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myz SXitlp Star Published daily during the college year except Mondays and except Thanksgiving, - Christmas and Spring Holidays. r ' The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, ?2.00 local and $4.00 out of town, for the college ' year. Offices, in the. basement of Alumni Buildinsr. Glenn, Holder... ..... ...... ..Editor Will -Yarborough.. Mgr. Editor Marion Alexander....jBw$. Mgr. Hal V. WoRTK..:Circulation Mgr. : : : . " , s 1 ASSOCIATE EDITORS ohn Mebaae : ; Harry. Galland ASSISTANT EDITORS Elwin DuHgaH $. D. McNairy Joe Jones : " . B C. Moore , J, C, Williams . ; CITY EDITORS " E. F. Yarborough ; K. C. Ramsay Elbert Denning ' Sherman Shore ! SPORTS EDITOR i Henry L. Anderson ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS Joe Eagles Crawford McKethan REPORTERS , Howard Lee ' Frank Manheim Holmes Davis Mary M. Dunlap Louis Brooks Clyde Deitz Charles Rose George Sheram Kemp Yarborough ' Robert Hodges Mary Price . . , John Lathan J. P. Tyson B. H. JWhitton Browning Roach Nathan Volkman Al Lansford George Stone Peggy Lintner Jack Riley E. C. Daniel T. E. Marshall W. A. Shulenberger George Wilson - Tjl TT1 V. T 0 TTT XI Bernard J. Herkimer Jack Bessen Browning Roach Russell Williams Sadler Hayes Stanley Weinberg J. G. deR. Hamilton, Jr., Friday, December 6, 1929 Why Men Go To College WTtXT An man rrn - nr''rrrr t This question has been con sidered in scores of magazine articles and books, it has been the chief topic of numerous ed ucation conferences and the sub ject matter of innumerable cam pus "bull sessions" during the past year. College students seem to be developing a greater interest in problems of the cur riculum ; they are devoting more thought to a consideration of what constitutes the real bene fits of a college education than ever before. A few years ago most under graduates had a hazy idea of the real purpose for which they were attending college. ' Vague in deed were the reasons assigned by the average undergraduate for his decision to secure a higher education. But the present-day college generation seems to nave a fairly clear-cut idea of why it is in school, of what constitutes the real opportuni ties and the real benefits of the curriculum and of college life. Surveys conducted by the Dean of Students office here re cently indicate that most Uni versity of North Carolina under graduates have a definite con ception of their own problems and those of the institution. The enhancement of their cul tural capabilities, with an at tendant increase in" happiness and satisfaction, and the devel opment of 'an increased ability to make money are the , chief Reasons given by practically all of the University undergradu ates for their decision 'to enter college. r In this connection the recent ly published "ten-year book" of the class of 1917 at Princeton is of interest: A decade after graduation, these successful business and professional men (all of them with the exception of one or two have already at tained some degree of financial success) voted overwhelmingly that a "Princeton education .helped." "In general," the edi tors report, "the . alleged bene fits of a Princeton education were fairly evenly v distributed under the following heads : gen eral culture background, mental discipline, increased ability to think clearly; awakened appre ciation of finer things in life,! creation of a desire for further knowledge, friendships made and a better understanding of other men, technical equipment for professional life, self-confidence acquired, and a better scale of values established." . It is also of interest to note that the members of the class had an annual income of $7,800 each after they had been out of college ten years. The average salary of members of the class is $8,067, and the average total in come $13,127. The figure of $6,000 is the median salary the salary which is midway be tween thejiighest and-the low est. The distinction between the median salary and the average salary is explained by the edi tors of the book who point but that "a few -abnormally high figures unduly inflate the gen eral a verge" ; thus, ''if three men receive $3,000, $5,000 and $70,000, the average jumps to $26,000 but the median remains at $5,000." ; . L These statistics indicate that a college education is desirable from a financial standpoint but Tiw-vpisions of the members of the class as to what were the real benefits they secured from college are of . greater 'signifi cance. They are worthy of close study.. '.-f The student who comes to col lege for four years of week-end pleasures and indolence are fortunately decreasing in num bers, and the new undergradu ate generation is interested pri marily in securing the greatest benefits possible from their four year sojourns at institutions of higher learning. v ' s Freshman Caps At N. C. State : Recently at N. C. State col lege a r freshman was found guilty of not wearing his regu lation red freshman cap for 13 days and condemned by the stu dent council to wear a dress for 13 days and to pay a fine. Later the sentence was modified so that the boy was forced to wear a conspicuous head gear instead of a dress ; the fine remained the same. Such action was taken as the result of the regulation of the student government consti tution. 7 This incident brought to the forefront the whole question of freshman caps. After an ex tensive discussion the students of the college voted to continue the practice of forcing freshmen to wear caps. To. us the whole business seems utterly ridiculous and far too much like a prep school to be becoming to any college! When we entered the University Mr. Hibbard greeted our class with the admonition, "Remem ber you are college men and not college boys. Of course you will have your jokes and pranks, but you are no longer boys." Mak ing men wear conspicuous and unbecoming caps is neither dig nified nor justifiable. It is wholly out of harmony with the whole, spirit of college training and college student government; it is a remnant of the old prac tices of hazing, initiations, and similar horse play. ' In forcing the State boy to pay some penalty, -the student council was only carrying out the duties of its office. But we submit it is a pretty sorry state of affairs when a college group, supposedly the Ynost intelligent, the most enlightened, the most cultured group of young people to be found anywhere, finds it necessary to make its new mem bers go through humiliating practices, wear unbecoming and conspicuous clothes, and ' stand branded as queer boids. When a cofrege group becomes like a high school fraternity, a prep school organization, a thorough ly puerile and childish thing, then'lndeed the aims and ideals of the student group have been 1 submerged for petty regula THE DAILY TAR TiCL tions. How can s freshman ever come to feel that tie is a real member of the group when always he is reminded by his cap that he is doing penal duty and is yet a sort of bastard son of the group? Carolina is the only institu tion in the state not requiring the freshman cap; Carolina men have never felt it was in har mony with the system of stu dent government and the gen eral aspect of student lifePer haps tha other institutions of the state have not reached the point of development we have, or perhaps a tyrannical group is "lording it over" the members of the group. With the growth of all the educational, institutions in size, we hope there will be a corresponding growth in - the conduct of student affairs. . D. M. Readers' Opinions AN OLD GRAD SPEAKS For the past three years I have been deprived of the pleas ure of seeing the Tar Heels play any football, since I have been living in the far South, where they have not splayed since 1922, when they met Tulane in New Orleans. Recently I returned to God's Country to live and saw Carolina play Georgia and Vir ginia. I am proud of this year's team., jl have seen Tulane, Ala bama, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, L. S. U., and several other promi nent southern teams in action for the past three years, and I frankly say that this year's foot ball team of Carolina can beat any of them when playing heads up football, such. as they dis played against Georgia. Right now, Carolina stands an excel lent chance to lead the nation in points scored. Most of the lead ers have ended their seasons, while , Carolina has yet to meet Duke. Here's hoping the Terri ble Tar Heels can run up forty or more points on the (Awfully Blue) Devils, to put them in the van of the nation's team in scoring. - Before i close, there's just one other thing I want to get off my chest. I know the stu dents, coaches and players dis like to hear the alumni gripe about this thing and that thing, but with the best of spirit I want to say that I don't like those golden, jerseys the team wears at times. To begin with, I can see no connection between the university and that color, and in the second place it is a very unattractive color. If the coaches must do something along these lines of psychology why not stick to the beautiful colors of Carolina and dress the team up in white jerseys, with light blue leather strips. The University of Alabama football team wear white jerseys with red leather strips and it makes a very pleasing appearance. I can think of no combination more pleasing to the eye than to see Carolina's Terrible Tar Heels strutting around in white jer seys with the light blue trim mings. Here's hoping you will publish this in your Open Forum, and that Messrs, Woollen and Col lins will adopt this type of jer seys next season. Respectfully, ' R. II. CAIN, '26 HALLELUJAH, WE ARE SAVED! Editor the Daily Tar Heel: The soul-savers of Chapel Hill who are responsible for the law prohibiting the sale of all articles except food and drugs between 6:30 and 8i:30 o'clock on Sunday evening have placed themselves in a class with the perverted blue-law makers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, a;' The College ARTICLE V. Editor's Note: This series of art icles on the Honor System is being printed simultaneously in all the col lege newpsapers in the United States. A series of five short articles dealing with matters pertaining to the Honor System will folloxb. This release is being made by the committee on the Honor System for the National Stu dent Federation of the United States of America, with a hope that the stu dents of this country will give seri ous thought to the problem of student honesty in our colleges, and that they will send to the Fifth Annual Con gress of the National Student Federa ti&n representatives who have well-thought-out ideas concerning this mat ter. The Fifth Congress will meet at Stanford, University on January '1, 2, 3, A and 5, 1930. These articles were prepared by James Theodore Jackson, chairman of the committee on the Honor System. The writer would be glad to hear from students concerning this problem. Please address him at P. O. Box 958, University, Alabama. Hints on Organization of the i Honor System The term "Honor System" is used to connote the formal rec ognition and adoption by stu dents, and faculty of a system of mutual responsibility among students for honesty in scholas tic work .and other college ac tivities. However, it has been said recently by an astute ob server of students and a keen viewer of the' trend of modern student thought that "the only way in which the problem of student government will ever be worked out sudcessfully will be to perfect a joint organization among the students and faculty combined." This statement fur nishes a challenge to American students.-" Is it correct? Cannot students "now govern themselves successfully? . A majorityof the students who discussed the Honor System at the Fourth Congress of the N. S. F. A. were of the opinion that the Honor System is more efficiently managed when the council is composed exclusively of students. However, in some institutions, a mixed committee functions successfully. The com position of honor councils ranges' all the way from those composed entirely of students to those composed entirely of fac ulty members. Each institution must work out this problem for itself. In order to be most effective, the Honor System should be somewhat limited in its scope. It should be made to apply to certain definite phases of stu dent life, and it should be thor oughly understood by the stu dents tha,t, when the system is violated, punishment will follow swiftly and certainly. It is not the severety of the punishment that counts; it is its certainty. The penalty should be as severe as the exigencies of the condi tions demand. In some colleges and with the aborigines of Ten nessee. Last Sunday I attempted to buy a package of victrola needles at 7 o'clock, but the clerk, rather forlornly told me that I would have to wait until 8:30 to buy them. (I finally -managed to secure some from him as a gift, though.) A friend who tried , to buy cigarettes at the same time, also ,jnet with failure. (P. S. Although he was not sold any, a package'was given to him.) The same per son could not obtain an ordinary beverage unless he nad a drop of ammonia put into it in 'order to bring it under the head of drugs.; - Besides the obvious annoy ances of such occurrences, there are the consequent - inconveni ences. Why, in a community like Chapel Hill, which calls itself progressive, are such stu pidities tolerated ? If only the moralists would let the damned be damned. MILTON GREENBLATT. Honor System the only punishment for the vio lation of the Honor System is permanent expulsion ; in others, it consists of a deprivation of college credits; in still others it consists in a deprivation of so cial privileges or in a simple reprimand. Some institutions publish the names of the con victed students ; however, a majority of them favor with holding the name of the offender. Generally speaking experience has shown that the regular stu dent body . governing council can administer the Honor Sys tem better than aspecial honor committee. However, in some institutions the duties of the student officials are so heavy that a special committee is a necessity. There are a number of notable exceptions to the gen eral rule state. -The" system of organization should be simple. A simple process should be worked out whereby a student can be given! a fair and impartial trial. Some; institutions provide for a second trial -on appeal, which is public. Few public trials have been held within the history of the Honor System, but, when they have oc curred, they have been gruesome things. It is generally thought best to provide for a final appeal to the president of the college, or to some designated faculty committee, before a student is permanently expelled. Many students think that the j aim of the Honor System should be exclude cheaters; many be lieve that an attempt should be made to rehabilitate offenders. Secret student spies whose duty it is to report violators of the system have been found to be of little value. Regardless of what indivi duals may think about the salu tary influence of -the Honor Sys tem, it is a fact that students are crying outiagainst the whole sale cheating that is going on in some of our American colleges which rely wholly upon the clev erness of the instructors or proctors, to. detect cheaters. Many of these students came to I the Congress of the N. S. F. A. last December searching for something to substitute for the faculty espionage system, while some came hunting methods and information that would enable them to improve their Honor Systems. It is high time that something definite be done toward solving this problem of student honesty. The N. S. F. A. is deeply in terested in this question and.it urges serious thought, expres sion, and action upon it. The Association of American Col leges is also interested in itt to the extent that they are now conducting a survey of the sys tem as it exists in the United States. ANENT RUSSELL'S LIBERALISM - Editor the Daily Tar Heel: I see in an editorial in today's Tar Heel on Bertrand Russell's lecture here a reference -to his liberalism, ?"so liberal that the faculty of the University of Wisconsin objected to. his being allowed to speak before the Lib eral Club of that institution." v. If this is true, I hae not heard of it happening in the last year. I think- probably, the event referred to was the ban two years ago, not-on Bertrand Russell, but on his wife, Mrs. Dora Russell, who was adver tised to speak on matters entire ly different from those consider ed by Bertrand Russell in his addresses I forget the exact title, but her address was adver tised in a most sensational man ner as dealing with sex rela tions. My present object' is not ; to argue the merits of the action taken regarding Mrs. Russell, ' but to point out that in this case Friday, Decent cr 6, 1923 REMOTES From the Tar Heel Files By Howard M. Lee , , . - Twenty-five Years Ago This Week Captain Stewart, manager of the football squad, was present ed with a gold watch, and mon ograms were distributed to the players who earned them. The first jregular meeting of the Modern Literature Club wks held. . The Advisory Committee an nounced that each- department of athletics in the future would have a distinct sweater to dif ferentiate it from the other de partments. , '. Dr. A. S. Wheeler was elect ed a member of the Council of the American Chemical Society. The football team ended the season with a surplus of $1600. Ten Years Ago This Week The following appeared irr headlines across the whole top of the front page, of the Tar Heel: "The Sweetest Story Ever Told; N. C, 6-Va., 0; Tar Heels Win Sixth Contest in Quarter Century , From Virginia' Directors of the Graham memorial fund announced that they had raised $104,000. The Foreign Immigration bill was defeated in the Di Society. The Interclass Tennis tourna ment was cancelled. The N. C. Club received offi cial recognition from Governor Bickett as a vital organ of the University. " The freshman Cavaliers de feated the freshman Tar Babies 34 to 7 in football. , .. The sixth annual high school football contest between Chapel Hill and Greensboro was played on Emerson field. Five Years Ago This Week Colonel Swan Pendergraf t, Chapel Hill s pioneer busman, died from cancer of the stomach. Professor Frederick H. Koch's name was added to the board o associate editors of "The Little Theatre Monthly." The pirate number of the ; .Buccaneer received praise from some of the most outstand ing magazine reviewers in the United States. that Frederick Ward, one of the most noted living actors, would appear in Chapel Hill and tell some of His experiences in 50 years of acting." Dr. James Finch Royster gave a reading of Rudyard Kipling in Gerrard.hall under the auspices of the Carolina Playjnakers. Long dresses are again the the fashion. The ladies had to do something abpui all those stockings with runners in them. the conflict centered, not around freedom of speech or liberality, but , the propriety of the public discussion of: certain matters. I had the pleasure of hearing Ser trand Russell that same year, not only in the University of Wisconsin, but under University auspices. N ' Sincerely yours, W. F. -FERGER. SHE'S HERE! ALICE WHITE in THE GIRL FROM WOOLWORTHS" Singing! 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