Serials D2;yb. f" 7T lAKUtfX 2-31 VOLU3ME LX iAKSAty 2-31 CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1952 NUMBER 74 i ll u rOro Vv M Ifi nfer Quarter Enrollment Down To 5,379, ui 394 Decrease is Called Less Than Usual Enrollment for the winter quar ter is 5,379, a drop of 194 from last quarter, Chancellor Robert B. House announced yesterday. Accounting for 150 graduates and 111 students who left school during the fall, ' the percentage drop for this quarter is less than usual, figures based on a report from Central Records office show. Fall enrollment was 5,773 making the drop 133 if graduates and stu dents leaving are counted. The report includes all schools. There are 4186 students from North Carolina and 1131 from oth er states. Sixty-two foreign coun tries and U. S. possessions are represented in the new enrollment while veterans number 1,336 in cluding men and coeds here under the G.I. Bill and those not using the bill. Those using the bill num ber 915; those not using it under 451. - - A check into past enrollment figures shows that there were 6,072 here at the beginning of the winter quarter last vear. or a drop of 693. Women students number 859, a decrease of 65 while men stu dents number 4,520, a decrease of 329 from last - quarter (including graduates and students who left). Enrollment of schools follows: General College .......... 1,778 Arts and Sciences , ,.....,... Business Administration Graduate School 974 567 817 Education 295 Law Pharmacy 216 208 Public Health ... .................. 119 Journalism ............ 100 Dentistry ..... 75 Social Work . 58 Library Science ............. . 30 Nursing 26 If graduates in public health, social work and library science are counted, the graduate school fig ure is 975. The only school to in crease its enrollment was journal ism which had a gain of 2. In addition to the net total of 5379 there are 53 students in Sat urday morning special education classes. A comparison of fall quarter and winter quarter civilian stu dent enrollment over the last 16 years follow (Winter quarter en rollment decreases more, than spring, records indicate): Year Fall v Winter 1937- 39 .......... 3509 .1 3100 1938- 39 .......... 5509 .......... 3209 1939- 40 .......... -3845 .... ..... 3681 1940- 41 4098 ...... 3773 1941- 42 .......... 4108 .......... 3773 1942- 43 3350 2975 1943- 44 .......... 1788 ... ,1596 1944- 45 .......... 1681 .......... 1811 1945- 46 .......... 2480 . 4011 1946- 47 ..... 6802 ..... 6893 1947- 48 7528 ... 7116 1948- 48 7603 7105 1949- 50 ...... 7419 6895 1950- 51 6864 .......... 6072 1951- 52 5773 .......... 5379 Coed Junior Delegates To Be Elected Coeds will elect their Junior representatives to Women's Resi dence Council in the women's dormitories on Monday. The new council, which was established by constitutional amendment in the fall elections, replaces the Coed Senate and Iri terdormitory Council. It will be composed of the dormitory presi dents, sorority house managers, six junior representatives and a chairman to be elected in the spring. Joanne Page, former Ktvkr of Coed Senate, will serve as chairman of the council until then! - Representatives elected Mon day will serve until fall elections. TT.arYi dnrmitorv will send one junior representative. The duties of the council are primarily passing laws and rules affecting women students and handling all dormitory and sor ority house problems. . ' Power Plant, Health House To Get Beauty Treatment Two campus locations designated as "ragged spots,"-by a faculty committee on buildings and grounds have been slated for improve ment. There are plans for beautifying the parking area and removal of the old power plant and adjacent buildings behind Phillips hall and a dressing up of the. former DKE house which now houses the health department behind Hill hall. Drawn by Arthryr C. Nash, consulting architect for the University, a plan is now iiv the hands of the committee. Nash plans to connect the plaza now occupied by parking space with the second floor of Venable hall. This project holds priority over the improvement of the Hill hall area because of new construction of commerce and chemistry buildings. . The plan for the parking area behind Phillips also provides for underground placdfhent of steam and hot water distribution systems which stem from the power plant on West Cameron Avenue CAMP US B.S.U. Supper Forum Dr. I. G. Greer, executive vice president of the North Carolina Business Foundation, will be the principal speaker at the weekly Baptist Student Union Supper Forum tonight at 6 o'clock. His r i i Winter Wonderland Depicts Tri-Delt Pledge Dance Scene t When Delta Delta Delta sorority held its annual pledge dance Fri day night at the Carolina Inn, members and dates waltzed in a "Winter Wonderland." Snowmen and silver pine trees sparkled under blue spotlights, transforming the ballroom into an out-of-doors snow scene. Carrica tures of the pledges were display ed on snowball-shaped silhouettes against a shining background. . Playing for the dance were Bill Byers and the Cavaliers of Duke and Carolina, who wore blue San ta Claus hats. Led by pledge president Sue Burress, the pledges were - pre sented during intermission by an- iv Rovd. Phi Delt ; of Greensboro They carried old fashioned nosegays of pink, and blue flowers while, tfte ; orchestra played the winter wonderland theme as the traditional ngure was formed. Preceeding the fig ure each pledge was presented a silver bracelet, bearing the soror ity's Greek letters, by her "big sister" in the sorority. Pat George, Tri Delt president, then presented thf awards to outstanding pledges. Jane Ann Sneed of Ft. Pierce, Fla.. received the scholarship cup and Ross Young pf Greenwood, S. C. the best pledge j awarding; Mrs. Carl : Carter, Tri Delt housemotner irom: douimiv,; u presented an orchid. Special guests for the evening were Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Richardson, Mrs. R. H. Wet tach, and campus housemothers. Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Wet tach received miniature nosegays. - Pledges i and I their dates .. were ' ; ; t Seq ,V INTER,, page 2) . . PL oy Hdlsferi, ' Dos ii subject will be "Personal Respon sibilities of a Christian." Dorm Group The dorm discussion committee will meet Monday, 4:00, in Mr, Riebel's office. Final provisions on the dormitory interest question naires will be made. YW Meetings Y cabinet meeting Monday, 4:00 at the Y. There will be a Dorm Vespers meeting Monday, 5:00 at the Y. - $ - YM Cabinet The regular meeting of the YMCA cabinet will be held Mon day night, 9:00, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Riebel, 126 North St. A group will. meet at 8:45 at the Y arid walk over to the house. Dance ; I An informal dance will be held at Averett College, Danville, next Saturday from 8 to 12. There will be; ; a buffet supper before the dance at 7:00. All boys interested ih attending please sign up at the YMCA office by Monday. J Admis sion will be free. Cosmopolitan ; The, Cosmopolitan Club will meet today at 4:005m the Rendez vous Room. Election of officers will take placed; - - . ssisfant Hoy W. Holsten, 1950 UNC graduate and former president of Delta Kappa Epsilon social fraternity, has been appointed Assistant Dean of Students effective February 1, Dean Fred Weaver announced yesterday. He replaces William C. Friday who resigned the post to become assistant to President Gray ast April. Holsten s primary job will be to work with students in student government and other activities. As a former leader ra fraternities his knowledge in this field is expected to be helpful in discussing fraternity problems. Termed an "outstanding" lead er in student affairs here, Holsten served as chairman of the Men's Council, and was a member of - A picture and story of two UNC students, now assistant deans of students, appeared on the editorial page of the Janu ary 14, 1SS0 issue of The Daily Tar Heel. In its "Campus Personalities column by Jack Brown, the newspaper pictured the two students standing in" front of the Edward Kidder Graham plaque -on the main floor of Graham Memorial. The men, Roy Holsten, and Banks Talley are now serving the Consolidate ed University. Talley is Assist ant Dean of Students at Staia College, while Holsten is As sistant Dean of Students here. The latter is a former member of The Daily Tar Heel staff. -the Order of Gimghoul and Gold en Fleece. At the commencement he re ceived the John J. Parker, Jr. Medal for leadership in student government. A native of Glen Rock, N. J.f Holsten graduated from Ridge wood high school and then at tended the Lawrenceville school (N J.) for a year of post graduate work. , After "receiving his B.A in English here, he was employed in the personnel department of the Vick Chemical Company, ,indus trial division, Greensboro. He is married . to the former Elizabeth Myatt, Goldsboro, UNC '49 grad uate and Pi Beta. Phi. The dean of students office novr has three men who have served in student judiciary capacities' Dean Weaver, who was Student Council vice-chairman . in 1937, Holsten and Ray Jefferies, assist- to Weaver, . who served as Art History Europe Tour Anhounced A study tour of Europe for stu dents of art history will be con ducted next summer by-Dr. Clem ens Sommer of the art depart ment with the cooperation of the department and the Extension Di Dr. Sommer will serve as tour leader and instructor during the six-week trip to art centers of Europe. Those making the study tour will receive six quarter hours of undergraduate credit for courses taken on the trip. According to Dr. Sommer, members of the tour "will be in troduced to a better understand ing of western art by direct ex perience. He saia tne tour will start in Paris and will include stops in Strasbourg, Heidelberg, Bamberg, Regensburg, Augsburg, Munich, Verona, Florence, Orvie to, Rome and Naples. ' Arrangements are being made by the Brownell travel bureau of Birmingham, Ala., and details j may be obtained from R. M. Grumman of the Extension divis ion here. . ; ! Bicrck Honored Dr. Harold A. Bierck, Jr., of the history department, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Conference on Latin American Historical association. Dr. Bierck returned to the Uni versity, campus last Septerhber af ter having spent the last academic year in South America on a Rockefeller fellowship. He was engaged in research in the eco nomic history of several countries, including Venezuela, Colombia,. Vant Ecuador and-Peru. i chairman of the Men's Council. 'Stairway To The Stars' Theme Of Pi Beta Phi Pledge Dance Pledges of Pi Beta Phi descend ed a silver stairway and formed an arrow pointing to a "Stair way To The Stars," when they were presented at the sorority's annual pledge dance held last evening at the Carolina Inn. ; In carrying out the traditional theme, the ballroom was illumi nated with soft blue lights, and small silver stars, bearing ; the names of the pledges, decorated the south wall. . A sky-blue back drop complete with a silver stair way and stars was used ' on the bandstand. Bannisters at the en try of the ballroom were inter woven with light blue streamers and angel hair, forming the back ground for a- miniature Milky Way: ' i i V -A : I) Pledges were introduced by Charge, Crone and presented sil ver Pi Beta Phi bracelets and wine carnations by President Hel-. en Brundage of Tryon. The pled ges were met by their escorts, following the presentation, and formed the traditional arrow fig ure, representative of the Pi Phi pin. : ' Leading the figure were Pledge Class President Bish Fox, Vice President Diane Breslow, Secretary-Mac Haywood, Scholarship Chairman Betty Rose; and Histor ian Dee Kline; s 1 : Invited Guests for the evening included the -sorority's patrones ses and alumnae, and all campus housemothers. Music for the dance, which was, held from 9 until 12 o'clock, was President Sue BurressV Salem, Va with Fred McVhinneyrBradentc . (See STAIRWAY, pzgz 2)
