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THE TAR HEEL
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ritOMINENT LEADERS
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"Association is as valuable to the
student as learning itself. In fact
it is a necessary part if it. One of
the University's most valuable con
tributions to the state is that it
serves as a center for the forma
tion of widespread acquaintances
among its future chief citizenry.
Along with his academic education
the student gets a broader knowledge
cf his state and becomes batter ac
quainted with a great number of it
people. The University has rendered
a most significant service in uriting
North Carolina. We must now strive
to keep up a close association among
all the students here, an! so enable
the University to continue its most
valuable work in , this respect,
"The clearest and . most definite
tep toward this is the erection of a
building where this work cf unifica
tion can be carried on. The interest
that is shown by the student-body to
wards the completion of such a buil
ding will be reflected throughouc the
state, and will result in many con
tributions for such a building.
The Graham Memorial Building
would be one of the Universiy's most
valuable instruments in her good
work."
R. W. (Casey) Morris, Captain of
Football and Baseball.
"The University and students need
such a building as the Graham Me
morial. Why? Because the Univer
sity is growing larger every year,
and now has more students than iwer
before. As a result of this growth
there is a tendency on the part of the
students to break up into groups.
There groups should be so unified as
to build a Greater University (spirit.
The old University spirit is outgrown
in its expressions. We must take
some steps to build anew. A bui'd
ing such as the Graham Memorial will
SO a long way toward unifying the
students and establishing a better
Universiy spirit. It will serve as a
central point where students- may
come together and form a closer as
sociation with each other. This as
sociation will, I think, tend to pro
mote a better spirit among Carolina
students."
Morris (Monk) McDonald Letter
man in three sports.
"Since the close of the war and the
breaking up of the S. A. T. C. the
student body here has been slowly
breaking up into factions and groups
that have, as the years go by, stead
ily grown further apart. At present
athletics seem to be the only tie that
presents a semblance of unity, and
even here three have crept in forces,
which, if allowed to go unchecked,
will eventually prove harmful to both
athletics and the spirit of the student
body toward athletics.
Nothing is more encouraging to an
.athlete than to feel that those whom
:he represents are behind him to a
man. Lack of interest on tin part
of the student body has a tendency
rto discourage a team in any contest.
It is this lack of interest in what is
going on in the University, and self
satisfaction with what we now have,
that has caused those vitally inter
ested in the future of Carolina to
try to overcome these apathetic ten
dencies of the student bo-ty. I, as
many others, believe that a univer
sity center such as the proposed Gra
ham Memorial with its many oppor
tunities for a closer contact between
students will develop a ?.-irit of us-
sociation which will go a long way
toward bringing the student body in
to a more compact or unified whole."
Ludlow Rogers, Prseident Junior
class.
"The need for some such building
as the Graham Memorial is vry ap
parent to anyone who will stop and
consider the conditions here at Caro-
The University's great physical
UNIVERSITY HAS HAD
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into a position of its many-sided life.
While this success has generated
pride it has been the cause of less
ening in the minds of many a neces
sity for an intense and concrete loy
alty.
The University's Problem
Those who have eben anxious to
keep awake the loyalty and college
spirit which has been undermined by
the change of the University from a
small college to a great institution
have devised many plans for ac
complishing the tsak. From other in
stitutions which have passed through
the same experience it was learned.
been used for class meetings. The
result of this attention given to the
freshmen class is that an increasing
ly large number of freshmen go out
for athletics, the class has readily
shouldered its financial obligations,
and has contributed to pep meetings,
and rallies. The earlier initiation of
freshmen into fraternities is helping
to assimilate the class into well-knit
groups.
Mass Athletics
The mass athletic program which
has been adopted has been the metns
of providing additional facilities for
athletic participation and of stimu
lating spirit in dormitory and frnter-
that the rehabilitation of college ' njty groups and has developed "on the
spirit calls for a double task. First,
the development of the mass of in
dividuals into groups small enough to
promote intimacy and a sense of in
dividual responsibility, groups which
will express natural unity of inter
ests. Second, the welding of tiicse
groups into one great organized
whole.
Assimilation of New Men
The first of these two steps has
been put well under way by the work
during the last few years since the
war. Freshman chapel has ushered
the freshmen class into class life e:
lier than was hitherto possible and
has been the means of ass'milating
the class into the larger group. Mat
ters f o concern to the class hnvo been
stressed, class programs by the class
officers are presented, and ehap?l has
campus a dormitory consciousness
which is the beginning of a new so
cial spirit to supplement those already
in existence.
The use of chapel about once a
fortnight to give the deans of the va
rious schools a chance to met the
men enrolled in their schools and
ORGANIZATIONS ON HILL
lina.
expansion, which is evident in its en
larged student body, better and finer
buildings, and more diversified col
lege activities makes it practically
imperative that we have some stu
dent center. Although this memor
ial building will not act as an 'Open
Sesame' to the cure of all evils, it
will certainly improve the present con-,
ditions and act as a first step to
ward a more ideal situation."
Emmett Underwood, President of
Sophomore elastj.
"As the University grows there is
a tendency on the part of the stu
dent body to pull apart. The chief
reason for this is because there is
no central meeting place whree the
students may come closer together
and become better acquainted. The
conditions which now exist, are sush
that make it impossible for students
to be as well acquainted with their
fellow students as they should be.
The University is still expanding and
the more it expands the wider will
become the gap between its students
unless there is something done to
remedy these conditions. It seems
that the only time the student body
really pulls together as a unit is an
athletic contest, and at times there is
a lack of spirit there.
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the entire fraternity group. Other
locals have come into being in the
last month and have met with like
assistance from those established.
young fraternity ten years ago would
have had odds to overcome far be
yond the opposition of today.
Fraternity Standard
A resume of recent development
goes to show that the standards of
fraternities has risen. It would not
be out of place to give the number
of fraternities that have come to
Carolina since 1910. Phi Kappa Phi
was granted a charter in 1913; but
since 1919 when Theta Chi and Del
ta Sigma Phi were established has
been the g reatest growth, Sigma Phi
Epsilon and Delta Tau Delta came a
year later, Acacia received its North
Carolina Chapter in 1923, Chi Tau, a
new and fast growing national, wns
recognized by the Pan-Hellenic Coun
cil only last month. Gamma Phi and
Kappa Pi have excellent possibilities
of bringing two of the best rating
nationals to the Hill within the fu
ture. Pledging System
This year has witnessed the most
active year the Council has ever had.
The new freshmen pledging system
wiht its air tight rules regarding
initiations has had excellent success
in raising the standards. First year
pledging and the size of the Univer
sity make excellent openings for new
fraternities. It has proved a great
money and time saver. The con
structive work of the Council has re
ceived favorable comment from a
number of large institutions; several
are advocating it.
Professional Frats !
Other fraternities of a different
nature have been prospering. Kappa
Psi and Alpha Chi Sigma, two na
tional scientific fraternities have
come since 1912. Phi Alpha Delta
and Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternities,
have been here only since 1910. Psy
chology, chemical, engineering and a
Cosmopolitan Fraternity, all Lave
chapters here that are still compar
itively young.
Two of the best girls national fra
ternities have seen fit to come to
the University recently. They are
Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi. It is
rumored that the co-eds have recent
ly established new locals.
The Division
Since fraternities first came to the
hill there has always been an ex
pression of feeling between fraternity
and non-fraternity men. The feel
ing that things have not always been
as they should has been much stronger
at times than at others. It is gen
erally granted that there is excellent
feeling now between these groups;
but it is also granted that there still
remains a wide gulf for which there
is no necessity. It all comes about
from lack of understanding each oth
er, and seeing the others view-point.
Size has caused a split. The gap has
been widening, with the projf in the
rapid growth of the fraternity or
ganizing movement.
The Solution
With a large comfortable build
ing, large comfortable chairs, a
checker board, an open fire, and a
good bull' session the gap can be
swept away. Man to man, students
of the University with a common pur
pose and the ideal of a united cam
nus. this would be an accomplishment
well fitting the annals of college his
tory and an honor to the state. Here
in lies opportunity.
colleges marks what is the beginning
of a school or college loyalty.
Counselor System
The faculty counselor system lias
been the means of helping to assmv
ilate the mass of the hundreds of new
men who enter school here every year
The purpose of this system h to break
the large group up into many small
er ones, each group having an oppor
tunity to come in contact with at
least one member of the faculty.
Dormitory Groups
Plans for the future will probably
include the further development of
the dormitory group through the
creation of dormitory parlors or club
rooms the increased unity of the
inter-class competitions of various
sorts, and a continuing of such env
phasis on thje school and college as
is illustrated by the school assemb
lies and the library study room in
the new law building. The develop
ment of units of organization which
will include those students living in
town will complete the process begun
by dormitory and fraternity organization.
However, all these enterprises
would be incomplete did they not fi
nally head up into and relate them
selves loyally to the University as a
whole.
Co-ordination of Groups
Some little beginning have already
been made on the second step in this
work; namely, that of welding the
groups into one great organized
whole. The creations of the Cam
pus Cabinet some years ago em
bodying all the student leaders for
that year; the development of 'the
Campus Executive Committee which
acts as advisor to the student body
of the University; the organization of
the All-University Program Commit
tee which seeks to relate such pub
lic programs as are presented by the
University lecture committee, Glee
Club, Playmakers, Y. M. C. A., Ath
letic Association, etc., to each other
in order to prevent conflicts and pro
vide a uniform program for the year;
the Student Assembly Monday and
Fridays; the Dormitory Association
which meets monthly to consider mat
ters of interest to all the dormitor
ies; the Publications Union, and oth
er things have made those student
enterprises matters of common prop
rietorship rather than tha special
property of special groups.
Graham Memorial
These are but slight beginnings in
the second step of unifying the stu
dent body into one group with one
common purpose, and it is realized
that the idea embodied in these be
ginnings must be carried further and
extended. The final achievement cf
unification will only be made possi
ble by the provision of a visible ral
lying center for student activities and
student ideals and purposes. To ac
complish this final phase in the sec
ond step of unifying student body
the Graham Memorial Building was
conceived. When it is completed and
its doors thrown open to every legi
timate student enterprise, Carolina
will have approached closer to com
plete unity than she has been since
the. days when her unity was the re
sult of the fact that she wa3 a small
college with interests which were
close and well-knit instead of far-
reaching and varied. ,
It is the desire that this building
will be the physical embodiment of
the unity that the University is work
ing to achieve.
Just as the Old Well was the phy
sical endowment of unity in the small
er college; so today and in the Uni
versity that is to be the Graham Me
morial will be the central conscious
ness of the partnership known wher
ever Carolina men meet as the
Brotherhood of Carolina men.
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THE GRAHAM MEMORIAL
A Safe Conclusion
Looking carefully into Mr. La
Follette's public service, we
reach the inevitable conclusion
that on the whole this country
has never been satisfactory to
him. Houston Post.
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