®he JJeto Jbampsfnre VOLUME NO. 45 ISSUE 15 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. DURHAM, N. H. — May 19, 1955 PRICE — SEVEN CENTS DISCRIMINATION ISSUE DUCKED An Editorial I F C Tables Resolutions Again; On The Fence In failing to endorse the resolution favoring the abolition of discriminatory clauses in fraternities, IFC has sacrificed decision Senate Settles A S O Dispute to caution. The issues at stake are basic; we must stand firmly for or against the equality of man and our own right to choose who will Mortar Board At the last meeting of IFC a dis­ be our brothers. Speakers Are Set cussion on discrimination was held. The Delaying tactics, such as the tabling of the resolution for an­ Ten juniors were named to Mortar Board, the senior women’s honorary Council decided to table the following other year, can earn only the scorn of sound-minded people. We, resolution: who are here to learn to think clearly, and judge wisely, must not society last week. The girls have been For Commencement “ That the fraternities at the Universi­ be caught in the habits of indecision. We must be careful not to selected on their records of leadership, scholarship, and service. Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, Director ty of New Hampshire are opposed to be carried away by impetuous emotions, nor to act rashly without discrimination clauses. These fraternities The new members include; Amy of the Office of Defense Mobilization, thought; will be Commencement speaker* on who are forced by national clauses to Yet let us not abandon principal to feeble fence-straddling; Handy, Maureen Manning, Betty Ann June 5 when the University of New practice discrimination thereby pledge it is no posture for a man. However powerful the National Associ­ Raders, Jean Millane, Jane Andrews, Hampshire awards undergraduate de­ themselves to work at their national con­ ations may be, we should not sell our conscience and moral integrity Beverly Jones, Nancy Harper, Helen grees to approximately 475 seniors and vention for the removal of t hese Carboneau, Marge Hancock, and Polly advanced degrees to about 110 Gradu­ clauses.” for what benefits we may glean from such a connection. ate School students. Davis. Sell is not too powerful a word for this case: Discrimination At the Baccalaureate service proceed­ In its first regular meeting, the new­ clauses force individuals to reject others on the basis of their skin Led by Kathy Walker of Mortar ing graduation exercises on June 5 the ly-elected Student Senate amended its color or their religion, and pays them to do it by the compelling Board, Jim Shira of Senior Skulls, and speaker will be Dr. Liston Pope, Dean Constitution in order to settle the smoldering ASO dispute which two Bert W olf of Blue Key the three Na­ of the Yale Divinity School. lever of social pressure and the financial influence of the National. previous Senates had been unable to Let us stir ourselves out of the slough of indecision and stand tional Honorary Societies have done Dr. Flemming, on leave of absense resolve. much in helping to better relationships as President of Ohio Wesleyan Univer­ clearly and strongly for the principles of justice. Let us be governed The new amendments refer all dis­ on campus. sity, has held his Cabinet post since by no other force and recognize no other reason but that of Reason 1953. He is also a member of the Nat­ putes over constitutional ouestions, and our conscience. Thus may we look squarely at the issue and Mortar Board follows the ideals of ional Security Council. Previously he such as the A S O case, to the Univer­ see it in its starkest outlines. We must not forget in our caution scholarship, leadership, and service. Their was one of 12 commissioners on the sity Senate, the faculty governing body, Commission on Organization of the for arbitration. Also under the new and rationality that even today it is “practical” to defend an Ideal. first work is with the Big-Little Sisters. They start in the summer by sending out Executive Branch of the Government ruling, the Senate advisors, Deans Sackett, Med^esy, and Snyder, may re­ letters to the Big Sisters informing hem ''Hoover Commission), and was instru­ mental in, preparing the Commission’s fer any Senate action which they con­ of their Little Sisters, and write letters report on Civil Service. sider unwise, to the faculty body for "I Got A Secret/’ Answers Louis, of welcome to the incoming freshmen. During World War II he served as approval. Previously the advisors had During Orientation Week and Hi-U Day Chief, Labor Supply, Labor Division, a complete veto over any Senate action. they run up information booths on cam­ Retiring Police Chief of Durham Office of Production Management, was The Senate also passed approval on pus. a member of the Manpower Survey the Student Activity Tax for 1955-56. Board of the Navy Department and by Bob Thibault The new tax remains at the same total chairman of the management-labor amount of $4.55, but individual allot­ On a bright, winter afternoon sev­ The Place Where Louie Dwells policy commission of the War Man­ ments to various organizations have power Commission. eral years ago a snowball fight broke been cut in order to allocate an addit­ Recently he has been active as ional $.90 per student. Mike and Dial, out in the Quadrangle between Jtngel- chairman of the advisory commission the student radio station, plans to save hardt, Gibbs, and Hunter Halls. It on personal management of the Atomic money for two years in order to pur­ started as a small affair, with two or Energy Commission. In 1953 he was chase first class equipment for its new three students throwing a few snow­ a member of the President’s Advisory studios in the Memorial Union Build­ balls at a couple o f their friends. But Commission on Government Organi­ ing. soon, “ reinforcements” came up, and zation. The organizations which have agreed within five minutes nearly everybody Dean Pope, author and contributor to a cut in their yearly allotment in­ in the three dorms was throwing, to journals, is Gilbert L. Stark Pro­ clude The New Hampshire, The Gran­ pushing, shouting, and having the time fessor of Social Ethics at Yale Univer­ ite, Student Government and Student of his life. sity in addition to his position as Dean Union. First semester finals had just been of the Divinity School. Ordained as a completed; this was a fine way to ex­ Congregational minister in 1935, he has press that relief that comes with the held ministerial posts in several end of finals. It was fine, except that churches, and has taught at Chicago Prof. Call Writes windows get broken and people get Theological Seminary, Presbyterian hurt in a snowball fight. Institute for Industrial Relations, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Macalester New English Text Silent Stop College as well as Yale. Professor Reginal Call of the Eng­ The fighting was at its height when lish department has recently completed an elderly man in a blue uniform with three other authors, a text book walked out on the Quadrangle and titled “New Highways In College raised his arm in a signal to stop. He Congratulations Composition.” This text is really three did not appear to be excited; he never texts in one, and is unsurpassed for lost his temper nor did he ever raise teaching convenience. This second edit­ his voice. And yet, in less than half a Here are the final results of this year’s Freshman Student Memorial ion, which provides a complete Fresh­ minute, the fighting had stopped. man English course in one compact The man in the blue uniform, Chief Union Campaign. The Freshman goal for the campaign was $18,000, but we and highly teachable volume, has al­ of Police Louis P. Bourgoin, spoke a ready sold over 100,000 copies. The few words to the ringleaders. These are happy to inform you that the class of 1958 went way over the top for a Handbook supports a standard of nat­ individuals got the crowd to disperse. ural, semi-formal English. A situation that might have developed total pledge of $21,714. into a serious problem was checked in Also collected in the campaign were The other authors of this new edition time; the incident was closed. $389 from transfer students and $89 are Oscar Cargill, Professor of Eng­ W hen he was asked this week how from the Fund Fare. This makes a lish and Chairman of the department he has been able to handle problems grand total of $22,192 for the 1954- of English, Washington Square College like that snowball riot so effectively, 55 campaign. of Arts and Science, New York Uni­ Louis smiled, and, with characteristic Congratulations on such a swell versity; Homer A. Watt; and William modestry, replied: “ I got a secret.” L O U IE H OLD S FO R T at his favorite stomping grounds where he has jo b ! Charvat, head of the division of Amer­ been a campus fixture for the past 37 years. Students have been under his pro­ ican literature, Ohio State University. Betty Ann Raders & Pete Hood Genial Policy tective wing for so long it seems impossible to think of Durham without him. Co-chairmen 1954-55 Freshmen The University has regretfully accepted his resignation as Chief of the campus. Louis’s “secret” is really not a se­ With his retirement a tradition comes to a close and generations of students Memorial Union Campaign cret at all. The University of New will always remember Louie the campus cop.