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THE TAR HEEL
April 17, 1923
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VoL XXXI. April 17, 1923 No. 47
CENSORSHIP? WE QUIT
We understand that certain Univer
sity professors became extremely and
conspicuously irate over our recent slap
at a certain state newspaper and what
we chose to call its "comic supple
ment." The Alumni Beview and the
Carolina Magazine have put themselves
down vs. the Tar Heel and joined in
the battle expressing great fears over
the freedom of our bold and daring
sheet which was unexplainably naughty
enough to say that it did not favor co
education and the building of a wom
an's dormitory here at this time; and
which heaven forbid came out and
stated that it thought a certain news
paper in the state a punk gazette full
of political ambitions. The Beview
bints at a new day when some faculty
suppression or censorship may be nec
essary if the Tar Heel continues to
speak out its candid opinions. Such, we
are told, some of the other irate ones
have also hinted.
The Tar Heel is conBdent that the
overwhelming sentiment in the faculty
is against any such notion, and we have
no fear that it will ever be attempted.
But the mere suggestion of this thing
rather disgusts us, as it does all the
students here who do their own think
ing and are not willing to submit to
any such silly prep school practice. The
Tar Heel may make mistakes, and it
may be indiscreet also be it plain that
we are not necessarily the voice of the
student body or of the University. The
Tar Heel is simply a student newspa
per which, we are convinced, will never
stand for any kind of censorship or sup
pression of the news or editorial mat
ter it desires to print. We sincerely
trust that next year the Tar Heel will
have a politer and more law abiding
editor, one who will please the Review
et al; then maybe this absurd censor
ship talk will hush for all time. i
MISS KNOX COMING
The auouncement that Miss Emilie
Bose Knox will give a violin concert
iere next Friday night brings Joy to
the University campus. She will be
welcomed with her usual large and en
thusiastic Carolina audience, this year
larger and more enthusiastic than ever
before. The students await her ap
pearance here with the keenest antici
pation. No artist that visits Carolina gets
the reception that is invariably accord
ed Miss Knox. It is almost a Carolina
tradition that her concert is about the
most pleasurable event of the year in
the way of events in Gerrard hall. She
hag the art or capacity or whatever
it is to thoroughly delight Carolina stu
dents, who go to hear her as religiously
as they attend the baseball games and
tit Csro!!n?. Playmakers.
The president of the student body has called a series of meetings, attended
by prominent students in all the classes, at which are being discussed ques
tions of vital importance relating primarily to the functioning of the Student
Council and the spirit of the Honor System with the attitude the student body
has toward it. One purpose he has in view is to make the sailing easier for
next year's president of the students and his co-workers, and the devising of
some plan to educate the students, especially the incoming freshman class, to
the rgiht attitude toward the Council and a clearer conception of the Honor sys
tem. A purpose of more immediate consequence is to get a full discussion of
the possibilities of eliminating shady political movements in the coming political
campaigns and elections. It is his wish to find some method to have a unani
mous and whole hearted observance of the honor spirit in these all-important
events, which affect, as it were, so vitally the welfare of the campus.
The action is commendable and doubtless some good will come of this series
of meetings. The problems that face the Student Council are as intricate as
they are numerous, and only the full co-operation of the students can lessen
them, this full co-operation meaning simply the citizens of the campus being
law abiding, ever holding strictly to the finest traditions of the Honor system.
It is generally agreed that most trouble comes from the freshman class, the men
who usually are unaccustomed to the freedom granted by this system and with
half baked and distorted ideas of what it stands for. If these meetings can
produce a plan whereby next year's freshmen can learn of this fine system of
honor prevailing here, possibly before they even arrive on the campus; and
if they can be taught shortly after they register in the University, that it is
the ideal of our student government to have every man consider his honor
above everything else, and that his freedom is given him because he is trusted
as a man of honor; then a great deal, indeed, will be accomplished. If such
can come out of these meetings the Campus next year will be better for it, and
we can see our system of honor and our system of student government one step
nearer the goal of perfection we would like them to be.
But in the matter of the spring elections we fear the president of the stu
dent body is on the wrong track. He is of the opinion that any kind of super
vised system of conducting the polls will be against the traditions of our
esteemed Honor system. He would even have the ballot boxes left without
a keepgc, and trust the honor of the students to conduct the elections honestly.
Yet, if such a system is employed, we hr ve no doubt but that when the votes
are counted a careful watch will be made to see that there have been no false
votes cast, suspicious names will be carefully checked up and even thrown out,
if necessary, and every means will be employed to see that nothing crooked
has occurred. The students are trusted a long way but not all the way. Just
as the Self Help apples are left open in a box at the Y. M. C. A., but with all
the money carefully locked up. The students are trusted with the apples but
not with the money. , Just as on Chemistry and Physics examinations the stu
dents are trusted not to cheat, with the instructors leaving the room, asking only
that a pledge be signed to the papers; whereas, on these same courses, each
day an assistant is posted at the classroom doors to see that the students do not
hang up more than one attendance ring or hang up an attendance ring and then
beat it out the front door without attending. Trusted on examiations but not
trusted in a simple thing like every day attendance.
The Tar Heel is not criticizing these little matters, but is only endeavoring
to drive home the point that the Honor system at Carolina does not prevail in
everything connected with University life, and for that matter never will.
The Honor system, in other words, is not inclusive of everything. ..Students are
trusted in some things and not in others. Students are trusted a part of the
way but not all of the way. Yet we have an Honor system here, and a very
fine and commendable Honor system, one which we are proud to say works
wonderfully well and has come to be the very finest thing that we have con
nected with student life. But back to the elections. The system of elections
is one of those things the Tar Heel believes should be conducted along other
lines than the Honor system. We have seen that in all past elections of any
consequence, for some reason or another, there has been an abundance of crook
edness on the part of those students here who do not comply with the Honor
system and who, for the most part, never will regardless of what we may do in
attempting to educate them to its spirit. This same crookedness would occur
this year, and in as important a thing as the elections we cannot afford to have
it. The wrong man may get an important campus post simply because of some
dastardly political trick that may never be discovered. Then, too, a system
of elections somewhat similar to those conducted in the state such as we would
propose is good training and a good thing to have here. It will both insure
an honest election which may possibly not occur otherwise due to the maldeeds
of those who refuse to co-operate in the honor spirit (which, do not misunder
stand, does not prove that the honor spirit does not generally prevail here)
and at the same time it will give good experience to the students who are about
to step out into a world composed of more elections than anyhing else munici
pal, town, county, state, and what not.
The plan we would propose is the registering district system. Let the cam
pus be divided into districts, with separate polls for each district. Then call
a Begistration day with the students registering at the polls of his district.
On Election day when a student comes to vote the polls holder will look up
the voter's name and if he is properly registered allow him to cast his ballot.
Granted the polls keepers are honest there can be no crookedness in such a sys
tem, and we will be sure then the men elected are those the students want in
office. This system is not complicated, for the districts can be easily formed,
and if the whole thing is properly advertised the vote will be as large as it would
be with the old outworm unsuccessful system. It fits in with the growing con
dition of recognized open politics, and it will be a healthy and progressive
step forward. The objection that it is not in keeping with the honor system
will not hold. The Tar Heel believes that it. Is the only remedy to a present day
pretty sorry state of affairs in the way of elections.
time. The great draw-back seems to
lie in the fact that there is not enough
towering and overshadowing inequali
ties to moke a choice for political posi
tions easy.
But after all, when we get that typo
of man here on the campus we spoil him
with undue flattery. We elect him high
muckety-muck of this and grand click-
ety-click of that until his self-conceit
becomes an everlasting torment to him
self and an eternal nuisance to every
body else. Things come too easy on
this campus to a man with a volitile
type of mind, the representative man,
the all-round man.
This brings us to a consideration of
the material really available for the
offices soon to be filled by popular bal
lot. What do we demand of our can
didates? Character, merit and ability
certainly ought to be among the first
onsiderations. The class of '24 is not
deficient in character. As for merit,
there are any number of men who have
worked faithfully at such tasks as have
come to their hands to do, and who
without any doubt deserve what honors
the student body has in its power to
bestow. Fnally, none of the offices open
are of sufficient arduousness to require
men of super-human ability to nil them.
Whoever gets them will be able to dis
charge them reasonably well and the
University will continue to get along
somehow.
With one note of warning to prospee
lve candidates this ramming ilisserta
ion closes. hoover you are, it you
have been a campus citizen long enough
and have passed a sufficient amount of
work to make you eligible for these
offices, and if vou have been able to
win and hold the confidence of the stu
dent body in such a way as to get your
self elected to one of them, then you
are not going to have any trouble dis
charging such duties as may be entrust
ed to your care. But don't imagine
that the rest of us are going to spend
the remainder of our college careers
admiring you and commenting upon
your greatness. Wre have other things
to think of, and probably the only time
we shall remember vou at all is when
something goes wrong and we look
around to see who is to blame. We may
be so inconsiderate as to cherish some
where in our inmost hearts the secret
belief that we are every whit as good
as you are. les, Mr. Lucky Candidate,
a majority of us, for one reason and
another, are going to cast our ballots
for you. You will be elected. But lest
we regret, Mr. Lucky Candidate, bear
in mind that the most tragic, most pa
thetic, most heart-rending spectacle on
God's green earth is a 'college "big
man" visibly bloated with the sense
of his own importance.
A. LOOKERON.
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SOME SPECULATIONS
During the next few weeks the tur
bulent teapot of campus political activ
ities will bubble and seethe with its
annual tempest. It will bubble and
seethe right merrily for a couple of
weeks, and then everybody will forget
who was elected to what, formidable
machines and rings will quietly disinte
grate, personal animosities will be for
gotten, and the peace that passeth all
misunderstanding will settle down on
the campus again.
3 1 lias been said that the big offices
011 the Hill will go begging this year
because of the lack of "outstanding
figures" in the class of '24. These
somewhat derogatory remarks are be
!T?g made chiefly by freshmen who nat
al I
g ; urally find it difficult to recognize
, greatness in others since the said great-
, ness is so completely shadowed by their
I own. What the doleful freshman real
j ly means is that it's too bad the stu
dent body president can't be elected
from the rising sophomore class instead
of the rising senior class. Everybody
will admit this to be a true saying, bo
cause everybody has been a freshman
at one time in his college career and
he will remember just how he felt.
; But, granting that our freshmen
friends are absolutely right and they
are not the only ones saying these
naughty things by'any means granting
that the class of '24 is possessed of no
regulation Yackety-Yack demigods, is
n't it something to be thankful for?
The average man in the class, not hav
ing any high-and-mighties to make com
parison with, will probably be spared
the development of a very acute inferi
ority complex. Nobody has any- fault
to find with the class of 524 as a whole,
it probably averages as high in intelli
gence and accomplmhrnent as the gen
eral run of classes, certainly as high
as any on the campus at the present
PLEDGE SYSTEM
To the Editor of the Tar Heel:
I notice in the last issue of the Tar
Heel an editorial calling attention to
what you consider the failure of the
so-called "pledge system" as a pre
ventative of drinking at dances. In
any discussion which may follow in re
gard to this matter, there are some facts
concerning the recent University dances
that should be known in the interest of
accuracy and clear thinking. Your col
umns are accessible to so many readers
that have not been present at the danc
es that 1 should like the privilege of
calling attention to the following state
ment: I have been present at every series
of dances given by the University stu
dents since the Finals of 1920 except
the Finals of 1922. I have not only
been present but I have been so placed
that many people took pains to express
their opinion of the dances to me both
during and after the dauciug. I am
confident that throughout this entire
period there has been steady and con
stantly accelerated improvement in the
tone of the (lances and an equal de
crease in the number of participants
who had been drinking in any measure
at all. I um equally certain that the
Easter dances just closed were no ex
ception to this trend but were more
free from all objectionable features,
including drinking, than those which
had preceded in the period mentioned.
What I have just said is merely a
comparative statement. The facts war
rant a more explicit descrij tion. I
would say that the dances just closed
were the best that I have seen, in point
of conduct, anywhere within recent
years, were worthy of the social tra
ditions of the University, and were com
pletely creditable, looked at from the
strictest point of view.
I do not mean in this statement to
draw any inferences from this fact as
to the value or danger of the pledge
system. I think that issue should be
settled, a? it was in the first instance,
by the members of the German club
without any pressure from the Univer
sity. I do mean to say that the dances
have been increasingly creditable to the
University and to the students engaged,
and that those who will read of this
present discussion, but who have no
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; After one of their most successful
trips the Carolina Club returned to
Chapel Hill ready for school Monday
morning. The members of the orchestra
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