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THE DAILY
The official student .publication oi the Publications Board o the Univer
sity of North Carolina," Chapel Hill, where it is published daily, except -Monday,
examination and vacation periods, and during the official summer terms
Entered as second class matter at ihe post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under
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Editor .
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Sports Editor
News Editor. .. Jody Levey
Society Editor. Deenie Schoeppe
Assoc. Ed Sue Burress
Adv. Mgr TWalIace Pridgen
The Case For The Student Union
(This i the first in a series of articles designed to state the case 1 or ex
panding the student union facilities at Carolina to the student body, adminis
tration, faculty, alumni, and other friends of the University. The articles are
written by members of a committee for a new student union. Editor)
On a recent Tuesday, two students conducted a traffic
check at separate points on the campus between the hours of
9 and 3:30. One was stationed in front of Graham Memorial,
the other in front of Lenoir. 491 people walked past Graham
Memorial. 4,351 walked past Lenoir.
On last Monday, a typical night (chosen at random), every
available facility of Graham Memorial was in use, and quite
a few students roamed, the halls, looking for rooms in which
to hold meetings, to hear records, to read books or merely to
lounge.
The regrettable, but inescapable, fact is clear: our Graham
Memorial building which has served us long and well, is lo
cated on what has become the fringe of the campus, is pos
sessed of physical facilities which become increasingly inade
quate with the passage of time and is operating within the
narrow limits which an unfavorable location and a lack of
adequate physical plant impose upon it.
A brief historical sketch will serve to support these asser
tions. President Harry WoodUurn Chase first announced the
project of building a memorial to former president Edward
Kidder Graham as early as January 27, 1920. This announce
ment was made to the Board of Trustees, and a campaign for
funds was shortly begun. At the time of the campaign, the
regular enrollment at the University was 1,679 students.
The old University Inn was torn down in 1923 and con
struction of Graham Memorial was begun on this -site in
1924. By 1927, the exterior of the building was completed,
and, after additional efforts to raise funds,, the interior was
completed in 1931. At thaty time, the regular enrollment was
3,025, representing an increase of about 80 over that of the
time at which the building was first projected.
Between the time of President Chase's announcement in
1920 and completion of Graham Memorial in 1931, the follow
ing buildings were constructed (all of them except Spencer
being considerably, to the South of Graham Memorial): Ruf
f in, Grimes, Mangum, Manley, Steele, Spencer, Everett, Lewis,
Graham, Aycocjc (all dormitories), the Library, the Bell Tow
er, Kenan Stadium Venable, the Carolina 'Inn, Saunders,
Manning and Murphy.. Thus, the location of Graham Me
morial became increasingly "off-center" even before the build
ing was completed. ! '. I
Since 1931, the developing campus has steadily moved in
the same Southerly direction, 2 and the following buildings
have been added: Winston, Connor, Joyner, Alexander, Cobb,
Stacy, Whitehead Mclver, Alderman, Kenan (all dormitories),
the Monogram Club, Lenoir, Wilson the Medical buildings,
Woollen Gymnasium, Naval AiTnory, the Morehead Planeta
rium and the new classroom buildings now being completed.
w: Such is the evidence .to support the proposition -that the
location of Graham Memorial is not in keeping with the heeds
of a University which continues to grow and whose center
is now far removed from the present Student Union facilities.
Current enrollment statistics, especially in the light of the
anticipated expansion of the University, are sufficient to sup
port the assertion that the present facilities are physically
inadequate. While there were 1679 students enrolled at the
time the project was first mentioned, there, are now over.
5000 students enrolled. What is more, the facilities envis
ioned at the time of President Chase's statement in 1920, in
cluded two wings which have never been added to the central
section of the building (the only part which was completed.)
In effect then, we now have approximately one-half of
the physical plant projected in the twenties. Meanwhile the
student body has increased by over 300.
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WHERE DID APATHY COME
FROM? . . J..-"-:.:-';:--
A psychology class at City
College of San Francisco, asked
to write its views on the causes
of college apathy, has come up
with some interesting results.
One student, said apathy was
"due to the lack of knowing
each other; that is, there is not
a .friendly relation between the
students as there was in high
school . . . when we graduate,
we don't even know who's who.
Wh
Oth
TAIi I IB El.
FRIDAY, MAY 9. 101
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.BARRY FARBER
ROLFE KEI1X
JIM SCHENCK
.JBIFP ROBERTS
Lit. Ed
Natl - Adv,
Sub. Mgr...
Circ Mgr.
,Joe Raff
W. White
Mgr.
.Carolyn Reichard
Donald Hogg
ers Say
different approach: "You have
to have a student body card to
breathe in this school. Most of
the people who are here cannot
afford the money to go to any
other college, or their grades are
too low.
"The only thing you have to
have to get into this place is
warm blood, but to get out you
have to be a genius."
Other students blamed apathy
on worry over the draft, un
certainty and student imma-
by Barry Farber-
Personally
Next summer Finland plays
host to the international Olympic
Games, Britain offers special
price reductions for foreign
visitors, the Riviera promises
glorious attractions to lure the
tourist trade, and once again
all Europe will dance to the
enchanting rhvthm of the Amer
ican dollar.
Students from all over the
United States will flock to the
Parisian banks of the Seine, in
search of beauty, adventure, ed
ucation, and well, you know!
If you plan to join the culture
caravanrto the Continent, take
fair warning. Europe, from Gib
raltar to the North Cape, is
bristling with "tourist traps"
ready to milk you and your
innocent countrymen to the tune
of plenty millions of star
spangled greenbacks. The people
of western Europe are trying ;
to heal their ruptured econo-"
mies and when money talks, they :
don't miss a word.
In Bergen, Norway one sum
mer , a wispy little taxi driver
cornered me in one of those
cellar saloons where everybody
looks like Peter Lorre. "You're
. an American," he whispered.,
drooling like a bondholder
f clipping an interest coupon.
"How would you like to enjoy
the greatest thrill ever exper
ienced by western man since
beginning of time for only
two dollars?"
The same thing flashed
through my mind that just
flashed through yours so I
planked down the necessary
.currency. And what happened?
He hustled me into the back
seat of his hack and drove to
thr top of a steep hill.
"From this lofty peak," he
cackled, "You can see Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Germany,
France, Bulgaria, and parts of
.Asia Minor." Big thrill! It was
so foggy I couldn't see the. lit
. endof the Scandinavian cigar
he had sold me on the way out.
When he let me off in front
of the hotel he opened the door
with one hand, brushed the
1 pine needles off my -back with
the other, and still had one hand
left over for the tip.
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The free-lance fleecing of
American tourists led one
Georgia farm boy who was hag
gling with ah Italian head
waiter over the astronomical'
check in a Rome night club
' to remark, "They ought to re
model the Statue of Liberty so
instead of a torch,, she'd be hold
ing a bag." ' ,
Just the same, next summer
will see hordes of dough drip
ping Yankees inhaling the in
candescent glamour of sunny
Italy, the haunting intrigue of
olde England, and the gripping
majesty of the . Swiss Alps.
Jimmy- Durante smacked a
homer when he said "Man, is
the only animal that can be
skinned more than once."
Today the military experts
fear that Europe lies in danger
of being overrun by the Russian
. Army. Borsht! I'll bet my pass
poM against your that the Rus
sian Army goes broke before it
reaches the Eiffel Tower.
Si jjn over a train window; in
the rn mature republic of Luxem
burg "Passengers are request
ed rot. to lean their heads out cf
Express yourself j
Whatmell is- going on? .
After a week of inconvenience,
I have suddenly f pund that once
again I can use Franklin Street
and the side streets on which
some sort of work (?) was done
last week. .
Now, Mr. Editor, I would just
like to know what was "accom
plished. The once smooth and
fairly decent. looking street sur
faces are now in miserable
shape. - The streets are bumpy,
there is loose gravel all over and
the surfaces become extremely
slimey in this hot weather.
I don't know just who is to
blame. Is this another of our
dear governor's road-building,
projects or is this brilliant piece
of work the doings of the town
fathers?
Whoever is responsible should
be impeached. . ' -
Yours for belter streets. .
NAME WITHHELD BY
REQUEST
by T. Mac
Characters ;
Watch a sophomore from
Baltimore, Maryland, to develop
into one of the best-known per
. sonalities at Carolina. His name
is Louis Marcus Wolfsheimer. , r
This fall we met Lou at a;
party at his fraternity house5
following the Tennessee game.'
Right away he was one of those'
rare creatures: a "life of the
party" that you don't have the
urge to punch in the proboscis.
Besides, we rather enjoyed be
ing around his date. w.
Lou's convivial skills natur
ally gathered around him a
stalwart group which came to
formalize itself into the Chan
cellor's Mid-Afternoon Toddy
Club, with the original members
having the titles of Chief Chan
cellors, Lou serving as Supreme
Chancellor, and all subsequent
members being known as Mere
Chancellors whose roster came
to include members from Duke
and Wake Forest. Realizing the
limitations of an exclusively
social organization which met
regularly each Friday mid
afternoon at 7:30 they also
formed themselves into an in
tellectual group organized as
the Toddy Institute of Techno
logy, Subnormal. (They deemed
it wise not to have the Institute
known by , any conventional
abbreviation.)
Along with this activity, Lou
was elected - into membership
in the Order of the Golden
Bear,' where he served ; quite
efficiently as Label Forger, and:
in the Bear Polytechnic Insti-
-lute as Keeper of the Ivy.
Then came the'lcrisis. "Yes,
: the' doctor said, 'you've got an
I ulcer just a i small one, but
I you'll have to: b? ; aWfullyj care
ful about your Vjiet." Th4 medic
agreed with Lou's own ikea to
: observe ;a- liquid, diet; jbui, in a
most J unsportsmanlike;' i imanner,
he' specified; th? jkinds -of i liquids
Marcus' could" have H ' U ! , : ' ;
Thus' :t . ? is ? that " whenever
we've been to one of Lou's par
ties lately, we have religiously
had a drink with him to start
i off the evening usually a milk
j shake. You see, instead of - find
j ing a shell in which to creep,
Lou has learrvd to iive with his
ulcer. It has become a friend and
Editor:
Here is at least one, fact that
is contrary to the observations
of Professor L. V. Ryan as set
forth in The Daily Tar Heel.
This news item was clipped from
the New York Herald Tribune,
Monday, April 14, 1952.
- T. O. Norris
"An eighteen-year-old high
school senior was found hanging
from a clothesline looped over
a closet door at I a. m. yesterday
in an apartment at 79 W. 188th
St. where he had oeen baby
sitting. Police listed the death
as apparent suicide.
. "The youth, Ronald Busch,
was a student at George Wash
ington High School. The parents
said young Busch had been
'very seriously worried and
afraid that ' he would net be
accepted for the Air Force.'" "
Long
I ve Known
it, and; he claims, ' it talks to
him. It adds to the color of
his personality. We think that
George, the ulcer, is just as big
a character as Lou. Quite pos
sessive ' about his closest ac
i .quaintance, however, Lou is re
luctant i to; arrange an intro
duction There is a sign in the bar
at Lou's fraternity house. It
says, "Lou's Bar" nd he means
' that too. None dare encroach on
the rules governing Lou's es
tablishment, or the wrath of
Zeus will be upon the offender.
Instead of retreating from thei
party world, Lou has taken his.
ulcer and gone to greater
heights in this field.
One day Lou and his ulcer
will be parted.. We'd l:ke to
predict that this slight disad
vantage will in no v way deter
Lou Wolfsheimer in his march
to fame as a Character at Caro-
lina. 1 i
O. K. Lour You asked for it,'
but you didn't think I'd do it,
didja?
H E A D L I N ES
Headline in a New York news
paper: Father Of Ten Shot
Mistaken For Rabbit."
. From a Washington state week
ly: "FBI Hoids Three Men In
Cigarette Case." - ' '
The Halifax, ; Canada, . Herald
reported: "June Babies Flood
Ottawa Hospital." v
The Madison, : Wis., Capital
Times ran the following two head;
lines side by side: "55 Roosters
Stolen At Town of Oregon Farm.'?
"Socialist Club to Hold Chicken
Supper." : V .
A Dallas, Texas paper once
carried a glowing testimonial
to a patent medicine by Mr.
Henry Ellis who claimed the
remedy had "invigorated his
tired body and completely re
stored his failing health." On
the same page, just below the
ad, was brief announcement that
Mr. Henry Ellis had died of. a