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The official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of
Carolina at Chapel Hill, whore it is published daily during the regular
sessions of the -University at Colonial Press. Inc.. exoent Sun.. .Ann..
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jiihfihed semi-weoklv. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of
Chat-! Hill. N- C. under the act of MaM-h ? 170 Snsciol ion orient R per
year. M rer miartr. MrmKr r.f the Airifited Press. which "i exrlusively
ntlUed to the use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions
exiut-'.-a-Ju h coi'mrisis dii iui ucttssdiii.v muse oi wus newspaper.
; 1 . ' - ... , : ROY PARKER. JR.
- . CllUCK HAUSER
ROLFE NEILL
. ED WILLIAMS
""' . ZANE ROBBINS
Editor ; -
Executive News Editor
4ana;ing Editor
Pusiness Manager
Sports Editor
For This-Issue: Night Editor. Don Maynnrd
Sports. Buddy Northart
Donee Committee Solutions
There are several situations and revelations that have
come out of the Student Legislature's investigation of the
Dance Committee that need further looking into With an eye
toward improvement, revamping, and changing.
The pertinent point's are: ..
1. There are several archaic rules and regulations gov
erning UNC dances that should be done away with or re
written. 2. The procedure for hiring doormen, and the entire door
man problem, needs careful study with an eye toward econ-
omizing.
3. The Committee's procedure for handling violators of its
rules should be changed so as to create greater respect for
its decisions and to insure complete justice and fairness for
those accused of violating dance regulations.
4. The Dance Committee activities should become more a
matter of public knowledge than they are at the present time.
On the first point, it has been Drought out in the investi-.
gation that there are several regulations on the committee
books which are not now compatible with good sense. The
most important one needing change is the rule forbidding
women to leave dances unchaperoned if they intend to return.
Stil worse, this rule has been applied to-men by some quirk
of the committee's interpretation.
The rule is one of those on the committee books that has
been there since the committee's inception back in 1927. When
the rule was written, the entire UNC dance program was in
considerable hot water, and the rules written were especially
stringent. It was necessary then in order to stop some practices
that were threatening the future of UNC dances.
' Today the rule is outmoded and senseless. It would be
silly if it ever were applied. It reflects the stringency of a
system that was proper in the 'twenties, but which is archaic
today if one compares it with the other rules governing con
duct of coeds.
On the second point, the doorman problem is one that
has been a- bone ?of iconte'rition with financially hard-pressed
fraternities for several years. In the investigation, it has be
come evident "that such well-heeled dance-throwing organiza
tions as the German Club and Grail have also been pinched
to meet th cost of doormen.
I We believe the number of doormen could be halved at
most dances and still be adequate for the occasion. In Wool
len Gym, where doorman policy is decided by Gym Director
Huggins, the doormen should not be saddled with a double
duty of enforcing Dance Committee regulations and watch
ing out for the condition of the gymnasium. The latter duty
is one for Woollen Gym personnel, not for the Dance Com
mittee. The Committee's high-handed manner of handling vio
lators of its rules, while it does not usually create an injustice
to violators, certainly is not calculated to create respect for
the Committee, or for the campus court system.'
The Committee has erred considerably in the form of
the letter which it sends lo those who violate-its rules. While
we do not believe the Committee, has unjustly accused any
students of violating its rules, it has unjustly handled the
sentencing of violators.
The letter sent to violators should at least say that the
sentence will be imposed unless the violator "shows cause"
.to the Committee why he or she should not be so sentenced.
If, after a certain period of time, the accused does not show
cause, the committee could then formally impose the sen
tence, while reminding the accused of his right to appeal the
decision to the Student Council. The letter should also con
tain all the facts pertinent to the violation, and give the
accused a clear understanding of his" rights.
Such a procedure as outlined above is the proper way to
interpret the Committee's power to enforce its regulations
and to deal with offenders. A more stringent interpretation
would be to hold formal trials for all those accused. However,
we do not believe that such a formal procedure is necessary.
The manner in which the committee has been wording
its letters to offenders was the situation that very largely
brought"on the investigation. Its policy on the letter was en
tirely wrong, and its manner in handling violators has caused
a lessening of respect on the part of many students for the
entire UNC court ystem. Thus, while there is no evidence
that the Committee has unjustly accused any students, it has
certainly committed an unpardonable wrong by lessening
respect for the court system through laxity and highhanded
ness in handing out sentences.
And on the matter of more public light on Committee
rctivities, we think the entire investigation of the Committee,
and the many complaints registered against it could have been
avoided if it were required to make regular reports to the
campus of its activities, rules and policies. It was proved last
spring in the matter, of the Publications Board that when gov
ernment' organizations become too secretive in their work,
Whether, they commit wrongs or not, they are going to be
misunderstood, therelis going to be hard feeling, and there
nrr : going; to be sticks raised,, and 'stones thrown -that would
not have been necessary if. the -group had simply made known
to all its' activities, problems, and plans. The Legislature
should require reports from the Committee, and the Commit
tee' should, become more5 responsible in its relations with the
student-tody: ' - - . . ... .
I-cut studying for a quiz and
drove a friend i ovev '4o Raleigh
Tuesday night to put him on a
train heading south. ,
He's a fellow by flute iname of
Rolfe Neill, whose by-line and
work everyone who reads The
Daily Tar Heel should be fam
iliar with. . .. !( ;
Rolfe picked up a couple of
glandular fever bugs early in
the quarter and-sacked in at
the Infirmary for the first time
in his year-and-a-quarter stay
here. Doc Lindsay , told him not
to count on getting out any time
soon.
It was 12 days later when
Rolfe walked out the front door
and into the . sunlight. He was
thin, pale, and still felt about
as sick as he looked, but he had
urged the doc to let him go so
he could get back on the books.
Rolfe planned to do nothing
but study and regain his
strength for at least a week be
fore returning . to the managing
editor's desk at The Daily Tar
HeeL But before his second day
"out" was over, he knew it
would take more than just stay
ing away from , work to make
him feel better.
The doctor told him it would
be at least a month before he
felt up to par again, and Rolfe
wisely decided to throw in the
towel. He had been released
fromthe Infirmary on Sunday,
he made his decision to with
draw from school on Monday,
and on Tuesday night we rum
bled off .into the darkness of
the Raleigh Road to keep a date
with the Silver Comet headed
for Columbus, Ga.
The first day Rolfe walked
into the offices of The Daily Tar
Heel seems like years ago, but
in reality it's only ' been some
thing over a year. In that year,
however, he showed that he
not only had the know-how it
takes to make a good newspa
perman, but also had the love
of the game, it takes to make a
good Daily Tar Heel staffer
the willingness to sacrifice many
valuable hours at little or no
pay to put out the best news
paper possible.
Rolfe walked in that first day
and asked for a job'. I put him
to work cutting copy off a bat
tery of teletypes and knocking
out headlines on the side. Just
about one year later, he was
sitting in one of the most pow
erful positions oh campus the
managing editorship of this
newspaper.
Anyone who has ever worked
with Rolfe Neill or had any con-
tact with him respects him for
being as honest as the day is
long, a fearless reporter of the
facts who plays no favorites and
gives fair treatment to all.
It's kind of hard to write about
as close a friend and as gooda
newspaperman as Rolfe is with-
out hauling out a few cliches,
but you get the idea-.
It wasn't easy to say "so long"
in Raleigh and watch him walk
into the Seaboard station. It's
not easy to think Qf doing with
out him here in the office until
next quarter..
But when spring comes, and
you spot that "By Rolfe Neill"
on the front page again, you'll
know that one of the best news
papermen ever tohit this cam
pus is back on the jofcC working
for you. .
On Campus
Yack Editor Jim Mills very
nearly had himself "thrown off
campus" by an irate administra
tion member who didn't like the
picture Mills toook of him.
Central Records head Ed La
nier was hovering' about Mills
one day when the photographer
was snapping I.D. pictures. La
nier thought it would be funny
if he stuck his head. in front of,
the camera and made a face. He
did. Mills thought ' it 'would be
funnier if he tookLanier's pic
ture. He did. 7-- :
The end result Was that some
one, came into the 'possession of
the snapshot and' showed it to
Lanier with the assertion that it
was "disgraceful Lanier
promptly . hauled Mills on the
carpet and threatened the joke
ster with dishonorable dis
charge - from the '.' University.
!Tw.as all in furu' however.
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Tar Heel At Large. by Rabert Ruark, 35
As a continuation of our recent message on
the punishable liability of the draft dodger, the
conniver, even the conscientious objector, we
might mention a few alternatives in handling the
man who is too proud, too scared, or too "dedi
cated" to lump himself with his fellows when
the country hollers, "Come."
Last sermon raised a bumptious point: If
shooting , is good enough for people who get
summoned to war, why is shooting not good
enough for people who say, flatly, "No," and
proceed therefrom to internment or jail?
' When old J. Hancock scrabbled his name on
the original document, we were dedicated to
equality of handling. The old come one, come all.
During a century and more of. few laws, much
space, and large opportunity for individuality,
if a man didn't like his local laws he picked up
his traps and took off for more clement plimes.
But today government has fallen upon us, and
has smitten us hip, thigh, and bank account, to
where everybody seems liable for borne participa
tion in what the bossmen orcjier order out of
hand, with small time or opportunity for debate
by elected representatives. This rjiakes all hands
liable for the penalties of mass action.
The news of the last few years has been fly
specked by incidents 'of people who claim special
privilege. "I am ideologically bpposed to war,"
says one. "I am religiously opposed to war," says
another. "I am exempt from war' because of my
value in other fields," says still -another. "I am
just plain scared of it, and wish: no part of it,"
mutters another, but only to himself, while he
dives frantically into a contrived deferment.
'Tain't right, any more, if some go and some
stay, largely according to individual choice or
pull or persuasion. Not if they can tax you, with
no personal recourse, and draft you, with no
real personal arbitration, and organize you for
civil defense, find slap you silly with restrictions
and codes and rules and regulations.
There has, in past, been a big thing in the
services about "screening," to insure a majority
of "proper" personnel. This has not always ap
plied to other important governmental functions',
such as the State Department. Anything as big
as an armed service needs little screening outside
of positions of minor trust. I would define minor
trust as giving a man a BAR or a pouchf ul of
grenades, or a sextant, or a signal flag, and put
ting him in business for himself.
We flung a flock of "Conchies" into jail the
last war, when we could just as well have em
ployed them profitably on KP in non-critical
military centers. We dilled and we dallied with
the dodgers, and we convicted a few, at great
wa;te of time and money. We could have set them
to sweeping the streets or tending the cattle
barns.
Only yesterday we expended the valuable
time of many a valiant home lover in foolish,
lint-picking jobs, when the subject man would
have preferred a plane or a gun or even a trench
knife. Tljere are so many dull, silly, boresome
sidebars to any big effort that you can use bodies
profitably, under supervision, whether the bodies
are smart or dumb, willing or unwilling.
If you say me nay on this one, I will cite you
any big hesosegow where professional work gets
done. Nobody ever went to jail with the idea of
bending either his brain or his back to his work.
But work gets done. Pretty competently, too,
against the workers' will as often, a hill or a
beach gets taken, against the honest inclination
of the takers. War is a jail, you know.
So in the new trouble we do not really have
to shoot the dissident. You just put. 'em to work,
unpleasantly. Over-all it's no worse than dying
the hard way, as a hero.
On The Soap Box
by Bob Selig
There was some really fancy cursing the
other morning in Steele dormitory. And rightly
so. Early in the morning, very early, there was
heard the pounding of drums and the loud blar
ing of bugles right underneath the windows. It
sounded as though they were trying to fight
the whole Revolutionary War over again some
where between the Library and South Building.
It was the campus tin soldiers going out to raise
the flag.
One gentleman in an upper bunk was so ter
rified that he hit his head against the wall get
ting out of bed. He had been having a nightmare
He dreamed that he'd been drafted, shipped
overseas, and that he was hiding in some dung
hole with the bullets flying over his head. That
gentleman was me, and my head still hurts.
Now, if a college student wants to go and
join the ROTC, all right. If he joins merely to
stay out of the draft, that is understandable and
excusable. If he joins because he wants to play
tin man, because he wants to act like a great,
.big soldier boy? I don't like it. But that's all right
too. Just so long as he doesn't go marching,
around in his pretty uniform, at 7 o'clock in the
morning, banging drums and blowing bugles
when good people are still in bed.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not against raising
the American flag. I'm for it; I think it's a fine
idea. What I don't like is pseudo military cere
mony, and drum beating, and tin soldier parades.'
I would rather see some civilian going" out
quietly and raising the flag. Even if he had patch
es in his pants, a dirty old shirt with torn sleeves,
and even if his shirt tail hung out in back. Even
if he walked with a limp, a foolish swagger, or
a hesitating shuffle. Even if his shoulders
slumped forward, his stomach sagged, and his
head lolled to one side in an unmilitary manner.
Even with all those things, I'd rather see some
battered old civilian raise the flag.
The war 'effort is necessary, and we ought to
do our best to get ready for whatever is coming.
But this place is the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and not West Point
or Annapolis. Let's keep it that way.
Basketball For 'Dimes'
Editor:
i'd like to enter this letter as a plea to tne students here m
the university 01 North Carolina.
On Thursday evening, February 1, the Monogram Club will
hold me annual March ot Dimes basketball game m Woollen Gym
nasium. The "varsity lootbail linemen and tne backs will compu,:--
the two teams. ,
it piooaoiy won t be the. best basketball game you vc ever
seen but it will be held for the best cause, the March of Dim.
Have you ever really stopped to think about the people here in
Orange County who are stricken with infantile paralysis?
At the- present time, the local area is way behind in its collec
tions. There is large deficit of the books and that means that people
needing treatment will not be able to receive it.
Mr. E. Carrington Smith, who is in charge of the drive in thu
Orange County area, spends a very large part of his time trying tu
raise money to help these people. To help Mr. Smith, the Monogiyi:-.
Club has pledged itself to aid in raising money during the drive.
If you have ever wanted -to really help, now is your thane,
Even if you can't come to the game, it really would be a n.,l,l
gesture to buy a ticket anyway.
We really need a great deal of help this time. There will bo
3,000 tickets on sale "so let's all go and have a good time.
Art Greenbaum
Secretary-Treasurer, Monogram Club
On Allston's 'Windy CoIufW
Editor:
Frank Allston, in his rather windy column of Tuesday morn
ing, took a shot at State College basketball that was about as wide
of its intended mark as some of the shots taken lately by our own
White Panties. He accused N. C. State, a part of the Greater Uni
versity, of winning games through the use of partial officiating
when it is generally accepted that Everett Case secured the best
referees available in the East'
State's big-time squad wins by putting the most through the
hoop the quickest1, it seems to us, not by fixed officials as Frank
intimated. We feel that this sour-grapes attitude should not be
allowed to discredit this fine team which has brought so much
prestige to this area, and like a great many other Tar Heels at
Carolina, we'll travel 30 miles anytime to see them-perform.
Frank didn't mention Coach Loeffler's profane outburst at the
officials, and as far as we could see, Coach Case did not step onto
the playing surface as the column stated, but was rather dragged
there by Loeffler. As for who was the bettter team, State played
like a true champion by overcoming an 11-point deficit at the half
with a great spurt in the second period. We can's recall Tom Scott's
cagers playing that type of ball lately.
Frank closed his column with the statement that Carolina can't
beat a seven-rnan team. As a matter, of fact, we can't recall any
five-man teams Carolina has beaten, lately. The sour taste in the
mouths of the "olf pnek's, victims is the dose of defeat so ably
administered by Coach Case and his boys. Since, the only thing that
brings Carolina fans (including Tom Scott) on their feet at our
basketball games is the final gun, perhaps Tom Scott should try
the same medicine.
Clem Wright
David Darr
Lend An Eye
"Copper Canyon" Not much can be said about this film except
that it is a bad western. Ray Milland, MacDonald Carey, and lledy
Lamarr must have been hard up for money or they wouldn't have
wasted their talents on something like this.
"Copper Canyon" has to do with a group of mistreated copper
miners who have little luck in fighting the unjust managers of some
mining interests. The abused partisans are former Confederate sold
iers and are hapless without the leadership of Ray Milland, Civil
War hero.
Reluctant to .lead an open fight for the miners' rights, Mr.
Milland furthers the cause by patiently surveying the situation and
harrassing the badmen on the sly. His main opponents are Miss
Lamarr, a saloon keeper, and MacDonald Carey, a cruel sheriff.
In what cquld be called a climax, our fearless Mr. Milland abandons
his Lone Ranger tactics and finally leads the goodies against the
baddies for the usual bang-bang finish. S. W.
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