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EDITORIALS: V-12 Circulation Incredible World Round Table NEWS ITEMS: Polio Death Board Checks Frats Charlie Benbow Serving Civilian and Military Students at UNC Business and' Circulation: 8641 CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1944 Editorial: F-3141, News : F-3U6. F-3147 NUMBER SW 55 T7TT TTTVTTT? T TT CTXT f V J W aixxi i J1X f f Enrollment May Decrease Says Phillips South Announces New Schedule "We hope that we can keep the usual second summer session- enrollment which is about 60 per cent of the en rollment of the first summer session," stated Guy B. Philips last night when asked about the enrollment for the sec ond summer session. Mr. Phillips, summer school direc tor, declared that it was doubtful as to whether the enrollment would be up to the usual attendance for the sec ond term. Two groups have already canceled their plans for attending the University during August. These groups are the Girl Scouts, which con sisted of about 75 girls, and a health group conference. Mr. Phillips said that the reason for the canceling of these conferences was the polio scare According t the enrollment of the first summer session Mr. Phillips "had expected about 1000 students to at tend the second session. This is ap proximately a 40 per cent decrease of the first summer session enrollment. There is this decrease every summer because students "get fed up on school and want a vacation." . Schedule South building released the follow ing schedule for civilian students for the second summer session beginning July 22 and continuing through Aug ust 29. Any changes in the following schedule will be posted from time to time : July 22, Saturday Classes meet for the first time, and instruction be gins in all departments at 8:00. July 31, Monday Master's theses may not be submitted after this date. August 5, Saturday Regular classes will be held in all departments ac cording to schedule. August 7, Monday Written examina tions for the Master's degree may not be taken after this date. August 19, Saturday Regular classes will be held in all departments ac cording to schedule. August 28-29, Monday and Tuesday Final examinations, according to schedule. Democrats Spotlight Speech Of UNC Alumna At Convention In Chicago Mrs. Tillett Makes Important Address By Vita Richter Mrs. Charles W. Tillett, assistant chairman of the Democratic .National Committee was one "of the first coeds at the University of North Carolina. She made an important speech at the second session of the convention held at Chicago on Wednesday, July. 19, which is an initial gesture toward a place of prominence for American women, a cause that has always been close to her heart. ; . - The 20 minute dissertation, heard over a national network concerned woman's place in the coming election. Touching upon the tremendous amount of good the Democratic party has ac complished as well as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal achievements, Mrs. Tillett also emphasized the stake women had at this moment when their sons, husbands and sweethearts are so vitally concerned. Voted the "most magnetic" and "the best executive" at Woman's College, Greensboro, she was elected class pres ident. Later at the Hill where Mrs. Tillett received her degree, the annual described this Suffragette as "compe tent to run anything . - our ideal of a woman." Charles W. Tillett, 3rd, ASTP, in his second year of medical school at the University was non-committal when queried as to his reaction to the speech, although he agreed that it was perti nent. Although he has no political as pirations, Charlie was editor of the Yackety Yack in 1942, the year he graduated, a member of the Carolina Political Union, and the Fleece, and Delegata of the Grail in 1943 when he returned for graduate work subsequent to his army enlistment. Sara Avery Tillett, a younger sister, left the campus several days ago to East Is South East is south and south is east and ever the twain shall meet, or at least so it seems from the following little item sent in by a reader: "An English professor who has been here for over 10 years was showing a visitor around the Uni versity last week. Pointing to South building, the professor said to the attentive listener: 'And there's the oldest state university building in America.'' . Tsk, tsk! When everybody except the freshmen, sophomores, and part of the junior class knows he should have said Old East. " Board Checks Frat Houses An inspection of the fraternity nouses on t&e coed visiting list made ty the house privileges board on July 14 found two violations of the visiting regulations, and the offending fraterni ties were dropped from the approved list. The violation in one house was made when one coed visited alone, in opposi tion to rule four of the regulations which states that coeds must visit in groups of two or more. In the other case, two girls and a boy were found drinking, breaking rule three. In the first violation, a $10 fine and a privilege suspension of one week was applied to the fraternity, and in the second the fine and suspension were doubled Rules one and two of the visiting regu lations limit coed visitations to ap proved houses and the first floors of tnose houses. . Monthly Inspections Held The house privileges board is made up of representatives from the inter fraternity council and the Womens' Student Government, and has had monthly inspections and a current frat house approval list since last Septem ber. Gid Gilliam, president of the Inter fraternity council, is chairman of the board, and other members are Billy Ellis, Virgil Ashbaugh, Warren Perry, John Berry, Lucy Kennedy, Jean Perry, and Kitty Kelly. Fraternity houses on the board's ap proval list are Phi Gamma Delta, Delta Psi, Sigma Chi, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu, Alpha Tau Omega, Zeta Psi, Chi Psi, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Chi, and Pi Kappa Alpha. MRS. CHARLES TILLETT join her mother in Chicago. She will return to Carolina in her junior year. Mrs. William I. Coddington, another sister, also graduated from this insti tution. It is believed that women will cast 60 percent of the Democratic votes and Mrs. Tillett has set up a political school giving morning - classes to ac quaint the delegates with the political practices which will enable them to be effective in the forthcoming campaign. Steeped in the tradition of public IRC Contacts Dignitaries For Speeches National Leaders May Come to Hill Ann West, former 'president of the International Relations club, revealed late this week the details of her trip to Washington, where she contacted prospective speakers for the IRC, among them Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee; Ely Culbertson, world peace-planner; and various other inter nationallyminded figures. Until definite plans are made for the speaking appearances, further details will be unpublicized, stated present IRC officers. Meanwhile, Edith Hash, secretary and acting vice-president, announced early this week that the IRC plans to sponsor Dr. Ervin Hexner of the Polit ical Science department, as soon as he returns from the International Mone tary conference in Bretton Woods, N. H. Dr. Hexner, who has spoken on numerous occasions from the IRC plat form, was contacted by the organiza tion and on his return tomorrow, final arrangements will be made. "If Russia Gets to Berlin First . . .? " is the provocative question for discus sion chosen for Monday evening's meet ing of the IRC in the Roland Parker lounge of Graham Memorial. The con troversial topic promises to stir up a lively argument among members and visitors. Openings With a number of members leaving this summer, the IRC membership com mittee announced that openings exist for new club members. Officers of the organization made it clear that the IRC is purely non-partisan and whether liberal or conservative, applicants for membership are considered only on the basis of their interest in world affairs. See IRC CONTACTS, page 4 Dr. Perry Confers With War Veterans All veterans of World War II now studying here are asked to report to Dr. Perry's office sometime in the near future for a conference. This does not include men who have al ready talked to Dr. Perry about the processing of 1-C men on the campus. service, Mrs. Tillett's father was Jus tice Avery of the North Carolina Su preme Court. Her husband, Charles W. Tillett, Jr., is a Tenth Congressional District delegate to the National Con vention, one of the State's leading at torneys, former president of the State Bar Association and of the University Alumni. The two main objectives in this ex traordinary woman's life .are her chil dren, and her desire that women assume their proper place in politics. Xf . -AJ. .m r ; f--J 'wo Cases Within 'Chattel Hill Fights Polio DR.W. P. RICHARDSON, district health officer, is directing Chapel Hill's attempt to keep infantile paralysis sub dued in this area. Two cases, resulting in one death, have been reported in the county thus far. Faculty Group Plans Post-War Curriculum Deferring a final vote until later this summer, the steering committee for Post-War discussion considered the proposed plan for a correlated cur riculum, which was presented to the faculty by Dr. H. K. Russell and two associates, last Tuesday. Calling for greater collaboration in progxam planning among all the de partments of the University, the "Cor related Curriculum Plan" is intended to bring a more careful arrangement of student courses. The faculty committee for post-war discussion has been looking into various plans for the future of Carolina as its monthly meetings under the leadership of Dean Bradshaw. The four-year medical school and the application of the G. I. Bill of Rights are among those postrwar plans which already have been taken up. Panel To Check Local Dealers A group of local Price Panel assist ants met Tuesday at the Town Hall to plan coordination of townspeople's and student's efforts in active volunteer rice Panel work in Chapel Hill. The group is composed of members of townspeople's organizations and three university students, Douglas Hunt and Rhett Winters representing the YMCA and Maureen Bennett rep resenting the YWCA. Tl o ti iVt cknlrc An TIT arri Qnfc tun viivvna vii iuvivuumuj The plan is to make open checks as OP A representatives on local mer- j chants twice or three times a month. The first will, be beer and courtesy checks. If a merchant is markedly out of line, he will be called before the local rice Panel board for an explanation. It is felt university students will be of value in checking restaurants, as hey frequent these places to a great extent. Student Plays Given Vote The Carolina Playmakers presented the 98th series of experimental pro ductions of new plays, written and pro duced by students in the university summer playwriting course last Mon day evening at the Playmakers theater. The three experimentals were : "The Tale of a Tub," a comedy of Texas schoolteachers, written by Myrtle Phaye Procter of Quanah, Texas; "Salt Sands," a play of Ocracoke Island, by Virginia Page Spencer, of Swan Quar ter; and "Pilgrim's Rest," a Georgia Negro comedy, written by Jessie Daniel of Metter, Ga, The directors, given in order of the plays, were: Inez Franz, Penny Frankel, and Mary Lou MacGowan. The public vote gave "Salt Sands" first nlace. "Pilgrim's Rest" second and "The Tale of a Tub" third. 1 Of Polio Are Found. Infantile Paralysis Strikes FataUy Two cases of polio, one resulting in death, brought the critical polio situation home to Chapel Hill this week, causing a drop in the enrollments for the second summer session and manifesting a series of travel restrictions to be placed on V-12 naval trainees here. Cameron Poythress, a native of Orange county, who lives some four miles from the HilL was taken ill on Monday, July 17. On July 18 his illness was Dean Urges Conferences Following the announcement last week that the university is, as a war measure, shifting the term of instruc tion from the quarter to trimester stu dents have been advised by Dean John son in an official announcement to con fer with faculty advisers before they make decisions in regard to attendance during the next two terms. "There will be inevitably some dif ficulty in the transition from the quar ter to the trimester," Dean Johnson stated. "Those who decide without competent advice not to attend both the second term of summer school and the September term may inconvenience themselves severely." According to the announcement, all students should plan to enroll in Sep tember as usual in order to make maxi mum progress toward a degree. The September term will not be a repetition of the second term of summer school. Courses will be arranged to make the transition to the November trimester with a minimum amount of incon venience. The second quarter of most three hour sequences which were begun in the first term of summer school will be offered in the second term of sum mer school and the third quarter will be offered in the September term. Al though the situation applies mainly to general college students, all upper col lege students should plan to continue through the second summer term and return on schedule for the third term in order to avoid delay and curriculum conflicts. Two Marines Get Promotions Two members of the Marine V-12 Detachment here at UNC received pro motions this week. Supply Sergeant Charles L. Taylor was promoted from Staff Sgt. and Sergeant Donald L. Steil was promoted from Corporal. Sgt. Taylor was transferred to this unit in July, 1943, "from Quantico, Va and Sgt. Steil was transferred here in March, 1944, from the Marine V-12 unit at North Texas Agricultural Col- ege. Campus BMOC Number Charlie Benbow Busiest Student In Chapel Hill By Bob Pearce, USMCR If he has on overall pants with the cuffs rolled up, a sport shirt, loafer slippers and white socks and is smiling behind his glasses as he hurries on his way, it can be only one person Charlie Frank Benbow, the president of Stu dent Council. He is now a junior in the commerce school, but before this year he was a pre-med student. Charlie, who has been a member, of the Student Council since his fresh man year, was elected president in March of this year. He is a member of the Student Welfare board which tries to work out solutions to campus prob lems before the problems arise. He! has been a member of the Student Audit committee and the War Relief committee since 1942. The Audit com mittee checks the books of all groups that are run by student fees and the War Relief committee supervises the drives on the campus for relief funds. He was also a member of the Sopho more Honor council. Charlie has always been very active in intramural sports and he boxed on the freshman team here at Carolina. Benbow hails from Winston-Salem where he graduated from Reynolds High School in 1941. While in high school, he was president of the student body and was on the football and track teams. At the present, Charlie Benbow Harvey White and Charlie Vance are making plans for a campus constitu tion that will state specifically what powers and duties go to the various of- District diagnosed as polio, and Poythress was sent to Watts hospital in Durham. He died there on Thursday morning. Doris Carroll of Chapel Hill was also stricken with the dread disease. On July 9 she was taken sick and a few days later she was moved to Watts hospital. On July 17 her case was diagnosed as polio. Miss Carroll, who works in one of" Chapel Hill's stores, is now home and on her feet again. V-12s Restricted It was learned by the Tar Heel last night that the V-12 naval trainees would be placed on restriction, and their movements limited to Chapel Hill. Dr. W. P. Richardson, district health officer, stated that he did not feel "that the second case in Chapel Hill is cause for alarm because the course that the disease is taking in sections of the state not directly in the epidemic area would leave Chapel Hill with a normal expectancy of two or three cases." Guy Phillips, director of the Univer sity's summer sessions, announced that enrollment in the second summer session was appreciably lower than the registration for the first summer ses sion. Mr. Phillips stated that the polio epidemic was one of the causes of this drop. In an effort to keep students from traveling in and out of the heavily infected areas, Mr. Phillips and Dr. Ed ward Hedgpeth, head of the University infirmary, circulated a letter to all classes asking that students who planned to enroll in the second summer session not travel home between ses sions. The letter emphasized the fact that such travel to and from the in fected areas was of danger to the traveler and to his companions in col lege. Peak Reached? "The number of cases of polio last week was considerably less than the number of cases the week before," Dr. Richardson stated. "This would seem to indicate that the peak of the epi demic is past." A check on this week's records, when completed, will serve to confirm or deny this possibility. Dr. Richardson warned again against any unnecessary travel, and stated that the avoidance of any unnecessary group contact was highly preferable. If matters get worse restrictions may be set on young people under the age of 16. One . '- - ft' a' ' A ill '"'-'-'-'"" .-.-.v.-.y. . BENBOW ficers of government, and will spread governmental power and obligations over more officers than the present set up does. Between the vwork required in the offices he holds, the work on commit tees, his social life and his studies, Charlie is one of the busiest, if not the busiest student oh campus. He has classes from eight to 12 every morn ing and although he has no afternoon classes, he is much busier afternoons and nights than he is mornings. The latter part of the day finds him at Graham Memorial straightening out See BENBOW, page S f M
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