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Sarials Dapt. ' ; 'Chapel JlUl, H C. OcjIIalfn Editor Hetorfs: roup i oils 1C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1952 NUMBER 113 Pub VOLUME Ll? S9ri r : ; I " , " i . "' ;-. - .. : : . : - .... x . - -4 11 --I-- : .","' . , ' "-'-o v : : . - ; ;.-.r.j:; .- . i . - . : ' ... -. v'J,y.'.y., Jo Wood Gaither 'V Carolina Lorets Hassinger by Bruce Melton In traditional pre-dawn cere monies this morning, black robed figures paraded through three dorms and three sorority houses to tap six senior coeds into the Valkyries, the campus' highest women's honor organization Joan Erskine. Jo Wood Gaither, I i f Valkyries Alumni Set Wants Members wa,. ,a - th end of their last quarter Mmii.u; unc nxuusav -"- ior3 by the Senior Class Alumni Committee. This committee, headed by Al House, is sponsoring a drive to bring the total membership of the Alumni Association to 10,000, and aims to enlist 1000 persons from the class of 1952 in order to more than reach that goal. Members will receive ten special football communiques during the fall, in addition to ten monthly issues of the Alumni Review. Membership for the first year requires a payment of one dollar, Dues are set at three dollars annually for each subse quent year. Invitations to join the ; Asso ciation are mailed to Seniors at Griping Again Seniors complaining about most anything should maet with th Student Complaint Board which convenes at 5 pjn. today in Roland Parlrsr If o. 1, Graham Memorial. " ' . Th board has already csa-' slderel several ' complaints and msrnb ees ara . compiliusj a " port. The board is recossissi by Iht TJnivrxlty adaalrdsSra lion at wall as sludosi coTtia Margaret Jean Stewart : V Barbara Ilathryn Wooten, Erline Burwell Griffin, Caroline Loretz Hassinger, Margaret Ste wart and Barbara Kathyrn Woot en are the new members. Selec tion is based on leadership, scholarship, character and ser vice. Hailing from Charlotte, Miss Gaither is a major in sociology. ... r A 1wni here. but me owuui Committee plans to sponsor a special drive to solicit members during Senior week with booths set up in Y-court. "Membership in the Alumni Association is the connecting link between the University and students." Chairman Ata House commented. Committee members include t;ii Rostic. Carolyn Butcher, Allen Tate, Luke Hill, Mike Car ver, Jackie Quesenbury, Dalton TOfFi Helen Brundage, Ed Love, Ann Van Kirk, Catherine Blue Jim Mclntyre, Betty Bowles and Charles Brewer Plannino Meet There will be a meeting of ail those interested in planning ior the joint YWCA-YMUA com- ence at Roalyn toaay ai o.w in th Y. ' . - ' ' . phi AsenWr. . rxuk Accpmblv meets in execu tive sessionC not 'dpejtrto pub lic) tonight at 7 o'clocE. ' YasaS -Psscalians meet today at i:SD the rpiscopal Psa Tfap Six 111EFS Joan Erskine .::;-:w:xXj Erline Burwell Griffin enwrs She has served on the Women's Council and Yackety Yack staff ana is aiso a memoer oi me YWCA and Chi Omega sorority. Miss urinin is a mstory major AA from Goldsboro and has taken i , an active part in student gov- Since the Communist Party is John A. Clark, University trus ernment since she came to Caro- still legal, it is still a political tee and Greensboro industrialist, lina. She is at present serving as party, Russell believes. wrote the Di Senate two weeks chairman of the election board, a He mentioned age-old fears of ago requesting the names of stu member for the second year. She trustees that certain faculty mem- dents and faculty who. had par is also a member of the Univer- berswere or are subversive! In ticipated in a segregation vote, sity Club and the Interdormitory a letter written to a distinguished Clark stated in his letter, "I will Council. board member in 1949, Russell appreciate it if you will be kind Raleigh, Miss Stewart is an ADPi. She is at present serving in the Student Legislature, on the Pub- lication Board, and is one of the ten Carolina delegates to the Greater University Student Coun- cil, a member of the university Club durin'g her junior year and .kn tins Vnon a mamKr rvf t.hel DUV . TC C V- JJ UkJVU VW fc V. - ww A V VilO OiJJZt YWCA for the past two years. religious heretics. Now we have and derive greater strength to up Last fall's women orientation political and heretics to be placed hold the Senate in future time committee chairman, Miss Wooten is from Gastonia. She is a mem- ber of Chi Omega sorority and is a member of the YWCA cabi- net. She is majoring in commerce. Associate editor of the Carolina Ouarterlv this year, Miss Ers- kine is also president of Chi Delta Phi, honorary literary vuie.-nepuoucan in xooo aau up society. She is an English major posed slavery. "Voting Repubn from Selma, Ala. Also a member can then was the same as being of the YWCA, Graham Memorial a Communist now," Russell- de Board of Directors, Interdormi- Qlared tory Council, and the Indepen- l Professor Wayne A. Bowers, dent Coed Board, she has served associate professor of physics, and in the Coed Seriate and on the the other faculty speaker at the 'Student Government Council meeting, thinks that the ques- during the summer session. V 1 tion creates a bad general atmos- The last of the six coeds is phere If or present, as well as prc- Miss. Hassingarv' Brislbl4- Va' A sp'ective faculty members A man sociology major, she is a mem- should be judged for his'capa- ber of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, bilities, character,; and other YWCA, Wesley; Foundation, and merits; not membership in a poli- the Recreation Club. She has al- tical party. "I'm not convinced so served as student advisor. (Sea RUSSELL, page-Ay . bv Gradr Elmore - An editorial in this week's Di Senate Bulletin, the mimeo- graphed weekly newspaper and Senate to answer for their action announcement sheet of the de- in endorsing . non-segragatioa bating society, slams the state- after a debate on the issue re ment issued to the press and in- cently, prepared a statement directlv to John Clark last .week, which read in part: labeling the action a misrepresen-1 tation of the Senators true feel- binniunisiii nam roin Mussel! States University efforts should be pointed towards dispelling inertia, poverty, ignorance, torpor, and HtC At U decay trie things uommunisra iux pensunai-upixuun, ana in no grows on instead of fostering wise is to be construed as con programs of suspicion and doubt, stituting an official statement Gf said Professor Phillips Russell the Di," attacked primarily the Tuesday night at Gerrard Hall sentences in the committee state This should be particularly true ment which said "we, as an orga of a University which is the bea- nizatibn, - do hot participate , in con light of the citizenry, the creative writing-instructor and prominent author asserted. , "Communism is a gage; when people are exploited, when they get desperate, they become Com- munists." By wiping out illite- racy, sponsoring long range edu- catiqnal and health programs, a University destroys this fungus. "If we were spending time in imnrnvinf th State, there would be no time for midnight circus hunts." Russell declared. Commenting on trustee and ad- vote attributed merely to recogni ministration efforts to scout out tion of "superior preparation and subversive elements. Russell forensic talent", the editorial con- blasted the use of a question on appiication sheets- for prospec- ti facultv members. The aues- tion asks whether the 'applicant I . has or is a Communist Farty orw wuviuuuns, vu Communist affilitae member, visiting committee wherem ,; a leadmg professor was called out of the classroom and examined behind closed doors by. trustees on his views concerning racial matters. "There was no ' doubt mat it was trial on acaaemic freedom," he said. ! ttnT. VnA wmtA 4-Va Ato rf on trial," he noted in the letter, I "If this develops, we'll have a form of excomunication and in- quisition." 1 The '49 hearing reminded him of the time when a physics pro- lessor naineu xieuuricivs was uts- I J TT 3I1 J : charged because he intended to lings and an attempt to "appease the Senate's public; "at all costs." A committee empowered by th$ "We should like to explain that the Dialectic Senate is a debating organization with no faculty ad visor. We, as an organization, do not participate in politics onany level. The issues to be discussed are selected on the basis of da batibility and general interest. The "actual vote is often the out come of the calibre of debate in which case, the issue mav. be in cidental. The. purpose .of the vote is, in fact, recognition of superior preparation and forensic talent, Bulletin Editor Tom Sully, pointing out that the editorial was strictly "an individual Sena- politics on any level , -and 'the purpose of the vote is, in fact, recognition of superior prepara- tion and forensic talent." "It is impossible," : wrote Sullyi "to conceive of the phrase 'par- ticipation in polities' as having a scope so narrow . as to exclude from its meaning the influencing of public opinion .in general and of the opinion of politicians in particular." other factors influencing a vote cannot be ruled out and the tended. - YU have put the Senate in a Posiuon wnicn mases it appear that-we do no have the strength At Altll Atim - MVMWM WW i.U editor continued. - members and where they are from ana also names of faculty.advisors advocating this position." (of non. segregation) In .'concluding, Sully's editorial urged that the Di must now pre- sent a united front to the rest of the campus. "In so doing we nrrt all nmfi f 'frrn V. of crisis." Election Date: Set The Student Legislature in a special session last night passed by voice, vote a bill providing for the vote on two contested constitutional amend menls to be held sizmiitjuw eously with the spring general elections, A vote had originally been scheduled for Tuesdav. but declared void by the Student Council since the . Legislature had failed to give six i daye public notica, Scheduling the new, yota loir ; next Thursday, the bill, intro duced by- Syd . Chuf cxd, was amended so as. to have only one elaciia. If t. amendsienix wiS-gp-iaia effect n-sxt fall li-' ' t this ?riaa.
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