VOLUME S CHAPEL HILL. N. C, FRIDAY. JUNE . I1S7 NUMBER 4 r
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Paul Green
Will Speak
At Y Meet
Paul Green, author of "The
Imi Colony" and "Unto These
Hills," will speak to the YW
YMCA Thursday evening at his
home in Chapel Hill, according
to Eugene Parker, chairman of
the planning committee.
The following weekend, July
5-7, a group of approximately 20
UNC students will visit Manteo
to see the performance of "The
Lost Colony."
Mr. Green will speak at 7 p.m.
Any students interested in hear
ing him have been invited to at
tend: transportation will be pro
vided from the "Y" building to
his home at 6:45 p.m.
The Manteo trip agenda con
sists of a beach party Friday
ninht and the play. "The Lost
Colony," Saturday night. Ar
r.incements have been made for
a backstage tour after the show,
when the group will meet the
performers.
The trip will cost $17 per indi-j
vidual: this fee includes housing, j
food, transportation and tickets
to the play. Miss Anne Queen.)
associate director of the YWCA, '
vviil chaperon the group. j
Students interested in making
the trip to Manteo should contact
Miss Queen at the "Y" building.
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WHO WILL BE WATERMELON QUEEN?
Voting will begin Monday in Y-Court lo nam on of the lovely toads m Queen of lh
19S7 Watermelon Festival. Pictured here ara firt row. sifting left to right; Carolyn Wiaa Caro
lyn Hilkar. Mary Gilmor and SaUy Pullen, Second row. kneeing: BUbe Walton. RocheUe Barrow
Lou Scales. Noel Voitler and Sybil Child. Third row (landing: Carol Lynn Johnson. Mary Frances
Hart. Bobbi Madison, Dickie Robinson. Sue CaTanaugh ami Sandra Miller. Carolyn Place k and
Betsy Arnold were absent from the picture.
Residents Express Views On New Frat Court
By BILL CHESHIRE
"We hope this is not where they are planning to build the new
fraternity court!"
Thi s was the reaction of a housewife whose home may some
day be only 30 feet from a fraternity house. Her reaction to th..' j
proposed new fraternity court was typical of the residents of the
adjoining area.
Her house is located in a quiet and secluded neighborhood I
surrounded by trees, flowers and other environmental factors j
usually associated with the country. The view from her picture J
window is faintly reminiscent of western rather than Piedmont I
Carolina.
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"The rural atmosphere is one reason why we chose to live
here," one housewife, the wife of a UNC professor, told us.
If a person buys property where fraternity houses already
exist, then they have made a choice. But if you buy property,
develop it and then have the fraternities move in, it seems a bit
unfair."
"We feel that the University has a moral obligation to those
who own property adjoining the University's," she added. "This
would seem to exclude the erection of water towers, fraternity
houses and the like."
But why all the criticism of fraternity houses? Are the Greek
letter men as bad as these people seem to think? Here's w hat one
resident of the area said:
"Some boys from the fraternities spoke at a meeting held by
the aldermen. These boys said that the fraternities had never
eatised any concern to their neighbors. They suggested that we
ask their neighbors about this. We have. People we know who
have lived rear fratvrniti have had nothing ft nod to say about
them.
"We think that fraternities are the least desirable type of
housing the University could build near us."
We a.-ked the lady if she thought the fraternities would cause
an undue amount of noi.-e in the neighborhood.
' What do you think'" she replivd. Further questioning dis
closed that she felt that most of the noise would result from
organized social activities. But noise was not the only feature that
the people of Chase Avenue find objectionable about fraternities.
Most of them have small children and feel that they would be
jeopardized by fast driving Greeks.
As one put it: "I don't think fraternity men have a reputation
for safe driving."
We were alsj informed that the Community Church has been
forced to change its plans regarding a Girl Scout shelter as a
result of rumors of an invasion by the Greeks.
Most of the residents with whom we talked seemed to think
that apartments for married couples perhaps an extension of
Victory Village would be much more desirable than fraternity
houses. They even thought that the area would be undesirable
from the viewpoint of the fraternities themselves.
"If the fraternity men think that this is a desirable spot for
their houses, someone has sold them a bill of goods," one resident
remarked.
But they were quite frank about their attitude toward the i
proposed invasion of their privacy. In all fairness, they are
prejudiced against the idea.
"But," as one member of the neighborhood pointed out, "we
feel that our prejudice is justified."
Final Plans
Announced
For Festival
By MARY MOORE MASON
So you like watermelon!
If you don't, you are one of the
rare people on the U N C. campus.
How do we know? Because the
Watermelon Festival is always the
biggest single event in popularity
nd participation offered during
first session summer school.
The Watermelon Festival,
which will be Wednesday even
ing around the flag pole and Y
Court. is sponsored each summer
by the Summer School Activi
ties Board. It is one of the rare
times on the university campus
when the students and faculty can
party together in a casual and
completely unofficial way.
Many festivities are planned in
connection with this summer's
prize event: a dance after the
watermelon feast, a faculty band,
the crowning of the King and
Queen of the Watermelon Fes
tival, a watermelon-eating race
between a student team and a
faculty team, and lots of student
entertainment.
FACULTY COMBO
Free watermelon will be in
(tore for all students and faculty
at 6 30 p.m. During the feast a
faculty combo led by Jim Wads-
worth of the Housing Department,
will play sweet music. Although
all the people who will make up
the combo are not yet known, it
has been revealed that the
celebrated musician. Chancellor
; House, will be among their
number.
Next a great athletic event will
take place when the faculty
watermelon eating team, selected
by the Summer School Activi
ties Committee, takes on the stu
'dent team, selected bv the same
' body.
I The watermelons will be in the
i parking lot behind the Y build
! ing.
ENTERTAINMENT
j The entertainment, headed by
G. C. Pndgen, also has many
treats in store for the audience.
Bob Olson and his Olsonettes will
be present and will feature Claire
Tucker as vocalist
Gary Nichols, a folk singer, and
Pete Bogadis, also a singer, will
be part of the entertainment as
will Nick Kearns. "U.N.C.'s
answer to Fats Domino."
The high point of the Fes
tival will be the crowning of th
Watermelon Queen, one of 17
lovely coed contestants, and th
King, who will be elected by
popular student vote from the
faculty.
Each of the royal duo will b
selected by the students' popular
vote in Y Court, and their ident
ity will be kept a secret until the
crowning.
DANCING
At 8 p.m. the Watermelon
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