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PAGE TWO THE TAR HEEL SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1945 Cm 14 3 i 1 Editorially Speaking THE $73 QUESTION Last Thursday night's Legislature meeting may have seemed tame enough for some to dis miss with, "not much of importance took place." The meeting deserves far more attention than that. It was singular; singular in that for the first time since 1943 a bill was presented to make the Student Council's financial report a budget. This means that since 1943 the Council has been writing checks that are not authorized. The recent refusal of the auditor of student activi ties to O.K. any more checks brought about the present report from the Student Council. One of the more interesting points in the re port was a sum of $73 listed under the heading "miscellaneous." Of this sum over $30 was spent for a dinner given for the council and in vited guests from the faculty, administration, and Navy officials. The money spent for this purpose is a portion of the student fees which are paid for the express purpose of conducting student activities ; activities which concern all students. The topic of discussion at the dinner was the Honor System. . It seems to us that it is not necessary to give a dinner to get a discussion from those who are concerned with the honor system. Some students have already inter preted this move as a bribe, an observation wfrich is as unnecessary as the dinner. The money has already been spent. Bills for the food are outstanding, have not been paid. The bill has been presented and will be voted upon at the next Legislative session Thursday. With the stipulation of Section 3 of the bill in mind we urge its passage. Section 3 reads : "Neither, the Student Council nor the Student Legislature shall use any of the funds under the item "Miscellaneous or any other funds, for the purpose of entertainment of the members of either body or of any other persons, except that the entertainment fund called for in the sche dule shall be used to discharge obligations al- reauy uuisuuiuiiig. It should be made certain that there will not be another occurrence of such uncalled for splurging of the students' money. WHO CAN DO WHAT ; One Student Council member when- ques tioned about the $73 and the dinner retorted : "What does the Legislature think they are try ing to do, run this campus ?" To the special investigation committee of the Legislature we urge haste in preparing the re port to help draw a clear line of authority so that this former member of the Legislature who was dismissed for missing too many successive meetings as well as others in doubt will know WHO can do WHAT. ABOUT THIS SIREN .. . . This is a plea to stop the childish activity which nas resulted in the disfiguration of expen sive buildings and statues, undignified brawls, and a filthy attitude between two great univer sities. The situation between Duke and Caro lina is no lone-er funnv: it's time that the two 0 v , supposedly intelligent student bodies learn to respect each other. If the condition continues, the administrations will be forced to discontinue athletic relations. The siren which was taken by Carolina stu dents from Duke is the property of the Dur ham fire department. The University Club, un der President Charles Hackney, is dedicated to preventing just such child-like and foolish acts as making a stolen siren become an issue against good sportsmanship and creative ath letics between schools. The University Club, long a worthwhile and representative service or ganization on this campus, has asked us to ap- peal to the sense of fair play to nave this siren returned to the Durham fire department. There is something warped about the mind of an individual who turns sports which were cre ated for the betterment of the muscles and per sonality of man into a wave of destruction. Many students on this campus, swept by mob psychology, may derive a sort of caveman de light from knowing that their school has pulled something over on a neighboring institution; but if the matter is considered objectively, it is seen to be a mutual injury to all concerned. Will - whoever has the siren cooperate with the University Club, whose constitution provides for a member from each fraternity, sorority, dormitory, tne ujlua, Town men ana women or ganizations, war veterans, and every campus division. This club is seeking to build a better school by keeping alive the spirit of the Univer sity of North Carolina the spirit of fair play and sportsmanship. If you're backing Caro lina, fellows, turn that siren over to the Uni versity Club. OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL The Ram See CHARLES WICKENBERG, USMCR FRED FLAGLER .Editor J. PRESTON LEMLY HARRISON TENNEY -Managing Editor To the Editor of the Tar Heel: E tffMfffffffl?" daiiiiliiill.iiliiiiliil Business Manager -Circulation Manager Heel ' Published 1 ueoa and Saturday ' except during vacations, . examinations and holidays. Deadline Tbnrtaay and Sunday. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel EiU, t. Ci, onoe the act ot March 3. 1879. Member of ASC and Natl Adv. Service, Ise. . It Could Be Worse ROBERT MORRISON MAN'S BEST FRIEND The gods smiled upon Harry Sawas, a member of Phi Kappa "' Sigma fraternity, when he was on attendance probation in his botany class. Another cut would have caused Harry to flunk the course; but for some Teason (perhaps his alarm clock didn't go off), time for the class rolled around and Mr. Sawas was nowhere to be seen in the classroom. ' The professor had assigned each student a seat in which to sit for the term in order to facilitate checking the roll. Just before the prof started looking around to see what seats were vacant, a young collie pup, tired of treading the muddy walks of Chapel. Hill, strolled into the classroom, jumped up into Sawas' seat, curled up and went to sleep. Harry was marked present and is still taking the course. . SCUTTLEBUTT Youye heard the one about the fellow who went to the ration board to get another pair of shoes and found the board with their bare feet propped up on their desks. Well, here's one that really hap pened A V-12 sneaked cautiously into the Scuttlebutt the other day and silently motioned for a clerk. The mysterious customer leaned far across the counter, slipped a bill to the soda jerk, and whispered, "How about a pack of cigarettes?"" The jerk let ou a big laugh, reached in his pocket, pulled out a pouch of tobacco and a slip of paper, and began rolling hil own. IT COULD HAPPEN HERE Someone with a warped sense of humor cut this clipping out of a newspaper and tacked it up near the YMCA soda fountain: "Butler, Ky., Jan. 12 (AP) When a customer asked him for a package of cigarettes today, Thomas Blades, Jr., a clerk, pulled a gun from beneath the counter and shot himself fatally, Sheriff Charles Ashcraft reported. Coro ner James Taylor returned a ver dict of suicide." FOILING FIZZ ED John Nichols, a freshman from Winston-Salem, has found another way of helping Jimmy Wallace .wage the battle against the fizz ed program. John appears in time for gym, fully dressed, with the alibi that he had lost his basket. The instructor tells him to go look for it. John looks for it very diligent ly; he looks for it at the Y, the Scuttlebutt, the Pick, and the Caro lina but as yet it hasn't turned up. ?60-lc$2 Gilmore Bowers of Dook Univer sity (the artistic work of his col leagues is still on display at Gra ham Memorial) works at a radio station in Durham and makes sixty dollars per week. If he made only $59.99, his salary would fall into a lower income bracket, and he would have to pay two dollars less income tax, each week. In other words, if he made one cent less, he would spend $1.99 more. i . YOU NAME TT Some fizz ed instructors count two tardies as an absence. One stu dent had been tardy once and was tardy again after he came back from the Christmas holidays. Now as we,, all know, it is the rule of the administration that any ab sence occurring on the. day after holidays will be dealt with by dis missal from school. The fizz ed in structor put down an absence for the student on that dreaded day be cause of two tardies. Now action is being taken to throw the student out of school. He has been spending his time in the fizz ed office trying to explain what happened, and he has worn a path between Woollen Gymnasium and South Building. Unless someone can explain the situation to South Building, there'll beone less student at,Carolina. ..-' IT'S YOUR TIME Yeah, we know, these have been pretty corny. You could do better. So if you know any (they must be true), send them to me in care of the Tar Heel. Almost anything submitted could be worse. Don't Read This By Bill Crisp r DON'T READ THIS George Washington is credited with having first . made the . state ment that democracy could never , work unless the people from whom it derived its power were an en lightened people. "Enlightened," being the completely elastic word it is, may be taken in this case, to mean that informed group of per sons who, being aware of the prob lems which confront them, are, through intelligent instruction, at least partially -prepared to solve those problems, v It may appear to be a peculiar analogy, but the Honor System is to the supposed self-government which students enjoy here, what' education, in Washingtonian terms, is to representative government in general. If you cannot, at first, ac cept this hypothesis, please consider the facts. The very first form of student autonomy ever realized on this cam pus was the establishment of those examination rules which leave to the individual the complete respon sibility of being honest in his work. From these rules evolved the Stu dent Council which was authorized to penalize those students reported and proved cheating. From this essential nucleus has emanated the whole structure of what is known at Carolina as stu dent government. 'From the further student agencies which ensued from this beginning have come other rights. The Tar Heel was one of the first, starting originally with editofe appointed by the Di and Phi assemblies and financed by the same groups, and evolving to its present status of popularly elected editors with compulsory student fees behind it. From the Legislature, another of. those agencies okayed by the Ad ministration when the Honor Sys tem had displayed that students were both honest and sufficiently ca pable of handling their own affairs, have come such things as the House Privileges Board, and the approv ing of student government and class budgets. Neither of these is insig nificant. Through the House Privi leges Board men and coed students are permitted activities which they most assuredly would not enjoy un der proctorial government. , Wo men are allowed in fraternity houses and men are allowed- in sorority houses. The budget approving power of the Legislature is very im portant. It is the overseer of stu dents' handling of, in many cases, enormous sums of money. These are but a few of the rights vested in student hands. There are others equally important. It is hard to' conceive that any of the frame work through which these rights are administered would be long retained if the Honor System were to be dropped. For it is basic that fac ulty and trustees keep faith in stu dent honesty if they are to continue to permit those students to control such things as drinking privileges, women in f raternityhouses fend vice versa, and student finances involv ing large sums of money. If you have ever weighed the mer its of the Honor "System and won der why the whole thing isn't sus pended, consider that these things would be lost if such action were taken. Consider, also, that any sys tem on which, not only strong char acter and individual initiative, but student freedom outside the class room is based, is well worth the hon est effort required to make it work. Two issues ago the Tar carried a story on the CRIL in which the erroneous stement was made that the CRIL is pacifist. Since the CRIL had authorized the drawing up of a statement of its views on "conscription, we request that you print that statement in its entirety as a means of clarify ing the views of the majority group in the CRIL which determined the stand it took. The statement fol lows: ' , The Council for Religion in Life believes that our whole way of life - in the world after the war is in volved in the decision this nation will make regarding the conscrip tion of its young men for peace time military service. The evidence for our belief lies" in the chain of facts and principles which we here with submit as our reasons for op posing military conscription. Any realistic appraisal of the ' problem must start from the fact that we are faced with a dilemma, not an alternative. There is no solu tion which will of tfself guarantee us either peace or war. The choice we must make is no between black and white, but between dimly per ceived shades of gray. It is patent, however, that the na tion cannot simultaneously move in two directions. The problem is multi-faceted, but the course of ac tion we choose must be one course the course which promises most hope of peace. The dilemma makes it necessary that we act on an assumption which leaves us two choices: we can assume that there will be an other war; or we can 'assume that there is enough intelligence in the world to improve the inadequate scheme revealed at Dumbarton Oaks and make peace real. If we assume that another war will come in spite of Tall we can do, conscription will not be enough. We shall have to maintain a tre mendous standing army, a huge navy, and an awe-inspiring air force. In the 'face of approaching war to do less would be suicide. To act on the second assumption, however, will require that we do all we can to make world organ ization work. We want it to grow and become stronger. It is obvious that if each of the member groups in the organization arms itself the organization will be torn asunder by internal conflict. We believe that will be fatal. We believe that militarism in any form is the denial of the democra tic process. We know that the na tion became militaristic to defend that process against its enemies. We approve. But we believe that we cannot make peace and war at the same time. And we choose peace which means that we will oppose conscription and work for democracy. We believe that if we lose the war at home we shall have made the fight abroad worthless. We pledge ourselves to do all we can to win it at home. THE COUNCIL FOR RE LIGION IN LIFE, Jack Anderson, President. Dear Tar Heel: My purpose in writing this letter is to present the "con" side of the question of putting out the Tar Heel. If, as you have said in your editorial columns, the students are not interested in the paper, then perhaps thething to do is to stop publication. All meetings, exhibits, concerts, lectures, etc. could be ade quately publicized in the YMCA's weekly folder or, on the bulletin boards and this is just about the case anyway. Serious editorial thought could be printed in the Carolina Mag, and would improve the quality of that publication. Sports news is already amply and. more promptly covered by the dailies. What indispensable func tion does the Tar Heel serve, then? If the journalism majors must have a practical outlet for their training, ' let them work on the Mag or write for the Durham papers and the Chapel Hill Weekly. Surely it is more sensible to cease publication than to continue it if the Tar Heel is really so poorly received on this campus. Please understand that this is not necessarily my own opinion ; I have only attempted to show the "con" side of the question. . S Lee Silverstein w Navy V-12 Vance Hall No, 8 BY AN OLD GOAT iiiimiMtuhiiiuiiuiiiiililiiuitiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiituiiiiiiuiiiiiiii There's a large weekend in progress out at Carolina's Copacabana (better known as Shorty's Cabin). The doings began last eve ning when the Grail squired the Valkyries on trucks a la hay a la moonlight out to Shorty's. Eating, dancing, and moo-sic was the order of the night and the Ram hears that said orders were carried out faithfully. SHORTY'S CABIN Tonight the cabin will ring again when the Delta Sigs, the commerce frat gone social, knocks off one of their "original" shin-digs. The femmes will deck out in something new in the way of evening garb . . . formal dress with no shoes or stockings ... a pro-barefootist is in the crowd no doubt. NEW ORGANIZATION Among new-born clubs on campus is the Q, Q, and Q club, recently chartered by six re stricted gals on second deck, Alderman. This is a club with areal purpose, and to think . . . it all began with three little mice. KA SWEETHEART KA's latest "Southern sweetheart" is Impy Shool of Archer House. The "gentleman" do ing the pinning is Jim Lowry, a Davidson Dea con . . and speaking of pins and things, the Ram was snooping around the Mag headquar ters the other a.m. and spied the cover girl for the coming issue of the Caromag. The Ram advises fellows to start clearing wall space, 'cause "something riew to be added" is coming up along the line of pin-up posies (poses ... or what have you ?) . LUSTY CHEERING Didjuhear that lusty cheering Wednesday last at the basketball game ? A great deal of it sounded forth from the ADPi's who sat in body (meaning physically as well as together) at the game . . . and while we're on the subject of basketballing, the Ram' hears that the AD Pi's, Pi Phi's and Alderman dormitory all have undefeated teams. Finals are scheduled -for this coming week when the "winnah" will be de clared. SERVICE NEWS ' From the service the Ram hears that Ro land Giduz ("Foo" to most folks, former Tar Heel reporter who was wounded in France recently, has just returned to the States and is undergoing final treatment at the Ashford Gen eral hospital, White Sulphur Springs, Va. . . . and Bobby Kirkland, Zete, who .was here until '43, has just been awarded the bronze star. That's according to word from the Philippines where he is stationed. x LARGE PARTIES TONIGHT Two fraternities are flinging big weekends currently. There is the KA party which is to be held somewhere . . . exactly where nobody knows at present.' It is espeshully for the new KA pledges. A flavor of old Carolina hangs around the gathering with imports galore and local coeds too. Marine, V-12s, and civilians will merge for a gala time . . . And the Sigma Chi weekend. It begins this afternoon with a scavenger hunt which will continue well into the night, turning into a party toward the dusky hours. Then Sunday afternoon there's a the atre party lined up, and finally a buffet supper to top off the fun. DKE REBEL ROOM Next month will see the grandiose opening of the DKE's "rebel" room for revels. It's in the process of creation right now, but promises to be a glorified rumpus room, all done up in gray and blue . . . and the Ram hears tell that four new members have just been initiated, namely Bob Dodson, ROTC; Bud Sale, ROTC; Jim Fowler. ROTC ; and Moc Davis, V-12. ADD NEWS FRAGMENTS West Point-bound is Bob Koonts, Phi Delt, who was recently accepted into the army acad emy following an appointment in December. He will enter in July The Zetes have elected new officers.. Bynum Hunter is new president; Adam Thorpe, vice president; Collins Brown, treasurer ; Marvin Wilson, secretary ; and Blan ton Belk, rushing chairman. IN OUR CRYSTAL BALL Spencer dormitory is planning Spencer Week end for Friday and Saturday, February 9 and 10. A buffet supper Friday will start things rolling, followed by a dance for Marine and Navy V-12, ROTC and civilians.. Then a dance Sat urday night for PreFlight cadets will climax the parties Mclver is planning a dance Sat urday night. ... Pi Phi's will stay the night around at the house Friday, February 2, at an old-fashioned spend-the-night-party. . . . Sat urday, February 3, the ATO's are putting on a dance . , . and that ain't all, but 'tis enuff for now. f
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