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Page I wo )t Car fteel THE TAR HEEL March 27, 1923: "Th Leading Southern College Semi Weekly Newspaper." Member of N. 0. Collegiate Press Association Published twice every week of the col lege year, and is the official organ of the Athletic Association of tho University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill N. C. Subscription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Entered at the Post Office, Chapel Hill, N. C, as second elass matter. Business and editorial offices rooms 8 and 9, New West Building. Office hours 2 to 3 p. m. daily, except Sat urday and Sunday. J. J. Wade Editor Assistant Editors O. B. Colton . . G. W. Lankford E. H. Hartsell Managing Editor G. Y. Bagsdale .... Assignment Editor H. D. Duls E. D. Apple Walker Barnette W. 8. Berryhill F. M. Davis, Jr. A. L. Uowd H. R. Fuller J. E. Hawkins REPORTERS B. C. Maultsby O. C. Rowland W. T. Rowland h. T. Roger J. M. Saunders J. O. Bailey W. M. Saunders J. M. Roberts T. P. Cheesborough, Jr., Business Mgr. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT B. H. Miller Star! J. H. Lineberger CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT W. C. Perdue . . . Circulation Manager T. D. Wells Ass't Cir. Manager C. L. Jones Ass't Cir. Manager tern was likely to be repealed has prov ed itself only a rumor. We are also glad that the faculty has passed a reg ulation forbidding these night late dates not wholly uncommon in the past. With these two regulations enforced the spring dances here should be fine and beautiful in every respect and a credit to the institution. Nothing seems lively to occur that will mar the beauty and happiness of the occasion. With the weather in strict accord ance with the traditional Young Man's fancy, with Bynum gymnasium dressed un in eav Easter clothes, and with the most charming and beautiful girls in the South (i. e., the most charming and beautiful girls in the world) on hand in countless numbers, and with this Shamhusky or Olisky or Quadrousky or whatever-it-is music (be it jazz or oth erwise) what more, pray tell us, could youth desire? UNIVERSITY'S POLICY IS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR BOTH SEXES, SAYS CHASE (Continued From Page One) AUTHORITY ON ECONOMICS Star! R. li. Briggs R. F. Stainback S. B. Teagne G. R. Ivey E. N. Anderson W. B. Pipkin Yon can purchase any article adver tised in The Tar Heel with perfect safety because everything it adver tises is guaranteed to be as repre sented. We will make good immedi ately if the advertiser does not. Vol. XYYT, March 27, 1923 No. 44 OUR SPRING PROSPECTS Spring brings us again the two sports, track and baseball, and on Emerson Held the varsity and freshman squads of both these branches of athletics have been hard at work for some time en deavoring to get in shape for the sea sons about to open. The topic of stu dent conversation, in the meanwhile, centers around the prospects for the Carolina teams, and all about the cam pus the subject is now the chances of the baseball team winning a state cham pionship, and now the chances of the track squad having a victorious season. The Tar Heel notes with regret that much student sentiment relative to the baseball team is somewhat pessimistic, many men feeling that owing to the vacancies left by departed stars pros pects for a good season are not so prom ising. This pessimism, both unwar ranted and unwise, and the conse quences of such a spirit are always bad. In the first place, the baseball team looks mighty good to Coach Fetzer and others who are close followers of the game and they feel that Carolina's pros pects are exceedingly bright, and that the calibre of the material out for the team, though inexperienced in some cases, is easily Carolina varsity ma terial. Even if this were not true down hearted talk is not wise. Such a spirit, even among the students, is worse than overconfidence, and is certainly not in keeping with the traditional Carolina, which has been an invariable premoni tion of victory until the contest itself tells another tale. The track squfd is showing up well under the careful training of Coach Bob Fetzer. It looks as if Carolina will have her best year in track, although at present men are badly needed for some of the events. We understand that in one or two events the squad is prac tically destitute of material. This is, Indeed, unfortunate, since a track team should be well rounded in order to make a good showing and score. But material for ALL the track events is here at Carolina if only it will make itself known. Here is a fine chance for some men to serve Carolina and make a place on a varsity team. Coach Fetzer wel comes new men out for track, and there Is a chance of development which the men, themselves, seldom realize. Ex perience is not necessary and it is often the case that a man has possibilities in track unknown to him. It is a sport that is coming into its own at Carolina, and a sport that Carolina men should support by giving their services. The people of Chapel Hill and the University will have an opportunity Thursday night to hear one of the greatest authorities on economics in the world when Henry Higgs lectures here. Mr. Higgs is an Englishman and is rec ognized to have no superior in that country in general understanding and knowledge of economics and the rela tive subjects pertaining to the world of business. Through a stroke of good luck the economics department of the School of Commerce of the University was able to get Mr. Higgs to deliver a lecture here. It would be folly for any person, the least interested in questions of economics, to fail to attend his ad dress here Thursday night. WINS PLAYMAKER CONTEST Splendid Advance Publicity Work Wins Prize for Goldsboro Woman's Club Fayetteville a Close Second. The Woman's Club of Goldsboro has been awarded first place in the Carolina Play makers' contest for the best ad vertising campaign conducted by local organizations in connection with their Fourth State tour of February 5-14. The committee of award consisted of Professors Matherly, Fernald and Crane. The Playmakers offered a prize of $50 to be awarded to the local organi zation which most effectivelv handled the advance arrangements for the per formance of the Playmakers in that town. In awarding the prize three fac tors were taken into - consideration: namely, the handling of advance sale of tickets; the number and effective ness of newspaper ads and articles; and the amount of original advertising. These were viewed in the lights of re sults obtained and the results were tru ly remarkable. The weather was worse and the audiences were better than up on any previous trip made by the Play makers. Reports from all tho Eastern Caro lina towns were carefully considered by each member of the committee and each report given a grade. The follow ing is the result of their grading: First. Goldsboro; second, Fayetteville; third, Farmville; fourth, Wilmington; fifth, New Bern, and sixth, Greenville. The same plan of conducting the ad vertising campaign will be followed on the Playmakers' Fifth State Tour in Western North Carolina, April 16-27. BUILDING PLANS TOLD BY CHASE TO FACULTY NOW FOR THE DANCES The spring dances with the Easter holidays are just around the corner, and Carolina's social set is happily antici pating the events which promise to be the most beautiful and delightful in the history of the University. The Tar Heel is glad that the rumor afloat for awhile that the pledge sys- l)r. Chase addressed a faculty meet ing Friday afternoon and gave a sum mary of the plan of tho building pro gram which has been under way for the last two years. Dr. Chase palled the faculty's attention to the detailed supervision of this program by McKim, Meade, and White, consulting archi tects. Dr. Chase announced that the build ing committee had not come to any definite decision as to how the last appropriation would be used except that the old buildings would bo remod eled and made into desirable rooming places. The attention of the faculty was call ed to the fact that, with the additional class rooms furnished by the completion of the new buildings, contemplated lengthening of the class period, which is now below standard, to bring it up to the standard, was referred to the administrative council for considera tion. The difficulty of getting from one class to another in the five-minute in termission was taken up and is now heing considered by the administrative council. tion in the education of women in what ever ways are designed to insure' to the women of the State equality of educa tional opportunity through the State's educational system. It cannot conceiv ably take any other position ; it cannot (for a moment be satisfied with any pol icy which would mean that it refused to play its part in making possible well-rounded system of higher education through State support for women as well as for men. It cannot deny its function as the University of a democratic State, whose citizens of both sexes share equal ly the duties aud the rights of citizen ship . Keeping the two principles stated ibove in mind, it is clear that the part which the University should play be comes a matter of definition, a question of fact as to what is essential to make equality of educational opportunity a reality. It is a question to be determ ined, that is, in the light of the facts as to what the State is doing and should do for the education of women, and which can be wisely settled ou no other basis. What are the significant facts? To my miud they are these. State universities in most sections of the country have not separated their facilities for the higher education of women from those for men. Such State universities as those of Iowa, Michigan, California in fact, those of the middle western states generally offer university education to . women from the freshman class up through the graduate school on the same campus and under the same instructors as for men, and have done so from their founda tion. In North Carolina the develop ment has been somewhat different. With the full assent and active support of the citizenship of the State, the institu tion for women at Greensboro, originat ed as the Normal College, is broaden ing into the North Carolina College for Women. I trust that no one will think me presumptuous for saying anything in this connection about another insti tution than the one I have the privilege to serve; it is essential if the situation is to be clarified. The North Carolina College for Women, then, with the thoughtful citizenship of both sexes in the State behind it, began some years ago its development into a state-supported institution of collegiate grade and scope, and has been recognized as a standard college by the Southern Associa tion "of Colleges and Secondary Schools. This matter of policy in the higher edu cation of women is, I believe, settled in the minds of the State, and to it, as the State has defiued it, the University should, and does, cordially assent. How this means certain things. . It means, tne nrst, tnat tne university cannot, and should not, attempt to do what Iowa, and Michigan, and Cali fornia, aud their neighbors have done; adopt a policy which enrolls hundreds and thousands of women in elementary classes on the same campus with men. In none of the States which have done this does there exist a separate state institution for women playing a part in the State s educational system com parable to that played by the North Car olina College for Women. The point should be eniphnsiized, because I do not think that it is fully understood. State- supported normal schools for women ex ist all over the country; separated state colleges for women are rare. The most fully developed example outside of North Carolina is probably the State College for Women of Florida, which is located at Talahassee, while the State University (to which I believe women are not admitted at nil) is at. Gaines ville. In the light, then, of our local situa tion, I am couvinced that a policy of ab solutely five nnd unrestricted co-education at the University of North Caro lina would not be wise. It would in volve on a large scale a duplication of resources and of expenditure for large elementary classes; such an unneces sary duplication as should have no place in a well-conceived State system of higher education. Let us consider next the other ex treme, that of graduate and professional instruction. Such instruction has been built no through years of effort at Chapel Hill. It is expensive, it is work of University, as distinguished from collegiate, type. The State demands such work of its University. It is one of the functions for the performance of which it exists. I do not believe that I am saying anything to which the friends of North Carolina College for Women would not assent in stating frankly my opinion that, save for the fields into which women largely enter, the logical place for graduate and pw fessional work for both women and men is at the University of North Caro lina. This is at once the simplest and most economical solution ; the simplest in that strong schools already function ing exist at Chapel Hill ; the most eco nomical in that the duplication of spec ialists, books and apparatus would be terribly costly business. Is it not clear, then, that the graduate and pro fessional schools of the University should, as a wise measure of State policy, always be open to women as well as 4.0 men? I, personally, nm absolute ly convinced that it is. So far, then, a logicul policy would seem to point to the exclusion of women from elementary work at the University, aud their admission to graduate and professional work. But there is still an other poiut. What of their admission to advanced undergraduate courses? The answer to this question is, I think, clear, It is inevitable that, as soon as we get beyond the elementary courses of fresh man and sophomore grades, which are fairly well standardized in all good col leges, institutions will vary in the range aud scope of the advanced courses which they develop in this or that department, and that students of varying types of mind and interest will find at different institutions that work which most near ly meets their needs. Local situations, matters of institutional policy, naturally lead to greater developments in advanc ed work at a given institution in some fields rather than others. It would seem logical, therefore, that women who find at the University as juniors and seniors advanced courses which the Uni versity has developed, and which -are in line with their serious interests, should be allowed to pursue them. Any other policy would, I believe, be a contradic tion iu fact of tlie theory of equality of educational opportunity upon which our state system of higher education must be based, inasmuch as the needs of young women of widely varying types of in terest must be considered if real equal ity of opportunity is to exist. There is in such a position no conflict of scope between the institutions at Greensboro and at Chapel Hill; rather in this re sist .they are to-be -considered as sup plementing each other. The policy I have outlined is, I be lieve, fully in accord with the logic of the situation. It is not original with me, but is the policy under which the University has been operating for years. Women have been, and are, welcome here under that policy. It has not, I think been fully understood, and I have attempted to clarify it I see no reason hy it should be changed, save as it changes in detail of itself naturally through the years, in terms of the of ferings of North Carolina College for Women and of the University in this or that department. I believe it is a policy upon which the friends of both institu tions can unite, as wise alike for the institutions nnd for the best interest of the education of women in the State. The question of a building for women at this time is another question. It is not, nnd should not be considered as, a determining factor in the University's attitude toward women. Whether it can or cannot be bnilt at this moment is a matter which must be carefully studied in the light of all the facts, and of the best interests of the University nnd of the State. Hut whether or not it is built at this moment, the provision of adequate material facilities for women at the University in accord with its fixed policy is an obligation which the Uni versity cannot, aud has no desire to, escape. On the contrary, the University has no deeper satisfaction than that of proper provision for the needs of the growing commonwealth which it serves. But this is apart from my main poiut. What I have tried to say, as clearly as I know how, is that the University be lieves in equality of educational oppor tunity for both sexes, and in its duty to see to it that it does its part to help make that principle a reality. I The University Laundry I J WISHES THE STUDENT BODY j I A PLEASANT VACATION i i tS Ml- 1 I I I AI mVIIUV IIIVMAk I IVIhIY T 1 Iuriuiiiiii urn nuiiiiLuu I J U. N. C. J l i.! MlHUf v. NEW AUTO LINE Station at "Jack" Sparrow's Place Regular Schedule Special Trips to Order It pays to advertise in the Tar Heel our readers know a good thing when they see it. READ THE ADS IT PAYS! I (gAretteS BIG MONDAY, APRIL 2 ARMORY Burlington, N. C. Music by "THE BOLL WEEVIL FIVE" (CAROLINA) From 9 :oo Till 1 130 I " TUaicJgtTimpli,' Chicago, lUintii HOLABIRD & ROCHE. Architects Drawn by Hugh Fcrriss "Building a Piffure" .llSiW, -.1st mm O. E. CO. TJERE the architects envisioned a picture, saw the modern office building in terms of the great art of the Middle Ages and the result is a demonstration that the utilitarian structure, the modern office building of commerce may be as picturesque as it is practical. Vision, imagination, courage ana practical inginuirv in stylistic adaptation have enabled the architects of tiiis couutiy to astonish the world with their achievements of today and their promise of tomorrow. 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