4The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, October 18, 1984
UNC in the '20s smaller, but still fun
By RUTHIE PIPKIN
Staff Writer
As a slight breeze rustled fading
leaves on the oaks surrounding the Old
Well, the brown-eyed, brown-haired 17-year-old
looked around curiously. He
felt nervous.
After carrying his trunks and suit
cases up to room 23 of Old East, he
unpacked his fall suits, winter coats and
heavy jackets. Although only Sep
tember, Willis Benton Pipkin knew it'd
be a long time before he returned to
his native Reidsville, N.C. in 1922,
very few students owned cars.
lt was a right sharp transition from
a country high school to the University,"
recalled Pipkin, 79, from his Reidsville
home.
The University he stepped into
consisted mainly of the buildings
clustered around the Old Well, with the
newly-built Grimes dormitory and
Wilson Library, under construction,
marking the campus outer limits.
Living in Old East, Pipkin had to
travel across the unpaved and often
muddy Cameron Avenue to Bynum
gym whenever he wanted to take a
shower. Old East lacked complete
plumbing.
Frequent editorials ran in the Tar
Heel (not yet daily, only twice a week)
raging about the over-population of
mudpuddles and lack of sidewalks, said
Joseph Maryon "Spike" Saunders, a
1925 graduate editor of the Tar Heel
and, for 47 years, alumni secretary.
In 1923, Calvin Coolidge lived in the
White House and memories of World
War I, finished five years earlier, hung
in the air like smoke after a fire. "There
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was very little money, things were more
spartan," Pipkin said.
Almost every student wore hobnail
shoes, a surplus from the war - the
bottom of these leather shoes was
covered with nails. "You had to wear
out the nails before you wore out the
shoes," Pipkin said.
Students soon found the shoes more
than practical. "You'd get a running
start, then stop, and you'd skate down
the concrete floors of the new class
rooms," Pipkin said with a chuckle.
In 1923, 81 females attended the
University as juniors, seniors and
graduate students. No coeds lived on
campus.
With about 2,000 students at UNC
and 499 in Pipkin's freshman class, the
few females created somewhat of an
uproar. Frequent cries of, "Woman on
campus!" or "Angels on campus!"
resounded whenever one of the rowdier
male students spotted a coed.
Pipkin described UNC's atmosphere
as fairly studious, with students taking
three courses five days a week for 15
hours credit each 13-week quarter.
Most students dressed in coats and
ties for class, including the fashionable
bow ties, and real dare devils sported
knickers.
As always, college for some marked
a time for craziness. Flag and telephone
pole-sitting marathons became the rage,
along with goldfish eating. "They'd try
to break a record and get in Guinness,"
Pipkin said. "The fads usually lasted
about six months."
Pipkin also recalled a night when a
cow ended up on the third floor of Old
West. "They had more trouble getting
that cow back down than they counted
on."
Since prohibition made buying or
selling alcohol illegal, the students
survived without beer. Still, some made
contacts with bootleggers for supplies
of white lightning and near beer. "There
were always people who knew where
the bootleggers were and where to buy
it," Saunders said.
While prohibition may have slowed
down some parties, it speeded up
opportunities for transportation. Autos
used by captured bootleggers were
auctioned off every other Saturday in
Reidsville. "It was a pretty good source
of cars," Pipkin said.
Even so, traveling was an ordeal and
students remained on campus. "We got
to know each other," Pipkin said.
"You'd get to know people from all over
the state. We stayed on campus because
we had to travel by train, and that wasn't
too inviting."
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entertained each other with "bull, bull,
bull," Pipkin said. "We'd get in front
of the fireplace at the fraternity house
and talk for hours."
The three seasonal German dances
with their soft, sweet music offered
alternative entertainment, Saunders
said.
For. these special evenings, the boys
donned tuxedos or tails, and the girls,
ornate gowns. "We had dance cards and
breaking in would come in," Saunders
said. "The girl who had the most breaks,
she counted that just like the polls. To
break, I guess you were supposed to
have had an introduction. Then, there
would be the daring breakers ..."
Although most boys wore their hair
traditionally, cut short and parted in
the middle, girls began to flaunt the
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was a real pioneer," Saunders said.
In 1925, the cost of Saunders' senior
year, including room, board, tuiton and
books, totaled about $700. "The catalog
said you could get by on about $400
or $500," he said. "Of course, you could
buy more cans of beans for $1 then than
now."
If a student couldn't afford the $60
tuiton, he could sign up to teach school
in North Carolina for two years after
graduation and be exempted, Saunders
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With about 2,000 students and an
equal number of residents, most folks
in the tranquil town knew each other.
"I loved the serenity of it," Pipkin said.
"At full blast there were only about
4,500 people."
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printed.
Thursday
9:30 a.m. The University of Richmond
Law School will be signing up
interested persons in 21 1 Hanes
until 3 p.m.
3 p.m. Senator Wilma Woodard and
Rep. Ann Barnes will speak on
"Education, Comparable
Worth, and Women's Roles in
the Legislature" in CR-1 in the
Law School.
3:30 p.m. Career Planning and Placement
will have an Interviewing Work
shop in 209 Hanes.
5:30 p.m. Campus Y will have a Pot-Luck
Dinner in the Forest Theatre.
6 p.m. Career Planning and Placement
will sponsor a presentation by
Irving Trust Company in 210
Hanes.
7 p.m. Campus Crusade for Christ will
have a large group meeting in
the Union.
"Badlands," the Union Free
flick, will be shown also at 9:30
p.m.
Career Planning and Placement
will sponsor HBO and Co., the
Hospital Computer Co., in 209
Hanes.
8 p.m. IVCF will have an organiza
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after World War II, according to
Drinan. The Baruch Plan failed, with
the United States blaming the Soviets
for walking out.
"The Baruch Plan, our first arms
control attempt, failed miserably and
we have to take the blame, " he said.
The next step in the evolution of the
U.S. nuclear armament was the devel
opment of the strategic triad nuclear
submarines, land-based missiles and
bombers. The triad involves arming the
Army, Navy and Air Force with nuclear
weapons so that if one leg of the triad
is unable to attack, the other two legs
will be able to respond.
"I cannot see any justification for the
triad," Drinan said.
While Kennedy's Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty was the first successful nuclear
arms control agreement, he said Reagan .
was alone among post-Kennedy pres
idents in opposing an updated test-ban
treaty.
A public outcry against the placing
of anti-ballistic missiles in Andover,
Mass., led to a national boycotting of
ABM's in the early 70s and eventually
to Nixon's signing SALT I in 1972,
Drinan said.
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"Rear Window" Union movie,
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Saturday
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said Carter was the most committed to
nuclear arms control.
The SALT II treaty negotiated by
Carter was met with a storm of Con
gressional protest and was never
ratified.
Drinan blamed much of our nuclear
policy on Congress and urged Congress
to be more active in making U.S. foreign
policy.
"Congress has gone along with the
theory that we should arm more to bring
the Soviets to the table," he said,
echoing the rationale of the Reagan
administration's approach to dealing
with the Soviet Union.
Drinan endorsed Democratic presi
dential candidate Fritz Mondale and
said a Reagan victory would bring a
further escalation of the arms race.
"Hell be 'worse "than" he Was in his
four years because hell say that he has
a mandate to continue his policies."
On the N.C. Senate race, Drinan said
he favored Gov. Jim Hunt over Repub
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"I hope that you will elect Gov. Hunt
to be senator," he said. "The whole
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