THE TWIG
Rag of the Inmates of Meredith College
APRIL 1, 1950
where
angels fear
to tread.^*
Tru^ees Announce Meredith To Become Co-ed
Academic Changes
Revealed Tonight
By LUCILLE BALL
According to a press release
by the Board of Trustees, a radi
cal change in the required cur
riculum at Meredith will be
fully revealed at the seventh
annual Folk Dance Concert to
be held in the New Auditorium
tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
The change, a step toward the
advancing educational move
ment in the South, is to involve
the omission of the entire math
ematics department and the re
quired sophomore English
courses. In their place, courses
which will be previewed by the
folk dancers are to be required
by all students graduating from
Meredith after 1951.
The dance of the Swiss Moun
taineers to be presented tomor
row night is designed to give
students an idea of the class in
mountain climbing to be taught
during the summer session in
western North Carolina by Dr.
Ernest F. Canaday as a substi
tute for the present freshman
mathematics course.
Other courses included in the
new curriculum will be taught
by Dr. John A. Yarbrough of
the biology department and
Dr. Louise Lanham of the Eng
lish department. Dr. Yar
brough’s course on the methods
of training growing prairie
grass will be introduced tomor
row night by the Cowboy
Square Dance. The Oxford Min
uet will preview Dr. Lanham’s
course on minuet etiquette.
These changes have been
made in order to meet the re
quirements set by the Southern
Association of Awkward Col
leges (better known as the
SaAC), and the new courses
are designed to create a general
cultural interest in a variety of
subjects.
It has been announced that
there will be a sale in Phi Hall
of the 700 pieces of costume
used in the concert after the
performance tomorrow night. It
IS thought that students plan
ning to take courses in connec
tion with the folk dances will
appreciate an opportunity to
purchase the necessary clothing
lor their new studies.
MEN WILL APPEAR
ON CAMPUS SOON
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
that**Meredith'ino becomT students in their customary school dress, dancing in glee at the news
Boord of Trustees StiH Considering
Petition Offered By Worried Students
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COLLEGE TO OPEN
BIG SUMMER CAMP
By LOUELLA PARSONS
Have you been worried about
a summer job? Or, more likely,
how to make money without
giving up any part of a lazy va
cation? Well, rest easy, friends
—your worries are over. The
administration, as per usual, has
had our problems in mind and
has come up with the brilliant
solution expected from such a
distinguished group.
Beginning on June 1, a sum
mer camp for all Meredith stu
dents will be opened; the camp,
according to an announcement
from its director. Dr. Preston,
will be located approximately
one block south of Pack Square
in Asheville, in the heart of the
beautiful mountains of Western
North Carolina.
Every student of the college is
invited to be a counselor at the
camp, with a beginning salary of
five hundred dollars for eight
weeks. Appropriate raises will
A petition by the entire stu
dent body to the Board of Trus
tees is now being considered by
that body, which in an all-night
session last night failed to reach
a decision, liie petition asked
that adequate lighting facilities
be placed on the porches be
tween Johnson Hall and Fair-
cloth and Vann, on either side;
and also that the parking areas
be adequately lighted at night.
That all the students recog
nized the great need for sucn
lighting is shown by the unani
mous signing of the paper; stu
dents felt that too many injuri
ous accidents have occurred
lately, such as stumbling over
cars, benches, and even people
on and near the porches. Spot
lights were suggested as a rem
edy for this danger to life and
iimb.
It is hoped that the Board will
finally come to see the need
pointed out to them by this
action, for many faculty mem-
oers, including even the Dean
of Women, have come to realize
the dangers when shown to them
by worried girls. Several of
those girls have gone so far as
to volunteer to take up a col
lection on their particular halls
be given deserving ones, said
the director, explaining that
limited funds dictated the neces
sity of starting all on such a
meagre salary.
Since there will be no regular
campers, Meredith counselors
in this camp will have ample
time off for mountain climbing
and visiting nearby camps. Only
five weekends will be allowed,
but planned recreation with
neighboring boys’ camps is
being lined up by the director
and his assistant. Miss Pratt.
Outdoor cooking will also be
a feature of the Meredith sum-
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to pay for such lighting as is
needed.
This helpful and concerned at
titude will go far to influence
the Board’s decision; but un
fortunately when several of the
rnembers themselves were in
vited to reconnoitre on any
chosen Saturday night to see
for themselves the difficulties
involved in getting through
the unlighted areas, the Boarc
reported later that no danger
was seen by them, and that at
no tirne was any difficulty or ob
struction met in the way. How
ever, a further invitation has
been extended by students who
have insisted that the danger to
their health was so great that
any expense for this purpose is
not too much.
The petition sent in cited sev
eral accidents which had taken
place in the “No Man’s Land,”
as the area has become known,
and the dents made in several
cars by both persons and other
vehicles were also listed in the
request. Clearly this is a crying
need for money to be spent in
a worthy cause.
Band Leaders Are
Signed To Appear
STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!
All of you have heard the
music in the dining hall at
evening meals by now, I’m
sure, and join me in express
ing our thanks to Mr. Martin
and others who made it possi
ble. But the best is yet to
come: Miss Lou, with the ap
proval of Miss Grant, has
asked the paper to announce
that every Saturday night we
may push the tables back and
enjoy the music with our
dates! Fun? Of course! And
another coke machine and
candy bars with compliments
of the Bee Hive will make
every Saturday evening at
Meredith a happy one. Date
less? Come anyway! Remem
ber: food and fun free for
everyone — beginning next
Saturday night, right after
supper. See you there!
By CLARE BOOTH LUCE
“If I’d known you were com
ing I’d have baked a cake!”
These were the excited, eager,
and, needless to add, entirely
original words of Dr. Julia Har
ris, head of the college equita
tion department, upon hearing
the stupendous announcement
we now reveal to you, the
underprivileged.
What announcement? Just
this—instead of the current
series of music concerts sched
uled for Meredith, a new and
entirely different group will ap
pear to delight our hearts and
wear out our shoes. For, begin
ning with Vaughn Monroe next
Saturday night in the gym (for
this great occasion the balcony
of the gym will also be opened
just climb the ladder grace
fully) such leaders in the music
world as Bob Crosby, Perry
Como, T. Dorsey, and Margaret
Whiting have been signed to
appear.
Dr. Harris’ ecstatic comment
was caused by the thought of
the appearance here of Perry
Como, of whom she was heard
Dy some of her closest friends
to say that he surpasses the
charms of even Hamlet, her old
flame. Since this is the highest
recommendation that singer has
ever received in his career,
Como’s press agent has secured
for Dr. Harris a scholarship to
St. Mary’s, thus fulfilling her
greatest ambition.
Students will be required to
attend these spring concerts, and
no books will be allowed on the
dance floor. Rooms will be
carefully checked, and students
found cowering under the beds
or crouched on the top shelf
of the closet will receive a
week’s campus, with library
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In a surprise move today, the
Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina and the South
ern Baptist Convention an
nounced that Meredith College
would become co-educational.
This action was taken in order
to provide educational facilities
for the eastern section of North
Carolina after Wake Forest is
moved to Winston-Salem. The
former site of Wake Forest is to
be used for a new southeastern
seminary.
North Carolina leaders
greeted the news with enthusi
asm. Dr. F. Orion Mixon, presi
dent of the State convention,
said that he felt that the action
would be approved by everyone
—especially the girls at Mere
dith. President Carlyle Camp
bell of Meredith was not avail
able for comment.
Several new dormitories for
men are being planned to be
located beyond the present base
ball field. However, this loca
tion would necessitate moving
the stables. Plans have also been
made to enlarge the dining hall
3y the addition of a second floor
which would be more informal,
and consequently not subject to
the same rules.
As soon as the news was re
leased, Meredith students
started petitions that the rules
and regulations of Wake Forest
replace the present ones. Of
major importance is the prohibi
tion of dancing with men on the
campus — a rule which will
probably be changed immedi
ately because of pressure from
the board of trustees. However,
reliable sources say that the ad
ministrative officials of the col
lege are against any changes in
cluding the rule regulating the
wearing of hats and hose off
campus. The fashion world is
eagerly awaiting the outcome.
The move was made after
much heated discussion. How
ever, everyone agrees that the
removal of the barrier of sex is
a great forward step toward
equal educational advantages.
MATH TEACHER WINS
EXCITING CONTEST
By “RED” BARBER
Faculty experts triumphed
over student energy yesterday
when an exciting contest, spon
sored by the A.A. Bored to pro
mote good health, was held.
Open to both faculty and stu
dents, the rules of the race were
as follows; “At the sound of
the opening gun, contestant
must walk and/or run to Allen’s
Pond and back, within the given
time limit of fifteen minutes.
No pushing.”
The large number of contest
ants, who lined up at the start
ing line at the dirt road in back
of the dining hall and displayed
extraordinary talents in track,
showed their good sportsman
ship when they learned at the
end of their heated race that Dr.
Canaday had won, because of
a convenient shortcut to the
pond which he had surveyed
by the use of logarithms. He
received the prize, a subscrip
tion to Field and Stream.
Morodith Colleae LihrAn