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pAGfe TWd What Went, What Goes " U iinniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiim MR Convenes; Swam Probe Gets Under Way ; Borms Go To Navy; Refrigeration c Carolina's Sixth Institute of Human Relations started Thurs day to give war-confused students some idea of what they will be fighting for. For 12 months students and student organiza tions had mulled and milled around the question. Sporadic Daily Tar... Heel" editorials and a CPU panel had hit at, but not on, any coherent answer to the question. Trouble was that speakers and editorialists tried to integrate the factors for the students without giving facts or factors to be integrated. TTictifnp succeeds where other attempts have failed. Speakers Ball, Flynn, Lee, Yakhub, Dykstra, Martin and the rest haven't the big names of the usual CPU and IRC plat formists. But neither have they the big names' inhibitions about divulging facts and speaking frankly. Students could and did come to hear why or why not the United Nations should organize immediately for peace, how highly touted Latin American relations were actually develop ing, why India should immediately be granted independence.. This week they will hear Clarence Dykstra lucidly explain the validity of democracy in a world revolution. Unlike other University activities, the Institute is profiting from the war. And the students are sharing the dividends. Wednesday night the Phi and Di assemblies met in joint session to review their findings and had as unexpected guests, W. D. Carmichael and L. B. Rogerson, controller and assistant controller of the University. Both gentlemen had previously declined an invitation to speak at the meeting and present the business administration's side of the allegedly high food prices at Swain hall. Carmichael spoke for the two. He reminisced about Swain and the men who had eaten there in the past and the hundreds of students who had been able to pay their way through Caro lina by doing self-help work there. The DTH reporter covering 'the meeting squirmed when Carmichael compared the paper to . a piece of litmus paper which "made you blue one day, and then made you see red the next." Whether it was acid or alkaline in handling the Swain facts he didn't say. Concluding, Carmichael advocated a student advisory com mittee to meet with the administration to investigate and try to solve the Swain and future financial problems. During the whole furor, everyone forgot the student living was merely incidental to the theorists. South building moguls announced that most of the campus had previously guessed, i.e. that the Navy would get 99 44100 of the University's dormitories this summer. Such a move is only logical with such a large portion of the current student body scheduled to go on active duty in the new Navy reserve program beginning in July. Some griped about the announcement. Most understood. The gripers didn't seem to realize that only coeds, 4F's, and a few specially deferred students would be out of uniform come July 1. The administration did not, however, state where those few would eat, sleep, and play. 'Perhaps some of them knowing the Navy's eye for exclusive ness while dining are wondering if Swain and perhaps Graham Memorial grill will be given over to them en toto. Little more than a month remains for the administration to plan for those civilians. If they want civilians next year, they must lay plans for de cent eating places, reasonable rents, some diversion.' The long-prognosticated freezing of student government started Wednesday night when new speaker Terrell Webster of the Legislature appointed his emergency committee to turn on the refrigeration switch. That there would be difficulties was already apparent. The necessary refrigeration would probably be handicapped by warm antagonism by those who optimistically believed that the topheavy machinery of student government could be main tained by and for a handful of civilian students. OLDEST COLLEGE DAILY IN THE SOUTH The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the Univer sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. Member Pbsockited GoHe6ate Press bucky ii ar ward Ernie Frankel, Bob Covington Associate Editors : Henry Moll, Walter Damtoft Night Editors: Jud Kinberg, Fred Kanter. Editorial Board: Pete Gulledge. Columnists: Jimmy Wallace, Dave Hanig, Harvey Segal, Chuck Howe, CharMe Johnson. Kat Hill, Sara Yokley, Dick Adler. Reporters Jud Kinberg, Madison Wright, Kat Hill, Larry Dale, Sara Yokley, Sarah Niven, Jane Cavenaugh, John Kerr, O. P. Charters, Gloria Caplan, Bob Lindsay, Roland Giduz, Faison Thompson. Sports Columnists: Westy Fenhagen, Ben McKinnon. Sports Staff: Lloyd Koppel, Art Shain, George Mitchell, Bob Goldwater. Photographers: Karl Bishopric, Tyler Norse. Local Advertising Managers: Henry Petuske, Cal Warren. Durham Representative: Gleason Allen. Advertising Staff: Jane McLure, Tommy Thompson, Mildred Wilkerson, Elise Hutchison, Fran Defandorf, Bebe Castleman, Sanford Doxey. Circulation Staff: Wayne Kernodle, Bill Dunnagan. " FOR THIS ISSUE: News Editor: FRED KANTER EPKtWNTID FOR NATIONAL ADVBfcriBINQ Y National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 Madison Ave. New York. N. Y. CHICAPO BOSTON LOS AHOBLCS SAM FRANCISCO .Editor ..Managing Editor Business Manager THE DAILY , By Kat Hill and Sara Yokley The probable occupation of fraternity houses by coeds next year has the Greek-letter men worried. The mental picture of girls playing1 bridge in the tro phy rooms, sun-bathing on up per porches, or chattering away in the rooms where mem orable bull sessions once took place seems sacreligious. Knowing how one fraternity feels about the gossip sessions that will possibly replace all night poker games in the front living-room of their house next fall, a coed decided to rub it in. In her most matronly voice she called to the second floor from the foot of the stairs, "Boys, this is Mrs. Stacy. I'm here with a bunch of girls to inspect your rooms." Upstairs scrambling was heard ; boys hid bottles beneath their beds, hastily threw on clothes and tried to tidy up before the dean of women marched in to take over. When they straggled down the stairs, weary from the sudden house cleaning, they found one sadistic coed doubled with laughter. With the Armed Forces A pre-met student under the influence of spring and the charms of a coed decided the other night that he should pin her up. But fraternity pins don't come with khaki uni forms. Being an ingenious fel low he presented his dog col lar, the identification tag that pre-met students wear around their necks. With southern graciousness she accepted. With an understanding of spring nights here she prompt ly returned it to him in the next day's mail. Carmichael's speech to the Di and Phi about food prices in Swain Hall brought forth the following school spirited remark : "Anyone born with a Swain Hall fork in his mouth is more fortunate than those who are born with proverbial silver spoons." (Stage direc tions : "Hark the Sound" is playing -softly in the back ground.) Horn-rim Glasses The manager of the Durham Dairy wandering alone amid the turned up chairs and dark ened fountain . . . the house that Levin broke ... A white clad negress in the ' Durham bus station walked into the waiting room yester day and solemnly announced: "The spirit of the Lord has told me to tell you that Jesus is com ing soon." As she repeated this statement in a doleful voice a group of Carolina stu dents walked from the room , and boarded a bus to Chapel Hill. She might have more luck with Duke students, for North Carolinians have a tendency to agree with the old negro who didn't want to go to heaven, but wanted instead to spend his eternity twelve miles from Durham. S. Y. DYKSTRA ( Continued from first page) fense Board. Problems of a uni versity in time of world chaos mounted up at Wisconsin and in June of the same year forced him to give up the Labor post and de vote his full energies to the main tenance of his college. Retirement Even after this retirement from the Washington posts, he has kept "in the middle" of things and still is termed as one of "Roosevelt's most trusted advis ers." : TAB HEEL Canadian Lightweight Contender ToTake On Marine Champ Tough Mieresimg aim ijfliamcwnzv -. By Lee Bronson Clarence Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin, and this year's Weil lecturer has long been a favorite with stu dent and faculty groups. Although he has a reputation for be ing a stiff prof his classes have always been extremely popu lar. He is particularly famed as a thorough and dynamic speaker. ' ' . n that, students were not living m an ivory tower, that they were ture but were part of a com plex and challenging society. He emphasizes student enthu siasm with a purpose behind it and encourages students to go into practical politics. A sharp critic oif books and ideas, Dykstra was a Wilson ian Democrat during and fol lowing the first war and a strong backer of the New Re public. Those who have studied with him feel that he has a strong sense of realism and OF the Free 'American Boy' Describes His Feelings A t Front By Richard Adler I have a friend. Seven months ago he enlisted in the Army as a private. Today he is still in this country attached to the Army Air Corps, waiting to go overseas. He is' a typical American boy who grew up playing football and baseball. His mature outlook, however,' is far above the norm and his ability to crys tallize situations that are both puzzling and sensitive to everybody place him in the "unusual" category. Still, one might say that his attitude is a typical cross-section of the thinking college boy who en ters the service. At 20 his views are pessimistic, natur alistic and quite logical. It is to present another, and com pletely realistic viewpoint that I am running excerpts from his letter in this column. You will find them, full of emotion, lacking sentimentality, down to earth, and honest. October 3. "Not too much I can write about the Army. Haven't been able to intellectualise my feel ings and put them in their proper place as yet. So far have remained quite objective especially in relationship to its discipline. Feel more at peace mentally, and then again, I sometimes wonder. War prob ably creates more evil than it kills, but what alternative - have, we? At least if I come through, I'll be a wiser, (not necessarily finer person.) And also, if one does not pay too dear a price, it is an exciting and interesting experience'. Exciting because it is new interesting because of its ac tion ; its living off the preci pice (as Nietsche would say.) I'm forced to look at it through a mirror and as yet it has not meaning to me . . ." . October 20. "Still war has no meaning" to me. I've been unable to crystalize the vastness of its impressions. Perhaps in 10 years or 20 years, when mem ory and hopes and perspective, and our dreams will all be uni fied, it will penetrate, really truly to the core. Am still an irrevocable romantic at heart, a weakness which, in addition, first showed itself when I left college. I should sit with Spinoza, or Kant, and Newton on one city block for my whole lifetime and know the Uni verse, humanity better than the wanderers . . ." November 3. Passing Notes : A great deal of profanity here little de sire for women on my part (and I don'fr drink the coffee) not only preparing for the fu have been impressed with his ability to appraise public opin ion. He predicted the Wilson election of 1916 accurately and has many times since correctly indicated the direction in which elections and thought trends were moving. Prominent in Dykstra's po litical philosophy are his two theories of political action, creation of a? more intelligent electorate, and the develop- thrown in the midst of moun tains of men . . . plenty of time to think, especially when marching. The feeling is out of this world. One hundred men in unison complete sub mission, almost mystical like drowning, when your whole life wells before you . . . the officer situation is bad the men have little love or respect ; only fear afraid of the uni form, and what it represents. My pal is an Irish cop kind and sad . . December 7. "My feelings on the war grow stronger and stronger. I can't possibly see how any good will come out of it no aims stated . . . gradual es trangement from .China, Rus sia, and India (If we can call estrangement what never really existed) tremendous nationalistic feeling Com plete loss of perspective on every other war or peace." January 10. "Typical example of army life just took place. Wallen stein was playing Mozart, and the radio was turned to a quiz program. My whole soul wants to do something but the ma jority rules. Yet it is no catas trophe. Perhaps I build up walls and monasteries more than necessary. I love the peo ple in an abstract way hoping forever for their salvation even willing to do anything for them ... I have just acted and turned the radio back to Mozart. A bold movement; and now no more Hamlets." "The war seems quite far away at this point. The news seeps in by rumor or some Pottstown Post always a week late . . . Very few will talk politics rather play pok er or read Superman or Dick Tracy, and pray for the end and quickly . . .1 think I should like to spend the rest of my time dreaming . . ." "More and more I lose life . and strive for it universally as I lose it. Not so much for ourselves or - for anyone in the individual through the way of the "Spirit" I feel that possibly there is some salva tion some basis for peace. In Russia, China, . America the new hopes, I see the eternal SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1943 9 O 1JTQf1 4 ment of more responsible lead ership. In a desire to put these theories into concrete action he left teaching for a number of years and worked success fully toward better city gov ernment in Los Angeles, Cleve land, and Chicago. During the time that Dyk stra was in active teaching he was a frequenter of fraternity houses and other student resi dences where his ideas stimu lated many thoughtful bull sessions. His students remem ber one occasion when a dis cussion started at the luncheon table continued until dinner, with waiters clearing, and re setting the tables and serving the dinner under the noses of ' the spellbound boys. The outstanding characteris tic of Dykstra is his versatility and his unfailing success in every field in which he has worked. In addition to his teaching, he has served as city manager of Cincinnati, clean ing up the city's wasteful and graft-ridden city government. He headed America's first peacetime draft as Selective Service director from 1940-41, resigning in March of that year to chairman the newly created National Defense Board. Since that time he has returned to the University of Wisconsin, where he is engaged in piloting the university through what is a crucial time in the life of edu- - cational institutions. history of the old perhaps new words but old methods and ends . . ." April 3 "The women may weep and go without meat, and the mothers may die of heart break, but still it is our war as in 30 years it will be our chil dren's war . . . "I know we will always manage to write to each oth er ..." UP (Continued from first page) dance committee and as president of the Shiek club. He is now vice president of the Kappa Alpha fraternity and represents this group on the Inter Fraternity Council. Native of Richmond, Miss Flannagan has served in the Coed Senate since she came to Caro lina last fall and Friday night was elected as speaker pro-tem of that body. She is a member of the A D Pi sorority and of the YWCA. A rising sophomore from Lum berton where he was president of his high school senior class, John Stedman is now treasurer of the freshman class. He was elected to the sophomore honor council for next year. CORPS (Continued from first page) an extensive survey of the situa tion, and should be able to answer any questions on the purpose and nature of the corps, Parker said. It is hoped that there will be one representative from each dormi tory, fraternity, sorority, and town district, as well as a group of interested students. Organization heads stated that if there was not sufficient inter est the corps would not be mo bilized. Besides Allison, Parker, and Pardue, other members of the committee are Mary McKeethan, Judy Weed, Dotson Palmer, Madison Wright, and Sidney La nier of the Self-help office.
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