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THE TARHEEL
Tuesday, November 27, 192S
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Tuesday, November 27, 1928
PARAGRAPHICS
When we start thinking about the
blessings of Thanksgiving, we rather
agree with Jimmie Dug'an, of funny-
papevf ame, in being thankful we
are not a turkey!
And during this recent period of
cold weather we axe- thankful that
we never did believe that fairy story
about, the "Sunny South.' r
The good ship Buccaneer holds
forth in the window of Sutton's Sta
tionery store with all sorts of pira
tical paraphernalia "displayed. In
.fact, the only thing lacking is a gen
uine Thanksgiving turkey walking
the plank.
So immersed are we in this Thanks
giving spirit that we cannot quitede
cide -whether to be most thankful for
Thanksgiving or for the Thanksgiv
ing holidays.
Really now, we wonder how the
Pilgrim Fathers declared a holiday
for Thanksgiving before they had the
Thankseiviner holidays to be thank
ful for! :
Maybe they were thankful they
didn't have to write Tar Heel para
graphics three times a week!
Classroom Professors Are
Not Sufficient for Our Need
The "classroom professor," as we
term that type of University instruc
tor who does his work in the class
room well but allows his activity to be
limited by the boundaries of the class
room walls, i3 not the sort of man we
need for improving our educational
system. " ' .
True, classroom proficiency is cer
tainly to be' desired. We demand a
knowledge of the subject taught and
the ability to impart that knowledge
in as interesting manner as possible.
And we do not doubt that a certain
amount of research .work is neces--sary
on the part of a professor if he
is to keep up with the progress made
in his field of teaching, v What we
should like to see is a bit more re
search time spent upon the; individ
ual student and a bit less spent other
wise. -
Teaching cannot reach its highest
point of effectiveness unless personal
contact is made between the prof es
sor and the. student. Lectures de
livered in the classroom play their
part in education. They may add to
the student store of knowledge and
they may ;stir the . somnolent intel
lect, but they can never serve to the
fullest extent without the accompany
ing bond of friendship between teach
er and taught. Only when prof essor J
and student progress beyond the
stage represented by "I'll tell you this ;
in the classroom and you give it back
to me in the quiz book," will true ed
ucation be discovered.. ., -
Outside the classroom the . prof es
or if-he so chooses can encourage
a personal friendship that will lead to
mutual understanding which will be
a basis for the joint working out. of
oroblems and the combined search for
a lioerai education.
Why confine " the broad field of
eaching to the narrow limits of the
classroom? ;
Open Forum ' j
A PROTESTING CO-ED
Editor of the Tar Heel: v " y
I am one of those "females" who
traverse the campus daily. After
such a declaration, and both in spite
of and because of ' a letter appearing
in Saturday's Tar - Heel on another
phase , of the much discussed subject
of co-education, f make bold to ask
space in your Open Forum, to reply
to the chivalrous Don Juan. First,
may I suggest to the waiter that he
assume a more appropriate nom de
plume. It was ignorance surely , that
prompted him,' under the guise of a
name made famous in literature for
the world's greatest lover and admirer
of women, to ridicule and abuse the
opposite sex! Such ignorance, though
gross indeed, is pardonable; but such
an expression of scorn and contempt
in regard to women, from one whom
I suppose calls himself a gentleman,
is unpardonable. Chivalry plainly
exists for the ungallant and ill
named Don Juan only as an anti
quated custom of Medieval days.
Not only was his letter lacking jn
chivalry and common courtesy, Haut
it was the essence onarrow-minded-ness
and bigotry. It is not my pur
pose to offer here an argument in
support of - co-education ; but may I
say in passing that the taxes of both
men and women go towards the main
tenance of our state University, and
since in view of" this fact the most
"wise, considerate and righteous leg
islature of this state" (apologies to
Don Juan) saw fit to pass a law open
ing the doors of the University to
women is it not then the height
of bigotry to even so much as sug
gest that co-eds not be permitted to
write Open Forum letters to the Tar
Heel? Don Juan, the passing of
time is inevitable. The hands of the
clock cannot . be turned back a cen
tury or more to the days when free
dom of the press was only a dream;
it is now a reality, a privilege enjoyed
by women as well as men.
The, writer of Saturday's letter
also took a thrust at the honor of
the co-eds, dubbing us lawbreakers,
and hence not fit persons to discourse
on the honor system! Evidently Don
Juan would have us believe him a
paragon of virtue. It seems to be
only another, case of the Pharisee de
claiming in a loud voice, . "Thank
God I am not as other men are"
And now for the main bone of con
tention, that which brought about
all this discussion namely, the asin
inity of the letters of other co-eds
appearing previously in the Tar Heel.
Asinine, he calls them; I flatly con
tradict him. They were honest con
victions well expressed on a subject
of -vital importance, and though I do
not necessarily agree with everything
said, far be it from me to apply to
them such an adjective.
Don Juan has issued a challenge
to the Carolina men to assert them
selves. By such an assertion he can
mean only one thing-r-stampiijg with
approbation his discourteous attitude
towards the opposite sex in general
and the co-eds in' particular. I, in
reply, call upon Carolina's gentlemen
totally to the support of the co-eds,
thus exhibiting the chivalry which I
still believe is inherent in the ma
jority of the men on our campus. -'
-Very sincerely,
; .. A PROTESTING CO-ED,
CONCERNING STUDENT
GOVEERNMENT n
The Editor of The Tar Heelx
Thanks for the editorial considera
tion, of the plan for reorganization
of our student-government on the
model of the Constitution of the
United States, which appeared in
your issue of November 20th. But I
must decline the compliment of being
the only member of the faculty inter
ested in student affairs. You see, if
I let that stick to me, I might have
to dodge up an alley when I ran into
Mr.' Frank Graham, to mention only
one of many whom you overlooked in
the unavoidable haste of editorial
composition., ....
The editoriat "Why Reorganize?"
raised four . objections to the reor
ganization plan. The first, three con
cern the student body: 1. that a strict
code of laws laid down by the legis
lative branches would supplant the'
discretionary powers of .the Student
Council; 2. that legislative branches
of 250 students would enact such a
multitude of futile laws as' to bring
law into disrespect; 3. that the exis-;
tence of so many legislators looking
after honor would lead to a decrease
in the individual's sense of -responsibility
and a consequent weakening of
the Honor System
All these things might happen: the
legislative branches might fail to vest
the Student" Court with sufficiently
wide discretionary powers to ensure
a humane execution of the laws; they
might, by their mere existence, sap
the individual's sense of responsibility.
Sure, they might. They might do all
these things and a whole lot more.
There is no end to the harm the
students might do under the proposed
system. Same holds for the present
system. But there is no end to the
good they might do; and there is a
very definite, limit to that under the
present system -the limit of partici
pation. The proposed system involves
twenty-five times as many men in a
creative process in ! making some
thing and it stimulates their con
stituents into '"more frequent cerebra
tion. There are more wheels in the
machinery, and they go round faster.
It keeps 'em busy and out of the mis
chief that Satan and the Curriculum
find for idle hands to do. One of the
great underlying . purposes of the
framers of the Constitution was the
continuous developement of free, citi
zens. In our cynical moments we for
get that our system of . governmnet is
a first class educational instrument;
it is a grower of men. It ' grew
Andrew J ackson and Grover Cleveland
and Woodrow Wilson and Al Smith
and a Republican whose name escapes
me at the moment. .
But this eloquent aside may be en
tirely superfluous. It may be quite
sufficient for , my . purpose here to
point out that my critic's objections
to the proposed plan are in reality
objections to the extension of repre
sentative student government, on the
ground that the students are not equal
to the job. They constitute a dec
laration of doubt, in the ability of the
Young America of North .b. G: Caro
lina v use the machinery its forebears
set up. , ' -
In justice to the critic it should be
remarked here that he is not alone
in his heresy. Our neighbor in Raleigh
is only 'one of several institutions
whose student;- bodies are moving to
turn back the control of the examina
tions to the faculty. Doubts' concern
ing the ability of Young, Old, and
Middle-Aged America to govern itself
are rife in the land. Many think as
my critic does, others still believe, and
the rest hop.
The fourth objection raised concerns
the societies. It is, that changing Di
and Phi to legislative houses of the
student body would close them to
those students interested in debating
for art's, sake who didn't happen; to
be elected to the legislature.
Not necessarily. The student's who
are earnest about learning to debate
could be. constitutionally provided for
by admitting hem to the privileges
of the floor, without the vote, in the
upper house, where there would be
room for them. Their earnestness
could be determined and vouched for
by the faculty advisors of debating
and the-professors of public speak
ing..., .
It is true that faculty assistance
to debating, voluntary in character,
has been somewhat irregular ; arid
quite naturally so." But the lack" of
professional assistance exclusively de
voted to debating is a . want that
should be supplied regardless of what
student government we have. Years
ago-if I may reach back again into
the experience that is the font of
these , lucubrations when I resigned
the chairmanship of the old Student
Life and Activities Committee, I. made
the following recommendation to
President Graham: that since the stu
dent activities unprovided with' pro
fessional guidance all of them ex
cept Athletics had outgrown the di
rection of volunteer' committees, and
real educational value and represent
guidance exclusively devoted to .the
interests of these various activities ;
and I instanced dramatics, the musical
clubs, debating, and, possibly, the
publications as the pressing needs. I
added that I would venture the recom
mendations as a prophecy. I confess
I had no idea how soon and how
brilliantly the prophecy was to be ful
filled , in. the instances . of , dramatics
and of the musical clubs. Debating
is still without its own exclusive pro
fessional assistance, and it is still just
about where it was. The priviliges of
the floor in Di and Phi help a lot; but
tHey cannot put debating on a par
with athletics, dramatics, and the
musical clubs not in another hundr
ed aiid thirty-five years.
The reorganization plan is' based
on a conviction that may be stated in
the form of a syllogism. If you don't
agree with the major premise, you
may as well reject the whole, because
proof of that premise is a large order.
Successful- democratic government . is
ultimately government by agitation;
the American form of democratic
government affords a maximum of
opportunity for agitation: the Ameri
can form, therefore, affords a maxi
mum of opportunity for successful
democratic government. Let's apply
the conclusion locally to a concrete
instance. Say, you want a reliable
representative student decision on the
honor system arid student-supported
try-out of the same. The Student
Council offers a .dozen agitators to
the cause; the proposed plan, two
hundred and fifty. In all human
probability, 250 representatives
would discuss the question with from
one to X number of constituents each.
My critic's expression of unbelief
in the ability of our students to use
their, country's system of government
raises the question,-. Have we reached
the surrender? . The question that
interests me is, Do we want to try out
student self-government under a live
and quickening system or under a
council that, once elected, functions
like ah oligarchy? ; v -
; ( " Cordially" and sincerely yours,
JOHN M. BOOKER
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