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THE TARHEEL
March 14, 1923
yz Car eel
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Vol. XXXL March 14, 1923 No. 41
SPECIAL EXTRA
On account of examinations the edi
tors and managers of the Tar Heel had
planned to call off the two issues for
this week, until this question of co-education
came up. It was then decided
that such a grave and important ques
tion as this could not be passed up
through the columns of the Tar Heel,
regardless of the inconvenience of issu
ing the paper at this time. So we have
prepared this Extra, devoted to a dis
cussion of this question, and dedicated
to the killing of this plan now under
consideration.
SUCCESS DOUBTFUL
The Tar Heel has grave doubts as to
the success of a state basketball tour
nament as proposed and apparently fav
ored by a number of the coaches in the
state.
There would be an unavoidable con
flict between the Southern tournament
now held annually at Atlanta and the
state tournament, if such was formed.
And the Southern tournament is now
well established and is proving to be
one of the greatest athletic events of
the South. More college teams in North
Carolina should enter this tournament
in Atlanta rather than form a new state
tournament.
Take Carolina: we could hardly par
ticipate in both the Southern and the
state tournaments, and it means far
more to this University to have a team
in Atlanta and figure prominently in
Southern athletics at large than it
would be to confine its activities to the
narrow bounds of the state. The pur
pose of the proposed tournament, it is
said, is to have a better method of de
termining the winner of the state cham
pionship. There is no doubt but that
the tournament method is better than
that now employed, but schedules could
be so arranged as to get rid of this
difficulty, and there is no need to form
a tournament merely for that purpose.
Certainly a state tournament has very
little attraction to this institution.
HOW DO THEY GET THAT
WAY?
How does the faculty get that way,
In cutting short our holidays after
faithfully making a promise to grant
ns an extra day at Easter when one of
the Thanksi7l2g holidays was given
up.
We can see it to be nothing less than
a breach of promise if the faculty
sticks to its decision and does not let
college out until the last classes of the
week. There is a rumor that the stu
dents are enlisting a movement of re
volt to petition for the holiday prom
ised. It seems to us that the faculty
should come across with what it promised.
UP TQ THE COMMITTEE
There appears to be some dissatis
faction prevailing among many stu
dents over the number of monograms
presented by the Awards Committee to
the basketball squad this year. Only
five monograms were, awarded, and
many say that there should have been
A question that vitally affects the future of the University of North Caro
lina is hanging in the balance, and will be decided more or less definitely for
all time the early part of next week. That is the question of co-education: Are
the Trustees going to sanction general co-education at the University, and will
the Building Committee use the money appropriated the University to construct
a co-ed dormitory?
The Tar Heel takes a definite stand against co-education at the University
cn any such scope as would necessitate the construction of a woman's dormitory
here, and believes that the co-educational enrollment should be limited to resi
dents of Chapel Hill, and to graduate and professional students. In its fight
to have any such proposition as the construction of a woman's dormitory and
encouragement of co-education killed for all time it has sought the opinion
and sentiment of the leading students of the University, and is presenting these
farts in a fivmnosiiun in this Extra edition. This issue of the Tar Heel will
go into the hands of those in authority to decide this vital question, and we
are unable to see how this body could vote to have co-education here with such
a mass of student sentiment against it.
The reasons for such an uncompromising stand against any proposition of
the co-education nature are as obvious as they are convincing. It does not take
any special study of the situation or research work to perceive them. The Tar
Heel's position and reasons for its position are essentially the same as those
expressed by the president of the student body. The state has provided another
institution the college at Greensboro to take care of women students, and
has appropriated money to enable this college to supply all the needs that the
women who would go there should desire. There are other girls' colleges in
this state, and there are sufficient facilities to take care of all the women stu
dents, without sending them here from the high schools.
If there are girls in the state who insist that they get their education aiong
with the masculine sex there are other co-educational institutions in the state
which they are privileged to attend, but the men students at this University
have no desire for them here, and never will have any desire to have them here
unless such a dreadful mistake is made as the construction of this woman's
dormitory, and the University becomes overrun with girl students, and an effem
inate influence of sentimentality becomes paramount.
We need all the money appropriated by the state for the construction of
more buildings to take care of the men students, for this is a University for
men, and we have none to spare to sink into a woman's building even if we
had any desire for any such building. New dormitories, new class buildings,
new science and department buildings, a new gymnasium, are structures badly
needed here. No greater mistake could be made than spending this good money
for the construction of a dormitory for co-eds, when any such building would
be so distasteful to the mass of men students here, and when this would sanc
tion co-education at a place inherently for the education of men, and men who
desire no women around.
The Tar Heel hopes that its position is plain and not misunderstood by the
few scattering women students now here. We have no objection to girls who
live in Chapel Hill getting the benefit of the University, nor do we object to
those women who come here to go into higher education after getting a degree
at a woman's college, nor to those who wish to enter the professional schools.
If there are girls in the state who have ambition enough to wish to pursue their
education in such a way, we see no reason why the advantages of the Univer
sity be denied them, and we do not censor the present limited plan of co-education
that has been in vogue here for many years. The institution remains a
man's University, and has no ear-marks of a co-educational college. But to
take care of the women students who fall into this category, we have no need
for a special woman's building. Already we have adequate facilities to take
care of them, and the present woman's dormitory appears to be housing other
than co-eds and is not filled with women students.
But for the University to sanction co-education in the general sense does
not please the students here. We can think of nothing more distasteful than
such a thing. To have classes composed of as many women as men students
would prove a serious handicap in the teaching in some of the departments.
The women here would only prove a distracting influence, could do no possible
good, and would turn the grand old institution into a semi-effeminate college
which would certainly have no attraction for us. The University could make
no greater mistake than this step of co-education, and we have confidence that
any such movement will be checked now, next week, and we pray to the heavens
that it will be stopped for all time.
'SHAVES AND SHINES BUT NO RATS AND ROUGE"
There is a matter of finances connected with this proposition of constructing
a woman's dormitory at the University and the opening of these doors to women
students. It is, too, a right considerable matter when cold facts are considered,
and when we look the situation squarely in the face and consider it from every
angle, ,
The state appropriated, during the recent session of the General Assembly,
$1,650,000 for general improvements for the University, and $1,350,000 for gen
eral improvements for the North Carolina College for Women at Greensboro.
This fund was appropriated to carry on the building program of the University,
to take care of the men students; and the money appropriated to the Greensboro
college to continue improvements there to take care of the women students.
We quote a member of the Budget Commission in saying that "One of the
items cut out by the Budget Commission in making out their estimate was the
woman's dormitory on the ground that they did not have the money to do this
together with other expediencies." Thus, the state has appropriated money for
the women at Greensboro, and money for the men at Chapel Hill.
Now the Building Committee, flooded with sentimental pleas from some of Eej
the women students now at the University, and some of the politicians of the
state who are seeking the favor of women in North Carolina and have their
eyes on some of the big jobs, is considering using part of the money appro
priated the University to build a woman's dormitory. This dormitory complete
will cost in the neighborhood of $350,000, to say nothing of the others that
would naturally follow, and the facilities that would have to be provided to ' p
complete the equipment to educate women here. A separate gymnasium and
entire physical training equipment would have to be constructed in time, rest
rooms, social rooms, and all the other luxuries that must be had by the girl at
college. Three dormitories can be built for men at about the same cost that
one can be built for women, and a man's dormitory will house 120 men while
a woman's dormitory will take care of only 75 women. In other words, it takes
far more to educate a woman than it does a man, and the facilities that must
go to furnish her the education are several times as expensive. On the other
hand, it is a known and accepted fact that separately educated the expense
will be much lower than when both men and women are educated at the same
college.
Chapel Hill Is rigged up for men, and if women are to be here there must
be a complete outfit of facilities. All of this will cost thousands of dollars.
Why not expend this money on the college at Greensboro and let our own Uni
versity remain a place for men? The money now appropriated the University
is needed to take care of the men students every' dollar of it and we can
not see how the Building Committee can pass up these needs and build a dormi
tory for students not even wanted here. '
ening the value and standard of a Car
olina monogram, and the committees
should always try to steer clear of such
a mistake. Yet, on the other hand,
there is also a danger of not giving
out enough letters, and especially in
cases which are especially deserving.
The winning of a monogram is the ul
timate aim of all those who go out for
athletics, and there is little to draw
men to try out for the teams when it
looks as if the men already have their
monograms "cinched" and the Awards
Committee will give out no more than
to iust the varsity team. "A team is!
no better than its substitutes," and the
awarding of monograms, it seems to us,
should go down a little into this group
of men who are always there to play
the game when the varsity needs the
reserve strength. .
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To the Editor of the Tar Heel:
The issue of oo-education is clearly
before us and is one that vitally con
cerns the future welfare of the Uni
versity. The co-eds tell us that they are citi
zens of North Carolina, possessing the
right to vote mid participate in the busi
ness and political life of the State, and
therefore ought to be permitted to come
to the University in unlimited numbers.
We realize that they are citizens of our
State, bat I fail to see where that is
an absolute argument for their coming
here. On the basis of that argument
we could justify the admission of negroes
to the University. Perhaps we should
permit theui to do so, but where can
we find a sane white man or woman in
North Carolina who believes that we
should?
In ordei that I may clearly show
where I stand on this matter of co
education, I will say that I am in favor
of letting girls come here to enter the
professional and post-graduate schools,
just as has been done in the past. It is
probably alright to also let the profes
sor's daughters and town girls enter the
undergraduate classes as heretofore, but
when it comes to letting them come in
unlimited numbers, deliver me.
The co-eds tell us that we are dis
criminating against them if we do not
let them come here. But regardless of
what they say, with conditions as they
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exist today in North Carolina, it is n
grave injustice to the boys, and I might
say to the girls, to let them come. I say
it is an injustice to the boys because it
is nothing short of discrimination. If
we let the girls enter wholesale here at
the Uuiversity we will be doing the
boys a grave wrong unless they be per
mitted to go to N. O. C. W. Just think,
suppose 1 should go to N. O. C V. and
apply for entrance? Why, they would j
send me to a lock-up to await an ex
amination of my upper story. As I see
it I have the same right to go to school
at N. C. C AV. as the girls have to
come to the University. I realize that
I have no right to go to X. C. C. W.
and say the same with resjiect to the
girls coming here. X. C. O. W. is a
girls' school and the University is a
boys' school and we must keep them
such if we are to progress with the times.
I do not have space to show why I
oppose co-education here because of finan
cial reasons, but will say that it would
be a double expense to provide for ath
letic and other facilities for girls. It
is far cheaper to maintain X. C. C. W.
and the University as in the past, one
for girls and the other for boys. The
proiKments of co-education here at the
University can only justify themselves
by doing away with N. C. C. W, and
combining the funds expended there each
year with the University funds. lie
fore tiiis is done, which should never
lie. co-education in .unlimited numbers
should be excluded from the University.
C. C. POIXPEXTEK.
Mrs. .T. M. Hell is out: of town on ac
count of her mother's death.
Monroe Seen Howard recently -Weirfield
Yes.
"What's he doing?"
"Writing plays."
"What! That fellow writing plays?"'
"Yes he's chalking down scores in a
bowling alley." Brooklyn Standard-
Union.
Tlie glib insurance agent had persuad
ed Kastus to undergo his physical ex
amination. All went well until the doc
tor started to fill out the personal ques---tion
blank.
"Do you use wine, spirits, or malt
liquors?'' he asked.
"Ah knowed it! Ah knowed it !"ec--clniuied
Itastus. jumping for the door
clutching his collar and tie, "Ah s'pected 1
nil de time you wu pro'hibition agents!
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awarded.
It is not up to us to determine to
whom basketball monograms should be
given, nor for that matter up to the
student body. The authority is vested
wholly in the Awards Committee, which
is composed of. those who are best in
position to know just who deserve mon
ograms. It seems to the Tar Heel,
take for the students to try to dictate
in any particular case who should get
monograms.
Yet the Tar Heel does believe it is
possible that the Awards Committee
has made a mistake, and that it should
reconsider its action and by weighing
all the facts make sure that its awards
are correct. There is, of course, the
danger of giving out too many mono-
therefore, that it is somewhat of a mis-grams in any sport and thereby cheap-
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