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1893 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1965 Volume 72, Number 100 eels Close Season Today Seek 2nd Book Win TTTT 'Forum9 MasQuiet Meeting" 25 Members Plan S' mmm i j- By LARRY TARLETON DTII Sports Editor Seeking revenge for an earlier loss. Duke's Blue Devils invade Woollen Gymnasium this afternoon for a 2 p.m. regionally-televised game. Today's game marks the final home appearance of All-America Billy Cunningham and seniors Ray Respess, a three-year starter and Bill Brown, a valuable reserve.

A win will assure the Tar Heels, 14-8 over-all and 9-4 in the conference, of at least a tie I Woollen Fades Out I As Home Of Varsity fix By RICHARD CUMMINS. DTII Feature Writer The final whistle of this afternoon's Duke game will signal an end to 26 years of varsity, basketball in Woollen Gym. The Tar Heels plan to vacate Woollen next year to move into Carmichael Auditorium, the huge arena Under construction next to the gym. r'i- collected $53 in change yesterday on the trip to Duke and will be pulling the "Well" back today in quest for more money for the Heart Fund drive. Photo by Jock Lauterer IT'S A LONG HAUL to Durham when you're palling a near-scale model of the Old Well.

But these men from Craige did it yesterday assisted by some cu(i coeds. Maverick House TEP Found Not Guilty to trounce NYU, 100-73 in Greensboro and since then have defeated five conference foes. But today, they will have their work cut out for them. Duke is still smarting from the G5-G2 defeat the Heels hung on thorn in Durham, and to make matters worse for Carolina, Maryland upset Vic Bubas crew Tuesday night. Despite the Tar Heels' winning streak, the Blue have been mario a big favorite for the TV battle.

Possessing a devastatin it break, the Blue Devils have the horses to break a game wide open if the opponents let up for a minute. Against Virginia, Duke scored 136 points in romping to victory. "It's going to take a supreme five-man effort to beat them," said sophomore forward Bobby Lewis, who enters the game with a 20.3 scoring average. "We. know what we have to do." To stop the Blue Devils of fense.

the Tar Heels must put the clamps on junior forward Jack Marin and sophomore guard Bob Verga. Marin has 20.3 average. In the first meeting between the two clubs, sophomore Tom Gauntlett held Verga. a 21.9 scorer, to only eight points. Center Hack Tison (6-10) and 6-1 forward Steve Vaccndak are also prolific scorers who have led the Blue Devils in scoring several times this season.

Va-cendak hit 32 against Notre Dame last Saturday. Denny Ferguson will be the other Duke starter. The leader in the Tar Heels late surge has been Cunningham. The Kangaroo Kid is playing the best basketball of his three-year and bits averaged 29.1 points per game during the winning streak to up his conference-leading mark-to 26.0. Joining the Kid in the Tar Heel lineup will be Lewis, Gauntlett, Respess and John Yokley.

Bray-Kneed Boys? Not Coach Bob's The architect's plans for Woollen Gym originally called for the wooden floor to be laid on concrete. Athletic Director Bob Fetzer objected, but was told all U. S. post office floors are laid that way. That didn't phase "Coach Bob" and he refused to pass the plans.

"You can have spastic, bray-kneed, hook-legged postmcnt if you want, but not our athletes." Woollen got the resilient sub-floor. Rush Charge for second place in the ACC. The Blue Devils are all alone in first place with an 11-2 conference mark and 18-3 in all games. Maryland and N. C.

arc in the of the battle for second with the Tar Heels. Carolina will take a string of six consecutive wins, longest in the ACC. into today's battle. After splitting the first sixteen games, the Tar Heels came alive Facilities Get Better And Better Physical facilities for indoor athletics here keep getting better. In recent years the gymnasium has bounced around from Bynum to the Tin Can tp Woollen.

Next year it will move into Carmichael Auditorium. When Bynum housed the gym a swimming pool was built in the basement. A suspended indoor track was put around the walls. But there were almost no spectator seats, and the best ones were on a parallel exercise ladder. Several students were injuredjn one game when the ladder collapsed under their weight.

Bynum Gym was eventually condemned and tne facilities were moved to the Tin to await construction of a modern gym. The construction didn't come for 14 years. Then coach Bob Fetzer said, "the Tin Can is the most permanent temporary building in the country." The floor, in the Tin Can is the original one. The banked indoor track has received only minor repairs over the years. Largely through the efforts of Charles T.

Woollen the funds were accumulated for the new gym. The money came from the state, WPA grant and other sources. Then in 1938 indoor athletics were moved to Woollen. Now basketball is ready for a new home and a bigger one. The history of UNC basketball csn pretty well be told in terms of Woollen.

During the years the gym housed the Heels, varsity teams played 681 games and won 461 of them. There were only' six losing seasons during this time. During their residence in Woollen the Heels came out with many stars, some fine coaches and 10 cage champonships. The Heels have claimed two Southern Conference titles and one Atlantic Coast Conference title. They also won the Dixie Classic three times, the NCAA regions! crown twice and the Camelia Bowl and the NCAA national championship once.

The finest season was in 1957 when they won the national championship by winning 32 straight games. Tint year the Heels boasted such stars as Lennie Rosenbluth, Joe Quigg, Pete Bren-nan and Tommy Kearns. They rlmost copped another national title in 1946. In that postwar year the Heels went to the national finals and dropped the championship game to Oklahoma Carolina beat Atlantic Christian 47-20 in the first game played in Woollen. That was in 1938.

For many years Woollen was the only "modern" gym in the conference, and served as a model for construction at other schools. But the "model" soon became too small for the increasing numbers of students and the "A to and to ticket distribution system came into effect; But the gym was still too small to house enough students when a Big Four game was played there. But Woollen has been durable. The floor that the varsity will play on this afternoon is the same one that was laid in 1933. And some great players have tred on the.

Woollen hardwood. of jthem, Billy; Cunningham, will be in action today. Cunningham set the UNC single game scoring record this year in Woollen. He hit for 48 points against Tulane during the early part of the season. He also holds records for most rebounds in a season (379), most rebounds in a game (23), most field goals in a game (21) and best rebound average for a season (16.1).

'Lennie Rosenbluth achieved a number of UNC records while his national championship team was housed in Woollen. He set marks for most points scored in a season (895), best season scoring average (27.9), most field goals in a season (305) and most free throws in a season (285). The UNC varsity hasn't always played in Woollen under the Tar Heel tag. For almost 20 years the team was known as the White Phantoms. The nickname was given to the squad by Atlanta sportswriter Morgan Blake.

At the start of the 1921 season the players groomed themselves with large amounts of hair oil before game. They boasted that with skillful teamwork and individual finesse they could play a game without making a sound or "getting a single hair out of place." The hair oil soon passed out of style, but the quick execution of plays performed in near-silence became a tradition. Blake observed the quiet, quick play of UNC and tagged them the White Phantoms. The name stuck until the '40's. But all that is in the past, the past of Woollen Gym.

As the Tar-Heel varsity vacates tonight they leave many memories. "I knew he was a TEP officer," he said, "but I did not know he was a UNC graduate until after I had talked to him." He said he was unaware that any strict silence violation might have been -involved until the Pi Lams made their charge last week. 'r'Evans," who appeared at the trial, said he only talked with Grosswald about existing fraternity scholarships. A $100 TEP scholarship was discussed he said, but it is open for competition from anyone, not only potential TEP pledges or brothers. "I did not rush Grosswald," Additional 31eetings By FRED THOMAS DTII Staff Writer The crowd was smaller, the fireworks were eliminated, no confederate flag was flying, no choruses of "Mickey Mouse" or "Dixie" could be heard, the "beat DOOK" cheerleaders stayed home.

Even the weatherman showed a change of face. In contrast to the crowd gathered for last week's protest rally at Y-Court. Davie Poplar yesterday afternoon" for the second meeting of the "UNC Free Speech Forrn-Cold winds resulted in the group's relocation In the GM Rendezvous Room. James Gardner, organizer of last week's protest rallv. took a back seat as Michael Walker of the Student Peace Union assum ed the chairmanship of the meet ing.

Walker asked Gardner if be would -like' to- comment on what the Free Speech Movement is. Gardner smiled and replied, "Not in any official way I'ye said Viet Nam Discussion Walker stated the main pur pose of the session as being to discuss the United States' role in the war in Viet Nam. How ever," the group was more concerned with deciding exactly what their organization's func tion is to be and how, it can be best carried out and with eras ing the unfavorable image which UNC students have" con cerning the program. The Daily Tar Heel was at tacked as being the major contributor to the establishment of this "untrue image." Gardner pointed out that the Use of the term "movement" ir relation to the program arouser a memory of the mass sit-ins a Berkeley. "This, is not the ide? of our -organization at all.

"We are not trvinff to win reedoni' of speech. are interested in encouraging UNC students to exercise this privilege." The group decided on the name Free Speech Forum. The need for a definite time and place for weekly forums "in the open air" was cited. We want to "establish a habit of open air sessions," one member said. Outdoor meetings were chos en over indoor discussions since "we want to attract passersby We want everyone to partici pate." another FSF member said.

Davie Poplar and the area be hind South Building were considered as possible meeting sites. More of the student group seemed to prefer the area be tween the administrative office building and the library. The possibility of using Ger- rard Hall in the event of bad was also considered Gardner expressed optimism concerning the approval of Uni versity officials for the use of either of these places. Past Announcements It was decided that the FSF will "post an announcement in the YM-YWCA building giving Information on upcoming for ums and soliciting signatures of persons who might be interested in joining the discussions for or against any issue. "We need respect on said one member.

"The Daily Tar Heel has eiven us a bar' representation. Now our prob lem is how to provide a differ- ent image." Walker lamented the skeleton crowd of participants. In onr of several attempts to channel the discussion away for the or ganization of FSF and back to ward the original topic, Viet Nam, he said. "There are many men students on this campu who are of draft age. I kno I worry about this and I'm sure they must too." He observed that if the forum is to have profitable discussions opinions must be rep resented.

"Maybe we could get some ROTC boys to come and stick up for their side." Slim Attendance his explanation for -the slim attendance, one mem-Jber "The average American student feels that he cannot effective." A moment of climax came when a GM official marched in and threatened to oust the 'group. "You can't meet in here There was no meeting scheduled for this I have had complaints from persons wanting to use this room." However, peace came when Spearman Promises Finance Bill Veto Evans said "because I had not been in contact with the TEPs here and did not know if they were really interested in him." Dave Robbins, TEP president, said the house was "completely unaware of Grosswald's meeting with Evans" until the charges brought, IFC Court chairman "Warren Price said after yesterday's trial that "strict interpretation of the silence rule is impossible. "It is the, court's decision that alumni must still be enrolled in the University to come under the strict silence rule. We feel that alumni not in the Univer-( Continued on Page 3) passed and forgotten," "he said. Blackwell told the body in Thursday's session that his bill called for reports which were necessary for the determination of future budget appropriations.

He cited the second article of his bill during his introductory remarks. It reads: "The requirements set forth in this act shall in no way be construed as a limitation on the prerogative of the president to expand funds from the Discretionary Fund as he sees University Party Floor Leader George Ingram called the bill "an affront to the president and how he uses his funds" during the session. "These reports are a waste of time and are never listened to," he said. "Representatives Gordon and Ingram have entirely missed the point of this legislation," Paul Dickson (SP) said. "The purpose of it is merely to give the Finance Committee a record of where the Discretionary Fund money goes." In a statement issued yesterday; Student Party Floor Leader Arthur Hays said: "All this uproar about this bill is beyond my comprehension.

"Is such a request so he asked. The Legislature also passed a bill introduced by Blackwell calling for an investigation of final examination schedules by Student Government's Academic Affairs Committee. The body heard a report by Carolina Athletic Association President i Kramer, in which he announced that the number Of date tickets available for each athletic event had been increased by 500 this year. A special resolution praising UNC basketball player Billy Cunningham for "bringing honor" to the University was passed by a vote of 20-10. The Legislature also passed bills providing for.

the reversion of unused student funds to the general surplus and establishing a. referendum: on two constitutional amendments. Dirty By ERNIE McCRARY DTII Managing Editor The Interfraternity Council Court yesterday found Tau Ep-silon Phi not guilty of breaking strict silence rushing regulations. JPi ULamlxla, Phl fraternity charged TEP with dirty2 "rush after Ralph Grosswald, now. a TEP pledge, reportedly told a Pi Lam brother that he had talked to a national TEP officer before formal rush started about a scholarship.

Barry IIyman; the Pi Lam, said at yesterday' trial that Grosswald told him he had talked to E. J. Evans, TEP international president, in Durham on Feb. 6. Evans, a UNC graduate and TEP alumnus, is a former mayor of Durham.

According to IFC regulations, during strict silence "no fraternity men, fraternity alumnus, bull pledge or other fraternity agent (including those men who have been dropped from a fraternity for failure to make a average) shall in any way entertain, engage in social conversation or correspond with directly or indirectly a prospective rus-hee, except to exchange a formal salutation." Feb. 6 was included in strict silence. Pi Lam president Ken Mann said in the formal charge that Grosswald had been promised money by Evans, in the form of reduced fraternity charges if he would pledge TEP. Grosswald, a freshman from Charlotte, said he was in Dur ham Feb. 6, visiting in the home of.

Eddie also a UNC freshman who is now a TEP pledge. During his stay he said he mentioned he. wanted. to join a fraternity this semester but thought he would not be able to afford it. He said he had been.

told, by the Student Aid Office that he could not get a University schol-ai-ship if he pledged a fratern- ity- Grosswald said the Hockfields arranged the visit he had with Evans, a family acquaintance. By JOHN GREENBACKER DTII Staff Writer Student Body President Bob Spearman said yesterday he intends to veto a bill passed in Student Legislature Thursday requiring him to submit reports to the SL Finance Committee on the use of the President's Discretionary Fund. The fund was established to give the President an opportunity to finance Student Government, projects which he feels-are necessary for the student body's welfare. The bill, introduced by Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Blr.ckwell (SP), was passed by a nearly party-line vote of 19-14. "All this bill does is set up another report," Spearman said.

"Student Government is with them already. "Use of these funds are always a matter of public record," he said. "Anyone who. wants to know how these funds have been used may check with the student body treasurer. "Laws such as this one are iiiciuuug UU1S.C.

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No tickets will be available at the door for the 8 p.m. concert. Her program will consist largely of African chants of several tribal dialects." Also included will be. Hebrew, Bra- zilinn, Jewish, Spanish, Indonesian snd English melodies. Featured vocalist in the- controversial film "Come Back Africa," Miss Makeba has toured with Harry Belafonte and with the Chad Mitchell Trio, as well as having appeared in leading night clubs, on several network television programs and at her own concerts at Carnegie Hall and at Philhar-' monic Hall.

Highlighting her career have been two appearances at the United Nations and singing for President Kennedy's 1962 birthday party in Madison Square Garden. Miss Makeba says she is "especially fond" of performing for college audiences. She has performed at many major Tar a. ft nwitwi.fai, Heel Cagers Say Good-Bye To Woollen Gym Tonight to play next year in Carmichael Auditorium (left) Colleges ana univerMues Walker explained that the use of the room had been authoriz- (Continued on Page 3).

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