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EDrrORlALS! Blackout Conduct Without Fanfare Hj£ Bukgjk Ctoixic te Our Duty KEEP 'KM FLYING, Thirty-Eighth Year-No. 52 Duke University, Durham, N. C. Tuesday, April 28, 1942 Retiring Leaders Herring Promises Union Investigation WDNC Will Air Ten Nights' Statement Preview From Page Tonight Follows Riot From the stage of Page aud... t 8:30 tonight will be broadcast over WDNC a radio Of "Ten Nights in - Barroom," burlesque melodrama wmewhichn thti e Duko Playe Over Meals will present Thursday and Saturday nights mission lo the preview is free and the doo Student revolt against Un ion meals took a turn toward more peaceful methods today with Dean H. J. Herring's Faculty Council promise that he ''would per sonally investigate the matter To Give Students and do everything possible to bring about a satisfactory solu Wartime Advice the Players' last production ar tion to the problem." Long the object of student Nineteen specialists on tl than usual due to the new redu complaints, the Union food prob ed admission price of forty-foi lem reached a crisis yesterday cents. Tickets will be on sa: noon with a mass demonstration dents an opportunity to consu from 2 until 5 every afternoc in the dining halls, brought on qualified experts in planning co and from 7 to 9 every evening i by what many students believed careers to correlate wil to be a particularly "slim meal," rospiisssibilities to the ni The play directed by A. ' The revolt, which began in C West, is a story of the evils i dining ball ten minutes after the drink. Played in the old days i doors were opened, quickly a melodrama, it is being bu: spread to the other two halls as lesqued by the Players so that a unison chant protesting against liason between the students and the meal was takai up by the faculty. This Bill Brooks, leading figure in yesterday's re various tables. Throwing of will serve as a clearing house to ine ol students gathered at the clock tower wall. Crowd li platsss, glassy, sand trays as well' students deteri administration promise to take action immediately. is continued shouting ensued, de .cully r solv spite efforts of Union officials to each individual problem. estore order. Amount of damage The faculty council will WSAB Sponsors May Dance las not yet been determined. available to interested students Engineers Cessation uf the violence came information concerning opportu ibout with a short speech by Bob nities open to them in the armed In Gymnasium Friday Night Jarnelt, last fall's football cap- Graduate .ain, who promised the rioters ence to those which exist for Next dance on the WSAB spring social calendar will be the hat a student committee would carrying on preliminary military May Day dance, Friday evening from 9 to 1 o'clock, in ths; ie formed immediately to take Red Friars To Conduct or naval training while remain This Week women's gymnasium. he problem before the adminis- ing in college. Members of the Sponsored by the combined men's and women's Pan-Hel r a tion. Following Barnett's talk, council also will offer personal lenic councils, the danee will replace the traditional East it udents filed quietly out of the Tapping Rites Thursday advice lo students in planning guard of Duke's speed-up grad- sMay Day Union. celerated program of study. lates, flnish their accelerated Highlight of the evening will be In a meeting of student lead- The traditional hooded figure of Red Friars, honorary se Opportunities in industry a ourse at Duke today and to- Zetas Beat KA's the presentation of May Queen nior leaden-. .:. ' sip seven rising seniors to mem norrow as the first Duke men for c-ollege Dottie Stivers and her court dur is laid beiore Dean Herring, bership at a special called General Assembly, Thursday noon, o graduate since the ivar began. In Annual Greek io guaranteed that an imme in what is annually one of the most impressive ceremonies of i. ihss With a third of their number ing intermission. The presenta council states, and In others diate investigation of the prob- the year. * Iready commission^ as ensigns tion will probably be in the form e not eligible for military sesrv- would be made and a solu- Customarily performed before *-» i • -r* n the United States Naval Re- of a figure similar to that used i. The council will endeavor tc Singing Contest worked out. Another com- icity audience, the lapping tietl f>V -TCrOXy erve, this group is today fully at the Coed Balls, Dot Royal, mpile information on these op- ee meeting was held this al- svill bs employed, either as Zeta Tau Alpha won the si irtunities and to offer advice in women's Pan-Hellenic president, oon. At press time, no defi- former years in Page auditoriui the armed services, or vcr loving cup in a contest ese fields. against the winners of the pre word had been released as to All juniors will sit in the fro —That's '45 irtime industries, future action. Members of tbe student liason liminary inter-fraternity sing, Music for the occasion will be center section, with other st The Reds senior engineers will re- nass meeting o* all students, . dents taking the outside sectior immittee include Ray Masher, degrees of Bachelor c Kappa Alpha, when the two furnished by Sam Fletcher' Freshman class. competed for the final award at Duke Ambassadors. Decorations called by a self-appointed group Retiring members of Red Fi Howard Hardesty, Ran Few, and Electrical, Mechai No—not the Communists or John Baldwin. Band Group Names e campus sing Sunday night. •ill be limited to the bandstand representing the revolters, was ars and offices held during tl the Cincinnati baseball team but I Civl Acclaimed winner for the sec- and trick lighting eSects in pur- held at'the clock-tower wall at past year are Ales* McMahon, the peroxide plague which has Faculty members, their fields id successive year, Zeta Tau :15 yesteraay afternoon. The of specialistalion, and their con Bullock President •n May 29, when grad- 'f the WSAB policy oi secretary-treasurer of the SGA; transformed half the class Into for other uni Alpha set a new record b; limited dance expenditures, Clar iceting consisted of short talks Paul Barringer, president of the • id -heads. sultation hours are: T. M. Ay- first sorority ever t by Bill Brooks, swimming cap- physical education, 11-12 versity seniors will be held. ence Kefauver, men's Pan-Hel Freshman Advisory council: Luis Looking like walking neon fraternity in the hi lenic president, stated. Theme ol i Harry Treleaven, editor of ny day; L. G. Bonner, phy- of the Cassels, editor of the Chronicle; lights, these brunettes - gone- of the inter-fraternity sing the dance will be based around a the CHBOMICLE; and Kemp Jones, 1:30-12:30 M. W. F.; C. G. Harvey Bullock, Binghar. Divinity School addressed a spe- Bill Smith, Chronicle business wrong may be seen any day The first number fea springtime motif. n's SGA president. At this Bookhout, biology, 10^20-12:30 N. Y., will head Kappa Kappa the early grad manager; Bob Sanderson, vice- lighting up the campus with the Sarah Dameron, singing e it was pointed out that ad- president of senior class and sec sun's reflection on their bloody T, Th., and 11:20-12:20 Psi, national honorary band fra uates at Sunday morning's serv- Tickets for the dance will be in Duke Chapel, which the Swisetheart," which listralion representatives had retary of the Men's Pan-Hellenic A. S. Brower, general, ternity, for the coming year fDi ssed by the director, Mary sold according to the quota sys day; A. T, Clay, Navy, entire engineering senior class tem for fraternities and may be imised immediate action, and council; Bob Barnett, captain of Accomplished with a bottle of ng elections held late Fri- ; Swindell. "My Zeta day; Gifford Davis, lan attended in a body. tiiree-day "armistice" was lhe football team; and Lawrence peroxide, some ammonia, and Dream Girl" was the second ren- guages and Marine Corps, 9-10 Blanchard, president of the SGA. lemon juice all copiously ap Bullock success Chet Byrn, The engineering class of 1942 leth Shaw, soloist, Hei Kefau (Continued on poge 4) Mayfleld, Ky., to the post, and began speed-up work immedi- said. Price of the dance ballot box has been placed Membership in Red Friars is plied at regular intervals, the and Sarah Dameron singing the ie dope shop by the Student "• serve until this time next itely following the Japanese standard WSAB fee of $1.25 per the highest honor which can be change takes less than a day. obligato. Government council for the pur- After the peroxide has been ap declaration ofwar on Discember ticket, with a twenty-five cent bestowed on an undergraduate Kappa Alpha was directs; • . • " w vice-president of the or onsisting of hour-long class- war savings stamp being refund- student, and plied, the sun does all the rest. Bud Glisson, The chorous sang laints concerning the Union, Hoof 'n' Horn Adds ation is Clarence Kefau- special laboratories, and a The funny part about the 'My Kappa Alpha Rose," " udents have been urged to Washington, D. C. Collins shortened examination period, uring a quartet composed of This dance replaces the tradi Byrn, Mayfleld, Ky., is the new which finishes tomorrow. heads, when they started the ex Finishing Touches •hackelford, "Blaekie" onal May Day ceremonies hels tary; Dick Miller, Great in this box in order that periment, did noi intend to be Among the nation's leading Bob Foreman, and - previous years on East Duki Neck, N.