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Wh VF" EDITORIALS: Chapel ffill Cafes It Could Be Worse The Ram Sees NEWS: Legislature S. P. Gives Nod Frosh Meeting Serving Civilian and Military Students at UNC VOLUME liii sw BhIbch sad Circulation: SMI CHAPEL HILL, N. 0, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1945 Editorial: Ml 41. Nw: F-M4. TAX IT NUMBER SW 41 islatare Appoiii allwood To PU Board. Bim Andrews, Yack Editor Not Nominated By Politicos List Completes Top SP Nominees The Student Party released its nominations for four top campus of fices by announcing the selection of Wally Andrews, Dougald MacMillan, Stanley Colbert and Del ' Leatherman. This completes the nominations by the Student Party for all the major of fices with the exception of editor of the Yackety Yack. Andrews, a Sigma Chi pledge, en tered the University in 1941. He dropped out in June of the next year and re-entered in 1945. An active par ticipant in student government, An drews has devoted much time to his work. He was elected to the council in November and has served ever since. Andrews is running for vice president of the student body. Student Party nominee for secretary-treasurer of the student body is Dougald MacMillan. A member of Delta Psi fraternity, MacMillan has served on the Interfraternity Council and is secretary of that organization. He is also a member of the House Privileges Board and the University Dance Committee.. MacMillan was tapped into the Order of the Grail, honorary campus society, at , the end of last semester. . . .. .. Running for editor of the Carolina Magazine on the Student Party ticket is Stanley Colbert. Colbert has been active in publications for the past six semesters, serving on the Tar Heel, Carolina Magazine and Yackety Yack staff in various . capacities. Colbert served as associate editor under Fred Flagler, and has been desk editor and columnist on the Tar Heel at differ ent times. He Jjas served on the literary staffs of both the Carolina s Magazine and the Yackety Yack, and has had several articles printed in the Mag. He is also a member of the j Interfraternity Council, former man ager of the boxing team, and a mem ber of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. Student Party nominee for vice president of the Carolina Athletic As sociation is whirlwind Del Leather- man, remembered by most boxing fans at Carolina as the outstanding See YACK, page 4. Haymakers Offer Three Productions Tryouts for the 102nd Bill of Ex perimental Plays will be held at the Playmaker Theater at 4 p.m. Mon day, March 26. All students inter ested in acting are asked to attend and try out for any of a variety of parts offered in the three plays to be cast. Featured on this Bill of Experi mentals is "Point Chartres" by Ylc: Robert F. Adkins, the wining script in this year's jlaywriting contest for servicemen in North Carolina, spon sired' by the Carolina Dramatic Asso ciation. Author Adkins is on the staff See PLAYMAKERS, page 4. . IHR To Present Six Speakers During First Week In April By Fredi Flagler In a search for a social emphasis program which would have sufficient scope and depth to capture the atten tion and thought of the, entire Caro lina campus, the YMCA Cabinet in 1926 hit upon the idea of a barrage of speakers instead of scattered pro-' grams along the same ,neia. This idea transformed into reality in 1927 at which time' the first Insti tute of Human Relations held sway for a successful week with seventeen guest speakers conducting forums and conferences. Since 1927 there have;' been six of such week-long events staged in Chapel Hill. . The last was held in 1943. ' Starting April & and winding up April 10 will be the Eighth Institute MacMillan Colbert 9 f J 7 , I . -A. ANDREWS f vyW fx''' ggaJ COLBERT Coeds Elect Officers Tuesday; 40 Aspirants Seeking Positions With Frances Bleight and Ruthprogram committee of Spencer Hall. Duncan vying for top position, that of Woman's Government Association, president, elections for the major co ed offices will be held Tuesday, March 27, with 40 candidates in the running. GJrls will vote in their respective dormitories, except those living in town, Archer House, Spaight dormi tory, and sorority houses. They will vote in the Y. All polls will be open from 9 until 5, except those in Kenan, which will be open from 8 until 6. Ab sentee ballots can be obtained from Betty Lou Cypert, election committee chairman. Frances Bleight, a transfer from Westhampton college, and the Univer sity of Richmond, is president of Spencer Hall, on the House council and the Interdorm council. At Rich mond, she was vice-president of the freshman class, secretary of the Stu dent Government association, on the i college council and the student gov ernment nominating committee. JRuth Duncan, the other candidate for the WGA presidency, is a member of the Glee Club, of several YWCA committees, and is cnairman of the jof Human Relations with six promi-, nent speakers scheduled to conduct the main platforms, which are: "So cial Dynamics Underlying the War"; "Stabilization of American Econ omy"; "The problem of Prejudice"; Weil Lectures on "America and World Organization"; "Stabilization of "World Economy"; and "The Moral Dynamics Essential to; Peace." All of these platforms come under the' general title "Prices of Peace." In order to keep pace with the con stant shifting of world events, the program for the Institute this year has been expanded to aid students and visitors. Mr. William Poteat of the YMCA staff has organized a booklet which will contain an index ot the See IHR, page 4. , 5 - : ::::;:::::::' ix?-;'- MacMILLAN A V. " A. LEATHERMAN She was treasurer of the Tri Delt pledge class. A transfer from St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida, she was at that .school secretary-treas urer of the student press association, president of student government, hon or council, and the senior class, salu tatorian, and chosen most outstanding by the St. Petersburg Rotary Club. Runner-up in the race for WGA presidency is automatically named vice-president of the association. "Twig" Branch, transfer from the See COEDS, page 4. Literary Sorority Selects Officers And Plans Talks At its regular meeting Thursday af ternoon, Chi Delta Phi, national hon orary literary sorority elected its of ficers for next year. Olive Ann Burns, of Macon, Geor gia, will succeed Toy Easterling as president. Marcella Harrer of Chapel Hill was re-elected vice-president. Shroyer Lange of Chapel J3U1, elected secretary, will assume her position im mediately since her predecessor, Terry King, .left school to get married. Ruby Frances Brown, of Waynesville, is the treasurer-elect. y Other members of Chi Delta Phi are Mary Tom Colones, Marjorie Mar tin, and Catherine Sloan. Based on literary ability and schol arship, membership in Chi Delta Phi, is srestricted to one per cent of the coed student .body. The .purposes of the sorority are to raise the literary standards of the campus and to encourage each other in literary endeavor. Members bring their manuscripts to weekly meetings tcbe read and criticized, with occa-j sionar lectures by professional writ ers. The sorority now is working on a project to introduce to the campus such local authors as Betty Smith and Paul Greene by means of public lectures. If. S i KtJ ' - -i I Leatherman Get Nod From SP Frosh Meeting To Be Held l Constitution And Elections Planned A meeting of all freshmen, both Civilian and military, has been called by Charlie Frank Benbow, president of the student body. Scheduled on Wednesday night, March 28, at 8:00 in Gerrard Hall, it is for the purpose of organizing the freshman class. A constitution for the class will be set up at this meeting, and class offi cers will be nominated from the floor. On the following Friday, the election will be held with polls in the YMCA. The movement for organizing the freshman class was started last term by the Freshman Friendship Council of the YW and YMCA, headed by Bill Lloyd and Pat Kelly. The Council's main purpose is to help the f res'hmen, and its members felt that the best proj- See FROSH MEETING, page 4. Adams Speaks On Thoreau Next Tuesday : Lecture To Be First In Series "Thoreau at Walden," the first in a series of three lectures planned for the University this spring, will be presented Tuesday, March 27, at 8:30 p. m. in Gerrard hall by Dr. Raymond Adams of the English department, a noted authority on the life and works of Henry Thoreau, American author and naturalist. The series has been planned by the Humanities division of the College of Arts and Sciences. Its purpose is to give students an opportunity to hear faculty members outside of the class room on subjects in their special field. Dr. Adams is president of the Thoreau Society, an organization of several hundred admirers of the American author who lived in the first half of the 19th century. Tuesday will mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Thoreau's two-year ex periment in solitude and self-suffi ciency. Dr. Adams' address will be one of the number of events to be held in various parts of the country in recognition of the Walden centenary, The series of spring lectures at the University has been planned "by a committee headed by Dr. Glen Hay don, head of the Music Department Appointment of the committee was made by Dr. H. R. Huse, chairman of the Humanities division, which is composed of departments in the undergraduate college having to do with literature and the arts. On April 24, the second in the series will be given by Dr. Hardin Craig, visiting professor of English, and the concluding lecture will be de livered on May 29 by Dr. B. L. UU man, recently appointed head of the Department of Classics. Chi Delta Theta Views Applicants Chi Delta Phi, national honorary literary sorority, is re-opening its competition for membership. Any co ed becomes eligible for consideration on submission of , an original, unpub lished manuscript, prose or poetry. f Since manuscripts are read with the idea of discovering real literary tal ent, applicants should hand in suffi cient material for an accurate judg ment. This means that if one wishes to submit a short .poem, she should, include some additional work. Manu scripts should be typed and given -to Toy Easterling in 313 Spencer, on or before April 15. Material printed in college publi cations does not constitute a published article. Wednesday ? Assembly Selects Navy Man By Overwhelming Majority, 14-1 By Gertrude .Walton Exercising its power to fill vacancies in student offices, the Student Legis lature took unprecedented action in overriding the recommendations of the PU Board and nominating Irwin Smallwood, Tar Heel staff member, to the Board. Gaither Calls Attention To Election Rules Nominees' Names Must Be Submitted Names of all candidates running in the general campus elections April 5, 1945, must be written down and hand ed in on or before Thursday, March 29, Ed Gaither, chairman of the Elec tions Committee, has announced. Notarized statements of expendi tures must also be handed in to the Elections Committee at the Student Council room in Graham Memorial by 8 p. m. Tuesday, April 3. According to a bill to provide for general cam pus elections, passed recently by the Student Legislature, campaign ex penditures shall be limited as fol lows: ' President of the Student Body, $12.50; Speaker of the Legislature, $12.50; Editor of the - Tar Heel, $12.50; Editor of the Carolina Mag, $8; Editor of the Yackety Yack, $8; Vice-President of the Student Body, $8; Secretary-Treasurer of the Stu dent Body, $8; and all other student officers, $5. Any student found guilty of exceeding the prescribed limits, shall automatically be disqualified and not allowed to assume office. Regarding the conducting of the ac tual election, the bill further states that no student may influence or at tempt to influence another student's j vote within 50 feet of any polling place, nor may any sign or poster be displayed within 50 feet of the boxes. ! Students engaged in such activity after due warning by the pollholders, will be tried by the men's or women's honor councils, and if found guilty will be subject to a fine not over five dollars. Candidates to be voted on in the general campus elections include the officers listed in the third paragraph and three members of the Publica tions Union Board, two Debate Coun- See GAITHER CALLS, page 4. Board To Meet War Coordination Board will meet Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the WGA room, Graham Memorial. Election of new officers will feature the meeting. New Social Sorority Receives Charter, Pledges Ten Girls Alpha Gamma Delta, the new so cial sorority on campus, began its ac tivities Tuesday night with the pledg ing of ten girls at the Carolina Inn club room. The Gamma Epsilon chapter, as this fifth sorority will be called, re cently received its charter from na tional headquarters and approval from the Pan-Hellenic Council and the Uni versity administration. Under the direction of Virginia Kelley of Xexington, Ky., who is in ternational director of rushing, the group has been organized and officers chosen from transfer members on the campus. Alpha .Gamma Delta officers are: Jean Tinley, Pineville, Ky., presi dent; Jane -Cromartie, .Garland, N. C, vice-president; Lillian Leonard, St. Petersburg, Fla!. recording secretary; and Barbara Saunders, Opelika, Ala., treasurer. The girls who were pledged by the sorority this week include: . Mary Crum, Helena, Ark.; Jane Fairley, Monroe; Martha Faison, Faison; Joyce Fowler, Mullins, S. C; Angela Leaping several parliamentary hur dles, the Legislature moved swiftly to fill the vacancy created by the resigna tion of Cookie Marett. The PU Board, shelving two recom mendations made by the retiring mem ber, Miss Marett, had previously pro posed Charlie Frank Benbow. In ac cordance with the provisions of the new bill, Speaker Hunt opened the floor for nominations, when Small wood, Navy V-12 student, and Benbow were nominated. Following discussion of the qualifications of each candi date, Smallwood was appointed by a 14-1 majority. The Legislature voted unanimously to refer the office-eligibility bill to the Ways and Means Comimttee again to have them draw up another bill. Under routine business A. B. Smith, chairman of the Rules committee, an nounced that attendance regulations would not be relaxed even though the present term of office is almost over. Rene Bernard, chairman of the par liamentary committee, urged that all candidates running for legislature at tend legislature meetings before elec tions so they will be acqauinted with legislative proceedings in the event of their election. Legislative members appointed at the meeting to serve on the parlia mentary committee are Clive Thomp son, Charles Fulton, Betty Lou Cypert, and Herbert Weber. The Elections Committee reported that at a meeting Thursday, the mem bers had voted unanimously not to count articles appearing in the last two issues of the Tar Heel about can didates for editor of the Tar Heel, as campaign expenses cnargeaoie to either candidate's individual expense account. IRC Names New Committee Heads At a recent business meeting of the International Relations Club new com mittee appointments were made for this term. The chairmen are: pro gram committee, Vincent Williams; forum, Ann Judson; publicity, Peg gie Case; social, Barbara Schuster; membership, Myra Sklarey; speaker coordination, Ed Davenport; office, Lee Silverstein and constitution, Bill Crisp. Members of the program committee are Rickie Lempkin, Herbert Weber, Myra Sklarey. Members of the consti tution committee are Charles Fulton and Bill Crisp. Members of the so See IRC NAMES, page U. X i P. i Hardy, Roanoke Rapids; Nancy Helm, Franklin, Ky.; Fran Hicks, Fayette ville; Catherine Sloan, Garland; and Nan Stoner, Fayetteville. These pledges will be initiated during the latter part of this term. KELLEY
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