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f J 3 Weather Gloom. See Edits, Page Two ffeain Graham Memorial 9,600 S A As UNC D & ii ew By BILL HOBBS The University enters its 169th year this week with an expected enrollment of "slightly under" 9600 students, nearly 1700 of them lreshmen. Dean of Student Affairs Charles Henderson said the expected en rollment would be an increase of about 500 over last year, al though the freshman class' will be smaller than last year's ciass of 1,737. For the first time in many years, these students will not be faced with a serious housing problem. The completion of Craige and Eringhaus dorms .id the conversion of Cobb dorm into a women's dorm has alleviated the housing shortage which found many students homeless or liv-barracks-style at this time last year. Craige and Eringhaus together will house 1,423 men. In addition, Carr dorm, which has bsen con verted to a men's dorm, will house 70. This increase of 1,493 men's spaces is offset by a loss of 442 men's spaces in Cobb and the cutting out of 800 men's spaces when triple rooms were eliminated in many dorms. Thus the total increase in men's spaces is 251. Women's Increase The increase in women's spaces will be about 300, since Cobb will now house about 370 wom-'-n and girls lost 70 spaces when Carr was converted to a men's dorm. The practice of putting hrce men in a two-man dorm room has been largely eliminated by the new dorms. There are still 149 three-man rooms, however, in Stacy, Winston, Manly, Alex ander, Aycock, Joyner, and Lewis. The housing office ex plained that the tripling was practiced only in large rooms. University housing officer James Wadsworth said there were still about 30 students with out homes, but noted that this is far less than the number of Glee Club Open The UNC Men's Glee Club has invited any interested freshmen to a meeting of the Club at 4:00 Monday, Sept. 23 at Hill Hall. Glee Club president Clinton Coul ter expects at least eighty new members. "With the proposed tour to Atlanta and our new rec ord we expect to have the largest, widest traveling Glee Club that UNC has had in years." The Club is based on a philosophy of re laxed singing and is eager to welcome anyone who enjoys sing ing, said Coulter. Iwo 131 ew Social, Intellectual Community: Rowan By JLM CLOTFELTER -There is a great mass freemen lost between the two r h of the intellectual and the worlds ot tne w Rowan, SEJtaHf Srighaus dormi president oi yesterday, tory. i" an intervi ew j "The horizon of these vv fa 2 big as their rooms, he ZS33? entire flfas president. Rowan His Eoa's.'ate "(1) a home, said. ere to create community and scc : ?raea fuW personal r-SoStW Coat, cntrftuteperSS ter and about $W directly from the residen. $1200 will go toward two -ringhaus Weekends" and six adcu c tuclents Anticipated E liters onus homeless last year. He said his office is still appealing to towns people to rent rooms to students. Eating Facilities In addition to the increased housing space, there are two new University eating facilities the renovated Pine Room which can hold 350 people at a time and the new cafeteria in Eringhous dorm. Classroom space has also been increased with the opening of the new language building Dey 169t Aid Orientation Stress O it Academics Now By HENRY MAYER - Increased emphasis upon acad emic life and restyled presenta tions of some traditional subjects are the highlights of this year's Orientation Program, according to Chairman Bob Madry. One of the most novel of the 1962 innovations is the require ment that all incoming freshmen read Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel." The novel, which describes Wolfe's exper iences at Chapel Hill, will be dis cussed with the new students by members of Phi Eta Sigma, freshman academic honorary so ciety, on Thursday. "The book is a difficult as signment," said Madry, "and we feel that exposure to it plus the analysis and discussion in the seminars will give new students some idea of the type of work they can expect in the months to come." Debate On Frats Another new feature of the pro gram is a debate on the merits of fraternity life. This event, scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Thursday, replaces the old Interfraternity Council session on the mechanics of rushing. Participants will in clude Jim Dillashaw and Bob Spearman, who will present the case for fraternity memberships, while SG Vice-President Mike Lawler and Mickey Simmon? will represent the non-fraternity noint of view. Major events on the calendar today (Tuesday) include registra tion and Student Government meetings tonight. Madry stress ed that freshmen should report to Woollen Gym tor registration with their groups, since "ad herence to the schedu'e is the only way to prevent total chaos." Student Government Tonight's Student Government meeting will be held in two ses tional dances. Buses from Woman's College will be provided for the "Week ends." On these occasions there will be a dance and concert the same weekend. Also on the social schedule are regular beer parties for dorm members. Rowan said $100 will go toward intramurals and $100 will be used to improve the dormitory library. $500 will be spent on the dormi tory newspaper (which will come out every two weeks) and $400 will go toward dorm physical im provements, and service projects. "If 40 per cent of our ambitious programs are carried out, it will be a successful year," said Ro wan. , . An immediate proposal cf Ro wan's is to divide the six floors of Ehringhaus into three areas to have" its own dorm vice-president and IDC representative. Each will nave two dances per year apiece. li Year; OUSlllg Hall and the new Botany build ing. These and the new Public Health building at the "Scalpel Hill" Medical complex will free older classrooms for use this year. Library space is still a prob lemparticularly the lack of an undergraduate library. The old library assembly room has been converted to a newspaper read ing room, however, to givo more study area for undergraduate students. sions. Transfer students will meet at 7 p.m. in Hill Hall, while freshmen will assemble at 7:45 in Memorial Hall. Speaking to both groups will be Dr. Charles Hen derson, Dean of Student Affairs, SG President Inman Allen, Bev Haynes and Walter Dellinger, chairmen of the Women's and Men's Councils, Susan Crow, Wo men's Orientation Coordinator, and Chairman Madry. The tradi tion and philosophy of student government, including the Honor System and the Campus Code, will be discussed. A detailed examination of tho Honor System,- including lectures by Council members and show ings of the Honor System movie, will take place from 9-4 p.m. Wednesday, in 106 Carroll Hall for freshmen men. New women students will discuss the Honor System on Thursday. All groups will take the Honor System test at the conclusion of the discus sions. Emerson Picnic The traditional Emerson Field picnic and activity session will be held on Wednesday afternoon from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Informa tion about Carolina student groups and a free meal will be provided. At 7 p.m. Wednesday general academic meetings will be held. Freshmen will assemble in Me morial , Hall to hear Dr. G. V Taylor, Associate Professor of History, discuss "The Satisfac tions of Learning." Senior Fred Anderson will also speak, mark ing the first time a student has participated in the academic con vocation. Anderson's talk will be on the theme, "Education Is Something You Do For Yourself." Chancellor Emeritus Robert House will also delive a short address. (Continued on Page 5) o New Dorms Arc Stark Contrast T 01d Housi Craige and Ehringhaus, the University's two new men's dor mitories south of Kenan Stadium, would have boggled the imagina tions of the men who designed and built Old East. Three story, rectangular Old East (the oldest building on an American state university cam pus) is about as much like the X-shaped, six-story Craige and Ehringhaus "Hiltons" as UNC president William Friday's man sion is like the UN building. Old East hold 95 men. Craige and Ehringhaus accomodate 713 and 710 respectively. Much of Old East's interior space is used up in corridors, stairwells, and large bathrooms. Craige and Ehringhaus have no interior stair wells, one interior corridor each, and bathrooms which save al most as much space as the con densed versions found in sub marines. Old East has living (Continued on Page 7) Seventy Years Of CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, University Of Ask For Fa r 4. NEW FROSIl Bob Madry, chair man of the orientation committee, wel comes approximately 1,650 new fresh men to Carolina during a program Sun Peace Corps Group Trains Here For Venezuelan Work The first Peace Corps project to provide teachers at the Uni versity level was assigned to UNC for training this fall. The first 50 Corps volunteers arrived in Chapel Hill last week, to be gin 10 weeks of the three-part, 16-week training program. A $161,000 contract signed with the Peace Corps calls on the University to-help recruit, train and supervise 43 "critically needed" college instructors in subjects ranging from agricul ture to zoology for four Venezue lan universities. (The extra seven recruits will compensate for the expected drop-outs.) All who pass the training will start teaching in Venezuela Jan. 4. Six Months Planning UNC political science professor Fredcrico G. Gil ("Heel"), di rector of the University's Insti tute of Latin American Studies, has spent the past six months planning the program. He will be Project Director, with over-all charge of the two-year operation. "There are two types of Peace Corps contracts," Gil explained. "Most of them are just for train ing, and someone else adminis ters the program. In this case, we're going to do both." Gil will appoint an overseas coordinator, probably a UNC faculty member, to accompany the volunteers through then training and remain with them as the University's representa tive in Venezuela. Actual cost of the project will be about $500,000. Most of it will be used to pay the living allow ances of the volunteers during their year and a half in Vene zuela. New University Most of the trainees will teach cn the several campuses of the new University of the East, lo cated in the fastest-growing part of Venezuela. Others will teach in Maraciabo at the University of Zulia and the capitol city of Caracas, at the Catholic Univer sity and Pedagogical (Teacher's) Institute. Volunteers include 15 English teachers, 10 library technicians, two soil specialists, two authori ties on beef cattle, two fishery specialists and two fishing tech nicians., three sociologists, two social workers, a petroleum engineer and one instructor each ia biology, zoology, botany, and Editorial Freedom TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER If geophysics. The initial ten-weeks training here will include extensive courses in Spanish, Venezuelan history and politics, American it4" V sS- rf' ? . V' PEACE CORPS Anne Queen, director of the YM YWCA, talking with Bill Waldron, UNC student accepted for the Peace Corps project training here this fall. Wal dren, 23, graduated in political science this summer. He is from Princeton, N. J. Merchants Start Student Discount Club By VANCE BARRON The new Student Discount Services Club is being hailed by supporters as a boon to bargain hunting students and as "the first step toward a student co operative." Its $5 memership fee enables students to purchase everything from food to jewelry to clothes to records, from 10 Chapel Hill merchants at a 10 per cent dis count. The idea for the project came from two medical students, Tal ley Eddmgs and William Bates, who carried their plan to local merchants. The plan is supposed to bene fit both the merchants who are listed on the club card and the 18, 1962 f icia cull; 4 1 J day night in Memorial Hall. This year's freshman class will give UNC a total enrollment of 9,600, a new record. ' Photo by Jim Wallace. culture, World Affairs and tech- nical subjects. "Orientation in communist strategy and tactics will also be emphasized," Gil said. ;"'k: - 4 students who are members. Only one merchant from each field of retailing was selected for membership. Each one of the merchants agreed to give mem bers of the club a ten per cent discount at his store. Each card allows the student purchaser a limited amount which can be purchased at the discount. This amount was set at what the merchant believes the student will spend for clothes, jewelry, or other items. If used to the fullest, the "average" student will save approximately $35 when buying from these merchants, claims Bates. Good For Year The card is goal for one year from September 15, 1962. The student contractors in order to 1 In Ra a y Friday Says Scale mproving By BILL DOWELL RALEIGH Officers of the Consolidated University presented the $11 million "B" budget to the Advisory Budget Commission here Monday. The budget covers all pay raises and non-capital improve ments and operations on the three CU campuses. It is effective for the next biennium running from 1963 to 1965. If it is approved by the Advisory Budget Commission, the budget will go before a State Legislature coniinittee on appropriations early next year with the Advisory Eudget Commission's comments and recommendations. UNC Graduate Wins Har per s Literary Prize Chapel Hill author Richard McKenna has been awarded the 1962 Harper's prize for his nov el, "The Sand Pebbles," it was announced in New York Monday. Mr. McKenna's novel, already selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club as a regular offer ing, and sceduled this fall for serialization in the Saturday Eve ning Post, received the $10,000 award for being the best first novel to be published by Har per's this year. Mr. McKenna, a forty-nine year old ex-navy chief, came to Chapel Hill in 1953, after retir ing from the Navy. While here, he attended the University, re ceiving an A.B. degree in Eng lish in 1956. He has lived in Chapel Hill since then, working as a writer and publishing short stories in the Saturday Evening Post, Ar gosy, Climax and several science fiction magazines. His novel, the first he has written, grew out of two novel ettes which he originally wrote to provide an agent with a sample of his work. It is set in China during the revolution of the I920s, aboard a U. S. gun boat similar to the one on which he served during his first Navy hitch in the early 1930's. The book had previously at tracted wide attention when its selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club for presentation sometime early next year was announced. The Harper's Award is one of the most coveted prizes offered beginning novelists, and carries one of the largest cash prizes of any literary award in the coun try. Mr. McKenna is the sec ond Chapel Hill resident to win the competition. MORE HEAD PLANETARIUM Mon-Fri. 3:30 p.m. Sat. 11:00, 3:00, 8:30 (On days of home football games the 3:00 p.m. showing will be postponed until 5:00 p.m.) Sun. 3:00, 4:00, 8:30 Legal Holidays 3:00 and 8:30 sign the merchants onto the plan agreed to sell a total of 2500 memberships. According to Bates the merchants were selected on the basis of a medium price range of goods. Under the Umstead Act, no , business operated by the Uni versity can be in competition with local merchants. According to Bates this sort of enterprise is therefore the only way that students can organize to "bring pressure on local merchants to reduce prices." He hopes that the Student Services Discount Club will eventually lead to a lowering of prices among the local merchants. Kemp Nye, one of the mer chants in the plan says, "This is the first step toward the even Complete UP1 Wire Servi. O aise nut L,ow If all the demands in it are met, UNC will get a total of near ly $4.7 million in two chunks of over $2 million each. Of the total UNC slice $2.2 million will go towards salary increases for fac ulty pay increases would amount to over a million dollars per year during the biennium. Nearly $86,000 of the budget goes towards launching new pro grams on the Chapel Hill cam pus. Another $2 million goes to improve existing UNC programs. Proposed salary raises for State College also amount to over a mil lion dollars per year during 1963 65, and the total State College al lotment goes over $4 million. The single point most ham mered at by Consolidated Univer sity President William Friday and the Chancellors from the dif ferent campuses was salaries. According to Friday the pay scale of the University is gradual ly improving, but it is being out stripped by other universities in the country. Three sample uni veisities University of Texas, University of Virginia acd Duke (Continued on Page 8) Consolidated U. Asks 37 Million The Consolidated University will ask the State Legislature for $37.4 million this year. $32.4 million of the money will be for construction on the three campuses in Greensboro, Chapel Hill and Raleigh. The remaining top priority $5 million will be for faculty pay raises. The $37.4 million budget was unanimously approved by the University Board of Trustees last spring. During the summer it was sent to the Advisory Budget Corn mission which began hearings in July on budjet requests from state supported institutions for the coming 1963-65 bi-ennium. If the $3 million for salary in creases goes through the Legis lature, both UNC and State Col lege in Raleigh will receive over a million dollars per year for 1963-64 and 1964-65 in pay increas es; the Woman's College in Greensboro will get $160,000 the first year and $200,000 the second year. Along with the request for $5 million in salary increases the University will also ask for $377, 000 to buy books for libraries oa the three Consolidated University campuses. (Continued on Page 3) tual establishment of a genuine student coop. There has been a lot of agitation for it on campus. The people on the block up here don't realize that without the students that this place would be another Carrboro. Carrboro itself wouldn't even exist!" Kemp said he had plans for building a new store with space for a coop where students could buy everything from "socks to beans" at a discount. Ten Stores At present there are ten stores which are members cf the club. When asked about the plans for future expansion of the plan, Bates said that they hope to add more stores. He said, "there are still areas, such (Continued on Page 4) nn Ui OMEN f 1
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