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THE TWIG
April 19, 1946
Newspaper of Students, Meredith College
Member
Pissocioted CoUe6icite Press
EDITORIAL STAFF
Jewell Eatman Editor
Florine Olive Managing Editor
Elizabeth Davis Associate Editor
Mable Summers Associate Editor
Ruth Franklin Associate Editor
Marilynn Ferrell Feature Editor
Frances Wallace Photo Editor
Elizabeth Sawyer Columnist
Betsy Jean Holt Music Editor
Ruth Martin - Sports Editor
Reporters—Ruth Hall, Ann Hood Hughes,
Norma Cartwright, Hilda Austin, Barbara
Shellsmith, Stella Lassiter, Mary Alice
Turner,
Typists—Myra Teague, Jerry Miller, Olema
Olive, Jean Trentman, and Bette Linney.
BUSINESS STAFF
Martha Hamrick Business Manager
Mary Martin Advertising Manager
Alice Delbridge Circulation Manager
Frances Watkins..Ass’t Circulation Manager
Members of Business Staff—Margaret Wil
son, Emily Hine, and Doris Moore.
A Vote of Thunks . ..
As this is our last issue, I would like
to take this opportunity to thank each
member of the staff who has worked
and cooperated in running the paper.
A vote of thanks go also to Dr. and Mrs.
Cooper, for furnishing us pictures, the
club reporters, guest writers, members
of the faculty who have given advice
and encouragement, and the student
body as a whole who have helped make
The Twig a “student publication.”
The Editor.
Entered as second-class matter October 11, 1923,
at postofHce at Raleigh, N. C.. under Act of March
I. 1879. Published Semi-monthly during the months
of October, November, February, March, April and
May; monthly during the months of September,
December and January.
Subscription rate, $2.00 per year to students.
Alumnae membership associational fee 82.00, of
which $1.00 covers a year’s subscription.
Thought for the day . . .
“I will he with thee: 1 will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee.”—Josh. 1:15.
Ajs the new staff takes over...
With this issue, we, the members of
The Twig staff, relinquish the paper to
Martha Hamrick and the new staff who
will publish the last two issues. We
hand it over reluctantly feeling that we
have not reached completely our goal,
but with a feeling of assurance that the
new staff, too, will continue working
toward bringing The Twig into the place
it deserves, toward making it a real col
lege newspaper.
We have endeavored to convert The
Twig from an insipid, school-girlish
diary, serving only as a record of past
campus happenings into a news organ
of campus influence by printing the facts
of each situation and the opinions that
actually prevail. Some articles have
met with severe criticism. There are
those who have said, “you only destroy
by criticism and offer nothing better.”
We have worked on the idea which we
once quoted from Associated Collegiate
Press, “If there is a possibility of reform,
criticism is justified; The Twig cannot
be expected to offer a solution to every
problem it discusses.” Our Staff has
considered it a responsibility to discuss
and present facts about current situa
tions here, whether they concern the
fact that registration was mass confu
sion or that students have broken the
honor system. A staff must insist on
freedom to print the news even though
it may, at times, be unfavorable to spe
cific persons. The staff of a newspaper
accepts a great deal of responsibility,
but after having accepted that responsi
bility, it must not be dominated by fear
of criticism. The staff must adopt a
sound reasonable policy and stick by it
regardless.
We say to the new staff, do not be dis
couraged if there are those persons who
seem to remember out of six pages of
print nothing but an error, accuse you
of not representing the College if a petty
grudge is not published, or distort and
twist true statements you have printed.
The staff is under obligation to every
student that it is representing to make
The Twig a true student publication.
The Twig should be brought to have
the influence that any good college news
paper has, an influence for good and for
reform when it is needed.
It is this thought that we leave with
the new staff in turning The Twig over
to you. We hope that you will want to
help carry out the policies we have
begun.
What values did we gain?
The student body of Meredith is set
tling down again after a period of in
tense interest in student government
and in changing student regulations.
As the dust we stirred up blows away
and we can see the picture clearly, are
we able to find any real values gained
from all our labor?
Perhaps the most basic value that
came from the period was our adoption
of an honor code, built on three funda
mental principles: first, that a student
is honest at all times; second, that a
student is always a good citizen; and
third, that a student assumes responsi
bility for others. These three principles
are necessary not simply for student
government but for all effective demo
cratic government.
Consider the three principles care
fully. A student is honest at all times.
This does not mean that one simply re
frains from cheating and doesn’t steal.
It means that one doesn’t do the little
things, either, such as “forgetting” to
sign up for a chapel cut or putting down
a few extra pages of parallel and in
tending to read them later.
Second, a student is at all times a good
citizen. This entails being responsible
for one’s own conduct, for one’s obli
gations to the college community. It
means that a student knows and prac
tices “the law.” If a student should
break a regulation, she corrects the mis
take herself. Each student carries out
her obligations, privileges, and responsi
bilities as a member of the college com
munity.
Third, a student is responsible for
others in the community. A current
attitude is “I go my way and you go
yours—I’ll do what I’m supposed to but
the other fellow can take care of him
self.” Such a narrow, self-centered atti
tude contradicts Christianity, in which
our first concern is supposed to be for
the other fellow. When each student
helps others to live by the honor code,
then only will the code become effec
tive.
Ten years from now it won’t matter
a particle to us whether during our col
lege days we came in at ten-thirty or
eleven. But ten years from now it will
matter whether we learned here to be
responsible citizens. If every student
would live fully by the honor code, we
could throw away every rule in the
handbook and, with a few general
agreements to avoid confusion, live as
mature, intelligent persons.
There is hardly a more fascinating
process than the daily building of a
newspaper. And those who intimate that
newspapers are antiquated in a time
when news is spread, in only a few sec
onds, over such devices as the radio,
evidently have not studied the problem
too well.
A newspaper renders thousands of
services every day that a radio could
never be equipped to do. Just notice a
few of its services and render your own
verdict.
If there were no newspaper, what
would people find to put over their
heads when an unexpected shower
comes upon them? What would the
neighborhood kids wrap up their limp
wares at the corner rummage sales with,
if newspapers were not handy, just the
right length and width?
And wouldn’t the cook have difficulty
in concealing the three meals for her
family of eight that she conscientiously
describes as “left-overs”?
Perhaps newspapers have even been
responsible for forestalling many di
vorces by keeping the kitchen floor pro
tected from man’s indelicate footprints
on its newly scrubbed surface. The
newspaper has also proved a shield,
Dear Editor:
While the student body is in a gen
eral state of reorganization, perhaps this
is the time to seek one more change.
In any school as large as Meredith, there
are necessarily many things that need
improvement. Still, the telephone situ
ation here is in need of a change and a
quick one. On the main switchboard
there are four outside lines, and one of
these is reserved wholly for the presi
dent. We do not begrudge this plan,
for we recognize its importance. But
how can three lines serve a faculty and
student body that totals about 600?
Some telephone calls are trivial and
we admit it, but others are important.
Often an attempt to reach Meredith’s
switchboard means thirty minutes or an
hour of dialing, and just as futile are
trials to reach anyone in town. Some
people have neither the time nor the
incentive to be so persistent.
Perhaps the state of affairs can not
be remedied immediately because of re
strictions on telephone material. Could
an investigation be made? Could we
obtain the support of the administration
and the faculty? We do not want to
seem selfish. We would like to get our
calls from home, from boys, and from
any other people that need to contact
us, but we want the faculty to get theirs,
too.
This is not a radical change, an im
practical change. It is merely another
change that would make life more liv
able at Meredith. Martha Hamrick.
perhaps not so trusty as King Arthur’s
Knights’; but defensive nevertheless,
for behind it the father can shrink from
his offspring when they pursue him for
picture show money, or his wife wants
to scold him as early as breakfast for
forgetting to shave.
Surely the neighbor’s dog would feel
slighted if he did not receive his daily
game of dodge with a rolled-up news
paper swung by the man next door in
the continuous attempt to keep him off
the grass. Or how could the paper sal
vage captains at Meredith College main
tain their rank without paper to col
lect? And, without newspapers, we
would have nothing to criticize the
weather for failing to follow. Oh, yes,
and a newspaper can also be used to
read.
These are a few of the thousands of
uses of a newspaper, but, happily, since
this is not a term paper and I am not
required to “exhaust the subject,” I’ll
stop here. The staff hopes you have
found The Twig of some practical use
to you in at least a few of these ways.
Really it has been lots of fun writing
for you and thanks for your help in mak
ing The Twig a desired and needed
branch of our college.
Temporary Regulations
Beginning April 15 students will not
be required to wear socks or hose on
the campus, except for Wednesday and
Saturday night dinners and on Sun
day, when hose are required. They will
be allowed to go as far as the Varsity
Theater before 6:00 p.m. without socks
or hose. Students are expected to wear
hose, when dating in the parlors.
Effective April 15, 1946.
March 29, 1946.
The following changes have been
made in freshmen and sophomore class
privileges; these changes have been
passed by the student body, the Student
Government Council, and the Faculty
Committee on Student Government and
are now in effect until the end of the
school term for 1945-46.
FRESHMEN
1. Freshmen who are on the Eligi
bility List may take three evening
privileges per week.
2. Freshmen may go out unchaper
oned in groups of two until 7:30
p.m. if they are returning to the
college at 7:30 p.m.
3. Freshmen may ride unchaperoned
in groups of two to and from a
destination until 7:30 p.m. if they
are returning to the college at
7:30 p.m.
SOPHOMORES
1. Sophomores may go out unchaper
oned in groups of two until 10:30
p.m.
2. Sophomores may ride unchaper
oned in groups of two to and from
a destination until 10:30 p.m.
3. Sophomores may go out unchaper
oned until 7:30 p.m. if they are
returning to the college at 7:30
p.m.
4. Sophomores may ride unchaper
oned to and from a destination
until 7 :30 p.m. if they are return
ing to the college at 7:30 p.m.
Nancy Harris, President,
Student Government Association.
By F. A. Lee.
“EXCHANGING”
Irate Wife: I want an explanation,
and I want the truth.
Hubby: Well, make up your mind.
You can’t have both. Tar Heel.
The Older generation thought noth
ing of getting up at 5 o’clock in the morn
ing—and the younger generation doesn’t
think much of it either.
Income taxes could be a lot worse.
Suppose we had to pay on what we
think we are worth. Hilltop.
Dr. Hirsch: “If the President of the
United States died, who would get the
job?”
Student: “A Democratic undertaker.”
Soldier: “Say, do you take anything
off for cash?”
Salesgirl: “This is a department
store—not a burlesque.”
Here’s to her eyes and her nose;
Here’s to her hair and her toes.
And just to get the best of her
Here’s to all the rest of her.
Clipped.
Bill: I really am in a fix in English.
Jim: What’s the trouble?
Bill: Miss Martin says I must write
legibly, but if I do that she will find out
that I can’t spell.
Sailor’s voice from rear seat of taxi:
“I say, driver, what’s the idea of stop-
^ . o 7 7 ir
ping?
Driver: “I thought I heard someone
tell me to.”
Feminine voice: “Drive on, I wasn’t
talking to you.”
First Mosquito: “Hooray, here comes
a new arrival.”
Second Mosquito: “Good! Let’s stick
him for the drinks.” Tar Heel.
HONOR CODE
All life at Meredith is based upon the
honor code, which is drawn up and de
fined by the students of the college.
The honor code means that:
Each student is expected to he honest
and trurthful at all times.
Each student is personally respon
sible for her own conduct, for her abid
ing by the college regulations. If a stu
dent breaks a regulation, she is expected
to correct her offense by reporting her
self to the proper authorities—in an
academic matter, to the instructor con
cerned; in an administrative matter, to
the officer of administration concerned;
and in a student government matter, to
a member of the Student Council.
A student is responsible for seeing
that the honor code is carried out at all
times. If she is aware of a violation of
the code by another student, it is her
duty to see that the offender corrects
the violation.
The honor code is violated when a
student is dishonest or untruthful, when
a student fails to report herself for a
rule infraction, or when a student fails
to correct a violation of the code bv an
other student. ^
Three basic principles underlie the
honor code—at all times, a student
shows absolute integrity, fulfills her
community obligations, and assumes re
sponsibility for her fellow citizens in the
community. The students of Meredith
have adopted and agreed to live bv this
honor code because they belie hi
the basis of successful and efi
government.