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widely scattered thunder--showers
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Expected high, 80; low, 'Ho.
VOLUME LXII NUMBER 178
Make-Up Tests Offered
So Students May Vote;
House Offers Comments
By STAN SMITH
Chancellor Robert B. Housein a scheduled press conference Thurs
day afternoon, affirmed the suggestion that students bfe excused front
examinations to vote in the May 29th Democratic primary.
The possibility of an excuse came up in a previous press conference
Jake Is Right
People Want
To Do It And
It Gets Done
(The following was written
by a Chapel .Hillian. connected
with the Community Drama
Group of the Chapel Hill Com
munity Church. The group will
meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow
night in the Assembly - Exhi
bition Room of the Library for
a reading of Thornton WUder's
play, "Our Town." Everyone is
invited to attend the meeting'-
Editor.)
By MAE GRAVES
Unquestoinably Jake Wade is
right Chapel Hill is a mad ro
mantic town.
But those are just two facets
of its personality. There is a
rare kind of vitality the kind
of quality one usually associ
ates with people, not with plac
es that seems to be in the very
air of the place. An idea crops
into someone's mind, he shares
it with one or two people who
are interested, they share it
with one or two more, and the
little, group, in easy commerce
with each other, work on it,
getting fresh perspectives, new
angles.
And all of a sudden some
thing dynamic is started. It
doesn't die-a-borning. It gets
off to a good healthy start in a
srr.Il nuclear group, because
people here don't have time to
be bored or tired or too-busy
to try something new along
with other well - established in
terests. The Community Drama Group
which has been started by the
Community Church (but in no
way limited to the church mem
bership) is a good current ex
ample of that sort of thing. The
small group of Sunday School
teachers of the church wanted
to see what might be done with
the use of drama with the child-
ren, augmenting through that
medium the kind of teaching
that would catch and hold the
interest of their pupils. They
asked for some practical, pro
fessional advice from someone
with the know-how and the ex
perience Kai Jurgensen, a
playmaker director. And, in the
course of that first afternoon's
discussion, a month or so ago,
the spark of the initial idea
kindled a genuine enthusiasm
among the adults.
It's grand for the children
but why can't we" do something
of the kind for the grown-ups,
too? Well why can't we? No
reason why we can't We can.
let's do it"
It was just about that simple
and direct and it's real.
Everyone agreed that nothing
elaborate should be tackled,
that there should be no "mem
bership" requirement other than
genuine interest in getting to
gether with people who had
similar interests and who enjoy
creating something together.
Experience? None necessary.
Histrionic ability? None neces
sary. Age? wno cares? Church -affiliation?
Doesn't have a thing
to do with it. One could elaborate
(or, more truly, simplify) end
lessly. The point is that people
want to do it and it's being
done.
Already it is fun for those
who have started working in
the group, and as the group in
creases so will the spread of enjoyment
Complete JP Photo and Wire Service
-some weeks ago. "I took it right
straight to the Faculty Schedule
Committee," explained the chan
cellor . "Two things have been
done," he continued. "While it is
impossible to avoid all examina
tions on that date, the committee
has scheduled as few as possible
then. ,
: "Secondly, the committee will
cooperate with any person who
wants to get home to vote." He
explained it would be possible, to
secure an excuse merely by seeing
the instructor giving the exam.
Also discussed at the conference
was the question of putting three
men in rooms of certain dorms,
instead of two. Could this policy
be carried to dorms other than the
six already noted?
"If the need arises, it might be
necessary to do so," said House.
"We belong to the people of North
Carolina, and we must accommo
date all of them." He added that
the policy was not new to the Uni
versity, that Old East at one time
had as many as four men to a room.
"We will try to pick the best
dorms suited for the change, how
ever, if it becomes necessary."
In reply to a question of fear of
communism on the campus, House
talked for a few minutes on com
munism itself.
"It is definitely a conspiracy to
get control of the world. As for
being afraid of it, here or any
where yes, I am afraid of it like
I'm afraid of walking through a
patch of grass after somebody
tells me there is a snake in it.
: "Call that prudence or fear, what
ever you wish," he smiled.
Later, he was asked if the liber
al atmosphere in Chapel Hill
seemed today the same as it had
been before the McCarthy investi
gations. Were college men more
apprehensive of what they joined?
TThe whole world not just
Chapel Hill is stirred up by this
question," House replied.
"I don't believe it comes so
much from a fear of McCarthy as
the fear of inaccuracy as to past
associations, and of the fear of
getting out of one's own field of
responsibility.
"However," he added, "I have no
sense U ail lUdi yeuyic tic icaj.-
fuL Certainly nobody here on cam
pus seems afraid of anything.
'There's no hesitation on the part
of the students to talk to me, or
about me or anything in the Uni
versity.
"In these times, of course, we
have to be more responsible citi-
zens. Years ago, what a man said
didn't echo around the world like
it does now.
'Today, America is living under j gram have been Tom Curtiss,
a sort of glass bowL Not that this f dance, Don Kepley, decorations;
is bad it gives us all a wholesome ! Jim Patton, picnic, and Harry Pat
sense of responsibility." ton, invitations.
Weaver Gets A Revelation
Switch In Student Drinking Tactics?
By LOUIS KRAAR
Student leaders, although they
say it isn't so, apparently have
switched their tactics and possi
bly their position on student
drinking.
This seems apparent from dis
cussions at Thursday's meeting be
tween student, faculty and Ad
ministrative representatives. Phfn
Horton, speaking on the student
side, told the group that the stu
dent declaration which allowed
coed drinking was just a wedge to
get the talks going.
"We didn't expect it to stand,"
Horton said.
But on March 31, when the. stu
dents made their pointed decree
thaL in effect, gave coeds drinking
privileges in fraternity houses, it
was a different story, une stuaems
then that they were holding
out for nothing less than coed
drinking. Apparently there have
been some student changes made.
Program Listed
In Leadership
School Plans
Nancy Home, chairman of this
year's ; Leadership-Fellowship Pro
gram, announced yesterday the
plans for the training to be held
Monday through Wednesday.
Monday's meeting, to be held in
the Rendezvous Room of Graham
Memorial, will include a kickoff
speech by Dean of Women Kath
erine Carmichael, a movie, refresh
ments and "buzz groups" on over
all phases of campus life.
On Tuesday the group will meet
in the main lounge of Graham Me
morial and later break up for buzz
sessions in main divisions: dormi
tory, sorority, organizations, and
committees,, advisers, and others
not covered in the first two.
. This leadership training program
has been conducted on the campus
by coeds since. 1948. finis year it
is unique in that the. coeds partici
pating are expressing, their own
ideas on such questions as campus
organizations and academic life,
Miss Home said. The method used
will be "buzz groups" which will
be led by students.
,The leadership-fellowship pro
gram is for seniors, juniors, soph
omores and freshmen. . . .
Pageant Needs
Specialty Acts
Specialty acts such as singing
or dancing are needed for the
Miss Chapel Hill pageant to be
presented next Friday night at 8
o'clock in the high school auditor
ium.
Anyone interested is asked to
contact Pokey Alexander, after 6
p.m. at 8-0177.
Coeds and Chapel Hill girls may
enter the pageant,; fraternities,
sororities, and other campus or
ganizations are invited to sponsor
a coed.
Tickets to the pageant are now
on tsale through the Jaycees and
in the downtown stores for $1.
Anyone desiring to enter or
sponsor an entry can do so by call
ing The Daily Tar HeeL 9-3361,
or Roland Giduz at The Chapel
Hill Weekly, 9-1271.
Dorothy Figel Elected
President Of YWCA
New officers of Carolina's YWCA
'were installed this week in an in-
stallation service conducted at the
; old chapel of the Episcopal Chapel
of the Cross.
New president is Dorothy Figel
of Indianapolis, Ind. t
The installation service followed
a program which featured an ad
dress by Dr. S. T. Habel, pastor
of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church,
and music by Marian Southerland
and Mamie Polk.
Serving as chairmen of special
committees for the weekend pro-
Dean of Students Fred H. Weav
er told Horton Thursday after Hor
ton's explanation of the March 31
independent student action, "I had
not realized it until this past
Thursday that students had not
expected it to stand."
The Administration, acting after
students declared there would be
drinking, said the old agreement
which allowed coeds to visit but
not drink in fraternity houses was
a two-sided agreement between
the Administration and students.
The student declaration was a one
sided agreement between stu
dents. Thus, concluded the Ad
ministration on April 3, there is
no coed visiting agreement and
therefore can be no coed visiting.
So, for about 20 days now, wom
en students haven't been in the
fraternity houses, except on spec
ial occasions and with special per
mission. (This includes "all women
students," the dean of students
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. SATURDAY,
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''High school studenVs'com-
: menilin .; guest book after visit
to Moirehead Planetarium
"Pretty good.?
Marriage . profs double en
tendre nearly breaking up class
as he gives student example of
a "more": "People wear clothes
so they won't get pinched."
.
Two six-year-olds, who live
next door to TEP house, watch
ing Hopalong Cassidy on fra
ternity's television set.
Blood Drive
To Begin Here
Tuesday
The Red Cross bloodmobile will
be at Graham Memorial student
union on Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week to collect blood.
The campus drive is being spon
sored this year by Pi Nu Fratern
ity, .assisted by Delta Delta Delta
Sorority. This is the first time,
according to a Pi Nu officer, that
a single - organization has , spon
sored the drive. . , -
The campus director for the Red
Cross is W. B. Aycock of the Law
SchooL Campus chairman of the
drive is Ken Pruitt, with co-cha.T-men
Carol DuPler and Frank
Plott
Two trophies will be awarded
to individual organizations having
the largest percentage of partici
pation. There will be one trophy
for organizations of more than 100
members and other award for un
der 100.memherss Last fall. the
awards were won by the NF.GTC
unit and Theta Chi Fraternity,
respectively.
To date, according to Pruitt,
over 90 midshipmen from the
NROTC have signed up to partici
pate and about 50 cadets from the
AFROTC.
Last fall more than one-third of
the blood collected was donated
by the Air Force, Pruitt said.
Off Limits To All
"Women students" from
schools are prohibited from
iting in fraternity houses,
dean of students' office
all
vis-
ex-
plained yesterday.
Previously, there had been
some question about whether
the current lack of a visiting
agreement meant that all women
students couldn't visit or just
coeds from UNC.
Parents can visit in the houses,
however. Also, under special con
ditions and with special per
mission, social events which had
been planned may be held in
fraternities.
office has declared.)
Fraternities are showing impa
tience. Nevertheless, most of the
student eaders feel that to go back
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bad policy. And the Administration
1 r r: 1 1 '
ana iacuiiy iiruuy agree wuu uiem
on this point.
The question mark in the fra
ternity mind is whether they will
have to wait for a new agreement
before the coeds can visit fratern
ity houses again. This is where the
student position may change. Al
ready, several student leaders!
have suggested that the old agree
ment might be reinstituted temp
orarily. Discouragment is the word for
the attitude of most student lead
ers right now. This discouragement
may weaken them to accept the
old agreement if they can even
set this from the Administration
and forget about the original planj
of coed drinking in fraternity j
houses.
APRIL 24, 1954
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campus
. Wonderful Opportunity
Drama Festival Turns UNC
Into Town Of Make-Up, Color
By JENNIE LYNN
'An outdoor set of cardboard street lamps, bird cage, and pink
flowers waited beside tie Playmakers Theatre back door yesterday,
as students from all over the state staged the third day of the North
Carolina Dramatic Festival.
Backstage, a half hour before the afternoon v curtain, Playmakers
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President, of the Carolina Dra
matic Association, sponsoring
the annual Drama Festival which
finishes a four-day run here to
day, is Miss Laura Plonk, found
er and director of the Plonk
School- of Creative Arts in
Asheville.
Festival Ends;
Drama Awards
Given Tonight
"Bluebeard," a costume and
make-up contest, and presentation
o awards by Chancellor Robert
B. House will wind up the 31st
annual Carolina Dramatics Festival
today.
The original play, "Bluebeard,"
by Erleen Marquardt, will be pre
sented by the Marquardt School of
Speech and Drama of Charlotte
this afternoon at 3:30. The make
up contest will take place at 11
a.m. in the Playmakers Theatre,;
and Chancellor House will present
awards to winning schools in the,
festival tonight at S:45.
Student Council
Group To Study
The Student Council elected
Ken Penegar of Gastonia as its
new chairman this weekend, the
first meeting of the council since
the spring elections.
"I am looking forward to work-
ing with the new council and pre- t
paring for its excellent contribu-
tion next year, even though my
association with the group will of
necessity be a brief one," said
chairman Penegar at the time.
Penegar will graduate in June.
One of the first official acts of
the new chairman will be to ad
minister the oath-of-office to all
the new student government offi
cials at the inaugural ceremonies
in the Legislature next Thursday
night.
The council itself is expected
to have to deal with the reform
proposals for the whole student
judiciary that have recently come
out of the Judiciary Study Com
mission. '
Newly-elected members of the
Student Council who were sworn
in were Cynthia Ward, " Eleanor
Saunders, Jackie Steed, Edward
Nelson for the six months seat;
BilT Calvert, Charlie Wolf, and John Woe-ten, Kingston. secretary
Walton Joyner for the three at- treasurer; Ron Oldenburg, Biloxi,
large one year seats. The other Mississippi, Business manager;
hold-over (Penegar was a hold ov- Charles Culbreath, quartermaster;
er) from the previous council is Don HalL Chapel Hill, publicity
Gerald Parker. 1 manager.
Offices in Graham Memorial
ver
crew members swept paper cups
and straws left from previous prac
tices from the floor. Others
climbed ladders to change white
lights to blue and red, and fasten
bockdrops with clothes hangers.
Mingled with the onlookers and
propers were the amateur actors
in hand-made costumes, heavy
make-up, and white dust in their
hair. They drank cokes from the
Y and stared at worn copies of the . .
plays they were in.
When the two o'clock bell rang,
the Senior High director called his
Greensboro players up from the
dressing room. The sound-effects
man, operating the high school
recording machine, clicked a but
ton that began a recording of sound
effects for the play. (The curtain
was drawn, for
Door."
Opening of a
in the basement of the theater
Mr. John W. Parker, executive di -
rector of the festival, sat behind
stacks of oaDers and tickets. "All!
of the participants and interested ceived the second PProP
people come down here to the iration' saw its request cut from
Green Room," he said, "to check j 527,630 to S23'130
in, find out what's going on, and! Tile Daily Tar Heel received
meet everybody." $22,088, or more than $4,000 less
than the newspaper's original re
This is Mr. Parker's 20th year of ' quest. Most of the DTH cuts came
running the festival, and he said in reduction of staff members' sal
that this year's production is on f aries and in allowances for print
the whole higher than since the ing costs.
war. "The festivals give the stu- The executive branch of student
dents a chance of real trooping," ; government had its request hiked
he continued. "They experience all from $3,670 to a final grant of
the hardships of professionals, im- $3,850. The legislative branch was
provised scenery, setting up props given $730 and the judicial branch
that they are unaccustomed to, and j recevied $56.
living in barracks-like conditions. The University Club's request of
They learn to rough it, and have '$145 was increased to $605. A
a lot of fun, though, and everyone
wants to come back another year."
"Each of the four days of the ;
festival brings a Digger audience
to the theater," Mr. Parker said, j
"Tonight the Goldmaskers from
Goldsboro will stage a full-length j
1 production of 'Cinderella.'" He;
1 gr0UP) dted byj1 umversity itudent Co'
$ir. Clifton Britton, has won
68
awards in the past nine years.
Elects Penegar;
Judicial Reform
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Prudent Council chief
Carolina Band Members
Select Pruitt New Head
U.N.C. Band officers have been
selected for next year.
They are Ken Pruitt, Winston
Salem, president; Herb Wainer,
Winston - Salem, vice president;
FOUR PAGES TODAY
Total
$9
rganizations
Daily Tar Heel, Yack
Suffer Budget Cuts;
Executive Fee Hiked
By RICHARD THIELE
The student Legislature ap
proved $90,685 in total appropria
tions for campus organizations as
it passed the student government
budget for 1954-05 at its Thursday
night session, which lasted until
well after 11 o'clock.
rrhe Thursday night meeting
was the last at
w-h i c h Baxter
Miller presided
as Speaker.
- The $90,000 in
estimated ex
penses for the
coming year will
come from a to
tal of about
$98,048, accord
ing to Budget
MlLLfcR -
Committee
member Joel Fleish-
man."
Appropriations approved ranged
from $15 (for Student Council) to
$33,600 (for Graham Memorial).
The large appropriation for Gra
ham Memorial will come partly
from the student fees for GM
which were raised to $6 this year
hy the Legislature.
I The student publications re
Quests, among the largest single
titems deluded in the budget, suf-
,lerea Dea cuts-
Th Yackety-Yack, which re-
breakdown of other appropriations
is as follows: Debate Council,
$1,375; Orientation Committee,
$890.50; Carolina Forum, $1,800;
M e n ' s Interdormitory Council,
$635; Women's Residence Council,
$650; Carolina Quarterly, $525;
Sections Board, $325; National
btudents Association, $2o0; Con-
A highlight of (Thursday night's
session occurred a little before 11
o'clock, when a row broke out over
proposed appropriations for the
senior class party and the class
gift to be left to the University.
When it appeared that the class
appropriations were going to be
voted down, the UP delegation got
up and started to walk out. Newly
elected senior class president Char
lie Yarborough rose and said, "We
think it (the class appropriation)
is coming to us, after all thesa
years . . . ."
Legislative tempers were
soothed, however, by the efforts ef
Speaker Baxter Miller and Graham
Memorial Director Jimmy Wallace.
Wallace calmly got up and made
a speech which, as SP Representa
tive Bill O'Sullivan put it, "spread
oil over the troubled waters."
When the row finally died down
the seniors were left with $800:
$500 for their class party and $300
for the gift.
Beach Weekend
This weekend will be fine for
beach-lovers, according to J. W.
Posey, weatherman at the gov
ernment's Raleigh -Durham Air
port station.
Posey forecast fair and warm
weather for most of North Car
olina, with widely scattered
morning and evening thunder
showers in the western portions
of the state. Expected coastal
highs are around 80 today and
tomorrow, with expected lows in
the upper 50's.
The beaches, said Posey, will
not be cloudy.
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