University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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DotL MEN IN SERVICE — ' VEN before the treacherous storm broke over Pearl Harbor a year and a half ago, Carolina men began to drift away from our campus in a steadily in- creasing stream to fight for the global supremacy of what they enjoyed in Chapel Hill — Lux et Libertas, Light and Liberty. Thousands of Carolina students and alumni are now training in a hundred camps and fighting on a dozen battle fronts. In the hope that they may return to enjoy the ideals which they are fighting to preserve, the 1943 Yackety Yack is dedicated to Carolina ' s Men at War — and to Victory.

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and nights to last us for the long fight we had ahead. The race was a close one and we had to work and play harder and faster. And so the tempo of life at Carolina hit a new high. Many memories of our last year will later come back to us — the endless gloomy Mon- day mornings after a week-end that was too big, the long fall when we waited for a vic- tory over Duke, the hours of phys- ical education and the obstacle course, the futility of trying to study in the Library at night, the booths at Marley ' s and Harry ' s, Professor Smith ' s 1:30 lab, the hours we spent in registration lines, conferences with our deans, the urgent letters from the draft board back home, the last fare- wells as we dragged our suitcase toward the bus station. Hill But no matter how or when we left, some day each of us would find the way back to Chapel Hill.

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CLHoobo took up too much of our time, we thought. What with cut probations, we all had to attend most of the time, but some of us never saw the inside of the Library — and wished that we had. RCTIVITIES, playground for the BMOCs, brought those with lots of ambition to Graham Memorial, where socializing, coke-drinking and rivalries seemed to take up more time than work. n b M L M D t n I N (j Pearl Harbor, we look back on a year when our boys T; departed en masse for the draft boards and enlistment offices, and Carolina be- 1 gan to look like Fort Bragg in miniature. QUTSTHNDINCj in their studies, the boys who make the honorary societies deserve more credit for their work than the rest of us, but surprisingly enough, you ' ll notice that few of them are intellectual fanatics. LIVING the Carolina way, with lots of laughs and fun, football games, dance week-ends, bull sessions, politics, beer and cokes, uniforms, Pre-Flight cadets, even a bit of studying now and then. INTERFRRTERNRL Hfe brought many of us into a little circle of snobbishness, others into close friendships which will last long after we leave Chapel Hill for a job or the Big Fight. NICjH I Lift sutfered little from the war, as Carolina men had a last fling with their buddies, coeds, and imports ; a far cry from the U. S. O. dances and officers ' clubs of the next few years. f-| I HLl I k- 0 emphasized as preliminary war training, built muscles and coordination, put us in shape for the days when speed and strength will mean the difference between life and death.