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PAGE'S" THE DAILY TAI1 HEEL.. , ..THURSDAY. APRIL 17 Member u n 1 el Is (Oil fa InU Dormitory Men 'Duped Says 'Clique' Spokesman Physics Board Meeting The Physics Club meets tonight at 7:30 in room 212 Phillips hall to arrange for its annual picnic. Professor To Speak . Louis Katsoff, professor of phil osophy here ( will speak "bef ore the Greensboro Kiwanis club to day at 1 p.m. on "The Impact of Communism on the American Way of Life." Unitarian Fellowship The annual business meeting of the Unitarian fellowship, will be held Sunday, at 8 p.m. in the new assembly exhibition room in the Library. Men's Glee Club The Men's Glee Club will meet "today at 4:30 in Hill hall. School Children All pre-school children enter ing elementary school in Septem ber must register next Tuesday between 9 a.m.. and noon at the schdol. Each child must bring with him his birth certificate and record, of immunization from a doctor" : or. the Health department. : ' -Coffee Klaich A picnic for the Cosmopolitan Cj.nb will be held today by the Koffee Klatch of the YWCA at Paul Green's house. All members meet at the Y at 5:30 p.m. L PI A V RADIO J SERVICE "Our Work Guaranteed QGBUflN FURNITURE CO. ' (The following article was written , by a member of the Student party who asked that it be by-lined as we have. It was intended by The Daily Tar Heel that the UP also should write their version and that the two run side by side. The UP comments have not been prepared. We ' shall run them when they are. Ed.) By an SP 'Clique Member' When Pickett's charge failed, observers at the battle of Gettys burg knew that the Southern forces were defeated. The remain der of the battle was necessary but uninteresting epilogue. The Student Party, long and exponent of fair representation in the town legislative districts, made its Pickett's charge in Feb ruary when it sought, in the Stu dent Legislature, to have the town redistricted. By the terms of the bill, the fraternities would have been separated from the remain der of the town districts, and the unfair and amoral condition whereby some 800 odd fraterni ty men succeeded in grabbing vir tually all the seats allotted to the 2000-or-more town students would have been remedied. The fraternities would have retained their fair share, and no more. The bill failed for want of a single vote, and to skilled observ ers, the result of the coming Spring Election was clear. Thus we have the tragic overtones. The SP came tantalizingly to obtain ing a fair and. just bill through the legislative victory quite prob ably would have been avoided. Why did the SP lose the elec tion? 1. The fraternity houses are too small. As a result of this, the UP has agents, both pledges and ! members of fraternities, who sleep in the dormitories and serve to dupe the dormitory crowd into voting for the fraternity party. (This duping is not too difficult, because the more alert students have already been drained off into fraternities within the ( first two weeks after their arrival on WANTED TO BUY Suits Typewriters Cameras Musical Instruments Binoculars Highest Prices Paid Licensed and Bonded Zee Us For Larger Loans on Anything of Value MAIN LOAN OFFICE 400 W. Main St. at Five Points the campus. These students are the reasonably smart, reasonably well-heeled, reasonably hand some, reasonably presentable red blooded Hammerican type which is anxious to advance itself through the, dubious prestige and UIIUUUUICU UdcH ouveunagra vu. be derived from fraternity life. Thus, the low-brow, misanthropic; indigent and not-so-smart gener ality which remains, euphemistic ally called "Dorm Men," consti tutes an easy target for all types of political propaganda. 2. The UP knows what it wants, and the SP doesn't. The UP, consisting of fraternities and sororities consti tuting about 25 of the student body, desires, quite naturally, the political prestige necessary to complement the social prestige al ready possessed. In order to ac quire office, it is necessary that the UP convince the dormitory bunch that the UP has the best interests of the -dorm men at heart and it seeks to accomplish this by a constant braying of un ity. Thus, with a solid block of fraternity votes at its back, all the UP gets out of the dorms is so much gravy. The SP, on the other hand, starts about 700 or 800 votes in the hole and has to slug it out with the UP in the dorms and gets accused by UP moguls of spreading dis-unity in the process ! The SP continues to think in terms of being a campus wide party and therefore admits anyone to its ranks. But, by try ing to serve the dorm interests and the legitimate interests of fraternities, it frequently finds it self in a position of weaknes when the two interests do not coincide. Thus, it succeeds, at critical times, in serving neither. Sooner or lat er, the SP will get wise and quit banging its many heads against a stone walL When it orients it self in thq dormitory direction, the days of UP minority domination will be over. 3. Anti-Intellectual ism. The UP was very successful in selling the notion that the SP was composed of a group of in- CLASSIFIEDS ANNOUNCEMENTS DEPENDABLE WRECKER SERVICE nu u n.cs a aay, roe motor company day phone 6581. night Dhone 2-3441. (Chg. 1x1) WANTED A CLERK - STENOG RAPHER, , Civil Service Grad.e GS3. to commence work May 1. Call 7246 by Friday, April 18. (1-6018-1) tellectuals intent upon running all the little North Carolina peas ants out of the University with a "comprehensive examination, and keeping out any further crops of same with a wicked admissions test designed to let in out-of-state nigger-lovers and Communists. Needless to say, the dormitory glands were highly stimulated, over, this prospective demise of the not-so-gentleman's C. To per sonify this horror, the UP used the hoariest political device ever ! tried on the illiterate masses. They employed a catch-word slo gan; "Beat the Clique." Now everybody is in favor of beating a Clique. Whether one exists is quite beside the point. But that it should be beaten is obviously necessary. Once again, the essen tial fact became ODscure;' to wit, the UP had the fraternity in its pocket and was administering opium to the dorm men in the hope that they would not wake up in time to see that they had been sold down the river. 4. Fail ure of commnuications. The ulti mate blame for their execrable behavior,. however, should not be laid at the door of the dormitory men, for they knew not what they did. Rather, ; it should be placed at the feet of the SP which mis erably failed to communicate the issues to the dormitory citizens. The SP, democratic to the bitter end, consisted of about thirty pol icy-makers, each with his own brand of policy. To carry out this mass of pottage, there were about six leg-men. In the battle between a centipede and a hydra, the many-footed is a cinch to win. Epilogue: To comfort us in the hours of darkness and tragedy as .our cup runeth over, let us" re member that while the" intelli gence of the dorm men is slug gish, it also runneth deep. Per haps, yet, they will waken from their sleep upon a fraternity made garbage heap named "uni ty, to realize, concerning the re cent election; that never was so much sold to so many, by so few. Entries Due Tuesday Short Story Competition Special to The Daily Tar Heel CHARLOTTE, April 16 Presi dent Leslie A. Outterson of the Charlotte Writers' club, today an nounced the rules for the club's annual short story contest. Entries must be fiction; not l.ss than 800 nor more than 1,800 words. The author's name muss not appear on the entry, but should be enclosed in a sealed envelope bearing the title of the story and attached to the manu script. Three copies of the entry are to be mailed to J. C. McLarn, 251 Hillside avenue, Charlotte, 7. 117 rs n ir-otf THE AWA ICS KING A. 4 M:V. Every Evening: at 8:30 Saturdays 3, 4, 8:30 Sundays 2, 3, 4, 8:30 Adults Children to 12 50 cents . . . . 18 cents Mail Order Tickets Available .forehead Planetarium U. N. C. Chapel Hill IF YOU ENJOYED "OLIVER TWIST" see this movie starring John Howard Davies (star of "Oliver Twist") in an equally great picture WE GUARANTEE THIS PICTURE! 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