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A student newspaper, published by
students for students. - If - yon" find
fault with this paper, you can correct
that fault by reporting for a staff as
signment any Thursday or Sunday
night. ,
Bill McKenzie has resigned his
position as president of the stu
dent body. His post will be filled in
the fall elections scheduled for No
vember 13. A vice-president will
also be chosen.
Serving Civilian and Military Students at UNC
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C.f SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 1945
NUMBER SV 94
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TH Business Staff Meets
. There will be an important meet
ing; of the Tar Heel advertising staff
at; 4, o'clock Monday afternoon in the
Tar Heel business office in Graham.
Memorial. All members, are urged to
vbe present. .
YWCA Representative
;VMiss Catherine Cook will represent
Carolina at the YWCA conference in
Atlanta, Ga., for - advisers to , stu
dents.
Hillel Meetings
; Hillel History group will meet
every Wednesday night at 8 o'clock.
The reception and membership com
mittees of Hillel held a joint meet
ing Thursday night at the Tep House.
Martin Benjamin is chairman of the
reception committee , and Tim Neid-
itch of the membership committee.
DKE Pledges
Four additional pledges have been
announced by Delta Kappa Epsilon.
They are Pat McCurnin and Mac Mc-
Intyre, Marine V-12s, and Tag Mon-
ague and Bill Bass. Pledge officers for
DKE are Howard Walters, president;
Mac Mclntyre, vice-president, and
Howard Merry, secretary-treasurer.
Chi Omega
The Chi Omegas have elected Nancy
Pinkston treasurer of the sorority.
The position was formerly held by
Cornelia; Alexander, who will remain
at home through this term.
Coline Smith, Nancy Pinkston, Kay
Allen and Betty. Haughtan were ini
tiated into the sorority Tuesday night.
Veterans Return
Tau Epsilon Phi received word to
day that two former students of Caro
lina and members of the chapter were
discharged from the service and were
returning to school. They are Sey
mour Levin of Burlington, and Sid
Appel of Miami, Florida.
Pin-Ups
C. C. McLean, Kappa Alpha,
pinned Alma Young, Alpha Delta Pi.
Bill McManus, an ATO transfer from
the University of Florida, pinned
Anne Hancock, Pi Phi, of Paragould,
Ark. Joe Butler, Sigma Chi, pinned
Ginny Freeman, Chi Omega. Elma
Warner, Alpha Gam, of Sarasota,
Florida, is engaged to Carl Taylor of
Sarasota
Tri Delt Visitor
Mrs. E. Merlin Schank,
former
house mother of the Tri Delts, visited
the campus several days this weejc.
Women's Glee Club
Coed Glee Clubbers voted at their
meeting Wednesday to enter a coed
in the Yack Beauty contest. They also
announced that all coeds interested in
Glee Club should come this week for
tryouts to Hill Hall.
Pledge Party
Pi Phi pledges
entertained
other
sorority pledges at a
Thursday afternoon.
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Coed Rushing
The Pan-Hellenic Council is spon
soring open rushing of new girls.
Thirty of the coeds enrolled for the
first time this term have signed up
for sorority rushing.
Final Grades
FinaJ grades for the September
October term may be secured from
the information desk in South Build
ing today.
Membership Cards V
Pat Kelly, president of the YMCA,
asks that all who r pledged to the
YMCA during the fall term, and who
do not have their membership cards
to see him as soon as possible.
KA's Return
KA's returning .from the service
are Dave Masengill, Ike Belk, Walter
Umphries, and Larry Hodges.
Veterans Entertain
Graduate students from Kenan
dormitory wefie .th&OTests of the Vet
erans' Association ; on Thursday eve
ning at the veterans' clubhouse. i
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W&A Will Bponorf!oed Dance Tonight
Woollen Gym Site!
Of First Student
Ball Of New Term
. Highlighting this term's orientation
program and opening the full social
program scheduled for the term is
the Woman's Government Associa
ciation's . "Autumn Ball," to be held
tonight from 9 until 12 o'clock in
Woollen Gymnasium. Jimmie Fuller's
orchestra will play; for the dance
which is open to the . entire campus
and will be semi-formal.
Tonight's ball is being held in
honor of all new students. Since it
is given by the WGA, girls may ask
for dates. But boys are also encour
aged to ask dates. Invitations have
been extended to all fraternities and
dormitories, and cards have been sent
to all coeds.
The figure will consist of the six
members of the executive cabinet of
Woman's Government Association,
and representatives from the three
branches of the association. Ruth
Duncan, president of WGA, Frances
Bleight, vice-president of WGA, Lil
lian Leonhard, president of Interdorm-
itory Council, Twig Branch, secre-1
tary of WGA, and Travis Hunt, treas-
urer, will represent tne executive
cabinet. Betty Marks will represent
the Women's Honor Council; Barbara
Boyd, .the Coed Senate, and Natalie
Harrison, the Interdormitory Council
Immediately following the forma
tion of the figure the first no-break
will honor members of the Interdorm
itory Council, the Coed Senate, and
the Honor Council.
Invitations have been sent to Dean
M. H. Stacy, Chancellor and Mrs. R
B. House, Dean and Mrs. E. L.
Mackie, President and Mrs. Frank P.
Graham, Miss-Kathryn Cook, Mrs.
Mary McDuffy and Mr. McDuffy, and
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Comer.
Orientation week for the new coeds
began Sunday afternoon with an in
formal reception in Graham Memo
rial Lounge, when they were intro
duced to members of the faculty, stu
dent advisors and other campus lead
ers. - -
On Monday the new students regis
tered for classes and were given phys
ical examinations. Tours were con
ducted on Tuesday afternoon in order
to familiarize them with the campus.
At 7:30 Tuesday night a mass meet-
. -w 1 1 T"k T
ing was neld in JKOiana rarser
Lounge, where the following campus
leaders spoke on various student ac
tivities: Kuth imncan, president oi
the Woman's Government Associa
tion; Lib Scofield, speaker of the Coed
Senate; Lillian Leonhard, president
of Interdormitory Council; Bill Crisp,
President ot Carolina r-oiiucai union;
Berlette Capt, president of YWCA;
Mildred Kresnick, vice-president of
the Carolina Independent Coed Asso
ciation; Bitty Grimes, president of
the Pan-Hellenic Council; and Joyce
Fowler, president of Woman's Ath
letic Association.
Standing Over
Has Become Historic University Landmark
By Jo Pugh
" saw' yon hoary poplar, whose
mighty trunk .
Is deeply ribbed and scarred with age
and blast."
E. P. Willard, class of '93.
While tramping through the for
ests near the hill of New Hope Chapel,
General William R. Davie and his
companions stopped beneath a beau
tiful straight poplar for noonday rest.
That tree became monarch of all trees
on the site that Davie and his group
chose for the location of the Univer
sity of North Carolina. Standing
through more than two centuries of
winds and storms, the Davie Poplar
became to the generations of students
that - walked under her" spreading
boughs', a harbor of sentiment.
The Poet of the class of '93 contin
ued to describe the dinner eaten by
Davie, and the commissioners who
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were chosen to select the site for the
University.
Shown above is the preliminary rehearsal for Sunday's Student Forum on Public Affairs.
From left to right is Vera Scales, Buddy Glenn, moderator, and Bill Crisp. They will discuss
"What Can Be Done to Solve Labor Disputes?" It will be broadcast over Station WBBB, 920
on your dial.
Student Forum
Views On Labor Disputes
Program Over Burlington Station Sponsored
By Tar Heel Institute of Public Affairs
THIPA-sponsored "Student Forum on Public Affairs" will
broadcast for the first time Sunday at 2 o'clock over WBBB in Bur
lington. The topic of discussion will be "What Can We Do to
Solve Labor Disputes?" Matching wits will be Bill Crisp and Vera
Scales. Buddy Glenn, THIPA director, will moderate the discussion.
This urogram will mark the be-
program
ginning of the weekly series of, stu
dent discussions on topics of current
interest in the field of public affairs
Each Sunday two students will go "on
the air to discuss questions of com
mon concern.
Ray Sylvester, radio director of
THIPA, stated that the response of
students to the request for potential
participants was not sufficient to sus
tain the program. The principal qual
ification is an interest in participat
ing and a willingness to work. Syl
vester remarked that one of the most
difficult problems is obtaining con
servative members for the panel. He
urged all interested students, includ
ing coeds, to contact him at 156 E.
Rosemary, in order to receive consid
eration in the selection of panel
members.
On Sunday's broadcast, Crisp and
Scales will treat causes of industrial
strife and discuss better methods of
settling disputes between labor and
capital. They are impressed by the
danger to the national economy of
the present and impending strikes
and hope to present some sugges-
ions on averting this deadly situa
tion.
Two Centuries, Davie Poplar
... "Davie and Moore, a Mebane
and a Hill,
Stooping with kindly touch to guide
aright
Their precious charge, in future
years to be
The noblest plant that nature ever
formed."
Through the years the old tree has
been a favorite gathering place. Stu
dents in the past gathered there to
sing Carolina songs. Vesper pro
grams, have been held beneath the
tree's lovely boughs.
In the Sentinel newspaper of De
cember 1, 1868, we find a description
of the University after the Civil War
written by Mrs. Cornelia Spencer.
"For seventy-five years the Old Pop
lar has spread a benignant shade over
the., gay throngs that wandered
through ..the campus, or pressed into
the chapel in the glorious old days.
"The old tree stands guard but over
grounds that are now empty and for
lorn. The dry grass rustles to my
footsteps, and a rabbit starts out from
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Broadcasts
Legislature Calls
For Meeting On
Coed Frat Ruling
A bill providing for the formation
of a student committee to confer with
Chancellor House on Dean Stacy's re
cent controversial ruling was unani
mously approved at the meeting of
the Student Legislature Thursday
night.
This bill refers to the ruling pro
hibiting coeds from dining in fra
ternity houses and is a further action
deemed necessary by the silence of
Sout;h Building after the bill of pro
testation passed at the last meeting.
The new bill was introduced by Gloria
Chapman, who asked that a repre
sentative council of four meet with
Chancellor House and attempt to have
the objectionable ruling repealed.
After it was unanimously passed,
Douglass Hunt, speaker of the Legis
lature, appointed the following com
mittee to carry out the terms of the
bill: A. B. Smith, Lib Schofield, Walt
Brinkley and Roy Thompson.
In a report made by Walt Brink
See LEGISLATURE, page U.
yonder tangled and dying rosebush. I
look around and see nothing to dis
turb the profound and ; melancholy
stillness. ... A negro girl in, a pink
frock is leaning on the College well
and a few of the negro soldiers are
passing in the distance towards the
village. The sun shines down oh the
Old East and West, the Library Hall,
the Recitation rooms, but the doors
are all closed the place is haunted.
Strong and effaceable memories rush
unbidden, and my eyes are dimmed as
I gaze on this 'Niobe sitting thus dis
crowned and childless. . . . Chapel Hill
is the Deserted Village of the South."
On August" 7, 1873, the Old Davie
Poplar was struck by lightning.
Many feared that this was ominous
of the fate of the University. But the
tree survived the calamity even
though there was : a" rent through the
bark from fop to bottom. Fierce wind
storms have since destroyed the sym
metry of the popuar.
The trunk of the tree is over 16 feet
See DAVIE POPLAR, page 4.
Forum...
1946 Yack Staff
To Meet Tuesday
Managing Editor Roy Thompson
requests that all members of the
1946 Yackety Yack staff meet in the
Yack office in Graham Memorial
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. All
people who have already signed up
for work on next year's book as
well as those who have recently en
rolled are urged to attend. The first
section of the '46 Yack will be sent
to the printers in about two weeks.
Artists, photographers, lay-out ex
perts, typists, writers and jacks and
jills of all trades are needed. If you
want to work on the Yack, come
around. No matter what you can do,
there's a place for you.
Stevens Scheduled
To Speak To Vets
On Monday Evening
Superior Court Judge Henry L.
Stevens, past National Commander of
the American Legion, will speak Mon
day night to the University Veterans
Association. In addition, Mr. Harry
Comer, YMCA Secretary, will release
as yet undisclosed but vital news on
the critical housing shortage in a meet
ing for married veterans and their
wives immediately following the reg
ular meeting.
At the request of UVA, Judge Ste
vens is returning to the campus Mon
day night in Gerrard Hall to talk to
the veterans on the opportunities open
to them today, and will probably deal
at length with the American Legion
and what it offers the veteran.
Mr. Comer's remarks are awaited
eagerly by the married veterans here
to whom the critical housing short
age has been their chief problem thus
far. According, to Bob Hamburger,
UVA Housing Committee chairman,
the new information to be revealed
represents the "first real break we've
got" and will "ease the situation great
ly." Mr. Comer wants to speak to the
wives of the ex-GI's especially, and
they are urged to attend.
Judge Stevens, as pas,t Commander
of the Legion, is the first represen
tative of any national veterans organ
ization to speak before the UVA, The
Association voted last semester to bar
any affiliation to a national or region
al veterans organization as a unit,
however.
The majority of married veterans
found temporary accommodations last
semester, but many at prohibitive rent
als. The influx of hundreds of new
veterans this semester, a high per
centage married, makes the situation
critical again. The University had
been able to do little to alleviate this
problem. ..."
Whitehead Dormitory has been
opened " tos couples without children,
but contains no housekeeping facili
ties. Under such conditions, it is im
possible for them to live on the slen
der monthly allotment . f or married
veterans under the G.I. Bill.
Elections This
Month WillFill
Vacant Office
Vice-President Of
Student Body Also
Gives Resignation
Announcement of the resignation
of William McKenzie, President of
the student body, was made Thursday
by Walt Brinkley, chairman of the
Elections Committee of the Student
Legislature. The departure at this
time of the President made necessary
the election of a successor on Novem
ber 15th. Vice President Richard
Ford resigned last week.
McKenzie, in his letter of resigna
tion, expressed "deep regrets" that he
is unable to stay at Carolina long
enough to complete his tenure in the
office to which he was elected last Ap
ril. He had planned, according to the
announcement, to continue in the Law
School here at Chapel Hill, but has
been forced by "physician's orders" to
drop his studies immediately. McKen
zie's eyes long had been ailing, and
ear of blindness prompted the physi
cian to dictate his departure from
school. The retiring President has
been offered a job with a prominent
accounting firm.
Chief immediate effect of the long
rumored resignation was a quicken
ing of pace in political circles. Much
significance and importance has been
added to the November balloting, and
it was announced that both the Uni
versity and United Carolina parties
will choose their tickets by the early
part of next week. It was not imme
diately clear whether the Student
Party would enter a slate, endor anoth
er nominees, or take no part in the
election. Offices to be filled now in
clude the presidency and vice presi
dency of the student body; three civi
lian male honor council, posts; several
military positions in the Legislature
and in the Honor Council; and a post
on the Debate Council. Simultaneous
ly, on November 15th, Freshmen of
the July, September and November
classes will ballot for four class of
fices and the positions on an execu
tive committee. Anyone in the Fresh
man class can be nominated for one of
these posts if his name is hied with
Elections Committee Chairman Brink
ley, either by the nominee or by an
other Freshman. Brinkley can be
reached at the Kappa Sig house, or in
Ruffin Dormitory. The deadline for
filing such nominations is 5:00 p.m.
November 8th.
Meanwhile, the UCP had its first
party "convention." The meeting,
held in Gerrard Hall was attended by
62 party members and several visitors.
Final nominations will be made at a
See ELECTIONS, page 4.
Di Condemns Stacy
Action; Votes Down
4 Jim Crow9 Laws
Two important bills were passed at
last Thursday's regular meeting of
the Dialectic Senate. The discussion
group went on record condemning the
action of Acting Dean Stacy in pro
hibiting coeds from eating in fra
ternity dining rooms as boarders and
on record in favor of the abolishment
pf "Jim Crow" laws in the South as
well as the immediate entrance of
colored students into the University
of North Carolina.
The first bill was introduced by'
President Roy Thompson who criti
cized Mrs. Stacy's apparent dicta
torial way of handling the situation
and the fact that as yet no action had
been taken by South Building in re
gard to the request made by the Stu
dent Legislature that they reconsider
this matter. The bill was passed
unanimously.
Both the visitors and senators were
in favor of admitting colored stu
dents to the University and with
boarding them with white students
and also giving them monetary as
sistence for colored schools. The visit
ors were in favor of mixing the races
in public vehicles but the senators
were tied on this issue.
It was announced that the Di would
discuss campus politics at their meet
ing next Wednesday.
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