VOLUME 4
CHAPEL HILL, N.C AUGUST 17, 1858
NUMBER 10
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Blanket
Party
Set
Tonight
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Chancellor
Committee
Is Chosen
Acting UNC President William
Friday has named a selection
committee which will assist in
finding a new chancellor for the
University.
The new chancellor will succeed
Chancellor Robert B. House who
will retire June 30, 1957.
The 17-member committee will
recommend at least three names
to the president of the University.
Under the administrative code,
the president has the duty to
nominate a chancellor for the
approval of the board of trustees.
Members of the committee are
board of trustee members J.
Spencer Love of Greensboro,
Carl Venters of Jacksonville, Bill
Yarborough of Louisburg, John
W. Umstead of Chapel Hill and
Floyd Crouse of Sparta; from the
alumni, Mayne Albright of Ra
leigh, William D. Snider of
Greensboro, Terry Sanford of
Fayetteville, Frank Parker of
Asheville and Dr." ATM. McDonald
of Charlotte, and from the fac
ulty, Prof. James L. Godfrey,
Prof. Dougald MacMillan, Prof.
Rupert Vance, Prof. John N.
Couch, Prof. Paul N. Guthrie, Dr.
Ernest Craige, and Prof. M. T.
Van Hecke.
Kemp D. Battle of Rocky
Mount will act as liaison officer
between the committee selecting
a chancellor and the Victor S.
Bryant committee seeking a new
president for the Consolidated
University.
New Parking
Laws Adopted
When UNC students come back
to school next month, they will
have to abide by some new park
ing restrictions.
Starting September 10, there
will be no more parking on Rose
mary Street from Boundary
Street west to Carrboro, and there
will be only one hour parking on
Columbia Street from Rosemary
to Cameron.
The Town Council, at its meet
ing Monday night asked that the
ordinances be passed, and their
passing is only a formality.
The no parking on Rosemary
was started last year when two
blocks were restricted on a trial
basis. The idea worked so well
that now the whole street has
been made a no parking area.
At the request of the Mer
chant's Association, Columbia
Street parking will be restricted
to one hour in order to leave those
spaces . open for townspeople.
These parking places, in the past
years have been used by students
for off-campus parking.
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Dance Team Here
Above are Tom and Chee Davis who will be on hand tonight to
entertain at the Jimmy Capps Blanket Party. The two, a brother
and sister team, will do several modern dance routines.
Two Negro Girls Are
Admitted To WCUNC
Two Negro women have been
accepted for entrance this fall into
The Woman's College of The Uni
versity of North Carolina. v
Miss Mildred Newton director
of admissions announced last
Monday that Miss Elizabeth
Smart, 17, of Raleigh, and Mrs.
Betty Davis Tillman, 19, of
Wadesboro,"" will be the first
Negroes ever accepted by the
Woman's College.
When questioned as to reasons
for the move, Admissions Di
rector Newton said "we were
guided by the rules of the whole
university."
Acting Chancellor W. W. Pier
son said "They have satisfied the
requirements of admission, the
declarations of the courts and the
actions of the trustees." He added
that he does not anticipate "any
trouble."
Pierson's reference to "declara
tions of the courts" apparently
concerned the Circuit Court
opinion in the case of three Dur
ham Negroes who sought admis-
Exam Schedule
The examination schedule for
the second session summerVschool
is as follows:
Tuesday, August 21 -
10:30 classes 8-10 a.m.
2 p.m. classes 11-1 p.m.
7:30 classes 3-5 p.m.
Wednesday, August 22
8 a.m. classes 8-10 am. ,
12 noon classes 11-1 p.m.
P.M.'s and others not other
wise provided for 3-5 p.m.
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sipn to the University here in
Chapel . Hill in early 1954. In
writing this opinion Judge Morris
A. Soper said "... the Negroes
as a class may not be excluded
because of their race or color."-
The Woman's College Admis
sions Director also announced
that applications from five other
Negroes have been denied.
Plans for admission of the two
Negro girls include their sharing
of a room in a wing of Shaw
residence hall where they will
have a bathroom of their own.
Woman's College officials indi
cated that the girl's admission
only followed policies established
by the 1955 acceptance of three
Durham Negroes at the university
here, and the more recent admis
sion of two Negroes to summer
sessions at State College.
Miss Smart is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Smart of
Raleigh and is a graduate of J. W.
Ligon High School. The other
applicant, Mrs. Tillman, was an
active and outstanding student at
the Anson County Training
School from which she graduated
in May.
Last Issue
This is the last issue of the
Summer School Weekly for the
second summer school session.
The Editor, Managing Editor
and all the staff are very weary,
and look forward to a little
rest before the beginning of the
fall semester.
Jimmy Capps To Head
List Of Entertainers
By BILL BARNES
The casual mood of the summer
social season wijl be climaxed to
night with a blanket party from
8:30-10:30 on the lawn in front of
Morehead Planetarium.
Recorded music from records
spun by well-known deejay Jim
my Capps will set the tempo for
dancing on the large brick court
at the foot of the Planetarium
steps. Blankets will be spread on
the nearby lawn.
GUEST PERFORMERS
Several guest entertainers will
be on hand to help Capps enter
tain the party goers.
A team composed of Tom and
Chee Davis will present the latest
in modern dance. Tom is a rising
junior at UNC; Chee is a Nash-
Plans For Art
Museum Given
Bids for the new Ackland Art
Museum were registered by Tues
day of this week and plans have
been approved for its erection on
the site of the old Archer House
on Columbia Street.
The building itself is estimated
at a cost of eight-hundred thous
and with another hundred thous
and dollars allocated for equip
ment. The interest on one million
dollars donated by Mr. Ackland
(figured at approximately thirty
thousand dollars per year) will be
utilized for the acquisition of ob
jects of art for the new museum.
The structure is designed in
two parts with the gallery in the
front facing Columbia Street and
the school located behind the gal
lery. On the first floor the school
of Art-History, the art library,
and a lecture hall will adequately
serve art students.
The second floor will contain
the classrooms and art studios.
The sculpture department will be
located in the basement. The de
signs have been presented by Eg
gert & Higgins of New York and
Weeks Co. of Durham.
, The faculty for the new art
building will be enlarged also.
Edgar Thome who received his
A.B. and M.A. from this Uni
versity has arrived at Carolina
from Harvard where he has been
working on his Ph.D. He will be
gin teaching Art History in the
fall.
The building will also contain
a memorial to the late Mr. Ack
land. His white Italian marble
sarcophagus, or tomb, will be lo
cated in the main' floor gallery.
It is still unknown as to what use
the old art gallery Person Hall
will be put. I
Approval
ville, North Carolina dance
instructress.
George Hamilton, UNC student,
entertainer and recording artist,
will present a few of his whimsi
cal folk renditions.
Raleigh vocalist Doug Franklin
will join the troupe with his
pleasing presentations of popular
songs.
Jimmy Capps, perhaps the fa
vorite nighttime deejay of this
area, will be featured guest He
will furnish music from records
used on his popular radio show,
"Our Best To You," beamed
nightly from station WPTF in
Raleigh.
BROADCAST MONDAY
The blanket party proceedings
will not be broadcast live because
of WPTF's coverage of the Demo
cratic Convention. However,
plans are underway to tape to
night's show for presentation on
Capps' Monday night program, on
WPTF from 10-12 p.m.
The students have chosen the
music for tonight's dancing by
way of a "request box" placed in
the Y-Court earlier this week.
If August showers should make
the Planetarium walks too slip
pery for dancing and the grass
too wet for blanketing, the party
will be held in the basement of
Cobb Dormitory.
Tonight's entertainment is be
ing sponsored by the Summer
School Activities Committee. The
special Blanket Party Committee
includes Miss Carole Crowder,
Miss Eula Mae Wilson, Miss Gin
ny Margaret Meadows, Gordon
Peacock, Bob Hinnant, Joe Creech
and Don Starling, chairman.
Trio of Manuscripts
Vie For Putnam Prize
Miss Jessie Rehder of UNC
English Department today an
nounced that there are three
manuscripts which are strong
contenders in the annual Putnam
Prize competition.
The Putnam Prize is offered
annually through UNC by Put
nam Sons, Publishers. This year,
eligibility has been extended to
include any writer who has at one
time been a student at UNC or
who is presently enrolled in any
branch of UNC, including the
Extension Division. The prize
consists of a $2,000 award to the
author who submits the best book.
Also, Miss Rehder announced
that the prize would not be of
fered again until 1958. This, she
said, would give authors time to
finish novels and books they are
now working on.
Francis Patton, one of the two
judges in the contest, has asked
to withdraw because of the pres
sure of her own work, Miss
Rehder said.