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Take Off the Blindfold
And still the question of freezing student government remains
untouched. "
In five days a New Officers' Training School will be staged
for two days. Its ostensible purpose is to prepare officers-elect
to take over thefr jobs. On the surface the program appears
well planned for the Student Council representatives "duties
and functions of student government;" for legislators "making
and passing of laws;" for class presidents "class budgets and
functions." ' . : .
But in releases to the Daily Tar Heel so far, not one word
about freezing or specific problems of a wartime student gov
ernment. Apparently to date there has been no consideration
of the eventuality of freezing.
This in the light of the establishment of the Navy's V-12 pro
gram in July when all naval reservists on the campus go on ac
tive duty. At that time, three months from now, the Council
may well find itself deprived of the authority to try any cases
involving naval students, the Legislature unable to pass any
laws for .the whole campus which do not meet the approval of
the officer-in-command. By that time, too, without a doubt,
class government will be ex post facto.
This indicates only slightly the critical problems facing Caro
lina student government within the next few -weeks. And pres
ent plans call for a formal orientation that does little more than
inaugurate men who are yet unaware of what they face.
We see 'no reason why the Student Council in charge of the
Training School, cannot look around the corner and insert a se
ries of thorougn discussions on the advisability of freezing or
at least the modification of student government to fit the cru
cial years of the war ,
We have not time now for blindfolds.
Duke Lawyers Miss Boat
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Tuesday night Duke University officials tossed overboard a
proposal for the merger of the Duke, Carolina, and Wake For
est law schools, and with the toss went a chance for the three
schools to greatly strengthen their depleted legal units during
the next few years.
In the past, Duke and the University have cooperated for the
benefit of both institutions in making available the libraries of
each to the other, and Carolina has aided the NC College for
Negroes by sending them visiting professors. Such moves have
done much to strengthen the schools affected and have pro
vided a step forward in furthering relations between them. -
The mergers of the three law schools would have been a great
step in the same direction, for after the war the demand for
legally trained minds will be immense. The government how
ever, is not deferring lawyers, leaving law schools to get along
as best they can. The proposed merger would have been a sound
solution to this problem as it would have been economical as
well as affording students in each of the three universities the
best teachers from each. In this way, an able group of young
lawyers could be graduated to help with the settlement of post
war difficulties, both domestic and foreign.
Under present conditions in legal schools throughout most of
the country, there will be an acute shortage of lawyers in an
other 15 or 20 years. Yet the state of North Carolina could have
provided it with many able ones if the merger could have been
realized.
At best now, the law schools of all three universities are going
to find the going tough for the next few years. Perhaps the one
at Duke can get enough funds from the university that supports
it to maintain itself in spite of decreased enrollment, but she
could have rendered a valuable service to the rest of the state
had she cooperated with her neighbors for the next three years.
In not so doing, she has exerted an unwarranted individuality
for the good of the fewest, in direct opposition to the aims of
most universities.
In Dutch high schools and universities, the "resurrection" is
featured by an impending purge of students who persist in
thinking they can "undisturbedly choose sides against National
Socialism, against the occupying power." The wholesale purge,
according to Anton .Mussert, Nazi puppet leader of the Nether
lands, will strike at student "agitators, saboteurs and hench
men of the gentlemen of London and Washington."
Gas rationing brought a request from students for a Saturday
night "night club" of their own, and the result was the Long
horn room of the union. The room is complete with red checked
tablescloths, student floor show, a nickelodian for dance music
-and cactus. -
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By Charley Johnson
and Chuck Howe
Lakeside, N. C, with its
population of 150, doesn't even
qualify as a -village. The in
habitants call it "a wide place
in the road," and I guess
they're about right. "A wide
place in the road" with three
filling stations, two churches,
a general store, a grist mill, a
pond oyer across the Seaboard
tracks.
Down by the highway the
houses are pretty close to
gether, but they gradually get
fartlier and farther apart as
you go back in. Pretty soon
you can't tell where Lakeside
ends and open country begins.
Down in the valley below the
dam though, the houses are
huddled close together, some
dozen unpainted shacks where
the fifty-odd colored folks live.
"Happy Hollow" the white
people call it.
Lakeside, population 150;
40 farmers, and their wives
and kids. Johnny Cooper's
about typical of all 40. Some
are older, some a little young
er; some have more "young
'uns" or chickens or hound
dogs, some less. But the other
thirty-nine are all cut from the
same basic cloth that Johnny
Cooper is. 1
Johnny's twenty-eight, and
Ruby, his wife, is four years
younger. Johnny finally got
through the consolidated high
school down the river at Pine
Falls, but Ruby quit in her
senior year to marry him.
That was eight years ago. Now
they've got three youngsters
with another due sometime in
May. Johnny's a "butter-and-eggs"
man on a small sort of
scale he's got a good-size
flock of layers and five Jersey
cows. He gets up at five every
morning and does the milking,
then goes on his route, looks
after the poultry and farms
until it's time to milk again.
He and Ruby generally listen
to the radio after supper until
' nine ; then they go to bed. Sat
urday nights they go to the
dance over at Smith's store or
drive down to Pine Falls for a
movie ; Sunday mornings they ;
go to church and pray and lis
ten to the reverend's blood and
thunder and sing "The Old
Rugged Cross." If a calf dies,
or a chicken hawk plunders the
flock, or the price of eggs goes
down, Johnny doesn't tear his
hair and get a bad case of jan
gled nerves. More often than
not he'll just shrug his shoul
ders and forget.
Johnny 'Cooper's deferred as
a farm worker, but his three
brothers Coaker, Bradley and
Kleeter all enlisted a year
ago last Christmas.
Lakeside has a few drunks
but no communists, socialists,
atheists, usurers, or conscien
tious objectors. Its philoso
phers adorn the nail kegs at :
Smith's and fish on the dam in
the sun, totally oblivious of
Hegel, Freud, Rousseau and
Kant. No one in Lakeside ever
worried about Faust's "funda
mental springs of all being"
or because economists call the
South the nation's number one
problem. No one in Lakeside
ever went to Dix Hill either.
Go ahead and call them
bumpkins, yokels, jerks ; bes
tial, unthinking, atavistic.
They're quite happy.
Call them dumb. A hundred
years from now : if they're
right, they'll be in Heaven, you
and I in Hell; if we're right,
their bones will be just as white
as ours. C.H.
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Navy s
NAVAL RESERVE CLASS V-12 APPRENTICE SEAMEN
The new Navy College training program, (V-12), will start
about July 1. The program will absorb most of the college stu
dents now on inactive duty in one of the Navy's reserve pro
grams, V-l, V-5, V-7, or in the Marine Corps Reserve. It will
also include students who hold probationary commissions in the
U.S. Naval Reserve, and those
qualified who enlisted in the
Army Enlisted Reserve Corps
with Navy, Marine Corps, or
Coast Guard preference.
Requirements For Enlistment
Age:, 17 to 19, inclusive,, as
of July 1, 1943. Education: 1)
Secondary school graduates
(whether attending college or
not) , or seniors to be gradu
ated before July 1, 1943. 2)
Students, without certificates
of graduation from a secon
dary school, who are attending
any accredited college or uni
versity. Other Requirements:
1) Male citizen of the U.S. 2)
Morally and physically quali
fied, including minimum vi
sion of 1820, uncorrected. 3)
Unmarried, and remain so un
til commissioned, unless soon
er released by the Navy De
partment. 4) Evidence poten
tial officer qualifications, in
cluding, appearance and schol
arship records.
Procedure For Enlistment
Local high schools and col
leges now have the prelimin
ary application forms for the
V-12 program. Each applicant
will be required to submit this
form, properly filled out and
certified by a high school prin
cipal or college administrator.
Candidates who are obviously
below physical standards or
who show evidence of inade
quate educational preparation
are to be refused certification.
Qualifying tests, to be held
on April 2, will take place
throughout the nation. Follow
ing the tests, successful can
didates will be requested to re
port to the nearest Office of '
Naval Officer Procurement at
their own expense. Here they
will be interviewed and given
a thorough physical examina
tion. Those who survive this
additional screening will have
their qualifications reviewed
by a Selection Committee, con
sisting of an educator, a rep
resentative civilian, and a Na
val officer. The decision' of
this committee in choosing
students for the program will
be final.
Status of Successful
Candidate
Candidates accepted by the
Navy will be enlisted in Class
V-12. Those who are under 18
years old at the time of their
enlistment at Offices of Naval
Procurement will be placed on
inactive duty until they are
ordered to college. Students
will be assigned to the Navy
College Training Program in
two groups. The first group
will report to colleges .and uni
versities, now being selected
by the Navy, on or about
July 1, 1943. The second group
will report on or about Novem
ber 1. Another group will re
port about March 1, 1944, fol
lowing selection late in 1943.
Students may express a
preference for the branch of
service, Navy, Marine Corps,
or Coast Guard, and for as
signment to colleges on the
Navy list. They must also ex
press a preliminary choice of
courses of study. These
choices will not be binding,
however, for final assignment
will be based on the needs of
the service, demonstrated
ability, and counseling during
the first two semesters.
Training
Students trained for general
duties will receive 4 terms of
college work of 16 weeks each,
Full Details On
New
V-12
totaling 1 13 years of college
study.
Chaplain, Medical, Dental
Officers will receive 12 six
teen week terms.
Engineer specialists will re
ceive 8 sixteen week terms.
Engineer general duty will
receive 6 sixteen week terms.
Deck and Marine Line Offi
cers will receive 5 sixteen
week terms.
Aviators will receive 2 six
teen week terms.
Courses for the initial two
terms will be similar for all
students, except pre-medical
and pre-dental, and will em
phasize fundamental college
Coeds Enlist in Reserves
As Officer Candidates
Women college students now
in their senior year will be ac
cepted as officer candidates for
the Navy and Coast Guard
women's reserves under a mod
ification of requirements an
nounced today by Captain M.
C. Robertson, USN, Director of
Sixth Naval District Officer
Procurement.
Candidates must present an
endorsement from special fac
ulty committees which the
Navy Department is request
ing colleges to set up. They will
not be called to active duty un
til after graduation.
The plan has been inaugu
rated to enable the Navy to en
list outstanding college seniors
who have talents and ability to
contribute to the Naval and
Coast Guard service despite
lack of professional experience.
Previously the only non-college
graduates accepted were those
who had two years college
training plus two years busi
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Training
work in mathematics, science,
English, history, engineering
drawing and physical training.
v Pre-medical, and pre-dental
- students will substitute chem
- istry and foreign language
for English and history. All
students inducted into the
V-12 program will receive in
struction in Naval organiza
tion and general Naval orien
tation. At the conclusion of
their college work, students
will take specialized Naval
training leading to commis
sions. Additional elective courses
are permitted in case this
work does not interfere with
the proper performance of as
signed duties. If the college is
satisfied that a student has
adequately covered any of the
subjects included in the
course, it may authorize the
See V-12, page J
ness experience.
A student wishing to enter
the WAVES or SPARS should'
contact an office of Naval Of
ficer Procurement located in
the Healey Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. ;
N. C. State College, Raleigh,.
N. C; University of South
Carolina, Columbia, S. C. ; The
Center,' Charleston, S. C. ; and
Lynch Bldg., Jacksonville, Fla.
Applicants should obtain a
certificate from tjie dean of the
college stating that the appli
cant will graduate on a cer
tain date and an endorsement
from the committee. Letters
are being mailed to accredited
colleges explaining the pro
cedure and asking appointment
of the committees.
Upon graduation candidates
must submit transcripts of
their college records and those
accepted will be sent to Smith
College for training. Those
who fail to qualify will be dis
charged, or, if desired, trans
ferred to enlisted status.
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