughout the month of March." In an effort to obtain all possible con tributions, the Red Cross committee established booths at' the 1 YMCA and at the Navy Scuttlebutt. This last booth was set up by special request so that the V-12 students might have a chance to -contribute to - the- drive. This was contrary to expectations of the Campus Red Cross committee which had not planned to contact the military students on campus, since it was thought that they would contribute to it through their own organizations. Student Leaders House to house canvassing was con ducted by a five member student com mittee. Heading this committee was Nancy Jenkins, canvasser of the four women's dormitories; Lorraine Old ham, sorority leader; Turk Newsome, fraternity leader; Bob Burleigh, can vasser of men's dormitories; and Char lie Vance, town. Working with Old ham were Helen Threadgill, Pi Phi ; Louise Piatt, Tri Delt; and Virginia Star, ADPi. On the women's dormitories commit tee under Jenkins were Virginia Green, Kenan; Dora Winters, Alderman; Char lotte Thomas, Mclver; Toy Easterling, Spencer; and Edith Owens, Archer House. Juju Newsome and Charlie Vance composed the town committee. See RED CROSS, page 3 and exotically garbed in brilliant green and bright red leotards, wrapped in swirling vivid cloaks, Ruth conducts coeds through warming up exercises called: "bounces, jumps, pony-runs and torso-stretchers." Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Franck, Ruth was born in Mt. Vernon, New York. Her father is head of the Hollophane scientific lighting company. After graduating from the New York city high schools, Ruth went to Swarthmore Coeducational College in Pennsylvania, where she majored in French and psychology. It was in col lege that she first began to take an in terest in dancing. Although Ruth is now a devotee of the modern dance, her first love was the ballet. For a year after graduation from Swartlynore, Ruth didn't do much but play. But her next year was a busy one.' She went to the Dalcroze School of Music in New York and taught at recreation centers for children, besides teaching dancing at the New York In stitute for the Blind. Upon comple tion of her two courses, Ruth then went to the Cape Cod Institute of Music where she studied under the Jooss Ballet Company and worked with Ganzert in the field of ballet. - In 1942 Ruth entered New York Uni See FRANCK, page U Broughton Will Present Diplomas to President Frank P. Graham will be principal speaker at Carolina commence ment exercises to be held in Hill Hall Sunday, March 19, at 3 p.m. Governor J. Melville Broughton, as Chairman of the University Board of Trustees, will present diplomas to approximately 60 graduates. This second March wartime graduation is under the supervision of J. M. Saunders. Dr. Das Kelley Barnett, pastor of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, will :;.yvv v ... mi V. .,.,."K'r. .... DR. GRAHAM :-:-:-::-:-:-x-::-:-c-:-: 'XVt SAUNDERS IRC Delegation Chooses Bagby Vice-President By Nancy Smith A member of the IRC delegation which attended the annual Southeast ern Conference held at Woman's Col lege in Greensboro last weekend, Wes Bagby was chosen vice-president of the next annual conference. This is the highest elective office than csn be filled by a delegate, the office of president being filled by a member of the IRC at whose college the conference i." held. The International Relations Club here sent a delegation of four to at tend the conference including Wes Bag by, Herbert Weber, Ralph Glenn and Billy Mackie, vice-president of the club. Plan for Peace. A total of 44 colleges representing about 11 states took part in the two day program. Theme for the confer ence was "Planning for the Peace." Wes Bagby, IRC program chairman, led a discussion on the first steps to wards peace. Other delegates took an active part in the program. A dominant note of the conference was the agreement on the necessity for real world government after the war. It was agreed that military occupation of the conquered countries should end quickly and that conquered countries be allowed to set up their own govern ment no matter what form it assumes. Punishment of war criminals would not contribute to the achievement of world peace. Delegates felt that the United States should participate largely in re construction after the war and that a real "effort be made towards the solu tion of the economic problems of Ger many and Japan. PU Board Meets The Publications Union Board will meet next Tuesday at 4:30 to consider the serious problem of circulation. Among those present will be Dean Par ker, who is extremely interested in the problem, and dormitory and town representatives. A ! T".r : J i illfiil .. .. X 60 Students Sdeliver the baccalaureate sermon in the . Baptist Church at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. Graduates, clad in caps and gowns, will sit in a body in reserved seats. Tea Slated Immediately following the gradua tion exercises in Hill Hall, a tea for the graduates, their guests, and fac ulty members will be held at Graham Memorial. The graduates are as follows: Mary Afflick, Frank Adams, Gertrudis Bo gran, Thelma Bolick, Beverly Booth, Sara Brown, Margaret Buchanan, Jac queline Campen, Blanche Crocker, Helen Edson, Madeleine Fauvre, Charles Gordon, Robert Grant, Jo Ann Griffith, Paul Grun. William Joyce, Joe B. Linker, Gwen dolyn London, Ann MacDonald, Clare Marley, Josephine Moore, Sarah Niven, John B. Newman, Betty Seligman, Em ma Spivey, Anne Strause, Hilda Wea ver, Julia Weed, Violet Taylor, Ida Quintard, Ida White, Cyrus Whitfield, Myra Willis. George Allbright, Jr., Ruth Aycock, William Beam, Thomas Boone, Law rence Britt, Mervin Canaday, John Canipe, Jr., Morrison Caruthers, Jo seph Estes, Malcolm Fearing, Jr., Mar guerine Hahl, William Hollowell, Jr., Billie Johnson, Clyde Johnson, Owen McDowell, Jr., William Morton, Aubrey Richardson, Frances Rimmer, Richard Scharff, James Teague, Pug Upchurch, and Wesley Viall, Jr. The graduation, which marks the end of the current winter quarter, is part of the University's wartime speed-up program. All of the students are civil ians, and most of them have taken re quired work during the past summer session, thereby completing their courses before June. Thirty-three members of the class are in the College of Arts and Sciences, while 22 are Pharmacy School seniors whose college courses have been accel erated in keeping with the wartime setup. Several students are physics majors. Four of the graduates are in the School of Library Science, while others are from the School of Public Health and the Graduate school. Deans of the respective schools will present candidates for degrees to Governor Broughton. Graves Paintings In Hickory Show The Hickory Museum of Art is hold ing an exhibition, to stay on during the month of March, of the work of one New York artist and one South ern artist. Frederick Ballard Williams of New York, holder of the Gold Medal of the National Adacamy of Design and ex hibitor in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the National Art Gal lery in Washington, is showing about a dozen of his landscapes. Represents South Mary deB. Graves of Chapel Hill is representing the South with portraits of prominent North Carolinians and others. A portrait in the exhibit that is of special interest to people throughout the State is that of the last Dr. Charles S. Mangum, former Dean of the Uni versity Medical School. Physicians who were Dr. Mangum's pupils, and who hold him in beloved memory, are now practicing physicians all over the United States. At present many of them are with the armed forces over seas. Native of Hill Mary deB. Graves is a native of Chapel Hill, where "she now has her studio. She has had a studio in New York City where she made portraits of well known people, among them Mrs. Fred Astaire, wife of the famous dan cer; Tony Heard, son of Mrs. Ed Heard, editor of Home and Field; E. N. Pot ter, 3rd, great grandson of Bishop Pot ter of New York. In the present exhibition at Hickory she is showing portraits of Charles G. Mills, author of "The Choice"; Paul See GRAVES, page 4
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