JUL ? -1942
Editorials
The Final Decision
Profiteering Merchants
News
Swain Hall to Open
Registration Total
UNIVERSITY OP NORTH CAROLINA-
VOLUME Ir A
CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1942
Telephone 42&1
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NUMBER 12
wain Hall To Be Reconverted - Into Cafeteria
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New Unit To Open
Alleged Rise
In Food Prices
By Merchants
Investigated
Facts Released
In Special Report
Complete facts concerning food
prices in Chapel Hill restaurants,
cafes, and drug stores have been deter
mined in a report issued yesterday by
Bert Bennett, president of the student
body. The report includes data deter
mined and verified by a special com
mittee set up by Bennett to investigate
reports that eating prices in some es
tablishments have been unjustifiably
raised.
The University Cafe which has re
cently been given a D health rating by
the sanitation inspectors was found to
have increased its meal prices from 35
to 40 cents and from 40 to 45 cents. In
addition, this cafe charges seven cents
for one half pint of milk. The service
there was found to be fair, and an open
galvanized garbage can for refuse was
'found sitting directly by the counter
where the customers eat. Manager
Riggs stated that he was justified in
raising his prices because of the "in
crease in costs and the quality of food
served here."
In the NC Cafeteria, prices are the
same since January 1, according to the
proprietor, and these prices are di
rectly in line with those of Lenior Din
ing Hall when it was open to students.
The service, quality, and quantity of
the food continued the same and in
vestigation showed these statements to
be correct. Milk is sold at six cents a
half pint and the cafeteria received a
B rating from the Health Board.
At the Sandwich Shop, investigators
found the prices the same, the service
excellent, quantity fair, and the qual
ity good. Milk is sold at seven cents
the half pint and the store has a B
health rating.
Sutton's Drug store which has been
investigated before on charges of price
discrimination was found to give one
scoop of ice cream for five cents
whereas practically every other store
in town gives two. Furthermore, Sut
ton's " sandwiches sell for fifteen and
twenty cents, chocolate nut sundaes go
for twenty-five cents, hot fudge sun
daes for twenty cents and milk for five
cents. The report indicated that on
nights of dances, Sutton's prices take
on a marked increase and that the
store has lost many customers due to
a lack of faith in it's operating poli
cies.
Harry's Delicatessen has maintained
the same prices, the service is only fair,
and some students have registered the
complaint that Harry's is not very co
operative toward it's customers.
At the Campus Cafe, the service was
found to be poor, and the employees not
very polite. The prices there have re
mained the same since January, ac
cording to the proprietor. Lunches are
served for 35 and 40 cents while din
ners are 45 and 50 cents. Six cents is
charged for milk and the establish
ment holds only a C health rating, the
investigation revealed.
Prices at the Carolina Coffee Shop
remain the same, but "my operating
expenses have gone up 100 in the last
year," stated the manager. The last
increase in prices was a 10 one last
November. "The service is good, the
quantity and quality are fine," the re
port stated. Milk sells for seven cents
See ALLEGED RISE, page U
Profiteering .
To the Student Body and Merchants of Chapel Hill
Since the Lenoir Dining Hall is, at present, closed to all students, many
have found it necessary to eat in town. As of late, I have heard many
recurring criticisms in regard to the price of meals, the service, and the
disuniformity of prices of similar items. A committee was set up to
investigate the situation and endeavored to get as many facts as possible.
With the Naval cadets in Chapel Hill and the University Dining Hall
closed, the eating establishments have found themselves with very little
competition and a great increase in the volume of business. Since food is
essential, students must eat; they prefer a well-balanced diet at a reason
able price. The sole objective of this letter is to inform you t of our
investigation and encourage you to write me a letter if you discover in
correct statements by me or by the proprietors in regard to retail food
and confectioneries.
If the proprietors raise their prices in the future, the students should be
informed of the increase and given some explanation. This is for the
benefit of both parties, business men, in case of an increase, would not like
to hear rumors of their profiteering; at the same time, students do not
like the merchants making undue profits because of the conditions existing
today.
I will publish from time to time any increases in prices by the res
taurants when explanation isn't given.
I sincerely hope that the merchants will not misunderstand our aims;
all we ask is that you do not take advantage of the students by un
necessarily raising of prices, particularly food prices. Most of the mer
chants have and are cooperating with the students, but there are a few,
as the report will indicate, that are thinking in terms of dollars and more
dollars rather than to the welfare of the students.
I feel sure and I think I speak in behalf of the student body that if the
merchants shoot straight with the students, you will find the latter more
than willing to reciprocate.
Bert Bennett,
Pres. of Student Body.
H
ood Elected President
Of Coed Honor Council
Registration
Totals 1,183
For Session
Tabulations Top
Previous Records
Group Approves
Frat Agreement
Leading the new Woman's honor
council for the second session is Marsha
Hood who is also the new president for
the regular year of 42-'43.
Assisting Marsha " is Mary Alice
uckett, vice-president, and Phyllis
Yates, secretary. The officers were
elected last Thursday evening at an or
ganizational meeting.
The dormitory presidents and social
chairmen, respectively, were elected at
the co-ed house meetings last Thurs
day. They are: Kitty Flanagan and
Jean Perkins, Spencer, Phyl Yates
and Jessica Graham, Mclver; Mary
Alice Puckett and Elithe Outlaw, Ke
nan; Martha Davenport and Jeanie Af
flick, Alderman; Virginia Barker and
Rebecca Nicholson, Steele; Mrs. John
Freeman and Mrs. W. G. Beam, Carr.;
In a meeting late yesterday after
noon the Women's Council passed the
same Summer Fraternity Entertain
ment Privileges Agreement which was
in effect during the first summer ses
sion.
The same rules and regulations
which governed the entertainment of
girls in fraternity houses last session
will apply again this session, it was an
nounced by Ditzi Buice, vice-president
of the Woman's Council.
As last session only those fraterni
ties signing the Privileges agreement
and being approved by the Council will
be accorded these privileges. Now on
the approved list are the following fra
ternities: ATO, Beta Theta Pi, Chi
Phi. DKE, Delta Psi, Kappa Alpha,
Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, Pi
Kappa Alpha, SAE, Sigma Chi, Sigma
Nu, TEP, ZBTfZeta Psi, plus the two
pharmacy fraternities, the commerce
raternity, and the two coops.
The rules as drawn up and passed
by the Interfraternity Council and the
Woman's Council are:
1. Fraternities may entertain
women students only in tne social
rooms, halls, porches, and dining halls
See HOOD ELECTED, page 3
Carolina Continues Courses
Offered to Men in Services
Navy Builds
Headquarters
ConS&uctiohlBeguri r
Near Forest Theater
An administration building is being
constructed on the Country Club road
opposite the Forest Theater as tempo
rary office quarters for the personnel
of the Pre-Flight School.
Work on the building has already
begun with excavations for the foun
dations of the structure being com
pleted. Completion is scheduled for
November at which time Navy person
nel will occupy the building.
Designed by architect Archie Davis,
the building will be of colonial archi
tecture, 135 feet long and 38 wide.
Harmonizing with the traditional Sou
thern theme of University structures,
it will be built with a four-columned
portico facing the road, wings at each
side, and the usual white trim.
Other Navy construction being car
ried out here is the infirmary near thq
University Medical building, an exten
sion to Woollen gym and an outdoor
swimming pool south of the indoor
Bowman Gray memorial pool.
In addition, a clearing is being made
for a new athletic field and the Negro
Community Center is being renovated
to accommodate members of the Pre
Flight school's Negro band.
Second summer session enrollment
mounted to an unprecedented heighth
yesterday as a final total of 1,183 stu
dents checked through Central Re
cords office to register for the last
term, I. C. Griffin, director of Cen
tral Records, announced.
Registration machinery stopped at
5 o'clock yesterday with the total en
rollment exceeding last year's enroll
ment by 185 students. The total for
the previous year was 998.
Percentage of Increase
Though there was a marked in
crease in first session registration
over last year, the percentage of in
crease of the first session was less
than the percentage of increase the
second session. With a large number
of cancellations being recorded, the
additional number of students regis
tered today was counterbalanced by
the numerous" cancellations of previous
registrations.
The unusual increase in the enroll
ment is the result of the University's
wartime speedup program which has
facilitated students entering as fresh
men during the summer session. In
addition, students in various reserve
corps of the Army and Navy are re
quired to attend classes throughout
the year. Students not in a branch
of the reserve are also attending sum
mer school in an endeavor to graduate
before being drafted.
Late Registration ! "r-
Students who registered late were
required to pay a fine of two dollars
ivvhich-was -added to-the regular bill, j
I Students who entered late were not re
quired to go through a tally line but
went directly from their dean to cen
tral records office and the cashier.
The total enrollment was 783 stu
dents less than the enrollment for the
first session of summer school, but
was only 605 less than the numbered
registered for the same period last
summer. Characteristically second
session registration is far less than
that of the first term.
For Fall Quarter
Action To Solve Eating Problem;
Lenoir Allocated For Navy Use
' ByJBilly Webb
The student eating problem arising from Navy occupation of
Lenoir Dining Hall was solved for the regular school term yester
day when a faculty, representative student committee and adminis-
trative recommendation resulted in action to recondition Swain
Hall as a cafeteria for students, President Frank Graham and Dean
R. B. House announced officially yesterday.
Converted to an office building and recently assigned to the Naval
ROTC, Swain Hall discontinued operation as a cafeteria upon com
pletion of Lenoir Dining Hall on Janu
ary 2, 1940. Swain will be recondition
ed as a cafeteria in time to begin ser
vice at the opening of the fall quarter.
Contrary to previous announcements
Lenoir hall will be completely allocated
to Navy use, having proven incapable
of combined student and Pre-Flight
school capacity. The reason for the
unforeseen strain upon Lenoir facili
ties is that cadets eat two and one-haif
times as much food per meal as a nor
mal student. New quarters will be
found for the NROTC.
"Swain hall has a capacity equal t
that of Lenoir and is absolutely cap
able of meeting the demand supplied
by Lenoir," L. B. Rogerson, assistant
Legislature
To Revamp
Representation
Smith Announces
Plans for Year
Ping Pong Tourney
Opens Tomorrow
In Student Union
The Bureau of Correspondence to
day announced that a contract between
the University and the federal govern
ment has been renewed, by which the
University will continue offerins
courses to men in the service under
the Army Institute Plan.
Carolina was one of 55 universities
to initiate this plan in the spring. The
plan provides that the government pay
one-half the cost of texts and tuition
up to twenty dollars a course for men
who have been enlisted in active ser
vice at least four months. Out-of-state
fees and the customary two-dollar
registration fee have been canceled to
applicants who qualify under Army
Institute regulations.
Men in the service may gain as much
as a year's credit toward a degree un
der the plan, or may take courses that
they want without receiving degree
credit. Already enlisted with the Bu
reau of" Correspondence are students
in army camps throughout the nation
and overseas.
The list of courses that may be
elected under the Army Institute Plan
includes courses in Economics and
Commerce, Education, English, Geol
ogy and Geography, German, History,
Mathematics, Psychology, the Romance
Languages, Sociology, and Rural Soc
ial Economics.
Opening play in the first round of
the men's singles division of the Stu
dent Union ping pong tournament will
begin at 1:30 tomorrow on the tables
on the Union porch, it was announced
yesterday by Tiny Hutton, director of
the tourney.
rairings ana playing times are
posted on the bulletin board in the
main lobby at Graham Memorial, and
Hutton urged all contestants to check
by as soon as possible.
Prizes for the tournament, which
will run through Friday, will be given
in war stamps, $2.50 for first place
and $1.50 for the runner-up..
Tom Wadden, varsity tennis; star,
has been seeded first and Walt James
second. Third and fourth seedings
went to two freshmen, Alan' Schwa
bacher and Alex Parker.
A girls' singles tournament has
also been announced. Entrants should
come by the director's office at the
Union and sign up by Thursday af:
ternoon. Play will be held on Monday
and Tuesday of next week.
Activities Schedule
Today, July 28
8:30-10:30 Recorded Popular Music
North lawn of Graham Memorial.
Tomorrow, July 29
Watermelon Slicing - Lawn behind
Graham Memorial.
8:30-10:30 Square Dance Y Court
Thursday, July 30
8:30-10:30 Recorded Classical Music
North lawn of Graham Memorial
Friday, July 31
8:30 Barefoot Ball Graham Memo
rial Lounge (no shoes allowed on
the floor)
Saturday, August 1
9:00 Cadet Dance Woollen Gymnasium
Sunday, August 2
8:30 Music Under the Stars-Stadium
-Kenan
Announcing tentative plans for the
fall quarter, W. J. Smith, speaker of
Student Legislature, stated that an
entirely new- system of representa
tion would have to be installed, due
to the arrival of the Naval Pre-Flight
school and other problems which have
arisen in the past few months.
Smith said that the legislature was
"to be, more than ever, a service or
ganization, helping the students in
their problems and in helping them
present bills and measures of value
to the entire student body."
Under the proposed new set-up an
entirely different- system -of repTesert
tation will be used. In the past each
dormitory had one member on the
legislature, each class had three, and
the interfraternity council had five.
However, with the Navy's taking over
of ten of the dormitories, those ten
members have no one to represent.
With more boys than ever living in
fraternity houses and in town, the
problem arises as to how legislature
representation cart be arranged, how
many should be elected, and how elec
tions could be so feed that every sec
tion in town and the fraternity houses
could have equal representation, Smith
asserts. Under. the new plan, Smith
ana iarr aorms wmcn nave never
before had representation, would each
be allowed one member.
Another probable change in legis
lature policy this fall will be that
pertaining to budgets, Smith indicat
ed. In the past conflict has arisen
between the legislature and student
fees organizations as to budgets. Un
der the new plan the legislature will
grant a total amount that may be
spent and it will go to Graham Me
morial fees, publications fees, and en
tertainment fees.
It is going to be the policy of the
legislature this fall to have closer
contact between the members and the
students whom they represent," said
Smith, "and we want the student's
representatives not only to be in
terested in campus affairs, but to in-
See LEGISLATURE, page 3
For editorial comment, see page 2
controller and business manager of ttis
University, stated. "If necessary, Gra
ham Memorial and the Carolina Inn
can still be expanded," he said.
Cafeteria equipment will be trans
ferred from Lenoir to the new location
and Naval cadets will eat "family
style." Since, plumbing, fixtures and
uateVejt1wn'remain Jn Swain
from its previous use as a cafeteria,
the new equipment can be installed with
a minimum of expense and time. Com
plete new kitchen facilities will have
to be acquired.
Self-help students may obtain work
in the new cafeteria and negotiations
are in progress with the Navy to allow
students to continue work at Lenoir.
No agreement has yet been reached.
The faculty-student-administration
groups discarded the proposal to con
struct a modern and "swank" cafeteria
in the basement of Lenoir in favor of
the Swain Hall plan. The latter of
fered the determining advantages of
being more rapidly and cheaply accom
plished without offering as much dan
ger of curtailment due to construction
priorities.
Though prices cannot be determined
at present because of fluctuating wage
scales and food prices, Dean House
stated that "meals will be served as
cheaply, as possible."
In consenting to move NROTC of
fices and equipment from Swain Hall,
Captain Popham, head of the reserve
unit, said that "the unit should be con
sidered as part of the University and
is ready to cooperate with the adminis
tration in meeting war-time problems."
Frosh to Meet
Dean R. B. Parker, dean of men,
yesterday announced that all fresh
men will meet in Gerrard hall at
8 o'clock Wednesday night-
Watermelon Slicing; Square Dance Tomorrow
Highlight Actiyities Calendar for Week
The summer school traditional ac
tivity the gigantic watermelon slic
ing wiir be held tomorrow night at
8 o'clock on the lawn behind Graham
Memorial, Miss Helen Dugan, sum
mer quarter activities announced yes
terday in conjunction with Henry Moll,
Student union director.
Postponed from last Friday because
of rain," the mass feast will provide
sumptuous repasts of watermelon for
all students of the second session.
Moll indicated the possibility of seed
spitting contests to make the feast
profitable for the more proficient
watermelon eaters.
Immediately following the feast, an
other in the series of weekly square
dances will be held on the plaza in
ront of the YMCA building. Popu-
arized by Richard "Fish" Worley,
union director of last year, the square
dances have proved one of the most
popular events provided on the sum- J not later than 6 o'clock tomorrow
mer activities calendar.
Hill country music will be provided
on the open dance floor via record
ings. The dance is scheduled from
8:30 until 10:30.
Open Concert Tonight
Tonight, the junior edition of "Mu
sic Under the Stars," the Recorded
Popular Music Concert on the north
lawn of Graham Memorial will be held
from 8:30 until 10:30 sponsored by
the Graham Memorial Student' Union.
Chairs will be provided on the green
swarth for the more dignified and
blankets will be used by the others.
The same program, featuring clas
sical music instead of popular music,
will be held Thursday night from 8:30
until 10:30 on the lawn adjacent to
the Union building. Requests for cer
tain music should be made at the Di
rector's office in Graham Memorial
evening.
Two dances, one for the Navy and
one for the students, round out the
weekend program. The second Bare
foot Ball to be held this summer will
be held Friday night beginning at
8:30 in the Graham Memorial lounge.
No shoes will be allowed on the dance
floor, and a shoe check booth will be
provided in the small lounge to safe
guard the students' apparel for the
pediments while the owners are on
the dance floor.
Music for the Barefoot Ball will
emanate from the Director's office by
way of popular recordings of the lead
ing orchestra leaders of the nation.
The University plays host to the
Naval Pre-Flight contingent with a
Navy Ball - to be given in Woollen
Gymnasium Saturday night. Girls
See WATERMELON, page 3