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Page Two THE TAR HEEL Tuesday, Slay 15, ms Leading Southern College Tri weekly Newspaper Published three times every week of the college year, and is the official newspaper , of the Publications Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Walter Spearman -...Editor W. W. Neal, jR....J3usiness Mgr J. R. Bobbitt.. . Associate Editor editorial department Managing Editors John Mebane....... ...Tuesday Issue George Ehrhart Thursday Issue Glenn Holder...... Saturday Issue Harry Galland ..Assistant Editor Will Yarborough... .........Sports Editor V' - Reporters H. T. Browne F. G. McPherson G. B. Coggins M. L. Medley W. C. Dunn Wm. Michalove J. C. Eagles J. Q. Mitchell A. J. Fisher B. C. Moore R. W. Franklin K. C. Ramsay T. W. Johnson J. W. Ray J." P. 'Jones J. M. Rogers G. A. Kincaid P. B. Ruffin D. E. Livingston W. A. Shelton O. McCullen W. W. Speight D. R. McGlohon D. L. Wood BUSINESS STAFF M. R. Alexander ...... Asst. to Bus. Mgr. Moore Bryspn.. Advertising Mgr. R. A. Carpenter ,... Asst. Adv. Mgr. 'Advertising Staff M. Y. Feimster J.- Mt, Henderson Ed Durham R. A. Carpenter Robert 0. High " ' JbhnJemison Leonard Lewis G. E. Hill..;.. Collection Manager H. N. Pattersoh..Asst. Collection Mgr. B. Moore Parker Henry Harper Circulation Manager Clyde Mauney David McCain Gradon Pendergraft Tuesday, May 15, 1928 THE COUNCIL ASSERTS ITSELF In its attitude towards the Yellow Journal the Student Council has shown that it takes seriously the duties thrust upon it by responsibility. Any attempt to clear an ill-famed publica tion of obsecnity, slander and unnec essarily injurious gossip should be commended as a step in upholding the "code of a gentleman" the preserva tion of which code has been intrusted to student government. ' The. faculty has been incorrectly drawn into the situation as dominat ing reactionaries who have forced the council to take action. Several mem bers of the faculty did meet unof ficially and suggest to President Hudgins that the council make its attitude toward the Yellow Journal perfectly clear before the sheet ap peared just as any group of students might suggest to the council a 'course of action. The fact! that jthe council did take a stand somewhat ,as sug gested by the older heads from the faculty does not warrant the conclu sion that action was "forced." The letter from President Hudgins in the Saturday issue of the Tar Heel states clearly the attitude of the coun cil toward the Yellow Journal and makes it plain that the publication was not prohibited or "suppressed." The council, as we see it, was not fundamentally opposed to the print ing of a Journal, but definitely object ed to the appearance of a sheet as indecent as former issues and as it had been led to believe this would be. The letter outlines the means used to achieve this result to which we can find no valid objection. The student council has asserted itself for decency. J. R. B., Jr. RED CROSS OFFERS FIRST AID COURSES NEXT INSTITUTE Courses in First Aid to the injur ed, life saving and water safety, swimming "and diving, boat work and canoeing and kindred subjects will be offered at an American Red Cross Institute to be held from June 18-28 at Camp Sapphire, Brevard. 1 This is one of the ten institutues held every summer throughout the country, but it is the only one south of New Jer sey., There will be a fee which will include- board and lodging, registration, textbooks, and the insignia that is earned at the institute. It is to be hoped that many Caro lina swimmers will partake of this opportunity to improve themselves. Any further information may be had by writing the Headquarters of the American National Red Cross at Washington, D. C. - , OPEN FORUM CONCERNING STUDENT GOVERNMENT Editor of Tar Heel: Can it be said that the University of North Carolina has student govern ment? If one consults the University cat alogue or the Freshman handbook an nually issued to incoming freshmen, he will get a glowing picture of com-, plete student control. If, on the other hand, he considers some recent happenings, such as the Yellow Journal fiasco, the history de partment's passing of a rule that an instructor be present on all history exams, and the fact that the faculty executive committee passed on twenty four student cases during the winter quarter, he will revoke his former opinion and emphatically say that the University has student government only in name. As such, it is a deplorable condi tion. University authorities give stu dents a student council and "bam boozle" them into thinking they are governing themselves. Complete student control, they ad vertise, and theoretically it may be that. In actual practice it is far removed from that. The faculty con trols the student' council just as ef ficiently as if it were not a council of students but one of faculty men. We will pass over the fact that the faculty has its own executive commit tee for disciplining students and that this committee handled 24 cases dur ing the winter quarter, which should never happen under student govern ment; but we cannot pass over two other incidents which show the com plete domination of the council by the faculty, namely, the recent ruling of the history department sanctioned by the recent outgoing council, and the Yellow Journal affair. The history department decided that the honor system was not sufficient to meet the exigencies of crucial exams of the department and passed a rule that an instructor sit on every exam ination. This in itself was an insult to the Carolina campus, but worse still was the fact that the Student Coun cil sanctioned such a rule. Not a man on the outgoing council, which humbly submitted to the his tory department's ruling, it seems, had the "guts" to stand up and tell the faculty that Carolina students need ed no such rule and that such a rule would be completely at variance with the practice of the system on the Carolina campus. The' members were not men, but pieces of clay to be shap ed at will by adroit faculty manipu lation. Then came the Yellow Journal af fair. Honorable President Hudgins admitted that he himself did not be lieve the Carolina campus wished the suppression of the Journal and. that personally he could not see why it should be suppressed. His only justi fication, it seems, was that faculty pressure forced him to take the ac tion which he did. We will say nothing of the merits or demerits of the censorship of pub lications, or of the right of the Stu dent Council to take such' steps. The fact is that the Council has absolute and dictatorial right to deal with any student offense. It might even ship a man for expectorating on the grass if it so willed. All cases are subject utterly to the discretion of the council, and so, with out a doubt, the Council had the right to take the stand it did. The question is not one of right, according to power but one of wheth er the Council deemed the issuance of the Journal desired by the students and whether it was really, meritorious of censorship. President Hudgins did not seem to think, personally, that it should be censored. Furthermore, he was con vinced that the vast majority of the student body wanted it. Three students, however, apparent ly -fearful lest their names be inno cently besmirched in an all-in-fun manner, and those two grand old re actionaries, Deans Hibbard and Brad shaw, decided that the Journal was vituperative, obscene, and scandalous, and should not be allowed publica tion. President Hudgins had his convic tions, Dut he had not the courage of carrying them out. He did not be lieve the publication injurious and he knew the student body wanted it. Furthermore, he "held office from the student body, and it would seem, would be obligated to respect student wishes in the matter when he thought respecting these wishes would do the campus no harm. Instead, he allowed himself, just as so many of his predecessors, to be but a dab of clay in the faculty's hands. Pressure by the faculty won the day, and our erstwhile president succumbed. So we see, after all, that the stu dents do not govern themselves at alL The faculty is the masterful hand be hind the screens- The faculty pulls the strings and a puppet council rush es to do its bidding and will, regard less of what it, as student representa tives, thinks to be the proper course. It i3 a question which involves the whole system of student government at Carolina. We proudly vaunt, or rather the University authorities vaunt, the fact that Carolina students govern themselyes. The fact of the matter is that the faculty governs, through a student council, which is but the humble doer of the faculty's wishes, he Council is a mere vigi lance committee to report offending students, a tool in the hands of a greater power behind. They bend on every side, cow humbly down, and do what the faculty desires. Why then call it a student council? Would not the appelation "faculty vigilance committee" be much more appropriate to the functions it exer cises? If we are to have, student govern ment, let us have student government, in fact, not in name. Let us have a council which will have the force to carry out its convictions regarding student affairs, and not a council com posed of "yes-yes men" of the faculty. It is high time that Carolina stu dents awoke to what's what concern ing student government here. The faculty has put over "the great de ception" long enough, and it is now time to 'decide whether we will have student or faculty control. If we.decide for the former, let the faculty step off the scene. Let the Council govern, not merely reign. And above all let the President of the Council remember that he represents the students and that he should have the force to carry out his convictions regarding what he thinks is proper for the students. M. R. A. ARTS-ENGINEER BRAWL AGAIN Editor of Tar Heel: In an editorial which appeared in last Thursday's Tar Heel the Asso ciate Editor deplores the existence of a "widening rift" which he sees be tween the School of Engineering and the College of Arts. He attributes this incipient chasm in part to the difficulty or magnitude of the work re quired of the student engineer and in,, part to the fact that the distin guishing "E" is added to the few courses in English that the engineer student takes. - , T ' Can he suggest how we can make the work easier? : Can he tell us what would be the result of an "E"-less English course? what an Arts sophomore English course would gain if augmented from thirty to forty members by the in jection of ten engineering students? what these ten would gain? In a professional course there. is something definite to be acquired and often the acquisition presents difficul ties. Application to this work limits the activity of professional students, save those exceptional few who may somehow find time for something else. If activities are indispensable then the leisure of the College of Arts is .in dispensable. It is desirable for the man who expects to take engineering to first take a year or two in the Col lege of Arts most desirable if he can first get art A. B. the department encourages this. But few students can do this. A little study of the curriculum" of the School of Engineering will reveal the surprising, fact that there is.lno intensive specialization. This is left for the graduate who has begun to see which particular field best suits his capabilities. Engineering here is presented from a broad and cultural aspect. If this point is missed" the fault lies largely with the student who is unwilling to see it thus, or perhaps incapable of doing so. For such a man the Arts School itself could do nothing- But our Associate Editor remains unsatisfied for he senses something which he has called an impending chasm and somewhere in the fog per sists. Well, there is something. Rath er than a chasm between any two schools it is an obstacle which we share in common. Do we need a change of curricula? how about our methods? does our present system meet the exigencies of a rapidly changing society? There are vital problems ; and in the School of Engineering, under the leadership of our able Dean, we are giving the matter some thought, thoug we may be reaching no solu tion. If the Associate Editor sees some incongruities he sees nothing that we have not known for some time. A few suggestions -would be more to the point. As for the "rift" and the past "war fare of sarcasm" I see nothing alarming in that. It is . a healthy, normal, and beneficial condition. We may all get together, for a short while, and, led by Sherwood Eddy, sing "Love Lifted Me," but so long as tn joints By H. J. Galland It was a pretty good game, accord ing to those who were present. Need We say that we mean the Carolina Virginia game? No? Then we won't say it. But it was a pretty good ball game anyway, according to informa tion received from a confidential ad viser. We were there, all right, and so were a couple of hundred other Carolina boys, but a few of ns know much about the game. N C. C. W. was out in force, augmented by Guil ford and Greensboro College, and they all sat in the stands near the Carolina section. That's why we don't know so much about- the game. And you wouldn't have; either. If, however, you require any information about the girls .t The poor warm-hearted N. C. C. W. girls were slightly restrained during the Open House after the game. There's no telling what the gals might have done if they could have done it. But we discovered a sign in one of the dormitories, now in our possession which reads : "The Caro lina boys will serenade tonight about 11:30. DON'T TURN ON YOUR LIGHT NOR MAKE ANY DEMON STRATION EXCEPT BY CLAP PING." They didn't. The death mask of Napoleon, ac cording to a newspaper story in Sun day's papers, reposes in a safe in South Building. It formerly had a place on the President's desk, but when it's importance was realized, it was removed to its present strong hold. Realizing that sophomores are present on the campus, University officials took proper precautions. No body, says the article, knows the combination of the safe into which they put the mask. An unprecedented occurrence took place in Chapel Hill yesterday. In case you don't know it (and if so, where have you been ? ) we had a fire. Now, who ever heard of having a fire in Chapel Hill more than four times a week. We don't blame the Tar Heel reporter for waxing prophetic in his report of the blaze in this issue. "This fire," he wrote, "is the first of the week and the fourth in the last ten days." What building is - going t6 require the attention of the full time fireman and his volunteer hench men next ? Place your bets 9 here, gents, place 'em here. We were passing through the Duke University grounds Sunday . after noon when we were halted by strains of some mighty good band music. The Duke musicians were playing on a lawn in the open. The effect was fine. Now that summer weather is here, we think it would be a fine idea for our own orchestra to give a concert in the Forest Theatre. Any chance, Mr. McCorkle? We are happy to report that the Whippoorwill whose neck we said last week, we were going to wring, now no longer bothers us. No, we didn't do the dirty deed, the bird just de parted. It all-goes to show that the atmosphere of learning on the Hill is contagious. The bird must have learned to read while it was here. We're thinking of threatening dire things in this column to some flies we've seen buzzing around our room recently. In the Tar Heel of February 22, 1924 we find the following, under the headline "Carolina Takes Trinity Contest:" "Richardson, the Trinity scenter, ran wild and scored five field goals, in addition to putting up a splindid game at passing." A gay dog, that Trinity player probably an Irish setter. And in the same issue, which was a Graham Memorial number to cele brate the beginning of the campaign for the new building, in this ad: "It is a matter . of Pride to us, that we can announce that we will do the Painting and Decorating for the Gra ham Memorial. D. C. May, Durham, N. C." If Mr. May has stuck to the job, we fear his beard will be getting tangled up in the paint pot. These old issues are interesting. Here's a headline from the same pa per: "The Di and Phi Not The Same. The Two Literary Societies Do Not Hold the Same Place on the Campus." No, sir, they don't. If they did, we'd have another room on the campus in the condition of the one in the Chem ical Building, which, you may re member, exploded. 31 there are two schools, two Nations, two anything, there is going to be rivalry and, yes, warfare. Nature was not made by the Y. M. C. A. J. J. Slade, Jr. We hare heated every University building constructed within the past 'eight years. , Carolina Heating- & Engineering" Co. HEATING, VENTILATING AND POWER PIPING 318 Holland Street Wm. H. Rowe, Mgr. Durham, N. C. iclcwick i ihieatsxe Produced by MRS. WALLACE REID NOW SHOWING WATCH FOR KM BIG ANNIVERSARY SALE First In Our New Home STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 18th BERMANS DEPT. lap i PEXK to the coach, the doctor, or the' physiology pro fessor. They'll tell you that there is a no more healthful habit than your daily two biscuits of WITH MILK WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY return fba-ths dzpths?. 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