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Serving- Civilian and Military Students at UNC 0 VOLUME liiisw Boeinees and Circulation: 8641 CHAPEL HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1944 Editorial: F-4141. Newi: F-S14C. F-M (7 NUMBER SW 22 isiafare 1 o lnvesti tiidemf Government Student Council Mead. Appoints 24 Member Advisory Board gate S Benbow Plans To Designate Student Power Cabinet To Meet Twice A Month The appoinment of a Campus Cab inet composed of 24 members has just been announced by Charlie Frank Ben bow,; President of the Student Council.-:,,,"' :- -c The council was set up as an advis ory board for the executive branch of the student government, and "is ex pected to work toward a plan which would separate the power in student government, thus (bringing about an organization composed of executive, judicial and legislative branches, each of which would operate as separate units of government with its own des ignated powers. ' Benbow emphasized the fact that the cabinet is a non-partisan group set up to work for the benefit of the cam pus as ' a ' whole, -i Its membership in cludes representatives of practically every organization on campus, and each and every student is urged to present his problems to the cabinet through any of these members. The membership of the cabinet in cludes, in addition to Benbow, Bill Crisp, Vice-President of the Student Council; Jenks Tripp, Secretary-Treas urer of the Student Council, and the following student representatives: Harvey , White. Doug Hunt, Jim Booth, Bob "Shaw, Bill McNeely, Fred Flagler, -Winkie White Margaret Woodhouse, Kitty Kelly, Libba Wig- gins, Betty Lou Cypert, Archie Hood, Bynum Hunter, Walter Brinkley, A. B. Smith Joe Mallard, Jack Vernier, Blair Gammon, Charles Wickenberg, Buck Tauscher, Hay Levine, Bob Ga vin, Shirley Dickenson and Nancy King.- ' .'.; ' " The Cabinet met for the first time last night to discuss future, plans and it was announced that in the future, there would be two meetings of the group each jnonth. The time of the meetings is to be announced later. Pharmacists Graduate Under War-Time Program ' S 'hsAtmyL , vv 3 Si .f?ftcrjgc HOUSE BEARD Coed Senate Lengthens Dormitory Closing Hours 24 Below Club Open Tonight Tonight from 9 until 12 o'clock the 24 Below club will be open for dancing and refreshments. A 25c cover charge per couple will be in force. Plans are underway to furnish ad ditional entertainment. With a capacity crowd present, the & bill to extend coed dormitory closing hours until 11 o'clock reached the sen ate floor Tuesday night and was passed by a 14 to 1 vote. The new ruling went into effect Wednesday night.' Preceding the vote the senate floor was open to discussion and coeds rep resenting all organizations and fac tions on campus expressed their opin ions, presenting arguments for and against the passage of the bill. ' -. The final votes of the senators were cast as the particular group which they represented desired with the re sult that coeds may now bave an ad ditional half hour in which to study alf the " library and to participate in extra curricular activities. Although the majority of senators felt that the later closing time would make little difference in obtaining quiet in theXdorms, it was recommend ed that the president of the inter-dorm council have quiet hours strictly en forced in the future. Another bill was passed which gives the senate authority to appoint a com mittee to work out details for the es tablishment of a personality council. After completing its work the commit tee must report to the senate where the final plans will receive approval or disapproval. The committee ap pointed consists of Betty Lou Cypert, Tommy Slayton, Jean Kitty Kelly. . Rankin and Aldermen Approve Engineer's Plan To Extend Limits i v Fourteen Pharmacy Students omas Tomorrow To Receive Dipl . The first class of pharmacy students to graduate from the School of Phar macy here under the war-time accel era ted schedule will receive their de grees Sunday, December 17, at exer cises held at 3 p.m. in Hill hall. , Replacing the annual Baccalaureate sermon, services will be held at the Baptist church which graduates will attend at 11 a.m. Sunday morning. - At 3 p.m. the actual ceremonies of graduating will take place at Hill Mu sic hall with Dean R. B. House pre siding. President Frank P. Graham will make a short address before awarding diplomas to the 14 students. The graduating class is actually the Class of '45 but by attending two sum mer school sessions, they were able to complete their curricular studies in 1944. Rev. Kelley Barnett, pastor of the Baptist church, will give the invocation and pronounce the benediction which will conclude the service. The following students will receive degrees: Charles Herman Beddington, Jr., Clayton; Samuel Norman Black, Asheboro; Harvey Ray Brooks, Bear Creek; Jessie Frances Cole, Chapel Hill; Hubert Gordon Dameron, Star; Augustus Green Elliotts, Jr., Fuquay Springs. Rudolph Warren Hardy, Everetts; Gerald Dean Hege, Lexington; Lucy Lee Kennedy, Kerr; Edward Hines Knight, Weldon; Douglas O'Brien Langston, Franklinton; Ruth Helen Patterson, Chapel Hill; Evelyn Earle Salter, Stacy; and Laurel Lee Wil liams, Hilton Village, Va. After tne graduation ceremonies, Rho Chi, honorary pharmaceutical fraternity, will sponsor a reception in Graham Memorial for parents and friends of the class. At a meeting of the Chapel Hill al dermen Wednesday night a map show ing the proposed extension of the town limits was presented to the group by Thomas D. Rose, civil engineer; ; After making two changes the map was given the ' formal approval by the board. One area to the southwest ex tending toward the laundry, and an other to the northwest adjoining the northeast corner of Carrboro will be excluded in the new town - limits. A public hearing will be held on the proposed extension before a bill is in troduced in the legislature. The boundaries included in the new exten sion are as follows : Down Bolin creek on the north and across the Durham road to the DuBose line; along the Du Bose line southwestward and on across the Raleigh road and the Mason Farm road to Morgan creek; up Morgan creek westward and across the Pitts boro road to Pritchard branch; up Pritchard branch to the sewage pump ing station on the town's present west ern line; along the present Chapel Hill-Carrboro line to a branch south of the Southern Railway track; and along this branch to Bolin creek. . Burton Linker Chats To Reporter On War By Gertrude Walton Tall, easy-going Lieut. Col. J. Bur ton Linker, professor of mathematics who ' deserted Carolina's classrooms for Army life back in 1940, has again taken his trig book in hand after spending 26 months in the European theatre-of war. Colonel Linker (Professor Linker he wasHhen) was the first from UNC's faculty to repdrt for active duty in World War II. He now. also holds "precedence as the r first to ' re join" the faculty after5 seeing' first hand the events that made front page headlines. He 'was "among the first . . . bufthat is getting ahead f of bur story' 'which' actually began in Sep tember 1940.- ' " " ' : ' A' member of the National Guard since 1918 when he was commissioned in thef Field Artillery, Colonel Linker had been? regional adjutant' of ; the 113th Field Artillery of the - State National Guard, going out- on field maneuvers every summer. In Septem ber, 1940,' he hiid just returned from three weeks ' on maneuvers in ' Louis iana when he received his call to active'rauty " ","''f " . "Few ! people realized the signifi cance of the fighting taking place at that time'in Europe," remarked Colo nel Linker. "It seemed rather fool ish o some for me to leave for 12 months 'in-the Army for the - war seemed very far away." 1 But he did leave.' He cleaned off his desk left instructions that he' was to have it immediately on' his return, and reported for duty. What'; hap- J:v l! :olK:S::-iS::-:::::::::if if LINKER pened a little over a year later is now history " " For two years Colonel Linker re mained 'in the United States, taking training at various camps. "I took a field officer's course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma," he recalled, "and then was selected as a member of the first class at the School of Military Gov ernment at Charlottesville, Virginia." On September 5, 1942, he was one of the first six officers to go overseas to England. "That was quite some time after the bombing raids that al most annihilated the island. Spas modic bombings' stiil tooV place, al though the people didn't run fran tically for shelters when the planes sounded -overhead. There was not much danger until the ack-ack fire began, and then it was wisest to get out of the streets if you didn't want a hail of splinter-like steel whizzing down' on you." Regarding the attitude of the Brit ons and Americans toward a post-war peace, Colonel Linker stressed the difficulty of such a comparison. "The English people have experienced cen turies of war, yet they are more de termined than ever that this time a workable peace be achieved. Every one, from the British cockney to the dukes and earls, discusses the future peace with as much enthusiasm as the current war." Since his return to America, he has been impressed with the general atti tude of "Win the war, then worry about the peace." "Of course, here on a university campus the favorite topic is the post-war world, but it's Joe Doakes in Middleton, USA, that I'm talking about. He's got to wake up s and think. He's got to remember that this war must be followed by something even more important . . . a lasting peace." . England seemed to Colonel Linker an odd mixture of the old and new, with much more of the old in evi dence. "The mess hall where we ate for a time was lighted by candles in ancient silver which were probably the same, used by the monks many centuries before when they sat at the See LINKER, page 4. Navy To Hand Over Three Frat Houses The Navy is expected to release all except one of the fraternity houses which it now occupies effective March 1, 1945, according to a statement is sued to the Tar Heel late this week by Mr. C. E. Teague, Comptroller of the University. The three fraternities whose houses are expected to be returned include Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma. The only house ex pected to be retained by the Navy is the St. Anthony House which is now occupied by Navy V-12 Headquarters. Mr. Teague also disclosed that present plans call for the Navy to re lease Smith Dormitory at the same time, and it is expected that this dor mitory will be available for the hous ing of civilian students at the begin ning of next trimester. Freshman Dance Set For Tonight A Freshman Ball, sponsored by the Freshman Friendship Councils of the YM and YWCA, will be held tonight from 9 until 12 in the Wom en's' Gym with music by Scott Gardner and his orchestra. The ball is being staged for the Freshman Class as the first social function of the year for that class.- All freshmen, including V-12 freshmen, and their dates are invit ed. No admission will be charged. Bill Lloyd and Pat Kelly, presi dents of the YW and YM Fresh man' Councils, respectively, are in charge of the dance, while Marilyn Meeks and Sam Homewood, chair men of the Social Committees of the two groups, are co-directors. Jimmy Hedgepeth is directing the publicity.' The underwriting of the dance by the YMCA enables the ball to be given without the charge of scrip. Complimentary tickets may be secured by the freshmen at the information desk at the Y. An in vitation i is not needed to get a ticket. More than 150 tickets have al ready been delivered. The directors of the ball urge all freshmen to attend. Coed Social Chairmen There will be a meeting of the so cial chairmen or representatives of each dormitory, sorority and of the Town Girls' Association at 7 p.m. Mon day night, in Spencer parlor. Each representative is asked to bring a list of the girls who are plan ning to spend Christmas Holidays in '.Chapel Hill. Cril Establishes Christmas Fund For Day Nursery Under the direction of Dot Church ill, Chairman of the Cril Social Action Committee,' the CRIL will solicit funds, both before and after Christ mas, for a Christmas Party and Food Fund for the Negro nursery in Carr boro. Several CRIL and YW members were instrumental in the founding of the nursery, which is provided by the government for the children of work ing mothers. The goal of the Committee is $250. Part of this will be collected before Christmas, to give the children a Yuletide party December 21. The re mainder will be collected after the va cation to help finance the Food Fund for children whose parents make less than fifteen dollars per week. So far TEP, Pi Phi, AD Pi and Chi O, as well as five church groups have pledged their financial support or have made gifts. The undergraduates of Carr and graduates of Kenan have also contributed. The campaign is being carried out by the CRIL with the cooperation of the Y and YW Social Service Com mittees. Re-Establish Class Setup For Graduates Plan To Clear Up Supreme Authority Setting in motion a mass investiga tion of the overlapping and conges tion of authority in student govern ment on the campus, the Student Leg islature on Thursday evening author ized the appointment of a nine mem ber committee to investigate the con dition. The act, which was passed unani mously, provides that the committee, under the chairmanship of Sneaker Douglass Hunt, utilize all available ma terial and submit a report to the leg islature recommending clarification and revision of the present organiza tion. Heads of all student organiza tions will be interviewed, and after the preliminary findings are arranged, any student will be allowed to testify and state his views on any of the topics under discussion. Hunt stated that the committee would not strive to set up an inflexible constitution, but "a clear, concise, com plete, definition of authority." He pointed out that no one really knows how far the authority of the Legisla ture, supposedly the supreme law making body on campus, extends over such organizations as the Interfrater- nity Council, the Dance Committee, the Honor Council and others. After a haggling discussion, the Legislature passed an act providing for a class organization for all stu dents graduating in February. Under he act Naval trainees who receive certificates will be included in the Se nior class. The act provides for an election to I be handled through the Legislature Elections Committee. A president, vice president, secretary and treasurer will be chosen, as well as an advisory executive board. Bob Lip ton, Law School representa tive, Joe Mallard, Navy V-12, and Chuck McCormick, NROTC, voted against the bill. Speaker Hunt announced that the members of the Governmental Study Committee would be Charlie Frank Benbow, Student Body President; Jim my Wallace, Chairman of the CPU; Charlie Hackney, President of the Uni versity Club; Bill Elliss, A. B. Smith. Allen Pannill, Betty Lou Cypert, and Libba Wiggins. Hunt, under the pro visions of the bill, was designated chairman. Yack To Take Last Pictures Today, Tuesday All undergraduate pictures for the Yackety-Yack will be taken to day from 2 to 5 p. m. at 'South building and Tuesday from 2 to 5 p. m. at Graham Memorial. If students do not report during one of these periods, their pictures will positively not appear in the Yack, it was announced by Cookie Marett, editor. This includes civil ians, coeds and navy men in the freshman, sophomore and junior classes, but does not apply to se niors and graduate students. Pictures will be taken in groups of ten which may be arranged by the students if they appear at the designated places together. Tuesday Tar Heel To Be Last Of '44 Next Tuesday will be the last publi cation date of the Tar Heel for the year 1944. The Tar Heel will resume publication January 2, relinquishing publication for three days. Organizations which have impor tant items of news which should ap- pear m tne last issue are assea to contact the Tar Heel office before 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Also those organizations which have important events ' scheduled for the first week of the new year should inform the Tar Heel by Sunday of their plans. Chorus To Present Handel's 'Messiah' Handel's "The Messiah" will be pre sented by the Chapel Hill Choral Club under the direction of Mr. Paul Young at 8 p. m. Tuesday, December 19 in Hill Music Hall. A 37 piece orchestra, rehearsed by Mr. Earl Slocum, is to accompany the group of 130 voices. Soloists for the program are Miss Beatrice Donley, alto, Meredith Col lege, Raleigh; Miss Jane Frazier, so prano, Salem College, Winston-Salem ; Clifford Bair, tenor, Salem College, Winston-Salem and Sherman Smith, bass, Chapel Hill. The traditional Christmas Section of "The Messiah" has not been pre sented in Chapel Hill for 12 years. Interest in the work of the Choral club has been growing this year, and plans are being made for another per formance in the Spring. Sound And Fury Changes Date Of Production The Sound and Fury production scheduled for Wednesday, December 20, has been postponed and will be presented on January 4 for Univers ity students and on, January 10 for the Navy Pre-Flight school. Practice will continue as scheduled next week.
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