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

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YOKLEY. who never before have faced responsibilities. Things have changed now. The stu- dents are clinging to what they now have, in an effort to make secure the things they want left standing when the gale now sweeping the campus has subsided. Chapel Hill is an ideal, a symbol for which we are fighting. The faith, the efforts, the conscientious work and accomplishments of those who believe in this ideal are directed towards making the Carolina of the future even better than the Carolina of the past. This struggle to keep the best of Carolina intact through these critical days is a fight more important than winning the Duke- Carolina game. It will be won by those who care; the various people united by their dream for the future of this University. This unity is an intangible thing. It is not the unity of small cliques, of fraternities, sororities, clubs, organizations. It is the unity of an entire student body, Navy, Army, Marine, and civilian students, now recognizing the serious- ness of today. When the tension is gone, when saddle shoes and open necked shirts are seen again in classrooms, the students will once again split into many different factions. But now, though their uniforms are different, they are alike. By some- thing down inside they are bound together. There are jobs to do; the time is now. Mark of the time.

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AT CHAPEL HILL (jyim ' 43 — ( i f ' 4-4 The foundations of student government shook under the strain, down- town eateries were crowded to the bursting point and beer was scarce — of whiskey there was none, but somehow fun and classes went on and the Carolina education — 40 per cent books, 60 per cent extra-curriculars — was not neglected. One thousand Navy V-12 students, 300 Marines, 200 N.R.O.T.C. stu- dents, 800 male civilians and an equal number of coeds, 1,800 Pre-Flighters, first 200 Pre-Meteorology students and later in September, 275 A.S.T.P. men in the Area and Language School, the forty-odd civilian pilot trainees who left in July, 75 Army med students and a smattering of potential Navy doctors — this was Chapel Hill in 1943-44. GOAT DAYs