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CfcS?eI:HUlf:ir.,;C. 0"" 5?mtZ'tmmmmmmmmmi WEATHER Partly cloudy and . cooler today with a possibility of thundershow ers. Expected high, near 80: low 63 DO Nothing to do? The editor has some suggestions on p. 2. rCnflmi 4 I sin run sPSrfffl'.fiiir VOL. LVII no. i9 : : : : . . . . - ' . Students Interviewed Say manors Note: This is the second, and final, article in a study on the University of North Carolina campus of seg regation and the Supreme Court's decision abolishing it. The Daily Tar Heel will wel come any communications from readers who feel the cross-section opinion of University folks quoted here does not represent a true slice of UNC thought, than the ones expressed here. There are many opinions oihei The Daily Tar Heel will give proper space to any opinions from its readers on segregation and the Carolina campus.) Here at Carolina, no Negro stu-t dents; applied for admission to! the undergraduate school this year, according to Roy Arm strong, director of admissions. However, Negro students have been admitted to the University School of Law since the summer session of 1951 when five were enrolled. Since that time, 10 different Negro individuals have attended the school. Four received their law degrees here. This session one Negro law stu dent is enrolled. He is Romallus Murphy, a second year student from Haveland. Murphy did his undergraduate work at Howard President Manning Muntzing of the Interdormitory Council last night outlined an eight-point pro gram for the year. Muntzing's speech marked the first meeting of the IDC this year. "The eight points that I have are just a start. At the finish of this year I hdpe that our program will have included 50 points or 100," said Muntzing, . Muntzing's first point was con cerned with dorm improvements. In connection with surh imnrnvp- ments he said, "Hand in hand with j seeking improvements we must al- so accept the responsibility of pre- serving and keeping at their best the present facilities." About the second point of the , . ,. ,r program, vending machines, Muntz- u j u- ..Te. i lUg XiaU 11113 IU 31J. 1U11'J many more vending machines V'is year than ever before and more of them are in the right places. Dorm men pay a lot into these ma- (See IDC, page 4.) 'Elsie' wife N. ! 1? C. i & STi iff Ww 1 . Gow Leads Town On Chase By RON LEVIN About 1 o'clock Tuesday morn ing the humid calm that had set tled over Chapel Hill was broken by a wierd and rather plaintive mooing and shouts of "There she is." "'Who's got the rope?" and "Shine the light over here." It seems that one of Ted Dan z.'gers rare steaks from the Ranch House had escaped (under, its own power) and had invaded the sleepy privacy of downtown Chapel Hill. The poor bewilder-c-ci bovine had broken loose its moorings and set a course shaight for points unknown. The chase had started back down the airport road and had almost reached an end, when the discontented cow, followed by several chubby policemen puff ing in the early morning, regain That College Level gran University and one year of his iaw siuay. When asked for his views on the Supreme Court's move against segregation, Murphy said "At first, there will be loud cries from the protagonists and the antagonists who will advance their positions, but after the nov elty wears off, ' everything will work hrmoniously." In speaking of integration on' the undergraduate level, Murphy said that it would definitely work. "The younger the student, the better it would work. They are more flexible, and mdlded by the hand of circumstance to accept brotherhood with their fellowman. "When the seal of justice and equality is firml'y fixed in the minds of youth, it is difficult to divest them of it," Murphy said. Medical Student The University School of Med icine has also admitted Negro students since 1951, with one of those at the present time a senior. . He is Edward . O. Diggs, from Winston-Salem: he said "I cer tainly think it should work. My experience as a graduate student has been a pleasant one. What problems I've had, have been worked out to the mutual satis faction of all concerned. It should Csfes UNCs 161st Birthday Party Will Be Celebrated Tuesday Carolina is going to have a birth- day next week. On Tuesday, the community to celebrate each year - the principles by which our gov nation's oldest state university will j the anniversary of the laying of j ernmnt is set up. We can't be 161 years of age. . . , . .f the cornerstone of t -heOld. East preach democracy and ideals ) f The anniversary of the founding of the University, called Univer- sity Day, will be celebrated with traditional exercises on the cam t" . '"""""s, "bi" at 10:50 in the south court of South Building. Classes and laboratories will be suspended at 10:50 o'clock for the remainder of the day. Classes for , J the 8, 9 and 10 o'clock hours will be held as usual. Administrative offices of the University will be closed from 10:50 until after lunch. In announcing the University Day schedule, Chancellor Robert B. House pointed out that it has ' Toured Chapel Hill Tuesday A.M. 'ELSIE' AND ONE OF HER PURSUERS the bewildered bo vine lost the posse ed her second wind and with a fresh and renewed vigor took off like a scared F-86. As one tired and rather dis gusted member of the chase put it, "She ran in and around every alley, house and driveway be tween the Town Hall and Caro lina Inn." Bill Mudd, genial Rathskeller barman, who had been recruited for the chase by Ted, lost one o fhis oversize dirty bucks and was about to retire from the race when two "nice old ladies" offered to carry his shoe for him, and our undaunted hero plunged back into the con fusion, laboring under the hin- ' derance of gout 4nd tender feet. feet. The rather elusive "Elsie" had by this time meandered down by the Chi Psi Lodge, and the gang of pursuers was thinning out. By Complete UP) Wire Service Will ! work in the undergraduate school very nicely. There is no need of concern w, h e n it should come about. I suspect that things will work more smoothly than people realize, after all, when a person is mature enough to attend a university or college, he's mature enough to adjust to "new situa tions." Also at the Med School nw is a Sophomore. He is James Slade from Eden ton. He said "I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work. I certainly think it will from the students' standpoint." Opinions A small proportion of the stu dent leaders on campus were in terviewed and their opinions are as follows: ' Marilyn Zager, president of the Independent Women's Council from Greensboro "If it's not made a great issue and is taken as a matter of course, everything will work out. No trouble will arise at Carolina or other univer sities because the students will prove or not." Henry Isaacson, president of the Inter-Fraternity Council from Greensboro "It should be on a gradual basis and worked up to in time, not overnight. If the un dergraduate students will accept as they did the entrance of stu- been customary for the University Building on October 12, 1793. "The continuity of this celebra tion," he said, "extends back for many years and is an occasion cherished in memory and thoughts by former students with pride and affection." Roles in the pageantry, re-enacf-ing in pantomime the Old East cornerstone laying, will be played by members of the Carolina Play makers. Music for the occasion will be furnished by the University Band I t - 1 1 ltT ana commnea lvien s ana v omen s Glee Clubs. -R. B. Henley Photo this time the misplaced menag erie was acquiring a rather vari- ed and motley following consist - ing of kids on bicycles, barking dogs and two slightly tipsy Duke students who wanted to know who was doing what to whom. They secretly hoped it might be an attempt by some compatriots of theirs to abduct the reluctant Rameses . . . the one with horns and four feet. Finally, the Bell Tower rang out 3 a. m. ,and upon hearing the bell, as though it was some pre arranged sginal, "Elsie" took off for Carrboro, and was last seen near the railroad tracks, heading in a southerly direction. As this paper goes to press,f the cow has not yet been found. So, if you see a stray milk-giver pounding the pavement one night please let Ted know. IDC Aims ..,i.,i.hi . .. in... ... i ...I. mi ........... CHAPEL HILL, N. C, Work dents of other races, Indians, Ori entals it will work as well on the undergraduate level, with a min imum of problems. After the aca demic situation is settled then the social should be dealt with. This will take time to be settled." Jack Stevens, president of Chi Phi from Asheville "Not for 10 years. Most of th6 students are from conservative towns. It should probably be given time to work at lower levels first. I do favor it- in the graduate school. We must plan for it as itis in evitable and' should work out some sort of reasonable integra tion easily." Bob Jones, president of Phi Kappa Sigma from Durham "I can't see integration in the gram mar schools, but feel that it will work on the college level." Joan Leonard, president of the Panhellenic Council from Ashe ville '"It certainly looks as jif the Northern element which has so long ' criticized the South if accepting the segregation issue flagrantly. North Carolina won't resort to violence. It will be ac cepted peacefully due to the pre vailing liberal feeling. The South .will show the North that it's not the seat of prejudice as the Northerners have claimed." Babbie Dilorio, president of Kappa Delta from Utica, N. Y. "I don't think it will come to Carolina for a long, long time. Neither do I think that our rep resentatives in Washington should try to dictate in any way to a specific area like the South. The people who live here art better acquainted with the situa tion than persons so far removed as men from Oregon who can't appreciate the circumstances here. The decision, as it is, had to come The Supreme Court made the right decision in view of equality if within our legal sys tem they are features that pre vent the . Negro from equal op portunities under the law. I think that now the decision is made, methods should be devis ed by the people of the South, of the North, 'and people associated with the problem as it exists in their own community. Only they sire capable." Jim Crouch, president of Phi Gamma Delta from Jacksonville "I think that they must face facts, that it must come slower than when they thought as evi denced by the outbreaks. I was surprised that the outbreaks were in the North as they have criticized the South so much. The Supreme Court must realize that it must come slower than they expected." Daphne Adams, president of Alpha Gamma Delta from Fuquay Springs "I think the students will accept it with open minds and will make a real efofrt to set a working example in the South for other universities." Barbara Beasley, president of Chi Omega from Springfield, O. "It will bring about a lot of problems, but it will work. Any truly intelligent person who goes to college should reconcile his prejudices and go to school with the Negroes. Social problems will arise however." .Carol du Pier, president of Del ta Delta Delta, from Davidson f'lt worked in the North. Theo retically it's the right thing to do. We must go about it with the right attitude. People have prej udices andjyUwill be difficult." Manning Muntzing, president of the Inter-Dormitory Council from Morefield, W. Va. "I think it will work it's a question of it'll . tQ work ,nd frankly T think it will." General ooinion of the frater- nity leaders on the social ques tion seemed to be that the Ne groes should have full rights to set up their own fraternities. Rev. Charlie Jones Although not officially a part of the Unievrsity, the Rev. Char lie Jones of the Community Church is greatly concerned with its problems and is an integral part of its worings. He has this to say: "There are two places where it is practiced to begin; one is in the early grades where they are just start ing. Children accept each other as children. The other is in the field of higher - education. Stu- (See INTEGRATION, page 4) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1954 Fraternity Rush Meeting Ed McCurry, IFC rush chair man, said yesterday afternoon that all freshmen and transfer students who are interested in possibly joining one of the 24 social fraternities represented on campus must attend ' a pre rush meeting at 5 o'clock this afternoon in Memorial Hall. At this meeting all rush pro cedure and regulations will.be outlined and explained. McCurry explained that this meeting is "an almost essential part of fraternity rushing.',' Censure I Dropped By LOUIS KRAAR What could have turned out as a formal censure of Legislator Lvlanning Muntzing by the Stu dent Party caucus ended in a 'nild, implied disapproval of his l.utting certain party meetings, it ?vas learned yesterday. SP Chairman Joel Fleishman pointed out to the Mnoday night .aucus that Muntzing had crit cized certain party bills on the Legislature floor after cutting he committee meetings and cau cus sessions at which the bills were discussed. . While agreeing that party k nembers had the right to disa gree with bills, Fleishman object ed to Muntzing's cutting the meetings. The caucus closed, to outsid ers ended in. a note of party ; larmony, and Fleishman met in i friendly session with Muntzing ater in the evening. At the same time it was agreed that party members should not cut committee meetings and other party functions at which blils were to be considered. Most par ty members interpreted t h e lat ter as "implied disapproval" of Muntzing's absences from meet ings. For some time now, political observers have said that Muntz ing and Fleishman represent two elements in the student party. I And while neither has admitted nor refuted the statement, they have disagreed on a number of policy matters. (See MUNTZING, page 4.) Saturday Is Last Day For Reservations Saturday will be the last day students can make reservations for the Carolina-Maryland game train, the Graham Memorial Travel Agency said yesterday. The train, a special one, will leave Raleigh at 4 p. m., Oct. 15, and will arrive in Washington, D. C. ,at 9:30. Arrival will be im mediately followed by a. Carolina pep rally, which is slated to end up on the Capitol steps. Saturday morning UNC stu dents will hold a parade in down town Washington, led by the Un iversity Band. . Saturday after noon the Tar Heels will play Maryland at College Park, and Saturday night will feature an informal dance at the Shoreham Hotel, sponsored by the Alumni Association. Round-trip cost for the bus ride from Graham Memorial Fri day afternoon at 3 o'clock and the train ride to Washington and back will be $11.75. Tickets for the game can be bought at Wool len Gym for $3.75. GM's Travel Agency, only place on campus where train tickets may be purchased, said seating charts for organizations or groups of students are availa ble. Students will come back to The Hill at 12:45 a. m., Sunday, ar riving here later in the morning. For those wishing to attend the Redskin game Sunday afternoon, with Charlie Justice Day, anoth er train will pull out of Washing ton at 6 p. m. Dean' of Women Students Kath- erine Carmichael has granted late permission to coeds planning to jmakeie trip. ; Muntzing Offices In Graham Memorial JviOii Lcin r I He Con Reach Liberate The Human Being, Says Huxley By ED YODER The human aim in this era -is "to liberate the potentialities in human beings," the distinguished British novelist and essayist Al dous Huxley told Daily Tar Heel reporters in an interview yester day afternoon. Relaxed in a big leather chair at the Carolina Inn, where he was waiting to attend a luncheon given in his honor. Huxley said that from a personal standpoint liberating personalities "is the on ly thing one can do with any hope of success." To act upon the universe is "to act upon oneself" and fight slavery, "to our own au-' tonomic nervous systems." : Liberation of the . unrealized ! possibilities of the .mind, Huxley ' said, is "the cogent way to answer totalitarianism." The fallacy that has led men like Stalin and Hit- : ler to power is one of over-simplification, he explained. I The- pressure of population on resources, he said, thoughtfully following this line of reasoning, leads to centralization of power in the hands of a dictator. This stands in the same relation to po litical thought as "over-simplification to intellectual thought." The problem that confronts ed ucation, and one which he plann ed to touch upon in his lecture last night, is that "it has become primarily verbal." As a result, Huxley explained "we don't train the psycho - physical instrument" which he considers the most im portant instrument in our rela tionship to life. Although Huxley first traveled through the South about 20 years ago, the immediate reason for Irs coming to this vicinity is to visit Dr. Rhine's parapsychology lab oratory at Duke. He first made the Duke psychologist's acquaint-j ance in 1937, but had been inter-1 ested previously through his con-! cern, generally, with "psycholog ical freedom," in what Dr. Rhine has been working on. He had met Dr. Rhine because he wanted to know "one of the first systematic workers in the field." What about the future of para psychology? Huxley says he is op timistic. At a meeting of philios ophers in Europe this summer, he was amazed by the upswing in interest in the problems of this branch of psychology. It used to be, he said, that a person who revealed interest in parapsychology was looked upon in the same light as one who had "read an immoral book." . That has changed, now, and "people 1 are less frightened of it."j ; Huxley said he; is working, at! present, on a book of miscellane ous essays dealing with such to pics as education, philosophy and travel which he hopes to have out by the end of this year. He is not at work on a novel now, but has two projected ideas. "I'm not sure which to do first," he laughed. One idea is a fantasy. The other, which he went into more detail on, is for a more real istic novel which will treat sev-j eral generations over a period of j about 100 years. He has toured this campus be- j fore "as a tourist," he said, and considers it "quite charming." Right now, however, it's "extreme ly hot." In his travels through the Southern regions, he is impressed by the "enormous change for the better. I am struck by the build ing activity," e said. YWCA Barbecue "Beat Georgia" will be the cry at the pep rally Friday night in conjunction with the YWCA Barbecue to be held on Mclver's side lawn. At 7:00 p. m. everybody's urg ed to support the team by join ing in the foot parade. The pa rade, led by the band, will run down Franklin St. and back to the campus where the actual pep rally will be held in Memorial Hall. Besides the pep raly, there wiH be a short talent show fea turing Bill Fetzer, ventriloquist; Bill Stone, singer, and Ron Levin with his imitations. ceoliZ' ALDOUS HUXLEY ". . comics and Mickey Spillane." WUNC Broadcasts WUNC campus FM radio sta tion, has scheduled the performance- of a new recording of Verdi's "Requiem" on the sta tion's Evening Masterwork pro gram tonight at 10 o'clock. It is believed to be the first broad cast of the new recording in this area. The performance is conduct ed by Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The assisting artists are Herva Nelli, soprano; Fedora Barbieri, mez-o-soprano; Giuseppe di Stefano, tenor; and Cesare Siepi ,bass. The broadcast is scheduled on the University station as a spe cial feature of the regular Eve ning Masterwork program which begins following the news at 10 o'clock each evening. InterF rater nity Council Hears Prof. Barrett On Delayed Rush Yesterday faternoon the Inter fraternity Council rushing com ittee, headed - by Ed McCurry, discussed possibilities of institut ing delayed rushing for fraterni ties. Gerald Barrett, associate pro fessor -jot business law, spoke to the committee, advocating a de layed rushing system. He point ed .out that the majority of boys who" come to the University are from rural areas which have small high schools. Coming from these schools, Barrett said, the boys need a pe riod of time to adjust . to univer sity life both academically and socially, since in many cases the new students have not been ade quately prepared academically nor have study habits been de veloped. The sudden lack of supervised study leaves these boys with a great amount of free time which is a new and novel experience to them, explained Barrett. Before bemg caught up in fraternity rushing, Barrett felt, they should be given time to learn to divide their time correctly between stud ies and pleasure. The matter of extra-curricular activities was another problem which Barrett thought new stu dents face when they enter the university. Most of them do not know about many of the activi ties, thus they have no basis in selecting ones in which they wish to participate. Barrett pointed out that under the present rush ing system freshmen do not have time to find out about campus activities and choose among them. He feels that early rush ing tends to influence the boys to participate in those activities which are traditionally partici pated in by the fraternity which they pledge. Barrett also said delayed rush FOUR PAGES TODAY Def Famed Writer Speaks To Full Hill Hall "This universe of ours is a place where nobody ever gets anything for nothing," said Al dous Huxley last night, speaking to a completely filled auditorium in Hill Hall where even the aisles were packed to capacity. ( Speaking on "The Non-Verbal , Humanities," the California resi jdent and world figure, advanced ; his theories" that man is not prop jerly educated in the non-verbal fields and that therefore he does not very fully eralize the depths I which are possible for his per- : sonality. Huxley began his fully organ ized and often witty lecture with 'the statement "every human be j ing is an amphibian." "Without i language we should merely be j hairless chimpanzees. Indeed, we should be something much worse . . . we should be too clever to be guided by instinct, too self centered to live in state of animal grace, and therefore condemned to remain fore er, frustrated and malignant, between contented ape hood and aspiring humanity." Huxley told of how every hu man being is a combination ot not-selves, each affecting and be affected by its associated not selves. To develop lrran's person ality to its fullest extent, he fav ors the proper training of the psycho-physical instrument. "Accordingly, the curriculum of our hypothetical course in the non-verbal humanities will in clude the following item: Train ing of the kinesthetic sense. Training of the special sensed. Training of memory. Training in control of the autonomic nerv ous system. Training for spirit ual insight." He gave a careful explanation of these phases and explained of the j research being done in each field, j (See WRITER, page 4) gives the new students time to look over the fraternities on cam pus and decide which men they .vish to be with. Delayed rushing would also aid the fraternities in finding out which freshmen they wish to pledge, Barrett added. Under .his system the fraternities would be able to see the grades of the new students as well as get to know the students themselves. Since strict silence would be al most impossible if delayed rush ing were instituted, Barrett advo cats pleasant social relationships between the fraternity men and the freshmen with no official mention of pledging being made. After Barrett's talk, members of the committee discussed the advantages and disadvantages of delaved rushinsr. Some of the j points brought out were the fi nancial problem which delayed rushing would present to the fra ternities, the fact that freshmen would feel obligated to spend much of their time with fratern ity men thus taking much of their time from studying and that delayed rushing would give the new students time to adjust to college life before pledging a fra ternity. Today's Last Day Today is the last day juniors may have their pictures made for the 1955 Yackety Yack, ed itors said. Pictures will be taken in Graham Memorial basement from 1 to 8 p. m., but no stu dent will be photographed who is not in line before 6:30 if there are many waiting. Girls wear dark sweaters and pearls, boys wear coats and ties. Senior pictures will be made for five days starting to morrow and running htrough next Thursday.
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