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THE TAR HE E L
Saturday, April 13, 192$
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Saturday, April 13, 1929
TAR HEEL TOPICS
The band will " probably' '-get 'their
new uniforms in time to wear them
at the opening of Graham Memorial
Building.
The Maryland baseball team was
a victim of the Carolina's latest mal
ady Tuesday. Seven Old Liners
went out on strikes.
Gina Pinnera, the "Italian" soprano
who sang, or rather gave a concert,
here Monday evening, not only
speaks in the American manner but
with a decidedly North Carolinian
accent, according to no less an au
thority than Collier Cobb. In ad
dition we have been informed that
her real name isn't Pinnera at all,
but Eugenia Choate. Pretty soon we
will begin to suspect that the lady
ain't no Eyetalian after all.
A neophyte milking a cow on the
sidewalk in front of Eubanks'; an
other being led around by a much
be-ribboned duck; still another es
corting a pair of pigs about town;
multitudes clamoring under dormitory
windows for over-ripe eggs and get
ting them. And all night long over
all the village the monotonous thud
of paddle meeting flesh how bar
baric are the Greeks!
"Whenever I go to the polls in an
election I am pounced upon by about
a hundred politicians. I can't escape
them without losing either my relig
ion or my vote" one of the speakers
declared at the fracas over Johnny
Booker's student government plan
Tuesday night. Mebbe so, but if the
Booker plan were put into effect the
politicians would be so greatly in
creased that they would probably
get his religion, his vote, his watch
and his pants, if nothing .more.
1 f
Two Student
Government Reforms
Some two score of those most in
terested in student life here, includ
ing Dr. John Booker, Frank Graham,
R. B. House, F. F. Bradshaw, Ed
Hudgins, Jeff Fordham, and most of
the outstanding undergraduates, par
ticipated in a heated three-hour dis
cussion of Dr. Booker's plan for re
organization of the existing system
of student government at the joint
meeting of the Di and Phi Tuesday
night.
Dr. Booker's plan was passed by
a rather sizable majority. That in
dicates very little, since only the ac
tive-members of-the two societies,
comprising not more than half of
those present, were allowed to vote.
After the first hour the ( debate de
generated into a most undignified
dog-fight, " a clash " of two diametri
cally opposed opinions, each utterly
intolerant of the other.
Proponents of the Booker plan
failed to show how it would be other
than a cumbersome, impractical mass
of governmental machinery. Dr.
Booker has one excellent idea in this
plan, but he has many others worse
than "useless. The chief point that
he has seored against the present
student government is the fact that
three out of the seven members of the
student council represent the grad
uate schools, in which about one
sixth of the student body is enrolled.
The undergraduate body, with five-
sixths of the students, elects, direct
ly or indirectly, only about one-half
of the student council. Wihtout a
doubt Dr. Booker's proportional
representation idea should be put in-
y
to operation, so that all the units of
the student body should have repre
sentation on the council acccording
to number of students in each unit.
In every other respect the Booker
plan is impractical and undesirable,
It advocates creation of a legislative
body of 150 students, a judiciary con
sisting of a student court correspond
ing to the present student council ex
actly, and an executive department
substantially the same as the present
office of the president of the student
body.; In other words, Dr. Booker
wants to retain the present student
council with the addition of a huge
judiciary department and an im
mense amount of red tape. How
could 150 men on this campus be pre
vailed upon to work for many hours
each week on governmental prob
lems ; and if such a body could be se
cured, what could it accomplish?
Tfte$ctusatioiithat Dr. Booker's
primary concern in 'drawing up the
plan was to inject new life into the
decaying, corpse-like Di and Phi by
transforming them into governmen
tal bodies is probably untrue, but on
the face of things it certainly sounds
reasonable.
The opposition faction was fight
ing for the status quo; their argu
ments were based upon the absurd
supposition that the system of stu
dent government here is the best that
can be evolved for a University of
this type and size. Sentiment was
over-stressed in their contentions ;
frequently they referred to the mis
taken idea sometimes expressed by
men at other institutions, unfamiliar
with conditions here, that Carolina's
student government is the best in the
country. They admitted the dispro
portionate representation on the pres
ent council, and weakly attempted to
justify it. They did succeed in mak
ing the glaring defects of the Booker
plan apparent, however.
The entire discussion Tuesday
nierht was beside the point. It was a
clash of Conservative and liberal ele
ments, and as is usually the case in
such a discussion, it was concerned
chiefly with unessentials. For
greater portion of the time the ques
tion of frame-up control of campus-
political affairs was the primary
point of contention, which is related
to the Booker plan not at all. There
is no reason to suppose that frame-
ups could not, dominate campus poll
tics under the new plan as easily as
under the present system.
Election of student council mem
bers on a proportional representation
basis by schools entirely rather than
by undergraduate classes and grad
uate school units, as at present;
would accomplish all the good that
the Booker plan would result in, with
out the apparently great evils tha
the nlan would bring into being. I
in addition all jurisdiction over
cheating and drinking cases were
taken from the faculty executive
committee and placed in the hands
of the student council, student gov
ernment here would be such in reality
rather than "primarily in name alone
So long as a faculty committee deals
with a majority of cases of cheating
student government does not really
exist.
These are the only two highly de
sirable changes in student governmen
here at present. They would not re
sult in a perfect student government,
but they would set up a practicable,
efficient representative system of
self-government.
r
Open Forum
-
SAYS MR. DUNGAN SHOULD
APOLOGIZE
Editor of the Tar Heel:
I feel that J. E. Dungan owes the
Playmakers an apology. His biting
sarcasm and supposed criticism does
not voice the sentiment of the audi
ences which attended the theatre last
week-end.
It seems that Mr Dungan fails to
see a good plot in any ot tne tnree
plays. I suppose he saw the play,
"The Man Who Died at Twelve
O'clock," produced by the Playmakers
a few months ago. The plot in any
of the three plays was better than
the one in this play, and yet it was
written by Paul Green, the second
greatest playwright in America to
day. The essential element of. drama
is conflict, and all three plays had
enough dramatic conflict to hold the
spectators' attention to the end.
I do not know what Mr. Dungan's
conception of good acting is, but
it seems to me that his idea is a
series of forehead wrinkles, eyebrow
witches, superfluous gestures, and a
different tone of voice for every word.
The producer of a play tries to make
his actors act in the most natural
manner possible. Ibsen, the father
of modern drama, had his actors re
hearse their parts with the curtain
down so as to secure the greatest
naturalness possible. I think Mr.
Bailey acted the part of the preacher
just as well as it could have been
acted. Probably Mr. Dungan doesn't
associate with preachers enough to
know that. It is strange that he did
not find any fault in the actresses.
The Carolina Playmakers are one
of many so-called Little Theatres in
he United States. These Little Thea
tres are doing more for the develop
ment of modern drama, especially the
one-act play, than any other move
ment in America. The Playmakers
have probably done more to help this
university than any other one thing.
am sure that criticism of this sort
will not encourage them in the least
and may tend to discourage them.
Alexander Pope once wrote : " ?
Tis hard to say, if greater want of
skill
Appear in writing, or in judging
ill. ...
Ten censure wrong for one who writes
amiss."
This seems to be true on our cam
pus, now uniortunate we are to nave
a critic who can not criticize any bet
ter than this! Every one who ever
expects to succeed in the literary field
has to go, I suppose, through this
stage of amateurish efforts. But how
boring it is for those of us who want
to read good criticisms!
JUNE GUNTER.
CONCERNING BOOKER'S PLAN
interest. There are many commend- i
able and worthwhile elements in the
plan which Dr Booker propounds. I
want to see the men at Carolina think
the thing through and express them
selves . .
After a bit of . consideration and
thought, I have reached the conclu
sion that the plan will be far more
detrimental than constructive. In
case it is wholly adopted, the campus
will receive a fatal blow. However
bundle up a few ideas and bring them
along for dispensative purposes next
Tuesday night.
FRED G. GILREATH.
Twin City Highs
Trim Heel Frosh
The Winston-Salem high school
nine defeated the Carolina freshmen
5 to 1 here Wednesday hitting two
Tar Baby pitchers hard to win.
Short's homer with : two on base
counted three Winston runs in the
first inning.
Clodfetler and Livengood had three
hits, each for the Twins, while Branch
hit three for the yearlings.
The score:
The Score: R.H.E.
Winston-Salem 310 000 0105 7 0
U. N. C. Frosh 000 100 000 1 6 2
Livengood and Carter; Harrington,
Chapman and Kushner. Umpire
Sapp.
OLD WEST TO BE ENTERTAINED
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Old West Dorm will be entertained
at the Carolina tonight at the first
show, Manager E. C. Smith an
nounced yesterday. All men living
in the dormitory will be admitted
free at '7 o'oclock if they are at the
theatre with the dormitory president
at that time.
El Paso is the only large city be
tween San Antonio and Los Angeles,
a ride of 1,500 miles.
Attention
Fraternity Men
I have for sale a large lot and nine
room house suitable for a fraternity
house. This lot is located" on Pitts
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J. L. Foister, phone 4081. Adv.
SENIORS PLANT
CHERRY TREES
The committee on the Senior Me
morial, composed of Bowman Gray
and C. A. Carr, conferred with Dr.
W. C. Coker concerning the planting
of a row of cherry trees along each
of the two walks leading from
Franklin Street to Old East and Old
West.
The idea was presented to the Uni
versity Grounds Committee and ap
proved by them. The trees have been
planted along the two walks.
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Editor of the Tar Heel:
I would like to have a few- inches
in your Open Forum in order that
I may say a word concerning1 the Bi
cameral system . of student govern
ment proposed by Dr. J. M. Booker.
On last Tuesday night the Phi and
Di societies met in joint session to
discuss the merits and the demerits
of this plan which was so ably present
ed by Dr Booker. At this meeting the
active members of both societies vot
ed upon the question, and, to the great
surprise of the campus generally,
were overwhelmingly in favor of the
proposition. In order that the actual
ly interested persons may have an op
portunity to express themselves un
restrictedly, the Di Senate is to con
duct an open forum within its halls
on next Tuesday night, April 16.
My purpose here is not, as it might
seem, to announce the coming meeting
of the Di, but to make a statement
concerning some of the conditions ex
isting at the joint session of last Tues
day evening. Those men present who
were most ardently opposed to the
proposed change were for the most
part unable to vote because of the
special ruling of the Phi that only
active members were to enjoy that
privilege
in tne second place, tnere was a
group of men present who w,ere far
more interested in the passage of the
bill than they were in the interest of
the campus at large. Private and
group interests were predominant in
their minds. Their number was
quite large and their minds were al
ready made up before the meeting
convened. At the next meeting I
want to -see us get above the petty
prejudices centering around the local
units and branch out into campus
statesmanship. I hope that I will not
be misconstrued here to the extent
that it will seem that I feel that only
those who are opposed to the system
proposed are possessed with a campus
If not, please write your name, address and student
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