PAGE 2 THE DAILY T AH HEEL, TUESDAY. MAY 13, 1932 r- by B a r ry . Fa rbe r - bySueBurress Milp The official student publication of the Publications Board of the Univer sity of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, where it is published daily, except Mon day, examination and vacation periods, and during the official summer terms Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill. N-C. under the act of March 3. 1379 Subscription rates; mailed $4 per year, liO per quarter; delivered, $6 and $2.25 per quarter. Editor Managing Editor ... Business Manager Sports Editor News Editor.. ..Jody Levey Sooietv Editor.. Deenie SchoeDDe Assoc. Ed Bev Baylor Sub. Mgr- . ...Carolyn Reichard Associate Editor Sue Burress Circ. Mgr Donald Hogg Adv Mgr ..WaUace Pridgen Assoc. Sports Ed :Tom Peacock News Staff Grady Elmore, Bob Slough, John Jamison,' Angeles Russos. Wood Smethurst, Janie Bugg. Ruth Hincks. Betty Ann Kirby, Sandy Smith. Al Perry, Peggy Jean Gooche, Jerry Reece. ' Sports Staff Ed Starnes, Martin Jordan, Vardy Buckalew. Paul Cheney, Buddy Carrier. The Case ... ... For A Student Union II This is the second in a series of articles designed to state the case for expanding the student union facilities at Carolina to the student body, ad ministration, faculty, alumni, and other friends of the University. The articles are written by members of a committee for a new student union. Editor ' As a great University, after two decades of consolidation and growth, makes more secure its high place among the universities of the nation, we come increasingly mindful of some of the needs which until now have been deferred. The dislocations caused by rapid growth and the emerg ence of a broadened concept of the University's relation to the lives of its students, serve to clearly demonstrate the need. for applying a strong and continuing force for unity in the rapidly fragmenting student community. We sincerely feel that the construction of a new Student Union Building is of vital signifigance 'in any program cal culated to focus the energies and activities of campus life and re-capture the traditional values associated with the basic concept of a university. To that end, and with our eyes lifted to the future of a University destined for "greatness, we, present the following case for a Student Union .'Building:. , In 1895, the first college Student Union building was con structed on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. By 1936, there were fifty such buildings on as many campuses throughout the country. In 1946, there were 73. Today, the number. continues to increase, and the National Association of College Unions has 113 regular members and 77 associate members (as of May, 1950). - . Such phrases as "the living room of the campus", the "community center", a "home away from home", are con stantly repeated in the literature from these student unions, whether from the more decentralized and frequently less ' ambitious structures common to the region East of the; Mis sissippi, or from the more grandoise efforts which character ise the student union buildings in the West. ' This remarkable development of student unions in Amer ica during the past half-century', a development which might well be called the "student union movement", has roughly paralleled the growing complexity of American higher edu cation and the rapidly-increasing collegiate student body. And, whatever the conceptional scheme behind the student r union, whether it be the "home away from Home" idea, or the "campus living room"; whether the facilities be central ized or decentralized, the notion of a student union, and its tangible symbol, the student union building, is a dynamic and ever-growing factor in the picture of American univer sity life. . .. ; ' ' ' ' ; : In the early thirties, after many years of unremitting; ef fort on the part of Alumni, Administration, students ' and .other friends of the University, our own Graham Memorial was opened and became the center of student life on our campus. For over twenty years, it has played its part well, serving as a focus for the social,, recreational, and extra-curricular activities of thousands. . . . ... r:.-':; ;:..;:;;.': But, while Graham Memorial has ben eminently successful in serving the campus needs insofar as its facilities would allow, the last decade of University growth has made its limitations manifest. The most obvious limitation is the phy- sical plant. While the ; needs of 2000 students might be ac commodated, the needs of 6000 or more students . cannot be adequately met. (For ; example, the entire upper floor of Gr a-, ham Memorial is composed, of meeting roomsrwhich are in : use most of the day.: Rooms must 'be reserved in advance, and quite ofteqj 'digitizations i arev forced to :, seek meeting j;race elsewhere!. The Iviain Houngei . while adequate as, a read ing roomy f cannot 'j alsb j simultaneously accommodate those who wish to listen' td the irfcdio watch television, play cards, listen to records from ths records 'collection, or play the piano.) ' V-v--7" ' Greatly increased enrollment and academic specialization during recent years have contributed to a fragmentation of student interests and a feeling of campus disunity. These conditions, if substantial unity and. common purpose are to be regained and preserved, require 'tKat a great unifying force;: be applied. It is "our belief that, the best possible answer to this need; is a student union building, physically adequate, centrally, located, and sufficient v broad in scope of operation. Mlm wtt J3ARRY FARBER ROLFE NEILL JIM SCHENCK BIFF ROBERTS Lit. Ed... ..Joe Raff NatL Adv. Mgr -F. W White Person a 11 The recent Western Union strike which silenced the Jtick . ers throughout most of the" con tinent gave veteran newspaper correspondents a chance to swap "My Favorite Communication Stories" testifying to the ingen uity of the press in times of crisis when the lines are down and the "scoop" must go through. In the days before Sammy Morse decided to study electric ity, dashing horsemen on sleek stallions were dodging arrows in a race to get the story on An drew Jackson to the desk of the news editor in time for the morn ing edition. , The Associated Press had whaleboats stationed off Canada to intercept schoon ers with news from Europe when Marconi was just a worried look in his mother's eye. The last war saw intrepid knights of the press resort to smoke-signaling between Pa cific atolls, posing as Italian of ficers, and taking over Bulgar ian cable stations at gun point in order to get the story in bold face type on front pages from Raleigh to Rangoon. But one of the most fascinating yarns of all, concerns the New York Times, Admiral Richard Byrd, and a radio chief named Fred Meinholtz. Just before Christmas back in 1928, the two ships of Admiral .Byrd's Antarctic Expedition were bouncing off icebergs a few hundred miles from the South Pole." By short wave radio they were in direct two-way communication with the New York Times, which had exclu sive rights to the Expedition's news releases. In those days, short waVe radio was barely out of the embryo stage and Fred Meinholtz, 'head of the Times radio room, spent much of his ; spore time at , home eavesdrop ping on the latest gossip from the bottom of the world. - On this particular evening, a young Times reporter was writ ing a feature story about the . radio equipment carried by Byrd and he Wanted Meinholtz to check on Tthe details. He tried -in vain to reach him by tele phone Meinholtz's son, it seems, had unhooked the receiv er. The reporter described his : plight to a Times radio operator and the two managed to cook up a little scheme whereby, the whole problem could be readily finessed.' ; They went to the transmitter and banged out a message which . was immediately : picked up by one of the Byrd ships; Meinholtz, meanwhile, was listening in on . Byrd communiques. ? Presently, , he heard the Morse; rcode from ; the Antarctic spell put' his own 1 name along with the words "Please replace your telephone receiver. The Times is trying to : reach you by telephone." ' Meinholtz immediately called the office, which was less than twenty miles away, but the mes sage had travelled eighteen ! thousand miles to reach him:5 ;? ' Who said the shortest distance between two points is a straight line? : v . ' :. : Students at : Yale University made an unsuccessful attempt recently to intitute set-ups at college dances. They pointed out that "the duty of Yale is to give a social as well as an academic education to its students." , ; Snapped the dean, -."if we need liquor to sustain the col lege system, then we had better abandon the college system' --' ; Let's Coordinate Last Thursday night the cam pus was oozing at the seams with visiting dignitaries of one sort or another. . Maurice Tobin, Secretary of Labor, talked to "himself and a few others irr Memorial Hall. Sir John Sheppard, a British scholar sponsored by the Class ics department, chatted with a handful of interested by-stand-ers in Gerrard Hall. At the same time on the same night, Miss Mary Gray Clark, 'cellist, and Mrs. Lydia Bernstein, pianist, struck a few chords of Bee thoven which echoed through Hill Hall. Tobin hampered Sheppard hampered Bernstein and Clark hampered Sheppard hampered Tobin etc. etc. ad infinitum. The need here is for a coor- by Joan The Whole Truth' You want to know something? There's a country far, far away from here where folks were hap py all the time. Not just a few months or a few years maybe, but ALL the time. Everyone got along okay with his neighbor and war just wasn't in their vo cabulary. Why, these people didn't even have a tiny, teenzy weenzy lit tle squabble. No ulcefs either.' Or frazzled nerves. Or even . high blood pressure. Why, after they had done all their work and all their playing and they had plenty of time left on their hands, they just sat around and smiled at each other eontented ly.: And you want to know something else? Something mighty peculiar. They didn't have any history books. Nope! No one in the whole country had ever written up any his tory about what they had done or about what anybody else in any other part of the -'country had, done. Then, golly, Pete! all of a sudden something happened to these nice, peaceful folks. Some learned scholar, someone who had a lot of opinions about this, that and the other thing began to write one of those books f about the past. He wrote about what happened the week before in the western part of the coun- try. As he saw it, naturally. A bird's-eye .view, so to speak. Only this opinionated pipsqueak lived in the eastern part of the country. The people who lived in the western part of the country had ': eyes that made them see every thing red and the people in the other part saw everything blue. Naturally this - history enthus iast wrote the whole business up in a blue light. When the west erners got hold of his little epistle they were so mad be cause of this blue cast that was spoiling everything they just about blew a gasket. Know what they did? They bounced right over there to the eastern section anJ chopped off that scholar fool head with a big hatchet before they had time : to think about Sti Now they have dina ting body, committee, com mission, service or what have you, for the purpose of calen daring events of significance. This proposed group could, as a service to the University, ar range programs with sponsoring organizations, so that all the apples, would fall into the same basket. Were this task accom plished, the echoes would not be quite so booming in an empty hall and the embarrass ment and humiliation of the speaker or entertainer might be lessened. . This . so-called coordination committee of course could not do the job left up to the 5000 students who were in the booze basements, the dorms and fra ternity house Thursday night. It could, however, serve to direct them to one spot ... not three. Stieber wars all the time. Can ya be lieve it? All the gosh durn time! It is no different with the world today. History books are partly responsible for all the wars we are going through. Take the United States, for instance. If you pick up a Southern .history book its pages tend to glorify the valor of the Confederate soldier and to mini mize that of the uncouth Yan kee. Russian books are filled with the horrors of those dead-end Al Capone, gunblazing maniacs better known as Americans. American books yell about the inhuman qualities of this and that country. In most of our history books the Americans were always right, and the English, or who ever we were fighting at the time, were the black-mustached villains. . Don't misunderstand. Ameri ca, naturally, is the greatest of all. Still, if history books told the straight facts about every thing in every country of the world, there would be much less antagonism, and I'll bet my bottom dollar, less war. When you start to color his tory with the paint that your folks have always used, even splashing some over on the sides of another color, the re sult is nothing but mud instead of an accurate picture. It causes people to hate one another for what they have read, and not for the truth. An excellent example of this can be found right here in our own back yard. Look at all the disgust (friendly disgust but still disgust) that exists between ; the North and the South. No one can see the other's point! of view because, of the mud! slinging. f ; ; j If the slate of the earth could ! : be wiped clean, and we could I have a chance to start every thing over, I would be, the first to raise my hand . and ask that it be made a rule, just like eat ing, that history books had to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help them God! A

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