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XJ- n C Library Serials Dept. WEATHER Continued warm with showers and 80 high. Yes terday's high, 80, low, 61. W E L C OME The editor 'welcomes all those high school students to town on p. 2. VOLUME LXII NUMBER 177 Complete ff Photo and Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1954 Offices in Graham Memorial FOUR PAGES TODAY Under The Stars At 9 Tennis Bail Tonight The IDC and Women's Residence Council will serve up their "Tennis Ball" tonight at 9 o'clock on the tennis courts behind Cobb Dormitory. The Ball, listed as Carolina's "first under-the-stars dance," will feature music by the combined combos of Graham Memorial and the Stardreamers. Colored lights will border the courts and the combo will be spot lighted. Refreshments will be provided and entertainment, including a skit by Connor Dormitory, will highlight the intermission of the ball. , Manning Muntzing is head of the committee working for the dance. Marlyn Zager is in charge of entertainment; Gray Bullock, lights; Joy Carter, radio publicity; Louise Coffey, women's dorms; Jerry Daughtridge, refreshments; and Eleanor Addison, secretary and posters. Ken Penegar heads a committee for a car parade this afternoon in which all dorms and sororities will enter a car. The parade will start at the girls' dormitory triangle around 3:30 and la prize will be given to the car best publicizing the dance. Legislature Passes Half Of$ 89,000 In Requests By BENNY STEWART The student Legislature last night approved $44,487 half or an $89,000 budget in appropriations for various campus organizations for the 1954-55 school year. At press time, the lawmakers had reached no decision on the amount it would appropriate to the campus publications, biggest single items in the requests. (The student lawmakers approved the following appropriations made by the Finance Committee at a ; three and one-half hour meeting yesterday afternoon. Student government (all bran ches), $4,586; Carolina Forum, $1,800; Debate Council, $1,375; Graham Memorial, $33,600; Men's Inter - Dormitory Council, $635: CUSC, $240; University Club, $605, and Senior Class organization fund, $1,100. From all indications as to the length of the meeting, it appeared that appropriations to The Daily Tar Heel and Yackety Yack would be considered at a later session. In other action at last night's meeting, the student solons passed a bill appropriating $245 to the Executive Faculty Evaluation Com mittee for expenses incurred dur ing the recent evaluation by the students. In debate on this bill, Rep. 'Gene Cook argued that al though the evaluation was a flop, nevertheless it must be paid for. Rep. Ray Long argued against the bill, saying that the majority vi the Legislature had been against having a faculty evaluation and the wishes of the group had been disregarded by President Bob Gorham. Guggenheim's Director To Talk At WC Tonight GREENSBORO -UP)- James Johnson Sweeney, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, art critic, and au thor, will lecture at 8 o'clock tonight at WC as a feature of the Festival of the Arts. Sweeney will discuss modern art in relation to the character of the period in which it is finding expression. The public is invited. THIS SWARM of bees found a temporary resting place on an oak sapling between Winston and Connor Dorms Wednesday. They formed a mass about eight inches in diameter. After sun down they moved on. R. B. Henley photo. lL i an fir -- : -Vi' : - : .. - jf . I Palestine Trip TopicTonight For Duke Prof Dr. Kenneth W. Clark, Duke University professor of Biblical literature, will give an illustrated lecture in Gerrard Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. Dr. Clark will speak under the auspices of the North Carolina Society of the Archaeo logical Institute of America. Dr. J. P. Harland, UNC professor of archaeology, heads the Institute. The public is invited. To illustrate his lecture, Dr. Clark will use 2"x2" color slides which were made on an expedi tion he made to Sinai and Jerusa lem in 1949-50. Since his return from the expedition, Dr. Clark has prepared some 3,000 manu scripts on microfilm, which have been published by the Library of Congress. Dr. Clark has traveled widely, visiting Mt. Athos in Greece, the patriarchal libraries of Alexandria and Istanbul, and the national li brary of Athens. In 1951 he was a delegate to the Pauline Festival in Greece. His work in the field of manu scripts includes the 1937 Descrip tive Catalogue . of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in Amer ica, which was the pioneer work on such materials. Writing Class Is Short Cut, Says Mrs. Betts By EVELYN DUPREE Creative writing courses are val uable for students who have talent or the creative urge. College taught writers do not necessarily turn into disciples. Not all writing teachers are frustrated writers. I rnese views were expressed yes- terday by Mrs. Doris Betts, prize winning local author, who spoke at a Bull's Head Bookshop tea in the Library's Assembly-Exhibition Room. Mrs. Betts' book of short stories, "The Gentle Insurrection," releas ed yesterday by Putnam's Sons, won for her last fall the first an nual $2,000 fiction prize offered by the publishers through the Uni versity. Speaking of current misconcep tions about the teaching of creative writing, Mrs. Betts emphasized that "the real function of the writing class is to help the student iron out kinks that would take him much longer periods using the trial- and-error process by wnicn arans men are made. The teacher can point out his errors, make sugges tions, and help him to see what) his own standard of good writing j is. porno U ( A student and the dean of stu dents disagreed yesterday on just how much say-so students have in the questions of student drinking and coed visiting in fraternity houses. And no one was quite sure. where plans for a visiting agree-, ment stood, as the all-faculty I grouf next stop in the involved proceedings prepared to take over talks from the student-Ad-ministrative-f acuity group for a while. Phin Horton, the student who i disagreed with Pean of Students Fred H. Weaver, said, "I feel that we're not getting our full share of responsibility. . Somehow I feel the same broad door closing on us that shut on student government last spring." (Horton was refer ring to a visiting plan which the Administration abruptly turned down last spring.) "I'm quite discouraged," Horton added. "I feel that all the work that I've put into student government since " I've been here has been wasted. I think we have every right to be discouraged. I thought we had more student government than we had." - Dean Weaver replied, "The con cept of student responsibility does not mean that the faculty and Ad ministration have to renounce their responsibility. "I ask you not to think of stu dent responsibility as one force, uninhibited. Student government has always been a struggle be tween the faculty, students, and Administration. So I hope you won't consider this conflict a be trayal, but a confirmation of stu dent government." At the beginning of the student faculty administrative meeting, Dean Weaver said, "The student delegation apepars to be a differ ent one each time." He said that this "hampers the continuity" ot the discussions. Later, President Bob Gorham told a reporter that the group seemed to change because "sev eral interested students" asked to join the discussions and that at times other ' students have been unable to attend the meetings. Gorham said that the basic mem bership of the group, as far as he was concerned, had stayed the same. Student attendance at yester day's meeting was only six mem bers, including Inter-Fraternity President Henry Issacson and for mer Women's Residence Council Chairman B. O. Anderson. About five faculty members were pres ent, with a few more coming in late in the meeting. Administra tive representatives were Dean Weaver and Assistant Dean of Students Roy Holsten. Before Weaver's reply ' to ' Hor ton, Prof. Claiborne Jones said, "I believe that if drinking was the principal question, we could have settled it long ago." j 2 Classics By Tennessee Williams Production Of 'Cinderella' Highlight Tonight In Third Day Of Drama Festival; Exhibit Opens Today, the third day of the Car olina Dramatic Festival, features two classic one-act plays by Ten nessee Williams and Anton Tchek off .and will be climaxed by a. pro duction of "Cinderella" by the Goldsboro High School Gold Mas quers at the evening session. The full-length children's play will be followed by an exhibit of theater arts and a discussion hour, led by Samuel Selden at Person Hall Art Gallery. This morning at 9:30 three plays will be presented. "Cornhusk Doll," by Mae MacDonald,, will Hanes High School, Winston-Sa-be enacted by the Dramateers of Mars Hill College; Anton Tchek off's "A Marriage Proposal" will be done by the Pfeiffer Playmak ers of Pfeiffer Junior College, and ssu Ww s Bfeir inkln Seniors' Week . .-j. -. . ..... , To Be May 3, Not Tuesday Senior week will begin a week from this Monday and not this Tuesday as reported in yester day's Daily Tar Heel. Erroneous information was given to the newspaper which resulted in the mixup. The cor rect date is Monday, May 3. The Ray Anthony concert, free to juniors and seniors, will get Senior Week underway. The con cert is to be Monday night, May 3, in Memorial Hall. The Mr. and Miss Alumni awards will be presented at this concert. Tuesday all seniors will be excused from classes, and will meet with their college deans at a time to be announced later. Wednesday will be "barefoot day" and Wednesday night at 11 o'clock there will be a free late show for all seniors. Senior coeds will receive late permis sion for the show. Tar Heel Duke Grad Is New Congress Librarian Lawrence Quincy Mumford, a native of North Carolina and a graduate of Duke, was named Librarian of Congress yesterday by President Eisenhower. the Dramateers of Campbell Col lege will present Dorothy SayersJ "Seeds of Suspicion." At noon the Dramatics Club of lem, will perform in "The Jew elled Cross" by Josephine E. Campbell. , In the 2 o'clock session, three plays will be given by city high Tickets for each group of per formances are 35 cents and a 50 cents charge for the final night's session tomorrow when awards will be made. schools. "The Opening of the Door" by Wall Spence will be given by the Playmasters of Greensboro Senior High School; Tennessee Williams' "The Case of the Qrushed Petunias" will be iiliil! r4 1 Splliiiiailiiif i ssl I , tlf ' ! awM .iYMfi' vx'..- l v s 1mMnifwimMnmiiiiMimiiiMiim iiiiiiitiiriiiiniirMMiiiiiiniiiinnmmmniiiinnr DSDflin THESE THREE DEMOCRATIC smiles belong to the principals in U. S. Sen. Alton Lennon's visit here Wednesday night. At left is Al House, president of the Young Democrats Club, sponsors of Len non; in the center is the anator, and at right is BryanVHare, in charge of arrangements. Lennon is seeking to Ire returned to the seat of the late Sen. Willis Smith to which he was appointed last summer when Smith died. In his speech here, Lennon said that he believed Russia would be forced to seek tfeace because of fear of the H-bomb. R. B. Henley photo. Dorm Change Opposed But Was Held Necessary The Housing, Committee "opposed" moves to place three men in some dormitory rooms next year, Housing Officer J. E. Wadsworth said yesterday, "but apparently there was no other alternative." "It was hoped that by definitely establishing certain dormitories in this three room category," said Hauser Given Bronze Star Chuck Hauser, columnist and as sociate editor of The Daily Tar Heel, was presented a Bronze Star for meritorious service with the Army in Korea in a special cere mony in Durham Wednesday night. Hauser was awarded the medal for "meritorious service" during the period from April 1, 1953, to Dec. 1, 1953. Now a member of the staff of the division artillery reserve of the 108th Infantry Di vision, located in Durham, Hauser also holds the Purple Heart for wounds received in Korea. presented by the Edsonians of Rocky Mount High School; and the Masqueteers of Myers Park High School will enact K. S. Goodman's and Ben Hecht's "The Wonder Hat." Private schools will present two plays at 4 o'clock. The Dramatics Society of Asheville School for Boys will present "From l!ara: dise to Bufte" by Robert Finch, and '"The Spinsters of Lushe" by Phillip Johnson will be given by the High School Workshop Players of the Plonk School of Creative Arts. The evening session beginning at 7:30 will feature Francis Hom er's "Cinderella" by the Gold masquers of the Goldsboro High School. ' MIdiu Wadsworth, "the present occupants would have ample time to make other dormitory requests if they so desired." He added "The com mittee wishes to make it clear that all dormitories in the upper quad rangle will house three persons per room if the need arises," and said the committee, meeting last Tuesday, recommended that Grimes Dorm be the ''last dormitory . . . to house three per room and that it be the first dormitory to be de creased to two per room when any such change is possible." Monday is the last day men may file preferences for dorm rooms next fall. Those desiring to do so should go to the cashier's office in South Building, pay their $6 deposit, and fill out necessary forms. Certain dorms will be open, free of charge, to guests and relatives of seniors graduating in June. Those students wanting to reserve space for their guests should sign up at the Housing Office. Visiting high school youth slipping behind bush to finish cigaret as principal appears un expectedly. Three painters who stroll from Law School to BA School at 10 of the hour each class period so they can watch the coeds. Agile undergrad walking on his hands in front of Planetar ium to the delight of small crowd of coed admirers. es As Faculty msfee OK Confusion On Local Level Over Authority By LOUIS KRAAR Just who can decide whether coeds can sip cocktails in fratern ity houses? No one among the dozen or so student, faculty and Administra tion members at talks in the Car roll Hall conference room yester day seemed to know but it look ed like the Trustees will have to give student drinking the final stamp of approval if it is granted. At the beginning of the meet ing, Dean Fred H. Weaver went through what he called "a certain ritual which I've stated at every meeting." Weaver said, "No one in this group is in a position to com mit the University to approve drinking in fraternity houses." Student leaders went into the talks three weeks ago to discuss coed drinking. The faculty and Ad ministration have turned talks ta the question of student drinking in general. Weaver continued, "While we have been discussing conditions which might warrant a University policy between complete prohibi tion and complete approval, it should be understood that the Uni versity should not be committed to approve drinking." He added, "I say this so as not to mislead students." Meantime, a faculty group read ied itself to take over talks. The faculty group, headed by Dean Weaver, will decide what to do next towards an agreement for coed visiting in fraternity houses. It would seem that this group has two basic courses of action: 1. (The faculty group can say that student drinking will remain out lawed and ask students to work out an agreement from there. . 2. On the other hand, the faculty representatives may approve some form of student drinking. (This approval might be worded so as not to "condone" drinking, but to tolerate it. Dean Weaver, however, said that despite wording, the group could not approve drink ing.) In the event that the faculty group okays come form of student drinking, an agreement would be submitted to the chancellor and would go on ui through chan nels to the Board of Trustees. Regardless of what action the faculty group takes, they still will meet again with students, accord ing to tentative plans, before work ing out any agreement. Among other things, Dean Wea ver yesterday explained just what the University's official outlook on drinking was. Referring to a long standing rule prohibiting drinking, he said: "To refuse to enforce this rule is not the same as utter repudia tion of it. Although it could be called a dead-letter by some, the University policy nominally is against drinking. "Students say, "Get rid of hy pocrisy.' All right, but we'll have to do it through regular channels, rather than through an agreement among ourselves." It would seem at this point that "regular channels" would event ually mean the Board of Trustees. So it may be months, certainly weeks, and only after Trustee ap proval that coeds will be allowed to drink in fraternity houses. The big question along fraternity row now is': Do students have to wait that long to have coeds just visiting again in the houses. And again, no one seems to know the answer.
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