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VOL. LVII No. 7
Complete UP) Wire Service
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1954
Offices In Graham Memorial
FOUR PAGES TODAY
Will Consolidated University Day Queen Come From WC?
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THE FIVE GIRLS pictured above have been chosen Woman's College candidates for Queen of Consolidated University Day, to be se
lected Saturday here. The WC Misses are, left to' right: Jo Ann Beasley, Salisbury; Vesla Johannasan, Kristiansund North, Norway; Carol
Epstein, Baltimore, Md.; Clarajo Lovette, Ajheboro, and Nancy Childress, Washington, D. C. The girls were chosen from a dozen nom
inees from various dormitories at Woman's Collage. Kay Kyser and Secretary-of-State Thad Eure will pick the queen from candidates
representmg the three units of the Consolidated University. The Queen's crowning will come during the Carolina-State football game Sat
urday afternoon at 2 o'clock, arid she will reign Saturday night at a dance. Some 600 WC girls will take part in the day's activities.
Photo by' A. A. Wilkinson.
What Does Mail Mean To Girls?
Everything, 18 Out Of 18 Say
By BOBBIE ZWAHLEN
900 girls on the UNC campus, it means everything. When asked
why they rushed to their mailboxes the first thing every morning,
the answer was always the same. All girls feel that letters are a
vital part of their college life and college would be a total loss
without those postcards and letters coming' in every day.
Why? One girl stated that it "keeps you in contact with home
and other people." It keeps you
from feeling that you're in an ivy
covered tower away from places
miles away.
Another said, "It perks iip the '
day when it seems to lag. It
makes you feel that you're still
important enough to be remem
bered." Most Of the coeds seem to feel
that a letter from that all-important
boy is the one that really
counts. They like to hear what
other boy friends are doing. One
even expressed it this way
"When a boy takes out enough
time to write me a letter, it's as
good as a date to me."
Next in line was' the letter
from home. Most girls seem to
worry when they don't hear from
home. They want to feel that
they still belong to their families
even though they are sometimes
hundreds of miles away from the
home town. And of course they
need to make plans for those all
important week-ends.
Naturally there are those typ
ical, typical female gossip col
umns from their gal friends.
Yes. Just ask the other 882
girls on' the campus how import
ant mail is to them.
By the way, do males like
mail?
Toddy Last Day
For Frosh Pix
Today is the last day pictures of
freshmen will be made for the
1955 Yackety-Yack, according to
an announcement from Yack co-.
editors Jackie Park and Cornell
Wright.
The free pictures will be made
in the basement of Graham Me
morial from 1 to 8 p.m.
Sophomores and law students
will be photographed for five days
starting tomorrow and continuing
Monday through Thursday of next
week. Juniors and graduate stu
dents follow, with seniors begin
ning Oct. 8.
The editors urged students to
come early for photographs. There
will be no extension of deadlines,
they said. Required dress is coats
and ties for men; dark sweaters
and pearls for girls.
ANNUAL SPACE
All organizations and socie
ties desiring space in the 1955
Yackety-Yack should send a rep
resentative to the Yack office
in the basement of Graham
Memorial between 2 and o
t- v,o week, saiu
p. m. tnrougnuub -
Yack Business Manager
Spain yesterday. Spain
receive no coverage.
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President rGays Lincoln park
ed in Caldwall Hall parking lot
because there was no space for
ed in Caldwell Hall parking lot
Well-known Chapel Hill auth
or seeking bottle of headache
pills in Suttons.
Educator J.
By CHARLES CHILDS
"What are vou going to do with
that little boy?" the lady
the lady called
from her porch.
"I'm going to enroll him in the
University," came the man's reply,
and the 14-year-old boy moved
close to the side of his father. The
lady called again, "Better give him
to me . . . he's too small."
That was the boy's first day at
the University in 1906. Today,
nearly half a century later, the
same small boy is the senior
University faculty member and an
outstanding Chapel Hill citizen.
His name is John Wayne Lasley
Jr. Yesterday, he was 63 years
old.
Undergraduate
t i;crhtPt student nn
ronnrH tn Pnter the University. He
weighed 72 paunds when he was
admitted, and he tells about the
time while a freshman his'
weight saved bim from a "black
ing." It was a custom then to blacken
freshmen with shoe polish. "Boy,"
he said, "When they blacked them,
they really blacked 'em."
It all happened late one night
urVion T ocloir wnc rptnrninff to his
room. Just as he was nearing the
T,! th Post Office now
stahds, he noticed a group of stu
dents. He knew immediately what
was up and tried to "high tail it
out of there," but he was caught.
The leader of the group looked
him over and told him to be on his
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"high tailed it" to his dorm.
This was only one of the things
which happened , to Lasley 'as an
undergraduate, and his roommate
provided some other interesting
experiences.
rr Hvman now dean of the Uni-
versity of Tennessee s iweaicai
c ini was Lasley's roommate
i while Lasley was an undergrade-
'Roccef7 Makes Special Runs
Special performances of "By
Rocketto Mars" have been sche
duled by ;the Morehead Plane
tarium for Saturday to accomo
date football fans coming here
for the Carolina-State game and
other Consolidated University
activities.
In addition to the regular 8:30
p.m. daily show, special space
trio excursions to Mars will be
heldat 1 p. m. and immediately
following the game;
' The "show, "which' reproduces
with amazing illusion of reality
a fascinating rocket trip to the
solar system, requires only 50
minutes.
The Planetarium management
yesterday announced that the
rocket k show will continue for
two more weeks, through Oct. 4,
enable thousands of Tar Heels
who have not seen the colorful
show to do so. Because it is a
ate. Dr. Hyman was always bring-
ing' frogs and lizards into the loom
and keeping them there. But in
spite of the zoo, "Sap" (Dr. Hy
man), and "Kid," (Lasley), would
always play tennis in the afternoon
and chess at night. "It was a won
der that both of us made Phi
Bete," Lasley said in a serious
mood.
One night "Sap" went to the
Old Well, got a drink of water, re
turned to the room, and the next
day he did not remember a thing
about it. "Sap," it seems, had '
habit of walking in his sleep, and
"Kid," it seems, had a habit of
keeping a baseball bat beside his
bed.
Student life consumed a part 'of
Laslev's time. He was a member
of several student organizations,
and among them were the Di So
ciety, YMCA, Press Association
and the Athletic Association.
His managing the tennis team
brought him a -compliment from
the 1910 Yackety-Yack: "We con
gratulate ourselves everytime we
see him as there would have been
no Tennis Team if he had gone
somewhere else." It was in she
same Yack that his roommate, the
Yack editor, played one last joke
on Lasley by printing that he is
afflicted with the hallucination
that he can sing, but it is hoped
that he will recover from it."
Before he became interested in
pure mathematics, he seriously
considered becoming a journalist
while he was a member of the
University's first journalism class.
He went so far in this field that he
become sports editor of The Daily
Tar Heel and part time editor of
The Burlington News, his home
town newspaper, during summers.
Awards And Positions
In 1910 Lesley received his A.B.
from the University and joined the
lai-uuy. une year laier ne was,
awarded an A.M. in civil' engineer
ing. John Hopkins University
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Planetarium policy to have a
space trip show to a different
destination each summer, the
Mars show will not be repeated
for several years.
Already more than 10,000 per
sens have climbed aboard the
"rocket" for Mars, said the Plan
etarium management.
Legislators, Trustees
To Have Luncheon Here
The State General Assembly
and the full Board of Trustees
will be the guests of State Col
lege and the University at a
luncheon here preceding the State
-Carolina game Saturday, Wil
liam C. Friday, assistant to the
president, announced yesterday.
The luncheon will take place in
the Morehead Building from noon
until 1:30 p. m.
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UNIVERSITY'S LIGHTEST STUDENT JOHN WAYNE LASLEY, JR.
... now, senior faculty member respected Chapel Hillian, happy.
made him a fellow by courtesy in met. They reached over and shook thereby joined two of
1915. He returned in 1916 to hands in a class after learning teachers, professors
Chapel Hill and remained here
until he received another honor by
being appointed a fellow at the
University of Chicago in 1919. He
received his doctorate there in
1920. It was at the University of Chi-
cago that Lasley an dE. T. Brown
Frat Group's
Chief Says He
May Have Key
: The President of the Inter
Fraternity Council indicated
yesterday that he thought lim
ited press coverage of IFC
meetings by The Daily Tar
Heel might be the answed to
the hassle between the IFC
and the newspaper.
' The editor of The Daily Tar
Heel disagreed.
; IFC President Henry Isaacson
said that the IFC should have
"some form of coverage by the
press" but that "the IFC, like a
great many other organizations" on
campus and "in our national gov
ernment," must "restrict its pub
licity so- that the information which
reaches the public will be authen
tic and unbiased."
'Censorship' '
Daily Tar Heel Editor Charles
Kuralt said that if such restrictions
were instituted "it would appear
to be the organization itself (IFC)
which would decide ;what the stu
dent body has a right to know."
"This," said Kuralt, "is censor
ship, and The Daily Tar Heel can
not agree to it."
"However," added Kuralt, "no
plan has been presented to the
newspaper, and we stand willing
to discuss with the president and
the IFC any plan they may have
by which The Daily Tar Heel may
fulfill its responsibility of cover
ing campus news."
Executive Sessions
'It has been suggested by various
IFC members that they might be
willing to allow coverage of their
meetings if they could hold closed
executive sessions in which to dis
cuss matters which they did not
want reported to the student body.
President of the Student Body
Tom Creasy yesterday said that
"for the good of the student body
I would uphold the right Of any or-
(See IFC, page 4)
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that they were neighbors; Lasley
from North Carolina and Brown
from Virginia. They have occu
pied the same desks, in the same
office, at the same university for
the past thirty-two years.
In 1924 Mr. Lasley was appc.rt-
ed professor of mathematics and
'Deacon7 To Speak
"Deacon" Andy Griffith, who
skyrocketed to fame during
the past year with his "What
It Was,, Was Football," will
brfng his smash .hit back to
its birthplace, Kenan Stadium,
Saturday. 1
Griffith, a music graduate at
the University and native of
Mount Airy, will give his fam
ous monologue from the mid-'
die of the gridiron just before
the 2 p.m. kickoff of the Carolina-State
game.
Young Republicans Meet
Carolina's Young- Republicans
will hold their first meeting of
the year tonight at 8 o'clock in
Roland Parker Lounge number
three, Graham Memorial.
David Mundy, president of the
club, said yesterday he would
like to see all Republicans " and
"other persons of a conservative
bent" on the campus to attend
President Gray To Speak
At Texas Confab Today
President Gordon Gray will
speak to the Industrial Health
Conference at a luncheon meeting
in Houston, Tex., today. .
William Foster, deputy secre
tary of defense while Gray was
secretary of the army, will also
speak to the session today.
APO
Alpha Phi Omega holds its first
meeting of the year tonight at the
Lutheran Church at 8 o'clock. APO
is a service fraternity made up of
college men with experience in
' scouting. All UNC men interested
in the program are invited to the
'meeting.
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his former
Archibald
Henderson and Thomas Hickerson
His abilitv as a teacher and
author is illustrated by a few of
his accomplishments: 1938 presi
dent, North Carolina Academy of
Science; 1942 chairman, compre
hensive Examinations; 1944 his
and Brown's book on introductory
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the meeting. "We've been a cell
-sized organization long enough,"
said Mundy.
Mundy requested the officers
to be present a few minutes be
fore 8 o'clock for a brief meet
ing of the executive committee.
He said membership cards are
now available. Dues are 50 cents
a year.
Young Asks Sophomores
To Write Classmate
Jim Dockery, sophomore from
Rutherfordton, North Carolina,
was striken with polio last sum
mer while in Wyoming.
Sophomore Class President Bob
Young has issued a request to
all of Dockery's friends here on
campus to write to him while
he is confined in the Asheville
Orthopedic Hospital, Asheville,
North Carolina.
RTVMP
There will be a meeting of all
radio, television and motion pic
ture majors and prospective ma-
jors tonight at 7:30 in 211 Hanes
j Hall.
mathematics adopted by 19 institu-
tions; 1944 chairman, Southeast
ern Mathematics Association; 1944
chairman, Division of Natural
Sciences.
Lasley's speech, "Mathematics
and the Sciences," which he deliv
ered when retiring as president of
the North Carolina Academy ot
Science, was nationally acclaimed.
It was published in "Mathematics,
Our Great Heritage" (Harpers) and
in the 1941 report of the Smith
sonian Institute.
Personality
The best way to obtain an in
sight - into Lasley's whole person
ality and outlook is to see him and
his wife together. (They have just
recently celebrated their 30th wed-
ding anniversary. When asked how
he and his wife appeared a if they
had been married for only two
years, he replied with a big smile
and youthful eyes, "It just seems
like two years.",,
Although he lias received his
Ph.D., he makes a point to tell
each class that it should not woiry
about any fancy title. "The high
est title in the world is 'Mister'
and that's what I want to be
called."
Perhaps the most notable at
tribute which Lasley possesses is
his slow, easy manner in which he
lives from day to day. "The world
is too tense," he explained, and it
needs to take things slower. From
his speech and actions, he prac-
tices what he preaches.
When he was a student with
Frank Graham, Lasley "would slip
out at night, go to the Well, pull
up the bucket and drink from it."
There was no drinking from a
fountain. There have been many
changes since he was a student
around the Old Well, and he added
that he liked the New Well, but
he prefers "a little less planning."
"Teaching young people is the
only Way to keep young," Lasley
happily tells' his students. If rec-
The
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Girls May Visit
Dormitories On
Football Days
An administration-approved
plan whereby coeds can
visit men's dormitory social
rooms on Saturdays when
home football games are sched"
uled was announced yesterday
by Manoing Muntzi'ng, pdes
ident of the Inter-Dormitory
Council.
Dorm social rooms will be
open to dates and visitors
for two hours before and two hours
after each of the home games
this fall, said Muntzing yesterday.
"The IDC feels that the work
ing out of this visiting agreement
is a very significant step forward
in the development of dormitories
as social centers," said Muntzing.
Holsten Comments
Roy Holsten of the Office of Stu
dent Affairs negotiated with Munt
zing and IDC officials earlier this
week to work out a visiting agree
ment. Holsten said yesterday the
present agreement was for football
season only, but that it "may or
may not be" the first step in a
permanent plan.
Holsten said that both the ad
ministration and the IDC were a
ware that no permanent plan could
be worked out now, since some
dorms do not have sufficient fa
cilities for entertaining coed visit
ars except during certain hours
and under certain conditions, such
as the hours before and after foot
ball contests.
No Drinking
The agreement states that there
will be no drinking and that "as
soon as possible and where feasi
ble, powder rooms shall be .set a
side during the hours mentioned."
According to the agreement, "in
each dormitory the advisor shall
assume the responsibility of host
until officers have been elected."
ords are any indication of his in-
terest in students, he has every
grade book and quiz back to his
first class in 1910. One sti;k'nt
remarked that he had collected
more final quizzes than all frater
nities combined, and . Lasley re
sponded, "Well, I should have, for
I started earlier than they did."
Although he has been teaching
45 years, Lasley is "not keen on
retiring" at the end of his 00th
year. The field of mathematics
will always provide an interesting
challenge, because "it is unbound
ed." But he is not looking at the
future with any regrets for three
reasons.
The three reasons for a bright
future are: Mary Ann, Johnny and
Jimmy, his grandchjdren. John,
Lasley's only child, at times ap
pears to run second place .in pop
ularity when Lasley takes Mary
Ann. and Johnny to a ba.seball
game. When Mary Ann gets tired
of carrying her doll, her grand
father can be seen carrying it in
his arm, holding it as if it were a
real baby. He says there is no
greater pleasure than his grand
children. Students' Thoughts
Looking over Lasley's awards,
his interest in students, appealing
personality and his ideal manner
of taking things easy, - his former
students say that it brings to mind
a term which can be defined but
rarely illustrated. The term, they
say, is "A True Southern Gentle-
man." And in their minds. Mr.
Lasley meets every standard of "A
True Southern Gentleman." They,
like members of the faculty, feel
that the University is most fortu
nate in having a man of his un
usual caliber. ,
Lasley will always be in, the
memory of his students after they
leave Chapel Hill, nad htey hope
that his young, encouraging smile
will greet them each time they
return.
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