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SORORITY POLITICS
Sorority politics has become a rather hackneyed term on our campus.
I>ast year a long and loud cry was made against sorority politics; a
stirring editorial was written in an issue of the Coronet; our dean made
a fight against it; Pan-Hellenic took it up—all of this many of you
remember. Were they merely idle words? Were the efforts rleally
sincere? But the year is yet too young to determine the effect.
We know that no good can come of evil. We see the evil of sorority
politics each time an election is held, we realize the evil throughout the
year. The situation luus been both disgusting and de])Iorable. Now, before
elections begin, is an opportune time to think of that existing evil and not
after the harm has been done.
Sororities have a noble place on our campus but are they filling that
place? Jealousy and greed eat the heart and soul out of their possessor.
'Hie jealousy and greed tliat prom,pts the })oliticing by sororities has alrendy
begun a figlA from the outside against the Greek I.etter World. We of the
sororities must eliminate the cause for disapproval. Does not the lowness to
which we stoop as sorority women to politics undermine the ritual vows
of our sisterhood? Does any ritual vow of Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, Phi
Mu, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, or Alpha Delta Theta uphold
that which prompts us to grab officers and growl for our chapter? The
answer for all must be no.
It is not the sorority but the girls who shall decide just what the
pin over your heart means. We liave not forgot that our first pledge
is to Queens-Chicora. It seemingly makes no impression to be reminded.
But we must fight for our chapters to regain their rightful place. And
the fight must be defensive. Borrowing the noble phrase of our United
States President—Let us ;i]l “enlist for the duration of war" against
sorority politics.
Weed-ends at home and back again
to the grind that isn’t a grind be
cause it is Queens-Chicora. And at
this time we find our college at its
busiest social season for the pledges
are giving their ])ledge teas. Tough
that we old girls don't get in on all
that. Since we have had our day we
can't complain, but we do envy you
of the fun.
Have you h'reshmen heard of the
Linnean Club? It is a club })ro-
moting interests in wild flowers. I
am joining for the first time this
year so I can’t tell you all I wish
I could about it, but I do want to
say that Miss Nooie is very anxious
for the girls to hel]) her make a suc
cess of the club. She is going to a
great deal of trouble to get the club
started and I do wish to urge those
who are interested to join the Lin
nean Club.
The underclassmen are raising a
great cry about our not having enough
Junior and Senior council members.
I know they are thinking of chap
erones. Granting that they have
something there, we, seemingly, can
do nothing but ask for your every
co-operation regarding chaperone
rules. Another bit of co-operation
that the Administration needs is
relative to Sabbath Observance. It
seems, that had we disliked so in
tensely the rules that have been made
for us we would not have come
here, so why kick. You will
probably answer that you aren’t
coming hack next year. Perhaps you
won't, you will go somewhere else
and kick and then change again.
Queens-Chicora needs students that
are unselfish enough to realize that
the college should come before their
wishes. You see, we are a part of
the college. Definitely, we come after
the college.
Now for fun. The Alpha Kappa
Gamma carnival TJiesday night in
the Gamma Delta Gym house waJ
a grand success. Rat Week was the
best in ages, despite the fact that
the writer is a Junior.
Have you noticed the lists of lost
alumnae posted on the bulletin board
in Burwell Hall? Miss Grover has
plnced it there in order to find the
addresses of those alumnae. Some
times when you are passing by, stop
and see if you can help. She will
certainly appreciate it.
And last, but by no means least,
comes our new dean, Mrs. Agnew.
She has made her way into the hearts
of us. Now that she is in tlie office,
her friendship won't end, it will
really just begin. Her personality
nnd charm, we already know. And
if you don’t know—we have a dean
with an understanding heart. What
more can be said?
As I go into office on October 10
as dean of women at Queens-Chicora
College I wish to express my grati
tude to Mrs. Smith for the work
which she has so ably started while
she filled the position of dean of
women during the first month of this
school year. And I wish to express
my happiness over being a member
of the faculty of a college which
is headed by such an outstandingly
wonderful President and supported
by such a strong faculty.
To the members of tlie student
body I would like to say that the day
vou were born there was formed in
STUDENT GOVERNMENT SPIRIT
At times we tliink that the eolleffe this year is new and strange
because of the many new faces about us. There is one thing that is not
only new and strange, liut foreign, to Queens-Chicora. That i.s the attitude
that the students arc evidently taking toward .student government. The
campus seems to resound with “What will I get if I do this or that?”
Do we think that student council is a remote police body? Do you think
that the rules were made to be broken and penalties stated to be inflicted?
The student council was elected by the student body and is a part of us.
1 he rules were made I)y the entire student body and we are responsible
for them. The purpose of the student government as clearly stated in
the constitution is “The E.xecutive Board of the Student Government
Association has set the following aims as the purpose of its existence;
to give constructive criticisms; to act as a medium between the students
and faculty; to promote constructive policies pertaining to scholastic and
extra curricular activities on our campus.”
Ihe object of the boarding Student Organization as written in the
Constitution is "to encourage self-government; to make and to enforce
regulations which are in harmony with the college administration and
which will encourage a progressive and co-operative student life; to
stimulate the highest .standards of scholarship and of honor in all matters
of personal conduct; to strengthen cordial relations between students
and faculty.”
Should we spend more time thinking what self-government is and
less time trying to kill the most vital part of that self-government with
an attitude that is poisonous to the life of student government, it would
be needless to call your attention to the constitution and to the fact that
each of us is a part of student goTernment.
The College Review
{Bij Jsnor'mUd GoUeghite Press)
Xotre Dame University alumni
are planning a nation-wide campaign
against communism.
the hearts and minds of your mothers
and fathers a dream for you. And
this college life is a big part of
that dream—tins college life which
Dr. Frazer is making so well-round
ed for you. The strong academic
faculty jirovides for your sound
scholarship. And, many and varied
student activities and social func
tions are sponsored and directed for
your development, hajipiness and
comfort. I am happy to cast in my
services with those of your other
directors in helping to make come
true this college-part of the big
dream of your parents for you.
Mrs. Virginia Miller Agnew.
Foremost among those who have
had an active part in making Queens-
Chicora what it is today, is the one
whom we wish to honor this week.
She has done work in practically
every type of work connected with
the institution. For quite a while
she served as field executive in the
work of recruiting students. She has
increased the enrollment of the col
lege to its maximum capacity.
'uite a fitting climax to all these
■letivities was the selection of Mrs.
di as Dean of Women. In her
girl has found a friend from
the first. No one could jmssibly have
taken responsibility and dealt with
it so competently. She has been con
siderate on every occasion, under
standing in every situation, and effi
cient in every detail. In fact, she
has been an ideal Dean. It is with
regret that we lose her as our dean
but it is with great pride that we
think of her as our friend.
It is j'ou, Mrs. Smith, that we rec
ognize. Goodbye and good luck.
JUST SO MUCH INK
In The Layman’s Music Book Olga
SamaroiT Stokowski (divorced wife
of the conductor) tells of a New
York settlement school which an
nounced on its twenty-fifth anniver
sary, that of the thirty thousand
children who had studied music there,
not one had ever been brought be
fore a juvenile court for delinquency.
Furthermore, statistics seem to in
dicate that trained musicians are
rarely in jail.
For no reason at y.ll, the subject
of musicians and criminals reminds
me of baton exhibitionism. Con
ductors of symphony orchestras, more
than any other group of musicians,
are guilty of exhibitionism and self-
glorification at the expense of an
art they are supjiosed to exalt. They
often resort to the most ludicrous and
pathetic means of attracting atten
tion to themselves. It is rumored
that a well-known American con
ductor uses lipstick and rouge before
eacli performance. Another wears a
Spencer model in order to present
a svelt figure as he conducts. Even
the great Stokowski is not innocent
of baton exhibitionism. Before con
ducting the opera Wozzeck at the
ipletropolitan, he conferred with the
electricians to learn whether it were
possible to direct the light upon his
hands in such a way that they would
be reflected upon the ceiling.
Don’t you think that Josephine
Antoine’s voice is very much like
Grace Moore’s? (Miss Antoine was
the guest artist on the Ford Hour
Sunday before last.)
Quotable Quotes
(By .Issoriuted Collegiate Press)
“I know of no way in which a
semi-ready preparedness can be de
veloped with less militarizing effect
than w'hen it is mixed with all the
forces of a curriculum on a uni
versity campus.” The University of
Rochester’s Chancellor C. W. Flint
makes his defense of the R. O. T. C.
system.
At Pennsylvania State College en
rollments in four-year courses of
tile school of agriculture and experi
ment station have nearly doubled in
the past 10 year.s.
Anthropological measurements Uni
versity of Kansas freshmen compared
with those of a selected list of other
schools recently revealed that these
men were taller, about the same in
weight, and less in girth of chest.
The American College Publicity
Association at the annual convention
in Boston elected Frank S. Wright,
University of Florida, as Its presi
dent.
Salaries of Bucknell Universitv’s
faculty and administrative staff have
been increased five per cent.
“No patriotic teacher should object
to taking the oath of allegiance. It
i.s an honor, not a reflection, upon
character. It does not carry with it
interference with the right of educa
tors to determine the courses of study.
Courses of study will be safe in the
hands of loyal teachers.” But the
D.A.R.'s Mrs. William Becker for
gets that those who promote the oath
also promote intereference with
studies.
“If education is to realize its true
goal it cannot confine itself to an
academic discussion of life—it must
become a part of life itself. I be
lieve education is making a great
contribution to the solution of our
difficulties. It is creating interest
and stimulating discussion. Letting
every man have ills say is the con
stitutional metliod of solving our
problems. M^hy should we make
teaching into a suspect profession
by making our teachers take a special
oath?” The Republicans’ Alf M.
Landon hands a question to tlic
D.A.R.
This Collegiate World
(Bg .!ssociated Collegiate Press)
Would you believe it? Here we
had thought that the literary lights
had blow'n out of sports. Bill Sliakes-
peare graduated from Notre Dame,
and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
left Northwestern. But no. Now
“The Last of the Mohicans,” James
Fenimore Cooper, has popped up at
Marquette U.
Some of the students at the Uni-
ver.sity of Kentucky go to gireat
lengths for an education. Imagine
covering 11,800 miles just to go to
school. From China? India? No,
they only live about 30 odd miles
from tile campus, but they commute
daily. One of the fellows figures
that he burns approximately 785 gal
lons of gas during the school year,
which amounts to—let’s see—maybe
.you’d better figure it out for your
self.
Maideu-Munchausens are in a class
h.y themselves. And here we had
thought all along tliat men were the
greatest fabricators of fables and
fancies. However—and this is the
rub—the committee of judges at a
liar’s contest staged at the University
of California, conceding that women
are superior in this sinful art, re
fused to let the questionably fairer
sex have the opportunity of compet
ing against the men. Now they have
their own place in the “lie-ing-sun-