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SATURDAY. JANUARY 18, 1947 Psge Two I ' " " Confusion "Unbelievable, but true," is a term that can well be applied to the situation prevailing daily at Caldwell hall. One of the busiest classroom buildings on this busy campus, Caldwell is jammed with students at every hour throughout the morning. Yet the many students must all come and go by way of the small front door. Which they can't do in any reasonable fashion. Morning after morning students are forced to queue up in lines resembl ing a New York subway rush hour. If anything, the subway crowd moves faster. Because of the single, small entrance-exit, it takes most stu dents the goodly part of the 10-minute period between classes to get in and out of the building. General confusion is the re sult." . : ; j , : The situation would be bad if nothing could be done about it. What . makes it worse, something can be done about it. There are doors at both sides of the building. But they are closed. Dr. Robson, head of the political science department in the build ing, told us he has repeatedly requested that the doors be open ed. Such a move would alleviate matters no end. : . The two side entrances are supposed to be fire exits. But they are locked. If fire were to break out in Caldwell hall, it would be humanly impossible for the students to get out of the front door safely, and panic would undoubtedly cost additional lives. As it now stands the situation is highly impractical and cre ates a troublesome bottleneck. Opening even one of the side doors would allow for a smoother flow of student traffic and give people a chance to get in and out of the building convenient lya chance they don't have now. It would also give them an even break in case of fire some thing not beyond the realm of possibility because of the care less manner in which many students handle matches and cigar--ettes. This newspaper will campaign to have the side doors opened immediately for the benefit of everyone concerned. If there can be a valid reason for keeping the doors locked, we will find it out and see if it can't be changed. The present situation at Caldwell is farcical and dangerous ! Time Is At the recent National Student Organizations convention in Chicago, student leaders from all over the nation hailed the Uni versity's official student constitution as one of the country's outstanding accomplishment's in student governmental ma chinery. The Daily Tar Heel almost agrees with them! Almost, because v the constitution is in a nebulous state, and is only un officially in effect now nearly two years after the first work was begun on it. . If it is to go into effect at all before April 1948, much work must be done, "arid fast! Though student government is now operating , under , the bill, one of the most important sections, the fee structure, is yet not in effect and all student activities fees remain controlled under a system installed in 1923. This new fee structure which we believe infinitely superior to the present system, would give the student legislature authority to collect and apportion all student fees up to $20 per school year. The student legislature, student body, and administration have all approved this provision as well as the rest of the constitution. However, this new fee structure must also be approved by the University Board of Trustees before going into effect. This must be. done soon. Section 5, Article I of the constitution states: "The Student Legislature shall not alter the fee struc ture for a given school year later than April first of the school year immediately preceding." This means that if this new sys tem of fee collections is not in effect within the next ten weeks, it cannot go into effect before April, 1948, as the constitution now stands. v ; Thus the trustees must act to approve. this section Jn annole time 5to permit the University : business department to prepare the necessary forms and get the new machinery rolling before Aprili. ,.. . - ; .... - ,nt t Despite this, Student Body .President Dewey Dorsett stated yesrday, that the committee on constitutional revision, appoint ed by him las summer to consider possible changes in the docu ment before its final adoption, was yet completing, changes in the,consti:ution,; which will bq presented to the legislature f or approval in the last meeting of the month, a week from next , flfda,. Should fthex legislatures approve the changes, a ;jtwo thirds afiirmative vote of the student bodyuiwill be .required if or ratification of the changes. Then, the changes wili be subject toppfqval of the administration. When, this js completed, Por sett will give the constitution to President Graham, who will thei present the section on the fee structure to the trustees for approval or rejection. , - ..y! t ,o . u . , - .l This leaves a tremendous amount of work to be done, and an alarmingly: short time in .which to do iL Though we favor im mediate presentation of the cpnstitution to ? the trustees with amendments after it is finally in effect, at this stagewith most of the conges nearly ready for presentation, to the legislature we can only urge speedy, careful work Only ten more weeks remain! . . at Caldwell Short! Strictly Detrimental .... Students Who - Oil Deserve Midnight Snack r By Jud Kinberg Raising to the full height of its bureaucratic hindlegs, University official dom has started a thorough hot-plate hunt through the dormitories, in which it looks like the students are once again going to get burned. The offensive equipment is to be snatched from rooms, seized as contraband and impounded. The reason given for this descent ; " " upon such items is that, they are a fire hazard, repeatedly cause the pre mature death of many a good fuse and the residue of foodstuffs cooked on and in them serve as sustinence for marauding "ants and other in sects." I'm not quibbling with Ad ministration bloodhounds about the dire results unchecked hotplates can have upon that suttle dormitory com munity life. Such offenders against the power lines must and should be yanked out. It does seem to me, though, that while we're clean-sweeping the dormitories, it would prove benefi cial to ponder the "why" of the "hot plates, coffee pots and appli ances other than radios and lamps." They are obviously the result of a complete lack of any social or gas tronomic facilities in the dormitor ies. , The average college man rarely closes his last book of the night until well past the witching hour. At twelve or one o'clock in the morning there is no food shop open in Chapel Hill. Even if there were, it's a far piece to travel after an evening of intensive study. To provide for early morning and late-at-night hungers, why not set up an approved refri gerator and hot-plate in each of the men's dormitories? The men them selves could stock it and very little janitorial effort would be necessary to keep it clean. Of course, the food problem could be pursued further into a suggestion for the future that we follow the Har vard plan and have full-fledged, three-meal kitchens in our new dor mitories. Whether that is contem plated seems very unlikely. But the small, range-refrigerator units could Foo Foo and Friends Discuss Their Problems A nd Progress Concerning Pins, Parties, Men By Tookie Hodgson The present school year having pro gressed some three or four months, editor William Dumderclick, the fly ing Dutchman and Czar of all the Daily Tar Heels, summoned me to his sumptuous offices and bade me seek an interview with Foo Foo Jellyroll, the campus queen. "Hodgson," quoth Sweet William, "It is now time to again ferret out J the inimitable Miss Jellyroll and ask her to regale our nigniy intel ligent readers as to the trials and tribulations of the coed body." "Aye, aye, excellency!" I replied, saluting smartly. "I shall do what with treasure. The coed iF body, particularly as exemplified by Miss Foo Foo Jellyroll, holds a great deal of interest for me!" And without further ado, I mounted Meteor III, my faithful pogo stick, and was on my way hopping merrily over hill, dale and mud puddle. A cold drizzly. rain impeded my journeying some what, but being an old Chapel Hill ian, the mild case of pneumonia I con tracted from it, affected, my pogo stick technique only slightly and in but a few moments I arrived at my destination, the Mu Cow Mu sorority house. I found, at this manse of female Greekdom, not only the lovely Foo Foo, but also, two of her most in timate companions, Miss "Hot Gar ters" Swoonlow and Miss Tallulah Lou McSwingit. --it ; Miss Jellyroll - was discussing sorr ority matters of great import with her two friends and not wishing to intrude uDon r-this typically girlish chitchat, I lingered oh-the -patio, one . keenlv alert for newsworthy items.;:; . , . . . . r -. . "Well, girls," said . Foo; "We done it aeain! Our little" ladies have once again collected more f rat pms; than anv other sorority on the "campus. Vnro lpf's see we have ' seventeen Ink'a'-Dinka- Doo "piiisJleven Razma Tazma f pins, twenty-six i Lambda Damnda pins, nine Hie Haec Hoc f rat . 3 r a. TJa.. Vsvnr AA49 V " W . " badges, one Junior G-man badge, one old Wilkie butf on and seven hundred and ninety three discharge buttons. Oh, darn it! I told you, Hot Garters, hat those discharge buttons dont count!" Y 1 A 41 Goodnes!" answered; Miss Swoonlow.v "Do you mean I've gone through all that for nothing?-Oh me, - think of tnose trips uirougo Burn -i- y Midnight easily be installed in even the oldest dorms as soon as completion of the new units frees a room for non-sleeping purposes. Meanwhile, plans for them should be included in the hos telries which are quickly threatening to block the view from Woollen Gym. At the same time, the older and more discussed question of social rooms in each man's dormitory also seems to have been forgotten. That they are closer to necessity than luxury is proven by their presence in the man's living quarters at most other schools. Perhaps they were unimportant in BVP when every man had his own sitting room, but I doubt if we will ever return to those wallowing luxury days. In fact, most dormen I know have lim ited their prayers to getting the third guy out of their cubbyhole. Certainly, in the dormitories now under construction there should be full allowance for at least one large four-walled area that can be desig nated as a social room. More than any other one thing, this Would lift a dormitory out of its present desig nation as a place where a student hangs his hat and pajamas. It would be a center for activities which would make the dorm a concentrated, effec-, tive community. To go far afield, so important have dormitories become at Harvard that they closely resemble fraternities in the interelation of their occupants. As one professor bluntly put it, "We just don't know how to live graciously here." It is about time that we started to learn. Social rooms in each dormitory plus the snack rooms are a first step in that essential edu cation. the Arboretum and all those beers I bought them! Oh, why didn't I listen to mother and go to St. Mary's?" Pooh thing!" echoed Miss Tallulah Lou McSwingit. "You all went at things the hard way, didn't you. Pul- snna 11 v. ah nlaved hard to git. Ah never let a boy kiss me until he look ed at me the second time. Never did have no trouble until that cross eyed boy started eyein' me. Then I liked to have gone crazy. One eye .looked West, one eye looked East and I was standin' South. It was awful!" "Tell me" asked Foo Foo, "How did everything turn out?" "Well," responded Tallulah Lou, "I was standin' South and he was a Southern bery, so we got together right away. All I had to do was to give the old rebel yell and let nature take its course." - "That's fine," answered Foo Foo, "But let us turn our heads to new er" matters. First, here's a little item . of our . sorority cosmetic bill. Let's see, last month the. girls used six vats of cold cream, one ton of face powder, six cases of rouge, eleven gross of lipstick, thirty pounds of mascara, ninety-five pairs of fake eyelashes, six hundred bot tles of peroxide, one thousand bot tles of nail polish, fourteen wigs, one cork leg and nineteen carloads of Kleenex. Now, I think that's al together too much stuff to be used in one month's time I" . , f "But, Foo Foo," protested i Hot Gar ters Swoonlow. "We have almost thirty girls in the sorority nowl' , "I don't care," responded Foo Foo, "We must'Cut down," and I think we should make that girl buy her own cork, legs VSi In, Jl. f As 'you say,- Foo Foo 5 answered the two sorority sisters deferring to Miss Jellyroll's' authority. "But it will ' be 'hard for us to give up our beauty'' treatments.'' & -Xiy- 1 15'-' : Well, anyhow," spoke Foo Foo; the campus queens " ine next jning io consider is what kind of la party we should give the Inka Dinka Doo fra ternity. They are such nice boys and they have such beautiful-fraternity pins. 'I really believe that we must give them our famous - 'Mu Cow Mu Supper Special Riot Party." " VGoody, goody," shrieked Foo Foo's charming - companions -who as - loyal coeds thought riots to be peers among parties.'"' Ui 3r: 'f.v-.f 'Let me see" began Miss Jellyroll Conference Diary Student-Government Topics Rt Tom From the panel discussion Covered in our last column, we moved to a regional caucus. North and South Carolina comprise our region There was difficulty in getting a chairman for the region, since it represents a tremen dous task in organization. Finally, when we were , about to adjourn vnthout a chairman, I nominated Ralph Wallace, a Negro from Bennett Col ege m Greensboro, to act as temporary chairman until sometime m April when the region will have been organized for its first meeting. Wallace was well-qualified in my opinion and was the only man who would accept the unpopular posi tion. There was limited opposition to the appointment, but Wallace was elected. Later the position was reconsidered, and Bill Miller, the only other Carolina delegate at the first caucus, agreed to assume the duty of co-chairman with Wallace. Bill felt that it would be fatal to have a Negro as chairman of the region. The majority of those meet ing with the caucus for the second time agreed that it -would-be im practical to have the future of the. regional organization in - Mr. Wal lace's hands. I do not consider my self an "extremist" when I admit that I cannot follow their reason ing completely in this respect, de spite the valid arguments which attend their conclusions. In theory, two men should be able to do a better job than one, but I am not prepared to admit with anyone that the white students of North and South Carolina are so prejudiced that they cannot co-operate with another student who is as well qualified as any one of them, be he a Negro, a Jew, a Chinaman, a Moslem, or any other decent indivi dual. I have more confidence in the college student than that! From the Regional Caucus we en tered the final Plenary Session. The aims of Panel IV again became the focal point when the delegate from Georgetown moved for a reconsidera tion of the aims of that Panel for the purpose of amending them (along the lines we had wanted in Panel IV.) His reason for doing this was because the delegate from Georgia had band ed together about five Southern "First we'll need a hogshead of whis key, one olive and a half of a teacup full of powdered sugar. That takes care of the punch, the punch with a punch we'll call it. Next, .we must have our trick floorshow in which we all dress up as brides and have mock weddings with the Inka Dinka Doo's, only these weddings won't be mock. We'll have a preacher handy as well as a few strait jackets for those boys nJh f11 newpper of th Publication Board of the UnlTrity of North Carolina f'1 aili. wh.re it i. published datl. except Monday ixajuu.tlon and racmUoa pcrtod! itu ; the official .ammer term, it i. p.bltobed nml-WMU; on Wdnday. and LSudaji. rfa 8. 1878. Bnbacription price t M.00 par mil 7ar. COMPLETE LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF UNITED PRESS The opinions expressed by the columniBu are their own and nut neces sarily those of The Daily Tar Heel. FOR THIS Night Editor: Bookie Jabine Crossword Puzzle ACBOSS 1 Still 4-Willow basket 9 Kind ot net 13 Mohammedan leader ; 13 Reason 14 Fruit drink 15 eplrlt 17 Coal ear- 18 Late in Italy -21 Cheat Iftlangl 23 Wrap for burial 25 It lx eont) 27 other ,vr""t 21-Wing S3 Street clearer ' 34 CompaM point 35 Tootb on wheel 3 Island off Greece 97 Bone . i8 Outei layer ot ceQ 41 Land ueasora 42 Desist 43 Cry of derision 44 Paradise 45 Albert 47 Little bit 49-CniUed -53 Noted golfer 87 Cuckoo Blacksmith' l' furnace l Ore ek letter I Wager 63 Lock of halt , 6ea eagle ' z i3 I p I I i7 I 1 1 y k I" "7- 19 20 777 TT ii 1 1 I 2J riTTarprp" l" a ?5- sTp-p-W 33 B Eller States Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Texas who said they would not be able to recommend that their schools enter the N.S.O. if the "racial" aims were left unamended. Carolina did not sign this "warrant of secession," but Bill Miller and I later agreed to walk out with them if a more fair, discussion were not conducted. We supported the delegate from Georgia because, although we were not certain how the student body at Carolina felt, we knew it was true that Georgia, Mississippi, etc. would not come back. The first move to reconsider fail ed and the South prepared to "se cede." However, the opposition saw the exigencies of the problem they faced and after several rousing and heated talks (Bill Miller made an effective, well-delivered one for the South), they gave in and the aims were made a special point of busi ness. Jim Smith of Texas presented the compromise which finally went through that all aims and clauses pertaining to the racial issue be held in abeyance until the Constitu tional Convention in September. There was little doubt that they wanted and needed the South in the National Students Organiza tion! With this accomplished, elections were conducted. Jim Smith of Texas was elected president; Russell Aus tin, vice president; . and Cliff Whar ton of Harvard, the executive secre tary. The staff committee, according to rules adopted, came from within a 150 mile radius of Chicago. I have retained most of the infor mation which I gathered at the con ference and will be glad to allow any one who wishes to peruse it at his disgression. The room is 105 Stacy Dormitory. With the Student Legislature's per mission, I hope to terminate this ser ies of "diaries" with several conclu sions which I have reached as a re sult of the Chicago Conference. who won't enter into the spirit of the thing. In only a few minutes all of us Mu Cow Mu's will have accom plished what it takes most coeds four years to do. Now, isn't that a grand idea?" "It certainly is! Mu Cow Mus, all hail!" echoed the loyal sisters as I wended my dismal way back to safety. ISSUE Sports; Morty Schaap ' ANSWEB TO PREVIOUS PIIZZLV IF AR SAME R jG A AVE A R JD JRON TA T L E N E DEAN R H 1 MTNE EDL E AEAMOSTAR k !! 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