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THE TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1945
Life Can Be Beautiful
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
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March 3, 1879. ,
IT tUe STnUBDEEB5Tr' IB(D)ID)3r,
AN UNBALANCED SOCIETY
The fact that the recent Tar Heel poll revealed that the coed
student body ranks lowest among campus groups in knowledge
of national and campus affairs must prove something. Of the
four groups polled, the coeds gave 48.7 per cent correct answers,
as compared with 68.7 per cent by the civilian men (excluding
veterans) . We know that the ancient belief that the woman is
intellectually inferior has been exploded by science, but certainly
a poll which we believe to have been very scientifically conducted
has shown the inferiority of the Carolina coed of today.
The coeducational system at Carolina is certainly unwhole
some. The refusal to admit freshmen and sophomore coeds to
the University is, to be frank, the
rather than any of the many other reasons which have been
sented. Great fear exists at
boro that a purely coeducational
ruin Woman's College. We do not feel that such a fear is well
grounded.
Unfortunately, in this particular instance Chapel Hill is not
one of the large cities of the state which send a host of delegates
to the state legislature. While the Woman's College has the poli
tical strength of Greensboro, the University at Chapel Hill must
rely upon her alumni for political support. But another political
implication is more important in keeping Carolina from becom
ing the large, balanced institution which it should be. When the
three larger state schools consolidated a number of years ago
to form the Consolidated University of North Carolina, an un
written agreement that Chapel Hill would not compete with
Greensboro seems to have been made.
Today these political agreements have made the Carolina stu
dent body an unbalanced, unwholesome society, and have de
nied to women citizens of the state the right to enter college
at the University.
Immediate lack of space and problems of discipline are not .
material arguments against the admission of women under the
same conditions with men. The fact that such admission would
be beneficial to both the students and the University can not be
denied. The fact that such admissions would run afoul to the
personal interests of some state politicians can not be denied.
THANKS,
As Carolina begins her own "post-war reconversion," the glad
shouts of the V-12 trainees and Pre-Flight cadets who are to be
discharged just barely manage to drown out the groans of those
who have to stay in the service. And almost everyone on cam
pus is happy that the boys are getting out of uniform, that the
University can begin building up a full civilian enrollment un
der more normal conditions. '
Yes, we're glad that it is no longer necessary to maintain a
military program on the campus. But we should never forget
the debt that the University owes to the Navy.
Where would the 1500 to 2000 civilian students have come
from during the war years to fill the lower quadrangle? And
no one could have possibly conjured up 900 more civilians to
complement those already on the upper quadrangle.
It is quite true that the Navy's advent forced the uncomfort
able packing of living quarters. True, the Navy men took over
the University cafeterias, making worse the already bad eating
situation.
Nevertheless, Carolina owes much to the Navy ! Without those
Naval trainees here, the University might even have had to close
its doors. . Carolina thanks you, Navy !
LENOIR
The University is acting with lightning swiftness to recon
vert the campus to a peacetime schedule. The job of turning
the area occupied by the Pre-Flight School back into a function
ing part of the University will be tremendous, but it will be per
formed with a minimum of difficulty.
The one conversion which should be given fifst priority is
turning Lenoir Hall back to the service of the students. The
dining hall is capable of serving 10.000 meals ner day. With the
present deplorable, eating conditions in Chapel Hill, nothing can
be more essential to the welfare of the student body.
The University will be slow to dismantle Swain Hall and the
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NAVY
HALL
By Dick
life CAN Be . Beautiful, that
much we are sure. And today we
aren't going to beat around the
bush in any way, shape, or man
ner. Our subject - is one of vital
importance, the topic of discharges.
Among the many definitions of
the word discharge, Webster tells
us that it may mean "to set at lib
erty, to release, to dismiss, to free
from that which oppresses' We
admit NoahTW. was a good boy, but
we have traced the word farther
back to the Southwest Hindustan
- branch of Indo-European dialect,
where we have the two words
"diss" meaning "want to" and
"akzcharges" (we lose the akz
through the process of dissimila
tion, sterilization, or some similar
linguistic expression), meaning
"getthehelloutaherequick."
There are. lots of. other people
who hold to this definition, namely
the ROTC cadets, the V-12 unit,
and the Marines. The Pre-Flights
don't count it seems, that over
there we find much weeping, wail-.
ing and gnashing of teeth for, poor
boys, the Navy is forcing them to
go home within the next week.
Forcing them, mind you! They beat -them
with a whip a bull whip a
big bull whip with thongs on the
end! The heartless brutality of this
order has had no effects on the
more fortunate of the Naval con
tingent who can remain in the Navy
unto eternity ("Avenge Oh Lord,
Thy Woeful Sons." This last quo
tation is from one of Milton's son
nets. From time to time in our col
umn you will no doubt find allu
sions and references to classical
and mythicalliterature, or we may
often forget ourselves and ramble
on in Greek or Latin for a para
graph or two. When this happens
and you find yourselves wishing
you might also become enlightened
At Ease, Lieu tenan t
By Jack
Former GIs on campus well re
member (with appropriate grimac
ing) the theory of superiority of
officers as practiced by the army
and navy. Of all the difficulties en
countered in the adjustment from
civilian life, this was by far the
hardest pill to take. Lack of pri
vacy, stereotyped menus, ill-fitting
clothes and even danger itself
were by comparison minor irri
tants. But ask any GI what he hat
ed most about the army and the
answer was usually an emphatic
"ossifers."
The average American soldier
has great difficulty in getting the
"master race" concept through his
democratic brain. Even though
most soldiers concede the necessity
of the class distinction between
commissioned and non-commis-,
sioned personnel, they cannot see
nor condone the extent to which
that distinction was underlined.
Add to this a bitter resentment in
the methods used for handing out
commissions and appointments to
OCS and you have the leading bone
of contention among our service
men. No matter where an army
bull session started, it would 'in
variably lead to the revelation of a
new discovery as to what the civil
ian occupation of the CO -really
was. It could possibly be attribut
ed to wishful thinking, but every
new outfit one became assigned to
was commanded by a former A&P
salesman.
"Boy, just wait till I get out of
this unprintable army and meet up
with that unprintable of an un
printable son of a very unprintable
CO of mine clerking in the local
A&P. I'll walk up to that old ditto
and say "Boy, give me a pound
of butter and no backtalk; Fm in a
hurry." Statements along these
lines floated in and out of barracks
from Fort Bragg to Myitkyina. If
the many GIs, who made more
definite statements as tb what they
intended to do to some officers after
the war, ever carried these threats
out, the United States would be
one massof broken bodies for the
next ten years.
Marion Hargrove and other au-
thors of the same ilk (who some
times, 'make GIs - wonder if jthey
have ever actually been in the
army) make light of this situa
Graham Memorial Cafeteria for the enrollment for 1946 is ex
pected to be the largest in the University's history.
Chancellor House was quick to point out that Lenoir Hall can
not begin at once to serve as cheaply as it did before the war.
At one time, University dining halls were so efficient that they
were flooded by non-students. A law was passed to refuse all
non-students. We hope that Lenoir Hall will again be solely
for students. .
and Wye
scholars, send the usual postcard
and full explanations will be forth
coming.) But to return to those
"twenty-year" men of the Navy
who will be left here. - This week
we saw four ROTC cadets appre
hended with a small pair of Junior
Birdmen wings mounted on the
left sideof their caps and with
their ties tucked neatly'Eetween the
second and third shirt buttons in a
vain attempt to be mistaken for
Aviation Cadets.
Our report from the Marine unit
concerning the same matter indi
cates that those Gyrenes, most of
whom have enough points to buy
an eight-pound steak, hav been
shown a clause on the reverse side
at the bottom of the second page
in which there is a statement to
the effect that, if the war ended
before April 26, 1964, all regular
Marines would be automatically
- shipped to the Philippines to work
on government sugar plantations
for a period not to exceed fourteen
years, at which time they will then
be given the choice of returning to
active duty or joining the ROTC.
Further proof of the great mental
strain caused by the problems of
discharges was revealed when two
V-12's and three ROTC trainees
who learned they were not to be re
leased immediately went insane in
protest. Upon confirmation of their
insanity, the Navy commissioned
them Lieutenants, s.g., and placed
them in charge of the row boat at
University Lake.
There are many more cases of -like
reactions, but the tales are too
bloody to print. Like we said, some
of us got it and some of us ain't.
But we who ain't still hold that
someday in the not too distant fu
ture Life will once again be beau
tiful. Shelton
tion. But the many (we will never
know the real number) of officers
who were killed from bullets made
in New Jersey attest to the ser
iousness of this feeling.
With this picture so very lucid to
everyone who has been in the
army, it is not understandable as
to the motives involved in a few
former officers continuing to wear
their insignia and signs of rank
long after returning to civilian life
on campus. Do these men really
feel entitled to a greater degree of
respect or attention- than the for
mer GI? Because officers are fined
and enlisted men sentenced to pris
on for identical offense, do they ex
pect professors to grade them from
C up and old GIs from C down?
The average civilian today accords
a great deal of respect to the hon
orable discharge button. Is that
insufficient for our former holders
of commissions?
One of the GIs' first stops after
receiving his discharge is a men's
clothing store, where a sizable
chunk of that first $100 payment
goes for a bright sports jacket and
all that goes with it. Yet somehow
many former officers seem quite
content to go on week after week
"a la pinks." This is of course
understandable in the case of per
sons unable to afford any civilian
clothes or loathe to waste the
money he was forced to spend (out
of his own pocket), but why oh
why are the shiny gold bar and in
signia polished up and placed neat
ly back on the shirt every morn- "
ing?
It feels more than wonderful to
get back to civilian life (as only a
veteran can know). It's sure great
to drink milk instead of little white
powder droplets in water. Ice cream
still dazzles many a veteran and
that new red tie looks mighty ter
rific. But more than all this is the
tremendous satisfaction in being
able to live a" life of freedom, of
not having to take orders from
persons now our equals.
Sure, veterans saw the necessity
of the autocratic system in the
army. Didn't they make an adjust
ment (not too easy for fellows born
and reared in a democracy) the suc
cess of which is clear in V-J Day
and the brilliance of our fighting?
See AT EASE?, page i.
Letter to the Editor from an
Imaginary Freshman
Dear Mr. Morrison :
Last night I heard your very in
teresting talk on the Tar Heel, and
as I am very interested in journal
ism, I decided to come around, as you
put it, and work on the paper. Since
you said you needed men on the
staff and since I held the very inter
esting post of General Editor in
charge of general interest stories on
a very interesting high school news
paper, I though I would turn out for
the paper. . - . ,
Sir, I must admit that you do work
in a very interesting atmosphere
which no doubt is conducive to your
aspirations, but it is rather too
crowded for me to attempt to spread
my literary wings. When I turned
out Thursday night, I did not ex
pect to BE turned out by a flock of
very interesting females waving
typewriters in front of my eyes.
This letter is to inform you that
I am still very interested in work
ing on the Tar Heel, and look for
Navy Demobilization Believed Unjust
By Irby Todd and Joe Denker
We would like to take this op
portunity to add our passionate
opinion to that of thousands of
others that the present demobili
zation system of the Naxy is ex
tremely unjust.
. There has been much said by
people throughout the nation pn
the subject and some of our fore
most columnists have struck at the
Navy plan with a frankness which
has already caused reverberations
in the halls of Congress. But the
reaction is slow. For the purposes
of exposition we would like to quote
from Drew Pearson, one of the
more fearless political columnists
writing today. In reporting how
Miss Miriam Ottenberg of the
Washington Star, through a slip
up, managed to get an interview
with the retiring Chief of Naval
Personnel, Admiral Randall Jacobs,
he states that Jacobs said: "We
want the young men in the navy,
ghat's why age was included. The
younger ones are the ones the navy
of the future has to be built
around." Pearson goes on to say
that this is a tip-off to the fact that
a young man can have been in the
navy four long years since before
Pearl Harbor and if he isn't mar
ried, he may still not be able to get
out.
We know personally of several
cases on the campus wherein men
have been in the navy for more
than four years, two or more of
which have been spent overseas,
and still do not qualify for release
under the present discharge sys
tem. Some wiseacres will ask what
they are kicking about and they
will get a burning reminder to the
effect that many of the naval per
sonnel here have been in combat,
some as far back as Guadalcanal.
Then, too, they will remind the
questioner that those men have been
moved about under official orders
and have had nothing to say of their
own disposition.
We feel that the young 4 men of
the nation who, in many cases,
Though the road is mired, the
wheel finds the firm ground be
neath, and rolls on.
To an innocent bystander it seems
that:
There are many things to be done
with the return to the quarter sys
tem. 1. Get around to reorganizing
the classes. 2. Give us, the stu
dents, some idea of the computation
of the hours we've accumulated un
der the semester and trimester sys
tems. 3. Carry out some of the many
plans to be effective as of the end of
the war.
Possibly an explanation can be
offered for the additional charges
that we have to pay at each regis
tration. Check your copies of your
registration forms, .students, and see
iow many items you pay for that
'don't remotely concern you I! What
about it, kind collectors ? ? "
The veterans have got the right
idea on their plans for the coming
terms. Nice reception too.
We might stand a chance of get
1 ?
llCrllCogs in the Wheel
fJ By A1an Pannill
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ward to a very interesting interview
with you.
Sincerely yours,
V. I. Freshman.
Editor's Note: Very interesting.
Mr. Editor,
Having read the recent letter in
the Tar Heel warning of the Com
munists on the campus and in the
faculty and having heard from Bud
dy Glenn at an IRC meeting the pos
sibility of a great world state un
der the direction of Moscow and
knowing that Bill Crisp believes that
the world will go Socialist well,
having heard all this, this person is
' alarmed and believes that all that
can be said under this impending
state of affairs is "Intrench, in
trench for the last stand!" I feel
I must warn anyone who wishes to
join me that there may be some
strange characters in the ranks
even Uncle Joe Stalin may turn out
to be a conservative. Conservatives
of the world unite !
Vincent B. Williams,
Pvt., USMCR.
One might hazard the opinion, also,
that they deserve to get out just
as soon as the older men. After
all, those men who came into the
service at the ages of 32 or 35 are
generally married, they have jobs
to go back to, and they have had
an uninterrupted joy of living
through theirv lively twenties per
haps the best years of their lives.
They have tasted normal life with
most of its attendant joys while the
youngster has been in the mold of
discipline and censorship for most
See NAVY, page 4.
In This . . .
. . Poet's . .
. . . Corner
WHEN I HAVE FEARS
(Apologies to Keats)
By Curtis Butler
When I have fears that I may
cease to be
Before my laundry is returned
again,
Before my other shirt comes back''
to me,
And ere a change of sheets I may
regain;
When I behold in deep despair the
place
Where my clean pair of socks once
.used to stay,
And think that foul and odious
disgrace
Shall be my lot ere comes delivery
day;
And when I stop, alas, to count the
years
Since last I saw my soiled vest
ments go,
And think with weary sighs and
useless tears
That I may see them n'er again, oh
woe;
I clutch familiar garments about
my frame
And tread my aromatic way in
shame.
ting the Pre-Flight theater opened
to the public, now that the fly-flys
are scheduled to be long gone by the
first part of October. What's the
scoop, Mr. Smith?
The floors of Bingham are swept
once a week, whether they need it
or not!
The Spanish Dept. is taking too
many things in its own hands when
it starts dictating when and how
pop quizzes are to be given. Any in
structor not believing in them has
his hands tied, and the student
required to take the course gets the
business!
Midnight musings: ,
It's nice to know that a five day
week is being strongly considered
for the quarter system, and also
that the fact that we won't get a
vacation next spring is only to en
able the ones who planned on grad
uating in June, to finish in time.
It won't be a standing rule!
Can't help but wonder how much
See COGS, page !.