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THE TAR HEEL
Tcesday, April 16, 1929
Many Colleges Are Jnjuring
: Their" ith Public
Through Suppression of News
Policy of Suppression of Legiti
mate News is Unwise, Says
Madry in - Address before
American Association of Col
lege News Bureaus.
Meredith Installs,
Student Officials
In their effort to suppress the un
favorable news stories that originate
on their campuses, a great many
educational institutions are injuring
their relations with the public and
press, declared R. W. Madry, direct
or of the News Bureau of the Univer
sity of North Carolina in an address
in Nashville. Tenn.. Friday before the
fifteenth annual meeting of the Amer
ican Association of College News
Bureaus, in session at Vanderbilt Uni
versity. It is an unwise policy for educa
tional institutions to attempt to sup
press legitimate news, and many more
of them have come to realize this fact
in recent' years, Mr. Madry said.
"In fact real news can't be suppres
sed, " Mr. Madry added. "Real news
will out, regardless of attempts of
colleg officials toward suppression.
True, it may be suppressed tempor
arily, as frequently it is, but the fact
remains that a good story that is fit
to print is going to get into print
sooner or later. -
"And once newspapers learn that
an institution is trying to suppress a
story, the chances are nine out of ten
that they will give that particular
story a much bigger play than they
would have had it been given to the
papers when it first broke."
Other speakers at this afternoon's
session included John Price J ones,
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who discussed publicity in relation to
institutional financing; Roscoe, B.
Ellard, director of the Lee Memorial
School of Journalism, Washington
and Lee University,, whose topic was
"Utilizing the Department of Jour
nalism in News Dissemination"; A. G.
Stroughton, director of the News Ser
vice at Bucknell University,- whose
subject was . "Coordinating Alumni
Activities with Publicity," and C. R.
House, head of , the Department of
Journalism and director of the News
, Service at "Wesleyan College, whb dis
cussed publicity methods for the small
denominational college. , 7
Mr. -Madry said that he had obser
ved closely the results of a1 noncen
sorship policy at the University of
North Carolina where he has been in
charge of publicity for the last six
years. The institution had never
seen fit to adopt a "policy of news
censorship, he said, and as a result
tne newspapers nave commence in its
news service.
"What nart the news service , has
played in the tremendous growth of
the institution in recent years is a
matter for speculation," Mr. Madry
aid, "but it is a fact that in the last
ten years the enrollment has almost
. trebled, and maintenance funds ap
propriated by the state have' increas
ed from $217,000 in 1919 to $840,000
in 1929, while during the same ten
vear neriod the state has appropriat
ed a total of $5,160,000 for buildings
and nermanent improvements. This
decade has witnessed the University's
greatest physical expansion.
"Any educational' institution that
adopts a policy of non-censorship of
news is certain to get unfavorable
publicity now and then; but, if the in
stitution is making real progress, the
favorable publicity will, in the long
run, more than offset the unfavorable
kind.
"A spirit of frankness and fair
play that's what the public and
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press have a rignt to expect oi vne
college news bureaus."
500 High School Students
Invade University Campus
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Aurelian Springs, Ayden, Beaufort,
Belmont, Bethel, Black Creek, Brag
town, Candler, Candor, Chowan, Ed
ward Best. Emma. Erwin, Elizabeth
City, Farm School, Forest City, Four
Oaks, Franklinton, Fallston, Fuquay
Springs, Glade Valley, Goldsboro,
Grace, Greensboro, Hollis, La Fayette,
Lees-McRae Institute, Leggett, Lenoir,
Mars Hill, Mocksville, Horven, Mt.
Olive, Old Town, Pantego, Paw Creek,
Prospect, Roanoke Rapids, Rocking
ham, Rocky Mount, Ruffm, Scotland
Neck,' Shelby, Shiloh, Siler City,
Southport, Sumner, Thomasville,
Washington, Waynesville, Weeksville,
Wendell, Wilksboro, and Wingate.
Notice
The student chapter of the Taylor
Society will hold its regular meeting
tonight in room 319 Phillips hall, at
7:15 p. m. The program will consist
of three fifteen minute talks on the
Life of Frederick W. Taylor. All
members are urged to be present.
Send the TAR HEEL HOME.
With elaborate and impressive
ceremonies the student government
officials for Meredith College for
1929-30 were installed during the
chapel hour last Saturday.
Officers installed were: Miss Mar
garet Craig, president; Miss Cleta
Black, vice-president; Miss Irene
Thomas, secretary; Miss Anne Simms,
treasurer; Misses Blanche Obenspain,
Delia Robinson, Belle Ward, and
Annie Sarah Brockwell, house presi
dents; and Misses Kathleen Durham,
Vida Miller, and Mattie Wilder, sub
house presidents.
Youth Is Conventional
"Carolina Slagazine" Is Cross
Section of Yesterday
By NORMAN FOERSTER
Modern Collegians Serious
Minded Dean Doyle Finds
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that the presence of female students
on the campus had a pronouced good
effect on the male students in the
matter of personal appearance and
conduct. - '.;"
C. M. McConn, Dean of Lehigh
University, said, "The .'collegiate'
student is, in my opinion, much more
inclined than others to necking, neg
lect of class work, and even dishon
esty on examinations. The 'collegiate
type' rarely excels in either scholas
tic standing or sports."
A general concensus of the replies
received to the questions which were
sent to colleges all over the -country
showed that the ideals and conduct
of the present generation compare
favorably with past generations.
, The reports also revealed the gen
eral belief that the "collegiate" or
humerous press is only an unreal
caricature. Homer K. Ebright,
Becker University, Baldwin, Kansas,
says in reply to Dean Doyle's ques
tion about neatness of dress,- "The
paddling system is used by the upper
classmen on any student who comes
to chapel wearing a sweater.",
The answers to the questions point
ed out the much corroborated belief
that the modern trend is in the di
rection of decency, high ideals, and
better manhood. -
John Straub, Dean of Men at the
University of Oregon although de
cidedly of the older generation, is an
ardent - champion of the 'collegians'
of today. He said: "I have been
here fifty years and can say that
there is less drinking among our
three thousand students than among
three thousand picked at random in
the city.' Our students are neat in ap
pearance and the trend is decidedly
toward better manhood and woman
hood." .
Reactions to Dean Doyle's questions
showed that undergraduates today do
more real work in college than their
fathers did. .Most of the answers
received asserted that the much-talked-of
carelessness of the modern
college student is being done away
with due to the fact that the 'col
legiate' type is diminishing.
Pictures Discontinued
"Sufficiently Casual" is the appro
priate label of a sketch by Dane Wil
sey, who completely succeeds in his
attempt to get nowhere. It might
also serve as the slogan of the Mod
ern Literary Movement in its decad
ence and as the motto of the March
Carolina Magazine, which reflects
that decadence. Significantly, the
March number appears in April: its
contents are, in fact, a year or so be
hind the times.
As a whole, this number rather
meekly imitates the experimenters
who have, since tne war, transformed
literature, and who, a year or so ago,
began to yawnv. Most of them are
still experimenting, and yawning.
creative literature nas reacnea an
impasse, it is waiting lor younger
generations to prepare a new vision
of beauty and reality, so that .the
really modern thing just now is not
to imitate yesterday but to doubt
whether yesterday was right.
We have here the two modern styles
of writing. - One is the barrenly
simple style, as in Warren Taylor's
study of the "Professor With Um
brella," who is really a "child snug
and unborn," so attached to a shelter
ed universe that he does not want to
be born. (I wonder what professor
provided a model ! ) The contqrtedly
complex style, on the other hand, is
exemplified in some, of the . verse,
which, unlike the professor, seems at
times to struggle to be born. The
excesses . of such strenuous verse are
cleverly ridiculed by John Mebane in
"Delabrement" and in "She Said"
the lady in question speaks "meta
phrastically" but at the bottom has
a great deal of sound sense. The
best poetry, however, is the work of
Howard Ramsden. Then there is a
short story by J. J. .Slade, Jr., called
"Pamela Stokes": Pamela does stoke
till she is burned out. She might be
regarded as a Boiling Virgin, Old
Style, a victim of the New Psychology.
There are also three book reviews, one
of which ventures to herald Georgia
Douglas ' Johnson's "Autumn Love
Cycle" as "a distinct contribution to
the poetry of the world."
Perhaps I have gone too far in
suggesting what is happening, or not
happening, in the minds of the con
tributors to our Magazine. At least
one writer, Charles Wood, reveals a
real groping for light, in an article
on "A Certain Deficiency in Ameri
can Literature." Mr. Wood is weary
of experiments in ,, realism. He is
weary of all our recent realism, the
stridently sexual, the abnormally
psychological the ambiguity of "ab
normally" may stand), and the socio
logical type that he finds dominant
among Southern writers. He thinks
that these crudenesses are the result
of our effort to produce a native
American literature, America herself
being crude, and he proposes that, in
stead of .setting up shop on our own
account, we should renew our. rela
tions with the traditions of Europe,
which are properly our own traditions
But what traditions does he mean?
The very thines he is decrying are
largely European in inspiration.
Theodore Dreiser, for example, whom
he condemns as crudely sexual and
psychological, . "sensational and no
thing more," at bottom owes less to
America than to such European
models of art and thought as Balzac,
Zola, Huxley, and Herbert Spencer,
his acknowledged masters, the gods
of , several days before yesterday.
do not think Mr. Wood right in say
ing that we are "too ignorant to make
use of " our European heritage. I
think' he ought rather Jo declare that
we are ignorant of the permanently
valuable elements in this heritage. All
great literary movements "avail them-
selves of the past. The pertinent
question today is, what past shall we
use? v -
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The moving pictures shown at
Venable Hallweekly during the fall
and winter quarters- for the benefit
of students in chemistry, economics,
and engineering, have been discon
tinued until next fall, according to
Dr. J. M. Bell, head of the Chemistry
Department.
These pictures were well attended
during the past two quarters, the
average) attendance being about one
hundred.
Lamkin To Interview
Chemistry Students
R. L. Lamkin, an official of the
Union Carbide and Carbon Corpora
tion, will be here April 26 to inter
view students who are "graduating in
chemistry this year with regard to
J future positions with the corporation
he represents. -j '
This company is the third within
the last three months to send a
representative in interview students
of the Chemistry Department, the
other two being the Du Pont Co., and
the Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. R. E.
Matthews accepted a position with the
latter company.
Send the TAR HEEL home
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Oct. 8, 1928
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order is that we feel that in order to
make the University of the future
what it should be, we must have due
regard for the quality of the men
who enter," charter members of the
organization stated yesterday.
The active membership of the order
for 1928-29 consists of the following
men: Bowman Gray, Jr.; President,
Winston-Salem; Lincoln Eesler, Vice
president, Salisbury;. T. C. Coxe, Jr.,
Secretary, Wadesboro; J. W. Wil
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where. This situation has - become
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In order to assume the success of
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must have capable and loyal alumni
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Twenty-five alumni have already been
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