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Friday, Oct. 26, 1923. Page Four THE TAR HEEL Student's Column Dear Mr. Editor: . ' I am 'writing as a man who Wishes to defend his honor Bnd who wishes to give his side of a very prominent case that is. now before, the eyes of the campus, i- Kindly give this space in your student forum. The case which I refer to is that of the Boll Weevil .and its relation to its former student board, to the University, to the faculty, and to myself. In order to do this ' prop erly it is best to start at the very beginning of the Boll Weevil's career, Sometime during the latter' part of May, 1922, Mr. Jonathan Daniels and Mr. M. Y. Cooper visited Mr. Chase President of the University fo North Carolina, in regard to securing per mission to run a college comic as an official publication of -this University, Dr. Chase advised then that' it would be necessary for them to lay ' out their plan and bring it to him for approval. Mr. Jack Joyner and my self were working in conjunction with Mr. Daniels and Mr. Cooper. The matter was dropped for a' while, and on September twelfth, 1922, Mr. Joy ner and myself called on President Chase, and asked for official permis sion to run an official college comic "of the University. We carried with us a copy of aii old issue of the Jack O'Lantei-n, college comic of Dartmouth College, which contained n its editorial page tke fact that it was published by students of Dart mouth college.-' Mr.'Joyner and my self advised President Chase that we couldf run a college comic exactly on these; same plans, without any offi cial permission from him.' We also advised the President that it was our desire to get his permission to run a college comic as an official publi cation of the University ; of 'North Carolina. Dr. Chase agreed with us and Stated 1 that before he could give us permission . to run as , aty official publication he would like to see an outline of the plans of organization of this new college comic . Mr.' Joy ner iand myself then , drew up the plan of organization and working of the Carolina Boll' Weevil. A few houijs later we called on, Di, Chase and submitted to him our plan. The following is an exact copy of .clauses one.f two and three of our plan: "Plan of organization and workings of the CAROLINA BOLL'WEEVIL" Carolina's College Comic, September 12, 1922. : . f ,' -.: ! ' ' 1. : "This is a student humorous of ficial publication Iq be published 'by students, (only), of the. yniversity of North Carolina. The -whole, business staff and editorial staff "of this pub lication is to be composed of students. 2. Messrs. Coo'per, Brody, and Joyner, are to manage this 'publica tion, and they shall be personally lia ble for all bills contracted by them for the Carolina Boll Weevil. The Business Manager is to . appoint the next year's Business Manager. 'The students are to 'elect the editoriiu chief of this publication. This is al most exactly the same plan on which the Tar Heel is run. The profits or losses of this -publication shall be handled by the Business Manager as the present basis of the Tar Heel. i. This is to be a strictly student publication. On account of the fact that it will take at least a few years to set this publication on its feet,- this publication is to be published for at least three V'fK before i; shul! Ira talen in to the new publication. prop osition which was passed lit May, and then it must be : passed by the Business Manager." ' 1 1 Dr. Chase read the above state ment over very carefully, and 'de clared that the plans ' were entirely satisfactory to him. ' As a wituevi to the fact he presented U3 with the following letter, which was equivalent to his permission to run the publi cation as an official college comic since the words "official humorous publication to be published by stu dents of the University of North Carolina" appeared in the above plan to which Dr. Chase agreed: The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, .12 September, 1922. Office of the President " ' ' To Whom it May Concern: '.understand that a staff com posed .of students of the University X&rth Carolina is to publish and manage the Carolina Boll Weevil, as a humorous publication; That this publication is to be in every way strictly 'a students' publication,, and that the students of the University are to be, asked to elect an editor-in-chief. It is further my under standing that the managers- of this publication assume personal liability for all bills contracted by them for the publication. T feel certain that there is room in the University for a humorous publication of high stand ards, and I am glad to know that this new venture on the part of stu dents in the University is getting un success, and am glad to make tnis statement" about'' it. ' Respectfully yours, (Signed) H. W. CHASE, President. In the issue of the Raleigh News and Observer of September seven teenth, 1922, an article appeared re garding the publication of a new peridocial named the Boll Weevil. The following are a few quotations from same: "PRESIDENT REC COMMENDS BOLL WEEVIL TAK ING PLACE OF TROUBLESOME TAR BABY" "a real students' publi cation, the Carolina Boll Weevil, is going to take the place of the ill fated Tar Baby, the privately owned magazine which was mistakenly sup posed by many to be a University publication and which went out of existence recently." The Boll Weevil began publica tion and has continued since then. In the early part of the spring 1923 I was invited to attend a meeting of the publications union executive boai'd. The, executive board of the publications union asked that I per mit hte Boll Weevil to join the union, in fact they offered me all of the profit of the Boll Weevil for the fol lowing year. I made it clear to them that we had permission for at least three years. I realize that the pub lications union would have amount ed to much more than it does if it had the Boll Weevil in it, and so does the publications union realize this fact. To tell the truth I be lieve the whole Boll Weevil affair can be summed up in the following words; that is that the publications union has done," and is trying to do, everything whether fair or foul to secure control of the Boll Weevil and force it to join the publications union It seems to me that the whole mat ter is a frame up against me. en tered . into by the publications union the Executive Committee, and a few of my personal enemies among the faculty. ' In the latter part of May, 1923 members of the Boll Weevil staff. including myself, heard rumors to the-effect that the Boll Weevil was not an official publication. I thought I would straighten out matters and went to President Chase, asking him to make a statement to the ef fect that he" gave us premission to run as- an official publication. But in the face of ' the signed letter he gave us, reproduced above, he de nied ever having given us permis .sion to run tne Boll Weevil as an official publication, Without any chance whatsoever ' he called in his secretary and asked him to take the following letter: 31 May, 1923, "T,o whom it may concern: ir.ce th,e' question .has arisen as to I the understanding between the University of North Carolina and the Boil Weevil", as set forth in my let ter; of 'the twelfth of September, 1922, I desire" to say specifically that the Boll Weevil is !not and cannot in any sense be regarded as an official student publication of the University of Keith Carolina, since it is under private control "iind management, and that at a' conference last fall between myself and studej.ts interested in the Boll Weevil this point was made clear, and that it wis specifically s.tated by me, that the publication should be announced as published by students of the University of North Carolina. Cordially yous, (Signed) H. W. CHASE, .President. Notice the inconsistence of these letters. It can readily bs :ecn that President Chase was sorry that he gave us permission to run is a pub lication outside of the publications union, and was taking steps to force us inside. The latter part of August Dr. War- staff, chairman of the executive committee, called me before him and stated that my business methods had not been ethical. He stated that un til these matters could be cleared up could not register. I bokei over the charges, which were unfounded, and advised Dr. Wagstaff that the charges were misrepresented. He stated that he would have a meet ing of his executive committee and asked me to present my side of the matter. The executive committee met about the middle of September and I appeared before them. At the outset of the meeting I could see that the whole idea behind the mem bers of the executive committee was to force the Boll Weevil in the pub lications union by having me leave school. The committee heard my answers to the unfair charges and advised me that they would deeply consider the matter and advise me accordingly. A few days later I was notified by mail that I could not reg ister this fall. Dr. Wagstaff asked me what my intentions were for this quarter and when I advised him that we had formed a corporation con sisting, of the members of the board of the Boll Weevil, he told me that he intended to "break, me." He said that he could do this whether he had the authority or the right to do so or not. I told him that we wpra run. ness proposition with no University connection. However, he seemed bent on doing all he could against me and the Boll Weevil, and called the en tire Boll Weevil board before the executive committee. - He told these boys that they would be shipped from Carolina unless they severed their connections with the Boll Weevil.- He also stated that the execu tive committee had nothing against the Boll Weevil but that their sole purpose in doing this was to break me. When questioned by members of the Boll Weevil staff as to the right or authority that they had to ship members of the Boll Weevil staff, Dr. Wagstaff stated that they would do so regardless of whether or not they had the right. Members of the Board of Trustees of the Uni versity ii North Carolina when .p:?--tioned as fo theiv opinion on the .'nat ter hia'ea mat tney t nought th executive committee had no authority lo ship members of the staff of the lioll Wnvil for being aoo.ne'.ted with it. . .V Jr. citing I want tj state that ihe Boll Weevil staff u i .. resigning voted confidence in my ho testy. These beys 1 avfc been connec.;! with me in the c'osest way for the past twe years ;,.d have known of my every f.ction. I am sure that thcr opinion will speak for the campus "in gen eral. STEVE BRODY. TAG FOOTBALL IS STILL GOING Carr Defeated Ruff in; While South Outpoints Frats Team Indianapolis Convention Civil Engineers Hear Speaker (Continued from Page 1) England, China, Japan, etc., will bs thore to speak. Among the most prominent of these men are John R Mott, Robert E. Speer, Sherwood Eddy, and E. M. Woods of Cam bridge, England. The maximum number of student representatives the University can send is fifteen, and Mr. Cottrell urged the. Cabinet to see that the full delegation goes to Indianapolis. In view of what the "Tar Heel" of Jan. 8, 1914, said about its being the greatest religious meeting since the time of Christ, and as this conven tion promises to be even better than the one in Kansas City, every stu lent interested should make earnest efforts to attend. ' Mr. Cottrell said various methods had been used by the student bodies to send their repre sentatives. He stated that in some schools the students taxed themselves usually about twenty-five cents each and the delegates paid one-third of their expenses. The railroads will j?ive reduced rates. The total ex pense for the entire trip will be about seventy-five dollars. CAROLINA STUDENTS ARE MAKING GOOD AT PENN Dr: Isaac Manning received a let ter from the authorities of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania a few days ago stating that' five men who v ere admitted for advanced standing from hers to that institution, have b.'cn, because of the excellence : of their work, placed on the honor roll. They are: E. L. Kellum, Tommy B. Micchell, N. A. Fox, T. E. Jones, and A. A. Minor. Of these men, E. L. Kellum has the honor of leading there for advanced standing last yerr. It was further stated that the average i grades made by University of North Carolina men are higher than those of men representing any other insti tution. There are 15 men from here now there. This speaks well for the Carolina Medical School and he med faculty is very proud of its former students. The new tag football ruling, that first downs should be counted in de ciding the game in case of a tie, went into effect Monday. It is hoped that it will eliminate the tie games that have been occurring so frequent ly. On the first day it decided the game against the Frats, South win ling three to one. One other innovation also took place. Instead of playing ten min ute quarters with two minutes rest, they play twenty minute halves with no stop . Monday's first game was played between Carr and Ruffin. Carr kick ed off and in the first few minutes gained eighteen yards on Ruffin's fumble. A few minutes later, Sides, one of Carr's best and fastest play ers, carried the ball across Ruffin's goal line. Ruffin received the ball and imme diately proceeded to make a first down. She was well on the way for the second when the ball was fum bled and Woodard, for Carr, got the ball and made another touchdown. The second half started off with the usual aerial battle of forward passes. Alter several intercepted passes and the ball changing sides, Carr got near enough to Ruffin's goal for Red Routh to kick a beau tiful field goal. In the remainder of the half Carr succeeded in making two more touch downs, running the score up to 28, the highest yet made. Ruffin did not score. The second came was hptwppn South and the Frats, and for a won-! H der all' the players were on the field all ready to play at the appointed time. , , - ; t , , South showed about her usual form for the first half, but during the second half she made a spurt and netted two first downs, which decid ed the game. The Frats did not play the usual brand of ball. They made several fumbles and were not as fast as they have been. In the first half the Frats had the edge by a little. They intercepted three of South's passes and complet ed four of their own. Only one time near the beginning of the game were they .seriously threatened, but South couldn't make her first down and had to punt. The Frats made one first down during the half. In the second half South got to gether and made one first down. Near the end of the game they made two consecutive first downs. The game ended with South three first downs and the Frat's one South's game. (Continued from Page 1) 4. Every educated man shall write well. 5. Every educated man shall speak well. G. Every engineer shall know the sources of scientific information. 7. Every engineer shall be skilled in the use of applied science in the solution of engineering problems. 8. Every engineer shall be thor oughly trained in costs and values. 9. Every engineer shall prove him self to be an economic asset in his work and shall understand the com mercial and the ethical aspects of commercial practice. 10. Every engineer shall be taught throughout his college course that one of his chief functions in life is to serve his community. The Engineering School here has a distinct advantage over a purely technical college in securing the cul tural advantages now so much needed by the engineer on account of stu dent contact with the cultural ad vantages existing at the University. Mr. Dunlap's talk was followed by a short address from Piesident Chase in which he referred to the fact that he and Mr. Dunlap were at Dart mouth College together, and he ex pressed gratification at the wide spread recognition the School of En gineering as ' i evidenced by this visit from Mr. Dunlap. Following the addresses of Mr. Dunlap fend Dr. Chase, the members of the student chapters and the oth er members adjourned to the large drafting room of Phillips Hall where refreshments were served. Those present had an opportunity of meet- ed guests at that time. The latter included Mr. Frank Page, Chairman State .Highway Commission; Mr Charles Upham, State Highway En gineers; Mr. Gilbert White, consult ing engineer of Durham; Mr. J. j Chase, Vice-president, Roanoke Rap ids Power Co.; Mr. H. E. Miller, State Sanitary Engineer; and a recent graduate of the School of Enginee ing, Mr. H. E. Baity, Assistant "state Sanitary Engineer, The Pan Hellenic Council has pe titioned the faculty that the pledge date be changed from January the tenth, to Decembsr the first. Their reason for desiring this change, i3 that it will be best for all concerned to have the rushing season over ba fore holidays and examinations bp-gin. The re-ceiling and plastering of the Library lobby, which was started over a week ago, has been complet ed. Four men started work on it last week, with a view to finishing it in three days. But they only fin ished it after a week's work. It will be painted in a few days. I EXPERT SHOE REPAIRING I Why send your shoes to Durham when you can have them repaired here at Chapel Hill. 1 I Electric Shoe Shop ing Mr. Dunlap and the distinguish- The Tag Football Standing: Post Buildings Won Lost Tied poned Pet. Grimes .... 2 0 0 0 1.000 Mangum 1 0 10 1.000 Frats 1 0 10 1.000 South 2 0 1 0 1.000 N. Dorms 10 1 1 1.000 Carr 1 0 2 0 1.000 West 1 1 1 0 .500 Steele 1 1 10 .000 Ruffin 0 3 0 0 .000 Manly 0 2 0 0 .000 East 0 111 .000 Smith 0 1 10 .000 Durham Shoe Shine Parlor PRICES REASONABLE Hat Cleaning and Blocking Our Specialty atH::t:nim::m:;;t:::mtt;t!::ti;tinniiMmxmm minimi IlliW Do Your Knees Play "Home Sweet Home" These Cool Mornings? 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