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: ' r I 0 SPECIAL FRESHMAN ISSUE SPECIAL FRESHMAN ISSUE SPECIAL FRESHMAN ISSUE Complete (JP) Wire Service CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1956 Offices in Graham Memorial j TWELVE PAGES THIS ISSUE f I cn 1 1 1 I k 'V m I Merchants Plan Big Welcome One of the most extensive wel comes ever given new Tar Heels by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Mer chants' Assn. has been planned b$ the 152-member association. Next Monday ha be?n set for the big day when local merchant will hold open houses for the new students. Various souvenirs and gifts, such as key chains, ball point pens and ashtrays, will be given away. Fre.3 Movies will be shown at both theatres that day for all new stu-. dents. An information booth will be maintained all day, with maps and newspapers t" be given away, as well as additional copies of the classified membership directory. Radio broadcasts from the booth are also planned. GIFT CERTIFICATES Thirty gift certificates for $10 each vill be given. away in a camp us quiz contest. Students can enter the contest in as many, stores as they wish, and the names of the winner in each individual store will be turned in to the Merchants' Assn office. " On Tuesday, 30 of those names will he drawn, and those 30 per sons Mill each receive a S10 gift certificate redeemable in member stores. The names of the winners will be published in The Daily Tar Heel and other local newspapers. Four different sets of quiz blanks will be distributed to provide va riety. Prizes will also be awarded to winners at some of the individ ual stores. "., .New students also will be invited to establish credit in the , local stores by getting their parents to authorize charge accounts with any association member. The credit bureau here will handle all the ar rangements, according to Mrs. Jane Whitefield, executive secretary of the association. WITH SEVERAL EXCEPTIONS: Freshmen Can't Have Cars On UNC Campus With the exception of veterans, "physically handicapped persons and commuters, no freshman, will be allowed to own an outomobile this year, According to Ray Jefferies, assis tant to the dean of student affairs, the students falling under the three exceptions to the "no fresh man cars" rule must petition his .office for a ruling on whether or -not they are eligible for a parking permit. Violators of the rule are subject to administrative action, said Jef feries. He explained that it will be all right for freshmen to borrow the cars of upper classmen, but if 'he sees a freshman driving the same car frequently he will "get suspicious." PARKING FEE A fee of $2.50 will be charged for student parking stickers this year. The money collected will be Phi Eta Sigma lS Honorary For Freshmen Phi Eta Sigma is a national hon orary fraternity for freshmen who gain high averages in their work. Comparable to Phi Beta Kappa, " scholastic honorary fraternity for upper classmen, members are tak en in at the end of the first semes- "ter, and others are admitted at ; the end of the second semester. Many outstanding freshmen have gone on, to make Phi Beta Kappa v ith a good start as a freshman. In 1859 In 1859 the University stood at the forefront of American uni versities and had the second larg est student body in Amepcau Shown above (left to right) discussing the current state of af fairs are: Robert House, chancellor of the University here at Chapel Hill who is scheduled to retire next June; John Motley Morehead, the University's greatest benefactor and a noted philanthropist who built the Morehead Sundial, the Morehead Planetarium, and also ousina As Three Qsementi By CHARLIE SLOAN Three-man rooms and crowding into, dormitory basements will again be the I6t of University stu- 1 dents this fall. put into a fund for future parking facilties. Jefferies said he .intends to bo strict with violators of the ruling requiring all students to display parking stickers within 24 hours of their arrival on campus. State College issues a $10 fine for parkin? violators, and Jefferies said he has recommended the same amount for violators here. Rather than obtaining money for future parking, Jefferies said the reason for registering automobiles is to "prevent students from get ting in trouble." Students will be able to register their cars at registration, or in the Dean of Student Affairs Office, Jef feries said. : STUDENT COURT Jefferies said tbe newly estab lished student traffic court, will handle cases involving students whose cars do not display parking stickers and glagrant violators of Chapel Hill traffic and parking reg ulations. . The court will have the power to recommend that cars be sent home, and will be backed up by the ad ministration. According to Jeffe ries, one of the reasons the court was established Was to take some of the work load off the honor courts. Freshmen who claim they do not own a car at registration, and later are discovered to be car owners will be violating the honor code, said Jefferies. REGULATIONS As in the past, there will be no parking except by staff cars and visitors on the campus between the j hours of 7 and 3, Monday through Saturday. ; The- campus is defined as the area bounded by Franklin St., Co-I lumbia St. and the Pittsboro Rd., Raleigh St. and Raleigh Road. The town of Chapel Hill has lim ited parking on Columbia St. to one hour and eliminated all parking on Rosemary St. - St , r ii i! Hi fit If Some Of The Big Men Gather Situation - Man uf c Everyone of the 3,010 spaces in:" the men's dorms have been filled, aout one hundred student! will be , assigned to dormitory basements and many men arc being referrcJ I to apartments and rooming houses ! in Chapel Hill, James Wadsworth, director of the Housing Office said recently. Women's Dormitories have been filled to capacity, and with the cx- : ception of Connor, Winston. Joyncr j and Cobb, all the men's dorms will j have three-man rooms. This in- - ludes medicalv dental and law stu dents. Shortly after the Second World War, according to Wadsworth, the Housing Office had to send stu dents to Durham to find living quarters. He added that many of them reached the campus and returned to their rooms by hitch hiking. MARRIED STUDENTS Housing married students is a growing problem in universities across the nation. At Carolina there are 500 names on the waiting list for Victory Village, where Popular Hypnotist Will Entertain Frosh Here Franz Polgar, world renowned ; formnce of telepathy, memory hypnotist and a frequent visitor to the Carolina campus, will pre sent a show Saturday at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Admission will be free. The show ij being presented fcr the bene fit oL new students, but the pub lic is invited. The show will feature a per- ;1 FRANZ POLGAR , . . noted hyrpriotist V n To Talk Things Over helped build the Bell Tower and give numerous scholarships to stu dents here at UNC each year; Kerr Scott, one of North Carolina's U. S. senators, and Frank P. Graham, former president of the Con solidated University and mediator for the United Nations. Serious Rooms And To Use homes are priced from $30 to $40 a nmnlh. Wadsworth estimates that it will take a year or more to ac- ! commodate the students currently on the list. Openings in the established apartments and rooming houses in Chapel Hill for married students arc becoming scarcer as the first day of classes approaches. Wads- worth said. lhe Univcrsity has cnIv cighl npw ,nartmonU fhis fan Thprp has been a lot of building in the Chapel Hill area, but because of the cost of construction, it would not be practical for the owners to rent the quarters at rates the ordinary married student can afford. The three new dorms which were approved last spring have nt yet been started. Wadsworth specu lated vhat this was due to affairs arising in connection with letting contracts. Construction of the pro posed addition to Spencer dorm has I not been begun. With the advent of entrance ex arninations, enrollment at the Uni versify might level off. ! feats and hypnosis. Polgar, who last appeared on the University campus last summer, claims he is able to hypnotize a group of ten or twenty volunteers from the au dience at will. He then makes them do anything he wishes. In the past, he has made them fall asleep at his com mand, shiver at hi suggestion that it's suddenly gotten cold, and I just as swiftly perspire when he teils them it is unbearly hot. He also says he can walk down a line ,of 100 people and be introduced to each one, then go back up the line aid identify every one of them by name. Polgar takes those under his hypnotic control on a plane trip, and puts glsses on them and makes j them think these glasses enable them to see through clothing. He has also been known to find hio- check by mental process- after it has been given to someone in the audience. Polgar has long been popular with Carolina stu dents, and all new "students should attend his highly entertaining program. 4 7 .1 i Calendar Of Events FALL SEMESTER, 1956 j f W September 13 Thursday. Arrival of new students. September 13-17 Thursday-Monday. Orientation. September 17-18 Monday, Tuesday. Examinations for removal of conditions. I September 18-1? Tuesday, vVednesday. Registration. September 20 Thursday. First Day of classes. Set Umber 20-22 Thvrsday-Saturday. L? - refl!iiv September 22 Saturday. Football, UNC vs. State. October 12 Friday. University Day. November 21 Wednesday. Thanksgiving recess begins at 1 p.m. November 26 Monday. Thanksgiving recess ends at 8 a.m. December 19 Wednesday. Christmas vacation begins at 6 am. January 3, 1957 Thursday. Christmas vacation ends at 8' a.m. January 19 Saturday. Classes! end for fall $-met--. January 21-29 Monday-Tuescjay. Final examinations. 5PRING SEMESTER, 1957 January 31 Thursday. Registration of new dent? net pre-registered. February 1 Friday. First day of classes. April 17 Wednesday. Spring recess begins at 6 p.m. April 23 Tuesday. Spring recess ends at 8 a.m.. May 21 Tuesday. Classes end for spring semester. May 22-23 Wednesday-Thuriday. Final examinations. June 13 Saturday-Monday. Commencement. 192 UNC Students Attend 1Y' Camp Approximately " 192 frcshm;en j were on hand fcr the YMCA-spJn-! sored Freshman Camp which opn- I ed Monday. i I Bob Leonard, a junior from Ilendersonvirie, was director jof j the camp thi year. j The camp is sponsored each j year to help students meet prob lems of adjustment to college lfe and to inform them of opportuni ties at the University. Held at Camp New Hope, seven miles frcm Chapel Hill, Freshman Camp j were on hand 'were: Acting Presi precede the orientation program j dent William Friday, Chancellor fcr all new students. Thirty-two upperelassmen act ed as counselors. The freshmlen were grouped in cabins correspond ing to their drmtory asisnments so they could get acquainted be fore the semester officially opejis. Included in the progryn were discussions on the role of religion in college life, adjustment prob- Fr2shmen Deferred D'irnq First Year All duly enrolled collpge fresh men will be deferred from Selec tive service induction until the end of their firjt year, according jtD Gen. Carlyle Shepard, UNC vet eran's advisor. J Those who 3 nish their fi j. year in the uprer one-half of the class will be deferred through thir second year. - Gen. Shepard also announced that he is available at his office at 315 South Building to answer questions of any -tudect regarding draft status. 1956-57 SCHOOL YEAR OPENS Orientdtioh Of New Students Be r 3 I 1 jr & IT Orientation for approximately 1.800 new students hcan la-t uto h 1 at a general assem in Memorial Hall. Freshmen girls, nurses and jdental liygienist. met in Genaid Hall. 'Yi- uncrrai'i octs int f 1 1 1 1 I vin tr trwlav a if I will-i oiitiiiue tlirouirli next I lllli sdav. Oi i "- o'-'" : - 1 - j ientation Chairman liill McLean, who yester Jay isjued a st ement to all new siudcnts. sai'l: "I am liappy to welcome you to a schoo yon j will leain to loe. ! "Now why t ome to school this early bef re classes hegin? Vu could Ijc w ot kin- or vv.i i could he jlavinr4. Why add an ; Here at the University, students j have an unusual amount of free ) dom, as student freedoms go Aside ; from the fairly detailed regulations ; governing coeds, the general rule? ! of conduct here are few and sim ple. Only three activities arc express ly forbidden by student law: Lying, cheating, and stealing. The student law proscribing these activities is students and eld stu- lems, the pro.? and cons of fra ternity membership, a faculty freshman Softball game, and a fac-; ulty-led panel on the meaning of a ccllege education. Also included in the activities were a faculty-freshmen picnic, to give the new students a chance to meet informally with faculty mem bers and discus.? problems with them; Among the faculty and admin istration members and others who Robert B. House, Dean Cecil John son of the General College;, Coach Jim Tatum, and Roy Arm strong, director of admissions. Other people who took part in the program were Sam Magill, di rector of student activities; the Rev. Harry Smith,- minister; to students of the First Presbyterian Church; Claude Shotts, general secretary of the Univer'ty YMCA, and Grry Mayo, YMCA president. Ministers of Chapel Hill churches were guests at one session of the camp. Upperelassmen who acted a? counsellors at the camp were: Jim Armstrong and Lakin Kirkman High Point; John Brooks, Green ville; Doug Bayliff, Graham: Doug Cantrell, Seaford, Del.; Bob Car ter, Selma; Alex Coffin. Asheboro: Paul Carr and Walt Rose. Hills boro; Dave Davis, Chattanooga, Tenn.: Frank Farrell, Lillington; Ron Fox, Conover; Don Gray, Ft. Bragg; Mike Givens and Frank Schrimsher, 'Charlotte; Bob Har rington, Thomarville; Ted Harri son, Tarboro and Leon Holt, Julian. UNC Folks LOTS ur I extra week of school.' Have -reeaom known as the Honor Code. The mode of conduct which jit seeks to encourage is called the jllonor Sys tem. It makes sense for til students to know what the code lis, how the j system operates, and what happens j when the system, for s(ime reason, j breaks down in an individual case, j The code itself is simple: A stu-j dent is on his personal honor to refra'n from lying, cheating or) stealing. I ! Every year, howovcrj, there are students who find these simple de- J mands too hard to follosv. In a Uni- J versity of this size, it " expected '. That some .students who enter here I will be unable to face up to the! responsibilities of personal honor. ! Carolina." : These students find jgreat temp-' Today's program includes pfry.i tation in the fr.et that! many tests Cal examinations for men, grouo and exams are not monitored by ; meetings for freshmen, tours, vo- instructors. This same type of stu dent has been known jto take ad ahtsge of the willingness of those in authority to accept ( a student's word of honor. Moreover, cases of thefts committed by students have not been entirely unknown. ' THE CHEATER. j , Of the hrcc types qf offenders, lthp chcatfcr can hurt more people , t more of the time than lhe liar and j the thief combined. ; j In many courses here, grades j are awarded "on the urve;" that is, the high man in the class, re ! cjardlcs of hi.s numerical grade av erage, receives an "A," and the rest of the class is scaled propor tionately, j j A cheater in such a class is not. i cheating himself, he J is cheating j ' l n: : 1 1 . l i tvc-ijr WUv hi me muUjp. nu ujegdj j high grade serves to jmove every- j one else down a notch, jand in many cases this could meanjthat he who! would have passed wiU fail, he who ! would have made Phi Eta Sigma will not, he who woufd have stay ed in the University cannot, etc. RESPONSIBILITY Students alone have1 the respon sibility for enforcing the honor sys tem. For this purpose, students elect members of the Men's and the Women's Honor Councils, judi cial bodies with powdr to try ac cused students and toi impose sen tences which include suspension and expulsion. j 7T; it '2 k r Caroline Coed ! The young lady above posses ses the typical beauty that -will be seen in many Carolina ccedi this year. She is Miss Libby Mc Dowell, who represented Chapel Hill in the North Carolina Beauty Pageant held at More head City last summer. o Mil 11 a 0 f "Well, this week could very lik? ; ly affe-ct your whole four years at Carolina. Maybe ycu will be ac 1 quainted with a new approach t : an old subject or a new activity. "We certainly hrpe this h;jp- pens. j "May you are having a h3rd tim? finding your way around. By the end of orientation week, you should know buildings and facts about Car olina which on your own woull take years. "It is the earnest hope of student, counselors, faculty and administra tion that you no longer be a novice after orientation week, but a full fledged member of the Carolina community. "We want you to know that the1?' groups that are interested in your development in the Carolina way of life are ready at all timei to assist you. "Don't hesitate to call on them. Good luck in all your endeavors at men's welcome convocation, place ment tests in Chemistry, Math ant foreign Languages. The official Welcome Asmbh' will be held in Memorial Hall at 8:30 p.m., and a film entitled "In The Name of Freedom" will uu shown. 'Maior oarts of tomorrow's agen- 3" da are a meeting of all upper col- lege transfer men, group meetings for freshmen, English placement test for those not tested prior to or ientation. . school and college ap titude tests, O. S. U. tests for wo men, business administration. Journalism, education and arts and sciences tran ters. A. C. E. test for freshmen not tested prior to orientation, Kuder test for women. open house at Lenior Hall. Gretk and Latin placement tests and . . . . . . i special entertainment oy roigar, wor(j renowned hypnotist, in j,jernorial Hall. One Of Every Four Students Is Veteran ! Freshmen who have recently j .-hed a uniform of the Armed j Forces will oon learn that vetcr I ans on the UNC campus are iit j from rare. j One of every four students seen, j in the classroom this fall will c a former serviceman. The UNC veteran's advL-or. Gen. j Csrlyle Shepard. expects 1,700 e c i servicemen to claim their GI h?ne ! fits this fall. This will be an in crease of 200 over the number enrolled last year. ! All but six of this years v-et-i erans will be receiving benefit? i under the Korean War Bill fPub i lie Law 550). Korean veterans that are n? v- comers to UNC should report to ' the Women's Gymnasium (behind ''Woollen gym) September 18 or 11 i to make application with the UNC j veterans' office fcr their benefits, j After this initial application, 3 certification of attendance must be filed each month nt the vet erans' office at 315 South Buildir. This con.ysts of simply filling out a short form a-id handing it ii the secretary. It must be d:r? between the 23th and 30th of eazh month. On or about lhe 20th of e?.:-h month, the checks fo the previous month's attendance are mailed t? student veterans.
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