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Page Two THE TAR HEEL Saturday, March 5,1927 )t Hwc )tt Leading South hrn College Tbi Weekly Newspaper Member f North Carolina Collegiate rresa Association Published-three times every week of the college year, and is the otnciai newspaper of the Publications un ion of the University of North Car olina. Chapel Hill. N. C. Subscrip tion price, $2.00 local and $3,00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Telephone 403. J. T. Madry Editor F. P. Simon Business Mgr. Editorial Department Managing Editors J. F. Ashby. Tuesday Issue Byron White , Thursday Issue L, H. McPherson Saturday Issue D. D. Carroll ......Assistant Editor J. E. Bobbitt, Jr.. ...Assignment Editor Staff J. H. Anderson J. M. Block Walter Creech J. R. DeJournette E. J. Evans D. S. Gardner Glen P. Holder J. O. Marshall H. L. Merritt T. -W. Johnson W. P. Pe-ry J. P. Pretlow T. M. Keece D. T. Seiwell S. B. Shephard, Jr. J. Hhohan F. L. Smith W. S. Spearman Wm. H. Windley Henry Lay . Business Department W. W. Neal, Jr...j4st. to Bus. Mgr. Charles Brown. Collection Mgr, G. W. Ray Accountant Managers of Issues Tuesday Issue. , W. E. Hill Thursday Issue. James Styles Saturday Issua.. . Edward Smith Advertising Kenneth R. Jones... Young M. Smith... M. W. Bremaa William K. Wiley G. W. Bradham Gates McCullen J. H. Mebane Walter McConnell Department Advertising Mgr . Asst. Adv. Mgr. . Local Adv. Mgr. . ' Ben Schwartz C. J. Shannon Edwin V. Durham M. Y. Feimster A. J. McNeill Circulation Department ' Henry C. Harper Circulation Mar. E. C. Mulder.....j.. Filer of Issues C. W. Colwell Tom Raney -Douglas Boyce W. W. Turner You can purchase any article adver tised in the Tar Heel with perfect :'. safety because everything it adver tise is guaranteed to be as repre sented. The Tar Heel solicits ad vertising from reputable concerns only. " Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post Office, Chapel Hill, N. C. Saturday, March 5, 1927 PARAGRAPHICS The snow is evidently holding politics under cover. Some political machines re quire more than brains to. run them. The Fords which are used to carry voters to the ballot box es are examples. To those south of us who are singing "The King Isn't King Anymore," we will only say that "Tomorrow Will Come," or in Bucky Harris' immortal words, "Tomorrow is another day." Psychologists have foimd that some people believe their own lies and have given such a con dition the name of empathy. It is the result of having a better imagination than memory the inability to decide between fact and fancy. Many students are not prevaricators-they are just ampathic, BOOTLICKING "They ,are wild they are primitive- they are just as they should be they are the personi fication of electricity- they are life," said Gilda Grey, in de scribing her impression of col lege men. We wonder if she could accomplish what Clara Bow did when she kissed a Yale student and caused his lips to burn for three days. We are still giving prizes. This one goes to the absent minded professor who poured the syrup down his back and scratched his pancake, forgot his watch and took it out to see if he had time enough to go home and get it, put the clock out and wound up the cat, threw the towel in the bath-tub and hung, himself up on the rack, put the car to bed and locked tumaelf in the garage, and pick ed up a hair brush and said. One thing in colleges and uni versities' that is more talked of than seen is the system of "leg ging" or "bootlicking." A stu dent will often accuse his fel low-student of. attacking , the weak points of a certain prof es sor who is susceptible to the art of bluffing, but it is generally done in a jocular way and often times is mere equivocation. - However, such riling it not conducive to the best under standing between students and professors. A student will re frain from coming in contact with his ; instructors any more than is necessary because he does not desire to be called a booter, and, in turn, the instruc tor can ill afford to show an es pecial interest in any particular students for fear that he will be classed as an individual who is quick to fall prey to the wily student who would bamboozle his teachers into giving him high grades. Such a condition should be absolutely undesirable from the standpoint of both students and professors. It is the students who are to be blamed for the existing state of affairs. At all kinds of student meetings, bull sessions, and the like, "booting the prof" is a favorite topic for discussion, and a vent for the braggart's, air. Such "bull' reach es the ear of the professor and he has to guard against showing too much friendliness toward students that he could otherwise help. ,, Instead of such a condition there should be the greatest mu- .ual friendliness possible be tween those who are instructing and those who are supposed to be" receiving the . instruction. Concerning such a system the N. C. Technician says in part: One ol the outstanding ben efits that can be derived from our four-year period in college is our association with others who have perhaps had more op portunities for development than we have had. If we assume a belligerent attitude toward our teachers, or cause them to as sume a belligerent attitude to ward us, then we are not getting full value for our money and time expended here. The average student is afraid to be courteous to his teacher, because he does not desire to be accused of 'legging.' Sometimes he will go out of his way to be discourteous, just to show his fellows that he is not one of the despised 'leggers.' So long as we have a lack of understanding and co-opera tion between the students and teachers we shall have poor standards of scohlarship. There is an occasional stu dent who makes himself a nui sance to his teachers and his classmates because of his weak attempt as plasticity, to be moulded ,into whatever shape the professor desires. But this student is rarely possessed of ability, and is soon weeded out. "If keeping all our academic work in neat and complete order is 'legging,' then that form of student activity is to be highly commended. "Give us good and industrious attention to duty) leg or no leg.'? OPEN FORUM V . ' Bible Drama Sunday Night Judas Iscariot, a Bible drama, written by Charlotte Gleason of the Drama League of America will be presented in the Method ist church Sunday night, 6:45. The Epworth LeLague rooms of the left wing will be used for the performance. The leading parts are played by Claude - Ballard' and Miss Louise Medley. - Professor Smith is director. Epsilon Phi Delta initiated the following men this week: J. O. Allison, ' Bobby Wilkins and WalUr Owen. Editor of Tar Heel: Is Chappell justified? The writer would like to ex press thru the "open forum" what he thinks the most out rageous injustice ever attempt ed, barring one, on the students of the University during his three and two-thirds years resi dence. The information ; con tained herein is based upon the statements of one of the wronged parties who is a friend of the writer and who is willing to back these statements by affidavit. And these are the facts which can be supported thru above mentioned affidavit: Three boys were caught playing cards on the campus in a dormitory room. They were called before the student council, accused of playing poker, and asked for the names of all men who had played poker in the room in which they were caught. ' The council failed to prove its charge, and Chappell then demanded that the boys give a list of all those who were guilty of having played in the room before though no other men were brought before the council in connection with this charge. He said: "If, by eleven o'clock Saturday, you have not turned in this list you are auto matically . suspended. Further more, I want it understood that I am not shipping you, in case you are shipped, for gambling, but for not co-operating with the Student Council in furnishing these names." And thus it seems, that any of the three who do not accede to Chappell's demand and f ur-r nish the names will be duly shipped -shipped because they refused to buy off their verdict even though they were not proven guilty of gambling. Though the writer frankly ad mits that he can see no harm in a clean game of poker, he would have upheld Chappell's action should he ship the accused after they were proven guilty of vio- ating a university ruling. May the writer ask thru your column how Chappell can justi fy his action with the statement he made as recorded in' Thurs day's Tar. Heel: "I don't want the students to tell me or anoth er member of the Council every time they see a case of violation of the Honor System"? Such a statement and such an action seem impossible to be reconciled. Chappell has asked these men to "sell their honor for a mess of pottage" that they betray th confidence of their friends in order that their sentence may be lightened, or that they may save themselves from leaving the University. His action has shown his attitude: "I can't con vict you, but I will make you let me take it out on your friends." Truly; this must- satisfy ,'his sense of justice;, and more truly must it reflect his attempt to copy the ancient "third de gree.". His attempt at far famed glory-when he tried the editor and the assistant of the Magazine must have struck his love for un-earned confidence of the campus a sparking blow. He evidently feels that an appeal to the faculty! would result in an action for his support since they might be afraid to over-rule an action of the council twice. The writer refuses to predict an out come 01 such an item, Dut ne believes that some of the faculty will see the stride of Chappell's attempt to "Chappellize" the student body and force an irre parable injustice on the accused. If such are the facts, and if these boys are shipped, the writ er has lost faith in any "honor system" which will support Chappell in his action. F. M. DAUGHETY Use the dependable Yellow-box film " Slip a. couple of extra boxes of Kodak Film into your pocket when you take ; your Kodak on the campus, r There's Kodak Film to fit your camera here. .Get a supply toda FOISTER'S Chapel ilili 'ft C. Editor of Tar Heel: Please publish the following statement: Last night the Student Coun cil gave three men who had ad mitted to poker playing (for past time) their choice between telling who the men were who had been playing with them or leave the University. Time or space will not permit a lengthy discussion of the mat ter or the facts in the case. How ever, the men in question see the situation from a different point of view and seem to be willing to cooperate with student govern ment and the case will be re opened. The Council has spent four nights this week on the case. If we have" student govern ment we must have one of two systems: either we must con duct a system of espionage, or we must depend upon the stu dent body to report misconduct, and certainly when a man is im plicated in continued misconduct we ' can ' expect no less than that he clear the matter. Which of the two systems do we have? When the faculty granted to the students of the University the right to handle their own problems of discipline, the stu dent body faithfully promised to report rriisconduct of fellow students and to handle their problems conscientiously. If we cannot and are not willing to keep this promise , we have no student government, and should not pretend to have. If, when a man is called before the Council, we cannot depend upon him to tell what he knows about the situation in question then Student Government from a disciplinary point of view falls flat. To see that a man does not get credit for work that is not his, or to see that as evil an influence as poker playing, among 2,60o men, is eliminated is not "tale blaring.". It is Bimply keeping faith with the .promise made long ago and fulfilling the duty of the individual in a self gov. erning society. S. G. CHAPPELL ODUM TRANSPORTS GUEST BY TRACTOR One University professor finds a wayui spite of storm, wind or tide. Howard W. (Mum received a call from Carrboro Tuesday af ternoon that Mrs. Odum's sister had arrived- by railway and could get no further. Mr. Odum went to the Strowd garage, had them hitch a drag to a cater pillar tractor, and started out to Carrboro after the visitor. In three hours he arrived back at home with his guest. 8tHmMimiiitminiinnniiiiiiiit'1lllllllllmn FANCY ICES SHERBETS Durham Ice Cream Co., Inc. "Blue Ribbon Brand" ICE CREAM Special Color Schemes for Sororities and Fraternity Affairs Dial L-963, Durham, N. C. BLOCKS PUNCH :nHHitnH;muittKHHtmat . , ..1,,.. 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