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Louis Kraar looks 'em
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VOLUME LXI NUMBER 39
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Part In New Ruling
The Merchants Association
here has not in any way in
fluenced the Executive Com
mittee's controversial decision
ordering Saturday classes.
This was emphasized yester
day by John W. Umstead, for
12 years a member of the mer
chants' Board of Directors and
also a member of the UNC
Trustee Executive Committee.
Umstead added that he had
missed only three merchant
board meetings during 12 years.
. . . I know that such a thing
(merchant Saturday class sup
port) has never been mention
ed by the association. Of this
I am sure."
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DR. EDDY ASIRVATHAM
Faith Camp
Registration
Ends At Noon
Noon today Is the registration
deadline for the interfaith con
ference scheduled for Friday and
Saturday at Camp New Hope.
. "Religion's Part in Internation
al Relations" will be the topic of
the conference led by Dr. Eddy
Asirvatham, professor of Mis
sions and Christian International
Religions at Boston University.
Dr. Asirvatham, who is past vice
president of the Indian Political
Science Association, is visiting
the campus under the auspices
of the YMCA and the Inter-faith
Council. He will visit political
science classes and will speak at
a Social Science luncheon meet
ing Monday.
Dr. Asirvatham is the author of
several books including "Politi
cal Theory," "A New Social Or
der," and "Christianity in the In
dian Crucible."
Dr. Asirvatham will speak on
relifiion and international rela
tions from the Indian view point
He has been head of the Depart
ment nf Political Science and
public administration at the Uni
versity of Madras. Dr. Asirva
tham has lectured widely under
the auspices of the American
Friends Service Committee, the
East and West Association, the
Foreign Policy Association and
the American Academy of Social
and Political Sciences.
Author and lecturer Paul
Green will assist Dr. Asirvatham
. in the leadership of the confer
ence.
Registration for the conference
ma? be made in the YMCA ol
fice. Full-time registration of
$2.50 covers lodging and three
meals. Part time registration is
also accepted.
Your Ideas
Students may give iheir rea
sons for or against the issue of
Saturday classes by depositing
them in a special complaint box
in the Y today.
This will give student govern
ment leaders more concrete
opinions for use in the battle
being waged against Saturday
classes, said Roger Kingsbury,
chairman of the Student Com
plaint Board.
No
The Orange County legisla-
tor made the statements yes
terday while conferring with
student leaders about the recent
Saturday class decision. Rum
ors were well circulated yester
dayas well as in years past
that the merchants were the
real motive for Saturday class
es here.
Chancellor Robert B. House
joined in denouncement of this
rumor, saying: "I take pleasure
in assuring all concerned that
I have been closely connected
with these discussions over a
period of 26 years and that the
Merchants Association has nev
er had anything to do with it at
all."
3 Students
Bound Over
For Stealing
By Bob Slough
Three University students were
bound over to Orange County Su
perior Court yesterday after waiv
ing preliminary hearing in Cha
oel Hill Recorder s Court on
charges of larceny and breaking
ind entering.
The students are Thomas Rich-
kardson, 19, Boone; John Norman
III, 19, Cherry Lane; and John
Woodruff, 20, Laurel Springs
Sach of the defendants was re
leased after posting $1,500 bonds
for appearance in the next term
of Superior Court.
They were captured about
a.m. Friday by Chapel Hill police
men, who said the three boys ad
mitted stealing $80 worth of medi
cine, candy and cosmetics from
in front of . McCrimmon Drug
Company in Pittsboro.
A passerby saw three boys take
the merchandise after it had been
delivered to the drug store. He
notified Pittsboro police after the
car had left.
Pittsboro police called the Cha
pel Hill Police Department and
the car was stopped near Morgan
Creek just outside Chapel Hill.
Police said the boys admitted
breaking and entering other busi
ness establishments here and in
Carrboro.
The boys were quoted by offi
cers as saying they entered Vil
lage Service Station on West
Franklin Street where they took
a large quantity of auto accessor
ies and cigarettes. This breaking
allegedly happened last Thurs
day night.
The youths also confessed the
robberies of the Highway Service
Station in Carrboro, Police said.
The Carrboro station was robbed
of cigarettes, tools and three gal
lons of anti-freeze.
Parents of some of the offend
ers appeared in court. Woodruff
posted $1500 bond as soon as
Judge William S. Stewart an
nounced the amount. Bond for the
other boys was posted later in
the day.
Quaker Film
Here Thursday
The Quaker film, "A Time for
Greatness", will be shown Thurs
day night at 8 o'clock in Swain
Hall under the sponsorship of the
Chapel Hill capter of the Women's
International League for Peace
and Freedom.
The film is based on the
pamphlet published in 1951 by
the American Triends Service
Committee and entitled "Steps to
Peacea Quaker View of U. S
Foreign Policy".
Purpose of the pamphlet is to
express moral concern over pres
ent dependence on military force;
to share with others what
Quakers have learned of other
peoples in working among them
for. many years, and to stimulate
discussion of American foreign
policy.
i1N BRIEF
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden yesterday rejected
Russia's latest Korean proposal
and declared that no war prison
er may be either forcibly re
patriated or forcibly" detained.
Eden also called upon Secretary-
General Trygve Lie to reconsider
at this critical time," his decision
to resign the world organization's
top post.
WASHINGTON P resident
Truman will seek Dwight D.
Eisenhower's, advice on foreign
policy during the next two
nonths, but will not ask the
President-elect to share responsi-
oility for any decisions, admin-
stration officials said yesterday.
rhey said Truman will ask
Eisenhower's suggestions on how
to handle urgent problems in
Korea, Iran and Indo-China
Arhen the two meet at the White
blouse next week. There have
jeen reports that Eisenhower
nay be unwilling to make any
ecommendations before he actu-
illy takes over as President and
-ully briefed on the issues m-
olved.
SEOUL Fifteen - hundred
creaming Chinese Communist
oldiers captured Pinpoint Hill on
jniper Ridge yesterday, storming
lie crest behind a thundering ar
illery barrage. Communist big
juns fired 4,000 rounds into allied
positions during the first two
.ours of the attack, which began
it 5 a.m. : It was the 13th time
Jhinese troops have re-taken the
.ital central front position since
ts capture by the South Koreans
on Oct. 14.
MICHIGAN CITY. Ind. The
.vlichigan City News-Dispatch to
day published a sailor's descrip
tion of what he called an "H
jomb" blast off Kwajalein in the
Marshall Islands, Nov. 1. The
iailor said his ship loaded the
neavily-guarded bomb in San
Francisco and transported it to a
test island. He said the ship was
35 miles away from the explosion
which ."was just like someone
putting a hot iron on your back
for a split second."
AUGUSTA, Ga. President
elect Dwight D. Eisenhower
probably will spend Thanksgiv
ing' with American troops on the
front line. Members of Eisenhow
er's growing staff here did not
want to talk about the Korean
trip for security reasons, but
there were indications he would
leave shortly after his talks with
President Truman in Washington
next week.
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ing: "It's A Long Hike Ike." Left to right: CuL Tommy Espejo, Florida; CpL Glenn WenxeL Brillion.
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WE'VE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT WAS THE attitude most students displayed yesterday over the
Saturday class issue. This picture shows part of ih2 group of nearly 1.200 vho signed the petition in
Y Court protesting the Executive Committee ordsr for Saturday classes. Several hundred more stu
dents signed other petitions circulated on campus. Daily Tar Keel photo by Cornell Wright.
1 1 O'Clock Classes No
Students Not
Conspiracy;
By Sally Schindel
So you think the University's
conspired to keep you, here
through the last day of exams?
And you're sure that for the
past several quarters you've
had a last-day exam because of
an 11 o'clock class?
Cheer up. You can have as
many ll o clocks as you want
for the next couple of years
and take off before the final
exam period. And neither is
there a conspiracy to keep you
here unless it's mathematical
chance.
According to the law of rota
tion and E. S. Lanier of Cen
tral Records Office, if you
want 'to take off early in com
ing exam seasons, Winter
Quarter you should beware of
required language courses
(next in line to be last), and 3
o'clock classes Spring Quarter.
Contrary to popular opinion,
the schedule is not made to
keep students as long as possi
ble. Instead, it's made up by a
rotation system. Here's a sam
ple: Winter, 1952 8 o'clock last
exam given.
Spring, 1952 8 o'clock sec
ond exam given.
Fall, 1952 8 o'clock fourth
exam given.
It's not a straight rotation,
Lanier explained, but skipping
bv twos. Hence, in the Winter
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Victims
otafion
1953. 8 o'clock
Quarter - of
should be
the sixth exam
given. .
Another general misconcep
tion is that Lanier is the cause
of all exam schedule evils. In
answer to the question of "Who
is?" Lanier stated that he was
"just clerk" to the Schedule
Planning Committee consisting
of the deans of the undergrad
uate school Deans Spruill of
General College; Lyons of Arts
and Sciences, Carroll of Busi
ness Administration and Phil
lips of Education.
First step toward the exam
constructing this fall took place
when Lanier rotated last
Spring Quarter's schedule and
sent it to the deans to be ap
proved. About a week later
the deans met to give their
ayes or nays on the proposed
plan. (If the nays are too loud,
then a" compromise must be
reached.)
Why couldn't the schedules
rotate without disagreement?
"The deans are trying to avoid
piling up exams on someone,"
explained Lanier, since so
many students have straight 9,
10, and 11 o'clock classes. After
all, he added, "deans are not
devilish or mean. Dean Spruill
will argue like mad to keep his
freshmen from having three
exams together. I think every
one can see the sense to that."
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Of Exam
s kjare
As to why the " committee
just doesn't make an afternoon
class last on the exam sched
ule all the time, Lanier had a
reason for that, too. If 1 o'clock
classes had the reputation of
being the last exam every
quarter; "Gosh, you'll never
get students in a 1 o'clock
then," chuckled the committee
clerk.
In conclusion Lanier said,
' No student is willing to keep
a record of his exam schedule
for two years and see the fa
vorable schedules he did have.
When he gets a bad one, he
squawks and forgets the good
ones. In other words most of
us are interested in the present
not what has happened in the
past or what favorable will
happen in the future."
Guest Deans
Are Honored
Miss Dorothy Gebauer, Dean of
Women at the University of Tex
as, and Miss Adele Stamp, Dean
of Women at the University of
Maryland, were honored by mem
bers of Women's Residence Coun
cil and Women's Council last
night at a dinner in Lenoir HalL
Others present at the dinner
were Dean Katherine Carmichael,
Miss Marcella Harrer and Mrs.
K. D. Adams of the UNC Dean
of Women's office, and Patsy
Jones, Dot Smith, Fran McColl,
Shirley Gee, Julia Robertson,
Margaret Johnson, Betty Otto An
derson, Lois Perry, Margaret
Thompson, Tish Coley, Sally
Guerry, Rachael Williams, Emily
Cook, Gloria Huss, Gwendolyn
Huss, Anna Glod, Bert Jones, Sar
alyn Bonowitz, Nancy Ripple, Vir
ginia Hall, Carman Nahm, Ross
Young, Jane Ann Sneed, Kitty
Barton, Bev Chalk, Marilyn Habel,
Pepper Stetson and Mary Vinson
Bridge Tournament
Winners Announced
The Weekly Duplicate Bridge
Tournament was held in Graham
Memorial Lounge on Monday
night with 13 tables in play.
Winners were North-South, Dr.
and Mrs. H. D. Wolf and (2) Mr.
and Mrs H. J. Duerr; East-West.
Mr. and Mrs Harry Smith and
Mr. Bill Woods and Mr.' Henry
Gifford, all of Chapel Hill.
All students are invited to join
the group every Monday at 7:15
p.m.
Trustee Joins
With Students
In Big Fight
Member of Group
To Ask Another
Committee Meet
By Rolf e Neill
and
Louis Kraar
Despite the oft-applied la
bel, students yesterday were
anything but "apathetic.
The Trustees' Executive
Committee had ordered up
Saturday classes for the Uni
versity and immediately
things began to happen here.
Campus reaction had the chain
links of a hydrogen bomb ex-
olosion and in rapid-fire order
yesterday:
1. Executive Committee Mem
ber John W. Umstead of Chapel
Students who work on week-
r ends, in their home towns or m
Chapel Hill, are asked to con
tact the student government of
fice in Graham Memorial today
or tomorrow. President Ham
Horton said it is urgent.
Hill said he opposed Saturday
classes and had no doubt "we can
eventually beat this thing."
2. Students expressed their pro
test with yards of petitions (see
bold face box in column seven).
3. President Ham Horton of the
student body made a statement
lauding the UNC administartion
for its stand.
4. The campus consolidated
plans to fight the institution of an
extra half day of classes.
Umstead jumped feet first into
the fray when he met with stu
dent government leaders and
urged a "sane, not too vigorous
campaign." He further said, "I
have no doubt that we can event
ually beat this thing." He said he
would demand a special meeting
of the Executive Committee at
an "opportune time" to rescind its
action.
Umstead also clarified the po
sition of local merchants in the
fracas (see story in columns one
and two). A brother of the governor-elect
and a veteran state
legislator from Orange County,
Umstead was present at the Exec
utive Committee meeting in Ra
leigh Monday when the decision
was made. The vote was 5-1 with
two abstaining, he said. Four of
the 12 members were absent. Um
stead said his was the only vote
opposing the extra half day of
classes.
Students, as their campus gov
ernment swung into action, re
sorted to a number of plans to
retain their weekend freedom.
President Horton announced the
office of the vice-president on the
second floor of Graham Memorial
will serve as campaign headquar
ters. Student leaders continued
to circulate petitions and a mass
meeting of the student body was
called for tomorrow at 3 p.m. in
Memorial Hall.
Horton's statement:
"The bombshell of Saturday
classes which dropped into the
breakfast plates of the faculty
and student body Tuesday served
to remind us of two staunch
friends friends who stood up to
defend the best interests of the
University at Chapel HilL
(See CLASSES, Page 4)
Petition
Twenty-five yards of peti
tions almost 2.003 names in
all were collected yesterday.
Despite afternoon thnndar
showers, students streamed into
the YMCA and Lenoir Hall to
sign the petitions protesting
Saturday classes. Over 700 sign
ed petitions in Lenoir and ap
proximately 1,110 inked the
ones in the Y.
The petitions are to be con
tinued throughout the week.
Special ones are being circu
lated in dorms, fraternities, sor
orities and other residence polls.