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PAGS TWO THE TAR HEEL SATURDAY,- JANUARY 20, 1945 ' wf www - ? rmtmi tttfft trf wf tw? www Editorially Speaking The iflM jSS6S . . BY AN OLD GOAT 3 Dance Comniitiea Clarifies Ruling tf) 1ar Jll twmtfmiHtftmmmttitifftmftfntfmtrTiffi . . ' ' , : .11 ' i UAH: ! I II' I ! i. ' . , I OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION On T pQvino- DflTlPPG SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE Jll. UVaVMg A7cUU,C2 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL CROWING Like a duck in thunder we were dumbfound ed upon learning of the University of South ' Carolina's Board of Trustees' plan to move the University lock, stock, barrel, and tradition to another site. The proposed plan was reported after the meeting of the Board in December and since has been the topic of discussion pro and con from all quarters chiefly USC's alum ni. We, who are celebrating" our Sesqui-centen-nial this year, view the decision with dismay . . . indeed! pack up 140 years of tradition and deposit it in a sparkling new post war setting! Why not give the Brooklyn Dodgers to New York City! The reason for the proposed move is the feel ing that the present site and plant of USC are not large enough to take care of the expected post war enrollment. Against this is raised the argument of there being space enough in the city of Columbia, where the University is situ ated, for expansion. Professor George Taylor of the University of North Carolina's English department and an alumnus of the University of South Carolina wrote these words on the subject: "As one who has had occasion to observe as student or professor the following institutions Harvard, Chicago, Stanford, Texas, Colorado, North Carolina I feel very sure that the only way for the University to regain its high stand ing in the state and nation is to spend what ever vast sums we may have on hand securing really great investigators to add to the great ones we already have and to provide them with the tools of research which these great men must use in. order to make us known as an in tellectual, investigating and practical force throughout the country. "We can go on forever spending millions of dollars on buildings for poorly paid professors to rattle around in without making a univer sity. It is common knowledge that many of our most brilliant students leave South Caro lina in search of great investigators in other states." "But some will say get the buildings and the wonderful grounds first and then' the great pro fessors will follow. This sounds reasonable, but like many other specious theories it has never worked." And from USC's newspaper, The Gamecock: "The Gamecock concurs with every state ment Mr. Taylor made. "Are we, then, to 'buy brains or bricks?' "Carolina is royally rich in tradition, history and culture. These things are the progeny of Time. You can't pack them in a moving van and cart them away anywhere ! "For a progressive Carolina, the Gamecock advocates adequate expansion on the present site. For the betterment of Carolina, the Game cock advocates higher salaries for its professors. itiiiuimmtuiiiMiitiiiiluiiuni, O Rameses is changing his diet! No more re- hashed left-overs ... no more news served scrap ful by scrapful tin -can a la carte at the Tab Heel. He prefers feeding in green pastures . . . grazing at the very scene of news-in-the-making. While many may contend that grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, Rameses doesn't like to jump fences . . . nor to be "branded" as a gate crasher . . . so he's "hooked". a guest-of -honor invitation to this evening's Chi Omega Pledge Dance. Discard ing his week-day blanket, he'll wear a white tie and tails. (There may be traces of grass stain, for he's a news hound at heart with his nose quite near the ground.) CARDINAL AND STRAW O As the-guest-of -honor, he'll find the Wo man's Gym at 8 :30 tonight transformed into an improvised "castle built of cardinal and straw" such as Chi Omegas frequently trill of. Chi O pledges will share the spotlight (literally and figuratively) at this annual sorority dance given in their honor. Betty Edwards, presi dent of the actives-to-be, will lead the tradi tional figure on the floor through an arch bank ed by greenery and white carnations. The girls will be spotlighted, introduced, and met by their respective dates with whom they will form the . X and horseshoe emblem of Chi . Omega in the center of the dance floor. Dancers will "trip the light fantastic" to the tune of Freddie John son and his orchestra. Blanket invitations have been issued to all campus fraternities. Com mittee chairmen for the dance are Fay Beeks, Libbie Kington, Boo Leigh, Mochie Morton, Marguerite Murray, and Jeanette Miller. RECENTLY ELECTED O Mclver chose a new social chairman last Tuesday. One Nancy "passed the buck" to an other . . . Jenkins to Greenwall. New house president is Natalie Harrison, who'll take the reins in February from Swinky Brady. "HEAR YE!" O The time three-fourteen a.m. on January fourteenth, in the year one-thousand-nine-hundred forty-five . . . the place ... a most romantic hotdog-beer setting (says who, says Ray) . the persons, Lucy Alston, who works in the chemistry department, and Ray Walters, foot ball star . . . the thing, a fraternity pin. Evi dently, the latter got the proper reaction (chem ical or otherwise) 'cause Lucy is now "the "sweetheart of Sigma Chi." There's nothing pell-mell or helter-skelter about Zete Pell Lea ... he knew his own mind ... he knew that his once-up-a-time roommate's best girl was the "object of his affections." And so on that mem orable evening, last Saturday night, Bernice Bunn of Salem College, known to German Club dancers as "the Lady in Black" became the pinned girl of Pell Lea. THINGS TO COME O Previews of things to come include the Val- Troponents and opponents of the proposal ' entine Dance set at Spencer plus the Phi Delt are striving for the greater Carolina. The re moval of the school is unnecessary. Leaving the university at its present site will in no way impede progress. " 'The Gamecock crows for a greater Caro lina'!" . - . Although the Tar Heel has a lot of crowing of its own to do, it joins the Gamecock and the ranks of the cons! UNIVERSITY'S HERITAGE Several governors, university presidents, senators, congressmen, judges, and a president of the United States would roll over in their graves if . they knew what was happening to their interests at the University of North Caro lina. Carolina owns the largest and most valu able collection of oil portraits in -the state. It has been collected over a century and a half by generous gifts from our alumni. This group of portraits has received nation-wide attention in leading art and historical circles. Some of the pictures are worth over five thousand dol lars. Now just where is this very interesting and valuable collection? Why does no one on the campus know much about it? Part of the col lection -is in Manning Hall, part in South Build ing and Graham Memorial,-some in the library, but the bulk is housed in the halls of the Dia lectic Senate and the Philanthropic Assembly. The Di, which is active, is -eating for its por traits, but the Phi's portraits are packed away without any protection in the dusty and un used Phi office. Several of these priceless works of art have been severely damaged by vandals. One of a former Congressman has holes poked through the face and has been smeared with Bowery Ball. Watch out for the pink elephants at Mclver Saturday night. If you've never seen a Phi Delt Scrapbook featuring that classic event you've a. rare SIGHT in store for you. Snapshots of different party phases are quite "knocked-out"! ALE, TALE, AND QUAIL , O The "caught in the draft" A, T, and Q Club (Ale, Tale, and Quail) , whose three active mem bers are Bob Thurston, Glenn Miller, and Jim Ackley recently tapped five additional A-T-Q'ers : Bynum Hunter, Collins Brown, Dub Tins ley, Tom Campbell, and Frank Caufield. Their constitution, if they have one, probably reads to promote social life at Carolina in a "spirited" fashion. O Until feeding time in another green pas ture, Rameses bids you sheepish ones, follow ing the trail of an old goat, a fond adieu. lipstick. After checking the list in Battle's famous "History of the University of North Carolina," it was found that several of the por traits are missing. If a thief wanted to take the trouble, he could go up to the Phi, carry, off thousands of dollars worth of property precious to our traditions, and it would probably be months or years before anyone would know about it. Efforts are now being made to take better care of our portraits and find those xwhich are lost. In the future, it is hoped that the proper authorities backed by an interested student body; will take better care of the University's heri tage. If you're interested, go up to the Phi Hall It's on the fourth floor of New East) some time and look the situation over it's pretty bad.- R.M. In order to classify our stand concerning the- Dance Committee ruling which reads, "Any girl de siring to leave the dance hall dur ing any evening dance with the in tention of returning, must be ac companied by a chaperone during her entire stay from the dance," the following statement is submit ted in answer to several protests brought to our attention. In the spring of 1922 protests , throughout the state, and the Uni ' versity itself led the University faculty to threaten to take action to prohibit dances given on the campus. In order to prevent such action, the University Dance Committee-was formed as the govern ing body of all such functions held at Carolina. The Dance Committee believes the rule in question necessary for the following reasons: 1. Ample refreshments, such N-as soft drinks, cheese crackers, and cigarettes are on sale throughout the hours of the dance. 2. The privilege of leaving and reentering a dance at will would in many cases be highly conducive to drinking, either in cars, fraternity houses, restaurants in town, or elsewhere. . 3. Even with the present rule drinking is extremely hard to con trol. Without the rule the task of the committeemen would be im measurably increased. 4. The majority of the dances are scheduled to run from 9 until 12 o'clock. However, few dances are even underway before 10 o'clock. Due to the consistent late arrival of couples, this leaves two hours in which to dance, including the time for intermission. Any trip to and from town would further shorten the dancing time. Respectfully submitted, The University Dance Committee. CHARLES WTCKENBERG, USMCR FRED FLAGLER J. PRESTON LEMLY HARRISON TENNEY -Editor -Managing Editor .Business Manager ..Circulation Manager Published Toeadav and Saturday except during vacations, examinations and bofidars. Deadlines TboiMtay and Sunday. Entered as second class matter at the post office at ChapeJ USX, H. C. under the act of March 3. 1879. Member of ASC and Natl Adv. Serriee, laa. Don't . Read I his By Bill Crisp Exchanges By Peggie Case "Wrangling and feuding time are here again," declared a front page article 'in the January ninth issue of the Daily Texan. This "wrang ling and feuding" referred to the opening of the Texas' forty-ninth legislature. An editorial in the same issue read, "The future of the University of Texas will be. mapped out in the chambers of the Senate and House of Representa tives. Naturally, we students want the Legislature to define Academic, Freedom and to carry out that def inition in deciding University policy. We must keep ourselves informed through reports and Texan stories. We must cooperate with Legislature wishes to gain cooperation with ours." Boston University students pick eted the office of President D. L. Marsh last month in protest against faculty censorship of The B. ' U. News, campus newspaper. . Indiana University's The Indiana Daily Student is to be commended for its excellent coverage of nation al and international affairs. "News of the Day in Pictures" and "In terpreting the War News" by Kirke Simpson, Associated Press War An alyst are two particularly good fea tures. - From the University of Kansas's Daily Kansan some one with an in quisitive nature walked up a plank lying on the campus to view the contents at the other end. Remark ing that it was only the lid of a cistern, her companion abnormally said, "Hm, I wonder if its brothern is anywhere about?" Ah, yes, what a college educa tion won't do for one's vocabulary! And finally a bit of humor from The Pointer of West Point An In dian in Arizona returned to the vil lage for the third time to buy half a dozen bottles of cough syrup. Druggist: "Someone sick at your house?" Indian: "No sick." Druggist: "Then what on earth is all this cough syrup for?" Indian: "Mm-me likum on pancakes." The comments which, have' ap peared on this page during the past year in regard to the infirmary have, in most instances, been opin ions directed at the supposed in efficiency of that campus organ, and have been written by persons who obviously based their sentiments on individual 1 experiences. However justified such criticism may or may not have been in. these particular instances, the facts concerning the infirmary have not been justly pre sented. In an effort to clear up some of the misunderstanding about its regulations and personnel con-' duct, I -have made three trips to the infirmary and talked to both Dr. Morgan and Dr. Hedgpeth. I submit the following for your care ful consideration with the hope that this may mark an end to the one-sided viewpoint which has very definitely, built up a psychological negative whenever and wherever the infirmary has been mentioned. Our infirmary has to operate under circumstances very much op posed to swift, efficient, and cour teous service. The shortage of nurses and doctors has made it necessary to ration the time for complete, hospital service. The three doctors who serve the infirmary conduct office hours from 9 until 11:30 in the morning and from 2:30 to 5 in the afternoons. There is seldom a dull moment during these hours. After these hours during which preliminary diagnosis and reception of patients are held Doctors Smith, Morgan, and Hedgpeth spend from one to three more hours making bed-to-bed ex amination of patients. It is not possible for these three doctors to remain at the infirmary all the time. They must serve, in addition to a campus community of some three thousand civilians and military men, the whole of Orange county, there being only two other doctors in Chapel Hill, and the in firmary being the only medical center in this vicinity. Taking turns about, these doctors are on call from the infirmary during 24 hours out of every 24. They are never more than ten minutes from some designated telephone. Sometimes the personnel at the infirmary are far from polite. Dr. Morgan readily admitted that at times the dispositions of the per sonnel become somewhat on edge and, to, all observers, a little short tempered. Some of the things which the infirmary has had to tolerate from its patients, however, have made bad dispositions almost in evitable. For instance, Joe College arrives at the infirmary at 11 p. m., com plaining of a bellyache he has had all day long. The infirmary re ceives an appendicitis case with no one but a night nurse on duty. A doctor must be summoned, usually from some case he is already on. When he arrives he must make blood tests, a complete diagnosis, etc. Then he must supervise ambu lance service to a Durham hospi tal in order to prevent Joe from having a ruptured appendix. Joe is saved. But Joe made one mis take which might have proved fatal. He did not come to the in firmary when the pain was first no ticed, thereby running the chance of a ruptured appendix. That was bad for Joe. He also interrupted infirmary regulations when it was necessary to call in a doctor from a town case just because Joe hadn't thought it urgent to come to the infirmary sooner. That was bad for the doctor. This is one average example of the many little acts of thought lessness which make infirmary per sonnel "short-tempered." That bad disposition you observe today may not be justified so far as you are concerned. But you may be wit nessing the results of an incident, similar to the one just mentioned, which was provoked unthinkingly by another student last night. The attitude which the doctors take toward infirmary excuses for absences is one which, when exam ined closely, looks toward the phys ical welfare of every student here. Excuses are not given' unless a stu dent either comes to the infirmary for care or, staying in his room, contacts the infirmary for advice and service. The doctors feel that any student who is sick enough to See CRISP, page 4 It Could Be Worse By Robert Morrison Sixteen Reasons Why Nothing's Doing at Carolina In proportion to its potentiali ties, the present student body is the most inactive in the history of the University. Campus organizations which once flourished with national acclaim are now nothing more than remnants if they exist at all. Or ganizations like Sound and Fury, the Mag, Tar Heel, Debate Squad, Yack, and the "Y" activities are badly under-staffed. If the Tar Heel needs desk men, writers, proof readers, business agents, circula tors, typists, re-write men, report ers; and persons for many jobs re quiring no experience. The Mag is begging for writers, poets, car toonists, and artists. Intramural athletic teams are too small and can use people with little athletic ability. The band and glee club want all those who have any interest in music. The doors of the Dialectic Senate, CPU, and IRC are open to all who care to participate in their programs. The Di is now sponsor ing a membership campaign, ,and those with a genuine interest and above-average knowledge will not be frequently turned down by the membership committee. The Fresh- ' man Friendship Council should em brace the whole freshman class, but now only contains a small percent age. Paradoxically enough, the stu dent population is about as large as eve.r. Surely there are some concrete reasons for this general lethargy on our campus. Here are a few reasons I've jotted down. Maybe you can think of more. 1. The large number of service men on our Campus feel that their first duty is to their academic work and ultimate commission. The com pulsory study hours further handi cap this group. 2. The young civilians and de ferred men think that they will only be here for a short time and cannot "take root." 3. The 4-F's and returned vet erans have a feeling of personal frustration. The 4-F's feel that, they are tabooed; the veterans, some of which are rather old, have difficulties in readjustment. 4. The coeds are not usually here more than two years. Most of their time is devoted to strictly social activities. 5. Strict class attendance and few cuts often bite into the realm of extra-curricular activities. 6. Due to the war-time speed-up, many students carry heavy academic loads. 7. The fact that the nation is at war brings an attitude of uncer tainty and disinterest. 8. Many students do not want to enter activities "at the bottom." They are unwilling to work hard for a long period before obtaining the more attractive jobs. 9. Students are unable to find out sufficient information about organ izations. The knowledge of the lay student of student government is woefully small. Many students would become interested if they knew more about the activity. 10. The habit of going horns, for the week-end is becoming too lieav ily embedded. 11. Many have the mistaken idea that all campus activity requires a gTeat deal of talent S$t IT COULD BE, pf9 j.
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