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make the University of North Carolina the first such insti-l
tl01Lin , boutn l voluntarily admit Negro students.
The history-making resolution, passed by a vote of 61 to
Id alter two nours ot bitter discussion, applies only to grad-i
VOLUME LIX
IDC Finishes
Brown Dance
Weekend Slate
Concert- April 14
In Memorial Hall; t
Dance Thar Night
Plans for the Interdormitory
Council dance April 14 with Les
Brown and his band of renown
were completed this week when
the Council met.
Tickets for the annual affair,
which this year will include a
concert as well as a dance, are
being distributed to dormitory
residents by their presidents.
Tickets for the dance are free. The
cost of the concert is 50 cents
per ticket.
Members of the IDC, their
dates, and dormitory leaders will
be host to Brown and his band
at a pre-dance banquet in Lenoir
Hall at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 14,
President Ted Leonard said yes
terday. Parties, picnics, and other fes
tivities are being planned by
dormitory men for the weekend.
Highlighting the Saturday night
dance in Woollen Gymnasium will
be a figure composed of mem
bers of the Executive, Dance, and
Social Committees of the IDC
and their dates.
The concert will be held Sat
urday afternoon at 4 o'clock in
Memorial Hall.
Brown will play in Durham the
previous Friday night on the Bob
Hpe show.
WORLD,
NATION,
STATE
TOKYO American tanks
drove five and one half miles
deep into North Korea Wednes
day while foot soldiers widened
the United Nations bridgehead
across the 38th Parallel from 10
lo 15 miles.
WASHINGTON The White
House denounced yesterday as a
"highly misleading distortion" a
forthcoming. magazine article by
Jonathan Daniels which pictures
President Truman as favoring a
sweeping shakeup of Congress.
Truman's press secretary, said:
"The President had no know
ledge of this article before today
and wishes it understood that
Daniels has no authority to
speak for him as was indicated
by the magazine in a note ac
companying the article." Daniels
was White House secretary for
a short time during the early
days of the President's adminis
tration in 1945.
RALEIGH North Carolina
lawmakers yesterday set their
sights for adjournment April 11
with a joint resolution introduc
ed in the Senate.
WASHINGTON Average re
tail food prices held steady dur
ing the first half of March the
second successive two-week per
iod they have failed to climb, the
Government reported yesterday.
RALEIGH The University of
North Carolina Board of Trus
ses yesterday voted to coninue
the policy of segregation in the
William Neal ReRynolds Coli
seum State College., .
Hauser
Candidates
Candidates for three major
campus offices president and
secretary-treasurer of the stu
dent body, and editor of The
Daily Tar Heel will speak
briefly at an open . meeting
for the student body tonight at
8 o'clock in Memorial Hall.
The speakers will "Toe, for
president, Dick Penegar (UP),
Henry Bowers (SP), and Ben
James; for secretary-treasurer,
Jim Mclntyre (SP) and Al
len Tate (UP); for Daily Tar
Heel editor Frank Allston
(UP); Walt Dear (SP), Don
Maynftrd and Glenn Harden.
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ARCHIE MYATT
Dowd Backs
Archie AAyatt
As President
Senior Class President Ned
Dowd yesterday endorsed inde
pendent candidate Archie Myatt
as his successor.
Dowd slated that "Myatt is the
iest qualified and hardest work
er of the three candidates for
the office."
Myatt declared his candidacy
on an independent ticket last
Friday.
In addition to being vice pres
ident of the junior class, Myatt
is treasurer of the Carolina For
um and ?. member of the Di Sen
ate. He has served as vice pres
ident of the sophomore class and
Student Legislature representa
tive. He has also engaged in YMCA
and Tarnation Magazine activi
ties. Myatt is a 21-year-old com
merce major from High Point.
Myatt is running Against UP
candidate Bill Bostic and SP
nominee Ralph Waddell.
Pascal Gets
Grant Again
Paul Pascal, graduate student,
has been re-appointed to a fellow
ship in. the School of Classical
Studies of the -American Acade
my in. Rome for another year, it
was announced yesterday by Dr.
B. L. Ullman, head " of the Uni
versity Classics Department.
A native of Brooklyn, Pascal
took his A.B. degree at the Uni
versity of Vermont and served
in the Army three years. He came
here to do graduate work in Latin
and served as part-time instructor
in the Classics Department for
two years.
Pascal went to the Academy
last ye'ar on the fellowship award
and is working on his Ph.D. de
gree. He is using the Vatican Lib
rary and other libraries in Rome.
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uate and professional schools
u;hon nucl foilitiQC or-Q
for Negro graduate and professional students.
Also at the meeting held here in the YMCA building on
the State College campus, the Trustees voted to instruct the
-state attorney-general to carry to the Supreme Court the case
CHAPEL HILL. N. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1951
to
Meeting Open To Students;
Other Groups To Convene
At 7: 30, one-half hour before
the open meeting, there will be
a compulsory meeting of all
candidates running for office in
spring elections next .Wednes
day. Elections Board Chairman
Julian Mason yesterday said
that candidates who fail to ap
pear are subject to a fine and
possible disqualification.
en James Warns
Leadership Need
Independent presidential can
didate Ben James yesterday re
leased his spring election cam
paign along with a warning that
"leadership, coupled with a large
amount of interest, is necessary
to keep our school spirit alive."
James said an independent can
didate "can work much more efficiently-
if he is not hamstrung
by the political obligations of
parties."
The platform included:
1. Work to lower tuition rates.
2. Fight for the rights of self
help students.
Bruce Melton
States Plans
For Campaign
Bruce MeltonK independent can
didate for editor of the Daily Tar
Heel, yesterday released a five
plank platform on which he is
basing his campaign.
Melton is a junior in the School
of Journalism. He has worked on
a weekly newspaper, several
house organs and served as pub
licity chairman for Alpha Phi
Omega, service fraternity.
The platform reads:
"1. I believe that The Daily
Heel can be published six clays a
week, and I will give all the ef
fort possible in securing the re
storation of a daily paper.
"2. Promote better dormitory
fraternity relations through a well
coordinated staff and coverage.
"3. I pledge to work toward
achieving cooperation between
the School of Journalism and
The Daily Tar Heel, also to pro
vide opportunity and encourage
ment for studepts desiring to.
work.
4. Work for better delivery
service, to the dorms and other
delivery points.
"5. Better coverage for all or
ganizations, by cooperating with
the officers and publicity chair
men of each organization."
Haywood, Garland Concert
Is Slated For 8:30 Tonight
A joint recital will be given by
Benjy Haywood, pianist, and Har
ry Garland, baritone, at Hill
Music Hall today at 8:30 p.m.
Haywood, of Mount Gilead, is
a junior studying piano with
Prof. Wilton Mason. He has ap
peared in, student recitals, and
has performed in state music
contests. His portion of the pro
gram consists of Schubert's Son
ata in A major, p. 120, . three
Schumann pieces, and a group of
of the Consolidated University
nrntro olcmirKora m ctato
peak
Following the speakers'
meeting, Mason will talk to
persons interested in polltend
ing 'and ballot counting. He
said yesterday that response
has been slow and called for
more persons to volunteer.
A fourth and final meeting
which will follow will be one
3. Work to set up a visiting
agreement for coeds in men's
dormitory social rooms (James is
at present chairman of a legisla
tive committee working on this
problem.).
4. Work for a system of student
selection of instructors.
5. Push for speedy completion
of bricking activities of walks and
parking areas in the dormitory
area.
6. Full cooperation with the
University Club and the CAA "to
promote Carolina spirit."
7. Work to shorten and improve
the orientation program for in
coming freshmen, including short
ening of the freshman chapel se
ries. 8. " Bring the presidency, the
court system, and subsidiary
agencies such as the Dance Com
mittee "within closer range of
individual student respect and
understanding."
James said his platform "may
not be as high-sounding as some
of the others, but it involves the
wishes of a lot of students I have
talked with. "He continued, "My
ming and my office, if I am elect
ed, will always be open for more
and better suggestions from
everyone for our own campus
betterment."
Too Close To The Razor
Levant Plays Two-Hour Program
Before 2,000 Despite Cut Finger
By Chuck Hauser
Tuxedoed, temperamental Os
car Levant, hampered by a fresh
razor slash on his left index finger,
pounded his piano and plagued
his audience to the delight of 2,
000 students in Memorial Hall
Tuesday night.
The Student Entertainment
Committee performer, "playing
with my usual arthritic abandon,"
didn't seem to notice the cut as
Spanish pieces by Granados and
Albentz.
Garland, a senior from Lin
ville, is a student of Prof. Joel
Carter. He sang a leading role in
the recent production of Kurt
Weill's "Down in the Valley." He
has also appeared in student re
citals, and has sung with the
Glee Club for four years. He will
perform a group of English songs,
a Schumann group, and the pro
logue to Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci."
of the four Negroes who wish to. enter the University Law
School. The state provides a separate law school for Negroes
at North Carolina College in Durham.
The motion letting down the segregation bars to the other
graduate and professional schools was placed on the floor
by Maj. L. P. McLendon of Greensboro, who assisted the
0 IF ml
i anight
of the Elections Board.
Originally scheduled for
Thursday, April 12, the elec
tion was moved back one day
to next Wednesday when it
was discovered that Gerrard
Hall would be unavailable as a
polling place.
Mason repeated his warning
of earlier in the week that de
facing or removing campaign
literature, constitutes a viola
tion of the Honor Code. He said
both Honor Council chairmen
had promised .him they were
making concentrated efforts to
apprehend violators. v
Mason Names
Independents
For Election
Julian Mason, chairman of
the Elections Board, yesterday
released the name of independ
ents running for campus posts
in the spring elections next
Wednesday. '
They included Winx Wheeler
and Gina jCampbell for the
woman's seat on the Student
f Council and Carolyn Kizer for
the at-large-seat; Al House for
vice-president of the senior
class;
Nancy Nunez and Ruby Ben
jamin for the senior seat on the
Women's Honor Council; at-large-seat
by Eleanor Martens,
ano Joe Allen for Men's Honor
Council sophomore scat.
Other independents who
have made announcements
through the newspaper are Don
Maynard, Glenn Harden, and
Bruce Melton, all for editor of
The Daily Tar Heel, Ben James
for president of the student
body, and Archie Myatt for
president of the senior class.
The election was originally
scheduled for Thursday, April
12, but was changed to next
Wednesday because of the un
availability of Gerrard Hall for
a polling place.
The runoff will be held one
week after the election.
he wisecracked through two hours
of Gershwin, Shostakovich, Cho
pin and deBussy.
"I didn't Know whether it
would bother me at first," he
commented after the concert late
that night, "but the audience
took my mind off it."
His remark on tne audience re
flected his mood of the evening.
It apparently just wasn't Oscar's
day.
Barely minuves after he arriv
ed in Chapel Hill, Levant was
up in his room at the Carolina
Inn shaving. When he finished,
he carefully took the old blade
out of his razor and reached for
the toilet paper to wrap it up
for safety.
But his reaching hand came too
close to his blade-holding hand,
and the steel edge sliced into the
underside of his left index finger,
between the second and third
knuckles.
Alter a rush trip to the Infirm
ary and aid administered by two
doctors, the petulant pianist head
ed for Memorial Hall several min
utes after the concert was sche
duled to begin.
When he walked on .stage, in
NUMBER 116
I FC Releases
Academic Law
On Initiations
Morrison Clears
Wide Confusion
Surrounding Rule
Interfraternity Council Presi
dent Dale Morrison yesterday ex
plained that the new IFC ruling
passed Monday night concerns
all fall quarter, 1950, pledges,
whether they be freshman, soph
omore or transfer student.
The ruling states that a pledge
who has not met the scholastic
ruling as set down in the fall may
be initiated at the end of this
spring quarter if the pledge gains
an average of C or better this
quarter.
In addition, assistant to the
Dean of Students Ray Jefferies
explained scholastic requirements
for those three classes of fall
quarter pledges if they wish to
be initiated immediately.
Freshmen, Jefferies stated,
must have passed 25 hours of
University work and gained a C
average over the winter quarter
or an overall C average for the
falLand winter quarters combined
to become certified by him for
initiation.
Sophomores, he explained,
pledged in the fall, must have 35
hours of passing work anc must
have obtained a C average for
the winter quarter or the fall and
winter quarters combined to be
certified.
v
Transfer students are eligible
now for initiation, he, said, if they
had 35 hours credit, either gained
here -or the school from which
they transferred, including 10
hours which must have been pass
ed here with an average of C or
better.
If these transfer students did
not meet that requirement, then
they needed an overall average of
C over the fall and winter quar
ters combined to become eligible,
he said.
a rather bad mood already, aU
most the first thing that happened
was the entrance' of a cat. And
at the same time the audience,
with a preconceived notion of his
temper and temperament, began
to let him know that he couldn't
push them' around. "They suc
ceeded," he agreed later.
He headed backstage, ponder
ing the unusual audience reaction.
When he went back on a few
minutes later, his temper and
feelings soothed, the cat joined
him again.
Back went Levant off the stage,
exclaiming, "That cat and the au
dience are just too rough." But
a minute late, he returned and
began playing to soothe his nerves
again. The music did it, and he
spent the rest of the evening,
sweat pouring off his face, alter
nately trying to please the huge
crowd and sipping hot coffee
backstage between numbers.
About 10:15 he polished off
Claire de Lune, blew a kiss to
the audience, and walked off for
the last time, considering an en
core unnecessary since, as his
manager put it, "He's been play
ing encores the entire evening."
state in preparation of its defense in the Law School case. Mc
Lendon moved that the Board approve the recommendation
made by its Executive Committee last week. His motion was
made as a substitute for a proposal by Trustee John Kerr,
Jr., of Warrenton that any action on the admissions question
be postponed until after the Supreme Court rules on the Law
School case.
One amendment was added to the Executive Committee
recommendation. The meat of the resolution, with the amend
ment in italics, was:
"In all cases of applications for admmission by members
of racial groups, other than the white race, to the profes
sional or graduate schools when such schools are not provided
by and in the state of North Carolina for such racial groups,
the applications shall be processed without regard to color or
race, as required by authoritative judicial interpretation of t)ie
Constitution of the United States, which is the supreme law
of our state as well as the nation, and the applicant accepted
or rejected in accordance with the approved rules and stand
ards of admission for the particular school."
The amendment was offered by Trustee Thomas Pearsall
of Rocky Mount, and passed on a voice vote immediately be
fore the final vote on the main motion was taken. The 61-15
vote was taken by roll call at the request of John Clark.
, Consolidated University President Gordon Gray opened
debate on the controversial measure. He appealed to the
Trustees to set the policy for admission or non-admission,
of qualified Negroes "so I won't have to go before the Dis
trict Court next week and answer an allegation with 'I don't
know'." Gray must file an answer by next Wednesday in the
case of a Negro who wishes to enter the Medical School. He
said the first thing the court would ask would be what the
University policy was in regard to Negro admissions.
"I'm not crusading for the admission of Negroes," Gray said,
"but I think I'm entitled to an answer. My own personal opinion is
that you should pass the recommendation of the Executive Com
mittee." - Major McLendon made the most stirring speech of the day in
favor of the move. "We have made no effort to provide equal fa
cilities for Negroes in medicine," he declared, "and there is not
even room for discussion in the Medical School case." Discussing the
possibility of using subterfuge to keep Negroes out of ihe University
if 'they were admitted on paper, he stormed, "I would 1,000-to-l
rather be condemned for violating the state constitution than for be
ing dishonest in carrying it out."
McLendon said the Board could refer the decision to the Legis
lature, but he said the Trustees had set policy for the University
for more than 150 years "without crawling on our stomachs to the
General Assembly. I wouldn't hide behind anything so cowardly."
John Kerr, who interrupted speakers frequently with both direct
and side remarks, took the floor to answer McLendon. "This is
just the opening wedge to admit them to the public schools," he
said. "Within five years there won't be 10 of them at A. and T. or
at North Carolina College for Negroes. Their teachers get tjie same
pay and the same treatment as white teachers, but they're never
satisfied. You know what they want. They want social equality."
Victor Bryant of Durham made the last major remarks before
Pearsall offered his amendment and the votes were taken. Bryant
stressed two points for the Board: (1) The court says you can't
have segregation unless you have equal facilities for Negroes;
(2) North Carolina has no equal facilities in the Medical School case.
"What does that add up to?" he asked.
When the vote was taken on the first order of business of the
day,. Gray's recommendation to carry the Law School case to the
Supreme Court, the only dissenting vote was that of Kerr, who
was not opposing a Supreme Court appeal but was apparently cast
ing a negative ballot because the motion on the floor was a substi
tute for one which he preferred. "I came up here to fight this thing,"
Kerr said earlier, "and I'll fight it all day."
Another opponent of admitting Negroes, Mark Lassiter, declared,
"I'm opposed to any Negro going to any (white) school in North
Carolina any time and any place." He made the statement just after
arriving at the meeting approximately 15 minutes late, thinking dis
cussion was on the pther business of the day.
Kerr challenged the power of the Supreme Court to enforce its
decisions. "We're one of 13 sovereign states in the union," he cried.
"Can the Supreme Court mandamus the state of North Carolina?
Can it mandamus this Board of Trustees?" Attorney General Harry
McMullan assured Kerr that it could.
The motion to appeal the Law School case to the nation's highest
court was made by Lt. Gov. H. P.
in it the proposal that the attorney-general should ask for a stay of
execution of the injunction which the Circuit Court of Appeals has
ordered the District Court to grant in the case pending outcome of
the appeal. The injunction sought by the Negroes would forbid the
University from continuing to refuse them admission.
Attorney-General Harry MacMullaii "said he would immediately
put into action the judicial steps necessary to appeal the Law School
case and get a stay of execution on the order of the Circuit Court
of Appeals to the District Court to grant the injunction.
However, many of the Trustees had already as good as con
ceded that the state would lose the case when it went to Washington.
The opinion of the Circuit Court, written by Judge Soper, stated,
"Our examination of the undisputed facts of the case convinces u.s
that the Negro school is clearly inferior to the white, and that the
judgement must therefore be reversed in accordance with the de
cision in Sweatt v. Painter, 399 U.S. 629, which was rendered prior
to the trial of the pending case in the District Court.'
Active in opposing the admission of Negroes in addition to Kerr
and Lassiter were John and Dave Clark and Robert Proctor.
A third piece of business to come before the Trustees today also
concerned Negroes. A proposal to i;top segregation at the William
Neal Reynolds Coliseum at State College was defeated unanimously.
Gov. Kerr Scott presided at the meeting.
Hogshead; Betty Ray
To Head YM, YWCA
At their annual elections of of
licers, the YWCA elected Betty
Ray of Faison as its president and
the YMCA choose Bill Hogshead
of Goldsboro as its presiding of
ficer for the coming year.
Other YWCA officers elected
are vice president, Adair Beasley,
DeFuniak Springs, Fla.; treasur
er, Jane Piper, Baltimore County,
Md.; secretary, Sylvia Newsom,
Charlotte; membership chairman,
Caroline Hassinger, Bristol, Va.;
program chairman, Joan Charles,
Sea Girt, N. J.
The YMCA elected Bill Burk
holder, Eagle Springs as vice
president; Burton Rights, Winston-Salem
as secretary; and Gil
Marsh, Thomasviile as treasurer.
Formal installation of new YW
officers will take place in May
along with new cabinet members.
Cabinet members are chosen by
(Pat) Taylor. He also incorporated
the Executive Committee which
is composed of the four top of
ficers. " The YM installation will
be held in April.
. Certificates
Dean E. L. Mackie announced
yesterday that all new initiates
of Phi Eta Sigma should pick
up their certificates at his of
fice, 313 South Building.
He also said there were a
number of certificates still wait
ing for their owners for Old
Well initiations. All students who
were taken into the honorary
and have not received their
membership certificates should
pick ihem up.
There were 82 freshmen initi
aled into Phi Eta Sigma, and
none of these certificates have
been given out yet. he said.
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