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Page two THE TWIG February 16, 1962 GIRLS - BEWARE! Beginning February 28, Meredith students, wc are going to have to be extremely carcful about where wc go and what we do. They are out to get us! THEY are not the police or highway patrol, but the people who are organizing and presiding over our 1962 elections. These people arc going to try to capture us in all sorts of ways this year, so we are really going to have to be on our guard. From the information obtained by a spy in the group known as ihe Nominating Committee, some information has leaked out, and we will be able to take precautionary measures to prevent being trapped. The first thing to watch out for is the straw ballots. They will be given out on February 20 in chapel. Don’t even look at them; you might get interested enough to fill them out. Just leave yours in the box with the hymn book so you can say you’ve lost it. If something happens that you forget to leave it in chapel, however, throw it away as soon as you ge.t to a trash can. For those of you who are really forgetful and got all the way to your room with your straw ballot, you can choose one of two things to do with it. The first is to throw it away there. The second is to have a little fun with it by filling in absurd names like Superman or Donald Duck or Rock Hudson. Even more fun than that Is to fill in the blanks with all your friends names. The Nominating Committee isn’t really serious about the thing anyway; they just need something to keep them busy for a few days and are making you fill out the straw ballots to give them some work. For goodness sake, don’t get serious when you’re filling them out! Secondly, if you can’t stay locked in your rooms, which would be the best way to escape being contaminated, be sure not to look at any bulletin boards. They are going to be covered with information about all sorts of things like who is going to be running for elections, where to register and vote, and what time to register and vote. It would be best to walk with your eyes closed because that Committee is known as being sneaky and will probably try to stick some posters all around so that we’re bound to see them if we’ve got our eyes open. Third, stay in class or some other obscure place on February 28, March 1, March 8, and March 22 from 8:00 a.m. until 6;00 p.m. If you remain uncaptured on the first two dates, you won't need to worry about the last two, because you will have kept yourself from registering and will have the excuse that you are not able to vote. However, if you slip up and get forced into registering, you had better be extremely cautious on the last two dates, because you will be eligible to vote and they will try their best to make you go ahead, Whatever you do, do not vole! No matter how many of the other things you do during those straining twenty-three days, DO NO'I' VOTE! If you do you will miss out on all the fun of elections. The greatest time of all will be the night when the winners are announced. That’s when you can come out of hibernation. Then you can really gripe because the candidates that you wanted to win did not. And it ccrtainly will not be your fault, be cause you did not vote for the candidate that won. No, sirree, you had nothing to do with those girls being put into office. Now, you see. by a few precautionary methods you have learned how to have sometliing to talk about for months. L. K. M MEMBER Assoclutcd CnIIcgiate Press EDITORIAL STAFF Editor Linda Kirby A&sociate Editor Hilda Mancjss Managing Editor Dianne Simmons Feature Editor Joan McGranahan Sports Fditor Judy Crouch Music Editor Susan Leathers Columni.sts Rachel Dailey Velma McGee Photographer. Kappic Weedc Reporters—Jean Hcge, Judy Grayson, Margaret McOuirt, Kny Burns, Nickcy Childrey. Frieda Farmer, Carroll Hicks, Millie Pearce, and Nancy William.s Faculty Sponsor Dr. Norma Rose BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Judy Martin Advertising Manager Patsy Bryant Circulation Managers Brenda Payne and Sylvia Nash Mailing Editor Gwen Picklesimer Chief Typist Linda HaJes Typists ^Joyce Collie. Harriet Rivers. Judy Young Advertising Staff—Carolyn Nicholds. Pat Taylor, Lou Perry. Jane Lawrence Patty Steen ’ Faculty Sponsor. Dr. Lois FraEkr Entered as Kccond-class matter October II, 1923, at post office at m n— Act M»rcli 8, 1879. Published scmi.monthly doVinp the momlis of Oc ob« and April; monthly durlns Ihe momhs of December. Jiiniiary, February Marcli and The Twio IS the college newspaper of MtrcdiiJi Collcde, Raleigh N^i'h Cacolina and ni such -s one of the three major publicailons of the ln"litiult>n-i ie ° Acorn, the literary manazine. and The Oak Lewen, the colleiie annual Meredith College is an accrcdiied senior liberal arts colleee for women locatpri (n capiial of North Carolina, It confers the Bachelor of Ans and the naclielor of Mtisic homrMoTomics! iw^my-one fields inciudlng music, are, biisiness^and of the Southern Association of Colleaes and Secondary Sch^l3. The college IwlJs mcmberahip In the Association of American Colleges and Ihe North CaroNr>a College Conference. Graduates of Meredith CoIlcce are cliaible for membership In the American Association of University Women. Tlie institution is u liberal art* member of the NuMonal Association of Schools of Music. “'siHutwn is a noerai Subscription Rates: $2.9S per year Y^*i7'ncw* York’*'* National Advertising Scrvicc, Inc.. 420 Madison Ave., New BETWEEIV TIIE UNES (ACP) Often there’s more be tween the lines than on them in a collegiao’.s letter home. Barbara Page offers this interlinear trans lation in the Park College STY LUS: Dear Mom and Dad: Sorry I haven’t written but I have already been caught up in the old college grind (rush parties, club par ties, dorm parties). In fact, I often find myself studying until 4:00 in the morning (I don’t start until 3:30). I find my studies present a real challenge to me (I’m flunk ing). . . . All the students here arc won derful, and I have made many new friends (she is a real doll). . . . You will be glad to know that my math teachcr said it was a pleasure to have me in his class (he thought T was a visitor). I really love it here but I sure do miss home, cspccially both of you (please send money). Your loving son, (lots of money) Frank COMROVERSY OVER HONOR CODE NEEDS CONSIDERING By VELMA McGEE Certainly every Meredith student is aware, at the present lime, of the existing controversy over the Honor Code. Several aspects of the Mere dith standard have been criticized, and there are many points to con sider. Questions Are Being Asked Should the Honor Code operate only academically? Can a girl be expected to turn in a friend for com mitting an offense? Everyone must admit that a student should be ma ture enough to abide by the rules of the college in which she en rolls. However, there are offenses; and can a girl be expected to turn in someone for something she her self does not believe to be wrong? This is a question which must be considered seriously. Opiiuoits Must Be Discussed Our school has an Honor Code on which it operates. With this code in existence, it is the duty of the students and the Student Govern ment Council to uphold those things for which it stands. When the time comes that member.; of the student body feel there are mistakes within the Honor Code, these opinions must come out into the open and be discussed. Perhaps then a change for the better will come about. Honor Code Must Be Supported Whether this change needs to be within the Honor Code or in student attitude must be decided. It does not mean much for our school to uphold a standard in which it does not believe; and the Honor Code as It now stands or in a new form must be supported by the en tire student body. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: 1 have read, as 1 am certain most of us have, the letter from “An In terested Student” — who, it seems, was not “interested” enough to sign her name. She begins, “Wc of Meredith . . We — not I — but a vague, non descript, scatheless we that can neither be openly questioned nor pointedly challenged. In using We, she implies unanimity, complete ac cord. In using We, she asserts that you and I affirm, acclaim, and en dorse her opinions. In using We, she declares that Meredith, in toto, without protest, echoes un- qucstionly her views. Listen, now, to the voice of dis sent! I will not argue with her emo tional appraisal of the incident on the bus, for this, basically, is not the issue but merely an effect stem ming from it. The South is acutely aware that it faces serious problems, problems that are infinitely com plex. But the South is not beng allowed to work her problems out. She is being constantly attacked by outside forces which have no idea and care less how to help. They are able only to condemn. The Negro is being ruthlessly used. He has becomc a political tool in the hands of a faction which has no real desire to help him but is merely employing him as a means to their end. He is being promised equality when in reality there is no equality. You and I here at Meredith become endowed with different potential, that none of us are equal in ability. How then are wc to be made equal to our neigh bor — whether he is black or white. America is based on the concept of liberty, but wc will never obtain liberty and equality, For we can readily see here at school that where we are free, we are not equal and if wc are forced to be equal, we are not free. The Negro has been duped. He has been led to believe that his only hope for betterment lies In the com plete integration and amalgamation of the raccs. When, however, achievement replaces apology; when contribution replaces dissipation; when morality replaces lewdness; when character replaces delin quency; when accomplishment re places deterioration; when desert replaces demand; when effort re places wantonness; when ambition replaces complaccncy; when, if ever, the Negro thus proves him self worthy, it is my prediction that he will thereby so generate his own racial pride that he himself will pre fer segregation. I must say this. I too would have stood or taken my scat on my suit case had I been on that bus, for this is what I believe. But I do hope along with “An Interested Stu dent” that “. . . Meredith students as thinkers will think a second time before they Join the majority. . . .” Look Intelligently, objectively at the problems of the South. Do not con demn. Assist! Susan Frye Dear Editor: It has come to Ihe attention of most Meredith students of the desire for a changc in the Student Govern ment Council. This desire, however, appears to be based on ignorance of the situations involved in the government. There is room for seri ous doubt as to whether anyone outside the Council knows the story of the things which have been under question, and yet this desire remains. If this is based on igno rance, however, there can be no at tainment of good for the Council— only degradation. If it is based on honest and sincere concern for the betterment of the Council, then it could easily become one of the greate.st achievements in the Mere dith government. The one question which arises here, therefore, is: where has the organization for the fulfillment of these plans gone? As some know, this same thing essentially happened last year, yet those who felt the need fo? the re form organized themselves and their plans until they could be pre sented to the Council. This past action has resulted in the submis sion of plans for the Judicial and Legislative Boards. This too is good for Meredith, and it was done by a group of students who saw the need and acted accordingly. Whether or not their plan is ac cepted, Meredith’s student-run gov ernment is all the stronger for the action. It is the privilege and duty of each student — whether individu ally or as a group — to present ideas of this nature to the Council — but only after serious considera tion and a development within themselves of the sureness of their action. From this point derives the progress of Meredith College, the Student Government in particular. The Council, as well as the Honor Code, is a thing to be cher ished by each student, and should this respect for and the following of either of these ever be lost by even a few, then it is either time for reform or the maturing of the people who question. This is some thing which those who wish change must answer; yet, it should also be answered by those who condone or oppose the action, in short, by every member of the student body. Donna Cullen
Meredith College Student Newspaper
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