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"FAG3 TT70 THE TAH HEEL TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1945- feje Wax Heel OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL CHARLES WICKENBERG, USMCR FRED FLAGLER : J. PRESTON LEMLY JIMMY WALLACE Published Tuesday and Saturday except during vacations, examinations mad holiday. Deadlines Tbnrtdaj and Sunday. Entered as second class matter at the poet office at Chape Effl. N. C, nnoer the act of March 3. 1879. Member of ASC and Natl Adv. Serme, toe. t ' 1 SO WHAT? Well, it's 1945 . . . and the probable rejoinder1 is, "So What?" Since this is only the second day in the new year it's a trifle difficult to answer the question. The little answers that we might give will add up -to only a large hunk of speculation. But let's speculate. The thing that is constantly in front of us is the war. Last year the boys in the Pacific were singing, "Golden Gate in '48," this year they are trying to find something to rhyme with fifty. As much as we hope and pray that the end of the war in the Pacific will come soon, the cold reality that we have not yet met the main forces of the Japanese 4hose , veteran troops in China and in Manchuria brings us to the opinion that V-Day will not pome until 1949 or 1950 As for the European war, it is our guess that the coming year or the first part of the fol lowing, year will see the end of organized resistance. The re cent push by the Germans will result in the greatest United Nations victory of the war. Thick and fast the rumors of discontinuing V-12 here have been flying about the Hill. V-12 headquarters denies that there is any basis for the rumors, and unofficially feels, as do we, that this unit will be among the last closed., , This year will see many needed changes on the University campus. The frequent "incidents" during the past year, plus confusion in the student body and in South Building over such things as "fizz-ed," the dismissal of some students for question able reasons, and other rulings concerning the student body are contributing explosives to a powder keg which will blow up in the University's face sooner or later and probably sooner. Student government will also undergo some needed house cleaning. The report of the Legislature's Investigation Commit tee, and the recommendations of the Campus Cabinet should make for some extremely illuminating arid interesting reading and exceedingly rapid action. Recently, at the Interfraternity convention in New York City certain rulings were made concerning all fraternities. The ef-1 , fects of these rulings will, be notable in campus life during the coming year. In North Carolina there are in powerful posi tions those who would see fraternities outlawed at the first opportunity. Unless fraternities heed the familiar warnings, they may number themselves in the "also ran" column this time next year. The problems facing Carolina are critical and too numerous to mention here. As fast as their solutions come, new prob lems will arise, but progress will only be made with renewed interest and cooperation of the student body. Editorials and pleas by student leaders have been made many times in the ' past for students to take an active interest in their own af fairs. The student body rendered proof that its interest is not dead during the last election when it cast the largest percent age of votes in the history of North Carolina. The future is in our hands. The leaders have been chosen. The material is here. If New Year's resolutions are to be made, the first one should be that each student dig in and take a grip and an active part in the things going-on around him. What has happened at the University of Georgia, Louisiana State University, and at Texas University can happen here. We are not immune. And, unless we begin now," this day, this min ute, to assert ourselves and become informed and in touch with what immediately concerns our life here, we are vulnerable. We are asking for it . . and we are going to get it. Wake up Carolina! It's a new year! Start it right! TAR and FEATHERS Along about ..Thursday . of . this week the entire populace of our lit tle hill should have the toothpicks removed from their eyelids and only, faint memories of the hectic holi day celebrations . the "Wuz I drunk!", stories are getting a little tiresome . '. . tsk, tsk, Carolina Code (?) 4 . . we're only two days into 1945 but the '44 score of our tussle with Dook still adorns a few of the campus buildings . . it has been well over a month since this eye-sore was created . . . seems that's plenty of time for the building department to get things cleaned up . . . we realize the hard work involved in getting paint off of the concrete pillars but surely the paint can be removed from the wooden doors of Graham Memorial. Thanks to a thoughtful skipper and the hard work of V-12er Bill Tweet, those who stayed in Chapel Hill during the holidays had a Christmas Party in Graham Me morial last Tuesday night. . . . Cap tain Hazlett wrote the boys a blank check to cover the cost of the party . . . town girls were invited and showed up in force ... more girls .Editor .Managing Editor .Business Manager .Circulation Manager than fellows at the party so natural ly a good time was had by all J Orville Campbell, former Tar Heel Editor who has been stationed over , at the Pre-Flight School has re ceived his orders to report to the . Receiving Station NOB Norfolk, Va. . . . Among the New Year's crop of rumors is the one' about our Ma- 5 ririe Unit folding up and Duke's V-12 Unit coming over to Carolina ... strictly scuttlebutt and Port Hole patter. Tonight the Faculty Executive -Committee, Naval Authorities, and the Student Council will meet at the Carolina Inn ... a periodic dinner meeting to discuss Student-Faculty problems . . . last time they met we had a complete revision of the Hon or System . . . orientation should be the major topic of their discussion tonight. ... . Congratulations to Cadet John Graham on being elected editor of the ROTC yearbook, The Catapult. . . . Buckets of both Tar and Feathers to those responsible for smashing the juke box in the "Y" during the vacation. ' 1 111 I -rVWk " T..i I I I i- "Because you buy War Bonds regularly, Smith, don't get the , idea that you personally own each shell!" From Where I Sit By Charles Waldman Person Hall Art Gallery is at present holding the 8th Annual Ex hibition of North Carolina Artists, : thirty-five works of art .which will be on display here until January 5, after which time they will travel to Raleigh and the State Art So ciety Gallery. That the show is primarily the work of a group of students and amateurs seems rather painfully evident both from the craftsman ship exhibited and the uninspired range of subject material to which most of these artists have seen fit to confine themselves. An extenu ating factor, of course, is the war: a large percentage of the regular contributors has been unable to participate this year. As things stand, however, perhaps the most saving grace of the exhibition is the fact that, with one or two excep tions, there is a commendable lack of "American- Scene" stuff : little at Person Hall is of potential in terest to the manufacturers of Lucky Strike cigarettes and Coca Cola or the art editors of the Sat urday Evening Post. But whether this fact is enough to counterbal ance the all-over feeling of inade quacy and indecision is highly de- batable. The most interesting, and yet at the same time most disappointing piece of work I found, was done by V-12 John Recknagel in a tiny sur realistic oil, painted on what looks like a handkerchief, and entitled, "I Hate My Math Teacher." Just the right size for a college edition of Einstein's "Theories," neverthe less Recknagel's painting shows real imagination, technique, and color sense which, if blown up to the proper size for this type of -work would undoubtedly have domi nated the show. As it is, "I Hate My Math Teacher" is almost lost in the shuffle: were it not for the provocative title I doubt whether many visitors would even notice it.' Two explosive, expressionistic landscapes, and an equally violent ; harbor scene by John Opper add a note of slightly uncontrolled fire ; to the walls. Although I found . It Could Be Worse By Robert Morrison ' In a manner that has become traditional, Carolina students again distinguished themselves and -their University in the eyes of the people of the state. During all vacations, especially at Christmas, all travel ers on trains and busses operating in the vicinity of the Tar Heel state are either deaf and blind or aware of the fact that a rare and motley bunch inhaMts some pjace called Chapel Hill or Carolina. The al ready crowded vehicles are flooded by a thundering herd, carrying bag gage with a thick outer layer of blue and white stickers. The mob is tremendously hetero-, geneous; there are sailors, civilians of every size and age, marines, all sorts of naval uniforms, and an abundant decoration of girls of ev ery denomination. ' The new arrivals immediately take charge. They lie in the aisles, sleep under the baggage, sit on any one's lap, crawl under the seats, hang out the window, sit five in a seat, and generously lend their full services to the driver jor conductor. There is a great group spirit; ev eryone else in the car is an alien or just another unnecessary fix ture. They represent a great army whose members are being dispersed in a mighty wave of conquest to the four corners of the nation. The group inevitably divides it self into smaller circles for fervent Nary War Bond Cartoon Service these works thoroughly unpleasant to look at both because of their un finished appearance and a chaotic admixture of effect, which loses any central idea in projection, still there is no denying their impact. But specific painting never yet suf ficed to express a general idea in toto, and in all probability never will. More successful along the same lines is Murry Jones' "Hall way of Past Experience" done in oils, which, in an attempt to por tray the Freudian and other impli cations via the purple line, comes closer to its objective. Two small oils painted somewhat after the primitive style by Mrs. Cyrus Levinthal entitled "Mill Houses" and "Cotuit Bay," manage to be rather innocuously pleasant. The coloring of "Cotuit Bay" is good; from a distance this work presents an unusually fine appear ance which unfortunately is not preserved upon a close-up scrutiny. The same weakness is present in Mrs. Lucielle Breswick's attractive water color, "Storm in Carolina." The other landscapes are too clut tered, either in the superabundance of color which they offer, or in the (, sheer amount of depictions on the canvases. Of the portraits, William Field's glossy "Barbara Rose" is by far . the best. One of two entries by the same artist, (the other is "Nell Page Atwater"), this, miniature portrait exhibits some truly deli cate brush technique and coloring. The still lifes, most of which seem to come from Meredith college, are -uniformly bad. Out of the realm of paints, a bit . ,of interesting effect almost non-ob-ijective in its scope is achieved by two woodcuts of Josef Albers from .Black Mountain college. His "As tatic" and "Tlaloc," combining ab - stract design forms with the fami 1 liar configurations of the natural wood in which he works, are strik ing. In addition several etchings, two sculptures and a lithograph are on display. and boisterous conversation and ' song. The foreign populace which : remains quickly learns of the great and glorious University of North Carolina whose football team has never been defeated. They learn " that all of this has something to do with a Chapel Hill, and they assume perhaps they play football on a hill. ' Second only to football are the mighty political battles which are waged on this hill; there are stu ' dent parties, university parties, in- dependent parties, and beer parties. The biggest fight seems to be waged against a vicious and brutal force called South Building which is wip ing out great masses of students ' withsome secret weapon called "fizz ed pogrom." Conversation is frequently punc tuated by much song and merry making. The walls resound with a song called "Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices," which is followed by the melodious strains of a lyrical condemnation of Duke University. Then they sing "It's Only a Old Beer Bottle," and then something about someone in the Navy. These people plainly declare that they're "tar heel born and tar heel bred and are from Carolina." Some of the group proudly wear little buttons on their "chests, have foreign letters smeared on their suitcases, and call themselves See IT COULD BE, page 4. Don't By It was from the very heart of Dixie herself that the first outcry came. I shall never forget that spectacle. It was spring, 1942, and Peach Tree street in Atlanta was blossoming with flowers and Geor gia blonds. But that was not the scene which I remember so vivid ly. No, it was a sort of intangible spectacle that I beheld. I think you should hear about it. It might well be very memorable in a few years to come. Twenty-eight hundred University of Georgia students filled with a lust for the academic freedom which had been wrested from them rode in calvacade down through Atlanta to the very lawns of the state capitol. There they burned Georgia's gover nor, Eugene Talmage, in the dis repute of effigy. Why? Because, by political maneuvering, Gene Tal mage had removed a highly estem med professor from the University of Georgia merely because , he had once hinted that coeducation of whites and Negroes was- a feasible idea. The demonstration by these stu dents was not a plea for the coed ucation just mentioned. IT WAS AN EARNEST APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA TO RE MOVE FROM OFFICE THE MAN WHO HAD SUSPENDED ACA DEMIC FREEDOM. Some of you may remember. One of the factions most instrumental in Talmage's defeat the following fall was the Georgia Student Politi cal League inspired by the incident just described and promoted in the : interest of academic liberty. That was nearly three years ago. That was one incident. But since then, culminating decades of com placency on the part of university students, there has risen in many states, notably of. the South, the feeling that students have never been given their just (and in many instances, their Constitutional) rights. In cases where students have been given their rightful privileges, they have too often been martyred to any ridiculous political advantage so obtained by the "higher-ups." From Texas has come a notice able example. The President of the University of Texas, loved by his students and respected by his col leagues, was ousted due to his re When the historians write of World War II, they will regret fully, but in all honesty, have to re cord the fact that the Allies fighting for the preservation of democracy on one hand, simultaneously fought young democratic forces on all sides, and that fascism was conquered, not by them but despite them. All the opposition of Churchill and all the forces of the British Em-, pire were insufficient to stifle the lib eral Greek faction, which had fought off the Nazi invader. The accep- tance by all parties within the coun try of Damaskinos as regent is suf ficient indication of the turn the plebiscite, scheduled for sometime this month, will take and that is de cidedly leftist and anti royalist. Not at all in Churchill's scheme of things to come. Interesting was an In Fact obser vation on Churchill's vocal capers : "On Dec. 1. Mr. Churchill refer red to the ELAS as the Greek Lib eration Movement, a popular front of half a dozen parties, all opposed to monarchists and fascists. On Dec. 5 Mr. Churchill referred to the ELAS as communists. Members of Parliament declared Churchill was not telling the truth. On Dec. 7 Mr. Churchill was not telling the truth. On Dec. 7 Mr. Churchill referred to Reading The With Jerry From the University of Toronto's Varsity, we learn that students are growing more mercenary every day. It seems that a proff, opened an ex amination paper there the other day and found a scribbled preface which read: "Dear Professor: "If you sell any of these answers to a humorous magazine, please send me my share 1" And then there was the one about the old lady who sidled up to the Read (his Bill Crisp fusal to permit political harranging to interfere with practical educa tional principles. And now from Louisiana. The officials of LSU dare to expel a coed just because she gave verbal prefer ence to a certain way of life. Where are those rights so con spicuously set down in the first arti cle to the Bill of Rights? Are they submerged beneath the financial obligations of United States citizens at the matriculation tables? How long are the students in this coun try going to stand idly watching Constitutional freedoms thrown in to the waste basket, not only by deans and officials, but by govern ment agencies themselves? For hundreds of years students all over the world have submitted themselves to the curricula set forth for them in "the institutions which they financially support. They have voluntarily permitted themselves to be ruled under certain "conduct regu lations" and "moral codes" not of their own choosing. These, to a de gree, are justified. But when in stitutions of learning become tyran nical to the point of exploiting Con stitutional rights, and when govern- . ment agencies see fit to injure edu cational practices for the sake of holding the political "ball," then the time has come to act. That time is now. The place is here, in the South itself where such injury and exploitation have been felt at their worst. It is only fitting that Carolina should start the ball rolling. Long known as the most liberal university in this country, who could act bet ter and with greater freedom of action than we? There is but one objectice which must be acomplished before stu dents in state universities may have their rightful privileges : that objec tive is unity. Once all the students in the universities signify their willingness to sacrifice themselves for the cause , of academic freedom and student justice, then the actual sacrifice will not be necessary. The universities of the South are not now, and never have been, in a posi tion to contend with the united pur pose which would be forthcoming with such a cause. I repeat. The time is now. The place is here. WITHOUT RIME By Gloria Cap lan the same ELAS as "bandits from the- hills." The same ELAS, alas!" C'est la guerre ! Something we'd like to see on the campus in this new year: A return to honest-to-gosh liberalism. For instance : This column can not see compulsory class Attendance as consistent with "liberalism." It is perfectly understandable that an educational institution does not want itself cluttered up with human dead wood. Eviction, therefore, on the grounds of scholastic failure is consistent. There are times, how ever, when one's hour can be more profitably spent by cutting an occa sional class all professors' convic tions that each lecture is essential notwithstanding and there are even those who can pass, a course by not attending class in which cases, if he has sufficient knowledge of the sub ject matter, the credit should be his. There are enough professors on campus who do not check the roll and whose classes are consistently full to convince me that an interest ing lecturer attracts a steady at tendance without the aid of South Building's big stick. Teachers, who without the big stick, cannot com mand regular attendance, are in the wrong field, anyway. Exchanges Davidoff crib, cooing to the little baby who was lying there. "And who's little baby are you," the old lady gurgled. The baby frowned. "Darned if I know!' I once had a classmate named Guesser, Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser; It at last grew so small, He knew nothing at all And now he's a college professor.
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