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Hilf TO C2EATE A CA1IPU3 POHALrrr tzs ACTnrxirs of caholdoaiis VOLUME XLIV rsrrcxuu. tncen ami CHAPEL HILL, Hi C, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1935 NUHBER 1 todemilisiidBEeB?: Firom Swam. HaE9s Reeemifi: Afeaedoiminmeiiji iiiiiii. Frateriiities BegiDLjushing To (day; Invitations Go Out 5- BRUCE ASKS STRICT RULES OBSERVANCE Second Period of Silence Be .gins October 4; Pledging 2 k Days Later, With $1 Fee Ending a reign of silence de clared in effect since September V13, 27 Carolina fraternities to day formally will begin a twelve day period of rushing as pre scribed in the Interf r aternity Council's; current rushing regu lations. f i First-year men have received invitation: cards through . the office of the Dean of Students or -will receive them this morning. -Each Qard corresponds with an jnvitation submitted to Dean radshaw by ; a fraternity: reshmen are required to, honor very fraternity's invitation -by aa visit, v Rushing Dates I t'Dunng the rushing period fraternities may make ' dates with: freshmen at their' mutual convenience, except ' that, no ijraternty may make more than 1"wo dates with a first-year man ftoday., ;v.;;;:'-:;.:;v';:7?;;: ( -.This open season of rushiner I. "will be followed by a three-day lntervaTof silence" begihhrrig: at inidnisiik- following day, Greek lodges will submit to the secretary of the nterf raternity Council a list of men they wish to bid. These "bids come into the hands of the faculty advisor on fraternities, who, on October 6, calls; in all freshmen who have received, -a bid. The new men will then list their first, three choices of (Continued on page two) FIVE MEN TO LIVE IN TAPER HOUSE Students in Cottage Behind Swain Hall to be Under Sup ' I ervision of Harold D. Meyer The red brick cottage just back of Swain Hall 'is West House, built by Kenneth S. Tan ner, of Spindale, N.' C, : as a unique experiment in student housing. I Under the faculty supervision of Harold D. Meyer of the socio logy : department, five students, one each chosen from the fresh man, sophomore, junior and senior classes and one from the graduate school, will live jn the house as long as they are in school and meet certain require ments set by Tanner. As they crraduate. new , students : will take their places. The students chosen for this year are. Kenneth S. Tanner, Jr., freshman; Tom Myers, a nephew of the elder Tanner, sophomore ; Randy Coonef . junior : Sam El more, also a nephew of Tanner, senior; and Van Woodward, crraduate. At the end of the year, if any of this group leave, others will be chosen to take their places. ; ; 1 The students who live in West House are not to be chosen be cause of scholarship or an out- Vstanding student body record or urgent financial need but will be selected on the basis of congen- iativ and interest. Financial , (Continued on page five) MERCHANTS AKI BOYCOTT AGAINST LOCAL JOURNALS ' ''it. - Ire Caused by P. U. Board's "Substitute Investment" to : Co-op Fires Antagonism CHARGE I DISCRIMINATION -Threatening the - Daily Tar Heel and other, Carolina publi cations with; a 100 per cent ad vertising boycott, Chapel Hill merchants are up in arms against, the .recent action of the ruDiicauons y mon Jtsoara in making a $3,500 loan . to the Student Co-operative Associa tion. -:' -. , : . uiaimmg that tne co-op is not; a - student organization and that the boara was acting, be yond ;- its authority, in granting the joan, as well as showing fa voritism, tne ; jnercnante are planning a real campaign as resUlt"of:theKioan. . ' The Publications Union Board has as its function the fiscal con trol of Carolina publications, including the right to invest any surplus. In ; the co-op loan -ac-tionhQwevetJio surplus was loaned. A "substitute mvest- board, puttmg up $3,500 as col lateral, secured a loan of money to that amount from the Bank of Chapel Hill. This amount was re-loaned to the co-op at a profit, v , I '"' Board Went Too Far It is" generally felt that such ' m i t a suDstitute investment tran scended the bounds of board po licy rights because either one or both of two reasons for the ac tion were definitely beyond the board's functions. These rea sons were "to make a profit," and "to foster an institution (the co-op) worth retaining." Board members claim a legi timate right insofar as the ac tion was a procedure of invest ment. However, such a substi tute investment is unprecedent ed in. board history. ' ;f It is not know whether stu- den council action or recom mendations from one of several advisory committees will result from .the merchant's clamor en gendered by 'the loan. 193Challenge The last 1 time a Publications Union Board action was chal lenged as being beyond the scope of 'its Rightful authority was in trie spring of 1934, when four scholarships which the board set up for publications men were declared discrimina tory and the, action set aside as not within the board's prescrib ed rights. ' 'That the recent loan was not discriminatory is admitted by many members ot tne opposi tion, but this, only makes mat ters worse, according to their viewpoint. "The Publications Union Board vhas stepped into the realm of private banking, reared one opponent, a mem ber of the student body. ' ; y r - ,The t Student ; Cc, operative As sociation was formed in 1934, as a dry cleaningj institution and later branched but into the clothing goods business. Concerning Frosh Journalists The editor's announcement at the College Night program in Memorial Hall, which was a classic of poor taste, grossly mis represented the plans and purposes of the Daily Tar Heel freshman training school. Journalistic style, particularly as employed in this paper, will be reviewed; facts about the campus and its personalities will be presented; much actual experience on the daily, both in the day and at night, will be offered. The best freshmen, of course, will, get appointments, some of them before the month has ended.. . ' Contrary to the tenor of the editor's asinine blabber, all freshmen and upper classmen interested in working en the dai ly or interested in learning the .operation of the publication, are cordially invited to attend a. meeting in 213 Graham Memorial tomorrow afternoon at 2:15 o'clock. RULES OF RUSHING WILL NOT CHANGE Interfraternity Council ; Refuses r to Set Precedent 4 of - Broad -Interpretation . Refusing to set a precedent of any broad interpretation of rushing rules, . the . new Inter fraternity Council composed of the presidents of the various chapters on the University cam pus, ; at its first meeting of the year last night in Graham .Me morial decreed that the two fra ternity men now living in West House must room elsewhere dur. ing the two-week rushing period in order to make the freshman occupying t h - experimental housing project eligible for Kenneth Tanner, the fresh man, will have as his house mates during the coming year Randy Cooner, Van Woodward, Tom Myers, and Sam Elmore. The latter two, since they are members of Sigma Alpha Epsi- lon fraternity, must find other living quarters for the next fortnight: so that Tanner may be rushed. The council unanimously vot ed to allow Frank Miller, an other S. A. E., to continue liv ing at the home here with his mother and freshnian brother during rushing season. A proposal to publish the cost of fraternity expenses in The Daily Tar Heel was over whelmingly defeated, . Unergetic faculty advisors for the new freshmen have made it possible, luckily, for us to skip a somewhat depressing tale of low morale in the admin istrative -and -faculty staffs of the Chapel Hill branch of the Greater University. ' Two weeks ago a powerful un dercurrent of backbiting, jealous viciousness pervaded the atmos-J phere in and around South build ing. It was a veritable mael-j storm of conflicting emotion and rather discouraging to an ambi tious college daily which in a fair way bases its policies on spirit on the part of the reform er and the brunt-bearers." New systems, new duties, new personnel. Distasteful jobs, long hours, anxious doubt, uncertain hope. Prospects of arduous tasks with green, material at new en vironments on schedules strange even to their aministrators. Hangovers; of -A exhausting; con solidation fights, trustee ar rangements, whirlpool shifts. CAMPUS KEYBOARD THREE STUDENTS BEGIN FOOD PROBE Committee Goes to State Today to Get Figures for Compari son with Local Conditions : Swinging into action to inves tigate the muddled eating situa tion into wnicn Uhapei hut is plunged, the Student Council in its initial meeting Wednesday night appointed a committee to probe Swain Hall's closure and the price and quality of food now served in town. Appointed to the committee were: Don McKee, Nick Read, and George McFarlarid, who wil look into tne swam Mail inci dent, report on . present eating conditions in the village, and make . a. survey of food, atState College and Duke University in order to present a comparative report on all three institutions. Council Secretary Jack Pool, student body presi dent, announced another victory for Carolina's nationally admir ed system of student self-govr-ernmeht ' in the employment of a regular' secretary by the; Stu dent Council.. Hired by the aid of F. E. R. A. funds, the secre tary will maintain office hours at the Student Government of fice in Graham .Memorial. Student councilers present at the meeting were: Jack Pool, Tom Eviris, James Craighill, John. Parker, Francis Anderson, Jock Smith, Francis . Fairley and probably be called together again early this. week. But the young men of the fa culty, those who made 'possible the new curriculum, the new ad visory stems, the new sche dules, went at their jobs tire lessly. New hope sprung from early successes ; new ambitions reared from subsequent develop ments of an experiment which shaped up to expectations,; which had courage and daring in its program. " ' r ' North Carolina's "shift into the new philosophy "of curricu lum set-up presages greater glor ies' for this institution of nota ble educational ' alertness. But thfs business of molding intelligent- members of tomorrow's society demands co-operation. hope that when the last of Chap el Hill's notorious' internal dis agreements is dead, buried and forgotten, the courageous, f ar seeing co-operative experiment of 1935 will still he an .inspira tion to the" educational world. 'P. G." H. Plans For Student -Drive To Re-Open Eating Mall Get Underway 1 TMo Week - TIN CAN LDfllT SET AT TWO HUNDRED BY MSIMNCE CO. Decorations, Booths, Wooden Partitions, Circus Seats, and . Wiring Forbidden MORE EXITS NECESSARY Basketball games and German club dances in the Tin Can look far away indeed, if Insurance In spector Dan Boney's condemna tion of the huge arena remains in effect. And the possibilities of re moving the ban on the almost essential building rest entirely with Mr. Boney who has order ed the occupancy limited to 200 persons and forbidden the pres ence of decorations, booths, cir cus seats, wooden partitions and all electrical wiring. Operating on the principle that not over 200 persons were at any time inside the structure, the administration allowed reg istration of .the upperclassmen in the building Thursday. On the other occasion of the Tin Can's - use since the decree ' of Inspector Boney, at the German club finals last spring, President Graham took personal responsi bihty - for the students and guests participating. Recommendation Required The procedure by which the auditorium may be restored to normalcy, according to admin istration officials, requires first recommendation and sugges tion from Mr. Boney as to what may be done to remove the fire hazard and improve the exit ar rangement. Structurally the building is sound, and has not been closed for the same reason as Gerrard hall whose roof is Caving m. i aon i Know .xnat tne in surance company will consider any proposition for big crowds,1 declared Superintendent . o f Buildings P.-L- Burch ; Friday. "T. 1-1 T 3 TT ?J iuui4.a uau ior university gatherings this year." Answering a ; request from Controller Charles Woolen, Mr. Burch advised that the building could be greatly improved by replacing ail exits witn panic bars on the doors and enlarging the west entrance to make total of six exits instead of five. At the time of Mr. Boney's in spection only two of the present five exits were'completely effect ive. The other three are now open. Should such remodeling of the Tin Can bring about the sanction of the insurance com pany, it is possible that certain athletic events may be allowed to take place there. Mr. Burch's suggestions would require' in the neighborhood of $500.00 ! Has Held Large Crowds . That the existaht 200 occu pant limit is almost an exclus ion 'figure for 'the enormous au ditbriuin-'is shown by the fact that' the ' building, while - being used only for winter indoor High Prices, . Crowded Conditions Stir Up . Mass Campaign Dining Hall Closed to Secure Federal Aid, But Funds ' Not Forthcoming - Every student on the campus has been vitally affected by the . decision of the University ad ministration during the sum mer months to close Swain hall, - college commons and eating hall. Brought about by poor physi cal conditions in the hall, losses sustained in the last few years and an effort to obtain a federal oan which would necessitate - complete rehabilitation, the de- cision has had untold effect on virtually the entire student body Chaos Eating prices have soared five and ten dollars throughout Chapel Hill; crowded conditions have wrought inconvenience and necessitated the use of poorly equipped and unsanitary board- . ing houses; numbers of self-help students have been left without support; . infirmary inmates . have been .forced to. consume ; cold and ill-prepared diets as ar ranged by the Carolina Inn; ad ditional costs have been added ; to food prices in Spencer .Hall, woman's dormitory, on the sub- . sequent dissolution of mass buy ing practices by the administra-. -tive food officers ; hundreds o students have been deprived ofi wholesome food which had sup ported the . better part of the student body in former days. Last year Swain Hall, opera ting with a measly crowd of a few hundred, lost over $2500. (Continued on page two) OFFICIALS EXPECT 2860 T0REGISTER Pessimists Surprised As Enroll ment Appears Certain to Exceed That of 1935 While pessimists watched with increasing astonishment, fall en- ; rollment figures mounted higher and higher over the week-end ' untilreaching 2,681 late yester- ' day afternoon, they threatened" to exceed the 1934 total of 2704. - Registration ' will continue through : Thursday and experts estimate ' that the extra period will - boost the- total enrollment ' by anywhere from 50 to, 100 students. Associate Registrar " Ben Husbands said last night, to reach 2800." Assistant Con- troller L. B. Rogerson. - too. wuuiuu i- ue surpnssa - u it - reached-2800." - ' Effect of Consolidation Of last year's registrants, 140 ' were freshman engin&p"s and first-year .women students, two ' classes which are no longer eligible to enroll. - f il t Explaining .'that ..'many stud- -ents who do not' register on the ' appointed day, Thursday, wait until Monday ' of the -following ' week- to enroll, -Mr. Husbands ' predicted that tomorrow- would see a registratfon 'greater than " that of yesterday. . i er '-"ft hi ti- iar es (Continued on page six) .1 . : J.