PACE SIX
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
ASK EDWIN LANIER: HE'LL TELL YOU
If
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By HARRIET MORGAN
- Suppose you were a Carolina
student at the turn of the cen
tury and needed part time work.
Chances are you would strike
out on your own and maybe
land a job as exercise boy at
the local livery t stable. Or, if
our four-footed friends didn't
suit you, perhaps you could
sell wood to fraternity houses
or fire a furnace in one of the
University buildings. But those
"good old days" are gone, and
we say "thank goodness."
It's a far cry from firing fur
naces to managing a golf course,
but generations of Carolina stu
dents have done them all.
Now you can go about the
business of job-hunting in a
systematic way and a way that
saves a lot of preliminary foot
work. But how do you go about get
ting a job? Well, suppose you
are a high school senior in a
small eastern North Carolina
town. You want to come to Car
olina, but know it will be out
of the question unless you can
get outside financial help of
some kind. Your first step after
beine accepted at the Univer
sity is to write to Edwin Lanier,
director of the University Student-Aid
Service. You briefly
tell him your situation and ask
him for some information on
what types of aid are available.
Lanier answersvthat there are
at least three different ways that
a student may get help. Of ihe
three scholarships, University
loans and part-time jobs you
decide that a part-time job
will fill the bill for you. You
are surprised to find that there
are so many types of jobs open
to you and that last year over
500 students were ' working un
der the student-aid system. .
JUST ABOUT ANYTHING
You could put books back in
the stacks at the Library, serve
at the cafeteria, usher at More
head Planetarium, mail press
releases at the News Bureau,
develop and print pictures at
the photo lab, do clerical work
in an office work at the infor
mation desk in Graham Mem
orial, or almost any other type
of work that you can think of.
Lanier explains in his letter
that in order to be eligible for
student aid, an , applicant must
have a satisfactory academic
record and show definite need.
You knoVy you have a definite
need and you think your grades
are good enough, so you fill out
the application blank and wait
for an answer.
Pretty soon you hear from Di
rector Lanier. He wants you to
come to Chapel Hill for an in
terview if you can, so you ar
range to go. When you walk
into the Student-Aid Service's
office, you are amazed that the
secretary knows your name, but
she explains by saying that she
fels she knows all the applicants
after having studied their fold
ers and pictures for so long.
In your interview, which may
be with any member of the
staff, you discuss what type of
work you'd like, and approxi
mately how much money you
would have to make.
A few weeks later you , get
another letter this time say
ing that your application for a
job has been accepted and the
service has found work for you
that meets your need.
It hasn't always been this
easy to get work. The Student
Aid Service has come a long
way in its 30-year history, and
like most large organizations,
it has had its share of growing
pains. Many different methods
were tried and discarded before
the present system finally evol
ved. In 1915, for example, a boy
wanting work applied to a mem
ber of a four-man faculty com
mittee for a personal inter
view. Each man talked to a dif
ferent group of boys, and after
wards and groups went into a
huddle over which boys should
get the jobs.
There were only a few jobs op
en to students then the din
ing hall, known as commons, and
the Library. Naturally, there
were not enough jobs to go
around, so many boys had to
get along the best way they
could.
Pretty soon, the faculty saw
the method of not having all
the committee members famil
iar with each case had very few
advantages and many disadvan
tages. It was "a body with four
hands, none of which knew
what the others were doing."
THE FIRST OFFICE
Along about 1921 the enroll
ment of the University was
growing and the faculty saw
this as another factor in the
need for more help. It was then
that the self-help program as
such was formed. H. F. Comer
was the father of this first of
fice, which was housed in the
YMCA building. The program,
grew rapidly, and about a year
later, Edwin Lanier was hired
as a full-time assistant.
Under the new system, stu
dents made formal applications
to the Self-Help Work Commit
tee which met and studied the
applications. Then the stuck-n?,
who needed work most
given the available jobs.
' In the mid 1930s the .-en
expanded again. This time three
committees were formed: the
Self-Help Work Committee.
theScholarship Committee and
the Loan Fund Committee. These
groups functioned more or h
'independently until 1940 whci
they were joined together in
the Student-Aid Committee.
This setup, with a few changes,
is the one which operates today.
arnation
Editor
Reflects
On
His
M
agazme
By RUEBEN LEONARD
1954-1955 Editor, Tarnation
Looking back over the past
year's work on Tarnation, we
see the few goals we accom
plished and the many we didn't.
Although handicapped by in
experience from the editor on
down to the stamp lickers, the
magazine did manage to survive
its third year since reactivation
in 1952.
The staff, operating under the
slogan "Risque but not Raunchy,"
strived to give the students at
Carolina a mixture of humor
containing irony, satire and
comedy. The literati screamed
"Old Black Tarnation" at our at
tempts at humor. The students
screamed with both delight and
disgust, and our parents just
screamed.
Since the Tarnation is finan
ced solely by student subscrip
tions, this year's subscribers
suffered for the debts incurred
.by last year's staff. Tarnation
started the year S440 in debt
and had to sacrifice that amount
of this year's funds. Although
the magazine did better than
break even it still finished the
year in the red because of its
EDITOR LEONARD
'risque but not raunchy'
old debt.
Student Legislature came to
the rescue and appropriated
$200 to help alleviate some of
the financial burden. With the
money from Legislature came
the feeling that Tarnation had
once again raised student inter
est to a peak where the con
tinuance of the magazine was
assured.
When the fist issue was print
ed in the fall, an attempt was
made to sell the magazine in
other schools in the state.
About 500 copies were sold "at
Duke, 100 at State and 200 at
WC. As is often the case, sev
eral complaints reached the ad
ministration. The administration
called in the editor and asked
him to please, please, tone the
magazine down. After a lengthy
discussion as to how many jails
could be stacked atop the edi
tor, the powers in South Build
ing congratulated the editor on
an improvement over last spring
and sent him on his way.
The second issue, published
in January, incurred no wrath
from the administration, but
was taken off the stands at
Duke. Why the dullest issue of
the year (494 copies sold in Uu
and one-half hours) was taken
off the racks we'll never know
Over at State College a census
showed that Tarnation was pre
ferred two to one over a de
gree in engineering. At WC the
magazine was moved from the
Soda Shop shelves down to the
Book Store and sold alongside
Ribald Classics, Droll Stories,
etc.
The third and last issue of
the year contained four extra
pages and featured a parody on
The Daily Tar Heel.
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