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THE LANCE
TUESDAY, May 7
EDITORIALS
Fraternities — Pro or Con?
Few campus characters are
more loved and loathed than
that enduring Greek-American
institution, the college fraterni
ty.
If the ancient Greeks invented
democracy, some say their lat
ter day fraternal namesakes
have let the flame go out.
do not see how a fraternity can
be truly democratic. They are
selective by nature, by history,
by tradition and by necessity,”
says Dr. J. Earl Moreland, presi
dent of Randolph-Macon.
This argument is as old as
fraternities — Phi Beta Kappa,
the first, was founded in 1776
at Williaan and Mary—and still
unsettled. But while the frater
nities still insist on their right
to pick and choose their breth
ren, the AP survey shows a def
inite trend to more liberal val
ues in selection.
At Stanford the local Sigma
Nu chapter quit the national
parent organization last fall be
cause of its discriminatory claus
es. Stanford chapter President
Thomas Grey explained “it is
becoming increasingly difficult
to find a good pledge class
which is willing to accept mem
bership in an organization which
denies admittance on purely ra
cial grounds.”
But what of fraternity selec
tivity per se, based not on any
racial or religious basis but just
on whether or not the brothers
like your looks?
On a large Big Ten campus
where rarely more than 30 per
cent of the imdergraduates are
Greeks, the non-Greek can have
four pleasant, productive years
uncaring whatever Hellenic
pleasures may have been denied
him. On a small campus, with
a high percentage of Greeks,
rejection can wound deeply.
Despite the heckling of the
anti-Greek chorus, fraternities
are not unwanted. On the con
trary. A national survey of col
lege deans showed they would
like to have 500 more fraternity
chapters added in the next five
years. A building boom is al
ready under way.
This means desperately need
ed housing — usually at private
expense — for colleges facing
the swift swelling of enrollment.
But money and barbecue pits
will not be the saving of the
fraternity system. The growing
challenge before them today is
to prove they are a desirable
adjunct to the educational pro
cess, a challenge to which the
Greeks are beginning to re
spond.
These scattered reforms don’t
yet form a definite trend. Nor
do they indicate the fraternity
on the whole hasn’t done well.
They indicate some educators
want it to do better.
While it is under pressure,
the decline and fall of the Greek
empire is not yet.
Reprinted in part as appear
ed in The State-The Columbia
Record, Columbia, S. C. Writ
ten by Sid Moody, Associated
Press writer.
Goodnight! :
It was suggested at the SGA Convention that for the first
semester next year Freshmen women be required to have lights
out by midnight. Special permission would toe needed to have
lights on after this hour.
When we come to college we are told by our parents and
others that we are supposed to be making a big step toward
maturity and the responsibilities of adulthood. Most of us under
stand that we and we alone have then become responsible for
our actions and suffer either the happiness or consequences of
our decisions, whichever the case may be.
This proposal impinges on one’s personal habits in that it
ordains when one would go to bed, and other related activities.
Enforcement of such a regulation, were it instilled into the SA
Handbook, would be a thing of wide variance—from those who
would “go by the book” beyond the point of reason, to those
who would fail to enforce it all.
F.P.B.
The Roving /
By LONNIE MANN
“Let’s Play Growii Up”
Let’s pretend that we’re hav
ing a parade. We’ll put on mom
my’s and daddy’s clothes and
wear a tin pot on our head and
make wooden swords and make
believe that we’re grown up.
Is the St. Andrew’s student “a
poor player who struts and
frets his hours upon the stage,”
is our pseudo-society here “a
tale told by an idiot, full of
sound and fury, signifying noth
ing”? Until each student can
assume a mature responsibility
and refrain from sucking his
thumb and wetting his diapers,
he had best count himself for
tunate that this school, unlike
many larger institutions is in
terested enough to try to give
him toilet training, even though
baby doesn’t always like it.
A great deal has been written
and said lately about apathy
and indifference among our
students. I believe that these
matters are simply manifesta
tions of the many immature at
titudes prevalent in the college
society. A mark of maturity is
the ability to assume responsi
bility; some people obviously
have never groiwn up. We have
been criticized from within and
without about the way many on
campus have conducted them
selves. A great deal has also
been said about the student’s
not having the freedom they al
legedly deserve. This seems to
be somewhat paradoxical. How
can such an inert, irresponsible
group sincerely expect the privi
leges that can only be earned
through a legitimate sense of
mature values? The best way I
can think of is to show that we
can take on the challenge of hon
est responsibility. In this consid
eration I am sure that I have
stepped upon more than one
set of toes, but others have been
unaffected. So if your toes tingle
my comments were addressed
especially to you, yes, you with
the soggy thumb.
Letters Are Written
Editor’s Note:
(A letter which appeared in
an SA student to the reader.)
dicates is the state of man is
A letter which appeared in
the last issue of The Lance,
written by an interested read
er and which concerned a St.
Andrews student who has con
tributed articles to The Lance
caused a number of comments
on the part of students. The
following is a reply written by
a SA student to the reader.
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Elections For ’63-64 Complete
Campus elections wound up
last week with the election of
Day Student Representative to
the Senate and Presidents of
Winston-Salem and Concord
dorms.
Day students elected to the
Senate were Louise Evans, Jun
ior and Robert Pinkston, Junior.
Mary Ellen Elmore was elect
ed President of Concord dorm,
and Bill Campbell President of
Winston-Salem dorm.
Barry G. Greever
Box 439, S.A.P.C.
Laurinburg, N. C.
Dear Mrs. Lander:
Since we both share in Christ
ian concern, this means that we
both are concerned with the sit
uation of man with which we,
as Christians, must deal. I find
in your letter three sentences
which reflect this concern. In
one sentence you use the term
“the milk ef human kindness”
and in another you say that
“this is what the world craves
for.” It seems to me that the
general view which the Bible in
dicates is the state of many is
something entirely different
form the picture one would
draw from your letter. The Bib
lical view of the state of man
is one in which man is alienated
from his true nature. This
alienation is expressed in the
word “meaninglessess.” Man is
enveloped in this meaningless
ness and yet tries to act as if
he were related to life and to
himself. In this sense it might
be said that “life is hell!” Or
in another sense it might be said
that this is a part of the absurd
ity of existence. It is only when
one realizes this as the state in
which we are forced to act is
he able to understand the mean
ing of the mission and purpose
of Christ “behold, I am making
all things new” without first
realizing with one’s Whole being
that life is absurd.
You say also that “there is
no such thing as freedom to poi
son, etc.” I fail to understand
how you can say this when it
is exactly this freedom which is
responsible for the hell-existence
of slum life (which, somehow,
the milk of human kindness has
never
other
gotten around
to)
situations equally ^3
demning to the present shalJI
ness of the church. I feei f
ever, that the type of wiiji
which your letter depicts as a I
ti-Christ, is actually very chri” |
tian in pointing out situationj
which Christians refuse to ad®it|
exist. It is, I feel, very defini,e|
in its purpose.
In your letter I find also seyl
eral comments regarding tl,e|
censoring of such “unholy con I
tributions.” The church is nM|
the “guardian” of the Christl
but rather his servant, neitheJ
is a paper which attempts
serve Christian students thel
“guardian” of Christ against aj
attempts which bring the pi
dicament of man into light b
rather serves to bring these im
to the Christian responsibility!
If the church shuts itself oji|
from the people it is responsible!
to, it loses its purpose and ceasJ
es to be a “servant.” I despisel
any brand of so-called ChristiJ
anity which shuts itself offl
from the human situation, and!
I find much of this in your viewl
of the church.
I fear that, while your expresJ
Sion was made out of concern!
as a matter of personal Chrisll
ian conviction I must disagree!
with you. I wish to thank yoiil
for your patience in allowinJ
me to express my convictionsi
and I remain,
Yours in Christ,
Barry G. Greever
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SA Student Assoc.
the Class of 1965. A numbeil
of other Senators have express!
ed new reservation. Certain tol
be 'Drought up are questions oJ
possible communist elementsi
v/ithin the organization, the ra-l
dical proposals passed at thel
last national convention, andl
some of the tactics used by tlie|
N.S.A. and its Packers in
tempts to defeat the opponentsl
of N.S.A. at Ohio State anill
Indiana Universities.
In order to stop the proposedl
affiliation with N.S.A. in tticj
Senate, a resolution will havcl
to be passed reversing actionsi
already taken. If the opponentsl
of N.S.A. cannot achieve this,I
the students will then be re-|
quired to decide the issue.
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