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Student legislators g-ot a big latijfi out of the reading of Lenoir
Hall's Operating Procedures" last Thursday night. The passages were
strangely incongruous with actual conditions ill the University's cafeterias
Promises and descriptions, whether they be irr the form of a list of
operating procedures, a prospectus, the first lecture of the semester or
the preface of a book, are developing more and more frequently into
expositions on what should be in
stead of what will be.
If enough people believe in a
project, almost anything can be ac
complished. The very fart that peo
ple find a list of operating proce
dures, or any of the above, believ
able must mean that what ever it
is being described is possible. After
all, as Lincoln said, you can't fool
all of the people all of the time.
But now very few people are
being fooled any of the time. A
student entering the University for
the first time hears tradition, honor
system, qualities (supposed) of the
Carolina gentleman and the Caro
lina way of life until Chapel Hill
looks like a minor Utopia.
Then let this same individual
get back to the dorm and talk to
some veteran Carolina gentlemen.
There is nothing violently wrong
with the topics of discussion, aca
demic as they may become, but the
content usually runs in diametric
opposition to the minor Utopia as
orginally touted.
It is naturally difficult to de
eribe anything intangible. People
tend to picture' things from only
their point of view. So students
ratif compliment the quality of
the food in Lenoir llall, and when
they do the phrase "for the price"
is begrudgingiy appended.
And the management of Lenoir
Hall declares in the Operational
Procedures that' work in their
establishment is "z. wonderful op
portunity for a man to secure
fine education in a manner that
will make him proud for the rest
of his life."
That he had to scrape garbage
off plates to get an education may
be a fine thing for a man to tell
his son, but as fai as being a
'"wonderful opportunity" is con
cerned well, the wonderment of
it escapes us.
The. time is coming when yrild
ed lily publicity will stop working.
People will do well to start make
ing the facts pleasant enough to
sell their program.
Greek Week A Good Deal
This week Carolina's fraterni
ties are sending their pledges
through Greek Week. The week
replaces the immature and often
dangerous "Hell Week" of before,
and gives the fraternity men a
chance to pit their future brothers
against the pledge classes of other
houses.
Chapel Hill's gentlemen greeks
will help conditions in Chapel Hill
in many direct and indirect ways.
The most direct of course are the
service projects each group's pledge
c'-iss must do. But the more in
direct was the community is bene
fited rre equally valuable.
I irst, relations between j,he fra
ternity men and townspeople will
be strengthened. Greek Week is an
annual reminder that fraternity is
not all party and noise; that fra
ternity men are, for the most part
mature individuals and capable of
doing good in and for the com-
munitv.
Secondly, relations between the
houses will be strengthened.
Through the exchange dinners the
pledge classes will have a chance
to exchange notes on their pledge
training and will observe living
conditions in houses other than
their own.
Through competition in intra
murals the houses have been drawn
together as a group. On field day
the pledges will be put on their
own, to carry their house's banner
to either victory or defeat, but al
so to a greater unity within them
selves. Fraternities aren't really on any
better behaviour this week, but
they are in the spotlight. They will
prove that they are more than
social animals.
Time Has Come For Funds
Married University students are
no longer a novelty. An estimated
jo per cent of the student body
does not sound like a novelty.
Yet the state legislature refuses
to accept the fact that in this era
of speed and pressure from all over
the world people are getting mar
ried sooner and must be housed
while they get a college education.
This is especially so for students
in institutions of higher education.
Their very environment is on a
higher plane than that of the aver
age citizen. The powers in charge
of doling out money should realize
that education, the University and
married students are related by ties
other than the almighty check
book.
Married students are not detri
mental to the standard of educa
tion. Quite to the contrary, they
are uplifting forces. The married
student has taken on a great re
sponsibility, he is a mature indi
vidual. The University needs ma
ture individuals. It needs them
badly. '
All that can be done in the way
The Daily TarHeel
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Publications Board of the University uf
North Carolina, where it is published
daily except Monday and examination
and vacation periods and summer terms
Entered as second class matter in the
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the Act oi March 8, 1870. Subscription
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of advance work has been complet
ed by the University. The hardest
workers of ill for getting married
student homing have been officials
in the University. But the - work
has reached zj point where it must
have funds to continue, and other
forces have power over the purse-
strings.
I his Season
Could Use
New Title
Chapel Hill's highly variable
-'weather is approaching the season
in between winter and spring.
There is no name for this particu
lar part of the year, it just hap
pens. Actually there is not even
any way of predicting it.
One day students will be stroll
ing the campus in shirtsleeves and
praising the arrival ot spring, and
the next
morn mo:
Editor
FRED POWLEDGE
Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN
News Editor
NANCY HILL
Sports Editor
LARRY CHEEK
Business Manager
BILL BOB PEEL
Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN
Night Editor
Manler Springs-
be crunching
across frosty grass to early classes.
j he campus seems- to be in the
middle of just such a time how.
In a few wcjks the great out
doors .will go through what poets
and writers h:ve been singing of
for .centuries. The rebirth of na
ture, the return of collte-swil!iug
students to South Building's steps
and ever thing else that comes with
the vernal equinox.
In a few weeks the season will
be over. But nobody has written
about the in between time. Just
because Sunday was warm and sun
ny is no excuse to start warbling
cheerful melodies. Tomorrow will
"-nbably bring a frost that will
kill any brave buds that tried to
mile an armearance for the, warm
weather Sunday.
Snmp body should, recognize the
mugwump season the campus is
- thrnir) and. oriv it an of
.Hf'al one suitable for mix-
. ?d groups.
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Some
Clarke Jones
A large number of married
students in Victory Village will
more' than likely find them
selves in a very unpleasant
situation next fall in the event
the two-story units th2re are
torn down.
Even though they the fami
lies in the two-story units
wil not be faced with the danger
of fire as they are now, some
of them may find themselves,
out on the street with no place
to live. .
Although - Housing Officer
James Wadsworth has said the -married
students who will be
affected in that event will have
priority over the remaining
one-story apartments, it 'is
doubtful there will be enough
vacancies to go around.
The 12 two-story units recent
. ly '"condemned" by the State
Insurance Dept. have eight
jcparate apartments four each"
on the first and second floors
in each, one, making a total
of 96 families. Therefore, (al
lowing for the probability some
. of the 96 may not return next
; fall regardless),' approximately
. that many , vacancies will have
to occur among the remaining
one-story units.
-
. University officials now study
ing the facilities in Victory Vil
lage to determine what will be
done with the condemned units
may do one of two things, judg
ing, from what UNC Chancellor'
Robert B. House has said re
cently. Either repairs and improve
ments will be made on the old
units with discontinuation of the
second floor (the state law says
frames of wooden construction'
must not be more than one
story in height) or the units may
be torn down altogether and re
placed by more permanent housing.-
Either way won't help the ,
situation much, if at all, at the
. present time.
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Editor:
It seems that the Christmas
spirit has extended this year in
to late February. Ail occasional
bird chirps in the trees of a
morning, and the mercantile in
terests downtown have removed ..
their symbols of good cheer from
Franklin St.
But not only hasn't the spirit
of the past season died, it seems
to have gained proportions far
beyond those of last Dec. 25. As
a matter of fact, Santa came to
my room the other night on a
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most charitable mission: it seems
that a poor Mac-something-or-other
was without a Cadillac car
in his stocking last Christmas.
I was so touched by Santa's
plea that we rectify . this mis
take "that I began to think of all
the other poor folks who were .
by some cruel fate overlooked in
this respect. I therefore submit .
the following names for consid
eration in this time - of bene
ficenop. - Mr. Archibald Henderson
One Cadillac for indirectly per-
greater service for
forming- a
this university and the world of
letters than the esteemed Mr!
Mac-whatever-it-is can ever hope
to do. .
Mr. Thomas Wolfe for the
same reason, one Cadillac. To
be awarded posthumously.
Chancellor House A like
award, in. recognition of his
many years of service. With the
inscription: "He did his best
more can no man do."
I could go on, but I think I've
made my point.
Anthony Wolff
Repairs and improvemepts
would help but the second floor
discontinuation would leave the '
area with 4 less apartments. The
waiting list would grow even '
longer.
The obvious solution would be
. to build more permanent hous
ing facilities, but that will be
an impossibility for at least
another two years.
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Why? :
Because the University would
not be able to start construction
of new facilities for at least that
long, judging from the example
of the proposed three , men's
dormitories ' and an addition to
Spencer women's dormitory.
Contracts for the dormitories
and addition took over a year
and a half to be awarded due to
various reasons. The Victory Vil
lage construction woi4ld more
than likely take about the same
length of time.
There is a good chance'the
University will be .successful in:
its quest for an enabling act
from the General Assembly, ac
cording to University Business
Manager Claude Teague.
Even though a similar request
failed during the last state
legislature session, Teague soun
ed hopeful. He said University
officials had been doing much
more work on the matter this
time than was done then.
Nothing concrete' is known at
the present time concerning the
terms of the act. Teague said
last week it may be a while be
fore the measure is introduced
because the session is still in its
early stages and things needed
to settle down somewhat before
action will be' taken.
But he said it would take only
about six days in all to get the
bill through, if it will pass.
Just how much money the
University twould be able to
borrow was not known, said
Teague. He said since the act
passed en the proposed men's
dormitories and Spencer Hall
wing allowed the University to
borrow 1 million, the figure
for the Victory Village hous
ing would probably not be
more than this.
Other questions are raised in
connection with this.such as
vvhy should the University have
to seek passage of an enabling
act? Why did the Advisory Budg
et Commission completely turn
down the University's original
appropriation request of over
$15 million for married stu
dents' housing?
The answer, according to
Teague, is opposition on the
part of some members of the
Budget Commission to students'
being married while in school.
Those objecting to student
marriages apparently think they
are more or less of a passing
f anc7 and do not realizi they
are here to stay. !
This is a blind attitude. Stu
dent marriages are more than
a passing fancy. The number
of married students in college
is increasing each year in col
leges throughout the country
and the situation here is no
exception.
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TAPHOUSES IN WlNTcR, By Doris Ecttv
published by G.'P. Putnam's.
,. 'j. w tVip fientle Insurrection, a vol
Ia hor first book, -The Gem i
ume of short stones jD Prize. In fact,
Putnam-Universuy ui -- - rPt.n7P( as
.5 .omo to be recognized as.
almost at once .Mrs lters of our time
one of the mo gif Betts has gone be-
write the novel -
pected of her.
In the book the author gives us the Godwins
4 s?oneville the returning Ryan Godw.n br.ng
cf Stonev.l e. tn bur(Jen of
his TTme-W ,o-hrffair with Jesca His sister
hllaw. Back home Ryan finds Fen h,s nephew
IT 12 living memento of Jessica and fmds too,
Tself he perhaps has been unconscious! seekmg.
The whole of the book; which is complex and
satisfying, centers around the search for this self
which is never quite exactly defined
The author asks that her main character, Ryan,
be judged in the end by his growing compassion to
wards the boy Fenwick who might be his- son and
by his own realization that although he is danger
oulsly ill of throat cancer and very tired, he is not
yet tired eough. In Ryan's own words, "I'm not
through yet, that's all. I haven't finished "
In Fenwick's thoughts at the books end, which
projection Ryan's, the reader like the boy, comes
to ask for a time to be with new capacities for
change, to demand it from the leaves, the bare
trees the almost blue skies; to demand it from
whatever there is beyond the sky that hovers over
Stone vill el .
Set in the pattern of the journey home, the novel
begins with Ryan's interim life with his sister Asa,
the boy Fen, and Lady Malevena the cook, who rep
resents the continuity of living in the Godwin house.
TV-e very real ghost in the novel, so real that in the
central section of Tall II -uses in Winter she almost
takes over the book, is Jessica Ryan, the wife of
Aver who has died with her husband in a car ac
cident' 10 years before, but who is still very much
alive in Ryan's mind when he getrf off the bus with
the crowd at the station.
Sensibly for Ryan, home is Wellman College in
New England, where he is a teacher of English lit
erature and to which he will return when the jour
ney in search of himself is over. Actually, home is
still Stoneville and in one sense the book is an in
vestigation of the effect the past in a very ordinary
small Southern town can have on a man who is
forced by circunu-tances to take a long look at him
self and the surroundings that made him.
Doris Betts knows her town the bus station,
the realty office, the orchard behind the Godwin
house and the frosted hunting country of tb
final scene.
Thematically, the town conies to stand as an ex
planation of what all the people in Tall Houses in
Winter become because of each other. Using a shift
ing, point fo view to dramatize her theme, the au
thor starts her story slowly moving forward with
the hesitancy of a child at a new game, here turn
ing back again, now jumping with hopscotch step,
. but always managing to keep the focus on the R an
Fenwich relation and on Ryan's remembrance of
Jessica, and on the relationship of all of them to
Stoneville itself.
Ryan does move IN SAD AND UNDIGNIFIED
WAYS the caption for the first part of the movel
down to the Jewish tailor and back home to Lady
Malveena's kitchen where she and Mister Lord some
times seem to have consummated an alliance against
him, and eventually into an interview with a sharp
operator named Peyton who wants to es-tablish a
college in Stoneville for reasons known only to
himself.
On the question of the college, Ryan vacillates
but it is apparent that his inability to take sides
for or against Peyton is no more than a small part
of the larger indecision that permeates the first
part of the novel.
In A VIRTUOUS DAY, the novel's center. Jessica
Maples, who became the wife of Avery Godwin in
1936 and soon after became the mistress of her
brother-in-law, is projected through Ryan's mem
ory with such force that her presence changes the
pace of the bock. Virtuous, serene, erotic, but at
the same time cold in facing reality, Jessica is more
woman than heroine. Some of the most powerful
writing In the novel, and Doris Betts is a powerful
writer, lies in the pages that project the love sir.1
brings to Ryan in a way that for many never stand
as having any virtue at all.
These remembered todays, part of Was-Time
move forward through love making, renouncement,
and more love making to Jessica's pregnancy with
Fenwick and to her decision to make him, in the
world's eye the son of her husband Avery thus for
ever anchoring Ryan as a Romeo.
But in Is-Tlme .with Jessica's death 10 years
in the past Fenwick begins to take his mother's
place with Ryan. Their relationship feeds on small
friendly deeds. It holds deep intimacy. It contains
within itself that the love affair which is now
pari of Was-Tim. could never do more than re
flect. And so in the end and by compassion with the
journey to Stoneville i almost over the final motif
becomes apparent as one of grief calling unto grief
until out of the calling a new bond appears between
Ryan and -Fenwick and by extension between Ryan
and his relationship to Time-To-Be.
In the moment the taxi that is taking Ryan back
to the bus station comes to a halt before the Godwin
house and blows like Gabriel, we know like Ryan
that the world is always in peril however blue the
sky and bright the sun, but we know too with him
in which all the lenient are in perfect and pre-
Zl T ' 3nd that in such a blinding
moment we draw close to the heart of the axis of
joy, to the place where the universe is hinged.
Jessie Render is a lecturer in the English
Dept. here, and she teaches courese in creative
writing. She recently published a novel, Remem
brance Way.
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